The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-12-10
BILKINs WILL START ABROAD.
Unless Providentially Hindered the
Major Will Start on His Trip
Around the World Sometime In



Major Will Start on His Trip
Around the World Sometime In
January.
Our special writer, Major Zeke
| Bilkins, expects to start on his trip
around the world sometime in Janu-
airy. The Major had expected to go
| abroad several months ago. but was
prevented on account Of illness in
his family, but he now writes US that
he expects to start on his wonderful
voyage about the first of the year.
He will write a full account Of his
trip weekly and his letters will ap-
pear in The Caucasian, each week,
exclusively.
The articles descriptive of this
trip will be of more than ordinary
educa tional value, considering the
small amount it will cost to read
them, and they will be entirely
original.
Both old and young people will be
interested, for the story will be writ
ten in plain language. The descrip-
lions will be pen pictures. You will
| live and move with Bilkins and see
| the great world through his eyes.
Some of the experiences will proba-
| bly, be of the side-splitting variety.
Mr.. Bilkins has had this trip in
| view for several years and his pre-
vious letters might be termed fore
runners of it.
| Mr. Bilkins will tour England,
France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,
Spain, India, Africa, Denmark, Swe-
den, Turkey, Morocco, Holland, and
other European kingdoms in that
portion of the world; also Russia.
China, Japan, the Philippine Islands,
and other countries in the Far East
Comparatively few people have
gone around the world. In most in
stances they have hurried through
the trip, getting only casual glimpses
of the various countries from the
beaten paths of travel. Mr.. Bilkins
will travel leisurely and take in the
interior as we'll as the principa
cities of each country. He will hob
mob with monarchs; but he will also
go down among the masses and SEE
how they live, and dispense advice
where he thinks it is needed. Doubt
less Bob will be the centre Of at
traction in many countries where tn.
American mule Is unknown. His &C
centricities will play an importan
part in the articles.
Bilkins will hunt lions and tiger
, in Africa and elephants in India
shooting them from Bob's back. HI
will spend some time with the Sui
tan of Turkey and try to learn VIII.
he is the greatest ladies' man since
, the days of Solomon.
A special and most interestin,
, feature of the series of articles viii
be exhaustive descriptions Of Egypt
= Jerusalem, Palestine, and other land
and cities anciently familiar to Bibl
T students, but about which SO littl
y is known to-day owing to their lacl
: of commercial importance. Bilkin
y will trace up old family history an
= relics back to the days of Adam an,
+ Eve.
At some time during the tour MI
Bilkins will make an attempt t
: reach the North Pole. In fact, tina
is the height of his ambition. Hun
t dreds of thousands of dollars hav
r been lost and many lives sacrifice
q in attempts to reach the North Pole
t but Il seems impossible owing to tn
: extreme cold. Bilkins processes t
( believe that Bob can make the triI
y regardless Of ice and snow. Doubt
e less the stories of his experience
e will be thrilling.
OF course, we cannot go into dc
: tails. Suffice 1t to say that thes
8 articles will be genuinely descriptiv
and historically true even thong
they will not be written In a seriou
vein. Mr.. Bilkins will be give
: plenty of latitude, and he will writ
q in his peculiar style. But we ca
safely promise that the reader wi
know far more about foreign land
the peculiar customs of the native,
h their good and bad points, their pas
: present and future, year from no
: than he or she knows to-day, and th
q stories will be interpreted wit
: quaint expressions, odd experiences
. and thrilling narratives which wi
q tend to relieve them of all dullnes
AS a writer, Zeke Bilkins has O,
cupied an humble and modest pos
ton. Society has never set its sc;
b OF approval upon his work. tt
e great literary critics who can NAL