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Great Horn of East Africa and ! went on
other steamers southwark along the east
coast passing through the MoZa nj blque
channel to Beira in Portuguese East
Africa.
From Cape Town l journeyed UP the
west cost OF the continent to the Ma
deira Islands, not far from Gibraltar.
where / had started in. and thence went
on to Southampton and home to New
York II will thus be seen that ! have
circumnavigated the continent. have
gone over the routes of the early Phoeni-
clans who were sent around Africa about
500 &c. by Egyptian king, as descr1b-
ed by Herodotus, and have touched near
~ all the places that VascO Gle CANA and
Bartholomew DiaZ discovered at about
the time that Columbus came across the
Atlantic and found our new world.
There are now haif dozen INES OF
steamers plying between England and the
Cape OF Good Hope. They make the voy-
age in from seventeen to twenty-three
days and there are other and slower YES
sells which, stopping at the various ports.
are a month or so on the way.
Some Of these ships go down the east
coast by way of the SueZ canal, and
some sail back and forth by the west
coast alone Then. there are ships which
go to the Cape of Good Hope on their
that way for India. and other lines which
make the trip around the continent. start
ing in at one side and coming back by the
other, and vice versa.
The fare from London to Cape Town
ranges from $40 to $3.50 and there are
second-class rates by which one can 20 as
cheaply 10 Cape Town as he can travel
first class fare from New York TO Liver
pool The vessel upon which came from
the Cape of Good Hope to England was
one of the big mail steamers of the Union
Castle line. 1t was the Saxon, vessel
of over IL 600 tons. We made the trip III
just seventeen days. and were landed at
Southampton at the very hour We were
told We would reach there before leaving.
The Union Castle line is one OF the old
est of the African steamship companies.
As the Union line, which was founued
ffty-five years ago. ii sent the first steam
vessels regularly to South Africa. There
were only two of the companys ships
which then exceeded 800 tons. About
twenty years later this line was united
with the Castle company, the two being
combined by Sir Donald Curfi'. who is
still the president OF the organ Zation.
A; that time the contract for the mails
Was based on thirty sevcn-day passage
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shlps go ON to Zanzibar Tanga. and
Mombasa. and thence north to Alden and
on up the Red sea and SueZ canal To the
Mediterranean. They go from Port SAID
10 Naples and thence out back through
the Strait of Gibraltar to Hamburg. The
whole trip, including board, costs just
about 500 first class. with the stewards
fees added. and it takes about two months
to make IT,
II one wishes to visit the ports Of West
Africa The Noerman line Ealing from
Hamburg will take him along the Cult
of Guinea and down Ia the konSo. and u
has also ships 10 Swahopmund. in Ger
man Southwest Africa. There are some
vessels sailing resu arly from Antwerp To
the kongo and others which so to Gil
braltar and around the coast of Morocco
The trip to the kongo takes nineteen
days and the steamers leave for there
every three weeks. They land at Matadi,
where one can catch the railroad past the
rapids of the Kongo to Stanleypool
There is also Il Portuguese steamer
which goes from Lisbon three times a
month for Iloanda. Benguela. and the
ports of Portuguese West Africa and
there are British steamers from Liverpool
every other Saturday for Sierra Leone.
Accra, and Lagos. The fare 10 Sierra
Leone is 500. These same ships go TO
Liberia, the fare there costing S12o. The
rate from Antwerp to the kongo is $50
and to Lagos $50
4 ::
Mediterranean Africa is very easily
reached from Europe. The French have
a number of lines which steam from Mar
seilie to .Algiers, Oran and Tunis, and
there are Italian ships which make the
same ports. One can go almost daily in
twenty-four hours from France to Al
giers, and the trip TO Tunis is not much
longer. There are ships sailing weekly
from Naples To Tunisia. and there is a
line of vessels which goes from runis 10
Tripoii. calling at Stax and Gabes and
thence going by way of Tripoli to
Malta These boats are of about one
thousand tons each and are rather dirty.
The fares are low.
At present the German lines are trying
to catch the American travel to Egypt
and both the Hamburg American and
North German Lloyd have branch lines
from Naples to Alexandria. Within the
past year or the Hamburg American
has put its own steamers on the Nile and
they now compete with the mail vessels
of the khedive and with those Of Thomas
Cook & Som which have so long held a
monopoly of that trade.
Ii one would visit Morocco he had best
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could have arrived at such disposition
she said. Those long sable coats be-
came the rage. The price of sables went
up terribly-till now the little skins. con-
siderably smaller than a rabbits, sell
from $50 to 5000 each,''
(ChinchilIa skins, still smaller. cost be-
tween s. and $50 apiece. depending on
their source, La Plata or Peru. In my
second photograph where all the ladies
are together. you see punches of them
hanging on the wall. to the left-center of
the background
''In Russia certain mobiles had lined
their cloth coats with sable Nine.
Klein said but no furriers Of Paris or
London had imagined long sable mantles
for women. When they suddenly became
so dear we began working In Canada and
Russian mink
The rise in prices is. of course, out
rageous. A long sable coat costs today
anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000, and the
same in Canada mink between $400 and
5000. But / must warn you that such
minks are very different furs from the
red horrors you buy cheap in the depart
ment stores.
"Then the dressmakers made long err
mine mantles" my infOrma mt went on.
'You can have one for $500. afternoon
wraps for teas and. at need, for even
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EW people realize
the enormous ex-
tent of the present
steamship I r a v e |
about Africa. All
OF our great At
Iantic liners now
have ships which
leave New York
regularly for the
Mediterranean, and
not a few of these
call at Algeria and
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ments were stiff. straight, classical and
lumpy. of no style in cut. Once bought,
they lasted.
Furriers made muffs and stoles of sables.
F,rmine was not used. The furriers OF
Paris eren-Russans all or Germans
worked as they had worked at home, in
venting nothing Consequently a skin cost
then SEQ that is worth today $500.
Now there autumn fur styles. win
ter styles: and when spring comes, fur
styles have changed again. Why. there
Are summer furs-gauze stoles trimmed
with fur lightly: swansdown and crepe
DECLINE trimmed with fur straps
Rich women can no longer. like their
mothers. buy "a set of furs'' and be done
with IT. but are forced to revel in delight
full novelties, while their poor sisters
profit by fur limitations got up with a
chic the wealthy themselves could not at
tain twenty years ago. A young French
man. twenty-seven years old. is now draw
ing SEQ, 900 yearly from A sealskin made of
rabbit pelts-Il tell you of his benefac-
lions to poor, pretty women!
i have all this from the smartest, pref
fiest lady in the Rue Royale herself not
poor at all but chief of one of the great
ladies' tailor and dressmaking concerns of
the capital. though born in the fur
trade So if Nine. Klein has great
praise for Paris furriers 1t must be be-
cause they fell ANONYMOUSLY behind the
times.
WHO makes the styles in furs:" 1
asked her.
The dressmakers.' was her answer
''Fifteen years ago fur garments had be-
come so stiff, unelegant and heavy that
smart women gave them up for after
Moons. They paid visits in muffs. stoles
and fur-trimmed gowns. In vain the fur
riers struggled against the neglect of their
backwoodS Siberian cut. and today the
two Paris houses that pretend to turn out
stylish garments buy their models from
us-the dressmakers."
Hum. hum" ] said
We dressmakers saw that women were
dressed fnsufficiently for the Partisan
climate" Nine. Klein continued I'VE
began by making fur wraps-very fiat
but fluffy. Our first try was with the fur
that most resembles MISUNDERSTANDING
or baby lamb as the Americans call it
making long Jackets trimmed with galoons
and embroidery. The furriers had never
dreamed of such an innovation-I am
speaking of ten years ago.
Baby lamb looks like a black MORE
antique, a watered silk and the ladies'
tailors cut and seWed it as if it were
cloth.
The result was new lines unknown to
furriers, said the lady. when We tried
them In sables. such insets of squares and
circles gave form, lightness and chic that
was tailoring in fur!'
You can see what she means by ''insets'
when you glance at the magnificent sable
coat which had photographed. Down its
surface you will observe that the skins
were cut in squares and curves. not only
to give fit but also to produce fair. grace
full lines by opposition of dark and light
skins
s.Only the imagination of dressmakers
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These boats carry all the c. lid and dia-
monds that come from South Africa
their freight of that kind alone being an
nually worth at least SJO,OG0 500.
Among TIE other British lines are the
Aberdeen, which sails from London to
Natal direct, rounding the Cape of Good
Hope and calling only at the ports of
East Africa. These are ships of from
5000 to 5000 tons They so down the
west coast stopping at the Canary Is
lands. and come first into port at Dur
ban. From there they go to Lourenco
Marques, Beira, Mozambique, Zanzibar
and Mombasa. The trip to Mombasa
costs $40 and to Natal $50.
Then there is the Rucknall steamship
line which goes to Cape Town by way of
Madeira and also calls at Natal. Its fares
to Natal are SltD and to Cape Town $40.
The ships are of about six thousand
tons each. The Natal line 10 Durham
direct has smaller vessels, but II charges
just about the same rates while the
British India line. which goes from Lon
don To the SueZ canal and down the east
coast costs considerably more. Passen-
gers on the latter boats must transship
al Alden. and the vessels are compare
lively small. The rate 20 MombaSa or
Zanzibar is SD while TO Delagoa Bay.
the port for the TraEsvaal, il is more
than $500
Travelling on these African steamers is,
il seems To me much more agreeable
than the great floating hotels which
cross the Atlantic. The ship which
brought me from South Africa was al
most $40 feet long, 90 feet wide and more
than 40 feet -ep. The first-class cabins
were on the upper deck and the ventila-
ton was such that we We're perfectly
comfortable when we crossed the equator.
The ship rolled bit. but only few of
us were seasick, and the voyage was en-
joyable from one end to the othe~.
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THE Big Cape Liners and
i the Life Upon Them
Potato Races and Human
Cock Fights-A Fashionable
Crowd-Steamers to the Con-
90 and the Gulf of Guinea
The Ships of Mediterranean
Africa Travel on the Red
Sea-To Australia Via Cape
Town.
Copyright. 1905, by frank G. Carpenter
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS, December IS, 1908

w ELN l. years d-o
few women in the
world had seen a
long coat all of
SableS or chill
chilla.
Fifteen years ago
there were no
styles in furs.
A lady had her
seaiskin. aStrakhan
and mink. made by
furriers. Such gar
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entered ana .:tu''- Ntl'can legislators and
colonies We'd with tourists, gold miners
and engineers TO see who was best. There
were also cricket matches where the balls
were caught by nets put up at the sides
OF the deck. and concerts and dances
night after night.
The man or woman who goes 10 South
Africa with no more baggage than he can
carry in his or her hat Will feel much out
of place. There is more dress ns Oh
those steamers than on the biggest SHIPS
which cross the Atlantic. On the way
from the Cape of Good Hope to Madeira
there was not man in the first class who
and stiff boiled shirt for dinner each
night and most of the ladies wore low
necks and short sleeves. This custom
prevails on all the steamers, and on both
sides of the continent. There is fuil dress
at all the dances and concerts. and the
party in the saloon during the evening
looks more ike that of a Washlngto on
parlor than like the rough and tumble
crowd which one always finds on the big
Atlantic liners.
AS to the meals on the ships. they are
excellent | had good board even on
the small Mediterranean coastal steamers
and on the vessels along the cast coast.
The eating on the ships from the cape to
London is about as good as on the At
lantc. and there are four or five meals a
day. Here for instance is my schedule
for one day At 7::s0 am. the boy enter
ed my cabin with tea and a cracker, which
| ate in bed. At $50 l had good break
fast in the dining saloon, at l a luncheon
with soup and dessert at o'clock tea in
the saloon. and at $50 dinner. The latter
meal lasted an hour or more, and, in ad
dition there was a supper late in the
evening.
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Leaving the Cape of Good Hope We
did not sop until VIC reached Madeira.
fourteen days later. During this time
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the passengers became we'll acquainted.
and all seemed anxious to have II good
time. Shortly after leaving collection,
averaging about 81 apiece, was taken up
from the first and second class pasS9n~
gers. and this formed purse of several
hundred dollars. which was used as pre-
miumS for games and contests into which
ali the passengers entered. II was A sort
of Olympic games held in midocean, III
which both ladies and gentlemen joined.
There was considerable rivalry between
tho first and second classes. and each had
its champions. Among the sports entered
into by the ladies were the spoon and
egg spirits and the potato race. In the
spoon and egg race hen egg is laid on
the deck at a certain spot and the girl
cont estant must run and scoop this up
with spoon and carry IT, without let
ting it fall back to the goal. The dis
lance is thirty or forty yards. 1t requires
skill to get the egg into the spoon and
steady hand to carry it.
In the potato race three rows of ten
raw pot atoes are laid upon the deck, the
potatoes OF each row being three feet
apart There is a bucket at the end of
each row. In this game three girls can
contest al one time. Each takes a row
and attempts to gather her potatoes more
quickly than the others. The potatoes
can be picked up only one at time.
and all must go into the bucket at the
end of the row. The who finishes
first. getting her whole ten in her bucket.
is the winner.
Another sport in which both sexes cor
tested. was threading the needle. In
this the boy puts the thread through the
eye, while his girl holds the needle The
couple which threads first is successful.
AS to games for the men. these were
legion and some most ridiculous One
was marking the deck with what was
called the bow line stretch, and another
was IA PILLOW fight contest. In the latter
two men balancing themselves astride a
pole with mattress beneath them.
fought each other with pillows until one
was knocked on the mattress. There
were about forty contestants for this priZa
and All EnsliShman won II.
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Then there was the human cock fight
in which two men with their arms tied
over their knees and fastened there by
stick attempted to crowd each other
out Of IL ring on the floor by means of
their toes. and also the contest 10 see who
could eat 4 biscuit or drink a bottle of
soda water in the shortest time. and then
run tic length Of til deck.
For these games both Old and young
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with a 5000 bonus for every day under
that, and the postage rates Wcr" one
shilling per letter Since then the rates
have been reduced to two cents. and the
time to sixteen and one-half DAYS. There
are now about score OF these mall
steamers, and they all belong to the
L Mon Castle COMPANY. which has per
hapS a dozen or so other vessels III its
African service
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| cannot imagine a better health trip
than sea voyage around Africa. There
are several lines which go down one
coast and up the other. One of the best
is a German African line by which one
starts at Hamburg and can go either
east or west. If he chooses the western
route he calls at Las Paimas in the
Canaries and then goes on TO Capt Town.
the voyage there taking twenty-three or
twenty four days. Leaving the Cape of
Good Hope the ship next calls at Port
Elizabeth, the Liverpool of South Africa
and then goes on to East London and
Durham. the capita of Natal The two
next stoppages are in Portuguese, East
Africa. and then come Moza mbutle
Chindc and Oar SaIaam. the capital of
German East Africa. From there the
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-12-18
DECLARES LIQUOR NOT NEEDED,
According to Writer, Europeans II
Tropics Are Better Without II.

Transmitting an article written by
DR.. Harold H. Mann, and published In
THE Young Men of India" under
the title of as Drink Necessary fol
Europeans in Indian" Consul General
William H. Michael of Calcutta writes:
Europeans and Americans who
come to India do not need liquors to
keep well; they will be better with
out stimulants of any kind. After
nearly two years residence here my
observations lead me to say that drink
ers of spirits, wines and malt liquors
are the most susceptible to disease,
especially fevers, either on the plains
or In the mountains, Of any class Of
the inhabitants. Proper regard for
dress, to guard against sudden wealth.
er changes, moderation in eating, es
pecially meats; using only filtered and
boiled water, entire abstention from
alcoholic, vinous and malt liquors, and
plenty of sleep will almost invariably
insure, to the average healthy per-
son, good and uniform health, as far
as feverR are concerned, and by add
ing vaccination and incubation, will
go a long way toward making that
person immune from contagious dis
cases."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-12-18
(Copyrlght, 1905, by W. C. chapman.)
SYNOPSIS.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
RAY WALTERS

The Escapade opens, not In the ro-
nance preceding the marriage of Ellen
Slocum, Puritan miss, and LORD car
rington of England, but in their life after
settling in England. The scene is placed,
lust following the revolution, in CARING
ton castle in England. The Carringtons.
after house party engaged IN a ianlIy
tilt, caused by jealousy The attentions
of Lord Darlington to Lady Cecily ana
Lord Strathgate to Lady Darlington com,
PEELED the latter to vow that she would
leave the castle. Preparing to flee, Lazy
Darlington and her chum Deborah, an
American girl, met Lord Strathgate at
two a. M. he agreeing to see them sateiy
away. He attempted to take her to his
castle, but she left him stunned in the
road when the carriage met with an ac-
cident. She and Debbie then struck out
for Portsmouth where ss she geWs Of Of
Ellen's fight, Lords Darlington and Seton
set out In pursuit. Seton rented q fast
vessel and started in pursuit. Strathgate'
bleeding from fall dashed on to Ports
mouth, for which Darlington, Ellen ana
Seton were also headed by different
routes. Strathgate arrived in Portsmouth
in advance of the, others, finding that that
Strathgate and Darlington each hired a
small yacht to pursue the wrong vessel,
upon which each supposed Ellen had
Portsmouth, but his craft ran aground,
just as capture was imminent. Ellen won
the chase by boarding American vessei
Strathgate, thrown together by formers
wrecking of latter's vessel, engaged in an
impromptu duel, neither being hurt. a
war vessel, commanded by, an admiral Mira
suit of the women fugitives, Seton con-
Tossing love for Debbie; Flagship Britain
mia overlook the fugitives during the
night. The two women escaped by again
taking to the sea in a small boat. Lord
Darlington is ordered to sea with his ship
but refuses to 60 until after meeting Ie, ing
grounds of Lord Blythedale's castle.
Encounter is watched by, Ellen and Deb
bic, who have reached land and are in
hiding. Darlington won bloody CON
test at swords from Strathgate, Debbie
and Ellen looking on and praying for the
latter's husband. Darlington, immedi-
ately following the duel, was placed un-
der arrest for refusing to obey his ad-
mirars orders and Ellen, who had
him gone Sir Charles Seton found the
fugitives, proposed to Debbie and was
accepted Debbie, Ellen and Sir Charles
made a plea to the king to spare Car
rington. The king decides to grant par
don after promising Lady Darlington
that he would frighten the lord.
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with every evidence of appreciation
of the kings ineffable condescension
How do you find yourself this morn
ing?" continued his majesty.
Very well, your majesty" said KEEP
hard.
"And you, Captain Beatty, and you,
sir?"
The gentlemen addressed bowed pro-
foundly.
I'VE are all fit for service against
any of your majesty's enemies now,
as always" returned Kephard, with
another salute.
81 know that" said the king, kindly.
You have had a pleasant voyage?"
Yes, your majesty"
You brought with you on your ship
prisoner"
Subject to your majesty's pleasure,
of course" returned Admiral Kephard.
"And what are the charges against
Lord Carrington?" asked the king.
"Disobedience of orders, sir" re-
turned the admiral.
Hath he been tried YETI"
mot yet, sir. A court-martial is
ordered for tomorrow on the Brit
annia"
and what will be the result of
their deliberations?"
He is sure to be found guilty, sir, "
answered Kephard, gloomily.
"Huml" said the king. And the
punishment"
Suspension, degradation, dismissal,
unless your majesty should be pleased
to mitigate the sentence"
"And what were the circumstances
of the disobedience?"
Admiral Kephard coughed and
looked embarrassed.
"Out with IT," said the king, bluntly.
HE stayed from his ship to-ah-
fight a duel"
How does he bear himself now?''
continued the king, to Admiral KEEP
hard's surprise.
He had expected violent outburst
from his majesty, who thoroughly dis
approved Of dueling.
"Gloomily, your majesty. In short
sir" the admiral burst forth, hes
been a damned-I beg your majesty's
pardon, and yours, madam. IT'S an
old sailors habit" he stammered in
great confusion.