La Junta tribune., 1909-01-02

elers. dining aad waiting room. whore
teas are served. and meals to order.
A regular course dinner or supper 10
served. II desired. have generally
paid At these hotels from half
crown to three shillings and one
ha1-sixty-two to eighty-five cents
per day for room. generally half
crown. always ate my supper at
these places. and when convenient,
my dinners also. ,ad the worst
In London. The An
glo-French Exhibition was attracting
great crowds Of people. went to|
several hotels which had been recon.
mended to me, but found them full
went to others with the same re-
suit. l inquired of 4 couple of po-
licemen. who also said they knew OF
no hotels but what were full. One Of
the policemen gave me a card of a
roomtng house. whittier l went, only
to find 1t without room. but the land
lord and his wife discussed their
rooms and roomers for some time
and finally told me they would let
me have room. but would have to
take It for a week. I took the room
as my only chance. and put up with
1t until left London. The charge
was monstrous-a shilling day!
Well, l. failed to find room for
the next couple of days and managed
to live through It, never am In my
room except at night to sleep In it.
One absolutely Indispensable part
OF a travellers equipment is a good
guide book. The best should always
be procured. A good guide book Will
save time. distance and expense and
will add TO the enjoyment and intel
i'eence Of ones travels. 1t will ad
wise one what there IL that Is worth
seeing. and explain 1t, will direct
where and how to go. the best ways
and means. the expense. the hotels
and everything that is necessary or
important to know. The best guide
books, upon the whole, for the coun-
tries OF Europe, are the Baedekers'.
These guide books have been publish
ed for many years and are kept re-
vised to late date, and contain
more information and in greater de-
tail. and are more reliable than any
other guide book published. They
are little expensive, ranging from
$3.50 to $2.25 per volume. There
are often more than one volume re-
quired to cover single country.
There are three volumes for Italy.
two for Germany. three or four for
France, but one for Belgium and Hol-
land. one for England and Scotland.
and none for Ireland. Here missed
my Baedeker very much. One can
take . Baedeker. with It's maps ano
plats Of cities and places, and with
out other guide. except an occasional
inquiry OF some casual stranger, can
find any place sought. the directions
are so plain. minute and exact. The
traveller will spend no money to a
greater advantage than in the pur-
chase Of good guide books.
AZ am closing this letter we are
nearing New York harbor. Yester-
day was stormy day. The gale
was almost directly In our front, or
slightly angling diagona'ly across
our ship. The wind swept over the
great ocean at sixty miles per hour.
The Celtic bravely faced the storm.
and, though slightly retarded, the
good ship plowed Its great, deep
furrow through the ocean. parting
the huge pillows as they dashed
against ITS prov and side. hurting
them of and away m a great deluge
of froth and foam. Here was a
magnificent sight-the storm. with its
pressure OF Is pounds per square inch
driving the oceans surface In great
pillows, an agitated, moving land
scape of watery hillocks, crags and
peaks, troughs and valleys, a show
and great fields Of snowy foam-a
sight that filled my heart with in
spiration and my mind with a reali-
zatidn of natures greatness and the
insisnificance of man. stood in
the Royal Gorge, the great cleft in
the Rocky Mountains. through
which the Arkansas river flows ON
toward the sea, and looked upward
sheer three thousand feet. at the
great overhanging and threatening
cliff Here was grandeur. stood
at the foot Of Niagara and saw the
Niagara river flowing over the great
falls, the water falling one hundred