Arizona republican., 1910-03-09
TOURIST 1ARR|ES
 4 DAY IN PHOENIX
BUT THIS CITY IS ONLY ONE OF SEVERAL PLACES HE HAS
 SEEN RECENTLY.
His Itinerary for the Last Five Months Has Been an Interesting
 One.

tne WOrlu WHICH VIII pc competed III
 three or four weeks when he reaches his home in Paris, H., Walter V. Ar | buckle Ph. B. LIB, spent yesterday | in Phoenix. He came to take a peep at the town and see the Arizona os-
 triches of which he has heard so much He left on this mornings train for the Grand canyon. the petrified forest, cliff dwellings and other natural wonders of northern Arizona, and will then go to
 Denver and home by easy stages.
 Mir Arbuckle is not a missionary. d l professional globe trotter. nor a com mercial trayeler He is merely a sue | cessful lawyer, former states attor- ney of his home county and gentle man of education and refinement who | likes to see things; and he has seen d lot of them since october 1. 1909. when he sailed out of New York har- / Dor on the steamship Cleveland in l company with 656 other tourists It chances that he was of the same eX- | cursion party in which Phoenix was represented by Mrs. Bessie W Cush- man. though he did not know Mrs. Cushinan was from Phoenix until he 1 learned of it here yesterday. as she went from her Missouri home when she embarked.
 | Mir Arbuckle says the trip has been delight to him ever since he left home He has had good health and ! was not bothered even by seasickness, and as for things to look Tt it has been constant moving picture show He sought to make the best of his op portunities and was well suppliesd with note books when he started, so he now has the data for unlimited study and writing also if he chooses to so en- gage himself. He also took along a good camera and has d trunk full of pictures of many of the worlds won dcrs. He has furnished correspondence during his trip to q number of the cast ern papers.
 It would take q book to tell of half the wonders of this world-tour. but a key to it can he found in the itinerary which was as follows: First to Madeira island in eight days. and after that in perpetual procession came Gibraltar, Naples. Pompeii. and Hurculaneum, Cairo. the Nile and SueZ. He climbed the pyramids, inside and out. talked with the Sphinx and examined Cheops. Leaving Suez they touched land again at Bombay and made a side journey to Agra, Delhi. Conpour and back to Bombay. The next stopping place was Colombo. CeylOn. where they inspected the botanical gardens. the most notable in the world. From Ceylon they went to Calcutta and Benares and made journey to q point in sight of the Himalayas. retracing their steps to Rangoon and Singapore. The next step took them to Sumatra and Bata- via. Java and BuitenZorg. where there is another royal botanical garden al- most as famous as that of Ceylon- Thence a trip was made to Victoria, on Labuan island. which belongs to Borney. and then to Borneo proper. The next jump was to American soil. if one may so speak, for Manila was the landing place
 From Manila the route was to Hong Kong. inland to Canton. and back again to Hong Kong. Another long jump took them to Nagasaki. Japan. then through the inland sea to Kobe, to osaka. and thence to kyoto. the western capital. then to Yokohama. Kamakura and Tokio. This side tour was extended to Nikko. which he says is without doubt the prcttiest place in Japan. Returning to Yoko hama, the party made the next. and one of the longest voyages of the trip to Honolulu. After short stay there, they embarked for San Fran cisco. where the tourist family dis banded Mir Arbuckle went to Sacra- mento, and thence to Tia Juana, Mex leo. stopping at every intervening town. Then he came to Phoenix He is out to see things. and does not propose to overlook anything if he can help it.
 Though it was hurry. hurry all the time until one would think the tour ists would get sick and tired of sight seeing, Mir. Arbuckle says the constant change kept up an unflagging inter est and though the features of the trip were almost as numerous as it's days abl hours the variety of them made each new scene as attractive as any of its predecessors And which was most marvellous would be purely matter of opinion He referred to one or two incidents as suggestive of many equally as interesting One in par tlculdr was dt bofnDdy where ne SsiN d Brahmin seeking through penance to become priest. The penance consists in hanging by ropes from the ankles fastened to d sacred bael tree The candidate has to be thus suspend ed for eight hours each day for pe- riod of twelve years. being attended. by a priest who renders assistance when it is necessary. A few inches below his head is a very small fire in which is burning a chip of sandal wood the smoke of which wreathes about his head From time to time when he has to have breath of air or shift his position to keep his blood in circulation. he raises up his body and catches hold of his feet for a few minutes until he feels strong enough to hang some more. At the end of twelve years it is supposed his soul has been purified by penance and lie becomes a priest.
 Canton. China. he says. is most wonderful city in some ways. with a population of between two and three millions and streets from six to seven feet wide and most of them tortuous. The very wide streets are only ten feet across. Without a guide one would get lost in no time. An incl dent of the Canton visit is worth re- lating There had been talk of a re-