The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-08-11
-. From A World Trip.
,.,,,s Tells Us That We Spend
4 Too Much.

recently arrived in New York
ground the world. His tour
st ten months. Having COW
,estern part of Europe. the
WI TO Vienna and Budapest
went through Bulgaria, Rou-
Hungary beautiful" said
rre recently, "but the Bal
,es are the most desolate I
The soil is poor and the
poverty stricken. My next
turkey. | spent two weeks
jnop,e and was impressed by
s-s If the people. When l
was the month of religious
nd eyerybody was praying.
+ to smyrna and into Pales-
+ spent several weeks visit
/ the places of interest. In
/ stopped three weeks, get
mo the wonderful cave from
NM took out the stone for the
-ztI went to Port Said.
was my next objective point,
sav mat | found India very
.aleed. There is no question
fh5t the architecture Of that
fuest in the world. The
atel at Bombay is certainly
81 l-autiful structures of the
r. Il is owned by a Parsee. l
SOME Parsees, and / was adj
-. Of the libraries in private
found the works of
M some other American
l- Parsees truly lead the
of course | visited the
where the Parsees dis
a. There was a flock of
Hl,ares about waiting for
1t on the tower. There
raj TWO hours before |
ct and | was told that
10 ten minutes after a
not a shred of flesh is
-~ $. | was informed, are
.g cremation, and there
,.et they will adopt it in
wot method of disposing
,Jrneyed to Delhi, and
wonderful TAI Mahal.
Hd Curzon, when he was
wished to replace a
ither missing from the
Hoyed, and he could only
yao could make such a
lam had to be brought
took the two men a year
the lamp.
..l CaWnpore | visited on
ElnAres, the Sacred City,
several days. | saw them
rs and dipping them into the
then burning them on piles
IT, the river bank. It costs
..- he wood which is a ire
Tor the ordinary Hindoo,
flames have consumed the
a of the corpse its father or
a,ar relative takes a long
eraltly pushes the head and
t Goals.
tia, which is a wonderfully
, ! took a great deal of in
King into conditions in the
mills, which employ $1,000
.sc mills are said to furnish
rwanent work that is to be
Of the number employed
receive wages of IL cents a
hers draw s and 10 cents.
IF these wages | found that
i've or six persons can live on
Their food, of course, is
houses are of mud and BAN
sc | looked into were clean
liable. The workman puts
his wages, his ambition be-
is own house.
hat | saw in my trip, and
India, impressed me with
gaace in living in our country
.er We are eXtravagant in
TN every phase of our life
ne to the very extreme. |
It too much to say that one
.eople of the world are living
A man can live upon from
cents worth of rice a day.
rip through Louisiana and
warehouses all piled full of
-4.e for it and asked why it
Sud there was no demand for
i use one-half or even one
rice for food as do the peo-
s- the whole question of the
wing would be solved. The
i've upon rice, demonstra-
war their great powers
ltravagance, why, take
few years ago one buggy
sufficient for him to keep
Iheu it came to pass that
have a buggy of his own,
.toUse got to be like a big
Now the farmers have all
Ter automobiles. The viii
Ne used to have trouble sell
"ooe pieces of meat. Now
'at any but the best cuts,
N-'h the meat of a bullock
three years old, and the com
ara sent to the cities to
rs ouy Of. Then in the coun-
used to keep chick
-Heir own eggs and raise a
4-es. Today you can drive
la2en country towns in sue
ghiie you may find that half
-es nave flowers in their front
WON'T be any that has a
r. len or a chicken coop. Men
TX -g by the day are raising
et body wants to be a mil
Is doing only a special kind
ia won't keep chickens or a
n canton, China, where half
aple live on boats, you will
oa a craft from twenty to
ag while on one end of the
eat coop with chickens and
d little pen in which is a pig,
52E II earth in it, in which
As ng lettuce or some other
You will see the same thing
of the so, 900 Hollanders who
farm out in Ohio. You have
@hen they are mere shoats
,a.y $50 pounds. Formerly
Mr. able to let them grow to
ulF now the meat is not con-