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MT. w. B. Reynolds who is vertically an incurable traveller. has written some delightful letters home. One. published few weeks ago in The Age-Herald, came from the Island of Ceylon. where. with Mrs. Reynolds and a party of friends. he was sojourning for brief period in trip around the world. Yes terday a letter came from Delhi, India, and he tells of some extraordinary na- tive customs and describes scenes familiar 10 most readers of travel stories in a fresh and exceedingly graphic style. his letter is here reproduced, knowing that 1t will be read with real interest
 ''I wrote you last" he says, from Cey- lon, that beautiful and enchanted island. From there we sailed for Bombay, the largest city in India. On the steamer had the great pleasure of meeting Sir Thomas Iipton Your readers no doubt remem- Der sir Thomas" as he is called, as the builder of so many yachts which have i thus far met with failure to take the cup back to England. Liptons tea has also a worldwide reputation. I am go- ing to tell you something of this big hearted, big-brained Irishman, for he is worth the while. When he heard there were passengers on board from Alabama he hunted me up and introduced himself He told me his lifes history, which reads like romance. Just after our civil war he came as a steerage passenger to New York. He was then a mere boy. He went south and worked as common laborer in South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana and other southern states. He told me many Imaginable experiences he had. While in New Orleans he said be boarded with Mrs. Murphy at the rate of $2 a week Years after he went back to New Orleans a multimillonaire and associate of all the crowned heads of Europe He looked Mrs. Murphy up, he said. No one, not even kings and queens, ever looked bet ter to him than did this plain old Irish landlady. He made his first money in the south, and afterward drifted back to England, went in the tea business, and today his wealth exceeds $50 0OO.0O0 He was raised to title and knighted by the late King of England. He was King Edwards favorite chum. He has been feted and dined by all the crowned heads of Europe, yet he is still the plain, com panionable, lovable man that he was while in the south poor boy. One day while walking with him on the deck he said: I have something in my pocket book; l want you to guess what 1t is. l failed utterly. of course. He took me back out of the reach of the wind and took out q $50 Confederate bill on which was the picture of Jefferson Davis He had carried it for oyer GO years. He thinks Lee and Stonewall Jackson the greatest generals that ever lived, and there are no bounds for his admiration of Davis. He told me Jefferson Davis picture, presented by his daughter was in his private yacht
 q told him I was going to write something about him to one of the south's big papers. He said: Tell them you met me and how I admired the southern people. They were never whipped, simply overpowered. Tell them they are the greatest and grandest peo-