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hardly afford to pass by any, of them. Burma Js
the homo of Buddhism, and ono can learn more
of the worship of Buddha hero than anywhere
else. The yellow-robed priest with his begging
howl is everywhere present.
1 have already discussed India and Egypt
, somewhat in detail, and no traveler need be urged
' to visit these countries. Palestine, however, is
skipped by so many travelers that I may be
pardoned a word of advice. Of all the countries
" which we visited none interested us more than
the Holy Land, and no member of a Christian
church can afford to visit southern Europe or
pass through the Suez canal without seeing that'
portion of Asia which is immortalized by Bible
history. The ruins at Balbec, in some respects
the most remarkable in the world, attract many
v Sep. of Galilee, Jerusalem and the Jordan have
lessons for the tourist of far greater importance
than can be derived from the ruins of heathen
temples.
If the reader lacks either time, inclination or
means for a trip around the world, he will find
,one of the shorter trips to Europe only second
in interest and value. The Mediterranean trip
. is a very popular one. This, according to its
length, permits a visit to Gibraltar, Alexandria,
Cairo, Palestine, Constantinople, Greece and Italy -From
Gibraltar it is a short trip to Granada, Cor
dova and Madrid, and our own experience leads
me to commend this trip to the traveler. At
Cairo and Constantinople the Orient comes nearest-to
Europe and America, and the difference
between the Orient and the western world is so
(Striking that no one visiting southern Europe
should miss the Nile and the Bosphorus. One
can spend weeks, and even months about the
, shores of the Mediterranean; Africa, Asia Minor
:?, Europe all touch uponsthis great inland sea.
Without leaving its shores one can study the
most opposite types which the human race has
produced and at the same .time study the history
L ,5 oWeft Peridds known to man. Egypt '
SSdt ?i,Vi!lte? befre the end of March, while
April is the- best month for a trip to Palestine.
. 111 ItnlV fllnno nun nlj .. . .
if z " " ""o tuuiu occupy a winter.
1 ? . WM ana the
- . fcli 5,15 a most fascinating city.
w ?fe,no mosaics Kke those of St. Peters and
fow galleries equal to those of the Vatican, while
masterpieces of sculptors and painters are to be
tS n evey han?- The old Roman forum is
the mecca of the student, and the Coliseum is
still a wonder, defying as it has the storms of
vl7i tW ??usand y"-s. At Naples onelees
Vesuvius and lava beds formed but a few months
ago. At one place the stream of lava poured
through an archway and hardened as it cooled
When we were there the lava was like ston nmi
2Sdf dmCUlty be br(en At F?orence one
Tw eBt f PecimB of modern sculpture and
rIvalIe?tC?n1Si? a ClaSS by itself' No other city
&nd mountainslthesl -?? hlno' Lalces' rivers
,anco, with cities onnLS? t0 be,foUQd In abund
and hotels to commod8)1!? th,e WUon
would cwnblnoSw w?A.VUPStB- If one
profitably employMldo,In5ructlfn ho can
the German universE 2 wS-H?e in visItlnS
sic and the art raSlertei l Heidelburg and Leip-
The cathedra la f Colore itS? tn &nd Munlcb'
land or the Ihtao VK?i6P t0-rTist than Switzer
land and th? wacSi? GS ?l Ireland and St
Holland give resHnVnof rtSH0C an
every yearj I? I we?o SS?Pf ation to multudes
iq .it would beTs efonowf.t0 8UgeSt a Sum
SS June land at Live,
0 for Bergen, Norway ?! a stearaer
lightfully in the fjcids ami k Ciln be apent de
neighborhood of Boreen SnS? the lalces in tho
deep water and ruggeS' moS2nf comblnatl of
streams and vJn:? ?u"taIn Js, rushinc
tat the tourist pVoeed to T?oSdh7em T' T!len
, w. U.VU!lal Can YQf, tne
The Commoner,
Arctic Circle in a little more than a day. "While
a day's stay is sufficient in the land of the mid
night sun if the sky is clear, It is better to allow
one's self two or three days' leeway as it is
often cloudy in this latitude and at this time of
the year. The midnight sun must be seen to be
appreciated. No description can do ft justice.'
To pass from day to day with no intervening
night, to watch the sun linger for awhile in the"
north near the horizon and then begin a new
day's work without a moment's sleep gives one a
sensation not Boon forgotten. A railroad across
Norway brings Christiana within a day's ride of
Trondhjem, and from Christiana to Stockholm iff
another day.
Stockholm is sure to charm the visitor. It
is a beautiful town, beautifully situated! it stands
where the waters of the lakes and the ocean
meet. Several days can be spent in Stockholm
to advantage, and then one is prepared for the
boat ride to St. Petersburg, one of the rarest ex
periences that one can. find in travel. The boat
wends its way through islands almost the entire
distance.
A week's stay in St. Petersburg will give
an opportunity for an inspection of the capital of
the greatest of the nations measured by territory,
and one of the greatest measured by population!
Here one has a chance to learn something of the
Greek church with its splendid cathedrals, rival
ling the cathedrals of the Roman Catholic church.
Moscow is even more distinctly Russian than
St. Petersburg, and the art gallery there sur
passes the one at St. Petersburg in its collection
of the works of Russian artists. Tolstoy's summer
home is not far from Moscow, and many take
advantage of the trip to see the greatest of living
philosophers.
The ride from St. Petersburg to Moscow and
from Moscow to Warsaw gives a very good view
of the interior of Russia, and one can stop off
at almost any place and learn something of the
village life of the Russian peasant. Seyeral days
can be occupied in Berlin, and other points of in
terest can be easily reached from Germany's capi
tal. Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, is only
half a day's ride distant. Hanover Hamburg,
Brussels, Amsterdam and The Hague are all
within easy reach. In Germany one has an op
portunity to learn a great deal about forestry,
agriculture and landscape gardening. The parks,
groves, Bhady driyes and boulevards furnish the
American traveler vith many suggestions while
the battle field of Waterloo and the lowlands of
Holland will ever be interesting to the student
of history.
The tour can be completed by a visit to Paris
and London. The social season in the latter city
ends early in August with the adjournment of par
liament. In three months' time one. can make this
northern trip and return with a fund of informa
tion about the countries and their peoples which
could never be collected from books. It is not an
expensive trip even for first class travel, and the
accommodations furnished by the steamers and
the railroads for second class passengers are such
UdlSmgpt06 W eXPenSeS considera
nnf SSJ?1 fe ad?' ln conclusion, that one does
est ami th,JeaVe Amerlca to find Place inter
untll t t 5 De jU8tify a trip abroad
ronntrv T6 ted with his OWn
S; EfurPe 1JM summer resorts that sur-
ern lakL n3 .n St Lawrn, on our north
ern lakes and in the mountains of the west In
t?mn7t?loZr$y vatyfronT salt-sea .
nathing to mountain climbing, with fishing thrown
in. In natural scenery there is nothing in
Europe which surpasses the Niagara, Yellowstone
Park, and the Yosemite Valley, of California
7hneIer?i n "ural views which surpass
those in the valleys on the Ohio, the Mississinni
SEJS6 TUTi' and for a restful wnte, t?ip
SosVbTiVeHf X WS, U-S
but more intensely American nln i?7 lt Is truo'
VOLUME 6, NUMBER 43
great materially, commercially intellpntimii
lltically and morally, our couitrv hn y' P
The American, returning "to hte own L n l)ecr'
like thanking Scott toPwfaSSuSS;
the traveler's sentiments: "Jicitousiy
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This Is my own, my native land;
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well
For him no minstrel raptures swell
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim -L
Despite those titles, power and pelf '
The wretch, concentred all in self '
Living, shall forfeit fair renown, '
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung
unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung."
Copyright.
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A DIVIDED HOUSE
The irresistible conflict in the republican
party is well illustrated by the speeches of Sen
ator Beveridge and Vice President Fairbanks The
senator is a reformer; the vice president is a
standpatter." Senator Beveridge -is out ringing
a bell and shouting: "Wake up, you are in
danger;" Vice President Fairbanks carries a bot
tle of chloroform and whispers: "Sleep on- all
S 7fUl!i And yet they llve in the same state
and both call themselves republicans.
SOUND DOCTRINE
, J.r K. Rudyard of North Port, Long Island,
writes to the New York World as follows: "Mr.
Bryan says 'No man who is financially connected
with, a corporation that is seeking privilegrs ought
to act as a member of a political organization, be
cause he can not represent his corporation and the
people at the same time. He cannot serve the
party while he is seeking to promote the fraan--cial
interests of the corporation wth wjiich. he
is connected This is sound doctrine' and can
not be crHcised without being first misstated.
Men who earn their living by doing the legiti
mate work of corporations do not class them
selves with those to whose participation in party
management Mr. Bryan objects, nor imagine that
his objection 'applies to them. They know that
privileges inflate franchise values and diminish
wages. They do not 'consider themselves read
out of the democratic party.' They desire only
equal rights, and, as thoy are neither fools nor
knaves, they can not Tie formed into a force of
political despotism.'"
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MAY BE AN ARGUMENT
A. B. Stickney, president of the Chicago Great
Western railroad, recently made a statement
showing a deplorable condition in railroad affairs.
And no less authority than the Wall Street
Journal says: "If it would be possible to reform
such conditions as this in no other way, these
facts might furnish a convincing argument in
favor of government ownership." The Journal
expresses the opinion, however, that the condi
tion can be remedied by regulation, and it says .
that Mr. Stickney deserves the thanks of the en
tire public for the disclosure.
?n his statement Mr. Stickney declared that
there is neither order, method, nor system in
the making of schedules; that "it is impossible
to convey any adequate understanding of the
utterly hopeless condition of the present sched
ules; that the publication of more than eight
tnousand separate schedules "affords opportunity
lor the same dexterous manipulation of schedules
wmoh is practiced by the three card monte gang
with cards;" that "no railway ever attempted to
comply with the law; that hundreds of swindling
scneoules have been and are being filed, rebates
a ifrm of overcharge being thereby paid,
ana only the interstate commerce commission
can stop them from being filed; and finally, that
most of the two and one-half million schedules
that have been filed with the interstate com
merce commission are illegal'
A college professor writes a magazine article
to prove that men of his profession should re
ceive not lessxthan $15,000 a year. If we paid
them that much how could we employ the king
Pin pitchers and the champion swatsmen for our
baseball teams?
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