Show Ac WORD OF E TO TOURISTS enn 1 1 0 Tf r Mx j i lt t i Jf m mIi w Mx t Ii v ww X r ow p Y x w v x 1 oi j S w i t to r I X S o i V t y Jf t a t 1 Jf s i X 1 i t M It 1 S 1 t 1 v ml y rf a 4 V t l V i t fY l 0 7 1 1 h l l J 1 fl 1 1 0 C Street In Filipino Midnight Sun Lincoln Neb Oct have found around the globe far more In than we had expected and It was entered UDon for educational rea reasons sons There is so much to see and learn that one can occupy an Indefinite tIme in travel We set aDart a year for the trip and reached home days within the Those who have fol followed lowed these letters will admit I think that we have covered a great deal ot the world If we were repeating the trip I hardly know of country that we could afford to out and andI I am that it is better to start roin the coast than from the Atlantic One make the trip in half the time that we spent and see a great deal but he can see more if he bas a year or two to for the journey If one desIres to matte the trip In months he should set apart about two months for He could then devote two weeks to Japan ten da s sto to China a week to Manila three to a week to Eg Dt two to the Holy Land a week to Greece and Constantinople and the rest of the time to Europe To go through would require ten days or two more ut the hermit kingdom S erent from any other countr and its queer people are worth seeing Very few of the tourists have Visited and yet it is in some re respects the most interesting of the Chin Chinese ese clUes The element o the Chinese ruling element can only be seen at or in the northern distrIcts rhe great wall is near and the around the of is eyen more than the great wall itself The Altar of Heaven the most beautiful and elaborate ate sacrificial altar on earth Ss in suburbs of the ChInese capital and in itself Well re a S a visit recently Pekin could only be entered the sea yia The however from Pekin to Han kow about completed when we were there and this facilItates travel through the interior If one goes through it Is best to go on to Pekin by water and then go down on the railroad to and own the rIver to Every American the orient should spend some days in the PhilIlp pine He owes it to his coun country try to do so It he will visit the schools he will be that there Is in increasing creasing intellIgence In the Islands I and he will not that the people want independence An inspection of the factories will prove that the Filip inos are industrIous as well as gen t tIt It takes about two weeks to go from Singapore to Java and return but e remember that visit as one of the most delightfUl parts of the trip The ruined temple t Boro the delicious fruits the terraced hUls the ing rice fields and the shad drives Unger In memory To Visit Ceylon Burma and India re requires quires 3 good deal of upon the I bay of Bengal We went to Ceylon then back to Burma and then to India and return to Ceylon from but nIl three Of these are in and one can hardly afford to pass by an of them Burma is the of Buddhism and one enn lemn more of the worship of Buddha hero than anywhere else The prIest with his is every resent I have already India and Eg somewhat in and no tray eler need be urged to visit these coun countries tries Palestine however is skipped b so many travelers that I may be par pardoned a word of advIce Of all the countries which we none inter interested ested us more than the Holy Land I and no member of a Christian church can afford to vIsIt southern or pass through the Suez canal without seeing that portion of Asia which Is by Bible history The ru ruIns Ins at In some the most In the world attract man to Damascus and the but the Sea ot Jeru Jerusalem salem and the have less ns for tho tourist ot far greater importance than can be derived from the ruins of heathen If the reader lacks either tim nation or means for a trIp the world he find one of the shorter trips to Europe only second in interest and value The lf trip is isa a popular one This according to Its length permits a visit to Gibraltar Alexandria Cairo Palestine Constan Constantinople Greece and Italy From Gib Gibraltar it is a short trip to Granada Cordova and and our own ex experience leads me to commend this trip to the traveler At Cairo and Con the orient comes nearest to Europe and America and the ence between the orient and the west western ern world is so striking that no noe visiting southern Europe should miss the and the One can spend weeks and even months about the shores of the Ai rIca Asia and E rope all touch upon this 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 of the oldest periods known to man Egypt should be visited the end ot while April is the best for a trip to tine In alone one could o cupy a winter Rome the center of the Catho Catholic lic orld and home ot the Caesars is a most fascinating city There are areno no mosaics like those of St Peters and few equal to those ot the yat lean while masterpieces of sculptors and painters are to be found on every The old Roman is the mecca of the student and the Coliseum Is still a wonder defying as It has the storms of nearly 2000 years At Na Naples ples one sees Vesuvius and lava beds formed but a few months ago At one place the stream or lava poured through an archway as it When we were there the lava was stone and could with difficulty be br ken At Florence one sees the best specimens of modern sculpture and at he visits one of the most famous of the European cathedrals Venice is in a class by Itself No oth other er city riyals it in Its are canals and gondolas are the in which potentate priest and plebeian rIde It draws visitors from over the world and sen s them away after a short visit glad that they came and equally glad to escape from the dampness of the place If one desires a summer trip he can find few journeys more delightful than those SwItzerland and along the Rhine Lakes rivers and moun mount t are to b found in dance with cities to supply the population hotels to accommodate the tourists If one would combine pleasure with instruction he can profit profitably ably employ considerable Jime in visit visiting ing the universities at burg and and the art gallerIes at Dresden and Munich The cathedral at Cologne it may be added is by many preferred to the cathedral at Milan Ii The northern portions of Europe are even more inviting to the summer tour tourist than Switzerland or the Rhine The of Ireland and Scotland and the sea coast resorts of England and Hol Holland land give rest and recuperation to mul multitudes I eV ry year if I were going to a summer trip it would be as follows Leave New York earl In June land at Liver Liverpool pool cross to Newcastle and take a steamer for Bergen Norway A week can be spent in the fjords and on the lakes in the neighborhood of Bergen SUch a combination ot deep deepwater water and rugged mountain sides rush rushing ing streams and crystal lakes is hard to find Then let the tourist proceed to Tron the ancient capital where ICing Haakon was recently From the traveler can reach the Artie circle in a little more than a day a days stay Is sufficient in the land of the midnight sun it the shy is clear it Is better to allow ones self two or three days leeway as asit it is often cloudy in this latitude and at this time of the year The midnight sun must be seen to be appreciated No de description can do it justice To pass from day to day with Intervening night to watch the sun r a awhile while in the north near the horizon and then begin a new days work without a moments sleep gives one a sensation not soon forgotten A railroad across Norway brings Christiana within a days ride of and Christiana to is another day Stockholm Is sure to chann the vis visitor It is a beautiful town beautifully situated It stands where the waters of the and the ocean meet Several days can be spent In Stockholm to ad advantage vantage and t en one is prepared for forthe the boat rIde to St Petersburg one of the rarest experiences that one can find in travel The boat wends its way through islands almost the entire dIs dIstance tance A weeks stay at St Petersburg will give an opportunity for an of the capital of the greatest of the na nations measured by territory and one of the greatest measured by population one has a chance to learn some somethIng thIng of the Greek church with its splendid cathedrals the cathe cathedrals oi the Roman Catholic church is even more dIstinctly RussIan than St Petersburg and the art gal gallery lery there surpasses the one at St Petersburg in collection of the works I of Russian artists I home is not far from Moscow and many take advantage of the trip to see I the greatest of livIng philosophers The ride from St Petersburg to Ios cow and from Moscow to Warsaw gives a good view o the interior or Rus Russia sia and one can stop off at almost any place and learn something of the vIl lage life of Russian Several ays can be occupied in Ber lin and other points of interest can be reached from Germanys Copenhagen the capital of Denmark Is only half a days ride distant Han Hanover over Hamburg Brussels Amsterdam and The Hague are all within easy 1 each In Germany One has an to learn a great deal about for forestry estry agriculture and landscape gar denIng The parks groves shady drives and boulevards furnish the American traveler with man suggestions while the battlefield of Waterloo and the low lands of will ever be interest ing to the student of The tour can be completed by a visit to Paris and London The social season in the latter cit ends early in August with the adjournment of parlIament In three months time one can make this northern and return with a fund of information about the countries and theIr whIch could never be collected from books It is not an ex expensive pensive trip even for travel and the accommodations furnished by the steamers and the railroads for sec passengers are that one can reduce his expenses considerably di comfort But let me add that one does not have f to America to find places ot In Interest terest and that no one can justify a trip abroad until he has become ac acquainted with his own country Eu Europe rope has no resorts that sur surpass pass the cities on the St Lawrence on our northern lakes and in the moun mountains of the west In America one can have every varIety flom salt sea bath 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 There are no views whIch sur surpass pass those in the valleys on the Ohio the Mississippi and the Missouri and fora restful winter trip Hawaii ico and Cuba otIer attractions that are une the western not so old ill Us cIvilization the only advantage that the Orient and Europe can furnish is in their variety of races customs and religions In natural scenery America satisfies aU expectations Nothing but the Hima layas more heights and the earth has no other chasm equal to the Grand Canyon of Arizona After one has seen the wonders of America and the of its soil its in institutions and its people he can go abroad with the assurance that he wIll return more widely Informed It is true but more intensely American than before There is no country like OUIS whether it be measured by the bountiful ful gifts of the Creator or by the works or man In aU that goeB to make a nation great materially commercially and morally our Country has no peer The Ameri American can returning to his own shores fe Ig thanking Scott for S felicitously the travelers sentiments Breathes there the man soul so deal Who never to hImself lath sald This is mv native land Whose heart hath neer within him As home his footsteps he hath From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe go mark him well For him no minstrel raptures High though his titles proud his name Boundless his wealth as wish can claIm Despite those titles power and pelt The wretch all In sel Living forfeit fair renown And doubly dying shall 50 down downTo To the dust whence he sprung Unwept d and unsung Copyright 1906 b Joseph B Bowles in Great rights reserved |