Thursday, December 5, 1907.
THE EALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
'7
: BILKINS WILL START AT AN
EARLY DATE.
Owing to the long and serious ill
ness of the editor of the Enterprise,
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uur tsyeuiai wilier, xwajur ea-e ou-
kins, was unable to start on his trip
around the world in January, as an
nounced. But he has not given up
the trip, and, unless Providentially
U1UUC1CU, nut DUUt at au tuwj uutvs,
and will write a full account of his
trip weekly.
The articles descriptive of this trip
will be of more than ordinary educa
tional value, considering the small
amount it will cost to read them, and
they will be entirely original.
Both old and young people will
be interested, for the story' will be
written in plain language. The de
scriptions will be pen pictures. You
will live and move with Bilkins and
see the great world through his eyes.
Some of the experiences will proba
bly be of the side-splitting variety. -Mr.
Bilkins has had this trip in
view for several years and his previ
ous letters might be termed fore
runners of it.
Mr. Bilkins will tour England,
France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy ,
Spain, India, Africa, Denmark, Swe
den, Turkey, Morocco, Holland, and
other European kingdoms In that
portion of the world; also Russia,
China, Japan, the Philippine Islands,
and other countries in the Far East.
Comparatively few people have
gone around the world. In most in
stances they have hurried through
the trip, getting only casual glimpses
of the various countries from the
beaten paths of travel. Mr. Bilkins
will travel leisurely and take in the
interior as well as the principa
cities of each country. He will hob
nob with monarchs; but he will also
go down among the masses and see
how they live, and dispense advice
where he thinks it is needed. Doubt
less Bob will be the centre of at
American mule is unknown. His ec
centricities will play an important
part in the articles.
Bilkins will hunt lions and tigers
in Africa and elephants in India,
shooting them from Bob's back. He
will spend some time with the Sul
tan of Turkey and try to learn why
he is the greatest lady's-man since
the days of Solomon.
A special and most interesting
feature of the series of articles will
be exhaustive descriptions of Egypt!
Jerusalem, Palestine, and other lands
and cities anciently familiar to Bible
students, but about which so little
is known to-day, owing to their lack
of commercial importance. Bilkins
will trace up old family history and
relics back to the days of Adam ana
Eve.
, At some time during the tour Mr.
Bilkins will make an attempt to
reach the North Pole. In fact, that
is the height of his ambition. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars have
been lost and many lives sacrificed
in attempts to reach the North Pole,
but It seems impossible owing to the
extreme cold. Bilkins professes to
believe that Bob can make the trip,
regardless of ice and snow. Doubt
less the stories of his experiences
will be thrilling. ;
Of course, we cannot go into de
tails. Suffice it to say that these
articles will be genuinely descriptive
and historically true even though
they will not be written in a serious
vein. Mr. Bilkins will be given
plenty of latitude, and he will write
in his peculiar style. But we can
safely promise that the reader will
know far more about foreign lands.
the peculiar customs of the natives,
their good and bad points, their pat,
present and future, a year from now
than he or she knows to-day, and the
stories will be interspersed with
quaint expressions, odd experiences
and thrilling narratives which will
tend to relieve them of all dullness.
Aa a writer, Zeke Bilkins has oc
cupied an humble and modest posi
tion. Society has never set its seal
of approval upon his work. The
great literary critics who can make
and unmake writers are blissfully
ignorant of his existence ; fate hath
decreed it so.
But Bilkins has a small but grow
ing coterie of friends who read his
letters regularly, and refuse to be
comforted without them. This little
army consists of boys and girls from
five to ninety years of age. Among
the number who may be classed as
admirers of his letters, on their testi
mony, we believe it safe to say that
there are more boys and girls from
eight to fifteen years of age who can
come nearer repeating verbatim one
of his letters written perhaps one or
two years ago than any other writer
can claim in proportion.
This goes to show that his work is
natural and impressive, though far
from brilliant.
The trip around the world will be
gin soon, and will continue for a
year, or longer. Those who care to
read it should send a dollar for a
year's subscription to the Enterprise
at once. If your subscription is about
to expire, you should renew prompt
ly. If you have been a subscriber,
now is the time to renew. Do not
miss the first letter.
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