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 *tions at a lower price than was demanded for the German boat In Cairo, Egypt, is a famous hotel known as Shepherd's. There are at least four hotels in Cairo better than Shepherd's; there are half a dozen just as good, and another half-dozen where you may secure satisfactory accommodations. Avoid favorites of every kind, if you wish fair treatment Wherever a traveler goes, he encounters free advertising for the United States, but I saw a stars-and-stripes sight in Naples this afternoon that greatly impressed me. The "Canada" and "Princess Irene" were docked side by side, and as both were to sail at 6 for New York, both displayed the American flag. When I went to the dock at 4, the decks of both ships were black with emigrants, and they were still going up the gangways as thick as ants. When Adelaide and I went aboard the "Canada," the sailors were compelled to clear a way for us to the first-class decks, where there were fifty passengers, as compared with three or four hundred in the second cabin, and nearly two thousand in the steerage. Once on the upper decks of the "Canada," we could see a similar crowd of emigrants on the "Princess Irene," which lay alongside, and the emigrants kept coming until six o'clock, when the big whistle blew, and the gang-plank was drawn in. Three ships left Naples for New York today, and all of them were crowded with emigrants. And this doesn't happen occasionally; it is of daily occurrence—not only here, but in many other ports. In every part of the world the people know about the United States, and go there in constantly increasing crowds, although South Africa, and Australia, and