would leave the dining-room. He is very plain, and knows it, in which respect he is different from Andrew Carnegie. He is known as "Mr. Lister," and is going to South Africa to hunt lions. At first, the passengers picked at him a good deal, but during the long voyage to Sydney he became one of the most popular men on board, largely because he is quiet and well-behaved.
One of the passengers is an Australian who lived for
a time in South Africa, and made money in mining.
Disposing of his holdings to advantage, he went to
Oregon, and engaged in apple-growing. It is very
interesting to hear him tell of his experiences. He
knew nothing about apple-growing when he went to
Oregon, but "picked up" a practical knowledge of the
business through experience. One of his "experiences"
was losing $40,000 in buying a bad orchard. This
taught him caution, and later he made money. His
apple-pickers are compelled to wear gloves, and to
twist rather than pull fruit from the trees. His specialty
is buying orchards of shiftless owners, and reviving
them. I heard him say last night that there
were two sure ways of making money in the United
States: the best is apple-growing, and the second is
sheep-raising. It interested me greatly to hear that
a man might learn a new business and make a success
of it in three or four years, as this man did in the apple
business. . . . Captain Trask has great contempt
for the modern sailor; he says any old woman of fifty
could do the work of a sailor these days, but in the old
days of sailing ships, seamen were compelled to work
very hard, and their trade was a difficult one. The
