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Before leaving San Francisco we had great difficulty in booking our sleeper. If one wishes to leave by an early train, ataying over only a night atter landing, the first thing to be done is to tuke an electric car to the Ticket Office of the Southern Pacific Company on Market Street, and get one's Shanghai tickets changed according to the route one wishes to take, and that done, book atone's sleeper the same coun ter. We waited till the afternoon and it was by the merest chance we were able to get a sleep ay all, and then mostly upper berths. This necessitates climbing up into it and waiting for the ladder to get down in the morning. The cost of a sleeper to New York is ubout $25 and the dining car say $3 per day (gold of course), The Pullmans are much the same as they were thirty years ago, no privacy dressing or undress one Lath for twenty ladies, ditto for many men, Woe expressed our surpriss that this antiquated system still obtained, and were told that, the cars were practically a monopoly, and the Pullman company could not be induced to adopt more modern methods. The first night we reached Denver after passing down the Grand Canyon and Colorado Springs, the second day we coasted through rich country studded with large towns, and the third day morning we arrived, as before said, here. 'The row e we took' was the Burlington, Denver, Colorado route, which for scenery is ssid to surpass all others; special care is, taken that passengers shall pass the best sights by day. We had splendid weather and longed often to get out and take a walk over the enticing country, bub it was not till we reached Salt Lake city that we had the opportunity; it was owing to the train being a tourist that we had to stay over for five hours there; we did not like this, but as it turned out we were very grateful for it, Eyeryone, ourselves included, had read about the Mormon city, thy lake, and the peuple. To see peuple unable to sink, on account of thegrent saltness of the water, is not so very wonderful—one can try it any day in one's tub, and Shanghailanders can do so in their bath on the Race Course if it so pleases them. Nor did it appear to us that the temple which cost $3,000,000 and thirty years to build, or che tabernacle with ies ugly eyg-shaped vlome were, accersing to photographs and descriptions, worth the trouble ofa visit. Many years ago, when visiting Rome, it was owing to the energy of a sister that I was induced to pay @ visit to St. Peter's; this time iv was owing again to the energy of the lady leading our party that I yielded out of deference, and each time i" was punished by some fleeting moments of the mos: intense enjoyment that life can. offer. From outside the tabernacle is nob inviting, but once inside, one is immensely struck by the originality of its design and its mighty egg-shaped ceiling. One of the
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