El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-01
JAPAN AND CHINA.
An Interesting Lecture Before q Big
House by Rev. A NJ. Lumpkin.


Triuity church was packed solid last
nigns by an audience gathered to hear
Rev. Lumpkin's lecture on Japan and
China and they were we'll paid for COM
lug out.
Mr.. Lumpkin is an entertaining
talker and we'll posted man of travel.
He began by describing his journey
from Chicago west, via Denver, Colo
RADIO Springs. Salt Lake City, San
Francisco, across the Pacific to Japan
and thence to China. He advised all
who could to visit the garden of the
e DDS near Manitou, and detailed how
Brigham Young did not need any
monument over his grave because all
Salt Lake City was his monument.
The lecturer left the coast by the
steamship Empress Of India, which
was nearly 500 feet long, Al feet broad
and 80 feet deep and elegantly fitted
up. A gentle man came on board At
Van Couver to see Japanese lady off
for her home, and was 90 much inter-
ested in her that he neglected the
warming bell; and the first thing he
knew WAS that the steamer had left the
shore, and he CO uld not get back. That
man was carried in spite of his very
emphatic prote SITS across the Pacific
ocean.
Once in Japan, the speaker found
UulORS LII hrdTty 0tOTy WoJ Ju6b UAO Up
posile to what they are on this side OF
the water. Carriages, such as they are,
are hauled by one or more men instead
of horses. and the time they are able
to make is remarkable The cost is al
so very cheap when American money
is the basis of calculation. There are
no sidewalks; people walk in the road
way At the no ell, the traveller was
given metre-s to sleep on and q mat
tn iro. instead nf
the bedding that obtains in this coun-
try. And as for pillow, why, that
was block of wood with very small
bols err on the top. This latter was
dispensed with ard rolled-up crat made
to do duty as pillow. The Japs are
great cranks on bAthing. If man can
not do any better, he will take his tub
into the street and battle there; he
mu-t have his bath anyhow. C.eanli-
ness is next to godliness with the Japs,
and they regard with horror, Ameri-
car who reglect to take q daily bath,
particularly after travelling around
town all day. The Japanese gods in
the great sacred city we're objects Of
marked intere t, and the agricultural
features of the island were set forth,
the more noteworthy feature being
that Ow ng to the land being of vol
canic nature, it was necessary to Gull
tivate the same by terracing. The Japs
are the most polite people in the world,
and the way they bow and scrape to
quain tainces Is q paralyZcr to an
Amer Gao. The speaker sttired him.
self in the robss of q Japanese gentle
man using the rostrum for a boudoir.
This rather tickled the audie nee.
The run WAS quickly made over to
China where new field of vision was
opened. The Chinese seaport cities are
enormous; they are hacked with q
seething population. The lecturer at
tired himself n the Ordinary street
Chinese costume, and gave entertain
ing accounts of wnat one sees in travel
ing to and from there. The Celestials
are dead set against railroads. A line
was constructed there some years ago,
but the popular clamor against it was
SO great that the government was
forced to tear up the track and throw
the rails into the Great River. How
ever, there is now more serious At
tempt being made to introduce the
railroad system into the fowery en-.
pi~e, with = greater degree of success.
But up to date, no passenger business
done-only freight. A great number
of Chinese live on boats a lchored along
the rivers, where the greater number
live from their birth to their death.
The children play about the boats with
rop tied to their waists SO that when
any one of them falls overheard, it can
he quickly pulled out ere it is drowned.
Thu Chinese streets are so barrow that
the speaker was able to walk In the
c. inter- of many of them and touch the
sides of opposing houses with each hand.
The Chinese mar ke tmen will kill pigs
in the middle OF these streets, dress
hem there, with passers by tumb-
ling all over and around the
butchers. The larger opium joints
will bold 1000 people, and they are the
worst kinds of houses of Ill fame where