El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-02
CEYLON AND INDIA.

CEYLON AND INDIA.
Large Audience Turns Out Again to
Hear Lecturer Lumpkin.
Trinity church was packed solid
again lat night when Rev. A. M.
Lumpkin continued his talking on his
A.iatic trip. He first answered q num-
per of written questions submitted 10
him relative to Japan and China, In
the course of which he said that q
man in China rec eived about
81 cents day i5 gold, and found him
self. An overcoat that cost $50 in this
could be bought Ia China for
$40 or $11. In response to q Questlon
about courts OF justice, he said that
were expected TO hold
court Whenever called upon, and that
on the call of the summons bell he was
obliged to respond. whether ~ De
morning, noon or midnight, TO hold
court. The line of argument OF Chi
nese lawyers wss wholly on precedent.
A careful record was Kept OF every
case aud decisions were hunted up to
an immense amount to base arguments
on. Chinese do not as general thing
have fires in their homes. There are
public places where, hof water for
cooking can be bought, and food Is
cooked in this way. The ordinary
Chipaman lives much - does the
lower order of Mexicans, In mud
hoveis and with about tho same re-
freshing simplicity Of habits.
Continuing south, the sneaker mar.
rated his stop over on the island OF
Sumatra, within two degrees OF the
equator. The tropical display of vege-
tation was something marvellous, and
made the traveller the more ready than
ever to shank God for his works among
the children of men. It WAS q sight to
SOC the great palm trees towering forty
and fifty feet without branch until
the ,op was reached where IN immense
bunch of foliage spread itself out.
There was the banyan tree thst on
growing up, dropped braache. t0"n to
parent stem, and increased until the
tree became a grove large enough to
shelter ap army OF men. Tho roses
that bloomed in profusiOn were much
larger and more aromatic than In this
country, so that the air was fairly load
ed with their f'agance. The Sums-
trans are very simple in their habits,
and noticeably SO in their attire. This
latter consists merely in . strip of
cloth wrapped srong the loins and
reaching just below the knees. Tho
lecturer believed that God intended
the Samaritan to go in that way, SO
artless and natural was he about it.
Children were not clothed at all until
after the age of seven, and then
the clothing was limited to az
abbreviated strip of cloth around the
loins. Often this mere Formally was
omitted entirely by the children who
however did some; lines leave the G
string on; and at times even this WAS
done way with, and mothers would
chalk q line around their young ones
bodies, just out Of Difference to custom,
as it were, or words to that effect.
Ceylon is an island much larger than
the average American idea of it would
suggest. 1t is 21O miles long and AS
miles broad, with lofty mountains and
plateaus. The speaker detailed the
principal features of the island with
its curious forms of worship, and On
tireiy unconventional ideas as to the
extent OF ones attire. The water be-
tween the island and the mainland of
was shallow and always so
rough that even experienced mariners
became sea sick, The psninsular of
traveller, aud just here the speaker
called attention to the fact that when .
man has travelled among foreign poo
pie he gains an interest in them he
never experienced before.
Mr.. Lumpkin attired himself in the
earb of the average HindOo gentleman,
except the turban which he expla ned
could not be carried about and kept in
shape. It was made up Of folds which
had to be made in certain way, 80
The lecturer extemporized = turban as
best he could. The wonderful places
and temples of worship in India inter-
ested the lecturer very much; vast
places of stone covered with the most
I'M que carving and Inscriptions. One
of the temples was OF brown stone. 800
f .et square. In one of the temples
Mr.. Lumpkin was eyed so by the
priests that he became sppreheusive
for his p 'rsonal safety, and got out As
quickly as he could. On his departure.
the priests rang bells aud made . vast
amount of noise to scare away the evil
in W tn him. In another temple whore
sacred bulls are kept, the attendant
priests wanted Mr.. Lumpkin to remove
bis shoes out of Difference to the
beasts, when he declared he could not
have been induced to cutter the place
without overshoes. Animals are sacred
with the Hindoos, and there are hos
pitfalls devoted to the care and M aintcn-
ance of sick and decrepit, cats, dogs,
aOT6cS 6uo C0etlSg Uuv uOU - . Oil AOI
human kind. The Hindoos have two
gods, Vishno the goa of creation and
Seebah the god of destruction, the
votaries of each being distinguished
by peculiar marks upon the forehead.
The sail up the aoogly river was .
delightful trip, With the tremendous
growth of vegetation on either side of
the stream. But the treacherous
quicksands In places made navigation
perilous, for vessels were at time-
quickly swallowed up by these shifting
sands. The Hindoos are not over nice
10 their personal habits. In ono city
where there is washing continually in
a public pool 300 feet square, and bath
ing withal, the undiscriminating popu.
iation are won't to carry of that filth
laden water in osiers for culinary pur-
poses in their homes. The lecturer
was much taken with the burning of
corpses on the banks of the GanRes,
that we'll known sacred river. The
or the inoompleteness of
the incinerat.on depended upon the
ability OF the mourners to buy enough
wood. The remains in any event were
flung into the Ganges. and people
below the burning grounds
would drink that water. The speaker
thought this must be an illustration of
the canacitv IF the human hOdv tn