The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-09-20

Inc steamer Tor i've days, all vessels from
alexandria, Egypt, being quarantined. It
was very unpleasant news to us as the
ship is small and the officers are ItalianD .
who speak no language but their own.
MY wife and left st. Paul last January
Tor trip around the world, and after a
rev days stay in San Francisco, we en-
parked on steamer Hongkong Maru for
Inc Hawaiian islands and Japan. Upon
arriving at the cmpanys pier, our first
task is to gee that the baggage is proper
ly labeled and put on board. Bustle and
seeming confusion are everywhere. Men
are hurrying to and fro, and orders are
given by uniformed officials to a small
army of men. Over the ships railing the
passengers say a final goodbye to friends
on the wharf. Suddenly at the sound of
bell from the bridge, all apparent con-
fusion cease and the big steamer, amid
nutter of handkerchiefs, glides ma
5estically forth on the beginning of the
longest single ocean voyage in the world
Items Are Numbered.
AT our first meal on board presented to
US the novel feature of neatly apparelled
Chinese boy walters, whose lazy and
nofseless way of receiving and filling or
ders is in marked contrast with the man
of the white waiter usually found
on shipboard. Though all these boys I'M
derstand a little English, each item on
the bills of fare is numbered, to prevent
misunderstanding, and passengers gen.
orally order by number
On the evening of the sixth day the
horizon, westward, is broken with some
thing blue and cloud-like. The Hawaiian
Islands are in sight; the islands that
next door to the equator; the isles of ro-
nance and song, where the starry flag be-
speak a new member of the family Of the
United States.
Honolulu has good harbor, land
locked and picturesque, and here, during
our twentyfour hours in port, the steamer
lies alongside the wharf. I was told that
the city has 10000 inhabitants, of which
the foreigners predominate 1t is not pos
sibe to dwell upon the delights Of the
Islands. | cannot see how the Garden Of
Eden could have been more beautiful.
Hawaii has been appropriately termed
the Paradise of the Pacific and it's abb
solutely perfect climate. the ravshing
beauty of it's scenery, amply justify the
name.
Honolulu possesses good hotels, and
more than one hundred miles of shady.
we'll kept streets, reaching out for points
OF interest. Back Of the city, and within
twenty minutes walk Of our hotel, is the
famous "Punchbowl' (empty, I am sorry
to sayD, 500 feet high, from the summit
Of which we gain magnificent view of
Honolulu and the surrounding country,
The sugar industry is the most important
here. Last year $780, 600 tons, valued at
$2S,OOO,OOO were shipped from these little
islands. 10 my surprise I found most
OF the inhabitants to be Chinese-but
caste different from what we are used to
see in the states.
Trip to Japan.
We start on our way to Yokohama-to
Japan, the land Of the most Industrious
people Of the East. On the tenth day
out we passed the one hundred and
eightieth degree of longitude, Just half
way around the world from Greenwich
When at breakfast the next morning. we
found that the captain had thrown Mon
day overheard: for the bill of fare said
'"rucsday, and Tuesday it remained.
Early in the morning of the eighteenth
day, the southeastern gulf of Toxic is
sighted, directly ahead. Rounding the
point, we steam for forty miles west, land
on either side. Passing through fleets Of
fishing boats saupars and Japanese junks
at o'clock. we round the lightship in
Yokohama Bay, and at o'clock are fast
at the company's buoy, half a mile from
the shore. Hundreds Of boatmen, dressed
in their long gowns. and some only in
breech-clout shout and yell at one an
other as they struggle to bring the
saupars into favorable positions at the
ships side.
Steam launches from the several hotels
are soon alongside, and their runners
Chamber up the side ladder to secure
patrons. Putting our luggage and keys
in the charge of the runner of our hotel
we are soon heading for the custom house
landing, where we find the examination
OF our effects to be mere Formally. On
the first street at the entrance, we find.
instead of horses and hacks, groups of
coolies or Jrinrikisha men standing near
their vehicles, anxious for the oppor-
tunity to earn or 10 cents by transport
ing US to our hotel The sensation upon
stepping into one of these enlarged baby
carriages for the first time is peculiar.
,Cne is in constant fear of falling back
ward or of the coolies stumbling and
sending one head foremost to the ground.
The charges for short distance are live
sen per person, but one soon learns that
ten sen are expected from the stranger.
Grand hotel, facing the bay, Is the best
hotel In the city, and here we secured
very comfortable quarters. ~
Yokohama has population of 900,
of which 1900 are foreigners. The hotels
and foreign business houses are all To-
Gated within the settlements territory
set apar. where foreigners may locate
and transact business. All numbers with
in the settlement run cOnSecut1Vely In
stead of by streets, number one being the
first house or lot on the bond, and so on,
until the highest number in the settle
ment lis reached, Under the existing
treaty, am toid, Japan has five treaty
ports, viz, Yokohama, Kobe, Hokodatc
Nlgata and Nebasaki. in either of which
foreigners may reside, and within a
radius of about twenty-five miles of whic.
they may make temporary visits without
Il Japanese passport. .-... t4-s@. r4a 4.
To an American, nothing is simpler
than Japanese money. The yen core
spends to our dollar and is made UP OF
1oa sen, while 10 rem make / sen. The
gen is about equal in value to the Next
Cali dollar and Is, roughly reckoned, about
30 cents, United States money. One sas:a
DOLLARS or yen indiscriminatey, Away.
meaning the Mexican. which Is the cur
rent coin OF the East When one asks
for his bill after a purchase in a store
the merchant takes up his frame of slid
i:ag buttons the soroban or abacus, anC
pays a Gathering measure before he car
tell5its amount. The soroban is infallible
though slow, and in the head of the
& educated japanese, crowded with thou
sands of arbitrary characters and words
there is no room for mental arithmetic
Paradise of Babies. fEs5S5
Pretty as she is on a pictured fan, thu
living Japanese woman is far more sat
.!sfyiag as she patters along on her wood
en- cl7gs or straw sandals. It seemed t.
me that every ia panese woman carried {
baby ON her back. I never saw SO man.
babies in any three countries as = saw il
Japan. but they say that Japan is thu
babies paradise Babies are carried
about, tied to their mot hers or sisters
backs. ID They sleep with their heads roll
ing llelplessiys around \. watch with ttlei1
black beads of eyes all hat goes on, an
never cry. 4s NJ, y 81 -
In the Japanese section Of Yokohama