The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1904-01-06
s.. S KOREA, MID PACIFIC,

Francisco, and it has been more than a
week since we stopped at Honolulu.
We are to reach Japan within two or
three days, and then some ten days
more will put us in China.
AS we are running ahead of time We
are in hopes that we shall have g long
err stop In Japan than we are scheduled
for. II so, we shall get to see much OF
the beautieS of that famous Island.
From there we will send orr mail back.
We thought about you much as we
enjoye ed the beauties of Honulu'u. We
had some nine or ten hours there. l
have never seen a more lovely place.
When in Florida 1t seemed that we had
cotton to the garden spot of the world,
but here the beauty far surpasses any
thing there. Situated right within the
tropics it has all the luxurious foliage
and vegetation, and added to that the
peculiar charm of Honolulu.
A day or two before we were clad in
the heaviest clothing. There we ex-
changed 1T for our lightest, and fe't as
If we had COTTON into a June at home.
Many there were dressed in white
lawns and duck.
A friend of Lillian's who is the lady
missionary OF the leading Church of
the city mot us at the ship landing and
took us to lunch at her home and then
to all the sights OF the place. Later I
will send you some kodak pictures of a
few OF the many things we say.
One of the most interesting things
was the native boys swimming by the
ships side and diving to catch the
money that the passengers might
throw over to them. They could al
most sit upright in the water and
would overtake the money before it
had gone very far under the water.
Then there were the splendid views
Of the city and bay from the Pacific
heights up to which we went on an
electric line, climbing round and
round its mountain side.
You would have enjoyed the lovely
flower yards, lined with royal palms
and filled with lovely flowers.
Their houses are built without any
chimneys and they w have need of
fires but for cooking and other things.
Before civilization came the natives
went without any clothing.
The natives are a deep brown, al
most copper colored, and 1 was told
that the half-breed girls are the most
beautiful creatures in the world.
The day after we left there we passed
an island, which was really a great
ledge of rock standing u of the sea.
No one conld live there, and it is called
Birds Islsnd", because of the many
birds that make their home. 1t must
have been thrown up by some volcanic
eruption in the long ago.
We went through the steerage por-
lions of the ship today and saw how
the seven hundred Chinese and Japan
ese passengers live. Their hunks are
n above the Other, as thick as rats,
and yet they could find room for more,
L guess. There in n room were some
men smoking opium. Two Chinese have
died on this tip and Lillian saw yes
terday a bowl of money that they had
gathered to furnish their warship
when they get to Hong Kong.
This ship has nine stories and though
they are not so tall as in the average
home, yet you can think of a house
seven or eight stories high aud you will
have our ship from top to bottom. The
engine room ia twenty-five feet below
the water line. We use from O hun
dred and fifty tons to one hundred and
seventy-five tons Of coal a day, and
they carry q full supply when they
start to run from San Francisco to ia
pan and eroagh provisions for more
than a thousands persons from America
10 Hong Kong and return. Then add
TO this the thousands and thousands OF
tons of freight and you will see what
q load this house of steel carries over
the seas. Tomorrow we are to go down
and sac the engines, and hen I will
write you of that which carries all this
along.
Every n Is about over their sea-
sickness now the sea is so fine. For
two days it has been like o lake, but
Sunday 1t was rough and stormy, and
the waves mounted up. Then many
grew sickagain, amongst them Lillian
and Miss Fannie, but 1 was fortunate
to escape.
Last Friday night we went to sleep
and when we opened our eyes the next
morning We found it was Sunday In
stead of the accustomed Saturday, This
unusual performance came about in
this way. We then crossed tn, l80th
meridian, and IN order to keep In time
with ike revolutions of the earth,
ships when going east drop o day here,
and when coming west they double q
day, and thus put on the one that they
Larew out going out.
1t was also at that point when we
passed out from the Western into the
Eastern Hemisphere, and got onto the
other sids Of the world from you at
home.
The servants on the ship are all Chi
nese, and they make splendid ones too.
They are at work all the time, from
five O'Clock in the morning to eleven