The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20

Where Eating Extends Thru the Entire
Day and Shuddersome Tormenters
Worry Everybody.

sionary everywhere, but his work
among the Malays is less promising
than anywhere else. Missionary work
has been quite successful among the
Chinese in the Malay archipelago and
among the Tamils at Singapore, but
nearly all the Malays are Moham-
medans, and while they believe in one
God and recognize Christ as a great
prophet, they believe the author of
their religion to have been a superior
teacher.
In travelling one has an opportunity
to study human nature in all It's phases,
and in an extended trip meets repre-
sentatives of all the nations. The North
German Lloyd has a line running from
Yokohama to Bremen (this line, [ may
add, makes it possible for one to 90
from San Francisco to New York with
boat, and still stop long enough at the
principal ports to learn something Of
the cities and the people,; we went
from Singapore to Colombo on one Of
the boats Of this line. Besides a few
Americans, Germans and Hollanders
and a still larger number of English,
there were several japanese enroute for
Europe, and Russian officers and
soldiers returning from Japan. We
-A~"C OiAA oSlNSoOiC cSIud-lldHSCo
among the company, as it is possible to
do on every voyage, but just before
leaving the boat at Colombo we came
ntO contact with a tourist who be-
longed to the genus hog.
Our boat arrived between s and 9 in
the evening, and the porters Informed
us that the hotels were full, but that
We could obtain rooms in the morning.
as a number would leave on cur ship.
| stated the case to the captain, and he
assured me that we were welcome to re-
main on board until morning. Just as
my wife and daughter were retiring, a
man came Oh board, followed by a lot
Of baggage, and directed the porter to
put it in our room. ] explained to him
that. not being able to find accommoda-
tons on shore, we had obtained per-
mission to occupy the room until morn
ing, but he brusquely replied that he
had engaged the room two months be-
fore and must have it. l called his
attention TO the fact that the boat was
late in reaching port and would not
leave until nearly moo the next day,
and suggested as politely as | could
that the captain was the proper person
to decide whether he was entitled to
claim the room under the circumstances.
Without consulting the captain he went
to the steward and demanded that the
ladies be moved to another room, altho
another room was placed at his disposal
for the night. 1t required some plain,
straightforward and emphatic language
to bring him to the point where he was
willing to occupy a different room tenn.
porariIy, and l am afraid that he still
regards Americans as very rude and IN.
couth creatures. He is, however, the
first man whom I have met so far who
would claim as a right that to which
he was not entitled and then demand
the enforcement of the assumed right
without regard to the convenience of
others.
4 :. +
On the last mentioned trip we wit.
messed a burial at sea, the first that has
occurred during our voyage. One OF
the passengers died after we left Singa'
pore. and we learned of it while the
funeral services were in progress. The
corpse was enclosed in a black
(~geighted) coffin, in which severaI
holes were bored. The ship slackened
its speed, and as the band played a
funeral dirge the body was slowly low
cred. Upon reaching the water il
1oated back for a short distance and
then disappeared. 1t was a sad sight
to see the remains of a human being
consigned to a watery tomb, with
nothing to mark his resting place; and
yet he does not sleep alone, for in this
mighty ocean sepulcher myriads liz
buried, and the waves moan above them
a requiem as sweet as that sung by the
| trees to those who rest upon the land.