The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-07-13
Around the World.
Special Foster Correspondence.

Special Foster Correspondence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Murray, who ar
rived a few days ago from the Philip
pines via Siberia and Europe, have
had some very interesting, and, al
. times, exciting experiences during
their absence of three and half years.
They left Foster Dec. 5, 1907, crossed
the Rockies and sailed from San
Francisco on the Japanese liner
america Marie Their first stop
was at Honolulu, perhaps the most
beautiful of all tropical cities.
Eleven days more sailing brought
them to Japan, with its quaint yet
energetic people, strange customs
and enhancing scenery. Fujiyama,
the sacred snowclad mountain of
Japan, some $4,000 it. high, and
plainly visible from sea level, was
one of the most beautiful sights of
the entire trip. They spent week
in Japan, visiting Yokohama. Kobe,
Tokyo and Nagasaki.
From Japan their route lay to
Shanghai, China, and then to Hong
Kong. Between Shanghai and Hong
Kong a collision with another steamer
was narrowly averted, in dense fog.
A few days at Hong Kong gave them
opportunity to enjoy the beauties OF
the splendid harbor, and rocky peaks,
and to observe the Chinese and other
peoples that have gathered at this
great mart of trade.
Two and half days over the turbu-
lent waters of the South China Sea
brought them to Manila. Here Mr.
Murray reported for duty and was
assigned to Gindulman, Bohol, $50
miles southeast of Manila. The trip
down through tropical seas and palm
fringed islands, past Cebu, where the
first white settlement was made in
the Philippines, and Mactan, where
Magellan was killed, is one of the
finest in the world. Mr.. Murray had
formerly spent over three years on
Bohol as a teacher and thoroughly
understood the natives, so merely
took up his work where he had left
off.
The first two years he was super
visor of a large district, having charge
of a dozen widely scattered schools
with an enrolment of about 1900
pupils. Some twenty native teachers
taught the pupils under his super
vision. He rode from school to
school inspecting work and aiding
the teachers. The third year he was
principal of the Gindulman Intermed-
late School.
With such interesting work, amid
tropical scenery, embracing sea, river,
plain and mountain, frequent excur-
sions by land and sea to caves,
mountains, coral groves etc., the
weeks, months and years slipped
by quickly and the time soon came to
come home.
A few days journey up through the
heart of the islands landed them at
Manila again, and from there they
took passage for Hong kong. From
here a side trip was made by boat to
Canton, China, where with their
Chinese guide and nine coolies to.
carry them in sedan chairs, they rode
through the narrow streets, jammed
and crowded with seething masses
of humanity. In many places the
streets are so narrow that one can
reach both walls by stretching out his
arms. They spent hours riding
through the streets and looking at the
strange people and queer little stores
and stalls. Carved ivory, jade stone,
gold and silver work, jewelry inlaid
with king fisher feathers, ebony and
other rare woods, silks, linens, fine
embroideries, and all kinds of vege-
tables and meats clear down to nice,
plump, tender, juicy roast dogs were
for sale. They also saw ivory carv-