The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-07-02

Mr.. Charles A. Rowland, of Athens,
Ca, who is making brief tour of the
mission field Of the Orient, writes inter
estingly of his experience. This week
he tells of his voyage and gives some
observations on the situation in Japan.
Next week he will write of China. He
says:
From Seattle we took the night
boat across Puget Sound, landing in
Vancouver, British Columbia, early
next morning. From there we sailed
April 16 on THE Empress of Russia
the finest boat in the Pacific service.
Our party is composed of DR.. ]. P.
McCallie and his mother, Mrs. T. H.
McCallie, of Chattanooga; ]. c. Sill
man, NJ D., of Palestine, Texas; Lewis
A. Holman, assistant art editor of the
Youths Companion of Boston, our Of
fetal photographer; my daughter,
/ Katharine, and myself. The trip was
rather rough, but we landed on SEIZED
ule time at Yokohoma, Monday morn
ing, April q.
Personnel on the Boat.
"The passengers on the steamship
have presented very interesting
study. They are five tea merchants
going out to buy the new crop which
begins to move in May; a large sill
merchant going over on his twentieth
/ trip; a fine young fellow of Mauritiu
! Island, returning after five-year stud
10 of the sugar industry in Europe an
" America; a geologist sent out to stud
- some of the formations of China, an
20 many others on business and pleasure
1t was of interest to us that there wer
a number aboard in the service of tn
King of Kings and that the highway
of the world were being used by h
servants to carry His message to tn
ed ends of the earth.
es, There are two missionaries retur
ep' ing to West China up through IL
VS.. gorges of the Yang-tsze to Szechue
Province almost to the door of Thibt
- There is also an architect Of Ne
re-. York going out with plans for the Epi
tip copal University in Toxic, Japan. TT
- designs are very complete and confer
. plate covering a campus Of 81 acre
and an ultimate cost of half millio
mi. "In addition he had plans for va
ess in China and from Japan was goil
on to Changsha, China, to start CO
struction of one of the best sets
plans for an university that l ha
80 ever seen.
a., 1.-THE Yale Missionary Associate
"a has already 100000 in hand and {
49,. poets to spend at least $350,000 ul
~ mately. We rejoice to Sc such me
~ nficent and substantial foundation
" ing laid to train the youth Of the
~ great nations to witness for Jes
~ Christ"
How We Lost One Day.
Have you ever lost day? Why 1t
NV easy. We went to bed Tuesday mig
y April q, and woke up Thursday mo
ing. April %. Wednesday, April
ker' gone. You see We crossed the ISL
OAK meridian up to this point our da
:. had been getting longer, being abb
p 25 hours every day since we left A
. ems. We were beginning our d
LAM about the time our friends at no
ked were finishing theirs. Now we hi
lanl reversed the order and by skipping
bur. day, we have gotten the start on
'bilt and we finish Our day now when
begin yours.
. Your Skins or Ours.
sine On all sides you see English. Ev
V. E large railroad station has Inquiry
TT fee" posted up, where you will
. some one who can speak English.
name of every railroad station is pr
ed in both English and Japanese.
railroad tickets are printed in .