Show LETTER tETTER FROM APOSTLE GRANT CA NT Travels and Experiences in the theLand theland theLand Land of the tho Mikado BOARDING 1 HOUSE INCIDENT I Vine Nino 1110 Journey He Sheaf t hutch Hotel nul Ithie lIt fur furSO SO jO Ym 1111 c or 10 Special to tho the News Nos Yokohama Japan Sept Sopt 28 I have ho pleasure In sending you a letter hotter tailing a II little of or our movements In rare far f r rotC off otC land I hould have written you OU by the taut last mall mail but I had just re ri r turned from ruin a trip of ot nine days day In the tue country when It wax WAS Unto for Cor the Slate mall nail to go I 1 found In Inthe Inthe inthe the Japan Mall Mail n a long IonA article of two columns of oC abuse ahus and falsehood about our people and spent audit my m time writing tin answer and this thin prevented me toe from writing to the tha Noses News It was waa my Iny In III to havo hao written you yesterday hut luit 1 was engaged once morn more with u a 1 newspaper article to refute some Rome stand druid urn regarding the Mormons Mormon I have luce done douie almost nothing In loam IMIn loamIng Ing the tho language ns us my rn time hu tau lIon boon taken up with chatting with those who ho called to learn of or our faith In visiting Tokyo toko n II number r of oC to arrange for Cot a II permit to preach In III this tilts land which by II the tho way I 1 finally found waa vaa not needed and aM nil all that was waa required WIS n II statement of ot whore where and whet when I we would preach what also I manner of or presenting our doctrines My M companions hove have made some Orn progress with tho the language but It la is I A Avery 1 avery very Iry difficult one I 1 will vill give 10 you OU somo examples In my fly next letter lotter to tu show that wo we will have havo to learn icon to tn think anew as well ns n 0 to learn a new language before we can rail hope hop to do Justice to tl this language Wo Wt have been very ery kindly received by lIy all 1111 of ot the Japanese gentlemen with whom we 0 have havo conic como In ho contact Soils Bom of or the tie papers here hero have ha VI been blen fair to tous tous us nUll anti others have attacked us but ive we fool feel I lint will como came out nut of ot nil all tho the efforts which may be ie made aJ to to re ro retard rc tard tho the work vork ork In this land landI 1 I regret to say Ray I hao not hall had u n chance to do any nil singIng dinging since I carne came here hare I brought n a lot of music rind and although there Is a piano In III the house where here we ute are arc stopping slopping I have hae found so much to do and when not busy with other othel thing things have halO beat be 1 rending up on ona a number of or points point that were necessary sary drury In writing articles In answer to published IJU slanders that singing hat has hall hail to be allowed to rest It It seems seams that some rome ono One made a 11 mis take In wiring about our being put out of n a boarding house The Incident has ha furnished the papers here a goodly amount of material to talk about aboUl First tho thi Japanese Herald made all nil man loan manner manner ner of oC fun of the tue Christian gentleman who refused us and the tho Japan Mall Mail defended d him hili and claimed chaIned that no ho hotel hotel hotel tel or boarding house should entertain en a Mormon I 1 wrote nn an article or two tuo to refute tho the slander that Mormons were weN not worthy worth to bo 10 admitted to a i hotel or a boarding louse house and the in incident taken all nih In nil all I feel sure sore has really done us UI good anti and has las lied had the effect freed of ot making us friends with fair fall minded 1 tutu men anti and women More than one gentleman has expressed hImself as 13 feeling contempt for tho the narrow mind minded mindel ed ad el Individual who has hiss refused us ac nc anti aUlI also III for Cor the aru arguments meals ments that had hind been made male In lit 11 tho the Japan Jaran Malt Mall In Its efforts to defend his Ills TUB weather wentnor for or the lute past two weeks line haa been very ver pleasant and a most 1110 change chango from the excessive heat hoot that we wo had bath to endure when We first went wont with lIh Mr Walter O 0 1 Stone n a of or Mr Ingalls chief chip en engineer at B the sugar works at lehl I brought a n letter to Mr III Stone front from Mr Ingalls and have been very ery kindly treated by b him He lie hall had his hll lii main Jap Jal cinese Anel with him on our trip a aMr 1 aMr Mr Ir Sato Halo We e traveled a n little over talks mites amid ond stopped at the best ho hotels hotels hotels and anti the total cost COlt of my ins nine days dayn trip wa was TOI eighty yen en or forty dollars of our money It seems almost too cheep cheap to be bo true In Arizona one would pay Imy twice this amount for tor railroad taro faro alone as the charge la is I ten cents n a t amIle mile In United States gold coin We left lett lucre here at night taking a n sleeper The Tb next morning we came come Into an all open country with wilt some seine rich rice fields plus It Itens waa wu the finest farming district that I 1 had hind ever eer seen tHen In Japan and was wai wa really 11 a magnificent farming section Soon Seem after aUer seven we ran alongside lake WA the Place where nn In attempt was wa made mad to kill the heir to the Human throne thron The Time was wu prevented by hi b two Iwo men loin These Thew two men were rewarded by a gift girt of ot otis ono thousand dol lars larK each and anti ono one of oC them has rued made such uch good use of or his hi money that he lie Is IB Isnow now no doing well welt and In life lICe but the other squandered tred hits hla hi While riding along the shore Bhore of this lake lak and Anil glancing at the high mann moun mountains laIn In the distance and the tie green gre which intervened I could almost Imagine myself at home riding along the shores of oC Utah lake take between Provo and Ind Loll Jehl The seen scene ne WM was quite similar tho Ihn exception that th T o I mountains were lert green to 10 their summit In irs place of being barren and ani rugged as u ours are arc Soon after aCter leaving lake niwa RIWa wo We commenced to climb anti and after we bad traveled some distance dl up a canyon w we came vain through a and nl I saw one of the most rno t sights sight that It I Pins ha over ever lx n my m lot to look at II In tile 1110 was the in nay beT ot or f and amid then the tm Japan an adjoining The Th water made almast a half haIr circle and on Oft cathe the shores shore wore were pretty posit lUll little with rice farms tarm In the ivar noar and the Ih mountains were wen terraced wr 1 and cultivated almost Pt to their summits summit Wo WI would be lie bea lieu a u thousand or hundred fast above these the e village and nd as AI I looked Ion down on them I exclaimed I 1 wish h hJohn John Hafen Haten a U tier here to paint a picture nr or that toot seene We W I went through a number of oC tunnels and as a we ws emerged tom from them w we I would get t a sight night of ot the Ibe landscape iNlow bIlow us vi I front from the tho different points of ot view and I hAvI hass near en enJoyed Joyed oyd a short ridi more mo than ehan I 1 dill did this Ihla one and a III stated tat d till soon scene nan 11 one oM of ot the mn t picturesque that 1 I have base ever one On of ot the tIl things that impressed It ItIC asit lf IC upon my mind mere than anything Him ilie 11 while I was IU In the Ihl roan coon tr tn try was the till wonderful way war that vary ret foot of oC Is ii made mada UM use of ot and Ind the Ih very rr high state mate ot ft f cultivation that th country connie Is I un V r The rice rn farms farm II If one obI an U rail MIll the patch farm some Mine of them Ur ro not hol mote more than Ihan fh 11 br by live five vt feet fHt although this th wn was the tine tion and 1 I would uld MX ilia y the average avenge a 11 would be from lifts fifty to ntH erne on hundred feet square not the fart that each pat pAtch peth h was cultivated br by b a different fauna aimer they were at U even almo almost t as sa to i lawn tawn The farming fanning would wol be tea t a nr ur r to seen taen ra In Idaho who axe are ar la ti the ike ti bWl hUt of over oye several l bos huit ll nan of o ground un In place lilac of e s Mill MillU 1 U tL lInt Hut lut different dJ nt rou he c nt Ti 0 r b r m I our ur large e farmers In II th lh M Jt MI t m nf f th Int In t chance n r to tu mink I poor Q a 1 In rl ilce on ob m mi it HI m the a 11 oY y 1111 laid lum I tin sure tle be lo lost t It II a largs b I aral given KIIn him tu to vat For llor the cult People hays hav garka liat I lbs 1 a lanti farm real really mor more like I Friday Saturday i Il at a city Ks ll wa are elet Kat about here I erE and as w Were UI thus Mat jon we 0 saw of n a the th th lr t anti and Ild who with wih WIt lW the th ole e foreIgner was on Oi the W lIning ng t out lUI tt to hitke silk car caN care T did lk ws cd nut not see e another t foreigner ner r until miHl H w wr WI TOru within ride n it few hours hour ride of I rIle o this thU thUi ce on our return trl trIp Saturday w e i I H u trailed from JD ID a m in I t II i J p m I a bui bu our train n only w went t fh rein to went Ile nill Ile attics an i hour tour oat lt ot of f the he largest lurge t Cultivated I y In Japan It I was a lovely love valle vail Lets ot t tt treel on Ul tie lun ditches anti M tJ on rn side Idt of lt f the roads r ral of or twenty 2 r thir ty t tarn form hll In a cluster of or trees anti ami the HInl au In Iri the distance III un Imp a si 1101 ie t o look lonk upon anti anO the tue th won t q y I ti 7 ana am all level 1 11 eld 1 q y 7 ana am level 1 11 eld 1 or of a rice rel irs itt l to behold lieU In iii We 1 isit d a I of oC ilk f that Is IR where the Ibe WHO terre weaving Silk Ilk fhe The weaving was as done hy by wih with the exception Wi ot 1 In luh one onn which wets wert W run by bi b an oil N 11 Jn Quartet sue ate In lbs UMI tet Io t I u health h lh and 11 spirit and ant not noi UP lit L r und and more ili rt mort If It a at harm honl Ih l v t have ht plenty of cf ff food fOOl ad bill and a 1 for fop you ou nn nut 1 all ni our gout goni frIends In Utah SUcu happiness an anti 1 I am ama ur tur friend am anti r UI it J 1 mAN mANI I tat I |