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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1907.
THE TWICE-A-TTEEK TELEGRAPH
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large plantation
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this
tho mountains
populous country, a
in fact, you see the
out in the sun on \
:?hinp put out
motored hf-mr. plan tat 1
like a moonshiner’s distil- { Is its
rland mountains In i 'If spit
it Is
fibers
to ’ dr
end then th
strung out. a
would work
;■ ccumu’ate
■•ho have hi
twelve feet
they are, like
delicate than
and with a s
drying that
than the Insld
For mllec and mile
• aln a vs th'- hemi
° lower and more
imest everywhere,
hf-.mp fiber strung
amboo strips, like
to dry. Some of
lor,:?. Wonderful
spun silver, even
the hair of one’s
methr tfs
’herein.
sugge:
It drir
ts nothin?
white set
. for diiys
strung out
imp
take
s In a coup!
is psrhaps mdre ?
perhaps not. For
■ ?er t; »n need he or
much money when you,
horn In the hemp dis-
what little hemp you
have down on your pony and soli it
th- market in the <!ty?
Then come rare delights: Fot* there
It your sweetheart, or somebody rise's
wc'-th .ittd y >u htiy h" ‘-we t-
rpeaits at the market place, where ev-
• rybody Jabbers, for a penny each.
Then, perhaps you go to a wedding or
a baiie (dance), and dance all night
In your giddy new American shoe*
Patent leathers they are, and agoniz
ingly uncomfortabh'. because you are
not used to them. And then again at
rright you may go a-serenading and
tinkle with vour mandolin, first stand
ing on one foot and then on the other,
because those magnificent patent leath
ers are very uncomfortable. And then,
when the money is all spent, you go
hack to the plantation and strip some
more hemp arid put the glossy fibers
out In the sun to dry While the hemp
1.- drying you dream dreams in the
shade. You plnn the purehase of a
blaek derby hat, a red necktie and a
white shirt and you will buy your sis
ter some school books and clothes, for
she is in the provincial high school at
Nucv • Caceres learning to be a teaeh-
er. Perhaps you will have tf> strip
knows E 'glish she must dress better
more hemo than ever, for now that she
like the English lady maestro (teach
er).
"The Philippine Islands produce
enough of the finest rope to allow every
person In the world to
t ‘ation* are be-
Phitipplnes. and
fid future pr.s-
,re very encour-
f the first things
oe noticed in conne, Hon with
inn us try in the Philippines.
:u deveb pment in rrcent years
fact th. t the most primitive
'*n - implements are employed
, . T hte reason for this remark-
abie Increase Js duo to the fhet that
or Manila hemp, enjoys the
distinction of being strictly a
Philippine producton. The plant has
been introduced into India. Borneo.
"indies and other parts of the
WO- l cut oniv in the Philippine is-
etr. - hns the fibre ever been success-
fu produced as an article of com
merce.
., are many other hemps besides
t.ie Manila hemp. Nearly all fibres
come ;nto notice through their com-
mercia] uses, and as commerce and
utility do not sten to inquire Into
scientific relationship each fibre as it
carre into extensive use began to be
known as hemp, qualified by a word
signifying the place from which it came
CANNIBAL KING NOW
YEOMAN IN OUR NAVY
From New Orleans Pica
Chief Yeoman Fred
navy recruiting party,
Orleans, run* in Class
yune.
Myers, of the
now in New
A as a yarn
spinner. Even if his auditors some
times do "wink the other eye." the
Chief Yeoman resents the insinuation
that he is Tom Pepper reincarnated,
ar.d label? all his yarns—even the one
about the whale and the mermaid—
as the pure, unadulterated truth.
Chief Myers Is in his element when
he has a bunch of landsmen around
him. and a few days ago—conditions
being favorable for the business— ■
he told some new recruits of the
time he was king of a cannibal Island. :
"Yes. siree.” began the Chief Yeo- i
man, putting a fresh roll of tobacco in '
his scarred pipe, blowing gray clouds
from the W'ckened howl and leaning
back comfortably In an easy chair. "I ;
was a fuH-fiedged king once, an abso- |
lute monarch with more power than j
the Czar of Russia, that is in a limited
way, and my subjects kow-towed to me
from morning to night, and paid me
resolved itself Into a whoop, and then
from the edge of the woods appeared
the ugiiest bunch of human beings
man ever looked upon. They were sav
ages. great tall, strapping fallows,
brown-skinned and tierce-looking.
Clothes? No they weren't amply sup
plied in that line, but they had lots
of bushy hair sticking out in puffs from
their fiat heads, and the hair was plen
tifully adorned with feathers. The
band’ numbering about twenty, ap
proached me on a slow trot, and as the
savages drew nearer I saw that they
were armed with murderous-looking
spears and crooked knives, while some
of them had bows and arows slung
across their backs. ’Fred, you’re a
goner now- for sure!’ I said to myself,
and altogether ^despairing, I sank to
the sand and sat there waiting tor
death In whatever form fate chose to
send it to me.
“The savages soon reached me, but
instead of spearing me at once, they
formed a big circle, walked slowly
around me, nudging, me here and
pinching me there, no doubt to see
if I was fat enough to serve up as
a fricassee or a stew. While they
circled about me they held a pow
wow, speaking in short monosyl
lables, deep and guttural. After about
RECEPTIVE MOOD IN
POLITICS AND RELIGION.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The receptive mood appears to be
an agreeable one. There’s a smile on
the faces of all the presidential can
didates who adopt it. Likewise a fine
touch of humor in their utterances.
People rouse to it. believe in it. and
end by gracefully falling into line with
life, law and experiene. But there
coming a time, this writer thinks, when
the barriers will be let down, apd "the
severest pursuit of natural truth" will
be at once "the province of science"
and the stronghold of religion in bring
ing the present "solace of a few" to
"a genuine and recognized power
among the many and a vivifying influ
ence over all the masses of mankind.”
The receptive mind of mankind be
gins to be open to more than “a me-
1 EXPLAINS
ACCORDING TO GEOLOGY
•rogue’s hornpipe’ at the end of a noose,
to moor all our ships, with enough left
over to streteh n rope cable from tho
moon to the earth." snld a well-known
hemp dealer of the Philippines.
This Is rather a giddy (fight of fancy.
hut nt th" same time the hemp Industry
is one of great importance to the is
lands. and In fact to the whole world,
for Philippine hemp is superior to all
known fibros that are used in the man
ufacture of ropes and cordage. Last
the Islands exported 121.750,0011
• American monev) worth of hemp. Of
tht-- amount half represents the value
nf hemp sent to the United States Al
together (here Is something like $27.-
lan.fiOO worth of hemp produced In the
Philippines every year, hut some of it
>-• used-for home consumption in the
Philippines in the manufacture of ex
quisite jusl eloth and fancy sinomays.
made in solid weaves or prettily corn
el with Chinese silks. This hemp
cordage superior to all the
fibres and. It is «aid, so enormous is
the demand for Manila hemp that if
the production were doubled the price
would probably not depreciate enough
to render hemp raised elsewhere a for
midable competitor.
Manila hemp is produced by a spe
cies of the banana family called mesa
textiles. In app' irance the hemp plant
resembles a small bana plant, and has
a stalk from ten to sixteen inches a
height of about fifteen feet. The Ma
nila hemp is a structural fibre:* that
is, It forms a part of the structural
system of the sheath. The stalk of
the plant consists of a number of lay
ers which are wrapped around one an
other. The outside layers are pulled
off and the fibre Is separated from the
fi“shj" part of the inside layers by put-
Ing these layers of the stalk beneath
a huge knife, nr bolo, which fits tight
ly Into a block of wood.
It is interesting to see the laborers
nt work in the hemp fields during
stripping time. The ahacla. or hemp
plant, when mature consists of a group
or cluster of from twelve to twenty
stalks, all growing fr.om one root.
... These Stalks -ire in nil stages of de
fiance the Yelopment, but usually two or three
tiance me ...... v. .... ..
will mature and can be cut near the
ground: the great top leaves are then
lopped off and the few outside layers
of the loglike stalk thus left are re
moved. The trunk, or stalk, of abacia
Is ofter twelve or fifteen feet long
.and from one to one and one-half feet
in diameter. This trunk consists of
a small central fleshy stem one or
two inches in diameter, around which
•are a number of thick, overlapping
layers each layer being the stem or
petiole of the leaf. The fibre Is ob
tained by pulling these layers between
a knife and a block. The process of
fibre extraction consists of two dis
tinct operations. First, the removal
of the ribbonlike strips of fibrous ma
terial from the leaf stems, and sec
ond. the separation of the individual
] fibre by pulling these ribbons under a
knife.
| The laborer sitting on the ground
I with a trunk of abaca across his knees
] inserts under the bark of one of the
j leaf steams a small, sharp piece of
in the raw state Is distributed in lot _
<>f a half pound Into thousands of j i 1on p f called a "loenuit." and pulls off a
homes, each of which operates JtS own . fibrous strip one to three Inches wide
hand loom. Two years ago .>.00 or : an( j as ] on „ ag the trunk, one stem
these Filinlno housewives wove more , v j/| yield’ two or three such strips,
than a million peso-.’ worth of cloth. ( when these fibrous strips .have been
The weight of the hemp exported from taken off the remaining fleshy mate-
the Philippines In ISO" reached_tho J r jol is removed and each consecutive
enormous
total of 2r,(5.766.000 pounds. | layer Is thus worked own to the cen-
The new railroads In the Philippines
will open up some of the richest hemp
districts in Jhe Philippines and by far
flic richest in the world. Mans- fine
»rens especially suited to the cultiva
tion of hemp will be made available
through Improved transportation facil
ities. Most >>f the hemp now raised in
the islands is produced In tho southern
peninsula of Luzon. In the provinces
of Sorgosois Albany and Ambos Ca
marine
trnl stem of the trunk. The fibre
obtained from the three or four outer
layers, which are. green and hard, will
be coarse and dark colored, while that
coming from the layers nearer the cen
ter of the trunk will be very fine and
white. The latter is not always
stripped by the natives, as It Is too
liable to break tinder the knife, but
when extracted by this method it is
used onl" for the manufacture of va-
quan-
.' good den) of hemp, how- j r jour kinds of cloth. When ...
beginning to be raised on the j tity of these fibre strips have been eoi-
islands of Xe-.rros, Samar. Leyte, Min- j looted.they are carried to some central
dnrn. Marinduque and Mindanao. The j point, where a shed has been erected
industry supports thousands of people nn( ? apparatus set up for stripping the
Out of 37 towns in Ambos Cnmnrines j fibre.
27 art supported solely by the hemp I The shed consists of a. frame of
industry. , j bamboo noles covered with abaca
Work on the railroads will he pushed : leaves. Tho stripping aparatus. or
rapidly. 40 engineers, land surveyors j ‘‘panguljan.” is simple both in eon-
and sub-contractors having arrived In ; struction and operation. It consists of
•the latter part of April. The railroad a j 0 g j n „ horizontal position one
that will run down through these three j nr two feet from the ground. On the
provinces from Manila has 15 miles nf | top p f this is fastened a block of
n spur running to the west coast of ; smooth, hard wood. Over this block
Southern Luzon peninsula, between the | | s placed a bolo having a blade about
, ity of Neuva Cnrceres and the port of t or.e foot long and a handle one and
Pasncno. | one-half feet. long. A rattan Is at-
I know of one little plantation of 200 tached to the end of tlfe knife and
nercs in hemp that without cultivation j connected — with a bamboo
lias supported si:: orphan children for ; above. The bamboo spring holds the
the last eight years. This is the pathetic j knife down upon the block. Its pres-
story at .It:
A great tree stand,
of tills spur, and hen
insurgents hanc«ri .
v ho w as snsre ’ted
can sympathizer. \V
having hanged a wot
the outlaw band Is ?s
that he did not think
along t
in 1898
Filipln
md of
.'oman
mn. the leads
oiled
it would kill her.
for she was hung up only two htwrt,
ard when she w is cut down to his sur-
p-.-c i: was found that she win dead.
This man, it is said, is now clerk of
the court Xu ova r>—'uv-’. A1: hutch
everybody tells about him, no one will
or-c down to 1 • ard fa ■!.- and gtv- def
inite Information, for they fear the
bother of a Government investigation.
■Recently 1 visited the old hemn ranch
that had belonged to the murdered wo
man. It lies in a beautiful little valley
not far from the survey of the railroad
spur. The ranch Is overgrown with
weeds now. and look? like a deserted
plantation of the South after the war.
Th?* valley in which it lies is a steam-
in? tropical bit of luxuriance. Hemp
likes a steaming climate with light soil
abundant rainfall, and plenty of drain
age. Huge moss covered trees, thous
ands of great pigeons, large as barn
yard fowl, and white cockatoos, se
questered little plantations, streams
shaded by giant trees bearded with
great mon's—these are panoramas fftir-
} v characteristic of manv of the hemp
districts. Today on the little pl anta
tion one sees six handsome, clean I'm >-
ed wide eyed, patrician, olive faced
orphans, children, of a Spanish father
and the Filipino mother.
The father, too. was killed when the
insurrection was first declared. This
little hacienda of less than 200 acres,
mostly in Manila hemic paid an annual
income of $5,000 (gold) a year until the
sure is easily regulated by lengthen
ing. or shortening the rattan. By
means of a foot tread the operator
raises ihe knife when he desires to
insert or remove the strip of fibre.
In the process of stripping the op
erator holds In his right hand one or
more cf the fibre ribbons and also a
short, round piece of wood. These
strins are Inserted under the knife and
are drawn through with a quick,
steady pull. The ribbon is then re
moved and reversed, the clean end be
ing wound three or four time* around
the stick. This process of drawing un
der the knife removes all the pulp or
fleshy material, leaving in the hands
of the operator a small bunch of clean,
wet fibre. As the fibre is stripped it
is usually sorted Into two classes.
The work of fibre extraction, while ap
parently simple, is very . exhaustllig
even for the experienced operator, it
lines of the navy
"How did it all come about?” and
Chief Myers directed his gaze at his
questioner, a newly recruited sailor
whose salt water experience could be
summed up in a sail boat ride on Lake
Pontchartraln. “why. It was the result
of a shipwreck.
"You’re all interested, eh. and’ want
the story? TVell, as we’ve some time
to spare, guess I’ll tell it to you: just
give me time to sot this pipe agoing
again, for you know when I’m not
smoking the yarns don’t come easy off
the reel like.
“Back quite a few years ago, I was
in the merchant service and on one
occasion shipped In a crazy little bark,
bound from up Boston way to the
South Sea. on a trading expedition.
We carried a cargo' of Yankee notions
and all that 9tuff, and the skipper cal
culated that we were going to drive
some handsome bargains with the un
tutored savages.
“We struck down the Atlantic Coast
and followed our nose for days and
weeks, until finally we came to the re
gion of the Horn. The Horn Is always
a treacherous proposition, and going
through the Magellan Straits our poor
little craft was beaten and battered
until her very timbers groaned with
the chastisement. We rounded the
Horn In a 'living gale. The Flying
Dutchman had crossed over from Good
Hope and was bowling along in the
teeth of the squall, and it was blowing
great guns. We ran close In to that
towering mass of rock, and from
where we stood on the wave-washed
deck we could see the line of break
ers showing white in the half-light
over at the base of the cliff. It was
the bleakest, most melancholy place on
earth, and how we ever came through
■with the boards underneath us, I’m
not attempting to say. We got clear
of the straits, left the Fire Islands far
astern, and floated clear in the Pacific.
The old hooker was in need of a. lot of
repair, and heaving to, we spent a few
days in patching her up. Everything
shipshape again, we stood away for
the South Seas, and when we got close
to the Society Group, we encountered
one - of those monsoons compared to
which the blow we weathered at the
Horn was a modest summer . breeze.
The storm took us all of a sudden-: the
skyl from deep blue, became copper, and
then cloaked with Inky clouds, all In
less than an hour, and when the wind
let go Its full’ force, our bark fairly
stood on end. She was stripped of
every shred of canvas, and shot along
through the boiling sea under bare
poles, and we, the frightened crew,
clinging to ropes and stanchions to
keep from being washed overboard,
could see nothing beyond a few yards
from the ship’s taffrnil. All was black
ness and gloom: a deluge of angry,
swirling waters, and several times
above the screech of the gale we could
hear tile death scream of some unfor
tunate sailor torn from his hold and
swept overboard.
"Our vessel steadily drove to the
westward, and when night fell, envel
oping the entire weird scene in black
ness. we could hear far ahead of us the
roar and crash of breakers sweeping
over a reef; and then we knew that we
were doomed. Early in the storm our
skipper had been killed, a portion of
the cross-piece of one of the masts
snapping off, falling and smashing in
his skull, jtnd a little later the two
masts were washed overboard.
"It was a terrible night and cling
ing to a rope attach#! to the main
mast, I was washed from side to side
and was more often under water than
above it. I soon became aware that i
spring | was alone on the ship. The three sail
ors who had been holding on to the
rail near me went overboard when the
entire section of the taffrail yielded to
the pounding of the waves, and the
sense of loneliness I experienced was
awful indeed. And all the while in my
cars sounded that terrible, roaring,
grinding sound of the breakers ahead,
and once straining my gaze. I managed
to make out a long jagged line of white
fr.'tm, far in front of the bark’s bow.
The ship struck about midnight.
There was a crash, a tearing, rending
noise: great volume's of water struck
the deck, and with a chaos of dreadful
sound ringing in my ears. I felt the
rope to which I had been clinging torn
from my grasp, and then I was lifted
up on the crest of a huge -wave and
thrown violently forward. I must have
lost my senses just then, for sight and
sound were merged into utter black
ness. and at that trying moment I
thought death had come.
’When next I came to myself my
every sort of homage. Maybe I wasn’t . fifteen minutes had been spent in this
nicely fixed as Royal Eddie, or Im- ; business, one of the natives, who
| had a big piece of wood shoved
, through his lower lip. and who from
the feathers in his hair appeared to
be a chief, motioned for me to arise
and follow.
"I did so and was placed in the
center of two flies of natives and
carried off for several miles into the
woods. We finally reached a cleared
space in the forest, and I saw before
me a large village made of cone-
shaped huts, with thatched roofs
reaching up into points, and in the
center of the town was a big struc
ture made of hewn logs, which • I
correctly judged to be the palace of
the King.
I had reached the village just at the
moment when some tribal ceremony
was being performed, and I did not
learn until afterwards that that cere
mony was the putting away of a dead
monarch and the choosing of a new
one. In a great circle around the big
building. I have already mentioned,
were gathered several hundred women,
of all ages and descriptions. They
ranged in age from fifteen to eighty,
and in shade from light copper to deep
brown, and while some of the younger
and llghter-hued ones were very good
looking, the older ones for the most
part were hideous frights, and would
have made their fortunes on the Amer
ican or English stage as witches for
Shakspearean productions. Those wom
en were worked up to a pitch of fren
zy; they were slaving their bodies
from side to side, waving their arms,
shaking their long, loose hair in their
faces, and howling and screaming as
though possessed. Itx all became clear
to me shortly; the old King had Just
died, and the women were helping tho
widowed Queen mourn for her depart
ed lord. Judging from the noise they
made their grief was sincere and gen
uine. and I thought that they’d make
their mark In some of the countries of
Europe where professional mourners
are still used. When our party entered
the cleared space before the palace—
pardon the term—the chief made a sig
nal with his long spear and all the
walling and other noises ceased on tho
instant. Then the women and the men
hanging around began to look at me,
and ns I was led to the palace.a with
ered hag appeared at the door, threw
her arms into the air. and let go a few
yells that would have made an Apache
brave on the war path envious. The
by crone, who must have been a hun
dred years old. saw in my opportune
arrival a message from the gods: I was
sent to take the place of the dead
King, and seizing me by the hand the
hag led me through the first room
where the body of the departed majesty
in his full war gear lay. to the small
apartment in the rear where the weep
ing widow sat. Oh, but she was n
beaut. I don’t think, and- J shuddered
when I saw her. A great fat. brown
woman, with the skins of some animal
covering her. and a ring in her nose
as big ns an anchor shackle, she
wasn’t a second Cleopatra mourning
her Antony, or even a Zenobia in choc
olate. weeping over the ruins of Palmy
ra. When I entered the Queen arose
and looked plensed. Then the hag
spoke to her. and she gave a sickly
smile, that might have been intended
as an attempt at the coquettish.
"I smiled back—you know I was tip
against it and wanted to keep out of the
soup Dot—and that smile must have been
fetchinsr. for the hag spoke to her. and
she tonic tne around the neck and gave
me a hug that could hardly have been
bettered by ;i grizzly bear. The old hag
ran outside, shouted the good news that a
new kind had been chosen, and then the
air rang with the whoops and howls of
delight. The dead fellow was entirely for
gotten in the joy of the. ehooslng of a
new king.
“They put me on a. raised platform
which stood for the throne, shoved a war
club In my hand, and when the Queen
had taken her place at my side, the whole
tribe passed lie'ore me. men and wom°n.
warriors and hunters, paying me homage.
That night they had a feast before the
palace, and such a feast. They roasted
an ox whole; had a dozen or more Dig3
broiling on spitsj waltzed on watermelons
as big as tuhs. shoved luscious grapes
and other fruits on the palm let-' which
served as my plate, and even tried to
tickle my palate with a haunch of boiled
dog They had some kind of wine made
of grape and ooeoanut. and when 7 had
drunk a lot of the nleasnnt-tastine liquor
I felt like a King indeed. Th" feast
lasted ail through the night and far into
the next day. and about 4 Jn the a'ter-
noon my bodyguard took me to the King’s
house, where I fell on a couch of skins
and was soon asleep.
‘T was awakened the next morning ha
lt. "If we are not mistaken." says j chanical interpretation of the world"
a great newspaper light, "the Ameri- and "a clearer perception of the pe
can people is in a receptive mood for | tentiality of life, the greatness of op-
such statesmanship.” “We” are not portunity which it offers, the complex-
is a fair day’s work to strip one nr- j first sensations were shooting pains in
roha (2e rounds). and the fibre ; mv head and limbs, and a burning
stripper will usually work only two or j thirst. My eyes were dazzled when the
three days a week. j figs raised, and the first impression my
Abaca after being stripped is hung brain, slowly returning to full activity,
on bamboo poles to dry. This drying | received was that I was in the glare
mistaken. The American people
was. and always will be, in a recep
tive mood to such receptive statesmen.
"We” also know why. It is a states
manship “in which energy is refined
by modesty and sincerity not destitute
of the sense of humor."
This certainly is l "tact" which should
be ready cash to any one in the game
of either life or politics. It might
disarm destiny itself, and that sly jo-
' ker in the field who loves to catch the
self-confident in shares of their own
devising on the one hand, and send
the solemn and self-depreciating to
the obscurity they have marked out
for themselves wjthout one touch of
Hncerlty or humor in the operation.
Any mortal, too. who can make the
•vrath of the wicked to praise him
along the line of recognized "objec
tions that do not appear to lessen with
the continued discharge of duty" has
high authority for holding himself in
a receptive mood -for something good,
though many a jest of time points the
dry humor of it Very much as a
matter of conscious or unconscious hu
mor does the whole problem declare
itself. The man who knows how truly
funny it Is In the midst of a naughty
world to be looking for a crown of
success along the line of pious “du
ties fulfilled” will wear a smile of hu
mor on his face almost in spite of
himself. The man who does not know
will pass the smile over to his ene
mies from the very unconsoious hu
mor of his solemn attitude.
The receptive mood, since Eve enter
tained the serpent, has Its advantages
and disadvantages, according to the
nature of its adoption, but, by that
sinful token, a touch of humor lies un
derneath them all. Long before Ameri
can statesmen introduced "energy re
fined by modesty” into the hanhazard
path of It, tho celebrated Micawber
family showed the humor of the recep
tive attitude in its passive form. But
where Is the Dickens who could do
justice to It in its active American
form? The tragio-comic features that
have attended it would immortalize any
pen that could even passably portray
them. That statesmen and politicians
themselves begin to be alive to it is
one of the most encouraging signs in
their ranks since the days when Syd
ney Smith called one of their number
"a steam engine in trousers.” A few
of them have learned, to be sure, the
truth of the sage’s assertion that “if
there is any great or good thing in
store for you it will not come at the
first or second call.” and are able
placidly to carry over the receptive
mood to a fair series of "calls” to the
machine gods.
Yet there is still room for "relaxing
the features a little,” and assuming a
pleasing expression as the photo
graphers put it. when they try the Im
pression plates of fame’s Camera. Even
Lincoln's caricatured orator, who
“shines his eyes, opens his mouth and
leaves the rest to God,” might drop a
hint of wisdom to the stage applicant
for human honors. It is quite of a
piece, too. with the higher counsel to
the scriptural applicant for heavenly
favors, "anoipt thine head and wash
thy face.” etc. In fact the cheerful
countenance appears to be a large part
of tKe correctly deceptive mood in the
opinion of all teachers and philosoph
ers. It seems to carry an idea of get
ting ready for good luck if it comes,
as well as making a merry mock at it
if it doesn’t come. “Some people are
so fond of ill luck that they run half
way to meet it.” said Douglas Jerrold,
j and that explains the calamity of the
receptive mood in some of its most
familiar phases.
Science goes to the root of the mat
ter in maintaining that like attracts
like, in the mental as well as physical
atmosphere, and the doubting or de
spondent mind puts itself directly in
the current of the darker elements, or.
in other words, meets ill luck half wav,
George Eliot knew the practical social
side of It when she counsels her
troubled heroine to put a good face on
the unconventional movement, and not
be looking for crows, “else you will
set other people looking.” Disappoint
ments dwelt unon "are bacterial.” and
"sighs are miasmatic” says another
health philosopher in considering the
life mood.
To expect little, since what we do
expect will probably not come to pass,
may be. os an astute philosopher has
declared, the lesson of history, yet the
receptive attitude for everything
worthy that may any time come to
pass, is a better foothold for action.
An open mind of this nature is what
truth and beneficence are supposed to
have been looking for in human evil
for many ages.
God’s blessing falls on me as dew
upon a rose.
If I but like the rose to him my heart
unclose.
sang the cherubic pilgrim centuries
ity and fullness of possible existence.”
That science shall at length, by search
ing. find out God and the secret of life
in him. appears to be a possibility in
the mind of this scientific investigator,
and Paul, thundering out the same
truths of being from Mars hill, could
thus join hands with science in that
new “temple of religion” which Sir
Oliver Lodge believes the world is
about to set u>>.
’’It is my business.” says Bernard
Shaw, "to find some order and mean
ing in the apparently insane farce of
life .as it appears higgledy plggledy off
the stage." and a sorry out he is mak
ing of it. “Interesting, chaotic* and
amusing," “'daring and original." are
the common criticisms of his brilliant
struggles with the “moral dilemmas" of
society, yet anything like resolving “or
der and meaning” out of the "insane
farce” seems still far from him. Clear
ly he lacks the scientific outlook which
beholds some preservative and manly
virtues in all mankind. As a preacher,
too, he forgets a fellow-preacher and
artist’s warning that the social sinner?
he appeals to "live so wholly in con
vention that gunpowder charges of the
truth are more apt to discompose than
to invigorate." The state of mind in
•his heavens must always be consider
ed by the wise speaker, and perhaps
Stevenson .Is right when he says that
“he who can not judge of that would
better stick to fiction or the daily pa
pers” in his literary efforts. The moral
problems of real life and society will
forever be beyond him.
The greatest master of life and its
truths and lessons based' everything
upon the “willing mind,” and whether
it be artist or dominie who grapples
with the ethical problems of humani
ty, that consideration is ever the prime
one to be taken into the reckoning.
To bring the mind of man into con
junction with the mind of tiie eternal
was the whole end of the divine come
dy of life as Dante beheld it and Sir
Oliver Lodge's new temple of religion
builds itself on little more than his fa
mous line, “in his will is our peace.”
scientifically established.
The new thought, which is the old.
works everywhere to the cultivation of
this happy and receptive mind, and
what glories of human Joy and achieve
ment would come out of it "even on
this planet.” as Lodge says, words fall
it to declare. The mystery of the forces
that play upon it in this finer mood no
science can yet solve. Genius -itself,
though a known reality, is a wholly un
known force in human life. “No one
can explain or render ordinarily prob
able, a priori, the achievements of
some of the master minds of humani
ty, says Lodge. "Thoughts come Into
our minds by avenues that we never
left open.” says Emerson, and “the
depths of the notes which man acciden
tally sounds on the strings of nature is
out of all proportion to his taught and
ascertained faculty.” ”1 came from far
away, and I have faith In my star.
That Is all. I can say no more, nor do
I wish to know more.” writes the
world-famous Duse.
This is the testimony of the great
and gifted generally. Whence their
power or what its mode or nature
science has failed to explain, but that
genius Is “In the first Instance” the
friendly attitude toward the unknown
power, “the capatlvlty,” as the seer
puts it. "of receiving just impressions.”
is the illuminating conclusion to which
all thought and science now tend. And
overtopping that is the still friendlier
reflection which the philosopher tells
us arose in tho minds of men when
they ceased to fear steam and other
unknown forces and “bethought them
selves that where was power, was not
devil, but was God.”
IRENE CLARK SAFFORD,
HOW LONDON’S POOR
"MOVE ON” TO SUICIDE.
There are hundreds of cottages
throughout England, condemned by the
local authorities as unsafe and unfit for
human habitation, whose tenants can
not be compelled to move, for the very
good, reason that there is no other place
for them to go. Dickens' story of Lit
tle Jo is as true now as the day it was
written homeless England has no
choice but to “move on,” meaning, too
often, nights spent under the stars
upon park benches, or in the fearful
charity lodging houses.
England’s housing problem is no new
thing. It dates back to the time of
Queen Elizabeth. During her reign
the authorities became so alarmed at
the increase of London's population
that a law was passed forbidding fur
ther house building in what was then
the city, hoping in this way to check
its growth. Times changed and so did
the laws, some being repealed, other >
becoming dead letters, and the migra
tion from country to city kept steadily | ( ;IC ^ S . ■' !l1
onward without further thought until
less than one hundred years ago. About
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Leaders in scientific and religious’
circles are very much interested inj
the modern versions of New Testa-
i mont miracles advanced by G. Fred-
' erlck Wright, D. D.. LL. D.. who ha»
the chair of science and religion at
Oberlin University, Washington. Much
of the mystery surrounding the flood,
the destruction in wholesale numbers
of the enemies of the children of Is
rael and the turning into salt of Lot'*
wife is removed by the scientific expla
nation? of this geologist,
Professor Wright is here attending
the meeting of the Archeological So
ciety. He is the editor of the maga
zine. Records of the Past, and the au
thor of several Important works on
Christian evidences and kindred sub
jects. His latest, volume, "Scientific
Confirmation of Old Testament His
tory.” has just been Issued.
Twentv-six years ago Professor
Wright was the pastor of a Congre
gational church In Andover. Mass., and
became interested in the harmonizing
of science and religion. As a result
of the attention attracted by some pa
pers read by him before the Boston
Society of Natural History. Professor
Wright was called to Oberlin. He re
tires next year on a Carnegie pension,
and says that he is glad of it. “I
have much work yet to do.” he says,
"and that will give me time and oppor
tunity to do it.”
When he began as a professor at
Oberlin to devote his energies entirely
to science and to geological discovery. ’
Professor Wright established the po
sition of the terminal moraine in yorth
America, which discovery has been
the starting point for till geologists
since.
Since then his Investigations have
taken him much farther afield. He was
the first geologist to explore the Mair ■
glacier in Alaska, and devoted four
years of study to the subject, so tint
it is said today that Professor Wrlgi.f
has a monopoly of knowledge about it.
One of tho tall peaks near by the gla
cier, and the shores of Glacier Bay.
is named Mount Wright, In his honor.
Then, in company with his son. he ;
made an expedition into Greenland,
following up his glacial studies, and .
here he was shipwrecked through tho
vessel running on to an iceberg. They .
afterward landed on the coast of La
brador. and thence made their way to
St. John. New Brunswick, whence they
started out again. Once more they
were wrecked, the ship running on a ,
reef, and this time the entire crew
and passengers, ninety-three persons. .
were carried to safety by a fishing !
schooner, which was already half fill- i
ed with cod when it picked them up
After Greenland came » term of geo.
logical exploration In tho Rocky
Mountains, then a tour of Europe,
with investigations in Palestine and 1
in Mongolia. Through most of China .
the professor and his son went seek- .<
ing evidences to support the theory of
a deluge, and from' China proper they
went into Manchuria and so over the :■
trans-Caspinn into Russia. It was this ,
last investigation that confirmed Pro- •
fessor Wright in his theory that there v
had not been a period of glacial ice in :
Northern Asia as there had in North .
America.
One result of Professor Wright’s :
geological researches is to confirm tho :
Old Testament stories of certain hap
penings, which have been regarded as
miracles, but which lie shows may ,
wel) have been brought ibout by per
fectly natural causes. Of this sort is
the destruction of the army of Senna- ,
cherib as it was marching on Jerusa
lem. 'lie remarks that Instead of be- ?
ing decimated by the Lord of Hosts it
was attacked with the bubonic plague.
He points out. too. that geologists have
discovered that Central Africa is shap- h
ed like a huge saucer, in which the <
accumuating waters in the rainy sea-
son would serve as a reservoir to sc- £
■cure the prolonged high water, which ?
was necessary for the fertility of JE
Egypt. Thus, tho geologists prove that •.
successive years of famine and plenty
in Joseph's time were effected by nat- V
ural causes.
Says Dr. Wright: “These geologi
cal facts and discoveries, which
strengthen our belief in the accuracy
of the Old Testament records, do not
mean that we who investigate have n 1
faith in miracles. Wc have no hesi
tation in specifying as miraculous the
ascension and the resurrection of
Christ, the raising of Lazarus, the mul
tiplication of the loaves and fishes, the
stilling of the tempest upon tho sea.
and the changing.of water in!o wine.
In all these th" facts may have been
accomplished through the action of the
Divine Will in making new combina
tions of the .casually connected, se
quences which we now understand us |
the dim definition of nature.
“But there was not necessarily .)
miracle in the passage of the Red Sea
by the children of Israel. It woul I.take
too long to cite ::51 the evidence, but
it is indisputable, that the country ad
jacent to the Red Sea has risen’a good
deal higher than it was at the tinu- of
this supposedly miraculous
takes from three to four hours to two
days. When thoroughly dry the fibre
is collected, tied up In hanks, or bun-
dles, and In this oondltion to shipped,
by ponies, carabans or cargadorea to
the nearest market. It is there sold to
a Chinese middleman or to the repre
sentative of some one of the large ex
port lug firms of Manila. When the
fibre re ehes the warehouse of th
porter It Is carefully sorted into the
diff* —nt ■ “ (' grades, and is then
baled each hale weighing two piculs,
or 275 pounds.
ago, and wandering voices down to our the year 1830. the first systemati
own time, like James Rhoades of Lon- I quiry was made concerning the homes
. , .. .. „ | of the working classes in London,
don. seek, to turn the body into a ! that Un f e on untiI 1845 many
shrine for it. Yet fear ana prejudice j important investigations were made,
still stand in the way of it. and. like ; revealing conditions truly appalling. Dr.
a royal mr«*Fonge r. and nulling myself to- l^ e second adventist P u ^ on J 11 ® / South worth, one of the investigators,
gether as well as I could and making an j ascension robes to go to heaven, but suites in his report that the homes of
attempt nt hiding my disgust I sallied J cried “in hell, just as I expected.” j the De0 n]o were in dark and winding
forth to meet my consort. I could stand w hen his hay mound was slyly set on stree tg, to0 narrow to afford ventila
a good deal, hut not much of that Queen. • y.>. rt honpotb Him to exneet the worst ■ ... . , . , . 44 , ,
and when nW me at the door and j nre oeneatn mm, to expect ine : tlon. in dilapidated houses “crowded
held un'ber homely face fo*- me to kiss ! ostensibly looking for the best ; thickly upon refuse saturated land.” A
I purposely stumbled and fell. IS t* 10 general attitude of candidates | considerable portion of Bethnal Green
“That was a lucky fall for me. as en* T | for favors tho world o\er, though com- was a swamp, whole streets being un-
could regain me feet a great cry went ; parativel.v few of them know how To d water in rainy weather. He found
^w r • '-To the COmpel,Inc: smile in the face ; in cue small room six persons ill with
It seem? that when a King fall? rather 01 . . , ; typhus fever: in the same locality.
then kiss his consort, it mean? that his ! An impression seems to hate | having a population of 77,000. there
majesty wants a new wife, and in a little j abroad that, as the colored deacon said j were, in one year. 14.000 cases of fever,
almost 13.000 of them fatal.
—February Craftsman.
of the Eden favors, it’s ”de devil who
p’ints out whar de bes’ apples is.” and
the candidate who laughs is not al
ways like the baby that smiles when
day disfigured with the" great ring in her I the angels whisper it. But this may
nose that my first queen had worn. Tho ; he simply because politics ana prin-
Henry Clay and Lew Wallace.
A really remarkable description of
the appearance of Henry Clay is given
by Lew Wallace in his Autobiography,
vi'ailace was a young man when he
saw Clay, but the impression that the
great orator made remained vivid and
ineradi-able:
“Mr. Clay was of a personality once
truth, v/ho most perceives the \alue of : never to he forgotten. Tall, slen-
the receptive mood or attitude in the der graceful, he had besides the air
human being. That the very meaning : ma jes*|c which king3 affect
and potentiality of life have long been j inK it exclusive property. Y<
parents. Since
hat time, although the plantation has
10: been cultivated and is practically
iveryrown with weeds and jungle, it
ms paid enough to educate these six
hlldren: sends some of them to school
.1 Manila and keeps them in clothes,
servants and comfortable living.
Hemp Offers one of the best opportu-
ik'i ? tor a young man of limit*'1
iieiir.s who will live in the tropics. It
joes not require the large capital ne-
■essurv to g> into tobacco or sugar SUC-
oi-'.-Lilly, a young man with
've thousand dollars in our mom':
!•«'! out very well with a fair she
four or j ture fi
css. How.
h governin'’
hem;
mat
Am.'
■-r and
expired
Running the Road.
From the Pittsburg Press.
“Where's the president of this rail
road?” asked the man who called at
the general office.
"He's down in Washington attendin’
:h' sessions o’ some kind uv an investi
gatin' committee.” replied the office
boy.
"Where's the general manager?”
"He’s appearin' before th' Interstate
Consnen e Commission.”
"Well, where's the general superin
tendent?”
-He's at th' meeting o’ th' Legisla-
itin' some new law."
Where’s the head of the legal de-
I partmeut ?”
while pH the beauties of the island
paraded before my throne for mp to ehoos
of the sun. The sun rode high in the ‘ 'rotn. I picked out the best looking on
heavens and from its position I con- I in , the hunch and she was immediate'
eluded it must be about II o’clock in 1 token awa** to be brought to me the next
the forenoon. Slowly pulling myself
together I took my hearings and found ■ girl’s beauty was. marred, ruined forever. { ciples are supposed to be averse
that I was lying on the sandy beach ol ' but I appeared pleased and formally ac- i each other. Put “sincerity" and “un-
what was doubtless an island. The j rented her as wife, aopreciatin? that 'impeachable integrity" at the back of
wave that had carried me from the Qh= p ( ™ r l?‘. r [ ‘L h h ' 1 ' a 1 { ****■ 1 did not ! the smile, and the humor is delicious. \
tne wreck deposited mo some yards from j '{VeP ? ruled that island for a vear ! It is the man of science, however, and I
ex ~ ■ the sea line, and looking out upon the ! learned the language and taueht the na- ! of science in its broadest relation to !
waters. I saw the split and torn hull of ; tives many useful arts. But a!! tile whil*
our bark, set between two jagged rocks. I was homesick and ns <=0'.n as t ,-ould
The hull was slowly rising and falling ' make myself understood. I selected about
with the action of the waves, and I . and from tne wreck of the
concluded that it would be only a ques- J ^le^t
fi'Mng her up with sails from same of >ho
canvas stowed away in th. hold of the
wreck. I also got the compass 3rd other
Instruments off tile bark and: d-tiling n
crew of 24-nitives. in a little while made
respectable ssilors out of them. .Tus: to
try them I took them on several short
tries to neighboring islands, and then
finding them up to their ioh, sai'ed ewac
on.- morning for the South American
eoest hundreds of miles distant, r had
loaded the schooner with a rieh cargo
shell end feit that if T ever
reached civilization again. I would hav'
enough to get on mv feet I11 about
days wc sighted land and the-i sailing j are" not,”'he writes, touchingthespir-
ln thn *- ;tn ? an .Fran- | u nn i foundations of both religion and
at a good r
igm-
rym
>-
De\vn in th.
danao. then
who have gon.
, outage.pent of
through the isia
conditions are t
will find a few A
not require mu 1
troubled with in
Pavio c
•> about
in ther<
f Gener
ands in
suitable
strict, in Min- ,
nO Am wicans !
under the ett- :
1 Wood. A!! ;
’act. wher ‘Ver
rou
general passen-
th' commercial
1 freight agent?"
(T country t* at-
grange an' toll
t’t got :o freight
ibaca.
ip O'
tg the blame ru
>ad.
newspapers.
tion of a short time when the entir
thing would go to pieces. There was
no sign of life on the wreck, and no
dead bodies were strewn along tho
beach and from this I argued that all
my shipmates had perished before the
vessel had struck.
“Rising with difficulty to my feet
I turned and examined the shore
iine. The island appeared a thickiv-
wooded one, with the usual small i of
palms and umbrella-shaped trees, j re:
reaching in places almost down to | n
the edge of the sea. In the branches
of the trees were parrots and other
birds, some of them with gorgeous
plumage, and toe feathered denizens
of that far-off spot burdened the air
with squeaks warbles and screeches.
I was thirsty, very thirsty, my mouth
was parched and my tongue felt
swollen to '.vice it? size, and intend
ing to search for water. I staggered
over Joward the trees. I had gone
only a few steps when I became aware
of a sound that sent fine blood from
mv h.en-t and caused me to tremble
violently in every limb. The sound
was at firs- a chatter such as a troop
of monkeys might make, but it soon
| hidden from man for lack of this open
I mind has been the claim of other ex-
j nlorers in the realms of truth than
‘ Sir Oliver Lodge, though his recent
: statements in this connection .are pe-
! culiarly impressive. Regarding the re-
I ligious instinct as a part of the hu-
1 man being, he believes, with Herbert
1 Spencer, that it must fairly be taken
into account by science, as a part of
j the phenomena of life to be honestly
j Investigated. "Either there are modes
• of existence higher than those dis-
I played by our ordinary selves, or there
ba"k
! "That
the" onb
their
*nd.
as my only experience at the
“ss. anti I dare say that I am
ex-monarch in the navy to-
i Feminine Reform Spelling.
| From the Chicago News, y
Eva—Ru: he is a literary and
very brilliant. What do you do when
you misspell words in your ietters to
him?
Katharine—Oh.' I just make stars over
those words I am doubtful of and let
them go as kisses.
psychology. “If there are, it
business of science to ascertain
nature and the mode and extr
their interaction with our more usual
personality and with our material, real
surroundings." *
Toward this, however, both science
and religion have heretofore turned
uni-thing but the receptive attitude.
Religion, on the ground of an ultra-
scientific and sacred order of existence
beyond the keen or profane touch of
science, and science on the basis of
accepting only what can be known and
demonstrated along the line of ordinary
tho
] speech is the mouth and its capacity
nf , for infintc distention.”
not a handsome man. The largeness of
his lower features was a serious de
traction. His forehead was retreating:
the skull narrowed in its rise to the
crown: his ears were lob'ey, his eyes
heavily overshaded, his cheek bones of
almost aboriginal prominence.
"Throughout Mr. Clay's performance
my eyes scarcely left his countenance,
which, as he proceeded, sank from
sight until, by the familiar optical illu
sion. nothing of it remained but the
mouth, and that kept enlarging and
widening until it seemed an elastic
link holding the ears together. In
deed, at this late writing, my’one dis
tinct recollection of the man and his
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that land that is now
e times covered by a
shallow depth of water, and ihal thij
could have been moved by a highet
wind so as to make the passage clear,;
for th" Israelites.
“And. so,” continued Dr. Wrightfi
"in my latest book you will find that
have given tlm scientific theories about
the falling of the walls of Jericho,
which were undoubtedly caused by an
earthquake. The destruetion of Sodom
and Gomorrah loses its miraculous
qualities when one realizes the geolo
gical conditions. The territory here
was one of the greatest oil countries
in the world, and th" ignition of a
flowing well by lightning, or any ether
cause, would have created just such
a scene as the Biblical writer has de
scribed for us.”
"But how about Lot’s wife and the
pillar of salt, professor?” he was asked.
“The phrase in the Scriptural story,
‘pillar of salt.' is more definite >han the
original words demand. Mound of salt
would more nearly express the idea.
Now, the eruption of gas and oil are
often accomplished by eruption of salt
slime, such as presumably enveloped
her as she lingered behind."
To similar purpose. Dr. Wright de
scribed the deluge, evidence of which
he lias been seeking in every country
of the globe. Geologically considered.
he declares there can be no doubt that
the greater part of the earth was at
one time flooded. He thinks that the
glacial epoch was the cause of the
flood. At the end of the T“rtiary per
iod ice and snow had accumulated ovei
the northern part of North America
and Northwestern Europe, until the
area which was eventually coveted by
the glacial mass was about 6,000,000
square miles, 4,000,000 being in Ameri
ca. Its depth is known to have been
one mile in New England, from the
fact that it covered the top of Mount
Washington, leaving boulders on its
very summit.
It was probabiy much deeper, but
taking this as a basis, the mass of ice
accumulated in the northern hemis
phere would be 6.000.000 cubic miles, a
eight of 24.000.000,000 tons “Now. if
the earth is in any degree plastic, as
contended” said Professor Wright,
“the transfer of ibis enormous weight
of ice frrm one portion of the surface
toi another would produce marked
hanges in land level, and taking the.se
facts into consideration, in connection
with the other evidence existing, the
story of the flood, when reasonably in
terpreted, is not eno< mpassed with any
more a priori geological improbabilities
than are any of the other great facts of
geological history.”