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/ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1907. THE TWICE-A-TTEEK TELEGRAPH ENOUGH HEMP TA HANG ALL MEN IN WOP.LD jtp PCI 1,0 Xascii to t: AJCG produr--«i 1! invests -d fry ;t TflrnnJzed. hemp pi; ^•^merclal fab- 'rs opportunities r. it offers e\ ♦*n large plantation •resent cor nf ?},< tring- and ? Jr) dui 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 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. 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.”