The Sunday Oregonian., March 08, 1908, Magazine Section, Page 9, Image 53

THE'-SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 8, 1908,
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The Ten Commandments, Gontinued
THE LAWS OF NATURE-ALWAYS INDICATE CORRE
SPONDING LAWS IN THE HUMAN WORLD . " .
BY J. L. JONES.
SUPPOSE an armed man to be at
tacked, by a fierce wolf and that he
should cat the animal in two with
liia sword and that by some mysterious
- process each part should at once be
come a whole wolf. Suppose every
Wound given these animals should im
mediately close up as if In water and
every several part become a living- enemy.
How long- could a man defend himself
against such an attack?
This Is exactly the way In which myri
ads of lower organisms multiply .them
selves and propagate disease. New ter
rors to life are continually being dis-
covered In that dark borderland between
spirit and matter, which the material
scientists are unable to map out and to
which they can find no limit.
In the arithmetic of infusoria division
Is the same aa multiplication. They
multiply by dividing themselves. The mi
crobes of crime anu sin are multiplied
by a similar process. Our system of law
and government propagates crime by its
unscientific attempts to regulate or de
stroy it.
And the forces of life multiply in the
same way under certain conditions. Fish
multiply in the sea and grain in the
fields just as bread in the hands of the
Savior. Savior means one who saves. To
save life Is to economise Its forces. This
is the key to economy personal and
social.
An experienced bartender Is a magician,
lie can serve all kinds of customers and
nelt all kinds of liquors out of an empty
barrel. A lawyer is also a member of
the bar and a greater magician. He can
pnd the other bartender to jail and take
away his barrel and ' then he can do
miracles such as na Egyptian sorcerer
ever dreamed of.
And he performs his miracles seriously,
without any apparent consciousness of
humor. He can produce a baby from
under an empty hat, swathe it in red
rape, set it afloat on. a sea of legal fiction,
like Moses in the ark of bulrushes, -surrounded
hy all the safeguards of the
Constitution. And it will grow, and live
nnl become a reality like the beard of
the, prophet, a thing to swear by with
much profit.
When we arc children we learn certain
things that are supposed to be facts, and
If we are good we will believe them con
scientiously long after we have discov
ered they are not facts. I ran sympa
thize with Infidels, for I am beginning to
dubt if there are any facts and to ques
tion whether the whole fabric of exist
ence Is not a legal fiction, a put-up job.
We are taught that arithmetic is an
exact science and we cling to the belief
as long as possible. But arithmetic Is
the greatest fraud of all. Figures lie and
liars figure and nothing mystifies and
confounds the mortal man more than n
array of figures.
Take for example the number one. We
ran run It tip to millions and countless
billions simply by adding cyphers. And
cyphers amount to nothing. This is the
way that systems of Jurisprudence, meta
physics and occult sciences are worked
up. Mere multiplication of words.
Suppose we take a globe of sandstone
and reduce It to Impalpable powder so
flue that It is impossible to count the
particles. Then we can' estimate or guess
at the number, as the astronomers do
when they calculate the alleged dis
tances of the fixed stars.
But what do these great numbers
amount to? They are merely denomtna- :
Vions of a routs or infintesimal particles. I
They aro fragments or fractions of the
broken ball. There Is no whole number :
but one and never can be. ;
Two Is derived from the division of one
One dollar is greater than 9J) cents, and
If you attach a string of decimal nines as
long as the tail of a comet, all these
figures will not amount to a complete
dollar.
All numbers after one are derived from
he division of the uriiversal one. This
J the fundamental fact in unlversalogy,
also in biology, the science of life, aud
in arithmetic, the science of numbers.
Kut we do not find it so stated in the
books. They do not begin at the begin- ,
ning.
There is only one universe. The word ;
unicrse means only one. There is only
one man. This man multiplies himseif j
by dividing himself. We are descended
from one man by division. "Descend
means to come down. The descent of
man is all the same thing aa the fall of
man. But some folks will not believe in
the fall of man. They think he knows
so much that he is infallible.
The undivided man Is the grand or
universal man. The interior celestial ;
consciousness of this man Is the King- j
dom of God. The perverted and de
generate animal consciousness is the
, dominion of the devil. This may sound ,
like mysticism, but life Itself is a mys
tery and the solution of mysteries is a
legitimate and flourishing industry.
Individual means undivided. The
mortal man Is not an Individual In the
absolute sense. He Is merely an ele
mentary fraction or atom In the body
social. Eighty millions of these atoms
or wlgglers constitute the body ox
Vncle Sara. He is a pretty big Chief,
but he Is not the whole thing. He is
only a fragment of a greater body, the
body of Humanity. Thus by "steps of
unfaltering logic we can proceed from
particles or particulars to the universal
or undivided whole.
Wooden hens lay no fertile eggs. A
real chicken must be" hatched from a
renulne egg. Which is first, the chicken
"or the egg? To save time I will answer
the question directly. The chicken and
1he egg are simultaneous. There Is al
ways a chicken and always an egg. Tha
fountain of absolute life never runs dry
iods barrel of meal Is never empty. His
cruise of oil never fails. His mercies en
dure forever.
To realise this fact consciously Is to
taste the pure water of the river of life
and touch the hem of the garment of im
mortality, that royal touch that makes
the leper clean and fills the faint with
cheer. It is to stand with Balboa on the
great divide that overlooks the sea of
peace.
But we do not fly off the handle and go
Into a fit of ecstasy and declare there
1m no evil, that when we are fed there
are no hungry, and when we are safe
there is no danger. We remember those
that are behind. We don't forget. The
vast Atlantic still foams and frets against
unyielding shores, and Atlas still bears
the burden of the world and all Its woes.
Death and life are simultaneous, like
the chicken and the egg. The tree of life
1 eternal and its fruit is good and evil
forever. Heaven is everlasting and hell
Is never shut down for repairs.
But no one needs to stay in hell always.
There Is a way out. Aeneas went down
to Avernus and got back with all his
bone. AM no one Is obliged to stay in
beaven always either. When he gets tired
of happiness he can go to the other place
for a change.
The prodigal son goes out from home
to see the world. Samson went down
Into the land of the Philistines to get a
wife. .The man who fell among; thieves
was on the downward grade from Jeru
salem to Jericho. Some go down and
others go up. Stars are continually
rising and others setting. The laws of
Nature always indicate corresponding:
laws In the human world.
The people of this world are mostly
discontented and keep moving about,
trying to better their condition. Mny
think they have got a heaven when
they come to Oregon, but the delusion
does not always last. Some go back to
Kansas, some to Arizona and others
tt Alaska or the frozen plains of the
Saskatchewan. But they take their
ins and the burdens of their mortality
with them, and it is hell wherever they
go.
Heaven and hell are really parts of
one place, for there is only one place,
as there is only one man. This Is the
doctrine of the. unity which Is the first
lesson in the science of life. Then God,
like man, is male and female, two in
one. This is bi-unity. Father, mother
and child constitute the trinity. Body,
mind, soul and spirit form a quarternity
or 'four in one. Then there are fra
trenities. or brotherhoods, . consisting
of many in one. Thus w descend from
universale to particulars. Men, like
plants and animals, are divided Into
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unlty and duality. There Is a great
divide between heaven and hell. They
are not two-in-one, like a man and wom
an that God joins together. They are
two In opposition, like some couples
the preachers join together.
This1. Is the difference between bl
unlty as illustrated In a pair of pants
or scissors, and duality, as representee
by opposing Senatorial candidates. Ia
bl-unity, the two act in unison, as the
eyes eee alike. A pair of pants or
shears is only one article. The human
body is bi-une, but the two sides are
supposed to work in concert. But two
combatants work against - one another
and two opposing candidates cannot fill
the same office at the same time. They
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It is necessary to become familiar with
a few of these elementary statements- in
biology and universology and to know a
little about the correspondences between
form and function in tiie natural and
spiritual worlds before - one can under
stand the Ten Commandments. They are
scientifically correct, and man must be
corrected to correspond with them before
he can do any ood. Otherwise he can
only do harm.
Corvallis, Or.
Like Cures Like.
"If you want be forever cured of
smoking cigarettes," said the woman who
is, "have a cigarette fiend visit you for
a couple of weeks, I inherited one through
the panic. Now she is gone, I breathe
again. She was like a little chimney,
smoking, smoking, day and night. I
would wake at the sound of the scratch
ing of a match, then smell the smoke. I
shudder at the smell of the smoke. I used
to come in out of the fresh air and find
the flat filled with smoke and the smell
of it. I would throw up eyery window;
I felt like throwing her out of one 6f
them, sitting there with the fiendish
cigarette between : her teethf smoking,
smoking, smoking.. Not any more cigar
ettes for me, I can tell you. I am cured."
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NCLE. SAM'S sailor boys have
pretty good fare and treatment
whether they are going through the
Straits of Magellan or anywhere else, but
so incapable. It seems, are all seafarers
of taking care of themselves that they
must be guarded and shielded from things
unfit to . eat and from numerous other
dangers, as though they were babies. In
the case of sailors in the merchant
marine this protection Is afforded, or at
least sought to be afforded, by laws of the
extent and scope of which the average
citizen has no conception, though the hard
times Is said to have Increased the num
ber of those who want to go to sea.
Just how Jack is to be employed, how
he is to be punished for misbehavior, and
how much vacation he is to have, when
in foreign ports, is all set out In the
Federal statutes, so that neither un
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tous boarding-house "runner" can take
advantage of him, at least from the time
when his contract of employment is
signed. It is a known fact that the Jolly
Tar Is a "hail fellow well met." He is so
glad to seo everybody the moment he is
on shore, so happy at having freedom
extending beyond the confines of a ship's
deck, that he literally runs wild when
home from a voyage, and he is an easy
victim for anyone who is not scrupulous
about "doing" anybody with a dollar in
his "jeans." When the sailor lands in
port It is a gamble" at - ten to one that he
has no place selected in which to stay.
He could go to a hotel, of course, but it
is the boarding-house that seems to be
the more attractive abode, and the agent
from the establishment, or the runner,
then gets in his work.
When the sailor engages to go on a
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voyage he must sign what are known as
"shipping articles," on a form prescribed
by 'the. Department of Commerce and
Iabor. On this is printed all the terms
of the contract as framed by the Fed
eral statutes, and one provision Is that
any erasure, interlineation or alteration
In-the agreement will be void unless at
tested by a shipping commissioner as a
certification of good faith . and validity.
The place to which the vessel Is to sail
must be placed in the agrement. as well
as the length of time the voyage is to
take, and if either are misrepresented
the master is liable. The first provision
of the contract is that going on shore In
foreign ports is prohibited except by per
mission of the master. After this reads:
"No dangerous weapons or grog allowed,
and none to be brought .on board by the
crew."
The scale of provisions which the law
requires shall be furnished to each , sailor
includes 4 quarts of water daily: 'pound
of biscuits daily; Hi pounds of salt beef
on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and
a pound of salt pork on Monday. Wednes-1
day and Friday. A half-pound of flour is
allowed on Sunday, Tuesday and Thurs
day, a pound of canned meat on Sunday
and "Wednesday, V.ji pounds of fresh bread
every day; one .pound of fresh, dry or
preserved fish on Friday, a pound of
potatoes or -yams every day; a half-pound
of canned tomatoes on Sunday and Fri
day; one-third pint of peas on Tuesday
and Friday; one-third pint of beans on
Monday and Wednesday; one-third pint of
rice on Monday and Saturday; three
fourths ounce of coffee, green berry, every
day; one-eighth ounce of tea daily: three
ounces of sugar dally: 4ialf a pint of
molasses Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday:
three ounces of dried fruit Sunday, Tues
day and Thursday; one-fourth pint of
pickles Monday, Wednesday and Friday;
one-half pint of vinegar on Tuesday and
Saturday: four ounces of cornmeal Sun
day and Thursday; four ounces of onions
Sunday, Thursday and Saturday; an
ounce " of lard and an ounce of butter
every day. and mustard, pepper and salt
for seasoning.
It would seem from the above that the
fare of the sailor is not very bad at least
when this law is observed. The law has
made the effort to have the sailor fed
In a way that will not only keep him able
bodied, but also keep off the scurvy and
other diseases bred by Improper food.
Certain substitutes are provided for the
list of foods prescribed above. One pound
of flour daily may be substituted for the
daily ration of biscuit or fresh bread; two
ounces of desiccated vegetables for one
pound of potatoes, and so forth.- When
the vessel is In port and able to obtain It,
l'i pounds of fresh meat must be substi
tuted for the salt or canned meat; ii
pounds of green cabbage for a ration of
fruit for a ration of dried fruit. Fresh
canned tomatoes: half a pound of frch
fruit and vegetables must be secured in
port when obtainable.
The substitutes provided allow some
luxuries to the sailor, and if the cook
happens to be in the humor rice puddings,
cake and other delicacies' would, not be
impossible. . All these named provisions
the crew is entitled to, and if the master
does not have them fed as they think is
right the articles provide that they have
the right at any stime to demand the
foregoing scale of' provisions. They can
not be reduced by any contract, and a
copy of the agreement must be posted in
a conspicuous place in the galley in the
forecastle of each vessel.
Of course, these agreements relate only
to the vessels in the merchant service of
the United States, and they control all
veesels enrolled or registered flying the
United States flag. Other countries have
their own laws.
V?h&t Jack Must Do.
But on the part of the crew it is con
tracted that they "agree to conduct them
selves in an orderly, faithful; honest and
sober manner, and to be at all times dili
gent in their respective duties and to be
obedient to the lawful commands of the
master." The . embezzlement or destruc
tion of stores is paid for out of the
sailor's wages. Flogging and all other
forms of corporal punishment are pro
hibited on board any vessel, and any
master so punishing a sailor is guilty of
a misdemeanor, punishable by imprison
ment of not less than three months or
over, two years.
Every vessel in the merchant service of
the United States must also be provided
with a slop-chest, which contains a com
plement of clothing for the intended
voyage for each seaman, and also a full
supply of tobacco and blankets. Aoy sea
man applying for articles from the slop
chest can have them, to be paid from
his wages., and at a price not above in
per cent over the wholesale price for the
articles at the port'from which the vessel
sailed. Any vesee bound on a foreign
voyage exceeding 14 days in length must .
also be provided with at least one suit
of woolen clothing for each seaman, and
every vessel shall provide a safe and
warm room for the use of seamen in cold
weather. ' A penalty of $100 is provided
for the failure of this provision.
Wages Can't Be Assigned.
Another very Important clause In the
shipping articles is that relating to sea
men's wages. Before the act was passed
the boarding-house runners when once
they had a sailor In the right place were
not above compelling him to assign over
hte wages for the next voyage or more.
If it could be obtained. . Creditors could
get them, too, thereby absolutely tyJng
up all the poor man might have or ever
hope to have. The art makM it unlaw
ful to pay over any seaman's wages In
advance of the time when they are actual
ly earned, and says that such payment
shall not cancel the ship's obligation to
him. But it Is lawful for any seaman
to stipulate in the shipping agreement for
an allotment of any portion of his wages
to his grandparents, wife, sister or chil
dren. But this does not relate to vessels
in the coastwise trade. For the benefit
of bona fide creditors there Is a clause
allowing the allotment of wages, not to
exceed one month's pay. But the debt
must not be for board or clothing, and
the stipulation is for certain voyages and
ka commission must examine the allot
ments. The section as to wages and
allotments applies to foreign vessels a
well as American vessels, except where
'treaties conflict.
Where the seaman signs his name are
recorded his signature, .birthplace, age,
exact height, complexion, color of his
hair, the amount of wages, the exact time
of service, the time he is to be on board,
in what capacity, and the address of his
'wife or npxt of kin, etc.
Thus the sailor under the flag of Uncle
Sam should be a well-protected, well
governed person, and. Indeed, better off
at sea than on land. Unfortunately for
poor Jack, however,, laws are easier to
evade on sea than on land even, and
he can only get his rights by insisting on
them in a way of which he ts ignorant.
The present laws help him. of course, but
they y no means cure the evils from
which he has always suffered.
Modern Mother Goose.
Detroit News.
Th Count im In the counting-house
Counting- up her mony ;
The maids are in the kttclmn
Eating bread and honey; -DukeB
are In the wineroom
Gulping down "the am";
Gladys In the writlnic-room
Practicing her name.