THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 11, 1900.
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THE happy tourist Is the one who
leaves a country, satisfied that ho
has seen It all, understood; most
of.lU and enjoyed everything to the
limit. On leaving Kobe by . steamer,
through the beautiful Inland sea to
Nagasaki. It was Interesting to dis
cover what had been most enjoyablo In
Japan to divers fellow passengers.
The dressy lady lady from Oregon
was rapturous over her purchase of 20
yards of white silk mull, embroidered
In flights of pale yellow butterflies,
that had cost her but $10. Her son was
equally satisfied with two suits of white
flannel, and two of pongee silk, all
beautifully tailored, finished and de
livered for
To have aocn the big Buddha at Ka
makura was another's great satisfac
tion, and to have gone through a little
door und?r his big bronze knee. Into his
hollow Inside, and up a little stairway
to a platform where his kidneys should
have been, from where there was a fine
view of the reverse side of bis features
and the colonial beading on his fore
head. There was a rich window In his
b.-i.'k. at the lower end of his right lung,
which let enough air Into the place to
keep one from cooking. Buddha has
wit there for several hundred years, and
has been Jolted by three big earth
quakes and washed with three tidal
waves, the first of which carried away
his temple but left him umiisturbed.
Tho gentleman from Pennsylvania,
with the whiskers, expression and dis
position of a Scotch terrier, was fierce
ly of tho opinion that the loading of
the steamer with coal at Nagasaki was
tho greatest tight of the island, and fur
thermore, considered It disgraceful to
the gentlemen of Japan that the wdmen
and girls were permitted to do such
work. Nobody who is not In the coal
business can appreciate how much coal
It takes to supply an ocean steamer,
until they see It done by hand at Naga
saki. The steamer anchors In the bay
and Is surrounded solidly with coal
ladcn barges, livery porthole on both
sides of the ship Is opened, and each
hole has a bamboo ladder leading up on
it from a coal barge. Each ladder has
10 steps, and upon each step are two
human coal passers. At a given signal
the shovelers begin to fill the baskets
and the baskets leap from one pair of
hands to another up the living ladder
until they are emptied, and tossed be
low to be refilled in an endless cbaln
The scene is one of such hustling ac
tivity as to make the proverbial ant
want to give up his Job of being the
boss example to sluggards. The women
nd girls who work are mostly the
widows and orphans of soldiers lost In
the late war with Russia. They do the
work cheerfully and eusily, and are
lad of the good pay.
The artist of our party declared the
one thing Japanese that had fulfilled
his expectations was the cleanliness
Ether and Electricity in Forms of Life
Matter Is Unquestionably the Result of a I nion of These Two X'niversal and Omnipresent Elements.
BT R. M. BREEETOX, C. E.
WITHIN the past few years modern
scientific researches and deduc-.
tion therefrom have opened
new roads for the educated human
mind to travel along and find new and
broader horizons of physical life, and
brighter, clearer and more interesting
vistas of material and' psychical phe
nomena. In the thoughtful investiga
tion of these, under this new light
thrown on them by science, the sceptic,
the pessimist and the agnostic cannot
fall to derive mental benefit. Accord
ing to this recent Investigation, and
knowledge gained from It, the universe
of matter. In bulk and atom. Is nothing
but etheric substance transformed and
differentiated In countless variety, form
and degree, by the energy of electricity.
The offspring or outcome of this
eternal marriage Is material creation.
We view it In the nebulae of the Uni
verse; then in the stars, in our sun and
our planet-earth, and, lastly and near
est. In each atom, germ and cell of
every material object In the animal,
fowl. fish, insect, vegetable and mineral
kingdoms on earth. .Sir Oliver Lodge.
F. K. S.. tells us in the last edition of
his book "Modern Views of Electric
ity" the following scientific, simple
and easily understood story of this ma
terial creation:
"Throughout tho great part of space
we find unmodified ether, elastic and
massive, squirming and quivering with
nergy, but stationary as a whole.
Here and there, however, we find
specks of electrified ether, isolated, yet
connected together by fields of force,
and in a state of violent locomotion.
These "specks' are what. In the form of
prodigious aggregatea, we know as
matter." and the greater number of
sensible phenomena, such as viscosity,
heat, sound, electric conduction, ab
sorption and emission of light, belong
to these differentiated or individual
ized and dissociated or electrified
specks, which are either flying alone
or are revolving with orbital motion in
groups. The "matter" bo constituted
must be a mere residual fraction of the
mass of the main bulk of undifferen
tiated continuous fluid occupying the
same space; of which fluid the particles
are, hypothetic-ally composed, and in
which "they freely move."
Under this essentially new scientific
light physiology and theology enter
tain a far wider field of wonderful
views of creation than ever before.
Vnder this new light the old story of
creation, as told In the first chapter of
Oenesls. becomes revealed to us in a
light, and with a progressive sequence,
easy of comprehension to any educated
mind.
The whirling dance or waltz of this
marriage of ether and electricity has
given the spiral, gasteropodic and gy
roscopic form and movement we see in
urh a multiplicity of example in the
various kingdoms of materialized na
ture. We see it In the shape of the
modern snail and in that of the trllo
bite and ammonite of the Cambrian
and cretaceous periods. We see It in
the Intestine of man; in the growth of
the common fern as It emerges from
the soli with Its curled frond; in the
upward growth of the creeper plant,
which knows so well how to seek Its
Support above ground by twisting it
self in the right direction. From this
observance of nature's spiral and
whirling design and action man has
ana charm of the streets of the Doshi
wara. "There only." said he, "I found
the brilliancy of coloring In dress and
the picturesque In architetcure that I
had expected to find throughout Japan."
The walled-in district of the Doshi
wara. In Toklo. has but one gateway,
which is carefully guarded that no
minor may pass therein. It Is clean and
beautiful. with chrysanthemum bor
dered streets. It Is entirely given over
to the Geisha, and her methods of en
tertainment. AVe were told there were
1500 of her. These pretty women,
dressed alike, and most elegantly, ac
cording to the taste of the owner of
each house, were seated In the show
windows and warmed their graceful lit
tle hands over handsome bronze bra
ziers. Slany of them compose poetry
and music, and are graceful dancers.
They seemed as gentle and unashamed
as kittens, and responded to our Japa
nese attempt at "good evening" with
pleased courtesy.
The artist said: "I suppose you know
It would be quite Impossible for men
and women to pass along any other
street of that kind In the so-called civ
ilized world without having the vilest
of curses and insults heaped upon
them."
The little fat woman from Nebraska
hoped she would never forget the good
meals she had enjoyed at the fine hotel
at Myanoshlta, and her niece sighed
rapturously over the moonlight view of
Fugl covered with snow.
Shanghai is only three days from
Japan and Is very European In appear
ance, with Its high red brick buildings.
Truly It Is the Paris of the East. The
ragged, unclean, lousy, yelling rickshaw
men of China were quite different from
the polite, uniformed little men of Japan,
and seemed out of place along the beau
tiful, well-paved Bund.
It was pleasant to find friends in
Shanghai, who had everything to make
life enjoyable, and were clever enough
to know it.
It was delightful to drive along Bub
bling Well Road In a fine French car.
with a merry-making bunch of new
friends who clamored for the latest good
story from home. It was entertaining to
Btop at the charming house of the Cross
Country Club and partake of light re
freshments. There are many beautiful women and
handsome men in Shanghai, and they are
thoroughly well-dressed and up-to-date.
Thev live In palatial homes, set in park
likft gardens, keep a fine stable and from
six to a dozen servants.
In a little heart to heart talk about
servants, one man of family was amazed
to learn that H a month would be the
least one could offer a fairly good cook
In California or Oregon. For $K) a month
he had 10 servants. Including office help
and his wife's private tailor, and. they
all fed and housjed themselves.
The ladles play a rattling good game
of bridge and wear many beautiful
Jewels.
We had read about "all China being
a graveyard," but the Impression was
not so vivid as it was after we had made
elaborate arrangements with a carriage
learned how to withdraw a screw, how
to frame his corkscrew and his tur
bine, and how to weave his fabrics.
The psychology of nature Is man's
educator; from this source he learns to
know and understand his own
psychical and physical constitution and
attributes as well as those of all ob
jects In the materialized world of which
he is created the sole master by the
overruling mind of creation.
Man cannot fail to see that every
seed, germ and cell in the vegetable
and animal kingdoms contains Its own
mind and microscopic individuality of
form. Each seed is like a sealed kodak,
awaiting its proper period of expan
sion and unfoldment under the neces
sary conditions of suitable soil, air and
moisture. In himself he realizes the
truth of the old proverb, "the child is
the father of the man." We are the
parents of our children's physical
bodies, but not of the Individualized
soul-mind.
Nature presents to us her constanc
form of duality; in her etheric-clectric-physicaj
side and in her psychical-mental
side. We see the mind of the crys
tal in the building of its perfect and
individualized angles and size of its
coalescing atoms. We see the mind
of each plant In its individualized form
of growth. In Its own selection of colors
fur adornment and of perfume for the
attraction of insect life In aid of fer
tilization. Nature has bestowed on
each the marvelous gift of natural
chemistry for the outcome of all these
objects. The sources of materiality,
of color and of scent are in the com
mon soil, air and moisture of earth,
awaiting the mind, will, power and ac
tion of the object in selecting, mixing
and absorbing Its own attributes in
materialization.
As we view this wonderful illustration
of mind and its outcome throughout the
realms of material nature, we cannot
doubt that the same pertains to man him
self. The Psalmist of Israel saw the
truth of this assumption in his writing
"I have said, ye are gods, and all of you
are children of the Most High:" Jesus
quoted this dictum as being a law. Man,
on his soul or psychical side. Li truly a
god and a providence to himself, in re
spect to his mind, will, power and en
ergy of expression and of habit in the
construction and maintenance of his
physical body.
See how he, apparently In unconscious
and involuntary fashion, keeps in con
stant action his digestive, blood-clrcu-latlng
and nervous functions. His stom
ach is a marvelous chemical laboratory,
and his mind in this respect is that of a
great chemist.
Why is a man, with all his Innate abil
ity and power of a god in Nature, so de
plorably weak in moral and physical
stature, such as his premiership in the
animal kingdom should lead him to as
pire to? The answer to this question
may be found In observing that the phys
ical side of nature In earth-life is neces
sarily the objective one, such as the five
physical senses are so Intimately asso
ciated with, as also are the physical ap
petites. This suggestion of any physical
type gradually grows Into a habit of cul
tivation, and such habit becomes a sec
ond .nature, and so becomes Just as un
conscious and inveterate In action as
those of the heart and stomach. The old
Hebrew proverb Is a true Illustration of
this: "The dog returns to its own vomit,
and the sow that was washed, to her
wallowing in the mire."
Nature has her inexorable and un
changeable law for the service of her two
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driver to take us to the cemetery. He
immediately drove out to the largest
vegetable garden in the suburbs: .
He took us where we could see the
most coffins. They were entirely above
ground. Many of them were covered
with weather-worn mats: a few had a
roof built over them, still fewer were
completely under cover.
A group of four or five would be neat
ly arranged, on a small bit of ground be
tween the onion-bed and the lettuce. X
half-dozen others would be resting in a
favored spot between the spinach and the
creek.
One naturally gets to wondering if
the coffins ever leak, and to noticing if
the potato vines growing nearest the
dear departed are more luxuriant.
They told us how the typhoons would
blow the coffins about the fields, at
times, and of the lids coming off and the
sides the physical and the psychical;
yet. she shows the most complaisant
yielding and impartial action In man's
selection and adaptation of artificial
methods in the place of the natural. No
discipline and no punishment will eradi
cate this second nature when It is firm
ly established in the objective mind and
physical system of the Individual. A
chronic thief will thieve again and again,
a drunkard will get drunk again, if op
portunity serves.
A man will become bald through the
constant use of a covering to his head;
his stomach will give up secreting and
supplying of the gastric Juices because
of the use of pepsin tablets; his bowels
lose their natural movement through the
use of artificial purgatives, and his
speech and use of his limbs may be lost
through neglect to exercise them.
The cultivation of the physical emoi
tions and desires exclusively In earth life
must tend to animalism and utter sel
fishness. The nobler side the psychical
is neglected, and so the question which
Christ asked. "What shall it profit a
man. if he shall gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?"
The Greek word used for soul Is also
used for life, but as soul Is always asso
ciated with mind, and mind with life,
and that life being a part of the supreme
life of the Creator, can never be lost. So
the meaning of the question is the entire
foigetfulness and unconsciousness of the
true egoism of the inward man's mental
ity. From this psychical side of man
alone we get the evidence of inspiration,
mesmerism or animal magnetism, hyp
notism, telepathy and ss'mpathetic emo
tions which are all mental and psychical
attributes, and are characteristic and me
diumistlc features of the Inward man.
These outside influences can and do op
erate upon that wonderful Instrument,
the brain, with its intimate associate,
the physical nervous system.
The Moslem's new Koran (Counsels
1x1:47) says: "Go not up and down, as
the foolish philosophers, seeking for
some stone which shall change all base
metal to gold; but seek for that virtue
which changeth with woudrous magic
the aspect of things; which maketh a
dreary world appear beautiful and pleas
ant, and converteth all sorrow Into joy."
A man who loses sight of his psychical
side by concentrating his artificial mind
exclusively to the physical ambitions and
appetites becomes by habit unconscious
of his soul; Just as the child of a white
man. captured by Indians and becomes
abanrbed in the life and habits of the
Indians. forgets entirely its mother
tongue and civilized life.
An era of revival of the psychical
and primal side of humanity has en
tered within the last few years and is
spreading with great rapidity through
North America and Britain. There are
three of these movements in connec
tion with the several churches of
Christendom. viz.. the Emmanuel
movement, the Christian Science and
the New Thought. The primary object
of the first mentioned is naturally the
refilling of the churches In conjunc
tion with advanced medical and neuro
tic science and hypnotic suggestion.
Through a well-observed law of both
physical and psychical nature, sugges
tion, the key and door to the mind,
has been made the starting point for
this new medical and theological
movement.
Outside of this psychical movement,
spiritualism, with Its multiplicity of
psychical and physical phenomena, has,
during the past half century, been ex
rescue work of the famished dogs. This
seemed horrible to one until the pitiful
condition of the starving dogs was seen,
then suddenly one became reconciled and
began to hope for a breeze strong enough
to clean up the whole vegetable garden.
There Is a rescue Home for slave girls
In Shanghai, which Is a reiuge for any
woman or girl who, hating her life of
shame, comes to it for protection. It is
situated in Soochow Road, the street of
prostitution, and over the entrance is
written "Doer or Hope." Eighty o these
girls were bein- taught to read, write
and do useful things. They looked happy
and were well nourished. This work is
under the supervision of missionaries and
the Chinese government upholds tho
claims of the Christians when the girl
wishes to remain with them. Men and
women owning slaves girls In this dis-
citing universal attention throughout
the civilized world of Europe and
America. Leading scientists and lead
ers of the highest eminence in the
Churches of Christianity, and thought
ful minds in every class of society
have given special attention to these
phenomena, and have found the re
searches therein to be of scientific
Importance. The ultra conservative
churches and their preachers cannot
restrain nor suppress in any" marked
degree the ever-growing public inter
est in this vital subject. The scoffer
and the materialist are fast losing
their influence in this enlightened age.
The public press and monthly maga
zines have noted this popular interest
in the subject, and rival each other in
the relation of the phenomena. Why
is the subject of such absorbing inter
est in the present day? It Is that civ
ilized man is becoming more and more
conscious of his egoism, and so has
more interest in the future life, which
he believes to be spiritual, and the
present abode of his departed friends
and near relatives. And so the story
of the kingdom of the spirit the home
of eternal life which the master of
Christianity made so large a portion
of his teaching and illustration, is be
coming more attractive to listening
ears of millions in America and Eu
rope. These Inquiries will cease no
more; the scathing words of Christ are
being listened to aa never before by
civilized humanity: "Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, for ye shut up
the kingdom of heaven against men:
for ye neither go in yourselves, neither
suffer ye tliem that are entering to
go in."
Human knowledge can only increase
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Mulal Hafld.
TANGIER, Feb. 13. This Is Mulai
Hafid, the Sultan of Morocco, who
was recognized formally by the
United States when the ships of
the fleet called at Tangier to
salute him. Mulal (or Mouley, as
It is sometimes spelled) has been
recognized by all the powers, and
his predecessor, Abd-el-Azlz. Is
reported to have accepted the
situation calmly.
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much less cruel to them since
. has come Into being, many of
the girls were aided to escape by lov
ers, who afterwards became Christians,
and married them.
The Island of Hongkong is S00 miles
south of Shanghai and Is a hillside, up
and down and all around. One . appre
ciates how well the English build, and
how well, generally, they do everything
(except the checking of baggage which
they stupidly do not do at all). The shops
are good, the streets broad. The winding
excellent roads are overhung with mag
nificent trees and bordered with beds of
flowering plants.
Real, unmixed China is found in Can
ton. We saw more dirt, and disease and
pitiful misery in two days there than
in all our previous existence.
We visited the only hospital for the In
sane in China. There were ISO patients.
The first one we saw was a young busi
ness man who, mrough reverses, be
came insane and had cut his tongue all
but off. They hoped to save a portion
of the lower half. A coolie, quietly car
rying bricks In the yard at the moment,
had kicked his roommate to death in
an insane paroxysm, three nights before.
by inquiry. Apropos of this, old pr.
Johnson wrote: "To leave things out
of a book because they will not be
believed Is meanness."
Psycholoy and theology can exer
cise through the suggestive method
a marvelous Influence for good upon
both the psychical and physical side of
humanity during its earthly existence,
if scientifically and wholesomely ap
plied by good and earnest experts.
Every parent, educator, physician, neu
rotic expert, judge and Jury in every
criminal court can find an enlarged
humane and useful field for the per
formance of their duties, if they can
and will think more of this natural
law of suggestion.
The object of scientific research In
psychical phenomena is to find the
"missing link" between, the physical and
the psychical aspects of human exist
ence through deeper researches into
the eternal ether the universal mother
of substance and ItB consort, elec
tricity the generator of all differen
tial matter. It was Into this scien
tific field that Jesus, the great teach
er of the spirit-world and life and of
the Spirit Father, gave the command
and its associated promise: "Seek and
ye shall find." Moreover, he gave this
significant dictum "God Is not the
God of the dead, but of the living."
The search for this knowledge can
only He within the realm of ether and
electricity; for there is no etheric
vacuum found in nature; and so, there
can be no other substance for the more
refined ethereal body of the soul of
man or for those spiritual "mansions,"
which "are many" in number. Neither
can there be found, within our view,
any other rational comprehension of
the Innate mind, will power and de
sign of materialized expression in
every crystal, plant, animal, bird and
Insect In the natural world around us.
Through tiie scientific evidence of all
these we alone can comprehend the
overruling mind of the Creator and the
meaning and force of his universal
characteri8tic-r-"above all, and through
all. and In us all." In this omnipotent,
omnipresent and omniscient definition
of the Creator-Supreme Mind-Father
of the Universe we find the derivation
of providence and of love in the service
of all. This gives a mighty emphasis
to those Christian sayings "It is more
blessed to give than to receive," and
"love thy neighbor as thyself."
It is fully as honorable to serve as
it Is to be served; this virtue should
be more taught in our family and in
our public schools. Service is only
evil and mean in the sense of slavery
and grudge. Real liberty and inde
pendence of the wholesome quality are
perfectly consistent with honorable
and faithful service of every sort and
degree. No enlightened and civilized
human soul can live in this world as
a hermit, or a miser, or a vagrant
hobo, or a thiefhnd a mere parasite.
This principle of true service Is in evi
dence In all creation: it should be
equally in evidence In every family, in
social and business life, in the daily
life of the citizen and throughout the
government services in a democratic
nation.
Most Expressed Opinions, Walls.
Exchange.
Most of the opinions you hear are
wails. Very few people are sincere.
When a man talks, he is usually repre
senting prejudice, or his Individual
troubles. Very few people condemn a
thing because it is wrong, or praise it
because It is right.
Tlis same forc that moves a ton Rloug a
highway will pull a 32-ton canal boat.
Another intelligent-looking Chinaman sat
in a tree, discoursing eloquently with an
imaginary audience. A beautiful,
healthy-looking girl of 18, attended by
her private servant, would smile or laugh
or weep and moan for hours as her hys
teria might prompt. Her case was con
sidered hopeless. The institution is an
American one and Is fearfully worked
and under-supported.
It was not especially cheering to go
from this place of malcontents to an in
stitution for little blind girls who had
originally been sold for debt. Blind girls
are valuable in houses of ill-repute, be
cause they cannot see. Girls who see
often make trouble for owners and pat
rons. Most of these girls were under 14 years
of age. They were cleanly, though
scantily clad, and sat at their little
school desks knitting patiently.
They are taught reading and writing
by the Braille system, for the blind. The
Bible has been the main textbook, but
selections from the- Chinese classics,
arithmetic, geography, history, hygiene
and gymnastics have also been taught.
On top of all this misery, we went to
Hunting Modern Ghosts
Persist That Spirits in Rented Houses Banish Sleep.
"I feel pretty good tonight," said
Bascomb to his caller, as he put away
some plans on which he had been work
ing, "because this week I succeeded in
exorcising another ghost and quieting a
buyer who nad been raising an awful
rumpus. About three months ago I sold
a two-family house out in Westchester
to a man who wanted to live in it him
self. His inspector looked the place
over, pronounced H In first-class shape
and the property was transferred all
right. Two days after the man moved
in he came into the office in a deuce of
a stew and the dickens of a temper.
"'Look here,' he shouted, 'that .place
you sold me Js haunted All last night
we couldn't sleep and ray wife swears
she won't live there.'
"I quieted him and reasoned with
him, and he went away, though he was
still doubtful. I knew he would be
back, and he was in less than a week.
This time he was plainly shaken up.
""It's at it again,' he said, 'and I hold
you responsible. You knew when I
bought the place I was putting all my
money into it. You'd had It on your
hands for nearly a year. Now I know
it was because possible buyers were
onto the fact that there was something
queer about the place. I'll bet a work
Ingman, a mason or a carpenter or
something like that, was killed when it
was being built and It's he that is
causing the trouble. My wife Is sure
of it and she's on the verge of break
down.' "'What does the ghost do?' I asked.
""Well." he said, uneasily, 'we haven't
seen anything. It's just a groaning and
moaning, and it seems to travel up
stairs and then down and all around
the place. It is the most awful thing
I ever listened to." He turned fiercely
on me, 'and I'm not going to stand it
much longer, either. You did me on
this place, and I hold you responsible.
If anything happens, well "
"I questioned him and found the
ghost was active only on stormy nights,
and he gave me as well as he could the
dates on which the trouble had hap
pened. Then I looked over this file of
weather reports, clipped from a daily
paper, and found that the ghost got
busy only when the wind was in a cer
tain direction. Day before yesterday
I started In right, and I headed for the
place. The man and woman were both
upset. The ghost had been at it al
ready. We sat and talked for a few
minutes, and suddenly I was brought to
my feet by the moSt unearthly wailing
groan I have ever heard. It seemed to
shrill and quiver all through the place,
rising and falling as it went along.
The woman was half hysterical, and
had grasped the man's arm. He was as
frightened as she, and so wasn't much
of a consolation to her.
"I was mystified, but I made a round
of the place, still sticking to the theory
I had formed. I spent a nerve-racking
hour before I finally located it. The
ghost was made by a little round hole
in the frame of one of the windows and
the inside cord of the window. When
the wind was right it rushed through
the hole, set the cord to vibrating and
formed a most beautiful flute and harp
effect. A plug of wood laid that ghost
for good and all. The people In the
house could have found It, only they
were too blamed frightened to search.
"Another customer accused me of
the leper village outside the city wall.'
There are three generations there many'
of the third generation are clean. WhonJ
the kindly doctor, who was our guide.
told us that the lepers were bothered
with scarlet fever, smallpox and the ltcU
germ, In addition to plain leprosy. It'
seemed as if, really they wero getting I
more than their share.
We took photographs of the feet, in1
process of shedding twisted and useless
toes, ready to drop off. idany hands;
were without the first two Joints of
every finger Their faces were hideous'
with- disfiguring lumps. It seemed t
strange that they could laugh, like other
people.
I bogged the doctor to take the good(
eyes from the heads of the insane and'
give them to the blind girls, and to take;
tho good brains from the lepers and give'
them to the crazy folks, and he prom-'
ised me he would.
Not all the beautiful Jade on Jade
street, nor all the bargains on Silk street,
nor ropes of amber, nor wonders ot
carved ivory, can ever blot out the sick
ening memories of the measureless mis-'
eries of China.
Hongkong. Jnn. i. j
having walled a live cat up In a build-1
ing. The noise certainly did sound...
like a cat moaning soulfully for its af-;
flnity. but the trouble was duo to the'
electric wires having got crossed in
such a way that at times they produced'
the most dismal music ever listened to. I
"The hardest to locate was the ghost'
of a departed basso prof undo who at
unseasonable hours would bellow forth,
one loud, deep chest note. It was really!
terrible to listen to. But we got him at
last. He was a fireproof brick near a:
window ledge and cracked in such a
way that the wind could produce f rora I
it a perfect basa note. So I'm used to I
modern ghosts, and when I'm after
them I look first to seo what the wind!
is doing, and If that theory fails exam-1
lno into the wiring." New York Presvl
Paving Way for
Independence
Springfield (Matss.) Republican.
John Hays Hammond's political actlv-
ity has become a serious matter to his old
Yale claswrnate, William H. Taft. and It
Is evident that an energetic mining engi
neer turned politician needs watching
whilo ho is becoming matured to the po
litical game. Mr. Hammond will not In
vade the South with his grand "Taft Re
publican Club" movement for making the
Southern States a future asset of the Re
publican party. It seems that Mr. Taft
and his wisest advisers see flaws ill the
Hammond idea.
Mr. Taft really wishes to promote inde
pendent voting in the South as a prelim
inary to Republican voting later on. but
he understand the folly of precipitate
action. Mr. Hammond's Taft Republican
Clubs would have immediately come Into
conflict with tho old Republican organi
zations In the South and, at this point,
Mr. Hitchcock stepped in with the re
minder that, as Mr. Taft's manager, ha
was under sundry obligations to thoso
state organizations for the mass of South
ern delegates who had voted solidly for
Taft at Chicago, after tho steam roller
had done its deadly work. Probably Mr.
Hammond had clean forgotten that im
portant phase of the ptcconvcntlon period.
And so it was determined that a halt
should be called in the Reptiblicanizatlon
6f the South under Mr. Hammond's In
trepid leadership.
In 'vetoing tiie "Taft Republican Club"
idea, however, Mr. Tail and Mr. Hitch
cock indicated to Air. Hammond a field
of usefulness. While the time has not
come to expect many Southerners who
are at heart Republicans on National is
sues to vote against the Democrats, it Is
considered not Inopportune to provide for
them a convenient halfway station. And
thus is born the movement to promote
independent political organizations in the
South, which Southern whites may flock
into In National campaigns in order to
aid the Republican ticket, without mak
ing a complete break with the Democratic
party on local issues. This, evidently. Is
the Taft plan of prying apart the fac
tions of the Solid South, and there Is
much more shrewdness in it than in the
conception of Mr. Hammond.,