Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-31
TO SOAR.
Men of Learning Attend the
Worlds Congresses,
AND ALSO MEN WHO HAVE WHEELS.

AND ALSO MEN WHO HAVE WHEELS.
Efforts to Draw Aside the Veil which
II Hides the ImpenetrabIe and Intangible
~ "A Visit to the Jayanese Theater In the
nj Midway Piaisance-A1lcged Fun of the
43 6avagcs.
I'll WokLDs FAIR. Aug. 3D. Especial -
Some amusement and a great deal of in
formation is furnished by that remark
able series Of worlds congresses running
N~toncurreutly with the Columbian exposi-
4 Zion. They are held down town in the
great Art institute, and of late the largest
lall has been packed by those anxious to
gear men of worldwide reputation on all
M4xhe higher themes. But it is a rule in
these United Statest that wheneyera grand
h discussion is advertised ON finance or re-
asigion, spirits of grain or Of just men
cade perfect, or any other exciting topic,
A3he great army of the queer and crazy
make haste TO rush in. Every man with
tbug'' wants to be heard and every man
Il With wheels in his head, be it on finance,
The social evil or the future of the human
s&enl, wants to show the meeting how the
wheels go round.
's And really there are more learned men
rho have bugs than / had suspected. L
heard one of them the other day in the
african congress-. He demonstrated to
llis own satisfaction that the whole hui
ss}aan race WIS once black, and that the
Shites, browns and reds are merely Off
Il boots or modifed types. Another speaker,
colored clergyman, took up the old-time
prthern view and demonstrated 1t from
cripture: That the black people are the
descendants Of Ham, and added that civil
sation took its rise among the Hamites
nd that Greece and Rome learned the
kgest part of what they know from the peo
lie who were the ancestors of the negroes.
it was a very encouraging address. Fred
Douglass very appropriately wound up
ne African congress, which excited more
4 k~aterest than any other to date, with q
arage onslaught on the Worlds fair au-
horities for Excluding the negro from
ne exposition"
Over one hundred congresses win have
lA4Aen held when the fair closes. July was
f.a1lven up to education: August. law,
< :ience, philosophy and architecture; Sep
,mber to labor and religion, and October
f33 public health and agriculture. The
srgest halls in the Art institute seat 1900
sAch and there are many smaller halls, so
7 sveral congresses are usually in session
: the same time. All last week was
II wen up to the Psychic congress and a
cry remarkable affair it was-so interest
fg that it was actually painful. Men and
, omen of profound learning, whose lives
been devoted to matters beyond the
,'ope Of sight or Other sense, scared after
E4 10 infinite and dived after the mutations
pie and strove to draw aside the veil
hicb hides the impenetrable and the In
sS ;ngible. And as to the result Professor
*s9 lott Coues, chairman, made this conf
y tnt prediction: 1T Is expected that
'ychical science will be stimulated by this
sRslngress and a close comparison of the re-
tAlt obtained by different individual OBJ.
ELEVATIONS will serve to encourage all alike
renewed effort. The authoritative pro-
litigation of facts by this congress in
.M, sychical science must act as an educa-
Y} bnal lever of great power for good and
pct upon many popular errors. It Is
Riobably not too much to expect from this
1Hn1hgress q marked effect upon human
prals and social ethics with even a
medy Tor many existing Ills and
longs"
I thought I could afford to wait else
4FSFhlere for these grand results and went for
s4As rest TO the Midway p~laisance, as l gener-
My do when l grow weary of science and
III Oh art. And every time / go there / am
\ .Isge more constrained to say, how very
Mach like children all these uncivilized
~ fople are. They have much the same ca
ices as boys, yield to similar impulses
rs VI have upon the whole about the same
neral code of morals. As / look on the
j mbols Of the Dahomeyans and Javanese
1 b own boyhood comes back to me. 1.-THE
4 y BIT rises before me like a dream" The
IA, }ole Jayanese village, theater and fence
sluded, h built Of wickerwork. The
IL n later II q really c~ommodious affair and
H1t1l arranged, yet all the walls and
!%x-% -esf are of plated stuff, black and
tie mingled to form amending varieties
,squares, diamonds and notched work.
II se taste Of she race Is shown in every de.
g1yKl. Even the post which holds the cleo
l1I1Xc light is wrapped in matted grass and
'fa5.4 water pouring into the central tank Is
tt1ffd de to turn q bamboo wheel and pr
Fl te q monot0nous music on two wooden
3#lfxams.
the theater n dozen musicians pro
!,e a continuous din which is at once
Ksyied and regular, tho effect being Of the
4;as4 lintive or melancholy sort. The female
Ie tors, dressed in most gorgeous robes,
we'd In such Q gentle and gliding way