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

UN 49,
Efforts to Draw Aside the Ven Which
Hides the Impenetrab1e and Intangible
"A visit to the Jayanese Theater In the
e. Midway PIaissnce-AIlcged Fun of the
III Savages.
I WORLDS FAIR. Aug. 3D. Especial. -
Some amusement and a great deal of in
formation is furnished by that remark
able series of worlds congresses running
HNtoncurrently with the Columbian EXPOSE
Zion. They are held down town in the
great Art institute, and Of late the largest
pail hss been packed by those anxious to
hear men of worldwide reputation on all
HShe higher themes. But it is q rule in
+ 4hese United States that w~henevera grand
discussion is advertised ON finance or re-
A8igion, spirits Of grain or Of just men
I made perfect, or any other exciting topic.
kihe great army of the queer and crazy
make haste to rush in. Every man with
"bug'' wants to be heard and every man
4 With wheels in his head, be it on finance,
The social evil or the future of the human
.5oul, wants to show the meeting how the
/ wheels go round.
And really there are more learned men
: o have bugs" than j had suspected. /
beard one Of them the other day in the
Il African congress. He demonstrated to
lis own satisfaction that the whole hui
khan race was once black, and that the
Whites, browns and reds are merely off
boots or modifed types. Another speaker,
colored clergyman, took up the old-time
puthern view and demonstrated it from
cripture: That the black people are the
Z descendants Of Ham, and added that civil
cation took its rise among the Hamites
md that Greece and Rome learned the
Test part of what they know from the PEG
de who were the ancestors of the negroes.
I4k was a very encouraging address. Fred
81 douglass very appropriately wound up
n he African congress, which excited more
pterest than any other to date, with a
Avage onslaught ON the Worlds fair au-
horities for Excluding the negro from
ne exposition
Over n hundred congresses will have
tseen held when the fair closes. July was
,f4}ven up to education; August, law,
Z sience, philosophy and architecture; Sep
u >mber to labor and religion, and October
Saf7 public health and agriculture. The
81 sergest halls in the Art institute seat 1900
och and there are many smaller halls, so
sveral congresses are usually in session
B the same time. All last week was
ven up to the Psychic congress and u
fxery remarkable affair 1t was-so interest
q that 1t was actually painful. Men and
! omen Of profound learning, whose lives
ave been devoted to matters beyond the
s'ope OF sight or other sense, scared after
ii q infinite and dived after the unfathom-
pie and strove to draw aside the veil
hich hides the impenetrable and the in
{Hngible. And as to the result Professor
}tl liott Coues, chairman, made this confi5
& int prediction; 1T is expected that
aasstychical science will be stimulated by this
ngress and a close comparison of the re-
III obtained by different individual OBJ
~ 3rvations viii serve to encouraged alike
renewed effort. The authoritative pro-
W litigation OF facts by this congress in
iii iycbical science must act as an educa-
bnal lever OF great power for good and
bet upon many popular errors. 1t is
aflobably not too much to expect from this
8Ihgress a marked effect upon human
i'll {prals and social ethics with even a
ia snedy for many existing ills and
longs"
4 thought I could afford to wait else
e here for these grand results and wentfor
j2 rest TO the Midway plaisance, as / gener-
Ally do when / grow weary OF science and
Ill gh art. And every time / go there / am
ysib more constrained TO say, how very
Which like children al these uncivilized
ty2H}ople are. They have much the same ca
Sjces as boys, yield to similar impulses
Il IA have upon the whole about the same
"a, neral code of morals. AS I look on the
Il mbols of the Dahomeyans and Javanese
ifH own boyhood comes back to me. 1.-THE
st rises before me Ike q dream" The
4ole Jayanese village, theater and fence
e eluded, n built Of wickerwork. The
" ~ batter II q really commodious affair and
LII arranged, yet all the walls and
Gems are of plated stuff. black and
'41 ite mingled to form amending varieties
#atsquares, diamonds and notched work.
o taste Of the race is shown IN every de-
Even the post which holds the cleo
;hEgc light Is wrapped ia matted grass and
! water pouring into the central tank Is
S,3de to turn q bamboo wheel and pro-
. monot0nDus music on two wooden
f;Yhms.
}z4 Ia the theater o dozen musicians pro
be q continuous din which Is at once
faSfied and regular, the effect being Of the
CIV 33fntiyc or melancholy sort. The female
.f& tors, dressed in most gorgeous robes,
&:3ved In such q gentle and gliding way
$FSft it scarcely seemed like acting at all