Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-01
MUCH LIKE BOYS
Are the Savages Of the Midway
Plaisance.
Worlds Fair Congresses Afford Ex-
csllsnt Opportunities
For IL uiss With wheels il IAsil

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WORLDS FAIR. Aug. 81 Especially -
Some amusement and great deal Of in.
formation is furnished by that remark.
able series Of worlds congresses running
eoncurrentiy with the Columbian exposi.
ton. They are held down town in the
great Art institute, and Of late the largest
hall has been packed by those anxious to
hear men Of worldwide reputation on all
the higher themes. But il is . rule in
these United States that whenever grand
discussion is advertised on finance or re-
hgion, spirits Of grain or Of Just men
made perfect, or any other exciting topic,
the great army Of the queer and crazy
| make haste to rush in. Every man with
"bug" wants to be heard and every man
with wheels in his head, be it on finance,
the social evil or the future Of the human
soul, wants TO show the meeting how the
wheels 20 round.
And really there are more learned men
who have bugs" than had suspected. l
heard one Of them the other day in the
African congress. He demonstrated to
his own satisfaction that the whole hu-
man race was once black, and that the
whites, browns and reds are merely Of
shoots or modified types. Another speaker,
a colored clergyman, took up the old-time
southern view and demonstrated II from
Scripture: That the black people are the
descendants OF Ham, and added that civil
ization took its rise among the Hamites
and that Greece and Rome learned the
best part Of what they know from the peo
pie who were the ancestors Of the negroes.
1t was a very encouraging address. Fred
Douglass very appropriately wound up
the African congress, which excited more
interest than any other to date, with a
savage onslaught on the Worlds fair au-
thorities for excluding the negro from
the exposition.
Over one hundred congresses will have
been held when the fair closes July was
given up to education; August, law.
science philosophy and architecture; Sep
tetnber to labor and religion, and October
TO public health and agriculture. The
largest halls in the Art institute seat | 500
each and there are many smaller halls, so
several congresses are usually in session
at the same time. All last week was
given up to the Psychic congress and .
very remarkable affair it was-so interest
ing that it was actually painful. Men and
women Of profound learning, whose lives
have been devoted to matters beyond the
scope of sight or other sense, SCARED after
the infinite and dived after the unfathom-
able and strove to draw aside the veil
which hides tbs impenetrable and the in-
tangible. And as to the result Professor
Elliott Coues, chairman, made this conf
dent prediction: ''It is expected that
psychical science will be stimulated by this
congress and a close comparison Of the re-
suit obtained by different individual OBJ
servations will serve to encourage all alike
to renewed effort. The authoritative pro-
mitigation Of facts by this congress In
psyehical science must act rs an educa-
tional lever o. great power for good and
react upon many popular errors. II Is
probably not too much to expect from this
congress marked effect upon human
morals and social ethics with even q
lie
~
wrongs
thought / could afford to wait else
where for these grand resultsand went for
a rest to the Midway plaisance, as l gener-
ally do when grow weary OF science and
high art. And every time go there am
the more constrained to say. how very
rnuch IKE cnlidreh a. - uheiVliiAeu
people are Ihey nave muen 'he same ca
prices as boys, yieid 10 simiiar impulses
and have upon the whoie ABOUT the same
general code OF morals As iook on ehe
gambois OF the Dahomeyahs anu 'a'anese a1,s,
my own 6oyhood comes BACK 70 me, 4, Inc
past rises before me IKE oreaih' me
whole JaVahese Village theaoer anu ience ~,
included, Is buiit OF wicKer"ork. Inc
theater Is realiy coihiiiouioos anaii anu
well arranged. yet an the waiis anu
screens are OF piai'ea stun, oiacn anu
white mingled TO form anehdihg varieties
OF squares diamonds ana ho!ched WoIk'
The taste oil the race Is SHOWN :, every I've. e ae-
.ai ~. 80 =. .ne rad p IN n,a,,ad arass and
the water nourina into the central tank ia
made to turn n bamboo wheel and pro-
duce a monotonous music on two wooden
drums
In the tbeater a dozen musicians pro-
d,,ce a continuous din which is at once
variad md reer,lar. the effect being Of the
nlaintive or melancholy sort. The female
actors. dressed in most gorgeous robes,
moved in such gentle and gliding way
that il scarcely seemed like acting at all
till the first act closed with sudden out
burst and by pantomime we were made 10
understand that the crisis demanded ths
appearance Of the gods upon the scene.
First came the chief deity with an inn
mense white mask and took his throne
with inferior deities on each side, all sit
ting cross legged. Then the devils came
With hideous black, yellow and green
- .ha ,orradia, d,r. rfa
There was sort OF trial Judgment pro
nounced. the contestants fought it out
with clubs and the show was over, but
what it meant no spectator knew. As the
audience dispersed the musicians sur.
prised MS by playing Yankee Doodle and
America in pretty good style.
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