Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-17
TOUR AROUND THE WORLD.
pn. TALMAGE AMID NEW zEA-
LANDS NATURAL WONDERS.
The Numbers aud social Condition of
the Women OF the Coiony--A Conn
try for Artists and .scientists--rhe
wonderful Stone Terraces.


majority, and II seems that the Lord likes
them better than men, because he has
made moro Of them. There Is In most
places u surplus Of good womanhood, and
they therefore do not get full appreciation.
But New Zealand Is an exception. In this
colony there are $4,000 less women than
men. This will by circumstances DO nd
justed There ought certainly 20 be as
many women as men in every land, Tor
every man Is ontitlod TO a good wife, and
every women is entitled TO good husband.
The difficulty is that Gar and rum kill so
many men that the man Intended for tho
woinan's lifetime partnership Is apt to lie
IN tho soldiers grave trench or in the
drunkard's ditch. In the paradislacal
and perfect state the womanhood oqualed
the manhood, for there was ono OF each
kind. The women In New Zealand hive
already done well, for while in the United
States and Europe the women arc discuss
ing In parlors and on the platforms how
they shall get their rights at the ballot
box that castle has already been stormed
and taken by the women hereSi FAftcr u
while the brave sisterhoods In tho United
States and Great Britain will band togeth-
err and from tho crowded parlOrs, where SO
many lnnguish in hamilton and inoccupa-
tiun, they will make u crusade to these
parts OF tho earth, where their presence
would bo hailed and their opportunities
augmented. Tho theory that men must
20 into now countries alone and establish
themselves in mines, In mechanism or
merchandise and then send for their fam
lilies TO join them Is an ovordono theory.
The wives and daughters and sisters had
better come along with their husbands,
fathers and brothers. Instead Of there be
Ing u surplus OF mon in the colonies, there
ought to DO surplus of women out Of
which to got the supply Of maiden nunts
those guardian angels Of the community
who are at homo In the whole circle Of
kindred, the ooufldAnt Of the young, and
the comfort Of the old, and the benediction
Of ALL
Not only is there room in New Zealand
for more good womanhood, but there is
room for moro artists and naturalists
Here are mountains 8, 900, 10, 600, II 900,
IL, 900 feet high, waiting for some ono 10
take their photographs, and whilo most OF
the mountains OF the Garth stand stolid
and statuosquo and without varieties of
posture some Of these change their shape
and altitude under volcanic suggestion, as
tho man in the Photographic gallery, at
the artists suggestion changes from side
face 70 full face or from frown to smile,
and ono day amountaln turns clear round,
or from standing posture sits down with
heavy plunge, or a orovicc opens between
tho cheeks Of the hill--a wide open mouth,
full Of laughter or threat The changes
In tho mountain ranges arc enough to
set goologist wild with interest or send
him running up and down these attitudes
with crowbar to dig, or hammer to strike,
OF tapeline 20 measure, On u night in
June, 1886, tho mountains of Tnrawera
and Rotomhhana, New Zealand, had n
grand frolic. For many years tourists had
gone to visit the "terrncee" rs they were
cnlled-Anclcnt forms OF volcanic eruption.
They were stairs of pictured stones, stop
above stop Of pumicc and lava, reaching
from earth toward heaven, but some OF
the stops Of tho stairs 80 and 100 feet high,
not so much Jacobs ladder as an omnip-
otent stairway up and down which
walked all the splendors and majestics and
grnndours and radiauoes Of day and night
and sunshine and tempest, Of summer and
/ winter, OF decades and centuries and ages.
1 These stops seemed TO DO made out Of
I pearls, prisms potri1ed hyacinth, lily and
! violet and all laid ont as with divine
geometry. Such curve, such bosses of OK
+ quisitencss, such Hsoents and dcscents, be
wllderlnR with almost supernatural glo-
/ rios
Masonry smoothed by invisible trowels,
walls regulated by invisible plumb lines,
colors put on by invisible pencils, sculp-
turc cut by invisible chisels. On the night
OF June o. 1856, the moon was passing
into tho second quarter when, 10 minutes
aftor o'clock, the earth shook, and tho
mountains eruptcd. Standing 10, ~, IA
miles OF, tho people folt the shock and
auNaH f1,.,a a.
the redhot rocks, and tho volcanic ash and
scoria, and the smoke looking like a vast
pine tree, according TO tho statementa Of
the poetic, but like an umbrella or inush-
room, according TO the description OF the
rustic Those who lived near the base of
the hills did not survive to tell tho tale Of
tho catastrophe. The dotonations were
heard ESQ miles away. That was u cannon
aiding In which tho batteries were touched
on by hidden dynamlcs, Such a oombina-
tion OF wrath and splendor was mover be-
foro seen in New Zealand II seemed as
II all the hyenas OF rage were snarllna at
all the flAmingoes OF beauty. The lake
Missed as with ten thousand serpents when
the hot bombs OF tho mountain droppod
into It, The malodors OF burning iron
oxides and magnesla and chlorine and
alumina and sulphur filled all tho regions
J appfoAlmhte with sutfuOnttuu, strAnruln-
tion and asphyxia, Sixty miles felt the
upheayal, and from Auckland, more than
$50 miles away, ship put out for tho res
cue OF a vessel supposed to be burning at
sea, the mistaken FIRE being that OF this
burning mountain. In the house OF Mr..
Hazard, deyout Christian man, as the
ashes and trees and stone began to drop
heavily on The roof, u Christian daughter
believing that they must die, sat down az
a cabinet organ to play a piece Of sacred
music and the whole OF the family ioined
IN the hymn. And all save one OF the
family persisted. At the hotol Mr.
cambridge, who was ON journey around
tho world, called tho inmates OF the hotel
together for prayer, and he told them thew
mad only few more minutes to live. and
as he was passing out from tho hotol the
veranda fell upon him aud crushed him 10
death. ~
We talk about the dumb elements. but
it Is hard fog mo TO believe that thew ara
dumb, and that tho fire does not feei ,bs
warmth flowing In its own veins. and tbat
the signing Winds have no sorrow and tbst
playing fountains experience no exhilar,.
ton, and that the Light does not iov II.
lnmining the world, and that mo scnsi.
tive plant does not feel your touch ana