Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-09-22
REAL WONDERLAND.
On. TALMAGE's ENTHUSIASTIC AD-
MiRATioN OF NEW ZEALAND.

MiifAl3ON Or REV ZeAlAND.
Coed Nvomnal.ood. Grand Mountains, Beam
trial Fiowers an;i p,rds-Tho Tragedy Of
.srhc Terraces''--A Country Fun Of Food
Tor Artists and Scientists.
Copyright. Louis Kiopscil, iSaLl
CuRIsTcnJRcH, New Zealand. July
Sf.--Excellent and superb us are tho
wcmcn of New Zealand more good
women are needed here In most places
where l have lived or travelled women
are in blessed majority, and it seems
that the Lord likes them better than
men, because he has made more of them.
There is in NEST places n surplus OF
good womanhocd. and they therefore do
not get full appreciation. But New
Zealand is an exception. In this colony
there gro 80, 600 less wumen IL an men.
This will by circumstances DO adjusted.
There ought certainly to be as many
women as non III every land, for every
man is entitled to good wife. and
every weinan IS entitled to good hus-
band. Tho difficulty is that war and
rum kill so rany men that the man in
tended for the woman's lifetime part
nership is apt to lie IN the soldiers
grave trench or in the drunkard's ditch.
In The paradisaical and perfect state
tho womanhood cqnaled the manhood,
for there was ono Of each kind. Tho
wemen in New Zealand have already
done well, fer while in tho United
States and Europe the women are dis
cussing in parlors and TN the platforms
how they shall get their rights at tho
ballot box that castle las already been
stormed and taken by the women here.
After awhile the brave sisterhoods in
the United States and Great Britain
viii band together, and from the crowd
ed parlors where so many anguish in
inanition and inoccupation they will
mako crusade to these parts Of the
earth, where their presence would be
hailed and their opportunities aug
mentcd.
Tho theory that men must go into new
countries alone and establish themselves
in mines, in mechanism or merchandise
and then send for their families to Join
them is an oyerdone theory. Tho wives
and daughters and sisters had better
come along with their husbands, IA
theirs and brothers. Instead Of their being
q surplus Of men in the colonies, there
ought to be surplus OF women out of
which to get the supply of maiden aunts
those guardian angels Of the commu-
nifty who IRE at home in the whole cir
clio of kindred, the confidant Of the
young, and the comfort of tho old, and
tho bencdiction Of all.
Not only is there room in New Yea
land for moro good womanhood, but
there is room for more artists and natu-
ralists.
Here are mountains 5000, 1000,
li,o00, IL, 600 feet high waiting for
somo one TO take their photographs, and
earth stand stolid and statuesque and
without varieties of posture some Of
these change their shape and altitude
under volcanic suggestion, as the man
in the Photographic gallery at the artists
suggestion changes from side face TO
full face or from frown to smile, and
one day mountain turns clear round,
or from standing posture sits down
with heavy plunge. or creyico opens
between the checks of the hill--a wide
open month, full of laughter on threat
The changes in the mountain ranges
are enough to set gcologist wild
with interest or send him running
up and down these attitudes with crow
bar to dig, or hammer to strike, or tape
line to measure. On night in June,
1886, the mountains Of Tarawera and
Rotomahana, New Zealand, had grand
frolic. For many years tourists had gone
to visit the terraces. as they were
called-ancicnt forms OF volcanic crup-
ton.
There were stairs of pictured stones,
step above step OF pumice and lava,
reaching from earth toward heaven, but
some of the steps Of the stairs so and
100 feet high-not so much Jacobs
ladder as an omnipotent stairway. up
aud down which walked all the splcn-
doris and majesties and grandeurs and
radiances Of day and night and sunshine
anu t'Atl fAENt Va anu NAniils vi
decades and centuries and eyes These
steps seemed to be made out Of pearls,
prisms, petrified hyacinth, lily and yio-
let and all laid ont as with divine
geometry. Such curve, such bosses Of
exquisiteness, such ascents and desccnfs,
bewildering with almost supernatural
glories. Masonry smoothcd by invisible
trowels, walls regulated by invisible
plumb lines, colors put on by invisible
pencils, sculpture cut by invisible CHS
els. On the night Of June 0, 1886, the
moon was passing into the second quar-
ter when, 10 minutes after O'Clock, thu
earth shook and mountains erupted.
Standing 10, ~, IA miles off the people
felt the shock and saw the ascent Of the
steam column and the redhot rocks and
the volcanic ash and scoria. and the
smoke, looking like vast pine tree, &C.
cording to the statements Of the poetic,
but like an umbrella or mushroom, ne
cording to the description Of the rustic
Those who lived near the base Of the
hills did Eot survive to tell the tale Of
the catastrophe. The detonationg wer
heard $50 miles away. That was can
nonading in which the batteries wci
touched off by hidden dynamics. Suei
a combination Of wrath and splendo
YVES never before seen in New Zealan
1t seemed as if all tho hyenas Of ra
were snarling at all the famingoes d
beauty. The lake Kissed as with tcl,
thousand serpents when tho hot bomb
Of the mountain dropped into it.
The malodors of burning iron oxide
and magIesia and chlorine and alumni
and sulphur filed all the regions ap-
proximata with gufTccation, strMngula
tion and agpiyxia- Sixty miles felt tf
upheayal, AID from Auckland, moe
than $50 miles away, a ship put out j
the rescue Of vessel supposed to IL
burning at sea, the mistaken fire being
that Of this burning mountain In zoe
house Of Mr.. Hazard, a devout Chris-
tian man, as the ashes and trees and
stone began to drop heavily on the roof
Christian daughter, believing that
they must die, sat down at q cabinet or
gan to play piece Of sacred music, and
the whole Of the family joined in tho
hymn. And all save one Of the family
persisted
At the hotel Mr.. cambridge. who
was ON journey round the world, call
ed the inmates Of the hotel together for
prayer, AMI he told them they had only
/ few more minutes to live, and as he
was passing cat from the hotel the ve-
randa fell upon him and crushed him