The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-11
SAMOAN GIRLS MAKING KAyA.

SAMOAN GIRLS MAKING kANA.
lumbia, s. C., on fire; Richmond on
fire. And l saw Ellsworth fall, and
Lyon fall, and Mcpherson fall. and
Bishop Polk fall, and Stonewall Jackson
fall And / saw hundreds Of grave
trenches afterward cut into two great
gashes across the land. the one for the
dead men Of the north, the other for the
dead men Of the south. And my ear as
well as my eye was quickened, and /
heard the tramp Of enlisting armies, and
l heard the explosion of mines and gun
powder magazines. and the crash of for
LITIGATION walls, and the swamp an
gel. and the groan Of dying hosts fall
ing across the pulseless heart of other
| dying hosts. And l saw still farther ont,
and 1 saw OH the banks Of the Penobscot,
and the Oregon, and the Ohio, and the
Hudson. and the Roanoke. and the
Yazoo, and the Alabama, widowhood
| and orphanagc and childlessness-some
exhausted in grief and others stark and
| mad. and i said: Enough, enough have
l seen into the past from the top Of
| Lookout mountain. o God, show me
the future'
Great nature has never found an apter
| pupil than DR.. Talmage Her handi.
work is plain to him. her hieroglyphs
and monuments ON rocky wall or noun
tain top are to him filled with deep sig
| nificance. Thus when grand landmark
| Of u western state met his eve il was
| hailed as but another special revelation
| of Omnipctence.
''Do you know" says he, what in
some respects is the most remarkable
| thing between the Atlantic and Pacific?
1t is the figure Of cross on a mountain
| in Colorado. Ii is called the Mount Of
| the Holy Cross. A horizontal crevice
filled with perpetual snow and per-
| pendicular crevice filed with snow, but
both the horizontal line and the perpen-
dicular line SO marked. so bold, SO sig
nificant, so unmistakable that all who
pass in the daytime within many miles
are compelled TO see it. There are some
| figures, some contours. some mountain
appearances. that you gradually make
out after your attention is called to
them. So mans face on the rocks in
the White mountains. So a maiden's
| form cut in the granite Of the Adiron-
dacks. So a city i'll the morning clouds
Yet you have To look under the pointing
of your friend or guide for some time
before you can see the similarity. But
the first instant You glance AT this side
of the mountain in Colorado you cry out.
"A crossl A crossr Do you say that
| this geological inscription just happens
so? No! Nothing i'll this world just hap
| pens so. That cross on the Colorado
mountain is not human device or an
accident of nature. or the freak Of an
earthquake. The hand If God cut il
there and set it up fer the nation to look
at Whether set up there in rock before
the cross Of wood was SET mp on the bluff
back IF Jerusalem or set at some time
since that assassination. | believe the
Creator meant it 10 suggest the most
notable event III all the history of this
planet, and he hung il there over the
heart of this continent Ia indicate that
the only hope for this nation is IN the
cross ON which our Emmanuel died. The
clouds were vocal at our Saviour's birth,
the rocks rent at his martyrdom-why
not the walls Of Colorado bear the record
Of the crucifixion?''
Down in the southwestern sea DR.
Talmage found Hawaii-found it in a
sense that perhaps no other has found it
AS the very heaven If flowers. How
his whole sentient soul revels in the
bounteous richness and variety Cf floral
exuborance of this sun kissed isle! Hear
him.
Banks Of flowers white as SNOW, on
blue as skies, e. yellow us sunsets, or
starry as November nights. or red n
battlefields. a heaven Of flowers. Flow.
ers entwined i'll maidens' hair, and
twisted round hats and hung on nCcks,
and embroidered ON capes aud sacks.
Tuberoses, gardcnias, magnolias, passi-
horas. trumpet crcepers, oleandcrs,
geranir ms, fuchsias. convolvuli and hi.
discus red as fire Jasmine. which we
in America carefully coax TO climb the
wall Just once, here running up and
down and jumping over TO the other side
and coming back again to jump Down
this side.
Might blooming cereus, so rare liz
our northern latitude we call III cur
neighbors 10 see it, and they must come
right away CT never see il at all, here i'll
these islands scattering it's opulence Of
perfume on all the nights, and, not able
to expend enough in the darkness. also
flooding the day. Struggling to surpass
each other all kinds of trees, whether of
truit or Of rich garniture. mango and
orange and bamboo and alligator pear
and umbrella trees and breadfruit and
algaroba and tamarind and all the south
sea exotics Rough cheek of pineapple
against smooth cheek Of mc'oA TIE
tropics burning incense of a,oin:.,lcs to
the high heavens. "
In another veir re doctor writes Of
the degraded Sa,noans the murlerous
Maoris and the general racial character
istics of tho other natives Of those odd.
picturesque islands
Further along we find him weaving
inimitable word garlands about his
memories of Australia and the beautiful
harbor of Sydney. But he finds that
tropic land too prolific Of snakes and in
q species Of half abhorrent humor dis
courses If the So kinds Of reptiles Aus
tralasia affords.
An intensely interesting and instruct
i've chapter is the one devoted to a de-
scription Of the authors visit TO Bud
dhist college in Ceylon. A portion of
this may be quoted:
Among the first visited was a Bud
dhist college. About 100 men studying
to become priests gathered around the
teachers Stepping into the building
where the high priest was insfructing
tho class we tonk On an npologetic mir