Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
Feeling That is Common to All
Classes and PeopIes

Andrew Carnegie in the North American Review
One of the great satisfactions in travel
ing around the world Is in learning that
God has made all peoples happy in their
own homes. We find no people in any part
of the world DESTROYS of exchanging their
lot with any other. My own experience
has impressed this truth very strongly
upon me. Upon our journey to the North
cape we stopped in the Arctic circle to
visit camp of Laplanders in the interior
\ guide is provided with Instructions to
keep in the rear of the hindmost of the
PARTY going and returning to guard against
any being left behind. Returning from the
camp I walked with this guide who spoke
English and had Travelled the world round
III MS earlier years as sailor, and was
proud to speak of his knowing New York
Boston, New Orleans and other ports of
ours. Reaching the edge of the ford, and
looking down upon il, we saw a hamlet
upon the opposite side, and one tWo-story
house under construction, with grass plot
surrounding it, house 50 much larger
than any of the adjacent huts that it be-
tOkened great wealth. Our guide explained
that a man had made great fortune. He
was their multimillionaire, and his fortune
was reported to reach no less q figure than
10000 kroner $500, and he had returned
To his native place of Tromso to build this
palace" and spend his days there Strange
But it was home 1 asked the guide which
place in all the world he would select if
ever he made such a fOrtune-with a lin
gering hope that he would name some
place in our own favored land. How could
he help it? But his face beamed with
pleasure at the idea of ever being rich, and
he said finally: "Ah there is no place like
Tromso"'
Travelling in southern India. one day
was taken into the country to see tapioca
roots gathered and ground for use. The
adults working in the grove men and wO-
men, had each a rag around the loins. but
the boys and girls, with their black, glossy
skins. We're free of all incumDrance. Our
guide explained TO these people that we
were from a country so far away and so
different from theirs that the waters We're
sometimes made solid by the extreme cold
and could walk upon them; that some
times it was so intensely cold that the
rain was frozen into particles, and lay on
the earth so deep that people could not
walk through it, and that three and four
layers of heavy clothes had to be worn.
This happy people. as our guide told us,
wondered why we stayed there. why we did
not come and enjoy life in their favored
cline.
1t is just so with the Philippines today
rs one can see from Mr. Bray's account of
them. 1t is astonishing how much all hui
man beings the world round are alike in
their essentials. These people love their
homes and their country, their wives and
children, as We do, and they have their
pleasures. If, in our humanitarian efforts
and longing to benefit them, under the call
of duty or destiny, we should bring hun
dred to New York. give them fine resi-
dences on 9Th avenue, q fortune condi-
toned upon their remaining, and try to
"civilize" them, as We should say, they
would all run away If not watched, and
risk their lives in an attempt to get back
to their own civilization, which God has
thought best to provide for them in the
Philippines. They have just the same feel
ings as we have, not excluding love of
country for which. like ourselves, as we
see, they are willing to die.