Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-04-13
People in Their Own Homes.

Andrew Carnegie in North america Reviel0l
One of the great satisfactions in travelling
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 desirious of exchanging their lot
with any other. My own experience has
impressed this truth very strongly upon
me. Upon our j0urneying to the North
Cape we stopped in the Arctic Circle to
visit camp OF Laplanders in the interior.
A guide is provided with instructions 10
keep in the rear of the hindmOst of the
party going and returning to guard against
any being left behind. Returning from
the camp, walked with this guide, who
spoke English and had travelled the world
round in his earlier years as sailor, and
was proud to speak of bis knowing New
York, Boston, New Orleans, and other ports
of ours. Reaching the edge of the ijord,
and looking down upon it, we saw ham,
let upon the opposite side, and one two
story house under construction, with grass
plot surrounding it, house SO much
larger than any of the adjacent huts that it
betokened great wealth. Our guild ex-
planned that a man had made a great
fortune. He was their multi-millionaire,
and his fortune was reported to reach no
less a figure than 10000 kroner ($7 500,
and he had returned to his native place OF
Tromso, to build this palace" and spend
bis days there. Strange preference for a
night sig months long But it was home.
| asked the guide which place in all the
world he would select if he ever made such
fortune-wi b lingering hope that he
would name some place in our own favored
land. How could he help it a? But bis face
beamed with pleasure at the idea of ever
being rich, and he said finally : All, 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
women, had each a rag around the loins.
but the girls and boys, with their black,
glossy skins, were free of all encumbrance.
Uur guide explained to these people that
we we're from country so far away, and
go different from theirs, that the waters
were sometimes made solid by the extreme
cold, and we could walk upon them /; that
sometimes 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 to-day,
as one can see from Mr.. Bray's account of
them. It is astonishing how much all
human beings the world round are alike in
their essentials These peoples 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
a hundred to New York, give them fine
residences on Filth Avenue, fortune con-
ditioned upon their remsining, and try to
eiyilize" 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
feelings as we have, not excluding love of
country, for which, like ourselves, as we
see, they sre willing to die.