The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-26

particles through which the curren ] passed.
 Just here I may say that 1t may be
 suggested that if I have removed one
 incubus l have created another. Is II
 possible, it may be asked, after all, that we are as diving bell at the bottom of
 an ocean; that by slight magnetic
 disturbance our little globe might be in-
 vaded by monsters from the ethereal deep? But the upheaval of the Andes
 or the Himalayas might well suffice to
 disturb the limits which our atmos-
 phere has set against the encroachment
 of the waters that are above the blue
 vault of heaven. Whatever the Dar-
 winists may say, there are evidences
 enough of sudden changes. Whether
 the cosmogony of Genesis is revelation
 or the summary of the Knowledge
 taught to the Jews before Moses and
 after Jeremiah, is a matter of belief
 rather than proof. But every theolo-
 gian who believes in the Mosaic cos- mogony should rather hail Cope White house as taking rank with the fathers of the church in showing that the foun- tains of great heat may have been de-
 stroyed and hydrogen and oxygen re-
 leased in sufficient quantities to send torrents of water pouring down the mountain sides and sweeping away all vestiges of man and his works.
 q am quite ready to admit that this theory of mine with all its promises and simplicity, opens up channels of thought filled with problem and diffi- Iah which I have apparently removed. Such, however, is the constitution or this cosmic system and so feeble is the brain which sets no limit to it's own in- quiries that any new theory may open up thought paths and avenues for spec ulation more difficult to travel than those which have become hard and beaten by the tread of the thinkers of the ages"
 It is not to be expected that the lay mind will be able to grasp all the fine points of MT. Cope Whitehouse's theo- ry or the extremely lucid explanation which he has made of 1t. It is, perhaps, not necessary for the lay mind to both CT with such things. MT. Whitehouse has always addressed himself particu- larly to scientific men, and although he didn't say so, 1t was perhaps his inten- ton to address only the profound think CTS when he made known his theory and explained it. MT. Whitehouse is son of the late Bishop Whitehouse and cousin to Worthington Whitehouse, who is probably much better known to very mundane folk than is his scholar k, ell H- uated at the head of his class at Colum- bia college in 1861 and has devoted al most his entire time since to study and to travel. He is a bachelor and a member of the Metropolitan and Play ers' clubs, member of the Royal Geo. graphical Society of Scotland, the Roy al Asiatic society, an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature grand officer of the Order of Medijidieh and member of the council of the Brit ish Society of Biblical Archaeology He is also a corresponding member of the Institut Egyptien of Cairo. He has visited Egypt thirteen times and speaks Arabic as well as he does French, Ital- ian or German, and. these languages he speaks almost as we'll as he does Eng lish He gained world wide notice in 1895 for his plan for retaining waste places of Egypt. What is known to- day as the Fayoum, MT. Whitehouse identified as the ancient Goshen, and while making his explorations he dis covered what Is known to-day as the Wadi Rajyan.
 MT. Whitehouse's engineering scheme was to control the Nile, its floods and it's droughts, by making a canal run ming from the high. Nile channel in Mid dle Egypt, ten miles westward to the Wadi, or valley of Raiyan, and improv- ing Joseph's canal, which was to con- meet with his canal and relieve the Nile channel right at the source of the flood. His scheme involved the use of the Raj van valley as a reservoir in which to store. the floods of the Nile, coming in by two courses, one by Joseph's canal and one by his own.
 The scheme met the favorable con- sideration of Lord Cromer, who recom- mended it to Lord Salisbury. In writ ing of the scheme to the British prime Lord Cromer said:
 "There is good hope that it may be utilized for the benefit of Egypt. If this hope is realized, MT Whitehouse will have a fair claim to reward proDor- tionate to the advantages which after full examination, it is found will &C., crue to the government and the popu- lation from the discovery"
 It was estimated that the carrying through of the work would increase the appua1 prodlIcts Of the country sixty million dollars The cost of the work was estimated at less than four million dollars. MT. Whtehouse is still waiting for the work to be carried through, and when it is he will be quite ready to claim his reward at the hands of the British government.-New York Sun