Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-07-17

IN Burma, during the decade between
1881 ana 1891 the number Of Mohain-
mcdans Increased, We are told from
l6S.Ssi to glO.O49, representing nearly %
per cent Of the population. IN the
Malay archipelago the number Of Mo-
hammedans Is reckoned az $1,000 0O,ont
OF 1900 900 inhabitants In China, also
that religion has made steady progress.
And IN Africa. Mohammedanism com
petes successfully with so-colled Chris
lian missions Tor supremacy For In
stance. N the beginning Of the year
1870 islamism WAS entirely unknown In
Sierra Leone aud Lagos, the two chief
English settlements, while now about
third Of the entire population profess
the religion Of Mohammedanism It
is claimed that Africa now has SO0oO-
200 Mohummedans OF its 200 100000 in
habitants and this leads student OF
the stun lion TO this observation at
IL hardly TOO much to say that one.haif
Of the whole OF Africa Is already dom
mated BY Islam, while, Of the remain
ing half one-Quarter is leavened and
another threatened by H." Those In
terested In christian missions are OF
course. alarmed at the progress Of this
system But the Africans who em-
brace Mohammedanlsm certainly are
thereby considerably elevated, They
ale taught to abhor cannlballsm ana
human sacrifices They are taught
cleanliness and punctuallly by the OBJ
seryance Of frequent ablutions and
prayers They build schools aud mos
qnes, and learn to read. and even to
write All that Is great advance
ment and rum does not go with It,
FOR the Mohammedans, unlike Chris
tan merchants, are total abstaiuers.
Mohammedansm is evidently well
adapted to the minds Of Oriental pco-
pies when the light of true Christian
ity had been taken away from Asia
Minor and eastern Africa. the lesser
light substituted by the Arabian
prophet, seemed to be the thins needed
Tor the diseased condition in which
the people were left And ever since,
Mohammedsnlym has appealed strong
Nv to the peoples that are unable 10
endure the full light OF truth Mo-
hammed's religion adapts itself to cir.
cumstances II has but few set rules
and ordinances That Is one reason
why il Is easily adopted But its
growth suggests that IN all probability
the Christian" world viii some day
face a "Mohammedan problem" in adj
dl,lun to Others For It's followers have
not given up the hope Of world con-
quest II some time among them
appear military leaders, such as they
have had in the past. they would be
capable OF making trouble once more.
The baseball fans also stormed yes
terday.
There was i good deal OF noise for so
lttls rain
A worm. lorg lane and shoemaker
win turn al last
The iceman's Ice may be melted but
his heart, never
The dentist fred at the florist just be-
cause he was hot.
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Get-rich-conoerns double their money
ny folding their bills.
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General Heat appears TO be In charge
of the weather bureau.
II he keeps on getting more. Uncle
Sam may yet have islands to burn,
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The walking delegates work might
very properly be called killed labor.
At oyster Bay they are singing
Save our bones from Mother" Jones. =
The water In Lambs canyon behaved
yesterday more like roaring lion than
a lamb,
The Ryan mystery is still unsolyed.
SO are several others that are OF much
older date.
Thanks 10 American diplomacy the
latch string to the Manchurian door is
to hang out.
Sc far as the Pope's doctors are con.
eerned the is have lt-Mazsoni, Lappo-
ni Rossonl.
II begins 70 look as though the Pope
were going to outlive all predictions
and contemporaries.
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New York Is to have a great flower
market, Those who have seen the
plans say 1t VIII be daisy,
stolen waters are sweet" appears
TO be The motto OF those who water
their gardens from the city mains.
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In Alabama the white mans burden
consists largely OF connecting schemes
Cor placing the negro IN bondage again.
Tho Manchwian question has been
settled so far as this country Is con-
cerned. II Is 10 be hoped that It viii
remain silent,
Doubtless Boston can learn quite as
much from the visiting teachers as the
teachers can learn from Boston" says
the Boston Globe, Jamais!
The President though q military man
himself, declines 10 receive Mother"