The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-10
LIVED N Pen
I0 LEARN AL
How Arthur Mcdonald Be-
came a Success
BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE
Wonderful Study From
terminal Point of View"

A man who has lived in penitentiary
cells and chummed with the most hard
ened murderers and thieves in order TO
| obtain the criminal point of view" the
other day converted the judiciary commit
tee room of the house at Washington into
a modern chronological laboratory, says
a Washington correspondent to the New
York, World
From portable chest he unpacked his
unique paraphernalia, which he spread
| upon the table before that wise coterie
of legislators. The occasion was hear
ing on a bill appropriating a few thou
sand dollars for scientific investigation.
| 4 unanimous report in favor Of the bill
was made. The same man told the Senate
Judiciary Committee few things, and
! the dignifed legislators of the upper
| house ordered printed scientific treatise
| entitled "A Plan for the Study Of Man.
| This the man with the portable labora-
tory had written. 1t was distributed
! among the constituents of Senators, and
the demand for it became so great that
| the edition was son exhausted. The SEN
ate committee the other day gave fav-
| orable report on the identical bill unani-
mously Endorsed on the house side.
This man with the kit OF strange tools
is the active medium through whom an
influential propaganda of lawyers, physi-
clans. clergynen and scientists through
out the country are endeavoring TO per-
suade congress to spend $500 in an Off
| cial probing OF the true causes of crime
| which now costs this country alone $60o
| ooaa &c Of
| al degeneration.
A remarkable life history has this man
and it has never been told, although, by
| his works he has been known far and
| wide for the past several years. While
he has been diligently at work analysing
his fellow-men no one hitherto, has turn
ed the hashlight upon him. The reading
public has met him, incognjto in fiction,
| for he is the real Professor Glogoui in
William T. Stead's From the New World
to the Old' and 1.-TWO and Two Make
Four"
/ TWenty-four years ago a young man
| called upon the President of Princeton
Theological Seminary and made an unus-
ual proposition:
Il will take care of your garden and
rake your lawn if you will let me study
theology"
| This young mans name was Arthur
| Mcdonald He had just taken his A. B.
degree at the University of Rochester and
| he had a comfortable home, his father
| being assistant district attorney in that
city.
But the trouble was that both father
and son were Scotchman through and
/ diSa ant
A career in the law had been mapped
out for the boy, but to this he demur-
red He was bent upon being theolo-
! gian. Neither father nor son would yield.
| The boy borrowed SIS from his pastor
| With that he started for Princeton. He
was well equipped for the hardships. His
| boyhood had been spent on the shore OF
! Lake Geneva where he swan and sailed
! and canoed During his college course he
had taught in vacation public school at
| Chilli n Y, where it had been the his
| toric custom to initiate a new teacher
by throwing him out of the window. But
Young Mcdonald had engaged board with
the village blacksmith. When he opened
! school d wagon spoke lay on his desk
He was not initiated in the usual way
| To reduce human suffering, especially
| that caused by crime, was an ambition
strongly inherent in this young man. He
! had a mechanical bent and his boyhood
| friends recall that one of the wonders
OF the town was ''MacDOnald's windmill
| lathe"
He had even a stronger scientific trend.
He astonished his playmates by hypno-
tizing his pet chickens. He was fond
/ = ~, bfc
the university was assistant to the pro-
fessor of that department. But his am
bition TO become a theolOgian had been
fostered during two years as superintend-
ent of his Sabbath school. His famiiy's
discipline has been very rigid. To this
day he knows the taste Of neither al
cohol nor tobacco.
After year at Princeton the young
man submitted TO his fathers entreaies
and took up the study of law in the lat
! ter's office One year there satisfied the
elder Macdonald that his son was not
destined for a barristeTs career. The
young man had attempted TO divide his
| time between Blackstone and Hebrew He
obtained scholarship at the Union Theo-
| logical Seminary, New York CITY While
| there ne conducted the Sieve, an insti-
| tuition connected with the Broadway Tab
eruackle's Sunday school in the crowded
| tenement districts
/ It was MacDonald's duty 70 collect the
| toughest urchins Of the neighborhood and
prepare them for entrance into the regu-
/ lar classics He gathered statistics as 70
/ their home life and parehtage. At one
session of the Sieve" an ink bottle was
I thrown al his head At another pistol
was med During the week Macdonald
was teaching night school in the slurRs
Nevertheless he found tirne for study OUT
/ side the seminary Modern languages
had always been one OF his hobbies. he
offered hair OF his roam gratis 70 a Ger
man student under condition that not a
word Of English should ever be spoken
bet wseen them he regularly attended i'-e
French church. that 70 might improve
his French pronunciation
- missionary IN the wild forests -
Muskoka. northern Canada. Young Mac
Donald srent his two vacations from
Union. His fock was q poor colony u
English and scotch Who felled the for
est tres % build their huts- These habi-
tations were three or four uiies apart
and services had 20 he held in three places
each sunday
The forest aboysnded With bears ard
mothers carried their children four ~
I've miles 10 church On the sabbath r.
fear that these beasts would eat tAem
n they we're left af home ~ one hoase
where he STOPPED over a night The young