Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-14


committee the other day gave a favorable
report the identical bill unanimously
Endorsed on the House side
This man with the kit of strange tools
is the active medium through which an
influential propaganda of lawyers. physi-
clans, clergymen and scientists throughout
the country is endeavoring to persuade
Congress to spend 5000 in an official prob
ing of the true causes Of crime-which
specter now costs this country, alone, $780,,
100000 per year-aso Of other forms of
moral degeneration. A remarkable life his
tory has this man.; and it has never been
told although--by his1 works alone-he has
been known far and wide for the past sew
eral years. While diligently at work ana
lizng his fellow-men, no one, hitherto has
! turned the tables upon him. The reading
for he is the real Professor Glogoul'' in
VIM. T. Stead's From the New World to
the Old and Two and Two Make Four
Started Life With a Purpose
| Twentyfour years ago a young man
called upon the president of Princeton
Theological Seminary and made an unusual
proposition:
II will take care of your garden and rake
your lawn, if you will let me study theol-
| ogy.''
| He was given a scholarship
! This young mans name was Arthur Mac
! Donald. He had just taken his A. B. de-
| d
! had a comfortable home. his father being
assistant district attorney in that city. But
the trouble was that both father and son
were Scotchmen through and through and
! they had had a disagreement. A career in
the law had been mapped out for the boy,
but to this he demurred. He was bent
upon being a theologian. Neither father
nor son would yield. The boy borrowed
for Princeton. He was well equipped for
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
| time notorious public school at Chill, N.
| Y, where it had been the historic custom
to initiate a new teacher by throwing him
| out the window. But young Macdonald
| smith. When he opened school a 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, too, and his boy
hood friends recall that one of the wonders
| of the town was "MacDonalds windmill
| lathe" He had an even stronger scientific
trend. He astonished his playmates by
| hypnotizng his pet chickens. He was
fond of chemistry and in his senior year at
the university was assistant to the profess
| sor of that department. But his ambition
to become a theologian had been fostered
| during two years as superintendent of the
been very rigid To this day he knows the
taste neither of alcohol nor tobacco.
Early Work in the Slums.
- After a year at Princeton the young man
submitted to his fathers entreaties and
took up the study of law in the latter's
office One year there satisfied the elder
Macdonald that his son was not destined
| for the law. The young man had attempted
| to divide his time between Blackstone and
Hebrew. He obtained a scholarship at the
Union Theological Seminary, New York
city. While there he conducted the "Sieve,"
an institution connected with the Broad
| way Tabernacle's Sunday school in the
| crowded tenement districts. 1t was Mac
Donald's duty to gather up the toughest
urchins of the neighborhood and prepare
them for entrance into the regular classes.
| life and parentage,d At one session of the
Sieve an ink bottle was thrown at his
head. At another a pistol was fired Dur
| ing the week Macdonald was teaching
night school in the Sums. Nevertheless, he
found time for study outside the regular
seminary work. Modern languages had
always been one Of his hobbies. He offered
half Of his room gratis to a German stu
dent under condition that not word of
| English should ever = be spoken between
them. Recounting. this to a friend the
of my money. The fellow even talked Ger.
man to me in his sleep" He regularly at
tended the French church, that he might
improve his French pronunciation
As Missionary in a Forest.
AS missionary in the wild forests of Mus
koka, northern Canada, young Macdonald
spent his first two vacations from Union
His flock was a poor colony of English and
Scotch. who felled the forest trees to build
their huts. These habitations were three OIL
four miles apart, and services had to be
| l. -
est abounded with bears. and mothers car.
RED their children four and five miles te
church on the Sabbath for fear that these
wild beasts would eat them IL they were
left at home. Often young MacDon.
add had to feel his way home
through the blackness of the forest by
keeping the path on his hands and knees
Graduating from Union. he obtained g
| scholarship at Harvard. where he devoted
two years to the study of advanced the.
ology,. philosophy and metaphysics. He or