The San Francisco call., 1910-08-08
"CAVE WAN" SINGS IN
MUSIC or THE PRESENT
Bohemian Club links in Grove OF Redwood
Trees Becomes a High Ceremonial

vented a new weapon to kill Broker
Foot and recover his cave home.
The Cave men welcomed Long Arm.
They hated the bully Broken Foot and
the boys fight endeared him to the
primitive warriors.
Long Arm was left alone in the cave
he had regained- He sat on the rocks
and Clipped away at the edge OF his
flint axe He was very we'll satisfied
with himself and he sang a kind of
eXultant song in tribute to the weapon
that had served him so well. AS he
worked and sang the sparks flew from
the flint and by one of those chances
which have made history from the dawn
of time, some dry grass was kindled.
No one in the world had made fire be-
fore that day. Long Arm saw what he
thought was some bright. new kind OF
serpent He struck it a fatal blow with
his axe and picked it up; it bit him
and with a cry he shook it from his
hand The burning twig fell into A
little pool and was extinguiShed. Long
Arm observed and studied all this. a
very much puzzled but interested young
man. Then occurred one OF those mo-
ments that have lifted men above the
brutes. Long Arm struck his f1ints to-
gether and made fire again and man has
been repeating and improving that pro-
cess ever since.
That was destined to be red letter
day. He had got his cave again and
he had discovered something that
would make il the best home in all
the world yet 1t was not complete.
And just then he heard Wolf Skins
daughter singing among the trees
Long Arm dropped his new toy and ir
burned out on the rock He hid behind
great tree and watched. Singing
Bird came, unsuspecting. down the
path. She had twined some blossoms
in her hair and she was enjoying the
reflection when Long Arm stole toward
her. But she saw his reflection. too,
in time to leap away from him. Then
Long Arm wOoed her instead of fol-
lowing to take her by force. for that
was not at all a certainty. since she
might easily outrun him. So he told
her of himself and his stone ak and
his victory and his cave. making 1t all
as attractive possible, and at last
he told her of the fire and made IL
before her eyes with his sparkling
fiints. Singing Bird was impressed BY
all these things and by the confident
manner of Long Arm, and especially
by the bright new plaything. and she
came gradually nearer TO see these
wonders.
Then suddenly the man beast came
upon the two and the woman leaped
in terror to the arms of the man. The
man beast barred the way TO the cave
Then Long Arm braved him. though
ii meant death. that the giri might
flee. The man beast seized Long Arms
boa sted ak and sanpped it like a twig.
Then he grasped the man and pro-
ceeded to crush him IN his hairy hold.
But the girl. under the spell Of her new
love. had run but a little way and
then. in spite of her terror. turned
10 look back. She shrieked wildly at
Long ANS peril and the great beast
fl1N eli Of
the girl. She tried desperately to evade
him and 10 get to the narrow door OF
the cave. Meanwhile Long Arm had
been only stunned. Recovering, he
saw the frebrand burning where he
had dropped il on the rocks. He seized
IT. remembering its bite. and again at
tackled the man beast. Here was some
thing new and very terrible. No ami
NAL. from that day to this. has stood
against fire. The man beast fed into
the forest.
Then Long Arm came back in tri-
umph. Wonderful days followed, with
the happy discovery Of cooked meat
and the tragedy of forest fire. but
through all their lives Long Arm and
Singing Bird remembered this day
when. in the joy OF their escape from
death and under the spell OF the wood
land In springtime. they began their
life together in the cave.
The Incomes the epilOgue, in which is
shown what has come to man OF the
discovery of fire, being a symbolicIfsrl
of the ascent of man. In this: II
starts with star of light shining over
the brow of the mountain. Tt is a
spiritual light. The shepherds appear
and occupy lower level; tillers of the
soil go higher, the warriors reach an
other stage in the progress of man:
after the warriors the philosophers
come, riching higher planes under the
star, all the while the struggle up
ward of man is pictured in constant
stress and movement. ever moving Nd
ward and onward like waves on the
oceans sands Spiritual voices are
heard from a distance. urging mans
endeavors and the apex of the scene
reaches the highest~esuggestion when
He who. spoke the sermon on the
mount appears above the gathered
multitude. splendor of light bursts
upon the forest and a cloud OF white
doves hovers above the climbing hostz
McCoy's music was worthy OF this
tremendous picture. the composition
ending when with a burst OF light a
torrent of harmony carries these
words. "Hosannahl BehoIdI Ii is the
SUM-! and the multitudes, shepherds
and the other lowly ones with the war
riors and the philosophers are led mn
ward into the light