The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08
TzvO Bachelor Maids
Go A-GlObe TrOttin3
What Couple of Brilliant Southern Women Find Abroad to
Tell Their Friends About At Through the Philip
pines, India, Egypt and Europe Unchaperoned

fo- Madge and me to judge of the merits
of this strangers views, or know whether
we should class him as one of the
prejudiced and impassoned sort, who
fall in love with their first impressions,
and see everything afterwards In the way
their original predisposltion points them.
| must say. however that despite his
intensity and cock-sureness OF manner,
there is something judicial and broad,
also about his attitude. and way of pre-
senting things, which disincline to
discount him. On the other hand. the
utter preposterousness of threatened
war, when all seems SO fair and serene,
stsggers our imagination and makes us
cling to comfortable skepticism, while
getting all the excitement and sensation
we may out of ''supposing" and play
ing-like."
The man himself mystifies us a great
deal, as we can make no plausible ex-
PLANTATION to ourselves as to who and
what he is. Very evidently. joining the
Chiyo at Nagasaki was a sudden and I'M
| expected move on his part, of which
he had no idea, when enroute to- Kyoto.
and as the decision to do so necessitated
| sudden action and long railway trip.
| We cannot resist doing little Sherlock
| Holmsing. and amusing ourselves with
| the deduction that he is on some I'M
| portant international errand to Manila
perhaps carrying some information, or
going there to consult and advise with
| the authorities.
This engaging little theory of ours is
doubtless fostered in my mind by my
own very vague notions of how such
| things are done, but it Is also support
| ed by the fact that all sympathetic in
quiries from me as to his change of
plans meet inevitably with an adroit
side-tracking, under pretense of COM
plete absorption of mind In topics of
| greater interest.
| At any rate, our Prophet of Evil
as we call him. is one of the most inter-
esting things we have yet encountered In
| the far east and we are getting the
| finest sort of entertainment out of him.
1t was apropos of passing the island.
| of Pappensburg-and also of conditions.
as he pictured them, in the Philippine
| islands-where he says the Americans
are sitting over volcano, the natives
| being on the verge of instruction under
the secret leadership of japanese army
officers, while the Japanese Y4tion is
| completing preparations for {ar-that
| he showed us copy of an q historic
letter which was written fp<m Nagasakl
on February 18th, 1897 by Friar Martin
deAguirea, Spanish missionary, who on
the day of his execution. wrote to warn
the governor of the Philippine islands
| of the plans of the Japanese King to
| capture those islands.
So remarkable and impressive was the
interest OF the old document, just at
| the time and place in which we read 1t,
and so coincident with the present situa-
| ton are the words. which for over three
hundred years have been preserved. that
/ am enclosing a little excerpt which I
copied AS you win read it at home;
back there in the PARKWAY. prosaic west,
! in the everyday environments OLA mat
| ter-of-course world. greatly mistrust
your fancy for giving you that eateful,
ghostly and forboding import of 1t,
which we received. ~91
| The letter Is to DR.. Morga. the govern
| or of Manila Whom God Guard.
'.rhe King of Japan" 1t says has
/ had his desires whetted from that which
1 was robbed from the san Felipe and
they say in the coming year he intends
] to go. to Luzon.
"Being occupied at present with the