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The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-23
w. A. Sunday Arrives
in Minnesota to
Regain Health

ROCHESTER, MINI, May 15.-W
A. Billy" Sunday, evangelist extra
ordinary, arrived here at 7:l5 a. m
today to enter the Mayo clinic for
treatment for kidney ailment. He
spent a restful night aboard the pri-
vate car which brought him from
memphis, "the best in the last IL
nights" according to a statement OF
his attending physician, DR.. r. l.,
Sanders. Mr.. Sunday walked unas-
sisted from the train to the hotel,
where reservations had been made for
himself and his party.
The Sunday car, which was at
tached to the Rochester Limited of
the Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
road, was boarded at Winona by DIR.
H. B. Plummer of the Mayo clinic.
Waiting at the station here were DIR.
w. j. Mayo, a personal friend of the
Sunday family, DIR. Henry Meyerding,
and DR.. w. F. Braasch of the clinic
staff.
DIR. Sanders, who had been in con-
ference with DIR. Plummer on the
way from Winona, issued statement
upon his patients condition, imme-
diately upon the arrival of the train.
"Rev. Sunday Is very much inn
proved" the statement said. Last
night was the best he has had in IL
nights. His temperature is normal
this morning"
ma" Sunday, still suffering from
injuries sustained in an automobile
accident, was carried from the car
on a stretcher to a waiting ambu-
lance As she was being lifted down
the steps she called cheerfully TO the
group on the platform, Hello, every
body. Isn't this flowery bed Of
easel"
At the hotel Mr.. Sunday and his
wife were taken Immediately 20 the
suite which had been set aside for
them.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-23
NATURALIzE ON pnAIRIs

FREEP0RT, Tx. Aa inliiatica.
the largest Of les kind ever pulled "a
freeport, took place Tuesday night
on the outskirts of the city whom 50
new members were iakaa Into tha
Khan. More than 1900 hundred per-
sons witnessed tina natural xstio1.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-23

DEXTER, MO- A parade ~ 200
robed klansmen was halted here last
week by two Khan opponents In an
automobile. The klansmen observed
that the men were intoxicated. and
immediately called the county sheriff,
who arrested them.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-23

COME years ago ! pointed out the
evils of the forelgn.lang nhge
- press Of America. Immediately
4 became the center Of u most abus'
I've attack. Prem alI parts Of the
United ktates ! received letters
Continued on page %
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~ UR Summer convention-the
Peanuts convention - has
just been concluded and has
been such q success that 1
feel I'd like to set down a little ac-
count Of 1T in the papers.
The way it began was that a few
OF us-al1 Peanut men-got talking
together about every other business
except ours having conventions and
ours not being represented in this
way at all. Everybody knows there
are now conventions of the electrical
men and the shoemen and the pulp
and paper men, and even of profess
sors and psychologists and chirop-
odists. And as everybody knows, too,
these conventions are not merely for
business and social purposes, but they
are educative as well. People who go
to a convention and listen to the
papers that are read will learn things
about their own business that they
never would have thought of.
Anyway, we got together and
formed an association and elected Of
ficers-a Grand Master of the Nuts,
and a Grand Kernel, and seven Chief
Shucks and a lot Of lesser ones-and
decided to hold a convention. We
restricted the membership-becau
that is always found best in conven-
tions-and made 1t open only to SELL
ers, roastes, buyers, importers and
consumers Of peanuts. Others might
come as friends but they couldn't ap-
pear as Nuts. To make the thing So
cial it was agreed that members
might bring their wives, as many as
they liked.
We thought first Of New York or
Chicago as the place for US. but they
always seemed too crowded. Then
we thought of Montreal and a whole
lot of the members were all for it,,
partly because Of the beautiful Sum-
mer climate. But our final choice
was Lake Owatawetness in the noun
tains.
1t was a great sight the day we
opened up the convention. We had
flags across the street and big stream
ers with welcome to the Nuts" and
things like that on them and all the
delegates rode in open hacks and
pinned on each was big badge with
the words IT Am a Complete Nut"
| Underneath this motto was his name
and his town and his height and
| weight and his religion and his age.
Well we all went to the town hall
and we had an address of welcome
from the grand master. They said
that it was one of the best addresses
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NEERINC.

short, so that it stands up like q mop
ali over the head, being bound In
with a rope around the forehead. The
women wear their hair down their
backs, and they also have q band
around their forehead. They are
Usually clad in jackets ana skirts, but
the jacket is often left off, and the
only decoration above the waist may
be coils Of brass around the forearm
reaching from the wrist almost to the
elbow and q scattered coat Of tat
tsing. Here In Kiangan most of the
men wear loose mapping skirts, but all
but the soldiers are barefooted, bare
legged and bAreheaded.
The somebody's wear shirts, but
their pants are O geestfing.
stayed last night at = rest house
In the heart Of the wilds kept by an
Ifusae and his wife, who are typical
of the race, and before leaving had q
made OF myself with them.
Bruno, the man, IL . full heA1 shorter
than ]. ana his wife's head reached
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I shall stand here till that Hon.
Stealer arrives again & give him
some fisticufs.'
Pretty soonly Hon. Stealer come
back g. renig, Il are the same man
who were here last night. For pur-
poses of the Plot / have come back to
draw some more Melons (now are
time for good chukkeD G see what
here. Somebody have put back Hon.
Scarecrow to stottle me! So ha! 1
shall again make some comedy fun
with that rag-imij & everybody shall
be delighted by my behavior"
With those remark he clutch his il
legal hands to Hon. Proprietor who
he have mistook to be Hon. Scare
crow. Both jump together then with
considerable fried rage. 20 1 so sor-
row now for my sinful behavior!"
holla Hon. Stealer. So that are the
last joke what make Hon. Curtain go
down.
'"This play was dishcovered 1000 yrs.
ago by Emperor Jimmi Tenno." die
tate Hon. Guide. This famus EN-
peror find that this were very funny
act, so he got out royal manifesto tell
ing his people where to laugh, where
to bust into oudy McGuffaw & where
to merely chuckel. 1t require yrs
Of study in the Imperial School of
Humorous Antidotes before a person
can behave while seeing Kyogen."
THE. antiquatty of that Play I
holla with reverence, "show the fierce
quality that keep Japan alive for
ever. In America, where everything
spoil too quickly not even Hon. Willie
Collier could keep a joke alive more
than 90 yrs"
HERE are a few spattered statis-
ticks what / learn about Japan
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~O.COO.COO.sAN!n 1 NARRATE CICCLY.

on the uprising Of her shirt&aist,
then Hon. Japanese Guide (very in
telligenD beacon with finger for us
to folla him.
Nextly we knew we was in boy
size theater where high-toned per-
sons sets in gallery & the stage were
full of scenery representing Japan.
Beside this were great fock of ladies
getting rady to make noise with a
lot of estranged musical tools.
Then what?
Yow,.
Those musical ladies commence all
together hsmmering strings, hitting
drums, pulling sounds out of fiddles.
It was a very artistiek sound and
quite hellish. Then one lady open
her features & give a shreech just
like painless dentistry when the gas
amt working good.
What struck herr" i ask to know.
'Inspiration." narrate Hon. Guide.
"She are singing"
l had no time to enjoy this phe-
nomenal, for nextly / knew two (2)
across stage with ladies inside of
them. Those was Geishas. They had
their eyes fixed to look like slices of
charcoal. Their hair was arranged
like 9 yards Of oilcloth. When they
walk they stuck up their big toe to
make them more enjoyable. Firstly
they tuck up their fans & tuck down
., 60 4, -
faces & tuck down their fans. Then
they walk to other side of stage and
do simuliar backwards. In mean
whiIes Lady Singer were struck by
another inspiration which seem to
hurt her more horrible than ever.
What you call that contraction
they are doing?" snussest from Hon.
japanese Guide.
That are No-Danee." he assume.
'1 know 1t are no dance" renig,
but what are it?'
"No-Dance," he chop. "And if you
do not like it, kindly to see it out
side"
Therefore me 4 Nogi 60 to street
of Kyoto and feel sorrow for our
selves that we just spend Q yen or
see. looking at homely ladies when
such delerious ones can be observed
for nothing while looking up hill
amidst sweet doll-houses with curior
lanterns & paper windows for econ
emy.
Japanese is crazy about dancing.
yet they could learn plenty from
Broadway, which are glad they
don't. In any temple persons can
have q sacred dance by paying slight
cash-ehange. For instanoely. when
we go to Nara, holy hill with
1eo0o0oo00 stone lanterns stuck all
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I1NoA
TABLE.

ever heard in the town hall and lasted
just over two hours. Personally !
can't speak for it, because I slipped
out of the hall a little after it began.
1 had an idea that 1 would just ease
of little the first morning and wait
till the afternoon to begin the real
educative stuff in earnest.
There were two other fellows that
slipped out about the same time that
I did and 80 we went down to the
lake and decided we'd hire a boat
and go down the lake fishing, so as to
be ready for the solid work of the
afternoon. One Of the fellows was
from Wichita, Kans., and was a Pres
byterian and weighed res pounds, and
the other was from Owen Sound, On
tario, not classified. and weighed ITS
pounds and was five feet nine and =
half inches high.
WE took some lunch with US SO as
w not to need to get back till 2,
when the first big conference opened.
We had a printed program with us
and 1T showed that at the o'clock
session there was to be q paper read
on The Application of Thermodynam-
les to the Roasting Of Peanuts" and
we all agreed that we wouldn't miss
it for anything.
Well, we went clear down the lake
to where we understood the best fish,
ing was. and 1T was a longer row than
we thought. We didn't really start
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fishing till noon--not counting one
or two spots where we just fished for
20 minutes or SO to see il any fish
were there, but there weren't.
After we got to the right place we
didn't get a bite at all, which made
US want to stay on q while, though ii
was getting near the time to 60 back.
because it seemed a shame to quit
before the fish began to bite, and we
were just thinking of leaving when
a Methodist from Oshkosh, Wis, who
was nearby, caught q black bass, a
real peach. There seemed to be a
good many other boats coming down,
too, and quite near US there was a
Catholic delegate from Syracuse (five
feet eight inches), who caught a cat
fish, and two Episcopalians (15o
pounds each), from Burlington, VT,
who seemed to be getting bites all the
time.
SO we decided to stay. We didn't
get so many Ash, but we all agreed
that an afternoon on the water for
health's sake was fine thing to put
a man into shape for the convention
work. We knew that in the evening
Prof. Pip Of the State Agricultural
College was to read paper on The
Embryology of the Nut" and we
wanted to be right on deck for that.
Rowing back just before supper
time, some one of US happened to
mention cards, just casually, and the
delegate from Owen Sound who was
unclassified asked me if ever played
poker. l told him that 1 had played
II, once or twice, not so much for
any money that might be on it, but
just for the game itself, as you might
say. The man from Wichita said that
he had played 1t that way. too, and
that if you took it like that it was
fine game; in fact for a quiet even
ing's amusement there was nothing
like it.
We all three agreed that il It
hadn't been for wanting to hear Prof
Pip talk on THE Embryology of the
Nut" we could have had q quiet little
game, three-handed game, or, per-
haps, got in one or two of the other
boys after supper in one Of the rooms
Anyway, after supper we went up
| stairs and began throwing down
hands just to see what would turn
up while we were waiting for the
lecture time and first thing we knew
we got seated round the table and
started playing and it seemed a pity
to quit and go to the lecture. For my
part I didn't care so much because
/ am not so much interested in "The
Embryolosy of the Nut" as in the
selling Of it,
Later. on 1 saw a delegate (from
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a Univer-
sal Christian. feet hieh) who said
that he had spoken with a man who
had heard the lecture and that it was
fine. 1t appears there was only q
small turn out, smaller even than in
the afternoon but those who were
there and stayed-seme couldn't etay
said that it was all right They
| said it was too 1ong-a lecture is apt
to be too long-and that the profess
sor spoke pretty low, in fact you
couldn't exactly hear him, and that
you couldn't understand the subject
Evening star., 1924-08-10

the force of character, Mr.. Editor,
especially when pretty ladies is there
to help.
Also while walking along street &
observing SO much fiapping-girls in
kimonos with come-now eyes under
enlarged paper umbrellas commence
to think ways how 1 can come back
to America with A picture brides in
my satchel.
you have saw a Geisha," dictate Hon.
Hotel Propr where we was at.
Therefore Mr.. Editor. we go to Tea
House, expecting that our eyes would
be rubbed out by that Geisha view.
Cousin Nogi think maybe we must
wear blue ottomobile glasses SO keep
from blindness, but we was careless
& went PLAIN.
In Tea House we went with eansid-
erable American Towerists what wish
see Janus Tea Ceremony before they
enjoy celebrated Cherry Blossom
Dance in next theater.
That Tea Ceremony, Mr.. Editor, are
that 1 are siprised how Japanese can
await so long for sipp of beveridge.
IL America had Gin Ceremony simu-
liar TO that nobody would get time
to shake cocktails G. Hon. Volstead
would be cheated again.
In this Tea Ceremony all those
American Towerists set around In
rows with shoes off, attempting to
look natural while scrouching on
fioor-piIlows. & there in a pretty
little grand stand set Hon. High Tea
Lady with a lot of ceremony in her
shipful Tea & Sacred Hot Water
which are fetched in by 90 smallish
Tea Girls. age 12. who knuckle down
on their knees & knock head 9
times to show they are there.
Hon Tea Lady merely stand up &
bow s times. Hon American Tower
lists (when not too faD shufiie up 4
bow 5 times more. Then Hon. High
Tea Lady apologize to the tea, the
teapot, the hot-water jug. After
that there are more head-knoekine
from 22 smallish Eirls. Then every
body bow. when all are sufficiently
tired OF this Hon. High Tea Lady
make tea. Those 20 fnaidens pass it
round by humping heads some more.
Everybody drink by holding Hon.
Cup in two tsJ hands while making
noise peculiar to soup.
Tea, when served thusly, are sip
posed to taste differently. I ask to
know.
~ X
WHEN this Tea Ceremony we're
-" drunk and the Fatty Lady were
because she spilled some
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most human. and monkeys leaped
from one branch to another. Often
in the blackest Of night we passed
the camps Of the naked savages, who
were gathering around fires as they
stopped on their way through the
country. I spent two nights in rest
houses out in the wiIds, ana now,
dead tired, am debating these notes.
The terraces are Of q wonderful
beauty. They curve this way and
that with the rolling mountains, now
forming gigantic amphitheaters, the
seats of which rise like the steps of
g. grandstand or q coliseum. Just
now the rice ID about as high As my
knee. 1t grows in bunches or stalks
in the midst Of the water. Here and
there 1t rises above the wallis. In
some cases it is shorter, and you see
only the green tips jutting out of the
platinum like surface just flooded.
How clean everything IL. The
walls are perfect, and all the weeds
and grass have been pulled cut from
the cracks. There is man shaving
the top of the wall as we look. Far
ther over is b woman in jacket and
skirt up to her knees in mud, wedding
the plants. Her gown fits her like
the paper on the wall. / treTnhls lest
she should fall Off the wall.
All Of this vast work before us is
spade work and hand work. 1t IL Inn
possible TO use b pony or cafabao to
p10w or cultivate these little patches,
and Is for q tractor. you might rs
we'll try to run Z locomotive through
q watch factory as to employ any
thing worked with b gasoline motor
In this mass Of terfacsd farms.
But before / go farther let me tell
you something about the people who
have constructed these wonderful
works, who have owned them for uns
told generations and who are getting
their main support from them today.
they are all about me as write, and
1 havs seen much Of them In my
travsis through these high noun.
taIns OF northern Luson. They are q
brown people of q rich mahogany
coier, with black hair, dark eyes.
aduiline noses, thin lips ana fairly
good features. I can study stheif
forms, for most Of the men are dress.
ed only In strings ana the skirts OF
the women afe tight around tAsif
legs. The hair Of the men 10 cut
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over it. we find priests there what
For that payment they put on golden
pants, white lace kimonos & curior
plug hats. After that they paste
white mud on faces. Then they tin
kle bells from their elbows while
walking around on their heels.
What this dance mean, il any
thing" I require of Hon. Guide.
Nobody knows" he remove. THAT
are what make it so sacred to all
who observe it,"
MAYBE China have got some taller
Buddhas than Japan. but Japan
measure them by weight & thickness,
thusly beating the world. as usual
At Nara they got a Buddha who
stand 53h TT. high while setting
down. He cantain 500 tons of iron,
which make him deliciously strong &
hideous to look at. At Kamakura
are a smaller Buddha, who are mere
ly so ft high while setting. Yet he
are SO powerful that when Hon.
Earthquaok came along last Sept 1t
just broke to pieces on that intense
iron statue.
Although I have told you almost
everything about Japan (axcept for
the pajamas e silk shirts which are
very cheap & look so when washed),
I must not leave you without man
tion of the celebrated Kyogen, or
Laughing Play what we saw in that
quaint town of Nara.
Those Laughing Plays is so COM
ickle that it require lifetime Of study
among philosophers, aquatics 6 as
tronomers not to smile in the wrong
place.
I will tell you the Plot or idea of
one Kyogen 1 observe in Nara.
Gentleman with difficult hat come
in & dictate. This are my watermel-
on field daughter by boy hired to do
so) 1 will now put up a scarecrow to
keep off Plunderers or Stealers."
daughter by all at signal of Okes-
ira Leader).
Raggedy gentleman with HooIigan
expression come in & corrode. '1 are
q Watermelon absconder and (mirth
noises from everybody 1 will steal
those vegetables" Then he see Hon.
Scarecrow. ooh goshes! Some prop
rietor are here to gnabb me-" Then
he see that Scarecrow are merely
that. - "So-ho. What a comickle sit
uation! cloud 1aughirg,) I shall now
knock down Scarecrow & make him
look slightly silly"
Now it are next night in the Play.
Hon. Gentleman with Difficult Hat
come back. He look see (please
laugh here). $50 ta, What have be-
came Of my melon patch? I know!
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before changing my ticket for So. Sea
Islds. where 1 are now going:
Japanese calls their Emperor a
Tenno. If you call him a Mikado
they will say European" with one
Of those stick-up looks they know
how to do.
When talking to this Emperor or
Tenno folks is required to whisper
at him. This sound very polite &
dishonest like a business conference
on Tea Pot Dome.
You can get from Yokohama to Toxic
in 40 minutes on a electric RR filled
with commuters what look just like
New Jersey would If it wore a XII
mono.
japanese RR Restraints are so sani-
tary that all flavor are washed out
of the food before it are served
Japanese cooks learns their art in
Los Angeles cafeterias & they al
ways tastes like it.
japanese ivory beads are all made Of
beef bone. This are caused by the
high price of elephants since the
War.
Because Of Govt Monopoly cigarettes
in Japan costs lac apiece. Cigarette
cases can be purchased for same
price. Both are pretty to look at
and nothing else.
A Japanese jinricksha man are called
a Human Horse & can make more
money in a short distance than Pa.
pyrus before seeing America first.
These statisticks is all 1 know to-
day. Mr.. Editor. They make me proud
Of Japan & glad I wasn't born there.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
HASHIMURA TOGO.
Copyright. 1s24.y
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about to his ears. The woman was
pretty. She had small hands and feet.
This is so Of all the 1fugaos. They
are not unattraotive and they show &
considerable degree of intelligence.
X X X
THE people outnumber any other
pagan tribe OF the Philippines.
They number half as many as the
Indians Of the territory covered by
the United States when America was
discovered and they have a higher
civilization, than any tribe Of our In
dams possessed at that time. They
have their own laws and customs and
their own classes Of society, and they
have traditions and folklore that 1t
would'take books to describe. Today
they are one Of the factors in the
Philippine problem ana Uncle Sam
has his hands full In managing the
situation that now exists in relation
to them. They are not 1ilipines as
we know the Christian tribes Of the
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lofty Rice Terraces of Philippine Tribe Reveal Remarkable Skill

They would reach from where I am
writing across the Pacific. across the
United States to the Atlantic, and
over that ocean to England. They
would reach more than twelve thou
sand miles. or almost half way around
the world. This is the estimate of
DR.. H. otley Boyer. the anthfopolo-
gist and etfinologist Of this part Of
the world.
Think of walls of powders and
earth, some of them SO feet high,
holding in these semi circular vats
of water and mud needed for ifriEat.
ing the rice crop, made in such a way
that they have lasted for ages, and
have been kept up year after year.
You will see that they must be scieh-
tifical1y constructed, for where can
you build a wall even no higher than
your ceiling that will hold in 4 vat
containing water and earth 50 that
every Bit Of the water turned in can
be Used and only the surplus let out
for the terraces below, without some
knowledge Of engineering principles? +?
The walls are so built that every lit
tie stream is utilized. They are irri-
gated by an elaborate system Of cd
nails and bitches, some Of the canals
being several miles long.
Il. 4 4 4
TAKE your foot in your hand ana
come with me for walk through
the wonderful creations Of these half
naked pagans. wish you could
have been with me in the trip have
made in reaching this region. l came
here from Baguio, on the other side
of the Cofdil1efa, travelling several
hundred miles in q motor car, going
through wild passes in the mountains,
climbing up one range ana down the
other, crossing valleys Of virgin land
just opened to homesteaders, over q
new foad now being made, now ford
ing one river ana now being fefried
over another, and again crossing a
third on pontooh Bridges OF bamboo
canes resting on lens dueouts cut
from the forest.
wnen the road became too rough
for the automobile took ponies, aud
one day spent ID heirs In the saddle,
trave1fns far into the night. Much
OF my journey was through dense
fofests ana juhE1es, where weird birds
gave forth blood-curdling cries al