Show STUDENT LIFE ask “What else are you thinking of?” “Of the fact” he replied “that all this that I and others are doing is but the labor of little insects little living points upon this small speck of dirt rolling in illimitable space which we call the earth and which is destined to perish unperceived in the multitude of other worlds” The landscape painter comes to feel that nature is a living breathing creature with moods and passions of her own External beauty to him becomes but the expression of an inward beauty of spirit and in this way landscape painting becomes a form of religious painting develops into a sort of pantheism For as he comes to realize that every form is but a manifestation of the same underlying power there is nothing to him which is not great because the form or the creature represents in itself a record of the forces that have made it and made also the world it being in this an epitome of the universe So the man who brings his mind to contemplate the creature is himself communicating with the entire world lie is acting in the spirit of poetry which touches us by establishing over and over again this connection of ourselves with the universe through our seeing how in the artist’s mind some single thought sometimes some mere fancy has ties with all that we care for most with the very foundations in fact upon which we live So the artist comes to realize the close aflinitv between nature and his own soul he feels there is something of the universe within himself something of himself within the universe Manila and its Customs Manila which has a population of three hundred and fifty thousand souls is the largest city in the Philippine archipelago It is situated on the island of Luzon the largest island in the Philip 125 pine group of about eleven hundred islands It is six hundred miles from Hongkong and is nearly eight thousand miles from San Francisco Manila is composed of what is called the old city or walled city and the new city or modern city The old city is situated on the eastern bank of the Pasig River and is surrounded by a wall twenty feet wide and twenty feet high Around this wall there is a moat from five to ten feet deep and forty feet wide through which a constant stream of water runs slowly from the Pasig around the city and then back into the same river again This forms an effective protection for the city of itself even if it were not for the many batteries of cannon placed on the wall True the cannon are of an unique model but they are an effective means of defense against the bows and arrows of the natives There are from fifty to a hundred of these old cannons on the walls of Manila trained in such a way as to protect every point from which an attack may be expected There are five entrances to the city three on the northwestern side one on the eastern side and one on the southern side Each entrance is supplied with a draw-bridlike some ancient castle of feudal times At each entrance there is a double wall with an interval of fifty yards This means that here there are two arms of the moat one running before the entrance of each wall with of course a draw-bridbefore each entrance thus forming a double means of protection On the wall over each entrance there is a battery of from two to six guns trained on the road leading to the entrance On the wall facing the bay there is a battery of fifteen guns pointing out to the water They are of the model of 1792 and verily they have the appearance of having lain in that position for ages On the memorable morning when Dewey ge ge |