Show I e mt m r ry boUht QUESTION THE RESURRECTION S from was deposed Pastor Wolngarl WfS his position In the Lutheran church In positon Germany on account of the statement In his Easter sermon denying the bpti Jly resurrection of Jesus Christ in the words that the tired body of Christ I remained in the tomb dust to dust To ascertain to what extent this modern mod-ern view and scientific criticism his permeated the church In Germany the pernCated of cop Protestant sent out thousands o ics of emeries on the subject to proics 1Ilcs 1 ndeL cvajigellcalminde sors editors I and of the empire of all 1 men and women al creeds requesting answers 1 parties and requestng The leading and chief I to the same leading question was What do you think concerning con-cerning the resurrection of Christ and ccrnlnf Welnparts statement In his tasterS taster-S ° 1 To this but elBlityfour answers were returned from all the thousands of queries sent out al these fully thirty were in favor of the orthodox view The Literary Digest reprints samples I of these replies via I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION I No 16 I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ This Is the sold foundation foun-dation and the central pillar of our daton Without this there would be no resurrection and no forgiveness of Bins for us Without the rcsurr Lon1 i all of Christs work would be in vain alo No GO fr believe that Christ personally I per-sonally and bodily arose from the dead as the Scriptures teach Whoever can I fc not believe tills can be a plans person I In the sense of the classical world but he cannot be a true Christian believer No 16 Christs own words Luke j xxiv 3 must convince every true believer I J be-liever that ho has risen indeed and he 1 who doubts the real resurrection of the Lord is without hone No 23 Either there was a bodily I I resurrection of Christ and n real Christianity Chris-tianity or we have all been deceived In y our faith In Jesus of Nazareth No 10 I Christ had not really I dead then Christs 7 arisen from the Christs coming upon the earth would have been absolutely without 3 purpose or a blessing bless-ing and he himself would have been a powerful liar and he would have been nothing but n mortal being I The editor closes his review of these coses orthodox opinions with the words So much is J certain that among this class 1 9 Christianity stands or falls with the belief in bodily resurrection of Jesus I AGAINST THE RESURRECTION Just what those who deny this view r see In the resurrection can be gleaned 1 from the following liberal replies No 42 Such n thing as is described 1 4 in the account of the resurrection of 1 Jesus never really took place as an objective ob-jective reality This must be claimed I 4 not because the reports on the affair I are contradictory but because it stands In flat contradiction to the experience of mankind and to the scientific teachings teach-ings of the day Iis the product of the wonder and miracleloving world of the ancients Neither as one really arisen nor as a body of light Llchtleib iUd Christ appear to his disciples but as Is the case with all mortals his body returned to the dust Christians IL i have been accustomed to lay too much stress on the resurrection Christianity Christian-ity has a better foundation in historical histori-cal truth and reality and should not be based on a disputed matter No 40 The belief in the bodily resurrection 1 res-urrection of Jesus Christ in violation of all the laws of the physical world Is an Insult to the scientific spirit and scholarship of the age and an insult to all true religiousness Religiositat i which does not put the Impress of nonsense non-sense upon the Incarnation of Jesus by claiming a bodily resurrection but in the resurrection of Christ recognizes the continued Influence of Christ for the better and higher development of i mankind No 75 IIn my estimation the resurrection resur-rection ol Christ signifies his everac tive Influence for good In the congregations I j congre-gations founded by his disciples I do I not believe In any supernatural process I pro-cess that took place In the empty ii tomb of the Lord 1 No 41 says er believe In the Easter ii Eas-ter message Jesus lives But I believe be-lieve it in this sense that Jesus Christ I r he Godman was a child of God In the same sense in which we are asked tot to-t bb such and that like his brethren he was subjected to the ordinary laws of i nature I fully approve of Weingarfs 1L position and teaching fl Both friend and foe of the liberal I view conclude from the test that the old Evangelical doctrines of the Reformation are still the controlling factors in the Protestantism of Germany Translations made for the Literary Digest t i A VOICE FROM THE TRENCHES July 1 1000 I B Horo In the steaming trenches In tho town of Dagupan I a tunic of tattered khaki I And a coat of tropic tan 2 Weary with midnight marches i Fevered and weak and 111 IZ I sco it shining before me Tho sword of Bunker Hill They arc burning a lot of powder i Way off In the States today Rockets and Roman candles It Are dropping tholr fiery spray But here with the olohunters And bulkIs whistling KinIll We are close to Its sacred glory i Tho sword of Bunker 11111 J I hear the call of tho bugle Tho roll of tho drummers sticks lea And my soldierblood goes dancing To tho tnno of seventysix I I 3 With tho Kircnglh ol Its steel immortal r j foci my pUlse thrill Columbias blade of freedom r Thr sword ot Bunker 11 Hi > I When the Maxims holil I their thunder And the MauKera cease to rain z We uorJc for our fallen comrades In Juiiglo find field of cane And over tholr bleeding bosoms And faces whito and chill Wo srfo In Its silver spltnaor r3J Tho sword of Hunker Hill I Wrought in iro heat of battle iO Forged by I the hhtnln breath Unsheathed by patriot heroes iO For liberty or death 1ui God or tho Nation keep it dL1 Bright and untarnished still 1L To giinrdjIie I flag of mir fathers r r Tho tswcfcuroi Bunker IIHI i iliiifinrirvlijg lu Lonllc8 Weekly I I TEXTILE EDUCATION atr r Tho Now Bedford textile school is b 1 lie outcome largely of development Qilli of the cotton manufacturing Interests rO in the South as well as of European QG example and enterprise in textile education I e edu-cation The farseeing manufacturers of New England foresee the time when the manufacture of the cheaper and a coarser goods must from economic advantages t3 ad-vantages be preempted d by the South and have seized the opportunity to take fl an advanced step The whole trend oC the textile industry in New England bea today Is toward the production of Hn rand a r-and more artistic material for which I is j required skillful and intelligent workmanship the highest grade aiI such us special textile training in a wellequipped institution may be expected ex-pected to provide Though competition with the South Lt in cotton manufacturing Iaa comparatively compara-tively new feature in the textile Industry c p Indus-try it JH not feared but rather hailed n by the wise manufacturer ior its bearing bear-ing on national prosperity The advance ad-vance of the South in this direction cLl involves a broadening of the w olIn ol-In ustrJ an expansion of foreign commerce fI com-merce and a growth In our exports of J1 manufactured goods It is n tact that only onethird of the raw cotton now produced remains In this country the other twothirds so to Grrfut Britain and other European countries to beg be-g manufactured and by them exportecVJn r various directions With Southern mills for coarser products and Northern r North-ern mills for finer grades the United 1 States may be csxpeetfd to take UB g ri plac beside the larger exporting coun r tries of the world From New Developments De-velopments In Textile Schools by Jano A Stewart in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for July WHY SO MANY FAIL President James Rca of the New York Commercial Teachers association tells in Success for July why many persons fail to obtain and hold good positions Many young men Cal to achieve success because they lack I the power or Inclination to do hard work The head i of one of our large department stores I in addressing a body of teachers said No man In the practical world of today to-day can hope to get on If he shirks his 1 work I ask you to use all your power and Influence to Instill in the minds of those you teach the truth that a man owes work to the world while the world does not owe him anything An expert accountant of many years practice prac-tice said The best man I ever had in my employ was a plodder The writer In his experience ds a teacher I coming Into contact with many thousand thou-sand young men has rarely if ever found n student who did not possess I sufficient ability to make a successful start in life If he was thoroughly Imbued I Im-bued with the precept Keeping everlastingly ever-lastingly at it brings success Many young men fall to render valuable service I young I vice through lack of ability to do accurate I ac-curate systematic work The business community demands welltrained I minds capable of grasping details and carrying out instructions in 0 correct i and orderly manner The young man who possesses this faculty is n rarity and never need be without profitable employment I Above all clse the young man who would succeed must be honest and temperate He must be what he would appear There is a prcTnium 1 upon those who possess sterling man J hood fixity of purpose and a determination I determi-nation to overcome obstacles Lifes I highest prizes are within their grasp FORCE IN CHRISTIANITY j r In a new work entitled Christianity and Paganism In the Fourth and Fifth Centuries by Mr Ernest N Bennett fellow and lecturer of Hertford college Oxford 1 side of church history is I I treated not very familiar to the general reader especially one who has forgotten forgot-ten hu Gibbon and Mllman The religion re-ligion of Islam is commonly spoken of as a religion propagated by the sword but thC fact that force bloodshed and wholesale coercion formed a very important im-portant part of the Christian propaganda propagan-da In establishing itself over the Roman Ro-man empire is less familiar In a review re-view of the abovementioned work the London Weekly Register says I Is I in the times of cruel persecution and worldly weakness that the diviner clement in the Church of Christ shines out most unmistakably In the days of power It is otherwise No sooner had Christianity emerged victoriously from decadal chastisement than Christian prelates and monks and even saints r lent their sanction and sometimes active ac-tive assistance to an unrighteous anti pagan crusade in which nothing was respected not even the consciences of those who differed from them The I aforetime pagan dictum In respect to the Christians Non heat osee vos1 You are not permitted to exist now became adopted by Christians themselves Wholesale destruction of temples statuary sta-tuary and literature confiscation of property penal disabilities and physical tortures were employed Pagan martyrdoms mar-tyrdoms though rare were not unknown un-known In short It may fairly be said that whatever traces of pity and consideration con-sideration are found In the treatment of paganism were due not to the influence influ-ence of the Christian clergy but to the prudence or benevolence the Emperors Emper-ors Even great churchmen like SS Augustine Ambrose and Chrysostom betray a vacillating disposition their ethical teaching is nQt always consistent consist-ent ncr does their practice always tally with their theory Saint Augustine per haps from his deficiencies as an cxc gete defends In one place the principle of coercion on his interpretation of Our Lords words Compel them to come in that my house may be filled There was a decided tendency to eradicate the distinction between unbelief and unbelievers to exalto15J tIe truth at the expensive of subjective truth and the Inviolable rights of the individual conscience As afterward wi th heresy so then with unbelief Hesitancy i o accept Christianity was habitually I traced to personal vice or had faith and unworthy motives with little or no taking into account of radical differences differ-ences of tcmpCLamcnt mental consti tution the abiding Influences of education edu-cation and the like In gross attachment attach-ment to the letter of Christs savings they missed the spirit of his leaching to whom and to whose Father heart homage alone is f pleasing and In forc ibly repressing idolaters they let loose a the legion church of pestilential hypocrites upon THE MODERN RASCAL In contrast with his primitive proto type the modern rascal is noticeable first of 1 for his yelaatlt noLceablc says Edith Kellogg Dunton In the July At lantic He is no longer merely a reck less l thiefa a dextrous liar or a coarse practical joker With the Increasing complexity of life his sphere has widened wid-ened Immeasurably and his motives and ambitions haye been stretched to covercverythlng In the material and moral universe So we have Baldas sare cultivating cunning that he may take his vengeance on Tito Melcrva 110Iera and Tito too Indolently fond of his own seeL will and too ambitious for the favor of thp Modicls to seek power or pleasure by the straight and narrow way Vc have Becky Sharp tricking matchlessly for n title and Leicester scheming less adroitly if more reck lessly for 1 throne And as curiously modern variants We have the philan thropic rascal in Rodens Corner and the rascal oh principle in Beggars AIL Some play for the prize and some like Rupert of Ilentxau love best the hazards haz-ards of the game some like Becky tread hard on human hearts and oth olt ers like Gilbert Parkers Pretty Pierre can be very tender when there is need some as Rochester stand proudly self r justlfled In a condemning world others undeceived drink the bitter draught their own hearts pour for thor to Its dregs Edith Kellogg Dunton in tho July Atlantic ENTIRELY INDIFFERENT Thomas Sheridan the Irish clergy clergy man and grandfather of Richard Brinsiey Sheridan the dramatist had great distaste for metaphysical dls runsionawhoreas hil son Tom the ac tor had a great lilting for them Tom one day tried to discuss with hie father the doctrine or necessity Pray father said he did you ever do anything in a state of perfect in difference wifh6ut motive 1 mean 01 some kind or other Sheridan who saw what was coming said Yep certainly I I Indeed Yen indoor What total Indifference total en tire thorough JruUffewce I 7 once Yes total entire thorough indiffer enceMy dear father said Tom I tell me what it Is that you can do with mind1 total entire < thorough Indifference Why listen to you Tom said Sher man P HORSES IN BATTLE I f One ot the most curious sights to be seen In acavalry charge Is the various riderless horses galloping in the line In perfect order At thecharge ol Balaklava the front rank of one regiment regi-ment was composid to a great extent of riderless animals their maBlers hay Injj dropped one by one It would seem that In the excitement of the moment the horses lose all conception of what Is happening around them and probably prob-ably fail to notice the fall of their riders Tho reCurn of riderless horses to camDI Is an almost certain sign of defeat When a cavalry charge Is successful suc-cessful the horses will as I have said all keep up together even though they have lost their riders but when a force is routed the lirct news of ill omen to 1 thdse in the reu Will bo the return of the horses with empty saddles and stir nips dangling free No more sorry sight can bo imagined To Illustrate tho callous feeling these animals have under Jhv a case which happened at Ladysmith during the siege may be cited A farrier sergeant was engaged In shoeing an officers horse in the open ground behind the stables of a hotel and had already put one or two nails Into the shoo when a shell came screaming through the air The next moment the missile burst five or six yards away from where the sergeant and tho horse were standing and the splinters flew around both but failed r to touch either When the smoke had cleared the horse was to be seen with its foot still In the mans apron quite undisturbed by the Incident Pearsons Magazine WHY INDIA STARVES In large districts of India today millions mil-lions of cattle could not bo sold for CO cents a head The country yellow and parched has beon turned Into a desert by the failure of the Monsun rains There are grass lands and fodder in other parts of India but the poor animals ani-mals are t6o weak to be driven to them even If there were cattlebuyers to take them away so they die like flies auc cum bing to starvation far more quickly than their owners Tho thought has never occurred to the 35000000 Indian peasantry now suffering from hunger that the cattle would have been a food resource to tide them over the months of crop failure They have plenty of cattle Among all the animals of India In-dia the various breeds oC horned and humped cattle hold the flrst place They are the draft animals Jn the little Held of the poorest peasant All tho transportation of the Inland roads depends I de-pends upon them The household that has not Its cow Is in the direst poverty Suppose these natives when the signs pointed unmistakably to a season of crop failure had cured under their hot sun many thousand tons of beef by sun drying as Jerked beef is prepared In South America undcscribablo suffering and thousands of lives would have been saved but the very idea of making such provision as this against the horrors hor-rors of famine would bo inexpressibly shocking to the 150000000 people of India In-dia who base their religious beliefs upon up-on the Vedas They would never dream of such a profanation of the teachings of Brahminism They would rather swallow dirt and gnaw roots than eat beef and yet they are not strict vegetarians vege-tarians for all eat butter and milk and also fish and mutton when they can procure them The Hindus and those who share with them their religious beliefs arc Just what history tells us their fathers were three and twenty centuries ago The highest law that concerns the Hindu is to eat correctly and beef Is 1 one of the prescribed foods so with this food resource I re-source In every farmyard prized highly high-ly l as it is by most of the world the Hindu dies hunger rather than partake par-take of it These facts are perhaps as Impressive an illustration as can be given of the profound influence which religious injunction and custom have upon the habits tastes and prejudices and consequently upon the commerce of whole nations BEEF UNHOLY FOOD The value of East Indian cattle for food has been amply demonstrated Thu 57000000 Mohammedans livIng In India have no qualms or scruples about beefeating Some years ago we Bead almost dally for a time of bloodshed between the Mohammedans and IlIn dus of northwest India The Hindu neighbors of the Moslems decided that their feelings had been outraged too long by the repugnant spectacle of cattle i cat-tle shambles and beefeating They resolved to put an end to them but the undertaking was too largo for the comparatively small number of zealots who engaged in It In this vast region so densely peopled peo-pled that the specter of famine is not far away even in years of plenty no meats are imported except for European Euro-pean consumers If there Is a partial failure of rice wheat maize barley or the Indigenous grains on which the laborer la-borer lives starvation begins at once and so while India sells to the world every year from 5250000000 to 350000 000 worth of products and buys about threefourths as much as she sells her purchases are almost wholly textiles machinery railroad material and coal even when hunger stalks abroad and the main reason why the great evil of famine is not averted or mitigated by food imports is because the religious tenets of most of the people confine j them to the few cereals they raise themselves as tho mainstay life In one respect however religious prejudice preju-dice Is a blessing to the country It is to the lasting shame of some modern natons that they destroy thousands of barbarous or semicivilized I men and women by 1 selling them poison in the form of the purest qualities of alcoholic alco-holic liquors but they find no market for their fiery gin and fortyrod among the hundreds of millions of East Indians In-dians because Islam throughout the world is a vast teetotal society and among the Hindus to touch liquor is a sign of the lowest caste Thus certain religions which we do not include among the highest forms havehappily reared an insurmountable barrier against one of the worst evils of Western West-ern civilization Cyrus C Adams in Alnsleos THEVICEPRESIDENTS SALARY Since the nomination of Gov Roosevelt Roose-velt to the VicePresidency the salary of 5SCOO attached to that office has been the subject of some comment as being inadequate to meet the expenses that its incumbent Is obliged to incur With few exceptions tl VicePresidents of the United States have been men of large means who could well afford to spend several times the amount of their salary In living up to their positions In the case of Gov Roosevelt the fact that he has small private income and a large family makes It impossible for him to entertain on the scale that his predecessors have been accustomed to He will be in a less favorable position financially as VicePresident of the United States than as Governor of New York State His present salary as Governor Gov-ernor is 10000 and he has the use of the furnished executive mansion together to-gether with an allowance for the pay jucnt of some of the housekeeping expenses ex-penses nls stated that his private Income from Investments amounts to less than 4000 a year The total Income that Mr Roopcvplt l will possess as VicePresident tho United States should tho Republicans be successful In this years campaign will therefore be less than 12000 a year which will not go very far InV in-V In order that relief bo afforded to men moderate means who may be elected to the VicePresidential office and with a special view to Gov Roosevelts case the Brooklyn Eagle suggests that the salary of the office be fixed by law at the next session oC Congress at 25000 a year and that a suitable residence be provided for the second officer of the Government live In It says that ie social duties of the position are ao Imperative as they are C cxponjuvii axl the tendency or temptation tempta-tion of parties to confer the place upon men of wealth only is a dangerous one I In our public life It can best be oY rome r-ome by maknij the flay of tho nlitce equal to IU > dignities and to its duties 1 That done the poverty of IIUIHIB mil p nf Hlnteinun Tll In h v > bar to nomination I 1 nomi-nation for the place nor will the I riches of plungers be any good reason I rea-son why parties should pay uourt to them to take the nomination This suggestion Is an excellent one irrespective irre-spective of Its special application toGo I to-Go Jloosuvelt The Nation should not expect the incumbent of this high ofj 1 lice to make up out of his private puree I I tho amount required to 111 > port Its I I dignItyilIlwaukeeSciitinel I I THE SHIPPING SUBSIDY BILL t I Tho reports of the British Govern I i I ment show that from 1810 to the present I pres-ent lime Great Britain and her colonies I 1 I have expended directly 21055220 on merchant steamships Concisely stated the proposition before Congress Is that 1 I the United Slates in thirty years shall expend on the development of its merchant mer-chant marine substantially the same I sum which Great Britain has expended in sixty years By this policy steadily pursued for many years Great Britain I has firmly established her great steamship I steam-ship lines to all parts of the world so that less effort is now necessary on her part to maintain such lines When conditions con-ditions In the two countries at the present pres-ent day are considered it must be evident evi-dent that a less vigorous effort sus 11 j tolnod by tho United States for a short I J or time than proposed would be Insufficient Insuf-ficient to produce results judged by tho standard of British achievement It is true that tho great bulk of the British payments are now made to mail steamships of from 1U to 22 knots speed and that the policy of bounties for all I vessels has never been adopted by 1 Great Britain But it is equally true I that by those payments Great Britain began the construction of > sand s-and sent them under the red ensign as agents for tho promotion of British trade to the four quarters of the globe Moreover through these subsidies she has maintained her leadership In steam navigation but the German empire by the adoption of a similar policy In recent re-cent years has just begun to dispute I that leadership It is only a half truth that British subsidies have been paid for political UIl1oseslo bind her colonies colo-nies more closely to the mother country I and to improve the mail facilities of British merchants In the pursuit of theso purnoseH however fleets of merchant mer-chant steamships have been created which would not otherwise bo in existence exist-ence the art of shipbuilding has been brought wellnigh to perfection and the empire behind Its navy has a reserve strength equal to almost any situation which the boldest flights of fancy can conceive strength adequate to put 200000 armed men fully equipped Into a remote part of the world In less than six months Whether tho United States will be warranted in entering upon an expenditure expendi-ture which will amount during a generation gen-eration to 250000000 Is however a question to be determined more by a scrupulous examination of our needs and resources than by a review of what other nations have undertaken The constitutional right to make such appropriations ap-propriations is based on the powers I vested In Congress to provide for thu national defense and the general welfare wel-fare So strong was the reliance of the founders of our Government on the merchant marine as a means of defense by sea that the establishment of any navy was at h6 outset strongly opposed op-posed by some of the ablest among them The three wars we have fought In less than ninety years have shown the independence of the merchant marine ma-rine and the navy and if the dictum of Caot A T Mahan be accepted that independence is the general rule of nations na-tions Our very liberal appropriations have already created navy much greater than our fleet of deepsea steamships and superabundantly able to protect all the commerce under the American flag It Is large enough to furnish with battleships bat-tleships to spare two cruisers to convoy con-voy at equal speed ever American merchant steamship trading beyond a radius of 500 pIles from our coasts Eugcno T Chamberlain In the July Forum v SPREADING PLAGUE When the plague broke out last year in the Portuguese city of Oporto a commission I com-mission of French physicians was sent I there to investigate Its origin its symptoms symp-toms and the most satisfactory methods of treatment The president of this commission Dr Albert Calrnottc recounts In a very interesting article In the July number of he North American Review the general observations observa-tions made by himself and his associates asso-ciates and the measures which proved most effective In combatting tim disease dis-ease Dr Calmette calls attention to the manner in which the plague is disseminated dis-seminated by rats and mice Since the recent Investigations of Dr Ycrsin and Dr Slmond in India it I is admitted in fact that rats and mice are most susceptible to thin plague virus 1 vi-rus and that In localities where this pestilence appears they succumb in great numbers Generally the mortality mortal-ity among the small rodents precedes the appearance of the disease among human beings This fact Is well known to the natives of certain valleys of the Himalayas who when they perceive the rats and mice dying in large numbers num-bers abandon the village to prevent the spreading of the disease In their homes It would not bo surprising if the plague virus had been brought to Oporto several months before the outbreak out-break by the rats disembarked from a ship coming from Alexandria or India In-dia The inhabitants of the quarter bordering on the Douro remarked indeed in-deed that the streets were overrun by swarms of rodents and that tho dead I bodies of these animals were often I found in the streams of the town A BOXERS VIEW OF IT By way of reply to the continuous repetition in the journals of Europe and of America that the invasion of China bythe powers justified by tho fact that time Invaders will carry to tho people of that country a higher civilization thnn they now possess a Chinese merchant doing business In England has presented the London Express the Chinese view of the situation situa-tion He claims to be a member of the Boxer society and therefore asserts I as-serts a right to speak with authority Ills first declaration that China has had a civilization similar to that now existing in the restern world and has passed from It to a better one He says There was a time when we had your struggle for existence the race for wealth the ambition for power and all the haste the hurry and the worry We had also many clever inventions gunpowder gun-powder printing and the rofit but in the end we found that all theso things are unnecessary W e had our periods of religious dissensions and fanaticism We had our reformers and our rnar t rJand then we reached toleration We have outgrown all those strifes Wo have learned wisdom Our passions and our ambitions have settled down ton calm desire for happiness In this world our religion Is reduced to a philosophy of life We believe that the best thing to pursue In this world is happiness and wo teach our children that their happiness can be secured only by the performance of duty We believe in making the best of this life whlrh in the only one we know anything about for certain Having laid clown that much by way ot slating the condition of Chinese civilization and religions he went onto on-to discuss the present situation You purpose he said Jto revive in China the worry the disturbance and the strife of the old times You wish to Introduce a now religion concerning another life In another world about which you cannot agree among yourselves your-selves You Invite us to build railways for which we have no use You wish us to build factories so as to debase our I beautiful arts and handicrats and produce pro-duce machinemade finery In place of our delicate textures and hue Against nil that we protest We wish to be let alone We wish to be free to enjoy our calm life and the fruits of our centuries cen-turies of experience We do not wish to be lormonted by quarrels about another an-other world when our duty Is I to be happy in this one When we ask you to go away you refuse and you even threaten ua with subjugation if we do not give you our harbors our towns I and our land No4 having carefully considered tho matter we of the so called Boxer society have decided that the only way to get rid of you is to kill you We are not bloodthirsty We are not robbery Hut when persuasion I arguments and appeals to your sense Of Justice are of no avail we find ourselves our-selves Cue to face with the fact that I our only recourse Is to put you onto existence 1 1 Such Is the view of the situation taken by the Boxers It Is another 11 lustration of the Impossibility of petting pet-ting harmony between two widely different dif-ferent civilizations That the aggressions aggres-sions of Europe upon China have been unjust is not to be denied Out ot the injustice done to them the Chinese haVe themselves become unjust and their rage now falls upon the innocent Western civilization must protect tho traders and the missionaries who under I un-der treaties oC peace have gone to China Chi-na and rhUS become Inevitable Nevertheless the statements of tho Boxer to the Express make very pertinent per-tinent reading and men of Impartial minds will admit the truth of much ot what he has stated San Francisco Call HYMN OF THE BOXERS I God nsHlst the Boxers The Patriotic Harmonious Corps It Is bccuiiBO I the Foreign Devils disturb the Middle Kingdom Urging tho people to Join their religion To turn thqlr backs on Heaven Venerate not tha Gods and forget the Ancestors An-cestors Men violate the human obligations Women sommlt adultery Foreign Devils are not produced by man kind I It yoti doubt this Look at thorn carefully Tho eyes of all the Foreign Devils are biulirlm I I No rain falls I The earth Is gelling dry I This Is because tho Churches top tho Heaven The Coda are angry n Tho Genii are vexed Both are come down from tho mountains to deliver the doctrine This Is not hearsay Time practice will not bo In vain 10 reel lto Incantations and pronounce magieords Burn up the yellow written prayrs Light incense sticks To invite the Godg and Genii oC all tho grottoes Mails rho Gods will come out of tho grottoes Tho Genii will como down from the mountains moun-tains And support the human bodies to practice prac-tice tho boxing When all tho military accomplishment or tactics Aro fully learned It will not bo dlfllciilt to determine the Foreign Devils then Push aside the railway tracks Pull out the telegraph poles Immediately after this destroy the steamers steam-ers Jhe yreat France Will grow cold and downhearted The English and Russians will certainly disperse Let the various Foreign Devils all ho killed May the whole olcgant empire of the grcat Chlng dynasty bo ever prosperous pros-perous THE POEM IN CHINESE Simon Chu Chuan Yl Ho TUrin Chili Yin Kucltzu nao Chung Yuan Chluan fens chiao Wcl Pal tfcn Pu Chlng Simon fo wang tsu Hslcn Nun wu lun Ju jti chlcn Kuel tzu pu shih jon so chan Ju pu Hsln i rzu hal Kan V Kuci tzu yen chu tou fa Ian Pu hala Yu r SrI S-rI fa Eon Chuan shin chiao fang chlh chu tIcn alien yell nu Hslen yen fan Yl ting shin han patao Chuan Fel shin hslch Fcl pain llcii Kou tu chon yu shiao chcn yen I Shcng huang plao Fen Ilslang Yen r Chlng lal ko tung chung shcn hslen Shim chu tung Hslcn lisla shan I Fu chu iou tl pa chuan wan Ping fa yi J Chu htueh chuan Yato pIng kuei tzu pu tel nan Tiao tleh tao 3a hslen lain Chin chleh hui hual kuo l lun chuan To fa kuo Ilyln tnu han YJng chl 0 Lo tzu hslao Jan YI kalkuec tzu chuan sha chin To chIng yc tung chin ching shan PAUL liRUGERS VISION F Edmund Garrett in the June Mc Clurcs Magazine writes the following about the great Boer leader Of the concession system In which centers half the corruption of the Transvaal Mr Krugcr has been the main pillar To secure the Raad without with-out securing him is for a concession nnlro useless in the opposite case he has often used his power to commit and I coerce the Raad Some of his strongest speeches have been devoted to screening screen-ing and prolonging the worst of the concessions those in which the concessionaires con-cessionaires rob the revenue as much as they rob the miner or consumer When It came out about certain presents pres-ents accepted legislators from concessionaires con-cessionaires it was the President who spoke In defense of such spoiling of the Egyptians and said he saw no harm in 1150 that if men misconstrue the large fortune that the President is known to have acquired it is i only by assuming the private example from the public precept But enough on this subject it Isu wart InLhe portrait and a disconcerting one to the painter for it throws askew an expression which would Otherwise on the whole be grand and rugged In this Krugor Is a Verulam rather than a Cromwell Paul Krugcr is a visionary what Is his vision It is of a sort of oligarchic oligar-chic theocracy with Paul Kruger its Mclcbizcdek priest and king nono Ho sees the faithful sitting each under his own gum tree on his own stoel and as far as his eye ranges that is his farm and his cattle arc on a score of hillg The young men are stalwart great hunters before the Lord and the young women arc grossly built and fruitful And to each farm there is a made road and a dam and the stranger In the land pays for the mme The stranger keeps to himself In the city and Is more or leas godless for he Is not of the chosen In the Promised I Land But he gives no trouble for he Is well disposed and looks to the Raad for his Jaws in due season The burgher has his Kaffirs who do his work but they are not cruelly used because they obey The sons of the Soil arc not too much educated because be-cause that spoils an Afrikander but enough so to be able to hold all offices of state that these may be purged of the Hollander and the German no less than < the accursed English or English hearted Afrikander And above all sits Paul 1 Krugcr I I father of his people dwelling in the I house that the concessionaire Neil I maplns gave him wealthy but thrift living as simply as he used to live on the farm save that sheeps head and trotters come round somewhat oftener And the Judges nome to him to know how they shall Judge and the Raad members to know what laws they shall I make and on Sundays all come to tho little chapel near to hear him expound the Word of God and the truth as set f I I forth by the Separatist Reformed Brethren And thrro ia peace in the earth And It is flat and the sun goes round it COLLEGE PHILOSOPHY I know It will shock some of my colleagues col-leagues and even my beat and mont revered philosophic friends when I say that as for me my teaching shall henceforth assume boldly and cquareiy that every man has a body and even a brain and that the internal world is every whit as real as anything else As Socrates said of tho great sophists I would rather be refuted by their arguments II argu-ments than to use them I wish my thinking to bo natural thinking and cannot doubt but that there Is something some-thing In the human soul that knows its own wherever found by a method which leaves proof far behind I prefer to Invert the Cartesian slogan and say sum ergo cogito and would adopt Maine de Blrana formula of volo ergo sum or perhaps even Ilobbess I count therefore I am rather than the old view I will lio longer hark back I to Kant great as he wan and high as 1 his place in history must always bel I but will look forward to a larger phll I osophy of the future which I think this country Is destined slowly to evolve I I believe that most though not all j students are better if trained to follow men like Fcchner Foulllcc Scrgl or our own Schumann who after teaching teach-ing this theory of knowledge for years renounced ItanlJ keep out of agnosticism agnosti-cism rather than to get out of It in ways laid down by Kant and all his cplgonl or oven those of the subtle learned and very ably wroughtout ways devised by l Hodgson Rcnotivier 1 Ward James Royce Garman Jlun sterbcrg and others I object to treating treat-ing my science or my consciousness like a St Martins stomach by pulling outfrTHl l examining Its contents study the stages of assimilation and Ktlll less I can 1 work In the very narrow limits I prescribed for psychology in the over claborato classifications and definitions I of some of my contemporaries Whcrc 11 ever life Is most intense and reality I seeing most real there the student of 1 the inner I life should find his theme and seek to bo at home Psychology ns I hold it and try to I teach and have it taught rests on abroad a-broad basis of general biology It attempts at-tempts to impart the largest richest body of facts possible concerning the Instincts and habits of animals the life and customs of savage of IIfe1 races and of children It always insists in-sists upon the importance for everyone I every-one of a good general knowledge oC the history of philosophy Including ethics and logic but it teaches the systems sys-tems sympathetically rather than critically It makes large use of the laboratory and of modern studios of the brain and seeks to apply Its i suits at every practicable point to religion re-ligion art education history and every other department of active life It postulates an expansionists policy for psychology and seeks cooperation and contact as widely osv possible nay more it even regards all the great systems sys-tems of the great thinkers In an objective ob-jective way and studies their origins seeking for them and for even the eplstemologlcal movement Itself a psychological explanation as the ultimate ulti-mate one regarding everything In alt Ho work from a purely objective nat I uralhlstory standpoint Stanley J Hall In the June Forum SELF PROTECTION Briggs What A new bicycle suit And so different from the one you had on the other day Griggs I should rather think so Iran I-ran over a woman who lives In the next street and I dont want her to recognize me Pearsons Weekly THE CONVENIENT BASE There Is food for reflection just now among antloxpanslonlsis on the value of the Philippines as a stepping stone to China at a time when defense or American interests there would have found us in a pretty plight If we had not Manila as a base It does seem that the occupation of those Islands were an indispensable preparation for assertion and oversight of even more Important Interests on the adjacent mainland Without the Philippines We might not have had a warship or a marine on the spot to share with the other powers In the duty of protecting threatened lives and Interests This Chinese situation is the strongest argument argu-ment American expansion hs yet had and will finally remove it as a debatable debata-ble issue from domestic politics New York CommercialAdvertiser |