The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1895, Page 15

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1%95. 15 ey | { = THE MARSHALL MONUMENT. Not long since some tourists climbed my steeps and told me with evident satis- factlon that they had stopped at Sacra- mento long enough to take a carriage and drive out to Sutters Fort and see where he discovered gold in California! It is three hours by ‘rail from the capital, and then one hour—doubling back down the track— to the old Indian camp Culloomah, now spelled Coloma; the round trip from San Francisco costing §$10, and about eight hours each way. Let us see what it cost to get there in the and ways. Haskins in his “Argonauts” tells that he and others brought a boat around the Horn and put it together here. *Upon this, when complete, we placed our effects,” says Haskins, “and with a fair wind and tide in our favor started on our journey toward Sacramento City, at which place we arrived upon the fourth day out from San Francisco. At this place, after making a proper division of our provisions, tools and instruments, we dissolved co- partnership as a company, each and every one going to such a mining district as best suited his inclination, or at which place, 1n his opinion, were to be found the richest mines. We Jearned here that rich gold mines had been discovered in several places besides Coloma, the point ot origi- nal discovery by Marshall. Among them was Hangtown. After selling off all stock, utensils, scow, tent and other things be- longing to the company which couid not be diyided, we made & division of proceeds, and then every man was for himself. “Two others and myself formed a com- pany, and after deciding upon the mining camp which we should visit we employed a Pike County bullwhacker, who agreed to deliver us and our effects in Hangtown for acertain consideration, pavment invaria- y in advance. We accepted the offer, and in a few hours were on our way to Hangrown.” It cost these men eight days and quite as many hundred dollars to ‘‘see where gold was first discovered in California.” | This sturdy Yankee is still mining not far from Coloma, and when you are told that he is still a poor man after forty-seven years of patient, steady and sober toil, you will begin to see that “all was not gold that glittered even in the days of old.” [ know it is the fashion to lay the fault at the doors of men who failed in those days. But I have known Haskins for about forty years, and the only folly of any sort I ever knew him to be guilty of was the writing of a little poetry and a large and entirely truthful book. I know other men in the mines who never even indulge in the intemperance of poetry and are still poor, after nearly half a century of persistent toil. There is a disposition to discrown Sutter and Marshall of the glory of discovery by pointing out that gold had been mined near Los Angeles and discovered at Ump- qua, Or., long before they sat down in the Culloomah basin to build 2 mill in Aug- ust, 1847. Bui if it ‘took eight days to get there from San Francisco you can see that Los Angeles was farther away from the sawmill than London is now. And as for Umpqua it was as if in Africa. Still it is of interest to set down some of these earli- est official reports: In 1842 James Dana visited the coast with the Wilkes exploring expedition and wrote as follows: “Gold rocks and veins of quartz were observed in 1842, near the Umpqua River, in Southern Oregon, and pebbles from similar rock were met with along the shores of the Sacramento in California and the resemblance to other gold aistricts was remarked, but there was no opportunity of exploring the country at the time.” B A learned Swede visited Sutter in 1843 in the interest of his King, and reported as follows: “The Californias are rich in min- erals; gold, silver, lead, oxide of irom, manganese and copper ore are met with throughout the country, the precious metals being the most abundant.” A Mr. Greenhow, writing in 1844, said: ‘‘The only mine as yet discovered in Up- per California is one of gold, situated at the foot of the great westernmost range of the mountains, on the west, at a distance of twenty-five miles from Los Angeles, the largest town in the country. It is said to be of extraordinary richness.” James W. Marshall was an Oregonian. He lett that land for this in 1849. He served with Fremont in the war of con- quest, and then returning to Sutters Fort hie went far up the south fork of the American River into the beautiful Coloma Basin, and being attracted by the beauty and stateliness of the sugar-pine trees located a millsite. Sutter had already a flourmill not far from his old fort; and the two joined forces in the contemplated ‘‘upand down” sawmill and began to dig the millrace by the help of Mormons and a few Indians. And here one falls to won- dering how long it would have been before the discovery if steam had then been in suth general use as now! Tomy mind the most direct and graphic account of these early and tumultuous days is found in the Memoirs of General W.T.Sherman. Let us quote the blunt nothing of what he had seen to his family or any one else.” But here is the quaint account of the discovery from Sutter’s own hand, as set down in his diary, now in the archives at Washington: ‘‘January 18, 1848, Marshall arrived in the evening; it was raining very heavy, but he told me that he came on im- portant business; after we were alone in a private room he showed me the first speci- men of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold. I told him even that most of all is 23 carat gold. He wished that I should come up with him immediately, but I told him that I have to give first my orders to the people in all my factories and shops. *‘February 1—Left for the sawmill at- tended by a vaquero (Olympio). Was absent 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th. Iexamined myself everything and picked up a few specimens of gold myself in the tailrace of the sawmill. This gold and others which Marshall gave to me (it was found while in my employ and wages) I told them I would a ring got made of it so soon as the goldsmith would be here. Ihad a talk with my employed people all at the sawmill. I told them that as they do now know that this metal is gold, I wished that they would do me the great favor and keep it secret for six weeks, because my large flourmill at Brighton would have been in operation in such a time, which undertaking would have been a fortune to me, and unfortunately the people would not keep it secret, and so I lost on this mill at the lowest calculation about $25,000.” | Shrewd, queer, cunningold Captain Sut- ter! Somehow my heart never went out to him as it always did, and always shall, toold Jim Marsnall. Would you care to i read the first paragraph ever published touching the discovery? Here it is, from Californian, March 15, | nearly sixty days after the event: GOLD MINE FOUND. In the newly made raceway of the sawmill | recently erected by Captain Sutter, on the Governor of California, when men cam from Captain Sutter giving news of the discovery to the Government, and asking | the right to pre-empt the land on which it | was made. Sherman says he answered, | under the signature of the Governor, that | “California was as yet a Mexican prov- | | ince, simply held by us as aconquest; that no laws of the United States yet applied | to it, much less the land laws or the pre- emption laws, wkich could only apply | | after a public survey. Therefore it was | impossible for the Governor to promise him a title to the land, yet as there were | i no settlements within forty miles, he was not likely to be disturbed by trespassers. Colonel Mason signed the letter, handed it to one of the gentlemen who had brought the sample of gold, and they departed.” It is some satisfaction to know that Marshall and Sutter paid the Indians for the land, although they could no* acquire | it of the Government. Here is what Sher- man says of the first account of an event that was to stir the world to the center: 1“1 remember one day in the spring of | American fork, gold has been found in consid- erable quantities. One person brought $30 worth to New Helvetia, gathered there in a short time. California, no doubt, is rich in mineral wealth: great chances here for scien- tific capitelists. Gold hss been found in almost every part of the country. It may not be out of place to quote a paragraph from Ross Browne’s report to Congress in 1867: “The existence of gold in California was known long before the acquisition of that territory by the United States. Placers had long been worked on a limited scale by the Indians, but the priests, who had established the mis- sionary settlements, knowing that a dis- semination of the discoveries thus made would frustrate their plans for the con- version of the aboriginal races, discouraged by all means in their power the prosecu- New York in 1845, with Sam Brannan as leader. Sam Brannan was on hand as the high-priest, collecting the tithes. As soon as the news spread that the Governor was there persons came to see us and voiunteered all kinds of information, illustrating it by sam- ples of the gold, which was of & uniform kind —scale gold, bright and beautiful. I remem- ber that Mr, Clark was in camp talking to Colonel Mason about matters and things gen- erally, when he inquired: ‘Governor, what business has Sam Brannan to collect the tithes here?’ Clark admitted that Brannan was the head of the Mormon church in California. Colonel Mason answered: ‘Bran- nan has a perfect right to collect the tithes, if you Mormons are fools enough to pay the tax.’ “Then,’ said Clark, ‘I, for one, won't pay any longer.” And Colonel Mason added: ‘This is public 1and, and the gold is the property of the United States; all of you are trespassers, but as the Government is bencfited by your getting out the gold I do not intend to interfere.’ * » » The nextday we continued our jour tongues and piays for all the parties. He is the ccurt interpreter for the Chinese, and how happy is he and his mother! He pulled down his mother’s dress over her bare feet as she smoked and sang in the hammock, and he played and played for her; and he told us his mother made the best wine ever made in Coloma. Then he laid his banjo in her lap and went and got a gourd full. And he bade us drink and drink and not be afraid, for his mother always washed her feet after she got done treading out the wine. And again he played and again we drank and drank to dear old dead Jim Marshall up yonder upder his monument. Surely the peace of paradise.is his here in this dreamful little valley of Culloo- mah. An old “pard” guards the monu- ment grounds and cabin and tends the vines and roses planted by the rugged old ) S L S - N fim . | Ui :“ MARSHALL’S CABIN. [ WAl SITE OF \ N\ AR SUTTER’S MILL. ney and reached Coloma, the place where gold | had been first discovered, about noon. Onlya | few miners were at work there, by reason of | Marshall and Sutter’s claim to the site. There | stood the sawmill urfinished, the dam and | tailrace just as they were left when the Mor- | mons ceased work. Marshall ana his family | of wife and half & dozen tow-headed children | were there, living in & house made of clap- | boards. D ‘ Coloma, classic, storied, dreamful. restful | | Coloma, is to-day one of the most entirely | beautiful spots on earth. All the way up | | the plains and the hills, mountains and | valleys are a bilowy, surging sea of | | purple grapes and hills of gold. Miles and | miles of grapes will remain ungathered. | | But while this tact may sadden one a bit | | in pity for the unpaid toilers, it does not | | tion of this pursuit, and in some instances suppressed it by force. As early as Decem- ber, 1843, however, Manuel Castanares, a | Mexican officer, made strenuous efforts to rouse the attention of the Mexican Gov- ernment to the importance of this great interest.” lessen but heighten the imperial beauty | of the scene; the color of fire and gold. | | And then we know perfectly well that a | | better time is close at hand. | As you descend into the bright and | | sunny Coloma basin you look about the | view before you and sce miles and miles SITE OF SUTTER’S MILL. \ | ¥ | Somes —~_ & | 1848, that two men, Americans, came into the office of Colonel R, B. Mason, the mili- tary commander and ex-officio Governor, stationed at Monterey, and inquired for the Governor. I asked their business and one answered that they had just come down from Captain Sutter’s on special business and they wanted to see the Goy- ernor in person. I took them in to the colonel and left them together. After some time the colonel came to his door and called tome. I wentinand my attention was called to a series of papers unfolded on his table in which lay about half an ounce of placer gold. Mason said to me, ‘What is tbat?' I touched it and exam- ined one or two of the larger pieces, and asked, ‘Is it gold 2’ " And here follows what he took from tbe lips of Sutter, although I must protest that Marshall was not at any time, so far as I know, and I knew him very well, *‘a half- crazy man at best.”” He was kind to me, and as I was also an Oregonian—or was it pecause he had a loyal, big, warm heart?— I always found him accessible and willing to advise and to advise wisely. Infact I find nothing in his career to indicate that he was ever “half crazy.”” If he died poor be died like thousands of.others of them in the mountains, honest, open handed, warm hearted and wholly a man. Died of drink? Well, let us see. Since he lived a full half decade longer than the Biblical allotment of man’s life let the fact answer for itself and the traduced old hero. But to get on with Sherman. He says: “Captain Sutter himself related to me Marshell's account, saying that as he sat in his room 2t the fort one day in Febru- ery or March, 1848, a knock was heard at the door and he called out, ‘Come in.” In walked Marshall, who was a half-crazy man at best, but then looked strangely wild. ‘What is the matter, Marshall?’ Marshall inquired if any one was in hear- ing, and began to peer around the room and look under the bed, when Sutter, fear- ing that some calamity had befallen the party up at the sawmill and that Marshall was really crazy, demanded of Marshall to explain what was the matter. At last "he revealea his discovery and laid before Captain Sutter the gold he had picked up old soldier liberally. He was stationed at Monterey, after the treaty with Mexico, under Colonel Mason, ex-officio acting in the ditch. At first Sutter attached httle orno importance to the discovery and told Sherman went to the new mines in the Sierras of California and reports as fol- iows: “Toward the close of June, 1848, the gold fever being at its height, by Colonel Mason’s orders I made preparations for his trip to the newly discovered gold mines at Sutter’s Fort. I selected four good soldiers, with Aaron, Colonel Malon's black servant, and a good outfit of horses and pack animals. We started by the usually traveled route for Yerba Buena (San Francisco). There Captain Folsom and two other citizens joined our party. The first difficulty was to cross the bay to Sausalito. Folsom, as quartermaster, had a eort of scow with a large sail, and by means of her and infinite labor we managed to get the load of horses, etc., safely crossed to Sausalito. Wefollowed in a more comfortable schoon- er. Having safely landed our horses and mules we packed up and rode to San Ra- fael Mission, stopping with Don Timoteo Murphy. The next day’s journey took us to Bodega, where & man named Stephen Smith lived, who had the only steam saw- mill in California. We spent a day very pleasantly with him, and learned that he had come to the country some years be- fore at the personal advice of Daniel Web- ster, who had informed him that sooner or later the United States would be in pos- session of California, and that in conse- of grapevines, red with the fires of autumn. The lines of vines run down from the steep red mountain’s side to the | very brink and edge of the awful preci- pice—a perpendicular wall that has been formed by the force of hydraulics years ago. The whole region round about is one vast orchard, blazing in the red and yel- low gold of the going year—gold o’erhead and gold under foot, as if gold was being carted down in profusion in payment for the generous fruitage of the year by mother nature. One man only in sight, and that in the deserted street, a water-wheel, two old miners, a wheelbarrow, & dog asleep in the street, so soundly asleep that I had to lay my hand on the arm of my coachman to keep the wheels off that happy dog’s legs. We drove within six inches of his nose, but did not break the bark of him. We drove up to the hotel and waited; no one came out, and so I went in. An old man was playing “solitaire,” but he did not lift his head. I came out and sat on one of Sutter’s old cannon, planted muzzle down as a hitching-post. As we drove on down toward the site of the old sawmill, now in the bed of the river, we came to two Irish- men, two old Chinamen and one young and handsome negro. They were, in a dazed, sleepy and listless way, building a little board shanty. Plenty of brick and quence it would become a great country.” The temptation to follow the grim old soldier & little further is irresistible, par- ticularly as he gives a brief accountofa once most famous citizen of S8an Francisco and also looks in upon the home life of dear old Marshall: July 15, 1848, we commenced our journey toward the mines, and reached, after a hot and dusty ride, Mormon Island. When Colone 1 Mason and party reached Mor- mon Island they found about 300 Mormons thero at work; mostof them were discharged soldiers from the Mexican war. General Robert Allen raised a battalion of five com- panies of Mormons at Kanesville, Iowa, now Council Bluffs, early in 1846; Allen died on the way and was succeeded by Cooke; these were discharged at Los Angeles early in the summer of 1847, and most of them went to their people at Salt Lake, but some remained in California—end as soon as the fame of the discovery of gold spread the Mormons neturally went to Mormon Island. Clark of Clarks Point. one of the elders, was there also, and nearly all of the Mormons who had come Marshall to go back to the mill and say out in the sailing vessel Brooklyn, which left stone houses on either side of the street, mostly in ruins. The Wells-Fargo office was pulled down and the ground mined out only last year. Great shade trees shake hands and lock arms overhead all along here, and the horses are in the fallen leaves to their knees and the carriage wheels are as noiseless asif on carpet. All the life, snap, vim, business and bustle has gore back to brave old Hangtown, where the smell of paint and the yoice of the hammer is heard in the land. At the extreme end of Coloma, and within a stone’s throw of the spot where gold was first found, we drew up before a dear old black mammie’s house and found her busy from Sacramento, sixty miles moreor less, | ¥ | tioned at Sea Isle City. | appears that on f th | during the absence of the missionary and treading out wine in the good old Bible fashion. Her son, the handsome negro we had seen with the Chinaman, came up and got his banjo. Heis very kind to his good old black mother. He was born here. He put his mother in her ham- mock under some apple trees and sitting down on a keg played and played deliciously. He is s genius, talks Qfl‘ » man Marshall with most loving hands, spending twice the money allotted him, I am told, out of love and respect for the memory of a typical old argonaut of Ore- gon. Joaquiy MILLER. SAD TALE IN A WILL Death Overtakes Two Missionaries Through a Native's Theft. The filing of the will of August Kullman by Surrogate George S. West in Camden terday brought to light a very pathetic story. August Kullman was the promising son of a Methodist Episcopal minister, sta- Miss Adeline C. Weatherby was the daughter of Rev. Sam- uel C. Weatherby, a Methodist Episcopal minister, who was stationed at Haddon- field. The young people became acquaint- ed inattending religious gatheringsand an attachment was formed which terminated |1n a marrage, which was attended by manv prominent persons from all parts of the State. A short time before the mar- riage took place there were urgent calls for missionaries in India, and the two de- cided after marriage to devote their lives to missionary labors. After the ceremony they started for their fields of labor at Asausol, Bengal, In- dia. They reached their post of duty in February, 1895, one month after their marriage, and entered upon their duties. They had been laboring but a short time when the natives began to die of cholera. The young missionaries were advised to save their lives by going to other parts, but they decided to stay and minister 10 the sufferers. In order to avoid the disease they de- | cided to drink no water, as it was declared to be polluted and the cause of the spread of the contagion. They purchased a cow and drank the milk, and were free from the dreaded disease. From the meager information at hand it gnly 25 one of the natives, s wife, drank a quantity of the milk, and, | in order to conceal his crime, he procured some of the contaminated water from a stream, which was placed in the receptacle with the milk. ‘When the missionaries returned from their missionary of love and labor with the natives they were very thirsty, and drank considerable of the watered milk. They ate a light supper and attended a prayer meeting. During the service Mr. Kullman was taken ill, and was assisted home. On the way Mrs. Kullman was_attacked. AJl night long the husband and wife, attended by other missionaries, fought with the dreaded plegue, being unable to account for the attack, as they had escaped so many menths. In a strange country, hun- dreds of miles from home, they tossed on their couches, offering each other all the encouragement possible under the circum- stances. At 4 o'clock on the morning of July 26 Mrs. Kullman became unconscious and died. Four hours afterward Mr. Kull- man died, —Philadelphia Press. THING OF LIFE. The Perverse Conduct of a Hose Under Pressure of Water. Queer things drift into a police station sometimes, and so it came to pass that the officers at the East St. Louis station had a funny experience Saturday night. Things were very quiet, “whisky shoots,”” the levee ard the ‘‘island’’ having been that remiss in their usual donation that only one lone colored man was in the cells, and he came there to sleep. Lieutenant Wel- kobrasky thought it would be a good chance to give the quarters a thorough cleaning. Calling Night Clerk Dicand{. they fastened the big hose to the plug in the engine-house, turned on a moderate sugply of water and began to wash out the cells. 7 s, They had just got things nieel( started when some practical joker came in to the plug and turned the water on full head, with only about twenty-five feet of hose on. The lieutenant had the hose in his hand, when it gave a jump as though it were alive and wrenched itself loose, while a small Niagara began to flood everything in sight. sl‘ho lieutenant is a pretty strong man, but he was not in it with the hose. Dick Grady rushed into a cell and then shut the door after him, but the hose waltzed up to the bars and Dick came near being drowned like a rat in a hole. Sergeant Mooney and Ofticer Toomey came in just then, and the hose greeted them with & liberal shower. Both men said something and retreated. Then the hose, as if endowed with renewed life, got after the lieutenant. His hand- some uniform and new hat looked like a sad memory of summer in a secofd. Like a great snake, the hose threw itself around, and nothing could bold it. Finally it got out of the jail and into the Chief's oflgu, where Mooney and Toomey were trying to figure out what had brpken loose. They stopped figuring and made a swift break for the inner office, but not until both had received another drenching. The Chief’s office was flooded in a sec- ond, and papers and everything loose went flying x-ighl‘:)e and left. Then the rubber hose started for the inner office, but some one outside just then turned the water off. ‘When a Republic reporter drifted in a few minutes later the officers were wring- ing out their hats and the wuter was two inches deep on the floor. That hose just lay there and laughed, while Dick Grady, who looked like a drowned rat, was hane- ing himself up by the fire to get dry.—St. Louis Republic. The Cactus The skin of the cactus is airtight, marvelous provision of nature to enable those plants to live in a soil where moist- m scarce, and nndfl;’ a lundthlt wo%lld v dry up every dro| accessible moisture they might wmp STRINGE PHASES OF SCHLATTER HEALING The mysterious German cobbler who has been working miracles of cure at Denver has gone into retirement, but his wonder- ful success has produced other Schlatters in various parts of the United States, and they in turn are feebly attempting to reproduce his success. It may be ex- pected chat the number of these persons will increase, that healing by this method will have its day and that we shall then drift back into the old condition of suffer- ing and doctors. But all that will detract nothing from Schlatter or the principle which he represents. For there can be no doubt that Schlat- ter relieved many thousands of sufferers. That, however, is a small matter beside the strange things of which his practices give us a glimpse. This opens up so wide a subject that a volume would be required for its intelligent discussion. It brings us face to face with that puzzling problem the solution of which to any cne's satis- faction must be a matter of individual temperament—the old problem as to whether many things which we observe proceed from material or supernatural sources. (The word ‘‘supernatural’”’ is used here in its sense of an assumed inter- ference with what we deem to be the estab- lished relation between cause and effect.) As there is never any profit in discussing matters which people decide with their hearts instead of their heads, let us see what a study of the material phase of the subject may be made to reveal. The only injunction that Schlatter gave to those seeking his ministrations was, | “Have faith.” That is, if they believed his ministration could cure it would. The pity of it is that, although the wisdom | lying behind that injunction explains the } efficacy of many vital things which con- | cern the happiness of mankind, it has never received adequate attention from the answered and that a bestowal of super- natural powers had been made. He might even honestly believe himself to be the Messiah. The very sincerity of this be« lief is an essential part of the faith in self that makes the doing of marvelous things possible. That is the third lesson. Solitude is a wonderful thing. As we are sociable animals, a removal of one of the influences whose impinging and re- action constitute so large a part of our lives must alone produce changes without considering the other causes at work. The writer of these lines knows something of the mysteries, terrors and effects of soli- tude on an organization susceptible to its influences. Not all temperaments can be deeply affected by it, but those which can be and have experienced it may speak with a certain understanding and convice tion. If, added to the fact of prolonged solitude, there is a determination on the part of the solitary to accept its fullest effects and at the same time to bend the mind persistently to definite lines of thought which will forward the general purpose of self-conquering, we have an overpowering combination of circume stances and conditions. These lines of definite thought are ordie | narily two—the conquering of the evil di- rectly and also by the elevation of the good, and persistent ruminating on heaven, the Creator, the scheme of the universe, the hidden purpose of all known things, the condition of the soul after | death and the needs of living humanity. The way to conquer self is learned by self-examination, by minute and longe continued introspection. When the evil is found and understood it may be mas- tered. And that is the fourth and last les- son. If the struggle has been perfectly sincere | and carried so far that no possible doubt educated professional healers of the sick. | of a complete victory can remain, the one Now this faith must be reciprocal; the | who has undergone it emerges radically physician, as well as the sufferer, must | have it. And that, too, is a piece of wis- dom which trained physicians do not seem fully to have mastered. To have confi- dence in one’s own power, in the right of one’s own convictions and the necessity of | their adoption by others, is the beginning and foundation of success. In persons of the Schlatter type this absolute faith in self has been acquired by an exceedingly interesting regimen, which presents so valuable a field for study that we must give it attention first. Almost invariably the person who feels this consciousness of power has suffered a radical internal change of some kind. For the sake of convenience we may call it a psychological change; that is. a reorgani- zation of mental views and processes. | Thus to define itreduces in not the slight- est degree the mystery and marvel of it. We know only that certain persons, by ! pursuing a certain course of self-teaching, | have emerged from it in a mental (or, if you please, spiritual) condition which we cannot comprehend and sometimes with powers that seem to be supernatural. Schlatier put himself through that course of self-instruction. So did Jesus of Naza- reth, so did Buddba. Such a course is taken by the wonder-working Mahatmas and howling Dervishes of India. Nearly all the medicineemen and exorcists of evil spirits among savage peoples put themselves through this course in a meas- ure. Ina milder and modified form it is followed by thousands of members of mod- ern Christian sects and orders, including some Catholic sisters and some of the ac- tive members of the Salvation Army. The principle which all of these observe isl older than history and is absolutely uni- versal. The watchword of this self-imposed regimen in seli-conquest. Its accomplish- ment may be extremely difficult, reasona- bly easy or perhaps %in some cases alto- gether impossible, for it is wholly a matter of individual temperament and adapia- bility. To conquer oneself is to conquer the evil in oneself. When the evil is con- quered the good remains and may operate unhampered by the evil. The good is that which loves nature and her handiwork, prefers wholesome things to unsound, likes beauty better than ugliness, has a re- gard for the health of self and the wisdom to cherish it, respects the natural obliga- tions of the social compact as they are de- veloped by the necessities growing out of the gregarious instinct of the race, and seeks to cultivate that which is good and exterminate that which is evil in others. The evil is all that which makes against the perfect efficiency of the good. Its positive definition would be interminable. There is a clear instinct within us which teaches us what to do in order to conquer self and so exterminate the evil. Seif- indulgence is indulgence of the evil; self- denial is destructive of the evil. There- fore a rigid asceticism is self-denial. That is the first lesson. Absolute self-denial is ordinarily impos. sible while we remain in contact with the ordinary conditions of life. Therefore, we must withdraw for a time—for a time covering the period necessary for the de- sired regeneration. That iz what Buddha did, what Jesus did, what Schlatter did, what the Catholic novitiates preparing for sisterhood do. It is wise and necessary. That is the second lesson. In this withdrawal we must pursue de- liberately a course of physical self-denial. Fasting is excellent. We must bear in mind the ancient maxim that “a con- stantly stuffed belly cannot discern spirit- ual things.” It may seem strange that asceticism is not a part of the positive teachings of Jesus. He stopped at voverty and an abstinence from overindulgence. But we must remember that he himself at one time practiced a very rigid asceticism. He is reported to have fasted forty days and nights in the wilderness. Likely this means only that he subsisted on what he could find in the wilderness, which must have been little. Although this was a species of lasting, it seems evident that prolonged fasting, for its psychological or spiritual effects, was not deemed an essen- tial part of his self-imposed course.- Like Buddha, he seemed to regard meditation and self-examination as more important, as undoubtedly it is. That was the view of Socrates. The wilderness offered the seclusion necessary to that accomplish- ment, and fasting was an incident of and incredibly changed. We have been | considering the matter solely in its psy« | chological (or, if you please, spiritual) ase pect. Suppose that in addition to the mae terial change that must have been worked, we add a conscientious belief, an unqualis fied conviction, that there has been an open revelation and likely an actual ine vestiture of superhuman powers, then it is easy to understand that one is equipped with a faith sufficient to move mountains and may work miracles in the world. Such a man’s faith isso great that it in spires faith even in those who have not subjected themselves to the regimen which produced his. He may be not only a healer of ills but the founder of a religion. It was this faith that led Joan of Arc at the head of an army through France, and carried Peter the Hermit and the obedient Crusaders toward the stronghold of the in- fidel. That was the faith that Jesus had and that is to-day inspiring his followers in Are menia to die in his name. And thatis the faith by which Schlatter, the ignorant cobe bler, heals the-thousands of sick who seek his ministrations. Our learned friends the doctors smile pityingly when these matters come to theiz notice. They will say, with a wisdom which is all the more dangerous because it is partly true, that cures effected by faith of this kind represent merely a condition of mental ecstacy; that this condition thrives by consuming vital energy which might better be employed in the eradica~ tion of the disease; that the disease is in no sense cured, but that the pain which ordinarily accompanies it has been ob- scured by the mental exaltation of the suf- Lferer, just as opium or alcobol might ob- scure it, and that the disease is still reg« nant and advancing, and eventually will make itself manifest in an aggravated form. It is difficult for them to believe that this is not wholly true. The danger of their philosophy lies not only in its measure of truth but in its blindness to the fact that, as in the case of those who have acquired faith by self-cone quest, it is possible to work marvelous changes in the mind, that the mind isa vowerful agency in determining the health of the body, and that the giving of medi- cine is not the only rational method of cure. How many physicians are there who realize that a patient’s faith in their ability to cure is oftener more potent than the medicines which they administer? When they have learned that wonderful truth, itself a refutation of much that they believe, they will be ready to proceed in those wider walks which the ignorant cobbler of Denver and many others have opened before them. Big Illinois Turtle. 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