People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Page 3

STRANGE STRUCTURES.

Some of the Queer Buildings of the White City. Odd and Airy Dwellings of the Jitumm Straw-Stack Hats of the South Sea Islanders Notes in General. [Special Ohloago Correspondence. 1 There never was a queerer lot of buildings gotten together than are to be seen in the Columbian metropolis at Jackson park. Scattered throughout the grounds are all the different styles of architecture of every race of people on the globe, from the bush hut of the Australian ranger to the palace of the American millionaire. A study of the primitive structures of the savages of far distant islands of the great oceans is afforded the people of the big cities of civilization, who but for this grand fair would have had no knowledge of them save that gleaned from books of travel. There is also an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with the manners and customs of the strange races of the earth in their everyday life at the fair, for everything is just as it is in their native villages beyond the big waters. In the fair grounds proper there are the Esquimaux, the cliff dwellers of the southwest and the aborigines of the eastern states. These are domiciled each colony by itself in dwellings fashioned after those of their native habitations, conforming as near os pos-

sible to the native architecture for the benefit of the civilized world. The little people of the extreme north in their enforced imitation of semitropic customs are not altogether in their proper element, but they manage to hang on to the ragged edge of existence and give a very faithful representation of their home life in the frigid ■one.

FIJI DRUMMER.

In somewhat as forlorn a condition are the tawny-skinned denizens of the mountains of Mexico, who, in order to carry out the idea of being’ domiciled in their native state, are compelled to lead a counterfeit existence in a huge heap of tin fashioned as nearly like a miniature mountain as the carpenters and tinners of the fair could make it.

A BUSH HUT.

Then there are the various tribes of eastern Indians in their make-believed tepees over on the lake front Here there is a more faithful representation of natural conditions than is to be found in either of the other colonies. But for the genuine article of primitive architecture the Midway Plaisance must be sought Here are the Laplanders, South Sea islanders, Javanese, Dahomeyans, all of whom hold forth in villages composed of houses fashioned After the ones they live in when at home in their own countries. More pieturesqne and airy than the ml are, possibly, the diminutive dwell-

ings of the Javanese. Constructed wholly of bamboo and matting made of bamboo splints, they are the perfection of hot weather quarters. From a casual glAnce one would think they would hardly withstand the faintest puff of wind, so lightly are they constructed, yet through the many severe blows to which Chicago has been subjected since they were erected they have remained intact. Among the queer structures of this quaint little village is the theater building in the central portion of the grounds. This is a somewhat pretentious building to be constructed of such light material. It is about thirty feet high, thirty feet wide and fifty feet long and is composed of nothing but bamboo poles, ingeniously put together, and matting such as is used on the other houses. The work of building this village was a mammoth undertaking for the little brown people who inhabit it, but in their leisurely fashion they finally accomplished it, and are now quite comfortable and contented in their little dove-cotes of houses. □Nearly as odd as the houses of the diminutive Javanese are the huts of the Fijians, close by on the opposite side of the Plaisance. Strongly resembling scooped-ont straw stacks of an ancient date, they nevertheless afford the inhabitants ample protection from all kinds of weather. This is all that is required of them, as the highest conception of comfort of which these people are capable is a full stomach and a place-to crawl into and sleep. We might go on and enumerate the

JAVA VILLAGK.

different styles of architecture in vogue among the civilized nations, but lack of space will not permit- Suflice it to say that there is hardly a characteristic architecture in the world that is not represented in our great White City. And not only the buildings are shown, but the minutest details of everyday life are faithfully portrayed, so that a few hours spent among the villages of the fair will afford about as much knowledge of the different countries as would a complete tour of the world.

JAPANESE ART.

Some Wonderful Specimens at the World’s Fair. The significance of the Japanese department of the world’s fair at Chicago lies in the fact that here for the first time has the policy of self-development in modern oriental art an opportunity of justifying itself by results, however immature. By its promotel’s were the government plans for its exhibition drafted and superintended; by its professors and pupils were the most important of the detached works and all of the decorations executed, and through its influence has the prevailing character of native and original design been throughout stimulated. It is well understood by the authorities that Japan’s future position in the world’s art cannot be established by throwing away her special gifts of pure and delicate design, in the quixotic desire to compete with France an<£ America in the field of realistic oilpainting. Neither can she fall back listlessly upon the fame of her past achievements. She must grapple with living problems. She assumes that in her art courses sap enough for new possibilities. While at Vienna, at Paris and at Philadelphia her triumphs were largely in her loan collections of antiques and in modern replicas, at Chicago for the first time has she deliberately dared to be original, and to ask the world’B favor for her contemporary art on its own merits.

Candor compels one first of all to say that to Mr. Kakuzo Okakura, the director of the Fine Arts academy, more than any other one man, is the credit for this wonderful Japanese exhibit due. The wise touch of his advice is everywhere felt, from the architectural casket which reproduces the interesting proportions and decorations of the Biodoin temple at Uji. founded in the eleventh century, to the new departures in shape and glaze of the humblest pottery. In paintings the display is small but choice, the severity of the native juries having apparently exceeded that which has been deprecated in our own. —Century.

A Scotchman, who employs four thousand French women in Paris making lace, has sent a pair of curtains for a bay window. In the six months required for the making of these curtains two thousand different women worked on them. The cost of this single pair of curtains three yards long was six thousand dollars. The Scotchman himself came to superintend the hanging of his fifty thousand dollars’ worth of lace exhibit. Wisconsin has a five-acre patch of cranberries growing, and will harvest a crop in September.

THE WORK OF SAVAGES.

■*ajr Queer TLilac* In the Australian Exhibit. Interesting, though largely “photographic,” is the Australian collective exhibit in the Anthropological building. Haring joined forces with the British South Sea island possessions, many curious native implements are shown. Inlaid bowls, modeled in carious design, combs, idols, hair pins, paddles and inlaid wooden spears, with one thousand other odds and ends, and photographs bewildering make up the collection. Although chiefly the work of cannabalistic tribes, some beautiful bits of decorative wood and pearl show the artistic in the savage; and, what is more, the Illawarra tribe from New South Wales has an artist whose paintings are on exhibition and highly value! His name was “Mickey,” and he was the shining light of the tribe. “Mickey” wasn’t always an artist For many years he fought and battled with opposing tribes, but from exposure rheumatism set into his joints and he was unable to walk. He lay around hit hut unable to move, and realizing that his days were nearly over he gave up all hope of ever again throwing the friendly boomerang in warfare, and decided to make a name for himself and to prove to the world that he was not an ordinary savage. So he drew pictures of fishes in the water, boats sailing, and trees—in fact, made pictures of his own native heath. Viewed from an artist’s standpoint they are not in harmony with the modern French ideas, but as a savage expression of art are interesting and show great knowledge of form. “Mickey” is dead now, but he has accomplished his ideal and we know he rests in the realm of the great. Mr. Bowman, the superintendent of the exhibit, says ho would speak to no one while at work, but kept away from the tribe, and when his picture was finished would call the chiefs and have a grand dance. “Mickey” was also a “Duk-Duk,” and of course on that account was much respected by the cannibals all over ths Islands. The Duk-Duk is a secret society on the island of Tareyn and is strictly tabu. So strict are the rules of the organization that should an uninitiated boy or woman chance upon the island he or she would be instantly killed or beaten and tortured to death. The belief of the islanders is that the DukDuk are devils, and as they carry bones around their neck which when shaken make a great rattle, the superstition is that the Duk-Duk’s bones are not in the body, but outside, and they shake in the wind. Should a Duk-Duk visit another island sqge death would befall the chief of the island visited. The Bystem of Duk-Duk has lodges all over the island, and Mr. Bowman says that they are organized purely for the purpose of promoting cannibalism and preventing the white man from civilizing and instructing them.

INDIAN EDUCATION.

The Canadian Exhibit in the Liberal Arts Building: at the World’s Fair. In some particulars the British methods of managing the North American Indians has been more successful than that pursued by the white people south of the great lakes. In Canada’s exhibit in the Liberal Arts building there is an Indian exhibition which shows .that the Canadians have relied upon the education of the Indians to control them. Lpng preceding like effort in the United States, the Canadians have had Indian industrial schools in operation, and the exhibit in Canada’s display consists of products of these schools, and along with it at present are seven Indian girls and boys. They are from the northwest territory, and are pupils of St Albert’s school, Edmonton, San Boniface’s school, opposite Winnipeg, and the school at Battleford on the Saskatchewan river. The girls and boys represent the Crees, Satteux and Muskegons of the northwest territory, and are from the blanketed or mdst uncivilized tribes of the dominion. The children are kept at work before* the public at their respective trades, and make an interesting and creditable showing at mantua-making, harnessmaking, boot and shoe making, and typesetting. They are surrounded by samples of work from all the industrial schools, and in contrast are arrayed Indian fabrications,feathered garments, utensils and weapons, which they made wore, and used in the savage state.

The exhibit in its entirety is striking and interesting, and instructive in showing what the Canadians are doing for its six hundred children in the industrial schools and seven thousand at the Indian day and boarding schools. The children at present at work will be replaced by others soon from other schools, and Charles de Cazes, who has the Canadian Indian exhibit in charge, will shortly have some of the blanketed Indians of the northwest territory added to Prof. Putnam’s ethnological exhibit

The Temperance Conventions.

The World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance union and the National Woman’s Christian Temperance union of the United States will hold their conventions on successive days beginning October 16, 1893, in the city of Chicago, in the Memorial Art Institute building, in which are held all the great congresses of the Columbian exposition year. This will be the twentieth convention of ths White Ribboners of the United States and the second biennial convention of the World’s W. C. T. U. The convention of the World’s W. C. T. U. will be composed of its general officers and executive committee, the secretaries and treasurers of auxiliary national societies, the world’s superintendents of departments, the editors and publishers of the official organ and one additional delegate for every one tkousand members of auxiliary national societies. Fobty-fivk engines are in the power plant, not including motors scattered all through the White City. There is one engine twice as large as the great Corliss over which the world wondered at the centennial.

PRETTY POEMS.

Think It Over. **l» not my price of grade— Be It the very beat that's made— Nor yet by dealing fair; “Tts not by tact nor by address, Nor trick* of salesmanship, much less, Nor buying with great care; But It’s by advertisement's light, Kept trimmed and always burning bright, Men principally get there. —Chicago Dispatch. Just About to Fall. Have yon seen the happy mother when the babe begins to talk? Have you seen her teach the tiny tangled feet the way to walk? Ever near each slender shoulder, yet so feeble and so small. With her ready hands to hold her, when she's just about to fall. Shut your eyes and you oan see her In the baby's childhood days, When the golden gleam of sunset on her tangled tresses plays; And the mother, though grown older, still is near enough to call, With her ready hands to hold her when she's just about to fall Now the baby Is a woman, and she’s bending o'er a bed. Where the spirit from tbs body of her gentle mother fled; As the lifeless limbs grow colder, “Motherl Mother 1” hear her oall, But there are no hands to hold her and she’s just about to fall. Launched alone on life’s rough ocean, she Is drifting with the years, But the voyage Is a lonely one, and, sometimes, through her tears Shs can seem to see her mother; she can almost hear her oall, And by faith she sees another hand to hold her should she fall. —Cy Warman, in N. Y. Sun. Con earning Weather. When th* atmospheric forces and all that sort of thing Bring the cold and outtlng winter season here, And the Iridescent snowflakes of ithlch the poets sing Chase themselves, In chilly frolic, through the air; When the winds are penetrating, and ths frost is on the ground, And pedestrian looomotlon’s rather slow: When the cars are half an hour late whenever homeward bound Because tho horses oan't get through the snow;

Then the voice of man arises and he tells a funny tale As to how he loves the gentle summer days, When the flowers nod and whisper in the lovely hawthorn dale, And.he basks beneath the smiling sun's bright rays. But when the whirligig of time brings “gentle summer” on, And he wilts and melts beneath the scorching disk. The Inconsistent mortal sings another kind o' song, As to how he loves the winter cold and brisk. —Philadelphia Ledger.

Home Seekers’ Excursions.

On August 22nd, September 12th and October 10th, 1893, round trip tickets at very low rates will be sold by the Santa Fe Route to the following destinations, viz: To points in south-western Missouri, to all points in Kansas, Nebraska. Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Texas; the greater part of New Mexico, and also to Phoenix and Tempo in Arfczona. Tickets will be good from starting point on date of sale only, and for continuous passage in both directions, with a final limit for return passage of not more twenty days from date of sale; except that stop-overs will be granted within the limit beyond the first Harvest Excursion point on the route of the ticket. Detailed information can be obtained from the nearest ticket agent of the Santa Fe Route or on application to Jno. J. Byrne, Assistant Passenger Traflio Manager, Chicago, IIL * ‘ls Thompson in business now?” “Onlv In a very quiet way. He is silent partner in a private deaf and dumb institute.”—lndianapolis Journal.

Cheap Excursions to the West.

An exceptionally favorable opportunity for visiting ths richest and most productive aections of the west and northwest will be afforded by the series of low rate harvest excursions which have been arranged by the North Western Line. Tickets for these excursions will be sold on August 22A, September 12th and Ootober 10th, 1893, to points in Northwestern lowa, Western Minnesota North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba. Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah and will bs good for return passage within twenty days from date of sale. Stop-ovei privileges will be allowed on going trip i»; territory to which the tickets are sold. FOl further information call on or addresr Ticket Agents of connecting lines. Circulars giving rates and detailed information will be mailed free, unon application to W A- Thrall, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago & North-Western Railway, Chicago. Ths man who recently countermanded his wife’s order for photographs did so because he bad heard it was a “speaking” likeness. “There are conditions," said the man who started the ventilating fan, “under which one is justified in putting on airs.”— Washington Star. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken internally. Bold by Druggist*, 76a

THE MARKETS.

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Auditorium, Chicago.

That most gorgeous of stage spectacles “America" retains its tenacious hold on the public. The Italian opera season lfc postponed until March, 1804. The difference between a tight window and a "tight" man on a railroad train is that one you can’t open and the other you can’t shut up.—Yonkers Statesman. Butcher—'“Didn’t like that ham! Why, it was some I cured invsclf.” Customer—‘Call that ham cured) "Why, man, It wasn’t oven con valescent.”—Boston Transcript. Outraged Author (fiercely)—“Sir, your abuse of my book admilsof no explanation 1” Candid Critic (calmly) "Oh, yes, it does. I read it."—Puck. Keep the pores open is essential to health. Glenn’s Sulphur Soap does this. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 60 cents. Love is blind; but its imagination is equipped with double-barreled telescopes.— Truth. Dyspepsia, impaired digestion, weak stomach, and constipation will be instantly relieved by Beeoham’s Pills. 25 cents a box. “That,” said the rapid young man, as be pointed to his steam yacht, “is my floating indebtedness.”—Washington Btar. The reason that tho geysers at the National park leap so high is because they are composed of spring water.—Lowell Courier. A littb boy was asked what the Sunday school text was. He answered; “Many are oold, but few are frozen.”—Newark Call.

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