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    An Epoch in History
    An Epoch in History
    An Epoch in History
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    An Epoch in History

    By P. H. (Peter Harden) Eley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      An Epoch in History - P. H. (Peter Harden) Eley

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      Title: An Epoch in History

      Author: P. H. Eley

      Release Date: April 5, 2007 [eBook #20996]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN EPOCH IN HISTORY***

      E-text prepared by Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      AN

      EPOCH

      IN

      HISTORY

      P. H. ELEY

      TO MY MOTHER,

      whose tender love and devotion for me are ever unchanged, I dedicate this book.

      Copyright, 1904, by P. H. ELEY.

      CONTENTS.

      An Epoch in History.

      Manila.

      A Drama in Actual Life.

      What the Teachers Did.

      A Baile.

      A Sketch of Life in the Philippines.

      The Filipino at Home.

      A Visit to a Leper Colony.

      A Hike.

      PREFACE.

      It was the good fortune of the author to take part in a movement without precedent in the history of the world, and the incidents concurrent with, together with those subsequent to that movement, have furnished the material for this book. It has been the object of the writer to weave into the story of his actual experiences an account of those things which are as yet an unexplored field in the realm of letters. The work is submitted to the reader in the hope that it will prove to be pregnant with interest to those who are in sympathy with great movements and to those who listen with delight to stories of personal experiences in distant lands and among strange peoples.

      The Author.

      The Virginia Polytechnic Institute, April, 1904.

      CHAPTER I.

      AN EPOCH IN HISTORY.

      Few people pause to think that Tuesday, the twenty-third day of July, nineteen hundred and one, not only placed a mile-stone on the road of civilization, but also marked an epoch in the history of the world.

      That day placed a mile-stone on the road of civilization because it saw the culmination of one of the greatest movements ever attempted in behalf of common school education. It marked an epoch in the history of the world because, for the first time within the knowledge of man, a conquering people, instead of sending battalions of soldiers to hold the conquered in subjection, sent a carefully selected body of men and women to carry to them the benefits of a highly developed society.

      It was on this day that the United States Government sent from San Francisco four hundred and ninety-nine trained men and women to establish throughout the Philippine Islands a system of free public schools.

      The ball on the tower of the Ferry Building in San Francisco had just fallen, announcing the hour of noon on the one hundred and twentieth meridian, when the propellers began revolving and the United States Army Transport Thomas swung out into the middle of the bay, where it dropped anchor for a few moments while some belated boxes of lemons and a few other articles were added to the equipment of the steward’s department.

      The anchor was again on its way to the surface when a row-boat driven by four oarsmen with drawn muscles and clenched teeth glided in under the bow of the ship. Its passenger, a belated teacher who at the last moment had wandered from the pier, was shouting for some one to throw him a rope, and a few moments later our last passenger whose silvery hair little indicated the probability of such a blunder was landed in a heap

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