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*^.:( *% ,, «* -ViStA A isJIWSr *\ rf»t# i,: > >, < * •* ..*W ...va , «v.» JtHufe* W WitWifi _ p5 ,1 TRAIL OF THE f AMERICAN {*K {••) y>\y . - . . - •». . . I V i i i ,4-l; '.v' ,v,-^ TOI IWNQO «Et«^ ^'O y WILLIAM T. ELLIS Tkt« Dit«nrH*h*d American JamaR* Is TraYellnt Around tha World for tha Purpoaa d l«restie*«n» thi Amartcwi Fw*tf«lwfe •ionarjr from a Purely DMntewisted, Secutai and Non-Sectarian Standpoint. Illustrated with Drawings and from Photographs." ??• r> MISSIONARIES CREATING A NEW KOREA Taiku, Korea.--Picturesque, placid «nd pitiable, whi^erobed but not an­ gelic, Korea stands at the cross roads of the orient, a personification of the Jar eastern question. Religiously con­ sidered, the situation here is doubt­ less the most interesting in the world. Certainly this is the most promising fnd successful missionary fleid now before the eye of Christendom. The contrast between Korea and Japan in this latter respect is marked. Across the strait, the missionaries are All concerned over the independence tBOvemeat in the native church, and fearful lest they should do or say (something to offend the sensitive Jap­ anese pride. Here, the missionary has Hone of these problems; his one con­ cern is how to visit all the localities that are calling for him, and how to find time to instruct all the cate­ chumens awaiting him, and to receive Into the church the men and women ready for membership, since some churches can be visited only every three months or half yearly. In a word, here are missionary conditions taore nearly ideal, and more nearly What the Christians in America think foreign missions to be, than in the «aore famous country of Japan. Wiping a Nation Off the Earth. If ever a country needed the/con­ ciliations of religion, it is poor Korea. a* a consequence, chiefly, of her own Incapacity and official corruption, she ins fallen into the hands of a power­ ful neighbor, who. apparently, fs sys­ tematically effacing all the manifesta­ tions of Korean national life and iden- ;•>!wt. Bn Idas *• • priaonar. anable should have been 20 sen each. He of­ fered 25. The Japanese 'rickshaw men, knowing that be was a foreigner, asked a dollar apiece. When, at my advice, he refused to give it, those two coolies came intcf my parlor, took out their pipes and began to smoke. There they stayed until 1 paid them a dollar ajjlece." The Doctor's Opportunity. One phase of missions about which there are no two opinions is the medi- i cal work. Immediately upon landing in Korea from Japan I came in touch with this for the first time, because the Japanese have their own medical science, and there is practically no medical mission work, In the usual, sense, in that country. On the hill­ side as the traveler enters Fusan har­ bor, he sees flying a Red Cross flag, and this, he learns, floats over the hospital of the American Presbyterian mission. This is the only hospital in Fusan and it was the first fully equip­ ped modern hospital ever established in Korea. It was started 13 years ago by Dr. Charles H. Irvln, of Ohio, Who has ever since been the only physician in the hospital, and the only European doctor in Fusan. The building would be counted small as hospitals go in the West, hut it has half a dozen wards, with two, three or four beds each, aa operating room, a convalescents' room and a dispen­ sary, with waiting rooms for men and women, the sexe§ being separated in Korea. The only assistants are Ko­ reans whom Dr. Irrin himself has trained. When I visited the hospital Mads of Traveling In Korea. » & - £09 much <i~ ^ ;*»<*» A p«M to his owa «Hd unused palace, except as he ob- i$aina permission to do so from a Japa­ nese functionary. Her laws are now made and administered by Japanese. jHer government institutions are all anunaged by the latter. Even the sem- ! glance of self-government is being ! rested from her feeble hand; while vobbery, abuse, oppression, injustice H <and even murder are the tot of lier ' V 'fommon people. J.... Into these intensely interesting and •' > • Significant questions it is not the pur- -."*."5 jpose of this article to enter. To indi­ cate them, however, is essential, if ?*- conditions here are to be understood. *V for in their helpleseneas and misery, •7'# the people are turning to the Ameri- -j'ican missionaries as their only friends find advisers. The king hi&seff leans A r more heavily upon the protection and | counsel of certain of the older Amer- L")\ Jiean missionaries than upon the most f/ trusted of Korean patriots. On one if'J ^occasion, when a great plot was in |;" {process of execution, including an at* «tack upon the palace, the king sought f"% tfor the presence and help of three tfff .American missionaries, and while a *3 £ unob of thousands howled outside the ^ jpalace walls and soldiers surrounded W the Imperial quarters, his majesty # clung--literally and physically clung-- p for protection to these three Ai&erl- |t.. ~ cans. |||\ t J The Missionary and Polltlea. •$fr * Like ruler, like people. I was in- |F" apecting this city--or mud village of |t' • 60,000 people, as you may choose to I , . call it--with a young American mis- MfK '* sionary, when an old man came to him for counsel and help, his aged wife having been brutally attacked by ,, Japanese. The poor missionary is In Sj'f straits. He will not meddle in poli- •J . tics. Whatever his sympathies, he 4are not take sides on such questtons, •1%/ " jsnd so he is forever fending off the distressed and the persecuted, and bid- 4ing them endure their wrongs with T Christian fortitude. ! " Already I have found illustrations of self-restraint and forbearance on the part of missionaries in the pursuit or their ui^ult rsle, that SU wiiu tHf! i, admiration? After hearing of the ar- 1 rogance and excesses committed by $$>': 1 the Japanese immigrants upon white JfS; foreigners, as well as upon Koreans, 1^4 I asked a muscular big missionary, 8%^ : who looks as if he could administer fefe the law, as well as the gospel, how he § 5 $ mauaged to get along. "For the sake of my work, I Just give In. When a Japanese coolie bumps into me on the !§•;' • street and! tries to knock me down, I g simply say^ 'Excuse me,' and step i*:'. ' aside. A gentleman and Us wife came §£• *" to my house a few weeks ago in Jin- > • rtettakas froa' the station. Tba fee ft . .Ah. rA*l» I found each of the waiting rooms oc­ cupied by a group of patients. To the mea, a venerable Korean evangelist, in wide horn spectacles, the curious horse hair stovepipe hat of his race, and a long flowing white robe, was talking religion. A Bible woman does a like servlee for the girls and women who visit the dispensary. In the con­ valescents' room I saw a young man who, afflicted with cataract of both eyes, had literally crawled over the mountainous part of a 200-mile jour­ ney, walking the rest of the way, and spending more than two months on the trip. Dr. Irvin had cured him* In little more than 12 years Dr. Irvin has treated 100,000 patients, and has per­ formed more than 6,000 major opera­ tions. The Orient JAs It Is. Coming to this city of Tafltu, in cars made in Wilmington; Del., and drawn by a Philadelphia-made locomo­ tive, I found the Orient in all its an­ cient picturesqueness. Port cities al­ ways show the touch of the West upon them. Talku has not so much as a jinrickisha, nor roads for it to travel on. The streets are narrow lanes, lined with mud fences and houses. Each Korean house has its own com­ pound, or enclosure. The houses themselves are very low and very small. The usual room Is eight feet square and in this a whole family will liye. As for furoiture, there practic­ ally is no suQh thing. A chest of drawers will hold the family posses­ sions, while others dangle from the rafters. A block of wood serves foip a pillow; the Oriental sees nothing,1 strange in Jacob's "btony pillow at Bethel. The houses are thatched with straw, tied on with ropes. A village presents a dull gray appearance seen from any distance. Large ugly dogs, noisy but cowardly, swarm the streets waiting for the inevitable day when they will find their way onto their master's tables. Talku is surrounded by a wall, in the fashion of all Korean cities; but the day I arrived the Jap­ anese had begun to tear this down, after standing for centuries. The American Colony Abroad. On a commanding site outaiue the city of Taiku I found a settlement of American missionaries living in houses of mixed Korean and Western architecture. Formerly some of them lived in native houses right down in the heart of the city, where, I do not hesitate to say, no white' man, mis* sionary or otherwise should ever live, I quite agree with the contention that a missionary should get as close/as possible to his people; but not at the separable from residence in a real na» tive house i$ a crowded Korean com­ munity. These missionaries at Taiku are all Presbyterian, except the French priest, who has an imposing European ehirrch on the edge of the city. The Presby­ terians, North, South aiid Canadian, and the Methodists, North and South, and the Roman Catholics, have a mo­ nopoly of the mission work in Korea, except a modest enterprise by the Aus­ tralian Presbyterians and the Anglic­ ans. All the missionaries in Talku are young people; yet some are called "old missionaries;" which reminds one of the fact that all mission work In Kofea is of comparatively recent de­ velopment. It is only 20 years slnde Korea was "the hermit nation," and 20 years since the arrival of the first missionary. Each year since the be­ ginning, the number of converts has been doubling, and the additions to the Protestant churches for the pres­ ent year are given at 30,000. Korea, with 12,000,000 population, and 200 missionaries, has nearly. If not quite, as many Protestant converts as Japan, with 45,000,000 population ahd mora than 800 missionaries. The little colony of nine Americana here--including one unmarried wom­ an, Miss Cameron, who lives alone in a little house overrun with rats and mice, of which she is afraid!--consists of Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Adams, Dr. and Mrs. W. O. Johnson, Rev. and Mra H. M. Bruen, Rev. E. F. Macfarland and Rev. Walter J. Erdman. They have Imparted somewhat of an Amieri- can air to their compound (every mis­ sion residence is surrounded by a fence or wall, and is called a com­ pound) by setting out fruit trees and flowers from the homeland, so that they have apples, and peaches, straw­ berries, etc. They exchange plants and cuttings with their neighbor, the French priest. Prom him they obtain­ ed their strawberries, which proved to 'be bread upon the waters, for last year every one of the priest's plants perished and he was obliged to get a fresh start from which he had given to Ike Americans. Re-Making a Nation. A busier lot of missionaries than these I have not yet seen; most of them are engaged chiefly in country work, itinerating for weeks at a time among the villages. Down in Taiku I visited the mission's primary school, where a hive of gaily dressed young­ sters were crowded in a native house, studying their lessons at the top of their lungs, and swaying tb and fro as they studied. In another little na­ tive house I found Mr. Adams teach­ ing the beginnings of a higher educa­ tion to 23 Korean young men--most of them, by the way, with their hair up, in token that they are married. There is practically no modern education in Korea except that given by the mis­ sionaries The latter are spreading the desire and the opportunity for an education throughout the country, and many say that this will be the means of preserving the national identity. So general is the belief that the in­ fluence of Christian schools, churches and literature may help Korea to find herself after centuries of Ignorance, corruption and oppression, that I have been told by other than missionaries, that the, Japanese government is back­ ing a Buddhist propaganda and organ­ izing a new native religion, in order to counteract the widespread accept ance of Christianity. The mission­ aries are alert to keep the churches from being used for political purposes. The Koreans, for eiimple, not long ago established more than 1,000 patri­ otic societies, which they called "Y M. C. A-'s" and the officials of the as­ sociation had to secure an Imperial edict correcting the abuse. The missionaries have a thousand Protestant and a thousand Roman Catholic adherents in Taiku. The church of the former is simply primitive native house, enlarged again and again, until more than 500 persons can crowd into it for the weekly serv ice. It looks scarcely large enough to hold 100, American fashion, but the Koreans sit cross-legged on the floor and crowd closely together. The women are separated from the men by a curtain, and In church they remove the cloak which ordinarily conceals their faces. Tb1® particular church, like all others In Korea, is entirely self-supporting, Mission funds are here not used for the churches, but entirely for medical, educational and evangelistic work. (Copyright, 1407. by loaeph BowlesJ i • t f I . % \ N •»- MR8. BULLOCK WORK*A» HA# SCALED HIMALAYA PEAKg. Marvelous Peats of Daring Whlch This :^^American Woman Has Aceo*** ptished--Is Eager for New dp. Tasks and Triumphs. It ; js an American woman who has won the distinction of having §$aled the highest peak of the Himalayas, that of Nun Kim, 23,300 feet above the aea level. There are many intrepid women mountain climbers, but Mrs. Bullock Workman is queen of them all, having ascended to altitudes-at­ tained by few men. " In her perilodh • V.i' -At THlkTY-ONE DEAD IN MICHIGAN WRECK 8HOCKINO COLLISION BETWEEN EXCURSION < TRAIN AND A FREIGHT--CREW OF LATTER FORGOT THEIR ORDERS- LITTLE CITY OF JONIA FULL OF MOURNINQ FAMILIES./ Detroit, Mick.--The death llat aa a result of Saturday's collision near Balem between an excursion train and a freight train stands now at 31, but among the 100 injured in this city and Ionia, eight are reported to be in a serious condition and not out of danger. There are 61 injured people at their homes in Ionia and 42 were brought to the hospitals in this city for treat­ ment.. Of the long list of suffering persons at Ionia but one, Mrs. H. Dur- ling, whose husband and son were killed, is reported to be in a danger­ ous condition. Seven of the injured In the local hospitals are not yet out of danger. These are: Banner Hug- gins, Mrs. Catherine Selbach, John B. Anderson, Abraham Eddy, William Beals, Mrs. Nellie Dalson and Mrs. Catherine Smith. AH are residents of lonta. Terrible Blow to iMiTti* Sunday was a day of grief and mourning' in the little city of Ionia, which is 130 miles west of Detroit. Mayor John N. Bible says he esti­ mates that one in every 50 of the city's inhabitants W»B either killed or injured in the wreck. All of Saturday aight members of a citizens' commit­ tee, which was appointed when the extent of the catastrophe was realized, were at work visiting the homes of the dead and injured and arranging for medical attention and assistance wliece it was necessary. All of the city's normal activities have prac­ tically been suspended and every one Is devoting attention to the wreck vic­ tims. One of the most pathetic cases of suffering is the Hass family, which lost its father and two sons. They were the breadwinners, and a widow and six children are left nearly desti­ tute by the death of Charles, Herman and Paul Hasa. • Not until Sunday was the identity of all the dead positively established, and an accurate list made up. AU but five vietims whose names are on the death roll lived in Ionia. Victims Ware on Excursion. The passenger train, of 11 cars, was bringing the Pere Marquette shop em­ ployes of Ionia and their families to Detroit for their annual excursion. It was running at high speed down a grade when It met the freight trai: head-on. The locomotives were smashed an behind them six cars of the passenger train lay piled in a hopeless wreck. Four of the passenger coaches re­ mained on the track undamaged and were used to convey the dead and in­ jured to Ionia. One coach was un­ damaged, with only its forward truck off the rails. These were the rear five cars. The two coaches next ahead of these were telescoped. One of these was the smoker, where most ot the victims were riding. \ The freight *,rain was moving slow­ ly up the grade in the cut when the excursion flyer bore down on it. L. B. Alvord, engineer of the passenger, saw the crash was inevitable, and after setting the air brake jumped, with his fireman, Knowles. Alvord caped serious injury, bdt Khowles died of his hurts. « After the first frensy of terror sub­ sided the uninjured passengers began to give succor to those who were hurt and remove the bodies of the dead, which were seen on all sides, pinned down in the debris. Fear that the wreckage might taJke fire lent speed to their efforts. v Crew of Freight at Fault;.. ~t Responsibility is put squarely ohto the crew of the freight train by of­ ficials of the road. One of them, #ho arrived at the scene of the wreck soon after the accident, took from the crew of the freight the orders under which it was running. They clearly showed the position of the passenger excur­ sion .train and that the freight had en­ croached on the other train's running time. The special train was due at Salem at 9:10' a. m. and at Plymouth at 9:20 a. m. It passed Salem, on time. The time card of the special was telegraphed to the freight crew in the form of a train order, and this order, with the signatures of the freight train crew attached, was recovered by the officials. The freight crew explained that they "forgot about the special." HAYWOOD EVIDENCE EXCLUDED. I The Workman Party on Edge cf Crev­ asse in Himalayas, 21,500 Feet Above Sea Level. explorations and mountatn climbing >«be has been accompanied by her hus- ban^, Dr. Bullock Workman, and to- geth'&Kthey have been la places never before trod by the fopt of the white man. It cannot be tl^ fascination which lies In beating te&ords which attracts Mrs. Workman to the dangerous and trying pastime of mountain climbing. Some years ago she topped all pre­ vious records made by women by scal­ ing the Siegfried in the Himalayas, reaching a height of 18,750 feet above Bea level. Since then she has had only her own records to beat. But she has kept on doing it, year after year. "Excelsior" must be her motto. By the ascent of Mt. Bullock she advanced her record another 810 feet. Her subsequent records were: "D 14," 20,700 feet; the Koser Gun^l, 21,000; Mt Chogo, 21,500; Mt. Blungma, 22,500, and this last ascent carried her an­ other 740 feet higher. On this recent occasion the daring t tflCt That Bearing on Alleged Counter Con­ spiracy Shut Out. Boise, Idaho.--The field for argu­ ment both for the prosecution and de­ fense of William D. Haywood has been limited by Judge Wood, who in a decision handed down Friday re­ moved from consideration of the jury all evidence - bearing on the alleged conspiracy of mine owners and others against the Western Federation of Miners. Immediately following the an­ nouncement of this decision argument commenced. Judge Hawiey, leading counsel fo. the state, spoke for two hours and fifteen minutes. His address after the opening state­ ment, in which he explained that he had "none of the grace of words that constitute an orator,"" was at times eloquently impassioned but withal a plain analysis of the case. He char acterized the case as the "most impor­ tant ever given to a jury in the United States," and urged the jury to a serious consideration of the respons­ ibility placed upon it His denuncia­ tion of the defendant and his cocon spirators as the "worst band of crim lnals that ever infested any section of this country," was forceful, and his eulogy of ex-Gov. Steunenberg elo­ quent in the extreme. .v * Midshipman Cruae Burled. Washington,--With full military honors, Midshipman James F. Cruae, one of the victims of the explosion on the battle ship Georgia last Monday, was buried at the Arlington national cemetery Sunday. Maj. and' Mrs. Thomas Cruse, of, Omaha, Neb., the young officer's father and mother, and Lieut. Fredrick T. Cruse, U. 3. A his brother, accompanied the body to Arlington. , Mra. Hazen S. Plngrea OtaH^" Detroit, Mloh. -- Mrs. Hazen S Pingree, widow of one of Michl gan's most celebrated governors, dieo Sunday night at her residence here, aged 67 years. She is survived by son, S, Pingree, Jr., and daughter, Mrs. Sherman L. Depew. The Careless Town- Farmer. r Tou may have read a. little story, now going the round, of the man who moved to the country not long ago and purchased a farm. He was Just getting settled when a man with a book under his arm leaned ovel- tha fence and said: • "Just bought" this .laadf* "Yes." -Very fine farm." # "Yes, sir; very 4 ^ "Must be worth arotottd f thousand dollars,?" "More than that: I paid 91.500 for it Then there are indications of coal oa it, too, which are alone worth another thousand." • "You don't mean it?" "Yes, sir. And then the new branch railroad is going to cross *ne corner. I consider my farm worth |5,000." "Five thousand, eh?" "Yes, sir; I wouldn't take 1MB. What are yoa putting dotym in that bookV >• "Oh, nothing much. You see, I'm the tax assessor. Hope you'll stay Lnjuru»j"m-n.nr>i nn'irs'iriT r ~r" " ^ Stevens Railway Vice President. New Haven, Conn.--It was an­ nounced Friday by President Mellen, of the New York, New Haven & Hart­ ford Railroad oompany that John F. Stevens, former chief engineer of the Panama canal, had been appointed a vice president of the road. , MePherson Succeeds Swift. Kansas City, Mo.--Thomas B. M<v Pherson, of Omaha, was elected Fri­ day president of the National Live­ stock Exchange association to succeed James C. Swift, of Kansas City. price of discomfort, darkness, depres- some time. Good morning."--Topeka 1 . favor ef the iatoa, dlrt s&d disease wWk** | CapitaL , f f ' the winy caatefa. "Flarcback" Caused Disaster. Washington.--The naval court of inquiry in the rase of the explosion on the Georglir will find that the accident resulted from a "flareback, meaning that when the breech of the eight-inch gun was thrown open shreds of burning cloth or unconsumed Sas was driven into the turret. Want Army Canteen Restore#* Washington.--The convention of the Army and Navy 'union Thursday Of woman climbed 580 feet higher her husband, for, as the mists were gathering the doctor tarried at an alti­ tude of 2.2,720 feet to take some pho­ tographs, while Mrs. Workman con­ tinued on to the summit of the peak. Considerably over 40 years of age, Mrs. Workman is a magnificent type of the open-air woman. She has strong features, a fine physique, and sihe proved time and again that she pos­ sesses marvelous powers of enfhiranee. Her gray hair is made more conspicu­ ous by the healthy tan on her face. Apparently she is utterly destitute of nerves. For six years past each sea­ son has seen her, accompanied by her husband, among the lofty, unexplored regions of the Himalayas. * "The • ascent of the Nun Kun is my greatest as well as my highest climb," Mrs. Workman said. "We had seen this great peak several times from ad­ joining heights and had determined to conquer it. The enormity of the task we thus set for ourselves we did not fully realize until we accomplished it. • The' difficulties were tremendous. They can only be realized, and then only partially, by climbing who have made the ascent of unknown and un­ marked peaks of this kind. Climbing in the Alps and places of that kind ia child's play compaied to tt. "Mountain climbing Is my recrea­ tion. I love the danger arid 'the ex­ citement which are its accompani­ ments. It is among the mountains of northern India that the greatest field for this sport exists and so Dr. WojftE- man and I go there every year. "I shall not stop content with the conquest of Nun Kun, you may be sifre," she adHed. "The field for tho man or woman who longs for fresh mountain triumphs tn India is almost unlimited, and I believe it will not be a very long time before the doctor and I make a new record-" Dr. Worktfian is not a man of strik­ ing physique. He is rather below the medium height. He wears spectacles and his hair is getting spare at the top. He is about the last man one would pick out in a crowd as the world's greatest mountain climber--a title, by the way, which he would him­ self indignantly repudiate, for he has a horror of being lionized in any way --but the Japs have shown us that size affords no measure of a man's staying powers, pluck and endurance. It is those qualities that count in get­ ting to the top of a stupendous moun­ tain, where the rarefied air greatly in­ tensifies the fatigue of the slightest exertion. AKtough both Mrs. Workman and her husbaixd were born in the Uuited States, the "former being a daughter o ex-Gov. Bullock of Massachusetts and the latter a native of Worcester, in the sr.me state, and for tnany years a prominent practicing physician in that eity, it is now four years since they have been in America. i .'.'•feMi V'" | 'Mi WITH • -..v t. *- 8T. LOUIS CHURCH IN DI&CESE : 0F GREEK CAPITAL, ' m Religloua Services Which Have All tha Peculiarities of tha Greek- * ' Catholic Church of , ? Europe. Severe Storm in North Dakota. Willlstpn, N. D.--A terrific wind and rainstorm Saturday night des troyed 15 dwelling houses, injured 25 people, two of them probably fatally did much other damage in this city and the surrounding country. Yaquis Raid Mining Camp. Herruosillo, Mex.--Yaqui Indians •raided the camp of the Richfield Cop­ per Mining oompany, just north of Querobabl, Thursday last and stripped It clean of everything vaii** but refrained from murder... v ; \ 1 Liability Act is Upheld. New York.--Judge George B. Adams in a decision rendered in "the admir­ alty branch of the United States dis­ trict court here Thursday declared constitutional the employers' UabUUy act paaaed by congress June it. Rifted Malls for Seven Years. Hammond, Ind. Daniel Hunt, a Hammond mail carrier, was arrested Thursday by Inspector Burr, charged with rifling the mails.^. Hunt, it is said, admitted he had^stolen momiy , from the mail* for seven year* Within the United States are to be found not otily peoples from every na­ tion and every clime on earth, al­ most, but the institutions, and cus- tome of those peoples as well. In every large city of the country there are to he found groups of people who are still linked up with the far dis­ tant lands from which they came by institutions which they have estab­ lished here. Since the trans-Mis­ sissippi exposition St Louis has grown more cosmopolitan in charac­ ter, and now among the foreign touches to be found within her bor­ ders is a Greek orthodox church, whose services in every detail are identical with those of the church of Greece, and whose affiliation is with the mother church at Athens, for the church at St. Louis is within the offi­ cial diocese of the capital of the king­ dom of classic fame.' Before the fair the number of Greeks in St. Louis, was very small, but among the peoples of the earth Who crowded thither to display things new and strange the Greeks came also. Some remained, mostly of the labor­ ing class, and, finding work plenty and pay higher than they were accus­ tomed to in their own country, they wrote back to their friends, and thus began a movement of Greek popula­ tion to St. Louis, steadily Increasing in numbers and even now showing no signs of diminution. Thus there are, in and. about St Louis, about 1,500 Greeks', the number fluctuating as some arrive and others depart. Most of them are from the Pelopone- sus, now called Morea, the former home of the Spartans, the Argives, the Messinians, the Elians, the Acha- ians, Corinthians and other Greek peo­ ples, famous in the history of the little peninsula. Shortly after the world's fair, when th« Greek immigration became a pro­ nounced factor in the life of St Louis, Mr. Demetrius Jannopouloy who for forty years has been a naturalised American, recognized the necessity of dofng something for the moral and | spiritual benefit of his countrymen, 1 ai;!i inaugurated a movement for the establishment of a Greek church In St I^ouls. His official position as consul for the kingdom of Greece gave him standing and authority with both Greeks and Americans, and assured the success of the enterprise. Rer. p. Phiambolls, speaking English, waa designated by the metropolitan of Athens to take charge as pastor, and to this appointment is due the. fact that St. I'Quis is ia the diocese- of tha capital of Oref06. church Is known as the Byzantine, and the notation used is probably the earliest known example of an at­ tempt to reduce musical tone to a reg­ ular system of notation. The charac­ ters in which the Byzantine music la, written do hot fix the scale, for they may be sung at any tone, or, rather, I v; in any key, according to the compass | of the singer's voice. They do, l»ow- ever, mark the relative pitch, high or h>w, of the tones, as well as their duration, and thus are made to haM- Greete£<a**ollc Churrfc, St. Lo«i» cate only the flow of the simple ody, but the intricate and delicate graces of expression. The music ,^i abounds in grace notea and floraturi, . ^ and at first hearing seems so florid in its wealth of ornament as to appear affected and unnatural. rff; No visitor to the Greek church, who hJ knows ought of the history of the great organization to which its mem- bers belong, can fail to he impressed ^ with a Bcene the like of which is sel- dotn to be witnessed In a city of the new world. The splendid golden- ^ broidered vestnseiUs of the priest, the ' ornamented altar blazing with lights, are in startlicg contrast with the adr- roundings, but not mere so than the -'0 elaborate ritual which, in wealth of ^ detail, vies with, sometimes sur- ^ passes, that of the great western church, which, for many centuries, has been the most formidable rival of ,*| oriental Christianity. Ia looking ever; ^ the congregation, whose ancestors i made more history than the people? of any other race is southeastern Eu­ rope, one can not avoid the reflection r| that here "are the descendants of the men who stood like a bulwark against ,v the progress of oriental despotism.;-f Haate Nevef Wiae. Nothing can be done at once and prudently.--Pubttus Syrua. 8kyseraper*. Too low they build, wlj^ stars*--Xsuas. . ̂ ft.! OT ~ ^ f , ' ^ j, .J- a »* tYi vjEws**. .J.-*.t* iV.trl..• ...• .a mA.r.A .1*/ .-1£'