Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-16

In charge of one of Cooks or Gaze,s couriers- They go at once to Mars Hill and care for little else of Athena. Thev probably will go back the cheapest way and travel second-class. Fashion. Amer ican fashion at least, regards these home ly brethren with respect. even with rev erencei and is quiet and defsrential in their presence. Another branch comes sweeping in from Bombay, Japan and around the world with huge, majestic wings as if they owned creation. How grand they appear to our pigmy eyes, and how We look up to them and won. deI and adorei Especially when we see that one can still flop his ears. and that the others western bonhommie has taken on lovely Japanese touches and soothing Bengal graces. And as we get together and talk one would think there was noth- ing on the surface of the earth, in the heavens above or in the waters beneath but Yale and New Haven. Don't have anything to do with the language. If you can't sfford to have an interpreter with you all the while stay in your hotel. If you can afford one apply to Cooks agen- cy and get good one. He will save you from being swindled to fully the amount of his cost, and in worry and important ties to ten times his cost.
 When the nations of Europe determined that Greece should be free and warned Turkey 10 keep her hands ofi, some Greek scholars, unframed by the peculiar needless vanity which is the portion of all Greeks, thought it would be a big thing to attach the spoken language of the country to the letters, the grammar and the spelling of ancient Greek. Nothing could have been desired to give the Greeks more tickle. So all Greek scholars assisted in the matter The result has been as satisfactory as if when We declared our independence of Great Britain we had introduced the all phsbetical signs, the spelling and the grammar of the Anglo-SaXons; and had attempted to make them serve modern pur- poses. Yet the Greek will not scknowl- edge his wretched mistake, but persists in his error. As consequence the student has two separate and distinct things to &C., quire, for the spoken language is almost as different from the written language as is spoken Italian from written Latin. If Chaucer's spelling were, out of compliment to Professor Lounsbury, revived and made obligatory at Yale there would be howl Think of the vanity of the Greeks which enables them to be continually suppressing howls of infinitely greater msguitudel The language might most easily have been given 8 modern dress and a chance to grow. Now it is fettered and will be till new Dante have the courage and the power to break its chains and give it free dom. It sounds like all the soft and sibi- lant languages of the south, and with ease could have been allied to Spanish or Ital- ian. How Zenephon and Socrates spoke none can tell, but unless the Greeks were ninnies, and mt the wise men we were taught to deem them, their writing must have been for the purpose of representing the spoken word
 Greek just now is in the midst of exci- ting politics. Political parties in Greece take the name of their leaders and depend on the politics of their leaders for politi- cal principles. This arrangement makes change of political principles delightfully."- easy, and therefore suits the Greeks exact ly. Just now there is & very serious mat ter on hand, and as seriousness is sn un- known quality in Greece, outsiders are wondering what may be the upshot. Bor- rowing to cover deficits has gone on till 1t must stop. Taxes have reached a point where they cannot possibly be increased. There is so little faith in the stability of the government that its currency varies sometimes twenty per cent. a day. Italy is bad enough of, but Greece is in desper ate straits. Every Greek is blaming his neighbor. Ne one is willing to bear his share of the burden. It seems as if pro- tectorate on the part of some of the pow erful Christian nations of Europe were in- evitable. King George and his petty court will certainly have to pack up and leave unless outsiders aid him and his kingdoms with large gifts of cash. They must be gifts, for no more loans are possible. When time comes again for writing at Ath ems gentler and more engaging topics will be the theme. FERNANDEZ