The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-06

peoples Greek will be accepted as the
 ruling language of the nation. The university Greek is of no use in the country. There is staying at this hotel
 Murray's agent for the new Murrays guide to Greece. Well equipped in uni versity modern Greek he started a short
 time ago for the interior. He has re- | turned, and is now learning the peoples Greek, viva voce from native before
 he starts out anew. One would laugh at these people if there position were not so serious. Every Greek takes the greatest pleasure in attending to every l body else's business and has the great
 est aversion to attending to his own.
 He loves to direct; he hates to work
 Just at present the army is the fad. The army has been increasing year by | year until now it numbers nearly twen- | ty-five thousand men. Such an army | in a country of only about two million in-
 habtants imposes an enormous burden. Sums voted for internal improvements
 are continually being defiected to the
 support of the army The existence of
 such an army Is regarded by financial French and English experts as the true and sufficient reason for the bankrupt condition of the country. But woe be- | tide the ministry who would favor the army's decrease Common financial | sense seems to have left Greece as effec- tually as it has left the United States and how its reign is to be restored is
 as great a problem here as at home. News has come this very day that the English capitalists who put f500000 into the Sarissa railroad, the railroad which
 was to bring travellers from Vienna to Athens have decide to sue the Greek | government; they having discovered
 that the sums subscribed and actually paid were used by Tricoupis for other purposes. And it is moreover reported
 that the English government proposes backing up the claim. Political econo-
 mists who prate so loudly about per sonal liberty and the sovereign inde- pendence of the individual might well
 turn their attention to the history of Greece during the last ten years Nev- CT was a. country more favored; never had a country more golden opportuni- ties; never has there been a more signal failure of self government; a more ut- ter collapse of popular rule. The natur- al and artistic attractions of Athens are beyond compare. With popular means of approach and comfortable facilities for getting about, Greece would be fill ed with tourists from October to May. There is only a handful of foreigners in this hotel. The other hotels might as well be closed.
 MT. Dorpfeld, the director of the Ger man school, who has devoted over twelve years to the study of the antiqui- ties of Athens, has finally consented to deliver courses of lectures in the prin- cipal colleges of the United States Dorpfeld is a capital talker, an enthu- siastic and most interesting instructor | He is only thirty-five and overf1ows | with fun and good humor. He states | that he proposes delivering his lectures | in German. His English is not fluent | but he may after all reconsider the l matter and talk in language which | we can all understand. It would be a | pity to lose any word of his remarks | Homolle of the French school is also | comparatively young. It requires | young and enthusiastic man to be | pure archeologist, there is so much | work and study which is pure drudgery; | and which may not bear fruit, or come | into play for a generation, if at all. | Most of the work is about as dull and 1 as heavy as the work of compiling a | dictionary. What ordinary man cares whether a bit of wall were built by | Cimon or by Pericles; whether an in- | scription be of the fourth century B.C or of the second century A. D.? Yet on the establishment of such facts may depend the authenticity, or the charac- ter, of work of art which gives pleas ure to thousands. The art student should be thankful that there are men with whom drudgery is a'passion.
 FERNANDEZ.