The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-28

it course IN law, medicine, theology or phil
osophy. There are, in addition to this, thirty
three other colleges in Greece, containing
nearly 1000 students. The kingdom has a
system of common schools at which attend
ance is compulsory There are also num-
Der Of private schools, and in Athens
academy of science, several good Libraries and
large national museum. There was also
a girls college, which contained 500 students,
and there are girls schools in many parts
Of Greece.
RAILROADS AND TELEPHONES.
I rode from Athens down to the seacoast
on steam tramway and l took excursions
out into the country on street cars. 1t
seemed strange to me in coming to Athens
by carriage from the sea, passing over the
road upon which Scion and Aesop perhaps
walked, to be turned out Of the way by a
steam stone crusher, which was macadam-
fzing the road. istelephoned a number of
times during my stay in Athens, and at
night as | walked aabout under the electric
lights l wondered how Diogenes would look
If with his lantern he should again here
seek for an honest man. The Greeks have
as good postal service as you will find
anywhere. There are many book stores
and the displays of goods in the store win
dows are quite as fine as those Of any Ameri-
can city of the same size.
DON'T LIKE FARMING.
AS for the business of the people, the pure
Greek does not take to agriculture. There
are fewer farmers among the Greek nation
than among any other. The most of the,
people are in mercantile business, in the
professions, or in shipping. They are nat
ural sailors, and Greece probably has more
ships. in proportion to it's size, than any other
nation in the world. They have quite good
little navy, some Of the vessels being armed
with Krupp guns. They have seventeen tor
-pedo boats, each over eighty-six feet in
length; dozen gunboats, three first-class
= cruisers, and other. vessels enough to make
them quite a formidable enemy for Turkey.
In add 4n a
thousand sailing vessels and six thousand
coasting vessels, which trade with all parts
of the Mediterranean. Prince George, the
second son of the king has shown remarka-
BILE skill as sailor. He has frightened his
men number of times by his daring ways
Of moving naval vessels about. Not long
ago he, was in command of a gunboat which
was coming into the Piraeus. AS the boat
neareds the harbor, 1t was found that there
large fleet of fishing vessels at anchor
there. 1t is usual under such circumstances,
to slow down to half speed. but Prince
George insisted on going ahead as fast as
the ship would go. He took the wheel him
SELF and with the utmost dexterity guided
the guntoat through the narrow passages
between the vessels without even fouling
cable, while the officers and men looked on
with mingled alarm and admiration. ....s ,
Prince George is now twenty-seven years
old. He is more than six feet in height, and
is brave to the extreme. 1t is probable that
he would like nothing better than naval bat
tie with the Turks, and the probability is
that he would come out ahead.
REPAIRING THE PARTHENON.
King George has done a great deal to re-
store the old ruins of Greece. Some excava-
tons were made at the Parthenon during my
visit and the king himself washed off some
of the marble statues which were found. He
is interested now in having the Parthenon
paired, and the days may yet come when We
will be able to look upon this great structure
as 1t was in the time OF Socrates. It seemed
to me, however, most impressive In its ruins.
1t stands. you know, on the top of the Acrop-
oils. The AcropOliS is on the very edge of
the new Athens The modern houses of the
city climb up. from the base of it's sides. 1t
is a steep, rocky hll;t which rises straight
up from the plain which Athens is built
to a height Of about 200 feet. 1t looks much
like a great rock Of rosy red marble, with
here and there a bit of grass blood-red
poppy peeping out Of its crev:ces The plateau
upon the top of the ,iAcropolis contains, l
judge, about ten acres, and upon it is the
Panthenon. You have seen a picture of it.
They do not give you much idea of its beauty.
Imagine forest of great marble columns
standing upon round marble floor the area
Of which is almost an acre. Let each column
be as big around as the largest cart wheel
you have ever seen and let 1t rise upwards
for thirty-three feet in q beautifully symmet-
rieal form. Let 1t be fiuted and let Its capt.
tai, rich in its plain Doric grace, uphold
wall of marble. around which runs frieze
Of the most wonderful sculpture of the world,
and you have the skeleton of the building.
The interior contains more columns, and even
in its ruins, the building as whole. has
wonderful beauty. You see 1t for miles around
Athens, and it stands out before you as you
come into the harbor at the PiEaeus.- At
present the wall at one end is almost intact
Lord Elgin, and which IS now to. be seen in
the British museum IN London. dEhet faFthe
non looks best in athe evening. All Of its
ruins have the rich color OF age and the