The age-herald., 1898-12-06

them, is Bulgarian minister at Athens the Robert college has been nursery for Bull garian statesmen. So marked indeed has been the influence of this one institution, there are some who say that of all the re- suits of the Criu,-an war nothing was or such permanent importance as the fact tllat attracted to Constantnople plain American citizen from New York.
 1le influence of the United States in the east is by no means confined to Rob- ert college. There are other institutions founded by Americans at ConStantinople
 which are working quite as well as the Robert college but they educate girls in- stead of boys, they will not make their po- litical influence felt until the sons of the students come to mans estate. But 1t IS not only at Constantinople that the Ameri- cans are a work. They are at the present moment almost the only people who are doing any good for humanity in Asiatic Turkey"
 Fraternized With Assassin
 The German kaiser has fraternized with the assassin and. arm in arm with the in fidel, proclaimed his divine mission to pro- tect the Christians of the east whom his friend and host has been massacreing by the thousands for the last four years. But the only protection the poor--unfortunate cEI istians receive is from English-speaking men, l grieve to say it, but it is for the most part quite true, that until the other day England did good to any one in Asia Minor Of late the English people have wakened up and are now spending scores of thousand pounds in charity in that country But the only good which the English did in these regions for many years was confined to this. Our British consuls helped the American missionaries when they got into difficulties. People speak as if the Anglo-American alliance was a peaceful dream to be realized in the remote 
 would discover that it is a very practical working factor in the daily life of millions of men.
 How many American citizens, wonder, are aware that from the slopes of Mount Ararat all the way to the shores of the Blue Aegean sea American missionaries have scattered broadcast over all the dis tressful land the seed of American princf- ples. The Russians know 1t and regard the fact with anything but complacency. When General Mosseloff, the director of the for- eign faiths within the Russian empire, visited Etchmiadzin on the confines of < Turkish Armenia, the Armenian patriarch spread before him map of Asia Minor which was marked all over with American colleges, American churches, American schools and American missions. They are busy everywhere. teaching, preaching, be- getting new life in these Asiatic races. No one hears of them. They eschew politics. They stick to their Bible and their spelling book. but every year an increasing number of Armenians and other Orientals issue from the schools of the Americans familiar with the principles of the declaration of independence.
 i Making Itself Felt
 F "Of course, such heavy old wines cannot be poured into the very old bottles of Turk
 ish provinces without making itself felt. The Armenans, vain and clever race, soon became swell-headed. What Bulgari- ans had done they thought Armenians could
 do As the Robert college men had created
 an independent Bulgaria they, in their turn,
 would show they could create an independ-
 ent Armenia. So they set to work; though, alas, they did their part of the work brayc-
 y enough, Russia this time was in no mood to come to their rescue. The sultan fell upon the men his wrath and delivered them over to the hi-BaZouk and the Kurd. What followed is written in letters of blood and. fire across the recent history of the east.
 "But the end is not yet The American missionaries, who took part in the abortiVe instruction, were not as a whole much molested. They are working on, teaching, preaching, sowing the seeds day by day, creating the forces which will in time overturn the Turkish empire and re- generate the east. The Turk knows 1t and gnashes his teeth, longing for the time to come when he may have 1t out with the cursed Giour from beyond the sea. But beyond the American missionary stands the | British, and the sultan fears to give the signal for extrpation. Even as it is the | American missionaries have not come off | scot free. oscar Straus the American min | ister, has to collect some $100000 due as | compensation for the destruction of Ameri- l can property during the recent troubles | The money Is yet to be paid It cost the | sultan S3,000,000 to entertain his friend the | kaiser. How he spare $100,000 to com | pensate the pestilent Ameriean?
 l "I shall never forget the intense convic- | tion with which fanatical friend of the