The age-herald., 1899-07-23

attempts to make his foreign friend under stand English and began talking to him in modern Greek, a proceeding which would have astortished me in <nyone else, but which seemed quite natural in the cos- mopolite Clarence l believe Clarence can talk Chinese.
 The original idea it seemed, was for the Greek to tell his story in his own lang uage and Clarence was to interpret as he went along. But it was soon discovered that Mir Jones spoke French duenuy which he accounted for by saying that his elder brother kept a cafe at the Piraeus. So was able to get the sad tale really at first hand. and what follows is a trans lation of the French of MT. Jones. of New York alias Hagiosgeorgios Phstekopulos, of the Gulf of Corinth.
 ''You are very fortunate" he said, "be- cause you are Americans In this free country an honest man does not have to suffer for his face. Yes, I assure you it is my unhappy face that has driven me from my own country-that and the accursed gendarmes who have neither sense nor honesty"
 While he said this his eyes blazed in a way that certainly did not suggest the peaceful occupation of shredding Latakia tobacco for cigarettes.
 "You must understand" he continued that in my country are not many cities, like America. All is open field and moun- tains. There are plenty of ruins, too and the rich Americans. the rich English French, Germans, all go with photograph ic machines to make pictures and to ex- anime these great remains of my coun- try's glory. Then come the bad men of Heilas-Greece-They come in bands, very many, with revolvers and seize upon these foreigners. What gold and silver the for eigners carry these robbers take, and then they make prisoners of the travellers. They tyN A aT to free your countrymen. you send quick ly so much dollars l is the way of my country.
 "Oh. yes. it is very bad way. The king of the Hellenes would stop it. but the police of that country are very stupid. and they tell lies. What can king do if his police are so stupid and such liars?
 Now there comes to Athens a German man who wears spectacles, and he with the American man-very learned-and his pupils, who live, you understand. always at Athens, they wish to travel by land along the Gulf of Corinth They wish to dig up marbles and ruins of the ancient people. They invite the Ammican ship commander, who is at the Piraeus with the warship of his country, to bring with him other officers and their American revolvers because the Americans can shoot very we'll Oh. yes. they shoot very excellently. And so they come by my country where I live making tobacco for cigarettes.
 Then this robber-this Petrulkirios he calls himself-he waits for the band of travellers in a narrow place between high hills where are man trees. The travellers come and are told of a sudden that they are prisoners of Petrukirios. They are spoken to in French. They understand all that one says. But the American com mander of a ship he only laughs, and he says, That is what we waited for'-says 1t also in French. Upon that he shoots with his revolver. All the others then be- gin to shoot with their revolvers Petru- kir1os himself. who is a little way off, he drops to the ground as if killed. The man he sent to speak to the travellers, he catches a bullet in his breast before he can make ready his own revolver-he is a very stupid man."