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A NATIVE KOREAN SCHOOL.

of Korea. Nearly all of the 6enomina-
tons maintain schools and hospitals as
part of their mission work, and these are
proving powerful factors in the spread
of the Gospel
The present emperor, like most of his
subjects, is a Confucianist, although in
the strict sense of the word there is no
state or national religion. federation
in religious matters has thus far marked
his reign. The persecution of the Catho-
lies in 1866, in which many suffered
martyrdom, and for which France
called the nation to strict and severe
accounting, occurred during the reign of
his father, Tai Wun Knu Fourteen
bishops and priests, with thousands of
their Korean converts were massacred.
and as punishment France destroyed
Kang VIVA, situated on the island of
that name. AS an indication of the feel
ing of the emperor towards mission
work, he said in 1895: Send more
teachers" as he termed the missionaries.
Seoul is the capital and resident city of
the emperor, and naturally the thinking
for the whole people is done at Seoul
This incident is told by missionary in
substantiation of this point. 1t was
suggested to a native Christian of in
telligence and influence in Pyeng-Yang
that the initiative in certain reform
movement be taken by them. But his
answer not only surprised the mission
airy, but was characteristic as showing
the attitude of the. country people He
said: Seoul must take the lead and we
will follow"
What effect the war will have upon the
mission work in Korea is at the pres
ent time largely conjectural 1t will I'M
doubtedly temporarily hinder the work
and possibly make it unsafe for the mis-
sionaries to carry on active work in the
interior, but when the war cloud has
passed and the conflict is over, the prog
ress of Christianity will be more rapid
than ever. In event of Russian victory
and dominance over Korea the outlook
would not be as encouraging and hope
full as it would be should Japan gain con-
troll of the country, for the feeling is al
most universal that although Japan is
not what may be called Christian ma
ton, still her attitude towards Chris
tainity is one of favor and encourage
ment, and with the little island king
dom in control of Korea it would mean
full religious liberty, as well as unre-
stricted commercial development.
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days when first Magellan and Drake
passed on their way round the world.
came the name TERRA del Fuego," or
Land of Fire
In their unceasing struggle with the
elements for bare existence, the Yag-
hans have been forced to abandon all
but the slightest mental equipment
They have evolved no faith, no god;
they have no totem to bind them into one
tribe, no headman to organize them in
common defense or attack.
A second tribe, the Onas, are foot
Indians, living in the mountainous in
terror of the great island of which the
Beagle channel marks the southern
boundary. Although they are thus in a
sense islanders, they have no canoes,
and cannot even swim, being dependent
on the guanaco, which frequent the up
per pastures, for food and general
equipment, from their raw-hide water
bags to the strung sinews of their bows.
An all-enveloping fur robe is their only
covering, and this, when there is need
for freer movement, the braves at once
discard, standing clothed, like our own
ancestors, in the primal simplicity OF
bow and arrows and paint. They use
such pigments to aid their stalking, a
science in which they are past masters.
To hunt the guanaco they first color
themselves according to the ground over
which they must move-e. g.. white when
on snowfields, yellow among. dry pampa
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grass, slate color with red spots when
among lichen covered rocks. Their
amusement consists in wrestling and in
long races, perhaps to hill top ten
miles distant The men also practise
with the bow, at times acting themselves
as moving targets for each other. The
general physique of the Onas, and espe-
cially their keenness of sight and hear
ing, are developed to an extraordinary
degree; for to the Ona his body is reli-
gion, and any bodily defect disgrace.
Their system of courtship is Spartan.
The man hands his chosen bride his
hunting bow. Its return by her OWN
hand signifies acceptance without more
to do; and the girl is used to accept
promptly, otherwise she may receive in
her calf or thigh, as light remonstrance,
one of her suitor's long birch arrows
with its beautifully Clipped glass head.
The material for the important task OF
arrowhead making is plentifully sup
piled by the bottles thrown away near
white settlements, and is now accepted
by the up to date Ona as a definite i'm
provement on the laborious flint of his
forefatherS.
The tie of comrade or brother is far
stronger with the Onas than that linking
man and wife. The men have supersti-
ton that formerly the women had the
upper hand, while the men were forced
to do camp drudgery. So on reaching
manhood they bind themselves to kind
of freemasonry, whose object is to i'm
pose subsection on the women by per-
sonifying, on fit occasions, the watchful
the woods and lakes, the mists and
mountains, whose companionship is all
they have of home. Behind his Indian
reserve, however, the Ona is of frank
and-for a savage-kindly disposition.
and especially fond of little children.
Before We pass judgment on the
Fuegan tribes, let lis consider their
later surroundings. English sheep
farmers, crossing from the Pa
tagonian mainland, first fenced off
the best northern grazing grounds.
This brought about raids by the Indians
farmers, with savage reprisals, carried
to the bitterest extremity by both sides.
In the south, the Argentine govern
ment established at Staten island a
military penal settlement, and at Ushu-
ala a civil convict prison. Service rem
dered in TERRA del Fuego still counts
as double time with Argentine officials
From the Gillian town of Sandy Point,
the trading center of the Magellan straits
which may be best described as the
Port Said of South America-sailed
schoorers fitted out for fur trading with
the canoe Indians, gold washing on the
more exposed beaches to the southeast,
and seal poaching round the Horn. The
scourings of continent f1ocked to this
trade; above and with 1t all was the
pitiless climate, keeping human vitality
at its lowest ebb, and prompt to crown
each mishap.
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NJ S. Beagle in 1884. Fuegans have been
generally classed as one tribe-''the low
est step in the human ladder"-while
popular credulity, based on the fears of
ship captains beating painful passage
home, cheerfully consented to dub them
wreckers and cannibals as well. Only
of late has the mist of half-truth lifted,
so that we may judge them fairly; and
the task must be undertaken speedily
if at ALL During 20 years of contact
with whites, the numbers of the Yag-
han tribe. or canoe-dwellers, have sunk
from $500 to 200; and that of the Onas
from 1000 to 600, man, woman and child.
Should this rate of decrease continue,
few. if any, members of either tribe will
survive the next decade, and fragment
of the stone age of intense human in
terest will disappear altogether from
our ken.
The Yaghans frequent chiefly the
shores of the Beagle channel, a sheltered
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PITS OF NEWS.

Nine. Patti is well satisfied with her
American tour, which netted her
S210,0 900.
Bulgaria and Turkey have entered
into an agreement by which the porte
promises an extension or reforms,
which virtually means speace for the
Balkan states
William Monroe, head of the largest
custom house brokerage firm in New
England, has been indicted at Boston,
Mass, as an accomplice in an alleged
smuggling plot.
Rear Admiral Walker told the house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce that he expects work will be
commenced on the Panama canal with
in two or three months.
Harry T. McKinn, postmaster at
Buck Run, Pa, has been arrested and
held in $500 bail, charged with improp-
erly using postage stamps by paying
for merchandise with them.
Gen. Kuropatkin boasts that the
cars army will march over the mi
kado's islanos to teach the Japanese
a lesson and that peace will be signed
in Toxic. He predicts that the con-
gust will be completed by August
William j. Bryan, by a decision
made by Judge eager, in the superior
court at New Haven, Conn, is given
the right TO contest for the $4,000 be-
quest to himself by Philo S. Bennett
by proving that the sealed letter" is
part of the will.
A London military correspondent
says it is Russias time to strike the
Japanese armada or abandon hope of
interfering with itG landing. He be-
lieves a decisive sea action is irnmi-
nent, and that neither side has reason
to avoid the issue.
Bridgetown, n. j., authorities are
Investigating the mystery surrounding
the bodies of man and woman found
in Delaware bay The woman's body,
which was headless, was identified as
that of Martha c. Dnnnan, who disap-
peared from Philadelphia two months
ago.
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Live Stock.

Chicago, March y.
HOGS-Good to choice heavy shipping,
s550d5.60; fair to good butcher weights,
s.. 35d5.55; fair to good heavy packing. s.. %
d5.45; rough to choice heavy mixed, 5000
$50: assorted light, $5.20Q5. 30: fair 10 good
light mixed, So. 25Q540; inferior light mixed,
A.90d515; poor to choice, $4.4G@4.9O.
CATTLE-Choice to fancy beeves, IS Gj01
500; good TO choice heavy steers s.. 15G SO;
medium beef steers, 50. S504.40; inferior and
plain steers, s3.40d3.S0; good to fancy cows
and heifers, s3.75d4.S; good to choice feed
ers, $3.40G4.40; poor to fair stockers and
feeders, s.. 35a3.30; fair to coed cows and
heifers, $3.10d3.60; good cutting and fair
beef cows, 81. 5OG3.00; calves. good to fancy,
s5.O0d60O; calves, common to fair. s.. 75G
AS; corn-fed western steers. &.lcGo.50:
Texas bulls and thin steers, s.. 2503.70; fed
Texas steers, fair to choice, So 30d4.5O
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families, and the inventor of the 70 let.
tiers of the Korean alphabet-Syei-chong
was a son of an eminent Buddhist
priest. They meddled in politics, which
was one of the leading causes of the
downfall of the last dynasty more than
500 years ago and of their rigid exclu,
sion from Seoul for more than five Gen.
turtles.
Shamanism, Buddhism and Con-
fucianism have had undisputed sway
over the hearts and minds OF the peo-
pie, and what is the result? Supersti-
tons of the grossest forms; licentious-
ness and immortality universal; corrup-
ton and oppression everywhere. From
the hour of his birth until the spirit
leaves the body the Korean is sur
rounded and tormented by the innumer-
able spirits with which Shamannism
fills the air and Buddhism his mind.
Poverty is general, woman is held in
low esteem, life and property are inse-
cure, and political intrigue of every form
is practised
This brief summary of the religion OF
Korea gives something of an idea of the
task which the missionaries have on
hand in Outstanding the nation. There
are 224 Christian workers Of all denomi-
nations in the country, and in addition
there are large number of native help
ers. But against this mere handful OF
preachers and teachers, and Bible read
ers, is arrayed the paganism and super
stition of the 10 500 900 people, the num-
Der which are estimated to be within the
borders of the $1,000 square miles of ter
ritory of Korea. These figures make it
plain that the fight for Korea by the
Christian forces is one of far greater
odds than that which apparently exists
between the little Jap and the big Rus
sian. 1t is estimated by the missionaries
that 50, 495 Koreans have been thus far
Christianized; of these the Catholics
claim 63 $50, and the American Presby-
terrain mission 20,333.
The table which follows this article
places before us in very comprehensive
and complete form the missionary work
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GUSTAVE MARX.

sents an outlay in salaries of $50, 900, ex-
elusive of the cost of the stenographic
report of the case.
Another item of expense in the case
was the pay and mileage of some zoo
veniremen who were summoned for jury
service and not accepted. This will ag-
gregate at least 81, 500. Other expenses,
including expert testimony, expenses of
travel of detectives, and the fees and
mileage Of witnesses, who were called
from Indiana, Denver and other points
outside the state, will bring the total ex-
pense of the trial to about $4,000.
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News Notes.

A new driving club will be organized
In St. Paul.
The Minnesota Boat club is plan
ming to hold two regattes.
Only two state banks have gone into
liquidation since 1899.
burglars ransack the home of M. L.
Ellis, East Winfred street, st. Paul.
The last legislature passed conflict
ing laws relating to fish houses
The Pelican Rapids Telephone com
pany has elected the following officers:
President, J. p. Wallace; vice-presi-
dent. O. NJ Carr; treasurer, n. z. Moen;
secretary and manager, c. L. Wood.
The Civic improvement association
was organized at st. Cloud, with a
membership of sixty of the business
men. Officers and committc chairman
were elected.
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American Missionary Killed.

New York, March 14-Cable dis
patches from Urumia, Persia, announc-
iLg that DR.. Labor, an American mis-
sionary, has been killed, are believed 10
refer to Rev. DR.. Benjamin Labaree, one
of the best known Presbyterian mission
aries in the Asiatic field, who has been
stationed in Persia since 1860. No re-
port of his death has yet reached the
Presbyterian board of foreign missions.
Secretary Robert Z. Speer says it has
been reported to hiE recently, however,
that Mohammedan fanatic, claiming
descent from the prophet himself, has OF
late been causing much trouble among
the villagers about Urumia, and his ac-
tions are supposed to have led to the
missionary's death. DR.. Labaree was
nearly 20 years old, and had one son who
was assisting him in his work
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of high passes forming rude shrines in
which bright pictures of mythical be-
ings are to honor and appease the spirits.
The bits of rags and old shoes tied TO
the limbs of large distorted trees and
stones thrown at the base are for the
same purpose. So the grotesque figures
on the ridgepoles of the imperial build
ings, government buildings and on the
roofs of the city gates. Blind men,
sorcerers, feel their way along the street
to the house of some high official to cast
out by means Of wand and divining tor
toise box some foul spirit that brought
misfortune or serious illness to the fam
lily. The beat of drums and changing of
cymbals is heard and the whirling dance
of the sorceress is seen in the midst of
the anxious inmates of the house while
the gaping crowds on the outside wait
and listen, and this is done to cast out
the spirit that has brought disease and
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massage of great beauty but little prac-
tical use. lying, as it does, halfway be-
tween the Magellan straits and the Horn,
IT'S entrance blocked at either hand by
dangerous reefs and racing tide-rips.
These tribesmen are true canoe jewellers,
since they must search for ever the
shores of otherwise barren islands for
food. in the shape Of mussels, fish, sea-
fowl. or perhaps, by great good chance,
a stranded seal or whale. Till the South
American mission established itself
among them, they braved the rigour of
,he climate naked, save for small, fiat
otter skin, slung from the neck to the
side where the wind happened to blow
THE women, usually two, padded the
canoe from the stern. The man crouched
in lie bows, alert, harpoon in hand. In
tbe center of the canoe were piled other
simple hunting gear. babies and slab
of shingled turf, on which smouldered
,he firebrands carried to each fresh
hating place. For in the Land of the
Horn. fire is a first necessity Of human
life: and from hundreds of tiny smoke
drifts, which lined the channels in the
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MINNESOTA NEWS.
Unique Display.

Elaborate preparations are being
made by Coss & Co., of Eveleth, for a
moose, caribou, elk and deer display at
the worlds fair at st. Louis. j. c.
Congdon, a representative of the firm,
is in st. Louis, securing site for
building and to let the contract for its
erection. William Coss, the senior
member of the firm, owns or controls
between $50 and ITS mounted moose,
deer, caribou and elk heads, and these,
in addition to many mounted ducks,
geese, prairie chickens and birds OF
the Minnesota forests and lakes, will
go to make up a scientific display.
Two live moose, stuffed bear and
other wild animals are also included
in the list for the exhibit. Another
feature will be four buck Indians and
two squaws, to be taken from the
Sucker Point reservation. The bucks
viii demonstrate how birch bark ca
noes are made and the squaws Will be
engaged in bead work and making
moccasinS.
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JURY PRONOUNCES
Death PENALTY
THE CHICAGO CAR BARN BAND
ITS ARE SENTENCED TO
BE HANGED.
VERDICT RETURNED AFTER
HOURS OF DELIBERATiON
Solemn Scene in Court When Clerk
Reads the Doom of Marx, Van Dine
and observation-disclosures Out Near
ly "a Hours Deciding Fate.

Chicago, March 14.-Gustave Marx,
Harvey Van Dine and Peter Niedermeier
must hang.
The jury, after long and bitter strug-
gle over the terrible responsibility upon
them, rendered this verdict at ten
o'clock Saturday.
The verdict was read in Judge ker-
stems court, amid the most solemn incl
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The Turkish Bulgarian Agreeme

Paris, March 1.-THE foreign Office
advices indicate that the signing of the
Turkish-Bulgarian agreementisa matter
Of few hours. The officials say the inn
mediate effect of the agreement will be
to permit the return of the Macedonian
refugees from Bulgaria 20 Turkey, and
also taking off the onerous restrictions
against the admission into Bulgaria of
goods from Turkey. The agree ment, too,
S expected to exert salutary intiu-
ence on the general Turko-Bulgarian
situation The officials say it is dis
tinctly pacific and that it further puts
off the chances of Bulgarian uprising.
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horticultural Society.

The Red River Valley horticultural
society met at Crookston for its first
annual gathering and permanent Or
ranization. The association was start
ed at a farmers institute held at
Crookston last year, but officers were
not selected. Representatives of the
fruit growing industry from various
points in the valley gathered and after
an interesting session choose Frank L.
Haseltine of Crookston president, o. j.
Hagen of Hendrum vice-president, L.
A. Hoverstad of Crookston secretary
and A. f. Cannon of Detroit, treasurer.
Wyman Elliott, president, and A. w.
Latham, secretary of the state associa-
ton. delivered addresses: Frank L.
Haselstine, the pioneer nurseryman of
the valley, o. A. Solem of Norman
county, who has been successful in
growing apples, and Mr.. Cannon Of
Detroit read papers, and all reported
success in some of the lines followed.
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perhaps death to the home. All these
things and many more which the casual
visitor would not think to connect with
religious worship, prove, upon better
knowledge, that the Koreans are not
without a religion.
Buddhism was introduced from China
about 81 A d. 1t has had its seasons
of influence and its periods of decline; of
favor at court and with common peo-
pie; of large and prosperous monasteries
and of neglected and ruined temples.
There were times when monks filled
civil and military positions; many had
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tlQe races Twice Gay INTO
the Atlantic entrance of this passage,
covering and uncovering dangerous
shoals as a wild beast bares its
gums. On these shoals many a good
ships back has broken. AS We adven-
lure to the west, the waterway stretches
between twin ranges of splintered hills,
covered to the low snow-line by drip
ping forest of Antarctic birch, its sombre
green scared at short intervals by blue
white glaciers which push their frozen
hummocks to the waters verge, or dis
charge cascade from cliffs so high that
only an Icy spray, touched with rainbow
hue, falls athwart the steamers deck.
Throughout all the year the roaring
sou'west wind busters past, bringing in
its train-save for some short, deceptive
calm-showers of rain and sleet and a
cloak of trailing mist. Such are the
famous Straits of Magellan, which guard
the yet more broken channels and
islands terminating in Cape Horn-a fl
barrier of the wild races who, in that
wild land, mark mans farthest limit to
the south.
Since Darwin published his famous
Voyage of a Naturalist" made in H.
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Badly Burned.

Mrs. Snyder wife of Prof. Harry
SNYDER, paofessor of chemistry at the
school of agriculture, was horribly
burned at her home, 299O Common
wealth avenue, st. Paul, and is said to
be in critical condition.
Miss Hansen, servent, who went to
Mrs. Snyder, was also badly burned
about the arms and face. The house
was set on fire, and the rear portion of
il burned away, causing loss of $500.
The accident had been caused by a
skirt that had been cleaned by gaso-
line catching fire. Altho Mrs. Snyder's
condition is serious it is thought she
will recover.
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A Blow at Grafters.

If present plans carry, the grafters
of Minnesota will have a hard time
during the approaching campaign to
mulct the many candidates out OF the
price of drink of beer or whisky, or
a key Of beer or ale as the case may be.
1t will also be tough Shedding for the
gentlemen who are always just a little
short on ready cash just about the
time the candidate puts in his appear
ance and wants to negotiate loan OF
five or ten for few days, and then for
gets to pay it back.
When the members of the Minnesota
delegation in congress return home az
ter the adjournment they will hold
meetings in their respective districts
which will be attended by all the can
didates for nomination on the Repubii-
can ticket They VIII devise means
whereby they will be protected from
the s'grafters" who are always about
during campaign.
1t is stated that the Democrats IN
Minnesota intend to adopt similar
plan.
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Omaha Neh. March L

Omaha, Neb. March Z.
CATTLE-Market nominally steady. Ma
tive steers, SO. 5005. %; cows and heifers 50 20
d3.70; Gamers, 81 90G2. 60; stockers and feed
ers, $3.75G425; calves. $3.C0d550; bulls,
stays, etc, s.. 40@3.60.
HOGS-Market generally sc higher
Heavy, So 2595. So; mixed, s.. 1Od5. 90 light,
s4.9Od5.20; pigs, $3.75@475; bulk of sales,
IS. 10d5. %.
SHEEP = Market steady. Western
warnings, s45G05.05: wethers. $4.1Od4 40;
ewes, $3.50d4.i5; common and srockers, $2.75
a4.75; lambs, $5.l045.75
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New Head of Cutler College.

Indianapolis, Ind, March 14.-Dr. W.
E. Garrison, of St. Louis, editor of the
Christian Evangelist, has been elected
president of Butler college, to succeed
Dr. Scott Butler.