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Only a little distance from Mars
hill is the stone platform from which
the orators of Greece addressed the
people. A level, shelf-like space was
formed near the top of the hill where
a few thousand could congregate, and
here the citizens listened while the
greatest of all the public speakers
poured forth his eloquence. 1t was
worth a trip to Athens to view this spot
where DemOsthenes delivered the ora
ton on the Crown and the Philippics
which have been the pattern set before
the student for 1900 years. In the mar
shaling of facts. IN the grouping of ar
guments, in the use of invective, and
In the arranging of climaxes, he is still
the teacher. Some one has drawn q
distinction between Cicero and Demos
themes, saying that when the former
spoke the people said, How well Cicero
speaks" while, when Demosthenes
spoke, they said, Let us go against
Philip Demosthenes' style was more
convincing than ornate; his purpose
was to arouse, not merely to please,
and from the accounts that have come
down to us his delivery was suited to
his language. He, in fact, gave to ac-
llOl the highest pldCo dIilOHb TIC re-
quisites of effective speech. We re-
called this saying Of Demosthenes when
we listened to the excited tones and
watched the gesticulations of the boat
men who thrOnged about our ship in
the harbor of Piraeus. The physician
who came aboard to examine the pas
sengers gave us even a better illustra-
ton of action" although his gestures
were more fOrcible than graceful, pos
sibly because he addressed himself to
the captain of the ship instead of 20 the
multitude.
On the shore of the Aegean sea, be-
tween Athens and the harbor, at a
place where Demosthenes may have
tested his voice against the tumult Of
the waves, I gathered some pebbles.
cannot prove that they are the identi-
cal ones used by him to overcome the
impeachment in his speech, but they ere
at least a reminder of the toilsome
struggle through which he passed be-
fore his name was known to fame.
1t was a disappointment TO find so
little to mark the site Of the academy
where Socrates and Plato met their
disciples. These philosophers have
made such an impression upon the
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ment. Athens has a population of but
little more than 100000 and 1t is doubt
ful whether there is another city of its
size that can boast of as large an ex-
penditure of private capital in public
buildings. The mountain which has
supplied Athens with marble for $500
years is only q few miles from the city,
and its quarries are still unexhausted.
Modern Athens is very attractive; its
streets are paved and clean; its BUSH
ness houses are large and well built; It's
government buildings are substantial,
and its private residences give evidence
of taste. We were there in the season
of flowers, and we saw them blooming
in profusion everywhere.
Numerous statues adorn the streets
and parks, the most noted being tile
statue of Byron, erected in memory Of
his unselfish devotion to Greek inds-
pendence.
The soldiers and policemen have
adopted the costume of the ancient
Greeks, but otherwise the people dress
like the people of northern Europe.
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AS one approaches Athens for the
first time his eye is sure to search for
the ''temple-crowned" Acropolis-the
hill which art and religion combined to
make immortal. 1t rises from the plain
much as Chapultepec rises from the
plain of Mexico. 1t is about 500 feet
high and at the top 200 yards in length.
1t must have been surprisingly beau
tiful when the Parthenon was complet-
ed, that great treasury which has rot
only supplied the art galleries of the
world with marvels in stone, but has
given law to the architects from that
day to this Pericles, who deserves the
credit for the construction of the Par
thenOn, can be pardOned for exulting
in his work.
Today, the Acropolis is a picture of
desolation, but the few columns that
remain bear witness to its departed
glory. Lord Elgin carried away at
one time $50 feet of the sculptured
frieze, and scarcely any of its columns,
capitals, cornice and pediment would
have remained but for the size and
weight of the masses of marble. The
pillage that for nearly twenty centuries
has been rObbing Greece of her price
less works of art can be understood
when it is stated that one Roman con-
queror celebrated his victory by ex-
hibiting in his triumphant procession
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25G wagon loads OF Greek pictures and
statues, and that these wagons were
followed by 5000 men, each bearing
some trophy taken from the cities of
Greece.
And yet, in spite OF the grand lar
ceny which has been perpetrated
against this unfortunate land, the mu-
scum at Athens contains enough of the
beautiful in marble and bronze 10 make
any nation conspicuous in the realm
of art. Within two years some notable
additions have been made to the COL
lection; a life-size bronze statue has
been unearthed and a marble figure,
half buried in the sands of the sea, has
been rescued. The latter is perfect in
the portions protected by the sand, tut
was distintegrating where IL came IL to
contact with the waves.
The readers Of these articles are too
well informed in regard to the discov-
cries of DR.. Schliemann to make il rec
essary to refer to the work in detail
One room of the museum contains the
ornaments which he gathered from
five tombs. and they are sufficient to
show the extended use made of this
metal in the arts. They consist of ear
rings, finger rings, bracelets, necklaces,
LCdQ OILdIlCIllS. NStScSs cups, COlilS, tlC.
A pair of cups which attract special
attention bear in relief the figures of
bulls-the animals being equal in form
to the best breeds of today. On one
cup they are being led to the sacrifice,
and on the other they are bound at the
altar.
Besides original statues of renown
and the casts of those which have been
removed, there are many specimens of
ancient pottery by which one can trace
the rise in artistic taste and skill Some
of the earliest statues in stone and
clay bear a striking resemblance to
those of Egypt.
Second only in interest to the Aero
polls is Mars hill. rocky summit two
thirds of the height of the Acropolis
Here the ancient court Of the Areopa-
gus, composed of the most eminent of
the, Athenians, held its sessions. Here
under the dome of the sky the most
important cases were tried and life
and death hung upon the decree of the
court. Here Also PauPs great speech
to the ''men of Athens" was delivered
his text being found in the altar erect
ed to the unknown god
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Training the Filipino Youth.
Continued from page 1.

busy little islanders have borne them
selves well. There has never been
complaint rejecting upon the morals OF
good character of any of them.
Progress made by them in their
studies has been generally excellent and
in many cases remarkable. AS rule
they have applied themselves to their
school duties faithfully and intelli-
gently. Quite a number rank among
the best in their classes.
In fact, about the only objection
raised by the authorities is that they
apply themselves to their studies too
diligently, sometimes to the detriment
of their health. FilipinOs of the better
classes seem naturally good students,
and when they take up anything they
pursue it with all their energies.
At the commencement of Drexel In
stitute, Philadelphia. in June, diplomas
were awarded three Filipino girls
Senoritas Olivia Salamanca, Genoveva
Llamas and Luisa Sison. All We're
graduated with honors.
Miss Salamanca was graduated from
the general course and this fall will
enter the Woman's Medical college,
where she will spend four years pre-
pairing TO practice her profession in
Cavite. She is editor of the magazine
published by and for Filipino students
in this country, and is regarded as a
remarkably bright girl.
Misses Llamas and Sison were gradu-
ated from the junior department of do
nestle arts and sciences, and now will
take up the college preparatory course.
Miss Sisoh finished with the highest
grades in her class and Miss Llamas
excels in drawing. When they return
to the Philippines these young ladies
will be qualified to instruct their coun-
try women in the arts of cooking,
housekeeping and needlework.
Elizabeth Florendo is attending ST.
Mary's academy at Notre Dame, Ind
Her grades for each term are excel
lent, and her command of the English
language is almost perfect. She is taxi
ing the normal course and expects 10
devote her future 10 teaching her peo-
Dle
Also taking a normal course-at ST.
GATHERINGS school st. Paul--is Miss
Clemente Asturias. This young wo-
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by virtue of their inherent superior
ity. they gradually substituted the
language-the ideas, the customs OF
their native land for those which they
found SO securely did they build
that neither the Roman nor the Turk
were able 20 obliterate their work
The people bowed before the storm, but
continued Greek, and today in Alexan-
dria, Asia Minor and Constantinople.
Hellenic influence is still felt.
The ancient Greeks sought to per-
feet the human form, and it is not TO
be wondered at that marble models of
strength, grace and beauty have been
unearthed where the Olympian games
inspired a rivalry in physical develop
ment. The games were established
nearly 500 years before the beginning
Of the Christian era, and during the ma
tons independent existence they were
held in such high esteem that the laurel
wreath of victory was the greatest re-
ward within the reach of the youth of
the country. Each city had its stadium,
some of them of immense size. The
one at Ataens seated $4,000 spectators,
and the enthusiasm aroused by the
contests was scarcely less than that
which at Rome greeted the gladiators.
BY the generosity Of a rich Greek the
stadium 1T Athens has recently been
restored at a cost of more than a mil
lion dollars. The race course is $40
feet long and 2 little more than 100 in
width, and the seats are Of Pentelic
marble. Notwithstanding It's great ca
pacity it cannot contain the crowds
that assemble TO witness the athletic
games, renewed there in 1895 by the
International Athletic association. Our
country has the distinction Of having
led in the contest in 1885, and again IN
the contest held at Athens last April.
Our representatives won eleven prizes
each time, and l found that these vic
tories had very favCrably impressed
the people of Athens.
The stadium is not the only splendid
monument to the public spirit of the
modern Greeks. The Academy of
Science and the library are magnificent
buildings, each costing more than the
restoration of the stadium. They illus
trate the best in Grecian architecture,
reproducing the COrinthian, the Doris
and the Ionic. They are of Pentelic
marble and would be worthy of place
in any city of the world. The library
contains several hundred thousand vol
umes and has all the modern equip
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Vienna. July Nothing so i'm
presses the visitor to Greece-not the
waters of the Aegean sea, with their
myriad hues, not the AcropoIis, elo-
quent with ruins, not even the lovely
site of Athens itself-1S the part which
little Greece has played in the instruc-
ton of the world. Less than $4,000
square miles in area, less than half of
which Is productive, and with popu-
lation of less than two and half mil
lions, this diminutive nation has his
tory without a parallel.
There is scarcely a department of
thought IN which Greece has not been
the pioneer and in many things she
has set an example which subsequent
generations have but imperfectly fol-
lowed If in Egypt one is awed by
the evidences of antiquity; If in Pal
estine he is made reverent by the
spiritual association connected with
Judea, Galilee and Samaria; in Greece
he bows with profound respect TO the
mighty influence eXerted by this
single people upon civilization.
The signs along the streets recall
the alphabet with which the student
of the classics struggles when he
takes up TIE dead languages-and yet
the Greek language can Eafdly De
called dead, for while it is the spoken
tongue of but a comparatively small
number, it has found a glorious resur-
rection in nearly all the languages
of Europe. In fact, it has so many
merits that we are constantly COM
plimenting it by returning TO it for
the nomenclature of philosophy,
science and art.
OF those who still speak the Ian
guage of HerOdOtus, Homer, Socrates
and Demosthenes, a majority live
outside of Greece. for the Greek col
onies planted around the eastern end
OF the Mediterranean form a consider
able as we'll as an influential portion
Of the population. Greek colo niZatiOn.
by the way, was of an enduring kind.
Those who went out into distant
fields did not go as individual bees
Official or commercially to gather
honey and return with it to the par
ent hive; they went out rather in
swarms 20 found cities, develop coun-
tries and establish new centers for
the spread of Greek influence. They
identified themselves with the land
To which they went they became an
integral part of the population, and
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news Of the victory 10 Athens and died
from exhaustion amid the shouts of his
cOuntrymen has led to the incorpora-
ton Of a twenty-five mile race in the
athletic games when they are held at.
Athens. In 1895 the race was won by
Greek (much 10 the satisfaction OF
the audience), who made the run from,
Marathon to the city in two hours and
forty-fiVe minutes.
The pass at Thermopylae is also to
be seen and the heroism Of the 900
Spartans who, under The leadership.
of Leonidas, offered uD their lives
there for their country continues TO be
an inspiration. They failed TO stay the
onward march of XerXes, but who can
measure the value of their example2
COrinth, now as of old, guards the
entrance Of the Peloponnesus, but, not
withstanding the canal which at this
point cOnDects the Aegean sea with the
Gulf of Corinth, the city has only a
small population.
Corinth brings to memory the part
Greece played in the spread Of Chris
tianity. 1t was not enough that this
country led the world i'm statecraft and.
Oratory, in poetry and history, IN phi-
losOphy and literature. in art and ath-
letics, she was also one of the first
MISSION neiQS or the apostles. II was
to the Corinthians that Paul wrots.
the epistle i'm which love is given tha
first place among the virtues, and IL
was Greece that gave her name to one
Of the great branches of the Christian
church.
A Democrat may be pardoned for
cherishing a high regard for the land
that coined the word democracy. The
derivation OF the word-from demos -
the people, and "kratein," to rule
makes it an appropriate one to de-
scribe a government based upon pop
ular will. And as governments more
and more recognize the citizen as the
sovereign and the people as the
sources of all political power. the
worlds debt TO Greece will be more
and more fully appreciated She not
only gave the language a word accu-
Tately expressing the idea of self-gOV-
eminent, but she proved by expert
ence the wisdom of trusting the people
with the management of all public f.
fairs.
Copyright. 1906. by Joseph B. BowleSs
Copyright in Great Britain-Au
rights reSerVeQ(
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mans sister was anxious to come to
America with her. She underwent the
scholarship examination and obtained
the highest average of the 400 who took
the examination in the Philippines. The
youngest age at which an applicant
may receive an appointment, however,
is 16. as she was only IA she could not
be selected.
The other young women who are pur-
suing their studies with credit are Miss
HOnOria AcOSta, at the WOmen'S Med
ical college, Philadelphia: Miss Pillar
Elumba, at ST GATHERINGS academy,
ST. Paul, and Miss Eleanor de Leon, at
st. Mary's academy, Notre Dame, Ind.
Of the bright young men who are
industriOusly fitting themselves for the
future, George BOcObo, a law student at
the Indiana university, will graduate
heXt year. He has a leaning to poll
ties and two years ago made stump
speech from the same platform with
William Jennings Bryan.
Mr. BocobO recently won second prize
in the university oratorical contest, his
Grafton being a plea for promise upon
the part of congress of future indie
pendence for the. Philippine islands. He
ranks among the best students at the
university.
From about 1000 fellow students in
the Iowa university, Rafael Ungson
won prize of $50 in gold for prof.
cheney in mathematics. Liborio Co
meZ has completed two years in medi-
cine at the University of Chicago and
will enter Rush college this fall, al
though he is not yet 20 years old.
Because of his small size and joculaT
disposition, Pacifico Laygo has been
dubbed Buster Brown" by his fellow
students at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, where he is taking a medicinal
course. He is making a speciality of
sanitation, of which there is great need
In the Philippines.
Lorenzo Ohrubia has just graduated
from Ann Arbor High school, and VIII
enter Michigan university's engineer
ing department this fall. He was cap
tain last fail of the football team that
won the scholastic championship
Of Michigan While he was the lightest
man by twenty pounds on the team, he
had the reputation of being the fastest
high school quarterback in the state.
These examples are selected at ram
dom from among the lis students to in
dicate the excellent progress nearly all
are making. In addition to their studi-
Gus habits. the young men of the Pa
cific have won regulations for gentle
manly conduct and gallantry.
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In this connection, it is related that
when Carlos Barreto, junior in the
Drexel institute, Philadelphia, had won
the mems championship in fencing, he
was called upon to meet the young
women who had won the honors in the
WOmen's class. Barreto was defeated,
1t is said, through his courtesy in not
wishing 10 vanquish a woman.
During the summer vacation the stu
dents are allowed to take up outside
work in such fields as will most benefit
them in the courses which they are
pursuing in school. Some of them work
in machine shops, others in hospitals,
in law offices upon farms. Still others
devote themselves to domestic science
and engineering work. If they receive
any money for their vacation labors
they are allowed to keep it and use it
as suits themselves.
Although subjected to a great change
Of climate, the health of the Filipinos
in America has been excellent, as a
rule. Most of them have grown stouter
and stronger.
There has been but one death among
them since they came to the United
States. This was Ciriaco Morada, who
died at the Agricultural college at
Ames, Ia, of peritonitis on April %,
1905.
1t is not an easy task to look after
the welfare of 178 foreign students,
scattered in all parts of the country, yet
this responsibility has been placed by
the government upon the shoulders of
Mr.. ahd Mrs. William A. Sutherland of
Washington, D. c.
Mr.. Sutherland is superintendent of
Filipino students in this country. He
looks after the 10 young men, keeping
watch upon their studies, their vacation
plans and their material needs. while
Mrs Sutherland does the same for the
girls.
They are very much interested in
their wards. and the students look upon
them as their American father and
mother. Mr.. Sutherland and his wife
are personally and intimately acquaint-
ed with all the students. They meet
newcomers when they arrive in this
country; secure comfortable homes for
them, and pay regular visits to them
during the year.
Mr. Sutherland's Headquarters are In
the bureau of insular affairs of the
war department. Major p. ]. Watt
mann, assistant superintendent and
retired army chaplain. gives the stu
dents spiritual advice when requested
This student body does not represent
the extent of the parental measures
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ed II is believed they will be Of in
estimable value In spreading the En-
glish language and in diffusing knoWi-
edge generally.
These Americanized Filipino boys and
girls, il is thought. will render their
greatest service in intoxicating into the
natives of the island archipelago feel
ing of love and respect for the Ameri-
can people and government who are
watching over their destinies and lead
ing them up TO higher and better
things.
In advising those who, upon arrival,
had not fully determined the careers for
which to f1t themselves, the authorities
have advocated lines that promise to
result in the greatest good TO the stu
dents fellow cOuntrymen.
Agricultural, normal and engineering
courses, with, Lerhaps, medicine, are
believed TO be the leading of such bene-
fetal courses.
The authorities of the different
schools have, without exception, shown
themselves most obliging in the matter
of allowing the students TO specialize
in the different courses which they have
mapped out for themselves.
A student, for example. comes TO a
university with inadequate prepara-
ton; if he were obliged to take all of
the subjects required it would meah
probably double the time he has at his
disposal to complete his work and to
obtain a degree.
Instead of this the Filipino student
has been allowed the privilege. not
often granted the American student, to
take these subjects only which bear
direct relation to the course he has in
view, and which will give him the best
possible acquaintance with his course
and the most practical phases of his
work in his four years in this country.
The old complaint, sometimes made
by foreigners. of being treated with
scant courtesy in American schools and
universities. has not been uttered by
sny of the Filipinos. On the contrary,
thew have been received everywhere
with the utmost consideration.
They have been taken into fraterni-
,,eo and secret societies and their good
qualities as students are recognized In
every way. On the other hand, the
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undertaken by the Philippine govern
ment for the education of its young
people. Recently an act was passed
providing for the education of a num-
Der of students who will serve the gov
eminent as surveyors, and thus meet
the great demand for civil engineers
caused by the extensive transfers of
friar lands and other lands for mining
and agricultural purposes.
These young men will attend the
Nautical school, or the School of Arts
and Trades, at Manila, and will be
given a fiYe-year course. The Panama
canal and extensive irrigation move
ments in the United States have Gre
ated such a demand for engineers, ii is
said, that Americans decline to go to
the PhilinDine islands
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COULDN'T STAND THE RACKET.
Philadelphia PIess.)

There's country buyer out there, d"
said the senior member of the firm,
that / want to take care of"
mot me, please" protested the sales
man. 'I promised my wife I'd stop
drinking"
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since / began?
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You have, sOrr. But sure it was aisy
FOR you 20 improve.