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Belgium's Work in Congo State.

From the Engineering Magazine.
Hardship in transportation has always
been the case in virgin territory. In Amer
lea the wagon team preceded the Pacific
express and more recently in British
Africa the pioneers in Rhodesia and
Uganda were followed by long bands of
natives carrying on their shoulders and
on their backs the stores and impedimenta
Of the expedition. The Congo authorities
have had to adopt the same means under
the same conditions in the vast region SUBJ
ject to their sway. 1t is necessarily a
somewhat harsh method. accompanied with
a considerable amount of severity, and no
doubt attended occasionally by a certain
amount Of sickness and mortality But
these consequences the common ac-
compartment of the early stages of col
onization in UNEMPLOYED and unre-
claimed region, no matter what may b
the continent or what the flag under which
the advance guard OF the colonizing or
conquering power moves toward its goal
They are passing phase, however. as 1t
is clearly to the interest OF the ruling state.
quite apart from humanitarian motives,
to provide as soon as possible q more ex-
peditious, economical and, let me add.
popular means of conveyance than the EN-
ployment of human carriers. No govern
ment could have shown more clearly than
the Congo state that II realized that port
age was a system to be superseded by
something better in the Upper Congo
region as quickly and as effectively as had
been done In the lower Congo.
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MONEY CHANGERS KNOW A LOT.
They Have To, to Keep Track OF
European Coins and Counterfeits.

They Have To, to Keep Track OF
European Coins and Counterfeits.
From the New York Sun.
1T never realized until today" said a
man who had Just returned from Europe,
what an undertaking it is to be money
changer.
IT came back with about $40 in foreign
money. principally French and italian.
This I took to money changers to
cash in.
HE looked over the coins rapidly, throw
ing them into little piles and putting down
notes on slip Of paper. When he had
cleared up the lot he said had $10.25 COM
ing to me.
"At hrst thought he was doing me. But
he was not. He showed me dozen or so
Italian coins that had been demonetized
and were worth about 40 cents on the dol
lar. There was a nice little pile Of coun-
terfeits that were not worth cent, and al
together only about a third of the coins
that I brought home were worth their full
value.
1.-The only consolation I had was that
thanked my stars I am in the insurance
business and not in the exchange business.
for my poor little brain could not carry
half the things that those fellows have to
remember"
The man with the coins did not exag-
gerate. There are thousands of different
coins floating about that money changer
has to know. He has to keep in mind
every domonetized coin made within the
last hundred years.
In addition to that there are counter
feits. The immigrants bring over heaps Of
bad coins. Many Of them buy up counter
feits cheap with the hope Of exchanging
them at Ellis Island.
Then there are the coins Of the South
American countries. They are worse than
those of the European countries. Brazil,
for instance. has a scheme all its own.
Certain notes are good for ten years. after
that time for every year they lose 10 per
cent Of their face value until the whole
value is used up and they are worth only
the paper they are printed on.
AS one man expressed it you have to
know the history of the world to be
money changer peculiar part of the
business is the reshipment Of coins back
to the countries whence they came. Often
during the rush season one firm sends back
a million coins. while 1t is estimated that in
the course of year $4,000, 600 in foreign
money is reshipped to Europe and a million
to the rest of the world.
Money changing Is a business just like
any other. They do not exchange money.
They buy it. When you go there with for
eign coins they buy them from you at a
stated price. When you go there to get
foreign coins you buy them from them at
a certain price just as you buy eggs and
cigars.
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Strength in Reserve.
From the Young Man.

from the 1Oung man.
One of the most celebrated admira!s of
our day. whose name Is closely associate
with deeds of conspicuous hardihood and
vaIor. when asked by a friend the secret of
his remarkable success. answered naively:
'Ill tell you. my boy. 1t was just through
being a thoroughly lazy man
Sir Francis Laking, the kings physician,
is very much in sympathy with that espe-
cial form of laziness which produces he
roes and heroines. He Is not at all of the
same opinion as those hustling folk who
maintain that change of work is as good as
a holiday, and that laziness is under all
circumstances a vice.
Whenever any one Of this great doctor s
patients is starting off on a pleasure trip
he offers some such common sense advice
as this:
Don't Overture yourself. Don't let brac-
ing air and novel surrounding persuade
you to take too long walks. Don't shorten
your hours OF sleep. and-don't eat too
much"
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The Latest Phase of Church Life Bids Fair to
Effect Revolutions M11ionaires and Other
Strong Financiers Are Taking Hold to
Pot Missions on Practical Basis.

by a prayer meeting. quite in contrast with
the little gathering Of impecunious college
students under haystack 100 years before
For this gathering comprised sixty business
men. of whom score were mi.lionaires.
At this meeting announcement was made
that the laymen were resolved to take
hold, Systematically and energetcalIy. of
this missionary business. They made three
definite propositions. which are the basis
of the present movement. to the secretaries
of the missionary boards OF all the denomi-
nations In the United States and Canada.
These propositions were as follows
1. To project a campaign to secure in
telligent and generous interest in missions
among laymen to be conducted by groups
of laymen under the direction of the va
rous boards
. To devise comprehensive plan Gin
conjunction with said board secretares)
looking toward the evangelization of the
world in this generation.
B. To endeavor to form, through the va
rious boards. a centennial commission Of
as early as possible the mission fields and
report their findings to the church at home
With respect to the last proposition, by
curious coincidence, 1 had myself under
taken, six months previously. such an in
vestigation, of which the articles In these
columns have been the outcome. Already
a large number of business men have gone
to the foreign fields. and some are now
there.
The men who constitute the central organ
ization of this laymen's missionary move
ment are the following. some of whom will
be recognized as national figures:
Samuel B. Capen. Boston; Harry Wade
Hicks. Boston: Edward H. Haskell. Boston;
w. N. Hartshorn. Boston: William Shaw,
Boston: John L. Bates. Boston; H. P An
dersen, New York: Seymour NJ Ballard,
New York; s. w. BOVINE New York; Will
liam L. Brewer. New York; ]. Cleveland
Cady, New York; John s. Huyier. New
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Facetious Testators.
From the Grand Maya zine.

VIII making often affords a man an
unrivaled opportunity of paying of old
scores and speaking his mind without any
fear of unpleasant consequences TO HIM
self.
The great Duke Of Monmouth evidently
could not resist the temptation of fare
well slap" at his duchess when he left her
10000 pounds sterling wherewith to spoil
Blenheim in her own way, and $4,000 pounds
TO keep clean and &c to law with
There is also distinct note of spiteful-
ness In this extract from the testament
of Mr.. Kerr, who. after declaring that he
would have left his widow 10000 pounds
sterling If she had allowed him to read his
evening paper in peace adds. But you
must remember. my dear. that whenever l
commenced reading you started playing
and singing. You must, therefore, take
the consequences. leave you LOCO pounds
sterling"
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SPEAKERS FOR THE
BROTHERHOOD SESSIONS

A feature not heretofore tried at the an
nual gatherings of the Brotherhood of st.
Andrew will be inaugurated at the forth
coming international convention to be held
in this city next month. The program pro-
vides for mass meeting each evening dur
ing the sessions of the convention. Thurs
day evening, September 26. "A Mans Per-
sonal Service for Christ in His Life In the
World will be the subject of addresses
from John r. Mott, secretary of the inter-
ma tional committee of the Y. NJ. c. A, and
the Ri Rev. c. e. Woodcock, D. D.. bishop
OF Kentucky.
The meeting the following evening, Fri
day. will be addressed by Rt. Rev. John
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knows that the backbone Of the missionary
work OF the past century has been the
women and the children. But it is the men
who have the money. Only the man with
the pocketbook could be equal to the big
spending which an adequate prosecution Of
the missionary enterprise entails. The
present outgo Of S21. O00OOO year, enor-
nous as It is. comprises only fraction Of
the expenditure which is necessary, if the
job is to be done thoroughly.
So, naturally, as soon as the laymen
really took hold. they began to do some fg-
uring To put the work which has here
tofore been largely sustained by Impulse
and sentiment on business basis they
first divided up the heather" population
Of the world among the Christian coun-
tries and churches Here Is the interesting
way they go about it.
There are approximately .O00OOO. 900
heather in the world. On the basis Of
one missionary to every 5000 of these. the
counts for 325. 10000 Of heather. Or this
same result may be reached by allowing g
head as the cost Of evangeiizing each
'heathen." for so the thing has been fig
ured out by these men who want work.
ing basis for their undertaking. It becomes
a mere matter of subtraction to show that
675. 100000 of people are at present unpro-
vided for by the present missionary ar
rangement. Therefore. the laymen say
that the missionary bodies should have
$50. 100000 year and 1900 more mission
aries for twenty-five years. in order really
to do the job. This sort OF figuring would
probably have made William Carey or Rob-
ert Morrison, pioneer missionaries. gasp
with establishment, but It IL the modern
way.
All this Is not the speculative figuring of
dreamers. The laymen are after results;
80 they put the proposition up to every de-
nomination by showing just how many
heather each church is responsible for and
the amount of money it will have to give.
And this plan Of confronting a denomina-
ton definitely with its share Of the gigantic
scheme Of worldwide evanEelzation has
been received seriously by the various
bodies. The United Presbyterians were
first to accept the challenge. and they are
asking Of every member an average gift of
s. year for their missionary work. The
Presbyterians followed, great mems mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
Copyright 1907, by Joseph B. Bowles)

Special correspondence OF The Star.
PHILADELPHIA. August -. 1907.
Within the past nine months there has
arisen a new movement in the Protestant
churches of the United States and Canada
which is bound to arrest the worlds at
tention by its significance. This is the or
ganization Of men by men for the purpose
OF putting the missionary enterprise on a
basis commensurate with its Importance;
for this foreign missionary business rep
resents an annual expenditure of s21 0O0,-
80. which is equivalent to per cent on a
capital of $3.50. 900 900. The magnitude Of
this Iong-despised missionary enterprise
seems to have at last penetrated the I'M
Outstanding of the men who are responsible
for. it
The organization is not engineered
by the preachers or by board secretaries.
or by young and visionary enthusiasts 1t
had its origin with successful business
men. and it has swung along to it's con-
spicuoUs success. independent of ecclesias-
tical promotion. The officials of the de-
but they are not in the saddle: and they
are not by any means certain of the lengths
to which the movement will go. COM
plete revolution in missionary finances is
assured and doubtless. also, many changes
in methods. For the first time during the
whole Christian era there seems to be a
reasonable prospect that the entire
heather world will be made acquainted
with the Christian teaching within gen.
Grafton.
Before showing no" these plans are to be
accomplished. the identity of the men be-
hind the movement should be made known.
The idea of the laymen's missionary move
ment took form in connection with the
Haystack centennial celebration in New
York last November. That meeting, which
was really the anniversary of the Ameri-
can board of foreign missions. was marked
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papers. But there have been con -jsions by
newssatherers to what they have regarded
as the public taste. and those WHO try to
play down to the crowd almost always get
below Its level. The episode seems to have
passed. according to the illuminating ad-
Vertislng gentleman: but there was once a
time when the newsgatherer was very con-
temptuous of the editorial page. There was
once a managing editor Of a New York
newspaper who was so successful in the
management of his job that he expected to
succeed the editor-in-chief. who was one
of the foremost Of his class And when
do succeed" he used to say. the first thing
Ill do will be to kill the editorial page"
Well, he did at last succeed and the edf-
torial page is lveier than ever
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MISS LUCY SULLIVAN HERE.
She Is Missionary to Northern Part
of India

Miss Lucy Sullivan. a missionary from
northern India. is in the city. the guest of
DR. and Mrs. j. E. Gilbert, 1903 r street
northwest. Miss Sullivan is at the head of
a school in the mountains of India. about
forty miles from the boundary line of
Thibet position which she has held for
nineteen years under the Woman's Home
Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church.
She is on vacation of six months, ex-
pecting to sail from New York in November
next. She attended the conference at
Mortified. Mass, and is now on her way
to her old home in Dayton. Ohio. to visit
her brother, Judge William Sullivan.
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was decided to hold the congress this year
in Pttsburg Bishop Macs of Covington.
KY, president of eucharistic congresses.
will have charge Of the congress, and he
will be assisted by the apostolic delegate.
Father Falconio. The program of the con-
gress includes a pontif1cal mass at the be-
ginning of each days meetings. The re-
mainder of the sessions will be given over
to the reading of papers on subjects relat-
ing to the holy eucharist by prominent
clergymen from all over the country. 1t is
expected that more than one thousand
priests will attend the congress.
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X x "A REASONABLE CREED" x X
By Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr.

he not been instructed he might hardly
have suspected their existence or guessed
at their utilization"
And thus he argues the fact that an Or
binary man absorbed In material things
does not recognize pshchical realm Is no
argument against It's existence.
To me no argument for immortality is so
strong as that based the inherent d.
vinity of man and upon the progress of the
race. All about us is the infinite eternal
energy Illustrated every day is "the
power not ourselves that makes for right
eousness." In this one city Of Washington
and in the range of one brief lifetime. there
is told the story of progress.
The blind are not left in darkness. Schools
and colleges, books and teachers. bring
them light
The poor are not left in their poverty.
The prod and the helping hand force or
lift them out.
The lepers do not go uneleansed, the sick
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Secretary International Committee. v NJ e A,
who will speak at public meeting. brotherhood
of St Andrew convention, next month.
DuAlouIin d. D., bishop of Niagara Can
ada. and RI Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, ID. D.,
bishop OF Washington, from the topic. The
living Power of the Holy Communion.
Saturday night Hubert Carleton. general
secretary of the Brotherhood OF st. Andrew
In the. United States, will be the principal
sneaker from the subject, THE Boy and
the church" This gathering is TO be more
in the nature of boys mass meeting.
The meetings each night Will be held In
Continental Hall of the Daughters OF the
xo,ari,.an Revolution building corner nth
and ID streets northwest. where VIII also
he Ioca ed during the convention the gem
eraI headquarters. such as registratlon IN
Formation bureau and the various sectional
conferences provided for on the program.
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Plan to Send Half Hundred Laymen Around the
World to Investigate Conditions British
Churchmen Are Following the Amer
lean Lead In This New Activity.

sionary convention having been held in
proved by the general assembly the South
ern PresbyteriansN hid likewise. The Cana
dian Presbyterians and Southern Baptists
have a'so Joined in the movement. The
Congregationalists and Northern Baptists
will take up the subject early in the fall
The Episcopalians have not yet had op-
portunity officially to adopt basis. but its
laymen are in the forefront Of the new
movement.
30 remarkable has been the response. up
Professionalism. where this proposition has
been definitely put up to them. that the
leaders are sanguine Of enlisting the entire
body of the laity Of the churches Of the
United States and Canada. To this end.
series of laymens dinners covering the big
cities of the continent are projected for this
winter, on the line OF those successfully held
last winter in New York. Philadelphia, Chi
cago, Boston, Toronto, Washington and
elsewhere. These are not conventional mis-
sionary meetings, but gatherings of the
strongest Christian business men in each
place, managed and addressed by laymen.
The business men who are behind the move
ment plan a systematic propaganda that
shall reach every man In anywise con-
nected with the churches even to the re-
hottest cross-ro roads congregation.
Already the movement is formidable; the
most important news of the year in re-
lieious circles It's consequences will doubt
less be far-reaching. Men Of foresight are
already predicting certain unplanned-for re-
suits One of these. they say. will be the
elimination Of all independent missionary
work on the foreign field. The latter is
serious drain on the resources Of Christen-
dom, and, say the laymen who have already
returned from their tour Of investigation.
aims acceptance of the project is the fact
that the high church party Of the Church
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do not stay untaught, but all the forces of
society are combining more and more to
care for the weak, dependent, helpless ones
of earth.
The earth is not what it was five thou
sand or five hundred or evan fifty years
ago. A mighty power is at work.
Not only to man has come Self-conSciouS-
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A deputation from the laymen's mission
airy movement has just returned from the
other side OF the water. where IT went to IN
troduce the project to the Iaity OF the Brit
ish churches. The report brought back Is
remarkable. The deputation was welcomed
and feted everywhere by archbishops,
church leaders and business men They
ate enough complimentary dinners to give
them all dyspepsia. The serious outcome of
their labors the definite organization.
with unexpected enthusiasm. of the lay
mems missionary movement in England and
Scotland
The most striking feature Of Great Brit
of England has entered into alliance with
other religious bodies in this undertaking.
This is unprecedented. The Society for the
Propagation Of the Gospel. the famous
High Church missionary organization. has
Endorsed the new movement. and its repre-
sentatives are working side by side with
men from the nonconformist bodies Great
Britain. with less than half the population
Of the United States and Canada, already
gives $S.973.OOO a year to foreign missions,
little less than is given by the North
American continent. the balance needed to
make up the worlds total s.. 327 600 being
given by all other countries 1t Is expected
that the gifts of Great Britain will be slim
ulated in proportion to those on this side.
In any case. even Wall street will have 10
take notice Of the flow of money into for
eign mission channels
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Architects In many instances are specify
ing electric plate warmers In new houses
being constructed.
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they do not come up to the representations
made by their eloquent representatives in
this country. The laymen's movement
stands squarely behind the denomina tionaI
boards. Nevertheless, it is predicted. tho
laymen will hold the boards strictly to ac-
count. that their missions be manned only
by competent workers and that they he con-
quoted on the broadcast, most effective and
most economical lines.
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The men who keep posted upon the trend
Of current events in all spheres have no.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-06-12
BURKRARDT
 WAS MURDERED

The discovery Of the body OI Sylves- ter BurzhardJ iD 8 drlIg oa his claim CD the Koyusuk river, in the minds of many. Lhas relieved that man of the Nigus .ha, had attached 70 him on aC- count os the death Of his cabin mate, Louis Trox. CT, last fall. Burkhardt had oeeu sbo, at he spot where his body wss found.
 Louis Trozler was killed last fell. Someone had beaten him to death with au ordinary carpenters clawtammer. 5-tora he aied, however, be was dis covsr.a but he never made su intelli- sih.r statement as Lo the caTse of his wounds. He tried to say something z5ou. Burkhar5 with whom be lived, s1l. as Burkhardt had disappeared, it Was believed be had Killed Troxlsr.
 Alter the death Of TroZler 8 search Vas begun for BurEhsrdt which was .kep. up until the discOv sry of the bullet s..ed body iu the EoyuGuk drift.
 A corouer's bury, evidently think .ur that SurkhsrdI had killed TroIleF, decided that the former came to his Gss,h by bis own hand, but his brother auc othe.s believe that both men were murdered for their money. Jt WHs the general idea that both men had cutie .0, Of g0l dust but none was found
The daily Alaskan., 1907-06-12
WILL LOOK
Government To Investigate
 Escape of Buell.

The escape Of sergrsnt Buell. who wss marri.d at Skagwsy under the name-of staCkhouss just before leaving with his bride on the Princess May, win be investigated by the government ag Washington.
 Buell. or SJackhOuss deserted from lhe Tenth infantry and came to Skag- way where be was united in marriage with Miss McKOwen, who was 8 dOmes- t.c 10 the household of Mrs. Major Reynolds. They lett on the Princess May. The civil officers at Hetchikan were notified Of the desertIOn and in suuctad Co arrest Buell. or StackhOuse. They were prevented from doing soy however, by the refusal of the captain O. lhe Princess May 10 permit the oacers Co enter the ststeroOm in which che fugitive was locked. The matter has been referred to the government at Washington.