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The Jewish outlook., 1907-04-26

The struggle in Austria between the
various political parties is becoming more
acute as the elections are approaching.
Especially active in the present cam
paign are the Zionists, who have organ
lied themselves into political party to
fight the "Polish' Jews, who exert their
utmost to suppress any movement that
tends to strengthen the Jewish national
feeling.
The executive Of the Israelitische Ali
anz in Vienna is devoting its attention to
the economic conditions of the Jews in
Galicia, and it has come to the conclu-
sion that this situation can best be i'm
proved by raising the intellectual status
of the younger generation. TO this end
the executive has decided to support
schools in which, while religious educa
ton will be impaired on orthodox lines,
the pupils shall be thoroughly grounded
in secular elementary subjects. Rabbi
Dr. Kaminka, secretary of the Alliance,
recently met in conference at Lemberg,
a number of orthodox rabbis and lay
representatives of communities in Cali
cia, with the view of determining the
lines on which action shall be taken.
The Jewish outlook., 1907-04-26
Egypt.

At a general meeting of the Jewish
community of Cairo, it was decided to
build a hospital, the need for which has
become urgent, as the Jewish population
numbers about $4,000 and is increasing
daily A large site has already been
purchased and a subscription list will
soon be opened. The meeting also re-
solved to extend the Jewish free schools,
which only have $50 pupils. The Jews
in Alexandria have reason to be proud
in this respect. We have an excellent
hospital to which patients from Cairo,
Tantah and other towns come in large
numbers every day. We also have free
schools, in which more than 1,3OO chill
dren receive an excellent education, and
the very poorest are provided free with
a midday meal.
The Jewish outlook., 1907-04-26
IL.

ton against the Jews. The authorities
however, learnt of their intention, which
they thwarted by sending troops to guard
the Jewish quarter. This display OF
force so greatly impressed the population
that no further troubles have occurred.
The post-mortem examination on the
child's corpse made it clear that his
death was accidental. In order to pre-
vent renewal Of the dangerous Incl
dents, the authorities, whose energetic
action throughout cannot be too highly
praised, have decided to punish the au-
thors of disturbances with the utmost
severity.
The Jewish outlook., 1907-04-26
Alexandria, Egypt.

Friday afternoon poor stranger was
walking beside the synagogue when
some young European Hooligans, tax
ing him to be a Jew, spread the report
that he was attempting to abduct a
Christian boy. The report spread like
wildfre and in a moment menacing
crowd surrounded the stranger He
would have Jared badly at their hands
had not some kindly disposed persons
interviewed to protect him from their
fury. An investigation by the police
proved that like his assailants, he was
a Christian. Unfortunately the cal
umny had it's effect on the native pop
ulation, whose suspicious were aroused
by the discovery, in Lake Menzaleh, of
the body Of a little native child, who
had disappeared the previous Friday
from his home. Some evil-disposed per-
sons raised the report that the death OF
the child was the work of Jews, accord
ingly, on the Oath inst, when the police
were conveying the body into the town
a crowd of more than 5000 individuals
assembled in the Jewish quarter, with
the object Of sacking the shops. The in
habitants, dreading massacre, closed
their houses and shouted for protection.
LII view ol IHe dldfHlluS SIdte VI IilhSS
Mouheb Pasha, governor of the Suez
canal in conjunction with the Com
mandant Of police, Immediately took eff
fective measures. The police appeared
on the scene and found it necessary to
charge the mob. In the melee several
persons were injured. 1t was not until
late at night that the crowd dispersed;
but the excitement continued for the ma
tive population intended the day before
yesterday to oprovoke another demonstra-
c-tc ,e.--s.1 o. .-,.s 'i.E-. III .'-- -.'1..'.
The Jewish outlook., 1907-04-26
Berlin.

According to statistics compiled by
the German Jews Association 25O,OOO
Jews left Russia during 1906, 100000
of whom left for the United States, 1885,,
600 landing in New York and the re-
mainder being distributed throughout
England, Argentine and South Africa.
During the year 1S5 Jews settled in Pal
estine. At the present rate of emigra-
tion it is said that quarter of a million
more Jews will settle in the United
States in 1907.
The Jewish outlook., 1907-04-26
FOREIGN
Russia.

In answer to an inquiry by the Gov
ernor- General of Warsaw, the Minister
of the Interior declared that Jews will
be permitted to open their stores on Sun
days and other Christian holidays from
12 until 5 in the afternoon in such
places where the majority of the inhabi-
tants are Jewish. This order is to hold
good throughout the Polish provinces.
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The work N the Philippines, which has
steadily Increased OF late. is particularly
rigorous. IdOp't know what percentage we
lose from enteric disease, but l dOn't think
% per cent. would DO too high an average
to name.
Strange a. it. may seem, the climate
Of Japan Is. very trying TO the women mis-
sionaries and they can endure only a few
years Of IT,. Added to the physical strain
is the tremendous amount Of mental vitality
required TO keep pace with the rapid adj
vance of thu japanese in cvery field. Stimu-
Iation ia in the air and Xhe women soon
break down.
Japan, in fact. is hardly 10 be known now
IA a missionary field. I might say that
except in the most remote parts it IL no
longer 80. The Japanese nvcrts have
organizedIthe own charches and church
schools and only look 60 the missionary
boards in advisory ways.
"One of the constant demands on mis-
sionary boards is for medical missionaries.
In China the husband would as a general
rule rather hat his wife should die than be
treated by "a male physician. and wives do
die for. lack of proper attendance. die by
the hundreds.
There are a few Chinese women who
have studied here and gone back TO take
care OF their countrywomen. One came to
New York a year ago TO undergo an opera
ton. She had taken care Of 20. 900 patients
in a year and had broken down.
W have the same condition of affairs to
face in Corel, butin japan there is no femi-
mime seclusion. The point Of view is the
Same as with us, and the Japanese surgeons
and physicians are among the finest In the
world. It. is tremendously hard TO get
medical missionaries, especially among
won;en.
AS a general thing we try 20 send the
W~issionarie, wGsre they want to go. OF
late tb" Lrsnd Of their Wishes il toward
Corea. watch perhsp, is no. 10 be wondered
III. for Corea rs d Wordsrful'y interesting
land and rhcre is noae in the world which
needs missionary workers rore siren
uously.
New York does 70, g@r'r 70 sp-out
either pastors or tnisS.-g".i p. lat is. New
York city. tina State a., i;.., ilraishlug a
'9ir percentage. Why :GiI 3, 30 ] do not
know. except thai as one get further EaS.
one seems 10 get away from the aItruistic,
simple life found west Of the Allegheny
Mountains.
1T Ia from the Middle West that most
Of the missionaries come. hundreds CR
them from the wheat feldsc many. of them
actually from rhc sod houses Of The SOUTH
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manner. fluent in conversation, with a most
attractive personality. There is no draw ing
room in the city that he could not nave on
tered with perfect ease.
II recognized him as the grandson Of the
very first convert our church made in
China. a Chinese coolie. who after hc had
allied himself with us used to guard the
gate that led to our compound. This
young man had taken honOrs in the en-
giDeering course in one of our American
universities, his brother had been graduated
from a law school and had also taken houors.
There is "A great deal of erroneous IN
formation in regard to the life and work Of
the missionaries. All through the year the
steamers that arrive here bring back men
and women coming for f~urloughs or on
sick leave from distant lands. from the
Philippines. Malaysia. the interior of Africa,
COrea. India, Bulgaria. China. Japan and
other countries.
-In some Of these countries the climate
and conditions are so severe hat four or
five years Ia the limit Of endurance. Many
Of those invaded home with the idea of
returning 40 soon as health il restored
never can go back. and their place il sup
piled by others who start out with a GER
tainty Of hardship. sickness and perhaps
death. and yet with unalterable enthusiasm.
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And, Of course, tho first book ! ought TO
buy is n new dictionary. and I've been
going to buy n for the past twenty years.
Often end often I have said 10 myself. Now
next week, or next month. I'll buy a new
dictionary but when he time has come I
have found other and more urgent uses for
my money.
an like manner I have put of from time
70 time, IA ] am still putting on. buying he
books for my library. But I know what I
want 10 buy when | gel the money for il, and
Bs these books are in one way and another
brought to mind I put them down m my
memoranda.
Thus, yesterday | found in reading a
reference to Blackstone's Commentaries,
and I put thai down. I have always wanted
Blackstone's Commentaries. In looking
over my memoranda. which ! do now and
then TO cross out duplicated titles. | find
that | have at intervals put Blackstone
down on three separate earlier occasions.
hut that only confirms mo in my desire.
have always thought | should enjoy
Blackstone.
"Still, this does moi always follow. have
in mind one book with whose title and with
the name Of whose author I had beer
familiar from the time ! began reading, and
10 the reading of which | had always looked
forward with a~nticipations Of pleasure.
But when in the course OF time ! arm 10
get that book into my hands, which | did
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Il have been asked many times IL l did
not believe that young men m women
chose this career because they wanted to
see the world. from the love OF adventure.
or because they believed il an easy life.
Personally l have never known a single
cGse Of a missionary taking up this work
except for that mysterious reason the call.
Just the other day I vent to the dock
to see a young man of for the missionary
helds. He was a strong. fine looking speed
men OF manhood and was going into dark
est Africa. His old farmer father held his
hand and said; -
-'Good-by. Joe. / hope we shall meet
again. bat anyway. do your duty
All around US was the hustle Of de-
parLure. Fashicnably dressed men and
women were saying au revOir light heart
edly; for them the sailing meant a pleasure
trip. the change OF scene for a few months.
a mere delightful alteration in their ways
of life. In the mids Of them were those
two, the father sending his only child out
into the world probably never to return.
Il had been in the home Of the young a
II was a very simple Western home. l
remember only two articles in the sitting
room. One was a map Of the world, the
other the Bible.
1T was on those that the young mans
eyes were first directed in childhood. II
was on them his growing thoughts rested.
and the natural result followed. He paid
his own way through school and college.
and never d~eviated from his fixed resolve
which had come 10 him IA soon as he could
formulate his future.
Among the recruits for the missionary
field we rave had some emigrants who
came 10 America through Fills island.
They have studied, obtained their educa-
tion and are going back again to the Old
World. One young German I have in mind
landed from the Storage. went TO Dakota,
studied AZ school and az normal college
and has Just been sent to southern India
TO join the missionary ranks.
"If you had CHANGED 10 come in a week
ago you would nave ret a very quiet
hammered. pleasant faced woman who
spent a number Of years in Borneo. among
the very worst and most dangerous
native clements. One night she went into
tho little church. the headquarters Of mis-
sionary work there. and sat down TO the
little melodeon 10 while away an hour or
p so.
The door Was opened and the first she
know she was in the midst of a lot Of the
Ear famed wild men. who had been lured
bv the music and cntrapced. listened TO
her playing. When she went away she left
them there and they slept in the church.
That came 10 he q regular part Of her
routine after a while. and always when she
had finished they would lie down on the
r,oor and 60 to sleep. To see her you might
think her experiences had been lame as a
Child's.
Anxious az we are for missionary work.
era. don't think for a moment that the pro-
fcssion is an easy one to enter and that the
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idea Of a spiritual call 10 all that ia mecca
sary. Often a man is perfectly Satisfactory.
tut his wife is not physically equal to the
arduous life often, again. IL h mere
case Of temperament that prevents ac-
certine a candidate.
The husband and wife who nave been
trained before marriage make the ideal
missionaries. Even IL the cares Of the
household and family make IL impossible
for the woman to work in the churches.
schools and among the natives at large she
helps with her sympathy, understanding
and willingness.
-Of the seventy-six missionaries sept out
by one church last year forty were men
and OF the t~hirty-siX women thirty-four
were wives or fiancees of missionaries.
Ffty-twO Of the seventy-six were college
graduates, and ia one Western college
which numbered a graduating class of
twenty-three seventeen made applications
for this work.
India is perhaps one Of the most mis-
understood mission fields.
Why say the people who only look at
missionary work "a an intrusion and a
means Of spending money which should be
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not bypurchasing. hut by borrowing from a
friend. / was rather disappointed in It,, I
did find pleasure in II, but not the measure
Of pleasure nor tho philosophical knowledge
that | had anticipated from Il. l should
like 20 own this book, and If | had il I should
nt times dip into il. but I never should read
it through again. ! could do without IL.
THUS there are advantages in stocking
a library on my plan when you get the
money. for in the meantime you may nave
read borrowed from libraries or from other
souroes-hooks that you had thought you
required but of which q single reading will
suffice. If indeed your time could be profit
ably spent in hat.
For there are books that come down to
us sanctioned with the approval Of the
writers contemporAries-taken on trust by
readers of succeeding g~enerations--in which
We may find after all but a languid interest
or only that Of the a~ntiquary.
-But there are books which, whether they
are old or new. we must have: not compen-
diums Of knowledge or compilations OF
wisdom, but the books, these, OF men OF
mature mind and clear vision who instruct
and broaden and enlighken us, who have
written for the ages; Md Of such books
there are not so many but that n man OF
even limited resources might hope some
day 10 be able To own them all.
ITO these I would add. II tho money held
out, perhaps a few lighter books for the
sake Of diversion; but II is to the solder
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the lower my vifo'a friend had seemed 70

the flower my wifs'a friend had seemed 70
see.
The two letters had crossed in midooean.
and the musician did not get the letter.
asking what he was doing that particular
evening until about the time his letter
containing an answer to the questions asked
was received in New York. The two letters.
with their postmafks and dates. have heen
kept. In addition TO this my wife. when
we reached home that evening. made brief
notes Of what her friend had said and also
noted the hour when she said she began
feeling s~trnngely. After the Italians letter
was received we looked the matter up and
found that. deduCtinR the difference in
time. the hour was the same when the tele-
pathic MESA ge was sent and received. IL
telepathic message il was"
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One " the bishops Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church when he returned 20
America from the west coast Of Africa
brought with him a tiny baby girl. per-
fectly black, whose father and mother
had died and whose surviving relatives
had presented her as a pledge 0G their
respect and esteem to the departing dig
nitary. He accepted the charge and saw
TO her education here. Finally she vas
graduated at a high school in California az
valedictorian.
Last winter | wasNat a dinner at the
Waldorf-Astoria given by some educa-
tional societies. At a table near by was a
young Chinese. graceful in appearance and
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MS LIBRARY.
Books the Man Of Moderate Means Is
GOING 90 va when He Gets the Money.

Books the Man OF moderate Means IL
GOInE 90 Buy when He Gets the Money.
"My library" said the man Of moderate
means. exists at present mainly in the
form OF memoranda Of books that l am
going to buy some day when | got the
money.
Il have a few books. but they are a mis-
C~ellaneous lot and most Of them in about
the same condition as my dictionary. My
dictionary is of an edition printed thirty
years ago. and so it doe not contain the
words that have within that period been
coined, OF at least put in circulation; but
still l don't miss them. there are more
words in IL az IL is than I can ever use.
The real trouble with It is its condition.
With long use il has come to he broken
backed. in fact il has broken apart into
halves; and so when l open it I nave to
handle il with care. to keep n half from
sliding past the other. and when l close il I
have TO even up the two halves to bring
them back into their original form. What.
besides. with its many loose. leaves, that 7
have 10 be continually Strengthening and
settling back into place. il is indeed a pretty
dilapidated old volume.
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conserved for home use. why should We
attempt to teach people who have had the
benefit Of Confucius's wonderful words for
centuries. why should We core viii the sge-
long civilization Of JndiaT
-Of course one might answer that with A
Christmas sermon, hut this is not a sermon,
just a talk for lay readers. II is quite true
that the better class of Orientals are highly
cultured. But the rank and file are diff
ferent.
The Chinese coolie. the Indian widow
the kraal dweller are overlook ed by this
transcendentalism. II is to them we go.
Enlightened as the Japanese are. you
car ask any Of the American teachers in
the schools there 20 describe the Japanese
religion Of the lower classes and they will
he unable TO tell you what il is-s mass OF
unmeaning gibberish. crude symbols. a
semi-barbarous Interpretation of daily mys-
teries. and always with these native relig-
ions there are the invariable accompani-
ments of unsanitary living. mental arrest,
suffering. diseases whose antidotes are the
handmaidens that accompany the mis-
siOnaTy teaching everywhere.
"In the history of nearly every country
in the world you will find that the cross has
preceded the sword. and IL IL has not gone
before it has accompanied il or foil J'Vsd
close behind. And to-day. when our mill
tant forces are stretching themselves all
over h world. when our immense feet is
going TO the Pacific. when We have already
a standing army on the other side OF the
world, the tremendous importance Of this
missionary work cannot be overestimated
IL one oOks at it merely from a secular and
not a spiritual standpoint"
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Campaign OI NPapOIIaan Tenan VIVA Arc
Leagued against Landlords.

Leagued Against Landlords.
NAPLES. Dec. IO.-The Naples house
holders nave formed a league with the
object of obtaining a reduction Of rents
and they discovered that the best method
n force the landlords to accede 10 their
demands was 10 stop the payment Of rents.
The league numbers about 2.OOO members.
none OF whom has paid rent for the last six
months.
The landlords first attempted eviction.
but they failed. az the police declared that
they were unable to evict 1000 families
who meant fight and expressed their willing
ness 10 stand a siege. Next the landlords
brought suit in the civil courts.
The case came on in due course of time,
hut mono Of the hOusehOlders was present
or represented. The landlords rejoiced
at the prospect Of an easy victory. sud
denly "A woman walked in.
She said she was one OF the 2.OO0 members
Of the league and wanted 10 defend her
case. The Judges have TO accord a reason
able period Of time 90 he defendant in
order that he may prepare his defence.
This period il generally a month. Accord
ingly on the woman's demand the case
was adjourned "A month.
The month passed and the case again
came on for hearing. None Of the de-
PENDANTS was present. The court then
decided TO hear the case in their absence,
hut Just then another member Of the league
came in. repeated the Identical performance
of the previous hearing and again the case
was put on for another month.
For the next I .g9s months a member OF
tine householders' league will repeat the
trick and the case Won't be heard before
that time. Meanwhile the members OF the
league continue not paying their rents.
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books that I arm now directing mainly my
attention.
and 40 l read with interest all the Iists
Of best books that I find and Of books in
~dispensable TO every mans library and all
tina sort Of thing. and H. pleases me when /
discover in these lists a book or books that
I have already out Of my own wisdom put
going to buy for my library when I get the
money, books that I shall surely possess
unless before the coming of that golden
day l shall myself have been put away on
one Of the innumerable shelves OF tho great
library OF Time
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WORK OF The MISSIONARIES
AMONG CONVERTS.

HOnOrs Won by q Zulu. a Black Glrl and q
Coolies lands I'm American schools
The Middle west AZ q Source az sup.
Dly Of Observation-Disclosures n Sword.
An officer Of one OF the missionary soci-
cites having headquarters in Fifth venue
being asked about foreign missionary work.
began by giving some illustrations OF one
kind of change the missionaries are effecting
among savages.
Last year. at Columbia University"
he said, the prize in oratory was taken
by a Zulu. a youngman who came originally
from the kraals of Zululand. whose an
cestors on both side Of the mousse had been
zulus as far back az il was possible to trace.
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west, practically all from colleges through
which they have worocd their way. Often
in my own college course | have waited
al table AZ a boarding house and later in
the evening have escorted one Of tho young
lady boardersto a lecture. Can Won imagi"c
that state Of affairs in New YORK city? And
vet il ia such conditions that develop quail
ties needed in a missionary.
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Many Clsthss HANGER.

Coat hangers OF various sorts have Iona
been familiar. A novelty in this line Ia the
precisely the same fashion az a Hunger Tor
the clothes Of adults. but Of. only half lie
siSe, a 0oat hanger IL miniature. Baby
clothes hangers made Of twisted wire are
when uutrimmsd sold at a very low price;
trimmed with silk or with ribbons they