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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-19
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London Dramatic Letter
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{ REQUIRES watchfulness to keep
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EL1HU CALL.

Pupil of Nfinetti. Graduate of Peabody
Conservatory OF Music. Studio above
Beesle- Music Co. Voices tested free.
daily from 10 to / p. m
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Miss Laura Richards of the Fielding
academy, at Paris, Idaho, is in the cltv
for the summer, 10 study piano and
harmony under Tracy Cannon.
There is fine orchestra of 40 mon
under Prot. Mcclellan at Saltair for
the afternoon and evening during the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-15
'IOWAPEACH CROP
|. TO Be VERY SMALL
WESLEY GREENE OF HoRTicuL.
TuRAL SOCIETY SAYS FUZZY
FRUIT is DOOMED.
LIVING BUDS ARE FEW
Prospects Are Much Better for Other
peicacies, but Much Depends
Upon the Weather on
Next Few Months.

There may be plenty of cream, but
the housewife will come up shy on the
peaches, if the prediction Of Wesley
4 Greene, secretary of the State Hnrtl-
cultural society for 1909 fruit. is to be
believed. mo peaches in Iowa this
year." says he. The popular fuzzy
skinned fruit will be as scarce as the
proverbial hens teeth, and the home
grown will be worth considerable
more money than the imported prod
uct. Less than Is per cent of the
Apeach trees in the state have shown
Up with living fruit buds" DR.. George
M. Chapman says the peaches grown
n Iowa this year will not amount to
luch A number of fruit men Of the
u late have been afraid for some time
b test their trees, and the reports JUS
ify their worst fears.
Peaches were killed during the win
y ter by the variable cold snaps, the
sudden changes. to extreme cold
weather having much to do with the
f failure of the crop.
Retarded by Cold.
In general, all varieties of fruit trees
are in good condition, although the
fruit jeuds have been somewhat retard.
ed by the cold weather which still re.
fuses to loose its hold. OF course,
everything depends on the weather
from now on. The majority of the
ErkDs may be a failure. but it will
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-15
BLACK LAND

Do you want farm, and one which
is farm land, every inch? If so go
with us and see some of the Red River
Valley land we are offering north Of
Fargo, North Dakota. Talk about good
land for the money. If the land we
are selling up there isn't exactly good
land for the money, why, then the
earth is square, the moon a jack Ian
tern and Ottumwa river water good to
drink. Saw we can show you land
under cultivation up there which ex-
tends on all sides of you for 20 miles
each way, not a freak, nothing but
black soil and no crop failures. The
where we are operating are pleasing.
You can not find a farmer In the coun-
try who has been there three years
but who is well fixed. All have splen-
did homes, the land Is like the best
prairie of Illinois and will produce
more, the drainage is good, no wet
land, and the health of the people the
sized tract you could wish to buy, and
we have some farms which might be
exchanged. We are operating with
the Brown Duskin Co.. concern who
own five large banks and who own
their own land. who bought 1t cheap
and who sell it cheap, and say If you
think you have seen a prosperous
and go with us up there and our word
for it you will conclude you never saw
farm land before. Write u.s. or call, we
make special railroad rates.
$40 acres of choice level land In JEFF
ferson county. Ark. Land lies on paved
road and has very heavy virgin timber
on it which will cut about 5000 feet
per acre. Great piece of land and
bargain at $3.50 per acre. We have
other pieces of land In Arkansas for
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-15
T0DAY'S MARKET NEWS

take successive cold snaps to do ire
parable damage. If the season opens,
and remains open, then the fruit jars
will be filled and packed away in the
cellar at the usual time. The jam
jars are already empty, and to the
good housewife who likes to see hub
and cream for BREAKFAST, peach cob
bier for dinner and cream and peaches
for supper, the first sad news OF the
spring season hurts.
For the first time in three years
prospects for a banner cherry crop
are favorable. Really and truly, the
first reports have it that there will be
cherries galore, enough to keep the
robins potted and their breasts shin
ing, and plenty for the bad boy thieves
who generally get into the orchards
too soon, and leave with stomach
aches and long faces, Think Of It!
Won't it be dandy fine to see those
dusty signs in the store windows
again. Cherries, cents a quart" A
little wedge Of cherry pie about once
a day won't be bad, Ell, you cherry
f1end?
Strawberries Safe.
Strawberries are in the clear at the
present time, also. 1t looks as though
there will be about 70 per cent of a
full crop. Seventy-nfne per cent Of
the plants tested with live fruit buds.
Not as many plants as usual were
borne last fall because Of dry spells.
The acreage will, therefore, be a lit
tie below normal.
Anthracnose. whatever that is, weak
ened the raspberry plants to slight de.
gree. The disease is a sort of vege-
table plague. the bearing power of the
plants being destroyed by growth of
messy fungus. Red raspherries wealth.
cred the better of the two varieties
! the red testing 81 per cent fruit bear
ing and the blacks rs per cent.
! A great crop of apples is to be ex-
pected, the test showing 90 per cent
| of the trees full of live, fiourishing
| fruit buds.
Wesley Greene's report puts the per
cent of live fruit in each variety as
follows: Pears, 81 per cent: American
plums, "a per cent; domestic pluna
i 81 per cent; Japanese plums, IA per
cent; grapes, "a per cent, and black
berries, Sc per cent.
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Chicago Live Stock Market.

Chicago. April 1.-THE live stock
market follows:
Cattle-Market 10 lower.
Receipts-l6.000.
Eeeves--$480@7.10.
Texans-s46p@5.75
Westerners-$4.40@5.S0
Suckers; feeders--s3.50 95.60.
Cows; heifers-s2.00@5.
Calves-s5. 00@7.50.
Hogs--Market 10 lower.
Receipts-30,0 900.
Light-S6.90@7.35.
Mixed-s7 00@7.45.
Heavy-s7. 1067.50.
Rough-s710@725.
Good choice heavy-s725@7.5o.
Bulk sales--s7.30@T40.
Sheep--Market steady.
Receipts-17, 900.
Matured-$3 65@6.15.
Lambs-s5.5o@s.2o.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-15

FOR SALE CHEAP-----EASTER
Colorado lands, 50 per acre 400 acres
located In Yuma county, 1000 acres
in Washington county. Will sell ali
or part. Easy terms. This is in rain
belt district and dry farming has
proved successful. This land Is
sure money maker. Apply to owner,
l. Is. Watkins, 1927 Wa2ee st.
Denver, Colo.
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Hello Breeders 1909
Gothlin No. 1921

Dark brown, weight 1910; long, high
archy neck; good heavy bone, high ac-
tor. This is an all purpose horse,
good disposition. Breeds large colts Of
good disposition. He took first pre-
MUM twice at Big -Four fair. Took
sweepstakes and showed four Of the
best colts. He is FIVE years old. I'M
ported in 1907. He is German coach.
This horse will stand at Reeves
barn In Agency.
$1,000 to insure colt to stand up and
suck. Will not be responsible for any
accidents. If owner of mare disposes
of the mare then the insurance be-
comes due
Also one large Jack, the largest In
the county. Best breeder. Shows best
colts. Terms, $40. Come and see his
colts.
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There Are About 7OOOFamiIies

READ THE TRl-WEEkLY COURIER. THESE FAMILIES
COULD USE THE WANT ADS OF THE COURIER TO BUY
AND SELL LOTS OF ARTICLES AND PRODUCTS. WE WON
DER WHY 1T is THAT THEY DO NOT DO IT MucHMoRE
THAT THEY DO. 1000 FAMILIES MAKE A BIG MARKET
THAT is A GREAT MANY MORE FAMILIES THAN THERE
ARE IN THE CITY OF oTTuMWA WHAT HAVE YOU TO
SELL, OR WHAT DO YOU WANT TO RuYa TELL ABOUT
1T IN A COURIER WANT AID. WRITE YOUR 40, THEN
COUNT THE WORDS AND SEND CENT FOR EACH WORD,
AND THAT WILL PAY FOR TWO INSERTIONS OF THE
AD FOR INSTANCE: A 90 WORD WANT WILL. GO IN
THE PAPER TWO TIMES FOR 20 CENTS; THE RATE IS
ONE HALF CENT A WORD FOR EACH INSERTION THAT'S
PLAIN. TRY
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St. Louis Grain Market.

St. Louis, April 14.-The grain mar
ket follows:
Wheat--May-$1.27
Cornu--66Tc.
Oats-hak ~
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RETAIL PRICES.
Flour and Feed.

Graham flour. per sack. -,.... 8
Corn chops, per cwt. ........ 1.6
Efforts, per cwt.. ...,........ Is
Eran, per cwt .1.350l4
VI corn. per bu.. .......
!, all1d nnrn. NOR hnahel. ..---
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FOR sALE-15oOo ACRES HARD
wood in Missouri, 30,O0o,o00 feet.
Have also rich farm lands. Send for
prices and terms Address Frederick
D. Tucker, Al Olive ST.. st. Louis
Mo.
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT--FARM OF 200 ACRES
lies miles northeast OF Ottumwa,
/ mile north of Dahlonega. Farm is
in good condition, good land con-
siderable blowing done. Owing to
death of my husband am unable to
properly phandle it. Mrs. Joseph G.
SchurtZ
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JOHN REEVE & SON

New York Grain Market.
New York. April 14.--The grain
market follows:
Wheat---May-$1.33
Corn-75Ac.
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LOCAL MARKETS
4, ~-Ae%Ne->%-u%A>A%

There are no changes In the local
today.
I'll a. M, April 14.)
These prices are paid on delivery OF
products to Headquarters.
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FOR SALE.

SEWING MACHINES, NEW HOME
SIS, former price s35: Domestic $e5
and Eldridge B. $22. Others from SO
up. We are closing out all sewing
machines. Y. M. c. A. Plumbing
Shop.
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POULTRY AND EGGS.

FOR SALE PARTRIDGE VIVIAN
dotte Cockerels, pullets and eggs of
high scoring quality and correct
mating. Tom Larkin and first cock
erel at the 1909 Iowa state poultry
show. Send us your orders If you
want the best in thoroughbred
chickens. G. C. Jsnney. Jr., Ottumwa
Iowa. 800 E. 9Th st.
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GOOD SALE FRIDAY.

The outlook for this weeks salea Is
good. The supply Of horses will Not
be large, but demand will be good
Road horses will come in for theiI
share of attention this time.
Will also have quite good supply
of mich cows and heifers In the cat.
tie sale. look for good big attend
ance of buyers and visitors.
Ard don't forget my young Indian
Mr.. Nathaniel White Eye, Of Canada
I'm going to sell him too.
MORRIS WILLIAMS,
Ottun,wa, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-15

FOR SALE-6O HEAD OF HORSES
and mules, 2 miles north of Abba
Address Coyne and Hutchinson Mule
Co, Abba, Ia.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-15

FOR SALE-oNE TWO YEAR OLD
and yearling Shorthorn bull calves.
r. G. Hoffman,. R. No. l. Ottunwa,
Ia.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-15

FOR SALE----FARM IMPLEMENTS.
all kinds. H. X. Kirkpatrick, route
No. 9, new phone 1265-F.
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EGGS-FRoM OUR LARGE BRED
to lay, high scoring B. P. Rocks.
Either mating 81 per Is. l.. z. Wat
son, Stockport, Ia.
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FOR SALE-EGGS FOR MATCHING
from pure Barred Rocks, 81 per
sitting of Is VIM. Templeton, r. No.
8. New phone 9S6-M
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Now York Poultry Market.

Now York Poultry Market.
New York, April 14.--Poultry--Mar-
ket alive, unsettled.
Chickens; broilcrs-25@33c.
Fowls-16@17c.
Dressed--Market weak.
Chickens--12c.
Fowls--14@15c.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-15

PAY CASH FOR
EGGS and produce. Eggs 1Sc. Swift
& Co. 217 S. Union.
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FOR SALE--FARM OF $40 ACRES
good small dwelling and large new
barn miles from Ottumwa. Create,
portion in meadow. Improvement,
good. $55 per acre. Possession al
once. p. B. Criley & Son, Hoffman,
Block
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-15

wANTED---To BUY FRESH COW.
Must be first class in every way.
New phone 921-X.
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FOR SALE--PURE BRED ABER.
deem Angus bulls Address Ed r.
Oehler. Moravia, la.
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POULTRY ANp EGGS.

FOR SALE--WHITE HOLLAND
Turkey eggs. IL for s1.25 Imperial
Pekin duck eggs IL for soc. Mrs
Newell Brown, Selma, Ia.
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Norton & Smith
First National Bank Building.

The following market IS furnished by I.
G. Furman. grain and stock brokers.
Rooms Z and s. Chiffon block New
phone 1884.
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Peoria Corn Market.

Peoria Corn Market.
Peoria, April lathe corn market
follows:
No. 3.-66Zc.
New York Butter and Eur Market.
New York, April 15.-Butter-Mar-
ket firm; unchanged
Receipts-3S, 800.
Storage packed-21hc.
Firsts-20A @21c.
Seconds-20c.
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WANTED

wANTED-YoU TO SUBSCRIBE
for the Courier before Saturday so
you will get the first chapters Of
"'rhe Lure of the Mask
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productS 10 Eeaduuarter'
l-lve SSock
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-25
Commemorate Religion.

We want religion that softens
the step and tunes the voice to mel
ody, and fills tbs eye with sunshine
and checks the impatient exclama-
tion and sharp rebuke-a religion
that is polite, deferential to superiors
courteous to interiors and consider
ate to friends; religion that goes
into the family, and keeps the bus
band from being cross when the din
ner is late, and keeps the wife from
fretting whe he tracks the floor with
his muddy boots. and makes him
mindful of the scraper and the door
mat; keeps the mother patient when
the baby is cross, and amuses the
children as well as instructs them;
cares for the servants besides paying
them promptly; projects the honey
moon into the harvest moon, and
makes the happy home like the
Easter fig tree. bearing in its bosom
at once the beauty of the tendder
blossom and the glory of the ripened
fruit. We waht religion that
shall interpose between the ruts and
gullies and the rocks of the highway
of life and the sensitive souls travel
ing over them
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-25

city thicker than on the old farm.
Home discipline may be hard to
bear but In it are all the germs of
success. Parents are midway in the
temple of life, and certainly must
know more than those standing on
the threshold. 1t is always safe to
listen to the voice of wisdom and
affection. You may not be permit
ted to control all things at home but
please remember before seeking the
large liberty of the city that you
can control nothing there. You may
wear store clothes, but you must be
the servant of all, Liberty and ease
are the fruit of toll. ;he boy that
knows more than his parents goes to
the wall in the city. Success depends
upon industry, obedience, economy
and purity. Brown hands,, clean
tongues and hearts are in great de-
mand in the city A country loafer
becomes city loafer and neither
country or city has use for either.
The earthquake never breaks the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-25

Fusan and it was the first fully equip
ped modern hospital ever established
in Korea. 1t was started Is years ago
by DIR. Charles H. Irwin, of Ohio, who
has ever since been the only physician
in the hospital and the only European
doctor in Fusan.
The building would be counted small
as hospitals go in the West, but it has
half dozen wards, with two, three
or four beds each, an operating room,
a convalescents' room and a dispen-
sary, with waiting rooms for men and
women, the sexes being separated in
Korea. The only assistants are Ko-
reans whom DR.. Irwin himself has
trained. When | visited the hospitaI
I found each of the waiting rooms oc.
cupied by group OF patients. To the
men, venerable Korean evangelist,
in wide horn spectacles, the curious
horse hair stovepipe hat of his race,
and long flowing white robe. was
talking religion. A Bible woman does
a like service for the girls and women
who visit the dispensary. In the con
4valescents' room | saw a young man
who, afflicted with cataract of both
eyes, had literally crawled over the
mountainous part of a 200-mile Jour-
ney, walking the rest of the way. and
spending more than two months on
the trip. DR.. Irwin had cured him. In
little more than IL years DR.. Irwin has
treated 100000 patients, and has per
formed more than 5000 major opera.
lions.
The Orient &c 1t Is.
+ Coming to this city of Taiku. in
cars made in Wilmington, Del, and
drawn by a Philadelphia-mad locomo.
tive, l found the Orient in all its an.
Client picturesqueness Port cities al
ways show the touch of the West upon
them. Taiku has not so much as q
ljinrickisna, nor roads for it to travel
on. The streets are narrow lanes,
lined with mud fences and houses.
Each Korean house has it's own com
pound, or enclosure. The houses
themselves are very low and very
small The usual room is eight feet
square and in this whole family will
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-25

The Laurel Ledger is gong after
the editor Mayor. A. W. Knobles, Of
the Chronicle of that city rather
strong, because the Chronicle secures
the municipal printing. The Ledger
doesn't think that the law permits in
this case, the spells going to the vic
tor. and insists that Mobiles is run
ming over constitution inhibitions.
Better go slow Bro. Hardy; criticize
the mayor if you find vulnerable
points, but destroy not the man.
Personal journalism should be avoid
ed when ventilating the breakdowns
in a political character if it possibly
can be done. The structures should
be directed at the wrongful public
actions of the official and not the life
and being of the one under fire.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-25
A Fortunate Editor.
lea Coast Echo.

Sea Coast Echo.
Tho editor of the Pass Christian
Beacon left last Saturday for Niagara
Falls, N. Y, where he will spend
part of the summer and incidently
part of his cash. The newspaper
business in Harrison county is a
paying institution as a whole, and
we congratulate our brethren of the
Fourth Estate in these times of f.
nancial stringencies' who can go
forth and vie With the rich in New
York, at the different summer re-
sorts. We less fortunates, who re
main at home 20 chase delinquent
subscribers and dodge bill collectors,
do not begrudge the success and
pleasure of our more successful
brethren.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-25
CITATION NOTICE.

State of Mississippi.
To any and all unknown persons or
parties having or claiming any legal or equit-
able interest in and to the following described
land sold for taxes on the 5th day of May A.
d. 1905, situated in Greene County, Mississ-
ippi and described as follows to wit;
NJ, Lyle Confirmation No in Section No.
g. L. 1. S. 4. Z less sixty acres described as the
So OF Ms and NWA of NW14 of West Frac-
tional NJ. Lyle Confirmation No Z,
You are commanded to appear before the
Chancery Court of the County of Greene, in
said State. on rule day of said Court
to be held at the office of the clerk of said
Court on the Second Monday the
18th Day of September 1909.
in the town of Leakesville, Mississippi, to de-
fend the suit in said Court of M. L. BatSon
the nature of which is bill in Chancery by
said M. L. Batson,, the complainant therein,
praying the Court to grant a decree confirm
ing and quieting the tax title of sad Com
plainant to said land derived from the State of
Mississippi. wherein you are defendants. This
June 18th. A D. 1909
(Chan. CT Seal) S. r. MCKAY. Clerk
H. P. HEIDELBE 2G. Sol. for Pitt. 10
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-25

so much as to issue pass to his own
old unused palace, except as he OBJ
tains permission to do so from a Japa-
nese functionary. Her laws are now
made and administered by Japanese.
Her government institutions are all
managed by the latter. Even the SEM
blance of self-government is being
wrested from her feeble hand; while
robbery, abuse, oppression, injustice
and even murder are the lot of her
common people.
Into these intensely interesting and
significant questions 1t is not the pur-
pose of this article to enter. To indi-
cate them, however, is essential. II
conditions here are to be understood
For in their helplessness and misery
the people are turning to the Ameri-
can missionaries as their only friends
and advisers. The king himself leans
more heavily upon the protection and
counsel of certain of the older Amer
lean missionaries than upon the most
trusted of Korean patriots. On one
occasion, when great plot was in
process of execution, including an at
tack upon the palace, the king sought
for the presence and help of three
American missionaries, and while a
mob of thousands howled outside the
palace walls and soldiers surrounded
the imperial quarters, his majesty
clung-literally and physically chung
for protection to these three Ameri-
cans.
The Missionary and Politics.
Like ruler, like people. I was in
specting this city-Or mud village Of
60 900 people, as you may choose to
call it-with young American mis-
sionary, when an old man came to
him for counsel and help, his aged
wife having been brutality attacked by
Japanese The poor missionary is. in
straits. He will not NEEDLE in poll
tics. Whatever his sympathies,, he
dare not take sides on such questions,
and so he is forever Tending off the
distressed and the prosecuted, and bid
ding them endure their wrongs with
Christian fortltude.
Already I have found illustrations
OF self-restraint and forhearance on
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-25

Taillu, Korea.-Picturesque, placid
and pItiable, whiterobed but not am
gelic, Korea stands at the cross roads
Of the orient, a personiflcation of the
far eastern question. Religiously con-
sidered the situation here is doubt
less the most interesting in the world.
Certainly this is the most promising
and successful missionary field now
before the eye of Christendom.
The contrast between Korea and
Japan in this latter respect is marked.
Across the strait, the missionaries are
all concerned over the independence
movement in the native church, and
fearful lest they should do or say
something to offend the sensitive Jap
anese pride. Here, the missionary has
none of these problems his one con-
Germ is how to visit all the localities
that are calling for him, and how to
find time to instruct all the cate
chumens awaiting him, and to receive
into the church the men and women
ready for membership, since some
churches can be visited only every
three months or half yearly. In a
word, here are missionary conditions
more nearly ideal, and more nearly.
what the Christians in America think
foreign missions to be, than in the
more famous country of Japan.
Wiping Nation Off the Earth.
If ever a country needed the con-
solutions of religion. it is poor Korea
AS a consequence, chiefly, of her own
incapacity and official corruption, she
has fallen into the hands of power
full neighbor, who, apparently, is sys-
tematically effacing all the manifesto
lions of Korean national life and iden-
tity. Her king is a prisoner. unable