The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-02

three marks to equal one cent. 1t takes $50 to equal a dollar, and the 5O0-mark bill, which wns formerly worth $100, has value now of S150. The bank notes look like wall paper cut into bills. They have all sorts of crazy decorations. Their colors are green, red and yellow, and the engravings are often symbolical. I blush every time I look at a 100- mark note. On its face are two naked figures, a woman and a man, both as hare as were Adam and Eve before they ate the apple and adopted fig leaves. On the back of the note is girl fully dressed. She sits before spinning wheel, and it may be that she Is making yarn for the clothes needed by Adam and Eve on the other side of the bill.
 They Hate the Russians.
 Everywhere go see evidences of hatred the Esthonians have for the Russians. Leaving the market and going up Castle hill I passed a gran ite pedestal on which was engraved tribute to Peter the Great, ana 1 asked my guide what had become of the statue. He replied that there had erected there shortly before the World war, but that the people tore it down after the revolution, leaving only this block of red granite.
 Going up the hill, I visited a cathe- dral which the Russian government contracted in 1910. At that time 1t was trying to wipe out the free spirit of the Esthonians and convert them to the Orthodox church. The cathe- dral cost $S,000,000. or $2,000, 900 more than our National library at Washington. It was gorgeously dec- orated. The Czar put dome of cop per as big as circus tent over it, and about this there were four onion shaped gold domes, each with gold cross above 1t. The copper dome also was plated with gold, but the church now lacks support from the Russian government, and the priests have torn off the gold plated copper and sold it to replenish the treasury. The roof is now painted green.
 Where the New Parliament Meets. I have spent some time in the new Parliament building. This Is of Es- thonian architecture. and it's interior and exterior decorations are intended to represent the resources of the re- public About one-fifth of Esthonia is woods, and the finishing and fur niture of the capitol are made of the woods of the country. Much of the finish is in birch of a beautiful grain and so polished that it looks like the birch wood pianos we have in Amer ica. The daors are of a hard wood. carved to represent pine cones, and the balustrades along the stairways are shaped like such cones. The building is well made and unique. The Hall of Congress has ceiling of yellow. It's walls are blue and it is lighted by concealed incandescent globes that give mellow air to the chamber. The press gallery is in the rear of the hall.
 I went through the building with one of the Congressman. He tells me that the House consists of 100 members, divided among 10 parties. The largest party is the labor re- fcrmists. It has 22 members, and next to it is the Agrariah party, which has 21 In addition are the populists, the social democrats, inde- pendent socialists, Christians and bolshevists. There are four Balts In the House and only. one Russian. The state also has the referendum, which may be demanded by 25,000 citizens. The executive branch consists of a president and nine cabinet ministers.