MISSIONS IN PERSIA.

-HE WORK WHICH IS THREATENED BY

THF. SHAH'S ASSASSINATION.

t-BfMIA OOU.KOK. STSK1 SKMINAltV AND TOT

an» AOBUCIM FOR EVANOKMZINÜ

THE NESTOKIANS.WHAT RUSSIAN

gUFMEKAC* Sll'AXS.

To no one more than th? American mission-

in Persia does the death of Shah N'assr ed-

¿ine come ai m *<*tuai calamity. Th.- smoke

the assassin's plistol has clouded the whole

f ture fif tllP preSbytertan Board of Foreign"ions' WOrk In Persia, and no man at presentan predict how long the missionaries will be

allowed to remain In peace at their humane VO-

tlon. The d-ad Shah was nol S religiousi8 »tic end he extendo<l to the missionaries full

i*¿al protection so long as they Obeyed the plain

ilw prohibiting proselytizing among Mahomet-

but even he yielded to the religious preju¬

dice of his subjects and expelled from I'rumla

German missionaries for announcing their

talent Ion of secretly disobeying that law nearly

two vears ago,Thé new Shah has neither his dead father s

trength of mind nor his libera'ity of character.

i It to hardly likely that he will rise superior*"

the domination of mollahs, mujtchids and

»her rehglOU" fanatics. As he is In matters of

«llelon a fanatic himself, the American mis-

inarlps have substantial cause for uneasiness.

At no tinv since the beginning of the mission

ork In Persia sixty years, ago have the mis¬

al nsrles been free from Mahometan persecution.m actual!v safe from assassination. Now that

öftren* hand of Nassr od-Dlne Is no longer

Mttb* situation of the missionaries Is less se¬

cure than ever.

It I» by no means unlikely that Zll-i-Saltana,»he deed Shah's first son by an Inferior wife,«ay assert by force of arris his claim to the

throne. In'-the civil war which would result the

lives snfl property of tho missionaries would be

in grave danger. Should Russia send In an army

of occupation, under pretence of quelllr g the dis¬

turbance and maintaining the rights of the new

Shah the missionaries would be compelled to

abandon their work. Russia's hostility to Ameri¬

can missionaries is too strongly manifest to ad¬

mit of any doubt on that point.The most Important mission stations in Persia

at present are At Teheran, Tabriz, Hamadan

and Urumla. The station at 8almas will be

gbondoned this spring, owing to the fact that

HOSPITAL BUILDINGS.

tbelêBâ Is slowly being covered with water. Theíoor centres have many branche.., in charge ofnative helpers. The work in Teheran, Tabrizand Hamada n Is among the Armenians; at Uru-mla it la among the Nestorlans. The Urumlastation extends its work as far as Mosul, lnTurkey, and takes in all of Kurdistan.The dead Shah contributed about $300 yearly

to the mission hospital in Teheran and was on

friendly terms with all the missionaries whom hehad occasion to meet. He conferr«>d the decora¬tion of the Lion «nd Sun upon I>r. Joseph T.Cochran, of the Urumla mission, for saving the

city of Urumia from capture by the Kurdisharmy under Sheikh Obeidullah fifteen years ago.

DR. JOSEPH P. COCURANT.The old Sheikh's son Sahdik swore that he wmildhave Dr. Cochran's life, but he is now one of thedoctor's best friends. Dr. Cochran Is the onlyChristian on earth who can travel through themountains of Kurdistan in safety. His medical»kill has so often placed the Kurds under obliga¬tion to him that even the most bloodthirsty ban-dit among them feete some eort of gratitud»toward him.During his residence ¡n Tabriz as Governor of

Northwestern Persia the new Shah was always°» friendly terms with the missionaries, tint his

{KMIcal ano" religious policy was dictated by«.ear ed-Din«-. When 111 he usually called In»or consultation Dr. W. 8. Vanneman, the Amer-lc*n missionary physician at Tabriz. By way of\**he usually gave presents of valuable Kirwan"***« and fine rugs. A shawl and a rug given'lb* new Shah to Dr. Vanneman are now the^°**ty of nn American in this city who lately

**°»d through Persia and had Interviews"> fo»r generations of the Persian royal fam¬

ily.Al fhe mission at Urumla has been longest In'akence, ¡t is perhaps the most representative

°f the missions ln Persia. The following descrlp-iio* of It, written by th<- Rev. William A. Shedd,0l* Urumla, may be taken a* typical of all the»laeton work ln Persia. This entire work, the'.suit of sixty yeara of earnest Christian effort,."Sy be swept away within the next few months.

'The history of the American PresbyterianMission at Urumla." saya Mr Shedd, "need notbs riven at length. The lives of Perkins Grant,"l^dard. Rhea, and, most of all, the life of"Jdella Firdce. have made the earlier years of its"story familiar to thousands of Christiana in

j**J*t Britain and America. In 1S31 Messrs.«th and Dwlght were sent by the Americanf*rd to make a tour of exploration among the«Worlana In Persia, and In 1833 the Rev. Justin«rklns and his wife were appointed missionaries»the Nestorlans After delays in Conatantl-°P» and Tahrla they settled in Urumia, with

m ~^.

Hay Violets.

Colgate'sViolet Water.

Dr. and Mrs. Grant, in November, 183.'.. In thefollowing January the lirst school was begun."The purpose of the v. nk was a reform within

the Old Nestorlan Church, but it was not untilisr.4 that a separate communion was establishedfor those of the natives who desired it and were

worthy, it was a measure which was forcedupon the mission by circumstances, but It was

one of great Importsnee, from which ultimatelyresult«-! an Independent Evangelical church. InIMC the printing pre:«? arrived, I will mentiononly ore other date.the establishment of « hos¬pital in 188)."Here, as elsewhere in it1* growth, the mls-

Sionarjr work has become institutional in propor¬tion to its development The force of clericalmissionaries is no larger now than it was two

years after the establishment ..f the station, andthe average force of such missionaries during thelast ten years hss been smaller than during anyof the four decades from 1833 to :875. Evidentlythe employment of the missionary has changed.He Is no longer a pioneer, but a superintendent.He no longer has tic seek for work, but the workdrives him in an Increasing routine. Yet to de¬scribe missionary work as machinery would beUnjust. The work Is an organism; its life isChrist, and its central Institution the Church,around which cluster school, press and hospital.These four will be found to Include the diversefi<rms of missionary activity in any field, and tohave a place wherever Christ is preached andHis mercy exemplified."This article is intended to describe briefly

missionary work in actual operation in our field;therefore a few words In description of that fieldmay nut be out of place."The Lake of Urumia :.-» about the saltest,

deadest body of water on the globe, b«ing liter¬ally a saturated solution of salt. In contrast toIts lifeless waters are the plains on its westernshores-

Hound about them orchards sweep,Apple and peach tree fruited deep.Fair as the gard« n of the lyird.

Their vineyards are famous; th«-lr Melds laden

with grain. The largest of those plains Is thatin which tho city of T'nimia Is situated, andamid a dense Moslem population contains about20,000 Nestorlaa Christians, with a few thou«sands more In the plains north and south of It.

Beyond th<-«e small plains and Intervening foot¬hills stretches the great range of mountainswhich divides Persia and Turkey. West of thisgteat mountain wall nre tho high plains andrugged valleys of Turkish Kurdistan, an AlpihSJregion whose highest peaks rise 15.000 feet abovethe level of the sea. West and south of themountains broader valleys stretch d< wn to thobanks of the Tigris River, cutting through thebroad alluvial plains of ancient Assyria."In this region live the Nestorlans, as Europe

calls them, Syrians as tlr-y «all themselves, 100,-000 to 100,000 in number, among ten times as

many Persian, Turkish and Kurdish Moslem«. Afew thousand Armenians and Jews are found Inthe Bame region. The original home of the Nes¬torlans was doubtless in the plains of Assyria,and with more right than any other people theycan claim descent from the race that underBargon and Sennacherib conquered Western Asia,The language they speak is the modern repre¬sentativo Of the old Byriac or Aramaic, whichwas spoken in the time of Christ from the bor¬ders of Egypt to Babylon. The Nestorlans liv¬ing in the region about Mosul have Joined theRoman communion, as have also a few In Persia.In Persia, and to a lesser extent In Kurdistan,there Is a body of Protestants by superior In¬telligence Influential beyond their numbers. Themass of the people, Including almost sll of thosein Kurdistan, acknowledge the spiritual author¬ity of the Nestorlan Patriarch."The Nestorlans within tl.e field herein de¬

scribed may be divided roughly Into:"(1) Those llVUf In Uruinia. and adjacent plains

NKSTOIUAN MOUaTAINaWRÄln Persia. Their condition I» increasingly pros¬perous, because of lucrative employment In Rus¬sia. Their civil condition Is tolerable when com¬

pared with that of \helr brethren in Kurdistan.But what would a free American say to beingtold by the Judge befóte whom be was defendant

ln a civil suit that he must pay a sum equato a tenth of the amount in litigation before hiWrltaesseo could testify, while in the mean tlmthe plaintiff had a receipt from the Curt forbribe paid? A Christian merchant draggethrough the streets, tortured and killed in thyard of the chief mosque by a mob headed bMoslem ecclesiastics, and the Qoverr.oT confessethat h<- dare not Iny ;i Auger on a sinn!.- one o

the murderers. Petitions to officials of ever

grade up to th.- Shah hims-lf, with r-presentatlons to the various Christian embassi<s, r.roi!In a grant of USO and an annuity of »30 to thWidow.

"(:') In the Inaccessible mountain valleys thNestorlans are practically Independent, paylnionly nominal tíix-s, no Government official darIng to enter th« ir villages, and now. as for age:i*ist, maintaining themselves l>y force of armi

again;.t the surrounding Kurds. With these peopie Justice is revenge and punishment reprisal.

"<3i in the rillagea scattered smong the Kur.hand especially In th<- portions of Kurdistan s<

far subjected to the G rvernmenl is to pay r«-gular tax«-s, the mis<-rles of the Nestorisne* >x

Istence pass all description, with, ut massscrewithout International investigation, the crie« ,.

victims hever echoing beyond the surroundingciirfs. year sftei year houses have been as ke.i

people mutdeie i. villages depopulsted and thousands of inn.nl aarsons reduced to beggaryWithout pi itectlng the wretched people tr^nKurdish outrage, the Government .nids a hi ivjburden of taxation. In aome parts for severa

years Kurd. Turk, caterpillar and locust have d<>

vastated, and to-day massscre threatens, is 11

any wonder that hungry, naked troops of beggars crus« the bord.r Into Persia ahenever the>can elude the guards aet to prevent their escape'Such is the stnte of Gawar. of Berwar, of Albakhof Nochla, of Bupns, of Bohtan."The work Is done fr im two cent.al stations

ore at Urumla and the other at Mosul. TinUrumla station h.is three clerical missionariesan industrial missionary, n male physician, Iwoman physician and three other unmarriedwomen missionaries. Mosul has two dericslmissionaries, a physician snd one woman teach-er. The work of the last-named station Is muchsmaller in extent, although in some ways evenmore Interesting.

PREACHING AND CHURCH WORK."In about aeventy places the Gospel Is

preached ea.-h Sunday to nearly 4,000 personsnine-tentha of whom are m Persia The preach-ers arc alunit sixty native Nestorlsns and theAmerican missionaries. Besides these atated ser¬

vices, meetings are held in -circs of other places«luring missionary tours, and many m t- per¬sons are met ln private Intercourse."These people have been Christians In name for

centuries. Christianity has become to them a

thing of Inheritance, not of personal choice; Itraditional mode of life, bdh inevitable and In¬alienable. They would die for It. and yet it hasno vital connection with their dally living. I

fast. I pmy. I commune,1 said to me a poor, ¡g-norant man la a secluded mountain valley, with

evident conviction that nothing remained forhim to do. a moment Utter, for the first time inhis life, he heard an intelligible .o .unt ofChrist's death. Yet give them all honor forhaving kept the Name for long ag.-s againstoverwhelming odds, even if they did UOt knowIts message of peace ami purity. They usuallylisten with reverence and readiness to the w irdspoken or rea«! from the printed page, Again,the people are convinced of their h pelees pov¬erty. Kr generations it wss their protection,and it became s second nature t., them. Ususllyreal, sometimes Imagined, It Is an obstsi le toprogress, begetting mendicancy ami destroyingself-respect"Otherwise, circumstances vary wll--ly. In one

village from 300 to 400 gather In a large church,a landmark for miles around. One-ihlrd of th«

populstlon «re church members, snd most ofthem ar>- able (0 read. Even the Old Church n>

longer know-« whether It is ¦ i.i^t dsy or not,and th«- old priest près lus Evsngell al sermona.

In another village tin- men ere demoralized bylives of wand, ring beggsry and unblushing false¬hood In Russia, and have lost .-ill rellgi n. Thepreacher gathers a congregation of « »men, witha h.nidfui of men. In snother s little group

gathers about tin- preacher In s room which u

storeroom, kitchen, parlor, sleeping-room andeverything else for S family «if twenty,"The missionary In his lour muy gather his

audience in the shadow of an old church, thelegendary history of Which legan |,I00 y«-urs

iig.. or which, by tradition of popular ac¬

ceptance, was carried by sngels in the air to

its present sit«-, or built in mortar made withthe milk of mountain sh ep, who every even¬

ing come with th'-ir willing »ffering. He maygather the shepherds fnun the 11. cks and the

women from their chums to his tent door In themountain pastures, where tin- water bursts

from banks of perennial snow, und spring Bow¬ers bloom in August."Revivals have been h very effectual means

of work, and many persons have been led In

such tlm«» of sp« iai presence of God's spirit to

the true servi..; of Christ. The winter is the

s«as..n in the villages .n* tin- plain for such

evangelistic work, and WS plan for them everyyear."A church ha;; thus grown up, Protestant and

Evangelical l'resbyt.-rlan In prim dpi«, but

adapted to local needs und cuetoma. TniH

church is self-governing, with it« own articlesof faith, ecclesiastical laws and COUrtS It con¬

tributes In some degree to Its own support.In membership it numbers more thin tWO thou¬

sand. The preschers of tin- Evangelical Church

to-day are the native missionaries in Persia.

On them the Rlble Society has depended to

carry the Scriptures Into almost every city of

the kingdom. They occupy the outposts of mis¬

sionary work throughout the land.

.JThe little school, which was begun with

W.&J. SLOAN EFurnishings. ** **Summer

s r eci.it. sut: of

Tapestry Brussels CarpetsAT FROM

47KCs t0 65C. Per y»rd-

I.AROF. I.INK OF

Ingrains, Durries, andSeyellan Carpets

35C. to 75C. per yard. a»

A complete assortment of Imported andDomestic Art Squares In latest

designs and colorings.

BROADWAY, IfsTII AMI IDTII STS.

seven boys, speedily grew and extended. Itgrew upward Into a training school to preparemen for mission work. It broadened Into a

system Of village schools Intended to give thewhole nation the opportunity for rudimentaryeducation. The real foundation for female edu¬cation may be dated fmm the arrival of MissFidelia Fiske In 1X44. Sh" founded and Im-pressed indelibly her memory and character on

the Institution which appropriately bears hername Fiske Bemlni ry."In MM the educational system comprised

the following Institutions: Urumla College,which has theological, medical, college. Indus¬trial and preparatory departments, with 113pupils; Fiske Seminary, with normal, seminary,preparatory, primary and kindergarten depart¬ments, and IM pupils; seventy-eight villageschools In Persia, with 1.064 boys and i"."fi girlsenrolled, and twenty-three village schools inTurkey, with ?.m boys and 66 Rirls; total underInstruction, 'J.T>3. of Which 1,.",07 are boys andT.'.K girls."Of course an American town of 12.000 or

16,000 population will furnish as large a num¬

ber of paplls as that, but there the parallelends, and comparison 1b Impossible. As wellmight one compare an English garden with an

oasis Iti the desert. Among the Wstorlan peo¬ple sixty years ago not one book existed Intheir spoken language; few even of the clergycould understand the Church servies which

they recited In the ancient language year afteryear, and only ons woman could read at all.To-day Persia Is an Illiterate country. The no¬

bility, the ecclesiastics and the merchants erethe Intelligent ciass.-s. The messes know noth¬ing of letters. Strange to say. th" nationalitywh .se members are most generally taught to

read Is thS Jewish. Practically all Jewish men.

but no women, are able to read. The Ar¬menians In the larger towns are an excep¬tionally Intelligent rlas*; but there Is no peasantclass In P'-rsIa to compare for intelligence withth.. Nestorlans of Urumla, and no communityWhatever In the land with a tithe as many edu¬cated women."Hut what Is ". village school? The neces-

sarbs an- a room, a teacher, fen pupila, a fewmat« end, perhaps most of the parents wouldSay, a rod. To this scanty OUtflt may be add.-d.i* desirable a stove, a tahle. a chair and a

blackboard, and, ns a luxury, a map or two.

The desire t,, keep wntm combines with sealfor knowledge t> bring In the ragged children.Parents sometimes send th- ir little ones to getrid of them. These little ones exact ,,f theteacher uur-mlttlng attention from daybreakuntil nightfall Tlo- effort Is made to have thepeople themselves furnish the fuel for warmingth.- room, ¡hi 1 the mat« on which the pupils sit.One teacher last winter was so unfortunate as

to have the era« to the school Infested by fiercedogs; hut lo- bad the wit to turn an evil Intogood, by urglnir his thirty or more boys to arm

tli.-mselves with club«, which were added to thestock of wood, fiehoolboohs come from odrpress, and are bought by the pupils at a cost offrom two cents tor a primer to twenty cents fora geography. In the Klrls' schools one after-iionii In the we.-k Is devoted to sewing."Schools generally are maintained for four

months, the period of enforced Idleness fromcattle-herding and field work. When the i.-

pis are Interested enough to pay half the ex¬

pense and to furnish fifteen pupils the schoolIs continued two or three months longer. The

management ol all the schools in Persia is

vested in a board of six members elected bythe native church. Probably no missionary In¬

stitution Is so rw-arly Indigenous as this In Its

operation, requiring only a fraction of the time

of two missionaries, who are engaged mainlyIn higher educational work. The total expendi¬ture for eighty schools, with 1.600 pupils. In

Persia, Is about V»00. The school« In the moun¬

tains cost somewhat more proportionately.TICK COLCjCOSI AND SKMINAKY.

"The college, when compared with Americaninstitutions, may not deserve the name, but It

claims the right, by Its ability to give men

that culture and training which are suited to

the highest positions their land and nation of¬fer. In the Babel of tongues about us Persian,Turkish, modern ami old Byrlac ars abso¬

lutely necessary In the curriculum. English Is

taught for Its own sake and as a medium of

Instruction. To these Russian should be added.If possible, for Us value In Industrial pursuits.Selene- Is so rudimentary as hardly to deservenotice, exept in the elementary' branches ofmathematics. An outline of history Is given.Ethics Is taught as filling a much-needed want.The Bible has Its chief place as the basis ofsound morals and spiritual truth."Aside from the salary of the missionary, the

Institution costs about $1..".00 a year. JL'OO ofWhich comes from a «mall endowment fund. Allstudents from Persia pay for their own board,lights, fuel and books, but nothing for tuition.Tho«e coming from Turkey, un account of theirgreater n.l ami tin- difficulties attendant upontheir coming, receive their board free. Every¬thing is plain and simple, and It should be.for we would lit them for a life which Is fullof difficulties. The uncertain conditions of thefuture make the educational problem an Intri¬cate one. In the past a considerable numberof persons have been educated Who have be¬come useful men. with few exceptions, andsome eminently so. The pn-achern. the teach¬ers and the physicians of the land, In thefuture, as In tin- past, must come, In a largemeasure, from us, and we hope that men ofIndependent fortune and character may ariseamong mir graduates to be the stay and sup¬port of the people. The only appn ach now to

a national assembly Is the meeting of theAlumni Association, when a day Is passed In thefi-.-e dlSCUSSlon of nat'onal needs and dangers.The times are bringing changes, and they mustbring greater needs and broader opportunities.An endowment would Insure, so far as couldbe. continuity and adequacy to a college whosemission Is a great one.

"Two American women and five native teach¬ers are engaged In the work of Fiske Seminary,Where, besides primary scholars, nearly a hun¬dred boarding pupils arc being trained, not

only Intellectually and spiritually, hut also Indomestic duties. The training is thoroughlypractical, and fifty years of experience havetested Its value. No higher praise can be giventhan to say that young women are fitted to per¬

form the sacred duties of motherhood, andthus to create the noblest of all educationalInstitutions, the home. Cleanliness and order

rule without Imitation of European styles or

perversion of the social customs of the people.No hrlghter scene In the whole land can be

found than the cheery schoolroom of Fiske

Seminary, filled with happy pupils nor one In

greater contrast to the hopeless and unfathom¬

able misery of women In the East.

THF. PRFISo AND HOSPITAL.

..The third missionary institution Is the press.

The constituency for which books are printedis email for the people are few In number.

Hence an edition of only 000 copies is the rule.

As yet the Persian Government has not emu¬lated the absurd and vexatious restrlctlonaplaced upon literature in Turkey, having onlyforbidden In a general way Interference withth.- politics of the land or the State religion.This wise clemency of the Shah's Governmentapplies to all his Christian subjects, and thereis censor neither of the press m>r the postofflce.There ar-- two periodical publications, the In¬tern ¦ifion.il Sabbath-school LegajoM and a

monthly newt-paper. The average quarterly cir¬culation of the first nam«>«l is about 800. Thesubscription list of the last named is 750. Theseare creditsbl figures when one considers thesmall constituency .f readers. The total annualissues are about 700,000 pages, and the expens«v»about $1,000.

" 'And the greatest of these is charity.'Measured by this standard, what work can benobler than that of flu medical missionary?There is no rivalry am mg departments of mis¬sionary work; yet as a revelation of Christiancharity and of divine love, what can comparewith a Christ! iti hospital in an un-Chrlstlanland" Whether it be viewed as a civilizing,philanthropic or evangelistic agency, it reachesclass.-; otherwise absolutely |na« « I sslble. To¬day among the patterns in Urumla are menfrom every walk In life. Including the son ofon» of the must powerful land-owners in thinpart of Persia, a Kurdish chieftain of highrank from Turkey, s member of th«- NsstorlanPatriarchal family, and Arm-nlansof positionfrom Van. In addition are the poor or everyrace. Aside from the salaries of two Americanphial, lane, the cost of this work is about »2.000a rear. Larger funds would keep the hospital«'[¦en during more months of the year.

THE MISSIONARY IN THE FIELD."What has be«-n said will serve to give an

1 Idea of the work of th« missionary in his home;but there remains another side of his work, and

to him In msny ways the more attractive side.He works among the people In their homes andvillages. He is certain "f a wetocme, for thenative loves guests, ami loves him as an oldfriend. Among the nearer villages no Hpeclalequipment is needed. Ho will be their g.mst

I In their own way. Ills palate craves theirI food, If his Btomach rebels. Dlscrmforts there

I ure, but the memories ar«.- sure to be pleasant.i in longer tours tents are necessary, and cots,bedding, food and cooking utensils mu#t betaken. The doctor needs his medicine chest forthe sick wh ) throng his way. Every ill of flesh.from colic to cancer, demands a cure. Men ofrank must be received with due honor, and theproper amount of tea. Workers must be con¬sulted with, ami uft.n quarrels must be settled."Sermons may be few, but conversation ia

incessant, and opportunities to tell of Christar- innumerable. Then there is the ride, slowSS only loaded anlmi-ls «¡in move, often hotand wearisome, but with an ever-changingpanorama of scenery. "The Wall of God" is theKurdish nam« for :i certain rocky ridge, andmountsln rang.-.« unite with mountain flowers to

proclaim the Creator's power and skill. Some¬times ¡¡lung the face of great precipices, some¬time« ov.-r fi.-bls of eternal mow, along rush¬ing torrent«, fording iwollen streams or cross¬

ing them on swinging bridges made of polesand Wlckerwork, the mountain road brings itsown cure for loneliness and weariness. Noother European traveller osn be as secure as

the missionary in these wild regions, but even

he must be cautious or he will meet disaster.A bicycle tour tsst summer to the south of ua

was tliis y.-ar's sensation. The bicycle was

recognised as the Angel <>f Death, as the hors«»of Aniichrlst, as the cholera or plague comingto S doomed city, swift as the wind. It was

Bupposed to eal sugar- because a servant was

seen In Its neighborhood breaking loaf sugarInto lumps, Bui tiie tales art- too many to re¬iste hele. ,"No one can forecast the future; but a crisis

luis come. No longer slowly, bul rapidly, thesands of the present era are running out, anda n- ar hoir is beginning. Diplomats are power¬less to avert the inevitable. God alone knowswiietiier we nre to be restricted or to have a

door open wide before us. Whichever Is the«.vent, our duty ami that of thos» who sen!up is clear. W« must us.- the present oppor¬tunity and stand in readiness for any change,but always planning for and expecting betterthings."With characteristic modesty, the Rev. Mr.

Shedd has omitted all reference to the misalonarles at work In this field. It is. therefore.necessary to add a f«-w lin«--». Tbf.re Is no of¬ficial head of the mission, that furctlon beingSSSUmed by the Hoard at home, but by common

cotis.nt th- missionary who ha.i served thelongeai on the station Is. to ¦ certain extent.deferred to as th<- senior. This distinction Is

now b.-id by I «r. Joseph i' Coi in.in. the medicalmissionary In charge of the hospital and medi¬cal work. Trie senior cb-rical missionary is theRev. Frederick <',. Cosn, but his services as an

evangelist among the villages are s«i valuablethat he ¡s not tied down to the rcutlne of the¦tatlon affairs Mr. Coan la by nature fitted ln

an unusual degree for evangelistic work, andhis efforts nave invariably met with most grati¬fying success The Rev. Mr. Shedd succeededhis fath.-r. the tote Dr. Shedd, as principal of

Urumla College and superintendent of villageschools. His work in this department wouldseem to the casual observer to be enough fullyto occupy his time, but Mr. Shedd finds or

makes frequent opportunities for evangelisticwork in the villages Th«> Rev. Benjamin w.

Labares is th.- treasurer of the station and thedirector of the mission press, which printsamong other things a newspaper "Rays ofLight," of which Mr. Shedd Is editor. In addi¬tion. Mr. Labaree attends to all the secularwork of the station, the r«>palr Of buildings %ndth.- pay of preachers and teachers In the midstof nil this work he takes time to do evangelisticwork In the villages, often remaining away

from home .lays at a time. He makes up for

this by sitting up until til h..ur.-» of the nightposting the treasury books. Ell T. Allen, who

Il al presenl In America on a furl. ugh. has

charge of the industrial department. In Whichtraining is given ln carpentry and other usefultrades.The women missionaries» devote themselves

wholly to the work for women. Mrs. J. H.She Id, wblow of Dr. Shedd. prepares ln addi¬tion the Sabbath-school lessons and assist« Inthe college instruction. Miss Mary K. Van

Dusse, formerly of the Flske Seminary, now

gives h«-r time to the work among Moslems andJews Miss Harriet L. Medbery and Miss Grace

O. Russell have charge of the Elske Seminary.Miss E. T. Miller. M. 1).. has charge of thewomen's department In the hospital. The three

other women of th.» station. Mrs. Coan. Mrs.Libare,- an ' Mrs, William A. Shedd. find time

for evangelistic work among the Nestorlsnwom.n. In spit.- of recently augmented house-bo'..1 cares

It I« an interesting fact that, with one excep¬

tion, all the m.-ti attached to the Urumia sta¬

tion were born there, th.-lr parents having been

missionaries ln Urumia before th. m. Dr. Coch¬

ran. Mr. Coan. Mr. Labaree and Mr. Shedd

passed the early years of their lives In Urumla.and as a result they have a perfect knowledgeof th» native customs, and they speak the lan¬

guages of the country, with all their Idioms

and Imagery, without n trace of fotelgn accent.

The advantage of this im Anv-rban-born mis¬

sionary can «-ver hope to obtain.

DBATB AFTER TBBPBtNÎNO.Roben Wilson, seventy-five years old, died shortly

before 10 o'clock last night In BeUevue Hospital. H«

was taken there on April M, having been thrown

by a Third-eve, cable-car against one of the ele-

vated road pillars. When taken to the hospital he

was suffering from a depressed fracture of the skull.

The operation Of trephining was performed, the

upper portion of the ekuil was removed and a num¬

ber of broken pieces were taken off the brain. The

doctors had great hops» of a successful result of

the operation, but after I'rldiy list the old man be¬

gan to «ink. and last niuht be died In an unconscious

condition. His Identity is not clearly established,A young woman calling herself his daughter called

at the bOSettal and said that she Identified the pa¬

tient as her father; that his name was Robert Wil¬

son, and that he formerly lived with h« r nuther at

No. 142 Thlrty-flrst-st., Brooklyn, but added thatle- had not lived with her for several years. Thenext day une called at the hospital and said she hadbe.11 mistaken Then she called agiin and said shewaa right in her Identification. The following diyshe said that she was not certain who the man

was. The hospital officials did not know what to

bdieve. Before Wilson's .bath he said his namewas Robert Wilson, snd that he had lived recentlyat the Washington lodging-house. In East Twvnty-thlrd-st The c'aughter has not visited her fathersince April Z7.

DEADLY WORK OF A NBQBO DESPERADO.Beaumont Tex., May 3..At BUSOS, Jasper County,

"Will" Bandy, color« d, shot and killed Philip Haines,white, knocked down and fatally »hot ConstableBibb, white, shot a woman named Rox.y Raw!«and mortally wounded "Ed" Rlne, the last two

colored. Roxey Raerla was the c^use of the trouble,and «'instable Bibb tried to arrest Bendy. Uendythen tried to make his escape. He «topped at

I'hlllp Raines's house, where the latter, havingheard of the shooting, tried to stop him. Haineswas shot and Instantly killed. Dandy continued on

his way to escape, and met Rlne, who in turn fellbefore the criminal's fire, mortally wounded. A

posse has Hen.ly surrounded ln a thicket.

A little girl In the Fourth (Dr. Hall's) ChicagoChurch has made a valuable contribution to the new

woman literature She told her mamma the storyof Adam and Eve. "Pod. He made Adam, and Henut him in a big garden, an' Adam he was so, »j

lonesome; 'n then He putted him to sleep, He did;"n then He to >k out his brains and made a woman

of the brains "n then Adam, he wasn't lonesomexio uwru"-o'i'i. a««o Inter Ocean- I

ChangesSudden cf.angcs of climate to unfor*tified bodies mean coughs, colds, pict*monia and all their direful train ofresults.

of Cod-liver Oil will fortify the systemand enable the weakened constitutionto throw off disease.

Vr.r ta'* «t Met nnd $1.00 by ill drurflsts.

D. LINDENBORN, Auct'r.

20th St., aÄ"Auction TWO P. M. TO-DAY.

Oriental Rugs, Carpets, &c.Furniture, China, Bric-a-Brac

One of the health-giving: ele-merits of HIRES Rootbeer issarsaparilla. It contains more

sarsaparilla than many of thepreparations called by that name.HIRES.the best by any test.y.i> «nil t\r Tl.» Ch»o-« g Mir«. C »bli»1>l[.klt.A toc. y%cïitt u.U.. j (tllooi. fc. hi trtr.T«l,n«.

Flint's Fine Furniture.NEWEST IDEAS FOR SUMMER

_AT FACTORY PRICES._IT NEEDS A BIGGER HOMETHAT IS WHY THF. HARMONIE CLUB If

GOIN'fî TO MOVE.

KOT AXX IOCS TO 00 Ml'CII FVRTHER t'PTOW»

THAN FORTY-SECOND ST.. WHERE IT IS

MOW.à LONO I.IKE WITHOUT

SPECIAL IVIIiKNT.

The announcement thit the Harmonie Club has

decided to give up Its long-established headquartersIn rprtr Sfiooni St. and seek a new home else¬

where, I» of .Teat Interest In club circles In this citygenerally and In Hebrew SSCtSty In particular; forthe organization I« not only one of the oldest OfIts kind in the city, hut is well known as one ofthe most select Hebrew clubs here.The club has occupied Its present site, No. 41

West Forty-sccor.d-st., since 1S65. The leadingmembers say that It Is not bo much the inroadsof business interests Into the street that has In¬

fluenced thi in in their determination to go else¬where as It Is the seed of more commodious quar-tt-rs. Where tfesM are lo be chosen Is not yetknown. The new site will, of course, be furtheruptown. Locations <m both sides of the city are

being examined, especially iti Madison-ave. andCentral Park West.

A CEA7B WITH LITTLE HISTORY.According to Jacob W. Mack, the president Of

the club, Ellas Rothschild, who was president last

year, and other members, there Is no elaborate his¬tory of the orranlzatlo« to be written. ¦

The Harmonie Club was established In 1%2, la

Grand-st.. on the Fast Side. I'resldent Mack sayshe does not know the precise spot, but It was notfar from Allen-s:. A few years later a new homowas secured at No. 141 Kighth-st., Just east ofBroadway, opposite the Sinclair Mouse. Here theclub kept its headquarters until 1VC, when It movedto Its present sit«.The huildlng which has been occupied by the

club these thirty years Is of stone. It Is enteredby i iiroad staircase, and Is of solid construction, as

Well as offering a general appearance of comfortso l repose. The property, .coordina' to PresidentMack, belongs to the estate of Robert J- Livingston,the father of Mrs Rlbrtdge T. Gerry. The buildingwas originally rented for a period of twenty-oneyears, with a privilege of two renewals for thesame length of time, (»ne renewal has alreadybeen taken. The rent for the first twenty-one yearswas %2,{i') a year, for lie second period It Is $7.500. yeer. Upon the expiration of the second tern»the rent Is to be based upon a new appraisement.The property has a frontage of 104 feet In Forty-

Seeond-et., and is 100 feet deep. The building, whileoccupying the full depth, takes up only S4 feet ofthe front. The remaining ?' feel are s vacant lotat the east end of the building. A high stone wall,with gate In the centre, guards this space. Lookingfrom the street over the wall one may see the top ofa tent. This is the roof of the summer-gardenwhich the club has established here, and where themembers, their families and friends may find recre¬ation on warm summer nights.

A CLFH. PUR! AND SIMPLE.

Speaking of the club. President Mack said theother day: "The club la a purely »ocla! organisa^tlon. I'nllke the Arion or the Liederkranz, It Is not

a musical society, nor has It any distinct featuresoutside the social element. Of course, we have en¬

tertainments throughout the season up to the earlypart of May. These entertainments consist of con¬

cert», lect ires and dramatic entertainments by bothprofessional and amateur talent."As to the reasons leading up to the proposed

change of headquarters, Mr. Mack continued; "Upto twelve years ago, under our by-laws the limitof membership was fixed at 400. Since then therehave been three Increases of fifty member« each,thus making the limit Ml We have had a largewaiting list, and so recently It was decided to in¬crease the membership to 700. This was done, ofcourse, at S general meeting. It was also decreedat the same time and aa a part of the general pur-lK>ee of the members that the club ought to movoto a new site, so as to secure a more commodioushome to meet the demands of Increasing member¬ship."A building committee of twenty-one was there¬

upon appointed, and from this a committee on

site, consisting of five members, was chosen wttb>power to call for the submission of sited and to re¬

port to the club."THE BUILDING COMMITTEE.

Following ar^ the names of the members of theBuilding Committee: Sigmund J. Bach, GeorgeHlumenthal, Adolph BoskowltS. Henry L. Caiman,Kniest Ehrmann. John Frankenhelmer, Meyer M.Friend, Daniel Guggenheim. Alfred M. Hersog,Heno II. Ickelhelmer. Rudolph A. Loewentkal, Val¬entine Loewl, Jacob W. Mack, Henry Morgenthea,Max Nathan, Max Naumburg. (Jeorge Rosenfeld,Kll.is Rothschild. Solomon B. Solomon, Louli Ü,Wolf and Abraham Wolff.The Committee on Site is composed of President

Mack, ex-ofllclo; Henry Morgcnthau. chairman; MagNathan, Sigmund J. Bach, Kitas Rothschild andAdolph Roskowltz.As to possible sites. President Mack said: "Ths

whole matter Is still open and unies» a decision»should be made by July, the determination of a sitewill probably go over until fall. You can do nothingof course during Um hot summer months In su-h a

matter. I Jo not expect any decision at the earliestfor a month or six w. k*. and perhaps not then."In the selection of a site we have to bear In mini

the fact that the membership of the club Is almostevenly divided between the east and west side» ofthe city. If we BBO'JM select a site above Flfty-nlnth-st. then there would come In the question ofcrosstown communication. Th» next northwardcrosstown line through Central Park above Flfiy-nlnth-st. Is Elghty-slxth-st. The members generallyfeel. I think, that we cannot go much above Fifty»ninth-«t. ^

"Some thirty site« have so far been submittedfrom Forty-second-st. up. Of course we do not in¬

tend to go below Forty-second-st. We have no ob¬jection to Fifth-ave.. but what we want, first ofall. Is a good site. There was a motion made to

confine the committee to certain geographical limits.

but that was voted down. Such a limitation wou.«afford those havinK good sites to hamper us In pos¬sibly an embarrassing manner."What we are looking for Is a correr plot, consist¬

ing of five lots, or one within the block of from sisto seven lots. In havl ig a corner plot there wouldn.rt be so much space required as within the block,since In the latter case special provision would haveto be made for light, air-shafts, etc.

THE QUESTION OF SITE.

"To revert to the question of going above Flftf»ninth-at.. we might divorce our numbership by sa

doing. To show how tliia might haj pen. let me cite

the case of the Colonial Club at Beventy-second-sUami the Houleva-d. The members are all from the

West Side. Most of them at one time belonged todowntown clubs. Hut as soon as a club takes a

site above Flfty-ntnth-et.. Its membership mustcome from that district east or west of Central ParkIn which it is situated. Sites In Madlson-ave.. near

Sixty-fifth-«., and In Central Park West, near toesame street, have been shown to the committee, andpossibly one of theso will be taken because It wouldbe sufficiently near Flfty-nlnth-st. Still, nothingdefinite Is yet determined on. No plans for thenew building have yet been eonaldeied."of the offlcrs of the Harmonie Club, besides

Jacob W. Mack, the president, are George Rosen-feld, vice-president; Julius Binge, treasurer, andJoe 8. Bach, secretary. The club has a circulating;library of 18,000 volume» in German. French ana

English. It is supplied with half a dosen billiardtables, four bowling alleys, a large reading room andall the details of a flrst-claes clubhouse. Privatebowling clubs, consisting of members, use the bowl¬ing alleys on special nights. A table d'hote Is oneof the special features. It Is open to members sndt.ielr friends, snd is largely patronised. Ths dubstill retains the same caterer It had twenty yearsago. This Is F. L. Slebrecht. Mr. Mack declaresthat th- old employe will go with the club te lia new

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