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Beliefonte, Pa., May 10, 1912. |
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The Awaking of
the Older Nations. |
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Across Asia Minor—The Bagdad Rail
way Growing—Ancient Cities of
Great Anatolian Plain Will One Day |
Blossom With Modern Civilization.
By WILLIS T. ELLIS.
Tarsus, Asia Minor.—The main high- |
ways of history run across Asia Minor.
This has been the route for uncounted
centuries of the armies of conquest,
and the peaceful caravans of trade,
journeying from Asia to Europe or
from Europe to Asia. Here are the
footprints of Cyrus and Darius, Nebu-
chadnezzar and Alexander the Great,
the Caesars, the Crusaders, the Turks |
and the Arabs, and such distinguished
individual travelers as the Apostle
Paul.
He who goes on foot or wheel today
will find himself traveling the iden-
tical route built by the Romans, and
crossing old Roman bridges. As he
notes the sites of battles or camps, he
will be able to see in the configuration
of the ground why they were so
chosen. The trip I have just made Is
a wonderful commentary upon the
books we studied in school and upon
the history of the early Christian
church.
Here are the ruins of many of the
great cities of classic literature, the |
“Seven Churches of Asia,” to which |
the familiar .passages in the Apoca- |
lypse were addressed; and the other |
The Turkish Way With Railroads.
Railroads are running two-thirds of
the way across this great Anatolian
plain, and the comstruction is being
pushed forward through the Taurus
mountains. There is a train a day in
each direction, carrying both passen-
gers and freight. The cars are built
on the European model, with compart-
ments. The trains do not run at night,
and the first night out from Smyrna is
spent, nolens volens, at a miserable
native inn where the proprietor thinks
it strange that guests are not willing
to crowd three into a room, and even
insist upon clean bedding. The train
starts at day-break, for Turkish time
' {8 a constantly changing quantity. Sun-
| set is 12 o'clock, so that clocks and
watches must change every day. The
natives generally take their time from
the call to prayer in
printed “a la Frank,” as they call
| things European out here.
The train from Smyrna
with that from Constantinople at a |
picturesque ancient city, Aphion Kara |
Hissar, where there is a fortress that
seems more impregnable and imposing
than Gibraltar.
interval between trains.
to spend part of this time in the ba-
zaars, I returned ten or fifteen minutes |
ahead of the time scheduled for the
departure of the train, only to see it
pulling out across the plain. I was
cheerfully informed that as there was |
very little freight that day, the train
had started ahead of time!
meant twenty-four hours in a city
where the only English-spcaking per-
son was the Ameritan pastor of the
American Board church.
When the Bagdad Railway gets to
running, this city will be an important |
point, and a popular objective for tour- |
ists. It was here that the Turkish gov.
ernment undertook to colonize the
Moslem Cretans. It built houses for
Wagons Ready for Start Across Asia Minor.
cities which gave Paul and his com-
panions a sample of mob law or else
worshipped them as Gods.
The Ancient East Still Survives.
The country is still pretty much as
it has been for millenniums. The cities
are now hidden under the debris of
ages, and the thriving commerce of
that older day has disappeared along
with the marching legions. But the
wayside wells are identical with those
at which the thirsty soldiers used to
drink. The khans are built of mud
and straw, and are after the same type
as were known te the travelers before
them and then straightway forgot
flew by night, like the Israelites from
Egypt.
The next night is spent at Konia—
now notable as having the only decent
tions are the notable sights of Konia.
Again starting at daybreak, Bregli is
reached about noon. For practical
purposes this is the present end of
Christ; indeed they cannot be very
different from that primitive khan in
Bethlehem wherein was born the |
world’s Conqueror. i
The dust from passing caravans en-
grimes the traveler. The soft-footed
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camels who now come swaying along |
with serpent necks, are laden with
cans of American kerosene. The bul-
lock carts with their primitive solid
wooden wheels, bear material for the
construction of the Bagdad railway. A
bent stick still serves for a plow.
Agriculture is largely by hand, and
the threshing floors of scripture are a
frequent sight. Picturesquely clad na.
tives move slowly along on donkeys.
I saw one young mother and child,
whose bearded husband and
Where the Glory Has Departed.
The ancient productiveness of this
Anatolian plain, when the hills were
{ blood would be shed. The
the Bagdad railway. It is a small,
above the khan classification. Here
wagons or horses are taken for the
overland journey to Tarsus.
Travelers in Arabas.
The process of securing arabas,
which are diminutive prairie schoon-
i ers, with entrances at the sides, re-
sembles a small riot. Everything in
the Orient must be done with great
made with one driver, it looks as if
across the plain takes three nights
and parts of four days. The govern-
ment desires travelers to be accom-
panied by one or more soldiers as es- |
father | cort, because the region is famous for
had stopped at a brook to give them | outlawry. A soldier has an old fash- °
drink, who suggested strikingly the | ion Mauser single-shot rifle strung |
picture of the Flight into Egypt. :
over his shoutders, and at certain
points he carries this in his hand. An
American traveler puts more confl-
dence in his own magazine pistol! than
Shoveling Grain on the
covered with trees and there was plen-
ty of water, is apparent at a glance.
Much of it resembles the west in parts
of the United States and Canada. Its
ancient glory may be restored at any
time that an eflicient government pro-
vides for afforestration and irrigation.
Perhaps the cities of antiquity will
rise again. Sardis, where Croesus
made his name a synonym for riches,
is now a heap of ruins wherein an ex-
pedition from Princeton University is
digging.
Ancient Philadelphia, is now called
Aleshir and one may see the compara.
tively new village through a ruined
arch in the old wall. An excellent min-
eral water, which was known and used
long before the Christian era, will, in
the new day that may dawn for this
region, become a commodity for the
whole world.
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Line of the Bagdad Railway.
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/in this fierce looking attendant. The
latter does, however, give a degree of
prestige and the right of way when
passing caravans.
The khans along the way provide no
furniture and no food, other than an
occasional chicken.
pean can get a recom to himself, and
| he carries his own cot bed and supply
of insect powder. The experience
| brings one quite close to native life |
| and, if he desires, the traveler may |
visit the elders of the village and talk
politics and progress with them.
What the New Railroad Means.
The Bagdad Railway will be well
into the Taurus mountains early this
year. Work is actively in operation
upon this section and also upon the
stretch across the Cilician plain on
the other side of the mountains. Its
completion to Adana will perhaps be
e minarets.
Eventually the time tables will be |
connects |
There is an hour's
Undertaking |
This |
them, so that the colony subsequently |
the ancient Iconium, where the Apos- |
tle Paul was so shabbily treated, and |
hotel in the interior of Asia Minor. |
Meerschaum quarries, a mission school |
and interesting archaeological excava-
dusty, malarial town, without a hotel
noise, and before terms are finally
journey |
! | be a giraffe.
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! a matter of three years. This will
| mean a wonderful opening up of trade.
| Modern machinery will be brought in-
| to the country. New hotels and vil
| lages are already coming into exis-
tence. Irrigation is bound to follow
; and the advent of western fashions
will transform the life of Asia Minor.
| The linking of Constantinople with the
| northern Mediterranean region will
| bring hundreds of tourists, and ah
, they imply.
The scenery in the Taurus moun-
| tains is beautiful beyond description.
| The mountains of Scotland are not
| comparable with it, and it ranks with
| the best of the Rockies and Switzer-
| land. Some of the peaks are snow
| ecvered all the year round. There are
majestic gorges and precipices and
| vistas. The natural beauties are en-
hanced by frequent remains of antig-
uities.
In the narrowest part of the Cilician
Gates is chiselled a tablet recording
| the passage of Marcus Aurelius. Ro-
man milestones dot the road, although
in some cases they have been altered
to bear Turkish numerals. The fa-
mous Cilician Gates proper have
proved too difficult for the railway en-
gineers, so they go through an upper
| pass, which they consider somewhat
easier. At best the engineering diffi-
| culties will be great. Once the moun-
, tains have been crossed, the railway
debouches upon the great Ciliclan
plain beyond which sparkles the Medi-
terranean.
Nobody is willing to prophesy how
| long it will take the railroad to cross
from Adana above the head of the
Mediterranean to Aleppo and then
down into Mesopotamia. When that
day does come, it will be a notable
event in eastern politics as well as in
commerce. In the meantime, there
are those who say that the Germans
will never be permitted to complete it
80 long as the British Empire lasts.
(Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
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| DROPPED TRUNKFUL OF G'S
| Peculiar Exhibit Used by Mrs. Bill
| tops for the Reformation of
| Her Husband.
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“Ezra,” said Mrs. Billtops to her
| admiring husband, “I have something
' here that I desire you should see,”
| and as she spoke she threw back the
lid of a big trunk in the storeroom.
{ The trunk was full, level full, of a
| ' vast number of little things of uni-
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} | or grains of wheat, but which upon a
lj | little closer inspection seemed to be
{ small type letters.
| “They are letters, Ezra,” said Mrs.
| Billtops; “they are the g's you have
dropped in the last three years.”
And the meaning of this exhibit
was clear to Mr. Billtops instantly;
"he was not really a dull man; it was
not necessary to hit him with a maul
to make him understand things. Mr.
Bilitops has always been a great man
| for dropping his g's. Whether from
| carelessness or laziness or economy
| of his speech, or whatever his prompt.
ing, he has always said seein’ for
seeing, and bein’ for being, and doin’
for doing, and this has always dis-
turbed Mrs. Billtops. Time and again
she has sought to get him in this re-
| spect to mend his ways, but habit has
proved too strong for him, and so
finally she resolved to give him an ob-
. ject lesson.
| “Three years ago, Ezra,” she said,
| “unbeknown to you I began gathering
up the g's you dropped in speaking.
. I started out to keep them in an empty |-
fruit jar, but I soon found that
{ wouldn't do, in fact [I was appalled
by the number I collected. .
“I found that much as you had dis-
| turbed me in this way I had still
. never realized how bad you were; so
iI began storing them in this trunk,
i and here you see, Ezra, a trunkful
: of g’s that you have dropped in three
vears. Don't you think that is terri-
ble?”
Mr. Billtops freely admitted that it
‘ certainly was; and then and there in
| the presence of that open trunk he
| vowed a reform. If she would throw
: away those x's, he said, right now, to
| the last one, he would most earnestly
! endeavor always to remember to make
it ever impossible for her to start an-
other collection.
Just to See the Ball Game.
“My!” exclaimed little Jimmy as he
. gazed at the lithograph. “I'd like to
Just think how easily
you could ‘rubber’ over the baseball
fence.”
“That's all right,” replied Johnny,
“but there is another time when you
wouldn't want to have a neck like a
giraffe.”
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“Why, in the mornings when your
ma begins to scrub your neck with
soap and water.”
A Precaution.
| “Mary,” said her mistress, “I'm go-
, ing to entertain a few friends this
. afternoon. You needn't stay in.”
| “But don't you want me to help?”
| said the hired girl.
! “No. TI get along myself. I'm
! afraid if any of my friends see how
| competent you are they'll start to bid-
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' ding for your services.”
Usually a Euro- |
Even Then.
American Citizen (A. D. 1910)—You
; don’t take much interest in congress,
| Ezra.
Another—No. I tell you they don’t
| have the men there that they had
twenty years ago.—Puck.
Odd Coincidence.
“What do you think about the man
who is the base of all my musical sue-
cess in songs?”
“What about him?”
“He isn’t a bass at all;
tenor.” }
he's no
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