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Street Scene in Rhodes,
(Prepared by the Natlonal Geographie
Soclety, Washington, D. C.)
HODES, off the southwestern
point of Asia Minor, has the
true tlavor of the Levant. But
neither books nor photographs
can prepare one for the island, Ar
rival there is n shock of delight: As
one is rowed ashore from the ship's
side to the island, It is as if some one
had rubbed the magie ring. Today's
business fades out and a dream en
velops the traveler, a dream of the
armored and bannered Fifteenth cen
tury and the rich centuries that went
before,
What Wisby was to the Baltic in
the Thirteenth century A. D., Rhodes
was to the Mediterranean about 300
B, C. Owing to its favorable location
on the great highway between Egypt
and Greece, the island early rose to
commerclal rtance, Its first set
tlers weré the Dorians, The people
were thrifty and skilled in handi
work, and they soon built up an ex
tensive fleet, which not only enabled
them to gain important possessions
along the adjacent coast of Caria, on
the mainland of Asia Minor, but also
put them' in a position to become the
masters of the eastern Mediterranean
a 8 well, There were fmportant schools
of philosophy, art and oratory, the
latter having been attended by Cleero
and Caesar,
With the advent of the Knights ot
Bt, John an interesting period began
fop Rhodes, This order was founded
in Jernsalem in the Eleventh century,
and after many hardships finally
found a home at Rhodes, where it as
sumed the name of the Knights of
~ also “% ver a large
“ number «f the sma ’;{nlmlng
islands, as well as the coast of the
“'mainland.
© As one's boat moves teward the
wharves, he sees a seaward-stretching
tongue of rubble surmounted by a
round fort: which is the mole that
once sheltered the Kknights' fleet of
galleys and may have borne, a thou
sund years earlier, the famous bronze
statue of Helios, known as the Colos
sus, one of the seven wonders of the
ancient world, -~
Earlier still, Rhodes, a 8 a great sea
power, framed the tirst code of mari
time law, There was to be profit
sharvipg between captains and thelr
crews, compensation for the widows
of logd mariners, penalties for wreck:
plundering, So decreed those fore
runeers of the bronze lMlelios, Its
ver® name suggests a hellograph sta:
tion, and perhaps the mirror which,
sOMA writers aver, was set in its chest
flached messages to relaying ships,
Earthquake overthrew the Colossus,
and centuries later its remains were
Linominiousty auctioned off as 1,000
camel loads of serap to a Jewish Junk
deuler,
Relics of the Oiden Time.
The visitor's skiff enters the narrow
harbor mouth, flanked by a tower
bearing the tleurdeldis uand by the
ruined base of what was once the
tower of Grand Master de Naillae,
But no longer does a stretched chain
bar the way. That Is In Constanti
nople as a teophy of one of the varl
ous sleges which Rhodes sustained,
Every aight the harbor was closed
by thos» massive links, and the mer
chant man who arrived too late was
ordered by the captain of the Three
Towers to anchor outside,
Those three windmills on the mole
alone remain of the wmany which the
Rhodian churches owned and operated
for profit. The windmll of the Virgin,
the windmill of St. Catherine, and
others, must have been rich sources
of revenue, especlally whenever a
slege was expected; for then the grand
master of the Knights Hospitallers »f
St, John of Jerusalem commandeered
the entire islund's graln, its 01l and
wine, storing away a year's provision
for his six hundred knights and for
the civillan hosts that eagerly sought
refuge within the mighty fortitica
tlons,
The Rhodian burghers waxed rich
by the presence of this deep-pursed
order, 50 nobody grumbled against its
military regulation which prohibited
the exportation of foodstuffs and
horses,
They were young, these Knights of
8t John, aspirants being admitted on
probation at the age of fourteen and
recelving full privileges four years
Inter; but whether classed as full
kulght, chaplain, or serving brother
(L e, fghting squire), & man rarely
outlasted the hazardous life beyond
forty yeurs of age. It wus indeed a
League of Youth, vowed under papal
sanction to poverty and chastity, to
the succor of pilgrims, and to the de
fense of the Holy Sepulcher. Through
out Europe the order spread its reli
glous-military appeal, recruiting celeb
rities and attracting wealth,
Captured by the Turks.
Four times, under the knights,
Rhodes stood siege. When the Turks
made their second attack, they ar
rived with 109 ships and 70,000 men,
employed lighted arrows and floating
bridges and prepared eight thousand
stakes for impaling the defenders.
They lost one-third of their army.
But in 1522, six hundred knights and
a mere handful of soldiers, after main
talning an unparalleled defense of the
stronghold for six months against u
fleet of 300 ships and nearly a quar
ter of & million Turks, capitulated en
honorable terms,
Rhodes today presents the aspect
of a huge medieval fortress whose
keeps, magazines—yes, its very dun
geons—have been remodeled into
quaint shops and dwellings,
At the call of the food peddler,
housewives let down baskets on strings
from upper windows where the
knights' prisoners once peered forth
from behind bars. The town pasture
lies within the ramparts which once
inclosed the grand master's palace,
and here sheep nibble among mounds
of the stone cannon balls which were
flung into the city by Turkish bom
bards,
Sponges from Kos are piled in the
knights' parade ground; acres of
vegetable gardens, making green the
mingled dust of @hristian and infidel
who fell there, while around the rias
sive barbicans, slit with crucifcrm
loopholes, ‘cluster masses of pome
granate and oleander blossoms,
Here and there, against the ever
present background of brown forti
tications, rise luncelike minarets, In
cobbled courtyards are Rhodian wom
en at their washboards, men at ear
penter's or cobbler's bench, dark
eyed children shouldering water jugs
the picture being framed by some mas
sive buttress connecting two medieva!
hospices. Yonder is a housewife pre
paring the noonday spaghetti inside
a Gothic doorway over which is
carved a row of knightly shields.
The women's street costume in
cludes a curious black bonnet with
two long, black ribbons streaming
down behind, The men go about in
scarlet-and-gold waistcoats and in
baggy trousers whose sacklike seat
hangs almost to the heels of their
Rhodian boots,
Golden brown, under a turquoise
sky, lies the Street of the Knights
where the spittings of many gargoyles
have worn a trench along the stond
pavement,
Street of the Grand Reviews.
In the street, on the eve of some
expected siege, a grand review took
pace, Genoese and Venetian merce
naries, clad in purple, green, and gold,
swung past the grand master, shout
ing for the Kkingdom of Christ and for
their respective republics, The mail
clad knights, In red surcoats bearing
the Maltese cross, curvetted their
pawing chargers under the fluttering
banners of the Eight Tongues, and
red roses, the flower for which Rhodes
was named, were thrown by falr
hands from balconies bhung with
Turkey carpets and Flanders tapes
tries.
Past the grand master, too, were
borne the order's holy relles; the
right hand of its patron, John the
Baptist, a yearly budding fragment
of the Crown of Thorns, a cepper
cross made of the bow! from which
the Savier washed His apostles’ feet,
One Is inclined to think of King Ar
thur's knights and of their quest of
the Holy Grall,
Of all humiliations, 1t was Christ.
mas day, 1522, which beheld the yall
ing Inrush of loot-maddened Turks.
A wiek later de U'lsle d'Adam and
hia shattered knights evacuated
belng bout | for the barren Island of
Malta,
Ore way of orlenting Rhodes geo
graphically Is to describe it as the
lurgest of the Dodecanese islands It
is the most eastward of the great
gregp of isles and islets that peppers
thy Aegean sen. Farther eastward in
the Mediterranean lle only tiny coast
al islets, like Kastelorizo, and the one
big island, Cyprus. Of all the Is
lands east of the Greclan peninsuls
only Cyprus and Crete exceed Rhodes
in size,
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD
Last Sardinian
Bandit Is Killed
Exponent of Eye for an Eye
~ Theory Dies at Hands
of Carabinieri. ‘
Rome.—The ‘very last” Sardinian
bandit, one Samuel Stocchino, “las
been killed by four carabinieri. He
was aot one of the Matia, llorj('un he
be suid to bave belonged to uhy suceh
ancient order of “gentlemen” bangdits,
but Stocchino professed advanced and
definite ideas about vendetta, or the
principle ot an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth, unto the third and
fourth generations,
He seems to have quarreled with a
large number ot people who, together
with their relations, lived in fear and
trembling lest the bandit should take
ils well-known revenge. To quarrel
with Stocchino meant certain death.
and yet it was an easy matter to dis
agree with the man, for Stocchine
mixed freely with the peasant popula
tlon of Saidinia and was ready to en
ter into delicate discussions at a mo
ment's notice,
Began Career In 1925,
Stocchino began his career of crime
in 1925, when he murdered a young
peasant who was making his way in
the early morning up Mount Gennar
gentu. Then Stocchino cut his vie
tim to pieces and threw them to the
wild pigs.
Six more murders followed in 1926
I'he vietims included one of the di
rectors of the local Kascio, two broth
ers (both Fascists), and a militiaman.
One of the vietims was found a month
later by his brother in a lonely part
of the country hanging fromn a tree.
Only a fortnight ago the three little
daughters of Stocchino’s arch enemy.
one Antonio Nieddu, were walking
home after spending a day in the
fields. ‘The bandit crossed their path
and asked each of them In turn
whether they were daughters of
Nieddu.
The two elder ones seem to have
recognized their interlocutor and de
nied the relationship. Stocchino let
them pass, out to the little girl ot
seven, who told himm who she was, he
showed no mercy. After firing on her.
he cut her throat and then decamped
into the neighboring hills, WS
This latest erime of his aroused the
feelings of the whole countryside so
that a vigorous search was instituted
and, finally, notice of Stocchino's
whereabouts was brought to the po
lice station. i
That nighi three parties of carabl
nieri set out for the distriet where
Stocchino was reputed to be hiding.
The first party came upon his tracks
and, seeing a man running away in
the dark, fired. The shot seems to
have hit Stocchino in the leg, but he
ran on, only to find himself face to
face with the third party.
He fired several ineffective shots
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The commissioners of Lincoln park in Chicago did not overlook any details in planning the new rabbit
colony, and “Bunnyville” even has its school, where the youngsters caa fight, as all school kids do, until the
pell calls them in for more serious things of rabbit life. The new rabbit houses are miniaturea of regular
bungalows and are arranged in communities. There are even little sidewalks where Mrs, Cottontail may take
her bables out for an airing.
WILD HORSES OUTGROWTH
OF FEW LEFT BY DE SOTO
indian Moved on Foot Before Whites
Lost Animals and They
Multiplied Here,
Washington.~Herds of wild Sorses
have recently been roundsd o und
slaughtered In Orevon and wWashing.
ton, that thelr nides might be pre
served »»J lnelr meat sold to fox
frmers. .
“It Is an ignominions <ud to horses
whose lineage could Ge traced to the
first horse families of America,”™ suys
A bullet'n from the Washington (D
() headquarters of the Natlonal Geo
graphie soclety. “And, incidentally, It
brings to mind one of the most remark.
able revolutions (n folk customs that
the world has known in the last MU
years.
“Practically all of the wild horses
of the West cawme from the few anl
mals which escuped from the army of
Cortez o Mexico, between 100 und
and then fell dead before the tire of
the carabinieri. Stocchino was dressed,
a 8 usual, in a velvet suit with up ot
ficer's cape over his shoulders. In
his pocket were found a tisherman's
year book, a pamphlet entitled “The
Smile of Love,” and some fifty lire.
Also Political Assassin,
Steechino’s remarkable career com
bined the methods of the bandit with
those of the political assassin. At
least tive of hig vietinis were Fascist
officials, Yet he possessed all the ter
rorizing methods of the bandit, so that
for three years it was impossible, even
within the confines of the small islund
of Sardinia, to trace his wherenbouts.
When so much is being written
about the Matia and Italiap bandits in
general it 's interesting to note what
a large part' this question of confi
dence plays in the administration ot
justice in [ltaly.
The country people ot Sicily, Ca.
tabria, and Sardinia have iu the past
greatly relied upon such bandit or
ganizations for the administration of
a rough justice suflivient for their
needs. These handits were quick and
eflicacious in the execution of their
work, while the police were slow and
often useless, ;
With the new order there {8 iln
creased eflidiency in the police torce
and, therefore, a growing confidence
amonyg the people of these parts of
the country. They are more ready to
denounce the bandits, who have often
übused the power that they possess
over the people. It only remains to
be seen whether these simple country
people will retain their new contidence
when they are free of the bandits.
but subjected to a most careful and
minute political inquisition op the
part of their new overlords.
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Man Rises From Poverty
in Only Eight Years
Winner, 8. D.—ln thiz town. at
the end of the railroad and the gate
way to the Rosebud cattle country, a
self-styled “outlaw” who made his liv
ing at odd jobs eight years ago, has
developed a retail business which has
made him one of the ten leading indi
vidual taxpayers of South Dakota.
Ben Butts is the “outlaw,” and he
owns and operates the Outlaw Trad
ing post, which sells anything from
a hairpin to a tractor.
His customers are ranchers and
farmers in some of the last Indian
reservation. territory opened in the
United States.
Eight years ago Butts tanded in
Winner broke but eager to work., It
was winter. All ne could tind to do
was shovel snow. He cleaned banks
eight feet deep from store-front side
walks at 50 cents a store front, and
when he had money enough he bought
a peddler’s outfit.
Presently he found that he had
1530, or from the still fewer horses
that De Seio’s adventurers left on the
west of the Mississippl In 1542, AN
though horses had lived In North
America In . prehistoric times, us
shown by fossil bones, none had exisi
ed 2u the continent for many thou
sunds of years when Europeans first
“The Indian lived without the telp
ot domestic animals dive the dog.
When he moved, ‘he went on foot
As a result, both the hunting and agri
cultural Indians lived in semi-perma
nent villages; and the hunters did oot
range over a large tertifory.
“But when the escaped Spanish
norses bad muitiplied and vegan to
appear In bherds on the western
prairies. the Indians caught them.
tamed them, and began bunting the
buffulo from horseback. Soon they
w a roving life, following the
~on horseback untll thelr winter's
Family Shaves Village
Beards for 200 Years
Blackheath, England.—The
death here of Job Taylor, par
ber, ended a sequence of eight
men in a single family who bav?2
trimmed the whiskers of Blaek
heath during the reigns of eir'it
British sovereigns.
Taylor’s great-grandfathey was
the village barber in the.jelsn
of George 1, 200 years ap, nmnc
since then his descendanty have
continued the business.
The last of the Taylor barbers
operated his shop for 53 years,
during which time, he estimated,
he had given more than 200,005
shaves. :
mace $134, and he invested it in &
shack and a stock of merchandise.
Today he is reckoned in ‘Vinner as
having personal and commercial as
sets of around a million dollars.
Butt's principal store is in Winner,
at the end of the railroad line. He
has five ‘branches to which he trucks
supplies. He makes no pretense of
building tine stores. His piaces of
business are shacks in the true sense
of the word—simple, sturdy struc
tures of sun-blistered boards.
\When Butts first started his store
he kept it open 24 hours a day. Now
that competition has abated he has
put his establishmeuts on 4n 18-hour
day. ’
Ugly Offspring Saved
Before Mother Eats Them
Washington. — The ugliest babies
ever born in \Washington—so ugly
that their own mother refused to have
anything to do with them—arrived re
cently.
The old tady herselt, however, 18
about '+ e ugliest female in existence,
and her husband is even uglier.
There were five little ones at first,
but one died shortly after birth, The
other four were taken from the moth
er hefore she had a chance to eat
them.
They are being fed with a pursing
pbottle and evaporated milk.
The mother is one of the African
wart hogs at the zoo. These ure
among the first baby wart hogs ever
born in captivity. !
Girl With Bird Throat
Refuses $15,000 Yearly
Ravenna, Neb.—Wilma Ruth Ho
gate, nine, who has a “bird throat,”
has refused a $15.000 contract for
five years, offered by a radio station,
it was disclosed here. The echild’s
“bird throat” was discovered when she
was three.
Listening to phonographic records
of bird calls, she started to imitate
the notes and was so successful she
frightened_her parents.
The sound she produces is really
oeither singing nor whistling.
She has a reach of two octaves and
cah reach high “C” easily Another
brother and a little sister, Julia Fern,
have similar throats. 5
supply of meat was obtained and
cured. This movement over u grenter
territory brought the tribes into re
glons previously recognized as the
abode of other tribes, anag wur fol
lowed. The western tribes svon were
in a continual state of warfare, for
which the horse was largely respon
sible, 14
“S 0 rupidiy did the herds ot horses
incrense (‘mustungs,’ they came to be
called) that they were in a falr way
to equal the buffalo in numbers. The
advance of civilization and the fene
ing of the prairies put an end to thelr
Increase, however, and !n late decades
they have run wild in relatively few
regions In the “least-settled parts. ot
such states as Nebraska, Arizona, Ne
vada, Oregon and Washington.®
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News for Parents
New York.—Triplets occur byt once
in every 6,200 births on an average,
figures from four lurge New York ma
ternity hospitals show. But twins sur
prise about one set of parents out of
every 100,
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Envy Is no friend of happiness.
| CLOTHES IDEAS
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Last fall when I
wgs in France, I ad- v y
mired the dress| At Xl\
which the daughter |7 Y ¥ Y&
of our hostess was mi .
wearing, and - she § ff'\‘\v \ M{
confessed it was '}-";H /;)“"
three years old, orig- _‘ o )(’\( )
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Bringing Lonely Men
and Women Together
A serious effort to solve the mar
riage problem for lonely men and wom
en, who have abecut given up hope, has
been undertaken by Le Quotidien,
Paris newspaper,
“There are no longer ‘old maids,’ for
there are too many of them who trave!
life's road alone,” says Madame Albine
Albaram, a femininst writer, who is in
charge of the work. In four years,
working alone, she says, she has ar
ranged 60 marriages, “none of them
ending in divorce.”
She proposes to extend her efforts
by publishing brief unsigned state
ments from both women and men, she
meantime exercising what supervision
she can over the “candidates” and
their correspondence,
Pike’s Peak: Elevaticn
. Pike's peak achieves an altitude of
14,147 feet. It is not the highest peak
in the United States (Mount Whitney,
California, 14,501 feet, enjoys that dis
tinction) nor even in Colorado, where
Mount Elbert exceeds it with 14,420
feet.
Friends are not particularly profit
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ing, that's all.
It takes both pessimism and opti
mism to make a revolution.
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