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PALESTINE: PIGMY LAND
WITH A GIANT HISTORY
The historic Holy Land where muted
the Nazarene whose birth will he com
iuemorated around the world this
week, is characterized as "a tiny lit¬
tle country,” by Viscount .lames Itryce,
In h communication to the .National
Geography society:
“Though the traveler’s hand books
prepare him lo find Palestine sntnll.
It surprises him by being smaller than
he expected. Taking It as the region
between the Mediterranean on the
west and the .Iordan and Head sea on
the east, from the spurs of Lebanon
and Herimm ou the north to the desert
Mt Beersheha on the south, it is only
Jit) miles long ami 50 to 00 broad—that
Is to say, It is smaller than New
Jersey.
“Of tills region large parts did not
really belong to ancient Israel. Their
hold on the southern and northern dis
trlcts was hut slight, while in the
southwest, a wide and rich plain along
the Mediterranean was occupied b.\
the warlike Philistines, who weft
sometimes more than a match for tin
Hebrew armies. Israel had, in fact
little more than the hill country, which
la.v between the Jordan on the east
and the maritime plain on the wer-t
King David, In the days of his power,
looked down from the bill cities of
Benjamin, just north of Jerusalem, up
on Philistine enemies, only 25 nil lev
off, on the one side, and looked across
the Jordan to Moabite enemies, about
as far off, on the other.
"Nearly all the events In the history
of Isrnel that are recorded In (lie Old
Testament happened within a territory
no bigger than the state of Coiiiieotl
cut, whose area is 4,KiK> square miles;
and Into hardly any other country ha
there been crowded from the days ol
A lira ha m till our ow n, so much history
—that Is to say, so many events that
have been recorded and deserve to be
recorded In the annals of mankind.
"Nor Is It only that Palestine h
really a small country. The travelei
constantly feels as he moves about
that It is a small country. From th<
heights, a few miles north of Jeru
aalem, he sees, looking northward, a
far-off summit carrying snow for eight
mouths In the year, It Is Hermon
nearly 10,000 feet high—Hennon
whose fountains feed the rivers of
I mmascus.
"But Hermon Is outside the terri¬
tory of Israel altogether, standing In
tiie land of the Syrians; so, too, It Is
of Lebanon. We are apt to think of
that mountain mass as within the
country, because It also is frequently
mentioned in the Psalms and the
Prophets; hut the two ranges of Leb¬
anon also rise beyond the frontiers
of Israel, lying between the Syrians of
Damascus and the Phoenicians of the
West.
"Perhaps it Is because the maps
from which children used to learn
Bible geography, were on a large scale,
that most of us have failed lo realize
how narrow were the limits within,
which took place, all (hose great do¬
ings that fill the hooks of Samuel and
Kings. Just in (he same way the
classical scholar who visits Greece Is
surprised to find that so small a ter¬
ritory sufficed for so many striking in¬
cidents and for the carpers of so
many famous men."
ll ENCHANTED ISLAND *>
Cyprus, fairy land of the Mediter¬
ranean, which Greeks have been urging
Great Britain to turn over to them, lias
a history no less strange than the fic¬
tion of Sttakespeare’s "Othello.” for
which the island, in part, is (lie setting.
Richard Coeur de Lion wrested It
from a ruler who had won it by forg¬
ing letters in hls monarch’s name af¬
ter that ruler, Isaac Coranenusr, hail
refused to let the Crusader’s ship¬
wrecked and seasick lady-love land
there the first time she asked.
Richard married Berengarla there
and went his way, after turning over
the island to a penniless adventurer,
Guy de Lusignan, who founded a
"feudal state amongst spice gardens
and silkeu luxury," and thus establish¬
ed a dynasty which has been described
us the most romantic European his
torv .
Cyprus bulks large In the crotch of
Asia Minor, like a huge fist with a
lean Huger pointing straight at An
tloch. Historically, one may imagine,
tiie finger should he crooked a hit
tuore. In perpetual accusation of whose! the
sultan, the degenerate Selim II,
generals captured the Island. Impelled
in part, at least, by the fact that I
Keliin’a favorite wine came from there j
Geographically, the promontory marks
tiie tine of Cyprus’ prehistoric counec- ;
tion with Asia's mainland. |
There too. reigned the beautiful
Cneen Catherine Cornaro, adopted
"daughter of Venice,” who. though
grief-stricken by her husband's death,
struggled agninst Intrigue that the
throne might be saved for his unborn
child.
Early to Cyprus those ** Yan¬
came
kees of the Levant," the Phoenicians.
JSargon. the king of Assyria who, as
Isaiah had prophesied, led “the Egyp¬
tian* prisoner* And the Ethiopiean*
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORI VALLEY, GEORGIA
i cnpflves,” also conquered
| KsHihaddon, the Cae*(tr and Nineveh
. of Assyria, who left at
j Indexed library of many thousands
i clay tablets, received tribute* from
I Cyprian kings.
Pnnsiinlus, Benedict Arnold
Spuria, liberated Cyprus from Persian
dominion, and Kvagoras, one of
Island kings. hero of the world's first
known biography, penned by Isocrates,
who united the scattered prlnclpall
I lies, is the King Arthur of island tra¬
dition.
Thus Cyprus reeks with
memories of eastern, Grecian, Roman,
and even Anglo-Saxon civilization. No
less was It a focal point for religions.
At Kottklia, where certain tides still
pile masses of foam along llie shore,
Aphrodite Is supposed to have been
horn of the waves. Here are ruins
of a temple for her worship, where
originally fetes were held which, as
one writer puts It, “were the scenes
of a too literal worship of Venus,’.' and
where until recently it was the cus¬
tom lo immerse maidens in honor of
the goddess’ birth.
Kottklia Is on the site of the an
dent Paphos, Tlie Paphos of today
was tin* one-time Neapaphos, where St.
Paul struck blind the sorcerer, Elymas.
and converted Sergius Patllus, the Ro¬
man deputy.
The present day Larnaka Is on the
site of the biblical Chittim, whose
ships are mentioned by Daniel, and
whose Ivory is referred to by Ezekiel.
In Larnaka is the tomb of Lazarus,
who, after being raised from the dead
Is said to have become bishop of the
renowned city.
The area of Cyprus Is about equal
to the combined areas of Delaware and
Rhode Island, while its total popultt
lion is about half that of the latter
slate.
AZORES: MAY BE AERIAL
HALF-WAY HOUSE
The Azores Islands, in years to
come, may be an established mid-At¬
lantic rest station for airplane flights
across the ocean.
Farthest from a continent of anj
Atlantic Island group, the Islands lie
S’tlt miles west of t ape da Roea, Portu¬
gal, and more than a thousand miles
southeast of Newfoundland, nearest
North American land.
Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes,
while the former were active, made
the Azores objects of scientific Inter¬
est akin to that evinced in the now
famous Mount Katrnai region In Alas
kn. Suboceanie eruptions, sometimes
piling up islands which soon disappear
ed, were cha rarterlst 1c phenomena
One early description of such ait event
tells how the earth aud waters were
rocked for eight days by earthquakes,
followed h.v a vast caldron of fire that
seemed to sweep the sea’s surface and
consume the clouds, spewing
masses of earth and rock. Then
appeared a group of rocks, ever grow
Ing higher and wider until an area
several square miles was contained
this "no man’s land." Later It
shattered, ami subsided, a« the result
of rpore earthquakes.
The Azores comprise three groups
of Islands. Their total area I* less
than that of Rhode Island; their popu¬
lation about equal to that of Kansas
Pity, Mo. Most of the inhabitants are
Portuguese. The rest are Flemish Rtid
Moorish, with a few immigrants from
the United Kingdom.
Fruits and fish constitute the prin¬
cipal exports. Oranges are supplant¬
ing pineapples, hut the other products
—lemon, citron,, Japanese medlar, and
bananas—maintain their popularity.
The principal fish are the mullet, tun¬
ny, and honlto.
Snlnt Michaels, largest Island of the
group, has lava beds, caves which niR.v
he traversed fur miles, and a mam¬
moth crater with two jeweled lakes—
one azure, the other emerald—at its
bottom.
On Santa Marla Is the church where
Columbus knelt. Off Tereerla a sub¬
marine volcano made Its appearance
as recently ns half a century ago. Ou
Corvo have been unearthed coins
which suggest Carthaginian visits, and
an Arabian geographer of the twelfth
century described Mauds of the “West¬
ern Ocean" thought to have been the
Azores.
About the middle of the fifteenth
ent! tury the Portuguese sent expedi¬
Hons to settle upon them. One Island,
Fa.vnI. whs presented h.v Alphonse V
of Portugal, to his aunt, Isabella,
duchess of Burgundy, It was upon
her marriage to Philip the Good, duke
of Burgundy, Hint lie founded the fa
molts knightly order of the Golden
Fleece.
In *»iq«orters
Gloria against Miguel. In the * niggle
for the Portuguese crown, established
themselves on the islands and for the
,l,r “f >T S Allowing Queen Maria
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ISLAND OF HISTORY uictodv
Bessarabia, recently assigned to the
suzerainty of Routnania, has long been
a racial catch basin.
Her population was more than 2,
ooo.OOO before the war, and Included
Moldavians, Little Russians, Jews, Bui
ggrians. Greeks, Armenians, Tartars,
Germans, and Gypsies; hut that list
is short compared with Hie encyclo
pedic procession of Getae. Gotlis,
Avars, Huns, Bess! (whence her
name), Ugrians, Kumans, and Mongols,
to mention but a few, since the days
of the original Cimmerians.
For Bessarabia, sloping southward
from the westward foothills of the
Carpathians, between the Dniester and
Pruth, down to the Black sea and
Danube delta, lay in the norm*! geo
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graphical pathway of tribes
westward from Asia and
front the bleak Russian steppes
the warmer seacoast lands.
Bessarabia is at the convergence
these two history-beaten paths,
many times a clash ensued to
which group should pass through
"neck of the bottle” toward
I finds of milk and honey.
Among the most harrowing of the
vasions was that of the Mongols
the fourteenth century. They
across the Volga under Batu,
of that Mongol Charlemagne,
Kahn, and though there Is no
story of their depredations in
sarahia, that region probably
atrocities similar to others which
recorded In harrowing detail.
Ryazan women ami children were
as targets In how-and arrow
silvers of wood were driven under
nails of the men; then they were
ralled In churches to watch their
en being tortured, and finally
alive. Another city, Kozejsk, was
named Mohallg, "City of Woe,”
Kiev was laid waste after Iter
hail been maimed and murdered.
A picture of peaceful, pastoral
sarahia prior to the renewed
of the World war, furnishes a
contrast. A delight to the few
ists who went through the region,
the Moldavian homes.
A Moldavian interior was iinmnctilau
and vivid. Brightly-colored
ami hangings were used. An
decoration were rows of
gourds, the raising of which is one
tiie minor Bessarabian industries.
people are deeply religious. Each
odox home had its altar, facing
ward, ottered bread beneath the
and cornstalks placed in the shade
a cross before it. Even the
were colorful because of their draper¬
ies and candles, and many times
were laden with flowers. The
sarabian women are sprightly,
eyed, and pretty.
Moldavians constituted about half
the inhabitants of Bessarabia Ron
mania, It will he recalled, was formed
by the union of Moldavia and Wal
litchia; hence the adjoining Bes
sarabla, with Its large Moldavian pop
ulHtion, long has been the “Irredenta”
of Kouinanla.
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THE BERMUDAS
The Bermuda isiuuds suggest the
adventures of Robinson Crusoe in their
colonization and present iu their later
chronology a curious parallel to United
States history, with the events pre¬
dated by a number of years.
The Robinson Crttsoe comparison
obtrudes because the Island was dis¬
covered and later settled as the direct
result of shipwrecks, and the settlers
had to build themselves a bark to set
sail again.
As for the anticipation of
history ou h miniature scale, it
lie noted that the colonization
place seven years before the
landed at Plymouth, Mnss.; that
es were burned, Quakers were
cuted, and miscreants were ducked
before similar occurrences are
iu New England, aud that slavery
abolished iu 1834. The Bermudians
protested long before 1776 against the
mother country’s rule, until the island
prisons were overfull; but relief
came in their case not through a dec
laratlou of freedom, but by the ac¬
cession of Cromwell.
But the essential point of contact of
the American with the Bermudian
arises from the all-but-forgotten fact
that while the immortal Lafayette gal¬
lantly helped the colonies conclude
their war of Independence, the Bermu
dians supplied llie ammunition to be
gin It.
So acute was the need for powder in
1775 that George Washington wrote to
the governor of Rhode Island that "no
quantity, however small, is beneath
notice." Learning that there was a
store in Bermuda, and that the island¬
ers were anxious to have the embargo
lifted upon shipment of food supplies
from the colonies, Washington address
ed a letter to the people of the island,
who had shown themselves sympa
thetlc with the American revolution¬
ists, promising them ample supply of
provisions and "every other mark of
affection and friendship which the
grateful citizens of a free country can
bestow on its brethren and benefac
tors” if they would make this aromu
nltion available for the Continental
army.
It so happened that the powder Itad
beeu procured before Hie letter was
delivered, and with it the Continental
army compelled ilie British to evacu
^N.fwmTy ^ the sale of the powder, but
Bermuda allowed the
liave salt, so incensed its
^ e upbraided ^iing the citizens
umli and ran so high
lhat 1,8 wflS re,noved ’ Hls successor
was a native of Salem, Mass., whose
loyalty to the mother country was such
*' ave U P ,ar S e estates in the
colonies rather than join the revolu
ttonists. He was connected, both by
blood and by marriage, with the Win
throp family. Under hls rule the 1s
j land’s full allegiance to England was
restored.
Browne was succeeded by Henry
Hamilton, during whose administration
the town of Hamilton was founded and
named for him. This town today is
the seat of the island government. It
has a population of less than 3,000.
It did not become the capital of the
islands until the time of Sir James
Cockburn, lord chief justice of Eng
land, and before that time one of its
most famous lawyers. Cockburn, cear
ly three quarters of a century ago.
made the plea of insanity, which saved
the life of Daniel McNaughten, who
shot Sir Robert Peel's secretary.
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j JJe jt( , his thirty .four years, Jim
[Thorpe, „, the ,, former c Carlisle Indian
star, demonstrated to New Yorkers
why he is rated as the greatest of
all gridiron performers. The wonder
j athlete led his Canton Bull Dogs in
j tin first professional football game
(*VC1 ■ played in New York. A bit slow
j ei - perhaps, and lacking some of the
1 ,j., .j, that made him the most feared
of foes when at Carlisle, Thorpe dis¬
played his remarkable punting abiii-
1 tv when he sent the ball a-distance
of sixty-seven yards during the
i game. He also tore off a run of 60
yards through the entirt opposing
team, the Buffalo All-Americans,
composed of some of th< greatest
1 college players of the last decade.
The All-Americans defeated the Bull
; l),-,g.s seven to three. This photograph
() f Thorpe was made before the game
w hj,.h was played at the Polo
Grounds.
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j v , s been found on the homestead of
one of the settlers in Dover, Mass
achusetts.
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60S is a prescription for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It’s the
most speedy remedy we know.
The first flight made over the
equatorial Andes was made recently
w . i n Italian aviator flying from
Guayaquil to Cuenca, a distance of
120 miles.
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