1127

Date 1912-12-14

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December 1ith, 1012, MGMT C0. ys Only n FF ch parts of Ts a selec- antial sites. lots won't 1 Block 64 Park, Hex- ing Go. A TING ds Phone 166 ting service the R CO. rial now, we you simply er Co. 1 South Railway - CEY, Mgr.. nti-Freeze to Coy ST. 8-tf, like one of old who is not my friend of a very dear friend Mr. Geto. E. in these goings to and fro rot the Saturday, December 14th, 1012, oe Sotedted eateatetotote LePooorgoronogies ton. For a little time past, having te booed all thought of gain-getting, I set myselt to see some of the his toric places, the treasures, some of the life of Europe; to see life as it is under less transitory, more fixed, conditions than exist in young, and I must now say, happy Canada. So, I have been, ina very limited sense, going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it. I think, however, it may be said, that whatever the author of Job, or his contemporaries thought of such an occupation, it isin these latter days one, in most Part, of exceeding pleasure. Perhaps it is not out of place to mention here that I-did not travel Solitarily, but inthe companionship Pentland, formerly of this city. Among the lands we chanced upon Teast in interest to me w? . that where grew the ails of war and peace, especially the I gt; .ter Greece. It is of course comm :aplace to say, that like most of ii Mediterranean countries, Greer derives its title to notice, to fame, to immortality, from a splendid, tho gh quite distant past. In traversing t the traveller's chief interest is t . see what remnants th of that past, its al setting, ad thus aid the mind in getting an image of it. When in Greece, *ith ones feet upon its poor but hal owed soil, moving midst its ruins c temples and of cities, and among the shades. of its great ones, an exercise affording the live- Her, delight. Our wanderings here were Himited to the Petoponnesus and Attica, so the remarks I make had better be re- stricted to these two parts. We were informed, fowSver, that the general features of these were quite the same as those of the rest of the Greece is strikingly poor, though think not particularly unhappy. Its poverty seemed more general than in, say Italy, yet it is far from being of so abject a type. Beggary is very little in evidence, while Italy is in- fected with it. The poverty of the Greeks js not so degenerate, rather it is a chaste and honest poverty. There ig a general air of indolence among the inhabitants, and of the two, I think women exhibit it less than men, If there be one.donkey and two passengers, the lord and master rides and his lady trudges be- Since our Store was burned out on Monday morning our customers have not forgotten. their old firm. ized all our Our stock is as complete as a is Our warehouses are well filled with the choicest of phone No. 1---The Busy B's. the goods and will guarantee: to fill any orders that you wil be. forgotten us? Sosdostoatoctestreteaeetesge sede rr rere se oor erer rior i GREECE AND THE GREEKS A Trip Through This Ancient Country Just as They Were Mobilizing for Balkan War by P. R. Bryen- y Hind. Greece has not had an age of chivalry. The country is scant of soil, rocky, has few trees, and in it the hills: are semi-fresent; so are sheep and goats, which, by the way, are not separat- ed each from the other. I observed that the goat gambols more and is ot lighter heart than the sheep. Donkeys, too, abound, stunted, spare, complaining. Though the lands we visited couid not in classic times have been very fertile, lt;they.are too rocky for that) yet there is little doubt that they received : more moisture then, and that better-crops were grow (aan are at present. Today +... country is largely bared of itc ancient forests; its rivers have -granken to the mbr- and the vonsequent curse of urought is: upon it. The sad sea waves though brake upon its rocky shores as they did in Sophocles day. War was on the edge of being de- cleared. The army had been rapidly w mobilizing during the three weeks 4 previous to our arrival; all trains had been apptopriated by the gov- erninent for the purpose; and every. community had sent or was now sending its quota of fightefs to the frontier. Horses, save the crippled and the decrepit, and automobiles in fit condition had: been taken for mili- tary uses. The spirit of war was lheginning to animate the-land Our port of landing was Patras; between which and Brindisi, Italy, steamers such as those on the Great Lakes ply three or four times- per week. Patras jis situated on - the orth coast of the Peloponnesus, and is its principal city. It has a popu- lation of about 40,000, and is of scant. interest to the traveller. From Patras we journeyed by train to Olympia a distance . of seventy- five miles; time, six hours. Our way ran through a plain, plant d mostly in currants, the chief product of the peninsula. Now and then we came upon a grove of olive trees or a few pines, both of which.thrive well gn Greece. The olive tree is not unlike a kind of popular seen much in sast- ern Canada; like it, big and spread- ing,though with leaves of a paler green, smaller and more oval. In age they are frequently knarled and coated such as oakes are. The olive has continued since clas- sic. days to bo an outstanding food item, especially with lt;ho peasants among whom, we were told, a hi fal of olives, a piece of unbutter bread and a glass of graje *wine departments. If so, which is very Plentiful make a, satis- factory. meal.). Our train stopped every three to five miles: Peasants , tanned in face sometimes feet too of brown eyes, and picturesquely kilted akin to Scottish dress came to the station from far and near to get the-Patras papers. Scarce er our train came to a standstill, newsboys would leap from it:and thread the motely ctowd of young, middle aged, and old men, of boys, disposing papets. excitedly right and left, hardly holding for their coppers, The repetition of this scene was kept up with more or less intensity to our journey s end. The Greeks, we were told, aside from the intense in of the present time, have at all an unsophicticated Jove for the newspaper. We were iniOlympia shortly. after nogn and spent the rest of the day among the ruins there. These eon- sist chiefly of temples, treasury houses, a large gymnasium and some Very-little is to be seen of the stadius: in which the celebrated Olympian gam. took place; it being mostly unex avai*t Bt from fteen to. twenty feet of earth which came upon it from mountain near Olympia seems never to have had many settfed residents, so that those: came to view the games and eaine from all over Greece, and beyond it either brought their tents with them, or were furnished tent aecommiodation by some: one who made a trade of such things. The buildings. in it have been closely grouped, so the ruins of them do not cover a very large area. They were built entirely of hewn stone and marble; and were adorned m ch with columns, sculptured figures, and not a little with statues of gods and goddesses. In its palmiest days, the fifth century, B.C., Olympia was said to be the fairest spot im Greece. Poday it is a desolation and a soli- tude, a jumpled ruin of fallen col- umns and walls, of the stumps of columns, ypright on stome) bases, -of conerete and mosaic floors, and of great blocks of beautiful marble en- tablature strewn about, Liszards scurry spiritedly everywhere, and snakes wriggle through thp grass in the streets, and make their homes in it. What else I did not see; it felt as if the shades of the deadmight be there. There are not ang buildings in its close vicinity. At a short distance, upon a hill affording an excellent view of it; ate a museum and toler- ably good hotel, at which we stop- ped over night a sepulchrally still, beautiful night. This hotel kept a register in which travellers wrote their nameg..and frequently their ments, OMe weary westerner, ing for Patras, and went from thence to Corinth, arriving o'clock, about three and one half miles from that of the old city-and is a little over a half century old. and squalid buildings are built of un- burnt mud brie dirty and very dusty, and its not too fastidious about four thousand, took a,cab and drove to the side of oldCorinth. Little of it is. to be seen; sand storms, sand slides, earth- quakes, and jcombined to bury it deeply. The small area, in which the ruins of great walls, of marble columns, of payed streets, are to be seen, has been excavated. It was more than lonce the first wrote his letters Jehureh there. Our guide told us Cor- * They, have patron- We have filled ia the smallest to the nue BIRNIE BRO The Busy B s, Whol TEMPORARY OFFICES: OVER McKENZIE S HARNESS SHOP, MAIN (N STREET. Bo Soclestpnse etree BPN OOO PVPS ANP IEE LID peered osteeSe oto erste AP Soee ese ers Where water costs more than wine, The gods and the'goats be thine For me, the w st, We left Olympia in the early morn- it there. at four The modern Corinth is upon a site Its dingy its streets are ithabitants number As quickly as could be atranged.we its own debris have commercial city. in Greece, and was such when St. Paul to the Christian noth once had five lmndred thousand inh, Witants, which I know is merely j conseture. Less than half that jimber:-ould, I am be nearer the truth, 2 : After puttin, im the night at a miserable hotel 9 eft by train for Piryns, the oldest ity in Hurope of which record survive It flourished about 1500 B. C., and tates back of that considerably, Our. passage Iwas through a hilly, roo-y, worth- less country, until we recched the Argire plain, at the far end oi which, what rethains of Tiryns, the ruhs of its king's-castle, is located. It 10, in its day, was the first city u Gregee, We spent a eouple of hours perambulating this old fortress it was a fortress and residence com- bined seeing its Various derisions, people parks, boulevards, electric lights; telephones, and a street ear system; fine public buildings, hotels hd pri- vate residences, and is Bs in its bet- ter days the educational: centre Greece. things of interest here to give many: details of even the most important of them. the Acropolis. The theatre is semi- jis said, was imprisoned. Here in his largest orders possible i in the hardware business. We Will Conti To: Do o So possae: for any wholesale: or retail stock to fares.- Despite the fire we ve H ave you. esale and Retail Hardware Athens is now a city of 165,000 with wide paved streets, in short, a modem city. It has some, of There are too miny places: and I shall mention first the theatre of Dionysins, situated at the base of a hill of solid rock, called circular in form, meovered, and has had a seating capacity for over fif- teen thousand. people. The seats are lof white marble and are in a state of-semi-ruin. In 340 B. C. they re- placed the wooden ones in which the cultute loving Athenians of the fifth century B.C, had sat and saw the characters of Aeschylus and Sopho- cles struggle in the toils and tangles of tragic. fate. Across from the bill of the Acro- polis is another, just outside the city, also largely of solid rock, in which, near the base, are cut eut rooms, about ten feet square, which had been: used for prisons in the old days, In one of these Socrates, it Jast hours he discussed, coolly and Penetratingly, the immortality of tH soul as is so tonchingly told in the Phaedo of Plato, Here he drank the hemlock. Across again from the above Mill, also outside the city, is the hill of the Preyx, where the Athenian citiz- jens gathered, generally in the early morning (for the place is open to the sum) to hear some policy of state proposed and discussed, and to vote. pen- it. Here we stood upon what temtains of the platform on which many an Athenian had agifely and eloquently argued; upon that from which Demosthenes had, in such con- and trying to picture in fancy in some detail the original character of them. It is built of-mhewn-or- h wn storie and was said to be parable in its wonder to the Sem ian pyramids. From the wails. ofthis castle we could see the site of Agamemuon s city, Mycenac, and the town of Ar- gos, each of which when t thetr zenith were at the top of things in Greece. On our way back to Corinth we stopped an hour at Argos, .a town at present of 1200 inhabitants: It, too, is made up of mud cottages, built of unburnt mud bricks, and in appearance is very poor and un- clean. On reaching Corinth, we changed trains and went directly to Athens, arriving at nine o'clock, p.m. Next morning waged an Eng- lish-speaking guide and began to see aa to lea eythe country, put him- self into verso thus: Faewell thou and divine, over, if not the most celebrated, at summate speech, urged the Athenians take up arms and stay the ag- ions of Philip of Macedow. The wer of such a spot is peculiar. Adjacent to the Acropolis,js the Mars Hill, upon which a ogting to the Acts St. Paul preached o the Athenians. - We, climbed to its top by way of steep slippery steps cut in its rocky side. The arewsupon it is bare and not large. at I shall not venture . a description of the beautiful rentains of marble walls, columns and sculptured figures that are upon the Acropolis. These beggar, description, An attempt would Secupy greatly too much space. The picture of it is familiar to every body, though on account of having to photograph it at considerable dis tance, the actual Acropolis is vastly larger than one seeing the picture only would fancy least the second most celebrated city in history. The Parthenon, its chief structure, PHONE No. 1. Badly ine in fecting much Haroc. in the beginning of the last century, Lord Elgin came, as Byron says, to rive what Goth and Qurk and time hath spared and bore away to Ai- bion's shores what could be got of the sculptures. is not that born of massivetiess or hotly charged the host boldness, but: rather that of exquisite upon, the proportion; of simple refed beauty. much carriage back to their In order words itis typically Greek, In the centre of this, plain isa hnge Up to 1689 the Parthenon. was al- pletely intact, when, under ancy of the Turks, who.us- a fortress, it was bombard ed by the field guns against it from hill. Besides chipping and scaring it caused a powder magaz- Venetians, who oper: je part of it to explode, Parathenon's beat These are now ex in the British museum, Attiens possesses Yery little of ancient art, its sculpture. there-is of it extant, and there eums:.of them of The Athens, second day battlefield of Marathow. by the road om wi Taces are rum. The plain where We circle by the Bay of Marathon. The cumference From these the Athenians Plateans: respectively emerged a near Subsequently, than What under the chisle of Greek artists. of our stay: - Sunday; was occupied im : most part with a motor tipto the During the last nine. years the the marathon jin Australia have increased. battle was fought is, roughly, a semi self. with its circumference girted ig cut by two dofiles, . ot plain, driving them with ships, mound, from the top of which the battle-field can be finely seen and un- der which wore burried the bodies of the Greeks who fell in the struggle. The day following, Monday, we visited the Piraens; Athens sea po and the Bay of Salamis. Piraens is a city of about sixty-five thousand people, and is rather unkempt in its general. appearance. Some of the streets we passed threugh on our way to Salamis.were anything but clean: and wh and the lond, voice of the donkey, back bestrid by-two great baskets of grapes, echoed in them. Shortly we reached the Bay of Saliimis, and limbed to the rocky Jorow where Xerxes, the Persian, sat in 480 B.C:, and viewed the destruc- of his. fest in the water below. cated co itiful ited. its is mineh, is scattered among the mus - went membership of the Friendly )Socleties ). per d it the Jednt. and the capital has doub cit od MicGre Block 22, tactp; Block 25 Block 5, corner, 100x125, Block 15, on pair, 1350. Burns Black is not huge or pompus; its attraction Real Estate Block 1, facing Esplanade, 1500.00 pair. a 1050 pair. 00.00. Block 33, one pair only, 850.00- . GENERAL PARK 4000.00. McGREGOR Some choice propositions for su See us. HERALD Terms, 2500.00. One pair.

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