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The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LV. GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 22, 1929. NO. 29.
WHAT'S GOING ON |
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Progress of Negotiations at
The Hague?Start of Zep
pelin for Tokyo.
By EDWAFID W. PICKARD
T INTERNATIONAL negotiations at
* The Hague during the week reached
a point that virtually assured early
evacuation of the Rhlncland by the
allies, and made It fairly certain that
Great Britain would have Its way In
the matter of the distribution of Ger
man reparations. Philip Snowden's ex
traordinarily undiplomatic, not to say
Insulting, language In characterising
the arguments of M. Cheron, French
finance minister, as "ridiculous" and
"grotesque" threatened at first to dis
rupt the proceedings. Snowden apol
ogised, though he and his government
stood firm in their position that the
reparations division in the Young plan
could not he accepted. Thereupon the
representatives of France, Belgium,
Italy and Japan began to figure out
methods of satisfying the English,
realising some sacrifices must be made
in order that the entire Young plan
should not be scrapped. They agreed,
however, to stand together and not to
make separate bargains or compro
mises with the British. Mr. Snowden
indicated he would accept an Increase
of $9,520,000 per annum In the British
share and the four powers named got
together $4,760,000 of this, but Italy
refused to make further contribution
and Snowden repeated his ultlmntum.
It seemed likely the Young plan Inso
far as Germany Is concerned would be
accepted and that the allies would
postpone the distribution of the rep
arations among themselves until aft
er the meeting of the League of Na
tions assembly late In September.
Meanwhile the English may be In
duced to abate something of their
demands, think the French.
Thomas W. Lnmont, the American
bnnker who helped devise the Young
plan, admitted In London that he had
been asked to go to The Hague to aid
In the financial deliberations, but said
he had decided It was wiser for him
to stay away.
HAVING made the return trip from
I.akehurst to Frledrlchshnfcn In
fast time nnd without any difficulties,
the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin
was refueled and continued on Its
projected flight around the world. It
carried G1 persons, 20 of whom were
passengers, and was equipped with
rifles and emergency food supplies In
case of a forced landing. The next
stopping place was to be Tokyo, and
this second leg of the trip was con
sidered to be the most perilous for
the huge airship. The route laid out
would take it across Russia, Siberia,
the Sen of Okhotsk and Saghallcn.
Doctor Eckener, commander of the
Graf Zeppelin, has been granted a pat
ent on a rigid dirigible with separate
gas cells, like the one lie Is flying
around the earth, by the United States
patent office. The patent, applied for
In 1922, has been assigned to the
Frledrlchshafen Zeppelin company.
LOUIS BLEItlOT, the French pilot
who made the first flight across
the English channel, has perfected de
signs for a new type of alrplnne that
can be automatically converted Into
a lifeboat In case of a forced landing
at sea, and he says that It will carry
passengers between Paris and New
Tork In 24 hours.
Future traffic between the conti
nents will be carried on In neither Zep
pelins nor hydroplanes, but In Inrge
Innd planes, according to the French
man, who Is at present collaborating
with the Armstrong company of the
United States for the establishment ot
a regular air line between Gotham
and Paris. The Armstrong concern
already has begun the construction of
a series of ocean airports stretching
across the Atlantic, concerning whlcb
much has been printed heretofore.
CECRETAItr OF STATE STIMSON
^ announces that President Hoover
is highly pleased with the progress
made In negotiations between the
United States and Great Britain on
the question of naval armament re
ductlon. Washington officials are
hopeful It will be possible to hold a
five-power naval conference for the
discussion of cruiser and auxiliary
ship tonnages reduction late this year
or early In 1930.
This statement was given out fol
lowing a breakfast given by President
Hoover for the purpose of acquaint
ing members of the naval general
board with the progress of the con
versations at London and to afford an
opportunity for a round-table discus
sion of all phases of the problem.
Mr. Stimson said that the President
and the State department expected the
fullest co-operation from the Navy de
partment experts In the campaign for
naval reduction and that the navy ex
perts' views would be given careful
consideration. He denied that any
rift has developed between the navy
general board and the civilians on the
question of just how far this country
should go In reducing Its navy.
PRESIDENT HOOVER Is taking
^ action In accord with his pre-elec
tion statements In which he declared
for complete co-ordination of the
work of Improving Inland waterways
for navigation. Irrigation, flood con
trol and power development. He an
nounces that his administration and
the officials of California have reached
an agreement for the appointment of
a Joint commission to determine the
policies to be pursued In such devel
opment In California. Another Joint
commission will work out the prob
lems presented by the proposed con
struction of n bridge across San Fran
cisco bay.
ONE of the next steps for the sta
bilisation of agriculture by the
federal farm board will be the cre
ation of a wool marketing agency. A
conference of representatives of pro
ducers' co-operative wool marketing
associations and producer-owned ware
house associations will be held In Chi
cago some time In October, Chairman
Alexander Legge, of the board, an
nounced. At this conference definite
plans will be evolved for a national
co-operative wool sales agency, to In
clude In Its membership all of the va
rious types of co-operatives now en
gaged In handling the commodity.
Julius Barnes, William M. Jardlne,
former secretary of agriculture, and
other prominent men, have begun the
formation of n big fruit and vegetable
marketing corporation, but Mr. Legge
said Its plan of organization had not
yet been approved by the board. The
corporation Is to have a capital of
$50,000,000, and In Its Initial work
will be with 00 subsidiary co-opera
tives In 25 states.
THOSE persistent revolutionists In
Venezuela got liold of an old Ger
man steamer and to the number of 400
landed under cover of darkness and
attacked the Important city of Cu
mana. The government forces defend
ed the place vigorously and repulsed
the attackers, though their command
er, Gen. Emillo Fernandez, was killed.
The casualties were heavy and the
fight lasted four hours, coming to an
end when a government airplane ap
peared and attacked the rebels with
machine gun fire and bombs. Presi
dent Gomez was not unduly alarmed
but sent three vessels loaded with
troops to try to capture the "pirate"
steamer.
PEACE negotiations at Manehoull be
tween the Chinese and Russians
were broken off, according to rather
Indefinite dispatches from the Orient,
and the Uanchurlan situation again be
came threatening. Tokyo reports said
there had been a skirmish on the
heights west of Manehoull and that
three Russian gunboats had landed
troops In three Chinese villages on
the Amur river. More Soviet citizens
were arrested in Manchuria and some
of them deported, and In Harbin the
Russian White Guards were believed
to be organizing an antl-Jewlsh po
grom. The Chinese government sent
word to Moscow that It would be
forced to take retaliatory measures
unless It received assurances that the
'Soviet firing at Sulfen would not be
repeated. The Soviet government an
nounced the formation of a "far east
ern" army In view of the threatening
conditions on the frontier.
THE tenth anniveraary of the Wei
inar constitution of the German
republic was celebrated with great en
thusiasm In Berlin, and by dint of talc
ing extraordinary precautions and
making numerous arrests the police
suppressed the Intended demonstra
tions of the communists and national
ists. In the vanguard of the huge
parade was a group of New Yorkers
and Cldcagonns who carried the Amer
ican flag.
PREMIER MUSSOLINI of Italy is
putting Into effect the Fascist pol
icy of splitting up estates that have
been lying untitled and turning them
over for cultivation by small farm
ers. The other day the feudal estates
of the Dorla family, comprising 2,500
acres, were thus divided among peas
ants in a picturesque ceremony at
Roccagorga. The land was separated
Into 230 parcels aud the division made
by lottery. The proprietor of the es
tates, PrinccQ Fillpo Doria Pnmphlli,
gets partial indemnity, and the peas
ants are bound to improve the land
and to assist in the general wcrk of
reclaiming the district, which Is in the
Pontine marshes.
SPAIN Is not nearly so subservient
to Its dictator as Is Italy to Mus
solini. This was evidenced by the ac
tion of the general labor union con
gress In session In Madrid In flatly
rejecting the government's invitation
to send five representatives to the na
tional assembly and Issuing a mani
festo to the Spanish people strongly
attacking the dictatorship of Oen.
Prlmo de Rivera. The new constitu
tion, says the mnnifesto, would estab
lish "Asiatic absolutism" In Spain,
wreck all progress and return the
country to the tyranny of Charles V.
In comment the dictutor said: "The
dictatorship is not losing Its serenity
and Is continuing to be assured of sup
port by the larger part of public opin
ion. I will not abandon power until
I am sure of giving the country an
ample Juridical base to support the
new regime."
CONSIDERABLE fun has been
poked by the unthinking nt the
proposals to reform the calendar. But
the national committee on calendar
simplification has Just reported j.o
Secretary of State Stlmson that there
Is nation-wide Interest and widespread
approval of the plan. The report,
made by Chairman George Eastman,
the camera manufacturer, Is Intended
for Mr. Stlmson's use In preparing a
reply to an Inquiry from the league
of nations, which contemplates calling
an International calendar conference
If enough nations agree to participate. -
"The Inconveniences which the pres
ent calendar's defects Impose," says
the report, "have multiplied with the
progress of civilisation, and consplc
uonsly so during the rapid economic
expansion of the last hundred years.
They are being felt more and more.
A defect which has grown to be a cause
of very serlons Inconvenience Is the
splitting of weeks at the beginning
and end of months and years. The
lack of comparability between cor
responding divisions of the year, par
ticularly as to the months, Is one of
the most serious Inconveniences. It
makes Inaccurate and deceptive a
most Important Instrument used by iff
the organized agencies of civilization
to measure progress and control tbelr
activities?I. e.: statistical data."
STREET car strikers of New Orleans
and their sympathizers stormed
the city hall and beat np Acting Mayor
Walmsley and four councllmen and
then engaged In a general fight with
the police In the course of which four '
men were shot The attack was made
while 200 union men were meeting :
with the council to demand the con
tinuance of bus and jitney cab opera- '
tion.
FEDERAL Judge Morris In Wllmlng- ,
ton, Del., handed down a judgment I
against the Radio Corporation of
America In a suit over patent rights.
Two of the beneficiaries are Francis 1
W. Dunmore, a government employee
In the bureau of standards, Washing
ton, D. C., and Perdval D. Lowell, a |
former bureau of standards employee
and at present employed by n radio j
manufacturing company. The Duhll
ler Condenser corporation of New
York Is the third beneficiary.
According to William Dublller of
the condenser corporation the suit
will affect every manufacturer mak
ing radio sets with electric light sock
et attachment and will Involve at
least $20,000,000 In back royalties.
Breastworks of Grant
and Leo Park Feature
A row delight will be offered mo
torists this fall with completion of on
Improved road Into Petersburg Na
tional Military park.
The new highway will make acces
sible to automobile traffic the breast
works of the ten-month trench war
fore between armies of Grant and I-ee.
The road will run between opposing
breastworks, whoso contours still are
ominous after 64 years of peace, and
touring parties Will And a maze of
dugouta, mine tunnels and rifle nests
worthy of the World war.
The army appropriation bill passed
by congress and signed by President
Coolldge provided for restoration of
the ancient "No-Man's land." but stipu
lates that there shall be no changes
In the "diggings" of Grant and I*ce.
The Crater battlefield, where Fed
eral losses were 3,000 and Confederate
losses 1,000, will be the central points
of Interest for tour parties, while op
posing forts, Sedgwick and Mahone,
will flank the labyrinth of restored
tunnels, trenches and dugouts.
Completion of the park will preserve
for all time the finest examples of |
American Clrll war engineering to be ,
found. While a large part of the park :
Is still Inaccessible to the motorist,
and will he until the road Is built,
many of the tunnels can be reached
easily.
Much of the new park Is already
open to visitors. Monuments hare
been erected In the park by several
states whose sons fought In the battle.
! A NEW |
! LINE OF
I THOUGHT
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I? by D. J. Walsh.1
THE Spencer high school had
been out now for more than a
month. The summer vacation
was passing and Margaret and
Angeline Carter, who taught In the
school, were longing for something,
anything, to happen so long ns It
brought a change. The first week or
two after school closed the two young
women had been busy In doing a be
hited house cleaning In their small,
white house. When the cleaning was
finally done to their entire satisfac
tion they turned their uttcntion to
their clothes, and when their ward
robe was In apple-plc order they made
calls and caught up with their read
ing. And now when they had done
everything they had plnnLed there,
seemed nothing further for them to
do but sit with folded hands and wait
for vacation to end and the school
year to begin. Though, dear knows,
the Carter girls were tired to death
of teaching. In fact, they were tired
of home and a wee bit tired of each
other, und for the past week they had
discussed the Idea of selling or rent
ing their house and boarding for the
eomlnff venr.
"I think," said Margaret seriously
one day when a morning of Idleness
had Irritated her frayed nerves more
than nsunl, "that I shall go to see
Cora Blaine and see If she will let
me board with her this winter."
"Well, of course you can do as you
like," answered Angellne, "but for tny
part I wouldn't think of boarding with
Cora Blaine, not with that snip of a
daughter of hers In the house."
The discussion was waxing hot
when the postman brought a special
delivery. Angellne tore open the let
ter and read 1L
"It's from Cousin Fanny Prlngle,"
she announced as soon as the man had
gone. "She Is cpmlng to make us a
visit She Is planning a continental
tour and she is peeking a congenial
companion for herself a'nd a comfort
able* safe place where she can leave
Darling while she Is gone?Darling?
who do you suppose Darling can be,
Margaret? I never heard her mention
her before, did you?"
"Never," said Margaret. "But rend
on, Angellne, maybe she will explain."
"I shall room at the hotel while I
am In Spencer," Sirs. I'rlngle wrote.
"But I shall expect to take my meals
with you girls, as the hotel fare
doesn't agree with Darling. I will ar
rive some time before noon on Tues
day and I wish you to have nn extra
fine sirloin stenk, well done and
cooked without either salt or pepper.
I trust you will select the steak very
carefully, for Darling Is most finicky
about her food. She Is having a twist
with her stomach and that Is one rea
son why I am getting her out of the
city for a few days, hoping the change
will do her good. In her present con
dition of health 1 am uneasy about
leaving her for my trip abroad and I
shall not go unless I can find an un
derstanding person to leave her with."
There was not a great lot more to the
letter and nothing that explained the
mysterious Darling.
Tuesday! Why, there would be only
tomorrow In which to put the house
In order and do the extra baking for
their guests! The Carter girls were
all excitement and with so much to
think nbout and so many things to
attend to they forgot for a time their
differences and were as busy as bees.
Tuesday morning dawned clear and
bright Margaret and Angeline were
up at fire o'clock putting the Inst
touches to their Immaculate house and
planning the final details of the din
ner. Everything must be perfect for
Cousin Fanny was very wealthy and
fussy, and then of course there was
the mysterious Darling. No one could
guess what she would be like. Prob
ably some one out of the ordinary,
for Cousin Fanny was always getting
infatuated with unusual people. And
then of course there was the trip
abroad, and It all depended upon
which of the Carter girls Cousin Fan
ny took a notion to. A trip abroad
with all expenses paid was a prize
worth working and fighting for If
necessary. And Margaret and Ange
line each secretly meant to do her best
to win her way Into the good graces
of Cousin Fanny.
As the hands of the old-fashioned
clock In the hall moved slowly toward
the noon hour, excitement ran high.
The table was set for Ave with all the
best linen and silver, the dinner was
cooking and the extra sirloin steak
was pounded to a shred and ready to
be put over the coals at a moment's
notice.
The coffee had Just begun to perco
late when Margaret, who had gone
for the dozenth time to the front of
the house, announced In a low tone:
"They've come!" She ran to open
the door.
Angeline, who was In the kitchen,
flipped the steak over the coals, tore
off her kttchen apron, smoothed ber j
hair with her bands and arrived In
the front halt Just us Margaret opened
the door In answer to an Imperative
peal of the doorbell. On the steps
stood Cousin Fanny. She was a stout
old lady, elaborately dressed. He hind
her stood the chauffeur, and In his
arms he held a small, silky black dog.
The dog had such a funny, wrinkled
old-looking face that Angellne Imd to
stifle u desire to shriek as the dimin
utive little creature peered at her from
under a huge red satin bow.
"Well, here we are," announced Mrs.
Prlngle. "Parker," she commanded the
chauffeur, "set Darling down, and then
you may go." Then, turning to the
wuiting girls, she said: "1 hope din
ner Is ready. Darling Is used to hav
ing her meals on time and she doesn't
like to be kept waiting. Let's eat as
soon as 1 can get my things off. We
can talk Inter while Darling is having
?her nap. She likes to go to sleep
just as soon as she Is through eating."
While Margaret was helping Mrs.
Prlngle remove her wraps Angellne
hurried back to the kitchen and a few
mcxments luter they were ull seated at
the table. Darling had n chair close
beside his mistress, because, as Mrs.
Prlngle explained, her food had to be
cut up Just so. The girls winced when
they saw the little dog eating off the
delicate china that hud been put on
the table for the expected guest. It
was a long and tedious process coax
ing Darling to eat, but nfter a while
she was stuffed to her mistress' satis
faction and was carefully lifted down
from the chair and laid to rest on a
fat silk pillow on the davenport, where
it was cool and quiet. When the little
dog's snores satisfied Cousin Fannie
that her pet was sleeping she herself
settled cozily bock in her chair and
announced that she herself felt like
taking forty winks nfter her dinner
and Journey. This left the Carters free
to retire to the kitchen and do up I
the dinner work.
It wns n good thing that Mrs. I'rln
gle and Darling were tired and their
naps were prolonged, for never before
had It taken the Carter girls so long
to do a mess of dishes. They did not
talk much, for fear of disturbing the
sleepers, but words under the circum
stances were unnecessary. They would
look at each other and go off Into per
fect spasms of laughter. They laughed
until they cried.
"Can we hold otu for a whole week,
Angeline?" Margaret asked In a whis
per.
"I don't know," Angeline answered.
"But whether we do or not, I can see
where the experience Is going to do
us a world of good, can't you?"
"Which do you prefer, Angeline?a
trip abroad with Cousin Dannie as a
companion or staying at home to keep
Darling comfortable?" Margaret asked.
"Neither," Angeline answered, with
finality In her voice. "I only want
you. my home and my Job when vaca
tion ends. What about you, sister?"
"You have expressed my sentiments
exactly. What fools we were getting
to be to wont to break up our dear
home. And, Angeline, do you remem
ber those lines. "The more I see of
men the better 1 like dogs?"
Angeline nodded and they began to
laugh again, and anyone who heard
them would realize that nothing?
nothing could ever spoil their com
panionship again.
Combination of Brain
and Brawn Is Common
Unusually smart children arc taller
and stronger and weigh more than
less Intelligent boys and girls, tests
among New York public school pupils
showed. The experiments were un
dertaken by n Columbia university
professor to disprove the belief that
the minds of geniuses are housed In
puny bodies.
At the age of about ten years, says
Popular Science Monthly, the average
height of the clever children was 52.9
Inches, as against 51.2 Inches for the
less gifted ones, and the average
weight of the prodigies was 74 pounds,
as compared with 03.9 pounds for the
others.
Strength measurements showed that
a good brain Is usually accompanied
by a strong right arm. The bright
children had an average grip of 55.11
pounds, as compared with 01.58 for
the duller pupils.
Language Somewhat Mixed
The Portuguese language Is a Ro
mance language resembling the Span
ish and paralleling It rather closely In
grammar. The Portuguese vocabulary
shows a considerable borrowing from
the French. According to the latest
estimates there seem to he 11 vowel
sounds and some 20 consonantal
sounds. One of the most marked fea
tures of Portuguese as compared with
other Romance languages Is the loss
of the Intervocalic "I" and "n"; tlins
"quaes" represents the Latin "qunles"
and "pessoa" the Latin "persona." An
Interesting phenomenon of Portuguese
Is the appearance of a personal or In
flected Infinitive, which makes possible
a very succinct construction compar
able to the Latin accusative and In
flnltlve.
Seem<?Cvttftis
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Women Do Heavy Work In Cyprua.
tPrcporod by the National (Jeographle
Society, Washington. D. C.)
CYl'ItUS, lying almost ut the
northeast corner of the Medi
terranean Ben, once famed for
the copper which hears its
name, \.ns an Island stepping-stnne
and exchange center for ancient civ
ilizations.
The traveler, If he fakes the bar
ren ride from the port of l.arnakn to
the c pital, Nicosia, through a chalky
wilderness, is likely to Jump to the
conclusion that Cyprus is drab and
wholly uninteresting l*ut half-ori
ental Cyprus veils hot charms, njod
estly masking her beauty In remote
mountain valleys and along the
northern shore, where no steamer
stops except for caroh beans, destined
as provender for Spanish cavalry
horses.
The best way to reach Cyprus Is
to steam from Beirut Into the sun
set glow, and dock at dawn In Fa ma
gusta harbor, beside Othello's Tower,
where the dark-skinned Moor, In
flamed by lago, smothered his Des
demona.
Once Famngustn, rich and wicked,
had n church or chapel for every clay
In Hie year. It Is n graveyard of old
churches now?-some sunk In ruin,
one or two still used to house the
glittering panoply of worship, one
changed Into n mosque, starkly sim
ple as n prison cell hut with n Mecca
ward vnlhrnb pointing the soul to
paradise.
The walls of Famngustn are mas
sive and high, with moats cut from
the native rock on which the bas
tions rise; and with gun platforms, or
cavaliers, overlooking thein from
within. At the Land Gate there was
an almost unique ravelin, or out
works, which was useless, and, nt
another corner the masterly Martin
engo bastion, which was merely fu
tile.
Looking northward one sees the
site of Salnmis, six miles away. When
Paul and Barnabas landed in Cyprus,
Salnmis was a Human capital. Little
by little Its various forums and mar
ket place are being rescued from the
drifting sands and viper-Infested
brush. Salnmis enthusiasts would
gladly use Its Byzantine name. Con
stant In. for it Is disconcerting, while
trying to hang a splendid past onto
a lot of sadly fallen columns to have
visitors exclaim that they have al
ways wanted to sec the site of the
battle of Snlamls, which occurred COO
miles away!
Creat Treeless Plain.
From Sain mis westward to the
American copper-ore docks at Kara*
rostnsl there stretches the great
"treeless plain" of the Mesaorla, with,
however, a miniature forest nt Syn
cms! and orchards surrounding many
of the villages.
At places, as around tafkooiko,
this plain Is rich with waving grain
or dotted with golden threshing
flpors. where the driver sits In an
easy chair atop the ox-drawn thresh
ing sledge. Elsewhere rock strata,
tlptllted toward the sky. discourage
agriculture, but rare Is the view In
which some leaden-footed animal Is
not dragging a plow.
Along the north run the Kyrenla
mountains, which one labels mere
hills until he has climbed to BufTa
vento castle or to Si. Ililnrion and
looked down with awe,on plain and
sea. Strung cut In a well-defined and
craggy ridge, they guard the pleas
ant northern slope from the central
plain. Strong sea winds, sweeping
south. Mow the trees lopsided toward
the hills.
South of the Mesaorla are massed
the mountains that culminate In
Troodos. the Cypriote Olympus. Cut
ting the northern face of that mass
ere neighborly valley* traversed by
shrunken si reams?the most charm
ing bits of the whole Island.
North of Salami* one of the promi
nent perches Is occupied hy Knntara
castle?the Hundred Chambers.
The men of Cyprus have a dis
tinctive costume?a straw hat with
u mushroom brim, a plain shirt some
times with a Jacket, voluminous Tur
kish trousers whose seats are tucked
Into their belts for cross-country walk
ing, and heavy leather boots with
their tops turned down and tied
above the calf.
The women do little to keep alive
the Aphrodite tradition. One of their
sex says of them: "They are rarely
pretty or even good-looking. l?elng
heavy of feature and clumsy of form,
and their voices are harsh and shrill.
Bat how could any woman he beau
tiful who works from sunrise till
dark for j few plasters a day?'*
Kyrcnia a Resort Place.
In spring the prize resort of Cyprus
Is Kyrenia. Almost overhanging the
town, St. Ililarlon, castle of Eros,
clings to a crude crng.
Beyond the horseshoe harbor, min
iature of Corelcnn Bastln's. there is
the golden mass of Kyrenia castle,
dwarfing the white and opal town,
set on a green slope between gray
mountains and blue sea. Across the
waters to the north the snowy
heights of the CHIcian Taurus hang
like clouds.
People come to Kyrenia to see the
castles, the monastery, nnd the
pleasant slopes planted ,$vlth grain
and dotted with olive and enrob
trees. They remain until the castles
are old stories, the Phoenician rock
cuttings have lost their first myste
rious challenge, and the harbor has
become a mere Incident.
The climb to St. Ullarinn begins
through green grain fields, passes
under dusty olive and sldny, heaven
sent carol) trees, whose sweetish,
dark brown pods thf prodigal son
would fain have eaten, zigzags toward
a rusty cliff, tops the pass behind,
nnd comes to the plain from which
rises the rock pedestal for this ro
mantic ruin.
But when one has scrambled among
the evergreens whoso roots are split
ting medieval battlements apart, the
romantic ensile, high and Inaccessi
ble. has disappeared, and there are
only some decrepit walls, forgotton
by the Titans who tossed them there.
Bella l'alse Abbey, a mere picnic
Jaunt from Kyrenla, is the finest ruin
In Cyprus. The cloisters, from
whose graceful archways vandals
have torn nway stone traceries, are
still beautiful. The refectory, with
Its swallow-nest wall-pulpit, from
which lectors once droned to eating
monks. Is almost Intact. The abbey
stands In a pleasant hillside town,
bowerert In fruit trees.
America owes Its incomparable col
lections of Cypriote art to Cesnola,
who lived at a time when an Ameri
can consul could defy the Turks and
boast of outwitting them. His book
makes spicy rending In these days.
In the widespread site of I-ambousa,
to the west of Kyrenla, another fa
mous treasure was found, smuggled
out of the Island and sold hy an
Armenian to the late J. Pierpont
iSorgan for a sum that still makes
Cypriote mouths water. For treas
ures found, one-third of the Intrinsic
value goes to the finder, one-third to
the owner of the land, and a third to
the government
Tlptllted Lnplthos owes Its green
freshness to a perennial stream which
emerges from a hnrred cavern In the
mountain side. In Lnplthos the cur
rent price of hnge. Juicy lemons Is
4."i0 for n shilling. The Juice Is ex
pressed, bottled without sugar, and
kept for a year or two without fer
menting. It makes a most refresh
ing drink, hut, at 18 for a cent, lem
ons nre hardly worth picking and the
ground is often covered with decay
ing fruit. - ?
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