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Looking Down
fPraparad r th national Oaoaraphlc
oclaty, Waahinstso, D. C )
THEltE are few opportunities
anywhere lo the world to see
to ninny historic sttea Id half a
down hours at during the brief
airplane trip from Constantinople to
Athena.
The route ti pared with geography ;
with history, which It geography In
teracting with mankind; and with
mythology. In which elemental geo
graphic forces are given childishly hu
man characteristics.
Poet and historians, ladles and their
Leanders, Argonauts and Anzacs, hare
to mosaicked wltb meaning this age
old route that the air traveler, com
pleting It between breakfast and
luncheon, would need that last-rain-
ate-before-drowning clairvoyance to
take In even the broad outlines of the
picture on tiie rift between West and
East, Europe and Asia, sailor and
Bom ad. Greek and barbarian, between
what was known and what was oft the
map.
The battleship Agamemnon, leading
the allied fleet Into the Dardanelles,
A. D. 1015, churned the very waters
that bore to the siege of aTroy Aga
memnon's thousand ships, launched by
woman's face, almost as many years
before the Christian era. Xerxes. Alex
ander, and the Turks, their exploits
separated by centuries, all crossed the
Hellespont at the same point. The
northeasters that cool or chill both
Bosporus and Gallipot!, and the treach
erous currents which Inspire gruesome
gossip are the same that Strabo and
Herodotus described.
' The plane Is fitted with pontoons
nd rises from the Bosporus. Rehlmt
the Genoese castle of Anatoli Kavak.
only moment ago outlined ngulnitt
the Black sea, has flattened out
gainst a northern tip of Asia Minor.
As a point Is rounded, with the pal
aces and embassy gardens of Ttierapla
below, the view extends to the Golden
Horn.
By the time the strait between Rn
mell and Anntoll Hlssar Is reached the
plane la so high alove Mohammed the
Conqueror's "Cutthroat Castle" that
the ground plan, said to be a chiro
graph of his Arabic name. Is Just a
comfortable tyeful.
The ground plan of Robert College
takes on rare symmetry. In Its center
a football game Is being played by
two tribes of rarl-colored ants. Now
the Constantinople Woman's cnlleee
Is reached. Its buildings aligned Into
one Imposing facade.
The coal-pockets that smudge the
Tlew below Arnaot Kol sweep south
toward the glittering Jewel-box mosque
rf Orta Kol and the roofless ruin of
Cheragun palace, prison, and parlia
ment houae.
Looking Down on 8tamboul.
There Is u slight haze above Rlntn
boul, the Seraglio palaces are visibly
Isolated from the teeming city ; and
the cornucopia curve of the Golden
Horn despite Its fame, a mere nick
In the east pro edge of Europe Is clear
ly cut between close-rooted slopes,
pork-marked by Are and mournful
with cypresses rising above mnrtite
keletoned cemeteries. The fuhled
even hills unite Into one main, curv
ing ridge.
Now the plane la almost over fat
domed rianrta Sophia ; and the six
minarets of the fiultnn Ahmed mosque,
o needlelike from the ground, seem
tqust towers, The obellnks In the Hip
podrome, Byrantlum's antique pleas
ore center, have no height, but their
shadows stretch wide across park
the perfection of which was never be
fore so evident One wonders when
architects will begin to design struc
tures to be beautiful from the air, as
landscape gardening already Is.
Outside the left windows the Princes
Inlands bathe In sun-spread quick
Silver and the Gulf of Ismid loses It
self beyond.
Off the right wing the landward wnll
of Byxantlutn, starting Imposingly
with the Seven Towers, dwindles away
until Its battlements are lout behind
hill overlooking the Sweet Waters of
Europe.
Now one looks straight down on the
Island of Marmora, unexiwctedly lurge
nd full of valleys. Around tiny liny
In the north edge. mnrhle clllTs or slag
dumps, white as chalk, describe
linrseshoe curve.
Now Euroie edges In from the right,
With the ridge of Teklr Ihigli, empha
sized by cumuli, stretching down to
give backbone tn Onlllioll. What n
pluce to study geography I The two
on Constantinople,
most famous straits of olden times,
where Helle drowned and lo, Hera's
rival, forded the Bosrorua,
Now the upper entrance to the
Hellespont has been reached, with
Gulllpoll on the opposite shore. Just
under the hull Is a level hill where
there used lo he Turkish fort. '
A little further on Lapsakl comes
Into view. It tased to be Lampsncua
nd was famous for Its wine and i'rl
aplc worship. The town, being made of
mud and atone, may have moved about
a bit, but the name hat hovered right
there alnce the days when Themla
toclea was Its nionarchoa and the Idea
of hereditary monarchy was new.
Lapsakl has its own little marina,
but the main town stunds back from
the water, Its reddish-brown roofs ar
ranged In aeemlngly perfect squares.
The Junction of land and water here
Is of extreme beauty, the shoreline
edged with a greenish blue breaking
way to the royal purple of tbe deep
er water.
The ship seemingly Increases Its
speed over ihe narrows where Leander
swain to see Hero and set an example
for Lord Byron and others. On
bridge of boats Xerxes crossed here
to Invade Europe. A century and
half luter Alexander returned tbe
compliment.
Beyond the Gulllpoll peninsula one
can see Buvla Bay and below la the
old tower of Chanuk Kalesgl, until re
cently ringed with modern forts.
Across the narrow neck of water Is
the trefoil fort of Kllld Bnhr, stalk
less ace of clubs spiked down with
tall central tower.
And here Is Troy, Immortalized by
Homer and Vergil, described by'stra
bo, rain soaked, soggy plain, cut by
mere brooks snd utterly without dra
matic quality.
The whole outline of Tenedos may
be seen as one flies along. Its central
portion cultivated, Ita shoreline
notched by ways to which the Greeks
withdrew, leaving the wooden hone
outside the Trojan walls.
The lilts of Greece.
There are pifch-black clouds ahead,
their lower aides festooned with wav
ing wisps of rain like Spanish moss.
The plune swoops down to lutaj feet.
The long line of I -emtio nils the
horizon at Ihe right and through the
opposite window Lesbos (Mytllene)
detaches Itself from the flunk of Ala
Minor. Only Indistinct suggestions ol
land lie ahead.
Skyros shoulders her blood-red,
craggy cliff toward the ship's path.
When the flight has lasted three hours
an Acropolislike plateau on Euboes
shows Itxelf. For the first time the
plane dives directly toward the la nil
to find low, narrow pass above cul
tivated fields, salmon pink amid gray
rock and lush green and dotted with
circular stone threshing floors neal
the Gulf of I'etali.
Then cornea the supreme thrill; fol
there, sweeping round In perfect
curve like t gold-edged scimitar laid
against the blue, Is the Plain of Slur
athon. Hoary-headed I'arnes looms be
yond, and I'entellcus, neighbor ol
Athens and mother of her marbles,
suggests how short flight remains;
yet how long that run for I'hldlppldes,
bringing news that the Medes and
I'erslana were In flight and that Milt I
adea had won I
A wheel of spokelike roads, cutting
the fertile slesogulas, centers In Mark
opoulon. At least -dozen pleasant
villages are tn sight at once, pearl
gray, amid crop and plow-stlppled
fields pushed to the limit of man's en
durance against the dull skeleton ol
Attica.
Now the Rnronlc Gulf Is hejow,
opalescent tints showing on an oynter-shell-shaped
beach. What seems td be
tbe mainland to the left Is really the
Island of Saliiuils. From Marathan to
Sulnmls, ten-yenr struggle for the
Persians, and the flyer can cover It
In the sweep of an eye I
A brightly tinted new town, Its.
landscape gardening reduced lo the
proortlons ol painting, grows be
low as the plane descends. Little I.yka
hettos spears up to the right, and the
Acropolis begins to assume a fraction
of Its wonted dignity, as tiie very
heart and renter of Oreek life.
There Is a bus terminus, and down
the plane mines, flashing pact new
villus and deserted piers. One final
glance for the flyers at that historic
plain between I'arnes and llymeltos,
and down their ship splashes like
duck, In I'hulcrou Buy, to the eust oj
1'lrueus.
Cfie varoness
Orczy
WHIT. JffrvC9
Cbpyrifht Baroneiss Orczy
CHAPTER V Continued
Kay, morel There were many who
positively asserted that lu some un
explainable way the whole of the
Peseze affair was connected with the
rapture ol the English spy who was
known throughout France as the Scar
let Pimpernel. This spy had been il
work In the district for tome time;
every one knew that It was he who
had dragged those cl devnnt traitors
and arlstos, the Totirnon d'Arenays.
out of Citizen Ijiuxet ' clutches, and
CI i lien l-auxet was now having his re
venge. He would capture the Scarlet
Pimpernel, catch him In the act of try
Ing tn effect the escape of the Peseie
family, am' thus earn the reward ot
ten thousand llvres offered to any man
who would lay that enemy of France
by the heels.
Lucky Lauzetl Thus to have the
means ot earning a sum of money
inHictent tn keep man and his fare
lly In affluence for Ihe rest of their
ilves. And besides the money there
would he the (lory, tool Who could
gauge the heights to which man
might rise If be brought about the
rapture of the Scarlet Pimpernel?
Well, La met would do HI Lucky
l.auzet I He would, certainly do It ss
serted some; those sort of men always
have ill the luck I There were even
those who asserted that the Scarlet
Pimpernel was already captured and
that Lauzet had got him. Lucky,
lucky Lauzetl
"You don't suppose,11 one man de
clared, "that anything would be known
of the affair unless It waa already ac
complished Lauzet Is not one to talk
till after thing Is done. No I Not
Believe me, my friends. Lauzet has
already got hla tea thousand llvres lo
his pocket!'
He wus wizened little old man
from over Lanoy way. and now be
dolefully shook his bead.
"And to think." be went on. "that I
might have laid that English apy by
the heela myself. If I bad bad a bit ol
luck like Lauzet."
A shout of derision greeted this as
founding aasertlon. .
"Von, pupa SargonT" om. of the
crowd ejaculated with loud laugh.
yuu. laying the English spy by the
heels? That Is the best Joke I've
heard for many a day. Will you tell
ua bow that came shout T
And pupa Ha r goo told the tale how
lie and bis wife had visit from a
sound ol soldiers who told him that
they ere after bond of English
aides who were known to be In that
district The soldier asked for a
night's shelter, aa they were weary
after long day's ride. Papa Sargon
had niMde them comfortable In Ihe big
bum behind Ihe rottage; but the next
morning, when he went to see ho
they bud tn red lo the night, be found
the burn empty and the soldiers gone
Xnd papa Surgon remained convinced
In his own mind that for the better
part ol a night he had harbored tbe
most bluer enemies of his country
and II he bud only guessed who those
-mpiMoed soldiers were, he might have
informed the local commissary of po
lice, and earned teu thousand llvres
tor himself. ,
Now. tills story would not perhaps
nave been altogether convincing to uo
prejudiced ears, but such as It was.
mil with everything that had occurred
in Molsaon these last few days, Il
aroused considerable excitement It
went to prove that the Scarlet Pim
pernel wns not nearly so mysterious or
so astute ss rumor credited him to be,
Ince he almost fell victim to papa
and mamma 8argon. It also went to
prove to the satisfaction of the com
pany present' that Citizen Lauzet bad
been alinr(ier Ihun papa Sargon and,
having come scrims the Scarlet Pim
pernel through some lucky accident
he had laid hands on him and was
even now conveying him to Purls,
there a grateful govemmenl would
hand hi in over the promised reward
f ten thousand llvres.
This notion, which gradually III
l rated Into the minds of the company,
did not lend to make Citizen Ijtuiet
any more impular; and when present
ly most of thai same company ad
journed to Leon's for refreshment,
there were some among the younget
men who wanted to know why the)
should not have their share In those
ten thousand llvres. The Scarlet Pim
pernel they argued with more enthu
slnsm than logic, hud been captured In
ihetr district The Iteseze fifmlly who
were In some wsy connected with the
capture were citizens of Molason; why
should not they, citizens of Molsson.
ton, finger a part ot the reward?
It was all wild and Illogical, and It
would have been Impossible for any
me to any definitely who wus the
prime mover In Ihe ensuing resolution
which, by the wuy, waa curried utuin
Ini-iiisly. that a deputation should set
nit forthwith for Mnntet tn Interview
Citizen lauzet and demand In the
Mine of Justice, and for tbe beueflt
,
of Molsaon. -some share In the money
prize granted by the government for
the capture of the Bcarlet Pimpernel.
Subsequently, both papii Sargon and I
drover from Alnrourt were held to be
chlclly to bliime, but as papa 8argon
properly remarked, neither he nor the
stranger from Alncourl stood to gain
anything by the wild goose chase, so
why should they have Instigated It?
Be that aa It muy, soon after mid
day meal, half score of young stal
wart! climbed Into Ihe curt of the
drover from Alncourt and Ihe party,
full of enthusiasm and of Leon's ei
cedent red wine, set out for Mantes
They had provided themselves with
miscellaneous collection of arms; thoet
who possessed guns brought them
along, then they borrowed a couple
of pistols from Leon and two more
from old Mltau, who had been a sol
dler In his dsy. Bonis of them had
sabers, others took sickles or acyibes
which might be useful ; one man hsd t
sow. another took a wood chopper
All these things would be useful should
there be a flghl over this affair, and
most of them hoped that there would
he a flgnt
The first disappointment came on sr
rival In Mantes. Here at the commis
sariat they were Informed that Cltlsra
Lauzet bad been gone these last two
hours, lie had ridden away In Ihe
company of his friend who had come
from Parla some two days previously.
The general Idea prevalent at the com
missariat was that the two men hsd
ridden away In the direction of Parla
The second disappointment a eorrol
lary of Ihe first, was that the dill
gence with prlsnnera and escort hsd
started on Its wsy less than ball an
hour ago. It seemed In truth aa U
the plot thickened. Lauzet and hla
friend from Parte gone, the diligence
gone I No one paused for a moment
to reflect how this could possibly mean
anything In the nature of a plot but
by thla time spirits were Inflamed
Unaccountably Inflamed. Every one
.was an poor these dnys: money was
u terribly hard to earn; work waa ae
grinding, remuneration so email, that
now that the Idea of the capture of
the English spy with Its attendant re
word bad seized hold of the Imagina
tion of these young hotheads, they
clung to It tenaciously, grimly, certain
that If they acted quickly and wisely
and If no one else got In Ihe wsy,
they would succeed In gaining the
golden prise. A competence I J bat
think on It I And with nothing to d
for II but an exciting adventure, And
here waa Lauzet Interfering) Snatch
Ing the prize for himself I Lauzet. who
already drew a large salary from the
state for very little work.
All thla nnd been talked over, sworn
wer. d I trussed, commented at great
length all the way between Molssoa
and Mantes, In Ihe rickety cart driven
by the drover from Alncourt. He wai
a wise men, that driver. Ills advice
waa both sound snd hold. "Why." hs
asked, pertinently, "should a man like
Citizen Lauzet get everything Iw
wants? I say It la because he has a
friend over In Paris who comes along
and helps him. Because he has money
end Influence. What? Waa there evet
anything seen quite so unjust? When
la ihe English spy, my friends? I ssk
you. lie Is In this district. Our die
trict And what I say la that whal'i
In our dial rid belongs to us. Itemem
ber, there's len thousand llvres wall
ing for every man who takes a han(
In the capture of the Bcarlet Pimper
nel, Ten thousand llvres I And Oil
ten Lauzet with that at ranger front
Paris, It even at this hour riding awat
wltb It In his pocket."
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
Eagy for Woman to
Find Parking Spact
' It was a busy corner and there wen
parking spa w for Just one car. J
gentleman espied Ihe space, counted H
hla own and proceeded to ease hli
car Into It Tn do thla he had,
seems, to back, turn, wheel, run for
ward, shift gears, and attack on Iht
right and left flanks.
While be wns going through thli
very elaborate maneuvering, a womat
driver arrived and cleanly ustirpet
the pnrklng space by the ahsurdlj
simple method of driving her automn
bile straight Into It without flour
Ishee or I rouble.
A moment or so psased and then thi
gentleman realized for all hla strata
gy the position waa lost "Hay. slstei
, ." he began, and he was sill
talking as the woman snapped tlx
door of lite car and gf 'oat In iln
crowd afoot. Baltimore Sun.
Thinks tbe Cat.
Ilumnns. thinks Ihe farm rat It
Farm. and Fireside, must annoy cowt
aa much aa they annoy us cuts.
There Is no more dnngerous sick
ness thun sudness. Auierlcun Mugs
sine.
High Praise Conveyed
in Three Short Words
Pr. Wllllum A. Muhlenberg, who
founded the Church of the Holy Com
muuieu In New York, la claimed by a
enrrespondont of Ilia Churchman to
be the author of the world's shortest
Sermon,
The occa-don was the burial service
for one of his trustees. He gave out
his text Mlcuh 6:8, which roads "He
bath shewed thee, Oh, limn, what Is
good; and what doth the Lord require
of thee, but to do Justly, and to love
mercy, and lo walk humbly with thy
God?" Ills sermon was, "He did thla''
Iteecntly The Churchman expressed
the belief that a sermon by a Cath
olic priest lu Toronto during the bot
went Iter this summer was the record
holder for brevity. That aermon, bow
ever, run to 100 words.
"Advertise, or Bust" Is
Slogan of Lord Dewar
Lord Pewur made a number of char
acteristic remarks on advertising re
cently, -heu he opened the seventh
annual exhibition of the London and
North-Eastern rullway's posters at Ihe
New Burlington gnllerles. "Samson,"
he declared, "got aome wonderful ad
vertlslng results when he look two
columns and certainly brought down
the house." "If you do not advertise
you fossilize, A man upon his trade
relies. He must either bust or adver
tise." Tbe prophet without honor It
one who doea not know how to ad
vertise." "Some people are alwsyt
looking for a new kind of mistake to
make." "Success Is merely a matter
of buying your experience cheap and
selling It at a profit." "We are gradu
ally and surely moving along to better
times. If we will say 'hats off to the
past and coats off to the future.' and
set up to It all will come right" '
Sse End ef Twtse Fly
Aa the result of experiments being
Conducted In the tsetse belt of Natal,
the Routh African government la hoe
ful that an effective aieana of combat
ing the ravsgea of the deadly tsetse
fly has been at Inst discovered. A
SHclal poison In powdered form has
been sprayed over donkeys. The tsetse
fly. when It alights on the animal,
absorbs the poison through Ita feet
and dies. Itcporta so far received
show that the experiments have been
successful, giving hope that one of
the worst plagues wltb which the
farmer of South Africa has to Con
tend la doomed.
Natural Feeatala
Seepage water from Irrigation en
ters a large pear tree at Brass Val
ley, Calif., and Issues under pressure
four feet up the trunk. The trunk
forks at that height and a crack In the
fork forms the vent for a tree foun
tain that Is attracting much notice.
W.U Try le R.aatJy That
"Theory and practice are very dif
ferent things," said the professor.
"Yea, Indeed," assented the medi
cal atudent "I pay for theory and In
tend to be paid for practice." 8lay
Stories,
Safety Move
After a while a man slops hoping
that people will pay what they owe
him and concentrates oo praying for
strength not In lend them any more
Ohio State Journal.
Semethiag Else
To yon honestly believe cigar ashes
are good for the ruga?" "Yea, but I
can't get my wife to believe It"
Vlrtae la Lesieass.
Patience Is sometimes only the vlr
tuous aspect of laziness. Rl Paso Her
Id.
Neae at All
Salesman "Thla machine will rut
your work In half." Customer "Let
me have two." Montreal Star, ,
La Ilaza la the first Kpiinlah lan
guage newapuier In Chicago, where
there are IS.', ooo Mexicans and Span
ish. A study of 020 feature motion pic
tures In this country lust yeur showed
that shout one third had no villain
snd no crime.
A woman Isn't necessarily smart
because she says things thai make
other people smart
The usual Judge of a benuty con
test Is the rich young bachelor who
serves as Ihe prize.
Use Bust Ball Blue In your laundry.
Tiny rust spots may come from Infe
rior Bluing. Ask Grocers. Adv.
All you need to make camping en
joyable la a tent, a, cot and the sub
traction of about 20 years.
It la a noble and a great thing to
cover the blemishes and excuse the
fallings of s friend. South.
New life for
old leather
nan. smooth color restored. Scufft conceaird UMCantly
Ths luatre of lather revived, jo wonderful shines
To ceni. uxors tar buck, brown, Un tod white sb
neutral eolith (or others.
aa Ja KvAaiM
I 3i
Tho Right Way to
Redye Fine Silks
Textile makers a!
ways use special
dyes for silk or wool.
They know that Is
the beat way. The
makers of Diamond
Dyes are the first to
enable home dyers to
follow this plan.
Next time you want to dye some
of your more valuable articles of
silk or wool, try the ;Wa( Din
niond Dyes in (As lllut I'uckogt,
They will give those materials
clearer, more brilliant colore than
any "all-purpose" dye. And they
are Just as easy to use aa ordinary
dyes. Like the whit 4 paekag Dia
mond Dyes, these dyes contain an
abundance ot the highest quality
anilines. The Mn packagt dyes
silk or wool only) the whit pock,
tig dyes, or tmfs, any material.
Either package) 15c, drugstores.
And Esrs
Pntron That barber down the
street has cut bis prices down to 40
cents for a haircut.
Burlier (after withering silence)
Yeah? Well, a good barber cute hair
and a poor ons cuts prices. Cincin
nati Enquirer,
Tttlnklag Vegetables
Even If vrgetuhle life does think, aa
s scientist claims, nothing really Im
portant can happen when a parsnip
and a carrot go Into conference.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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