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FABLED MOUNT ATHOS. H i No Female Allowed to Set Foot Upon It.?Hens and Cows Also Barred. ? Across the peninsula from the allies' fortified Balkan port of Saloniki lies fabled Mount Athos, today a hoh mount to the Christians, the dominant physical feature of the Chalcidian region; and here, where th ancient gods are nodding down upon fthe mushroom growth of a wonderful military camp in the old port city. is situated a saintly monastic community, peaceful, reflective, a religious republic through the DarkAges of the Balkans, begins a bulletin just issued by the National Geo"C" , graphic society, which tells of the Christian stronghold on Mount Athos ' that persisted in thriving for yeare within the boundaries of the Ottoi?; 'man empire. Legend makes the rugged mountain holy in the eyes of all near-eastern Christians, and, moreover, the same legend has to do with some oi the present-day discomforts of life fthere high above the blue Aegean, It is recorded that the Blessed Virgin rescued the son of the emperor Theodosius, from shipwreck, and brought him safely through the violent seas to the mountain foot. As they touched upon the shore, the sacred companion of the prince commanded: "Let no other woman's foot tread this soil after me." And eo it comes, that no female beings are allowed upon the holy mount. |k? The strict exclusion of all female c i creatures from the mount, however ? bas certain disadvantages. Thus, nc ipf fresh eggs may be had on Mount : Athos,1 and no milk, for the cow and ithe hen, under the ban of the legend y are kept from its area. It is a place of masculine independence and supremacy; a land "where all fowls are cocks; all sheep rams; all cats Toms; all housemaids men, and most men monks." The ascent of the holy mount, tc its realm of religious and masculine seelusion, is a toilsome one. Above the monasteries and. the hermit cells the culminating, colossal, conical peak of the mount breaks into the clouds. This peak is so majestic thai it is said to throw its evening shadow across distant Lemnos. Karyes, a city of quaint domes, set in groves ol hazel, is the capital of the commut nity, and, it was practically the capital of a monastic republic. % On the lower slopes, the olive, the cypress,, the lemon, and the orange form an outlying fringe of vegetation. The higher slopes are climbed by the oak, the beech, the chestnut aSiBd mantled by the fir. All manner of vegetables and fruits are grown in the monastery gardens; and the low, rambling buildings, accretive rather than planned, are picturesque, homey surroundings, within which tc Extras a way a uaim, reiiecuv? me. , Thq monks and hermits of Mount Athos have been named the Lotoseaters. Nature around them is beautiful and impressive, and their ways are sheltered and through plenty. On the other hand, some writers find the lot of life upon the holy mount anything but enviable. One says: "Nature and history have combined in making Mount Athos what it is?a . milk less, mirthless seat of superstitious meditation, where - sanctity is r hatched in sable-folded . idleness, . where the spirit slumbers rocked in the cradle of medieval faith. No breath of, scepticism wafted from the . outer world ever reaches these lotoi phagian retreats, no aspiration of tboss that agitate the purblind race of miserable men ever quickens the gl^v pnlse of these melancholy anchorS ittes." The monks of Mount Athos, however, have deserved well of the :?1world by preserving much of the wealth of old Greek culture to modl||r^ ern times. Athos swells the tipof the eastern Tttnct r\f tho throo P-haTniflian npriin. J.;- Wi V?V V??vv sulas. The mountain reaches a crest %i%y( 6,350 feet above the sea, and plunges ,-'i _ precipitously into the water. Monr'i , asteries were founded upon the P . * mount in the early middle ages, some say as early as the time of Constan tike. They preserved their independ\ ence under Moslem rule, even aftei assisting in a struggle for Greek independence, and, for centuries, the) were the centre of Greek learning. The peninsula, on which Athos is situated, is 40 miles long, and it is connected with the mainland by i neck hardly a mile and a half broad The way around the peninsula was i ' dangerous one for sailors,, and Xer xes, as part of his plan for invading Greece, ran a canal through th? nar / row neck, which can still be traced In classic times, there were severa cities* here. Now 6,000 monks housed in 20 monasteries, constitut the lire of Athos and its causeway t< ho mainland M Please Catch Me! The office running for the man, And let the judges time it; But though a tree Might refuge be, _ ~ _ 1 You never see him climb it. ?Frank Stanton in the Constitu-. 5 , tion. 4 * ' A QUININE FAMINE. t All Nations But Belligerents Short On Invaluable Drug.?It's History. If the European war continues much longer where are the people of the United States to get their usual surplus of quinine? At the breaking out of the war sulphate of q,uinine was selling at about 20 cents an ounce, wholesale. A year ago it sold for 40 cents; today it is selling for 'A on nnnpo Whcm it ic stntcwi " that during - the fiscal year ending " June 30, 1914, the last normal year prior to the war, the United States ' imported nearly 3,000,000 ounces of sulphate of quinine, then valued at 5 about $650,000, and over 3,648,000 ; pounds of chincona bark, valued at 5 $464,000, it may be seen what such a difference in price may mean to the country. How is the European war responsi" ble? Simply because Great Britain ' controls the chincona bark industry in he* possessions of India, Ceylon - and Jamaica, and Holland the prod uct of Java, and these are the sec* tions of the world which have been furnishing practically its supply of t quinine, in the form of chincona ' bark, for the last 30 or 35 years. } Great Britain is carefully husband ing the supply of this precious speci* fic for the use of her armies and } those of her allies, while the Dutch I must be depended upon to supply 5 those of the central powers. Armies in the field need a vastly larger sup' ply of quinine than would the same ? number of men in ordinary occupa> tions?hence a quinine famine for - the rest of the world. If the war I continues, not only will the price con? tinue to rise but the serious ques tion will be?where are we to get it at all? > Time was when certain countries > of South America, where the chintz cona trees originated, supplied the world, and the story of quinine and > how it was introduced into Europe is ' entertainingly told by Edward Albes J in the current number of the Bulle> tin of the Pan-American Union, I Washington, D. C., somewhat as fol' lows: t "Once upon a time?278 years ago, r to. be moi^e exact?in her viceroyal i castle in Lima, Peru, a lady lay ill of f a fever. She was the Countess Anna, wife of the fourth Count of Chin chon, who at the time was viceroy of Peru. News of the lady's illness havJ ing reached one Don Juan Lodez de - Cannizares, the Spanish Corregidor of Loxa, who dwelt some 230 miles I south of Quito, in what is now the > Republic of Equador, he despatched ' a parcel of a certain kind of powderl ed bark to her physician, Juan de ' Vega, with the assurance that it was ' a sovereign remedy and a never fail ing specific in cases of intermittent 1 fever. He knew this to be true both from experience and observation, for ' about 8 years prior to this event he ' had suffered from a severe attack of fever and had been cured by an old : Indian of Malacotas, who had thus revealed the remarkable properties 1 of this bark. Since then he- had ob' served its effects in many other cases ' ?so he knew whereof he spoke. The remedy was tried, and the countess was cured. The name given by the i aborigines to the tree on which 1 grew this wonderful bark was "quina' quina." "In 1640 the count of Chinchon re1 turned to Spain with his wife. She 1 took with her a quantity of the healing bark, and thus was the first person to introduce it into Europe. Sub1 sequently some of the Jesuit mission1 aries in Brazil sent parcels of the powdered bark to Rome, whence it ' was distributed by the Cardinal de 1 Lugo to other members of the fra f ternity throughout Europe. It was ' therefore often called "Jesuit's bark," and sometimes "Cardinal's bark. Something over a hundred years aftor tho nniintPRs nf Phinrhrm had in - troduced it into Spain, Linneaus, the ! great Swedish botanist, in making his remarkable classification of all ' known trees and plants, to commemo' rate the service rendered to mankind by that day, named the genus which yields the bark Chincona, and subsequently still futther immortalized the name by giving it to the great 7 family of trees and plants now known as the Chinchonaceae, which includes 3 not only the Chinchonae but also the 3 ipecacuanas and the coffees." 1 In their native habitat, in Peru, Ecquador, Bolivia, and Colombia, the 1 trees flourish in a cool and equable temperature, on the slopes and in the = valleys and ravines of the mountains, surrounded by the most majestic scenery, never descending below an elevation of 2,500, and ascending as high as 9,000 feet above the sea. e When in erood soil and under favor 3 able circumstances, they become large forest trees; on the higher elevations and when crowded and growing in rocky ground, they frequently run up to great heights without a branch, and at the upper limit of their zone they become mere shrubs. The leaves in the finest species are lanceolate, with a shining surface of green traversed by crimson veins, and petioles of the same color. The COLE YOUNGISH PASSES. ?s Last of Robber Rand Called to (ireat Judgment Bar. Cole Younger, famous outlaw of border days, died at Lees Summit, Mo., recently. . , Cole Younger was one of the last of the members of the notorious robber bands that infested western Missouri during and after the Civil war. [ He was a member of the Quantrell j band of guerrillas and with his two brothers took part with the "James boys" in bank and train robberies in Missouri and neighboring States that netted the looters more than a hundred thousand dollars. The leading members of these bands are dead, some at the hands of the law, some by suicide and others from natural causes. Younger after a long term in the penitentiary became a law abiding Missouri citizen. I Cole was the oldest, of the three "Younger boys." The father, Col. Harry W. Younger, came to Missouri from Kentucky before the war. He was a strong Union man, though a slaveholder. He settled near Lees Summit, 20 miles from Kansas City, where Cole was born in 1844. Colonel Younger was murdered by one of the bands of lawless guerrillas that infested the Missouri-Kansas border in war times. The sons said their father was slain by Kansans for the purpose of robbery. They immediately took up arms against the north. They joined Quantrell's guerillas and had their part in the memorable sacking of Lawrence, Kansas. When the war was over they and the Jameses became outlaws. Among the notorious robberies of the decade following the war that were laid at their door were: The raid on the Liberty. Mo., bank I in 1866. One bank defender was shot dead and $72,000 stolen. I The looting of a Russellville, Ky., bank in 1868 for $17,000. The Gallatin, Mo., bank robbery of 1868 in which the cashier was shot and killed. Raids of Lexington and Savannah, Mo., banks in 1867. Ten thousand dollars stolen from the Kansas City fair association in 1871, while 1,000 persons looked on. * The Corydon, La., bank robbed of $40,000. A dozen other sensational robberies for which the Younger and James boys were blamed were carried out successfully before the three Younger brothers yere captured in Minnesota after a raid on a bank at Northfield, Minnesota, in 1876, in the course of which Cashier Haywood was killed. The Youngers were shot many times in battles with a posse but finally were taken alive after a battle at Shieldsville, Minn. Cole and his brothers pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison for life. They entered the penitentiary at Stillwater, Minn., and. became model prisoners. Bob died in the penitentiary in 1889. Cole and James Younger were paroled in 1901. The next year James shot himself, having a note ascribing his action to a refusal of the parole board to permit him to marry the girl he loved. After Cole was paroled he was forced by a Minnesota law to live in that State for three years. Then he returned to Missouri and settled down in a vine covered cottage which he bought in Lees Summit, the scene of his boyHood days. For a time he was connected with a show and later went on the lecture platform, and became a good citizen. In Augilst, 1913, Younger was converted to religion at a revival meeting and became an active church worker. "I've lived an adventurous, turbu1 i ?? ' "T Vi ^ nroK o-ll + itjjll 111C, HC fidlU. x lie n ai ui on hate and strife and killing around here. I have been blamed for a lot of it of which I had nothing to do. They murdered my father and I was launched into a life of shooting and reprisals and rough riding, winding up with 25 years in the penitentiary. I was brought up in a Christian home. Now I'm an old man and I've come by God's mercy back to the place of my childhood to end my days." flowers are small and hang in clustering panicles, like lilacs, generally of a deep roseate color, paler near the stalk, dark crimson within the tube, with curly hairs bordering the laciniae of the corolla, and give forth a delicious fragrance. About 55 years ago Sir Clements Markham, the English scientist and traveler, succeeded in securing a quantity of seeds and plants of the various valuable species of the chin'>lmn<inooQ whioli wpra takfn tn T n - vJUV/lia^VU^t ?? iliVA! ? V v vv% w V V - ? dia for the purpose of starting chincona plantations. Marked success followed the experiment, and subsequently plantations were started in Ceylon and Jamaica. The Dutch were successful in their efforts in Java. The plantation product drove out the forest product from the world's market?and the world has depended upon these countries to supply it. Read The Herald, $1.50 per year. \ ? 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