The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 20, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
FABLED MOUNT ATHOS.
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No Female Allowed to Set Foot Upon
It.?Hens and Cows Also Barred.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 -
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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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