Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-24

Ildu cll the WrclcHGu lSIdu ltScl, ldli- i-ltliSii-
cd wretches began to crawl out OF holes and
thickets and bitches, where they had hidden
themselves They saw the charred aud Smoul-
dering remnants of what had been Scio; but
they abode not by them. In an agony Of fear,
lest the murderers should return, they made
the best of their way across the seas to the
other islands-to the inaccessible haunts on
the main land Those who had the means took
refuge on the French and italian shores Of the
Mediterranean
There is a sultry city which, if you were
minded to 60 to it over land, you could have
reached in those days by diligence, as you can
reach it in these by commodious railway from
Paris but to attain which by sea you must
cross the stormy Bay of Biscay and, pass the
rocky Straits of Gibraltar, and coast along the
tideless sea in sight of the coast of Africa
To this great mart of Southern commerce, with
its deep blue sky, its slack-baked houses, its
orange trees, black-eyed, brown-skinned chill
dren, and crowded port, where floats the strain
gest medley of ships, and on the quays of which
walk the most astonishing variety of costumes
that ever you saw-to the city of MarSeiles
in France, came many OF those refugee Greeks,
some from Scio, some from the Morea, some
from Gambia, many from the Fanal of Fanar
of Constantinople-wh had also had its
massacre-some from the interior of AnatoIia
and Roumelta. There were Greek gentlemen
and their families, who could never congratu
late themselves sufficiently on having saved
their heads and their piaStreS there were mer-
chants quite stripped and bankrupt, who never
thelesS the true Grccian manner, began afrcsh,
trading and making money with admirable as
siduity, and perseverance And above all there
were poor rayahs, who had been caik -ees, cof
fce-house walters portefaix, at home who had
lost their little ALL and had nothing but their
manual labor to depend upon, and who were
glad TO carry burdens, and run messages, and
help to load and unload the ships iii the port
of Marseilles
Among those was one Demetri Omogres.-
None knew much about his save that he was
a SciOte, and had escaped after the massacre
that he was quite alone, and very poor. He
was fortunate enough to possess a somewhat
rare accomplishment, which made his earnings,
although precariOus, considerable more remu-
neratiye than those of his feow-countrymen oc
cupying the station to which he appeared to
belong. Demotri Omeros was a most expert
swimmer and diver Had Demetri Omeros
lived in our days he would have been profes-
sor to a certainty; the walls have been cover
ed with posting bill and wood cuts portraying
his achievements; and he would have had
convenient exhibition room and sliding scale
of prices for his entertainment In eighteen
twcnty-three he contented himself with all eX-
hibition of his talents in the open port of Mar
SeilleS, and was satisfied with the stray francs,
half francs, copper sous and lizards flung 10 him
when lie emerged from the water all soaked
and dripping like a Newfoundland dog. He
thus managed to lead a sufficiently easy, loung-
ing, idle life =; splashng, swimming and diving
sometimes for sheer amusement at others.
basking in the genial sun with such profound
iudolence that had you not known him to be
Sciote, you would have taken him for gcnu-
inc lazzarone of the Quai Santa Lucia. De
mctri was some thirty years old, tall, magniii
Gently proportioned, with a bronzcd cOunte
nance, wayy black hair and sparkling black
eyes His attire was exceedingly simple, be-
ing ordinarily limited TO shirt, red-and white
striped trowSers, secured around the waist by
a SiIkcn sash, and a small Greek tarboEch on
his head ornamcnteG with tarnishcd gold
taSSel Shoes and stockings he despiscd as eff
Terminate luxurics. He was perfectly contented
with his modest fare of grapes, melons, brown
bread, garlic and sour wine. House rent cost
him nothing, as one of the Greek merchants
settled at Marseilles allowed him to sleep in
his warehouse, like species of WATCHDOG
" hen the weather was fine, he swan and div
ed and dried himself in the sun: when it was
foul, he coed himself into ball and went to
sleep
In the year 1924 it occurred to the Turkish
government considerably to strengthen their
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Constantinople then, as there is now but the
0ttomans did not know much about ship-build-
ing. and i'm the absence of any material guar
antee for the safety of their heads, European
artists were rather chary of ensting in the
service Of the Padishah. So. as the shipwrichts
wouldn't 60 10 Sultan Mahmoud, Sultan Nah
moud condcscended to go the shipwrightS: that
is TO say. he sent an EfTenii attached to the
department of Marine to MarseiIcs, with full
powers 10 have constructed four frigdtcS by
the ShiphuildcrS Of that port As the French
government had not begun TO interest Itself
one way or another in the eastern question. and
as the shiphuilders Of Marseilics did not care
one copper centime whether the Turks beat
the Greeks, or the Greeks the Turks, and more
than all this, as the Effcndi from StanIoul
had carte-blanche in the money department,
aud paid for each frigate in advance, they set
about building the four frigates with haSty
good will, and by the spring Of 1925 two of
them were ready for launching
II was observed By the french wolkmcn that
Dcmctrius the Diver arpeersi 10 take very
great interest in the process OF ship building
Day after day he would come into the slip
where the friSateS where being constructed
and sitting up on a pile of planks, would re-
main there for hours Othcr+@Grocks would
come occasionally, and launch forth into fierce
invectivcs against the Turks, and against the
French too, for lending their hands to the con
struction of ships which were TO be employed
against the Christians. In these TRADES De
metrius the Diver seldom, if ever, joined He
was man of few words, and he sat upon the
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