The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-31
TO THE PROMISED LAND.
(Continued from Ninth Page.)


 hills about four miles from the city.
 We foolishly selected guide from the
 street. After engaging him he told us
 we had better leave our watches and
 yaluables in the city, as there was q
 band of robbers near the tomb. My
 friend needed the caution and left all of ' his valuables in trust until his return
 I laughed at the idea of robbers in
 broad daylight and took all my treas
 ures, which amounted in all to about < five dollars, with me- l had yet to
 learn that American customs are of \ little value to the traveller in the east
 Mt. Pargos was a long, hot climb
 but with the aid of our guide the as-
 cent was made at last We saw three
 queer looking men about half mile s
 distance away, but their presence
 caused no alarm. We came at length
 to the tomb of the famous martyr Po-
 lyCarp, which is located in the center
 of the amphitheater in which it is said
 that he suffered martyrdOm. The de- scent into the grave was very steep. l
 said to Father O'Hearn, "Let us go down into the tomb" The guide pro
 tested:l "Oh, no bad men down there. :"
 tAOuSllI llC W do U lllS u II isoiilNh t'7' and said, What do we care for the
 bad men?" I jumped into the sepul- gschre. followed by the priest, when sud-
 denly my ear caught the sound of foot
 steps running rapidly. Turning l found our retreat cut off by wild Arab < .brigand armed to the teeth, threaten ling our lives if we made any effort to escape sprang up the embankment v and faced the outlaw, determined to
 defend myself with the only weapons
 which nature had given me and the
 only arm had with me- if he attempt x ed to carry out his threat. Father
 O,Hearn sprang to my assistance, and x as we stood there' covering the Arab two more fierce brigands were seen X coming toward us on run to the aid Of the first. Our guide showed the white Z feather, and after standing for mo-
 ment quaking with fear, turned and ran a up the street incline over the brow of 8sthe hill with somewhat the gait of a
 running camel. Father OHearn drew < his knife and said, T am going to use Eslny knife,' looked for stone, as S,1ad no weapon with inc. We thought,
 However, now that our guide had left \ us, "discretion now seemed to be the better part of valor," so fe sprnted af- SSter our leader, followed by the three
 Arab brigands, who came yelling and x screaming after us. Our early training athletics came to our aid and we lsucceeded in outrunning our pursuers, x and passing over the brow of the hill, ssthey gave up the chase. We returned x down the mountain side in an unfre- E uuented path unused by travellers ordi- Esnarily. Upon reaching the citys we slearned there that the story our guide \ had told us was no idle tale. and we were quite sure that our experience was no cunningly devised fable. We learned that the tomb of ,Polycarp had < been for some time the resort of band Of brigands from the island of Crete, Nand that several travellers had been robbed by this robber band. An alarm iEhad been given in the city because of AfUlr delay in returning and searching -4aarty was about to be organized to lssearch for us when we appeared with kout the loss of life or our possessions.
 Prom that time on in our tour through the land of the Turk we had always
 with us a mounted guard
 Chapter VI.
 'TURKEY AND THE TURKS"
 On the whole we were not sorry to
 leave Smyrna. We bade farewell to
 that tropical city, the land of figs, < grapes, pomegranates and brigands X Without regret. After day or two of
 calm sailing we steamed through the X Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles to BConstantinople, the capital of Turkey, great city of million inhabitants; it is
 beautiful for situation, being located Ion six hills, along the shores of the
 Golden Horn, Bosporus and Sea of X Marmora, and is composed of three Tcfief sities-Stamboul the site of the ancient city, and Para and Galata, of soir mode modern times. These are lEioined by bridge across the Golden
 Horn. On this bridge it is estimated that one hundred thousand people cross
 daily, paying ten paras for the privi- ! lege of walking over it, and after we consider the stream of humanity con- .tinually crossing and recrossing the bridge, we should think this to be
 conservative estimate.
 X In Constantinople we had our first
 axperience with the officialism which lconfronts you in a great many places iin Europe and in the Orient. Our pass ports were taken from us by the Turk ! ish officials and twenty-five piasters were extorted from us before they were returned. Upon entering the city one asof the first things that attracts the at
 tention of stranger are the dogs. sf1rhey are here by the thousands; they
 are wild dogs; they do not belong to anybody. No one claims them, yet all
 defend them. They are called the city ,sboard of health. There were little
 dogs and big dogs, sick dogs and well dogs, dogs with ears and dogs without them. dogs without tails, dogs with
 broken legs, with mauled and bleeding heads; it was without exception the X s"doggonest' city we had ever seen
 Constantinople has two hundred and
 thirty mosques. We visited number of, the most famous. The oldest and
 largest is the Mosque of St. Sophia
 first built by Constantine the Great as
 a Christian church in A. D. 326, and by
 him, named St. Sophia. It has been several times destroyed by fire, but each time it has been rebuilt in greater
 splendor The present structure was built by Justinian in an effort to eclipse