Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1902-06-19

inscription which was above the door
way to the Jewish synagogue Of Cor
inth, doubtless the very synagogue
where Paul disputed daily and from
which he went out to earn his living
by tent-making. On Mars Hill at
Athens Paul delivered his mastery
sermon to the very religious Athenians
who then as now, we're full Of curiosi-
ty. No postal card goes through !.
Greeks hands unread and the dining
room waiter invariably examines ones
hat and ones overcoat pockets, not
for purpose Of theft but merely for
information.
Coming back to Corlnth it may well
be said that If there was no Other
reason for visiting it there would be
sufficient inducement in the view that
is obtained. 1t was a rare day when
the Missourians were permitted to put
the picture upon the gallery of their
memory. Below were the fields of
Greece, green patches or brown; be-
yond, the pebbly beach, the deep blue
Of the Bay Of Corinth, the mountains
yet beyond, Parnassus with Its broad
crown of snow and the bald, black
crags which oyerhang Delphi just
beneath. There may be other colors
SO rich, other afternoons so glorious
in beauty of land and sea and sky, but
they are seldom found. The scribe re-
calls but one-a sunset upon Puget
Sound, the many colored fishing boats,
the blue Of the Sound, the deeper blue
of the distant Pacific, and Mount
Rainer, In tall white hat, a giant
sentinel on guard beside the scene Of
golden glory. The Father might have
made this globe a dark and dingy
place, with sky all brass and the
earth's surface a desert Of monotony,
Instead He fills each day with beauty
and hangs before the eyes Of His
children panoramas of loviness which
no human artist can begin to initiate,
| And yet we walk our paths seeing but
the clods along the highway which we
call Life and turn our eyes not up
ward, outward or beyond,
sALUTING FLAGS AND FUNERALS.
The Greeks have two customs which
may well BE copied. When the blue
and-white dag Of their nation is borne
through the streets, every hat comes
of in salute to 1t. When a funera
procession passes the same salute Ii
given. There is a wholesome senti
ment, a proper reverence, underlying
this outward expression. The Greel
is the most beautiful banner in thi
1 world, excepting only Old Glory. 1
was fine spectacle, stirring one'
blood, when a tiny detachment o
soldiers bore il across the Place de Il
Constitution and the great companiei
OF people seated In front Of the cafe
rose as one man, and lifted their hat
to the colors.
The funeral professions through th'
streets have custom not so worth!
Of adoption. Instead Of bearing th,
corpse in a closed coffin in hearse, 4
is borne upon a litter or in an oper
lhearse in full view of all. The frs
funeral we saw was that OF small
child. The body, surrounded b.
flowers, was carried at the head Of thu
procession and appeared rather wal
figure than an actual corpse. The
same uncanny fashion is pursued witt
all. The coffin Is carried through th,
streets without the dead and at th'
lefty gate the procession stops and TIN
corpse, which until then has been ex
pused, is placed within the coffin ant
the procession moves to the cemetery
and the Interment takes place. Thl.
strange custom is a survival OF tho
Turkish occupation OF Greece. The
shrewd Athenians, not permitted t
escape from the city, adopted the
scheme OF carrying out through thu
gates living men placed for the time
in collins and, after the Turkish guard
was passed, opening the cotin and per
mltting the occupants to escape. Tho
Turks discoverlng.the fraud, decreed
that no body should be placed in :
coffin until II vas without the city
wall. In this manner it could b
readily discovered whether the 50
called corpse was alive or dead.
The Turkish occupation OF Greece
has left two other customs as relics
and reminders Every one who is any
one drinks Turkish coffee while
Throughout Greece one hears tas
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