Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-05-05


peror arose to take his departure. with
n gracious impulse he told the old
rynic that he would grant him any
avor that he desired to ask Dio-
4 ssnes locked up with twinkle in his
we, and requested him to get out of
his light.
D.oscnes died from the bite OF a
'os. and his last request to the neigh
hors was that they throw his body
I nto the alley for the dogs to eat. but
-hey refused TO do so. and gave him
J noble funeral and erected a monu-
meat in mis- honor. upon which was
arved the figure OF dog-the sym
Dol of his life.
A little village of fifty or sixty
/ houses. with a store or two. post
1 office ani cafe, occupies the site of
the old city. All the houses and the
lands about have been purchased by
the American Institute of Archaeo-
logy, OF which Professor Thomas Day
/ Seymour OF Yale University is the
president, and in which Charles l..
| Hutchinson, Martin A. Ryerson,
Franklin MacVeagh and several other
] NlllNdEO Dtpplt are lnelf
representatives here from the Ameri-
can school of classical studies at Ath-
ems have been engaged for several
years in making excavations, and have
/ laid bare a considerable portion of
Old Corinth. including the Forum. the
market place, the temple of justice
two fountains, baths hewn in the solid
rock. and several dwellings and build
tngs that were occupied for business.
The work is being extended gradual
ly as fast as the limited funds of the
society will allow. and the disclosures
are of the greatest interest and impor-
tance to historians and students.
1t will be continued until all the i'm
portant ruins are disclosed. | can
not spare the time or space to give
the details of the discoveries, but
those who desire specific information
can obtain it by application to the
officers.
Near by. upon a convenient road
way, warehouse has been erected to
preserve the statues. the inscriptions
and other small articles of interest
that are found in the excavations.
Unfortunately the laws of Greece
prohibit the expectation of these relics
The government is very strict about
such matters. No excavations can
he made without permit from the
authorities, who designate an inspec-
tor to supervise them and he keeps a
careful watch upon all that is done
Everything must go to the museum
at Athens unless the owner of the
property is willing to erect a building
for the public exhibition of whatever
he may find upon the ground. In
this wav some of the old cities and
the little towns of Greece have Sc
cured local museums which possess
a certain advantage in enabling stu
dents to study archaeology upon the
Ground. but this scarcely offsets many
disadvantages. in that most of them
are difficult of access. The most i'm
portant articles discovered at Corinth
have been sent by the American So
ciety to the National Museum at Ath-
ems
At a shop in the village a few frag-
ments of Indifferent value from the
excavations are for sale. and they are
no doubt genuine. Bogus antiquities
are manufactured in large quantities
in France and Italy, but the Grecians
have not yet descended to that There
is no necessity Although the Ro-
mans carried away from Greece the
choicest works of art to embellish
their palaces and temples, and van
1als have been following their ex-
ample ever since the earth is still
fun of marble pottery and bronzes.
which are being uncovered daily.
But most of the work is done by for
eigners. The Greek government is
so poor that it can afford to do but
little. and the citizens have other uses
for their money.
Near the excavations. in front of
low adobe hut, sat an aged man in
the native costume smoking his pipe
and rocking the cradle of a child.
He might have posed for a portrait
of Diogenes
In the center of the village is an
enormous tree which shades a tri-
angular market place. Several men
We're slipping coffee at little tables
and babbling children were playing
around them who evidently did not
realize the historical sancity of their
surroundings.
Old Corinth has just as much in
rerest for religious people as for arch
aeologists and historians, for it is so
closely associated with the mission
ary work of St. Paul. In the year
81, in company with Luke the Evan
eelist. he visited Macedonia-where
Miss Stone was captured by brigands.
At Philippi he was scourged impris-
oned and put in the stocks. There
was an earthquake while he was in
prison and he converted the jailer.
Having frightened the officials by tell
| ing them that he was a Roman. they
permitted him to depart, and he sail
/ ed to Athens, where he preached an
eloquent sermon from Mars Hill.
! Then he came to Corinth, lodged at
the house of Gaius. where he found
| Aquila and Priscilla, and there Silas
and Timotheus joined him. He lived
at Corinth a year and half, and
there wrote his first epistle to the
| Thessalonians. which he sent by the
hand of Timotheus. He was then
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