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The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1904-09-02

FOR SAEE-Gupd house and ~,
ON East nypn, tryi. House con.
sisi, u four ppm-, pantry, hall,
vcmnda and luck pnrh. Then
an, plenty II out houses; lol SOx
30 fc,. Gccd well and cis,cm.
viii I'll alnyc and also include
iiyc building lots a, a bargain.
]. ;. BpAsWEii,
saw. Marion, ny.
Don't fail 10 look At the Cha,ia'
ncoa Disc Plow at CSuRAS 4
pWEENs.
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1904-09-02
WILL RETURN !!
OR. C. |. GRAY. oPrHALsoloelsT.

Will pium to Marion. on his
way hack Ia raducah. sept. 18th
and pmain Que wcck only this trip.
80 him alout your eyes when he
con,Cs, a. he will no, ~ this way
again for several months. Otlicc At
New Marion Hotel. Examination
and TESTING FRYE.
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1904-09-02

Chas. Moore is able to be up
after several weeks illness.
Mrs. Kittie White left Tuesday
TO spend few days at Dawson.
II. G. Parr, Of Kelsey, is spend
inga few days at Crittendcn Springs.
Best lunch counter in the city.
NJ. GOPHER.
DR.. J. J.. Reynolds, Of Blackboard,
was called to Marion Saturday on
business.
Hugh Conway, of Morganheld,
visited Rev. T. A. Conway the first
of the week.
Mrs. b. A. Conway, of Morgan
field, visited her son, Rev. 7. 4.
Conway this week.
There is no use talking, GOPHER
can feed you everything you want
at his lunch counter.
Misses Fannie and Bessie Woods
left Thursday to visit their uncle,
Frank Woods, Of Eddyyille
Miss Nichols, Of Bardwcll, who
has been the guest Of Mrs. c. j.
Black, returned home Thursday,
G. II. Bush, Of Smithland, ar
rived in the city Monday to super.
intend the weighing Of the Stevens
fire clay.
]. ". Lamb and VIM. j. Dcboc
went To- Sullivan to see about build
ing q switch 10 their coal mines
near there.
viii Adams went to Louisville
Tuesday 10 purchase the fall stock
Of fertilizer. for Adams Bros, Of
Cmyncyillc.
Mr.. Sue T.. Lowe, who has been
visiting her son, kom. Fisk, for
several weeks, ha- returned To
jacksonville.
Miss Maudc Dodds. Of Cridcr,
who has bccn the guest Of Miss
Mabel Guess for two week., has re-
turned home.
Mr.. !. II Walker and children
returned home Saturday from Ed
dyvillc where they had bccu visit
ing relatives.
Mr. Florence Ewing, of Prince
ton, Was IN the city Wednesday To
secure o placr To put in % stock 4
millinery p.od..
" o. Hayden, Il. q. Gm,,ham,
%. I. l"wyry, ! l.. Lowcry and
\. II Walker registered at the New
Marion sunday.
i, Is quite within the prolulil-
itic- that Mr. and Mr. Gcugc +.
Rol-ri. will make their future
home bon Golcundp. I'M
Nil. laura Hurley left iur Louis
ullc Tuesday. where she will H. IN
the Wholesale millinery houses iur
a while tu study the latest Style.
Mi. Ruth Thompson returned
humr saturday after visiting MIR
l.. T. ,ridcr ior lew iny, IL,
will enter Marion graded school.
Mr.. C,u. :. William. accumIu
med hy Master Tom and little Mis-
d Rvua. visited relatives at Calycr
3 Ciiy ium saturday a. Tuesday.
{ Nil. haui, William. riumo
saturday fum Admission, Me-.
where She va. the guest 1T be-
. aunt, Mn liu Curry, formerly a.
: this state.
W y. Blue. ut Kelsey, yuwut
humr from thy state SUNDAY Syhuu
10 tuuuulim JJ Henderson, va, ih
b guest of hi- .uu, kuwyy, two u
thru day,
70 Mn lbiiiy HALEY and som, "
u. HiI,y, and Mr. Maggie bailey
ut salisbury, Tenn. ptuuv
home Tuesday after Spending ihp
vyrk. here visiting phii,r.
Glove Wolfe. Formerly ui salem
n after spending week. with hi. pl
20 ,ut. ai that pAu', piUuul iby ir
r ui iUr vvk Co. lInl. when ID, vt
b. "a. uuryl u tll drug m.iuy..
" Mr. Silli, Jl,mut. vt Euiav.
after visiting h,r daughters, Mn
.r Z. ! Nm-vuHh. ut ihi. pho.. lu
Mr. nm Melton. ui rp,hl,uu
piumvl hDmy Tuesday l,ou
panied ly Der mnihrr Mr. Ann
Mcconnell, ul near shady Gwvy.
s.. Mr. RDl r1ul-r. mmyr
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1904-09-02

You can buy big lunch at
CoPHER's for 10 or 10 cents.
Tom Cameron returned from the
Worlds Fair Saturday night.
j. p. Roney, Of Salem, returned
srom the Worlds Fair Sunday.
Miss Willie Croft returned from
the Worlds Fair Saturday night
Wilbur Haynes and Maurie Num-
left Tuesday to attend the Worlds
Fair.
DO not get hungry, but call and
get all you can eat at Corners
lunch counter.
Miss Ruby James returned from
Dawson Sunday, where she has
spent the summer.
Mrs. Kit Mum, Of Sullivan,
arrived Monday to he the guest Of
her son, RObt. Num-.
JnO Fritts returned Saturday
from Tennessee, where he has been
visiting relatives some time.
Mr. and Mn. +. G.. Cox and
son, Virgil, returned from the
Worlds Fair Saturday night.
Luther Farmer, Of Owcnsboro, Is
visiting relatives here aud attend
ing the Hurricane nmp.mccting
Frcdonia nuor aud bran at New
Feed Store NJ. O. E-EEw SIT
Jim Willon, who has hccn here
some time visiting relatives, r..
turned To- his home nj Evansville,
l. 7 Saturday.
Jno. W Sligcr aud daughter,
Mamie, late Of this county, hut
nov II Missouri, arr attending the
Hurricane camp-mcciing
Mi-. MARY smith, u Clinton, j.
attending the Hurricane camp
meeting. which T. lciug conducted
10y her father. j ] Smith.
Mr.. " u. lamb, accompanied
hy Der daughter. Nida, "f Glad
stone, visited her parents, Mr. and
Mr. " II Asher Saturday
Alex Gu,--, Juo. Tucker, Dick
Tudor aud several othcr- of the
Shady Grove vicinity sprut several
day- last week fishing IN the Ohio.
Mr.. ] T.. Rochester returned
Monday from Henderson, where
-hc attended the State SUNDAY
S,hopl Convention and visited rcla-
tive.
e. !. lllury lrn Tuesday fer
Guoy tp l"uk after thr mining iu.
t,rc.t. II the Tug Count, Lad,
Zine Il Flupr spar Company near
that plau
Mi. Fl,ia lamr-. It Salem,
returned TUESDAY ium - Louis
vhrr, -hr attended %, Wurld {.
Fair ,ul luught her .tu,k II mll
millinery
Mn ! u Hubbard ami dlugh-
u,r. N.mj., aud NJ. aul Mr.
" e. Camahau. and nuuiy Huh
larl returned iwm The World s
Fair sunday
e. u Murphy uud .nu, llrrl.rt,
Vhu ar, thr guest. ut friends herr,
ptumyl irm lhy Worlds Fan
Monday Nr Murphy p-idc. nl
\mulh, T,Na.
Euu at New fvd ~iur ~ It,
pr huuiri VI 90 E-NrW 81
MI. ~ilhy CrIl,r l,n Tuy.,la,
/ mr tbr World. Fair Nil,r-pud
ug i,V DAYS ihyr .hy will ~ Il
Marmll. Mo, vh,r -hr will u
tIt guest Vt hyr brother. Melton.
IuH Clark. ui Weston, W..
pheasant caller "Wednesday II,
i,. tI, rud. ui hi. stiiw vt th,
, euui, m,, levin Worked veil, lu
iIut vrium rad- l,tWvu tm
p'tu uuj Marion uutl attention.
Mr. puum lul Ni-c Elu
N-r. EIh Ny\uN aul lrW
puF,u rum.l im lwui.ull'
u SUNDAY. Mr. lave. Uhu au,ml
wu.rl ihym ur,r. having uiuuv
d tv day. pD,iUu..
a Eighty arr. ct duc huum
III Iri 600 piuy Jutk. Is 10 mills
atui Marion, aml -'m, ,liui'
LnIIur hi. Boz Marion ur -I'u
q so 3D.. tiNus, VI. u.
~ Mr. suJ Nr D. W Giwu.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-07

there is a worse road still, which seems
to be even more of a favorite with the
true Bosnian. 1t is the Kaldermas.
The Kaldermas is a road that was
originally a mere path over fields. In
moment of ambition, long ago, the
Bosnians improved these trails by
throwing stones into them. AS no at
tempt was made to make a foundation,
the Kaldermas is a terror today
There isn't a town Of any size in
Bosnia that does not boast of ap-
proaches of this kind, and the weary
traveller, when he sights a town,
knows that his troubles have only be-
gun, for the Kaldermas goes over rock
and swamp.
The fact is that the Bosnian, al
though he has settled down to being
a European and an Austrian, is a Turk
at heart. Today Bosnia and Herze-
govina together have 235 elementary
European schools and S54 lower Mo-
hammedan schools.
The Bosnian still loves some of the
Turkish ways. though he fought the
Turk all the time. He prefers even
now to take his disputes to a learned
Turk rather than to European
Judge; and it is on record that Bos-
MAN, Croatian and Dalmatian Chris
tians have taken their law cases to
Turkish kadis on Turkish territory
over and over again in recent years.
They like the Oriental method
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which permits them to carry on their
own case and to fight 1t out before the
judge in person. They like too, his
method of judging. 1t is within their
understanding.
One of the funny Bosnian stories Is
about case of just this kind. Two
sisters and a brother had been sup
porting their old father until they
grew weary of him and decided TO
throw him out.
The wise old gentleman discovered
the plan in time He hurried to a
friend and borrowed a bag of gold.
With this he repaired to his room
where he began to count it, taking ex-
cellent care to make the pieces clink
loudly
The loving" children peered
through a crack and saw the hoard.
Immediately they began to rival each
other in attentions, and the foxy old
daddy lived in clover till he died
AS soon as he had passed, the chill
dren hunted for his hoard and pres
emily found a great earthen jar sealed
and extremely heavy. Forthwith they
bore it to a kadi. told him the story
and besought him to make the di-
vision.
The kadi was a foxy old gentleman
himself. He ordered his servant to
suspend the jar from the ceiling with
a string. Then he loosened his turban
and opened it on his head as far as
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heard of no more. He'd ha' been all
right if he'd on'y knowed in the first
place t he belonged in the mule class
an hadn't entered hisself against
thOroughbreds."
The old man paused and carefully
relighting his cigar, which had gone out
while he talked, he smoked in silence
for while. Presently Jake Winter
bottom spoke:
You was sayin' this was before the
war, wasn't your" he said.
Yes said Greenhut, looking at him
sternly.
Il played right smart on the boats
myself befo' the war" remarked Win
terbottom in quite casual fashion,
as if the fact was not expected to in
terest anybody.
You did, hey" said Greenhut, very
sarcastically. well, all I've got to say
is that man that's played poker nigh
onto fifty year, an pertends to play up
to the -"
can don't seem to remember" con-
tfnued Winterbottom, as IL the other
were not speaking, II don't seem to re-
member no table stake games in them
days. We played a limit game some
times, but when there weren't no limit,
man didn't get no showdown privi-
lege, 'thouten he put up his last cent.
An these here mules you're talkin'
about didn't get no chance to buy more
chips in the same game"
Old man Greenhut gIared in amaze
ment. Then he grew purple, and
choked. 1t seemed for some moments
as If he might have a fit, but after sew
eraI efforts he controlled himself suffi-
GENTLY to speak.
II reckon I was wrong" he said. 81
had in mind some o. them strange crit
ters that lives long lives imposin' on
others. They holds themselves up as
poker players, an pertends to be Ar
kansas City players at that, an they
sets in with yaps FIN some where up
the river an loses good money. Likely
/ didn't ought to We called 'em mules.
Pears to me. now think on it, they
must be full -blooded jackasses."
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he could, and stood Immediately under
the treasure.
Now" said he, group yourselves
around me. Then my servant shall
thwack the jar with club and each
one shall have all the gold that falls
on him or her"
The servant thwacked the Jar as orr
dered, and out fell a great stone di--
Tectly on top of the kadi's head.
The Bosnian's idea of a woman ia
Turkish, too. Fear thy husband, oh,
woman" is part of the priests for
mula at Christian weddings; and thu
bridegroom then treads hard on his
brides foot to impress it on her.
In true Oriental fashion, the wooing
in many districts is begun by bidding
money for the girl. Often the nego-
tiatiOns become spirited enough to
make bidding feyerish. Unlike Tur-
key, however, the Bosnian father gives
the sum realized by him for his daugh-
ter to her when she is married
After she is married, the Bosnian
woman settles down to work. She ex-
poets nothing else. Her time Of fun
passed with her girlhOod and she would
be shocked by a suggestion that wife
need not necessarily be a laborer.
only the man who beats her some
times, loves his wife truely,' is a Bal
kan proverb of much popularity.
Copyrighted, 1904, by T. G. McCIure)
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way of explain t Jim Peters was all
right where he came from.
His pa had right smart o. land an
owned some few niggers, this bein'
befo' the war, an Jim stood to get the
whole on it alter a while, him bein'
the only son. Eff Jim Peters had stayed
in his app'inted place where the Lord
horned him. an among the people t
knowed him an knowed what he RELY
were, likely he'd ha' been rich an re-
spected all his days, but he didn't know
he were a mule.
zone time he took a trip down the
Mississippi. I don't rightly know how
1t happened, for them OZarkers amt
particular strong on travelin', but
whether twas pleasure, anyway, he
went, an o course he got into a game
O poker the first day he were on the
boat
l reckon, maybe that were the very
first time he experienced the reel. need
of good eddication. 'Twa'nt that any
ornery eddication would ha' made him
win, FIR he We're up against two o the
sllckest there was on the boats them
days, Stflwell an Cole, but if he'd
been brought up proper he might have
saw that he were out of his class, an
might ha' been satisfied with his les
son.
Good With the Home Talent.
But, as 1 was sayin', he cd play
poker with the home talent, an when
he got done up the way he was, atween
Cole an Stilwell, he took the notion it
were just because he had had bad luck
'Twa MT but little while afore he were
back in Helena waitin' for Cole an
Stilwell to. come along on some boat.
He'd been home an got some more
money an come back to have another
try at the same men. Well, he had
some luck this time, for t want more'n
month afore they come along. Course,
it might ha' been six.
Then Peters he went aboard the
boat, an set into another game with
'em an just naturally went broke in
about hour. An fin that time on,
for about five years, he spent his time
goin' home for more money an fetchin'
1t back to Cole and StilwelI.
L seen one game they played. an it
showed me how a man thaRs out OF
his class can be did up, 'thout no spe-
ctal effort. Them three was playin'
stud poker. an Peters. it turned out
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THE MULE AND HIS
RELATION TO POKER
Being Some Observations the Hybrid by Old Man
Greenhut.

There is good many points about
a mule t any good Christian man is
bound to respect" said Old Man Green
hut, even if he hain't no great opinion
o. mules, considerin of 'em as just
mules.
There amt no consfd able doubt
about mules bein' ornery critters, look
in at 'em most any way you're min
ter. The Lord made 'em for to be
Ornery, 1 reckon, an they wouldn't be
film their appinted spere if they was
to be anything else but ornery.
But, as 1 was a-sayin', a mule has
p'ints. Fust off, he's got the courage to
do what pears to the proper thing to
do 'cordin' to the best Judgment he's
got.
Eff mule considers it about time to
quit work, he quits. He don't go into
no argument about a eight-hour day,
nor he don't explain how he's tired, an
called, an hungry. He just quits But
If anybody else starts up argument,
he's ready.
Then just look at the way a mule
carries on argument alter it's been
started. Don't make no difference
whatsomever to him how much cussin'
the otfSr Teller does, nor how bad he
may lose his temper.
THAT mule'll stand an take it all as
meek as preacher till he gets good
openin' for a argument ON his own side
an then it'll come like lightnin', an
that there ungOdly adversary O. his'n II
get swatted most effective
Yes" continued the old man, with
a discontinued look around the room.
there Is heaps o. things about mules
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when the show down come. had aces
back to back
"Cole set next an he had a queen
buried an a seven shown An Still
Well had jack buried an a eight
shown.
"O' course, 1t were Peters bet, an
he bet a dollar, like thy'd been bettin'
to start, an the other stayed. On the
next round Peters got some small card
like a five.
"Cole got a ten an Stilwell got
eight, maxim a pair of Fights in sight
That made it his bet, an he bet the
size O. the pot, bein' three dollars.
Then, If Peters had ha' been quail
fed to set in with two such players,
he'd ha' raised 1t sudden an heavy.
He knowed o. course, 'thouten Stilweu
had eight buried, that his aces was
good, an 'twa'n't no time to have two
players DRAWN against 'em.
But he had that fool notion O. nurs-
in the pot along, thinldn' because his
hand was better'n anything in sight
that he was goin' to win the pot, so
he trailed, an Cole follered along.
Next round Cole got a queen, Still
well got a pack, an Peters got anoth-
er small card like a four or six. 1t
were StilwelPs bet again, an he put up
IS. Peters come in again an Cole, now
AAeAfAA1 q pan QuCCAASB AdlOSQ IL TELL
"Stilwell studied bit an then he
seen the raise. Peters knew he could
beat Cole, an he didn't give StilweIl
credit for no more'n the Fights there
was in sight, seem he hadn't raised
Cole, so he made it twenty more to
play.
Cole trailed, an then StiIweIl broke
loose. He had jacks up, an he knowed
o. course that he had the best hand.
So he put up fifty more.
THAT was more'n Peters had in
sight, but they was playin' table stakes,
so he called for what he had, an nat
orally Cole wasn't layin' down under
them circumstances, so he called.
ION the last round they didn't Meth
er on 'em better, SO Stilwell took the
pot an Peters bought again.
We'll. it was just such plays as that,
an good many Of 'em, that KEEP
Peters feedin' O. them two men for four
or five years, till he'd run through all
the money he cd raise, an he went Off
down the river somewheres an never
went home no more nor want never
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that's worth considerin'. The Good
Book says go to the ant, you slugger,
consider her ways an get WISE but
L reckon if thered been mules them
days, the sluggers d ha' been told to
go to them. Mules knows more about
sluggin' in minute nor ant is liable
to learn in a long life.
The best thing about mule though
IS t he knows he's a mule. l reckon
maybe it d be goin' leetle too fur to
say he's proud of it, though 1 have saw
mules t appeared to think there want
nothln else top O. the earth what was
quite ekil to a reel first-class mule.
But whether they're proud of bein'
mule, or whether they're just plain
reconciled to the disputations o. Prov
1denee, l don't know as it makes no
difference. The PINT is they know
they're mules.
Now, I've saw people that didn't
know they was mules"
Just at this point the old man broke
OIL his discourse, and looked around
the room from one to another of the
halt dozen men who sat listening to
him. Not one of them, however, seem
ed TO care about meeting his eve. and
no one spoke, but all smoked on in ST.
lenee. 1t almost seemed as if they
dreaded to hear something or other
that the old man was likely to say
There was some cause for their an
prehension. Only the night before
there had been game of draw poker
In the little back room of the saloon,
in which two strangers had dfscomfiit
ed some of the local talent. and had
cashed in more chips than strangers
were supposed to have at the end of a
game in Arkansas City. And while
there was well defined opinion on the
part of those who played as to where
the blame principally rested, there was
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mountain torrents in flood, the debris
of falling rocks and land slides.
Austria has done much to improve
matters. but there is mighty little
business in Bosnia, and the govern
ment couldn't educate the electors of
the empire to the conviction that 1t
is good financiering to build hundred
thousand dollar roads to transport
thousand dollars worth of prunes,
which are one of the chief staples of
the province.
SO today the Bosnian travels mostly
a-foot. After this popular mode comes
the Bosnia horse, wonderfully ugly,
wonderfully crowbait-like and wonder
fully strong.
The deterioration of the roads I'M
der the Turk practically wiped wheeled
traffic out of existence. There are
wagons in Bosnia, but they are not
triumphaI chariots. A wagon is good
deal of a white elephant in most dis
tricts, and the traveller who has ever
tried to negotiate mountain pass in
one will never use another.
A Bosnian wagon would be a rare
and valuable addition to a modern
museum, if it could possibly be trans
ported out of the country. 1t can't.
It would surely get stuck in the blood
red mud, or sink in the coal black bog,
or fall down a slippery mountain, or
sink in a torrential river before it
reached a seaport.
1t is based on the ancient Asiatic
form of ox-cart. There is hardly
piece of metal work in the typical
Bosnia wheeled vehicle The parts
are made Of heavy tinbers, held to-
gether with wooden lemons and with
withes of willow woven back and forth
like basketwork. The wheels are
hewed out with a sharp ak, the favo-
rite, and almost the only tool Of the
Bosnian carpenter. The tongue is inn
mensely long and sticks out in front
of the oxen or the horses like spear.
Wicked as the roads are as a whole
Austria has built some fine ones where
wheeled traffic would be comfortable
but the Bosnian has not adapted him.
self to them. He will take the trav-
eler by preference through the old
trails.
1t is more than twenty-five years
now since the Turkish occupation. and
the enterprising and wide-awake Aus
trian and Magyar are cIamoring at
the doors of the Bosnian with their
goods.
They have pushed more than seven
hundred miles of railroad into his land.
They are tearing open new and old
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fit just where it dropped, and went off
swearing, kicking great holes into the
place with his hoof.
The general and specific aspect of
Bosnia today shows that the only
part of the mess that has been cleared
away since this happened is the bag.
ter of lodging between mountains
There isn't such thing as bee line
there. Travelling through it is a mat
ter of dodgin between mountains
from one end of the country to the
other. The rivers all fall down hill,
and a Bosnian considers river that
flows without a waterfall for ten
miles an important and wonderful nav
igable stream, and calls the village in
that favored district a port.
On the Mediterranean or Adraiatic
side stand the Dinaric Alps, as virgin
as they were when the forgotten Da-
clans first swarmed into Europe
through their defiles. Toward the
Danube are half a dozen ranges of
mountains. The towns in the interior
sit at the bases of mountains. The
railroad runs over grades that make it
impossible to hauld heavy trains. 1t
goes over passes so dangerous that
the rails have had to be made so mar
row in gauge that the road is toy
like.
Yet Bosnia, although it is hardly
ever heard of, is the key to an i'm
mense commerce, and Austria-Hun-
gary is determined some day to turn
that key and unlock a door that shall
lead her merchants out into the Med
iterranean.
Austria-Hungary is not the dscov-
erer of the fact that Bosnia is a key.
The old Romans knew it, and they
hewed mighty roads through Bosnia,
over the mountains, to connect the
Adriatic sea with the Danube river.
Venice knew it when she was the
Queen of the Mediterranean; and she
intrigued for the possession of Bos-
MIA as if it were an empire.
So today Bosnia'S old roads are be-
set with the ruins of ancient Roman
forts, and the greatest roads are those
that were made originally by the
Roman road builders.
When Turkey seized Bosnia, those
roads were permitted to go to ruin,
Other roads that led from Hungary
and Croatia southeast into Turkey,
were kept in somewhat better repair;
that is, a horse could get through and
over them if Allah was good to it. By
the time the Turkish occupation was
ended about the only things that could
be called roads were those leading
southeast, while the roads to the
Adriatic, which should, some day, fur
nish a new portal for the commerce
of all Europe with the Orient, had al
most vanished beneath the mud of