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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-05
The Wholesale Establishments.

Indeed, the trade of Damascus is extensive. The
city makes of various kinds which are shipped
all the world 1t is noted for its beautiful brass
and silver its inlad woodwork and it's oriental
rugs. 1t has extensive trade with Persia
and ether parts of Turkey and long lines of camels
always bringing in and carrying goods There
great buildings of khans devoted to whole
sailing and warchousng, / visited one of these. 1t
was shaped much like a mosque, being lighted by
nine great domes the tops of which at least
feet above the dirt floor. The domes were upheld by
stone pillars. The floor covered almost acre. and
It was packed with merchandise. In one part Of II
bags of wheat piled high toward the roof. In
another hundreds of boxes of dates, and in
others barrels and crates of fruit and hundreds of
bales of oriental laid upon the other Some
of the bales enormous, equang a load for
a two-hOrse wagon was told that they from
Bagdad, and left there for storage There were
a number of these khans in Damascus at the time OF
Christ, and there several in use. The space
in them is rented out to merchants the doing
general warehousing business.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-05
What % BuY in Damascus.

am frequently asked what one can buy in these
oriental cities which is worth while taking home
Damascus is good shopping place for the tourist it
somewhat OF the line OF travel and one can pick up
oriental things comparatively cheap. have bought
several rugs which have come here by caravan from
Bokhara, and two Of chem at least a hundred
years old will not give the prices except to say
that they much below those at which they could
be bought in New York, and the merchant agreed
TO pay the duties upon them and TO deliver them TO
my house in Washington.
Among the many other things sold silk shawls
for the head, such used by the Bedouns, and
table covers OF red black wooden cloth embroidered
with silk. The shawls may be bought at from SO to
IS apiece and the tablecloths cost from IS 20 SIS
great many Americans take home brasswsre
from Damascus, and not few purchase swords inlad
with silver and the Damascus blades for which the
city has been noted for ages. Some OF these swords
limitations imported from Solingen Germany,
and other oriental wares come from Manchester, an&
are made for this trade. Indeed. keep his
II he would buy genuine curios in any part
OF the world FRANK q. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-05

dler has ice cream, the GOODNESS of which he cries
forth in the words: 'Balak snunak," or, Take
of your teeth" meaning it is cold that it will make
your teeth ache. Fruit is sold the same way and
also cooked meats of various kinds. There is one
kind salad which the cry out is tender that
if old eats it she will find herself young in
the morning. r.
Some such bought by the charitable and
given to beggars This is of the bread and meat
and also of drinks Some buy, bread for the
dogs hoping thereby to acquire merit and thus
their road to the Mohammedan heaven. ..
Making our way through the crowds we reach
region of cook shops restaurants and cafes not far
from where the butcher shops are. The latter sell
kinds of meat including camel, beef mutton and
lamb The mutton is fine. The sheep of the fat
tail variety and when skinned and dressed for the
market their tails are left on. They hang down
their backs in great Jumps of fat looking like a
loaf of fresh dough ready baking Sometimes they
have the form of heart four FIVE inches thick
and eight inches wide Such tail will weigh fifteen
pounds Upon a live sheep it hangs down at the rear
like a wooly apron. and when raised looks like a
miniature sail showing expanse Of bare white skin
beneath.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-05
The Great Mohammedan stomach.

During our trip through the bazars we find the
Mohammedan stomach everywhere in evidence. These
people like good food and they eat, it to me-
from morning till night Peddlers carrying candy
lemonade and cakes march through the streets cry
ing their wares bread men sit the sidewalks, and
there are shops which sell nothing but pretzes The
most common bread is flat round cake thick as
the buckwheats which for breakfast, and
foot or more in diameter. These cakes white or
brown in color They pliable that they can be
doubled up without breaking They often used
to pick the meats out Of stew The orientals do not
use forks for eating, and they claim that their
hands are much cleaner They have saying that
everyone knows whether he has washed his own
hands but no one knows who washed the forks" An
other kind of bread is like gigantic shoe sole with
out the heel and another is round biscuit about
inch thick.
But here comes a selling candy. Take
bite Of it and your mouth will flow water like the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-05
The Louise Market.

There is Damascus bazar in which 1 walk
carefully, and far possible keep in midstreet
1t is called the louise market and you may know
why when / tell you it is devoted to secondhand
clothes. The bazaar is just back of the citadel and
not far from Straight street 1t is filled with Gus
toners and dealers from morning until evening" and
auctioneers walk back and forth through it, each
carrying a garment which he holds up, asking for
bids. He praises his and tells the crowd that
the things will be sold for a song
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-05

which feed this city make fertile its plains
Damascus is noted for its sweetmeats and its candies
shipped far and wide the world. The sweets
sold in the bazars of the merchants having
large shops. There is one dear old turbaned sheik
who has cell in the candy bazaar, where you buy
nuts and fruits fit for the queen of the fairies His
sugared almonds the Joy of the tourist and his
Turkish delight SOFT sweet, transparent paste, with
pistachios other small nuts scattered through it,
is a dish for the gods
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-05
TIE RAzAARS AXE cAVELZnE STOKES

them, and have been told by my guide that if l wish
to keep my head on had best turn my eyes in an
other direction.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-05
(OOpyrIght, Is1O, By Frank 9. carpenter.l

Copyright, 1910, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
BANKRUPTCIES Correspondence OF
The Bee)-Come with me for walk
through the bazars of this the Oldest
- of all the worlds cities. They are more
oriental than those Of Tunis or Cairo
- and more quaint than those of Constan-
tinople Take the street called
Straight, up which st. Paul came to meet
Ananias. 1t is vaulted tunnel lighted only
by a roof which rises to a height OF about
100 feet Suppose you could cover lower Broadway
at the top of its third story windows and in place Of
doors and windows of plate glass have the walls made
up of cave-like stores opening out the roadway.
Let each store have floor about as high as a chair
and let it be filled with the gorgeous goods of
the orient Let each its turbaned or fez-capped
long-gowned merchant sitting on the floor at the
'front.' with workmen similarly dressed laborng away
in the rear, and you have some of the outlines of
the picture The bazars of Damascus are made up Of
many such vaulted streets rooted that only dim
light comes in through the little windows high up
overhead The shops mere holes in the walls
but they packed full of goods they are max
ing all sorts Of The walls between the shops
are little more than partitions of boards and there
is hardly business establishment which the typical
bull of the china shop could round in without
losing his hide. The customers bargain standing
out in the roadway, sitting the floors of the
stores and hanging their heels in the street.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06

society of Colonial DANES who are
making a collection of old silver plate.
They comprise an ecclesiastical ser
vice consisting of two silver chal-
ices, eight inches in height, and u
silver paten or plate five inches in
diameter.
This church service dates back to
1924 when 1t was presented to the
st. AIMS parish, founded some
eighty years before, in Essex county,
Va. There was a tradition in the par
ish to the effect that the service is
dated 1924, this Is impossible, al
though it probably did come from
the fund she established, known as
Queen AIMS bounty" one of the
Guys and the paten were lost for
many years and We're not discovered
until 1909 when the Rev. Thomas
d. Lewis then rector of the parish,
learned of their location and sue
ceeded in purchasing them.
Up to the time of their purchase
no history of the lost cup and paten
Is available. The present rector of
st. AIMS accounts for the loss by
the fact that at one time two church
es existed in the parish. between
which the silver was undoubtedly di-
vided, one known as Vawters and the
other an old church abandoned after
the revolution and later destroyed
The silver was probably appropriate
ed and sold, in which case it would
have been lost for nearly 1875 years
At one time the National Museum
had on exhibition a silver Baptisma
basin, coming originally from Hol,
land in 1894 and closely connected
with the colonial history of New
York. This was lent the museum b!
| the Colonial Danes of New York, bu
| subsequently recalled by them
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06

Umguila county farmers will have
an interest I'm a dis, usSiGn that has
been ON in the Dry Farming Bulletin,
Paul Bourds. director of agriculture
of Tunis, and dry farming experts of
our western states. Writing TO the
Dry Farming congress secretary, Mr..
Bourle asks the pointed questions
given below and in reply Prof. Ten
Eyck. in charge of farm management
at the Kansas agricultural college.
sets forth his views as to how dry
farming should be conducted. Both
letters are here reproduced:
Vi. Paul Bourdc's Questions.
Paris, December u, 1910.
~'Mr. John T. Burns, Secretary Treas
urer Dry Farming Congress:
Dear Sir.-I have been for five
Years at the head Of the Department
OF Agriculture IN TuniS. and / am now
conducting in that country a farm Of
12.500 acres in the neighborhood Of
hairouan. a region in which the av-
eragc rainfall does not exceed IS
inches per annum. The methods Of
American dry-farming. therefore. ara
OF special interest to me, and I am a
subscriber to Dry Farming with a
view 10 studying such methods. There
are. however. certain points that l
do not succeed in calculating. and l
Woull be much obliged if you could
give me either in Dry Farming or
il private letter an answer to the
following five questions:
"First-You recommend on the one
hand that the seed bed be we'll pre-
pared, and You insist repeatedly on
thiS. that the seed bed must he at least
three inches thick. on the other hand
You recommend with equal earnest
ness To maintain mulch at the sur
face, ana not to use for that purpose
the disc harrow, which has the draw
back of leaving the soil out Of level
and To make it dry while going too
deep. but 10 make use of the spike
tooth harrow. Well the spike-tooth
harrows q mean those used in
Franco do not go further than one
inch and O. half in depth, and reach
.Julr by exceptions two inches. There
appears 10 be some contradiction in
such statement which I would thank
You r,o explain. DO YOU make a diff
ference between the seed bed and the
mulcho And if you make one, what
Is the difference? If you make no
difference, is the three inches seed
Zoe To- be considered solely as an ideal
that Is not realized in practice. Or
and tnat seems difficult to me-do
your spiAe-tooth harrovs enter in the
earth more deeply than ours?
.Sec0nd-Tou are always speaking
of seeding as if the farmer, who has
prepared his ground well and pre-
served the preceding years moisture
was at liberty TO choose his time for
Sc doing. Is it true that. in a field
where the summer fallow has beer
well titled. the moisture preserved is
sufficient to obtain gerimnation of the
grain sown without the help Of rain
Is this an exceptional or a genera
practice? Does this happen regularly
for instance in regions in which tn,
annual rainfall does not exceed /
inches? And if such is not the cas-
regularly have experts ascertainet
what quantity Of water must have fal
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06
GIRL RECALLS FURST
HUBBY IN ACCOSTER
Foreigner Sees Face Strangely Famil-
lar Accosts Woman-"You Were
NV First Husband"

ldr ACCOStS w Oildn-'N on were
My First Husband"
Chicago.-"r'air lady. your face
interests me strangely" remarked
Mark Krezrl, newly arrived Hun
garian devotee at the shrine of the
beauties of Indiana Harbor as one of
them came along the street.
The young woman obligingly shift
ed her latest offspring to the other
hip and regarded him closely.
We'll, I'll be gosh-swiggled," re-
marked Malatea Dopomich in Hun
garian, at ought to interest you,
How are you and how's all the folks p"
Put, really, fair lady, l am unable
to place you" said Krezri. still in
Hungarian "It seems to me that
ought to know you, but have met
so many people since l came to In
diana Harbor.'
That is quite possible" replied
the lady, but it so happens that
remember you because you were my
first husband" Then she hitched the
baby back to the original hip
Krezri Immediately began to stand
up straight and take an interest in
his immediate surroundings. A care
full scrutiny of the baby failed to
prove to him that here was any
trace of a mirror in its shining coun-
tenance. He remembered no divorce
and ran to the offices of a lawyer.
An American delving into the facts
showed that the couple We're married
eight years ago in Hungary and that
after Halatea mad lived with Mark
for few weeks she eloped with Mar
60 Dopomich and came to Indiana
Harbor. At that time Malatea was
about ii years of age and according
ly krezri filed to obtain a warrant
for her arrest on a charge of big
amy.
He was informed that, while the
marriage of a 14-year-old girl might
| be considered binding in Hungary, il
was not so regarded in this country
| Mark Grezri is puzzling his Hun
| garian brain over the mysteries of the
| American law, the baby. the beauty
of Malatea and the strange coinci1
dence which has transferred the
| blighted romance from a far-off Eu-
| ropean village to the more or less
| peaceful shores of Lake Hichigan
| and the answer seems to lie not SC
much in the sands of the dunes as
in the stars and in the lore of the gyp.
! sy folk which treats of such things
| in a Hugnarian manner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06
CERTAINLY ENDS
STOMACH MISERY
INDIGESTION. GAS AND DYS-
PEPSIA GO IN FIVE MINUTES
A Little Diapcpsin Nov Will Make
Your out of order stomach Feel
Finc-DSests All Your Food. Leav-
mg Nothing to Fcrment and Sour.

You can eat anything your stomach
Graves without fear of indigestion or
dyspepsia or that your food will fer
ment or sour on your stomach, If you
will take a little Diapepsin OCCASION
ally.
Your meals will taste good. and
any thing you eat will be digested;
nothing can ferment or turn into acid
or poison or stomach gas, which
causes hclching, dizziness. feeling
of fullness after eating. nausea, in
digestion (like IA lump of lead in
stomach), biliousness. heartburn. wa
ter brash, pain in stomach and in
testnes or other symptoms.
Headaches from the stomach are
absolutely unknown where this effec-
tive remedy is used. Diapepsin real
ly does all the work of healthy
stomach. 1t digests your meals when
your stomach can't. a single dose
will digest all the food you eat and
leave nothing to ferment or sour and
upset the stomach.
Get a large 5O-cent case of Pape's
Diapepsin from your druggist and
start taking now, and In a little while
you will actually brag about your
healthy. strong stomach, for you then
can eat anything and everything you
want without the slightest discom-
| fort or misery. and every particle of
| impurity and gas that is in your
| stomach and intestincs is going to
be carried away without the use Of
| laXatives or any other assistance.
should you at this moment be suf-
| fering from Indigestion or any stom-
ach disorder. you can surely get re-
| lief within five minutes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06
500 REWARD. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there Is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
In all its stages and that Is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment, Halls Catarrh
Cure taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces Of the sys-
TEN, thereby destroying the foundation OF
the disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assist
Ing nature In doing Its work The pro-
prietors have so much faith In Its curative
powers that they offer one Hundred Dol
lars for any case that II fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials
Address
f. ]. CHENEY & CO. Toledo o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c
Take nalls Family Pills for constlpa-
tion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06
WIRELESS CONQUERS
THE PACIFIC OCEAN

San Francisco.-Wireless has con-
quered the Pacific. A San Francisco
operator in the United Wireless sta
ton at Hillcrest got into communica-
ton with the Japanese operator in
the Joi station at Otchisl on the Is
land of Hokushu. Although they were
separated by 5000 miles of water they
exchanged greetings and talked for
fifteen minutes before atmospheric
changes caused communication to be
cut off.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06

tooth harrows so as to make them stir
more furrowed condition than may
usually result from light narrowing
"Second.-It may not always be
true that enough moisture is conserv-
ed in the surface soil of the summer
titled field to sprout the wheat during
the dry period. Usually the farmers
ill take advantage of the rains which
fall to seed and start the crop under
the most favorable conditions. Often,
however water which has been stored
in the sub-soil by summer tillage is
sufficient to sprout the wheat when
sown at the regular seeding time in
the fall.
Il have no definite data showing
just what amount of water must be
stored in any particular soil in order
to insure the sprouting and success
full starting of the wheat or other
small grains. In fact, this factor
would vary in different soils and under
different climatic conditions and from
year to year in the same locality. 1t
has been found, however, that the
amount of extra water stored 'in the
soil is. directly related to the increas,
ed yield which may be secured by
practicing soil moisture conservation
methods.
"Third-The methods of tilline
summer fallow and the preparing oil
summer fallow for seeding wheat OF
other small grains must vary accord.
ing to the type of soil and the wea-
ther conditions. Certain mealy oil
sandy soils seldom become very great.
! ly compacted and do not require deer
! loosening, while other soils of a more
/ clayey nature may become very firm
at the surface and must be disced oil
Acme narrowed in order to loosen the
surface soil and put the field in ia.
vCrable seed-bed condition.
"FOurth.-It is, of course. best tC
| plow the ground when the soil is
moist enough TO turn in a mellow fri
able condition. However, when tn,
soil becomes dry early in the season
| it may be advisable to plow the sol
dry, even in a cloddy condition, rath.
er than not plow at all, depending up,
( on the rains which fall after plowins
! to soften the Jumps, when the soil may
| be put in a well-pulverized well-set
tied seed-bed condition by discing. anC
harowirng. Also it may often be ad
visable to use the sub-surface packer
( in order to secure a well-settled sect
bed. If the ground becomes dry anC
cannot be plowed early, then it is us
ually advisable not to plow at all, bu
tn h, lNX. IT,,
and narrowing.
"Fifth.-It is the writer's judg
ment that a good mold board plov
does better work when the soil is il
good plowing condition than the bet
ter makes of disc plows. But whel
the soil is dry or in certain types o
hard, gummy soil, the disc plow ma.
be used to advantage, and while tn
soil may be turned in broken an,
lumpy condition by the disc plow,
may be put in favorable seed-be
condition by tillage after plowing
after the clods have been softened b
rain. When the soil is in good pillow
ing condition the mold board plow ha
a shearing, pulverizing effect, whic
, is not produced in the same degre
! by the disc plow. Both types of plow
, however, have their place in dry
} farming agriculture.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06
VIRTUES HARMFUL TO ELKS.
Heirs Try to Deprive Order of BE.
quest Because of Them.

Franklin. Pa.-Is the Franklin
lodge of Elks a charitable and religi-
GUS institution? The heirs of the late
Nathan Bacharach declare that it is
and for that reason Is not entitled to
receive $500 which the deceased be-
queathed to the lodge in this manner:
II bequeath to Franklin lodge OF
Elks $500. Farewell to all the broth
ers. y. Bacharach.'
The writing was inclosed in an en-
velope and sent to the secretary of the
lodge, with the request that it be not
opened until after his death. The
heirs take the position that since the
writing was not witnessed II does not
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06

comply with an act of 1885 relative
to bequests to charitable and religi-
Gus institutions. The heirs point out
that it is charitable because 1t dis
penses charity, and religious because
II aims to uplift the morals Of its
members.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06
Aches and Pains OF

Aches and Pains of rheumatism are
not permanently, but only temporar-
lily, relieved by external remedies
Whq nuot use an internal remedy
Hoods SarsapariIla, which corrects
the acidity of the blood on which
rheumatism depends and cures the
disease.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06
OLD TIME CRUELTY.
One Time When Surgery Is Often
Needless Torture

Many operations for piles are simp-
ly needless torture, for when it's all
over the piles come back.
The one fine way to be rid of
piles for good is to use DR.. Leon
hardts HEM-ROID. 1t cures piles by
doing away with the cause-poor cir
culation.
81 for "a days treatment at Pendle-
ton Drug Co. and all druggists Sat
isfaction guaranteed. DR. Leonhardt
Co., Station B, Buffalo, N. Y, props.
Write for free booklet.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06

If pullets are hens, are they roost-
ers at night?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-06
Tunis Seeks Western Farming Methods
Dry Farming by West

len at the minimum during the pre-
ceding year 50 that the grain sown
may gcrminate without the help of
rain In well-prepared lands?
''Third.-You advise 10 drag the soil
before the drill, hut do not find any
where an indication as To the neces-
sity Of giving, first stroke of the
plow or of the disc harrow to soften
the soil. Is the work of the summer
fallow sufficient to maintain the soil
loose enough so that without further
preparation the grain may be carried
three inches deep by the operation of
the drill In this country it is an i'm
possibility, ana the earth has to be
shaken anew for the drill to pass in it,
"Fourth.-You recommend. with
much reason, to plow when the soil is
sufficiently damp. But it must hap
pen with you, as it does with US. that
the plowing season may coincide with
a period of drought in which the
ground is dried out. What do you do
in such case? Do you resign your
self not to plow at all and to expose
yourself not to be able to SOW in the
following autumn? or do you prefer
to plow under bad conditions, rathe,
than not to plow at all?
"Fifth.-You have published in one
OF your latest numbers a communica-
ton from a farmer in Utah by which
he indicates as condition of success
never to use the disc plow Is this to
be considered as a personal opinion
or as the conclusion to be derived
from general practice? What fault
Is there to be found with the disc
plow? The disc plow appears TO have
the merit of working faster sensibly
faster than the plowshare.
lSinr,nlA