Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-03-24

Bile and pillars of green granite
supporting the wOman's gallery.
and said to have been brought
from the temple of Diana of Ephe
Sus. Twenty four columns of
Egyptian granite supports the
galleries on both sides, and the
whole number of columns in teh
mosque are 107, the mystic num-
Der assigned for the support of
the house of wisdom. There are
four minarets attached to the
mosques, and ON the top of the
cupOla gilded crescent. We
also visited the mosque of Sui
tan Ahmed, the court mosque,
where great ceremonies and pro-
SESSIONS are held, and where the
Sultan and his whole suite 90 on
the days of great festivals. AS
luck would have it, today was
one of those great festivals. We
found the streets crowded with
people and lined from the gates
of the palace to the mosque with
soldiers. We stood for about an
hour waiting for him to pass,
and when he did come, the cheer
the people raised, that filled the
street, was only half-hearted. He
Is a man between SO and 81 years
old, somewhat like King Edward,
wearing whiSkers. At the Pig
con mosque, we spent a few MIN
utes, to see the flock of pigeons
that make it their home, and
which are regarded as sacred by
the MOhamedans, the birds are
very tame.
COnstantinOple is a city of
mosques, for besides tn Impeer-
lal mosque, built by the Sultan,
i is said there are more than 200
others built by men of wealth,
all erected on the same plan, but
varying in splendOr. We visited
the tower Of Galata, ad went up
its 300 steps and paid a franc
each for doing so, but from the
top there was a magnificent
view. 1t would be impossible to
speak of COnStantinOple and not
mention the dogs. They are ugly
specimens of their kind and bear
a wonderful resemblance of their
kindred in Syria. They are a
tawny color, small IN size and
SHAGGY, and live in the streets,
where they perform the duty of
scavengers, and prOwling about
1.-THE city, feed on garbage and Of
Ifal, some are scraed, some multi
ated, for though the Turks never
kill a dog, they scald and beat
them. These dogs are everywher,
land hundreds may be counted In
1.-THE narrow dirty streets. A very
strange thing aout the dogs is
this, they have their own quar-
tiers in the city, and if a dog from
one quarter intrudes on another,
they will Immediately fall on him
and tear him to pieces.
1t would be impossible to men.
ton all that we saw of interest
IN COnstantinOple. After visit.
ing the pigeon mosque we wakes
to the cistern of a thousand and
one columns, only 224 of which
remain, the Egyptian 0bleiskg
remain. The Egyptian 0belisE
; brought from HelipOis, the site
where the HipprOdrOm once stOot
The public fountains, most Of
them, are very elaborate, covered
with stone, others in plain mar
J Bile. All things came to an enc
: and on Saturday, March 18th
J cold raw, cloudy day, the anchor
was raised and the good steam
} ship Cincinnati sailed up tn,
BOsphOrus to the Black sea. How
beautiful were the banks of tn
: BOsphorus on both shores, tn
European and the Asiatic as w
! passed village after village OIL
either side, and so made our wa.
) to the Cyanean rocks at tn
3 mouth of the Black sea. We pas
b led SQUARE, and Randall and Do
: lmabutcwe, the imperial palace o
: the Sultan. and here we ean0h