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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
THE NEW BAALBEK-By Fra1k

side Mukden Manchuria: have stood upon the Temple of Heaven in Pekin, and have climbed the great Chinese wall. I have gone through the Temples of Karna, at the hundred-gated city of Thebes. far up the Nile; have talk en photographs of the. Colossi of Memnon and have measured the stones of the pyramids with a two-foot rule. Not long ago I visited the Temple of Boro Boedor in the heart of Java, to de- scribe its three miles of wonderful carvings, and last year I spent some time in the forts of the Moguls at Delhi and wrote of the Tai Mahal and Its wonders I have also seen Timgad, the excavated city on the edge of the Sahara, and have lately gone through the Colosseum at Rome and inspected the equally wonderful amphitheater which lies at Fl Diem, in the heart of the Tunisian desert. All these are wonderful. but Baalbek Is their su- perior.
 The ruins here have been described, but only by the writers of the past, who might as well have tried to pictures Pom peii before the ashes and washings of Vesuvius were dug away. These ruins have never been so wonderful as they are now. For centuries the most of them have been as much buried as is Hercu- laneum, and it was only when the Elm peror of Germany made his tour through this part of the world that they began to be brought to the light of day. Kaiser Wilhelm is a great archeologist, and when he travels he leaves as many tracks as does Theodore Roosevelt.
 I have marched in his footsteps through Palestine and have seen there the churches and other monuments which he has erected. Before he came to Syria he stopped at Constantinople with the Sultan Abdul Hamid, who gave him a permit to
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Copyright 1910. by Frank G. Car
 Baalbek.
 AM in the valley of Lebanon, the
 high, narrow plain which lies be- \ tween the two ranges of the Leb- anon mountains. The word Lebanon mountains are the White noun tains of, Syria, the higher peaks of which are now covered with snow These mountains extend north and south parallel with the coast of the Mediterranean sea. They begin a lit He below the border of Asia Minor and ose themselves in the Holy Land. In 'eading of them I have always con 5idered them hills. They are higher han any mountains of our country east of the Mississippi and the average iefght of the range nearest the coast 1000 feet greater than that of Mount Washington. Mount Hermon is over 1000 feet high and Jebel Makmel meas Ires 10,20O feet The valley of Lebanon tself Is twice as high as the topmost peaks of the Blue Ridge of Virginia, Id it slopes from here to the north as as Aleppo and to the south beyond ln. where rises the Jordan.
 The Ruins of Baalbek
 It is in this little valley, which is esS man lUU miles long ana rom 10 miles in width. walled by these mighty mountains, that lie the ruins f Baalbek. the most wonderful tenn fs known through the ages. I have Dent hours in wandering through hem. and their immensity and beauty teadily grew. I despair of being able describe them and can only hope to rye you bits of the details. I have cen most of the worlds mighty ruins. n the past year I have wandered though the tombs of the Mings out
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After them came an earthquake, so that much of the ruins were covered up, until the Germans began their great excavations and left them as they now are.
 I am stopping here in the little town of Baalbek, which stands right on the edge of the ruins. 1t has an excellent hotel and It's people are hospitable. It has about 5000 or 6oO0 inhabitants. made up of Mohammedans and Christians There is a small garrison of soldiers. two Greek Catholic monasteries and several girls schools. The children followed us as we walked about through the ruins, selling purses made of Syrian silk, into which they had woven the six great col- umus of the temple. They also asked for baksheesh and the begging palm was everywhere to be seen.
 The Cedars of Lebanon
 am surprised at the scanty yegeta- ton of these mountains of Lebanon. l had expected to find them covered with forests. whereas they are almost tree less. Their lower slopes are we'll culti- 1 vated and some of them are terraced almost to the top. Thousands of acres, made up of little patches, rise step-like ono above another, covering the hills for miles and miles. The patches contain mulberry orchards and vineyards. There are also peaches and apples, and in the valleys are rich fields of wheat. barley and clover. The chief formation is lime
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1 terest.
 Kirby" said Uncle Joe one afternoon, you're foolish youth, if you only knew | 1t. You write lot telling men how to manage their affairs and you try to tell the city how it should manage its bus mess, but do you ever give heed to your own affairs? Don't think I am imperti- nent, but would you mind telling mo how much money you are making and how much you have saved up?''
 Kirby laughed. Why. Uncle Joei' he answered, T only get $25 from the Star. don't get penny for what I write in | the Spade. That's a labor of love. The s25 week just keeps my mother and | myself.
 Kirby" said the old banker, If you know so much about how other people could make money. why don't you make money for yourself?''
 "If had any capital I'd make 1t fast enough" was the reply.
 You have capital; credit is capital" Uncle Joe declared
 "Oh, I havel" exclaimed Kirby, with touch of sarcasm. Maybe I have 1t with you?"
 You have" said the banker. You are young and, so far as know, hon est. You were born here. You and your mother own the home you live Tn. You have no particularly bad hab-
  man of good reputation can have req sonable credit from bank if he has g good proposition"
 ''Does 'reasonable' credit mean $5o00, 5000 or s15.ooo?" asked Kirby.
 That depends" said the banker. What would you buy If you had the money?"
 Uncle Joe" said Kirby. If there Is any solid. safe investment in this town, it's Wharf Company stock. It pays A per cent month-6 per cent a year. You've got a lot of 1t, I know. If it wasn't good you wouldn't have 1t. I've been lambasting you people a long time, and I'm going to lambaste, you a whole lot more. but that does not affect the security. It Is ridiculous the price the stock is selling at. Why. it's dirt cheap. Am I right?"
 Yes said Uncle Joe.
 Kirby did not ask any more ques- tions, but hastened to a broker named Pendleton.
 How much Wharf stock have you for sale?" he asked.
 Fifty shares" was the answer.
 The price?'
 ''Ss1s."
 "Tll buy it." said Kirby.
 Pendleton, who knew Kirby had nothing. inquired whom 1t was for.
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I ment The shares could be purchased in lots of one, five, ten or more If the shares were well distributed there would be no more juggling with the property. | Int more citizens owned the stock the | less would be the injustice done by the trick at the time the company made its deal for the city property.
 When Kirby came to draw his second
 dividend he felt an air of proprietorship in the Wharf company that made him smile at his own conceit. After getting his check he chatted for a few moments with the general manager, and just as
 he was departing he inquired casually as to the receipts of the company for the
 month. He was delighted when informed | they were the best for any month in the
 history of the company. That afternoon
 he wrote a glowing article for the Star about the splendid business the Wharf company was doing. He wrote one in the
 same spirit for the Spade. He was be- ginning. to look upon things with optimis- tic eyes and he prophesied that if the Atlantic and Mississippi blockade was raised the town would have a boom that would gladden. the hearts of everybody Nothing kept the road out but the pro
 hihitive price put upon the land held by the syndicate and needed by the company for terminals and wharfage, he argued. This was somewhat different from the siashing, stinging style in which he had handled the subject few months be- fore. Unconsciously he was being weaned | from radicalism.
 Kirby had collected three or four divi- dends when one day he walked into the bank and said to the owner: Uncle Joe. if YOU have mo objection I'll take up that note of mine. I've given orders to Pendleton to sell those 50 shares. Wharf
 stock sold yesterday at 100hd1o1. I'm willing to let mine go at a bit of sacri- ice. as l need money for a particular
 purpose so I've told Pendleton to sell a
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l Get the certificate and come with me to Uncle Joes." Kirby replied. I'm sorry" Kirby announced to Un- cle Joe a minute later, that I could buy only 50 shares. If I could have picked up 500 I would have done so."
 Then he drew a check for $4425. Uncle Joe said something to the cashier and
 note was prepared for Kirby to sign.
 The office of the Wharf Company was
 near by. and a new certificate being made out to Kirby this was attached to the note. Kirby was about to sign the note when he happened to ob- serve the rate of interest.
 Say, Uncle Joe." he protested This note Is made out for 8 per cent. No 8 per cent goes with me. The stock pays 6 per cent If you want to do this thing in first-class shape you'll have to reduce the rate"
 Well. what rate would you like to
 pay?" asked the banker. Five Is plenty"
 Make 1t D." said Uncle Joe to the clerk. The clerk smiled. It was the first time Uncle Joe had done such a thing in many day.
 The next issue of the Spade had the usual broadside at the Whalf company and the millionaires. The day after the
 paper came out Kirby had to go to the Wharf company office to collect the
 monthly dividend on his stock That s25 appeared to him to be mighty good money, and he celebrated by buying for his mother something she had wished for a long time. . For several weeks Kirby continued. his campaign in the S>ade and then gradually
 he began to lose interest in his old line Of attack. Instead he suggested a new one. The savings banks paid only per cent. he pointed out. They were not safer than was the Wharf company, which paid 6. the shares of which sold below par. There was no better invest
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and unostentatiously. and usually with out their realization of his influence he had tn em do just what he wanted
 It was the same in regard to various big business concerns. There was not an establishment in town that Uncle Joe did not have ap accurate line on. He was d remarkable student of men. On one of the rare occasions when he spoke openly and unreservedly about himself he had declared he could read the character Of any man into whose eyes he looked. This was his one vanity He had been known to get rid of the account of the greatest mercantile house in the state because of the ascendancy of one man in the man agement The account apparently was a most valuable one, and another bank was delighted to get 1t, but IS months later when the house failed, the other bank would have been in serious trouble had not Uncle Joe gone to It's assistance. Harvey Kirby was one of the few men in the town who really knew Uncle Joe. Kirby was young, impetuous and poor. He worked on the afternoon newspaper. He had mixed in local politics enough to be- come curious regarding the man who pulled the wires. It took him quite 0 while to find out. When Kirby got curious he usually did not rest until his curiosity was satisfied He became curious, too, about the way the Wharf company was managed. It was the general belief that the city owned one-third of the Wharf company stock, having received the shares for the dock and riparian rights 1t gave to the company, but he discovered that by an artful trick the company had given one-quarter and not one-third. There had been 75.00o shares outstanding when the deal was made. An extra issue of 25, GOO shares had been made to the city for the rights It surrendered. No one outside the inner circle of the Wharf company knew the real facts until Kirby dug them up.
 Kirby wrote vigorously and sometimes put more of sting in his paragraphs than he intended. He was welcome visitor to Uncle Joe's house and had been suspected of being an ardent admirer of Uncle Joe's daughter, Janice, until he came out in the Spade with broadside in which he lambasted Uncle Joe without mercy. The Spade was a weekly paper, in which Kirby had half interest. Another man paid the bills, and Kirby did the writing, and incidentally paid his respects in vigor- ous English to those persons he could not treat as he wished in the columns of the more conservative Star. It was not pleas ant for Uncle Joe to have Kirby show by the minutes of the meeting of the Wharf company that it was Uncle Joe who played the trick by which the city was
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cuchred out of its just share of the Wharf company holdings. It was not pleasant. either. to have 1t brought out that the principal politicians were Uncle Joe's puppets
 Uncle Joe did not show bad temper, but when Kirby, as was his daily custom, called at the bank the next day to learn what was going on, Uncle Joe, In hls mildest and blandest tone, remarked that thereafter he would be more than pleased if Kirby did not visit his house.
 Very we'll" said Kirby.
 That was all they said about it, but Kirby was savage in what he wrote about the Wharf company in the next issue of the Spade. He was savage, too. in what he said about the opposition the Atlantic and Mississippi railroad was encountering in seeking an entrance to the city. A syndicate of millionaires had grabbed all the land on the water front not owned by the Wharf company and would not sell except at an exorbitant figure Kirby likened them to highwaymen, and, with out mentioning names, portrayed them so accurately that no one could mistake who was meant. Uncle Joe was prominent in the picture.
 Week after week Kirby ripped into U1- cle Joe and the other rich men of the town. There was no question about his being right in nearly everything he said. The city suffered from lack of enterprise. 1t had plenty of millionaires, but they were perfectly satisfied with things as they were and desired no change. They considered they had made the city and they resented criticism. Kirby and va rious other young men insisted that wealth had duty. They said the town might be delightful to the rich who had made their fortunes there and now were willing to sit back and look on, but 1t was not so pleasant for those who had only modest homes and whose prosperity depended on the growth and expansion of the city, its industries and It's com merce. They declared it was little short of a crime to keep out railroad just because few rich men insisted on the railroad paying tribute to them first. Once Kirby had become so angry that he wrote something to the effect that the town needed nothing so much as some first-class funerals.
 All this time Uncle Joe and Kirby chat ted once or twice day like the best If friends. Uncle Joe had a fine nose for news and no one gave more good, read able stun to the young newspaper man than the mild old banker Occasionally Uncle Joe would search Kirbys face with those keen eyes, but every time he did so Kirby returned the scrutiny with in
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 point below the market If necessary. De-
 liver the stock to him If he pays for 1t.
 ''All right" said Uncle Joe.
 Later in the day Kirby heard the stock
 had been sold at ssh He went to Uncle
 Joe. got his note. destroyed 1t and got
 the profit that was coming to him. Ho
 wac $500 to the good, exclusive Of the dividends he had collected.
 Uncle Joe.' he said. when he had
 strengthened out hs affairs, You've been mighty kind to me. and want you to
 kliow how appreciate 1t. Don't think I'm presumptuous ip what I'm going to suggest. I know you've got a wad of Wharf company stock. It has had sharp advance. It is not going higher for long time. It is likely to decline. Par is tempting to those who have held for years. You folks are not going to be able to keep tho Atlantic and Mississippi out of this town much longer. When the al1- nouncement Is made that the road is to come 1t will make Wharf company stock stump I'm as sure as that am stand- Ing here that the Atlantic and Mississippa will increase the Wharf company's re- ceipts vastly and make the stock much mere valuable, but lots of people won't see it that way until the fact Is demon- strated If I were you. Uncle Joe, I'd sell my Wharf stock now. You can plck v una bit lower If you want it"
 | Vncle Joe looked at Kirby quizzicauy. T haven't any Wharf stock, nc salo. "You haven'ty' exclaimed Kirby. why I saw you on the books for 2400 shares. The old man leaned over the counter and whispered, "I sold mine yesterday as l l0oH" There was something in the tone l that made the young man flush. 1 Kirby studied for a moment before rs' plying. Then he looked the banker in the eye. Uncle Joe" he said, 'I ought 10 toss this $500 in the gutter, but won't: i've been a fool. l never saw until this minute that you simply used me in this whole affair." Gee, but you're a slick old fellow. And thought was smart. Think l of it! I've simply made market for | you to sell on.'
 "Kirby.s said the old man, "use that
 $500 judiciously and you'll not regret this at all"
 "Oh, I'll use 1t judiciously, never fear,s
 the young man said with emphasis. '.I,ll let you know tomorrow about that part of 1t. I was going to discuss that matter today, but tomorrow will do." Kirby was true to his word. It was not,
 however, until afternoon that he let Uncle l Joe know. It was the most exciting and nerve-racking, day Uncle Joe had had in 20 years Dozens of times he telephoned | to his home. Dozens of times he tele- phoned to the office of the Star From early in the morning messengers from the
 bank had been scurrying around on er- | rands for the old man. Then about p. m he got telegram, and when he read it he went pale all of sudden and gasped. Then he pulled himself together and Jumped down from the stool and 1 grabbed a telephone
 aIt serves me right he said laughingly
 to his wife when he got connection with
 his home Heres A telegram just re- ceived." And he read: | Tive told Janice about the $500 Tho
 honeymoon will last as long as the $500 holds out.-Kirby." Copyright, 1911, by Richard spillane.)
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"OR man who had the politicians of the town in the hollow of his \ hand, who could make big mer- chants come a-running if he so desired and who had enough millions to make a spiurge in any society, Uncle Joe was unusually modest. He dressed shabbily, much to the annoyance of his clever wife and charming daughter. and was as commonplace In appearance as an old shoe. Ills bank. too. was unpre- tentious. There was big, wide coun- ter that extended around two sides of the inclosed space. The other two sides did not need counters. for they were against the walls. Above the counter was wire screen with openings here and there. One of the openings was where the counter was rounded, turn ing from the front to the side of the room At this bend in the counter "Un- cle Joe" sat all day looking out on the busy street or chatting with such peo- pie as had business with him. He never handled money, never raised his voice above the ordinary conversation al tone and never seemed to pay much attention to things. but his sharp lit tie eyes took in everything, or nearly everything.
 From where he sat he could see ev- cry one worth seeing in the business life of that town, for the bank was right in the heart of the city, at the junction of the two principal streets. And somehow he heard everything, or nearly everything, worth knowing. What he saw he didn't forget. What ha ha come into that seaport town with lit tie more than the clothes he wore and had plodded along for years before he had attracted attention. From a small merchant he had become an importer. From an importer he had branched out to be banker. Shrewdly and quietly he had made progress. Rarely did he make an error. It was not until his fortune was big and he was doing the most profitable banking business of the city that some of the old fogies realized that he was power in the community. He was so mild, so soft voiced. so unobstrusive that it was hard for them to understand how he had made such headway.
 Uncle Joe never told them the secret Day after day he sat at the counter and the city passed in review before him. Merchant and politician stopped now and then to gossip. The banker was a most attentive listener so long as the subject interested him. When it did not he had a habit of looking into vacancy in a preoccupied sort of way that made a caller feel it was a woper time to depart. The mayor was regular caller. The mayor patron
 ed Uncle Joe. The city funds were .eposited in the bank and the mayor felt that Uncle Joe should feel appre- ciative. The mayor did not know It. but he never would have been elected had 1t not been for Uncle Joe. In some mysterious way the banker had obtained a hold on most of the force ful men of each of the political parties
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-10-25
Men and Religion" Movement

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