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rich grass with which they abound.
The beasts are taken hither In boats
from the neighboring village of sun
ipol, whose population is made up
chiefly of herd tenders
How my heart throbbed with youth
full memories as we swept around Ul-
vas isle into the dark Loeb Coil" and
I recalled the sad fate of Lord Ullin's
daughter. 1t is said that Campbell
obtained his facts for this poem while
a tutor at Sunipol and 1 knew the
verse by heart when quite a small lad.
I have never forgotten 1t though 1t
has been 40 years since conned the
lines. The last verses particularly ap-
pea1ed to me:
Come back, come back, ne cried in
grief,
Across the stormy water,
And I'll forgive your highland chief;
My daughter Oh my daughter.
"The wild waves dashed the angry
shore,
Return or aid preventing;
The waters wild swept DER his child
And he was left lamenting"
culiarly fashioned island that looks for
all the world like a barn or barracks
built of corrugated iron and floating
upon the water. One never knows
where the landing is to be made here
until advised by the crew of the red
life boat that comes five miles out to
receive the passengers. This is due to
the wild and angry waves that per-
petually beat upon the shore and the
landings are sometimes made directly
at the entrance 30 Fingars cave and
sometimes at point farthest from
the cavern.
Isle of Columns
Staffa means the Isle of Columns
and 1t is well named for 1t Is these
columns of rock that cause it to re-
semble an edifice of some corrugated
material The objects of astoundment
here are the C1amshe11 cave, the Bua-
chaille, or Herdsman; the Causeway,
the Great Face or Collonade; Fingal s
cave. the Boat cave and the Cormor-
ants
How shall describe Fingal's cave.
veritable fjord or flume under stu
pendous arcade? Most travellers rave
over the beauties of the Blue Grotto at
Capri and it is beautiful but it's charm
is of the soft and subtle character but
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Fountain in Old Stambul

appeared in a hat on Auteuil race course
toman embassy, and played auction
shridge with uncovered face with two
Spanish gentlemen" When she thinks of
that degradation she almost dies with
shame. After losing bets at Auteuil and
winning Spanish treasure at auction
bridge. Zuleika returned to homely Stam-
bul and became an honest Turkish wom-
an, who will wear henceforth no hat, and
as for showing the world the nape of her
neck, fie, she would die of shame!
Nurieh Hanum has at her disposal one
of the best purely Turkish libraries In
Stambul. and thus-without going out of
doors since the end of September-she is
able to fill ''Kadinlar Dunjasse' with
clever articles on 1.-THE Role of Greek
Women in History; Influence of Ha-
rem Life on Political Stagnation in the
Reign of Selim Ill" "The Trial of Lit
tie Bediah, and 1.-The Last Rick of
Polygamy." This last article Is based on
the great decline in Turkish divorce
cases. which results from the circum-
stances that nowadays practically no
urn mas sccoAu "he. however, tHere
are exceptions, and one of Nurieh's best
supporters is Madame HALL, who is 'Boe-
yuek Hanum" or head wife of several
to a rich landowner of Broussa. Madame
HALL herself writes articles on religious
education. The rule against writing pol
itics was broken because Nurieh Hanum
was Ill on the day Adrianople was re-
captured, and the days leading article
was written BY her cousin. the poetess,
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Landing at staffa

iron beacon as the rock Is completely
submerged at high tide Here In ages
gone one of the MaoLeans of Quart
placed his wife. thinking that she
would be swept to death by the flow
ing of the tide and FASTENED to Inver
array to tell her brother, the Early of
Argyll. of her death. But he had not
finished his story. when the lady, who
had been rescued by some fishermen,
walked into the hall. Quart fled to
Edinburgh. but was followed by Camp
bell of Cawdor, brother of his wife, and
slain. This incident is the subject of
Joanna Baillies Family Legend" and
Campbell's poem of "Glenara."
1t is difficult to justly describe the
wonderful beauty of the scene at this
point-one is locked in by hills and
towering peaks
In front rise the highlands of Nor
vern, Ardnamurchan and Null; behind
towers Ben Cruachan, the monarch OF
the Argyllshire mountains, and far off
across the glittering sheens of many
lochs, rise the Paps of Jura, the stony
breasts of giantess of granite and the
pride of all Scotland. The mountains
tint and all blend into the soft blue
hue of the sun FURNISHED sky above
1t is no wonder that such a spot gave
voice to the muse and set the lutte
string aquiver for here lived the Mac
leods, famous for their productions of
some of the finest of Gaelic songs. Here
Norman Macleod wrote his immortal
Farewell to Fiunarie' and here his
wife penned the equally famous Sound
of the Pibroch."
The tourists boat next sweeps by
Tobermory (Well of Nary, noted for
the wreck of the FLORIDA vessel of
the 'invincible Spanish armada which
was blown by the terrible gale which
wrought such havoc to the fleet and
sunk at this spot. Every century since
the sea yields up some of the Flor
ida's treasures. such as bronzes,
breechloading cannon and other inter-
esting relics. A curious feature of this
vicinity is the great number of hero
ines to be seen at every turn as each
castle seems to possess an area de-
voted to the raising of such birds and
so nests upon a single tree is not an
uncommon sight
Then we steered among the fresh
nish isles, a group of islands that are
absolutely uninhabited by man, but are
covered with highland cattle that are
pastured for many months upon the
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the First. when Turkey was really Tur-
key, and not tedious compost of Asia
and Europe.
II is here Madame Rifaat. or as she
says, Nurieh Hanum, lives, and here is
the same vast, dilapidated house is the
editorial and publishing office of '.Kadin-
lar Dunjasse.' The staff of "Kadinlar
Dunjasse" no man knows. But women
who have penetrated thither say that
Nurieh Hanum receives them in a taste
full dark blue dress, and that when she
takes off her veil there appears an amaz-
ingly fresh complexion, two clear blue
eyes, and the look of bright north
German girl. And this is all the more
surprising because Turkeys women are
mostly sallow and pale. and also because
Madame Rifaat keeps to the good Turk
ish habit of staying at home. When she
is asked IL she has been to the moving
picture show (Which inyades even eight
eenth century Binbir Derek) her answer
Is: mo. I'm a great sitter and worker.
Would you believe that I have not once
been out of doors since the end of Sep
tember last?'''
Nurieh Hanum's only male assistant is
her husband. Monsieur Rfaat. Rifaat
usually acts as censor, and keeps the pol
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itics out. Otherwise the woman's daily
Is run entirely by women. On the edi-
torial staff are seven delightful (but no
one has ever seen them) Turkish women
of the old, old school, and three still
more delightful maids, one Of whom
with the historic name Roxana) has ac-
tually been seen, for she studied at the
German school in Pera. Most "Kadinlar
Dunjasse'' contributions come from out
side. 1T is amazing says Nurleh Ham
UNI (to lady callers). what interest our
newspaper excites in all parts of the
empire. We get contributions from Arab
women in Bagdad, from kurdish
chiefs daughter who has been schooled
at Tiflis, and from the wife Of an ad-
ministrative official In Yemen" And these
articles deal with burning questions of
the day: with the caro- OF babies, the
scandalous treatment Of female orphans
by the Office of Vakoufs, and the infan-
tile mortality due to the lack of a prop
erly regulated milk supply. Over 40 such
articles are offered each day. and the
seven delightful Turkish women (whom
nobody has ever seem are kept eternally
busy IN sending them back.
Nnrieh Tanum says she started Kadin-
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Madame Said Hamid Bey. This was
Madame Said Hamid's first try at edit
ing, and she Indicted fiery Philippe
against Europe, declaring that Adrano-
pie must never be surrendered, and ap-
pealing to all maids, wives and widows
of Islam to die in the Martha rather
than hand over the temples and tombs of
conquerors to bood-stained Christian
hands. And this article highly fright
ened the grand vizier and his ministers,
who are afraid that if they had to give
up Adrianople their position will be made
uncomfortable by Islam's maids, widows
and wives, and still more uncomfortable
by the fathers and husbands of the
maids and wives That was the cause
of the mission of Monsieur Muchbil Bey
on the fiery steed, and the CONSERVATION
caused by good-loolSing Muchbil in vine
clad Birbir Derek. But though Muchbli
Bey did not see Nurieh Hanum the "Kad-
inlar Dunjasse'' has since kept clear of
politics.
Nurieh Hanum says she is going far
ther than mere preaching. She will fol-
low precept with example by opening in
Stambnl big department store. the pur-
pose of which will be to teach to Turk
ish maids the dignity and profit OF work.
Only Turkish maids will be employed.
This for Stambul is a novelty. as at pres
ent the only women that serve in stores
are Greeks or Armenians. Nurieh Hanum
says she will herself run the store She
does not explain how she'll manage 1t,
II she keeps to her old Turkish practice
Of staying at home for 60 weeks on end.
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lar Dunjasse' because she has no chill
dren to look after. Formerly she wr5ze
articles on the woman's s question for the
"Serbesti," and ''Tanin," and for Z
dead. On her husbands suggestion she
started a paper of her own, with the in
tent herself to write every day the first
leading article. The enterprise fiourished
In three months time "Kadinlar Dun
jasse" had circulation of $500 copies,
and this is very big thing. for Con-
stantinople has no mans daily that cir
culates more than 100000
Turkey for Turkish Women" is the
motto of "Kadinlar Dunjasse." Nurieh
Hanum proudly proclaims herself Turk.
She is content to stay in Turkey. Her
husband, Rifaat. is great traveller, who
has been, all over Europe and even In
America; he speaks five languages But
Nurieh has never accompanied him; she
is Mortified at the notion, and all the
languages she knows is "Merci bien.
Her newspaper exalts and holds up for
imitation the activity of European women
and the European love of work, but 1t is
presses detestation of some of Europe s
ways. Women" says Nurieh, must
be taught how to bring up their children.
That they do best in Europe. But to
go to a theatre; to wear d hat; to show
the nape of my neck-fie / should die
of shame!'' 'xadinlar Duniasse' short
ly after its frstN appearance published
articles in this spirit by Madame selim
Bey (zuleika Hanum), who is a great
niece of the Crimean hero. Omar Pasha.
Zuleika Hanum had been all over Eu-
rope. She described with shame how she
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Staffa

with their pals full of new milk to re-
for in the old monastic communities
brotherhood was term of real and
normal meaning and 1t established spirit
of warm and tranquil friendliness toward
the whole creation. a restored harmony
between man and the fertile earth. be-
tween man and his fellow-men.
End of Columbo
As COLUMBIA lived, so he died, for most
men die as they live. In the end of May
he was drawn by oxen harnessed to a
rude cart to the western side of the
island where his monks were working in
the fields. Standing up In this. cart he
tenderly blessed them and their island
home, his last words to them being let
peace and charity, charity mutual and
sincere, reign always among you" On
his way back he met. embraced and
blessed the old white horse of the dairy
and then he went to his eternal sleep.
One can still sense the spirit of this
sainted soul lowering around Iona L be
lieve in this lingering of spirits for it
can be felt at Florence in Italy. The at
mosphere there seems permeated with
the spirit of the great geniuses of art
who once frequented its houses and
walked its streets. Those men are not
dead, for their spirits still haunt Flor
ence and this is the only solution that
can be Offered for the strange sensation
of affection and charm that besets the
visitor to that Star of Tuscany. I have
also always felt the influence of the lit
erary spirit that infects the atmosphere
of Edinburgh and the men who created
that atmosphere centuries ago still live.
Visitors to Iona are conducted over
the island by an official guide appointed
by the Church of Scotland. They work
along the street of the Dead to Maclean s
Cross. This cross is the oldest in Scot
land and is one of $50 that stood on the
island OF them but two remain entire
1t and St Martins in the cathedral
grounds
st. Grams chapel is the most ancient
structure on Iona 1t is said to have been
built in the eleventh century upon the site
of st. Columbas original church, II
takes its name from the tradition that
Oran, a disciple of COLUMBIA, was buried
alive under the foundations as saeri-
flee TO the earth gods. A legend has u
that Columbia was conscience stricken
and went by night to dig his disciple
out but Oran was still alive and gave
such vivid descriptions of the things that
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Boys Like to Own Things

ne average boy believes firmly in 1
principal of the private ownership of n
sonal property He would rather he !
soie possessor of broken handled KIN
with no blades, than a pearl handl.
iour-oiaded affair in partnership.
IN Iacts the desire to own sometbinI
10 possess property-is inherent y, 4
mankind And mothers should end,fk
70 roster this desire, says Thomas
Lloyd In the Mothers Mayazjne. If L
not only increase the boys hanninJ
out VIII teach him the value Of aco,,1
uon' within proper limits. He sboI
nave his own playthings. his own toA
ms own books. his ovn clothes. and
place of his own In which to keen thH
a poy who is permitted to DO this
taAe better care OF things than if owl
IN partnership, and he will learn a. 81
10 have a place for his things and
Keep them in their place. And this 4
valuable lesson. Do not make a Won y
poy wear his older brothers clotI1
which the latter has outerown. If n
be avoided. OF course In some fa n,
where every cent counts, this canon
helped. Every boy. and we speak II
experience. hates to wear anotlI
clothes. He wants his own.
Give him his own bureau drawer
at least portion Of closet and
MIN habits Of orderliness and syster.
the care OF his possessions. These nd
are easily learned when young, and
value to the man Of business is ina
liable.
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of the Bending Pillars, mass of en-
gagged colurns or caryatides which seemed
to groan under their load of rock which
they supported and appeared to be bent
out by the weight of the mass above them.
Finally l arrived at the goal of my
pilgrimage, the Island of Iona. Its an
cient name was | ColmlSill (Y-columb- cilD
the isle OF the Cell of Columbia, from the
saint who here erected his monastery.
However, others assert that the name
iona is derived from a Hebrew word sig
nifying dove and still others from the
Gaelic l hona which means the Blessed
or Sacred Isle. l am strongly inclined
toward the correctness of the last state
ment
Apostle of Caledonia
From Iona streamed out the spiritual
light which illumined the barbarian world
and which was created by that poet-saint
known as COLUMBIA, the most engaging
feature of Celtic tradition. / know of no
more loveable character in ecclesiastical
history than this Apostle of Caledonia, .
who was born in Ireland in the sixth CEN
tury and founded his mission upon the
Island of Iona. He ranks with st. Fran
els of Assist. for while the one In his sense
of fellowship with all living things
preached to the birds. so the other blessed
the animals which We're around him and
his last act was to embrace and bless
the old white horse which carried the
milk from the dairy.
mystic tie bound the old saint to all
the desolate and his ministery implied a
constant consciousness of the poor and
humble. He was aware by intuition OF
the perils OF his spiritual children sailors
en- the tempestuous northern seas and he
was treated to ecstatic visions. 1t is said
that he once suspended conversation to
rejoice in the contemplation of the ascent
to heaven of the soul of an old black
smith who, having worked hard all his
life. was born upward gently by a choii
of angels. st. Columbia in his youth was
possessed with a warlike frenzy, but he
renounced this and turned to the crea'
tive arts of peace When he went to Iona
it was a barren island. but here he formed
with his monks an agricultural commune
ity whose life furnishes us with idyllie
pictures. For a cell he built a little
wooden but where he studied, but again
and again he laid down his pen to bless
the monks as they came back from the
fields, the pastures or the barn. The
younger brethren after having MIXED the
cows of the community would kneel down
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he had seen in the neither world az to
cause COLUMBIA to shovel in the earth
again.
In the cathedral at Iona one is shown
the tomb of COLUMBIA, who was buried
with his servant, Diarrnid, but the bones
of the saint are no longer there. havina
been removed by Kenneth II to Dunkeld.
The Prophecy Made
In the early centuries of our era the
men of Ireland and Scotland used little
boats called coracles in passing by water
backward and forward from one coun-
try to the other. The boats were very
frail. being made of wicker work cov-
cred by bulls hide. St. COLUMBIA, when
he landed on the south side of the is.
land, came In one of these coracles. andY
just after he had placed his foot on
land he made this most wonderful proph-
ecy, though he probably never dreamed
how literally it would be fulfilled. Ho
said, This place small and mean as ID
appears. shall be honored not only by the
Kings of the Scots and their people, but
by the rulers of strange nations and those
subject to them. By the holy men also
erence.' Iona has a population of just|
150 souls, but there is a comfortable innl
upon the island. Aside from its historio|
associations 1t is interesting in its spout
ing caves and its wonderful ''sounding',|
boulders. The latter when struck havN|
remarkable metallic ring. The island
is separated from the Ross of Null by Al
strip of water just mile wide and fron|
the latter place comes the red granite|
which was used in building the Albert !
Memorial. Blackfriars bridge and Hol-
born viaduct. London.
At Null Is also Gorry's Leap, so named
because a clansman who had been pun
ished by Macaine of Lochbuie, seizet
the chiefs heir and, springing with this
child to the edge of the cliff, demanded
that Maclaine should suffer the same
punishment as himself. The agonized
father consented and indured the scourg
ing. but when 1t was finished CORY witt
wild laugh, leaped from the cliff witt
the boy in his arms. M
was lothe to quit the home of 81
COLUMBIA and as | sailed away from 4
charming little island | recalled til
words of DR.. johnson when he said
That man is little to be envied who's
patriotism would not gain force una
the plains of Marathon, or whose piet
would not grow warmer among the ruin
Of Iona"
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~ oNsTANTINoPLE' October Is
Two days after Adrianople was
recaptured, Monsieur Muchbil
Bey, a black-eyed, dashng cavalier of
the ministry of the interior and nephew
of the late Governor Hussein Bey, gall
loped upon a fiery steed to windy Bim-
bir Derek and asked to see the editress
of "Kadinlar Dunjasse'-the "Woman's
World.1 Madame Nurieh Ulvieh Han
UNI said: MOI Trouble. 1t seems, was
in store. "Kadinlar Dunjasse is the
great, the first ladies' daily newspaper
concessioned by the Young Turk govern
ment, and 1t got the concession only on
the solemn condition that keep Off high
politics Usually 1t keeps the rule. And
now two days after Adrianople's recap
ture ''Kadinlar Dunjasse came out with
brave, exalted article on the revived
glory of Islam. And this displeased the
Young Turks who are afraid of too
much enthusiasm over Adrianople. and.
bill on his fiery steed.
Monsieur Muchbil not only idd not see
Madame Nurieh Ulvieh Hanum. but he
did not even see the rose-pink veil which
forswearing the customary veil of
blaclS) she wears over her uncommon1y
pretty face. Not that any man knows
it is pretty. And no man will ever know
For the miracle of ''Kadinlar Dunjasse'
and of all its co-editresses, leader-writ-
crosses and secretaresses, is that they
are running this first woman's daily
paper on sound old-Turkish, anti-femin-
list lines, and they have as much horror
as any odalisque of Abdul I1amid for
bare faces, hats, split skirts, the orgy
of undress and votes for women. They
also abjure the corrupting French Ian
guage, and French novels, and Pierre
Lott, and aim simply at regenerating
Turkeys women on sound Turkey-red
lines.
Nurieh- Ulvieh is the 3O-year-old wife,
and only wife of the journalist, Mevla
Ma Sade Rifaat Bey. Rifaat is distin-
guished publicist. and he owns the Ser
besti," which at present is suspended
and also owns printing establishment
where "I<adinlar Dunjasse is printed
Bimbir Derek, where he hangs out, is
unlike any other center of innovation
either in Frankish Pera, In Greco-Ar-
menian Galata, or in Turkish Stambul
itself. and it is one of the Oldest, least
spoiled, most Moslem parts of Stambu
1t is a tangle of ancient, dilapidated
houses. covered with vines: there is a
turbaned gravestone lying in the middle
of the square, axd on the roofs. from
which you can see Incompatible Mar
mora. there lounge all day immemorial.
wrinkled Turks. and beautiful (but no.
body has even seen them) odalisques.
When you go to Bimbir Derek you feel
Yourself back in the reign Of Mahmud
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Iona

in Ffngal's cave there is grandeur,
there is awe, there is majesty. As your
boat glides under the vast portal OF
mighty octagonal columns fashioned Of
lava and you realize the depth and
strength OF the tide which rolls in pros
found and heavy swells into the ex-
tremtty of the huge cavern, unseen
amid Its vague uncertainty, you feel
as though you were in the shadowy
vestibule of the neither world. Then you
are thrilled with the play of color, hue
and tint and marvel at the wonderful
chromatic display of nature. The white.
crimson and yellow of the stalactites
which form the base of the broken pill
lars that support the roof bewilder you
the vaulting is intersected with rich
and variagated chasing that reflects a
variety of tint and glamour from be-
low where the water rolls over dark
red or violet colored rock. One feels
as though he were in mighty ca
thedra1 where titan and giant do wor-
ship for the fluting, volutes, pillasters
and engaged columns mingle their
glories with the tremendous staccata
of the swelling tide and the deep toned
echoes of the vault that penetrates far
into the bowels of the island The
whole forms a combination of effects
without a parallel in the world.
Visit of Banks
1t is singular that this stupendous basal
tic grotto was not known to the outer
world until it was visited by Sir Joseph
Banks in 1772 for it's height is 66 feet and
Its length 22 feet. The cave was named
from Ossians King of Selma and no
mightier temple could have been dedi-
Gated to perpetuate the memory of mon
arch or a god.
The Causeway is the next important
object of interest and it's corner stone is
said to be the only square stone on the
island, for the whole is gigantic mass
of pillars and rocks in every conceivable
shape, size, angle and position SEEM
ingly built or fitted into each other by
the hand of man. 1t is claimed that the
Causeway continues under the sea to re-
appear at the Giants Causeway In ireland
and that in centuries gone it was entirely
above water constituting foot path over
which the giants of old passed and re-
passed from one country to the other.
Half way along the Causeway Is Fingal S
Wishing Chair In which tradition says
one has only to sit and make three sepa-
rate wishes, all of which are sure to be
realized.
1 was particularly struck with view