Evening star., 1914-12-25
Land at Day and Night.


Even at first the desert plains and
hills are not repellant at night: ana
after a time one rediscoVers the mines
worked by the poets of fersia-Saad''
Miami. Omar Khayyam and others
and the spirit makes it's surrounGihSS
Il part of itself. there as everywhere.
LAS is said in verse:
sit and | watch the "ameis s"inS
Along the hard road from the far-of land
iOn.. heart. heaven. the news they Fiis''
l learning TO love 1t, the limltIess sa..u,
And the clean, sweet bell that the cameis fins'
And for the night time:
Tis here the fearless bulbul with song
Alone dares brave the beauty OF the night
He paIseth oft and long ,,,A.
Deep drafts to take Of peace and of delight,
Checking the silence when It's grown 100 stFo"S
And rapturously bright:
DarEly "ncllan!oored in the silver tF''>'
Disiainins sleep for more luxurious c"se.
hna for the morning:
i:r<tdr tii" desc. tcS~ tlcir Ea.n"S a::,'i!
The kiiriliu- Ip,piirs in t!c tt"att ~ CAV
Thr leyri suur.,,ins s,.in;ncr. and TIE plain
!, ,br.,,,,cJ Win the .mornin: song of birds
hear again frlcnde familiar W"rhs
A thistle leaf that halts ana s'raii"''S '"
Muleback Trip.
.Of course l could give you i pooh
full about Persia and another about di-
DlOm3CV-tOf
ions aside from missionaries, We're the
people directly or indirectly PiasihS
the diplomatic game in this so-cailed
cockpit of the world. In fact, was SO
intimate with these representatives OF
Russia. England. Turkey, Austria, Ger
many, Italy, Spain and other countries
that in August it became embarrassing
to remain in Teheran pronounced
Tay-rahn, with the accent on the
"rahn'). accordingly. with a young
missionary doctor, Dr. Cook, took
T. ousand mile journey across the Jun
gle of Persia on muleback. And such
a Jungle, To give you some notion or
the wet part OF Persia, which extends
across the north for about a thousand
miles and is from 10 to 2oo miles
across. let me quote a few extracts
from Dr. Cooks diary:
1--WE lett ElruZ I\uh at $50 am.
and rode till 1850 PM: slowly crossed
a plateau and climbed over pass ana
down into this country-trees ana
through wild gorges, one known as
the Pass of the Devils, and by sew
eral caves, one called the DeVlis
cave'-followed a mountain stream up
down on this side. In ancient times
Mazanderan province was said 70 be
ruled by divs or devils, as we would
call them. The Persian king (for
Persia was separate country lIieu
to conquer it, and was captured ana
put into this Devils cave. Rostam,
giant of Persian child lore much like
Jack the Giant Killer, came to the
rescue; and so it was Mazanderan be
came part of Persia.
Now the weather has changed and
become moist. Clouds are lying low
and a misty rain is falling. 1t has
been cold all day, especially approach
ing and crossing the pass, where
very strong cold wind was blowing.
We stopped for few minutes at
caravanserai close to the top of the
pass, built by Shah Abbas $50 years
ago or more-solidly built of burnt
brick and not in ruins at all. 1t Is
said he built 999 caravanserais and
bridges all over Persia. When asked
why he did not build 1000 he answered
that it was SO easy to say 900 that
people would think but lightly of the
great thing he had done. At any
rate, these stand today as his monu-
ment, and serve thousands of people
and animals daily.
A Busy Sunday.
1T has been a busy Sunday, for l
think it is Sunday.
".Zin Alb, $50 pm, 9-3. We are in
a little mud hut, drying ourselves and
our clothes. 1t has been raining all day,
and for fifteen days before, they say, so
the road is terrible. The mules slip and
Slip and occasionally fall The
road follows a river-rice fields on one