The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-27
THIS FUNNY WORLD OF OURS

And now we are going to have
 railroad into the Garden of Eden.
 Yes the common or garden variety
 will be built by plain, practical men
 and I suppose there will be railroad
 eating houses along the. line just as there are in this country.
 Some enterprieing advertising con cern will dot the verdant landscape here and there with signs telling us how to live and how bo die On some particular spot will be erected bronze tablet with the words: "On this spot Eve ate the apple that kink- ed up the whole world without trou-
 ble.'.
 Some Yankee will be there with a booth selling rattles off of the origin
 al serpent that tempted the first lady in the land.
 It seeems sacri1igeous to think of
 big hefty brakemen pouring forth their
 blasphezny upon that sacred air or a | roughneck conductor telling people to step lively in that halIowed spot. The line issto end at Basrah, we are l informed by the news items, in the
 Tfgris valley, sixty miles short of the Persian gulf, where 1t was at first l intended by Germany to fix its east ern terminus
 1 England has put one over on Ger
 many in the matter of the BagUad
 hallway. The railway from the Bosphorus to I the Persian gulf was financed by Ger man money and it was- intended to kope1 Gea7nauy's road to the middle East in order to menace the interests of India and Russia in that neck of woods.
 A bridge across the Golden Horn 1 and a Gernaan-Austrian road to Sa,- l 1onika was part of the scheme How I ever, that dream was bursted like a l soap bubble through the disabling of Turkey and the present state of tur- 1 mol in the Balkans.
 I However, the construction of the l road through the Balkans is still go l until brought to a-haIt by a European 1 war.
 But there is no reason why the lime l could not be made one of importance from a commercial standpoint, it is I argued, as it touches rich oil and coal fields. More than that there is now I on foot a scheme of irrigation along l the Euphrates that will make the desert blossom as the rose and two I blades of grass grow where formerly
 there was not even one.
 I By sending Luther Burbank ovel there is no reason why he cou3dnd fool around and produce a cutting of , of the original apple tree that tempt ed dear old Mother Eve
 That famous old valley-the land ol
 Nineveh and Babylon-nay yet take
 her place as the greatest garden and l granery of the world
 The completion of the Eden Limit ed direct to the Garden of Eden ii now merely awaiting the new polfh cal order in Europe and all indjca, Ltions point to it's being finished il time for many of to take a ride !, into that pretty little truck farm l, | where OUT beloved ancestors. MT. a.nt
 Mrs. Adam Smith. did so we'll in tht 2 apple line.
 There is much opportunity there fo Yankee ingenuity to assert itself. Post 5 card stands ought to do well. sf1ouat think. Also it is not improbable tha : some up-to-date pfotographer vii I pitch his tent there and put up sign s like :"Get your photo made eatin g an apple" or-"Have your lil1enes 3 struck feeding the snake" Oh. tn 6 possibilities are linait1eae for the en :. terprising.
 l As you are w4airIed into the farnou s Garden on the Eden Limited althoug q you get a. cinder in your eye now an t then or have a fight with the conduc = tor get in an argument with = brakeman, don't <Iet it worry you, fo }. think of the una11oyed pleasure the 3 will soon be yours when you reac a the only original G. of E. and tram ' around the place in your new ta ]. ssT7ofz tzFldcff z-zslFe4e VOL