The Monticellonian., 1915-10-21

Dardanelles, stir many legen- dary memories of this historic battle region and bring to mind the oldest contrasts. Here, where now mod ern ordnance is hurling it's messen- gers of destruction, Homer's heroes waged their spectacular, single-handed combats, while admiring armies grouped themselves around to watch. It is far cry from the romantic siege of Troy to the terribly impersonal bat tie of today. Yet the old walls of Troy must bring some sort of inspira- tion to the soldiers fighting in their shadows, soldiers of the allies or of the Turks. Excavated Hum, near one of the present wars great bat tlefields, is desc bed in a communi- cation to the National Geographic so- ciety by Jacob E. Conner.
 The Trojan walls are still in evi- denee: those same walls that defied the onslaught of Agamemnon and Menelaus of Ajax, Nestor, Diomed, Ulysses and Achilles, to fall at last by stratagem. They remain as a ruined and abandoned stage minus it's aphernalia, whereon was played so many centuries ago an insignificant l little drama compared with modern events, but it was a drama so big with human interest divinely told that the world has never known it's equal.
 Wars in these crowded times are for gain, but in the youth of the world. if we take the Iliad literally, men could afford to fight for an ideal. Hence the Homeric warfare was a beautiful, a poetic pastime, seriously resulting to some happy few, who were thencefoyth rewarded with i'm mortality in song.
 Troy We'll Worth a Visit.
 As the theater of the worlds great est epic poem. Troy deserves a Vlslt any year, every year. In the thoughts and emotions it revives and stimulates in the aroused sense of indebtedness of all subsequent literature and art it richly repays a visit. The classical student will leave it in daze of meditation upon things more real to him than the actual things he has seen and touched.
 On the site where the German sa- want, Schliemann, unearthed Homer s Troy, nine layers of old-time cities were found, one above the other They were builded, destroyed. and forgotten here during the more than 1000 years that civilization has lived upon the products of the fertile vclley. The topmost layer contained the remains of the Roman city of Hum; two Hellenic villages were found directly beneath it. which flour ished here between 1000 B. c. and the Christian era. The sixth city from the bottom was identified as Homer S Troy. The bottom layers contained the remains of prehistoric settlements unimportant villages that have es capped every memory except these few uncovered. decaying stones. In the second, or burnt city probably soc years before the time of Troy, was found a considerable mass of buried treasure, silver jars, gold daggers. and wonderfully wrought diadems of gold Describing the country around Troy MT. Conner continues:
 Yondo is the summit of Mt. Ida where the gods in solemn eonclave SC often sat. where "cloudcompelleC Zeus" sometimes thought two way: in his mind at once" or else ended al debate with a nod that shook 'i5f Olympus and caused the heavens tt reverberate and glow with the fiasf of his thunderbolt.
 !, Away over wonder. skirting the ridge