The Pulaskian., 1915-10-15

over Ilium's plains, where the allies have been trying to AR pound their way beyond the
 Dardanelles, stir many legen- aary memories of this historic battle region and bring to mind the oldest contrasts. Here, where now mod ern ordnance is hurling it's messen- waged their spectacular, single-handed ,ombats, 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 cid walls of Troy must bring some sort of inspira- ton to the soldiers fighting in their shadows, soldiers of the allies or of the Turks. Exeavated Hum, near one of the present wars great bat tlefields, is described in communi- cation to the National Geographic so- ciety by Jacob B. Conner.
 The Trojan walls are still in eyi- dence: 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 its paraphernalia, whereon was played so many centuries ago an insignificant 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, poetic pastime, seriously resulting to some happy few, who were thenceforth rewarded with im- mortality in song.
 Troy We'll Worth Visit.
 AS the theater of the worlds great est epic poem, Troy deserves visit 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 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 Homers 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 5000 years that civilization has lived upon the products of the fertile valley. The topmost layer contained the remains of the Roman city of Hum: two Hellenic villages were found directly beneath it, which four 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 800 years before the time of Troy, was found considerable mass of buried treasure, silver jars, gold daggers, and wonderfully wrought diadems of gold. Describing the country around Troy, MT. Conner continues:
 Wonder is the summit of Mt. Ida, where the gods in solemn conclave so often sat, where "cloud-compelled Zeus' sometimes thought two ways in his mind at once," or else ended all debate with 6 nod that shook high Olympus and caused the heavens to reverberate and glow with the flash of his thunderbolt.
 Famous Rivers Only Creeks.
 Away over wonder, skirting the ridge of Hum, is Simois' stream, or should be; but the bridge across it shows upon our approach that modern Simois is no more than a creek. Worse than that; following it's attenuated course, less than a mile downstream, we dis cover that it ends in a morass instead of the Scamander as of yore. And the latter stream is scarcely less dis appointing, for 1t is no more dignified in size or appearance. In fact, their sluggish currents united can scarcely boast of banks except at occasional intervals, for both streams are now only broad swales merging with the