The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
WHERE HONER'S
HEROES FOUGHT
ALLIES HUGE CANNON ARE NOW
pO1rNDTNG A WAY THROUGH
THE DARDANELLES.
TROJAN WALLS ARE STANDING
Nsu,e Evidences of Scenes of Ancient
Wars. 1t Is Far Cry From Ro-
mantle Siege of Troy to Terrible
I,,narsonaI Battle of Today.

Wars. 1t is u Tar Wy
mantle Siege of Troy to Terrible
ImpersonaI Battle of Today.
WAsHIGTON, D. C.-Cannon
awakening the echoes over lIl1um s
mains. where the allies are trying to
nound their way beyond the Darde-
neIles. stir many legendary memo
ries of this historic battle-region and
hiring to mind the oldest contrasts.
Here. where modern ordnance is
hurting its messengers of destruc-
ton Homer's heroes waged their
spectacular, single-handed comoats'
while admiring armies grouped them
selves around to watch.
Inspiration for the Soldiers
II is a far cry from the romantic
siege of Troy to the terribly imper-
sonaI battle of today. Yet the old
walls of Troy must bring some sort
of inspiration to the soldiers fighting
in their shadows, soldiers of the allies
or of the Turks Excavated Illium
heside the present wars great battle
field is described in a communication
to the National Geographic Society by
Jacob E. Conner. He writes:
THE Trojan walls are still in evil
dence: these same walls that deted
the onslaughts of Agamemmon and
Menelaus, of Ajaz, Nestor, Diomed,
ulysses and Achilles, to fall at last by
strategem. They remain as a ruined
and abandoned stage minus its para
phernalia, wherein 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 its
equal.
Wars of Ancient and Modern Times.
Wars in these crowded times are
for gain-shameless gain-but in the
youth of the world, if we take the IL
lad literally, men could afford to
fight for an ideal. Hence the HomeriC
warfare was a beautiful, poetic pas
time, seriously resulting to some
happy few, who were thenceforth re-
warded with Immortality in song.
AS the theatre of the worlds
greatest epic poem Troy deserves a
visit any year, every year, In the
thoughts and emotions it reyives and
stimulates, in the aroused sense of
Indebtedness of all subsequent litera-
ture and art, it richly repays visit.
The classical student will leave it in
a 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 HON.
er's Troy nine layers of old-time
cities we're found, one above the 9TH
er. 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 contain
ed the remains of the Roman city Of
Illium; two Hellenic villages were
found directly beneath it, which
fiourished here between 1000 b. c.
and the Christian era. The sixth city
from the bottom was determined
Homers Troy. The bottom layers
contained the remains of prehistoric
settlements, unimportant villages
that nave escaped every memory, ex-
cept these few, uncovered, decaying
stones. In the second or burnt city,
probably 500 years before the time
OF Troy, was found a considerable
mess of buried treasure, silver jars,
gold daggers and wonderfully
wrought diadems of gold. Describ
ing the country around Troy Mr..
Conner continues:
Where the Gods Assembled.
'Yonder the summit of Mt. Ida,
where the gods in solemn conclave so