Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-12-16

the days Of its supremacy. ii was as
vain and rich and snowy as toried
Hamadan, the pride of earliest Persia.
the city of seven walls in seven colors'
with palaces wrought in gold and sill
yer and frescoed with precious stones.
Modern Teheran is the inheritor of
the traditions and the pride Of Ragae
and of Hamadan, and of the ancient
honors OF Pasargadae and Persepolis.
With the rise Of Teheran, Media re-
gained the place that it lost to Per-
STA in the time of Cyrus.
Anarchy has ruled within the cap
ital in a way more or less pronounced
during the last several years, and the
people OF the city have accomplished
little toward its modernization and
the development of it's importance as
a place Of commerce and manufac-
ture. There is an important caravan
trade, which passes through Teheran
toward the Russian borders and a
certain manufacture of cotton, linen
carpets, shoes and iron products Its
business is enough to give support to
population of about 100000, in which
are included about 500 Europeans.
The climate of Teheran is not a
favorable one. and especially are the
summers unhealthy, when all Of the
people who can get away go to the
foothills in the north. Writing in 1886
a Persian gives a pathetic summary
of a Teheran summer. He SAYS that
-
that the water was heavy and un-
wholesome. and, in short, everything
so bad that the Angel of Death ran
away from it But, then, this author
wrote shortly after fearful cholera
plague had passed over the city. The
nearby of the cool summer
gardens in the foothills. likely has
conspired to give the Teheran sum-
mer bad standing"
hInak hn Ere NTnpNavarr~;r, of%-
fall before the invaders, is the most
important city acquired by the Black
Mountain people for their part in the
war of the Balkan League against the
Ottoman Empire in 1872" says
primer on war geography just given
out by the National Geographic So
ciety. Situated anywhere else but in
the worlds most troubled peninsula,
1pek would have made name and
riches as a mecca for vacationists;'
for nature round about is friendly,
beautiful and varied; it's air is fresh
and full of moutain-t tang; and the
rich Mediterranean fruits are grown
in its gardens.
For the sportsman, Ipek could
have furnished hunting, fishing and
Notwithstanding. For the nerve
worn patient, it could nave given
bracing climate and picturesque soli-
tudes. While all of these things would
have made it a tempting spot to the
unfortunate center Of unrest, how
ever, where Albanian, Montenegrin,
Turk and Servian kept the pot of
trouble boiling year after year under
an Ottoman administration that
stirred the embers under the pot when
these showed signs of smoIdering,
Ipek, has remained unknown and al
most entirely unfeed by the world out
side for the beauties of its place.
"Ipek lies upon the present bord-
ers of Montenegro. in the east toward
Servian Prishtina. The Mokra Plania
rise high behind it to the west, and
this range forms the immediate bar
rier to the invaders from Ipek On
neighboring heights is situated a IA
nous monastery, in which the Servian
patriarchs formerly housed, the Ipek
monastery. founded by Archbishop
Arsenius IN the 18th century. Many
of the olden chiefs Of the Servian
church are buried here, and here al
so, is preserved the marble throne
upon which the patriarchs were
crowned. The city lies 73 miles east
northeast of Albanian Scutari. which
latter city has now become the seat
of Servian government. 1t has a pop
ulation of about 5000, which has
been better housed and circumstanced
than most of the populations in the
Balkan Uplands."