Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1918 — OLDEST OF EARTH'S CITIES [ARTICLE]

OLDEST OF EARTH'S CITIES

Damascus Has Seen the Rise and Fail feof Races Which Are Mere Shadowe In History. What times and changes such a place as Damascus has seen, what waves of peoples, what rise and fall of kings, what increase and collapse of greatnSbs, what kaleidoscopic history! What the autochthonous population of the place was is a point probably past historic decision. The earliest records find in control a race Indefinitely related to the Mesopotamians. Then the march of races and peoples begins, and the rise. and fall of conquerors. Hittites, Amorltes, Suti, Khabiri, Jews, Assyrians, Cimmerians,’ Egyptians,' Armenians, Arabs, Persians, Macedonians, Parthians, Romans, Seleucids, the Omayyads, the Abbassides, Mongols, Tartars, modern Egypt teas, Ottomans, and the English, have swept through this oldest dwelling place of gregarious humanity, and still it flourishes, to this day as populous as such places as Kansas Qty or Denver or Indianapolis, Louisville, . St. Paul, or Rochester, and relatively far more important.