Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — Page 3

Great Ruins of Baalbek

IN THE path of the victorious British expedition in Palestine as it moved northward lay the mountain ranges of the Lebanon, and Aleppo, the taking of which _ city gave complete control of the Syrian end of the Bagdad railway and of the important port of Alexandretta, the best harbor in the country. From Damascus the railway to the north traverses the Beka’a, a long, fertile valley between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges. In the middle of this valley on the slope of the latter range is situated the ancient town of Baalbek celebrated for Its wonderful ruins. Baalbek Is a small and prosperous town, a large part of the population being Christian, says Country Life, ahd it ls the' seat of the government of a province of the same name and a military center. Ya’kubi, an Arab writer of the ninth century, speaks of Baalbek as one of the finest towns of Syria, and other writerg make allusion to this beautiful spot and its wonder-, ful ruins. It is spoken c£f by the geographer,. Nur Kaddasi, /us the coolest place in Syria. ** As the name which is Semitic in origin, implies, it was connected from early times with the worship of the sun, probably meaning the city of Baal in the Beka’a, by which the plain is known. The Phoenicians here erected a great temple to Baal constructed with colossal stones after their manner. This was afterwards utilized and reconstructed in the Grae-co-Roman period, when the name Baalbek took the Greek form of Heliopolis.

Part of One of the Great Stones of the Temple of Baal.

Julius Caesar gave it the privileges of a Roman colony, and later, Antoninus Pius, in the last part of the second' century, A. D., built the beautiful temple of Jupiter, and the great temple of the sun was erected about the same time. These two temples would appear to be represented on«coins of the time of Septimus Severus some thirty years later, and they carry the inscriptifia on the reverse, “Colonia Heliopolis JoVi Optimo Maximo Hellopolitani.” Great Phoenician Monoliths. The great temple of the Sun is erected on the site of the Phoenician temple of Baal, and at the western end of the sub-structure are to be seen three colossal monoliths which, with other leaser ones, are placed in the wall at a height of 20 feet- from the ground level, and measure respectively 64 feet feet and 62 feet in length, by 13 feet in thickness and about the same in breadth. The writer notes -that they are so beautlfully squared and .fitted that, although without mortar, it would be difficult to put a knife between them. The quarry from whicli these gigantic stones were brought is about half a mile flwux; and there another ope, still larger, is to be seen. This is 68 feet long and, being squared on all -sMes.-wrrs leftin ■process'of being cut from the rock below, when rollers

Six Columns of the the Sun.

would have been placed under it. But of what were-they, and what power was sufficient to move and control this immense -mass of limestone rock? Romans Reused the Stones. The Roman builders would appear to have largely reused the stones of the earlier Phoenician, work. The temple of the Sun itself had 54 columns, 17 each on the north and south sides, and ten each on the east and west sides. On the south side six of these great columns still remain* standing. They are 75 feet in heightrinciuding base and capital, while the entablature above adds another 14 feet; the shafts consist of three blocks only, joined with iron ties, their diameter Is 7 feet 3 inches at the base and 6 feet 6 inches at the top. To the south is the temple of Jupiter. This is 227 feet by 117 feet, and on a lower level. It also faeed east, and had a beautiful portico and stone staircase, nothing of which remains. The peristyle had 42 east and west sides, and eight on the north and south. These were 65 feet in height, the shafts being 6 feet 6 inches at the base, and 5 feet 8 Inches at -the top. The entablature was 12 feet high, the distance between the columns and the cella is 10 feet, the ceiling being formed by great slabs of stone connecting them, and beautifully decorated. The north facade is the best preserved, where nine columnsout of fifteen still remain in position. About 300 yards from the great temples is the small shrine of Venus, a

circular sanctuary of exquisite workmanship; this was once surrounded by columns, but only" traces of these remain. It has been turned into a Christian church, and was so used till within recent times by the Greeks.

New Disease.

“Eye-work is perhaps the biggest part of submarine hunting,” writes William G. Shepherd in Everybody’s Magazine, “and it has its evils and penalties. Woe to the man on a destroyer who is gifted with that strange, unexplainable talent of being able to see by night. There be such. His is almost 24-hour-a-day task. And he finally gets the periscope eye* and is sent ashore to get well, If he can. His eyes weep tears of pus by day*and, after sleep, his lids are glued together with granulation. It is a new disease of this mad century. “*Yon keep looking through- those high-powered binoculars like an old lady reading through her spectacles,’ one of the boys explained, to me, ‘until finally they seem to be pulling ydur eyes out of their sockets.’" ' .

Melancholy Admission.

~ "Don’t you think' you talk entirely too much, when you have been drinking?” hsked Uncle Bill Bottletop. “L [ boozei myself,”

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BUMBLE BEE BUSY WORKER

Only Severe Cold Weather Induces Inv sect to Take a Rest From Its Labors. ' / If one were.boto a idea of life success would be 40 acres of-red clover waist high, in full June Moons and fragrance all the year .through and forever. What one bumble bee coufil do 40 acres of clover no bee nor mortal ever knew I but the bee. if human wise, would want all that and more. - . ' ’ • Invade “his flowery honey farm at the height of the season, and he puts out no restraining hand. There is no padlock on his gate. The whole field is a-hum with polyglot plunderers coming from everywhere to carry away the very goods that are gold to the bumble bee. But he puts up no defense. He makes no vicious counter-' offensive, as the yellow-jacket mi gh t. If you search for him here you find him diligently prospecting with his honey pump humming a barytone solo as he works, loads of pollen strapped tohi.qrunning board, his tonneau bulging with joy fodder. He is having the time-of his life. When the 40 acres of red clover is a wilderness of dry stubble under a scorching July sun, and his millions in clover are swept away by the hand of the strong, this bumble bee will not be found hanging by a spiderweb to a fence-row fireweed, a bankrupt suicide. /Not he. In this fence corner left by the mower, clad in his velvet suit of black and yellow, even now he is working over the dump of a goldenrod nilne. and gold is shining from his pants pockets. Moreover, he has a fair swig left in his honey jug, and he is still humming his song of high June. As the season goeg down the steep slope toward chilly weather, the bumble bee does not dig his reluctant heels into the sod, lag sullenly bask and turn a regretful eye over his shoulder, with his heart in the lost red clover. He takes the small sweets of poverty as he did the rich sea of June honey. From a. June millionaire’s estate he has fallen to the fortune of an autumn tramp, taking a handout from a belated weed and begging a night’s lodging in the last bloom of a wayside hollyhock. But he still retains his well-brushed suit, his good deep barytone and his memories of June.

PROVED ABILITY TO REASON

Hard to Explain Monkey’s Action in Putting Out Fire Unless That Ad- . mission Is Made. A Louisiana planter who owns a pet monkey which answers to the name of Jocko, teils an anecdote about him which proves•that' such animals can and do reason. The children of the house and Jocko are boon companions, and of a summer afternoon enjoy a frolic together upon the lawn. One day someone threw a match down and the grass Ignited, making a little blaze. Jocko, saw it and stopped and looked, then glanced all around, and, seeing a piece of plank not far off, ran for it, crept cautiously to the fire, al I the time holding the plank as a shield between himself and the flame, then pressed it down and extinguished it . What child could have reasoned better and done more? Although, perhaps, no danger couldl have come from the fire, sti 11 no knows what the result might have been, and the monkey evidently believed. that prudence is the better part of valor.

He’d Forgotten.

The school dramatic society was glv Ing its first performance of the season and the play they had chosen for the momentous occasion was “Julius Caesar.” All went smoothly till Caesar’s dead body was brought in. and Marc Antony had to deliver his famous speech. He put his heart into the part and the audience felt acutely for the poor citizens, who wers all, presumably hor-ror-stricken and overcome with grief, when Antony gently but firmly grasped, as he thought, the face-cloth and slowly, very slowly, began to draw it back. Just then an excited whisper came from the other end of the corpse:- . "This end, you idiot!” But Antony was too much wrapped in grief to hear. He then suddenly disclosed to the intently gazing audience Caesar’s boots !-

Rhine’s Wanderings.

A remarkable thing about the Rhine is its length for so small a river. Unlike the Nile, which contains less water at Cairo than at Berber, 1,500 miles upstream, the Rhine has numerous afiluents, but never attains the dignity of a real river, as Americans understand such definitions, until It enters Holland. ; The “German Rhine’’ owes Its orlgin to the Swiss mountains, wanders with apparent aimlessness--first west and then north and northwest, after leaving Lake Constance—until it enters Holland, where it becomes as sluggish as a#y Dutchman who ever dwelt in New Amsterdam.

Too Severe.

"You fold me when you were a'snttor for my hand that , my will would ever be law to you," said Mrs. Grippins. ' . “Sa I did, my dear, so I did." replied Mr. Grippins, mildly. “But at that particular time little did I dream that —er—martial- law."—piunlugham AgeHerald.

FEW MAJOR LEAGUE MANAGERS ARE EVER DEVELOPED FROM RANKS OF STAR PLAYERS

FORMER PLAYERS WHO WORKED THEIR WAY UP.

Few big league players ever become managers, and fewer still are ever graduated to the ranks of club owners. One of the most prosperous of the magnates is Charley Comiskey of the White Sox, a former player. Managers Financially Interested. Clark Griffith, one-time pitching star, owns stock in the Washington club. Branch Rickey has holdings 4n the St. Louis Cardinals and Connie Mack has a gpod-slzed bunch of stock In the Athletics, but they are the only former players really in the big league club owner class. Some former diamond stars have property holdings in minor league dubs, but they are having a rough row to hoe just now. McGlnnlty Went Broke. Joe MeGinnity, the former “iron man” of the Giants, is a former minor league magnate now. He can tell any player that owning a ball club or a considerable block of stock in one isn’t all it is cracked up to be. McGinnity, after getting out of the major

KILMER WILL INVADE FRANCE

Owner of Sun Briar and Exterminator Contemplates Sending Horses Across Water. Willis Sharpe Kilmer contemplates an “invasion” of the French turf with Sun Briar and Exterminator_Jf racing is resumed in France next year. He also has a full brother to Sun Briar, a two-year-old, which is at Newmarket, England, in charge of Alexander Taylor, which will go to France. Firm in the belief that no trainer can do full justice to more than 12 horses, Mr. Kilmer will divide his string of racers into two divisions next year. Henry McDaniel, his present trainer, will have charge of one section and J. Simon Healy the other.

BURNS GOOD FOR INFIELDER

Manager McGraw of New York Giants Praises Outfielder —Had No Room —— ,for Player.— John McGraw was talking about George Burns. “He should have been an infielder," said the Giants’ manager,

George Burns.

“but I had so many infielders at the time—Groh and Stock among them, you will remember —that I put Burns in the outfield. He’d have been another Bill Dahlen; he’s just that sort of player, but he made a pretty nice outfielder, at that.”

BOLAND. WILL PITCH AGAIN

Detroit Tiger Twirler Gives Up Idea of Working for Commission—- ' Education Lacking. - A - -r Pitcher Bernard Boland of the Detroit Tigers has decided not to continue his studies for an officer’s commission In the navy. He found that he did not have the technical edu<y» tion required, for one thing, and with the coming of peace he also longs for a -return—to cl rillife. The-rgsult -isr that be may he seen pitching WUI next season. ' ‘

leagues and taking the job as mana ger of the Newark club of the Inter national league in 1903, decided in 1913 that he had saved enough money to embark on the career of a mlnoi league magnate. So he invested his savings of a lifetime in the Tacoma dub of the Northwestern league, anc it is understood the proposition broke him.. - ■ / . ' - , ■/ '■ . . Was Great Twlrler. This former star pitcher only recently celebrated his forty-fifth birthday anniversary. He was one of the great' est twirlers the game has ever seen, and he had the faculty of being able to pitch on consecutive days If called upon, and invariably turned in a creditable performance. He won 35 of 43 games for the Giants In 1904, and when he quit the majors with 415 victories to his credit he made a record that has been excelled only by Young. A rise ball that he delivered underhand was as famous as Christy Mathewson’s fadeaway. McGinnity called it “Old Sal.”

DOUBLE WORLD’S SERIES

The establishment of the American game of baseball in the battle scarred fields of Europe is likely to have a direct bearing on the world’s series of 1919, in the opinion of Clarence Mitchell, a major league southpaw of considerable repute, who saw service with the Cincinnati and Brooklyn clubs of the National league. “There will be a double world’s series next fall,” Mitchell has just written from France, “f«r the public will demand it and the army and navy will insist upon it

CANADA WOULD BAR GERMANS

Motion to Be Forwarded to La Federation Internationale de Football Association. Secretary E. Spencer of the Dominion Football association will send to the council for approval the following motion, and if satisfactory to Canadian soccer men it will be forwarded to Amsterdam, the headquarters of La Federation Internationale de Football association, and acted upon by several countries affiliated with the F. L F. A.: “Proposed by Hugh Craig Campbell, president Dominion of Canada Football association, that the membership of the German association,'governing soccer football.in Prussia and confederated states, with the Federation Internationale de Football association, be suspended for a period of five years, to date from January I—followingl—following cessation of hostilities.” In a statement, President Campbell said: “This motion, if carried by the supreme court of soccer football, means that Germany will be outride the pale, as far as soccer is concerned, for five years after the war is over. I consider this time short enough for their hands to be sufficiently cleaned for sport.”

LIKE BASEBALL IN CHICAGO

President of Semlpro League Tells of Attendance at His Park DurIng September. L.. . - -*■'- T _ That there was no lack of baseball Interest in Chicago after the close of the major leagues’ season is indicated by some testimony given at the Peoria convention of the National association by President Nelson of one of the Chicago semi-pro leagues. He seated that for five Sundays dating from September 8 to October 5 the at-, tendance at his park in Chicago was never lower than .3,400 paid admissions, with 40 and 50 cents per fan charged. This was in his park only’ and shows the interest that was maintained in ,‘baselmll in one city after the game had been" declared non-es-sentlair along with -gnmbllng.TOituhe telling, etc., but not play acting, and r Chorus singing or piano playing.

STECHER THINKS HE WOULD MAKE BOXER

Wrestler Bitten by Same Rug That Got Franlefiotehr— Anxious to Attempt What Other Grap* plers Have Tried, but Failed--Fighter Must Know How and When to Putlon Steam. . Joe Stecher, the wrestler, who is stationed at the Great Lakes nnyal station, is anxious to attempt what other grapplers have tried but failed —to become a successful boxer. Che late Frank Gotch and Ivan Linow, the Russian, after several year < wrestling decided to enter the squai ?d circle, and neither one met with‘any g‘eat success. ■ Gotch fought several ring.. battles and failed to man whom he could beat. Linow’s ring ambitiona, ended abruptly when he tackled fess Willard. Llnow went under the rame of Frank Lyon while he was figb'fng, and the pair met in 1911 at Elk City, Okla. The contest went ten rounds and resulted in an easy victory fp- the present noncombatant champion. Doctor Roller was another wrestler who failed in the ring. Many believe that the failure of. the mat artists as boxers was mainly due to the fact .that they were muscle bound and could not get the free action so necessary in the ring. Wrest* lers in glove contests were usually un« able to judge distance correctly, sot the.slmple reason that during mat tus sles they were nearly always-clinching with their opponents. Wrestlers are as a rule stronger than boxers, but strength is not al*

Joe Stecher.

ways prominent In the makeup *f a successful boxer. He must know how and when to put steam behind his blows. Footwork also is an important factor in ring contests. Wrestles i, as a rule, are ponderous and slow. Stecher, however, firmly bel eves that he has all the qualificatiot s oi a boxer. The grappler has been watching bouts held at the 'treat Lakes and he has studied how each boxer handles, himself.

NEW FOOTBALL RECORD MADE

Welborn of Butler College Carries Ball 102 Yards for Touchdown and Wins Game. J = What is said by football experts to have been the longest run for a touchdown from an intercepted forward pass was made by Lundy Earl Welborn, quarterback for Butler In its annual gpme .with Franklin college. With only three minutes to play, the score 2 to 0 in favor of Franklin, which, seemingly, was headed for a touchdown, Welborn caught tl e. pass behind his own goal and ran 10! yards for a touchdown, winning the g <me for Butler. This distance, two yards n ore than the length of the field, exceed! by 17 yards the longest run on a simil ir play, according to Butler football fa ;s, who have 1 been studying football 3 atlstlcs since the feat was performed.

PAID $1,700 FOR A PUTTER

Club With Which Travis W m Gt It Championship Is Presented to Garden City Golf llux L. H. Eapham paid $1,700 al auction for the sputter with which V alter J. Travis won the championship sf Great Britain in the golf tourney-in 1904. Mr. Lapham made a present of the Trophy to the Garden City Golf t’ub, the organization Mr. Travis i eprea nted when he won the champijnship *f Great Britain, and the club of which h« has been a long and loyal member. It will be hung over the firepl* ice in the library; ; ~

SCIENTIFIC END OF BOXING

Well-Known Pugilists Have Introfiuced *No New Punches—Give No Time to Study. '. ' - 2 A boxing authority, commenting pn the statement that well-known pugilists introduced new punches in bouts, says: “There are no new'blows in boxing, and not very likely to ever be iny, for the hoxqjs of today - do not give any time to studying* the sclenof them ise half the blows which were known ro the clever men of 60 or xnoro ago,*