New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1923, Page 3

HAOW OF DAGHESTAN EUROPEAN GOUNTRY It Is Continental Land of CHll Dwellers Who Lived in Long Ago Washington, Feb, 16.—"A land of | mountains second enly in magnitude to the Himalayas, of men and cus- toms that are hold.over from the tenth ecentury, and of cliff-side vils lages that resemble nothing so mueh as our own Indian pueblos of the southwest,'" Buch is Daghestan, says a bulletin from the Washington, headquarters | ested to know that the Glee elub is of the National Geographic society in regard to “the Russian Switzerland," @ tiny “republic” of the Soviet fed. ®ration, whose starving people, it has beed announced are to be given American rellef, “Daghestan, it Is safe to say, Is one of the least known regions of Furope," continues the bulletin, “One reason for this ia that it is on one of Europe's remote borderlands. De- spite political borders of the past and muddied racial boundaries of the present, the Casplan sea and the Caucasus mountains are generally ac- cepted as marking the southeastern lines where Europe ends and Asia begins, Daghestan is wedged in be. tween the two, * Live Life of Middle Ages, “The rough rectangle of Daghes- tan, about 60 miles wide. by 100 miles long consists almost entirely of practically treeless mountains that extend from the crest of the Cau- casus to the sea, and deep valleys and gorges. In the more open val- leys near the coast the inhabitants were influenced by the Russians and became relatively civilized and pros- perous. But in the deep valleys and on the precipitous terraces of the higher mountains the primitive life and customs of the Middle Ages still exist, “Daghestan has had waves of im- migration since before Jason and his Argonauts went into this part of the world in search of the Golden Fleece. But it cannot be called, a ‘melting pot.' Instead it has been a sort of ‘racial sample room' where the odds and ends of many peoples have been thrown together. Descend- ants of Aryans, who dropped out there as Aryan‘tribes moved west- ward, were joined by deserters from the Greek and Roman armies of Alexander and Pompey. The Celts who founded Galatia probably lost some stragglers there. Some of Tam- erlane’'s Mongols were added, The Arabs who overran the country in the eighth century established in the mountains military colonies, whose members became another factor in the population and gave it the Mo- hammedan religion. Crusaders, wan- dering’ back from ‘the Holy Land, stopped there to rest and never took up again their homeward journey. . To these mountain fastnesses, too, “have come ‘the persecuted of all neighboring lands—Jews, Georgians, Persians, Armenians and Tatars. Highlanders Look Like Scotsmen, “There has been a fuging of these elements, of course, but in many of the isolated villages or aouls certain dominant strains are easily recog- nized. Dress some Daghestanian v-highlanders in kilts and bonnets and you could hardly distinguish them from Scotsmen. Some fair-haired, blue-eyed villagers one might meet on a German highway. Others are obviously of Italian, Armenian, Jew- ish or Mongol origin. But though they keep the appearance of their s remote ancestors and resemble their distant cousins of today, psycholog- ically they have lost the kinship. Their mountain environment has molded them as mountain environ-| ments ever do. They have cnmmoni traits; and the plainsman of the north does not differentiate. To him they are merely the fortse, or moun- taineers. “Like mountaincers throughout the world the people of Daghestan cher- ish their liberty. They were uncon; quered until the tremendous numbers and modern equipment of the Rus-| slans, pushing their empire south-| ward, overwhelmed them about ‘the| middle of the nineteenth century.| Even then, it had taken two genera- tions to subdue them. “They are a picturesque * péople, tho Daghestanians. Like the Geor- gians on the south slope of the Cau. casus, they wear long, tight-waisted outer garments, decorated across the chest with shining cartridge cases. On their heads are large woolly, brimless hats. ¥Enter Houses by Ladders. “Just as the need of protection from enemies drove the Indians of southwestern United States to build dwellings on the cliff-sides, o a sim- ilar need developed such houses in Daghestan. Some of the villages or aouls are as much as 2,000 feet above the valley floors on almost perpendicular cliffs, and can be reached only by several hours of climbing along zigzag paths. The houses are built of rough stone stuck together with clay. The floors are of hard-beaten clay, but in many cases are covered with rugs. House rises about house in terraces, the roofs of the lower one serving as courts for those above. The comparison with pueblo villages does not depend on superficial appearances, but may ex- tend even to the ladders and notched logs used to mount from level to level. “Deep among the higher Daghes- tan mountains the traveler finds his calendar turned back almost a mil- , lennium. The port-hole windows of the houses have neither glass nor sash. Dried human hands, the tro- phies of battle, may now and then be found nailed to a door. Meals arc caten on the floor from a common dish with sharpened splinters of pine. There is trial by ordeal, and the - blood feud still rages.” STRIKE HITS PRISON. Berlin, Feb. 16.—According to a telegram from Duisburg, the govern- or recorder and inspector of the local prison were tried yesterday by the Helgian military court for refusing to accept prisoners arrested by the Belgians. Upon receipt of the ver dict, the prison staff went on strike, and the prisoners were rcmoved to Duisburg. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, headquarters, the National Geo- of o, graphic seciely points out some the “Sahara fallacies™ “The trouble with popular knowl. edge about the Bahara,” says the bul- {letin, “is, to paraphrase, that we know 50 much that isa't se, | Not a “Sea of Sand." “Everyone ‘knows' that it is a ‘sea of sand,' for exam when as a mat- ter of ‘fact it is predominantly & land of roeky plateaus and mountains, with sand plentiful enough, but play- |ing a miner role, “We know that it is tremendously busily rehearsing for a presentation |hot; but we often forget that it is of an operetta, "“The Land of |also tremendously cold after the sun Chanbe," by the eminent woman | goes down, composer, Fay Foster, Miss Voster| “We know that the whole region has won recognition as & song rnmv!l- ‘bone dry,' when in reality the poser of first rank in America, and |mountains of the interior recelve con- her work in this little comedy opera |siderable rain and are even said by is of high rank, |some travelers to be capped with The leading roles are very capably |snow during a part of the year; and taken by members of the Giee club, |area after area is being shown to while the chorus of over 30 members | have water avallable from artesian adds considerably to the interest of reservoirs in the earth below, When the work, Of no small importance | the soll is given given it yields most is the “Vegetable” ballet, which iy ®atisfactorily as the oasis with their drilling with Miss Josephine Rath. ®prings, which are natural artesian hone, whe is in charge of the physical | Wells, have proved for ages. training at the Normal school, 'rm.l “There are good enough reasons for entire performance is under the | the prevalent misconceptions and the direction of Miss Pauline A, Meyer, |Keneral lack of knowledge about the the director of musie, |Sahara, It was knhown first from fits Because of the expense of produc- | northeastern corner, where it stretches tion, it is necessary to charge a small | Westward from the Nile; and there admission. Friends of the Glee elub (it 18 In truth a ‘sea of mand' The may obtain tickets through any Nor. Vast billowy, shifting dunes of the NORMAL SCHOOL GLES LU 10 PERFORM ON FEB. 3 Members Will Present Operetta “The Tand of Chance” at Camp Sehool Auditorium, Those whe have heard the Normal Sichool Glee club in public perform- ance in recent years, will be inter- mal school student. The date has !Abyan desert, then, inspired a strik- been set for Monday evening, VFeb.|In® word picture, which came to be e | Sahara, The fact that a band of sand |dunes aleo extends pretty much along f"" entire northern edge of the great )| ’,dufr! for a hundred or more mifes furnished further circumstantial evi. dence to convict the SBahara of being (& ‘sea of sand.' S— e | atics Discouraged Exploration. | lt Is Nota “Sea 0[ Sand" 45 |enough in themselves to discourage nost would-be travelers who might M Bel' have found the truth to the south. flfly leYe Add to this that the people who | fanatical warriors who early estab-. Washington, D. C. ‘Feb. 16.—Pas-|ilshed reputations for massacring constructed automobile across the their errands afterward, and it is Hahara desert {rom the Mediterran- (small wonder-that the European world Timbuktu, in less than a month—one- |out knowing anything about the Sa- third the time required by camel car-|hara. Is known of this vast region, whose stretch in a semi-circle from the Nile name is familiar to every school child. [south of the Mediterranean, below the ruary 26, [applied by the world to the whole ANI] WHAT IT’S lIKE inland from the Mediterranean coast, he desolate sand dunes were |came out of the sands were fierce, sage recently of a fleet of specially|strangers first and wondering about ean to the once mysterious city of|went on century after century with. avans—serves Lo emphasize how little “Behind the bulwarks of sand that In.a bulletin from its Washington, D.|Atlas mountains and to the Atlantic, %@E@EE@EE@EEEIEIEIEIEI[EEEIIEE]EIEEJEIEIEIEEE!IEE]E]E]EIE@IE Outlet Willivery Co, INCORFORATED 257 Main Street All the New O} ® O] m 0] m O] O] O} (O] | O] O] O] O} ® % 0] g (8 C} m | O] = | ® = O] = o O} O} ® = = DON'T MISS OUR Closing Out Glove Sale We are closing our our entire stock of Gloves at prices much less than cost. No Exchanges—No Approvals—No Gloves Tried On, $2.25 Venus Full Fashioned Silk WE A Stockings. 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South eof Algeria the northern sands give way |to rising, vocky ground, which leads ,u an extensive plateau of massive rock, pebbles and boulders, and fin- [ally 900 miles from the coast are crags of the Hoggar mountains, 4. 000 to 9,000 feet high, 10,000 Foot Mountains, “This roof-peak of the Bahara is almost exactly midway between the Mediterranean and the Guif of Guinea, and not far from the half-way point between the Nile and the Atlantig, From it plateaus slope in every diree. tion; but to the southeast the descent | |is only temporary, for farther in that divection lie other ranges, culminat. ing in the Tibestis with a peak 10,000 feet high, It ia the hi nd portions of the Bahara, regions strikingly dif. ferent from the sand dune sections, that are the homes of the flerce, velled Tuaregs, believed to he descend. ants of the pre-Arab peoples. 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