New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1923, Page 16

OLIVES AND GOATS Small Isle Near Corfu Was Celé . brated by Many Poets Washington, D, C, Sept, u.—-ruv( o8 and Antipaxos, the two amaller fs. lands seized by Ttaly after her oceu. | pation of Corfu, are described in the following bulletin from the National| Geographie societyi | “Corfu looks down on Paxos and Paxos looks down en the tiny Anti-| paxos All three lie In the sea where | the first naval battle was vuunl.[‘ where Augustus and Antony vied for control of the world, and where an. eient Greek liberty expired, “Apcient writers, Pliny and Poly.| bius, grouped the islands together un- der the name of Paxi; their inclusion in the lonian group is a matter of more modern terminology. Celobrated By Poots. “Paxos ia more celebrated in poe- try than in politics or geography. It re that & sallor, in the tampest | times of Tiberius, is reputed to have heard a thunderous volce proclaim ‘Pan is dead!' Plutarch first told the story, Rabelals rewrote it, and Mliton, Schiller and Mra, Browning have al-| fuded to it. ‘The postic significance of the cry ia taken to mark the death of paganism upon the advent of Christ and the new teachings He expounded. Mrs. Browning wrote: And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full ot spirit's melancholy An eternity’'s despair! And they heard the words it said Pan is dead! Great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead! Islands of Olives and Goats, Paxos, larger of the two lalands, is enly about five miles long and two miles wide. Oun it live some 5,000 people who make their llving from | the olive groves and fruit orchards, and from thelr herds of sheep and goats. Paxos is the smallest of the sevan Tonian Islands, some times re- 'ferred to as the Heptanesus. ““These seven—Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cythera agd Paxos—formed an independent republic-under British protection until they were voluntarily ceded to Greece in 1864. The treaty of that year is interesting in view of their present occupancy by Italy. Under its sec- ond article the islands were to ‘enjoy the advantage of personal neutrality.’ Later a protocol limited this provi- sion to Corfu and Paxos. Have Military Value, ““While Corfu, has a commercial value the two smaller islands are im- portant because they, with Corfu, control the Straits of Otranto, the narrow entrance to the Mediterra- nean. “From the latter years of the Mid- dle Ages until 1797 all the Ionian group were subject to Venice; in that year Napoleon's overthrow of the ancient city state led to their transfer to Austria. Later they were taken over by Frapce and they attained their status as a British protectorate in 1815. Great Britain turned them over to Greece, against the advice of Gladstone who visited them as a spe- clal commissioner, upon the accession of Greece's new King George. “Paxos has one stream and only a few springs. England bullt roads on the larger islands, especially Corfu, and her chief contribution to Paxos _wWas a system of cisterns. Before this gift her inhabitants had to bring a part of their water from the main- land; ten miles away. “The little island is largely a mass “®f rock. Its plcturesque quality ts en- hanced by the belfries of numerous| churches.” Look for the Many Innovations Among the New Autumn Fashions THE wonderful patterns and materials—all new arrivals, are now being shown on our second floor. These predicted favorites complete our - Seven persons were killed and many injured when fire, the origin of which is unknown, swept a four-story tenenient in Jer- sey City. The charred stairway shown above tells the story of how tenants were trapped and burned on upper floors. man Otto Fischer, shown in hall trip down a burning ladder he ca PARKS RETURN BIG REVENUE Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 21.—Canada’s national parks will return a revenue to the Dominion in excess of $30,- 000,000 in 1923, according to esti- mates compiled® by the .Dominion parks commissioner. The volume of tourist traffic to the parks has been unusually heavy this year. The num- ber of visitors is expected to total nearly 200,000 before the end of the season, | Grandma’s Pancake Flour stock of wool and silk frocks. . held a child by holding its clothing in his teeth. " S T o § i » v v - - % BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1028, CLIMBER 1S DEAD Tangwalder Last Survivor of) | Party Which Scaled Matterhorn Zermatt, Bept. 31 The reee death of Peter Taugwalder has robbed | Switzerland of ita wost famous Al-| pine glimber, and the last surviver of the party which climbed the Matter. | horn for the first time 5§ years ago, Al the gost of six lives. Only three out of a total party of ten retufed to Zermatt after having | made the first ascent of the previously | unsealed Matterhorn, ‘These were Peter Taugwalder and his sen and Edward Whymper, a famous Britigh | Alpinist who organized the party, Whymper and the younger Taug. walder have been dead for many years, but Peter Taugwalder lived to| make over 120 ascenta of the moun- tain on which he miraculously eas| caped death when his seven compans fons plunged over a cliff to the “l‘- terhorn glacler 4,000 feet below, | Lord Douglas Never Found, ' | The body of Lord Douglas, who Was | among the Englishmen who were lost, | wes never found, and probably caught on a crag high on the mountain side where it could not be seen. | Edward Whymper wrote a ahout the tragedy which ocurred | after the plucky climbers had been o the peak for an hour and had started on thelr downward trip, He| and the two Taugwalders were saved by the snapping of a rope which bound them to the other members of the party. One of the Britlsh mem- bers of the party, who was next to [ghe guide leading the way, slipped amdknocked the leader over Wwith book | Patrol- l. above, rescued 85 tenants, On one| | rried 2 woman under his arm and ' COALL MINES CLOSE Wilkes Barre, Pa,, Sept. 21.—After working a few hours today most of the collieries of the larger coal com- panies in this vieinity closed down because of a shortage of help. The réturn to the mines after the more than two weeks'. suspension while wage negottiaitions*were being carried on, was on & smaller stale than was at first reported from coal offices. Package to griddle -just addwater Those delicious hot pancakes sure do satisfy nes | tedies of | commercial agent at London. the repe Desame 8o grest APAPPIng 1t left the three last mem. bers of the party safe on the moun- tainside, where they could aee the companions en the @lacier far below them. For a time the supvivors thought it would be im- possible for them (o eontinue the Y} 49 pealapun adas Sayy Jusasap accident, but Anally aroused the selves and tied their ropes to rocks such & manner that they were able pass the dangerous stretches with feeling of security. The vietimp of the tragedy were all o buried in the Hermatt churchyard, and Peter Taugwalder now lles @ith | his eompanions, CANNOT RESIST DOLLAR BILLS | Bucharest, Rumania, Sept. 21 Complaints of the handling of foreign mail in this country, particularly that coming from the United States, have resulted in action being taken by the ternational postal union, Unless there Js improvement, the union says, Rumania may have to withdraw, One use of trouble has been the habit of Americans when writing to friends in Rumania, of encloging American <urrency. Mall sorters know thia, apd many an Americans letter has been purioined, ENGLAND WANTS COFFINS Washington, Sept, 21.—Expert ad. viee to American coffin makers has been recelved by the department of commerce from Alexander Dye, fits Con- cerning coffins, coffin lumber AMJ simllar materials, Mr. Dye advise¥ American manufacturers that the Beitish market for American products {s at low ebb because the British, since the war, have lost their taste for expensive funerals and made cheaper coffins the vogue., Tromisoe, Norway, Sepl. 11.—The - |tiorde in the estreme porth, in the muhus«vum.nnun Iy blocked into & semi-solid by heming sheals. The shosls tage of the harvest, and others have arrived at the herring-oll factories % the choice of men who appreciate the best in headuwear Sold by: Ashley-Babcock Co. Try ‘This Doughnut Recipe Here is a recipe, tested by experts, that will give you as delicious doughnuts as have ever been served on your table. 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