Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 11, 1903, Page 31

o e PR caa Bt ¢ B ooy October 11, 1003 THE ILLUSTRATED BLEE. 13 OMAHA COMMERCIAL MISSIONARIES WHO RECENTLY INVADED 10WA, AL ONG THE ROCK ISLAND LINES.- Photo by Stigleman Studio, Council Biuffs, Ragusa, Unconquered Foe of the Turk AGUSA?" said the man who was from 70000 to 7,000 souls, a port into which sails were puilled out of the lockers and at Soon the harbor was dotted with smal) listening to the travel:r in out-of- only deckless® coasters put with any tempts were made to et them, but a puff boms covered with colored awnings and the-way places. “*Whore I8 it?"” regularity and from which scarcely a d»l- of wind snuffed them as though they had loaded with stalwart men and exceptionally The traveler told him- it was a lar's worth of merchandise is shipped to the been spider webs, Occasionally the en- pretty women of the Spanish blonde type, Dalmatian ‘seaport on the Adri markets of the west The reflection of gines stopped to rest, the steering gear re with golden hair, blue eyes and creamy atic, former glories is seen everywhere in this fused to work and Balkan's course was like brown skins, all going out to obtain a “Well?" queried the man. monntain and seabound town of a e, that of a drunken snake. The boats creaked closer view of the big steamer, the ftirst In that “well” was summed -up what who, - though never a warlike people; and and split open as they swunrg in the daviis many had seen The foreign =ailors, lew the world at large today knows of the once given more to commerce than to the sword, The masts tossed back and forth from want of whom had ever heard of Ragusa be- famous little republic that was the Turk's would not and did not bend to the, yoke of proper support. The sailors growled and fore shipping, answered every cheer from one unconquered foe when the terrible of the Turk when seemingly more )n’)\kn}lnl cursed their officers openly for bringiog the rails Mohammedan invader overrun southern communities about them succumbed before them out on such an unseaworthy tub, That day a great celebration was held Europe, the onslaughts of the invader. Thus did the first of the modern arges'e aboard the old Ballzan Wine, fruits, But the twentieth century descendants of i'he retlection of former deeds has bheen start for home music and tlowers wer brought aboard the handful of men who baflled for years, resting on Ragusa since the days of the The old, battered Balkan might have by the prettiest girls of the town, who both in battle and diplomacy, the outnum- Armad when the Ragusians turned many staggered to its new home without mishap, afterward danced on the deck with the bering hordes of onsweeping Turks are of their argosies into s 8 of the lin but it had yet to cross the Bay of Biscay, sailors The men who had safely navi haps prouder of this glory of their an and joined fortunes with the Spaniard where many better vessels than it have gated the ship home were as highly hon- tors than of the fact that their fathers Swifltly ifter that defeat. trade swerved floundered ored and as much feted as were the ancient owned and sailed and their town gave its to Venic2; the argosies dwindled ind On the third night out a storm arose and marviners of the middle ages name to the famed argosies of old. Their crumbled: plagues swept - the republic; tossed the old steamer about Big seas In the evening a ball was given, to which sent'ment is that of one of their counc llors earthquakes tumbled the town about the washed over its decks. The deck scams car all the eity officl , sons of the old of state: heads of the inhabitants: it became in- had not been pitched for years, so the ar cracy that governed 100 years ago. “We are an exceedingly proud people, volved in the Napoleonic wars; Russin i water entered freely and began to fiil the The granddaughter of the last rector, who Y We have a right to be; We are in the very sieged it} the French took it; and finally hold, laden, not like the argosies of od was clected monthly to govern the town heart of the region south ot Venice ani ©n Napoleoa’s downfall, it pussed into the with Turkish and Indian silks, spices and when Ragusa was a republic, and whose east of-the Adriatic that, sinc: the coming hanss of Austria with the rest of Dalmatia fruits, but with English coal power Napoleon crushed, danced with a of the Turk, has been an almo t continuous and ceased forever to be an independent The crew attemptcd to set the steam common sailor Each member of that battleground between Christiun and Mus- Power. . pumps going, but they refused to work crew, confirmed vagabonds, most of them, sulman, Our Blavonic legends are full of But now this little city, whose wily The water rose, put out th: furnaces and will ever remember when he came to bloody ‘battles and heroic deeds. - Few lo- diplomatists and fortifications, which are the engines stoppe Then all hands set to Ragusa on the first of its new argosies calities there are south of German Austria till strong, saw to it that the Turks never the task of bailing out with buckcts, fo.m Since then the same firm that bought that have not been under Turkish rule at entered its gates except as drivers of ing a chain up the engine-room companion Balkan has added several more steamers some time or other. But we—a mere hand- caravans, loaded with the precious products Thus they labored for (wo days, resiung to its fleet The old Balkan still sails the ful of men, even In our palmiest duys— of the Orient, is arousing itself from its little and sleeping none at all. It was a Mediterranean, nosing into all sorts of out- have never been under Mussulman rule long iethargy Along with the introduc- fight for life, in which even the captain's of-the-way yorts with odd cargoes, Its The Turk has never entered our gates ex- tion of western dress by traveled Ragu- daughter was obliged to take part official flag is the Austrian, but its house cept as a-peaceful merchant. He has not sians among their turbaned and kilted fel- On the third day the storm abated, and flag is the little old banner of ancient left his impress upon us except in the mat low townsmen, the big, muscular, duark the crew gained on the rising waters in Ragusa It has been much repalred and ter of dress, and that we got sccond hind skinned and fair-eved des wdants of old the hold., Then they restel--rested one tinkered with, but it is only a question of from the people about us The Turk? Romans, old G ks and Slavs, have whole day, lying almost senscless about a few more years before it, too, will join Let us oppose him in Macedonia, and he caught the modern commercial spirit. They the deck, while the old ship rolled aimlessly that old fleet of the st, the anclent ar- will run from Ragusians.” are endeavoring to revive, in part it in the subsiding reas, gosies Let the infrequent tourist within the least, some of their former supremacy on Finally the men were able to resume their But at present the Ragusians are ex- gates of this once famous town listen long the seas labors, the pumps were put in order, wrec) tremely proud of it—almost as prond as enough to a native, and he will hear many Five years ago a company of Ragusiin uge cleared away, the firnaces rekindled they are in their knowledge that in all interesting things He will be told that merchants was formed with the express and the engines again started going. Bal that region which the Turk once overran Ragusa for over 2,00 years was an in- Purpose of sending out modern argosies kan resumed its course they are his one unconquered foe dependent republic, with a government They would have a line of ships belonging Seven days later a crowd of citizens of ALBERT S8ONNICHSEN., similar to that which existed in ancient 0 that port that would bring the Ragusa stood watching the sea from the . Bparta at the time of the Persian invasion. name of Ragusa once more before the walls of the town. News had reached them Pointed Paragr ilphh‘ He will learn that Ragusa was the gate commercial world. 8o the president of the by telegraph that their argosy would come way of the Orient's trade with the Occident, company went to England to buy a big that morning. When the sun rose, the tur Divoree pulls the feathers from the wings and that its little rock-bound harbor was steamer, taking with him a captgin and baned and gaily-robed throngs on the stone of love filled with fleets of argosies for centuries. Mate to officer the ship back. Al Ragusn guays, the roofs of the citadel and the nd- Although macaroni is hollow it is said to He will hear how the Turk laid covetous waited for months ahead, anxious that jacent cliffs made out the incoming steamer be a solid d eyes on the rich port, and struggled for its “{" ll"“““ of the first modern argosy It limped into the harbor, the first steam Some men seem to belleve that money possession, all in vain; how once it was “‘[:“tl‘ be received with a memorial wel ship to put in there in many a ir. Inter was only made to make vesieged for fifteen months by Saracens CoIne. mingling e enthusiastic eers ( 3 ‘rr..:uhn:,.- er“ l;.ml o o Y, v all The president fixed his choice on the old (1. Lx..’:i(.:\.l:."~ ‘ff..‘.'lff ’:‘h-“ .“. \-."“u . . ame mon wasie A daliars warth of time fn vain. In short, the eulogist of the deeds lverpool steamer, known under the Brit- 000 rattled through its hav o bt V3 BAT0 3 pa of his fathers will continue relating 1sh flag as lLord Napler It was big- over pipes. The little harbor. which In ear! FFortunate is the mun who can give a good historical facts until the listener tires of 4000 tons—but that was the best that could g, vy had sheltered ficets, was scarcely | g bank account of himself how Turkish commander after commander be said of it. For two years it had bheen enough for the big steamer to swing | If a woman hesitates it must be owing to and envoy after envoy met with discomfit laid up on the mud flats of the River Tyne Phe crew board aught the enthusfasm n impediment in her speech ure at the hands of the Ragusians of old; ¢ondemned as unseaworthy by Britt-h mari f the masse wshore, who had planned The question of precedence in this couns and when he does end, it will he with a time laws uch a welcome as was given te t) o try i8 merely a question of hustle proud flourish and a triumphant note A crew was picked up in Newcastle-on gosies of old. Flags and banners flew to Women love men for what they are, and “Ragusa. mark vou, has never heen con the Tyne The sailors consisted of one Ul tr n s, cannong were fired and the men love women for what they think they quered by the infidels.” American, a Spaniard. a a Rus harbor echoed the che f sallors nd are The traveler, the while he listens can gian and a Turk. The firemen were Swe populace in turn The bells of the ancient Even an amateur organist can play a wed- not help thinking of the contrast—t} dish, Itallan, Austrian, Argentinian and - mopastery on the rocky ledge jutting out ding march that is entirely satistactory to prosperous Ragusa of the time of the German The cabin boy was Scotch With into the sea clanged a wild chor of motal- the girl in the case Crusades and several centuries after, the this motley crew, the new argosy, renimed He peals and the old abbot, in white cos- Remorse is like a wooden leg; it helps a first port of Christendom and of the Balkan, left England. its rusty engines pro- sack, blessed them all from the walls of man on his way, but he can see where he'd argosles; the Ragusa of today, dwindledq testing at every reveclution. The old, worn the monastery, be happier without it.—Chicago News.