Show FROM THE another fi interesting letter from a cache valley man S N G A MOSLEM Y CITY the progress of civilization and christianity slow without freedom of the press eighty milies miles north of st jean dacre is a small promontory pro mentory jutting out from tile the foot of the western 0 ter n slope elope of mount lebanon and extending out into the ean for a distance of three miles on which people are trying to solve the riddle of life the city that stands on this picturesque ne spot of terra firma firm i commercially speaking the chief one on the syrian coast and was called by the ancient greeks and romans bery emperor augustus n made the ancient city into a roman colony and changed its name to colonia felix julia under under which name it flourished for centuries as one of the le leading adine seats of kearnin learning in ill the world flocked here from all quarters and timm natus V gus came hete after afier stud studying in at athens and alexanderia to study law and the martyr found fauna Beryt beratlis Lis a good place in which to 1 ratify gratify 1 his passion for greek lite literature r in ili this celebrated city was destroyed hy by an earthquake and nearly dearly one hundred years later its still stift slumbering L ruins ruins were taken by tile the dayt in ili the crusaders under baldwin aldwin B captured it and unjust in just sixty two years after that the city a iii te I 1 I 1 I 1 OF in 11 t q I 1 i edg of t mhd lit 0 do 10 ms maw AT 0 oe aitt 11 lEoday its berylus is now called beyrouty Bey routh b hy y the french and by the native syrians and english 0 sie speaking aking peoples it is down as beyrodt Bey rout it is ii from beyrodt we are writing we have been here ever since lat last fall and have had nearly enough time to recover from the stir surprise pa rise we ave received that afternoon when we alili alighted 0 ted dusty and tired from the dili diligence ence and found in a cita so much unlike other cities of tle the orient that we for a moment at least dreamed we ave were ivere hack back in europe beyrodt Bey rout let it be remembered is mole moie occidental denta than any any other part of syria and to strangers who come coine here by way of palestine and quaint old daina damascus s it seems almost like being transported to western lands and habits babits though for a person direct from europe beyrodt is the orient in all its filth and glory the inhabitants of this interesting place are from all parts of tile the western world with quite a sprinkling from other eastern countries uncle sam is probably better belter represented here in than in any other part of turkey for the american protestants have quite a successful mission established here and their college colleg ii is becoming famous throughout the east ally enough under these circumstances beyrouti is being hem flooded with western notions and ideas andis fast outstripping a other cities on the scale of progression the bulk of acke population is still native however ani ami the countr country y is i faill under the curse of turkish tyranny and misrule and until there is a change in this respect very rapid strides in advancement cannot he be expected to americans the worst and hobt tyronical tyr anical feature of this government is tile the bridle it puts on oil tile the press so that thai the brawn and sinew of a naturally bright and happy people are kept under the heels of a leiv few corrupt and avaricious officials the press once free tho the rt r demitrion of I 1 tino tine aud and syria syri must soon follow no ko tyrant or set of t tyrants rants can long hold a people under tile the yoke of oppression if the pres i 4 that educator of the masses and champion of equal rights and privileges privilege 8 is permitted to go unfettered and free 11 eyrous ISey rout enjoys a number of neua neis papers at the present time hut but the restrictions placed on them by the sultan render them little more than useless just within the last lait few days a whole addition of a daily paper palter was confiscated and burned simply because the tha editor had endeavored end favored to give the public the facts concerning a homicide homi cida that the turkish officers had bad been bribed to keep quiet about of course such ili high alifi landed actions on oil tile pirt of a 9 government government overn ment will some day sooner or later brin bring its own downfall fall the nineteenth century will hardej hardai cloe cloae clo e its eyes leaving 0 such procrastinating civilization defying blotcher blotches blot ches as a turkey sturkey eel cei I 1 i to mar the ushering in ill cf century tile the twentieth unlike other syrian cities bey routs attractions lie not in its ancient history and legendary lore though we read of its being destroyed in war years before the christian Cli ristian era and since that time it lias has been viken and reta retaken re taken kent destroyed dis troyed and rebuilt until abl city of today to day ulav stands on the ruins of cities of con centuries goric gone we e read of its baths its ita am phi theartres theatres the atres and in L shows and still wo do not reel feel our interest in berditus Ber vItus excited as it is by the histories of other and more obscure place the in interest crest the traveler of today feels in beyrodt is that interest caused by pro res itin and development ile he generally 0 lands at jaffa and after tra traveling v elief 0 through h palatine palao he reaches beach es bevious by way of lamac lamascus cus tin and d for a while almost fancies himself back in europe so unlike tile the rest of the cast is thi jhb city here we find the streets wider and more comfortable and better kept than are the streets of other eastern cities beyrodt has been the first and so far the only syrian city to adopt the use of gas for street and bou house se lighting her water supply tho though ug h not as abundant as it might be is good and the system of its distribution is metropolitan in every respect and best of all beyrodt is fast regaining her place at ilic alio head of eastern educational cities iler her streets echo to the tread and laughter of students from every part of syria asia minor cypress and egypt and men turned out from her colip us are a re ken i inn n n i ing ri lher 0 roaf a few more years will shake off her and will once again agai n smile a she smiled before that little band of arabs introduced their religion of the deseret it at tile the point of the sword will lift up her head and be free another demo demonstration nitration of what western light and education tire are doing for the world A few feir days since your correspondent and companions took a drive around tile the bay to dog river the hie soulee of beyrouty Bey rouls routs water supply and one of the most mos t interest interesting inc n places in this part of the alie country the distance was about ton ten miles milea and at least two thirds of the way way lay through 0 th thriving rivina mulberry 0 groves groves that reminded remind etl us of the silk culture fur for which beyrodt was famous as early as the 3 ard 3rd rd con century tury and which today though conducted in the old primitive dav way is lier her chief manufacture clearings t in tile the mulberry groves gave li us 13 exquisite glimpses glimp seq of the blue sea enlivened now MAN and then by the white sail of a fis lis hermans boat and on our right 0 we got occasional views views of the r grand rand old hill that david and solomon liis his son loved frequently to sin sing C about and to use c as a simile or comparison for the po power er and glory of gods it mill ill for let it lie be borne bome in mind mt leb lab anon is king over all tile alie mountains in the sacred e country of the bible the righteous shall flourish like a palm palin tree lie he shall grow grow like a cedar in lebanon an hours ride and our handsome driver drew up before the humble little church of st george in the villa village e of angelias An ill this is is said to be the oldest christian church in existence having been ere erected acted in the forepart of the 2nd and century and on the reputed spot of st georges killing the dragon we went inside and examined the pictures on the plain whitewashed white washed walls and took as much sa satisfaction as we ive could couill in in the tradition that makes theafae n of be aie structure in which we ire stood nearly 1800 years near the altar your correspondent found a little rock AN which lie barred off aa another trophy tophy of his oriental travel trave lq after dropping a few coppers in the iron box on the lower tell of the alter and a parting sniff of the misty atmosphere we resumed our journey A few ino moments ments brought us to the beyrodt water works and fifteen minutes later we ire alighted near the handsome new bridge that spans the river DOR dog referring 0 to our stay we take lake the following notes from our diary may alth p m we tire ire sitt sitting on the bowery covered veranda vcr anila of a liti humble nible little cafe on the south side of dog do 0 river or bahar El kelb is as the natives would call it we ve have just finished our lunch consisting of english cold tongue 0 swiss cheese german beer an and d dative bread and j while our dige digestive tive organs are arc re duccini this mass tu to chyle we ave have time to make a few notes my notes I 1 am ain afraid will ill ne I 1 somewhat on the actions of that I 1 bright bri 0 lit eyed damsel who so bo kindly 9 gave us s knives forks etc and ana who prepared prepare d tb the lemonade lenio nade for proc and at my request smiled and made it extra delicious for if sli jhb retire to an all tiler ther part of the world I 1 fear me ine I 1 will wil I 1 be unable to concentrate my relia relic 0 i a n ti q ia I 1 i y we nv e have fit i e chis th lis morning kornit ig exam examined ined pretty do you ask well we should think so EO at least her face is her form looks rather baggy owing to the fact I 1 perfume per sume she never wears corsets few native 0 girls irn looks sweeter than she I 1 does in her loose summer dress with partly clo closed ed front her white stockings and slippers there she sh e smiled because site she caught 0 us its studying her quite thoughtful alou 0 face the dr saw it and remarked that we ave had better look a little out or lied hed report but what do we ire care there sits lier her mother avith one breast peeping hily out into the world poor old soul s she is rather pleased than othe otherwise of the notice we have taken of her daughter and if there a snake 0 charmer ch ariner coming in tile the front door with a large black looking snake ugh the great u ugly ay iy thing lie ile tresses caresses ot and plays with that tempter of eve ws as though it worn were his dearest friend or even eye eve herself but to my lily notes just in front of tile the door and on oil the other side ade of the narrow road is a large cliff of rock bearing near its base an all inscription in french pirt part of which we cun can read ironi from hero her a it is as follows |