”A Mrer 1.. m 3m u
Tcn at the ”an Lenncp farm at Colo-
phon, over ruins of a civiliation ante-
A party of
American nrchmoiogisu who vio-
dnting Christianity.
ited Alfred 0. Van honey.
the Dutch Vice-Consul at
Smyrna, who died recently.
\' American woman. deeply inter-
A l'rlUll in science, is to have charge
‘ of important excavating work
shortly to he started into the ruins of
Colophon. in Asia Minor. She is Miss
Helty Goldman. Yb. 1)., a graduate 01 Rad-
cliffe College. at Harvard.
A; one or her chief assistants she has
(‘lihr'nfl Mir-s Lulu Eldridge of Cleveland.
who has specialized on nrchmological sub-
JOL'lH and who is to leave shortly for
Aim-1H in join Miss Goldman.
Th! so irrmnen will be aided by workers
of institutions in this country and Athens.
'Iln- curl: will cover several years. An
Elvyvl‘vm'iniinn of $3.000 a year for ten
}'I:Xl‘< lm-V her-n {153“le them by the Fogg
Mire-mm: of Fine Arts rvt Hnr‘v artl Uni-
‘.(_x. Irv. -
Frr mural mouths “lies Goldman has
hem: lr‘.‘;i'<‘.tl£’.'ltlllfif sites for possible arch-
F‘C-iw‘Ii".il studies lfl Asia Minor. Dr. B.
ll. iii! of tlic Ameritun School of Classl-
cal r" .:<'.;.' n! then: has liliikell over with
lmr tizn- itw at Th 4 and Erythrae. Later
they: 'm ‘. ilmt l‘cr'ii Sixiitii of the llritinh
3111““‘ll hml (lcii lei nit in exrnvate at
C't-ii‘3=l1-"Tl out! the}: thin (le-‘i'led to have
that ~ ii-vn all): to: ‘ to them.
T?- «H; H! (5:3 21;”.vm il'Hi been extinct
{or ::-=.'-‘ than ivy-4L": centuries, “'hnt
irrt: ‘1!“ l'w lwnmsli the will, what shuns.
stain: a"): mimic-s ;::uzitin:.—; were buried
titer m it wa~ lx it to be blown over
by iii." ‘. 1:: :28 r“. t! e timer t are questions
ilu .\:;'vriv;ins will umm‘er during the
nut: L n 51:11». '
There have been found near the surface
of ti.“ soil :zuvh things as surgical in-
whivh are said to have been
mmlr in the first century before the birth
of t“
strum-mu
Uri-uh They are the product of
Rtnzr‘itr: s iezttists. and are in the museum
of .lulxm Hopkins University. Prat.
Dnvlt lit-are Robinson. Vickers professor
of Arvhi “102:: at the university. who has
in\'r>:-I?irult~i the size at Colophon. says
the rurth t':'.::renl»outs evidently contains
one of me richest treasures. from the
on im- sing: cal viewpoint in the world.
The lute,- Alired 0. Van Lennep, Dutch
Vice-Consul at Smyrna. bought a farm
lmateel on what perhaps Was once the
center oi the city and lived there {or
mung: years. it was on his farm that
wereflound many at the Roman surgical
instruments. They were bought and pre-
sented to John: Hopkins by William H.
Buckler.
Colophon sure to the world many cele-
brated artists, sculptors. writers and a
regiment o! amassed horsemen.
Publisher-.4 used to print in the backs
of books their omately executed trade-
marks. Tum were called "colophona."
'lhe name was derived t om these cav-
mm at Colophon. These horsemen
were so fierce in their chergee, which al-
“y: ended the battles, that the word
so coined as a synonym for "The End"
or “Finis."
In ancient times there were twelve
cities that constituted the powertul
Ionian coutederacy. and ot the“ Colo-
than was one 0: the most Imminent.
m1 was long before the Christian era
an: ushered in with the birth at Christ.
in city was on the River Halls. inland
fifteen miles south 0! Ephesus. The
W called Train. was located by
- » n explorers. Schneihardt and
An 1887. while they were on an
adventure in All. Minor.
town lic- nenr Went
Mai“; 5‘
station on the Smyrna-Aldin Railway, -
twu miles from the farms and hamlet of
Malkajik. The country roundabout is
under cultivation. and there is little to
be seen of this proud city of ancient days
exoept some remains at walls.
However, several tombs containing
rich antiquities have been located beside
the roe (is leading to Colophon. These dis
coveries naturally have awakened the
keena-et desire in amhmologists to explore
the city proper. and the town has been
marked {or years as probably the best
one in which to delve for the remnants
as ,‘anciem days. "
Long before the coming into power oi
the Roman Empire Colophon was a great.
flourishing city of Ionia. When it was
(mulled is not exactly known, although it
in fairly certain that its founder was
Andracmon ot l’ylos and that it was at
the height ot’its prosperity in the eighth
and seventh centuries B. C. That popular- '
ity douhtle-ss continued until Gyges of
Lydia moved agnimt it with his forces
in 665 B. C. and stripped the town or its
velluable movable things. From then on
it gradually lost prestige in the sense of
popularity, as did pralnticall ' all ancient
places after they were once 1) llaged by
an enemy.
It is certain that in 287 B. C. Lysirna-
chus———a powerful Greek General~iounded
a new city culled Ephesus and that thou-
sands of the residents of Colophon moved
thence with him, or at his bidding. That "
was one of the habits of a General of the
The
(Special Correspondence.)
Puts, Saturday.
N"the Firth ward of Nice. as in every
I considerable city of France, there is
a Police Commissary or Write
While it is his business to be the beam
lent father at the quarter. he must also
keen a weather eye on what is going on
there. Now tor samé'tflne back the police ‘
heard on: u' poem”- drink, smelling like
the old forbidden absinthe, was being sold
in certain aide street bars and rates
when ranches and sports and other ann-
teurs resort. The important thing was to
and out who was making the immddoa
drink—tor at the beginning at the war
the old neck: were mat-tin dictatorial.
closed up and thinthe. alcohol and all
were turned over 'to the Government taco
mules 01-111;th explodm ,
The Commissary began by putting two
and two manner. There was a musicitn
in his ward named Francois Ferret. 4;
years old, untried and living in nude“
tacked house at an tum-equated street.
The neighbors complained that he put out
the mining-that maintains-
Bclow is I view of
a modernism-at
Colophon. In the
[round underneath
it in Mint the
ruins of the my.-
will be found. U
.5 j
t
... “5...!”
e1. fur-"11’9“"
Surgical We”: My focus! at Calorie-m,
nvcdiu for the first time the tools with winch egrly surgeon:
ancient times. It he disliked his town
be, rounded another and. forced the people
at histtormer home to go along or face the
'poaibility of extinction by armed on-V‘
5mm usually led by himself.
With the moving or Lysiinaehm started
the gradual decline of Colophon. It wits
ever bitter in its antral at Ephesus.
probably beanie Lysimchns warn-
ed the Oolonhoninnsm so with him.
The torts by which antenna on»
acted “pelt against trunnion by the
Golophoniam ”Instill to be seen an
the hills about it. Historians .39-
cert 'um "Lynn-menus roamed
Ephesus. or at lent took thonnnds o!
the residents at colophOn there otter time
demise of Alexander the Gmt. bemoan
he could and no more worlds to conquer.
Colophon is claimed '13 the birthplace
oi Homer. But six other cities in Asia.
Minor also claim him. Materiel” «littering
on this point. udp lorecasters on the
author 4936”. 1
It: gréutat liter-dry man was Mimner-
mns. an elegiac poet, 3nd close to him
stood thunder. author of Them Its
greatest painter was Apelles, whose abil-
ity with oils was undoubtedly the most
celebrated of ancient, times.
There has been a three cornered urgi-
ment going on among the learned men as
to the'birtiiplace of Arielle-e. Some asszrt
bombers emotive oi Conant! other:
that Ephesus was ”his home. The con-
sensus ct opinion, however, is that he was
born at Colophon, later was made a citi-
zen at Ephesus, and may have died at
Can. The lastnam'ed town posseswed an
unfinished painting by Apelleo, which
{not tend. to clinch the argument that
he died there.
Andie- was born near the close a! the
fifth century B. C. He studied in his
youth at Ephesus under Ephoros, and
then went toSicyon. where hehada term
of study outta the celebrated tacher
Pemphilns ct Amphipolls, where he is
thought to lure protected the fine draw-
ing at which he was capable later.
After his schooling ended Apelles went
to Fella. in Macedonia~ where he painted
portraits of Philip and beams the friend
of Alexander. who would sit to no other
painter. Apelles
is said to have
been one at Alex-
ander's c l 0523:.
friends, and the
King allowed him
much treedom c2
epeech. which was.
denied many of
the counters 0!
dating {rock to the birth-of Christ.
potion-.3 Wicca.
the world conqueror. Bis most celebra’?
gainting a! the king rent-mated Alter
tinder as wielding the thunderbolt.
But the w celebrated paintings of
Apelles were Weighs} or allegorical.
Amen: these were “Amdyemene” and
“Annals Surrounded hy mittens." His
Mnercal Bootlegger of Nice
house far too early tor their nightly eon-
reuienee. Also, he was never known to
make any minnow spook-ot- Other mne—
tiles that lived in the am: house com-
plained that he used more water on his
floor than all or them together. so that
their spigot: often run in. ‘
it our also tound that Melanmt
did some kind of silent work in his
kitchen, the light a! which could not be
seentromtheureetnenrlymnisht
of the week, sometimes till liter mid-
night. The Police Contrary rum
never have warheads]! this it one o:
hin'polieemen had not «was: the
gum, boasted die could show the
areal?“ trick or two.
So: one Wthm the coast no
clear; :the Police “fission“ paid n m
to m; musician; apartment. He was ac-
“.de by the Governinont‘scontrolhr
tor alcohol. which cannot be stored in
Frame. without a license, by too or nu
cannula-‘- sworn urine" and by the
police nation motor.
”bout-ammonium“
mqu-,
not up home. not” ma. hut bio?
far. She led them through all the moms.
but. Although they smelled alcohol na-
miatakably. they could no: and the slight-
at trans of it- On the chimney piece
there were two little bottles 0: mm
green dcoholic liquor-hut that was no
crime. The wife “sunning until they
began muting the kitchen door.
“M”: u now nail there,” exclaimed
tho-communal”. pointing to one or the,
boards or the floor from which they hid
moved 1 heavy cupboard. “Don't you
seem rut on all M” ,
The-hoard was pulled up and there. in
a cavity. mu perfect narrowed 81m.-
o Wu of “out M’ another .9:
mine. My tor damnation. “rho
unlit m -M :M' detectives avo-
mm with m cantata-ire with:
hush-ad came bicycling hone in the
evening. when he was 3m and held
for trial. His wife. who had m m
Wtomrofimmhttfim-
memodtohowitflnmn
rw'
1nt do itiflin."
flow. anion the M kw. are: a.
in; and distributing it. without proud.
‘l‘be musician had {W the law.
.lndoecl, by having alcohol and aheinthe in
his Nib—but there was the moot
tho: it was not tor his 1313in consump-
tion—amt: hostel: tut me brew? The
evidence was not “:1th from the
hrs-and mowers, and the police had to
let the nutrition on: while awaiting trial
for mom nonunion 0: alcohol. The
punish-int {or this is n modente mm
thick sons to the Comm Adminis-
tration otAlcoimls. m nuns “you must
Tie 'nieohoi one ob-
sintlrn‘wrwmted and the perfected
m in ‘mm use in at garment-—
“new. "no Palm-mm
sun 1m in m a the musician. The
mm 7M has nothing to do.
mmfihm-smmam
«room-am Anduuytone
'mr‘hsnatemtedtor moretzianfl.
‘BQDAY, JUNE 26, 1922
—-——
1-...—
Horned the Dreadful Horsemen Whose
erceness Always Brought “Finis,”
To Be Rastored by Modern Scientists
painting “Slander" showed the -:‘
of Ignorance Suspirion, Envy
Remorse and other parse “.i we“
cien's descriptior. cf :t :s
inspired Botticelli, Durex
tists to similar Works.
'When Alexander‘s tongue-:1: *-
Apelles probably returned to A5;:-
where most at his celebrated oils 7‘ I
«(76
found. He visited the pa'nter Pre: :.;c--es
at Rhodes and offered him a fetal :5
sum for one of the Rhodesi an s -:,. "-33.
He was kind in appreciation : ..f r.’
though fully aware of his own do
He admitted that Melanthius EB'St‘L:
in grouping: that 'Asrls; iuirru.
passed him in symmetry, ard $.31:
Prom Tones known “he :1 tc- s o; :23?
he would have been a far more are «:'
painter. w 7
One tiara
.ngs and de
shoes or the
error. But 1
and mad-2
earts of i: A:- 37:-
told him a {'Ob’lz‘
last.
Elimnermus was t'::_
tire is of ole-s. li-i- is -.
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are taking “iii. ‘3‘
hiles new
hinterland. Wits. in: a“ -.:, :: ; ' .
port of A32. Minor by the .131 :
can machinery can he :3.‘ ~~
new use chill-ed pluris. new-
aside the west-fie: pi:
Homer. cue {rafter
section before l’él-«I. but}: “as
burned i; ‘ “‘e Turks
moaned to the "- v-m w: :.e L‘ it 2- d
worked.
With Amer isms
ing~the 632;». :xtioa work it: a:
Colophon, tile inflow of Arne;
will be augmented. The G rt-er
friendly to people it“! .
m and naturally nil}
em a mark business :‘
fact. mILv arsenal: or t: e
into that section new 3.2:; . ,
lurk-ism and thus are 115:. .5: ari-
an tam 'mfihods.
Around about Colophon the
tart“: It is attracting Greg‘s -
finish» Shaun the arena-ruin;
cover finder the ground the 3".“
bit! the Greeks naturally “.11 _" _.
murmur: itis e35 .~; c 1‘13:
WW will he inhabitet: “116?
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