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PIS O'S
BESSARABIA: SHAPED LIKE
A PITCHER WITHOUT
A HANDLE
Itoumania, since tho conclusion of
tho World .war, tho largest of yio
states of southeastern Europe, owes
much of this increased area to its re
cent annexation of Bessarabia, pre
viously a part of Russia.
Bessarabia, the former Russian
province lying between the Pruth and
the Dniester rivers, and bounded on
the south by the Danube and the
Black sea, might be likened in shape
to a tall, slim pitcher, without a han
dle. It Is completely bounded by wa
ter except nt a. very narrow point nt
the mouth of the pitcher. The Dnies
ter river forms the eastern boundary
of tho province. Flowing out of the
crown lnnds at Gallcia, the river runs
east In general direction for approxi
mately fifty miles. Then it turns
juthenst for ninety miles to Dniester
an arm of the Black sea, some
fifteen miles from Odessa, Russia's
principal port on that inland body of
water. The Pruth river, flowing out
of Gallcia, runs east for about twenty
miles, then turns southeast for a hun
dred and ten miles, and then slightly
west of south to Its confluence with
the Danube.
Bessarabia is a little smaller than
Vermont and New Hampshire togeth
er. Its greatest length is 275 miles,
while its greatest width is 175. It Is
mostly Hat, except for some well
wooded off-shoots of tho Carpathian
mountains In tho northwest. It might
be said to be the vineyard of Russia,
being a great producer of wine. The
population of 2,500,000 Is made up of
Moldavians, Little Russians, Poles,
Roumanlnns, Bulgarians, Jews, Arme
nians, Greeks, and Tartars. More
thnn 2,000,000 of tho inhabitants live
on tho soil. The capital is Klshlncf,
which Is located almost at the center
of tho province, To the west of Bes-
snrabla lies Roumanian Moldavia, and
to the east the Russian province of
Podolla and Kherson.
Tho original inhabitants of Bessa
rabia are believed to have been Cim
merians, after whom camo the Scyth
ians. Because It was tho key to ono
of the approaches toward the empire
of Byzantium, the provlnco was in
vaded by many successive races dur
ing the early centuries oC the Chris
tian era. Trajan Incorporated It with
the province of Dacla, and in the next
century the Goths poured into it, to
be followed In turn by the Iluns, and
Avars, and the Bulgnrlnns.
In the seventh century a Thracian
tribe, known as tho BessI, settled
there and gave to the land its name.
Between 1711 and 1812 It was the
great bono of contention between the
Ottoman Turks and tho Russians.
Tho Russians lost and reenptured it
five times in that century. After the
Napoleonic wars, it was definitely an
nexed to Russia, and its frontier
pushed southward so as to Include
the deltn of the Danube.
As n result of the Crimean war,
Moldavia was given Dobrudja nnd
other territory, but under the treaty
of Berlin in 1878, following Russia's
mastery of Turkey and the congress
of Berlin, Russia secured nil of tho
territory east of the river Pruth. Bes
sarabia remained a purt of Russia
from that time until tho dismember
ment of tho czar's empire, following
the Russian revolution.
MEXICO: A MODERN BABEL
President Obregon, who has Just
been installed as chief executive of
the Republic of Mexico, rules over a
population of many tongues. This
multiplicity of languages Is not due to
wholesale Immigration as In the Unit
ed States, but to a failure to "Mexl-
canlze" a lurge part of tho Indian
population. The causes of many of
the revolutions which have disturbed
the progress of Mexico can be traced
to tills diversity of tongues and tho
differences In thought and ideals that
necessarily follow.
"From Sonora to Yucatan, more
than fifty separnte dialects are
spoken," writes Frederick Slmplch In
a communication to the National Geo
graphic society.
"All the Inhabitants of tho West
Coast, however, with tho exception
of some hill tribes of Indians can un
dcrstand Spanish.
"0 theso Indians the 8,000 Ynquls,
with their crudo Bacatete hill forts,
their weird ceremonial masque dances
nnd their wurllko nttltude, are easily
most conspicuous. Many are enlisted
with the federal army or employed ns
ranch hands and mine or railroad la
borers.
"The Ynquls with the federal troops
are termed 'Manzos,' or 'tame' Ynquls;
thoso in the hills, wild and hostile,
are tho 'Bronchos.' Tho latter are a
vagrant lot, robbing ranches for food
and animals, irrylng rawhide drums
and water gourds, wearing sandals of
green cowskln living by their wits
Pressed by hunger, they subsist as
well on burros as boef.
"These burros, 'the short nnd slm
pie animals of the poor,' thrive by the
thousand on tho West Coast. Many
run wild, like 'the wild nsscs of
Mesopotamia.'
"Tho Maya Indians, somo of whom
still carry bows and arrows, inhabit
tho lint costal plain south of tho Yaqul
region along tho River Maya. Ex
cellent lnborers, peacefully Inclined,
many of the Mayas nro trusted help
ers on American ranches and planta
tions. 4
"Most of tho well-ndvertlscd brands
of wild men are fairly familiar to tho
show-going American public. The
head hunter, the Pygmy, the Bushman
nnd his boomerang, are all old circus
acquaintances. But within 700 miles
of chasto and classic Los Angeles,
thero dwells a lost trlbo of savages
whoso very name Is known to but few
of us; for this tribe has never been
tamed, 'uplifted,' or even exhibited.
Yet It Is older, perhaps, tlinn the Az
tecs; It may oven be tho Inst living
fragment of the American aborigines.
"The Serls, theso strnngo people
nro called, and they lnhnblt a lonely,
ovll rock called Tlburon (Shark) Is
land that lifts Its hostllo head from
tho hot, empty waters of tho Gulf of
California. And all down this coast
the name of Tlburon Is spoken with
a shrug Of the shoulders, for thoso
Serls nro thieves nnd killers. It Is
even whispered that long ago they
were cannlbnls.M
EUGENICS AND OUR
IMMIGRATION LAWS
Recognition by congress that immi
gration constitutes ono of the great
est of the after-war problems of tho
United States makes timely n sugges
tion In regurd to controlling tho great
Influx of foreigners to this country,
advanced by Dr. Alexander Graham
Bell, in a communication to tho Na
tional Geographic society.
"Why Bhould not congress provldo
for an ethnical survey of the people
of the United States," ho asks.
"We should have definite and roll
able Information concerning those for
eign elements which are beneficial to
our people and thoso which are harm
ful.
"The problem of Improving n ruco
of human beings Is u most perplexing
ono to handle. Tho process of lm
provement must bo slow where tho
forces concerned act from within and
are not amenable to control from with
out. Under the best conditions It
would require several generations to
produce sensible results; but In tho
United States we have, In tho new
blood introduced from abroad, au im
portant means of improvement thnt
will, act more quickly, and that is emi
nently susceptible to control. All tho
nations of tho world have been con
tributing elements to our population;
and we have now, and now only, tho
opportunity of studying the process of
absorption before It Is complete.
"Tho grand spectacle Is presented
to our eyes of a new people being
gradually evolved In tho United States
by the mingling together of tho differ
ent rnces of tho world In varying pro
portions. It Is of tho greatest conse
quence to us that tho final result
should be the evolution of n higher
and nobler type of man in America,
and not deterioration of the nntlon.
"To this end the process of evolu
tion should bo carefully studied, and
then controlled by suitable Immigra
tion laws tending to eliminate unde
sirable ethnical elements, and to stim
ulate the admission of elements ns
slmllnted readily by our population,
nnd that tend to raise the standard
of manhood here."
HOW STEEL IS MADE
In the two years since the end of
hostilities in the World war, tho coun
tries suffering most from the conflict
have been Importing steel to the ex
tent that their finances will permit;
for this substance Is needed to patch
tho Industrial Injuries Inflicted by tho
war. Some of tho Important methods
employed In the making of -steel are
described In tho following communi
cation to tho Nutlonnl Geogniphrc
society, by William Joseph Showulter:
"An open-hearth furnace looks a
good deal like an ordinary bakc-oven;
but when one looks In through the
water-cooled door, a vast difference
appears. Instead of pans of fra
grant, fat loaves of baking bread,
thero Is an Imposing pool of fiery liq
uid ns bright as the filament of a
high-power tungsten lamp, so dazzling
that it can be examined with safety
to the eyes only by thoso using col
ored glasses. Tinted hero and thero
with streaks of soft blue and dainty
pink, it looks like melted stick candy.
"In preparing a battery of open
hearth furnaces for a charge, finely
ground dolomite Is shoveled in first.
This melts like glass and fills up all
cracks and crannies caused by the
powerful heat of tho preceding charge.
Then a little train rolls up before the
battery, and an electric crane dumps
box after box of scrap metal from tho
cars Into tho furnnces. Off some dis
tance Is n great steel tank lined with
firebrick nnd full of liquid pig metal.
"When tho scrap has melted and the
contents of tho cauldron nro cooked
enough; when the Impurities hove
been driven out and tolled awuy, the
fiery broth Is 'seasoned,' us It were,
with the proper amount of carbon,
Spiegel, ferromanganese, tungsten, fer
roslllcon, vanadium, or whatever Is
necessary to give the desired char
acter to the resulting steel.
"Then comes tho tapping of tho fur
nncc. An electric crane lifts a great
ludlo into position, a workman Jams
a crowbar through n clay-plugged hole
ut the base, and out flows the fren
zled stream Into tho ladlo. Tho sing
vises to the top like oil on water and
overflows, congealing on the outside
of tho ladle. Then the big crane picks
up tho ladle, swings It over to the
pouring platform, where it, In Its turn,
Is tapped nnd Us purified fluid run
off Into molds.
"Great enru hns to bo taken in han
dling theso ladles, for the prescuco of
a few drops of moisture when tho
hot metal is poured Into ono might
cause nn explosion and loss of life.
Just beforo they receive the molten
metal tho ladles nro heated nearly
wliito hot in order that tho steel or
iron may not chill In them.
"As fast as they are filled tho ladles
aro swung out over tho ingot molds
nnd tho liquid steel Is run into them
nnd allowed to cool and tnko Its solid
form. It is us if water were poured
Into molds nnd sot In n refrigerating
mnchlno to freeze Into blocks of Ice.
The Only difference Is thnt tho 'freez
ing' point of steel Is nwny above tho
boiling point of wntcr.
"Thero nro two other Important
types of steel furnaces tho cruclblo
furnaco and tho electric furnace. In
both of them tho idea is to keep all
hurtful gases and other Impurities out
and to regulate tho addltlou of alloys
and oxygen destroyers to n nicety. In
a cruclblo furnace tho metal is placed
in graphite clay pots, covers aro put
over them, and the pots subjected to
great heat Silica Is gradually ab
sorbed out of tho clay In tho pots nnd
transformed Into silicon by coming
into contact with tho carbon In the
steel. Tho silicon In Its turn absorbs
tho oxygen and thus quiets tho froth
ing, foaming contents of tho kettle.
"Tho electric furnaco nets In much
tho snmo wny, Its bent being so puro
that thero is no necessity of putting
tho steel In covered pots to keep out
gases and other Impurities. An elec
tric nrc, established between huge
electrodes und tho surface of tho
slag, produces the heat hi such a
fumncc. By varying tho materials
used in tho formation of tho sing any
Impurity can bo worked off and tho
glowing steel left ns puro as crystal.
Tho alloys aro then mixed with tho
steel nnd It Is made fit for any uso
desired. It Is drawn off Into ladles
and poured Into Ingot molds, where
It hnrdens, ready to be worked up In
to thoso things that constitute tho last
word In lino steel."
THE TRAGEDY OF
ARMENIA
Tho plight of Armenia nbout tho
end of 1010, n condition which has
been aggravated by tho recent defeat
of Armenian forces by Turkish na
tionalists, is described in tho following
communication to the Nntionol Geo
graphic society from Melvlllo Clutter.
"Erlvnn, tho cnpltul of Armenia's
provisional republic 1b an Inconceiv
able contrast to tho Georgian govern
ment seat at Tlllls. At Erlvnn ono
finds no spacious prospect nor vice
regal palace, no smart shops, Russian
opera, nor gay night life. To behold
misery In Tlllls, one must search it
out. In Erlvnn one cannot escupo it.
"This poor, straggling, dingy city of
tho plains, whose government olllccs
suggest somo hastily extemporized elec
tion headquarters and whose parlia
ment chamber Is rigged up with bench
es nnd cheesecloth in tho uudltorlum
of tho second-class theater, boasts of
but one beauty, and that to speak In
paradox Is forty miles away; for, In
whatever quarter of Erlvan you mny
be, lift your glance and great Ararat
of eternal snows Is seen brooding dis
tantly over tho mean streets with his
aspect of majestic calm. lie Is tho
Armenian's Olympus, or rnther say,
tho Slnnl of a race which has known
bondago aud wilderness-wandering;
und for centuries n people's Imagina
tion has turned toward him.
"Tho little Erlvnn republic hns been
tho center of refuge for Turkish Ar
menians over since tho massacro of
1015, and between 200,000 and 000,
000 of them are camped within Its
borders. As for tho city itself, Its
former population of 40,000, hns been
doubled by this influx. Thero, star
vation and typhus have claimed their
toll of 0,000, tho death rate fluctuat
ing between fifty and eighty a day.
"Though the doctor und I wero hero
to observe tho worst phases of tho
situation, each of us waited for tho
other to suggest a trip to tho Igdlr
region, where wo were told stnrvntlon
wos most acute.
"Tho town of Igdlr, with its locnl
and neur-by populations of 00,000 Ar
menians, 20,000 Tutars, uid 15,000
Yczldls, reveuled somo squalid streets
with but a few people seated here and
there, ns wo drovo In. Throughout
thoso tortuous, sun-beuten bywnys, no
children played and no nnlmal roamed.
Tho air was heavy with dreadful si
lence, sucli as hangs over plague-smit
ten communities.
"We found tho children, such ns
they were, Inhabiting nn orphnnago
wherein one sickened nt putridity's
horrlblo odor, and wero lnfonnod that
there wero neither medicines nor dis
infectants wherowltli to nllay tho con
dltlnn of the mnny little sick beds.
"Sick? Say, rather, tho bed-ridden
a word which more Justly describes
thoso tiny, wlthered-up, crone-llko
creatures, upon whoso faces tho skin
seemed stretched to a drumhead's
tightness; whoso peering eyes shot
terror nnd anguish, as If death's pros
ence were already perceptible to them,
and who lay there at famine's climax
of physical exhaustion. In thoso
young, yet grotesquely-aged faces, wo
seemed to see a long lifetime of trag
edy packed Into eight or ten childish
years.
"Tho mud huts which we visited
presented nn Invariable picture a
barren, cave-llko Interior, locking ono
stick of furniture or household uten
sil, and with a few blenched bones,
scattered here und there."
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