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Yussuff of Olive-Town

Best Wishes for a

By LOUIS GOLDING

Happy and Prosperous
New Year

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My mind goes hack to Salonika. I Zion. In twenty languages they moan-
have heard from Yussuf, who is sell. ed for food as I passed among them.
ing olives again, this time in Philadel- Skinny arms were lifted toward me,
phia. I cannot excise our first meet- and babies clung like shellfish around
ing from my mind and all day I have my feet. I steered with great difficul-
been humming a sweet and silly song: ty through the tent-ropes and the
archipelago of mattresses that alone
Compere G 14 illert
had been saved from the debacle.
mourri?
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It was then that a little voice ruse
But let me begin at the beginning. unwaveringly from the desolation, like
I They were sonorous streets for the a bird out of No Man's Land—a deli-
sale of olives—the Street of Clytem- cate soprano voice I had heard often
nestra, the avenue of Lysander. It before. "Titi Carahi" it called me.
"Toto Carabo," more impatiently.
were no 13yzantine churches haunted Then—
by Orthodox priests as ancient as
Compere GUilleri
their foundations, and no vengeful
Te laWross-tif muerrP
' Turks lurking behind the flapping
Yussuf of olive-town sat below me
silks of their bazaars. In the part
He
which stretched away from Venizelos magnificently on a mattress.
street over to the Monastir road you surged through the foam of feathers
found an unashamed and oily modern that had split through the seams as
ur ed from the sea. Ills help
V enus surged
o f V
g
ism, unredeemed b the c
Verhaeren and Thomas Burke, a mod-
ernism that soared no higher than
two stories and olives. An atmos- •
phere of satisfied ambitions, of un-
hastening, ample trade lay over the
streets, lazily like an awning. There
was a deep content in the faces of the
pickle-jars, and a satiety oozed visib-
ly from tallow candles. The Spanish
Jews who owned these shops had been
selling olives for centuries. They be-
gan to sell olives when Murad Pasha
invited them from Spain in the middle
of the fifteenth century. The rem-
nants of the Venetian garrison bought
them; and young Turks scheming
revolutions and little Creeks in the
first flush of their Balkan victories.
Only one army that marched through
these Salonikan streets turned up
their noses at olives, and these
brought unprecedented quantities of
soap, so that the current of trade still
flowed as steadily as the fates reset
their looms; and this was the last of
them, the British. It was something
of a shock to me one day as I walked
down Cassander lane, threading my
way through barrels of olives as
black as the pebbles wash by Styx, to
hear a thin soprano voice singing a
little French folk-song that I had last
heard centuries ago and planets
away, when I was a lad at school;
p' tit homme
II it avail

was wrapped round turbanwise with a
towel, and over his underclothing
blazed a dressing-gown like • forest
of orchids. Had I never known him
before I could have almost believed
he had budden naturally from that
mattress like a blossom and that the
mattress from which he bloomed was
a monstrous pumpkin. Though a cruet
irrevocable destiny had shattered his
household goods and had eradicated
him from the soil in which his ances-
tors flourished for centuries, the
strange characteristic of his race
made him even in this place of flux
and tragedy genius loci. Once again
he seemed to embody an nacient tra-
dition. Ile was the stability of things.
I sought the warm hollows of his
hand. "Compere Guilleri," I said, "je
nr te laiseerai mourrir." I will not let
thee die!" Shall not Jews from the
world's end, stand together?
And together we murmured, "Toti
Carabi" toward the smoke rising from
olive-ban, as we have since murmur-
ed the older songs of our own race to-
gether, in a land far distant from Sal-
onika and her ruins.

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Titi Carahi
Toto Carob,'.
Compere Guilleri.
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I cannot describe with what arch
: delicacy that "Titi Carahi, Toto Cara-
ts. ," Hutted through the olive-glooms,
wandered from somewhere behind the
piled bars of Piraean soap, shrilled
"Our Autos Pass Your Door"
through the sardine tins, until at last
it gained the blue air and filtered
through a cascade of wistaria that
half concealed an advertisement for
Colman's mustard. It would have
been criminal for me to pursue my
callous way without trying to link up
somehow my boyhood with that hid-
den magical throat that charmed fly-
buzzing olive-town with the naive en-
chantment of French folk-lore land. I
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and stood staring into the eloquent
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gloom of a little store throbbing with
"Carabi." Then I saw the singer, or,
should I say, the stomach of the sing
Cr. It seemed to flow with charitable
and voluminous folds around a chair
and below a chair, and to overflow ex-
travagantly into the shop. Below, a
pair of legs became manifest, and then
at last the enormous estatie face of
•E- the singer himself swum into vision
K" like a moon. Where stomach ended
and throat began it was difficult to de-
termine. but both shook with lyric PM-
Sixes 1 to 6
It was the Falstaff of olive-
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town, the Gargantua of the Balkans.
And this was how I found Yussuf,
who became my staunch friend, and
ffiith whi ni I sang "Titi Carahi, Toth
Co riital" whenever I found the Mace-
donian sun a great weariness and I
yearned to recover the lost things.

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He was olives, and he was the sta-
bility of things.
Olive-town is no longer. The Span-
ish Jews do not sell olives from the
oily depths of their caverns in the
street of Clytemnestra. The destruc-
tion of olive-town was but an incident
in the great fire that destroyed more
o f Salonika. The loud cry
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with which the pillars of St. Demet-
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rius
fell
inwards
and threw their
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and Equipment with every pair of Boys' Shoes
unique capitals upon the pyre did not
stay
the
flames.
But
when the liquid,
-
- reproachful sob of the olive-barrels
fell
upon
deaf
ears,
and
the innurner-
—Main Floor, Mestanine-
ff- able appealing dark eyes melted not
the rancor of the flames, hops was at
end.
So many thousands were burned out
Boys'
Boys'
of their homes (more especially the
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House
Dancing
Spanish
Jews, for the wind blew hard
-
Slipper.
Oxfords
away from the Turkish quarter,) that
it was necessary not only to ship large
numbers to other parts but to estab•
lisp immense canvas camps of refu-
Woodward and Adams
the mea dows
tdered very sadly ,
evening th
among
wa.yenTnr
e the squatting groups of refu-'
gees. The grass that drooped among
them was as withered as their hopes.
Away in the city the smoke still float-
ed malevolently over the ruins; over
the Hotel Splendide, whose windows
no longer impudently winked at Olym-
pus in the setting sun; over the char-
red timbers of a thousand homes; over
the doom of olive-town.
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There were Hellenic refugees here
C. V. ZINK, Manager
who had fled the Turk from Asia Min-
or until flight had become the normal
tenor of their lives and rest was al-
, most • suspicious incident. There
j were heavy-boned Serbian women who
had tramped on naked feet over the
mountains. There were Turkish worn- I
en stretching themselves monotonous-
' to under their trousered limbs, so sick
I to death that even their yashmaks
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The Arch of Constantine still stands
at the end of what remains of Ignatia
street, well nigh two thousand years
old. But Yussuf was older than the
Arch of Constantine. The smile that
washed round the shores of his lips be-
longed to a remoter age. And Yussuf
bore the centuries with more equani-
mity than the battered arch. Time
had chipped no corners from him, be-
cause there were no corners to chip.
All his lines swelled pleasantly like a
suave movement in Mendelsohn. Yet
Yussuf was young, younger than the
kinema built yesterday. The kinema
was already crumbling; but Yussuf
might dissolve, he could never crum-
ble. There was never a baby more
ingenuous than he. I am sure that
when he was all alone in his bed he
counted ten little fingers and ten little
toes, if Ina proportions did not impede
the pastime. When you heard him
selling olives with the unhastening
gurgle of a lowland river you felt that
bargaining for boundaries was a dis-
sipation and the fighting of wars an
unfortunate but transitory excite-
ment.

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