Ancient War Relics

Eelics of the war neriods cighteen centimes ago begin to figure in the operations of the present war. The Turks, who were forced south i'rom the northcrn extremity of the Dobrndscha by the Bussians who crossed at Galatz and Ibrail, have made their stand dong the line of Trajan's wall, which crosses the Dobrudseha just south of the railroad from Tehcrnavoda to Kostenjé. The old wall was built by Trajan during liis numerous wars that lea to the final subjugation of the warlike Dacians and Scythians. The great Roman Emperor fought all over the Wallaohian and Moldavian torritory, spanned the Danube with a colossal bridge, besides capturing the very territory in Asia Minor for which the Bussians and Turks are now contending. Trajan built three walls - one in Spain, one intended to run from the ïthine to the Danube, and the tliird across the Dobrudsclm, bctween the points we havo indioated, to prevent the incursions of the Scythians across the Danube down intotherich country of the present Boumelia. At present, the wall consista of a doublé, and sometimes triple, line of earth ramparts, from ten to nineteen feet in hoight, bounded on the north side by a marshy valley, which answers the purpose of a fosse. This same wall was the Turkish line of defense against the Bussian invaders in 1854, and the scène of two Bussian defcats before tkey were ablo to cross it. The seat of war in Asia is not only memorable for Trajan's victories, bul also as the line of Zenophon's famous retreat with bis 10,000. After the victory of the Grenks at (Junaxa, near Bagdad, and their desertiou by their allies, instead of retracing their steps by the route tliey had entered Asia Minor, they marched along tin Tigris to a point corresponding with the present town of Moush, in Armenia, northwest of Lako Van, made a circuitous route through Armenia until they were well up to tb e Caucasus, then, retracing their steps, passed down betwoen Kars and Bayazid, across the mountain passes where the Bussians are now operating, until they reached Erzeroum. From this point a guide took them to a mountain from which the Euxine was visible, and the end of their wanderings was at hand.