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Show A: ItMinrittr ii aei'W'U newt swiari air it.ifi.it. I THE LEHI 3UN. LEHI. UTAII s - ' 'Ul ... I f ' mil, ii r - ' v.? to a LlllML With Peaks of the Himalayas In th Background. . ...--sanM! jlaW E? Himalayas kv. taken the place or Wst this summer In the .fanii scaled ... j. . nn June 21. 27.815 feet, high, is k attacked by party or jM Mount Kamet has sel-i sel-i beard of wben the earths I pinnacles are Dews but nevertheless It Is one kett UtUe group of Asiatic lat pusn up laimc a than mountains In any irt of the earth. Although thirtieth among the ama to of mountain gmui wai tha Himniflvfl chain China, it is not greatly W in height by any of Its f . 1 i. Oft AAO (eicepi Merest, i"ui -cci jfioodwin Austen, 28,250; langa, 27,815; Dhaulaglrl, Gasal Than, 26,305. All f roper-giants among moun-i moun-i la Nepal except Goodwin filch is in northern Kash- ?pai om Mount Kamit is just i stone's throw south jMm border, In the United m of India. Nearby is Devi, which tops It by less ,10 feet These comparisons b to the fact that Kamet third highest mountain in I A empire; and by virtue f tut It was considered well jixrloos attack by mountain fi, Mounts Everest and Kin-? Kin-? in near Darjeellng, hill l ot Bengal, Mount Kamet is to the northwest near J 11 capital of India. It I a Garhwal district of the I Provinces, 130 miles due fSmli near the eightieth me-'i me-'i longitude. This area came fniish possessions In 1814 as 4of the Gurka war (with This region consists of a f high peaks with extremely gejj winding among them. fiMJI tnii Inn7n U.T" Di"i'co fe Kamet Is Reached. "Staid nspd in aih Kamet a ot r.ii, tm Provinces, at the i it .7 tne "''Malayan from there travel is overate8 over-ate8 and p 8te"p Stae,ray leads over Iffij acr0S3 nnm- ?3 to the vil-fjlfeet vil-fjlfeet altitude. Wtat both yaks and mimeroug attempts to igthavebeenmadS Ufl.Tdition Prior m!z M' Ke,las l2!BcSBuffer" K feater gla" feir toT6 helght 4 Sb5 mi slPes. It is f-WiSS1 fiv and Cr? ea level rl Hie,11"16 most Inac-Ftj Inac-Ftj miIes north Hne, but '?Jrf travel Vtecj .fs and K 13 ouch b5emat?narter8 cS011 that f tn. Vs1 years, nt. yrTest- Bif Man cool -"'ess nhn. ""Hilt 'ords. And ttiM Sld .L, of 4ierf.s,Pes of at rises about 7.000 feet from the Belelan plains. On the side toward the mountains the ridge drops away for approximately 6,000 feet forming form-ing what might, in American terminology, ter-minology, be called "the Grand Canyon of the Ranjlt," but whose heavily forested slopes and tropically trop-ically luxuriant floor earns in India the more poetic name of "Yale of Ranjlt," It is across this titanic valley and beyond over ranges of foothills, lower than that on which Darjeellng Darjeel-lng pits,' that one looks to mighty Kinchinjunga. The eye therefore sees a rise of approximately 7,000 feet, a range of altitude to be seen in1 few if any other places in the world, since most of tha. hlphpst mountains rise from lofty plateaus. uarjeeiing nas characteristics unlike un-like those of most towns. It can hardly be said to have streets. Most oi we ouucungs iace on pains or walks which run along the main ridcre and out onto its minor snrirs. or work their way by serpentine routes to otner paths that cling to the steen sides of the stones. Stens. too, serve in place of roads, con necting terraces that rise one above the other. The villas, bungalows, shoos. government - buildings, hospitals,' churches, schools, barracks and native na-tive huts that make nn Dflrleelin? and its suburb form pendant com munities, like giant saddle-bags thrown over the ridge. Dwellings are scattered down the slopes for a thousand feet, the ground floor of one tier on a level with the roofs Of the next tier below. Tf nns must cover much space in Darjeellng he rides on pony back or is carried ln a litter by four servants. The center of Darjeellng Is Observatory Ob-servatory hill, a knoll on the crest of the ridge. Topping the knoll is a Buddhist monument nnri nr- roundlng it is a small forest of man irom wnicn prayer nags nutter nut-ter their supplications. From the benches near the monument one mav sit when mist and rlonrts An not interfere, and take advantage of Darjeeling's best view of mighty Kinchinjunga and its fellows. But often the vigil Is fruitless. It Is only for relatively brief periods during spring and early winter that one may De sure or long, unlnter- rUDted Views of the towiviner urnn. ite and ice walls and snowv sinnna to the north. Looking Across the Peaks. Standing on the Darleelfn? rlW when the air is free of mists, the oDserver first looks down, deep down 6,000 feet into a river gorge cnonea witn tropical jungle. Then his eyes rise to the rice fields reflecting re-flecting the blue sky and the tea plantations. Up and op to the Temperate Tem-perate zone trees, then to the pine forests crowning lower mountains. The observer peeps over half a dozen intervening ridges Into the dark mysterious depths of valleys. Then he sees the bare uplands above the tree line and finally the beginning of the snows. Long white glaciers drape the mountain mass whose two-pronged peaks half fills the sky. The world Beems to be walled on the north. There is no such thing as a horizon; Kinchinjunga closes the view like an exquisite screen. The vertical height is to the length, at this point of vantage as one is to eight; that is, as a tree 60 feet high appears when viewed at the distance of one average city block. In terms of familiar American views, Kinchinjunga, seen from Darjeeling, is like the Washington monument ss It annenra tVnm tra 1 i . . V u. llj west veranda of the Capitol or the Woolworth building as seen from the Jersey shore. Darjeeling well earns Its popularity popu-larity as a summer resort While on the steamy plains of Bengal, a few miles away, the mercury climbs In summer above 100 dp?re irh- renhelt, it seldom tops 75 degrees at Darjeeling; and In winter 35 degrees marks the low point of the temperature range. The unpleasant unpleas-ant feature of the weather Is furnished fur-nished by the heavy rains. Ten feet of water fall each year, and some of the storms are violent Darjeeling's Dar-jeeling's name means "Place of the Thunderbolt" Four-fifths of the year's precipitation falls between the first of June and the last of September. Natives of the region of Kinchinjunga Kin-chinjunga believe the snow peaks to be the abode of the evil spirits. High up the sides of the mountains they build monasteries in which they -pray for deliverance from the evil spirits. They think that to climb the peaks is to tempt death. Intermountain News Briefly ToU by Busy Readers SCHOOL WILL OPEN DROUTH AID LOOMS FOREST FIRES RAGE AN UNCHANGED IAX AGED PEOPLE FETED OQDEN, UT.-Ogden clty'g tax levy for 1031 will be 12 mills, the same as last year, according to a resolution adopted by the city commission. com-mission. ST. GEORGE. UT.-One hundred and sixty-two St George residents, 140 of whom were over 65 years of age, and the other members of committees com-mittees and drivers of cars, toured Zion park recently. AMERICAN FORK, UT. Date of the opening of the Utah state training school at American Fork will depend upon the time it takes to obtain and install miscellaneous equipment, purchase of which has been approved by the board of trustees. The installation will probably require 30 days. SALT LAKE CITY, UT-Support of the Utah State Bankers' association asso-ciation at the Western Agricultural Economic conference August 17 was pledged by D. E. Davis, vice president presi-dent of the association, in a letter to Governor George H. Dern. Farmers, Farm-ers, financiers and railroad officials will meet in Salt Lake to discuss emergency relief for farmers who are In need of aid as the result of the summer's drouth. BOISE, IDA. Attorney General Fred J. Babcock has ruled that Idaho Ida-ho Falls must pay the half-mill per kilowatt tax on power produced in Its plant under the law enacted by the special session of the last legislature. legis-lature. LOGAN, TJT. An Increase of .9 mill was made In the levy of Cache county for 1931 over last year, It Is announced. BOISE, IDA. Bids will be opened open-ed August 18 on grading and gravel surfacing five miles of the Eagle Meredlan highway In Ada county, and on surfacing with crushed rock 13.2 miles of the North and South highway between Genesee and Thorn Creek In Nez Perce and Latah La-tah counties. BOISE, IDA.Forest fires have destroyed timber on over 20,000 acres of wood land in Idaho this season. ROBERTS, IDA. Glenn Frank Bywater, 25, Salt Lake, an employe em-ploye of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, was killed near here when a shotgun he was removing from an automobile ae-ddently ae-ddently exploded. SALINA, UT. Carol Veda Nelson, Nel-son, 18-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Nelson of this city, died an hour after she had eat en rat poison which she found in the home. FORT DUCHESNE, UT. The attendance at the U. I. B. C. Is estimated es-timated to have exceeded 30,000 ROCK SPHINGS, WTO. While repairing a shotgun, Dick Lewis, 45 tailor at 645 Pilot Butte avenue, here, was killed when a shell; Btuck In the barrel of the gun, exploded. ex-ploded. The discharge entered the right side of his head and killed him almost instantly. OGDEN, UT. According to an announcement made by officials of the Amalgamated Sugar company, the price of molasses to the farmer farm-er has been reduced from $15 a ton to $8. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The state general fund will receive one quarter million dollars less during the current fiscal year than last year. This became apparent when the state tax commission determined determin-ed that the assessed valuation of taxable tangible property for this year will probably be in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $020,500,000. RICHFIELD, UT. Only married men with families are to be hired in erecting the new armory at Richfield. Rich-field. . PROVO, UT. Bacterial cancer, which affects tomato plants, was checked considerably in Utah county coun-ty this summer by the long hot and dry period. OGDEN, UT. City engineer In his monthly report discloses that July's building permit total of $30,-900 $30,-900 was double the total for July of 1930 and $10,000 in excess of the total for June of this year. BURLEY, IDA. Grain harvest In the dry farming sections of Cassia Cas-sia county Is now in full swing, and In many districts fair crops are being reported. In others the long dry spell is showing its effects and some fields have been found to be not heavy enough to harvest RIVERTON, WIO. Goes-in-Lodge, 80-year-old chief medicine maker for the Arapahoe Indian tribe and the last surviving Indian on the Wind reservation to take part In the Custer massacres of 1876, died CSALT LAKE CITY, TJT. Receipts Re-ceipts at the state treasurer's office of-fice from cigaret stamp taxes ln July were $17,8(55.42. PRICE, UT.-The Carbon fair board has delegated three members to attend celebrations throughout the state to line up ""h"? ' the fair here, September 12, 13. 14. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. An old muzzle-loading cannot, believed to have been brought to Utah by the Mormon battalion of 1S48, or United Unit-ed State soldiers stationed here during the 50A has beea i given to the Deseret museum by Julian Bamberger, president of the Bamberger Bam-berger Electric Railroad company. , OUTLET FOR WEALTH OF CENTRAL AFRICA It is 75 years since David T.tvW (tone completed tha first Imimo. made by a white man across Africa, uu mat journey had taken two years. Now, following broadly Livingstone's Liv-ingstone's track from Angola to Mo- ramoique, a very different transcontinental transcon-tinental Journey is being made. The first train to cross Africa from ocean to ocean leaves Lobito now for Beira, a distance of 2.949 miles h the route of the railway. The Journey Jour-ney has been rendered possible by the completion of the western sec tion or the route, that from Lobito bay by the Beneuela railway and it continuation through the Belgian ungo to the Katanga copper field a field which extends into tha Jacent regions of northern Rhodesia, ine change that has come over this land in a sintrle eeneration 1R ra. markable. As diamonds drew the railway from the cane to Kimberlev. and as gold drew the railway on to tne Hand, so copper has drawn the railway to the heart of South On. ,tral Africa. Katanga, but yesterday a thousand miles from anywhere, almost al-most unknown tr the white man, is now the most highly developed province prov-ince of the Belgian Congo. It has a considerable white population; Its mines have already exported copper to the value of 52,000,000; and In Elisabethvllle it has an attractive capital, which at the moment Is Indulging In-dulging In its first International exhibition. ex-hibition. Across the border, in northern Rhodesia, there is promise of an almost equal development And whether in Portuguese, Belgian or British territory the great change has been brought about mainly bv British enterprise and with British capital. This is as it should be, for the opening up of the whole region orlg-inated orlg-inated with the British. K to the courage and persistence of one man in particular, Sir Robert Williams, this change is due, then Living, stone was the true pioneer. It was Livingstone who first kept open the road to the north, and It was the reading of entries In Livingstone journal that guided Williams, a he ?8e,f al t0 nl discovery or the Immense mineral wealth along the Congo-Zambezi divide, vvilliams was an early associate of Cecil Rhodes and an ardent believer ln the Cape-to-Catro railway scheme. But teither he nor Rhodes was foolish fool-ish enough to suppose that a railway from the Cape to Cairo was an economic proposition in Itself, The Cape-to-Calro line was meant as a backbone from which ribs would ex-tend ex-tend on either side. Twn n h. fore his death Rhodes wrote, "The Junctions to the east and west coasts, which will occur ln the future, will be outlets for the traffic obtained aiong tne route of the line as passes throuch the center nt At. rica." That was written In 1900, the year in wnicn Williams got his first mineral concession ln Katnntrfl. Tn. day two great "Junction" lines are complete and, as Rhodes foresaw, they are taking to the markets of the world "the traffic obtained along the route of the (main Cape-to-Calro) line." They are also opening up lands rich in acrlcultural and mtn. eral possibilities. London Times. Electric Ey Aid. Blind "Electric eyes now are beinir used to "see" for blind persons in guiding them about their homes bv clvlne them a sense of direction as they move about The electric eye, or protoelectric cell, is made up like a flashlight With a small bnzzer con- nected to Its battery, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine. Convenient Con-venient electric lights are then placed about passages and hallways, nar- ticularly at turns. The blind person turns the electric elec-tric eye about much as a nerson hav ing his sight would direct a flash light When the device points to a light source, contact is made and the buzzer sounds. As long as the buzzer Is sounding the blind user knows he Is on the right path. No Data He I say It with flowers but I grow them myself. She Ion do look rather seedy. Turks Shaken la Their Veneration for Koran Arabic, being a sacred language, the ecclesiastics have cried out against their holy book, the Koran, appearing in any other tongue. But the Turkish government has In 6pite of this allowed the publication of three separate translations. Fourteen Four-teen thousand copies have been sold. Turks, who formerly heard the oundlng Arabic of the Koran without with-out understanding anything of Its meaning, imagined it charged with tremendous and mystic meanings. That impression melts away when the Koran Is read In the vernacular. It is sometimes enough to place a Koran and a Testament In the hands of a Turkish render and leave him to draw his own conclusions. It is said that Kemal Pasha In disgust threw the book across the room into a corner. Yet in the Sudan the primary pri-mary textbook In all the government schools is the Koran, and Islam Is gaining ground constantly In the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Sunday School Times. Gave Sound Reason for Multiplicity of Wives Maurice Hindus, the Russian authority, au-thority, was talking about his experiences expe-riences In Russia. "In Russia the unrestricted divorce law is abused," he said. "Its abusers don't think so, though." "I lunched one day In Moscow with a commissar who had already had 14 wives, and he was only twenty-nine twenty-nine years old. "He said It was tr his wives that he "owed his success, so naturally the more wives the merrier. He said without his wives' counsel and support sup-port he'd still have beet a shoemaker's shoemak-er's apprentice. "Then he wound up with an epigram. epi-gram. " The born leaders of men,' he said, 'are women.' " Tha Blam 'Poets are born and not made." "Yes, blame it on the parents! They get the blame for everything else." GIANT NEO ROOF SIGN mcm Hoipitmtit? ill uliiinB-Bli, --JST HOTEL Newhouse SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH One of Salt Lake City's finest hotelo, 'where guest find every comfort with a warm hospitality. hospi-tality. Garage in connection. Cafe and cafeteria. 400 Room: Each with Bath $2.00 to f t.00 V. E. BUTTON, Manager Ker Handicap The Golfer They're all afraid to play me., What do yon think my handicap is? The Girl Oh, I don't know. It may be your face. Rehoboth Son-day Son-day Herald. Sometime Seem So "The lawyers make some glowing pleas for these prisoners." "To hear the orations, anyone of them has led a better life than I have," commented the weary court clerk. . If you have to take a pill after the meal, why eat the meal? Then yon don't need to take the pill. Everybody Every-body eats too much. A girl should see to it that her line of small talk doesn't dwindle too small. Why are the righteous so Interested Inter-ested ln the affairs of others? M mm? during May, June and July llIERE are reasons for this Firestone ia build-ing build-ing the Greatest Tire Values in history, with the result that Firestone Factories are operating 24 hours a day,6 days a week, tomeetpublic preference. This is the year everybody is scrutinizing his Eurchases. 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