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Show aSsA 4 Jtd- 4s- - i 1 ' ' . THE RICH COUNTY NEVS, RANDOLPH, UTAH aIsa conquered Cyprus. captives, Esarhaddon, the Caesar and Carnegie of Assyria, who left at Nineveh an indexed library of many thousands of clay jtahlets, received tributes from ten Cypplan kings. of Pausanias, Benedict Arnold Sparta, liberated Cyprus from Persian dominion, and Evagoras, one of the island kings, hero of the worlds first known biography, penned by Isocrates, who united the scattered principalities, is the King Arthur of island tradition. Thus Cyprus reeks 'with composite memories of eastern, Grecian, Roman, and even civilization. No less was it a focal point for religions. At Koukiia, where certain tides still pile masses of foam along the stiore Aphrodite is supposed to have been born of the waves. Here are ruins of a temple for her worship, where originally fetes were held which, as one writer puts it, were the scenes of a too literal worship of Venus, and where until recently It was the custom to immerse maidens In honor of the goddess' birth. Koukiia is on .the site of the ancient Paphos. The Paphos of today e was the Neapaphos, where St. Paul struck blind the sorcerer, Elynias, and converted Sergius Paulus, the Roman deputy. Larnaka is on the The present-da- y site of the biblical Chittim, whose ships are mentioned by Daniel, and whose ivory is referred to by Ezekiel. In Larnaka Is the tomb of Lazarus, who, after being raised from the dead, is said 'to have become bishop of the renowned city. The area of Cyprus is about equal to the combined areas of Delaware and Rhode Island, while its total population is about half that of the latter state. , Anglo-Saxo- PALESTINE: PIGMY LAND WITH A GIANT HISTORY t The historic Holy Land where moved the Nazarene whose birth will be commemorated around the world this week, is characterized as a tiny little country, by Viscount James Bryce, In a communication to the National Geography society: Though the traveler's hand books prepare him to find Palestine small, it surprises him by being smaller than he expected. Taking it as the region between the Mediterranean on the west and the Jordan and Dead sea on the east, from the spurs of Lebanon and Hermon on the north to the desert at Beereheba on the south, it is only' 110 miles long and 50 to 60 broad that is to' say, it is smaller than New Jersey. Of this region large parts did not really belong to ancient Israel. Their hold on the southern and northern districts was but slight, while in the southwest, a wide and rich plain along the Mediterranean was occupied by the warlike Philistines, who were sometimes more than a match for the Hebrew armies. Israel had, in fa t. little more than the hill country, which lay between the Jordan on the east and the marittine plain on the west. King David, id the days of his power, looked down from the hill cities of Benjamin, just north of Jerusalem, upon Philistine enemies, only 25 miles off, on the one side, and looked across the Jordan to Moabite enemies, about as far off, on the other. Nearly all .the events in the history of Israel that are recorded In the Old Testament happened within a territory no bigger than the state of Connecticut, whose area is 4,800 square miles; and into hardly any other cuuatry has there been crowded from the days of Abraham till our own, so much history that is to say, so many events that harve been recorded and deserve to be recorded in the annals of mankind. Nor is it only that Palestine is really a small country. The traveler constantly feels as he moves about that it is a small country. From the heights, a few miles north of Jerusalem, he sees, looking northward, a far-of- f summit carrying snow for eight months in the year. It Is Hermon, nearly 10,000 feet high Hermon, whose fountains feed the rivers of Damascus. But Hermon is outside the territory of Israel altogether, standing in the land of the, Syrians ; so. too, it is of Lebanon. We are apt, to think of that mountain mass as within - the country, because It also is frequently mentioned In the Psalms and the Prophets; but the two ranges of Lebanon also rise beyond the frontiers of Israel, lying between the Syrians of Damascus and the Phoenicians of the West. Perhaps it is because the maps from which children used to learn Bible geography, were on a large scale, that most of us have failed to realize how narrow were the limits within, which took place, all those great doings that fill the books of Samuel and Kings. - Just in the same way the classical scholar who visits Greece is surprised to find that so small a territory sufficed for so many striking Incidents and for the careers of so many famous men. n , one-tim- if, AZORES: MAY BE AERIAL HALF-WAHOUSE Y The Azores islands, in years to come, may be an established rest station for airplane flights across the ocean. Farthest from a continent' of any Atlantic island group, the islands lie 830 miles west of Cape da Roca, Portugal, and more than a thousand miles southeast of Newfoundland, nearest North American land. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, while the former were active, made the Azores objects of scientific interest akin to that evinced in the now famous Mount Katmai region In Alaska. Suboceanic eruptions, sometimes piling up islands which soon disappeared, were characteristic phenomena. ODe early description of such an event tells how the earth and waters were rocked for eight days by earthquakes, followed by a vast caldron of fire that seemed to sweep the sea's surface and cousume the clouds, spewing enormous masses of earth and rock. Then there appeared a group of rocks, ever growing higher and wider until an area of several square miles was contained in this no mans land. Later it was shattered, and subsided, as the result of more earthquakes. The Azores comprise three groups of islands. Their total area Is less than that of Rhode Island ; their population about equal to that of Kansas City. Mo. , Most of the inhabitants are Portuguese. The rest are Flemish and Moorish, with a few Immigrants from the United Kingdom, Fruits and fish constitute the principal exports. Oranges are supplanting pineapples, but the other products lemon, citron. Japanese medlar, and bananas maintain their popularity. The principal fish are the mullet, tunny. and bonito. Saint Michaels, largest Island of the group, has lava beds, caves which may be traversed for miles, and a mammoth crater with two jeweled lakes one azure, the other emerald at its bottom. On Santa Maria ts.the church where Columbus knelt. Off Tereeria a subV marine volcano made its appearance ENCHANTED ISLAND as recently as half a century ago. On Cyprus, fairy land of the Mediter- Corvo have been unearthed coins ranean, which Greeks have been urging which suggest Carthaginian visits, and Great Britain to turn over to them, has an Arabian geographer of the twelfth a history no less strange than the ficcentury described islands of the WestOthello. for ern Ocean thought to have been the tion of Shakespeares which the island, in part. Is the setting. Azores. Richard Coeur de Lion wrested It About the middte of the fifteenth from a ruler who had won It by forg- century the Portuguese sent expediing letters in his monarch's name af- tions to settle upon them. One island. ter that ruler, . Isaac Comuenus. had Fayal. was presented by Alphonso V refused to let the Crusader's ship- of Portugal, to his aunt, Isabella, land duchess of Burgundy. wrecked and seasick lady-lov- e .It was upon there the first time she asked. her marriage to Philip the Good, duke Richard married Berengaria there 'of Burgundy, that he founded the faand went his way, after turning over mous knightly order of the Golden the island to a penniless adventurer, Fleece. Guy de Lusignan, Who founded a In 1829 supporters of Maria da "feudal state amongst spice gardens Gloria against Miguel. In the struggle and silken luxury, and thus establishfor the Portuguese crown, established ed a dynasty which has been described themselves on the islands, and for the as the most romantic European his- three years following Queen Maria lived at Angra. one of the seaports of tory. Cyprus bulks large in the crotch of Importance. Others are Ponta Deigada Asia Minor, like a huge fist with a and Horta. lean finger pointing straight at Antioch. Historically, one .may imagine, BESSARABIA: A CONEY the finger should be crooked a bit ISLAND OF HISTORY more, in perpetual accusation of the Bessarabia, recently assigned to the sultan, the degenerate Selim II, whose island, the suzerainty of Roumania, has Tong been impelled generals captured in part, at least, by the fact that a racial catch basin.' Her population was more than Selim's favorite wine came from there. before the war, and Included marks the promontory Geographically, the line of Cyprus prehistoric connec- Moldavians. Little Russians, Jews. Bulgarians. Greeks. Armenians, Tartars. tion with Asias mainland. There too, reigned the beautiful Germans, and Gypsies; but that list with the encycloQueen Catherine Cornaro, adopted is short compared of Getae. Goths. who. procession Venice, of pedic though daughter n by her husband's death, Avars, Huns, Bessi (whence her ICumans, and Mongols, struggled against intrigue that the name), Ugrians, but a few, since the days mention to unborn his saved for be throne might of the original Cimmerians. child. YanFor Bessarabia, sloping southward Early came to Cyprus those the westward foothills of the from thePhoenicians. Levant, the of kees between the Dniester and who. as of Carpathians, Assyria Sargon, the king sea and Isaiah had prophesied, led the Egyp- Pruth, down to theIn Black normal geo the Danube lay delta, the and Ethiopieans tians prisoners . grief-stricke- - graphical pathway ef tribes poking westward from Asia and southward from the bleak Russian steppes toward the warmer aeacoast lands. Moreover, Bessarabia la at, the convergence of these two history-beate- n paths, and many times a clash ensued to decide which group should pass through the neck of the bottle toward Europes lands of milk and honey. Among the most harrowing of the invasions was that of the Mongol's In the fourteenth century. They cave across the Volga under Batu, grandson of that Mongol Charlemagne, Jenghiii Kahn, and though there Is no complete story of their depredations in Bessarabia, that region probably suffered atrocities similar to others which are In recorded harrowing detail. At Ryazan women and childrenwere used as targets in contests; slivers of wood were driven under the nails of the men ; then they were corralled in churches to watch their women being tortured, and finally roasted alive. Another city, Kozelsk, was renamed Mobaiig, City of Woe, and Kiev was laid waste after her people had been maimed and murdered.' A picture of peaceful pastoral Bessarabia prior to the renewed ravages of the World war, furnishes a pleasing contrast. A delight to the few tourists who wentthrough the region, were the Moldavian homes. A Moldavian interior was Immaculate curtains and vivid. Brightly-colore- d and hangings were used. An inevitable decoration were rows of yellow gourds, the raising of which is one of the minor Bessarabian industries. The people are deeply religious. Each ortbo-odo- x home had its altar, facing eastward, sacred bread beneath the icon, and cornstalks placed in the shade of Even the altars a cross before It. were colorful because of their draperies' and candles, and maHy times they were laden with flowers. The Bessarabian women are sprightly, bright-eyeand pretty. , Moldavians Vonstituted about half the inhabitants of Bessarabia. Roumania, It will be recalled, was formed by the union of Moldavia and hence the adjoining Bes; sarabia, with its large Moldavian population, long has been the Irredenta of Roumania. - ft"1d, Wal-lach- ia THE BERMUDAS The Bermuda islands suggest the adventures of Robinson Crusoe in their colonization and present In their later chronology a curious parallel to United Stales history, with the events predated by a number of years. The Robinson Crusoe comparison obtrudes because the island was discovered and later settled as the direct result of shipwrecks, and the settlers had to build themselves a bark to set sail again. As for the anticipatleu of American history on a miniature scale. It may be noted that the colonization took place seven years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Mass.; that witches were burned, Quakers were persecuted, and miscreants were ducked before similar occurrences are recorded in New England, and that slavery was The Bermudians abolished in 1834. protested long before 1776 against the mother countrys rule, until the island prisons were oyerfull ; but relief came in their case not through a declaration of freedom, but by the accession of Cromwell. But the essential point of contact of the American with the Bermudian fact arises from the that while the immortal Lafayette gallantly helped the colonies conclude their war of independence, the Bermudians supplied the ammunition to be- Wtn-thro- ' f r ' UTAH BUDGET V The Utah Oil Refining company W planning t wild- $10,000 warehouse in Provo-Joh-n Paht Janes, aged- , ffieb at Salt Lake ae the. result of injuries received when the sled on which he was Miffing collided with an automobile. ' Divorces granted In Salt Lake county during. the past year are estimated-- ' at about 300. This is the largest number on record in the local courts and about 100 more than'inlfll9: Caught beneath falling timbers and earth while pulling props under con--' tract work with the Standard 6oal company in the companys (nine air Standardvllle, Gust Turen was fatally , injured. Two hundred person die annually Inti tah of tuberculosis, and there are constantly 1000 cases of the disease state, according to estimates made by Dr. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner. Taxes collected by the federal gov- ernment in Utah during the fiscal-yea- r 1918-1exceed those o Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, according to the annual report of the commissioner- of internal revenue. Claims, for compensation under workmens compensation act must be presented within one year after the date of the Injury! U is held by the supreme court in a decision banded down recently. The state road commission has decided to close down all maintenance ropd work for the winter, the theory being that there are very few places in the state where such work can be continued with profit from now on. ATspecial legislation committee of five will be appointed by the Logan Chamber of Commerce to go over any bills for proposed legislation that is te come before the next .legislature which may affect that section of the 8-- Time Saving Fish That Stray in Flood those of several being supplemented by states. During the fiscal year 1920, more particularly in the period from July to November, the number of food fishes rescued from the overflowed lands bordering the Mississippi and tributaries teached the noteworthy total of all of which would inevitably have perished. This salvaged output, which was about 100,000,000 in excess of the results In any previous season, was returned to the open waters In the vicinity of the points of collection, with the exception of less than 1,000.-00fishes of various species of bass that were used In supplying individual applicants or In satisfying the requisitions of fish commissions. The young fish saved In the 1920 operations, If they had been hatched and reared in the usual manner at the ordiestablishments, nary would havte required several hundred such stations to produce. The entire cost of the rescue work was only 13 cents per 1,000 fish for about 75 per cent of the output. The expense was higher at certain points where the collections were lighter and the overhead charges were fixed, so that the average cost was somewhat under 20 cents per 1,000 fish rescued and plantej. 0, A conservation measure of vast importance, says the annual report of the secretary of commerce, is the - rescuing of food fishes that are left in temporary ponds, lakes, pools and sloughs on the subsidence of the floods of the Mississippi river and tributary streams. The annual losses of valuable fish life owing to the drying or freezing of all these shallow waters have been enormous and have affected the food supply of the entire region from Minnesota and Wisconsin to Mississippi and Louisiana. Thus the situation is clearly one that comes under the federal phrview, tad the bureau of fisheries has assumed the task of mitigating, as far as resources will permit, the yearly destruction of food fishes, its operations niASHINGTON. f 0 McCormick Would Shake Up Departments of ABOLITION the Department of the creation of two new deportments one to be known as the D$arlment of Public Works and the other as the Department of Public Welfare and general reorganization of other governmental departments Is proposed In a bin prepared by Senator McCormick, Republican, Illinois, for Introduction at this session of con- ' gress. Senator McCormick is now lo Europe and the principal provisions of bis bill were outlined in a statement issued from his office. The statement said that while the bill would be introduced early in the session action on it probably would be deferred until after the inauguration of President-elec- t Harding. The statement added that the Illinois senator, after completing the measure, discussed - the proposed changes with Mr. Harding, who expressed great interest in the bill. The proposed Department of Public Works, under the bill, would include alt Important engineering and building services of the government. The department of publte welfare would various welfare agencies of the government, such as the womans bureau, now in the Department of Labor; the pension bureau, now In the Department of the Interior ; the pufytic health service, the bureau of war risk insurance and the vocational training boara. The Department of Commerce would he enlarged so as to increase its usefulness to business. Creation of an office in the state department to have jurisdiction over insular affairs and territories such as Alaska would be provided for. The alien property custodians office and the division of the secret service would be placed under the department of justice. The office of the comptroller of currency would be abolished and Its function transferred to the federal reserve board. The McCormick measure also would abolish the board of mediation and conciliation and transfer Its functions to the Department of Labor, and abolish the council of national defense and discontinue Its functions. The measure transfers to the department of commerce the weather bureau, patent office, coast guard, lake survey office, hydrographic office, naval observatory and inland and coastwise waterways service. ' in-th- - the-Uta- . state. That Ogden may have a temple and new tabernacle upon the L. D; S. church property occupying the block between Twenty-firs- t and Twenty-secon- d streets and between Washington and Grant avenues, was the message received in that city last week. The sulxommlttee appointed by1 the executive committee of the Western States Reclamation association at its meeting In Salt Lake last week will convene in Wash'ngton January la according to a call issued by William Spray, chairman of the subcommittee. Professor Leo J. Muir, state superintendent of public Instruction, has sent letters to various superintendents of districts urging each t see that their full force of teachers attends the Utah Educational association convention in Salt Lake at the ptose of this month. Working with lightning-lik- e rapidity. In tearing his blanket into strips and making a rope, James M. Armstrong, 50 years of age, held at the county jail at Ogden for an investigation as to his'sanity, committed suicide by hanging himself t the door of the deten- . tion room. No horse-draw- n vehicles will be required to have lights attached to them, according to the decision of the city commissioners at Ogden. The action came upon the petition ef an Ogden resident, wo asked that all horse-draw- s vehicles be required to- ine lights Attached. The eiht officers and directors of the Utah-Idah- o Sugar company named in two indictments returned by a federal grand jury at Butte, Mont., twe weeks ago, charging violation of the Lever act in the sale of sugar at an excess price, arranged for bond at Salt Lake last week. Charles Lundgren, of Cedar City, suffered the loss of an eye as the result of an unusual aceident. Included in some thrown on a camp fire was ithe nest of a wood rat. In the nest was some giant caps which the rat had caqhed. The resultant explosion caused the Injury to Mr. Lund-- ' gren. Practically all the beets in the G 1 dis rict have been delivered at the factory The total receipts, according to latest report, are 162,000 tons at Garland and 70,000 tons for the Brigham City district, for which the sugar company will pay to the tanners of the .Bear River valley - We Are Living in a gin it. So acute was the need for powder in 1775 that George Washington wrote to the governor of Rhode Island that no quuntity, however small, is .beneath notice. Learning that there was a store in Bermuda, and that the islanders were anxious to have the embargo lifted upon shipment of food supplies from Uie colonies, Washington address- CHARACTERIZING the progress in ed a letter to the people of the island, nothing short of who had shown themselves sympaphenomenal, Major General Sqbier, thetic witli the American revolution- chief signal officer of the army, in his ists, promising them ample supply of annual report, says that from a techprovisions and every other mark of nical point of view there has never affection and friendship which the been a period when the whole snbjeet ingrateful citizens of a free country can of electrical methods and means of in .more a tercommunication was, on benefacbestow its brethren and tors if they would make this ammu- healthful state. nition available for the Continental General Squier reports that not- army. It so happened ihat the powder had been procured before the letter was delivered, and with it the Continental army compelled the British to evacuate Boston. Not only the sale of the powder, but i he fact that Bermuda allowed the colonies to have salt, "'so Incensed its governor that he upbraided the citizens for treason, and feeling ran so high that he was removed. His successor was a native of Sqlem, Mass., whose loyalty to the mother country was such that lie gave up large estates in the colonies rather than join the revolutionists. He was connected, both by p blood and by marriage, with the family. Under his rule the island's full allegiance to England was restored. Browne was succeeded by Henry Hamilton, during whose administration the town of Hamilton was founded and named for him. This town today Is the seat of the island government It has a population of less than 3,000. 'It did not become the capital of the islands until the time of Sir James Cockbum, lord chief justice of England, and before that time one of Its most famous lawyers. Cockburn, nearly three quarters of a century ago, made the plea of Insanity, which saved the life of Daniel McNaughten, who shot Sir Robert Peels secretary. t withstanding the estimated general Increase In cost of telephone service of 25 per cent throughout the country, the signal corps succeeded In decreasing the cost to the army by 42.72 per cent He believes that, as a matter of polthe signal corps should own, maintain and operate telephone systems at dll permanent activities and announces icy, Tenth-Secon- d World that as rapidly as the permanent status of military hosts becomes known negotiations will be opened with the telephone companies for the purchase of war activity telephone systems. Asserting that with suitable apparatus messages may be exchanged between any two points on the surface of the globe. General Squier- says we are in fact living in a world, since with suitable equipment any radio impulse passes between any two points within this time. . Perhaps the most important of the many developments worked out during the year by the signal corps has been the putting Into practical ns of General Squiers own Invention of applying radio telephony and telegraphy to bare wires laid in the sea or In the ' earth. New developments Include a system of potential wave engineering Involving no earth return, the utilisation of wave coils as antennae and a static elimination scheme. In addition there has also been carried out during the year a number of experiments with wired radio on railroad lines which resulted In the superposition of radio telephone and radio telegraph circuits on ordinary wire telephone and telegraph circuits over a maximum distance of 130 miles. - tenth-secon- d Poor Old Nineteenth Amendment in Bad old Nineteenth amendment are far from being -- over, to the National Association according Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Anyway, POOR the organization with this elongated and Impressive name says it has just begun to fight. In other .words the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage announces that it has begun a new carte pajgn. There are two purposes which animate the association and inspire the campaigftjne Is nothing less than trie repeal prthe Nineteenth amendment.- The other Is the passage of legIt islation to restore "state rights. proposes to have congress pass an amendment requiring ratification by popular vote of all amendments to the . Constitution. association, In an The vote In the rewoman of'the analysis cent election, says, the majority of anti-suffra- wd ,i-- Ii : t ' Political appointments at the state capitol in the control of Governor-- ' elect Charles R. Mabey will depend upon what action' the Benate and house take in regard to legislation which Mr. Mabey proposes to ask for in his coming message to the legislature. Mr. Mabey made this statement last week. A new possible source for oil development in Utah is Indicated in the annual report of the state industrial commission in the offee of Governor Bamberger. It is in the cannel coal which so far has been demonstrated to exist in a five and one-hafoot seam in a small area of a few square miles in the Colob coal field. Credit men of the state, at a meeting held at Salt Lake, voted to exercise leniency in the collection of old accounts from wholesale houses of Utah and Idaho because of the difficulty experienced by farmers in putting their crops on the eastern market In the face of high freight rates. If you are planning to install a current wheel in a running stream to develop power, it is not necessary to file application for the use of the water with the state engineer. Such is the opinion of George F. McGopagle, state engineer. lf women stayed at home and Instead of twelve million only nine or ten million women voted. In other words," says the analysis, d of the 27,000,000 womonly en eligible to vote, about which the suffragists have been shouting for years, could be persuaded to go to the polls. No wonder the N. A. O. T. W. S. 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