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Show 'i " Au.i . ' 4 X 7 THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH LUCERNE: THE HOSTESS OF SWITZERLAND Lucerne, scene of Important conferences among allied statesmen, Is a precious jewel among Swiss cities with the lake of the same name for Its setting a lake where varied beauty and historic association are blended. On that, lakes shores William Tell Is reputed to have exhibited his marksmanship to tite discomfiture of Gessler, and on Its waters tradition holds he won his revenge by seizing the rudder of the vessel on which that tyrant held him prisoner and guided It to the rock, where he aimed, not at an apple, but at his oppressors heart. Less picturesque, but more significant, was the formulation of the perThat famous Instrupetual league. ment not only was the antecedent of the Swiss confederation, but marked a mile post in humanitys political freedom. Beloved by tourists and crowded with them In normal years. Lucerne has retained many of Its ancient asIts crumbling wall with its pects. watch towers give It a medieval stamp; two of its covered wooden bridges also serve as art galleries. On the walls of one are depicted scenes of the citys history and the other has paintings of the Dance of Death. Perhaps the most famed art object of the city Is the Lion of Lucerne, by one critic the most appropriate and touching monument In existence. In a grotto,, hewn from the natural rock, is a dying lion pierced by a lance, with his paw protecting the fleur-de-lof the Bourbons. Danish sculptor, designed this tribute to the Swiss guard who died In seeking to protect Louis XVI against the mob of Paris revolutionists that stormed the Tuilei tes in 1792. Many quaint houses remain, including the wooden structures whose Inflammability gave rise to curious fire regulations. Wood for building could not lie in the streets more than 24 hours. No smithy could work between vespers and early mass. Every citizen was a potential fire fighter and the citizens brigade when called to a fire had to await word from the mayor for dismissal. Women were required io aid at night by holding lights in the Until two centuries ago cioorways. the city fathers were assigned special duties In fire fighting. rt Thor-waidse- NEITHER WARS NOR RENTS DISTURB THIS CURIOUS PEOPLE The cone dwellers of Asia Minor, technically known as the Troglodytes of Cappadocia, are harassed not at all by the housing problem, for they live in nature-mad-e apartment houses, fashioned by trickling streams and volcanic violence. Nor is It likely that they are concerned In the least about their political fate, for, though they inhabit what Is characterized as the cradle of civilization, they are more primitive In some particulars than the most benighted tribes of Africa or the South Pacific. A communication by J. R. Sitlington Sterrett to the National Geographic society describes the Cappadocians as follows: Residing within a stone's throw, metaphorically speaking, of the wonderful civilization which flourished on the banks of the Nile 6,000 years ago ; of the mighty kingdoms of Assyria and both ancient and modern times are to be found in greatest number In the shadow of Asia Minors loftiest peak, snow-cla- d ML Argaeus (called by the Turks Erjias Dagh), an extinct volcano whose eruption in the dim past laid the foundations and supplied the material for these remarkable habitations, while the Halys river of the ancients (now known as Kizil Irmak) in succeeding centuries became their tireless architect The practice of living In caves, In cliffs or in excavated cavities In the open plain Is to be traced to a state of society which we of today have some difficulty In depicting to ourselves. And yet the central thought of the Troglodytic habit Is the basic principle upon which ancient civilization was founded. "They have sought and found for themseives complete isolation. , They seem to have none of the instincts of agricultural man and they are wholly inhospitable. I be entrances to their dwellings are high up In the almost perpendicular walls of the cliffs, and they are readied solely by means of long poles, which are light enough to be drawn up when the lord of the den and his family are safely housed. And when housed they really are safe from intrusion, for It would require a host to force an entrance against the will of the lamily. One ancient writer tells us that some Troglodytes made a practice of killing all those who were not in first-rat- e physical condition, on the ground that a man who cannot earn his own living has no right to live; and when one sees these dwellings, one can imagine still another reason for killing off the aged and the Infirm because of their inability to get in or out of the house. THE TEMPLE CITIES OF JAPAN Many feet have been treading their way to the shrines in the temple cities of Japan In recent months. In the temples of Tokyo many bits of American pocket money went to a priest for writing a pretty prayer on a slip of paper, which the visitor, in F.ve-Stci- y Cone Dwelling. Br.by'enia which arose in the valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris, their power and splendor dazzling the world 2,000 years before the Christian era; and at the very threshold of ancient Greece, with Its unrivaled culture and political advancement, the Troglodytes of Cappadocia still retain toward their fellow men an attitude of mind akin to that which obtained ift the stone age, when there was no such thing as human society, but every man was his wn law and the mortal enemy of his neighbor. The caves, cones and cliff dwellings Of the Cappadocian Troglodytes of HIGH' PLAT AT BOHTT CARLO The sugar extracted from this ran would load a fleet of steamers reaching from Havana to New York, with a ship for every mile of the twelve hundred that stretch between the two ports. The great pyramid of Cheops, before whose proportions millions of people have stood amazeand gazed In ment, remains, after five thousand years, unrivaled as a monumental pile ; Tables Always Full' and Bank Doing; Well, '6ays Londoner Who Brought-BacSome Money. Walter Martin, - open-mouth- but Cubas sugar output this year g would make two pyramids, each and overtopping Cheops. The wealth the outgoing sugar crop brings lu is not less remarkable in Its hundred dollars out proportions. Four of a single crop- for every human being who lives on the island a sum almost as great as the per capita wealth produced by all the farms, all the factories, and all the mines of the United States. What wonder, then, that Cuba today Is a land of gold and gems, richer than Midas ever was, converting Croesns, by contrast, into a beggarT "How much net profit the cane grower reaps at 1920 prices is hard to estimate, but that It Is large will appear when the methods of cane growing are stated. To begin with, after the first crop the planter does not have to bother with need time for about ten years. The soil Is so deep and so fertile that one planting produces ten Neither does cultivation harvests. bother him after the first season, for the blades stripped from one crop form a mnlch that keeps the weeds from competing with the next one. WHEN THE NEAR EAST CIVILIZED Roughly speaking. Turkey was divided Into five great provinces or districts Anatolia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia and Syria. With this introduction William H. Hall, writing to the National Geographic society, sketches the resources of Turkey, which have an opportunity for development with measures that may lessen the horrors of misrule, injustice, deportations, massacres and famines. He continues: The same broad plains that once fed and clothed a population of human beings are waiting today for the plow, the seed and the The mountains still hold reaper. riches of coal and Iron and copper. The quarries still have abundance of choice marbles. The rivers are potent with power to turn the wheels of Industry. The natural harbors Invite the fleets of merchantmen and the river valleys and mountain passes offer natural lines of communication and transportation, as In the days when great caravans passed along these natural highways, bringing the merchandise of the East to the markets of the WesL The whole land has been lying fallow for centuries a land that modern exploration reveals as one of the richest In natural resources and as unsurpassed by Its geographic location for being the trade center of the world. Exclusive of Arabia, which was never more than nominally under the Ottoman dominion, the Turkish empire embraced about 540.000 square miles of territory at the beginning of the World war. Only about 10,000 square miles of this were In Europe. The Turkish empire was equivalent to the combined areas of the British Isles, r Germany. It was France and larger than all of the area east of the Mississippi and north. of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. "The boundaries were the Black sea and Caucasus on the north, Egypt on the south, the Aegean and Mediterranean seas on the west, and the Syrian desert and Persia on the east Turkey in Europe was almost a negligible area, as the Balkan wars Eustripped the Turks of all their ropean possessions except Constantinople and a narrow territory along the 40 Bosporus and Dardanelles some miles in width ; so that when the Turkish empire has been referred to In recent years. Asiatic Turkey was nearly all that the term embraced. pre-wa- Uncle Sam Puts Santo Domingo in Order government to observe Its treaty obligations with the United States. The military government was composed of United States naval and marine officers. At the time this temporary government was installed, the account of the Dominican government was overdrawn to the sum of $14,234.33 and payment of salaries, suddIv bills, etc., was greatly In arrears. The military government had paid all the 1916 inWASHINGTON. Apparently g Uncle debtedness, and has since then met all a good the expehses of the government. Injob in Santo Domingo. It is stated that in four years of military occupa- cluding bonded debt, and on August tion the United States has put the re- 1, 1920, had $3,200,000 in the treasury. It Is expected that the $20,000,000 public on Its feet, restored order, rehabilitated finances, established public bonded debt of the country, Inherited sanitation and compulsory education, by the military government, and due . and begun the training of Dominicans In 1958, will be paid in 1925, 33 years to carry on the government when the before It is due. In addition to these financial 'reAmerican navy shall be withdrawn. A report by Commander Reynolds Hay- forms, the military government Is exden, medical corps, U. S. N a member tending general education and saniof the staff of the military governor of tation, communications, creating Santo Domingo, says : roads, mills, telegraphs throughout the The military government of Santo country, and making many port ImDomingo was established, in Novemprovements. Obligatory education has been ber, 1910, because of the seriously disturbed conditions in the Dominican re- established, and whereas there were only some 18,000 children attending public, dangerous to both DominiIS cans and foreigners, and because of school before the occupation, there are now 120,000." the repeated failures of the Dominican true pilgrim fashion, pressed to his forehead and to his breast and then fastened to the temple wall in order that it might be a perpetual petition. There are 30,000 deities to whom devout Japanese write, so a few Americans pleas scarcely clogged the celestial postal service. There were many native pilgrims on the way to the shrines. During the summer months when the crops have been taken care of, the village folk, though they have the temples of their own patron deity and the fox god, feel that they must send out a pilgrim or two to the sacred mountains and holy places of Japan to worship in behalf of those who cannot go, and so they provide a fund for his expenses. Nor does the emissary travel In state. Life for him loses most of Its He is equipped with a complexities. cheap white cotton shirt that can be trousers easily washed, tight-fittin-g and a loose white cotton jacket which he tucks in with a girdle. He wears an enormous broad, stiff straw haL and on his back he carries a piece of matting which serves him as an umbrella by day and as a bed by night. He carries his luggage in two bundles, one on his back and the other In fronL usually labeled with the name of the shrine he is to rislL and somewhere about his person there is hung a little bell which tinkles as he stumps along over the weary road from mountain to mountain. In August the pilgrim rolls off his mat and the visitor from forelgi lands climbs out of bed at the crack of dawn to hear the lotus flower bloom, for the buds burst with a pleasing characteristic sound. If Nikko is the most beautiful city in Japan, Kyoto can be called the most Interesting. Here the feminine visitor finds herself bewildered hy the most exquisitely wrought of all the exquisite pottery, cloisonne, bronzes, fans After she has bought and velvets. more than she can comfortably get home with, she probably will want to BIRDS HAVE YANKEE ACCENT see a bit of the mikados palace which acres of Londoners Complain That Imported over twenty-fiv- e covers Parrots Are Spoiling the Pronun- ground and is surrounded by a great elation of Their Fellows. wall with six gates, or journey out to see the largest lake in Japan, Lake The American accent has invaded pine tree Biwa, and the even the parrot house at the zoological which stands near it. gardens here, according to a London correspondent of the Detroit News. A large consignment of birds has HOW SUGAR MADE CUBA Many have from America. arrived A WORLD EL DORADO names that suggest cocktails. Hitherhave doubted the Sugar, like shoes, we once took for to scientists may to cockatoos of acquire a recfor ability But procuring enough granted. two of these but accent, a was ognizable problem the preserving season zoo and sugar speak easies are still not birds fresh from the New York uncommon in lands where the supply speak unmistakable American. They ask repeatedly for clam is rationed. on a half shell and beg their oysters National the Geographic to Writing visitors for hominy or Caliamused Showalter William Joseph society, fornia peanuts. Sometimes In an outsays: burst of patriotism they repeat CaliWith a sugar production nearly fornia until it would appear that it is doubled and prices more than quadthe only w ord In their vocabulary. And rupled since 1912, one can readily see now a very small green parrot in the why Cuba is the worlds El Dorado of enge next door is trying, to say 1920, and why sugar is its king. "California, too. , The imagination Is almost overA disgusted keeper stands outside London, London, powered In attempting to comprehend his cage saying the vast proportions of the sugar in- London, but the small green parrot dustry of the island as it exists this does not seem to admire his accent so much as that of his feathered transyear. The cane produced Is of such tre- atlantic friends. mendous volume that a procession of ' x bull teams four abreast, reaching Bright! When school opened this fall, Hararound the earth, would be required to move It The crop would suffice to old had a new teacher. He reported build a solid wall around the entire on her to his mother as follows: Her name Is Miss Albright, and two thousand miles of the Islands coast line as high as an ordinary dwell- she is bright, and believe me, she Is ing house and thick enough for a file going to make the rest of us bright or know the reason why. of four men to walk abreast on It 1,200-year-o- , house-cleanin- New Points for First Geography Class want geographDOical facts about your country? Well, the farthest east, west, north some new YOU and south points on the United States mainland have been determined by i he United States geographical survey which announces that the easternmost point Is West Quoddy Head, near Eastport, Me., the westernmost point, Cape Alva, Wash.; the farthest north, a small detached land area of northern Minnesota ending In latitude 40 degrees 23 minutes and longitude 95 degrees 9 minutes. The southernmost point is Cape Sable, Florida, while the Florida keys extend farther south. Data determined and complied by the geographical survey contain some Interesting facts not generally known. Some of these facts are: a1 Piccadilly cigar dfealer, has the distinction of having broken the bank at Monte Carlo three times in an hour recently and to have returned to his home In London with money In his pocket, according to the London correspondence of the Sun and New York Herald: To many persons who have heard wenderful accounts of winnings and losses at Monte Carlo, to break the bank, looks big.How-eve- r, Mr. Martins winnings in that one hour of play netted him just 15,000 fraqcs, today worth about $985 im American gold. Mr. Martin admits that he was ln luck. He said that he played with a defensive system of his own. Two sittings stood out In his mem-or' One of them was when he broke y. the bank as related above. The other was when he lost 500,000 francs. He played roulette. I was able to pay the living expenses of myself and a party of friends off the tables, and also to come home in pocket as a result of my two months visit, he said. In the whole of my experience at Monte Carlo, and I am an old player, I do not remember the tables so crowded. It Is difficult to get a seat British and French are at Monte Carlo in about equal numbers, and one tiling that struck me was the number of women players. I should say that there are three of them to every man. n I saw several people who were having bad luck and losing a lot, but one young Frenchman had done amazing well and in three months had won 250,000. And, like a wise man, he had packed up and gone away with it. The tables, however, are prospering greatly, owing to the number of Inexperienced and reckless players. well-know- SAYS BEES HAVE LANGUAGE University Professor Asserts That They Also Have Some Sort of Telegraphic System. Bees have a language and a system according to ProfesThe Mexican boundary line Is 1,744 sor Francis Jager, chief of the divimiles in length. sion of bee culture at the Universtty The Atlantic coast line Is 5,560 miles of Minnesota farm. Wonderful progress has been made in bee culture, but long. The Pacific coast line is 2,730 miles their means of communication still reIn length. main a mystery, according to ProfesThe Gulf of Mexico coast line Is sor Jager. The gross area of the United States 3,640 miles long. Professor Jager has conducted many is 3,026,789 square miles. Cuba, If transposed directly north, experiments in an effort to learn someThe land area Is 2,973,774 square would extend from New York city to thing of the bees mysterious form of miles. Indiana, with Havana further west communication. In one of them he took The water area, exclusive of the than Cleveland, O. the queen bee out of a hive, which The Panama canal la due south of was four or five feet high. As soon Great Lakes, the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, within the Pittsburgh, Pa. as the working bees discovered their three-mil- e Nome, Alaska, Is farther, west than leader was missing they began crying. limit, is 53,015 square miles. From the easternmost point, West Hawaii. The crying was audible four or five Hie survey, strangely enough, feet from the hive. Within 36 secQuoddy Head, due west to the Pacific ocean, the distance Is 2,807 miles. neglects to tell ns that the Panama onds after the queen bee had been reThe shortest distance from Atlan- canal runs north and south, and that placed at the bottom of the hive the tic to Pacific, between points near to the Americans of the Canal Zone crying subsided at the 'top of the hive, Charleston, S. C., and San Diego, Cal., the sun rises In the Pacific and sets and they showed their Joy by standing in the Atlantic. is 2,152 miles. on their heads, according to Professor. Jager. St. Paul Dally News. The Canadian boundary line is 3,898 miles in length. of telegraphy, 4 Constitution in Every American Home stitution of the United States, there would be no question of any other Keep Lifes Windows Open. Life is constantly confronted with new Ideas. They must be examined before being accepted. In this as in everything else there must be the right light in whicb to make the examination. The bright light that makes the diamond flash destroys the sensitized plate. Each must have the light It needs to meet the thing it was made for. So each challenging thought must have its setting and lifes windows are the media through which we see them. He who knows how to use his windows can have just the kind of light he needs within. He who closes his windows to the light is sure to settle farther and farther into himself and sour in his own stagnation. To live sweet and fresh lives men must see. Its a matter of opening the windows. Exchange. form of government for America. The campaign will be conducted by the utilization of every possible medium for the accomplishing of this. In addition to the placing of the Constitution in every home, the context of the document will be explained verbally in .very public forum, it will be translated Into at least 16 foreign lanPUT the Constitution of the guages, so as to meet the most ImmeTOUnited States in every one of the diate need of the foreigner, and It 20,000,000 homes of America Is the will be explained by means of motion purpose of an Americanization cam- picture slides and films in the 16,200 paign now under way all over the motion picture houses of America. The schools will be used as far as country. The work Is being organized under the Constitutional League of possible. Believing that the habits at America, which had its inception in life and the attitude toward ones enNew York several months ago. Its vironment are begun in early childmembership contains many of the most hood, and that the boy or girl who is widely known men in America. Among taught the full meaning and value of Ludicrously Low Prices. these are the governors of 36 states. our government never will be able ns From a letter Just received in New Such men as Franklin K. Lane, a man or woman to tolerate destrucCharles E. Hughes, Maj. Gen. Leontive, Bolshevistic Ideas of government, York from Prague, Czechoslovakia : This city is one of the most beauard Wood, Herbert C. Hoover, Gen. an attempt will be made to found a school republic in many public tiful places I ever saw. And the John J. Pershing and Cardinal Gibprices just now, If you have American bons are members. The organization schools. The school republic Idea has prov- money, are simply ludicrous. My is affiliated with no political party, race or creed and has but one pur- en successful. To found one an en- room at the best hotel cost me 75 cents tire school is organised as a national a day. You can dine at the best respose. The entire campaign will be based republic, and each school has Its na- taurants, with (vine thrown in, for 50 on the fact that if the people of tional officials and departments, as to 75 cents. I just sent out a pair of shoes to be repaired by a cobbler, and has the regular government America read and understood the Con what do you think the , profiteer charged? Five cents! And you can Hard-Boile- d Amergo downstairs to the a champagne cobbler ican bar and get IS announced by the war departfor 25 cents and a Martini cocktail for ment that former Lieut. Frank H. 15 cents. Just got my weeks bill from conwho was (Hard Boiled) Smith, Seven days lodging and my hotel. in France for victed by court-martibreakfasts $6! and its the best hotel brutal treatment of soldier prisoners In Prague! and sentenced to 18 months in prison, was paroled frem Fort Jay, N. Y., Jamaican Women Given Vote. March 20, and since that time his Under a new law 'the women of sentence, a& reduced for good behavJamaica, British West Indies, are to ior, has expired. Smith began serving have a vote in the elections for the his sentence in France May 29, 1919, parochial boards and the legislature. and was transferred to Fort Jay July was reduced to 18 months at hard la- Every woman is entitled to vote if 21, 1919. Because of his good behavshe is twenty-fiv- e years of age or more, ior lie was given a home parole af- bor at Fort Leavenworth. ter serving about ten months. He was Smith was brought overseas and can read and' write and is of British nationality, but she must have also cerconfined at Fort Jay pending InvestigaRequired to report to the military authorities monthly. Meantime his sen- tion by a congressional committee of tain salary or property qualifications. tence was reduced 14 months, and thus the treatment of American prisoners in The salary designated is 5 a year, or France. After this Investigation had she must pay 10 In rent or 2 rates expired last July 29. It Is said that the order for Smiths been completed. It was generally sup- on house, lands or pAsonal property. release was Issued by the adjutant posed Smith had been taken to Fort An Obligation, generals office at Washington and was Leavenworth to serve out his sentence, Do you intend to vote at the comwhich members of the committee had approved by the secretary of war. ing election? After Smiths arrest in France, he expressed belief was too light And Yes, replied Miss Cayenne. Smith was In Urbana, O., after hli originally was sentenced to three years at hard labor, after having been release, to see about an estate iu I shall wear my handsomest costume. guilty of misusing American soldiers which he had been willed an Interest. Having secured the right to vote, In the prison camp at Chelles, which Smith told friends he was fjet&g to every woman should feel It her patriotic duty to make It fashionable to This sentence later Naco, Arlz. he commanded. do so. -- Smith and His Punishment al ( i |