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Show X ' THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH mous Blue Mosque, so called because is covered with blue tiles. It dates from the fifteenth century and Is now In ruins. The ark or citadel is a brick building of massive walls, with a tower 120 feet high. More than half of the trade of Tabriz was with Russia. Its chief imports before the World war disturbed conditions were cotton and woolen tissues, sugar and tea. it DIGGING INTO HISTORY WITH PICK AND SHOVEL CHERSO: MAY BE THE HELGOLAND OP ADRIATIC Recent deciphering of a clay tablet which may add a thousand years to the span of recorded history for it contains a code of laws said to ante! date tlmt of Hammurabi by a milThe Rapallo agreement of last No- lennium is another reminder that vember which fixed the status of the archeologists are finding stranger true troublesome city of Flume and dis- stories than fiction can reveal. The posed of other moot points In regard pick and the spade of the explorer to territory on the eastern shore of have resulted in astounding revelathe Adriatic sea, gave Italy an Im- tions, sajs a communication to the portant foothold near Fiume in the ob- National .Geographic society from Ascure island of Cherso. lbert T. Clay, who has deciphered some Practically unheard of on this side of the most famous of the documents. of the Atlantic, eluding most travelAbove all else, one of the greaters, even escaping many of the seek- est surprises is that the earliest peon ers after the places of ples, instead of being barbarous or Europe, Cherso neither is inaccessi-- $ uncultured, were civilized and posble nor unattractive. sessed a culture of a high' order, It dangles like a pendant In the writes Doctor Clay. Gulf of Quarnero, low hung from the Several ancient libraries and imneck of Fiume. It is the Long Island mense archives have been found. of that port, its shore line rising 12 miles to the south. Its slender form extends to the southwest for 40 miles, though It never exceeds seven miles in width, and Its area Is somewhat more than twice that of the District of . little-know- Columbia. Holding in mind this location, near the head of the Adriatic, in view of the plans to make Fiume a buffer state between Italy and the strategic possibilities of Cherso become apparent Inded one may picture It as a potential Helgoland of the Adriatic. A natural curiosity of the Island Is Lake Vrana, or Crows Lake, with a 'surface 40 fe( above the sea level, fed and drained by Invisible streams. The island is rugged, with one moun-- tain peak rising more than 2,000 feet above the Quarnero waters. Gibral- e rocks rise precipitously 1,000 feet along one of Its shores. Here are the dome-lik- e caverns of Smergo, now protected from "the sea rock barrier. by a wave-bui- lt The devastating Bora, which sweeps the Dalmatlaif coast, drips its salt spray over Cherso, excluding many va rieties of plant life. The absence of large trees and scarcity of springs are two physical characteristics. In the north laurel and mastic grow, and virs and olive trees abound. in the soiraiem portion. Politically Cherso was included in Istria, when under Austriqp rule. With Its neighbor islands, Lussin, to the southwest, and Veglia, to the east, It was a part of the Lussin disJugo-Slavi- a, tar-Uk- ' , i V 1 trict 1 6 Harun-al-Rasht- " ' Nip- Years ago the Ubrary of Ashurbanlpal (668-62at B. C.) was discovered Nineveh. In more recent years temple and school libraries have been found at Nippur, Sippar, Larsa, Babylon, and Erech. The libraries of the first three sites belong chiefly to the third mUlennium B. C. ; those of the last two -- belong to later periods. But especially large archives of these documents, numbering several hundred thousand and belonging to the third and fourth millenniums B. C., have been found at Tello, Nippur, Drehem, Jokha, and recently at Ur. The Code of Hagunurabl, written about 2000 B. C., upon a large and somewhat Irregular stele, is perhaps the most Important monument of antiquity of a high order. In codifying his laws, Hammurabi arranged them in a definite and logical order, based upon accepted Judicial decisions. In no better way Is It possible to becomq acquainted with the everyday life of the ancient Babylonian than by a careful study of the Hammurabi Code. n - TREES WILL YIELD COMFORTABLE PROSIT TO FARMER - e Ruins of a Library Building at pur, 4,000 Years Old. lies off the shores of the northern part of Dalmatia and the Croatian littoral, a region formerly known as Morlacchia. The Morlac-chi- a channel preserves this name originating with the Slavic Invaders of Dalmatia, who "called the Latinized people they found there Vlachs, or Mavro-Vlach- s Black Vlachs. JThus the Slavs of this region have come to be known, by a corruption of this title, as Morlachs. In rural districts Morlacchlan womft en retain their historic costume, which EXPERIMENT THE POSEN, Includes a kerchief for the bead, many STATION FOR KULTUR strands of beads, a waist band from The province of Posen, formerly which hang amulets and various trinkets, and, over a blue cloth gown, an part of Germanys eastern Prussia, apron of exquisite embroidered pat- and one of the most Important fragtern. About her neck an unmarried ments of old. Poland, which has been war-borPogirl wears a string of coins and rings incorporated In the new which comprise her dowry. Formerly land, was the unhappy experiment station for some of Prussias most vigthe men wore their hair in a plait. orous ahd futile efforts to Germanize an alien population TABRIZ: PERSIAS CAPITAL Until the northern portion of Posen CITY fter the first parfell to Prussia, Tabriz, capital of Persia, from tition of Poland in 1772, and the rewhich diplomatic representatives re- mainder was annexed to Prussia 21 cently fled at the approach of Bol- years later, Posens history was blendshevik forces, is one of the most imed with that of Poland In connection portant cities in Persia. Its popula- with the first partition. It will be retion is about 200,000. Teheran, the called that Frederick the Great adoptcapital, is the only place in the do- ed the Ingenious scheme of surroundminions of the shah which exceeds It ing those parts of Poland he desired in size. with a military force, on the pretext It is beautifully situated In a wide that he was seeking to check the valley 'on the RiVer Ajl, which flows spread of a cattle disease. After being bandied for a brfef peinto the salt lake of Urumiah 35 miles to the west. Although apparently sur- riod, Posen fell to Prussia again in rounded by mountains, Tabriz has an 1815, and for more than half a cenelevation of more than 4,000 feet and tury Germany paid little heed to It. the climate In winter is extremely After the division of the vast estates severe. and other economic changes, Polish Hundreds of springs and fountains middle classes in Posen began to proswater thousands of beautiful gardens per, whereupon, toward the last quarIn this ancient city which for center of the nineteenth century, Prussia turies has enjoyed a deserved repu- began to take notice of Its provincial Germans had been immtation as a health resort. Indeed, traTopsy. dition says that the place was found- igrating there since the thirteenth cened by Zobeideh, the wife of tury and the newcomers, at first were hero of the Arabian Nights." welcomed. Severance of Posen from Poland changed that feeling though According to this legend, Zobeideh came here to recuperate from a fever open friction was not generated until in the year 791, and a cure was qu!ck-l- y Prussia began her repressive measeffected, thanks to the salubrious ures. Polish nobles had kept alive Poclimate, hence the name Tab (fever) riz (pourer away), or fever destroy- lish traditions, but Prussia was more As a matter of cold history, alarmed by the prosperity of the Poles ing. however, Tabriz was in existence four than by what, today, might -be called the nobles propaganda. So- she set centuries before the birth, of the beauabout Germanizing Posen, both by coltiful Zobeideh. onization and by compulsion, much as Up to the time of the e depletion of a railway through the Caucasus she attempted to do to the French in and the improvement of transporta- - Alsace. Prussias first move was. to make tion facilities on the Caspian sea, Tabriz was the emporium of, Persian German the language of the schools. trade with1 the West. Now, however, Police were ordered to disperse meetmost of its trade has been diverted ings where Polish was spoken. After 16 years that program failed to Astara, on the Caspian, 150 miles to the east, and to Resht, 200 miles to make much of a Prussian impression upon Posen, so a commission was to the southeast. Of the three hundred mosques of set up, in 1884, to buy land from which the city boasts only one de- the Poles for German settlement Besires special mention. It is the fa fore the failure of this policy was Cherso openly admitted the orlglnaH appro NUT-BEARIN- G prtatlon of 100,000,000 marks was supplemented again and again until. In 15 years, more than half of Posen had, been bought for German colonists. Still the Poles predominated. More kept coming from Poland and opposition to the German program was intensified as the measures became harsher. Even Germany , was scandalized when, in 1902, it was brought to light in the Prussian parliament that pupils had been whipped by the wholesale for declining' to say the Lords Prayer in German: But the opposition of the grownups did not cause the world-wid- e Interest aroused by the school childrens strike In 1906 when- about 100,000 Polish pupils took that means of protesting against being beaten when they would not answer questions in German. The Prussian government refused to accede to the request of the atchblshop of Posen that children be permitted to receive religious instruction in Polish. Parents who withdrew them from school . were imprisoned. Efforts to absorb or crowd out the Poles by German colonisation having failed, a measure was passed for the expropriation of Polish land. Further laws were enacted Compelling wider use of the German language. Then came the Kattowttz InTrees Witt Furnish Delight to Eye and Palate for Mjjny cident, In 1910, crowning a series of rhece inet-rvu-t Years. petty persecutions which bordered on the absurd, wherein a number of minor our most tantalizing species, for while officials who had voted for Poles at a (Prepared br the United State Department of Agriculture.) it can be made to grow in many parts municipal election were removed from They were gathered about the farmof the North, do variety has yet been - house office. fire fn the mellow light of a found to bear profitably east of the Posen is smaller, territorially, than swing and the head of the house lamp, mountains, due to the fact that Maryland, but had half a minion more sent his youngest son .to the Rocky flowers it million early and is caught by frost. 1910. a fn About population for butternuts. A little later, In the Pacific garret bids fair Northwest more total half popuPoles the than with an Iren iapstone on lus knees latlon In Posen were established and hanqmer la hand, he was produc- to soon become an important nut. Pecan a Favorite. there before the World war. Posen ing a rhythmic The is easily the favorite and pecan and of has mineral deposits lignite brown shells split most link, as the Important nut of American salt Much of Its land was tilled. Its open and werecrinkly tossed into a basin, exmanufactured products, besides those posing their delicately flavored twin origin, prolific and profitable in the South and now being introduced well of its breweries and dtBtffleries, were meats. ' into northern states. Bearing pecan masugar, cloth, tobacco, bricks and TThls is the last crop from that old trees are not Infrequent along the Atchinery. tree, he remarked, thoughtfully, pauslantic coast as far north as New Jering after a few minutes of fascinating sey. Fine specimen trees are not unTHE CZECHS' labor. NRotted out, and the wind got common In many northern states. OcRecent dispatches reporting attempt- It last night. And I have gathered mature on a few of nuts casionally eleed uprisings among the radical nuts from that tree since 1 was a little the about in the trees scattered stray ' ment in Czechoslovakia, and state- tike in short breeches. of state Michigan. ments that a stronger and stronger moThe hammer rested for a few The Persian, commonly called Engenmity toward the German inhabit- ments, and the fingers of the farmers walnuts can be grown in a few lish, ants is being shown on all sides by left hand ran meditatively through the-pllIt does well in a limited way years. the Czechs and Slovaks, center interof richly laden shells. 8ectlons of the East, especertain Is created once on more this est newly Fifty cially along the Atlantic coast in eastFifty years," he muS&d. central European republic that was springs Ive seen the green come out Delaware and New Jercarved after the war from Germany on the leaves ; fifty falls I or my chil- ern Maryland, one of tile Important tree is It sey. Austria-Hungarand The following dren or grandchildren have picked- up soon the Czechs Is based on bushels of nuts ; and fifty winters Ive crops of California, and promises descriptlon-o- f considerable of become to importance a communication to the National Geosat by the fire here and cracked them. in the Caclfic Northwest. graphic society from Prof. Ales That butternut tree has been a good varieof some hard-sheAlmonds Hrdicka. old friend." the endure ties throughout practically A Nona to Take Its Place. of the beech. Japanese walnuts range which race German the he with struggle Yet, with all the pleasure that can be grown over a large part of the surrounded them from the north, had obtained from that tree, the farmcountry. west and souhv with a near-burier, thrifty In nearly everything, had Except on the Pacific coast and In within the Austrian empire for the no new butternut trees coming up to the South, nut culture as a general to last three centuries, failed destroy take the place of the patriarch which is not recommended as a sure thing or break the spirit of the little nation the wind destroyed. However, source of large income. of Czechs or Bohemians. It is only recently that serious at- there are many where nut trees places s of branch westernmost are the tention has been paid to They well be planted as other shade the Slavs, their name being derived, planting. Landowners set out or- my ps a grove of hardy nut trees And trees. according to tradition, from that of a chards and plant trees in dooryarda Is a heritage for the future well worth noted ancestral chief. The term Bo- and on the highways for shade; but considering. hemia was applied to the country trees, which usually reprobably during the Roman times and quire eight to fifteen years to come was derived, like that of Bavaria, into bearing, have been in a measure TO ESTABLISH from the Boli, who for some time be- neglected. fore the Christian era oceuplfl or There are a number of STANDARDS FOR. HAY claimed parts of these regions, vpecles, say specialists of the United Nature has favored old Bohemia, an States Department of Agriculture, which grow as rapidly for shade as Important part of Czechoslovakia, Work Includes Analyses of Diperhaps more than any other part of' the maple or elm, and which will yield fferent Samples. Europe. Its soil ts so fertile and pleasure and some revenue for a quarclimate so favorable that mere than ter or half a century after the first half of the country is cultivated and few years of cultivation. ' The butternut. Is now being produced Endeavoring to Determine Importance produces richly. In Its mountains alof Factors Now Used in Fixing , most every useful metal and mineral, by nurserymen and grows farther Grade Commodity and Feedexcept salt, is to be found. It is the north than most other species. ButIn the will center of about bear of Product. ternut Value trees eight geographical European ing continent, equally distant from the years and form an attractive yard or Baltic, Adriatic znd North seas, and roadside ornament, especially In the Sample bales of hay are being colinclosed states. so is northern lected mountains, by though by the bureau of markets, Uni? More attention, however, is being ted States Department of Agriculture, easily accessible, because of the of the Danube and the Elbe riv- paid to its relative, the black walnut. from producers, shippers, and consumers, that it has served in history as The late war made heavy Inroads on ers for the purpose of establishing the avenue of many armies. the ranks of these fine old trees for standards for hay. The work Is proBesides Bohemia, the Czechs occupy gunstockd, airplane ports, and other vided for by an act of congress, and Mor'avla and adjacent territory in material ; but nurserymen already had Includes analyses of the hay samples Silesia, both formerly parts of begun to grow young trees to make up In order to determine the Importance ungary. The wl the loss. Slovaks, Contrary to the common of the factors now used In determln show merely dialectic differences from idea, the black walnut Is dot necesing the grade of the commodity, inUnder good cluding the color, mixture, and text-lire- . tlfe Czechs, extend from Moravia sarily a slow grower. Moisture determinations and eastward over most of what was for- conditions of culture, it becomes one of our most rapid growing trees, es- other analyses to ascertain the relamerly northern Hungary. i The Czech is kind and with a stock pecially of the more valuable woods. tive feeding value of various hay mixof native humor. He is musical, loves It has been known to bear a few nuts tures will also be madeg The work is in charge of a specialsongs, poetry, art, nature, fellowship, in six years. At fifteen to twenty-fiv- e the other sex. He is an intent thinker it is a heavy producer, and in old age ist' from the hay, feed and seed division of the bureau, and the laboraand restless seeker of truth, of learning, it ts always a resource for timber. , but no apt schemer. He is ambitious The chestnut, which has been an im- tory has been established at 201 South and covetous of freedom Id the broad- portant resource for centuries, is now Strand street, Alexandria, Ya. The equipment used Includes sepaest sense, but tendencies to domineer- one of the tragedies of treedom. due ing, oppression, power by force over to the bark disease brought from rating tables especially constructed The United States Depart- for this wprk. display tables for use others, are foreign to his nature. He Japan. Bn color determinations, and racks and InGod searches for is and ment of Agriculture and various ardently boxes for holding the various associations are now workclined to be deeply religious, but Is as well as a hay cutter and impatient of dogma, as of all other ing with some promise of success to t. a grinder operated by a undne restraint He may 'be opinion- develop varieties which are motor. These twt machines cut Until they arrive at estabated, stubborn, but is happy to accept facts and recognize true superiority. lished results, it' will probably not be and grind the hay to a degree of fineness .suitable 'for 'making the moisHe is easily, hurt and does not for- wise to plant chestnuts in any secture tests and chemical analysis. An get the Injury; will fight, nut is not tion where the bark disease is prevaelectric drying oven, also constructed , lastingly revengeful or vicious. He lent. is not cold, calculating, The shagbark hickory makes a especially for the work, Is used In nor again as inflammable as the Pole handsome shade tree, and quite g few the moisture tests and In reducing or the southern Slav, but is sympa- varieties have been propagated. Shag-brrk- s the hay to a uniform moisture con thetic and full of trust and through generally come into bearing tent for the other analyses. The standardization work is bow years. A tills often open to imposition. after fifteen or twenty-fiv- e His endurance and bravery. in war few hickory trees planted now would well begun and it .is expected that .for a cause. which he approved were be a comfortable resource for another tentative grades for timothy and perhaps clover will be promulgated beproverbial, as was also his hospitality generation. can and fore the close of the fiscal year. slow a Is In peace. grower, The beech He is often highly capable in lan- scarcely be classed as a commercial guages, science, literary and technical nut, but is an attractive and homey WATCH STEERING APPARATUS education, and is inventive as well as tree where there is room for its Beechnuts furnish dainties One Part of Motortruck That Operator industrial, but not commercial; imagspread. inative, artistic, creatire, rather than for an evenings chat, or left on the Should Carefully Inspect Every frigidly practical. Inclined at times ground in woods and pastures they Day In Week. to melancholy, brooding, pessimism, furnish fattening material for pigs he is yet deep at heart forever buoy- and turkeys. ,If the beech' tree is If there Is one Inspection that the ant, optimistic, hopeful hopeful not headed low, it offers less chance for motortrjjck operator should Insist onr of possessions, however, but of human defacing Its smooth bark with Jack- having made more than another, It is happiness, and of the freedom and knife h(prlyphles. that with relation to the steering gear. future golden age of not merely his One other Interesting nut tree is the The steering apparatus should be gone own, but all people. filbert, cr European hazel. It is one of over every day. y. ll g, al nut-tree- nut-beari- FUN g val-ley- Austria-H- -- nut-cultu- type-sampl- blight-resistan- thin-lippe- , UTAH BUDGET A postoffice ka been established Vlpoot, Boxelder county. at v Fourteen of the thirty-fiv- e magazine ldlngs tor the Ogden arsenal will completed within the next ten days. A farm bureau membership drive meeting was held tn Provo past week: with more than 500 persons Interested in agriculture present. Fire originating In the boiler room destroyed the mill of the Silver King Coalition Mining company at. Park City, with a loss of $250,000. The thlfd annual show of the Utah Rabbit breeders and Fanciers- assocL ation Will be held in Salt Lake January 29 to February 5, Inclusive. Organised labor of Ogden is supporting Mayor Frank Francis in the proposed bond election for the establishd ment of a light plant. Eighteen coppef stills, seized in various raids made by federal prohibition agents in Salt Lake and Utah, are to be scrapped and the copper sold. Eddie White and John Salamanca, each 18 years of age, charged with robbing Browning Brothers store at Ogriten January 9, have admitted their . guilt. t Total appropriations included in the budget for the- years of to $4,339,027.16, according t announcement made from the office of Governor Mabey. Tremonton has just , entered the Northern Utah. Baseball league, composed of Lewiston, Smithfleld, Logan, Brigham City, Ogden and Tremonton. The Tremonton Commercial club ia behind the team. Immediately after Joe Porter had been found not guilty by a Jury in the city court at Ogden, on the charge of having liquor in his possession, he was rearrested upon the charge of obtaining money by false and fraudulent pretenses The reclamation service has noted widespread publicity given to the restoration of a tract of about 120, 669 acres in Price River valley, with the Intimation that there would be a good' opportunity for former service men t secure homesteads. Damages of $25,000 are sought in a suit filed at Ogden by Laura Saunders against the Utah Rapid Transit company for the death of her husband, Richard Saunders, when he was struck by a street car while he was rIC'ng a motorcycle. It Is reported that Senator Smoot has secured the adoption of an amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating $60,000 for the purchase of land adjoining the postofflce building at Salt Lake, with a view later to enlarging the building. Reports coming to various business interests in Salt Lake from country centers indicate that collections are gradually improving all along the line. Improvement In collections Is one of the best indications of fundamentally sound business that can be had, Melvin Turpin, aged 13, was run down by an unknown speeding autoist near Midvale and instantly killed. The boys neck, back, both arms and both legs were broken, his broken body being' found by the roadside. Effort toi locate the driver has been futile. Lowell Alvord of Iarr West, Weber county, was bitten By a dog afflicted with rabies. The dog also bit several other dogs before it wad killed. Mr. Alvord, who Is a young man, will take the Pasteur treatment under the direction of the state board qf health. Whether or not approximately $45,-00- 0 in warrants issued for work on the Cache county roads can be paid by the county is being debated by the county commissioners. The warrants are being held by the county clerk until he is given authority to pay them. The report of the chief of the fire department shows that the total loss by fire in Provo last year was $2525, of which $1200 was covered by insurance, leaving a net total loss of $1324 for the entire year, which is than most cities of considerably.Iower like population. " - M. P. Madsen, 34 years Of age, of Los Angeles, Cal., committed suicide at Ogden by shooting himself through the head with a .38 caliber revolver. The elimination of worthless automobiles and trucks fnpm the supply owned by the state Is the purpose of an investigation now being made. The state 'legislature will be asked by the Triangle club of Salt Lake to enact a measure which would provide that the county attorney serve as probate counsel in the disposition of all estates valued at less than $7000. The purpose of the law is to relieve the beneficiaries of small estates from the expense of engaging an attorney. Utahs electoral vote will be cast for Harding and Coolldge notwithstanding the fact that Mrs. Margaret L. Judd, the state messenger, who was chosen to take the vote to Washington, failed to arrive in time. Mrs. Judd forfeits $1000 allowed for expenses by her failure to reach Washington in time. ' Thomas R. Jones, the oldest man in Lehi and one of its early settlers, died January 23. He was in hjs ninety-thir- d year, and had resided in Lehi since 1861, coming, with his wife, from Wales, his native country, that year and crossing the plains by ox team. The department of agriculture evidently believes there is no danger of the extermination of the American bison, and it is not willing to recommend the passage of Representative Milton H. WellingsbUl, which was designed to save the Antelope Island herd. city-owne- o |