Show d t ALT Ai LAKE TELEGRAM eW Girls Girl's Dowry Is Is' IsRow IsRow Isa a aRow Row of Poplar Trees 1 Is Ish I In the h the h Province southernmost g lt ot o Rrt of f 1 Italy One ot of the most moet u charming of hiM the customs here ft In n Italy's toe te Is that relating to a girls i s dowry f 1 For rth o a in most countries European u p COuntries t s. s a a b t girl el has a 1 slim chance chanco marring less IH she fa he is the of ot marriage V Tin und unless un- un Proud d clot st p possessor ot of a a. The to avoid such lIuch a II tragedy as S that thet of ot bringing So up a II daughter gh and not being able t to endow en- en dow her with a sufficient dowry COW ry to attract an eligible husband make such provision IS a o n 1 to O her rn babyhood In a against g parts of Calabria when a n. little girl i is II b born her t fAther is la a row W of poplar r trees IC n fhe are hr hers er Bv BY the time she III Ic 17 L years Jars old the popi lare Jarll are tine fine large L it trees and nd ready to be hewn I Is JoM down Then their wood sold sola is and the not MA money in Is set aside K for tor the daughters daughter's Calabria also lB III rich In historic In- In terest is one of the sea sra ports Across the of Melna is Plc- Plc lly lIy It was wae here that the mythological logical monsters Scylla and andI dis were werf err err- supposed to menace ma ri e r Even the r brave bravo Ulysses was waa In never-ending never fear tear of ot Scylla It has always been filled with ro ro- ro mance and from this thia mountainous t country come thrilling tales of ot highwaymen high high- waymen and For Tor It was a favorite haunt for outlaws Now that that yOuve yOu've paid your our In- In tax gO to work and earn It Wall it-Wall Street Journal 4 Patmos an Island of Churches One of the most remarkable Islands Islands 1st- 1st ands In the world 1 Id III Patmos where St St. John wrote the Book of oi Reve Reve- lation It was always the de destina tion of thousands 0 of pilgrims and In the old days davs the rich man who d wished to expiate his s sins usually did so by building eg a church h hsuM suM The result Is that this tiny Island contains contains con con- the ruins of no fewer than churches As there are only houses on the Island there is almost a church for each two families oc occupation The people oJ ll Is are sponge fishing Greeks whose though oni only there used at one time to be bo a trade In the manufacture of stockings Curiously enough though the Island lies quite close to Turkey there has never at any time been beena a mosque upon It The modern girl Irl may have her little weaknesses but she isn't Isn effeminate Fresno Fresno Republican How Sandwich Islands Got Their Name Captain James Cook who christened christened chris chris- the Hawaiian group of ot Islands the Sandwich Islands In 1778 gave them that name as a compliment compliment ment merit to John Montagu fourth tarl of ot Sandwich an English statesman traveler and author who at the time of ot Cooks Cook's most moat celebrated voyage was first lord of ot the admiralty the United States equivalent for secretary secre secre- tary of the nav navy The reason for tor this compliment is doubtless to tobe be found in the following extract extrac from fron Cooks Cook a narrative While we lay In Ix Long ng Reach Beach th the Earl f of esi Sandwich c Sir Hugh r Pal Pallister Pallister Pal Pal- lister and others of ot the board of ad admiralty admiralty ad- ad as the last mark of the very great attention they had all along to this equipment paid us 19 a visit on the of ot June to o examine whether everything had been com corn completed completed conformably to their Intentions Intentions intentions and orders and to the satisfaction satisfaction tion of ot all who were to embark on the voyage They and several other noblemen and gentlemen their friends honoured me with their company at dinner o on that day and andon andon andon on their coming on board and also on their going ashore we saluted them with seventeen guns ana ace three cheers Lake of Epsom Salt in B. B C. C The famous asphalt lake of ot Trinidad Trinidad Trini Trint- dad has a rival At Basque In British Brit ish Columbia is a lake Jake that contains contains con con- talus not asphalt but epsom salt extending to fe a a depth of ot one forty feet teet and perhaps even a greater Creater depth The miners who discovered the lake drilled to that depth deEth and were then obliged to cease for or lack Jack of drilling facilities M le The lake is said to cover an area of seven acres and to have a hard surface f When the s snow crystal alf I gI melts from the m mountains ln the e sur surface surface sur- sur face Is covered six Inches deep with water which quickly becomes brine Then the sun evaporates it it and all Jl that Is necessary Js ls s to score and lift ot off the thick crust that has formed Spring freshets prepare another seven-acre seven pan They have locked old King Tutankhamen up until next fall which Is a light sentence n for f t Cht him after serving e o one stretch of years New New York American Ameri Amen can Land Patents Issued To Famous Men Among the interesting g docu documents found In the government archives are land patents Issued IssuM to Ito famous men Some are In the names of George Washington and other revolutionary revolutionary revo revo- war heroes A t big batch of land Jand patents was found dating from the civil warThe war The government rn paid a soldier f f bO bonus after t the civil war a In the form fonn of land Soldiers received grants of land on the public domain In the West Not only private soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers but generals as well wen took advantage advantage ad- ad vantage antage of the governments government's generosity gener goner Soldiers of earlier wars were Included too and Abraham Lincoln got a land Jand bonus for tor his services as Ba s a soldier In the Blackhawk In Indian Indian In- In Indian dian war The patent to Lincoln is at Washington In the custody of ot the Interior depar department Perhaps Henry could spare A Afew afew few moments from hl his great In Industrial Industrial industrial in- in plans to get France out of ot the Ruhr fluhr before Christmas Boston Shoe and Leather lie Ito porter Pio Pioneers in Fox Raising Art in Canada Fifteen years jears ago Blake t tel ter r a farmers farmer's boy at Georgetown Ont caught a pair pall of ot ordinary wild foxes on fathers father's farm tarm Despite parental opposition he prese- prese preserved them and they became the foundation foundation foundation tion of ot the largest fox ranch In Ontario The bO home of fox tox ranching Is Prince Edward Island There In Inthe Inthe the seclusion and simplicity preserved pre- pre served erred by the tight little Island that that a e a B. guardian of the Atlantic coast the art of fox tox raising raising- wa was wal begun many years ago by Individual farmers who dug the progenitors of I the present purest silver foxes out their dens In the woods of ot For along a along long time these thue pioneers worked In I secret and It was many years before before be be- fore tore the world knew before their I be-I neighbors knew their source of ot revenue revenue revenue rev rev- or the methods they pursued in securing securing- it I President of ot Poland wont won't exactly fit It In our I newspaper headlines but he ought to go big big- bigIn In our test eye i ing InK charts Life New l ew York |