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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH yams? (as2& f2MEnn UMkcgeSQub 83 a G3 dfcp d25 (Has (f& (TTTrrfft mrrr, QrgED fUEEmm Procter & Gamble HADE BT THE MAKERS OF IYORY SOAP me. e.i. FA?.orr. For dean, sparkling dishes with less work-- try the New Oxydol with its 50 more suds rich, lasting ends that cut grease cleanly and yet are kind to hands. Oxydol never L balls up, leaves no scum, softens water. The fastest time ever made by a railroad train depends upon how performance is reckoned. The fastest train run on record was made over the Plant system between Fleming and Jacksonville, Fla., in 1901, when a train covered five miles at an average of 120 miles per hour. The flyer of the Great Western railway in England recently covered the 77 miles between Swindon and Paddington in 56 minutes and 47 seconds, from start to stop, averaging . Prepared by National Georr&phlo Society, Washington, D. C. WNU Service. where American explorers discovered a complete township, dating from the early fourth millennium, is the modern' naine for the traditional Gar' den of Eden, historically known as Mesopotamia. Many historians hold that somewhere in Iraq In the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates ri versts to be found the cradle of civilization. ' Upon the breaking up of the Turkish empire following the World war Mesopotamia became a British mandate which was erected Into the Arab kingdom of Iraq with a Mohammedan prince from Mecca upon the throne. Such is the latest form assumed by the Phoenix among nations. In the last six thousand years Baby' lonian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian, Greek, Roman and Saracen civilizations have flourished in Mesopotamia, each rising from the ashes of its predecessor. The great irrigation works which, throughout the centuries, had kept the valley green, rich and flourishing were destroyed by invading Mongols and allowed to decay by heedless Turks.' The Garden of Eden became a treeless desert, except for a fw date palms along the river banks. Cities like Baghdad and Basra fell Into decay and seemed fast approaching the fate which had overtaken Ur and Babylon, where jackals howl above a lonely waste. Then followed a rebirth during the throes of the great war. Once more boats crowded the swift and treacherous reaches of the Tigris. Once more the bazaars of Baghdad and Basra and Mosul hummed with world traffic. Marauding desert robber tribes were kept in perpetual peace by airplanes hamming over their remote villages. Sanitary regulations and electric lighting made total and country both more safe and more healthful. Ice factories and soda water establishments helped alleviate summer days of 120 degrees in the shade. Levees were built to keep the flooding rivers within their banks and slowly bit by bit work was begun on repairing Irrigation works and building railroads. Thus was modern Iraq born. The new kingdom under British mandate embraces the valley of the between the Arabian desert on one side and the Persian uplands on the other. To the northwest lies the French' mandate of Syria and to the north the Kurdish highlands of . Turkey. Southward stretches the Per-water salt slan gulf, the countrys outlet to the wide world. Within this strip of territory are barely 3,000,000 people where once flourished a popla-tiodenser than that of modern Belgium. What Baghdad Is Like. : There are three principal cities: Mosul, of oil fame. Is in the north ; Baghdad, the capital In the central part ; and the important port of Basra in the south. Of the three Baghdad perhaps Is most famous. From the deck of a Tigris steamer Baghdad looms tip boldly, its splendid skyline of domes and minarets reminding one of some Midway" of Worlds fair memory. An odd pontoon bridge connects the two parts of the city, separated by the yellow Tigris. On the west bank is the old town. Inclosed by date and orange groves. From railway starts here the Baghdad-Mosu- l on Its long run across the trackless desert East of the river, on the Persian side, Is new" Baghdad, with Its government offices, barracks, consulates, prisons, etc. Beyond, as far as the eye can reach In every direction, stretches the vast, flat, treeless ettfptj plain of Mesopotamiaregion once more populous IRAQ, Tigrls-Euphrat- : . ! : Tigrls-Euphrat- n than Btelgluin. ' 11 In Iraq. London-Cheltenha- The traveler is paddled ashore from the steamer In a goofah, a queer, coraclelike craft in nse here since Jonahs day. A goofah is woven from willows about Six fet in diameter, is circular and and is coated outside with bitumen. Some say Moses "was cut adrift In one of these goofahs. Old City Mostly in Ruins. Another strange craft at Baghdad is the kelek, a Kurdish invention. The kelek is a raft made of inflated goatskins, held together by poles and covered with a platform of straw mats. These keleks come down to Baghdad in hundreds from Mosul, bringing wool, pottery, grain and skins. The present custom house at Baghdad is a wing of the old palace of ; yards of scrawling Arabic characters, cut in marble panels, still adorn its historic wails. Baghdad arteries of traffic are mere alleys, often so narrow that two donkeys cannot pass. Once Turkish soldiers tried to move artillery through Baghdad. The streets were so narrow the horses had to be nnhitched, and men moved the guns about by hand. A great wall encircles Baghdad, with guarded gateways, as in medieval huddled Moorish days. houses, many almost windowless and each surrounding its own open court, are a distinct feature of the older parts of Baghdad. On these flat roofs Arabs spend the summer nights with and flutes, water-pipewomen. dancing Facing the river, removed from the Arab town, are built the imposing foreign consulates, mercantile offices, and the sumptuous homes of rich Jews, Armenians, Greeks and Syrians tie men who make New Baghdad. But the Baghdad of All Babas day, with the splendor of Aladdins enchanted age, is gone forever. The palaces, the mosques, and minarets are mostly in ruins. Even the tomb of lovely Lady Zobeida, favorite wife of is tumbled down and decayed, it is into modern monuments to New Baghdad into roads, bridges, public buildings, irrigation works, army organization, dredging the Tigris, etc. that the Young Turks put their basket-shape- miles per reached This is mark for speed computation. 81.6 Train-Spee- d Fire Wood le Scarce OSS CKDICOOQQ' hour. 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Modern Baghdad is in safer hands; no dissipated royalty guards Its gates. men, drilled in the Sober, clear-heade- d best schools of modern Europe, able, to hold their own anywhere, administer Its affairs. As late as 1830 the Tigris overflowed its banks, swept through Baghdad, and drowned 15,000 people in one night Till lately Baghdad, more than any other city in the Near East, has been slow to yield to Europes influence. For centuries Baghdad kept close to the Bedouin life, under the sway of nomad customs. Even now Baghdad's famous bazaars, despite her evolution in other ways, are conducted as they were a thousands years ago. These Arab trading places have changed not one whit since Abrahams time. Here is barter and sale as Marco Polo fonnd it, as it was In the days of the Three Wise Men who bought gifts for Bethlehem. Basra is situated on the a river formed by the union of the Tigris and Euphrates. 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