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About Dayton tribune. (Dayton, Oregon) 1912-2006 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1925)
New Ruler Seated on Peacock Throne Icidoscopic Contrast* Washington, — Recent new* dl* palelle* frani Persili announce Ihe de position of the Kajar dy misty, which tin* ruled the country for more timi« If** year«, and th« ascension of u new shnh to the fuiuuus peuco< k throne In I • l».• > .»ri “Despite Persia'* traditional con- servatlsni In governmental affair* T«^ heran, It* capital, 1« n city of kaleldo- «■oplc contrast*,“ lay* n bulletin from the Washington headquarter« of the National Geographic «wlety. "Visitor* may enter through any of U m twelve beautiful giih% glazed tiles glisten In th« sunlight, it ml find spread before them n dingy collection of mud house* rubbing elbow* with pnlutlal residence* enclosing flower tilled gar den*. A lumbering camel, seemingly Ju«l Stepped out of n priceless old I’er elan rug. may draw aside to allow the paa«age of u htgti-poWered motor ear benrlng a wealthy Pershin en rout« to nla villa on th« oufaktrta of th« city. I way. The airplane has made Its wa> Where East Meete Weet. Among City’» Rich Citizen* "Keeping It company Is th« sword Home.—The police have found that of Timur, th« Tartar, which doubtless aecompanled him on hl* victorious many of the sorriest uijd moat pathetic march through Persia and Syria as fur appearing street beggars tire some of as the frontier of Egypt. In those the city's most opulent citizens belilo; bloodthirsty days wlo-n Invasions and the walla of their homes. One of these aged mendicants was conquest were the lifelong ambitions' of eiery great mnn. In the trensife sea rrhed and his pockets shown to vault also Is a huge terrestrial globe eontnln about »30 as one day's re of gold, weighing eighty pound*, set ceipta. Another beggar was found to with 31..'UM ewels, and nearby Is the be a proprietor of dwelling houses diamond known as the Duryl-Nur or another an owner of a livery stable ‘Sen of Light,’ weighing 146 carats, that boasteil several horse* and car which Nudlr Shnli did not overlook at rlagea, a third wa* n professional money lender nt usurloti* rates, and h Delhi. . "Teheran might well be called the fourth was n frequenter of one of the meeting pine« of East mid West, for ■ cnpltnl's most expensive restaurant« In the southern portion of the city, In the evenings. tucked away behind the pale pink and Oeare Sanest, palsied nnd miserably blue piaster walla, may be found the dressed In tatters, died on the streel majority of the natives with thetr of heart disease. His body was gnth bazaars and their own circles of life ered up unceremoniously by earn hardly untouched since the early blni«era nnd burled In the public cent* Linked With “Arabian Nights." years In the northern pun the West tery for the destitute. It was Inter ’Teheran baa not nlwnya been the ern Influence Is seen, felt und heard In learned thnt Sunesl was n member ot capital of I’erala. Rhages or Hei. Ita the «hnpe of «ell graded street«, elec one of the most noble of Florentine predecessor, the ruins of which, are tric lights, movies, European shops, families, and that he bore the au nenrby, was a bustling city of one and hotels. restaurant* and even n train- thentlc title of count. a half million* In the Middle age*. A* the birthplace of llurum ’ al-Rashld, Caliph of Bagdad, the fifth and moat reno» ned of the Abhassides. Its name Is forever linked with 'Amblan Nights.' There have been innny kind* of portable radio receiving sets, but It re Thia city, also called Khugac, was de mained for A. W. Tupi>er (shown In atroyed by Jrnghlz Khan and Timur. photograph) and II. J, Wall of the “Modern Teheran's position, 70 miles lighthouse service of the United States south of the Caspian sen. commanding Iiepartmeat of commerce to design and the highways of th« extensive upland build n portable transmitting or broad- plateau and the entrance to the Elburz cnatlnc station. passes, Ims made It the center of a considerable caravan trade, though It does not rank high ns an Industrial city. Its (Hipulutlon in roughly eatl mated at 3i<),UOO In winter, but In sum mer this number diminishes one third. For, although the district Iles In the npproxhiiufH latitude lint terna, ami nine months of the year tiring It cool nights ami sunshiny day*. the three montila of aumnier are un- comfortably hot and dry. "The paiera of the deposed aliati Is located in the 'Ark,' or former citadel. In the middle of the city. Iler Nulnnm court, containing the large Tnkht l Khnneli, or throne room. where the shah received hl* people nt his New Year's reception, three month« and more after the Western wbrld ushered In a new year. Tips recep tion formerly wa* n brilliant affair; the royal band played all through the ceremony, court poet was much In evidence with the shnh'a grei tings for the new season, and the shah him self was seated in u jeweled chair on a beautiful marble throne, which, how- ever, should not be confused with the priceless Peacock throne kept in the treasure vault. "The office of the commandant of the Imperial guard*, the apartment* of the grand vizier nnd the Imperial Georgia’* Famous Peak Out South Carolina. Tennessee. Alabama archive« are separated from the main and Florida. cropping of Granite Range. palace by h shady rose garden, but At the place where Stone mountain one's Interest naturally centers In the seems to meet ordinary earth It be- Atlanta, Ga. — “ How come Stone treasure vault wherein ure kepi the gins a sloping descent Into the under- mounialn I” Persian crown jewels. This question hns puzzled geologists nenth of Georgia. At Macon, about “Nudlr Shah, who was also known 100 miles southwest of Stone moun ns Kull Khun, wa* shnli of Persia from ever since there have been any geolo tain, the granite bedrock is reached gist* to puzzle about Stone mountain. 1736 to 1747. Shortly after he was Many explanations have been of at about 400 feet. Dr. 8. VV. McCallle. crowned he Invaded India, laid waste Georgia state geologist, says that when the country and sacked Delhi. It fered for the existence of the now fa tlie granite Is struck a perso, might mous granite monadnock, which rises wa* he who laid down hl« bare sword au well stop, because a drill would go ns n sign that the massacre might be suddenly out of a fertile country “on to China." gin an»l refused to lift It again until nround It. The one most favored Is Stone mountain will not last forever, thousands of the Inhabitants had been thnt sometime nlong fifty to seventy- murdered And he It was who brought five million years ago, there whs an declare geologists. There Is a devas the peacock throne to Teheran where upheaval In this land, nt which time tating force whht Is diminishing, ra; Stone mountain and the Appalachian Idly as such things go. the size of the It hns been since 1739. "This gorgeous chair of state Is In- mountains nnd other eastern wonder mountain. This force Is called exfolia tion. crusted with thousands of precious rocks were thrust up. But Stone mountain, on which Is jewels; rubles, diamonds, emeralds Once Hundred Times Present Size. nnd ho many others thnt one Is almost being carved the Confederate memo- blinded by Its corunennt splendor. Em rial, Is not nil just out there In wide- When the mountain came Into being Tlint'a only It covered probably 100 times Its ¡»res blazoned on the back Is the large pen open DeKalb county, cock from which the throne takes U n where It shows Itself. ent size, ns evidenced by the numer- name, with Its trill spread out In it It extends tinder most of the remain* ous outcrops of the same rock extend magnificence no living peacock ever der of Georgia and some parts o ing over a belt several miles In width At this rate of shrinkage, geologists compute that in another 50,0(M).lMMi years there will not be any Stone mountain. At present Stone mountain rises 686 feet above the ground ami Includes 563 acres of exposed granite mass. In this inass there are 7,543,730.950 ctlhh feet. There arq about 12 cubic feet of granite to the ton, making the muss weigh In the neighborhood of 628.045,- fill tons. Since about 1863 Stone mountain granite has been used extensively In building as well ns paving. This Sending Station Is Portable l Tablet on Ingersoll’s New York Home Unveiled to Teheran, the drill «piare north id the central «piare alluring honors as an aviation field and—a football grid Iron 1 fust adopting modern Temin way*, The new ruler, who la referred to In a dispatch from Teheran us 'King' Pahluvia Itera Khan, hua lensed all political prisoners and attained. Taken as one piece of 'fur sued a decree reducing the price of niture.' the peacock throne might eas bread." ily be culled the most expensive In the world, for If Is valued at thirty toll- Hoti* of dollars! Rome Beggar* at Home STONE MOUNTAIN IS MORE . THAN IT SEEMS ON SURFACE » tu» tiling a tablet to the memory Of Robert G. Ingersoll at hl» former iipiue In Gramercy M|Uure, New York city. Left to right: Former Senator Charles 8. Thomas, Bainbridge Colby, Mra. Eva Ingersoll Swasey, granddaughter of lugeraoU, and Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott. thus grown In 1923 numbered 3,250 000 In the winter of two years ago a start of replanting was made when 800 acres were reforested. Last win ter 3,000 acres were planted, and the program for the present winter em braces 6.000 acres. When the total reaches 10,000 acres yearly, this with natural reproduction. It Is hoped, will ♦-------------------- T---------------------------------- 000,000,000 feet board measure year preserve the redwood for -posterity. ly, assuming the present rate of cut ting and reproduction. Lumbermen figure from this ■ that the second Le»» Rain Noted on growth of redwood will be ready for Northern Pacific Coast cutting in 100 years at the same time Tacoma, Wash.—Old residents of that the virgin timber has dlsap- that part of Washington and Oregon ¡»eared. lying between the Cas-ade mountains • Trae* Aid Refcrestatlng Plan. and the Pacific ocean long have been The tree Itself Is a great factor In declaring that cutting the dense tim It* perpetuation, for sprouts spring ber that once covered the region 1* from It* stumps an profusely and per gradually changing the climate. sistently that M. B. Pratt, state for “It doesn't rain like it used to,” the ester, says: old-timer* remark, recalling the days “If planting by the lumber compa when they referred to one another as nies is continued on the present scale. "webb-footers" and "moss backs." I consider that adequate means will And now comes L. C. Cover, govern have been taken to reforest the cut- ment weather observer here, with fig over lands, particularly since these ures that partly corroborate the’bld lands are reforesting more or less by settlers. themselves by means of stump His figures show there has been a sprouts." steady decline tn rainfall here during The redwood belong* to the pine five-year periods since 1895. The av family or cone-bearing group. In the erage ' annual rainfall from 1895 to fall of the year the cones are gath 1900 was 45.99 inches. From 1920 to ered from the ground and taken to' 1925 it had fallen to 33.96. the nurseries of the lumber compa "A generation ago the average rain nies at Scotia, Fort Bragg and Cas fall in this district was 45 Inches a par, Cal. Seed.' removed from the ’year, but the present average, based cones become trees of six or seven on all available figures of the past, has inches in one or two years. Trees drap|>ed to 40.72. Increase Effort to Save Redwood Trees Nature Lover* Join to Buy California Forest* San Francisco.—Increasing effort, with prospect of success, li being made to preserve from extinction the world's tallest and most beautiful tree, the Sequoia seinpervtrens, or red wood. Spread over the northern hemi sphere qf Europe and America when the earth was young, the tree was scoured from the globe by ancient ice sheets uutll there remained only a forested belt of a few hundred miles along the coast of northern California and a bit of southern Oregon. There In cathedral grandeur It raises Its lofty spires 350 feet and more. Its name, sempervirens—ever living— arouses the Imagination, for It Is from 2,000 to 3.000 years old, only a thou sand years younger than Its cousin the Sequoia glgantea. of the Sierra Nevada mountains. League Buys Groves^ Magnificent timber, resisting mois ture and decay for centuries, though fallen. It was cut and shipped through out the United States and abroad in such quantities as to endanger Its ex haustion. Aroused. the Save-the Redwood league, composed of such nature lov ers as Franklin K. Lane, Dr. John C. Merriam, William Kent and others, actuated by love of beauty. In recent years hns raised money to buy some groves and Induce the state of Cali fornia and various organizations to preserve others. Today, 15,515 acres have been freed from the woodsman's menacing ax. In addition, the league has Initiated a program for a national redwood park of 20.000 acres of trees that were a half-thousand years old when the star appeared over Bethlehem. The lumbermen have sympathized with the spirit of conservation, and. moved greatly by considerations of financial advantage, began reforesta tion so extensive as to promise com plete replacement of trees cut down. Merchantable redwood timber In the forests estimated at 50,000.000.000 feet board measure, will be repro duced by planting at the rate of 550,- King Tut Married When but a Child «---------------—------------------------------------ away, while others placed his age Expert Think* He Became higher. When, however, the mummy was Husband at Age of Five. taken from Its golden human-shaped New York.—That King Tutankh coffin and the wrappings about it were amen. who died In Egypt some 3.000 removed until the golden-sheathed body years ago, was only fifteen years old came Into view, the experts, after an when his body was laid in his tomb In examination, established the age. the Valley of the Kings, has been defi Wears Crown of Gold. nitely ascertained by Egyptologists. On the head of Tutankhamen was The age of the dead pharaoh had a tall crown of gold. The hands been the basis for much speculation were elapsed across the breast. On among those who uncovered the tomb the side of the body were strapped near I.uxor, Howard Carter, who was two gold-hilted swords and two knives, the chief assistant to the late earl the handles of which also were gold. of Carnarvon In the work of excavat On the breast golden stars were placed ing the tomb, had believed the youth to mark the heart and lungs. was eighteen years old when he passed Tutankhamen. Inherited the throne of Khun-Aten through his marriage to that king's third daughter. Ankh-nes- pa-Aten, • afterward Ankh-nes-atnen, two years after her royal father had passed away. This was during the reign of the pharaoh. Saa-Nekht. bis brother-in-law. Saa-Nekht Is various ly estimated to have reigned from eight to sixteen years after this event before his death and the succession of Tutankhamen. The latter is estimated ■ to have reigned from two to nine years. The former figure is Howard Carter's and the latter Sir Flinders Petrie’s. Sir Flinders is a noted Egyptologist. New Sea Fighter for the British Melons Used for Water in Jerusalem / * -i Coconut Milk Advised for Babies of Samoa Jerm-nli'm s Gb.iNM) cltlzena me sufliTing seriously from an insuukient water supply. The facilities for distributing miler are Inadequate, due to the rapid growth of the city. The dully ration for each family lias been cut down Io live gallons, The people are buying quantities of melons us a substitute for di inking water. Above is a melon seller In the streets. Pago Pqgo.—Young coconuts for young Samonns la the advice of the United States government to South sen mothers unable to secure milk for their babies. The use of coconuts for bnhles Is still an experiment, but ao fur Is con sldered successful. Each child is given the meat of four very young coco nuts dally, together with nil the coco nut milk he can drink. Child welfare work In Samoa has been organized so that nil villages In American Samoa nre visited at least once every two weeks. In each vll Inge a committee of women hns been appointed. Bnblea nre taken to the weekly meetings of tills committee When a baby Increases In weight the mother Is praised publicly; when It loses, the mother Is called to nc count. Above Is pictured the newest of British ships, H. M. 8. Nelson, being launched nt Newcastle. Dnme Caroline Bridgeman, wife of the first lord of the British admiralty, was sponsor for this, the first battleship to be launched from a private shipyard since the whr. Five When Married. Thus, If Tutankhamen were fifteen years old at the time of his death he would have been only five years old when he married on the basis of the lower figure, while the larger figure would seem to be wide of the mark. Five year* of age for marriage ap- parently is out of line with the cus- toms of the royal houses of Egypt, for few, if any of the pharaohs, married before the age of twelve They did not become of age until sixteen years old. On the female side It was different, some of the princesses marrying when only one year old In order to acquire • rights of royalty for the husband. In Egypt royal descent passed through the daughters. The finding of the high gold crown on the head of Tutankhamen Is a dis covery unique in archeology, as also was the discovery of the swords i.t his side and parts of the royal re galia, for despoilers anil thieves usual ly ransacked royal tombs so thorough ly thnt generally the mummy wa* stripped to its wrapping.
