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
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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
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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.