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KHIVA BECOMES A REPUBLIC
Historic London Churches May Have
to Givo Way to the Demands of
Famous Khanate of Central Asia Has
Definitely Rejected the Chains
of Despotism.
Modern Progress.
Now the whole family can 8°
out on a Summer evening.
HE women should cer­ they’re beginning to insist
tainly be thankful for the on knowing what they are
automobile. It has given getting.
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them a chance to see a lot
And the more they insist,
more of their husbands.
the better it will be for us.
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But it has done a great
We want our customers
deal more than that.
to know what they are
It has brought people closer getting.
together, given them new
That’s why we represent
interests, swept away old
U. S. Tires—so there will be
prejudices.
no doubt about it.
What affects one man now
generally affects a good many
Whatever the size of your
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chance to get together and kind of tire its makers know
talk things over. .
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It’s had its effect on the for life, without any limi­
tation of mileage.
tire business.
When automobiles were
That ought to mean some­
new people were willing to thing to the man who has
buy any kind of a tire. Now thought about tires.
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When you go to Portland or any other city,
you put on your best dress, don’t you?
The same tiling should apply to your
Stationery. It is your silent representative and
should be Dressed up, and make as good appearance
So Khiva, the khanate in Central
Nineteen historic city churches In
the heart of London. 13 of them the Asia through which Col. Fred Burnaby
work of Sir Christopher Wren, have once rode on horseback to the capital,
been marked for destruction by a com­ has declared itself an Independent re­
mission appointed by the bishop of public! That prodigious English sol­
London to consider the whole ques­ dier and traveler who won military
tion of the city churches. In seven glory fighting outside the endangered
cases it is proposed to preserve, for square at Abu Kiea, In the Sudan,
their architectural and historic value, would smile hugely, no doubt, were he
the towers of the churches. Tn the able to read the news. For the semi-
other cases these old monuments, barbaric city of Khiva as he found It
on that famous ride in the seventies,
dating back to the seventeenth century
and the great fire of London, would or rather as the Russians found it Just
disappear.
two or three years before, to be exact,
This Is the recommendation of the was filled with slaves captured from
bishop’s commission, but already the Persians by Turkoman raiders. Its
strong protests have arisen and the whitewashed houses, scattered amid
Society for the Protection of Ancient the elms and poplars, produced a wel­
Buildings has announced that it will come effect, however, after the count­
take every possible step in making the less miles of arid steppes which had
to be negotiated before It could be
strongest protest.
Its citizens were those
The value of the sites of these reached.
churches Is placed at nearly $8,500,- weirdly named “cousins” of the
000,000, situated as they are in the Turks, the Uzbegs, Kirghiz, Sarts. Ta-
great business center of London, be­ Jaks and the Kara-Kalpaks, or Black
tween St. Haul's and the Tower and a Bonnets of the Turki tribe whom the
little to the north of that-line. In ad­ caliph would fain gather into the fam­
dition to this enormous return from ily fold. The khanate Is but the relic
the church property the commission of the once great kingdom of Choras-
expects to realize an income of $120,- mia, over which King Darius ruled by
000 a year from the benefices after means of his satraps.—Christian
setting aside $81,000 a year for the Science Monitor.
salaries of certain of the clergy con­
cerned. For the site of a single PLAN SCHOOL ON SHIPBOARD
church, that of All Hallows, Lombard
street, Barclay’s bank has offered $2,- Socialistic Council of Bradford, Eng­
500,000, and the value of the site of St.
land, Is Considering the Adoption
Dunstan's-in-the-East has been esti­
of Remarkable Scheme.
mated at $1,250,000.
When it became necessary to erect
NO HELP FROM THE DOCTOR a new secondary school in Bradford,
the rich wool textile center of Eng­
Abundant Reason for the Depression land, the usual estimates were asked
for, and reported, in the total sum of
That Was Manifested in the Golf
$500,000.
Bug's Attitude.
Socialists, who have a considerable
The golf bug has a sad face. He is majority on the Bradford education
plainly out of sorts. Something Is the committee, at once decided to break
matter with him. He has just come free from tradition and adopted the
from the doctor’s office where he has idea of buying a suitable seagoing ship
undergone a thorough physical exam­ for that amount, one big enough for a
These
ination. He is sore and depressed, but couple of hundred children.
not from what the doctor ‘found, but children will be sent to sea for a six-
months or 12-months period. If a sub­
from what he refused to find.
“You are all right.” said the learned sequent suggestion is adopted.
It is still to be settled whether the
physician. “You are as sound as a
ship schoolhouse will remain moored
nut.”
That was a little Joke the golf bug in Bradford canal docks, only going to
sea as a freighter during vacation pe-
did not enjoy.
"Are you sure that I am in first-class riods, or whether it would not be in
the interests of a general education to
condition?” he asked.
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let the scholars see glimpses of for­
“Absolutely.”
eign ports, learning their languages
“Is my blood pressure normal?”
'among natives, the ship at the same
“Perfect.”
time being,loaded with cargoes that
“Heart regular?”
would pay full maintenance expenses,
“Heart O. K.”
probably even of the boarding of the
“Lungs clear?”
children.
"As a bell.”
“Liver in good working order?”
Auto Worked Change.
"Splendid.”
He used to be a pretty easy-going
“No trace of neuritis?”
fellow before he bought his machine.
“Not a bit.”
"Am I not bordering on a nervous Some days his name would decorate
the spare board at the car barn and
breakdown?”
some days it wouldn’t, for he and work
“See no indication of it.”
were not firm friends.
“I’m sorry.”
But now how different. He contract­
“Sorry, man ; what for?"
“I thought surely you’d dig up some ed the automobile fever. The machine
good excuse for me to go away. Now was the result. Now, buying an auto
I’ll have to be honest and say I'm go­ Is easy. But keeping It running and
ing South simply because I want to taking your girl out Is another thing.
That requires coin of the realm.
play golf.”—Detroit Free Press.
He has developed Into a terrible
shark. His face Is now a familiar fig­
Ancient Cornerstone Laying.
The custom of laying the corner- ure on the North Easton line and If
stone of a public building with cere­ there are any spare trips laying
monies was practiced by the anclepts. around loose he is right up to the win­
At the laying of the cornerstone when dow leaning on both elbows.
We should have made an exception
the capitol of Rome was rebuilt a pro­
as
to Sunday. Ah. that is the day he
cession of vestal virgins, robed in
white, surrounded the stone and con­ shines. The little machine rolls mer­
secrated It with libations of living rily along.
“It’s worth it at that, to be a million-
water. A prayer to the gods followed,
aire
one day a week,” he remarked as
and then the magistrates, priests, sen­
ators and knights laid hold of the he unlimbered his portly form after
11 hours' labor the other night on a
ropes and moved the mighty stone to
North Easton hack.—Brockton Enter­
Its proper position, in a hollow cut
In the stone were placed ingots of prise.
gold, silver and other metals which
Nut Butter Is Wholesome.
had not been melted In any furnace.
Cocoa butter, as nut butter Is called
With the Jews the cornerstone was
considered an emblem of power, and In England, was not accepted with en­
they also performed ceremonies at its thusiasm by the British public when
laying. In medieval times the rite natural butter became scarce during
the war, so the food committee, of the
was taken up by the order of Free
masons and has by them been brought Royal society made some elaborate
down to modern days, the Masonic tests of Its effects on human beings.
ceremony of laying a cornerstone be- The New York Medical Journal sum­
marizes the results, which show that
'ng symbolical.
slightly less of the fat of cocoa butter
than of that of real butter is utilized
Out of Placo.
by the body; It causes no digestive
Aunt Hannah came, home from
church the other Sunday morning dis­ troubles; when . consumed in large
tinctly out of sorts. When asked what quantities It has a slightly laxative ef­
was wrong she answered that she fect. and In general It Is a safe and
thought there was not the proper rev­ wholesome food.
erence in that church. Pressed to give
further explanation she finally did so.
“I didn't like any of the choir.” she
complained. "They were too fickle
looking to sing hymns and I thought
It perfectly sacrilegious when that so-
prano got up In those slippers with the
high, thin heels and sang. ‘How Firm
a Foundation, Ye Saints of the Lord.’"
The family she was visiting smiled
but later admitted to themselves that
It was indeed incongruous although
not exactly sacrilegious.
Work Poor.
as possible.
We print "Dressed Up" Stationery
T he H ermiston H erald
Charlea M Schwab at one of his
Loretto dinner parties was talking
about a man who was vainly beseech-
Ing the banks for a loan.
“He's a rich man. too," said Mr.
Schwab: “but he's work poor."
“Work poor?" said a guest.
“Yes, wort poor," Mr Schwab re-
peated. “You see. he's always got so
manv operations in hand that he’s al-
ways short of money to finance them.
Work poor. I call IL"
Then he smiled and added :
"He's one of those fellows who dig
so much that they’re always tj a
hole."
Bugs That Birds Eat
According to a paper on behalf of
bird protection published by the State
Horticultural society of Kansas the
bird population of that state Is 256.-
000,000, which every year eat enough
Insects to fill 480 trains of 50 box cars
each—24,000 cara of a minimum
weight of 24,000 pounds to the car.
These Insect trains would be long
enough to reach from Oklahoma to Ne­
braska. Reduced to pounds. Blair fig­
ures that the birds of Kansas every
year eat 576.000,000 pounds of Insects.
It is hard to conceive the dollars and
rents value of the Insect-eating birds
to the Kansas farmer.
Things We Forget.
Folks here seem to have developed
an awkward habit of leaving their
legs behind In street cars. According
to the last annual report of Inst prop-
erty. the general manager of the street
railways says three artificial limi,
found their way Into the list, which
also Includes six gas masks, sixty
Bibles and prayer books and cash to
the value of $11,465.— Liverpool (Eng.)
Times.