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The Alamance gleaner VOL. LV. GRAHAM, N, CM THURSDAY AUGUST 15, 1929. NO. 28. ? DOINGS OF THE WEEK ~1 NEWS REVIEW OF GURRENTEVENTS Graf Zeppelin Arrives and Starts Eastward on a Trip Around World. By EDWARD W. PICKARD GRAF ZEPI'ELIN, the great Ger man dirigible, was the feature of the week's news. Its second crossing of the Atlantic, from Friedrichshafen to New York, was made without mis hap, and after Hying over the metrop olis it came to the ground at Lake hurst, N. J., in a perfect night land ing. Nineteen fare-paying.passengers, one stowaway and a miscellaneous cargo that included one chimpanzee, one gorilla and 000 canaries were brought over in comfort and safety. Three days later the big airship, having been refueled, started back to Germany on what is planned to be the first leg of a trip around the world. The only stops are to be at Friedrichs hafen, Tokio, Los Angeles, and again Lakehurst. If the Zeppelin keeps to her schedule she will arrive at the New Jersey hangar on August 29. Twenty-two passengers were taken on the eastbound trip. Those who intend ed to continue aboard for the globe circling journey included William B. Leeds, Lady Grace Drummond Hay, Carl Yon Wiegand, Joaquin Rlckard, Sir Hubert Wilkins, Lieut. Jack Rich ardson. Lieut. Commander C. E. Ros endahl and C. B. Burgess, the last three being sent by the United States Navy department. Dr. Hugo Eckener, as on the previous flight, Is pilot of the dirigible, but It was reported that aft er this world tour he would relinquish Its command ? and devote himself to the management of the Zeppelin com pany, of which he Is the business bead. Rear Admiral William A. MofTett, chief of the naval bureau of aero nautics, while praising the successful trip of the Graf Zeppelin, calls atten tion to the fact that our navy is now building at Akron, Ohio, two dirigibles that will be about twice the size of the German airship. Work on these vessels has been going on for some time and the admiral says the first of them will be put into use in 1931. Each will be filled with six and one half million cubic feet of helium gas and will carry five airplanes attached to the bag. Admiral Aloffett has been looking along the Pacific coast for a good place for a base for these im mense dirigibles. One novelty in aviation Is to be noted thi3 week. A company has been formed in Kansas City to rent "fly-lt yourself" airplanes to persons who cannot afford to own and maintain planes. One hundred two-seater sport planes have been ordered and they will cost the renter between $15 and $20 an hour. J IEET. ALFORD J. WILLIAMS, ' America's lone liope In the Inter national seaplane raee for the Schnei der trophy, to be run at Cowes, Eng land, September 6 and 7, has produced his plane, without government back ing but with the aid of Admiral Mof fett, and was testing It out near Phil adelphia Inst week. lie believes It will prove to be the fastest ship In the world and that It will beat the time made by Major De Bernardl of Italy last year?318 miles an hour. The en gine, of 24 cylinders In banks of six, will deliver 1,100 horsepower. The plane Is a twin float monoplnn", Ihe fuselage, wings and fixed tall surfaces of wood and the control surfaces of metal. Llent. Florentln Bonnet of the French army, selected by the ministry of air to pilot the French entry In the Schneider- cup races, was killed when the airplane In which he was training for the speed test was wrecked In leaving the airfield at Bordeaux. Bon net was the holder of the world speed record for land airplanes. EMINENT statesmen representing 12 world powers gathered In The Hague and on Tuesday opened a con ference designed to liquidate the In ternational problems left over from the World war. The chief matters to be .Immense Power Project Planned in the South The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer saya ? "new Niagara" Is planned In the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee by the Aluminum Company of America, which will spend $125, 000.000 In development of hydro-elec tric projects Through eight separate dams, elec trical power exceeding In magnitude the energy now generated by Niagara falls will be created. Seven of the bellied were the ndoptlon of tile Young plan for German reparations, the evac uation of the Ithlnelnnd, and the es tablishment of a committee of concili ation and control to supervise the de militarised sone of Germany along the western frontier. Whether all or any of these things could be arranged Amicably at this conference was a bit doubtful. This was especially true concerning the Young plan, which In certain of Its features was distasteful to every one of the powers except pos sibly France and Italy. I'iilllp Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer, opened the discus sion by frankly stating that the Brit ish government could not accept the Young scheme for division of repara tions because It reduces England's share from 22 per cent to 18 per cent. He said: "Great Britain objects to the proposed division by which France gets five-sixths of the unconditional annuities?$11,800,000 out of $157,080, 000. Italy gets a considerable annual sum, amounting to $10,000,000?much larger than under the Dawes plan. X hope for your forgiveness for my frank and firm speaking, but this division Is utterly indefensible and the experts did not attempt to explain or Justify It." The smaller creditor powers, for which Premier Venlselos of Greece was the spokesman, also protested that their debts had been overlooked by the experts when they formulated the plan which "compresses" their reparations, but they said they had no Intention of attacking the Young plan. Representatives of France, Italy, Bel gium and Japan defended the new plan as probably the best that could be dc vised, aicnougn eacn ot mem usueneu big country was making sudrltlces In accepting It. M. Cheron, French min ister of finance, declared France ac cepted the plan In Its entirety, with out reservations, and considered It In divisible as the experts stated. Not withstanding these expressions on be half of the other nations, Mr. Snowden and Arthur Henderson, British foreign secretary, told the reporters positively that Great Britain would reject the proposed new division of reparations. Two commissions were named by the conference, one to study the po litical consequences of adoption of the Young plan and the other to deal with the financial questions involved. These bodies may not get through their work for five or six weeks. Dispatches from Rome said Italians generally were Indignant at Snowden's speech, which they considered a churl ish attack on the Latin nations and calculated to endanger the friendship between Italy and England. Berlin also disliked It, feeling that Snowden was trying to "squeeze still more out of the unfortunate German tax pay ers," and fearing thnt France, rather than quarrel with England, would com promise at Germany's cost. PRESIDENT HOOVER'S law en forcement commission has divided Its work Into eleven sections and for each a committee has been named. Chairman George W. Wlckersham him self Is head of the committee to study prohibition, the other memDers Deing Newton D. Baker, Ada L. Comstock and Judge William S. Kenyon. No other single body of laws was singled out for such concentrated study as those concerning the Eighteenth amendment Judge Kenyon was designated chair man of the committee on lawlessness by government law-enforcing officers, which was made one of the subjects of special Inquiry because of the re cent use of firearms by prohibition agents In cases which aroused criti cism In and out of congress. The com mittee on JuTenlle delinquency Is head ed by Miss Comstock, that on causes of crime by Henry W. Anderson, of Virginia, statistics of crime and crim inal Justice by Dean Roscoe Pound, of Harvard law college, police by Frank J. I-oesch, of Chicago, courts by Judge ?William I. Grubb, of Alabama, prose cutions by Monte M. Lemann, of New Orleans, penal institutions by Judge Kenneth Mackintosh, of Washington state, criminal Justice by Newton D. Baker, and cost of crime by Judge Paul J. MeCormlck, of California. FARMERS who wish to make elder and let It get hard will not be In terfered with by the agents of pro. blbltlon If they don't sell the stuff. eight projects named Id the newspa per story will be In western North Carolina and the other In Tennessee. The projects In their totality are said to represent "one of the largest and most ambitious power develop ments In the United States" and will require years to execute. Recent formation of the Natshala Power and Light company, with prin cipal office at Bryson City, N. C.. and an authorized capital stock of {10,000, 000 la declared to be a step In the plans of the Aluminum company. The Treasury officials nnnounced tlint no restrictions would be placed on the manufacture of cider and fruit Juices In the home providing these beverages were not sold unlawfully, and Dr. James M. Doran, prohibition commis sioner, warned the dry agents not to molest the makers unless there was clear violation of the Volstead net. ? TT OI.D your wheat ire long as pos slble in order to avoid Increas ing the congestion of the terminal markets," Is In substance the message to wheat growers Issued by the fed eral farm board. The board's state ment said the crowding of the mar kets h.v unusually heavy shipments has caused a sharp depression of cash prices, although there Is every pros pect of a crop shortage In the world supply, which naturally would make prices higher In domestic and foreign markets. OUR federal prisons must be made bigger and better, especially be cause they are now so overcrowded with violators of the prohibition and narcotic laws, In the opinion of Presi dent Hoover. Consequently ho has given Ills approval to a program of ex pansion of prison facilities that calls for the expenditure of $5,000,000 and Includes the building of n new prison In the northeastern states. The penl tentlarlessnt Atlanta and Leavenworth will he considerably enlarged. VICTOR L. BERGER, former con gressmnn from Wisconsin and fot many years nn International leadet of the Socialist party, died In n Mil waukee hospital from injuries sus talned In a street car accident In July. He was a determined fighter for the cause of socialism and though he got Into trouble during the war because ol bis denunciations of capitalism, he was respected by Ills political enemies. He was elected to congress first In 1010, being the first Socialist to hold a sent In that body. Two famous Inventors were claimed by death. They were Enjlle Berliner, who devised the disk phonograph and many other things, and Dr. Karl von Welsbach of Austria, best known for his Invention of the Incandescent gas mantle that bears his name and his development of metal filaments In electric lamps. Thorsten B. Veblen, noted economist and author, passed away at Menlo Park, Calif.; and Mary MacLane, who gained consider able fame a generation ago as the writer of a diary and several other books, died in Chicago. THERE Is going to be a lively fight for the governorship of Virginia, for the Democrats who refused to bolt their party last fall because A1 Smith was the Presidential candidate have nominated John Garland Pollard of William and Mary college to contest with Dr. William M. Brown, put up by the antl-Smlth Democrats and the Republicans and backed by Bishop James Cannon, Jr. Professor Pollard was an active supporter of Smith. Down In Georgia the split In the Democratic party was made wider by annniinanmatlt nt th? nntl-Smlth fflP tlon that they would take no part In the primary called to select n candi date for congress to succeed the late Leslie J. Steele of the Fifth district but would concentrate their strength In the general election. There will be three aspirants for Steele's seat?a Re publican, a regular Democrat and an antl-Smlthlte. THAT old war between the On I-e> ong and Hip Sing tongs broke out again in New York, Chicago and other large cities, and several slant-eyed gentlemen were shot to death. But Unltod States District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle of New York threat ened wholesale deportations unless the conflict ceased, so the tong leaders got together and signed a peace treaty. KING FCAD of Egypt and his prime minister left London with a pro posal from the British government for giving Egypt the status of an Indepen dent nation and at the same time pre- ! serving In all essentials British con- i trol of the Land of the Nile. It Is do signed to satisfy the troublesome Egyptian nationalists without periling i British Interests, and It most be ac cepted by a new freely elected Egyp tian parliament. I lakes created by damming atreama will wipe not the towng of Almond, Bnsh nell. Jodaon, Wesser, Forneys Creek, Eppes Springs and sereral smaller villages. The Alnmlnnm Company of Amer ica acquired Its flrat power site In western North Carolina In 1005. Two plants are now In operation and a third Is under construction. Andrew W. Mellon, secretory of the treasury. Is one of the principal stock holders of the Aluminum Company of America. JARED, | THE HARD | BOILED I ((E) by D. J. Walsh.) JAItED MEADOWS towered beside his wife's bed, scorn writ large In his attitude and on his handsome, ruddy face. His eyes of that bright, unclouded blue that denotes a nature not given to softness, to senti mental concern for the woes of this world dwelt briefly on his wife's re cumbent figure and then turned In distaste, away. Phyllis Meadows, her small, delicate face turned toward the window, Iny and regarded with unseeing eyes the country without. Her lips trembled and a flush crept up nnd burned Into momentary rose her thin, pale cheek. Calmly, resonantly, Jared voiced his sentiments. , "Doctors are grafters. Keep peo ple In bed and coddle 'em up to get their money. You've got to use your will power; make up your mind you're nil right and you'll Le all right No. I don't hold with doctors. Why, I never had a doctor pawin' over me In all my life!" Phyllis mude no comment; contin ued to stare Inertly out upon the land scape. Jared expected her, the first day at home from the hospital after an emergency appendicitis operation, to plunge Into housekeeping, to get his meals, wash the dishes, churn, hake, feed the chickens, yes, and probably hoe the turnips, she reflected bitterly. And you couldn't make big, strong Jared understand. You couldn't. Healthy, strong, candid, "sensible," he was simply unable to comprehend frailty. And she didn't want him to I ?Is strength she adored. OIs Intoler ance of weakness seemed to her god like. Attentively she listened as lie went on. "I sure never thought yon would ever be the kind of woman to He around and compel a busy man to wait on you." "I'll?I'll try to get up and get some thing for your dinner," she murmured, and winked her eyelids to dispell the black dots from before her frightened eyes. Why, she couldn't. She couldn't. Yesterday a nurse had taken care ol her. Today she had to take care of Jared. And they had told her It would be two months before she would he strong enough to take up her work at the point where she had laid It down. But she turned and smiled up at her blue-eyed Jared. "That's my girl," Jared rewarded and she ,'elt his Hps upon her cheek, Ills hand Arm upon her shoulder. "I've got a bushel of things to do today. Can't work on an empty stomach, you know. I told Tina Burwell she'd not need to bang around here any more. 1 told her you were no slacker. 1 paid her off and said she could skedaddle. I tell you tbe doctors do just like 1 Bald, coddle you up, keep you In lied. Why, how'd they make a living If folks wouldn't stay sick a while for 'cm? You're all right, Phyllis. You're all right. Dtter nonsense this bvlness of beln' sick is. Well, I'll be getting to work. Good to have you home, old girl. Jehosophut! I missed you some thlnc awful I" Again Phyllis thrilled at the touch of his lips. "Oh. I will try to do ns he wants me to. He Is so dear?hlg. old strong Jared." she whispered as she felt the little farmhouse shake at Ids march through It The hours sped by. She dozed n few minutes now and again, but always was the dread upon her of the mo ment, eleven o'clock, when she must get up and begin preparation for Jared's dinner. Anu he could not do with Just a lunch. Dear me. Fancy Jared Meadows coming in to cereal and milk and fruit and store rookies! Oh, he would despise her, never hare ony love for her again If she failed him. Ah, but hadn't the hospital been a heavenly place. All day she could | lie still, all day and all day, resting, getting well, eating, drinking, think ing, dreaming, building up strength. At the hospital everybody had smiled at her, nurses had brought her things, brushed her hair, the doctors had been sympathetically Interesting, kind, un derstanding. And she had been home sick. How could she bave been, she asked, longing for the peace of the place. Well, she had been homesick for Jared, for this hale blue-eyed young giant who was her husband. Never once had she failed to cry when the sisters sang vespers and she knew night was coming down and she was alone In the big white-peopled place, far, far from Jared. In her mind now ns she lay she dwelt upon his strength. Perhaps If she thought of his health and vigor It would help her to gain them for herself. She must have some will power as he suggested. "If you think you're all right you are all right," he had said. Perhaps that was perfectly true. Perhaps she was only thinking she was unable to work. "Doctors are utter nonsense," he had said. ' The kttcben clock struck eleven. She lifted her head from the pillow. Utter nausea overcame her. She let It flop down again, forced It up again. Panting, she summoned her will to aid her. Her feet soug.it weakly the floor. Ah, she was standing. She held to a chair, put her hands out, clutched the dresser, the sides of the doorway. At last she reached the dining-room. If she kept hold of something all the way she might get to the kitchen. But no, she couldn't, without stopping a second to rest there on the chntr by the window. She sank wenkly down, closed her eyes, conscious of nothing for a moment save of relief that she need not move her feet, mnlntnln an upright position. I'crhnps, even, she slept. What was that noise? Some one cnlllng? Some one pounding none too vigorously on the porch. Who could It be? It -ounded a little like Jured and yet It did not. She turned In the chair, looked out the window at Its back. Was that Jared? Was It? Oh. surely not I And yet? She got up, opened the door, hold ing to the knob and looked Incredul ously out. "Oh, Jared, dear!" she cried, Anally, and bent her gaze on the creature, half-sitting, half-lying, on the small porch. For u second she thought she must he delirious. That thing, dishev eled, smeared with tnud from which straw obtruded. Its clothes nearly torn to shreds, supinely clinging to the porch, was never strong, sturdy Jared Meadows, successful young farmer and stockman, her mighty husband? As she looked down at him from the door way anguish darkened bis eyes, con torted his dirt-begrlined face, twist ed his pallid lips, caused his Jaw, his chin to quiver. "I?I stumbled," he honrsely whis pered, "over a?a pig. K-killed the pig, b-h-roke my leg?" "Jared. Jared." she cried, "my ucui ill* Ip* moved again sad (lie stooped to hear. "I?I crawled to the car to crank It and get to town and I broke my? nty arm. "C-get the doctor I" a fright ful groaning. "Get the doctor." lie closed his eyes, went very white and slumped down U[K>n the porch floor. Phyllis Meadows proved herself then. She did not think herself all right and then become all right She simply forgot herself, forgot appen dicitis operations, weakness. She flew to the telephone. She summoned a doctor, (wo doctors. She called Jared's mother from town. She turned down Jared's bed. put water on to heat. All this for Jared, her hard, glorious Jared. like a woman demon possessed, she did. In half an hour the two doctors had arrived ind tall Mrs. Meadows with her keen, clear blue eyes, like her son's eyes?yesterday. In another half hour Jured Meadows was In his bed, the doctors busied with the hro ken leg, with the broken nrm. In nnoth er half hour Jared Meadows, In splints nud multitudinous white bandages, lay Inert and colorless. In another half hour the bite of Jared Meadows' eyes was visible to his wife as she leaned over him. (limited nnd Intent. Ills lips opened and she heard: "I fell awful?awful?" "You're all right, Meadows." Inter posed one of the doctors, cheerfully. "You'll be flt as a fiddle again in sis weeks." " "No?no. Don't hurry me, doc?" (le Iny silent for n moment. And then Phyllis, bending close, henrd: "And keep Phyllis In bed. Take care of Phyllis, poor girl. Doc, take care of Phyllis?" Phyllis Meadows took her turn at I lectins. When she awoke she was on a cot beside the big bed where Jared Iny stretched. Jared's blue eyes were re garding her. "I'll?I'll get up. I'll?I'll hare your dinner rendy?" She slipped her feet to the floor. "Lie down"! came In a terse com mand from her lord. "Von take care of yourself. The doctors know what they're about." Jared's eyes of that bright, uncloud ed blue that denotes s nature not given to softness, to concern for the woes of this world? Phyllis knew they would never seem so again. Strength that has knowo weakness, has felt pity, Is strength. Indeed. Varying Quality of Far It Is not definitely known why some badgers when caught have a pre dominance of hslr and others a pre dominance of fur. The proportion of the different type of pelage varies In different parts of tbo year, likewise with the habits of certain animals, under which conditions the hair or fur may be rubbed or broken off. Uncla Eban "Many a man," said Uncle Eben, "has lost a good Job by llstenln' to some high-power talker teilln' de world how he were g'lneter loaf and let loaf." Washington Star. Consolation for tbo flump Thin women never made history.? Lady Mary Hay Drummond. Persia Awakes La???i i . i i ?' ? " ? -? ' Entrance to City ot 8aveh| Mall Stage In Foreground. (Prepared by the National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C. I Pi: It SI a, long practically railroad loss, has laid down inure than 2U0 scattered miles of rails since the World war, and Is now con structing a real trunk line from the Persian gulf In the south to the Cas pian sen In the north. Persia's awak ening, In the matter of communica tions fi9 well as in other senses, can be ascribed In large part to the World war. The hfgher price of sliver that followed the conflict doubled Persia's capital, and the world sought her raw materials and so removed her from comparative isolation to a place of im portance among commercial nations. Persia Is one of the oldest empires In existence. It has been o kingdom for 25 centuries?ever since Cyrus the Great, about 550 It. C- conquered Media and united that country to his under the name of Persia. It has had many glorious episodes In Its long history; has produced the great teach er. Zoroaster; such world-famous poets as FIrdnwsl, Omar Khayyam, Saodl and Uaflz, and such great sol diers and rulers as Darius I. Sliapur I and Shah Ahbas. Again and again the empire has been a prey to anarchy; again and again conquering hosts have swept through the country, Alexander the Great having many a successor, the most destructive conqueror being Genghis Khan with his hordes of sav age Mongols?a leader who boasted that he had slain 30.000,000 of bis fel low creatures I The center of the country Is a great plateau, rising from 2,000 to 0,000 feet, and crossed by frequent chains of mountains, while a lofty mountain barrier bounds It on the north and south. In the whole Persian empire there were In 1010 only six miles of rail way; a fact which casts the progress of the last few years Into strong re lief. There Is only one navigable river, the Karun. It flows Into the head of the Terslan gulf, and on this sea the so-called ports are merely open roadsteads, at which cargo can not be landed In stormy weather. The merchandise of Persia Is even largely carried on the backs of cam els, mules and donkeys; a slow and expensive mode of transport, and the t.ooalns ?votiti 11 tr rli'no flirniityh fho country following the tracks made by tbe passage of caravans during the centuries. Persians Are Handsome Aryans. The Persian Is of Arynn stock, and has the same words as ourselves for father, mother, brother and daughter (pldnr, madar, bradar and dukhtar), and the constrnctlon of bis language is like that of English lie Is a handsome, well-built man, with regular features and fine black eyes, his complexion being no darker than that of en Italian. In manner be Is most courteous; be Is quick, alert, fond of conversation nnd discussion, and bas rightly been called tbe Frenchman of the East Persia Is the home of many re ligions, beginning with the Zoroastrlan now represented by the Parsees, and several sects of Christians down to Mohammedanism In Its many di visions. Shlite Mohammedanism being the state religion of the country. The Shlltes have their own traditions, the most marked being an Inordinate re spect for AIL nephew and son-tn-law of the Prophet and probably bis first male convert They believe that the angel Gabriel visited Mohammed on his last pilgrimage to Mecca and In structed blm to proclaim All bis suc cessor. So thoroughly are they convinced that the caliphate belongs to the house of Mohammed alone, that to the confession. "There is no God but God and Mohammed Is Ills ambassador," they add. "end All la the vlceregent of God." (lut All while on earth had some powerful enemies, chief among whom was Ayesba. the favorite wife of Mohammed and the only one of his hnrem who had never been married before, and they succeeded In pulling him aside and choosing three callpbs before him. He finally succeeded In obtaining the caliphate, but was mur dered in the masque of Kufa after he had served only four years. Persian processions Impress the stranger as fanatical. During their Month of Mourning?that In which the son of All was assassinated?they put on deep hlnck. throw their shirts open at the chest, whether this lunar month is very hot or very colli, lacerate their bodies, and go unshaven and with hare feet through the streets. Cslng their swords they heat the tops of their heads until the blood streams over their faces and on to their gar ments. Large sums are paid by prin cipal personages In the celebration for the blood-drenched robes. Crude Theatrical Performances. During that month the only theat rical performances of Persian take place. They are manifestations of I'erslnn patriotism In which the Shlltes show their haired for other Mohammed sects, particularly for the Sunnlle*. and are somewhat like the early English miracle and morality plays. They are performed In the courtyards of the houses of the rich, the stage manager announces to the audience where the scene Is laid. * suspended lion skin represents the desert, a sliver bowl of water the Tigris, and the parts of the women are taken by boys or young men. The crudity of the performances Is amazing to the average American who Is familiar with the elaborate settings of the modern moving-pictures. When the actors are supposed to be off the stage they merely sit down, and s "corpse" sits quietly on the stage dressed In a shirt, stuck through with arrows and smeared with blood, or In some similar outfit to Indicate the manner of his death. Many Persians have no home life In the usual sense of the word. A Per* slan house Is divided Into the bimonl, or men's apartments, and the ande roon, or part consecrated to the wom en. A strong door, set in a high blank wall, gives entrance to a narrow pas sage that leads Into a square court yard on which open several rooms. IJ?re Hie men live, and here they usu ally entertain their men friends, while their women dwell In rooms set round an Inner courtyard, the entrance to which is through the biroonl. Despite Persia's traditional con i- ?? . ? I ,S,|n servuiisin iu ^uici uuicuiai Teheran, lis capital, la llie city of kaleidoscopic contrasts. Visitors may enter through any one of Its twelve beautiful gates, whose glazed tiles glisten In the sunlight, and And spread before them a dingy collection of mud houses rubbing elbows with palatial residences enclosing flnwer niled gardens. A lumbering camel, seemingly Just stepped out of a price less old Terslan rug. may draw aside to allow the passage of a high-pow ered motor car bearing a wealthy Per sian en route to his villa on the out skirts of the city. Rhages. Old Capital, In ftulna. Teheran haa not always been the capital of Persian. Rhages or Rel, Its predecessor, the ruins of which are nearby, was a bustling city of one and a half millions in the Middle ages. As the birthplace of Harun al-Rashld. Caliph of Bagdad, the fifth and most renowned of the Abbassldes, Its name Is forever linked with the "Arabian Nights." This city, also called Rhagae, was destroyed by Jenghts Khan and Timor. Modern Teheran's position. 70 miles south of the Caspian sea. command ing the highways of the eitensive up land plateau and the entrance to the Elburz Passes, has made It the cen ter of a considerable caravan trade, though It does not rank high as an In dustrial city. Its population is rough ly estimated at 300,000 in winter, but In summer this number diminishes one-third. For. although the district lies In the approximate latitude of Cape Uatteras, and nine months of the year bring It cool nights and sun shiny days, the three months of sum mer are uncomfortably hot nod dry. The palace of the shah is located In the "Ark." or former citadel. In the middle of the city. Here Is the Salaam court containing the large Takht l Khaneh, or Throne roots.
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