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I^^HlKrT. coastal metropolis of
^?nli,.e's Syrian mandate, has
Hern the door and chief rdepot j
^ cr the French in the military /
Hr.is in Me iiuindute which the
^p>f the I'ruses hits made necesAmericans
have lived In
I at.d to then) It Iff a city of
Bf:l,.<:i: memories. '
Hre. nestlii.c at the base ef the
Hq. u mart tinted city pushed
Hp the M-tt.iiK' sun by the presHf
a f..metis, mountain range.
Huge -it's j'ist east of the city
of the early morning light.
^Kr< re v'"" feet In a beautiful
^K:: whose snowy heights form
^ sia! screen upon which Is proIt
he rose glow of some of the
most colorful sunsets.
Htark >ep.c of the cltv stretches
Haps: from a low alluvial plain
r. .ike* Helrut an Island.
Harvos are to the north, looking
? -s? ftttnAiu hut
|r?>m i:;r m-T "..... uUs
of Tyre ami Sidon to khe
p i toward ti t' other I'hoenlcian
t and Alexandretta and
p. all of which have old
pn names Ions since forgot I'.e
inhabitants. Berytus was
L'.d Beirut.
waterfront is commonplace
[ni?st "f the year, even though
b-<: le the . disfiguring breath-re
lies the bluest, most nearly
cur\e of hay east of Naples. |
5 the name of St. George, and
:h it is the f'rench that have |
ti! it. the lir.'tisi: have made It j
on the;.- beautiful cold coins, ,
tine;, whie.'r onee showed St.
killing a dragon, or rather the
L Mythology will tell you who |
Ir? was, and why he killed the j
litd why the British put It on I
plr.s and his cross on their j
Back But here St. George slew
pin and tiirew 1dm down a well
t? harms an oriental well?
you don't helleve It. the well Is
Pre. and if you go there on a
i?ht and gaze down Into the
iters you will see the dragon's
fe and Color In the City.
f>e-s ;ir,. narrow and full of
V lir.gs are calsomined In
iiglv near at hand but
ICT.>T-syjp from a distance. On
)> 'l'1 <? points nt the eastl"f
the high rib which the city
es there Is, or was, a military
is IWnit has tram lines
rw. ai-ns The backbone, and
)e in!nr of the city there la a
I irk around which the trams
H"r? there Is another line of
which ran to the south to a
te! grove of pines which were
1! Ssve the city from the drlftUtHstern
en! of the limestone
|l? ca'.vd |:ns Relrut, or the
r I'.drw. and near the extremItl
< sec:-,n there Is ore of the
pt rol'ecH campuses on earth,
pore 'I.,m |. srore of principal
lt< Possibly nowhere else on
la' America's name been more
p am! so lovely Is the scene
I deep ! >. bay and the snowy
pin run;.- that there has long
f "Htel t.j arsument between
r 'ge ) o Robert college at
l': I'.-ss.,- outside Constantl"i
Pi" Rospurus, as to which
f StlT view
p'cn '1" .""kt and nofth sweep
f1' are eating away at
fco.'rr... . ofs, and each year the
'e rer..i;..s before the fierce
I? 'h the '.va'ers upon which the
Pan argosies set out In search
e iti'! coipinerce. At one place
Idling wares have cut entirely
P tow. ring masses of rock
a huge hole through the
'hem so that when the
I!"'g"oti Rocks reveal a
re o* angry waves and
Narrow coves extend
it." luij |n |jiese ooe finds
' " 'host natural swimming
lytth?e, for the bottom Is deep
I" wu'er lear, and the sides rise
that one can dive from
F > from the water's edge
hm*.*
f M.vf-s ff,rrn ^ playground of
.^M'lcnts and each has Its |
win Out q{ Darkness,,:
persons who passed the
K at ii,* Soviet government's F?r *orth
rud'.o station, 61VS mtles
to? Arctlt^chrcle, on tNayaB
I'Uini, have ?enfc word
M%ht i,as entje(j and they nr?
I daylight for the first time In
Bthhnths. They will not be reBlhtll
ii ,. [Pe breaks late In the
>^Br a,Ml a new detail la sent for
winter. Their chief dlror1
CtlVE
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Q/n6*ty*r6o'w*'
m ML Lebanon.
name. There Is the preparatory core
for young students, the college cove,
and the faculty cove where the young
American teachers swim.
From the harbor there rises a cogwheel
railway which connects the ancient
city of Damascus to the sea
coast. It was this French railway
and the French harbor which gave
Beirut Its prominence as a port, and.
few. Indeed, are the Palestinian tourists
who have not passed over this ,
road while leaving the world's oldest j
city, a green oasis in the midst of the
tawny desert, and the Cyclopean ruins I
of Baalbek, to return to the ship fot
home.
Any Temperature Desired.
The mountains offer various sum- |
mer resorts for the city of Beirut, and !
the green masses of the foothills are
(lotted with pretty Lebanon villages >
from which thousands of Syrians have
set out across the sea as did the
I'henictans from the same port, but
to land In America Instead of beside
the chalk of Albion where tin was obtained
In ancient times.
The natives say that the Lebanon i
has summer in its lap, spring on its
bosom and winter on its head, and by !
moving up the slopes one can find the
temperature desired. Itich Egyptians
come this way In summer and there j
are gaming places on Lebanon that
rlvnl Monte Carlo. Recently the au
tomobile has come to the Lebanon,
and up the winding roads there now i
climb motor cars of all shapes and
sizes. There are many commuters In
summer time, and each night the tired J
business man leaves the hot coast and
takes the business man's special to |
the cool retreat of Aleih or Suk-el- 1
Charh.
North from Beirut there runs a fa- i
mous road, and at Dog river the cliffs
are carved with the proud Inscriptions j
of conquerors who hftve passed this j
way since history began.
The population of Beirut Is mixed
and the holidays many. Long famous
for Its learning, it Is today a city of j
colleges and schools. One of the |
great Institutions In Beirut Is the j
American press which publishes most |
of the Bibles and Gospels that are Is- .
sued In Arabic. Its product reaches I
the whole of the world.
During the war whole sections of j
the city were razed to make way for
new roads and thoroughfares, nnd the
center of the city Is becoming less and
less picturesque as the days go by.
Women Not So Beautiful.
Through this close-packed city of
picture-book houses there go the
Christian women, bare of face and
none too beautiful, and the Moslem
women whose religion mercifully sup- i
plies a veil. Unless one hears the
shout of the arbaji driving his spirited i
steeds before a rhlny victoria, he Is j
likely to have his shoulder grazed by
the passage of a Levantine beauty,
eloquent of face and redolent of perfume,
accompanied by some pale- '
faced official with waxed mustaches
and a blazing tarbucbe.
The Syrian lovaa the sunsets and, ,
as evening settles down, there Is a |
general exodus to the heights of Ras |
Heirut where the waves pile up from j
the west and the sun goes down In a
radiant sea. Then the line of carriages
Is almost unbroken and the
barren slopes are dotted with small
groups of Moslems with their
"harems" which Include all the fe- ,
male relatives from child to grandma.
As though so much beauty could not (
exist unchallenged, there are wretches
who come to this loving tryst with the j
setting sun with talking machines, ,
against whose agonized screams In ^
Arabic melodies, the roar of the wave*
is all In vain.
Beirut was. before the World war,
one of the principal religious crossroads
of the world. Here the Mohammedan
faithful disembarked on the
last lap of their pilgrimage to Mecca, 1
and from here they sailed on the jour- '
ney home. Today the Moslem traffic 1
Is not as heavy as It was, but Pal*^- '
tine tourists and pilgrims generally 1
enter or leave the Holy Land via
Beirut so that they may Include D# 1
?"?..o lrnrid's oldest city, and I
I1IUC1V.UO, iuv ?V..- _
Baalbek, with Its Cyclopean ruins, In
their tour. '
slon was hitching up the dogs to hunt
s?a (Ions and bears. The bears always
escaped In the dark. Logs which the (
Yenesel and Ob rivers carried north
durlrig the summer were sufficient to
keep the substantial government bar
racks warm..
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Battling Muak Ox
Thj musk ox of Canada, upop seen'
Ing danger, form Into line facing thel i
foe ai quickly as would a regiment o I
soldltfrs, and stand ready tot aid a' I
tack
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V A. ATWATER KENT
ICKIN'U dollars out of tlie
<4bL~B9 u'r wus one trick of the
IT old-time sleight-of-hand
II artist that never fulled to
H ) give his audience a thrill.
)?i(H ^\1 While It was recognized
as a trick, the mere sugUt~
J gestlon that dollurs might,
* somehow, be plucked from
the ether stirred the in7
terest of the average spectator
more than many other feats of
legerdemain requiring much greater
skill. It touched his money sense?
and the "pocket nerve" has long been
recognized as one of the most sensitive
In the human makeup.
Today, however, government experts
hold that the illusion of the magician
has been changed Into the fact of act.ual
accomplishment. Dollars are being
taken from the air. Official Investigation.
In fact, reveals the air as a
potential source of wealth for the
farmers of this country to an extent
rivaled only by the productivity of the
soil itself.
This transformation is being brought
about bj the development and extension
of radio facilities and services
to tit the special needs of agriculture.
For It Is in agriculture that radio
seems certain to nnd its greatest development
as a utility with a direct
dollar nnd cents value to Its users.
Secretary of Agriculture Jardlne,
who has given much study to the use
or radio as an uld to agriculture, recently
said:
"Itadio is already a vital factor In
the economic and intellectual life of
the farmer. It Is easy to foresee millions
upon millions of dollars added to
the value of agriculture through services
provided the furmer by radio."
Folks on the farms and in the country
towns where general prosperity
depends on the prosperity of agriculture
are particularly favored by radio.
To the city man or woman, the use of
radio Is limited to recreation and the
reception of general Information. They
enjoy the concerts, the dance programs,
the lectures and other features
thai come to them by day and night
over the air, but their pleasure and
enjoyment Is the principal recompense
for' their Investment in radio
equipment.
The same programs that entertain
the city listener are received also by
llsteners-tn on the farm, where they
are received with equal pleasure and
satisfaction. But In addition to the
programs of entertainment and general
Information, of interest alike to
city and country, radio Is being used
more and more to carry to the farmer
special Information of direct assistance
to him In the production nnd
marketing of his crops, the breeding
and care of his live stock nnd the prevention
of loss and damage from
storms, pests and other emergency
nnnrllt lnn?
It Is this service that raises radio,
for the farmer, out of the class of a
mere Instrumentality for pleasure and
recreation alone, and makes of It a
utility as helpful In the business of
farming as the stock ticker and the
telephone are to the broker or business
man In the city.
The greater emphasis on radio as a
practical dollars-and-cents Investment
for the fnrmer does not come from
radio manufacturers or broadcasters
?r from any group primarily Interested
In the radio Industry. It comes,
Instead, from the United States Department
of Agriculture, whose prime
Interest Is In the progress and prosperity
of the American farmer.
The department began an experimental
radio market news service In
December, 1920. A laboratory transmitter
at the United States bureau of
standards was used to broadcast, on a
400-meter wave length, by radio telegraph
from Washington, a radio raarketgram
and turn It over to the newspapers
In their own towns, or give
copies to the banks or stores to be
posted on bulletin boards.
Fire Pockets in Volanoes
The modern theory of volcanoes Imagines
that the reservoirs of molten
lava which feed the Are peaks are
small and superficial. Instead of communicating
with the earth's supposed
Interior fires, the two volcanoes of
Hawaii probably posses, not far below
the earth's surface,, some kind of local
.? - ii..u v hoatprt Ifrva.
POOK^I Or uuiu niiuruifjnij
Similar pockets exist, It is .believed, j
beneath the other active volcanoes.
Feathers Go Into Fabric
A new fabric of great .softness and
durability Is about to be offered In
the smart European stores. It Is a
cloth woven from ostrich feathers.
The feathers used are plucked from
the quills and woven together with
other materials after being specially
treated. It Is described as being llght^
er than thistle down, softer than the
finest crepe and It displays a different
attern with .avery movement of the
wearer.?Exchange. :_x.,
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Tii?- practical results of this first
experiment, I am told, encouraged government
authorities to broaden the
service, una in April, im:i, inrougn
arrangements with the Tost Office department.
wireless market reports
were broadcast several times a day
from air mall radio stations In half a
dozen different cities. By January,
1922, these market reports were being
relayed and broadcast by radio telegraph
through a chain of stntlons
renchlng from coast to coast.
Then came the era of radio telephone
broadcasting and with It the
government's radio service for farmers
grew by lenps and bounds. Wellestablished
schedules of weather, crop
and market reports are now broadcast
from more than 100 stations In all
parts of the country nnd no agricultural
community Is out of reach of
Uncle Sam's farm radio service.
A recent study by the department,
through Its 2,500 county agents, of the
extent to which farmers are finding
this service of direct help in th^ir
business brought what the government
experts regard as convincing
proof that a radio receiving set Is now
definitely recognized as a 'part of the
agricultural plant of the up-to-date
fnrmer. Typical of this view, as expressed
by these farm experts, Is one
1 have seen from Earl S. Miles, county
agent for Washington county, Indiana.
"Farmers In this county," Mr. Miles
reported, "now think of radio In terms
of an Investment that will return a
profit through more Intelligent selling
of live stock. The most encouraging
thlnar 1Q tn SPP flirmPTS. In
v J ? ,
rated 15 or 20 miles from a railroad,
equipped with a radio and a truck.
The radio keeps them Informed as to
ttye mnrket, and when prices are right
they can put their stock on the market
within two or three hours. Before
the day of farm radio they had to
take chances on what the market
would be when they reached the
yards."
Gardner C. Norcross, county agent
for Plymouth county, Mass., reported
still another angle of advantage for
the farmer equipped with radio. "Radio,"
he says, "has proved one of the
most effective methods of teaching better
farm practices #nd thereby appreciably
Increasing farm profits."
As a result of the thorough endorsement
by county agents of the benefits
being bestowed by radio and the ap- j
preciatlon voiced directly by the farmers
themselves, four new farm feasuch
as Vesuvius and Etna, on the
shores of the Mediterranean; Popocatepetl,
In Mexico; the several volcanoes
of Japan; Mount Erebus, In
the Antarctic continent, and all of the
rest.
Tea Table Talk
In contrast to the story that the
earl of Arlington was the first to
drink tea In England about the year
1658, a correspondent quotes from a
news sheet of that year the advertisement
"That excellent, and by all
Huge Twilight World
, Men lived for ages on this little
earth before he knew that on the outskirts
of .our solar system, about 27,000
million miles- away, was a huge
twilight world 85 times larger than i
our earth, but so far away and receiving
so little sunshine, that it was
not actually discovered until 1846. i
Now it is known Neptune has an
Immense cloud-laden atmosphere:- Far
beneath lies the real Neptune blanket
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tures were recently put on the air by
the Department of Agriculture, all de-'
signed to be o'f direct material advantage
to the farm family. These
are: A farm news digest, consisting
of short Items of agricultural news
not accessible to the average farm
reader; "Fifty Farm Flashes," a dally
service of 50 timely, practical questions
put by farmers and answered by agricultural
authorities; the housekeep-er's
half hour, an Informal program
designed to supply both Information
una inspiration 10 nousewivw, jjuitiug
at their disposal the great fund of
facts Interesting to homemakers which
are developed by the government burenu
of home economics and similar
resenroh agencies and the Radio Order
of Junior Gardeners, a program especially
for boys nnd girls but helpful
also to grown-ups.
The latter, It seems to me, gives an
authoritative discussion of timely
gardening subjects. Roys and girls
who enroll In the order are later furnished
the talks and supplementary
gardening material In printed form.
In addition to these programs,
broadcast by the government for the
direct benefit of farmers, I am told
that agricultural Information of a sort
that returns dividends In dollars and
cents Is being distributed by radio
through more than a score of state agricultural
colleges. Many of these colleges
are now using radio In broadcasting
their college extension courses.
One fine thing about this Is that boys
and girls financially unable to attend
college are, through radio, enabled to
enroll for these courses, take their examinations
and receive college credit
therefor. Radio owes a great deal to
Secretary of Agriculture Jardlne, formerly
Jiead of the Kansas State Agrl- j
cultural college at Manhattan, Kan., ||
who was the pioneer in tne Broadcast- :i
Ing of college extension courses. As a ]
result of the extensive use by this Instltutton
of radio as an aid to agrl-|
culture, under Mr. Jardlne's direction.1
Kansas claims a larger percentage of
farms radio equipped than any other,
large agricultural state.
Of necessity, the dollars-and-cents
side of radio on the farm Is often the
deciding factor as to whether or not a
farmer can afford to equip his home
with a radio. But, despite any direct
financial return, It Is to be doubted,!
after all, whether the money profit that]
the farmer receives through his radio/
however great, respresents Its greatest
value to him.
physlclnns approved, China drlnk[
called by the Chlneans 'Icha,' by othef
nations Tay,' alias Tee, Is sold af
the Snltaness Head Coffee-House, lit
Sweetln's Rents, by the Royal Ext
change, London." "In 1660 (he addsi
an act of parliament Imposed ? duty
of eight pence per gallon on all tea
made for sale, and It is reasonable tp
suppose that the beverage would bje
very popular when this was done." |
Oysters are now being hatched In
Incubators.
ed everlastingly with mist. Its short
day of seven hours alternating between
twilight and darkness. Ailthough
far out In space Neptune 18
not a frigid world, the clouds and
water vapor prove that It probably
has sufficient Internal heat to sustain
a tropical vegetation. Large as Nep
tune Is, few earthllngs have seen it
as It Is visible only through a telescope
and at certain times of year
?Capper's Weekly.
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AT THE AGE OF 83
Countless girls and women now know
how foolish and needless it Is to
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Hvoid sick headaches, dizziness, biliousBess,
sallow skin, colds, or sour, gassy
Itomach.
They have found that Dr. Cnldwell's
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Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin not
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but, best of all, It never gripes,
sickens or upsets the most delicate girl
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