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PUBLIC JLEDGKER GOT. 29TH 1913. I TDb Fanner': f Hiswra firm fehfl i . . . 3 i IP v" if . 71. A FTER Passing through Wazlra- A bad and Lalamusa on my jour- M& ney from Amritsar, to a coun- try changed from flat plain to irregular humps and hil locks of mud, I passed mud towns, and here and there accumulated stores of great mud colored logs near the railway river-floated from the hill forests of Kashmir. Then, as in a world of crumbling fossil cities, all the gray desiccated land was dust, writes A. Hugh Fisher in the Illustrated London News I reached Peshawar a little before dawn, and got out at the Cantonment and not at the city station. In the station master's room a group of great-coated men with rifles ' crowded round a fire. The city station had been raided only one week before, and although the cantonment was "safer than houses," there was an invigorat ing air of excitement. The wide, tree bordered, and well-kept roads, and the white cherry-blossom in orchard and garden, made me think of English parkland in spring. When I entered the city through the Edwardes gate, the Kissa Kahani the Peshawar Lombard street took me to the Kotwali, a large, whitewashed police station, with its own wide gate way leading off at right angles into the silk market and the older parts of the city. The wide, open space between the Kotwali and a raised oct agonal rest-placa (a memorial to Col. E. G. Hastings, C. B.) was a daz zling and crowded scene. On long lines up and down one side, myriad skeins of silk, brought from Bokhaha and China hung out to dry in the sun; and opposite to these was a row of money-changers' stalls, each with its large pile of rupees and oth er coin3 (really a mud-cone covered only on the outside with silver). Then at the back, behind the silks on one side and the money-stalls on A more modern type of native doc tor was one trained at the medical school at Lahore whom I met at a Peshawar dispensary. Here he saw an average of 200 patients a day. eye and throat being the most frequent causes of trouble. Antiquated no tions of medical treatment, however, still find favor with many of these northern people, and a young Afridi boy was pointed out to me- at the government high school who had just returned "cured" of lung disease by being wrapped in a freshly flayed sheepskin for some hours! City Very Ancient. Peshawar is a very ancient city, but has no monuments of antiquity within its precincts. At a little dis tance, however, at the mount called Shah-ji-ki-Dheri, are the remains of the great Buddhist memorial which was built in the reign of King .Kan iahka, when Peshawar, then called Purushapura, was the capital of his kingdom. The remains of Kanishka's building were discovered in 1909 by Dr. Brainerd Spooner of the Indian archaeological survey, and in an in ner shrine of the building (which must have had a diameter of 286 feet) was found a metal casket con taining a crystal reliquary in which were thre small fragments of the act ual bones of Buddha. The Khyber, at the time of my visit, had not yet; been reopened after a military expedition, and when I ob tained permission to enter the pass, the large Sarai at Jamroud was till ed with Kabulis with carnal caravans waiting to go through with the sup plies of salt, tea and hardware for which they had exchanged the silk, fruits and carpets they had taken to Peshawar. The wind blew strongly along the sweeping curve of the entrance to the pass, and the hard, well made road wound in and in to the nar- Tokt w KmSER Pass the other, were the lines of bazar shops, with many strange wares from Afghani -tan and Central Asia. Like Stranded Dreadnoughts. Turning to the right at the Hast ings memorial, the street leads pres ently to the famous Gor Khatri; now used for municipal offices, but for many years occupied by the romantic Italian Gen. Paolo Crescenzo Mar tino Avitabile, governor of Pesha war under Itanjit Singh. From the top of thia building I could see all over the fiat-roofed city and the sur rounding country. . In the distance oi one side rose Mount ' Tartara, and on the other a dip in the nearer hills marked the position of the fort of Jamroud, which Mr. Spender has so aptly described as looking like a stranded dreadnought guarding the en trance to the Khyber pass. After that I found myself in the street of the "Hakims' (native doc tors), and stopped with my compan oins to talk to one of the Hakims sit ting on the raised floor in his shop, with its rows of strange bottles and drug-jars. To a question as to the fees he charged for advice and med icine the Hakim answered: "A rupee if I go to the patient's house; but if.. the sick man come himself to the shop, only the medicine do I charge him for; and the cost of" that would he five rupees." "That would surely be a great deal if the sick man were a poor man," I said, think ing th quotation had probably been arranged for any possible needs of my own. "If the illness is serious," said icy companion, "'he will be able to iv.iy otherwise he '.will not." And his Account BoaEt. The farmer, more so than any other business man re quires the services of a bank, if he manages his farm in a systematic way, While he has no need for a set of books in which to keep a record of every transaction made, yet, during the course of a year he must pay out large sums of money for various purposes, and a record for future reference is highly important. Merchants may fail to give a receipt for cash, a neighbor may not recall the payment of money owed, but the farmer who pays his obligations by check has written evidence of such payments which any court must recognize. In the same way he has a record of monies received by the deposit entries on his bank book. To the farmer, who desires such a record for his busi ness, we extend an. invitation to open an account with this bank. Don't put your Savings in the top bureau drawer nor in a hole in the mattress or an old sock. Such places are not safe; they offer no protection from either fire or thieves. But pur your hard earned money in this strong Savings Bank, where it will be safe and ready for your use when needed We keep your savings safe and pay Four Per Cent Interest. tihue union bank J. S. BRADSHER, Cashier. IVIain Street. Oxford, N. C rtv in TiriiT-iTry The National ank of 'Granville CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $120,000. E. T. WHITE, H. G COOPER, W. T. YANCEY, Pres. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Subscribe 'to-Twlce-a-Week Public Ledger net! Coil Tom Investigate at Once. Mucin Cheaper than Lands in Your Section. 200 Aeres near Fuquay Springs. . 88 Acres near Coats, N. G. 326 Acres in Johnson County 205 Acres near Fuquay Springs. Write for Full Oeacription, Frices etc, to J. F. Stevens, Hiiisboro, n. c. j " ' .To Win One of Them.'. DO 0EMl(i 03T Given Away for Benefit of F A R MI IR T Subscribe to tha Public Lsdger, help your friend row ravine which runs between high, precipitous sides. At length I reach ed the Fort All Masjid, in the middle cf the pass. It is of tawny yellow stone, crowning a steeply sloping sauat cone where the pass is at its narrowest. A breakdown on the road, through my ponies shying at a sick camel, kept me in the pass till next morning, and I slept in a hospitable military camp which was pitched be side the road just below a village of cave-dwelling Kuchi Khels. The wind the Khyber wind strained at every cord, tearing and ripping everything that could . be torn or ripped and howled and screamod ludly above the coughing of the camels. In the morn ing the battlemented fort appeared in bright light against a drift of clcud. Berond it. towards Landi Kotal, the silhouette of mountain was black pur ple, with two growing patches of yel low where the sun got through. The loose shale glistened and the low bushes looked silveigray along the lit tle stream that spates in June, when the snows melt. Although Alexander the Great en tered the Peshawar plain through the Michni pass, the Khyber has ever hp.fin the key to the adjacent - re gions. etes Dry Powder Machine. A machine has been perfected which pours , any dry powder into a paper has, folds the bag, wakes a paper box and places bag ri a folded circular within it. pastes on a label and seals the box at a rate of 1,500 boxes as koun. . 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