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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15
Jaban's Printing Reform.

WI YHEN Japan adopted western
N.Y. civilization 1t was not long
" before there was an agita-
tion for the reform Of the
written characters which has grown
in volume.
II is easy 10 understand why this
should be so. The japanese, having
obtained their carly civilization from
China and Korea. were inevitably LED
10 adopt the Geographic system Of writ
ing current in those countries. Accord
ing 20 this system each individual word
has It's separate sign, originally kind
Of picture or hierogyph. Most charac-
tiers are obtnined by means Of combina-
ton, the chief element being termed
the radical" because IL gives a clue
20 the Specification Of the whole II Is
much as II. having In English special
Intercollegiate signs for such easy, every
day words as tree" house ana
box" we were to represent lockwood
by combination Of the sign for tree
and the sign for box" and box az
the opera by a combination OF house
and box"
During the eighth and ninth centuries
there came into use I'm Japan another
system Of writing, called the kama,
| formed Of fragments Of those Chinese
I characters which happened 60 De most
commonly employed. There are two
varieties Of this ana whereas % CHI
/ ncse character directly represents
I whole word-an ldca-thc Kama rep
| rCscnts the sounds % which the word
! Is composed. just as our Roman writing
| docs. Almost an japanese books are
i printed 90 a mixture Of Chinese charac-
' tiers and Kama OF one kind or another.
| Since about 1870 the japanese have
| adopted European methods ~ type
| founding, though without causing block
| printing 20 be entirely abandoned, All
| the newspapers are printed with NOV
| able types, and q composing room De- a
! strange contrast with an English one.
| Provision has 10 be made Tor not
| tWsuty-siN characters. but 10000. which
| Ie unfortunately the number OF Chic
| nose ideographs ia common everyday
use. ana Of each character there must
| IN course be different sizes-pica, long
! rrmcr BREWER, and so ON.
They are ranged round a large room
| ,n trays in the order Of their radicals.
| and Youths supplied each with n page
| "a enc "r1rv'' 60 be set up. walk about
| frsu5 tray a. tray. picking out the char
| ..ters required. which they put in a
box and then take % the compositor
Al those youths keep dronlng out all
M, while Do a sort 81 chant the text
on which they are busy, a mintinF ofiic'
rrcseuts "a very animated and clhmof
Gus interior.
"a course. japanese printing Offices
80 ,1so 90 make provision for The
native syllable oharactc.s. the so-cailet
t.sr, puf as there are only between
90 ana s0o forms ~ these, they ar'
comparatively uniwportnnt
Is n capable Of reform The pokurit
al puurnk kai uhe society ~ mae
J pendent Literature th4hAs ~ D4'U
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15
THE RAILWAY STATION AT JE RUsAIEM

ness, but they are only 20 or 30 feet
tail and one will supply but small
amount NJ hrewOoi The olive tree ls
as hard as the apple tree and far more
knutty and gn8rly It's wood Is heavy
and BIS sold by the ton, the price now
being about s. for 1000 pounds The
wood is brought IN on the backs of
donkeys and camcls and every stick has
20 pay a tax before Il gets inside the
gates Of Jerusalem.
A. common fuel here rs charcoal
which s. made mostly % olive wood
The chief manufactures OF II are at
Hebron. about % miles south 81 Jeru-
salem, near the cave IN which Ahra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob are buried and
whore tradition says Adam died. Heb
ron Is about 300 feet higher than Jeru-
salem, but u has big orchards 81 olives,
almonds and apples. and the brush and
the dead wood Of these are used 90
, make charcoal
As 10 the use Of coal itself that IS al
most prohibitive on account u the high
rates over the railroads The same
charge is made Tor Carrying coal as for
carrying silk. the rate being 81 per ton,
or about S rents a ton per mile Such
! coal as comes here Il IN the shape Of
| hriqucttcs II sells FOR SIS a ton.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15
THE WONDERFUL EXCAVA-
TONS AT GEZER AND
ELSEWHERE,

times remain, and are pointed out by
the oragOmen. one can drink from
the well where Christ met the samar-
itan woman, and from that at which
Jacob met and kissed Rachael There
are many Cistcrns scattered over the
country the most % them shaped uke
great pears.
Tho pools Of Solomon were connect
cd by pipes with Jerusalem few
ears ago, and for "a time 10 was
thought that they would supply the
city with water. These pools are Ou
the highlands between Bethlehem and
Hebron. They are cut out Of the solid
rock, and Il is said that they original
Iy held about 90 million gallons There
Ire three Of them. ranging Zen height
from $50 60 $50 feet They De inter-
raced one above the other. being Of
varying widths The depths are from
% 20 so feet II thov were In good
condition they could supply a vast deaf
~ water but aH 10 is. the aquclucts
which Solomon built Co Jerusalem
have gone 90 ruin. and there is now
only a four-inch iron pipe running
from them 20 this city The piro Gomez
Zoo near the Dung gate and goes from
there TO the temple platform.
stumbled over q the other day I am
told the water DO used almost alto
Eethcr FOR the mosque OF omar. al
though it rs connected with the f1un-
tains NJ the city and S. occasionally
allowed 20 squirt there
In addition 20 these pools there are
many others In and about Jerusalem.
The pool ~ Hezsk.lh is right ln tho
heart OF the city. not far from the
church OF tho Holy Sopulchcr. and
the pool ~ Sloan, where our Lord
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

sent The blind man Co wash, is in the
valley OF Jehnsophfais outside the walls
RAIN IN JERUsA14EL
Just now the Holy Land is suffering
from The drought and the people ar1
praying for rain. we have hld ons
~ -s~e showers in the past f-w Days
fail The most Jf the inhabitants here
are religious. They believe in ura ger
and N1ha1umrdlus. Christians and
jews are now an holding services at.
which trey ask the Lord 20 send
water
We had a slight rain yesterday and
more S. expected. The people evident
ly think their prayers win be answer
ed. A. ] walked through David strsot
! heard two Mohaumodans TALKING
Their language was Arabic. hut my
dragumar told me that one had just
said 90 the other.
How good God IS. after all We
have prayed f0r the rain and, 10 II has
come"
when the fret shower began 20 fau
I was standing az the door of my hotel
a little girl passed. She had plat
ter OF bread on her head and the rain
was pouring down upon &c. She was
wet 90 tho skin. but nevertheless she
was singing I asked my guide the
words ~ hor song Hc replied. "She
cries Praise God for the raln' Praise
God f0r the RAIN Praise God Tor the
rain
This little rlr WAS perhaps vea-r
~ age. FRANK y. CARPENTER.
Money back 80 owl Cold Iaoiets
III 20 cure Csc. Owl DTug-1cS Main,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15
Blanchard Butter

firm and mwaverng determination OF the company officials that
product shall be good ii is possible to make IT,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

has honored Us with a formidable vol
une. which explains the new scheme
IL Is a fiatternE appeal TO the intel
ligcnt public possessing influence and
wealth"
"Thc assistance Of YOU foreign noble
dignitaries. wcll-to-do gentlemen, and
wealthy merchants is first OF an necos-
sary, because our Well-to-do men and
wealthy merchants who have no eN-
pcrieucc Of having benefited them
selves with the use Of the cross wise
writing are Indifferent as 20 the prlpa-
Cation OF the literature. and some Of
them ARE even antaEonistic To- this
movement. But 10 we obtain your as
sistauce and support, and 90 some Ia
NorahlC comments of foreign journalists
appear In their papers our public opin-
ion viii soon Doe aroused. and the let
tiers Of this school of literature will be-
come highly valued, IN few years, as
the important medium Of c1Umuuics-
tiou Tor the japanese and foreigners "
Briefly, the proposal Is that FOR the
chinese characters OF the Kama there
should be substituted an alphabet.
II consists Of a. letters, All the Roman
characters ara included. and the ball
ancc Is made up 0f Russian letters and
"a Few that aro original In addition the
modified sounds are produced by the
free use Of accents. In rs printed or
written form the new language has "a
rather sensational appearance. but 10 rs
simplicity itself compared with Jspa-
uDsc.
The adoption OF new symbols docs not
OF course carry with 20 any rcConstruC-
ton Of the language Itself. and that
20 the western mind, is most curiously
involved. Tho fundamental rule Of
japanese syutaN is that Qualifying
words ureCodg the word they qualify.
Here De- "a sentence taken from the
volume already referred TO;
4 heard about Dob years ago that YOU
hqA haen working diligently In order
90 invent new letters that were simple
and convenient. and by means Of which
the Japanceo and the wcstcrners might
have more friendly Intercourse with
each other"
Arranging the words as they would
occur iu the japanese form. this would
De- fra order.
ayau simple and convenient cross
,,fa. writing uuFustly to invent dciru-
/ Irr Japanese and Wcstorncrs intimate
la hrvc-iutCrcourse fact Is possible
Trruurr In doing YOU desire that think
ms GREATLY august toll a. that fact na
| 40 DO wears oven ago hearing was but
! That Is sufficient 90 show the gull
| which divides not unE tho written Ian
ruara of Japan, but also its methods
! of Thought from those or western M.
lions n would boz simpler one would
/ tbink. for Japan frankly q adopt d
/ ruroprau language as n method ol
! ,.,r,rurirrtfHu rather than % try u
] ryriye n now written and printed Ian
/ s,,fare And there is already prctts
| r-o1a svidfurs that the problem win III
| eoIvsF bv tHe Japanese becoming hl
| rnrual with ErElieh as their step
mother tonrle-London Press
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

80 are others which will eventually ioln
the Holy Land 20 the valley Of the
EuIhratcs, as well as 90 Asia Minor
and Turkey.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

Another want from which the Holy
Land suffers is water. The rainfall
iu the southern sections r. something
Ike six inchos and upwards a year, the
amount gradually Increasing as one
goes norfhward toward Gnlllee The
country has always been one ~ pools
and wells, and today every house IN
Jerusalem has its roofs 20 made that
they drain into Cisterns placed IN tho
courts. In dry seasons water Il sold.
and the man who has spare cistern
gets "a bis price for his surplus. Last
summer the American consul received
$50 for the water he sold, and the
American colony outside the city paid
$40 for a cistern half full
Nearly all the wells Of the olden
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

80 are others which will eventually Join
the Holy Land 20 the valley Of the
EuIhratcs. as well as 60 Asia Minor
and Turkey.
THE HILLS OF IUDEA.
The trip from jana 90 Jerusalem
gives one fair idea OF On. character OF
Palestine. The coastal plain a. typical
of the richest part OF Tho country It's
soil Us "a chocolate brown. the grass is
as green as that of Egpt. and there
are big orchards Of olives and fruits Of
alI kinds The roads are narpeted with
rich red peoples and wild flowers arc
everywhere.
climbing the hills Is Ike Jumping
from the Nile valley into the desert.
There b. nothing but rocks with
sparse vegetation scattered here and
there through them The limestone
crops out everywhere, and ln places
mountains OF stones have been picked
mp IN clearing the fields Such fields are
fenced with stone walls There arc
also corrals for the'Fheep walled with
stone
A TREEBESs LAND.
There are absolutely no bushes or
groves. Palestine is treeless land
There are no forests OF any description
and the only trees are fruit trees, with
now and then "a funeral cypress. per-
haps, IN "a garden. Our consul. Mr.
Wallace. tells me the country has two
groves which the public call forests.
one Of these contains 40 scrub oaks.
and the other is not quite so large. He
says that a few years ago there was
some brush on the hillside. but that the
people have even dug up the roots and
sold them Tor fuel.
Indeed, fuel f. one Of the most costly
things In this country IL f. 30 expeu-
sive that 10 Is seldom used except for
cooking, and that Notwithstanding tn,
climate Is cold. Wood s. 80 valuable
that the older olive trees are being cut
down, and 10 Is feared that the groves
viii gradually disappear These 1li
trees are often OF considerable thick
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

Good results always follow the use
q, poiev kidney pills They contain
,ust the ingredients necessary 20 tone,
strengthen ana regulate tho kidneys
ana hiaddcr. and 20 cure backache.-
schramm-J ohnson Drug Co.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

The Palestine Exploration Fund and Its Wor-One Hundred and Fifty
New Bible Sites Dcovered the Footsteps of and Deah
The jerusalem RairoadThe Rocky Land That David Owned-A
eee Country Where Wood Sells the Pound-Rain in Jerusalem
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

But let mo tell you something about
the railroad up 10 Jerusalem. II has
been iu operation more than rs years,
and its rates are so high that IL ought
90 pay we'll The cost OF our passage ls
about cents mile. Freight rate on
coal is 81 per ton and an express Ils
proportlouatcly high. Tho track Us "A
narrow gage, ana the cars arc much
like street cars, with little racks for
baggage along each side under the
roof. Zach carriage is divided up into
compartments, the sides of which arr
walled with windows, so that one can
see out as he gues. The road has M
tunnels. and 10 winds its way I'm ana
out as II rises the hills. There are hvs
stations between Jana and Jerusalem
AZ which the trains stop and fairly
good depots at the terminal points
The total cost Of the railway was
s. 900 900. or "a little less than $4,000 per
mile. The road was originated by an
American. a civil engineer named Ilm-
pei, who came TO Palestine as a ped
called sunlight pills" He brought tho
Cunstantinople but failed 10 get the
the matter was taken ny by the French,
who put the road through ana now
own u.
This was the FIRST railroad built ~
Syria. and IL Is the father OF railroad
system which Is now opening up great
part 0f the country. one section OF the
system is the line which runs from Da-
mascus TO Mecca, and connected with
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

n TOT 80 years Lydia r. Pinkham's Vegetable
Stombound has been the standard remedy for
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hasn e exclusively from roots and herbs, and
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Address Mira. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-18
EXPLOSION
KILLS FIVE

OAKLAND. Cal. Feb. 7.-An e1-
plosion in the plant of the Trojan
Powder works at San Lorenzo today
cost the lives of five men and a prop
eIty loss OF $4,000. Four other en-
pIoyes were seriously II not fatally In
jured and a dozen more. including Sup
erintcndent Martina. were burned and
bruised and narrowly escaped with
their lives
That half a hundred men were not
blown TO atoms is one OF the mys-
teries Of chance In magazine To-
Gated In the center OF the rs buildings
which made up the plant was stored
$4,000 pounds OF powder ready for
shipment Fire followed the explosion
ard ten OF the structures were burned
to the ground surrounding tn emaga-
zine with a wall OF flame through
none dared venture
With the exception OF Reuben Tharp.
the cheflst at tho works. all the dead
were workmen.
The first warning OF the disaster
was luc outbreak OF lIt III NuS
mixing room. The blaze had already
been noticed when the explosion fol-
lowed. Its force wrecking neighbor-
Ing buildings and hurling one OF the
mixers hundreds OF feet through the
air. Nearly half hundred men men
and women were in and near the plant
and they were thrown 10 the ground
by the violence Of the blast. Fire fol
lowed. leapinG from building 10 build
ing. and the injured. pinned down un,
der the debris of the collapsed build
ings. were threatened with incinera'
ton.
The roar OF the explosion drew hun
dreds OF persons TO the spot and by
heroic eXertions, daring death at
every step. the dead and MANNED were
dragged from the ruins. Only when
1t became known that the magazine
was threatened by the flames and
another and more terrific explosion
possible at ny moment did their efforts
relax
II is possible that other bodies may
be found in the ruins.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-18
SIXTY FIVE
ARE SAVED

Juneau. Alaska, Feb. 1.-THE Alas
lln Steamship company's steel steam
chip Yuoatan. bound from Valdez for
$ att e with C5 passengers, struck an
.tcJorg IN Icy strait al 9:3o O'Clock
yesterday morning and sank cight mia
ui,a LACE "a six ahoms Of wafer
In-sc was &c ioss o. life. and 80
saf - IouD no person was injured
Tie shi1w ccEed passengers aud
cstw q c1mLcd on Chihagof Island
JlG wh C brought here tomorrow by
81 steamer Georgia. which left Jun
,St fCr the pufrusc soon a!tor news
10. ;uc week WAS received.
Fls. Maze Gus,ason OF the Yucca
.aI ald paP.Ul Raymond Jaeger OF
The Lghng hcheoncr Alexandria ar
t.sd fc-c ms morning With the
a.csy O. ,n .o5s & tic steamer
he sLa.rer was bound Tor Gyp-
sir.. cn GM-ayof island to take on
u.ouiy oi syps I'M Wien Icy straii
a rpGclei he water was smooth
iet ,hcrc We s;est fields of ice and
ir, suoW E,7 Ial Ing so heavily that
d U,S i4iJJ. be ~ ace clly n short
d.g.alcp a.clI Captain W. P. :.
lcifer was o. tie bri igc and with him
l.as ,bc pi o., Captain JOIN Johnson
Slow bell wa3 ordered, and the steam
cr Crurt tlrolgh tlc ice, Suddenly an
iCeIafg iocmcd up ahead and the
ffc1suI1u f0mmCd lAtl lt tearing o
g, "a 10 in the side OF toe vessel.
.bs VII ch water poured Full steam
9&cal was ordered end the YucatGn
yrs headed FOR Chlhagof island where
@ WAS 6echcd az r., ilt wnere there
six atlCns q water at high tide.
1dC to8ts were lowered and al on
EcC-d vcrc taken TO shore without
Mis.l0 CT nlusion. the ten women
l1e-erCe. being removed Grst Food
ead bedding and the UDited States
mn 1 were also taken ashore.
On the island the c7steways found
CAB MS ~ she ter them from tho cold
an1 wi-h abundant food. clothing,
alEc.s and weed. they are not likely
to endure hardship. Many OF the pas
senScrG lost al Their personal effects.
S5on after Ire crew had landed Capt.
joluscn. First Mate Gustaisol and
farr tailors put of in o lifeboat TO
seek cid After rowing flftcon miles
Trey sighted the lehing schooner Al
c~aaG;ia.
Captain J0ecer OF the Alexandria
oGCred the use Of a gasoline launch
to cont nuc the trip 10 juneau. John
fon ana the sal ors turning back TO
tSc isi9ud in he ufebcat
'acg2r and GIstaffson sailed for
'unoan in the launch. Unfortunately
the lafn,h brcEc Down after going 4
rhO,t listungo and the two men had
f.Tlculty In getting Their craft to
Foonah indian village. The Indians
rOTsed 10 allow them to have a boat
10 finish their errand and the white
rc1 were Obliged to use threats. They
arrived at Jgneau alter being out "a
foWg. Gustaison would not venture
an cu'nicn as to whether the Yucatan
Cvu'd be galyagcd
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-18
MAKING MARBLE
OUT OF GYPSUM

Salt Lake. Feb. i7.-That the con-
yert;ng of Utah gypsum rock into
marble is one OF the coming indus
tries OF the west is the opinion NJ
Judge j F. Chidester OF Richneld. who
is In Salt Lake City on business to-
day. At the Cullen hoycl this morn
ing Judge Chidester oaid:
The manufacture OF marble out OF
gypsum is going to be a olg thing for
Utah and, In fact. the entire west.
Down IN Richfield there are noun
taIns OF gypsum. Just the other day
1000 tons were blasted The huge
bouldcrs were free from seams for
the most part, while some OF The bout
ders were perfect BY I secret pro
cess these chunks OF gypsum can be
transformed into The finest marolc
slabs you ever saw II can he sod
In place OF granite everywhere. T&is
is truly the granite age, and no better
building material can be found than
this gypsum marble.
Within n few months a new con
cern will be established Mt Richfleld
for the manufacture of this marble
A number of Los Angeles capitalists
are Interested In the project and they
mean 10 carry on the buslness on a
large scale. They Will build large
plant at Richfield
Two plaster and cement pants
have already been established within
n few miles Of the town. These are
the Jumbo Plaster and Cement com.
pany's plant and the plant OF the
Keen's Cement and Plaster company.
Although established but a short time
both concerns are doing splendid
business. A spIr track has been built
from the Denver G Rio Grande tracks
TO the Jumbo plant and .he new tram.
way has been completed Richfield
has been benefited by at least $50. 900
during the past year by the business
done by the young companies.
II look for Richfield TO be the cen
ter OF this manufacturing industry in
the United States. To my notion the
town has a great future before It,
Hard wall plaster turned out at these
plants is in great demand and is fast
taking the place OF concrete and brick
IN the building line Buildings erect.
ed Of this material are substantially
built and make fine appearance"
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-18
UTAH DA|RYING
IS PROFITABLE

Salt Lake, Feb. 1.-THE Utah farm
ers and hortinculturists can make mil.
ions In the dairy business. was the
allegation OF all the speakers this
the Utah State Dairy association at
Armory hall. The convention was at
tended by less than nifty persons, but
1t was highly interesting. and the
speakers gave figures and facts which
to the average person. even the aver
age horticulturist. were amazing.
Prot L. A. Merrill gave a strong
address on what the dairy COW can
do Tor Utah. Alex Mcpherson spoke
or his experiences IN the dairy bust
ness, and Willard Hansen, state food
and dairy commissioner. gave a few
suggestions TO the dalrymen as 10 the
intentions of his department and what
he hoped to attain in the dairy COW
line. Prof Merrill said in substance:
1T is my belief that the dairy and
the horticultural associations should
get together. because a dairy cannot
succeed without horticulture and hor-
ticulture cannot exist without the
dairy.
ITO show what dairying can do for
the state. I VIII take little district
in the southern part OF the state
They used to grow a little wheat.
some potatoes. corn, pumpkins and
miscellaneous vegetables and crops
The community got poor and the young
people moved away in the winter 20
places where there was more doing.
"Dalries were started. The land
became more valuable and there was
a great improvement In the settlement
and the welfore of the people. From
two stores and poor town there was
built on the strength of a couple
OF creameries. a strong town.
The dairy has recently made more
progress In this country than any
other industry.
"a large part OF Denmark was used
for miscellaneous crops thirty years
ago. The people were poor and they
were moving away DliTying was In
tToduccd. and now Denmark IS one Of
the leading agricultural nations Of the
world
Utah is just as well situated as
Denmark and the dairy business is
just as profitable. The dairy business