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Evening star., 1915-09-24
TRAVELETTE
BY NIKSAH.
Rangoon.


On top of the great Shwe-Dagon pa
CODA at Rangoon. in Burma. there is
an architectural effect that is intended
to represent the parts of the lotus
flower. The tip of this flower reaches
to a height of $40 feet, being the cul-
mination of design in carving and
ornamentation that is equaled at few
places in the world.
But the striking feature is the tip of
the mystic flower. Though it is higher
and more inaccessible than the apex
of the torch of Liberty as she stands
at the entrance Of New York harbor,
though it may never be seen by the
eye of man. yet this tip is ornamented
with diamonds and precious stones to
the value of $250,000.
This mere detail gives an insight into
the vast expenditures that are made in
the building and decoration of these
devout Buddhist believes that the con-
Struction of pagoda is the Surest
method of acquiring merit and all
Burma is consequently overrun with
them.
The towering. golden spire of Shwe-
Dagon, holiest of the Burmese shrines,
is the first object that meets the eye
in approaching Rangopn. AT Manda-
lay, little further inland, there are
half Il dozen such temples. Thence the
Irrawaddy river leads inland and little
gems of snow white pagodas are
strewn all along it's course, built by
individuals who would acquire merit"
But Shwe-Dagon is the most impor-
tant of them all. for. does not its mag
nificent pile inclose a few of the hairs
from the beard of Buddha Gautama HIM
self?
These pagodas are but monuments
and inclose no chamber for worship.
The great flights of steps that lead up
to them and the landings that are Incl
dental furnish the situations for the
Buddhist's observation of his worship.
Here come a medley of races that are
the delight of any one desiring to wait
and observe. Monks in yellow robes,
worshipers in pink and green. Shans,
karens, Chins and other wild peoples
from the hills, Chinese. Siamese and
Malays, make pilgrimages here.
They squat about the open reaches of
the pagodas by the feet of the sculp-
tured gods and offer up prayers and
sacrifices. There is the occasional beg
gar and leper asking aims, but mostly
the Rangoon pilgrim is joyful and
happy and presents SUMMER picture
than does his more pessimistic fellow
in other parts of India.
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back with the pot of daffodils. "May...
be they'll make you thing of home.
he said. "They did me-" AS Golden
tried to murmur thanks and keep the
tears back, he added gently: Il expect
you get homesick the same as do. 1
wouldn't stay here a minute if it was
not for my, hopes and the promotion
I'm expecting. Golden. say, wouldn't
YOU like to go to the, theater with me
some night and wear this hat?'
Il Golden laughed in her joy. Yes
would and I will. And thank you, Col
lin she cried
Then she sped up to her room with
her hat and her flowers. And the way
seemed no more than a step, SO light
were her feet and her heart.
(THE END.)
Evening star., 1915-09-24

a circle in the collection of special de-
livery letters. These are almost al.
ways deposited at the substations ana
all such branches in the business sec
Special delivery letters are sent De-
cause the senders are in hurry, ana
the idea is to expedite them on their
way. The sender spends extra money
in order that these letters may be
speeded up, and the post Office spends
some of it on these messenger. boys.
-
Another rather unusual service that
livery of
Many Innovations by en- velopes
the Washington Office. wnen wi % or.
dered in lots of more than"a hundred.
A merchant may order 500 stamped en-
velopes and may have them sent around
to his place of business by Uncle Sam.
just as the merchant delivers the pur-
chases of his customers.
Another by-product of trade drum
ming on the part of the Washington
post office during the past season was
the handling of half a ton of chest
nuts each day, which had been gather
ed by the boys of the adjacent coun-
try and sent in to the commission mer-
chants for sale. Hundreds of young
sters made pin money in this way.
In many-ways Washington has set
the pace for the country in new meth
DDS of postal efficiency. With other
things a new post Office building has
been completed which has
of. unusual features. In the
first place, it is located right next to
the central. and only railway station of
the city. This saves the time and eX-
pense of hauling the mail.
The Washington post office was plan
ned, in so far..as it's interior is con-
cerned, by a committee of superin-
tendents of mails. These technical men
saw to 1t that in the handling of mails
all lost motion would be eliminated and
that every letter would be FASTENED on
it's way. Within this building all the
running around is done by machinery,
the belt and carrier system operating
on every floor and between all floors.
So effective were the reforms inaugu-
rated by this newspaper man who be-
came postmaster at Washington that
he has been called to the position of
second assistant postmaster general
and delegated the task of broadcasting
his methods throughout the country.
Evening star., 1915-09-24

ing. aroused her and she looked up
Her hat was gone.
Golden dropped on her knees and
hung over the window sill. expecting to
see her treasure in the dingy alley far
below. But there was no sign of it.
Had it been blown clear out into the
street under the wheels of a passing
beer wagon? Pale with dismay she
hurled herself out of the room and
down stairs to the street. Up and
down she looked vainly. Then she. en-
tered the alley. hoping that it might
be there after all.
Hello. Golden.''
She looked I'D at the window above
Evening star., 1915-09-24
Laundry and Tires
BY the Parcel Post.

piled in another interesting way. The
postmaster had information compiled
TO show, the cost to the man who went
away on vacation of mailing his
laundry back, having it washed by the
people who were accustomed to han
ding it. and sent again to the point
where his vacation was being spent.
IT was found that n package of laundry
of average size. containing three shirts
and the accessories. might be sent
anywhere in the first or second zone.
which has a radius of 20 miles, for
u cents The result was a great in
crease in this sort of business. much
TO the profit both of the post Office and
the vacationist. One man wrote let
ter stating that the saving on the fam
lily wash, beween the charges of his
regular laundry and the high rates OF
the resort hotel. amounted to over 81
Z week
similar development presented it,
self. to automobilists. 1t was shown
that small tice might be sent in to
be mended, although the owner was 200
miles out in the country, for the NOM
inal price of Is cents. Heavier tires
cost little more, but the expense of
sending them back and forth by parcel
post was unimportant. The particular
advantage was in the fact that in very
many localities there was no other way
in which the service could have been
performed. The owners of cars i'm
mediately began to use the new serv-
ice.
New favors to individuals have been
8 extended in Washington as economy
Z, has made them possible. In downtown
+, districts. for instance, there is a cir
cult upon which messenger boys on
bi ycles are constantly working around
Evening star., 1915-09-24
Government Trucks
Result in Big Saving.

gather mails at certain hours, distrib
ute them at other hours and haul them
10 the trains at other times. Each of
these services might have been per-
formed by different contractors under
the old system. Soon it was found to
be possible for truck to be working
Go per cent of its time and idle but So
per cent. This was a great improve
ment 1t meant that the operation of
truck cost the post Office but 9 cents
mile, where it cost the commercial user
IA cents a mile.
This method reduced the annual cost
of performing this service for the city
Of Washington from $4,000. under the
old contract system, to $4,000 under
the new arrangement. Therefore, the
new order has been issued in Chicago
and st. Louis, with a proba ability of its
extension to many other cities.
This is but one of the many reforms
that were worked out in Washington
under its recent postma master-reforms
that have meant a saving of 1927, 900 a
year to that city. Washington, for in
stance. had developed a system of in
dependent substations where mails
were made up and distributed. This
system is also in operation in some
other cities. 1t was found that by a
concentration of the distribution sys-
tenn a saving in clerk hire alone of
$4,000 could be effected. 1t was like
wise found that the handling of mails
at but the ore center made it possible
to develop greater efficiency. Mistakes
were decreased until complaints fell off
30 per cent.
The postal service is virtually self
supporting, and, therefore, when saw
ings are effected. it becomes possible
to give the people additional service.
The administration of the Washington
office. having saved certain money
through it's reforms, .axerted itself in
working out schemes that would mean
extra accommodations to the public.
Evening star., 1915-09-24

plied more. That was very different
FROM living in an attic bedroom and
cookine things oyer the gas Jet to save
restaurant fare Besides. she had some
one to look pretty for. Collin curtis OF
the silk department was paving her
attention and was just as "orthy do
he was good looking.
Golden knew all about Collin. They
had come from the same little coun-
try town. But he scanned to have Tor.
gotten this fact ;oot GGiaen 30 xerv Comm Common
place beside the stylish girls of the
city. who were all so eager to gain
Collins attention. She did not plame
him in the least, but she dld plame her
self for caring so absurdly. It seemed
20 har that good deal of happiness
denended upon her having that par
ticl,lar hat. She had heard some time
in her life that if a girl had a pretty
hat nobody paid much afiention 10 ,, sne
neat. but that was as much as she
could manage. She wore what she had
and tried to hold her chin up about 1t,
too. &c. ~.
h,,rp+ straw hat to be sold, but no
body took it, Nobody save Golden
seemed to like this hat. and so it came
to be among those left to be marked
down. =,
| Hsarn's amused Smile. Faithful to
Your first love- the saleswoman said.
| well, here you are. Golden. You've
made a pretty penny by waiting:
Golden wore it home and carried her
old hat in a bag. 1t was a wonderful
day even in the city. The air was
| clear and soft, and the sun was going
down in splendor. Golden was one Of
| the happiest girls. on foot that after
noon until she saw Collin Curtis buying
potted daffodils at the florists. or
course he was buying them for Elsa
Winter. He did not see her as she
passed by and she went on with her
throat lumpy and her heart like lead.
| Somehow her new hat did not seem to
be so greatly worth while after all.
| The window of her room was open
and the breeze blew in freely. Golden.
heated after three flights of stairs. sat
down at the window. She took on her
! hat and laid it on the sill where she
could see it. But presently she forgot
all about it in thinking of Collin. She
leaned forward and covered her face
| with her hands. Then a sharp pun Of
air, which set her loosened hair dane
Evening star., 1915-09-24
List Farmers for the
Shipping Of Products.

"dHtsSu Tor
it, Washington was the first office to
perform this service. BY statements
printed in newspapers and farm jour-
nails it was announced that the post Of
flee would make up such lists. Farm
ers were asked to send in their names,
with itemized lists of their prices and
produce. Great numbers of them did
so. These lists were printed and made
available to purchasers, and the result
was an immediate increase in the vol
un,e Of business thus transacted direct
ly between the producer and the con-
sumer. Before these lists We're issued
the Washington post office was hand
Ing 12o such parcel post packages
day. Soon this had been Increased to
GOO packages. There was built in the
post, office, a great ice box with 500
cubic feet of space for storing perish
able goods that could not be delivered
Immediately.
But a no less important opportunity
was given in developing parcel post
business through the local merchants.
The Washington office put one man out
among the merchants and let him work
constantly in explaining to them the
possi abilities of using this service. Other
clerks were required to fill in spare
time eXpounding the detail. The post
office went after parcel post business
just as any live commercial house
4 baker. for instance, was ap-
preached and 1t was suggested to him
shat there were many post offices near
Washington that were not reached by
the express companies. but which might
use his product il he would ship it by
parcel post. 1t was found that the ex
pense of sending loaf of bread worth
five cents would be a cent and a half
This was rather more than the traffic
would bear. But cake was a different
propoSitioB. 1t was worth more in
proportion to It's weight and had better
keeping qualities. One baker put a
salesman out on the road in the terri
tory adjacent to Washington and sold
92s pounds of cake in the first two
weeks. He now has a profitable busi-
ness among these villagers, who have
the privilege of buying store cake"
by mail whenever they want it.
The same principle of the post office
going after business that would be to
Evening star., 1915-09-24

There was the matter of listing the
farmers of the community, the produce
Evening star., 1915-09-24

The same principle of the post office
going after business that would be to
Evening star., 1915-09-24

Miss Elsie Janis has -purcha sed
Philipse Manor. the famous colonial
place near Tarrytown, N. Y. 1t was
one of the first of the old manor houses
erected in that locality. 1t has the old
floors with wide boards; the f1repla ces
of other days and all the. quaint archi-
lecture of the period in which it was
built.
Evening star., 1915-09-24
PRACTICAL POST
OFFICE METHODS.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

>, The Post Office Department at WASH
ington has just issued an order which
will abrogate all the contracts for
hauling mail in the cities of Chicago
and ST. Louis. and replace such service
with government owned equipment,
mostly automobile trucks. This reform
is expected to save $4,000 a year in
Chicago and $4,000 year in St. Louis
This change in method of shutting
mail about a big city comes as a result
of the experiments of Otto Praeger,
newspaper man. recently postmaster of
the city of Washington, and who
demonstrated the economical possibili-
ties of common sense and organization
when applied to the infinitely detailed
task of handling the mails.
Mr.. Praeger found that in Washing
ton there were contracts for collect
ing mail. for distribution and for haul
ing to trains, which amounted to s52,-
900 a year. He thought this service
could be performed much more cheaply
by goyernment-owned equipment, and
its correct handling would accomplish
a great saving. He was allowed to buy
the necessary trucks and inaugurate
his system.
The problem seemed to be to keep the
trucks working as much of the time
as possible. The merchants delivery
truck works but 40 per cent of the
time, on the average. and is standing
idle waiting for q load so per cent of
the time. The task was to arrange the
work SO that the trucks would be run
ming steadily.
1t was found possible to use a single
truck for almost all the tasks of the
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

Dr. Wiley's dictum that woman's best profession is marriage not weakened by the occasional demonstration that like all other professions, it has its failures
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02
RESOURCES OF ALASKA ARE CRYING
 LOUDLY TO UNCLE SAM FOR PROTECTION

10 lar cry from Mexico to Alaska, far cry from the
 onroe doctrine to the Alaskan pocy yet there people,
 especay In the Pacific Northwest informed by the ohrsuan Science Monitor, who find points which they parallel The United States government these people say, M not or cannot do anything toward the pacfccaton of Mexlco and 1t positively refuses allow third party to attempt It. The United States government these people say,
 Will do nothing toward the development of Alaska and it VIII not permit capitalists to develop it. In sense these people insist Alaska in the position Mexico That
 US progress IS arrested Nothing be done the territory unh the government Washington does something and they contend the Washington does nothing Before we condemn these critics of the administrations their side of the case.
 The federal government decided about eight years ago. that Alaska should not be exploited by private decision disappointed few; it pleased many The great majority became enthusiastic the determination open develop Alaska itself Enterprises naugurated by private individuals and corporations were either abandoned suspended. The federal authority resumed of valuable mineral lands Congress- after the lapse of years voted to construct railway system in the territory Meanwhile people coming out of rather than going into Alaska In the last have been carried by government railroad engineers policy was formulated by the secretary of the interior He recommended oConges that existing railroads in the territory the Alaska Northern and the Copper River western be purchased by the and together made the nucleus of the projected system of ranspor hon An appropriation of $5000000 to the cost of acquiring these lines recommended by Secretary Franklin Lane It IS openly charged the Pacific Northwest that the only for the refusal of Congress take this step that the ownership of one of the lines is politically unpopular By of the governments Encouragement of private enterprise n the territory both lines proftabe their They needed by the government but the will not buy them it is alleged because they owned by interests that people influential Congress do not like. Instead of voting $5OOOOOO toward Alaskan development the last session of Congress only $2OOOOO
 The Monitor says it is not going to be induced to be partisan the Alaskan than be induced be partisan the Mexican controversy but it the fact that somewhat train of thought has been opened to it by the of the Pacific Northwest protest Suppose instance Mexico end and Alaska at the other of the United States freed from whatever is that is sackng them; suppose each permitted enabled, encouraged through vigorous constructive policies to work it's own destiny; what story of human achievement moral
 material the next generation in the United States would be able to tell The of Mexico and of Alaska are as were crying for liberation Both in need directions neither of restriction.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02
SMASHING AN IDOL BECAUSE IT
 FAILED TO ACCOMPLISH THE IMPOSSIBLE

n RITISH attacks Lord Kitchener from the very
 quarters that most nsstenty demanded his being placed D in charge of the War Office at the outbreak of hosities may surprising but should not be He is simply suffering the fate of all national idols who fail accomplish the impossible
 Kitchener first attracted attention hard working officer with capacity for organization which won him the Sdarsip in Egypt During the Boer he chief of staff and although has been the custom of late credit him with subugatng Dom Paul's fighters it the genrasp of the late Lord Roberts flat chiefly responsible As 'man of mystery c Kitchener myth widely axp9ited and gave
 to enormously exaggerated ideas of his personality He be regarded sort of supean and recently he enjoyed the powers almost of dictatorship in Britain When he predicted in the depth of winter that the wr will begin in May John Bull and many others waited expectant for decisive turn But May has the war; so far as Kitchener concerned farther advanced Doubt entered the British mnd then suspicion that the of the idol might after all be but clay The between Churchill and Fisher in the navy opened the oodgates of controversy and Kitchener caesed to be above criticism Now coalition cabinet is to replace the superman.
 charged that Kitchener deficient in his special fedorganzation but the trouble has been that too expected from him. than could accomplish That not his fault except far he may have accepted the popular exaggeraon of his Doubtless much of the criticism being directed at him by the London press inspired by political purposes Cabinet changes imply dssen and esenments Some of these be the bottom the attempts to hurl K. of K" off his pedestal
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

The suggestion that the President ask neutral nations to join in protest against Germanys barbarous methods are worth serious consideration It could not replace our separate action The definite before ment will have be dealt with by itself there might be great ultimate good in such union of the nations would look ahead to the final expression which the world yet have to make all these questions of avagery also to the strengthening of international law against it. the establishment of international judicial tribunals; general disamament and possibly to the very terms of peace tse New York Post.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

While the population of the United States has only tebed since lS6O the national wealth has increased weveod No matter who has got it, that proportion better than if the other way about.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

dispatch from Columbus says the Ohio Senate will prob ably repeal the maximum freight rate law which obsruce
 the readustmen of interstate rates Central West territory for thirty years.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

John Redmond the Irish leader has vivid recolecons the fate of his predecessors who accepted offices under the British Government He also knows very we'll that there rivals who would be only too glad suggest that he had been bribed.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

An indication that Canada we'll the United States has started the upward swing the business pendulum is found in the big increase of exports of domestic products
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

The A. B. O. exchange of visits looking to closer political relations of the three leading South American nations shows that the wars lessons not being lost
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

Investigator Walsh and young John D. do not seem to find each other improve on longer acquaintance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-08
DROPS GREETINGS FROM SKY
German Aviator Pays Visit to Dunkirk
During Christmas Week,
Hurting Cards Only.

Dunkirk, France, Jan. 5.-A German
airman paid a visit to Dunkirk during
Christmas week, but he dropped no
bombs, only peaceful Christmas greet
ings. His somewhat hazardous trip
from the German lines was undertaken
at the request of Prussian colonel,
who wanted to know where his son,
killed at Scissors, was buried, and the
parcel of letters and cards which the
aviator dropped into the principal
square of the city contained letter
asking for this information, together
with letters from several French air.
men, prisoners in the hands of the
Germans.
The cards were signed by the avi-
ator himself and bore the conventional
greetings of the season, together with
a message that he had been led to un-
dertake the mission by his admiration
for the gallantry Of the captured
French airmen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-08
M'AD00 OPENS EXPOSITION
Secretary of Treasury Formally Dedi-
Gates Panama-Caiifornia Show
at San Diego.

San Diego, CAL, Jam 4.-The Pana-
ma California exposition opened to the
world by the touching of am electI ic
button by President Wilson in Wash
ington, was formally dedicated by the
presidents personal representative,
Secretary of the Treasury William Nc
Adoo.
Lyman ]. Gage, former secretary Of
the treasury, presided at the cere-
monies, and the list of speakers in
cluded Mr.. McAdoo, President David
son of the exposition, Count Del Vale
de Salazar, representing the king Of
Spain; John Barrett, of the Pan-Amer-
lean Union, and Charles G. Moore,
president of the Panama-Pacific ex-
position of San Francisco. The gov.
errors Of nine states were present.