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Evening star., 1924-06-01
Hindues & seeing how many he could
squash without getting hurt.

Hindues & seeing how many he could
squash without getting hurt.
This Shah Jahan accumulated 200
wives, which annoy him, SO he kill
them all before breakfast, leaving one
Vile eyes. He name this little flap
ping queen Lady of the Palace &
spend his time inventing new varie-
ties of fancy rooms for her.
Her bedrooms was all covered with
rosebuds made of rubfes with lb.
diamonds in the center. When she
get peeved & say, This old wall
paper are getting shabby he call in
slaves to ship off those ruby rose
buds & change the decorations to
emerald cucumbers. In one smallish
compartment she used to have a
fountin what squirt Florida water
out of a diamond spiggit.
When Nogi see that fountin he al
most bursted his suspenders attemp-
ing to find if one or . smallish dia-
monds was not still laying around
there. But such are not the case with
historical curiosities.
When that Lady OF the Palace went
dead this Shah Jahan were so sorry
that he shoot zoo doctors, went to
Mecca & commit other holy acts.
Then he decide to build the Tai Ma
hal Nobody know why that queen
die so sudden. Pussibily he poison
her so he can built her such a nice
tomb. At any rates, Shah Jahan send
to all architects in India for bids on
munimint that would make the
Woolworth Bldg. look like & 1oc.
X X X
MOST Janus architect in Islam
A'A Come to Agra, thinking it were
not Joke. He got very busy & built
Tai Mahal in ? yrs. time. When it
were finished Shah Jahan call Hon.
Architect to office & say, "Congratu-
lations are in odor. Because you
have made the finest bldg. in the
| world I will have your eyes burnt
| out, so you cannot built another for
the next Mogul that comes along"
Next yr. this Shah Jahan wish built
| another Tai Mahal, so he would have
neat tomb for himself without crowd
ing his queen. This Tai were to be
of black marble with a goldy bridge
across the river. But when he look
for achitects they were all some
where's else, designing railway sta
tions. Tai Mahals were too difficult
on the eyesight.
But this Tai Mahal are not dan
gerous to look at when seen by tow
erists. 1t arise out Of sweet lakes
like a 10000 ton bubble with 4 Wash
To- nj m "a
While gazing at it I feel thrills
along my wrists & elbows and try to
think up some poetry that wasn't
written by Kipling.
& that night we saw Tai by moon
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when that hotel keeper cheat me 2
annas on postcards?
One Voice-Maybe you will feel hap
pier on the train.
Another Voice-Those darnly Indian
trains has got more jolts in them
than homemade gin. 1 have lost
my nail-f1le and l are wearing the
stockings of perfect stranger,
borrowing this morning. & where
did you put my Cold Cream last
night when you packed the soap in
my hot water bagg?
So 1 walk away from all that grand
uier with corkscrews in my soul.
Maybe 1 are coming down with a
moonstroke.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
HASHIMURA TOGO.
Copyright, 1924.)
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ancient games were held, just as
modern athletics are celebrated in
the big marble stadium OF the Athens
Of today. The stadium of Delphi was
longer than that of Athens, but not
so wide. The Athens stadium will seat
$4,000 spectators.
The theater was an open-air hall,
paved with limestone slabs. 1t had
seats of stone 1t was In existence
1000 years ago, for at that time one
Of tho distinguished citizens Of Greece
gave money for its restoration. The
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Savior 1t was noted for its commerce
and manufacture. 1t was then as
large as Baltimore is now, and was a
rival of Rome as to trade. Ii was
one of the chief ports of the Medi-
terranean Sea. The historians say
that it was twelve miles in circum-
ference.
Later Corinth rebelled against
Rome, and the Romans destroyed it.
They sold its citizens into slavery,
and for 100 years II lay desolate.
That was In 146 q. G. Julius Caesar
refoundeA the town, ana by the time
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BY FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
DELPHI.

1ELI III.
7 AM on the spot that ancients
called THE Navel of the Earth"
Almost under my feet was the
den of the dragon Pytho. slain
by the sun god Apollo, and l can
throw a piece of marble from
statue or column into a hole in the
rocks that may have been the mouth
of the oracle of Delphi. The words
of the oracle came from hole in the
ground, from which arose ill-smelling
vapors said tc have the power to in
toxicate the bystanders. If this be
rue, the oracle must have had bad
breath.
1t was the oracle that made the city
of Delphia, which is now represented
by the ruins about me. 1t was con-
suited by the republics of Greece and
their leaders on all matters of mo-
ment. such as the making of laws, the
beginning of war and the rise and
fall of nations and men. Alexander
the Great believed in 1t. Philip of
Macedon bowed down before 1t and
Solon the law -giver, Pindar the poet
and Plato the wise man all spoke of
It with respect.
But first let me tell YOU where
Delphi is and how one gets there in
the twentieth century. l came to
Greece from Constantinople by ship
and from Athens to Delphi in an
American motor car The distance
between the latter cities is $50 miles.
In the ancient times every one walked
or rode on horses or in chariots. They
went up from the Bay of Corinth on
foot. for chariots could not climb the
steep mountain.
Delphi is situated on the slope of
Mount PaSaassus. as high up as the
top of the Blue Ridge. and the noun
tain rises above it for another mile
or more, seeming to touch the sky
at 1000 feet above the height of
Mount Washington. A good automo-
bile road now winds up to Kastri a
town near the site Of the Oracle City.
am writing this in the midst of
the ruins. The Bay of Corinth is
more than 1000 feet below me, and
the land drops in terraces until 1T is
lost in the water. To my left in the
valley I can see a pale green olive
grove, its thousands of trees skirting
Ahe bay, and all about me are the re-
Shains Of ancient temples and theaters
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he came back six years later and
there bode" three months in the
house of Gaius. During his first stay
he established a church and wrote
the Epistle to the Thessalonians, and
while he was with Gaius he wrote his
Epistles to the Romans and Galatians
The American school. however, has
made no discoveries as to st. Paul.
Its work has been in excavating the
ancient city and reconstructing parts
Of the ruins. Corinth was at the
height Of its glory hundreds of years
before Christ, ana In the days Of our
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ST Paul came, which was about fifty
years after Christ, it was again cele.
brated throughout the near east for
it's luxury, frivolities, RIGHTEOUSNESS
and vice. St. Paul takes account of
these things in his Epstles.
* x x X
QUT first let me tell you something
about. the American school of
archeologists and university gradu-
ates who are doing so much in dig
ging up ancient Greece and opening
it's wonders to the eyes of the world.
About a half century ago the Ameri-
can Institute of Archaeology estab-
lished a school of classical studies at
Athens. The object was to give
graduates of American universities
and colleges an opportunity to study
the classics and Greek art and an
tiquities on the ground and to aid in
original search in these subjects. The
best of Greek professors were chosen,
and nine of our colleges and univer-
stiles undertook to pay the expenses
until a permanent endowment could
be secured. The school was estab-
lished in 1882, and the first president
of the board was James Russell
Lowell. The committee which now
runs the institution consists of rep
resentatives from thirty-three col
leges scattered over the United States
During my stay at Athens l went
out to see the school buildings. They
stand on the southern slope of Lyca-
bettus. looking out at the Acropolis
and Mount Hymettus. The ground
for them was given by King George
of Greece, and additional space had
been acquired partly by gift from the
Greek government and partly by pur-
chase. It is intended to erect a wom-
ans dormitory for American girls
| who want to come to Greece to study
| the classics.
This school has the largest and best
| library of ancient Greece known to
| the world. This was started by the
! school itself, some of the money hav-
| ing been given by John Hay. the Car
negie Corporation and John d. Rookie
| feller In addition to this. the school
| has just received the magnificent Ii
| brary of $4,000 pieces collected by DIR.
| Joannes Gennadius, who for forty
years was Greek minister at the
Court Of st. James. DR.. Putnam, d.
rector OF the Library Of Congress and
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shine. o hickory! What section Of
heaven thai were! With silver light
splashing all over 1t from moon my
soul got kind OF Christian Scinece and
could believe anything. o.. How 1
wish Miss Susie Oki were there to
hold hands & help me think! In
sight of that elevated Eddyface who
could hold his brain from floating off
ground & joining angels etc?
walked around Tai with those
emotions, and in corner Of moon
shined shadow 1 hear two femaline
towerists talking softishly. I listen
to hear, because 1 know what poetry
must be coming out of them. So thus
were what they said:
One Voice-Aunt Tassie. be quiet &
keep your kimono on.
Another Voice-How could I be quiet
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for, sitting below in the temple. I
could hear the sweet nothings that
my secretary was whispering in the
ear of the American maiden from
Crete rs they stood far above me.
Most of the excavations at Delphi
have been made by the French. A
much greater work under the Ameri-
can School of Classical Studies has
gone on at Corinth, where st. Paul
went after his eloquent sermon on
Mars Hill in Athens. Paul lived in
Corinth q year and half at that
time with Aquila, the tentmaker, and
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and the paved streets OF the old city
laid bare by the archeologists.
The ruins cover hundreds of acres,
and they are backed by gigantic pink
and gray cliffs, running precipitously
upward for thousands Of feet. I am
sitting in the Temple of Apollo, to
which l climb by the Sacra Via, a
f1agstone roadway lined with broken
columns. bits of statues and the beau
tiful carving of the civilization Of
$500 years ago.
The Temple of Apollo Is all gone
except for a column or so and the
great stone blocks that made the
one-third OF an acre, and by my PAGES
in width. / have counted the COL
umns from the holes in which they
We're set, and find it took fifteen to
support the great roof. My guide
tells me that the Oracle was sup
posed to be under the floor Of the
temple, but so far no one has been
able to find a cleft in the rock from
which the sleep-prod,fcing vapor
came forth. The supposition Is that
the words OF the gods came out with
the vapor. Above the crack was a
golden tripod. on which sat the
priestess who interpreted the jargon
uttered by the Oracle. No one but
the initiated could understand the
words. and she often put them in such
terms that they could mean either
success Of failure.
A BOUT this temple were the treas
ure houses Of the great cities of
Greece, filled with gold and other
wealth presented as offerings to the
Oracle. The treasury Of the Athenians
has been re-erected out Of the frag-
ments Of the building, but the golden
shields. taken from the Persians In
the year $40 B. c. are still unrecov-
cred. Like the other treasure houses,
they We're looted by the conquerors
who overran Greece. Sylla, who later
besieged Athens, used the Delphic
treasures for the payment of his
troops, and Nero divided the plain be-
low here among his soldiers and took
500 statues from the temple to Rome.
At the time of Pliny there were still
5000 statues at Delphi, and the coun-
try about was one vast museum.
Higher up on Mount Parnassus are
the remains of the great theater. and
higher still those Of the stadium where
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AM on the spot that ancients
called "The Navel of the Earth"
Almost under my feet was the
den of the dragon Pytho, slain
Hyder weekly herald., 1924-12-31
FIRES DESTROY
 STEWART HOMES

Stewart, for a small commun- lty, appears to have decidedly
 bad luck ill the matter of fires lately. In addition to the disast- rous fire which destroyed the Stewart Utilities Company and various dwelling house fires occurring during the past two months, two more Stewart homes were added to the list last week.
 The first of these developed late Friday evening and de- stroyed the cabin occupied by J. CBlackie") Erwin, with practically all it contained.
 The second occurred Satur- day morning and destroyed the residence of Mir. and Mrs. Ern- est Armstrong The building and it's entire contents was de- stroyed, the owners escaping with nothing but the clothes they wore. In addition to the costly property loss involved, a considerable sum in money that was in the house is also said to have been consumed.
 The fire was the continuation
 The fire was the elimination of a streak of bad luck which caused MT. Armstrong, who is in the freighting business, to lose valuable horse in a run away accident last week, when a team driven by him be- became frightened at the whistle of an outgoing steamer at the wharf and bolted for Stewart, leaving their driver behind. Enroute home the team fell from the narrow roadway onto the broken rocks, one horse being badly famed and the other so severely injured that shooting was necessary.
Hyder weekly herald., 1924-12-31
PREMIER PAYS
 HUGE DIVIDEND

Topping all it's previous rec ords for dividend production, the Premier Mine paid to it's stockholders on December IT a dividend aggregating $500, 900, according to outside ad- vices received on the last mail.
 This huge apportionment makes the fourth quarterly div idend paid to the stock holders of the Premier Gold Mining Company this year and brings the dividend record of the remarkable mine to some thing over $7,O00,OOO since December 31, 1921, at which time the property paid it's first dividend, amounting to $4O0,OOO.
 During the present year the mine has paid, to it's stockhold- CTS, three quarterly dividends aggregating $4OO,OOO each, in addition to the half million paid this month, making a tot al of $1,7O0,OOO for the year. Thus the total dividend pay ments within the four year per- iod in which the mine has pro- duced amounts to a total of 40 per cent on the $50O,OOO capitalization.
 In addition to the sums paid in dividends the spectacular property has yielded more than sufficient to pay for its devel- opment, and the costs of min ing and milling equipment.
Hyder weekly herald., 1924-12-31
ALASKA REINDEER WORTH MORE THAN
 COST OF TERRITORY

General use of Alaskan rein deer venison in the United States as an article of diet soon will be possible, depending merely upon the matter of transportation, according to the annual report of the Blu Ireau of Education. The report says that Alaska's domestic herds now are worth more than $1,50O,000, more than the government paid Russia tor the entire Territory in 1867
 The industry, which began in 1892 when the Bureau import ed the first of the animals from Siberia, has developed until the herd at present numbers some 35O,O00, about 235,OOO of which belong to the natives who rely upon deer for a livli- hood, as we'll as for food and clothing.
 A problem confronting the Bureau is to reorganize the in- dustry on a cooperative basis so as to handle the increasing herds more efficiently and to market the meat more econom- ically.
 Unprecedented winter travel between Alaska and the states is expected by the officials of the Alaska transportation lines The Pacific Steamship Com pany has announced preparat- ions for increased winter trav- el. Indications are that the travel will be the highest in history.
Hyder weekly herald., 1924-12-31
VISITOR LIKES CAMP
 AND INVESTS

Angus w. McDougall widely known mining man of the Yu- kon section and pioneer of Fairbanks and other interior camps, who has been a visitor in Hyder during the past two weeks, left Thursday on the Wales.s MT. McDougall is in- terested in a number of valu- able gold lode properties in the Fairbanks and Broad Pass districts and is engaged in de- veloping others.
 Although arriving here at a most inopportune time, when winter conditions preclude an extensive survey of the dist rict, MT. McDougall expressed himself as greatly impressed by the mining possibilities of of the Portland Canal district and the outlook for the camp.
 From all I have seen and heard of the district" he said, I am quite convinced that it will become a great mining center before very long. Es- pecially if you succeed iii get ting that railroad terminal 1 understand you are after. That will mean lot to the town and district, and to all South ern Alaska as we'll. I am espec" ially impressed by the remark able mineral possibilities" he continued, "I like the outlook so we'll in fact, that I have ar ranged to purchase a small group of claims in the Cas- cade river section and expect to acquire other interests later on."
Hyder weekly herald., 1924-12-31

A ten mile strip of land, in- cluding an area five miles wide on each side of the Alas ka Railroad in the Matanuska, Susitna, Nenana River and Goldstream valleys, has been set aside by executive order, under recommendation of Sec retary Work, to permit use of the timber thereon for ties and bridge construction on the gov ernment railroad.
Hyder weekly herald., 1924-12-31

Of importance to the fur farming industry is the report of the recent discovery of one
 of the best known trappers
 and fur culturists in the Terri
 tory, in which. by 8 systematic process af feeding, the color of the mink is changed from a light shade to q rich dark col bring. Jimmie Sinclair who, aside from his duties as section foreman for the Alaska Rail- road, conducts one of the few mink farms in Alaska, after many years of close study and application, has solved the problem of changing the color of the fur. MT. Sinclair is an expert in the fur farming busi- ness, specially in the raising of mink.
Hyder weekly herald., 1924-12-31
SILVERADO TO
 CARRY ON

| With results from recent op-
 erati6ns sufficiently encour-
 aging to warrant another ex-
 tension of the tunnel on the
 main vein, the recently formed
 Silverado Mining Company has
 let another contract calling for
 an additional one hundred feet
 of tunneling on that we'll
 known property.
 The ore zone on which the
 tunnel is being run is a flat vein which has been opened for about 370 feet, with every indication of persisting thru
 out the entire length of the
 drift. The ore is said to carry
 very good values, shipments
 from earlier operations con- ducted having yielded as high as $175 per ton. The immed- fate aim of the new operators is to locate a probable inter- section of the main vein and another strong Assure vein the outcrops of which lie a short distance above the tun- nel. This ore body is said to carry values practically as good as those in the main lead. From various indications it is believed that the two veins come together somewhere in the mountainside. Should this oe the case an ore bcdy of con- 'idera' la eXten1 and value VII n all probability be found when the in.er- -ection is reach ed.
 The property is srlendidly
 ]tlated at an elevation of
 lightly ITO, . than 3 000 feet above the head of Por llnd Canal, and w,th practically a straight eho2t down the mount to deep water permit ting the landing of ere on tide water by means of an aerial tram at a very moderate cost. A tram line of this character, installed several years ago by earlier operators, is available and needs only slight repairs to place 1t in good shape. The plans to install anding float at the foot of the slope, from which ore may be transferred direct to barges CT steamer hold.
 To all appearances the out ook for this property appears lery promising, although it. rue value can only be guessed tt until time and labor have demonstrated it's worth.
Hyder weekly herald., 1924-12-31
ALASKA MINES
 PRODUCTION SHOWS
 INCREASE-1923

That the production of Alas
 ka mines during 1928 was
 about $1,300,OOO in excess of that of 1922, and within about
 one and a half million dollars of the average production for the 20 preceding years, includ- ing those years of bonanza pro- duction occurring at intervals since the great Dawson strike, is the outstanding statement of the Territorial Mines h. spector B. D. Stewart in his an- nual report covering the calen- dar year 1923.
 The report also discloses that the total mineral production of the Territory reached the huge total of $518,90O,0OO in 1923. In a concise statement dealing with mining conditions and production the report says in part:
 During the year 1928 there were in operation in Alaska 30 lode mines, 10 coal mines, 28 gold dredges, 49O placer mines of various types, two marble quarries and numerous pros- poets and non-productive lode and coal properties under de- 
 "The value of the total min eral production of the Terri tory for the year was about $1,3O0,O0O in excess of that of 1922. It was within one and a half million dollars of the av- craze production for the 20 preceding years, which include all those years within which flush" production from bon anza operations in the Terri tory has been recorded"
 It is pointed out that the cop per production for 1928 was the largest in the history of the industry. It produced a ton mage of 728,4O2 tons.
 Silver and coal rank next to gold in importance, as guaged by the value of the years out put, the value of silver being produced representing little over 3 per cent and that of the coal a little under 3 per cent of the total mineral production.
 The value of Alaska's min eral production to date has now reached the amount of S518, 8,900,OOO, of which the value of gold produced was 66 | per cent and that of copper 31 per cent"