PETROGRAD POPULATION
BACA AT MILLION A'/.::
City Suffered Since Removal c
Capital to Moscow.
Petrograd.—Petrograd has come line!,
to the million population class. A ie
cent police census showed the city !in
1.065.000 inhabitants, as compared with
740.000 In 1920.
Although still almost (lead industri
ally in comparison with its war-time
status. Petrograd in general is begin
ning to "come back.”
During tlie war days Petrograd had
more than 2,000,000 people. After the
bolshevik revolution the capital was
moved to Moscow und thousands of
government employees and factory
workmen were evacuated.
The lean and hungry years of the
revolution brought about a further de
crease in the population, many of the
people going to the country districts
where food was cheaper and more {
plentiful.
Two years ago Petrograd merited
the predictions of foreign observers
that It would be a city as dead as
Pompeii. But the last year has
brought a tremendous change. Fac
tories are being reopened, the port is
In operation, and thousands of persons
are returning to the city.
Many of them have come from Mos
cow, which is so overcrowded with it ■
2mKN),000 people In a city built for
1,0110,000. that It Is almost impossible
to find a place to sleep. In Moscow
one cannot get a spacious apartment
for love or money; in Petrograd there
are many of them. And so hundred
of Moscow business men, whose wort
keeps them in the eapital, have s: nt
their families to Petrograd where the.
can live comfortably.
While it does not seetn probable
that there is any immediate chan
of the bolshevik government moving
the capital hack to Petrograd. never
theless some Institutions which iie'o
to overcrowd Moscow are to lie moved
to I’etrogiad this «wuimer. This will
further increase the population. Bad
ness conditions in Petrograd. however,
do not seem as bright as they «ire
Inst summer.
Scores of shops closed during the
winter because of high taxation, and
the broad Nevsky Prosjiect presents
a panorama of closed and shuttered
stores. It is expected that port oper
ations in the Summer will bring about
an Improvement In business.
John and Priscilla’s
Last Home Is Empty
rsixhury. Mass.—The old home of
John Alden at Plymouth is pmpt.v. It
is said this is the first time since It
ereefion In 1653 that flip house has not
sheltered some of the Alden family.
Tiie house is not the “new habits
lion" to which Alden took Prl4'lP •
Mullens after their wedding in 1623. nt
which ('apt. Miles Standisli so gallant
ly accepted his defeat as a lover
After Alden moved across the bay j
still within sight of the homes of hi*
comrades of 1620. he built a house on
a site a few hundred yards south of I
the present dwelling, and about fhirfv
years after his marriage he erected
the one now standing, probably in
order to have more room for his large
family.
Nevertheless. Longfellow's descrln
flop of the first house Alden built for
his bride fits the present one in some
particulars:
Solid, substantial of timber rouarh
hewn from the firs of the forest
Wooden-barred was the door, and the
roof was covered with rushes;
latticed the windows were, and the
window panes were of paper.
Oiled to admit the light while wind
and rain were excluded.
There, too. he dug a well, and around
It planted an orchard;
Still may be seen to this day some
trace if the weix and the orchard
FJver of her he thought when he fash
ioned the walls of his dwelling"
Thf* la«t A Id #»n fins gone. Only a
sign “antiques for sale.* Is left swing
ing to the wind.
Faithful ColUe Saves
Baby Girls From Death
Cape Charles Va. -A collie 'log
savpil a chilli fmm drowning hprp.
Attracted b.v the unusual harking
and howling of flic culllp dog of Clif
ton I.PBtherhury Mint ran n|sm the
porch of thp I.enflterbnry Ikmiiw In a
most excited manner. Mrs. leather
hnry followed the dog to the creek j
about 10(| yards away, where she !
found her two-year-old daughter in the
stream beyond her depth. Only one j
hand was above water.
Mrs. Leatherbury plunged Into the !
water up to her waist and rescued Hie
little girl who was In an unconscious
condition, hut with the assistance of 1
the family tt*d a doctor who was lm i
mediately called, the Infant soon re- j
covered.
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i Turtle, Forgotten 12
Years in Box, Lives j
» Culpeper, Va.—An unusual in- ■
I stance of enforced hibernation •
• i* reported from Orange county. ■
• Twelve years ugo a man there |
• caught a small turtle, and, for an i
• experiment, placed it In a box. a
• closing the lid tightly. He in- J
• tended to open the box within a ,
J week, but forgot It.
i It was opened recently. The ■
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t practically of the same size as • :
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220 South 13th Street.
NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT.
To Lora Dean Hayes, defendant:
You are hereby notified that on the
! Twenty-seventh day of March. A. D. 1923.
j Henry Hayes, as plaintiff, filed his pcti
j tion against you in the District Court ol
Douglas County. Nebraska; the object and
i prayer of which is to obtain a divorce
i from you upon the grounds of cruelty and
adultery.
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Call evenings. Webster 4432.
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4!,I,E\ CHAPEL A. M. E. CHLRCH
Fwentv-fifth and R Streets. So. Side
Phone MArket 3475— Rev. O. J.
Burrkhardt. Pastor.
Rev. Robert Ewing preached Sun
lay at 7:30.
Rev. I. B. Smith of Lincoln will
epend the day with us Sunday. .At the
;vening service he will give a lecture
>n his recent trip through the south
and whe he made a careful survey
jf the race and studied the sociological
onditions of our people.
Preston (May has returned home
’rom St. Catherine hospital and is im
proving daily.
Mr. J. C. Harris, a brother of Rev.
p. M. Harris, worshipped with us. He
is a business man from Haskell, Okla.
Mr. James Ray who has recently
■ome to the city was a pleasant vigltof
with us. •
IHANSJORDANIA,
NEW ARAB STATE
Amman. Its Capital, Once Phila
delphia. Ancestor of All Mod
ern Philadelphias.
Washington.—"Whether the newest
A rail statp to have Its Independence
recognised be called by Its Western
title nf Trans.lnrdiinla or by Its East
ern n..tne, Kerak, It seems hopelessly
.ait of touch with things American,"
says a bulletin from the Washington
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic society. In regard to the land
Immediately east of the Itlver Jordan
over which Enflr Abdullah rules.
"Perhaps it will bring the newly in
lependeut hilt very old country
closer," continues the bulletin, "to
-eallze that Its capital, now Amman,
vas once Philadelphia—the great
reat-great-grandfatber of the half
lozen or more Philadelphias. great and
-mall, that are to he found In our
postal guides.
Ancestor of Modern Philadelphias.
"Buf It was only a mere matter of
wenty-odd centuries ago that the city
-ook the name of Philadelphia front its
iew lord, Ptolemy Phlladelpluis. Tt
had existed as Hahbath Ammon, chief
city of the Ammonites, almost from
the days of Lot. from whom the Am
monites are sahl to have sprung. It
was after a victorious battle with
these same people of Amman that
Jephthah, according to the Biblical
story, returned to the fatal meeting
with his daughter.
“When Transjordanla Is described
as stretching front the .Ionian and the
la ail Sea toward the Interior of Ara
'in. one Is likely to call up the picture
■f a hopeless desert. But much of the
•eg', n is steppe land, a high plain sup
i ting some flocks and even capable
■f 'illage. Nomadism has long held
'lie region in Its grip, however, and It
- as a sort of ‘chief of nomads’ that
Atulullah Ihn Hussein finds It neces
-ar> to rule. He holds hls ‘court’ not
in a palace hut In a group of tents
which he moves with the seasons.
Center of Culture.
"This land, now given over largely
to nomads. Is capable of development
along stable lines, as Is shown by Its
past Importance. After Alexander’s
Eastern conquests the cities to the
east of the Jordan became Hellenlz.ed
and the scats of prosjierlty and cul
ture. in the Second century before
f'hrist. Ptolemy Philadelphia built In
the city which was given hls name an t
extensive acropolis which. In the Am
man of oda.v, Is only a mass of fallen
rolnans and rained walls.
■’Home's sway over Philadelphia Is l
shown In Amman by the ruins of a
huge amphitheater which seated 7,000
spectators. In the sleepy Eastern town
of today goats browse nmong the foun
dations of temples and public build
lugs. Arabian coffee shops lean against
once-proud walls, and the Eastern
species of the village lounger sits on
overturned marble pillars. Etnlr Ab
dullah Is showing some Interest In the
ancient structures of hls capital, how
ever, and Is having ttie fairly well-pre
served amphitheater cleared of debris.
"Amman is not Inaccessible. Five
hours by automobile over reasonably
giM.il roads through the sizzling valley
of the Jordan suffice for the trip from
Jerusalem to the capital. The Jordan
forms the boundary Hnp. and across It
Is an Iron bridge. A man Is only about
thirty miles from the river and, as the
crow Hies, Is hardly more than sixty
nples from Jerusalem. The Hetljac
railway, connecting Damascus and Me
dina. runs through the town."
Length of “Immortals’ ”
Span of Life Measured
I’.'iris.—Tli<» recent death, at the age
of ninety five, of Tte Freycinet, the
French engineer and funner premier.
Iin^ raised the question, “lion long do
the 'Immortals' live?” Tte Freycinet
was a member of the French Academy
for thirty-three years.
The record for long life goes to the
lienhew of Corneille. Bertrand Fonte
nelle. scientist, philosopher, poet and
. ..at 1st Me was horn In 1057 and
died In 17-57. lacking but one month
of living a full hundred years. He was
■ ember of the French Academy for
sixty s|x years, elected at the age of
thirty-four, after being refused four
fillies previously.
The honors for holding membership
'll Hie French Academy longer than
anjone else go to Marshal Richelieu,
grandnephew of the famous cardinal,
lie uas elected in 17‘-’0. at the age of
twenty-four, and died In 17KS, at the
age of ninety-two, thus being an Im
mortal for slxt.v-elght years
Faithful Lover Carries
Girl to Wedding Altar
San Francisco.—A broken hack did
not ilefcr pretty nlneteen-year-old
Jenn Strang from eloping
Confined to a hospital for more than
a year. Miss Strang was permitted to
go for an automobile ride. Her faith
ful sweetheart, Heorge C. Franklin,
also nineteen, who since the automo
bile accident In whl*-h she was Injured,
has haunted her bedside, carried her
to hl« machine. Two hours Inter they
had not returned and Mrs. Rebecca
Strang, becoming worried, asked the
police to timl them. The police fulled,
hut the next day Mrs. Strang was
notified that her daughter HUd
Franklin had lieen married at Redwood
City. #
The bride, her hnck encased in a
wooden brace was carried to Hie al
tar bv the bridegroom nn<t -i chum.
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