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THE VORTTT PLATTE SEMT-WEEKLY TRIBUNT! TRIESTE: A PLUM OF THE ADRIATIC DISPUTE Trieste Is one of tin- mnjor Adrlotlc plums In dispute between Itnly otid the newly-formed Jugo-Sluv state, the kingdom of the Serbs, Croiits ami Slovenes. Though Trieste was Austrian, ex cept for a brief Interval from the fourteenth century until the World war dissipated the Austrian empire, the city has had a marked effect upon Italian history. Its chief Importance to Austria was commercial, for It was the dual monarchy's only great sea port. 1 Tired of a double nllcglance to Venice nnd to Aqulelela, Trieste re quested that she be annexed to Aus tria In 1382. Leopold the pious wan on the Austrian throne. He was a rival to King James of England In being "the wisest fool In nil Christen dom." Though ho expanded his ter ritory elsewhere, the only acquisition of consequence was that of Trieste, won through no effort on his part. Thus Austria gnlncd what wns des tined to become not only a seaport of Importance, hut also a channel for ex erting frequent Influence upon the nf falrs of Italian towns and their rulers. The city Is situated on the Gulf of Trieste, 307 miles southwest of Vienna by rail. It lies on the seaward slope of the Karst. or Carso, n strip of lime stone hills extending Inland from GO to IK) tulles, furrowed with ravines and pierced by caverns, Into which many small streams disappear. Not far from Trieste, at Krlsclkl, Is the Grotto Glgantn. a stalactite cave, where tourists throng to see tho "Great Dome," spreading over n sub terranean cavity nearly as long as tho United States capltol and n hundred feet higher than tho capltol dome. Despite Its Inclusion In Austrian ter ritory, Trieste's population nnd archi tecture nre Italian. It was the Ter gesto of Iloman history, nnd today tho walls and pillars of n Homan templo may bo seen encased In the cathedral of San Glusto, n highly composite structure which also has built Into It threo adjacent structures of the six teenth century a Christian basilica, a baptistery and a Dyzantlnc church. Traces of Trlesto's early history were to bo found before the war In the Musco L'apldarle, which contains many Roman antiquities from the vi cinity. SAN SALVADOR: DEFIER OF EARTHQUAKES San Salvador, scene of recent earth quake shocks, Is tho capital of the smallest and most populous of Central American republics. Tho city Is no stranger to tho twin terrors of earth- quako nild volcano. Within ten seconds nn earthquake all but destroyed It In 1854, another laid It low In 1873, and that of 1017, whon millions off dollars' worth of 'property was destroyed, Is still remembered, In spite of these fateful blows from nature, nnd devastating waves of man made revolutions, San Salvador today Is reckoned among the Important cities of tho mid-continent It has a popu Where Lava Blocked a San Salvador Highway. latlon of 00,000; Its manufactured products lncludo soap, cigars, candles, cotton cloth nnd spirits; and Its com pulsory, education laws, unt varsity, theaters and scientific Institutions at test Ita regard for culture. Izalco, perhaps tho most famous vol cano of the San Salvador republic, belched forth from u lino old hacienda In 1770, nnd ever since has tirelessly thrown aloft Its mighty volume of ashes and gases. With tho regularity of a mammo'th natural timepiece It Is wild not to have missed a rumbling, luminous explosion within any half hour for u century and a half; henco Its nickname, the "Lighthouse of Salvador." Of San Miguel, occasionally active, one writer suld, after seeing tho eruption of 1848: "it Is difficult to conceive a grander natural object than this volcano. Its base Is shrouded In (densest green, blending with tho light ter hues of the grasses which succeed the forest. Above )iese tho various colors melt Imperceptibly Into each oilier, first comes tne ricn umber or the scoriae, and then the silver tint of the newly-fallen ashes at the sum mit; and still above all, floating In heavy opalescent volumes, or rising like n pi line to heaven, Is the smoke, which rolls up eternally from Its In candescent depths." There Is n lake In the republic, Ilopango. supposed to lie In the bed of nn old volcanic crater. Out of this lake a volcanic Islnnd arose to a height of 1I0 odd feet 30 years ago. Though In no single ' Instance, per haps, was a great city burled, the con stant exhalations of Salvador vol eunouH and Infolding processes of Its earthquakes gradually submerged re mains of n pre-Columbian civilization. These traces Just now nre beginning to reveal to patient students fasci nating facts about this ancient "New World," Curious pyramids and ramparts be token u civilization known ns Mayan, even before the region was settled by the Plpllcs, an early Mexican spenklng people. From such slender threads as the fact that steps of these prehis toric temples nre higher than they are wide, must science piece out the re lations of the vnrlous ancient states and cities that flourished on this con tinent during the hulcyon duys of Egypt, Phoenicia nnd China, on the other side of the globe. rhodesia: the land of men, Wild beasts and natural beauty Africa, not so long ago regarded, for the most part, as a "sepulcher of the world's most during explorers," now enguges the attention of the world be cause of Its vust natural resources and Its Industrial possibilities.' Material furnished tho National Geographic society by It. D. Parsons, Is the basis for the following descrip tion of Ithodcsln: "Interior Ithodeslu must be tra versed by nutlve curriers over moun tains, through primeval forest, ucross rivers, through almost impenetrable Jungle and underbrush, In peril from elephants, lions, Icopurds, hyenas, ser pents, the tsetse fly, wild men as well us wild beasts. Each carrier has a mall bag of CO pounds. On uu average carriers make 25 miles a day, and oven on runs of 0,000 miles, from Ilrokeu 11111 to Abercorn, they nre seldom more than nn hour behind schedule time and generally only link that. They make better time In tho wet season than In the dry ns, in the wet, they travel In bare feet, while lu the dry the earth Is baked, the ground is hot like The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes,' and they are ' compelled to wear sandals. "There Is one great drawback to tho wet; no material bus yet been pro duced that can resist' African rain. It laughs nt the average rubberized fabrics. Ono of the few partly suc cessful materials Is a peculiarly wov en canvas made In England, and even when mull bags of this material are opened, tho contents aro simply pulp valueless, and frequently undeclpher able. Glazed paper suffers most; why, I do not know. I suppose It is the combination of beat and water. "Tho plunge of Vlctorln Falls on the Zambezi Is three times that of our Niagara ; the roar Is heard for 10 miles, and the column of vapor Is miles high In the dialect of Mnshonalnud nnd Mutnbelclnud, Its name means 'the wuter thut smokes.' "From Knsempa to Livingstone (Victoria Falls) Is 680 miles, from Livingstone to Uuluwnyo 200, and from Kascmpu to Capo Town 2,21)0 miles. The fauna of Rhodesia Is wonderful; think of 17 kinds of antelopes 1 "Although the tsetse fly Is an nbom Innhle pest, It taken second place as a destroyer of property valuo to our American pest, tho boll weevil. A singular peculiarity of tho first named consists in Its habit of biting human beings, horses and oxen on the, feet When anltnnls aro shipped from Capo Town to North Ithodeslu, the shipping Is done at night, because, unlike the mosquito, tho tsetse, fly works only In tho .daytime. It prefers to work on tho legs, und In enso of horses these are dono up In purallln and cloths. It should be understood thut this foe to man und beast Is confined to certain districts." HOW ARMAGEDDON PROFITED PERSIA Thnt exceedingly 111 wind, the World war, blew much good to one nation, Persia, for the higher price of sliver doubled her cupltul, mudo hor raw materials sought oftex by the world, and removed her from comparative Isolation to a place among commer cial nations of high Importance. Writ ing to tho Nntlonal Geographic society concerning this rejuvenated ancient lund, Ella O. Sykes says: "Persia Is ono of tho oldest empires lu existence. It has been a kingdom for 20 centuries over since Cyrus tho Great, about 550 II. O., conquered Media and united tho country to his under tho name of Persia. It has had many glorious episodes In Its long his tory? has produced tho great teacher Zoroaster; such world-famous ppets as Flrdawsl, Omar Khayyam, Saadl and Hatlz, and such great soldiers and rul crs as Darius I, Shapur I and Shah Abbas. , "Again and again the emplro has been a prey to anarchy; again and again conquering hosts havo swept through the country, Alexander tho Great having many a successor, tho most destructive conqueror being Genghis Khun with his hordes of sav age Mongols a leader who boasted that he had slain thirteen millions of his fellow creatures. "The center of tho country Is n great plateau, rising from 2,000 to 0, 000 feet, and crossed by frequent chains of mountains, while a lofty mountain barrier bounds It on the north and south. "In the whole Persian empire there were In 1010 only six miles of railway, and only four roads, their total length amounting to fewer than 800 miles. There Is only ono navigable river, the Karun, that flows Into the head of the Persian Gulf, nnd on this sea the so-called ports are merely open road steads, at which cargo cannot be land ed lu - stormy weather. "The merchandise of Persia Is prac tically carried on the backs of cam els, mules and donkeys, u slow and expensive mode of transport. ' "The Persian Is of Aryan stock, and has the same worda as ourselves for father, mother, brother and daughter (pldnr, 'madar, bradar, and dukhtnr), and the construction of his language Is like that of English. "Many Perslnns have no home life In the usual sense of the word. A Perslun housells divided Into the bl roon I, or men's apartments, nnd the nnderoom, or part consecrated to the women. A strong door, set In a high blank wall, gives entrance to a nar row passage that leads Into n square courtyard on which open several rooms. Here the men live, and here they usually entertain their friends, whllo their women dwell In rooms set round nn Inner courtyard, tho only entranco to which Is through the blroonl. "As a Porslnn Is Instructed from enrllcst youth that n woman's ndvlco Is of no accouht In fact the priests tell him that be had better do the exact opposite of what a woman coun selsIt can be understood that as a rule he has no exalted opinion, of his wife or wives, and seldom turns to. them for companionship." CZECHOSLOVAKIA: BORN ABOARD FREIGHT TRAINS Amid the disorders of Central Eu rope one new nation nffords a con spicuous exception to the chaos, strife and revolutions prevalent on all sides of her. Thut nation Is Czecho-Slo-vakla. The Inception of this new national ity from n racial unit of undent and distinguished Uncage Is a modern ro mance comparable to the crusudes of the middle uges. Early In 1018 the Intrepid Czech warriors started out fr6m the Kiev district of western Russia In railway cars, some of which were decorated with the slogan, "From War to Wur Around the World." At that time It looked as though tho summer of 1018 would find them In Champagne or the Argonne, Joined with the thousands of their compa triots who were already lighting In the allied armies to down tho Hun. But n strange combination of circum stances delayed them In Siberia through the short summer of long days and the long winter of little sunshine. A communication follows from Maynnrd Owen Wllllnms', first Amer ican correspondent with tho spectacu lar anabasis of the Czecho-Slovuks across Siberia: "Xcnophon had a line trip, If one Is to Judge from the accounts of his favorite press agent, nnd Napoleon and Sherman havo made famous ex cursions, but when It comes to the world encircling vision of tho tourist bureau writer, and tho doggedness of death, the wonderful Czechs take the palm. "The war found them about us en thusiastic In their friendship for WIN Until Hohenzollern und his Potsdam confederates us they were for the Ilapsburg house that betrayed them centuries ago, after they magnanimous ly Joined the Austrlans in tho repulse of the hordes from Asia thut then threatened Europe. "Their going over to tho enemy was one of the reasons why Germany's southern neighbor failed to pick up rapidly amid the heavy traffic that re sulted from .the mobilization of Europe. "Whole regiments of them went over to tho foe. Other thousands wero shot down by their Austrian compan ions in arms, nnd till their organiza tions wero heavily officered by the Germans or Mugyurs, whose methods and alms they hntcd. Thousnnds of them cscuped to Russia, where they wero sent to tho cold of Siberia or the malarlu of tho Tashkent region ns prisoners of wur. "Many of them entered the Russian army under KerensUy, but with tho signing of the Brest-Lltovsk treaty, they lost fulth In their Russian com panlons In arms and with it spirit of loyalty to tho cause of freedom that no other group surpassed, they set out from Russia to cross Siberia, the Pa cific, America, tho Atlnntlc and France, to hurl themselves onco moro ngnlnst their oppressors and traditional foes, "When I mot them their 78 trains were strung out from the Ukraine to Lake Ralknl, all moving toward tho port of Vlndlvostpk. "Tho Bolshevlkl walked into tho trap which they had themselves pre pared, for had thoy lived up to tholr promises, tho Czechs would have all been In Vladivostok' by July. When tho Reds attempted to disarm tho Czecho-Slovak expedition, tho Bo hemians refused to bo as meek ns the antl-Bolshevlks usually wero then, and tho result was n continent saved for democracy whllo tho world was hunting through Its atlas to find out who these fighting men with the strange name really wero, nnd what they were doing so far from home." Lloyd George Premier Lloyd George commending ed constnble from n dangerous position Landslide Threatens Pittsburgh Rail Terminal -""Iwj-jw.. View showing some of the big steam caused by a huge landslide which burled n railroad ynrd building nnd two main and six side tracks leading Into the Pennsylvania terminal In Pittsburgh. The slide moves at the rate of about railroad company to re-route many trains and curtail some service. Mayor structions from the city council, has Making Mail Bags for Uncle Sam With a capacity of eight bags a installed In the mnll shops of the United States post office department, dis places the services of eight men, cutting, stencilling, folding nnd stitching the canvas cloth at a single operation. William Allen West, shown in the Illus tration, who hns been putting the cords through mall bags In the equipment shops since 1017, has been blind for 20 years. -lie has a capacity of 325 bags u day. Keeping Infected In Its effort to prevent nn outbrenk of bubonic plague In thts country, the United States health service has utilized large metal discs placed on hawsors of ships lu port, to prevent infected rats from landing. Commends Constable Constnble Foley, D. C. M M. M., for conspicuous bravery In bringing u wound during a recent Irish riot. shovels which are working night nnd sent for General Goethuls, builder of the minute, this machine, recently built and Rats From Landing I for Bravery day In an nttempt to repair damage a foot nn hour, and has compelled the Bubcock of Pittsburgh, acting under In Panama canal. DR. KATHERINE HERRING Dr. Katherlne Herring, an Inspector of Immigration, who served In Wash ington during the wnr In tho depart ment of labor, has been appointed head of the new womnn's bureau for tho bureau of Immigration. Doctor Herring, who is snld to be one of tho best authorities on immigration in the United Stntes, Is known for her ex pert knowledge of psychology and psychoannlysls. Exercise Your Ambition. ' Unexercised ambition Is like unex ercised knowledge. A grent many col lege graduates Imagine that the mere possession of knowledge will Insure their advancement. But knowledge will remnln mere Information, mem orized facts, until It Is transmitted in to power by actual use. Ambition, llko knowledge, becomes power tho mo ment It Is used, nnd not before. Ori son Swett Murden In "You Can, but Will You?" Willing to Help. "My denr, I'm facing bankruptcy," "All the moro reason why we should keep up Kppearnnces, Henry. Shall I buy a new set of furs?" Birmingham Age-Heraid. ' Paradoxical Dealing. "So you aro going to stick to your, dealer through thick und thin?" "Sure, no treuted me white about coal." I