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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT

CHINA.

Copying of Monumental Work in Modern Style.

AIR MAIL.

The Service Across America.

Jettore

and

What was a visionary idos u fow yoarn age became a reality. on July 1, whon the daily Afr The efforts to got the Govern Maii sorvice from Now York to mont to change its mind and San Francisco was inaugurated. permit the Commercial Pross to A letter mailed in New York in reprint the Chinces Encyclopodia the-morning, for instance, reaches or recorda compiled by Chion San Francisco the following Lung, aro reported to be progross afternoon. In less than thirty- ing, says & Ching Min News five hours, instead of ninety-one Agency report in Peking. Aftorthe hours, which the railroads aro Education and said to require, Interior had given permission to packages are now delivered from. have the work takon to Shanghai, one end of the country to the other. In fact, those intrepid internal polities entered and a Mandate was issued for the police ridors of the clouds bring a reply to prevent removal of the volumes Beross the continent in long time from the Forbidden City. Tho, thun it requires for a letter to Ministry of Communications like travel by train one way.

"This will be welcome nows) wise issued an order rofusing transportation out of Peking, to business and financial inter- whoroak they had Formorly," thinks the San Francisco arranged a special carami gitaris

Ministries of

for the precious documents.

Chronicle The saxing of time will undoubtedly incronNo the

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1924.

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planning to start this records of Chiness history and service, which requiros flying

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as the “Sau Ku Chuan Shu" be the Post-offico Départment "ins ease four sels were depositud in preparing to write a new chapter the four Imperial Palaces for history of American aviation,"

and bound in silk.

Novel

ONLY ONE SET INTACT.

one got remams intact, although Through the fates of wars, but copies were originally made. This one is in the Won Yuan Kao" of the Forbidden City and was to have hoon shipped to Sirangial for reprinting-Of-the other sots, ono was destroyed by the allied troops at the Old Sum mer Palace of Yuan Muan. à rucond and third went to the Palaces at Jehol and Mukden.

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safety, this great work filled observed the Norfolk Virginian- and the third between Cheyenne 168,000 volumos written by handlet, which ranks such an under and San Fre cisco. An night-cent taking with the Army Air Ber-air tuil stamp will carry an vico's round-the-world flight. ounce letter anywhere within one Of the plans that were mude.fof theen zones" while it will re- jquire a sixteen-cent stamp to time ago it was shown that the zone the New York World said:

"By experimental flights some curry such a letter into the second athl 26 twenty-finir cont continent could be spanned in stamp to the third zone.

The pre- mont is the more remarkable for mail service advances, from one twenty-six hours. This achieve-sent daylight transcontinental air having boon reached with obsolen- terminal point to anothee mail cont planes and the utmost deposited after the departure of economy, Sineo then a comploto trains, and operates as an auxili syatom of night lights and ill-fury to the regular schedules of uminated landing-fields has been railway mail routos. This service

Further inquiry showed that prepared.

With these aids and is combined with the might flying,

the boy, who was badly treated) where they have disappeared proved machines a twenty-four-so that mail is carried through to

by his sister-in-law, with whom hour flight is in contemplation. its destination or to a

neurest Boy's Escape from Cruel Family, he lived, had been chained by her Others wont to Golden Island in The service Went will be three transfer point. The new cast- 1

and hor husband to a true, AS I hours shorter hocause west winds bound schedule calls for thirty-two

form of punishment for not pro- are prevalent: but the westbound hours five minutes, Westbound Bubbing Well Road, was brought ile had, however, managed to A small boy, arrested on the orly weeding the lettuce beds. three the time is thirty-four hours forty-fore the Mixed Court at Shang-make his scape from the abodo pilot wil he aided by hours more of sunlight, flying five minutes, with the sun, - The Air The decision of the Post.hai bust week. Inspector Fowley of his relativos, at a placu near Mail flic

mountain, master-General to extend, the presented the case, stating that Tsung Ning, and had travolled The prment desire to publish plain and desert from New York, scope of the Air Mail service is the ncensed

taken into from there as a slow-away in a this invaluable work is not the Omalia. Choyenne. Salt Lake operation in the daylight coast in that aren at 4.0 am. of the French wharf he had wandered through Cloveland, Chicago. justified by six years of successful eustody by the constable on dutying a day in the vicinity of the launch to Shanghai. After spend- irst attempt since the introduc City and Reno to San Francisco, to-coast survive. In view of the 13th instant. The suspicion of the to the Bubbling Well district in tion was reproduced during the traversing some of the roughest backwardness of our Army and administration of Hsu Shin-chang and copies presented to Tokyo, the g country in the world. "A Navy air programmes, the train constable was aroused in viow of the hope of finiling shulter in a

coast-to-coast mailing of flyers in the postal service is the fact that the accused held his more prosperous district. Congressional Library in Washing schedule inay prove the sumulus particularly significant. The mail hand over his stomach in a boy had a good many scars on ton, the British Museum, and lont commercial aviation in the planes will afford the nation apoculiar mannor. several of the largest American United States has long headed nucleus of trained flyers, not now tion it was found that a chain was

On investiga- his body as the result of cruel universities. Once having started what i will mean to business to otherwise provided, to which it fastened to the boy's loft foot He was ordered by the magis have important papers speeded up may turn in an emergency." fand padlocked round the waist. trate to be sent to a reformatory. three days from coast to coast is 'self-ovidout."

through some unknown source.

Choking, one to Yenehow on the Grand Canal and the third to

flangehow. The two former were destroyed during the Tai- ping Rebellion while the latter was partially ruined.

the tank, it became obvious that if Chinese paper were to be used. the entire stork of paper mills in This country would be consumed for the coming 25 years.

"The

Project WIEN allowed to lapse until the recent grant to the Commercial Press, which was subsequently rescinded.

day-to-day

Over

SPECIAL POSTAGE The New York-San Francisco transcontinental "line" is 2,680 miles long. The Air Mail is thus the longest regularly operated; airway in the world.

THE OF FOREIGN PAPER,

The mail planes fly by night, over a thousand miles of lighted: This time the volumes will be airway between Chicago and reprinted on foreign paper and Cheyenne, the pilots being guided" reproduced in quarterssize at a by automatic acotylene lights total cost of a million and a lusif placed every three miles. Every dollars, requiring five your twenty-five miles of the night air- work. Five hundred sets were to line has an emergency landing be printed, of which 400 would field provided with powerful Holf at $3,000 each while..100 | searchlights, and at about every would form a sperial edition and bring $8,000 per set.

With the efforts being made to induce the Government to return. to its original consent for publica- tion, it is felt that the present delay is not insurmountable, and that In the near future the Com- mercial Press will be allowed to go on with plans and the volumes _will_ravel_to_____Shanghai.

NA DIN.

250 miles there is ** regular Fanding-tield with searchlights visible for from 100 to 130 miles whon flashed in the air.

Special air mail postage has boen arranged for. Stamps, in denominations of 8, ti and 24 cents, are sala. For rate pur poses, the route has been divided | into three zones, one between Now! __York_and_Chiengo,_another__b__ twoon Chicago and Cheyenne,

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Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave,

Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,

Thy root is ever in its grave

And thou must die.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and rosea;

A box where sweets compacted lic,

My music shows ye have your closes,

And all must dic.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,

Like season'd timber, never gives But, though the whole wald-cuztur goal

Then chiclly lives.

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