HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-05-24, Page 2PLEASURES OF ,SPITING.
rhe''ir'raadows, are thrilled.
With the+ ilhins so gay.
The or Cita, 'I;re ailedW th``t"it,,ll.tetsoms of May
The little bons laughter
By the. brook on the hill,
Makes mother call in ra ture,
But no answer from Bill.
Then at last, little footsteps: are heard,
Trudging along on the creaking old
Midge,
Nearing the house with a voice like a
bird,
Plucking the Stowers, that grow on
the ridge.
and it knocked things over and fright-
cited the children. So it was called a
nuisance again, and then Parkinson
began to think of the time when it
'would be put outside in a kennel to
guard the house, by day and by night.
That time soon came. Meanwhile
Parkinson never took his growing
captive• for. a walk. He saidit was
too strong for him, and he dared not
release it on its own for fear it might
not come back.
When bedtime has come ,
And his prayers are said,
Spring is his -hum
As he tumbles in bed.
—Francis L. Lee.
A DOG'S LINE.
My neighbor's dog is dead.
So ends a tragedy of captivity that
Afflicted the kindly animal all the
days of its joyless life. A prisoner it
was born, and a prisoner it died, with
none, I think, but I to see that it was
suffering.
I remember, ten years ago, when
Parkinson spoke to me over the gar-
leu fence, telling me he had seen a
litter of pups in a friend's house. "I
want a big dog," he said, "and I've
asked for one of those pups."
He got it. He was delighted, and
so was his wife. They kept it closely
guarded in the house, for fear, they
said, that anybody should run off with
it while it was young.
They trained it to take its food
obediently out of a tin, and to be
"clean," and as it got older they beat
it because it became a nuisance when
its; bark grew loud.
Then it tried to run about the house
One day .when I was leaving for
work wor saw the bright new dog -house.
new A n chain and a protruding'bit of
told ld me that the animal was in-
side
11
Well, there was the housedog on a treat ng
chain,' Parkinson was a' bit afraid of pearances or this inland that the ac- AltkouahP Sir Arthur predicts the
it, but.he thought it all the better teal date of its arrival and departure evolution br the rfaced man,tthe
that it should be ferocious in the job can alruoat be foretold, sees no alteration hatchet his average Ise
he was putting it to. All efforts to control Its movemart, tura. During the war it was learned
When it howled, like a hungry wolf, have failed. On ono occasion a party, Lurehat this was live Feet six inches--thealearned
Parkinson would remind us, clearly, of Painters attempted to sink it once same as it was in the neallthio age.
about its wolverine ancestry. But I and forever by •loading it up odds targe
Professional men average five feet
have been out to it at such times and quantities of maeeive stones, in the eight
agony in its oyes. I have fed it 'hope that•whop it tools its annual dive
A King's Iron Crown.
appearance became due, however, up Among the treasures•af the Hing of
the animal. it came as usual, but the stones were Itarly figures as historic relic of almost
It got older and its walk went more ell Vane, • unparalleled interest, This is the fam-
Slr t • 1 n
meet morning,, and Lae never been baok-
sielee
Derrick etopped as abruptly'as he
had begun. "You think—?" 1ireei-
tated, after the tile -nee would bear an
interruptiien,
"No,"" Derrick replied, "I never.
`think' As soon as a Haan 'thinks;
some blooming scientist .comes along
to tell him lie'e wrong, What's the
use l "
Come d Go Islands.
The•most remarkable ease of an ire
land suddenly making its appearance
on the surface of the ocean has just
been reported from Saigon, in South
China. This new addition to the
world's oolleotian of islands is the're-
sult of e volcanic er ption, and ntea
,sires four hundred yards ih diameter,
Although an occurrence of this ne,'
tare seems uncanny, It is not the oily
Cass on record 01 islands with peculiar notgi oveetiree, Sir Arthur says he.%
habits: In the State of Michigan there not giving thee "innards'," a square dual.
is one wheah every summer comes to "Wec give our digestive tracts no rant;'
the 'surface of Lake Orlon and every lta complains- is are not' whip -
winter returns to the depths from ping theca up with patent settees, we
which it came. So regular are the ap- are seeking tosooth their xebellbons by
team arith natant Hills:'
Sees Race Develop Hatchet
Face Maxi.
According to Sir Arthur Keith, a
prominent anthropologist, changes are
taking glace in the human frame more
rapidly than at any other period, but
there are no signs of a coming raoe of
supermen, gays' a London despatoh. Ile
Says one 'of.the most notable changes
Is facial. Re asserts a long narrow
type of fade is being evolved, which he
deiscribes as bete "adenoid" type, un-
known in prehistoric times.
Sir Arthur finds, however, tlint
lnaine are not increasing but this le
nothing calamitous because, he says;
"1 should say most of us have more
brains than we know what to do with,
I don't think one person in fifty cf the
present population. uses his brains to
Katt their capacity. •
But, while man is not working his
and it has licked my hand in grati- it would be unable to rise again. When
tude. But I never told Parkinson. He the appointed time for the island's re -
would have thought I was softening
of
slowly, its howl more mournfully. Another curlews instance le a ofora• Iron Crown of Lombardy, one
Parkinson talked of having it de- an island on Henry's Lake, in the the most precious heirlooms of the
stroyed. lure floats about on the surface of the
But he was saved that effort. HeThe crown is made partially of iron.
had destroyed it by his thoughtless water like a boat A willow thicket
Tradition declares that it was made SAYS IR ATU KEITH,
11,
ness, and one morning his wife foundthrives in the scull -e, interspersed with from 0.330 of that nails used at the ANTHROPOLOGIST.
it dead, lying half in and half out af, small aspens and dwarf pines, which" Crucifixion. This, was beaten .ent lit -
the dog -house. , catch the breeze and act as sails, by to a thin rim of iron, which was set in
That was the day before yesterday. means of which the island le carried gold and adorned with jewels. New Race of:Architects Need -
Parkinson buried the dog in the gar-. Prost place to Place. One evening it - Pope Gregoay the Great bestowed it
den. "A fine dog? ahl such an Intel may be within a stone's throw of the'
span Queer T eodalluda, under whom ed When Vast Deserts of
ligent beast!" he said. I withheld shore. Next morning it may be five , the Lombards first changed their Arian Arabia and Egypt Are
comment. miles away, faith for the Catholic. Charlemagne
And to -day a new dog has the ken-� Islands wlydatl soave and go usually was crowned with ft, and so were Reclaimed.
nel. Already I see he treads the shiny owe their origin to volcanic disturb Henry°of .Luxemburg and succeeding Sin Arthur' Faith, whose lectures are
path his unhappy brother dog made., ances, D
He is also on the chain.—W. L. D, i
Blocky Mountains, This freak of Na' Italian Royal Douse.
pwaewearsomawegateeif
THE INS AND OUTS OF IT.
The Shade of•Naipodeon (looking upon the French Premier)—"It 18, easier
to get uelt•into• a country than to get well out ot It."
—From the Westminster Gazette.
SAHARA HD
Nave been greater than is commonly
supposed. Like Great Britain and
other Mande, it must have been up and
1°� y i down in bee water more than 'once,
�� HUMAN 1 RA� For rte form beioas its nsodern desert
days was undoubtedly sea.
A thrilling wordless drama is pre-
sented. by our Mother Earth. In the
awful silence of mid-Asdele desert wogs
Maud perfect cities, with dead vege-
tation hanging where it withered, and
houses with their implements and
writings and crafts,.with not a living
seal to tell the tale a4 sandstorm ire:
gedie ,which left them lifeless a thous-
and years• ago• •
The Britisk fisherman in the North
Sea lets dawn his trawl on Dogger
Bank and brings- up the bonen of lions
and tigers and mammoths which roam -
events, has been rousing members of ed there when. the sea. broke in and
the Royal Institution to new thoughts drowned. them and the land.; but in the
and theories as to the place in which.gah the traveller finds high on the
the human race originated, His choice '1
4
11s the shells of cochlea' and other
is one that would not occur to most of life forms which flourished in the
waters of the sea that tate desert has.
succeeded.
Reclaiming the Desert.
Shall we ever reclaim the Sahara?
Undoubtedly we shall; we shall have
to reclaim the deserts to make room
for increasing populations. But the
men who do it will need a new race of
architects.
So great le rho change of. tempera-
ture between the day and the night
that the very rocks split with a noise
HIS MASTER'S
• DOG
By Alice. M. Sanderson
He had no name so far as any one
knew; Omsby always called him "01d
Chap," and the rest of us just referred
to him as "Omsby's dog." When the slant ,
'war broke out and Captain Omsby "No," said Derrick, answering an in -
went to France, he took the lag with
gulling glance of mine, "OmsbY never
him as far as Paris, and the dog took had•anything to do with her so far as
himself to camp, for he would not be
left. behind. His only severe punish-
ment was necessary to teach trim that
he must not follow his master into
action,, and no one doubted that his
was the hardest task when he stood at
"Attention!" and watched his master
Lead the men forward where he could
not go.
.A Friend of Goats.
+mperorg.
It was also used at the coronation among the most stimulating of public
of Napoleon L The Emperor of Aus-
The goat in flume has long had a trio restored it to the King oe Italy in
hie brusqueness, he added: "Old Chap' bad reputation as a destroyer of vege- 186e.
never stayed with Omsby's Perm' of-'ta,tion. It has even been alleged that
ter he was taken to them, though he . the goat is responsible for the con- Royal Gold Plate. us,
visits Omsby's mother nearly ,vary' tinucus sterility of the steppes of .Asia The plate, at Windsor is valued at The great doserts of the Sahara, Ar -
day. Curiously enough he has taken and of Central Africa, since it devours nearly $10,000,000. It includes a gold
up his permanent residence with a girl : the shoots of all plants and is able to alta, Egypt, and Babylon, h0 says,
who livor in a cottage not Ear from ',service, ordered by George IV., for 140 • were the scene in whisk Edon was
live where almost any other kind ot persons, and one of the flueet wine- centred. These waste places of to-
the Ormsby estate. She is a quaint, ! animal would starve. But one dnvesti- coolers in the world, added to the col -1
rather childlike person, with an odd i. day, with the great area stretching to
gator holds that the goat has been lection by the sero monarch; a. retell Mongolia, were onoo blooming, and
kind of beauty, and the dog sesom to'; misunderstood and misrepresented and formed 'of snuff-boxes, worth $45,000,
,this tract of almost continuous desert
have adapted her without any persue- that its good qualities so far outweigh and thirty dozen plates worth $50,000 was the cradle of mankind. Every
race can be found on its coniines to-
day.
. . A Wordless Drama.
MEDICAL PROBLEMS
REMAIN UNSOLVED
Neither Omsby nor the dog were de-.
enonstrative, and the return was taken
quietly on the part of both, but on-
lookers always felt that there was a
curious bond between the two which
made expression unnecessary. Oms-
by'e mon regarded Old Chap as a mass
cot, but no ane ever became very fa-
miliar with him. Ile met all advances
in a friendly spirit, but stopped short
of ; actual friendship, and the boys
matched his dignity with respect.
Apparently Omsby cared little for
outside support, but mare than once
during a seemingly hopeless attack
eome0no heard him mutter, "Weld, we
must finish this and get back to the
Chap." Finish it they usually did, and
an almost uncanny chance nearly al-
ways brought the leader out unscath-
ed.
nscat15ed, Once he was wounded, and with
no permission nor invitation, his dog
found him before the ambulance driver
could locate him, Doubtless the en-
suing days in the hospital were the
brightest of 01d Chap's war expert-
enoes.
Finally, the inevitable happened, and
Omsby was killed. A• shell exploded
`'vend. Ms share of the war was all over
eibhpt tor the soldier's burial of a
farm, few, save his dog, could reoeg-
eke. 011 Chap's heart was broken,
though he stayed with the company
and watched silently out toward the
battle front. Omsby's friend, Derrick,
Wes the only one who could persuade
him to eat, but that was so spariugly
that he was little more than the shell
Of a dog.
Then, three weeke after Omsby's
passing, when the men came back af-
ter a skirmish, Old Chap rose to "At-
tention " as he had so often done on
his master's return. With a far -away
look in his eyes, he resumed his life
as he had' lived it before his tragedy.
The men accepted the strange change•
with no spoken comment, though, they,
say,' one peer wounded fellow who was,
brought in dying, saluted toward the
dog.
Aiter the war was, over, someone
took the dog back to England and sent
glint to Omsby's old home. I knew the
test' of his story only through Derrick,
"{whom I happened to meet in London
' two years later. "By the way, what
by»cams of that strange dog of Oms-
's?" I inquired.
"Who owns •film now?"
Derrick looked - at me with the
glance ,of one who had expeoted better
compreh ambit as he replied briefly:
"po one 'owns' him, Ile is Omsby's
deg, as he alrveee was.
pee, as though thinking better of
anybody knows, though she used to
came in to help his mother serve tea 1 sesaes the great advantage over cow's poo's footstool, a tiger's head with cry -
sometimes. However, she doesn't milk that 1t is not affected with tuber- stal teeth, tiro tongue being a solid in-
enlous infection 'and can safely be got of gold.
used In a fresh state by children and Among Among the plate at Windsor
invalids. Castle is a knife which was presented
to George IV. by the cutlers of Shof-
No Time for a Joke.
field. It has over 100 blades,
"Italica, Jimmy, what's the matter?
Fallen off your bike?" - r���
"No! I was trying to reach a top Her Chief Tool.
shelf by standing en some dictionaries Mr. Newlywed—"I've bad a hard day
and they gave way." at the office, dear, and I'm hungry as
"I see—words failed you," a bear. Is dinner ready?"
Mrs. Newlywed—"No, love, I'm
Grumbling at your lot merely makes afraid well have to go to a restaurant
tonight, I've broken the can ,opener."
the bad that a systematic effort sdould There is also a variety of pieces
be made liar the "r'e'caprinIeation" of brought from the Colonial and Eastern
Europe, One of the strangest argue possessions. The latter include a pea -
mitts for tare goat is the excellence cock made of precious stones of every.
and abundance of its milk, which pea- description, worth $160,900, and Tip -
`awn' '011 Chap as you would say, for
he goes his way independently of her.
Sometimes he hunts bhroughou: the
morning, and often he goes loping
across the hills over the course his
master had ridden so often. Once he
came in to London, and went to Oms-
by's favorite club, where he slept out
side the room his master had always
used, and claimed all his old privileges,
until some of the servants threatened
to leave because lee made them ner-
naus, But they didn't have to turn him
out, for he left of his, own accord the you a lot worse.
DESPITE ADVANCE IN
ME iv ICAI. SCIENCE
Appearance of Genius, Cause*
tion of Sleep, Possession of
Muscular Strength, Are
Still Mysteries.
Despite the great progress 'made in
recent years by medical science, there
are still many mystoty diseases to
whose origtu and prevalence doctor.
have been unable to discover •the
slightest clue.
Take the prrevaiding epidemic of
sleepy edcknese," which thea come
from nobody knows where, and is like-
ly to go nobody knows when. A
strange charaoberlstic of this malady
is rte preference for Jaws In a mixed
population, in accordance with the
well-known predisposition of the Ise'
tall people bo certain diseases of the
nervous system,
WAIT this should be so is one of the
minor,mystaries of medicine, as ie also
the fact that Jews are less liable to
tuberculosis than those among whom
they dwell.
Nerves Wrecked by Flowers.
It has never been explained haw In-
fectious epidemics make a start with-
out any apparent cause in localities
free from infection, and to which in-
fection +llas not been conveyed from
outside. We observe instances et this
in outbreaks of disease on ships at
sea,..
Again, one of the most Inexplicable •
things about influenza 1s the regular
recurrence of epidemics every thirty-
thrweeks; nor we certain why
it is,ee that while manyare people are hard
hit by it, whole families being wiped
out in the worst epidemics, so many
more are left scathelesss.
That one man's meat is another
man's poison is an. all story. But no
doctor can explain satrefaetorily why
this should be so; why such apparent-
ly innocuous food as, fresh eggs should
be rank poison to some, mills a lethal
draught to others, flab. ar strawberries
a scourge to large sections of the com-
munity, the scent of roses, violets, or
lily
ot the valley a cause of nervone
collapse to thousands•; and so on.
Why oancor should develop in some
people and not in others, who so far
as is known are living in the same sur-
roundings and under identical condi-
done, come of the same stock and eat
and drink of the same fare, is an un-
solved problem,
Medical investigators are still in the
dark with regard to the real factors in
the production of sex, the origin of
"infant prodigies.," and the appearance
of :genius•. Prodigies confine them-
selves chiefly to the playing of musical
instruments or the playing c8 chess.
No one seams to know why; nor do
any of the known laws of heredity ac-
count for such men of genius as Shake-
apeere, Dickens, Darwin, or Pasteur.
Many are the theories with regard
to the causation of sloop, but so far
none has proved entirely adequate to
explain all the facts of the condition.
Were we acquainted with all the fact-
ors 1n the production of sleep we
should be able to induce it by purely
physiological means, as Nature does,
without the introduction of dntgs•
That takes ns back to a very remote like guns, and fragments 2001b. in
past, and he means that it should, for weight burnt off and crash to earth,
we must realize, he says, that Egypt The Crystal Palace, near London, is
and Babylon with their splendors were found to expand and contract six
only remnants of a vast civilization. inches 133 the course of a summer aftgr-
The Ioe Age which affected the north noon. What would be its fete in the
had an infiuenoe on other parts et the Sahara?
world. It can be traced, ears Dr. IKeitih, Perhaps time will bring other
in Australia and in Africa, where flux- changes' there as great as any yet pro-
tuations of climate occurred as they duoed, and so make it available again,
occurred where the ice crept down without our efforts, for human babita-
south and creat back north again and tion. Bo that as it may, it was, there,
again throughout the earth's earlier according to SIT Arthur Keith, that the
ages. human family was cradled.
If, then, we are to regard'tbe Sahara --.0.—
as
nas a cradle of man wo must agree that Believe it or not, the least fatigu-
the changes which have affected it ing thing in life is work.
Will They Au
of Covenant Un
er City
f
avid
Archeologists Plan to Drive a Tunnel Into the Very Heart of Jerusalem and Hope to Find Even Greater Historical Treasures Than
Those Which Greeted the Eyes in the Tomb of King Tutenldnamen.
HE sunshine ot the Bible, land
beate hot. On the banks of a
clay trench groups of Bedouins
from the desert sprawl them-
selves and watch. Brown -skinned men
in bright-oolored turbans dig stolidly
in the light gray soil. Slender girls
dressed in short -skirted garments walk
with grace and carry filled baskets on
their dark, picturesque heads.
This is the work of archeology. The
busy fellahin.in the trenches are dig-
ging up material evidence of the his,-
tarioal truth of the Scriptures: Science,
which led men away from God by ma-
terial findings, oddly enough now leads
men back by the same findings.
Spring this year finds learned men
all over the Bible lands in the act of
combing ruins of aneienb cities -a
truly amazing program of archeology
when you put all the pieces of it to-
gether;and•etop to think about it. I
In Iclesopotamia experts of the Bri-
tish Museum and the Unlveralty et;
Pennsylvania Museum) are digging at
Ur of bb.e Chalices, famous as the an-:
cest'ral home of Abraham. Only the
other day men in all parte of the world
were shirred at newsof the discovery
there of the oldest temple in the world
---.lie temple of the god of the moon,
mentioned many times in Biblical writ-
ings
Close on the heels of this work in
Egypt and Southern Mesopotamia
comes• the lnvitetioi. from the Pales.
tine Administration to the nations of
the earth to come to excavate the City
of David that has slept for its thous-
ands, of years 'neabh the yellow play of
Mount ()phial, just south of the existing
wall of Jerusalem, .The palace, of David
rests somewhere in these ruins. The
tombs of ,the Iiings of Judah lie there
untoueeed,; too. It has been oonjec-
tured .that perhaps Inthis heroic
search to be made by all countries
there may be unearthed the Ark of the
Covenant, lost to men forever except
through tradition and sail to be buried
somewhere In ruins outside the walls
of Jerusalem. In the ark hidden some-
where It possible that the tablets on
which the. Ten Commandments were
written will be found.
Excavating Near Gethsemane.
Near the Garden of Gethsemane and
the Mount of Olives, so closely as-
sooiated with the life of Christ, the
new excavations in Jerusalem will
take place. There is a little garden
watched over by Fra Julio, a Francis
can monk, birds sing and .the flowers
of a million bright colors bloom In
memory of Him 'who spent Fiis hours
of agony there, lnsede the city, where
carts clatter and people bump into
each other, laugh arid quarrel or make
bargains—in the midst of all this rises
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, held
by Roman Catholic and Or ien
churches: to be over the exact spot;
where Christ was crucified and where
11e was laid in the tomb. Since the
'year 320 A.D., when St. Helena, the
' mother of Constantine. discovered the
three crosses, there has been a- con-
sts,nt favoring of tees site on which
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
stands. But of lets years another tra-
dition has contended that the hill north
of the modern Damascus gate above
Joremiah's.-grotto was the real':Gol-
gotha. Near it is a rack with a. roole.
hewn tomb, where Protestants have
• given the same sort of devotion tender
ad by other churches to the shrines
within the city church itself. To the
eolith of all this lies the other city-
that ancient City of David preciously
hidden with its wealth of 011 Testa-
ment blistery, buried in dust and clay.
The City of David is about thirteen
acres in area. Its location has been
disported, but, according to the work
of Dr. George A..Barton, of the tint -
varsity. of Pennsylvania, on Archeol-
ogy and the Bible, Scripture confirms
the inference that a primitive people
would have chosen the site nearest
the spring: below the eastern h111,
Buried Through the Centuries.
The rewards are ;rich and worth the
striving: The Ark of the Covenant?
What 'would :It mean to the world.to
have this raised from its place of an-
cient burial? About the size of an ,or-..
Binary cedar chest but rich. with its
gold rings and sacred memories, eome-
where this has slept through the cen-
turies, The Israelites carried the ark
in their journeys, but what finally be-
came of it is unknown. Perhaps, some
contend, it was captured In Nebuchad-
nezzar's siege of Jerusalem. Three
precious Reticles this ark contained
the pot of manna, Aaron's rod that
budded and the tablets of the Ten
Conun'andments, Back in those ancient
Bible days only appointed hands with
proscribed reverence were permitted
to touch this sacred carrier. Death
came smiting from the heavens to
A UNIQUE MEMORIAL TO PIONEERS
oss• e..res one of the most.tutiq a memorials in Canada in
Galt, Ontario, possesses u
itspergola erected by the local Daughters of the Empire to its pioneer
dead. *The old church, erirkntichael, meaning The -Church -on -the -Hill,. was
founded in 1832, but with its surrounding graveyard has gone into oblivion,
the cemetery being eoneeeted into a park. Its old tombstones were disap-
pear'ing when the 33,0,13. stepped in and by esrsftil `search recovered them
all and inaorparated them into the lino pergola seen in the picture. It is
new the pride of Galt
those who violated this law of the Ark
of God.
When the British' entered. Jerusalem
la 1918 and, flung from its watts the
banner of a Christian nation which
had not waved there since 1244,
Charles R. Ashbee, noted English
architect, was put in charge of Jerusa-
lem. Since that time .the walls have
been beautified ' with gardens and
marble benches. Ancient spots of, filth
have been cleared out, and flowers
made to grow where a611 wase rankness
before. Tile making 'and other indus-
tries have been introduced among the
women. Bit'by bit • houses backlit
against the walls of the city are being
removed and in the place of all this
Mystery of Your Muscles.
The possession of muscular strength
of unusual quality is, another puzzling
property of the few. It is not entirely
a question of the development by eater-.
circ of muscles of a certain bulk. come
min with well-developed muscles of
oom»arativsly small size are the equal
in strength of other man whose mus-
cles are bulkier.
But even in connection with muscu-
lar development there is much that is
mysterious. Some can develop their
muscles to a certain point, and there
they stop, unable to increase further,
while others of exactly the same build,
and with no greater expenditure of
time and exercise, become the Sane
sons of, their day.
Sea-s'Icknesei is a puzzle inasmuch es
its immediate causes are concerned;
because no medical man can say de-
finitely why .one voyager of many in
tiie same bout sisould be taken with
the most violent sickness while an
other le left untouched,
6,000 -Year -Old Tree.
scenes Mn. Ashtiee's premise of the The fifth oldest known living thing
in the
most beautiful park in all the world to -world,' and the third eldest in
North; America, is an immense dyprese
tree in the State of Louisiana.
Scientists •say that this amazing tree
is 2,600 years old! It was alive when
Jerusalem .wag entered by Nebuchad-
nezzar; and wee 000 years olcl at the
birth .of Christ; and more tisan 2,000
where once Abraham Sacrificed Isaac: years old when, Columbus discovered
Other restorations have been made. America. ,•
British engineers have reopened the It belongs to William Bdeuborn, who
conduit originally built by Herod. And will not have it felled, altlsough it C011. -
to a British engineering company has tains approximately 23,000ft. of lnrn-
just been granted a concession to, con- her
vert the waters of the sacred River Other wonderful trees of immense
Jordan, famous in Biblical bistory age are the Baobab tree in Senegal,
from the time of Joshua to the time of which is 4,000 year's all; the redwood
Christ. Within five years the company tree in California and 'a Dragch tree.
sxpeets to throw a dam across.tie,Tor in Tenei'ir'fe about the same age; and
den at its 'outlet from the. Sea of Gall- a cypress in Mexico whjah, issupposed
lee and parallel the river with. canals.' believe'reaelted -the remarkable ago of
and laterals to water the plains of 6;000 years.
Sharon and other.' land familiar 'td
every Bible reader. And this genera- There are no wprds in the Bible of
tion may yet see this ancient city with more than six syllables.
street cars, great industrial plants, Germany has 6,000,000 men with
telephones and .all the other modern experience in the #leis,' although aha
is is of hydraulic inr wttions which lea yd anIic
is ohlyallowed to rY.'ai,rtaiu an arm
engineering bring. y
on 1 b
C ng..
g e 1,000,000,
o
surround Jerusalem,'
Restoring Sacred Places.
The. Donis of the Rock with its ex-
quisite bine and green tile work has
been ropalred. This is the church
which contains the sacrificial altar.