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Show v. THE DAILY 4TATE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 1L PAGE SIX. LIGHT ON HISTORY RECENT DISCOVERY IS OF UNI VERBAL INTEREST. 1K- - By the Sea. Original. Orfrln&l j One rammer moonlight night I was! In the days when Mexico was in a chronic stats of revolution Signor Her by the waves. I would rather be near Samaritan Version of the Book of rere lived on his hacienda doing hie them on moonlight nights than at any Joshua Differs in Soma Ways best to avoid being entangled in any other time, especially when broken from the Incidents as Told of the various strifes that succeeded Clouds give the sky and the waters In tke Bible. one another ftr the possession of the variety. I never go to the hotels. I government, for to be on the wrong get aa far away from them as 1 can, Mention was by cable the side meant death. Duns Marina, Hep stopping usually at some fisherman's other day of the discovery of Dr. Moses reras eldest daughter, was courted by cottage. On this occasion I had Caster, the Hebrew scholar and anti- Signor Juan Bustamente, a neighbor pitched a tent cn the beach and Inquarian, of the Samaritan version of lag hacienda owner who had done a habited it alone. I waa lying under the Hook erf Joshua. A few days ago groat deal to establish' the government my canopy, the flai thrown aside so lie wse more than that from my bed blankets only I Hr. Gaster described to the members then in power, of the Royal Asiatic society how he twice Marina's age end was especially could look out mi the ocean. There discovered this book, which had been disagreeable to her. But she was waa the sky, light clouds slowly driftlost ,000 years. This remarkable vol- urged by her family to accept him oc ing across the face of the moon, the ume agrees with and yet differs mate- the ground that if she declined him line of the borlxon dividing the lighter rially from our Uible version and he might seek revenge by Impugning from the darker hemisphere. The ocean among other things it furnishes a new her father's loyalty to tlie government plane met the path of moonlight broadBut Dona Marina loved rhlllppc ening toward me from afar, the wares version of the fall of the walls of the eon of a neighboring laxily rolling In and banting on the Mendoaa, Jericho. The new book starts with a definite planter. Urged to give him up feu shore. 1 have wondered since If the music date of the era of creation, the year Bustamente, through fear she consent2794 from the creation being given as ed, but not for long. She confessed to of the waters pnt me to sleep and I the date of the death of Moses, and Bustamente her love for Mendoza and awakened or whether I did not sleep. from that year starts the new calms begged him to release her. He did no At any rate, my attention waa ar1st Ion of the Jubilee. That, Dr. Caster et mice, with many expressions of grief rested by something white, at least explained, was omitted from the Bible. and wishes for her happiness. By thie lighter than the sand, down near the It then describes how Joshua was course Marina turned what had been verge. I watched it There waa an commanded to proceed to the entry of feared for her father against her lover. occasional fluttering about It, like a the Promised Land. Joshua ordered Bustamente, thinking that if he got woman's skirts gently moved by a the counting of the people, which also Mendosa out of the way Marina might breeie. It appeared to be about the did not appear in the Bible. yet become bis wife, secretly accused height of a human figure, though really Then It states that the spies went to bis rival of plotting with one who was In my perception of It there waa no Jericho and on their return gave a re- known to be fomenting a new revolu- such thing aa also, and waa gently port to Joshua and the High Priest tion. Mendoxa was arrested and taken swaying like a very yonng tree shaken Kies sar. They crossed the Jordan, no one knew where. by the wind. As noon m the news of the arrest Presently it moved. Then I was conpreceded by the ark, and put up the stones in Gllgal, but there was no reached the Herreras, not suspecting scious that It waa coming toward me. mention of the "reproach of Egypt Bustamente, Marina Implored him to I had no superstitious fear. 1 waa simA new story is given of the sin of nee bis Influence with the president in ply carious. As the thing approached Acban. This differs from the Bible behalf of her lover. He promised to do it came gradually out of nebula Into account In the latter Achan Is stated no and set off at once to the capital os- the form of n woman. There was a to have stolen a mantle. According to tensibly for the purpose. He knew certain grace of movement, a lightness the new book be stole a golden idol very well that Mendoaa would have which, mingled with a slight rising and from a temple and bis guilt was dis- been executed before his arrival, for he falling; waa confining. Had the figure covered by the stones on the breast had so arranged with the government appeared on the water surface I piece of the high priest getting dim Whit he wished was to conceal his should have thought my eyes were and losing their luster when the name own part In the murder and gain credit transfiguring a rail that waa rising and of the guilty man was pronounced.' with Marina that would benefit his anil falling on the waves The story of the stratagem of the in the future. It waa only when It came near There la a law in Mexico that one that I distinguished the outline of a capture of A! Is related, but no mention Is made of Joshua holding up the executed shall be left where he falls girl's figure not a summer visitor, on lance. The Bible, by the way, says till friends or relatives come sod take of plainer mold, doubtless a fisher lasthat Joshua sent 10,000 men against away the body for burial. But at Men sie. She stopped a tow yards from AL whereas the new book says that dosss execution there was no one tc me, turned and looked out on the be sent only 1,000. claim the body. Bustamente bad ar- ocean. Then, turning again without la the fight with the combined ranged that he be taken to a distant appearing to notice or care who waa in forces of the kings there Is nothing province from which the news of his the tent, she asked: told in the Samaritan version of execution would bo long in reaching Is that a boat oat there?" Joshua's invocation to the sun to stand his friends, especially Dona Marina. YVbxt are you doing out here at this still on Gideon and the moon In the Mendoaa waa taken oat In the gray time of night? Do yon know what valley of AJalon. The history pro- of the morning and waa stood up be- time It Is? ceeded, said Dr. Gaster, on the same fore eight soldiers, who at the word of No." lines as the Bible untU the division of command fired a volley at him. lie I drew my watch from my vest the land among the nine tribes and a fell. The rommander of the firing party pocket. I slept in my clothes. It's half. took a look at (be body and saw that it half psst L" One of the most interesting stories had several wounds in the thorax and Is It?" She manifested no Interest In the book describes how Joshua was two in the head, any ona of which at the hour. She stood looking out at saved before Jericho. The version might be exiiected to kill him. The sol- sea, apparently watching for another goes that the two and a half tribes re- diers were inarched away and a writ- sight at the boat lumed beyond the Jordan with King ten report handed in that Philippo There it is. Heavens, bow they Nobah appointed over them. Joshua Mendoaa was dead. bend to the work! was attacked by King Shobach, and Bnt Mendoxa waa not dead. Kotwlth 1 raleed myself on my elbows and his army trapped or encircled by standing hla wounds after the firing strained my eyes to discern If I could seven walls of iron made by the wiz- party had marched away he revived. see what the girl saw. Surely there ards and enchanters in the service of For a time he supposed that he had waa no boat ont where she was lookShobach. awakened in another world. Yet there ing. The dark face of the ocean was Joshua prayed to God. A dove came to above him was the same blue sky he expressionless except where the moonhim; he tied a letter to its wings, and had lived under, and he could hear cat- light trailed over It It bore the message to King Nobah, tle lowing. Making an effort, he raised I see no boat" I said. who, with his tribes, came to Joshua's himself on his elbow, looked about him It's In the trough of the sea now. rescue. The priest Phineas blew .a and down on hla blood stained clothThere Is but a slight trough. Even trumpet once, the walls fell down, and ing. Then, making another effort he If a boat were loot to sight between Joshua defeated Shobach. got up and walked several mllea to a the waves it would reappear in a few Many of the points wherein the Sa- hospital. momenta.' maritan text differed from the Bible ne could net keep the secret that hr She stood peering out on the ocean. were found also in Josephus, and also had hern executed, and word A cloud floated over the moon. She la other Jewish rabbinical writings, a reached those who bad been charged raid with a moan, a note of despair, further proof that Josephus did not with his execution. Fearing that they rather, It seemed to me: Invent the legends, as he was sup- would be blamed for neglect of duty, Oh, how black!" posed to have done. The original of they proponed to shoot him again, let The cloud was denser than any that Hebrew version. before they could agree upon this had obscured the moon before. The the Dr. Gastar said, must have been com- coarse the news of the strange case last words I heard spoken by the girl posed at least 200 years before Christ reached the governor of the province. were, Theyre coming," and site began Dr. Gaster, chief rabbi of the Span- He bad been on the bench, and the to move toward the ocean, fading away ish and Portuguese Jews In England, only thing In the world lie respected in the shadow of the cloud. When it has been closely connected with the waa the law. ne took the matter un- pasaed I looked for her, bnt she was Samaritans for many years, 'and when der consideration, at last deckling that nowhere to be seen. I lay thinking. In Samaria had free access to their Mendoxa had been executed, had been wondering, for awhile, then, lulled by libraries. While he was visiting Na- reported dead and waa therefore dead, j the waves, toll asleep. blus last year the high priest gave him That Is, he was dead In law. Therefore When I awoke the son was rising a manuscript which proved to be those who had lteen ordered to execute 'out of the ocean, while the waves were Sachronicle or brief history of the him bad nothing further to do with languidly. The first thing maritans from the entry of the Chi- him. He was without legal existence plashing of was the girl of the night thought ldren of Israel into Palestine under In the republic of Mexico. Ko further before. I drifted between many op InJoshua up to the present time. From report of the matter need be forwarded Ions. I may have dreamed it Fosslbly the verger he received another manu to the government, for there was noth- - alL But never before bad I dreamed script, almost identical with that lng to be said about one who had been about one a stranger to ms whose face which the high priest had given him. and figure 1 could remember, while legally dead. At first he did not pay much atten reported One evening as Signor Bustamente hers I remembered distinctly. Waa tlon to It, but a careful examination waa returning from a visit to the ITer-ghe not some girl who bad been convinced him that It was an authentic hacienda he heard a voice from minted by misfortune? copy of the old Hebrew original. It hushes beside the road ordering him I went to breakfast at a fisherman's must, he considers, have been regard to halt He stopped, and s man step-- cabin. It was a rude place, the only ed by the Samaritans as a book of auInto the road a short distance be- - decoration being s lithograph of tbs ped thority, for the calendar started from fore him. His cheeks were hollow, virgin Mary, but I got there plenty of the indications in it It could not have bio lips were thin, hie eyes were wild, food. fisherman The wae proper-hl- s M bebeen translated from the Greek, face waa white. Bustamente saw ing to go ont In his boat while hla wife cause it agreed entirely with the hla rival, or what he considered Hebrew, while the knowledge of the rival's ghost or whatever it was, and related It Hebrew language among modem Sa"Are yon of the living or the dead?" , The man stopped his preparations limited. maritans is very I am dead legally dead. But that and listened with a look of horror, yon shall not again have me executed making the sign of the cross, while his Musk melon Frappe. I am s firing party to execute you." wife turned and covered her eyes with Remove enough of the tope of small The ghost raised q rifle and shot his her nd nutmeg melons so as to bo able enemy dead. I looked at them wooderingly. It take out the seeds and membrane, When Mendoza appeared at the Her-- was plain that I had struck then scoop out as much of the soft rent hacienda no one there knew what blight in their lives. Should I probe Cut the had become of him. ne told the story it pulp as can be removed. or spars them? What Drain the of hlo execution and that he bad exe- - hadbyI questions pulp into small pieces. to gain by Curing a recital that and from seeds membrane ant rated the man who had brought It would give them infinite Juice pain? II1 add it to one quart of whipped cream, about nis visit was brief, and no one there wae connection between sweetened. Pat Into freexer and turn except the Herreras knew that he had them and any no it needed my apparition until stiff. When ready to serve take been there. The of Bustamente strong imagination to replace the chilled shells, place the frappe was never known.elayer Soon after all this Lying in my tent during that day cream in alternate layers with the occnrred a new leader of the party op- - wove the story. I saw a ship out on melon pulp, having the frappe aa last posed to the government arose, march- the tar. the waves beating forkmsly layer. Serve on small plates with ed to the capital, took It, executed against it The shore was lined with cake. every member of the government and people. Presently a boat waa lowered, was proclaimed president He was and a crew from the wreck mad an none other than Mendoza. EXCURSION TO SUIT LIKE attempt fur their lives. It rose and fell When it was found that the new on the waves. Its bow now pointing VII R. 6. W. president was strangely given to pap- to the sky, its stern now sliding down doning malefactors the people said, ont of sight. Then it hung for on now can one who is legally dead kill hmtant on fhe seething line of foam Oct list, November 4th and 11th for there?" Bnt in this his wife Marin and was buried bottom upward, t Perhaps It contained the the races. Fare $1.10 for round trip. had a hand. girl's lover. Final limit date of sale. Good on all GWEXDOLI.N ADAMS. F. A. MITCHEL. trains. j j i..e newly-recovere- d I do-re-ra it - - The Artistic Photographer 241 1 Wash. Ave. . . Over Fred M. Nyes Clothing Store Through oiir recent fire we were a little disfigured but still in the ring. But we are now prepared to give you a picture that is almost life itself., in fact, everything strictly in photography Now is your opportunity fora good sitting while this beautiful weather continues. Come early and we will guarantee you work that is impossible to be improved upon. ! 1 up-to-da- te to ner ikhm. mu w hack longer otie-- eu In due time they were married. The mmm more room to write it He turned ont to the wedding undoor of the canalboat cabin, county which he took off its hinges, lay on invited, the bride wondering how they knew about It OSCAR COX. the deck and wrote as follows: den Mshuldy, I saved 4E0 dollars. Im lookin fur a boms wars two harts kls Origin si. Japanese Women Philanthropist Jins with you Joel Throggs wax driver on the best together. Bpooen Miss El Imura, a young Japanese wa work your yard truck an towpath. Joel wst reaching an ago fur the market. Priaee la hi in town. woman, has come to this country on where be wished for a home. He ad- Stay bum nex time I pao, weneday. Us her own initiative to study methods you a few mllea, an wa can tawk for mitted to himself that he couldn't have ridsover, teaching the deaf, the dumb and lie pay you the days wages. blind. She has been for several the home without a woman, and he On passing the bouse the next time a' teacher in the state school never stopped long enough to do any Joel carried this bulky letter to the years for deaf and dnmb in Tokyo. Her the on was He courting. always moving premises and set It np against the mother was the first Christian In her the towpath, and how ban a man make fence. was brought love who is continually walking behind When Joel passed the following district and her daughter same faith. in the a horse or a mule pulling a canalboat? Wednesday afternoon Mahukly was np She states that the dgaf and dumb On the route was a little unoccupied waiting for him with a pillow to set in Japan are born chiefly In children several lack the of Except for h oil" bouse across the road from the of the rich families, where homes the teeth and one eye gone she that Joel would have coveted if front In order to keep cousins Intermarry was muck Joel wasn't tad looking. be had had a wife to put In It One Blind chilthe in the family. money He helped her np on the pleased. day when be pasaed he raw smoke mule's tack and walked along beside dren, on the other hand, are found curling from the chimney and a woman her. She told him that she was a wid- mostly among the very poor. These as at a window. After passing and ow with no incumbrances. She had defective children are looked upon aa are and families their mi several trips he made up been permitted to live in the house disgracing homes. hla mind from observation that the rent free. It had no especial value, a rule much neglected in their an start to is Misa Imura's object and the land wasnt worth ISO an acre. woman Uved alone. dupib the school deaf, for Industrial Here waa an opportunity, the first Sbo accorded with Joel's plan, especialand blind in Japan. In the hour not he had ever bad. He resolved to take ly ss be had money enough to boy the of and stock It But sbo was devoted to visiting the institutions asan advantage of tt. Before starting o place with man America ah is engaged somewhat coy about marrying one of his trips he prepared a small conversation she had never seen before and wanted sistant in preparing board, on which fas wrote in chalk: books in Japanese, Korean, Chinese time to consider. dm Maddam. I would be hapy to mak Joel's only objection to delay was and English. yure aqualntenca. I am driven a mule that they would wish to communicate, on the towpath. JOEL THROOGS. was difficult He had already and this Inspector of Diving. On reaching the house In question been obliged to use the door of the British The admiralty has created into the yard he threw his he As canalboat grew passion of a new poet Inspector of diving At without stopping his male. This was more would need The space. only first love present the inspector win have his letter. It was Mr. Throggs and he coaid think of larger stationery headquarters on the Excellent," not very neat Indeed, It was somelnitruo-tionhe an was tent He old the possessed. of sole will have Love charge what bulky but they say laughs a side, write his mesduties and of all questions that at locksmiths." Why shouldn't the lit- mightonrip out act on It and when it np sage poles In regard to diving under arias n may tle god smile benignly on board billet he pasaed. If be needed still larger the general direction of the captain of donx? When Joel passed the house on his space, be might nee the whole of one the Excellent" The intention la tha? the officer holding this appointment return trip, on the end of chicken ride of the canalboat Mrs. Wiggins thought the matter while ntlll borne for gunnery duties, been chalked: coop had over and fonnd that her modesty would hall be looked upon aa the diving I hud be pleased to make yourn. not admit of each open lovemaking MAHULDY WIQGINS. expert In the navy, to whom all quesShe sakl the neighbors might get on tions be referred through the Bo far so good. Joel had not preto It Joel didn't care for the neigh- usual may channels. official pared stationery, wooden or otherwise; bors, bnt objected to the trouble of eo was cams not till he it for a reply, getting np such big messages. Ha along on his next trip that he respond- said mournfully that If they kep THE REAL TEST beran he across tk- road ed. Then hed her to nse the malnsaO tween the towpath and the canal and of a 000 ton schooner before they were Of HeepleMe Is la GKtoe It set the top of an old table on the gate; married." k Trial. on which ho had written: This settled the matter. Mrs. Wig m tet by Is There only I wud esteem miaelf onered tf yen gins, who had already ridden three Judge of the efficiency of ny wud tek a rids with me on my nex to do th to ability its and that by down from miles, the mole. got was It do. trip. The mule baa a easy gate. Bring to to Intended which It a piller to aet on. agreed between them that Joel should vlcora may look nlco and Bnt the course of true love cant be resign at the end of the month from but tbs point do they eradicate falling hslrT expected always to ran smooth. When his position of male driver and as- draff and stop but HarpM the do not No, sume they the of husband. chickBut In because it goee to the position Joel passed again the end of the root of the Interval Mahnldy was to stay at end kills tbs germ that en coop glared with big chalk letters: ajtscPetJ Jlf home. In order that they might con- papilla from whence the Can't. Out to work all day. Mfti verse when he passed he was to buy a MMfV t Joel was despondent Not only was Letters from Pwn,"nt.K?Pwewbro' for himself megaphone one and for to love the his but are he tied daily proving of towpath, her. were to commence the dia- where Herpicido stand the test also was at work. He thought the logue They v when was he half a mile away It is a delightful drenelnx. cleir, matter over as he Jogged along, now and or oil and Ires from It np till they were half and then gently laying his whiplash mile keep Sold by tesdlnx dragrisl c, on the back of his mule, and when he Joel apart Ilarlng arranged all this; tamps for nmpto to The HpicM handed In her lien II of the Mich. day's Detroit reached the terminus nrenared another waxes and kissed her. and she set off Two roots and $t mi letter, -- Big Stationery.; X 1JC tow-pat- the-boar- d al - to-- gre. elae$ |