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Show i The GRAPHIC BIBLE By LEWIS BROWNE Adventurer yl -- V - ' rf r," v aW,c.. '"( WNU Service. McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Club s V , ; ,.m, . .. , K oV1 3 -- v :; "' rs ' jiJ. I By FLOYD GIBBONS Famoua Headline ;.? t. , z , v v National LI Generaphte Society. Service. C.-- trains, and private autare disgorging gay throngs, and hotels, streets, buildings are bulging Wash-meenthnslastic humanity as at-,- f massed annual the spring and early summer isBS. SWC omobiles a ts school students, worldly adults ; iool graduates, who have ving for a tour of the city school jut their four-yea- r and adults whose budgets rates jeurslon transportation sired by the wonders of their j grammar to home more new government build-museam- s, art galleries, parks; broad, beau-- r landscaped tert saded i(i .ton, iring Sar Mount Vernon, the graceful, Gothic lime-bul- k of the Washington cathe-wher- e avenues ; Woodrow and Is Wilson the and iflc institutions are the chief to the brief vis- s of Interest great churches, and educational splendid i, 3. Si mp adl m ljfe be fjti ortunately ip tinli of nae many of this group the most striking scenic the Great nearby Vlr-an-d Maryland, and the rivers - The broad, calm stream that by Potomac park, separating mgton and Virginia, narrows above the city. Its shores g :e from bottom lands and hills to take on the stamped of palisades, cut at fre- Intervals by deep gullies, some pb of which small ns enter the river in tumultu-eascadenear the Capital the Potomac In es of gen-llm- s. Virginia side, where the almost sheer from the w o f sdge, these ravines are so steep numerous that a Journey iey wl licit si ? the bluffs entails more travel tes el aHy than In a horizontal di-- e om tb1 the e Hof nH plodding mules of the towpath, and the canal Is no longer In operation. How ever, transportations loss has been the gain of thousands who know and love the hike along the towpath, with its great trees and thickets fringing the still waters of the canal, while here and there a rock, bolder than the rest. Juts out like some miniamoss-encruste- d ture Lorelei. Where Cabin John creek comes down to the river, man has carried The o sl 3 , ji ,ss-- 4 never-warfar- e Mort came to this country from Hungary in the fall of 1921, and made his home, at first, with a sister in Cleveland, Ohio. His sister conducted a grocery business there and she and Mort lived in rooms upstairs over the store. He stayed with his sister while he was learning English. Mort worked hard over his English, for he realized that the sooner he had it learned, the sooner he could get a Job and take his place in the community. Every evening he went to night classes at the Central High school, and In between times he brushed up on his class work by reading the newspapers. Mort Believes Guys Were Real Peril. Stick-u- p And from those papers! Honest-to-Goodne- never-endin- 3 l TXELL, Mort got a mighty funny conception of what these United States were like. The post-wa- r crime wave was on, a road across the precipitous valley and the papers were full of stories about hold-upMort didnt stop to on one of the worlds largest single think that those crime Items were gathered from all over the country, spans of masonry. In the spring- and from all over the environs of Cleveland. time, however, this valley itself Is of He thought of them In terms of the small towns In Hungary far greater Interest than its bridge. which he knew. And the result was that he began thinking Ferns and wild flowers adorn it In of America as a place where law and order had broken down comprofusion, and the delicate pink pletely where bandits ran wild all over town something like blossoms of the laurel and notched our own conception of the banditry in China. He felt that, almost white flowers of the dogwood dapple man. And the thought any minute, he might run across a stick-u- p the greening hillsides harmoniously. wasnt very comforting. Good for Biological Study. Then, one day In October, It happened. Mort had been plugging One of the many Interesting feaalong on his English, and had leaped a bunch of words that he recogtures of the Potomac gorge i3 its nized when he saw them on paper. But when people pronounced them, In or when he tried to say them himself well that was a different matter. peculiar situation biologically. the cool shadows of Its steep cliffs Pronunciation was the thing that was bothering him most when, one day, the fauna and flora of the upland as he was watching the store while his sister had gone upstairs for a few regions impinge upon those of the minutes, a man came walking in. Hold-ucoastal plain to provide one of the This Looked Like an most engaging and productive fields He came in silently, and that frightened Mort right at the start He for biological study In the East. was a huge colored man and he stood In front of Mort with his right Plummer island, in the river above Cabin John, for more than 25 years has been in the possession of the Washington Biologists Field club and has served as a station for the observation of wild life. An amazing number of new species of plant and insect life has been discovered on this Island and every precaution Is taken to protect It from depredation and to preserve Its value as a natural biological laboratory. The National Capital Park and Planning commission has had a definite program to save this region of truly magnificent scenery as one of the show places of America. It recommended that the federal governThe Colored Mans Right Hand Was Hidden in His Pocket ment acquire the entire gorge from to bluffs the the top of the Virginia hand hidden in his pocket The pocket bulged, says Mort, and somefrom and In Maryland hilltops thing in It gave out a metallic sound. The man looked straight at me Georgetown to and Including Great and, In a depressed but energetic tone, hissed one word : Handsp." Falls. Hands up! Mort knew that word all too well. He had 6een it The commissions plans excluded In the newspapers too many times not to know what It meant power dams from the area, as It Strangely enough, he says, I didnt seem to be afraid to die. states they would destroy the chief True, my legs gave way and I could hardly rise from the stool I scenic values of the Great falls was sitting on, but the prospect of my own death was not so and Potomac gorge, and, furtherdisturbing as the thought that my only sister, a mother of five little children, might come down any minute. more, are not necessary, because othbe may I could command, I began easily power adequate Accordingly, with all the erwise obtained at a reasonable retreating along the counter toward the stairs so that if my sister cost. appeared I might give her a sign to apprise her of the danger. Best In Its Natural State. Mind. Black Man Has a Single-Trac- k Whether or not the gorge of the to Mort he that felt same say something to keep At the ought time, Totomac shall become a national that birds mind off such Ideas as shooting Mort But the only thing The big colored man seemed park rests with congress, which he could think of was a feeble must authorize Its acquisition be- to be losing patience. Handspl he growled, this time louder and more fore the Tark and Planning commis- Insistently than before. sion can proceed beyond the boundI had nearly reached the stairs, says Mort, when the man aries of the District of Columbia. seemed to lose his patience entirely. He brought his hand from Certainly it could In no way be more his pocket without a gun in it, to be sure and gesticulating useful to the nation than In its natsavagely In a certain direction above my head, bellowed from the ural state a place of rare beauty depths of his lungs, Handsopl and a Joy forever to the rapidly inAnd at that same moment, Mort heard his sister coming dowm the creasing population of the Washing- stairs. The thing he most feared had happened. His brain reeled and his ton district and the knees began giving way under him, but he pulled himself together and stream of visitors to whispered to his sister In Hungarian: Honey man says Handsopl" the national capital from all of the This Hold-u- p Has an Extremely Happy Ending. Three Sisters. If pd it above the handsome Francis ban Key bridge and the old Aque-lern- s bridge, which formerly carried miSi I nal across the river, the trio Mrs ) rocks known as the Three too fi 's recall a romantic legend of dirneiKed Men who once roamed o'te, shores, atfla fording to the tradition, these tre'inark the place where the I.O f daughters of an Analostan a W4 were caught in a whirlpool toll dragged to their watery grave, total were paddling across the rlv-i&! (lie story goe3, to a secret ions) with their Powhatan lovers on ree shore; but the river Tta as intervened and, after acred I filing the destruction of the "s, caused the three gloomy I b 10 rise from the spot where i F bodies sank beneath the waves, gang e and Maryland Virginia tred s converge rapidly as one jour-Eaup the river, until a few miles kDi'W e Washington they are separat-ftab- l y iesg than 100 feet of water, I r swift and turbulent. iION we Little Falls, which is a rnplds, the river widens jgail Numerous Islands spangle Oland shore, while Virginias ha become wilder and more world. ee 1 (d. The waters pursue a more Probably no other capital city In C0l!rse here, but It is only M Jrely either hemisphere has scenic assets calm before the storm, I qi uporary to Washingtons Great 15 comparable miles above the Capital they I e, 5er Potomac gorge. The the and falls for a majestic plunge over a j Viscount James Bryce, ambasof granite which all the Poto- - late to the Units ages of work has been unable sador of Great Britain fuil friend and staunch and ed wear States down. j jj tiese falls offer a scene of lm-- , admirer of America, In writing erf si'e grandeur. Heaps of rocks the beauties of Washington In the gj National Geographic Magazine, said scattered about enormous gran-jJkm Elders and jagged reefs of It Is Impossible to live In Washfls If some Titan of long ago ington and not be struck by some ihi rented his wrath by upheaving peculiar features and some peculiar mm of the earth Itself. The beauties which your city possesses. erness of the In the first place, Its site has a place, ns the wa-olmrn and boll In great deal that is admirable and their with the rocks, Is charming. There Is rising ground a level space, Parable only to some of the Inclosing on all sides r mountain canyons of the and so making a beautiful amphi'tSnd is hard to conceive as theater between hills that are rica a few miles of the Cup-- 1 with woods. City. Underneath those hills and runFhe ning like a silver thread through the Gorge and Old Canal. Is your admirathe rMly river here tumbles middle of the valley river. ble J,""1 rather narrow chiinnel face for the "The Potomac has two kinds of Chesapeake, but spring melts the mountain beauty the beauty of the upper ' and deluged vnlleys pour stream, murmuring over a rocky over(lowlng streams into Its bed between bold heights crowned '"i ranches, the falls become a with wood, and the beauty of the "d flood j that rages from shore wide expunse, spread out like a lake '"re with a roar that may be below the city into a vast sheet of 'a for ') miles. silver. 0,fl Chesapeake and Ohio No European city has so noble Sa''llcai Piralluled the Potomac a cataract in its vicinity as the Georgetown up to and on be- - Great Falls of the Potomac a magwns te about the nificent piece of scenery which you i ' bme as the begun haliimore and will, of course, alwajs preserve." 5a . ss p. self-contr- Wh-a-at- ? g But the dread warning didnt seem to make any Impression on Morts sister. She kept right on coming down those stairs. This time, Mort lost all sense of caution. Honey, he almost shouted. Dont you hear7 Handsopl" And Morts sister looked at Mort as If to say, Well, what are you yelling about? What she did say, was: All right Give him one of those red cans on the second shelf." Puzzled, bewildered, Mort turned in the direction she was pointing. And on the sides of those little red cans," says Mort, my alien eyes on nothing more spelled out the legend hand soap! I had tripped up the of up and op. of niceties syllables the than pronunciation dangerous And the metallic sounding thing In the colored mans pocket was only the Jingle of a few pennies with which he paid for his purchase." 0 WNU Bervlc. created a form of property for New York Stock Exchange which there was no regular market Traced to Year of 17S9 nearer than London or Amsterdam. be Up to March 4, 17S0, trading, to How could such a vast flotation Americans, meant hitching up the bays, driving three or four miles to town, and swapping seven dozen eggs and a clot of butter for a bolt of calico. IVhat little cash circulated was kept In private banks, or under the mattress. There were no such tilings as stocks and bonds, says Literary Digest On that dute the New world became, overnight, a nation of Investors; for the first congress of the United States, meeting in the building In New York city, authorized the issuance of JSO.OOO,-00- 0 of government bonds, to consolidate and refund the cost of the Revolutionary war. Thus, by the scratch of a pen, an was entirely new form of property sold to thousands of small investors scattered throughout tiie 13 states? alert auctioneers saw their chance; with a rude wool en table and a bench from a nearby tavern, they set up business under a buttonwood tree on the site of what Is novv C8 Wall street. When Inclement weather drove them In doors, they sought shelter in one of the convenient taverns or coffee houses. Within three years their business had grown to such proportions that these early traders found It neces snry to organize. On May 17, 171)2, the 24 signed an agreement fixing certain rules; that was the begin nlng of the New York Stock ex Twenty-fou- r change. W' 4 7ii h M J4 ti A t rm or y Jo ,.V V V 3 ee.e.ie Shooting the Rapids l"t.m. LIBYA Hunter sir, you boys and girls seem to have had adventures with about everything there is, but heres a bird with a new iwamAw.'ahav vv f...aiUwA3!ftiiMfc..,atyl one. He is Morton Greenbaum of New York city, and he had an of the Upper Potomac. adventure with the English language. Ohio railway, and there was once a Of course, that wasnt all of the adventure. There was a keen rivalry between them for the dark, sinister looking man in it a man that frightened Mort alfreight traffic between Washington most to death. But the English language certainly played a big and Cumberland, Md. But the iron horse outdistanced the faithful part, and to my mind it deserves most of the credit for the affair. - & :MtiL '" rwe Hands Up l! i ko 1 trU r xtfkoU land tfUuAaA. PC&SA rwr czeAr oisbu 4 Israel Is No More Jeroboam II died, of order and came to a swift end. The empire crumbled away, and the Hebrews wore left with only their strip of hill country along the Jordan. Jeroboam's son, Zechariah, reigned but six months before he was killed. Ills assassin, a man named Sliallum, reigned only one month before he, too, was murdered. The new usurper, Menahem, managed to hold on to the throne several years, hut ids reign was marked by continuous strife. A devouring enemy, Assyria, was striding westward from Mesopotamia, and Israel lay helpless in its path, Assyria had been threatening to swallow up Palestine for some time past, but not until now was the act accomplished. A particularly able and energetic king, Tlglatli-Piiese- r IV, came to the throne of Assyria in 754 B. C., and seven years later he marched over and Invaded Israel. Menahem was in no position to offer assistance and hastened to pay the Assyrian an enormous tribute. Tiglath-riles-e- r then withdrew, but four years later he was hack again. A new king had arisen In Israel, a militant man named Pekah, who dared to attempt to throw off the Assyrian yoke. Allying himself with Rezin, the king of Damascus, he called on Judah to join In the revolt. But Ahnz, the king of Judah, refused, whereupon Pekah and Rezin Invaded his realm. Ahaz, thoroughly terrified, called to Tiglath-Pilese- r for help, and the latter responded with alacrity. The Assyrian came storming down on Israel, annexed all the east Jordan region and all of what was later called Galilee, and carried off tens of thousands of Israelites into slavery. Damascus, the other rebel, he crushed completely, absorbing the whole kingdom. Of course Judah was spared, but only at the price of vassalage. In Israel there was an Immediate uprising against the king who had brought such trouble to his land. Fekah was swiftly put out of the way, and a new king, Ilosea, was seated on the throne. The favor of Assyria was purchased at a price of an annual tribute, and there was peace for the moment of But as soon as Tiglath-Pilese- r Assyria died, Ilosea decided to rebel. Supported by Egypt, which was exceedingly anxious to create a buffer state between itself and Assyria, Ilosea refused to pay the annual tribute. Forthwith the new king of Assyria, Shalmaneser IV, swept down on Israel and took Ilosea prisoner. Not content with this, however, Shalmaneser continued on and laid seige to Samaria. He was determined to crush the kingdom thoroughly and thus put an end forever to all trouble from that quarter. But Samaria was not easily captured. Thanks to Omris military astuteness In choosing Its site, the city was able to hold out for three long years. Shalmaneser died before it fell, nnd It was left for Ids son, Sargon II, to complete the conquest. Finally, late In the year 722 B. C Samaria capitulated, and the kingdom of Israel came to an end. The best element in the defeated population was deported to prevent the possibility of Insurrection. The wealthiest nnd most powerful of the Israelites were taken captive by Sargon and settled in northern Mesopotamia and Media. Only the humblest of the Isrealites, the peasants nnd slaves, were left at homo, for those showed little promise of ever attempting rebellion. To help them till the valleys nnd populate the market towns of Israel, foreign colordsts from northwere ern Syria and Babylonia And thus brought In by Sargon. the kingdom of Israel came to an WHEN end. Assyria Triumphant Lost Ten TriBes have been found again. But no explorer really found them, nnd no explorer ever will. Those tribes did not wander off together to any distant land, but simply dwindled out of existence right where they wore set down by the Assyrians. Many of the Israelites nmy have escaped from the exile and Joined the other two tribes of Hebrews, but quite clearly most of them simply merged with the races dwelling In Assyria and Media, and there faded out of historys picture. A similar fate met all the othei small nations of the ancient Orient all, that is, except Judah. Sargon did not go on from Samaria and seek to destroy Jerusalem too. Though he wiped out the northern kingdom, he spared Judah, for it had paid tribute faithfully. Thus the story of the Chosen People now becomes the story of Its two southern tribes really of its one tribe, Judah, for Simeon had by now largely merged with the Edomites in the desert That Is why from here on we no longer refer to the Chosen reojde as Israelites, or Hebrews, but as Judeans, or Jews. The destruction of Israel was a warning to Judah, and for a while the little kingdom accepted Assyrian domination without a murmur. But such docility could not be maintained for long. Judah was too far from the seat of Assyrian power, and too near to Egypt, to be able to keep out of trouble forever. It lay like a tiny grain between two great millstones, and no matter which way It rolled It could not keep from being crushed. without rest Egypt agitated among the little nations at the western end of the Assyrian empire. And Jerusalem, being the chief stronghold In that region, was necessarily the focus of the agitation. Thither came the conspirators from Phoenicia, Moab, Edom, and Philis-ti- a to lieurken to the envoys from Egypt, and then the orders for the insurrection were sent around. In the first uprising, however, Judah still refrained from overt action. Not until 705, when the great Sargon was assasinated and the Assyrian Empire seemed about to crumble, did Judah show signs The new emperor, of rebellion. Sennacherib, was too busy crushing his enemies in the East to attend to Judah Immediately. But four years later, after the East had been thoroughly subdued, Sennacherib gathered his army and thundered over the West He began with the Phoenician cities and then swiftly swept southward, pillaging nnd burning as he went. There was terror throughout the region, and Edom and Moab hurriedly sent their submission. Judah, however, made no move, trusting to Egypt to stay Sennnclieiihs march. But when at last Egypt did send an army against the Assyrians, it was Ignomlnlously defeated. And then real panic broke loose In Judah. Sennacherib had routed the Egyptians at Eltekeh, on the southern border of Phllistia, but Instead of pushing on toward the Nile, he doubled In his tracks and had begun to inarch toward Jerusalem. One Judean city after another went up In flames as Sennacheribs army pressed on Into the bills. With feverish haste Jerusalem was put Into state of defense, but when the Assyrians actually appeared before the walls no resistance was offered. The king emptied his treasury, stripped his palace, even took off the gold from the doors and pillars In the temple, and sent It all to Sennacherib ns a peace offering. And in return Sennacherib spared Jerusalem nnd allowed tho poor bankrupt Jewish king to retain his crown. Ue of Yeait Yeast Is such an essential constituent of bread that It Is difficult to reaize that it la a comparative Innovation that man ate wlieaten loaves for thousands of generations before anybody thought about it. The use of yoast was one of the trnde secrets of Paris bakers about 250 years ngo, tho bread chemists explain. Thore was a big scandal when tho secret leaked out. Tho bakers were accused of poisoning the public. The College roo-of Physicians of Farls went on r t-, j opposing yeast leavened bread on tbe ground that It was not to tradition the Israel consisted of 10 of the original tribes, nnd wi'h the great deportation In 722 B. C. the legend of the Lnt Ten Tribes It was Imagined that the began. Israelites marched out of their land In one great body nnd then lost themselves In a far romantic land. Many an explorer coming across some strange people In Central America, or Japan, or Ahysslnla, has rushed forth to declare that the wholesome. According Ministers Son Invents Invisible Ear Drum The Invisible Ear Drum Invented by A. O. Leonard, a son of the lata Rer. A. B. Leonard, D.D., for many years secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for his own relief from extreme deafness and head noises, has so greatly improved his hearing that he can join In any ordinary conversation, go to the theatre and hear without difficulty. Inexpensive and has proved a blessing to many people. Write for booklet to A. O. Leonard, Inc., Suite 209, 70 Fifth avenue, New York city. Advt First Woman to Fly Wa3 More Courageous Than Men The first recorded airwoman was a Madame Tlbe, a native of Lyons, France. Hearing of the discouragement of the balloonist Fleurant at his repeated failures to obtain a male companion for his flights, she volunteered to accompany him. This she did on July 4, 17S4, In a balloon called the "Gustave, which ascended at Lyons In tho presence of royalty. BOYS! GIRLS! Read the Grape Nuts ad In another column of tills paper and learn how to Join the Dizzy Dean Winners and win valuable free prizes. Adv. Busmen Is Master Make thy recreation servant to Ihy business, lest thou become a ilave to thy recreation. Quarles. AND IF YOU HAVE KO: TO SEAL THEIR FLAVOR PE: IF YOU WANT GOOD PRESERVES YOU HAVE TO SEAL THEIR DELICIOUS FLAVOR IN TIGHT YOU HAVE TO USE GENUINE PEKO EDGE JAR RINGS. THATS IN TIGHT. ALL THERE IS TO IT! RUBBER COMPANY STATES UNITED Onited 1790 Stale Brutfi, Rubber Hew PioducH, Inc. Ywt, 1PEKo N. 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