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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD )- !- Y. 7ie vff A Curiosa Americana GRAPHIC BIBLE By LEWIS BROWNE cCIurNewppr WNU Service. Syndicate 4 4 a 4 By Elmo Scott Watson HE Didnt Say It nmn Thunder in the Air By FLOYD GIBBONS utu Judea Rebels Mat-nsjres j0 OUS old priest named ithlas began tbe rebellion by 3 fjjj umiing his sword through na of the Syrian officers. ge c Ip ar into the wilderness with he there gathered in(j jj sons, ram (lira a band of desperate and down the guide de he went with them, j ver the hated altars set foreigners, and putting ;iie in the renegade Jews who rred) dflced on them. It was ing C nt, but It seemed Insane. rebels were untrained, yred ?d' unsuPPrted tiny ittern dress Prlests and Peons fighting le more than their bare ie great hosts of Syria, isciplined, and led by the "generals of the day, out-sthem ten to one. It 'l!heer suicide! was not. Old Mattathlas Ikesui after the beginning of the 6o nut abut he was succeeded by rryis sons, Judas, who proved ILutix a genius In warfare. His ry over the Syrians was le hills through which ran from Samaria to Jerusa-e- ) I las surprised the Syrians a fejfAi drove them lnt0 the valley. Then, -imself and his men with y Propxons of the slain, Judas the next encounter. ie Bloc tlie steep pass lead' re constired in to Je-,f (rom ,gh the general had been t act as ' a new army from Syria, oveimps, with the courage of des- whenre. jjjjj DOt wait to be at-that the enemy t Jerusalem, 0 at mgfcldng toward , nmc.tioned his men where the steepest and narrowest. Use Dproceeded to decimate the u, II helter-skel-'fll- tr Beth-Horo- isomei-Anoth- i lylorpc hey il nreat armies In all were ujaHe Syrians against Judas m any is 'ady accompanied by deal- Ay the defeated Jews as Bad all four he utterly rout- s Maccabeus, Judas the r, he was called by his Bowers, and deservedly. his little army In nar-res, or rushing them by ches to make sudden at- . U jjjjiwn, he harried and hacked summerPered the Syrians until at , fled from before him. I came a lull In the fight- December 25, In the year T?1, the Jews amid great re- leansed the Temple of Its A, 1th and rededicated It to $ '4 $ they went on with the Judas had not alone the 9 contend with, but also XX jans and Ammonites and ler races. But he was not 'EL o the task, and In a se- mpaigns he beat off these oOl! and rescued the Jews had been oppressing In 3 to $3jsnd eastern Palestine. Syria ?(piirle war d gain. Antiochus now ' but his success- if.iouoiot give up the attempt to hf Jewlsh revolt. He sent oM vfm' wh,ir army Into Palestine, edod ln killing Off Judas ;ndion yunosie of his four brothers. But ISSITI ss he could not stamp out "" " After repeated reverses ss of thousands of lives, n king gave up the and withdrew stine forever. In the year Jp the Syrians were driven ift om the land, and Judea came free. si s in ? j com-VArnt- ii' Epipha-,y,,,f,!rtiea- Av Acanus Goes Too Far triumph of the Jews had The war complete. had waged at first only H . t ns freedom ended ln also n s , )r them political Indepen- self be" j gan prove(j i slugXdng. nd othtrthe last of the five sons bias, was succeeded on by his son the U!sb - ',rhn Hyrcanus; and witfl f. agedy began. Drunk with und power, this man un-- t. , and cstly wars Xruel s neighbors. In pursu- i . is dream of carving out for blmself, he on the north and OR re, tlie south, tent ""'rely with making il r s subject to his rule, he ,u .. ''led their inhabitants to it etiia religion, oonfuls f l a group of protestants make themselves heard - 1 25,' II C up and meet William Dill of Newark, N. J. Bills got a kJ arn to tell us today, and if it doesnt make him a Double Distinguished Adventurer with an order of blood and thunder on the side, then Ill be a Chinaman and so will my brother Ed. It was during the early days of the World war the fall of 1916, to be exact and Bill Dill was working in a place where trouble was in the air and danger perched on his shoulder every were minute of the day. InterHe was a foreman in a munitions plant located in the Bush ln the land of Judea. They called the Pharisees, the preters," probably because they were pious men who spent much of their time studying and interpreting the Holy Scriptures. Pharisees may not mean Separatists," as the scholars long thought Those who belonged to the party In power In the land were called the Sadducees, because they all sided with the supposed descendants of the ancient High Priest Zadok. John Hyrcanus died just when the conflict between the Pharisees and the Sadducees was reaching a crisis. He was succeeded by his son, Aristobulus, who continued the wars of conquest and added Galilee to the kingdom. After Aristobulus, his brother, Alexander succeeded to the throne, and with him the dynasty sunk to the very depths. Alexanders chief interests were war and pleasure. He brought unbounded distress to his subjects, and so taxed their patience that at last they rebelled and drove him into exile. But In a little while they repented and called him back, whereupon he, instead of showing gratitude,. crucified 800 Pharisees, after slaying their wives and children before their very eyes. Yet, despite his preoccupation with murder and revelry, the king found time to wage costly wars of conquest on the borders of his land. He extended the realm Into Upper Galilee, down Into the South Country, and over to the east into the territory of the Nabatean Arabs. These were relatively large gains, and they made the Judean realm once more a sizable bit of territory. Only three generations earlier, Judea had been little more than a But now it was almost a real country again. Alexander was succeeded by his widow, Alexandra, and it was the folly of this woman that brought the dynasty of the Maccabees to an end. When she was an old one of her woman of seventy-three- , sons, Aristobulus n, started a civil war. Hyrcanus, the rightful heir to the throne, lost all save his life in the first encounter with Aristobulus ; but instead of retiring and leaving the throne to the usurper, the defeated brother tried to continue the contest. In doing this, Hyrcanus was foln lowing the advice of a certain Annamed Antlpater. prince tipater came of that half - breed stock in the South Country which John Hyrcanus had forcibly converted to Judaism two generations earlier. He was a man of great shrewdness and no scruples, and he thoroughly dominated Hyrcanus. He persuaded the weakling to call in the help of the Nabateans, a desert race that had moved up to the East Jordan country, and with 50,000 of these Arabs at his command, Hyrcanus Joined battle with the usurper, Aristobulus, defeated him, and forced him to take refuge in Jerusalem. And now a new power enters into the tragic history of the Jews. Thus far we have learnt of at least six great empires that 'dominated the little land of Palestine and brought war to its Inhabitants: Egypt, Ara-meAssyria, Babylonia, Persia, and Greece. Now comes the seventh and most terrible of all Home. By an extraordinary series of successes and accidents the tiny city of Home had grown until at this time It ruled over almost all of the Mediterranean lands. It had absorbed Italy, then northern then Greece, and now was attempting the conquest of Asia Minor. the Roman general In C5 B. Pompey defeated the kings w ho had Inherited a large portion of the former Empire of Syria. It was natural then for him to turn to the bridge which connects Asia with Africa. Nor was It difficult for Pompey to satisfy his desire. The Jews, divided now Into three parties, played directly Into the Romnns hands. Aristobulus was intrenched ln Jerusalem, boleaquered there by Hyrcanus and his Arab army, Meanwhile the Pharisees in the land, sick of the unending evils which the kings had brought them, were begging for a chance to get rid of royalty entirely. All three , of these parties, Aristobulus, and tlie Pharisees, sent deputations to Damascus, where Pom-pewas encamped, asking him to Intervene. Jan-neu- s, city-stat- Idu-mea- a, Af-fric- a Ilyr-canus- ad-xic- Terminal building in Brooklyn, and in those days mysterious accidents were happening in munitions plants ail over the country. The big Black Tom explosion had occurred in July of that same year, and people said that German spies and agents had been responsible for it. The United States was expected to take a hand in the war any minute. Germans were being watched closely by government detectives. Street Scene in Fez, Morocco Prepared by National Gpoffraphlc Society, C.W MJ Service. RABAT is the brain of Fez is its heart Almost equidistant from the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and nearly a hundred miles from either is this storied city, still the political and religious center of ashlngton, L, V Munitions Factory Does a Shimmy. IF German boats were being confiscated and all factories turning out war material for the Allies were swarming with guards watching for evidence of dirty work at the crossroads. But just the same, accidents and mysterious explosions were happening all over the country. No one knew where trouble was going to strike next. It was almost nine oclock on a chill September evening. The plant was working 24 hours a day, and the men were coming back to work after the supper hour. Bill Dill was in the office, cheeking over reports. Everything seemed to be going nicely, when suddenly the floor gave a lurch, a terrific roar filled the air, aud glass began flying from every direction. Tbe first thought Bill had was one of surprise to find that he was still sitting in his chair. He was cut in half a dozen places about the face and arms by bits of flying glass, but otherwise he seemed to be Morocco. From a hillside one looks down. In wonder and admiration, on the tree - shaded valley in which lies glass-enclos- t, always-exoti- now-peacef- ul c, Fez. It is a chessboard, checkered in countless tiny squares which are the flat roofs of its myriad houses, the edge of the board being the lofty city walls. Rather, there are two chessboards: Fez El Bali, Fez the Old; and higher along tlie steep slope is Fez Djedid, Fez the New. It was new in A. D. 1276. Like chessmen left scattered aimlessly about the board stand the slender minarets of the many mosques. On every side rise the hills crowned with forts old and sulnew, forts built by long-deatans to cow their rebellious subjects within the city, others erected by the French to defend Fez against the Berber tribes outside the walls. Beyond the rounded hills, away to the south, are higher mountains covered with snow in winter. But In summer the arid steppes are waist-higin flowers. Fez appears now as it did through the long centuries of Moslem domination, since Arab invaders built It somewhere about A. D. 800; as it was before ever the infidels entered it except as slaves or as missions of Christian states humbly seeking to propitiate the Sultan. It remains as it was when still the home of the Sheriflan rulers, the real capital, the enlightened, artistic, magnificent city second to none in all Islam, when in the Twelfth century it boasted 785 mosques; 480 inns, and 120,000 private houses. A humming drone But hark! fills the air; and high over the venerable city flies an airplane. France rules the sky above and the soil beneath; the Sultan is a shadow in Rabat. Is Yet Unspoilt Being only recently opened to the outer world, Fez is as yet unspoilt and of deep interest to the traveler. Its size surprises. From cne end to the other of the twin cities It measures four miles. Its population today Is about 107,000, including fewer than 10,000 Israelites who are herded together in the Jewish quarter of Fez Djedid. The European inhabitants, to be found mostly in La Ville Nouvelle, number about 9,600, principally French, with a sprinkling of Spaniards and Italians. Of the three parts of Fez old, new, and newest unquestionably the most interesting is the first, El To see It one must enter Ball on foot or in the saddle, for vehicles cannot pass through its steep and narrow lanes. From Bab Hadid (The Iron Gate) a carriage road runs inside the walls around the edge of the city to tlie new gate of Bou Jeloud, where Fez Djedid touches tlie older town. Along it modern civilization fringes the ancient city, for it passes by the Auvert hospital, a French post office, the British consulate, the bureau of municipal services, a military club, and a museum housed in separat parts of an old palace, the Dar Batha, and by the lovely gardens of Dar Beida, another imperial palace now used only to shelter the resident general when he visits Fez. None of tlie Arab buildings converted to modern uses has been Europeanized in outlaid appearance and so they do not detract from the native aspect of the city. Leaving them one plunges down steep lanes, dreary and desolate, between the blank walls of tall houses almost windowless on tlie y street side, some as high as a London dwelling. They stiut out the sky in the winding alloys. Dismal as is their outward appearance, many are the residences of rich and tiuole Moors, and tlie d Bill Got to the Switch and Snapped It Off unhurt He looked out over the floor of the plant For a second or two everyone stood stilL Then, all at once, they began a mad screaming rush for the exits. Bill dashed out of the office, shouting to the men to stay where they were. At the door stood a guard, his arms outstretched, trying to n workers. The men stopped for a still the fears of the second, and Bill thought they had calmed down. But at the crucial moment, a new menace threw them into a second frenzy of fear. Smoke! A heavy black pall of it was issuing from the direction of the sand blast room. h panic-stricke- There Was Sabotage in the Sand Blast Room. Nothing could stop those frightened men then. They stampeded for the doors. Bill was knocked over on a tray full of shrapnel shells. A guard tripped over a fellow carrying two pails full of oil, and both of them went down while oil ran all over them and over the floor. Bill scrambled to his feet and ran toward the sand blast room. He had a pretty good idea of what had happened. There were two giant compressors in there that stored air in great tanks five feet wide and eight feet high. Someone had been tampering with those compressors, and one of the tanks exploded. Bill had gone about three steps in the direction of the sand blast room when suddenly, the lights went out. At the same time, several lesser explosions rocked the building and a dull red glare lit up the great room as great tongues of flame licked out across the floor. At the first flash of light Bill stumbled through the door to the sand blast room and saw the body of the blast operator stretched out on the floor. But Bill didnt stop to pick up the blast operator. Suddenly he was feeling weak, and he knew that big explosion had hurt him more than he first suspected. While he still had his strength, he had to shut off the compressors which were still pumping air into the second, still unexploded tank. How Bill Saved the Day for Bush Terminal. The smoke was so thick that DOPULAR belief ascribes to Hor-- i ace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, tlie admonition Go West, young man, go West!" But Greeley didnt originate that phrase he only helped popularize It. The man who first wrote It (at least, In Its application to the American frontier) was John L. B. Soule, editor of the Terre Haute (Ind.) Express. In 1S31 Richard Thompson urged Soule to go West and grow up with tlie country. Thompson also wagered a barrel of flour that Soule could write an article that would be attributed to Greeley. Tlie result was a column editorial about the Wests opportunities for young men in which Soule declared that Horace Greeley could never e have given a young man better than contained In tlie words Go West, young man, go West! Although stated merely as Soule thought Greeley might have expressed it, newspapers all over tlie country began to credit Greeley with tlie epigram. Finally Greeley reprinted Soules editorial with a note stating that even though he endorsed tlie sentiment, he did not originate the Go West" phrase. But people kept right on believing Greeley said it and they still do. Slmiluiiy, they attribute to Charles A. Dana, famous editor of the New York Sun, tlie definition of news If a dog bites a man, that Is not news, because it happens so often ; hut if a mnn bites a dog. that Is news. The real author of that saying was not Dana although lie endorsed It, but John B. Bogart, city editor of tlie Sun from 1S73 to lh'.iO , Bill was gasping to get his breath. The acrid fumes, drawn deep into his lungs, seared and burned them. His eyes smarted. His knees buckled beneath him. Flames were shooting up all around him. He had just about enough strength to reach the power switch and turn off the compressors. How he was going to get room he didnt know. He wasnt even thinking out of that flame-swep- t of that First of all, the compressors had to be turned off. Bill got to the switch and snapped it off. Then, suffocated and exhausted, he sank in a heap on the floor while tongues of flame lapped around him, coming closer and closer with every second. A black curtain descended over his eyes. Bill fainted. He came to to find some one bending over him, holding a bottle of smelling salts to his nose. He asked about the sand blast operator and was told that hed been taken to a hospital. In the sand blast room, the companys firemen were getting the blaze under control. All was well in Bush Terminal. But the accident was not without its effect We discovered, says Bill, that the explosion had been caused by somesafety valves, and the next night one who tampered with the more than half my force refused to return to work. Fear and panic had done their jobs only too w'clL WNU Serrlc. by-pa- Quincy Adams was chosen by the Electoral Votes Count house of representatives in President in Electing with the method preA President may be elected by a scribed by the Constitution for such minority, or less than half of the cases. Since then James K. Polk, total number of popular votes cast Zachary Taylor, James Buchanan, This is possible, explains a writer Abraham Lincoln, in 18G0; Rutherin the Cleveland Plain Dealer, be- ford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield; cause the President and vice Pres- Grover Cleveland, in 1884 and 1892; ident are not elected directly by Benjamin Harrison, and Woodrow popular vote, but by electors who Wilson, in 1912 and 1916, were electare chosen by popular vote. A can- ed President without receiving a didate for President receives all or majority of the total popular vote. But in the disputed election of none of the electoral votes cast by a state, except in rare Instances 1878, Samuel J. Tilden actually rewhen the electoral vote of a state ceived more popular votes than is split. Hence, it is possible for a Hayes did, and yet Hayes was declared elected, the electoral count minority of the voters of tlie country as a whole to elect a majority being finally determined as 185 to 184. Likewise in 1888 the Cleveland of tlie presidential electors. In the election of 1824 none of the electors received 5,540,000 popular four candidates for President re- votes to Benjamin Harrisons 5,444,-33But Harrison was elected, 233 ceived a majority of either the electoral or the popular votes, and John electoral votes to Cleveland's 108. 7, five-stor- interiors ' are light and luxurious. The privacy of their pleasant gardens is guarded by eunuchs. There the fair occupants of the harem may cast aside their veils and ugly shrouding garments, and shine in all the splendor of massive jewelry and tlie bright hues of silken dresses that Arab and Berber ladies wear. Seated on the ground with their backs against the walls of these houses are beggars, singly or in groups, mostly blind. Here three men squat side by side, companions in misery. They are silent, their chins on their chests. In a sudden movement the three heads are lifted simultaneously, the haggard faces and sightless eyes upturned, three hands thrust out begging bowls, and three voices chorus in perfect time a appeal for almsl A Street of Misery In the name of Allah, give us of your charity! You who have riches, pity the poor! You who have eyes, be merciful to the blind! God will requite ye! Alms! In the name of the Prophet, give us alms! The three voices cease together, the three bowls are swiftly withdrawn, the three heads are lowered, chin to chest again all in perfect unison. A bell rings clear and sweet; and up the steep lane hobbles a ragged man hugging under his left arm $ wet and bloated hairy tiling like the swollen carcass of a drowned dog. It is a goatskin water bag with tlie hair left on. The bearer is selling the liquid and clangs the bright brass bell in his right hand to attract attention. Before the French protectorate over Morocco was established, the British government once sent a mission to the Sultan in Fez with letters and presents. Attached to It was a Scots Guards subaltern he Is a peer and a general today. He had visited the country on leave several times, so he was chosen to go with the mission. When it rode In state into Fez, he was mounted on a big mule and clad s in the scarlet and gold of his regiment, with the bearskin the hairy hat," as admiring Dublin street urchins call it on his head. Tall and handsome, he presented a striking figure in his gorgeous uniform and appealed to the crowds lining the route to the Imperial palace. But the bearskin busby puzzled them. What is that he has on his head? cried a wondering citizen in the front rank of the spectators. A newspaper correspondent ln Morocco, riding ln the procession, had lived many years in the country and spoke Arabic fluently. He turned ln his saddle and answered the enquirer loudly in tlie vernacular. That is a water bag. His sultan has allowed him to wear it a. a mark of honor for putting out a fire in his town." The lane narrows Into an alley barely nine feet wide, covered over of long, dried with a trellis-wor- k reeds on which lie withering the leaves of a spreading vine which in summer gives a welcome shade. Street of Shops The alley is lined with booths, for it is the beginning of tlie famous souks. Souk means a market; but here, as in Tunis, it designates a street of shops; and ln eastern cities the shops that sell the same tilings are grouped together. Thus the Souk El Attarine Is the street of the perfume sellers, who vend, besides scents, the large, brightly decorated Marabout candles to be burned before shrines. In tlie Souk El Khiyatine, tailors street, the knights of the needle ply their trade, and burnooses, (short-sleevewoolen cloaks), baggy breeches, and other garments are sold. When night comes, tlie shopkeepers put up and lock tlie shutters on their establishments. They go off to their evening meal at a native restaurant or to drink a cup of coffee at a Moorish cafe before returning to their sleeping mats in a room like a rabbit warren. long-draw- n Joke on the Library the Athens of Ameriproud of tier public library ns one of tlie symbols of her pre eminence ns a cultural center. On three sides of tlie building are names cut in blocks of granite Immortal names, selected after much deliberation from tlie pages of universal history. They were culled with care from all brandies of human achievement and knowledge so BOSTON, ca, thnt future generations might read them and be reminded of the accomplishments of the men who bore those names. All of which wns very fine until one day a newspaper reporter happened to rend downward tlie names on one of the blocks. They were: Moses Cicero Kalidasa Isocrates Milton Mozart Kuclid Aeschylus Dante Euclid Wren llerrick lrvlnir Titian Erasmus Then he wrote a story for his paper pointing out the fact that the initial letters of the names spelled out the name of McKlm, Meade and White, the firm of New York architects which had designed the edifice. Great was the Indignation of the board of trustees when they realized that some one bad put It over" on them. So they quickly had the names chiseled off and substituted a new plaque which wouldn't give the architects some free advertising with an acrostic from the names of the Immortals. full-dres- je-la- d A Foreign President of the United THE Constitution says that only a nuttve-bor-n citizen of the United States shall serve as President Does that mean that If a President becomes a citizen of another country, he Is automatically barred from office? If It does, then Abraham Lincoln should have been deposed from the Presidency three weeks after he wag inaugurated. For on March 20, 1801, the regent captains of the tiny European republic of San Marine officially made Lincoln a citizen of that republic. In the San Marine archives is a letter from the American President thanking his great and good friends" for tlie honor and If tills enn bp construed as an acceptance of it, then he became a citizen of San Marino. But Lincoln wasn't tlie only forHerbert Hoover eign President. was another. Under the laws of Switzerland, while he was President be was still a Swiss (and still Is) and technically subject to military service ln the European republic Just because his ancestor, a man then going by the name of liuber, came to this country more than 100 years ago and didn't officially relinquish his citizenship in his native land. Q Western Newspaper Union, THE MICHIGAN AREA Originally settled by the French and taken from them by the British, the Michigan area became on paper a pnrt of the United States as a result of the War of the American Revolution. The area did not actually become a part of the United States until 13 years after tlie war, however, when the British finally yielded the border posts. Tbe opening of the War of 1812 wns marked by tlie recapture of the Michigan area by the BrltNh. Itewon by tlie Americans in 1S13, through Oliver Hazard Perry's victory on Lake Frio and William Ileury Harrison's successes on land, tlie territory struggled for two decades toward statehood. - s |