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Show , t(t the Sinai Mountain Prac on the Desert and Amid ' . Thousand Waa Three Years Before the It a tically The Arab Fine Art. Days of Mote t !" iCowrlfK On da, ( tn Deserta II essage for America f the. Bedouins of the Have tenpyrigtt. J 1 ba-co- Pr York flmll Cotni a nr- - A !J Right Reserved I by Uu New T rw Herald Compur.), t By WILLIAM warm clothing tba people ar greatly afflicted with neuralgia and rheumatism, and malaria alao Is prevalent "What do tb Bedouins do when they Polycarpus, th llir I asked head of tb Final Monastery. Thay remain ill, or else get wen or die." waa tha succinct reply. "Th tnfluensa epidemic wrought terrible havoc among them. On entire village was wiped out" "Hav they no physician or madlrino at T. ELLIS. 8INAI DESERT. tun It -- Thl l on mtmbsr af th party who had really ocfe W aature" It deed far, far, bdi. bean on th Job! On th forced march hack te Tor. when beyond th beginning of wMttan hlatory Life kra on thl ddtert and amid tha Pinal I Insisted upon taking th camel rope Into , Mountain la practically a It waa 1.600 my awn hand, to regulate th epead aad Th only direction of th animal a I pleaaad, Dar-wiYearn before tha daya of Mose a tired uttta bey, wg for part of th notable chan la tha poaaraalon of man wealthier or award th day taken on tb after --deck of oa of our by His Otherwise th prop' and that life r aa native ridden ships of th desert thrf warn bfbr th flrat pyramid war squirming discomfort, as. without saddle burtt tha fhrat aiooomenta ta scribed or or riding oloth. he maintained hlmaelf on th sear twelva laches of th sloping spine th fVwt cuneiform tableta written. Yfaer la no other ouch homan peraletenrq of the lumpy beast was more amusing to hmira us than to him. Wriggle and twist as be on north a thl. Within twentr-fou- r from a ateemehlp or aapr train, with 11 did, b naver complained, and aa w drew - that It represents of modem dtvllixatloo. neac to camp ha jrould Insist upon lea dins map may find hlmeelf back In a form f fay camel In slste. That point touched his a Ilf that waa ancient before th flrat book dignity. f th Btbl war written. Almoat can Tha Eaduraaee of tha Bedewla. by th progreeg of th This art of atandlng thing without tort nknwlnf and uncaring la Innate with tho Arab. H 1 eltle that aad tha great nation hardened richto and th cold. For heat bam rlaaa to power, th Bedouin praaerv est bed la their awn coat am a and dras and law Because hut a rug upon th hard earth h Uvea das to nature h does of d manner of Ufa, Their eohem not mind dirt HI food ta unrelieved d tMna baa at tea at thla tnortt- -lt ha ImpUnlty-po- or bread, with poaalbly a all other llttla milk from th goat or camels, and Tk Arab Flea Art. , vary occasionally meat . Hla lusurles are Aa 1 awing tlowly a Inn upon my camel coffee and tobaeeo. Derwlsh scarcely pM I front of m old Farhaa, our knew what to da with a packs af aaa maarahlo Arab whoa faa woar dis I gav him when etrarattes war baof dignity and ktadltaea and whoae in distributed to th man. ahatVh. H la proud Of Th Arab tetchee an gate I that of world of a how llttla It mar really get along upon hi paapenathla poat aa Mtiv and and with tact Western standard of dress, food and foreigner gem$ Ml ba heap th eamal driver up housing ara simply beyond hla eompr hanskm. Ha maintain tha cardinal b th mark f oor wnlma nd way. a FSfbaa la stately flgur although hta and a fair degree of bapplnaaa upon ' TW h, flra-trm- alir "Non except a w give them quinine w r- or salt." is aya tb Arab, "Klametrv as ha turns over and die Passing down through Wady Hebran. with precipitous mountains on either end a chance met Bedouin, walklnf with ua fit fat!) matter of arrangement between families If th suitor Is unacceptable tb girl's father simply fixes th price he asks for hi daughter at an Impossibly high figure Thu family feuds ar avoided and everybody' fee la saved. In Europe th bride must take a dowry to bar hasband: In Arabia th husband pay for th bride. Hnohaattty Is practically unknown amon Bedouin girl. Betrayal, Uk adultery!' I p punishable wtth death. The duty of fall upon father or brother or next of kin. Th desert law of thk blood debt "an tooth for eye for an ey tooth; whoso abed man's Mood, his blood shall by man 0 abed la older than tho Mosaic enactment Tb almpl reason why there vr-gaan- -I " thing to him untl) they hav been aaturated caa will sooner ar later have to answer fleeing from Egypt: but deaee "Do 1 believe in democracy and In blood and have become red. What hla far than nghts along the Nil forefather did for country aak be con- America or do I hcBev In claaslam and Two contrast stand out In the mind of Am I for a government a wilderness wayfarer. One 1 the d ffer-en- c sider stupidity or worse on their part. lntematlonallemf th and of people Ha doe not ting My Country": he does by th people and for between tkl - waterles. fodir not belle v In a "Sweet land of Liberty"; th people or am I for the autocracy of Ig- waste and th M Land of Gorhen Th thl: he doe not , "Love thy rock aad rllla. Thy woods and templed hllla" HI heart never thrill with rapture over America; ha would threrir every sign and symbol and evldmca of Americanism Into th abyss, along with the discarded "Our fathers' God." The soldier and sailor, so long aa they stand for a flag and a land, are aa odious as tha capltaliat to thla class-coracto- autocrat ; norance and special privilege and hatred?" Of course w know what the answer will he ; out here beside the sluggish Nile, looking across the aaods and tha centuries, an American la surer of hi country than even those whe are to America. Our own land from Bolshevism and for will democracy, But will ah also Incarnate and herald, for the help of all th world, which ha but an infants grip upon the real character and qualities of democracy, ao that In the hour of crumbling there may remain on sura k com-plal- nt nt out-laata- Ttr-tue- gr - Baxter atroot' HI outer raoelyaa. HI message to tb world, shoutblack abeyeh. or abb, old ed scree th west of hi wtMarneaa. Is mawt I that freedom oomes by th ability to do and maty, but atltt a mark of distinction, without U- H live aa untrammelled thing ath ft rather mated, la hi h hlrd aad tha Ibex, bacauae with white Wch. One ferment are few. - - - . "TJ? a hlaM want . ' alow gathered about th mlddi 1 amaiter orOnpaaseaaton In On hi. feot he wear, or th area of gird! tha Bedouin. of our driv mlaarabl t aairtaa oa hla arm. two ara waa an old man with th dignity of a amp of loather. or flan dkta.forloopad aword aad a black outer dock. That which P two 00 bvon hlacord abayab waa alao hla Inner garment Aphead la a turban doth, parently waa it th of draaa article anly aun or h that 1 if! Under th humtng In th wind or beneath the twtntb th dhtlly moon' thl laOn 0 of hot poaaaaaad. aun h would trace! nearly nude. Still Fartwn' elathr o covarlng. be waa a mao anew th Voaale law agalnat Another on ofofstanding. our rata In era waa a maa'a aloak overnight. be ata a brother of th Shaikh of tha Shaikh of bsrhan'a had on tho march la tha aand:a mnaj tki ctitof of tho pevtlntut CAPT. E'SCOTTrHIGGfNSAND' mail (T UNDER THE .SHADOW OF A DR EAT .ROC IN THE WADI hla equipment only hla garment, He H fought for the Turk and la now a war akm and a crooked etksk. ? CAMEL ; CORPS READY HEBRO- nMOVE' E. SCOTT--H 1661NS . JN CENTRE AND 70 ESCORT, Arab art of Brltlah prtaonar. AH th poaaaaalnna of tvrtflaa tha eonsummat TO ABOUT SIX and Al. OUT HIM. CAMEL CORPS SERGEANT J1N war hljnaalf y so fmoto ( oonflacatad. family how to travel know He fain without ha th man who rod with ua had nothing 'AND TWO ARAD CAMEL' POLICE SERGEANT' BELOW, Bht through Ufa In worldly good tho clothe tn cept h which aUnda te poor bavead th wont fear of the OOb h waa aheolred from all manHERALD, MEN iN REAR. t h 1 ganttamanIn ual work and noeye at waatamer a treated th that ataffialv tu caret dignitary end grade h waa and for at a tel In ha could have beecrid A manic 't him, te match. Abraham portrait. DemocratHa brediahlr never bathe fn hla world pooed for ha pat with hla fallow around their la wall Utah waterier Ha cannot read ically, campfire and thared their food and lay for sociability's aka, pointed out a ledge Is so little homicide to th desert, despite I hav been la Russia and now 1 am rock of shelter, on clear light to a uniar aaafta and ba le Ignorant of book down baald them at night For that mat- on which ilea the aun dried body of a th much quarrelling. Is that the family acres her old border to the Near East. versal darkness? m hoy knowledge tha any Bedouin ar aa damocratlo aa th wayfarer. lie had been overtaken with and th tribe are by moat aacred obllta-tlon-a What I saw thera'and what 1 see hers conAmerica helped tav liberty on tha fields' the TTnlted Ptatnet yet ha la wine with th ter. th Israel committed to exact th blood debt. (tea Hla aklll tn early aid. old peopl wtadiuw of France ; now sho must bear the brunt illness and bad died, and, nnknowo mem- These of me vince is tha for that struggle . day's ragged, dirty, Ignorant, poverty handling hla fellow Bedouin and h dealber of some distant tribe, he had no one stricken dwellers In the wilderness have a th preservation of democracy, not merely of saving democracy In all tha world from By Campfires. ing wttb foralgnara la what Naw Tork to conduct th usual mourning over him or cod of honor aa strict a a any that ever for America but also for the whole earth. autocracy's worst Incarnation, which is employer pa high aalarlea for and do Last sound heard at night and flrat In obtained among Europeans tn the days of Th question which every sensible Amerl- - Bolshevism. obtain pot the morning la tha bum of th yolcea of to bury him to a rude atone carved grave chivalry. "How did he was chance It all that A Child f tk Baoart. th Arabs That Ilf need never be too barren for Thsty on entertainment 1 alonaf wa asked. honor and courtesy and friendship and 10k camel bar. DarwMi. I another type oonrarsatlon.- - Merles and vaudavTO have 'Kismet!" replied th Arab, passing on hospitality and love of home la a lesson f Arab. Of year h poaaaaae aonsethln -- "ever reached them. Tbev have nowhere te more Interesting topics. , that th Bedouins hav for th Western to go for amusement Talk and aouts ne Funerals, wedding circumcision has Hum twahra Llk hundred of la sometimes ttmpted to aeU parties world, which anttoM of hi anceator bafor him, Der-V- their commonest dirt rat on. What can and a couple of annual religious festivals Its spiritual Inheritance for mere material Is Oh and undertud. An Arab tnu-Uf- a thorn men of barren lives find to dtscuaa ar th great social event tn Bedouin Ilf things. If tha Arabs need our goods wno Their songs and lor ar fun of love will say that wa do not also need t Be on araall portion of wht so In terminably t tor lea but actual marriage la a Would bo whit man's ration normally ; That question lead ua straight tat the ba goaa to bad h angry. Oh1 thl trip Hop-I- d heart af th ereservation of Bedouin trao aaomptl y attache htmaalf aa wpr-t- dition and lor and oustoma throughout Mokamtnad, our oook. and th centuries and millennium. Tha 11 (Copyright 11. by th New Tork Herald Company AR Bight Beserved.l (Copyright, Canada, by the New Tork Herald Company ) apa too fin out W mougr of tb elder are transmitted at campfire conversation old Patau with and American Wuada bey bow young I many By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. in . Logan da of th mountain aforiaa of j hr erack'ng th dlacardad bon of piae of meat thorn may ba found saint and bar MOUNT 21. Moses, after Th Hebrew seamed caught In a pocket narrative battle af SINAI. June a toatkaam and natrltloua moraalT 11 ar mad familiar to th oar of a eery all. and not President Wilson, must be In front of them and on thalr right were AH dumb bay know tVa and all dog. Arab, and h to turn tana them over or held primarily responsible for th present the Libyan Mountain On thetr left was RW day with th foralgnara perceptibly alng them to hlmaelf. for th Arab world upheaval. If ht had not enunciated tha Red Sr. Behind them waa PUXhaob'a pot Saab upoa tha fae aad body of D songs upon every topi Without writ ea literature them tribesmen of a naw set of law divinely sanctioned and host, with only a concealing cloud IntertCepyright, 11, by the Nsw' York Herald Company An Bights Beservad ) rahnact waa yn aimpler than that marvellous memory praservo history, reto the now. mad universally applicable, for the vening. One across tha water (CepyrlghJ. Canada, by th New York Herald Compter Of ArtkaA- -a thin cotton chemise, through ligion. genealogy, professional, social and establishment of justice and equity be- Sinai wllda, they ware reasonably safe wtitb bW figure ah owed, and another commercial code, aa wall aa jests, prov By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. tween man and man. w should not at the from pursuit tag la which ba wrapped hla head erbs and fairy lor all by oral tranaml-toa- . ft la understandable that famlly EGTTT, ' June ft, Thin dear air of Irresponsible use of power to execution present time hava .all tha peotfle of the UM tb aun waa high and hla hade whan Moanmeats to Moaea. h lay down on th aand or rock at night and tribal tradition would ha paramount Egypt help on to te straight and far without trial; from black betrayal of earth, smalt and great. In an Irrepressible Thalr leader wa an old man learned In with th or In paralated Bedouins th conditions of thalr Th da ba walked Parwlah aang are a position of advantage country to cruel exploitation of th Igno- ferment of liberty. all the wisdom of the Egyptians and with In talk big Arabia to m. H gathered Ilf ern as aurh things ar negligible in frompyramids waa to whtrh view tha present world rant peasantry that has not been comThat doughty old reformer effecting forty year of apay ptaata ba tha mountain for m to th modern American family, with It experience of Bedouin life a greater emancipation than he knew on taato or amell and tho flower of tha trait rush and Individualism and begullamenta turmoil, especially aa at tha present mo- mitted tn more flagrant degree by th Sinai, ao that h knew every tnt'e of Derwleh Th Arab mind hold llttl but It bold ment. Egypt Itself la somewhat of a miClaaslam to not Improved merely when he liberated hi fellow from the tha land with Him f wasted to trot myruneemel th intimacy of a shepherd ahead of H that little fast Ha started somewa tlraleaely ready to crocosm. the bottom where the top need bondage of Pharaoh. , by putting and th broad vision of a strategist, solTb aauaetty aad endurance f thla child Inon with,' been On here to be and tha top where th bottom used thing that Lag going truth outetandt aa ha observer la th Black Teat dier and statesman. Rip and ready was argued far tha auccaa of Bedouin child Llk soma rich American th Bedouin sweep th hortion."It la that th pres- to be. Claaslam. of whatever sort. Is the creasing momentum and Is nowaday thla extraordinarily trained man before the war struggle 1 not between very acul of autocracy. "Claa consclcua bowling over kaisers and taar kings and ever he was called to become th loader move their homes with th season In ent aft A lnbau aa tba.Mauatala. th summer they samp to th wady or autocracy and Bolshevism but between neas" la aura to bring wo to tha class kinglets so rapld.y that wa can scarcely of hta peopl OuOa. Urban daocandtng th etaap old of ravine of conscious and their children, even as p kerp count of them th mountain where th air democracy and Bolshevism. third Arab on Sinai appears to be Surely Moses and his achievement are Every tta death Mow. Any- did to th Russian aristocrat A mauutata on my eamal. with no other la coolaat and th had hta Autocra"y win In beat Moss named Lift up your voice after pasturage "on even worth Into th a looking spot member f tb party wdtblu ball I bad tar they pitch their black tents of goats body Intimately famlllnr with world conL'ka th pleasures of aln. which the though the spot be so remade and unreal in a crowd of Arabs and cry- Musa!" and r ha arr ta taut Drwlh raaouroofulnaa hair on tha sand of th desert where dition knows that th war not onH Good Book tella ns ar only for a season to the average person that tt Is well de- a third of them will answer. Cry "MofbHda baadtaaunaa h had there la always a cartel amount of vege- broke Frusslanlsm hr weight of liberty, (he triumph of claaslam ar for the w scribed by th old lady who said. T al- hammed"' and another third will reply to wafktnf on tha upper aid of th table growth for thalr animals to feed new mad might and human valor but I and not long for them. Bolshevism ba ways knew thaae place were In th Bibla Today Mosea, who la accepted aa a proalas released spiritual and political force been temporarily good for Trotxky and but f did not suppose you could go to phet by Jew, Christian and Moslem, la penww trail, thus forcing th beast to the upon. . th patron saint of th Sinai region. Moat of waa the th matter la with a which dooitaed th old ordef of dam su- Bolshevism Inner circle, but It baa beep them," sea from and of tha praotptcas Moving path almpl edge of the outstanding objects on tha peninsula-CaaaL tk Arab ' at them even for bast with to tb ' rather grimly bad for everybody- ela to Russia, from premacy. well and peculiar rock slippery atone. Smiling household effects consist only of tb home Passenger on jhlpa going through tho formations ar associate with hla name usyaatf of th poagibtlltles of th altuaUon. mad goats' hair tent ttaelf which to the By no means all th forma and manifesta- th murdarad Taar to Jh moot Insignifi- Red Sea Sues and the often Canal have Moses mar hava had a Hlird time with the tion of autocracy hav been abottahed cant baby that ha starved to death while waa brought suddenly to a aana of the ease of th prosperous la divided by to to out them mountains the the ungrateful Israelites Whom ha led, bm pointed (uaBtlaa by tb forwent slipping of my ourtalq Into man's apartment and wom- aa yet; that cannot b don overnight tugging at tha empty breast of a dead eastward. "There Is Moufe Blnai," Indl h'a monuments are mapy today. Ho mot few rug a cooking pot Nevertheless.' in th atang of American mother. quarter y aaddl. owing to tha steep daaoant aad en' of or two. a metal coffee pot and cupa and eating Jebal Serbalth loftiest near peak, the fathut atl great Teformera while he shady's tellurs to fasten it by - the a atone hand a dead on." Th ay of lived, history has vindicated him. mill for grata. Th family autocracy of ahich la the not sort, the anything ?" talL except FeelingBw with Democracy "rope under th The Chaagelees YVUderaes. end Itv stock mpve on thalr own fact faith la scarcely needed to perceive that as the entire range of mountains bear the a elide th camel gave on of hla vol- - Aheep. Manganese deposit of vast extent and carnal and donkeys ar the 'h thing Pharaoh and th Caesars and As a bloody autocracy Itself, and aa a aaal uphatyal and went down to his richea ofgoat the Arab. On th Sinai penlnaula th heron, a id th ford and th kaisers new form of government, Bolshevlam rides name of Sinai. Nearer, an oasis neir value ar now beta worked by th Brltlah la faraknaaa - and I want over hla neck. For there ar ne horse Wells of shewn af 'The Sues Moses," on tha Sinai Peninsula, wher th unsusantmals head Life could tuaataty. at th moment tha b more primitive ad laara hav torepresented la henceforth full tilt, and bent on death, agalnat de- a halting place of th children of Israel, pecting Hebrews trudged; and th old th waa turned toward and 1 did pot go erer Vererthelea acarcaly be described to tense. which past it doubtless wa Westward lies Egyptian turquoise and copper mines there ar ne more devoted mocracy. It dentes th right of th people tb pewatptc. home lovers than the Arab Their loyaltv Egypt, and in particular the rich Land of nearby which they knew, mav possibly all the poop to to manage their own affair Atoaa an th mountain, wa two set about to family and tribe la passlenat and K An Masala. line Goshen, from yew entering at th modern city of b supplanted by modern British enterPersonal liberty la th laat thing tt perthe teak of reconstruction and repair. 1 th death. One ith Slnat iqonka mad It Kagaxtg, where the Egyptlan'rloters have prise th result of tb Inspection of the to th Good will added proceedormit men chuck tt'would ooeatbl for a promising Bedouin youth to Scarcely If thla auprem victory of among atrengtb latelv raised a serious ruction, region by engineer may bay It may h that sciings to tb lifting, tugging and tightening so t Alexandria that h might hav a ganised humanity secured ere w find Into tha asm hoi where It has thrown Ifthev nly knew It. these casual trav- ence and industry will effect change In but R aa th amaalng aklll of th hard chance In tha big world. H sent hom democracy this hitherto scene eller th Exodua th of changeless region as new fighting for It life against a religion and tried to throw family- - life hav through Htti band af this boy, not yet te hlr frequent gifts af cotton and stlka and cofreally aeon the three essential fac- treasures ar discovered ta th earth . taaua. that realty achlared th raault. We fee and tobacco and mad hla family tent queer In vsraton' of autocracy called Bol- Bolshevism does not believe In neighbor!!-nesa- ; tors In that bit of Bible history which baa But for th Israelite th problem of on th contrary. It thrive by sus- proved to be a turning point for th hu tho wilderness were those finished th daaoant af th mountain un on of affluence and luxury. Notwith- shevism. Most Americans do not know that exist be to mat bottom y-water, h at th befood and difficult travel awewtfctly. standing atl thla tb mother haunted th what Bolshevism to I was present at Its picion. and hatred So far from giving man race On the one hand, thay hav held whe, with on of tha eoldler. monastery, walling Give me back my tout birth to Farhaa. had the lush lands to multiply th number of of They river flat, low, ' Russia, and I aaw it some to lie every man a chand to stand on hi merits usually aama to my eamal at any destine What do wa want with thra things T W Egypt with their unparalleled fertility well even as did th German led Turk On the other, they have In their attack upon th Sues Canal. ttaa to gtra a sort of grand stand finish to hava enough without. Bend back our fullest strength there. Knowing what 1 It foredoom all who hava won their way and plenty son." And back he cam, doffing hla eltv knew fro n personal experience I do not to education and prosperity. Th alt men looked upon th stretch of barren, gray. Without going Into detail or technlcall-tleth errtraL Tbia tlm Farhau waa told tho story of clothe and resorting, straightway to the hesitate to ally that Bolshevism la merelv nr equal bafor th taw la a theory dis- Milling sand and th high rocky peaks of the S'nal Penlnaula. aa Mose knew t barren Ilf af th black tent. No matter our adventure. H waa the wtldernesa which caused the continual and as tha present day traveller knows carded by the a poetic of else war. hla exclamation and motions of lamenta- what their privilege say tho wfco know, aristocracy turned upside down. It Is of the freed slaves and mads it- - may be described aa a grumbling waste, tion that anything ahoutd have befallen th BedJIna always revert gtadlv to the as utterly a olaas nil aa tsarism aver As for patriotism, that I a cardinal of- them long for 'ha abundant food aad wa- as a rocky, flinty wilderness, sandy oovered with fence in th aye of th Bolshevist. H la ter and comfort of tn Egvpt they had left stones and sheila and the tb Hodga In hla absence war areua-Ingl- y mannas of life that waa old when Abraham waa the only difference te that It la apparent pi a person who wastage of all creation; and aa th baryel crossed Pinal. axtravagant. Stralghtway-o- a tha bottom Instead of th top an "Internationalist," by which he mean i In th third the Sue Canal crosses th ren mountains passes Tha Dead Man aa th Cliff. through and ground, wlthlo a few hundred yard of ' their or valleys, Thri a else above hot country. Ho (a scene of th miracle of th dividing of th wady single offence of Russian that he put Aa th Plata nears th mountain th moaaatery-- b stopped tha camel, Almoat- as wild and fra aa th blrda of th fastenings of th saddle and the air. th Badoulna also Buffer a do th tsarist from ostentatious personal dis- a Bolshevist first, a Russian or an Ameri- waters to permit the escape of th Israel- th rocka become hug boulder Under mad aB aorta af solicitous tnqatrle about creatures of nature. Because of th wide play of ruthless. Iron handed persecution can not at all. Love of th nation he ite flcbingctrom Pharaoh, If tha trav- foot are bit of flint and other atpnea familiar wtth tba Bible he that mak the going far more difficult oomfort and than heaped tirade upon differ ace la temperature' between dav of those who differ with It: from seplo-a- a spurn and aptta upon aa a defect of the eller be o Tn the topography th Oeces-itt- than th hot sand. Th Ly guiltless bead of little, Derwlah. tb aad night and th lack of bedding or to expropriation of property ; from bourgeois character. N flags mean any- - see written burning noontide of th pasting through tha water hast waa ne new experience to tho people )ear - cart. -- w&.t.rlus. -- Nav-arthel- svTdkhs 'sssrjo r- -l V. milk nr ( Drt hrr MOSES THE ORIGINATOR OF THE PRESENT WORLD MOVEMENT FOR LIBERTY, DECLARES DR. ELLIS DR. W. T. ELLIS SEES NEW WORLD WAR BETWEEN THE FORCES OF BOLSHEVISM AND DEMOCRACY lg p - Wb Par-slate- d fen - mountain t 1 t' I j C k S' ti ai cl H fi ai te bl E er ai ai S o - nvr p Li w r lo TI ta ol f to r. er 6 In sc to M sc the-Sln- ever-indulg- ed AAUbrtdEdCahdUIltJdlW- te ' -- Seat o I exgrumbling Israelite Judged their new perience by their life In , Egypt rientr to eat even with servitude, looked totter than thla Ilf of liberty with hunger Th other contrast l between filial and Canaan; as compared with thl deeclat region of sterile sands and bare mountains, th land of Prom lea truly seemed "flow. Ing with milk and honey" milk and honey being prised products of tho wild bee and the domestic Eocka, staple to th diet of the region. These Hebrew thought In tefms of th simple menus of all other Bedouin. Our water anpply. aside from Individual canteens, was carried to two ateel cylinders. each about the six of a tank Thsao were the standard equipment of tho Egyptian Camel Corps, aftd wa owed 'hem. as alao our tent and escort, to tha courtesy of the Egyptian Frontier Administration. Our Arabs carried thalr store of water in akin after th desert faahlon of thousand of years; and when rn th march, on mans water ak'n sprang a leak and tha wmter was nearly all loat, the Incident created conslderahl excitement. Tha person who haa never dona desert travelling eannot know tha praclotiitness of a swallow of warm water . at mlddav. When w drew near a stream of a spring to Wady Hebron on or more of th Arabs would run ahead to b first to drink cf tha water. Camels and men together drank with their heads Jn tha water and those lower dewn seemed In no wles troubled that th commotion abov them muddied th water. Usually we filled our canteen to assnm a clean gnpntv, The (Ha of th Hebrew Heet. At tho present time there ar between aJ flv and tan thousand Bedouin on Peninsula, divided Into five tribe Tha land really T9 oea not support these, for their wheat come from Egypt. War all tha agricultural possibilities of the region Maniutilised It might h festly, though, the Sinai Peninsula could soda-wat- , lfler F B ai b h Is lo "YD nne iiiliiminrintt'f'Tnrfi multitude of peopl aa our English Blblo give aa th number of Israelite 600.000 men, or approximately two and a half mllllow souls In all. Only a miracle could feed thl boat, which would hav oeen th size of th present total of Jews to 1 d o' E T d rp one-fif- th tha world. ta Professor Petrie haa advanced th theory that the Hebrew word alaf." meaning 'thousand." alao means famflte or elan If there has been thla mistranslation then all difficulties that aria In accounting for the movement and sustenance of auch an Immena company vanish; for th number of the Israelite Would be reduced to atotal of well under a hundred thousand. The point ta one much dlacuaaed by Biblical kebotors: J can understand clan'' why traveller In Sinai favor tb T B - 01 d n ai L at fc s L translation. Aa a confirmation of the historicity of the Mosaic record of th wandering of J children of Israel a visit to Final Is Impressive. Nobody can read the Exodua story amid thl wilderness without being convlnoed that the man Wno wrote It knew thla region. The land fits th record: the ecord flta tha land A modem eltv man misses th "local color" o the Inspired rwtge: there la nothing In hla experience to Interpret this migration of a nrlmtilv and essentially nomadic peonle. On tha other hand, a aoloumer In Pinal tercel vea not only th rationale of the Exodua atorv. but he alaq aea how that auprem colored much of the subsequent literature of th Did Testament Flat Land Falk Amid the Mountains. Barefooted Israelite found their feet cut by this flinty. wildernrsj even a did our horny soled guide. -- They were overcome and overawed by the difficult of th mountain pass with their thick strewn boulder Impeding th war and seeming ready to fall upon the traveller. Most of all, the mountain themselves steep, sheer, stern and seamed must hav filled the souls of these peopl from the flat lands of the Nile with an awe amounting to terror. Those gigantic red peak with outjutting crags and rocks of every , ooneelvabl formation, have ao parallel to all th world They aeem peopled with strange she pea and objects of granite riantf and gnomes, beast and btrda and. to our fancy, atrptanes, gun tanks, fort and symbols For a long time we viewed a bug crosa In the face of a cliff at th headxf a wady, admiring th bold Imagination of the hermits who doubtless Carved tt only to learn, wtth th help of field glasses, that tt waa formed of natural seam One mammoth rock stands Apart aa an open Jawad hippopotamus: mother I like a carved camel: another almost duplicated the Sphinx. It la a weird ""M. striking fear to auperatltloue heart Other mountains aeem softened by time; taeae granite peaks ar ae stem and hard md bar as when th Israelite first aaw them. None of the geological periods seem ta hay affected thla marvellous group, whose mighty tops hav been uplifted In grandeur above all natural and homan ' C ?! PrwdftmT btnntag Of tlm Oboiigh aa different from the Garden of tha God In Colorado el,ff "" aandston la from Jl? tho great Pinal duster of peaks eroa with neToV'.rf or shale, like a eopVreader' en b t ot b,l manuscript. a " mnT mountain range aa -1 Vm.UC,Uma I".'1 Kun5,rtn. where tha neetla cosily against hi Jinl tambdw fmh? mother mountains Ilk there la nothing of'thta soft n h th t a cl -- J h J tl w C a c. F a b c I C c p t a a li c 3 -- is rd " ll! andtatlnta SsWTsiiKFS th unmatural. Hlrh of worship naturally: but lovara would plaoM hta - tryt apar- on then t- plnnaclaa. of dread " reveUMm.l!? Ssrisr -- Smb.S SaLTs iL'K ;.r" oi nv. , s$- - toda- Ip '' pngr, step, of granite aiwm wn f,.Lh flowrT that a hold ta TV a, horror-atrtek- - s i Jv-- : v. !? crerice Wodoat th"7 here the Law Wa. Glroa. A atone chapel, tha floor of atrewn with fragrant herb. kip t. k. and picture, anTyita 'tone moequ crown .d th height of Jebel Mus Her shown tho very cave hi th rock wtoriT tradition aay Mooes hM hlmtof Jehovah appeared. It matter tha Particular foot of ground; one of thee peak within our view wa look around, that th Wort, which aa la 1 toe world, moat needed iaw. to th Fit . . i I 4 ' 'I |