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Show THE BULLETIN Luxurious Peacock Motif To Do in Cross Stitdi The GRAPHIC BIBLE By LEWIS BROWNE McChif Knrown WNU Scrvics. Syndicate The Peacock's regal beauty-wo- rthy of your finest linens inspired this beautiful design, and e is sure to inspire you with the to embroider his splendid image in cross stitch. You can, you know, for the pattern's a very easy one, despite its rich effect. Wool, silk or cotton floss In real- - Adventurers da-sir- Club t FLY A young man went to Australia against hia father's wishes. In one letter home he wrote: I have bought a car; first feather in my cap. In another he wrote: I have bought a farm; another feather in my cap. The Rookery By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. ERES a yarn from a man who has had a thousand adventures. A X Small wonder, too. It would be mighty surprising if he HADNT had a thousand or so thrilling experiences in the course of his career. For twenty-fiv- e years he has been a member of the New York Police department and those lads are paid to hunt trouble and to straighten it out when they find it. seP UP b)'s and girls. Meet Police Sergeant Julian F. Rhodes of Grant City, Staten Island, N. Y., todays newest member of the Adventurers club. Sergeant Rhodes has had plenty of adventures all right. For 25 years, hardly a week went by that he didnt have some sort of a thrill or other. But the one that made the biggest impression on him was the first one that ever happened to him. And that's the experience he is going to tell us about today. Green Cop Is Assigned to Tough Neighborhood. It happened in the month of July, in the year 1008. Just a few weeks before, young Julian Rhodes had been appointed a patrolman by Theodore A. Bingham who was then police commissioner. The department assigned him to Second precinct, and he went to work at the old station house on Trinity place between Liberty and Cortlandt streets. There weren't quite so many tall buildings in that downtown seetion In 1908. The Second precinct took in everything west of Broadway, from Warren street right down to the Battery, and within those confines there were some pretty tough neighborhoods and some pretty citizens. There was one place in particular. says Julian, a ramshackle tenement on West street called The Rookery. That gave the police a lot of trouble. The house was crowded with people of all nationalities, colors and creeds, and it was a common occurrence on Saturday nights, when fT $ The Colony in Egypt THE . hard-boile- d ! They Battled Their Way Across the Dark Hallway. a sufficient quantity of the aldermans whisky had been consumed, for the tenants to engage in a ll fight in which men, women and children took part. Julian Is Called to Settle Tenement BrawL Thats the sort of place it was. They dont have slums of that sort today. We do have slums, of course, but the worst ones have been condemned and weeded out. But when Julian Rhodes was a rookie cop, there were-- lot of them scattered about lower New York, and the cops today are still having trouble with the criminals they bred. But Julian, in his day, wasn't afraid of anything those tenements could produce. Before my appointment to the Police department, he says, I had been a blaeksmith. I was proud of my strength and thought I had the average amount of courage, or maybe a little more than average. It took just one experience to get out of my head the idea that I was the strongest man In town, and that same experience taught me the true meaning of the word fear." It was a Saturday night the night when things were at their worst In The Rookery. Julian says he wasnt unduly alarmed when a little girl came running to him, crying that her father was. threateneing to kill her mother and the entire family. He started off on a run toward The Rookery, climbed up to the third floor, and forced open a door in the dark hallway. Drunken Maniac Threatens to Murder Family. Well,' Bays Julian, there I was on the threshold of my greatest adventure in 25 years of service. The stage was appropriately set for trouble. It was a three-roodwelling and every article of furniture in it was broken. The rooms were dark and reeked of the foul odor of stale liquor. In the front room, in the middle of the floor, a terrified woman knelt and pleaded for her life and the lives of the cowering children clustered around her, while towering over her stood a drunken maniac, a chair upraised, ready to crash down on her free-for-a- a . m 4TS. head." Julian took in that scene, and if it inspired any fear in him, he didnt even notice it He made a flying tackle caught the drunken man about the knees and bowled him over. The chair fell from his grasp, and that made matters even. But suddenly, the drunken man caught Julian in a powerful grasp, and then Julian realized that he was dealing with a man who was stronger than he was. Julian Thinks His Copper Days Are Over. He was a big man, and he had Julian in a grip of iron. Julian struggled to his feet, but the man came after him, trying to get at Julians gun. They battled their way across the room and out into the dark hallway. And that was where Julian learned what the word fear really meant. The drunken man suddenly pushed him up against the stair railing, wrapped his arms around him and started to throw him over the raiL I couldnt break bis grip," Julian says, but in a frenzy of terror I managed to turn around so that he was against the railing himself. We must have struggled there for ten minutes before he finally let loose his hold, and in that time I thought that my days as a eop were finished and wished I bad stuck to my forge and anviL At last, though, he tried to shift his grip, and I squirmed out of it. I dropped to the ground, got hold of his knees again, and did to him just what he had tried to do to me threw him over the railing. He went crashing to the floor below and landed on his head, out for the count Before he got his senses back. I had him in a cell." e A, to perfume the breath had its origin in the third century B.C. among the Chinese. These Oriental people probably traded with natives of the Spice Islands, where the clove tree is profuse, long before Europe was conscious of their existence. The Portuguese were the first European nation to deal in cloves, but a century later the Dutch got possession of the East Indies and monopolized the trade, even going so far as to limit the growth of the riove tree to a single large island This regulation had to be withdrawn quickly, for it was a native custom throughout the islands to plant a clove tree at the birth of each child is ago. The Dutch edict to destroy existing trees and forbidding the planting of new ones stirred the chieftains to rebellion. Finally the Dutch capitulated, and the clove tree still flourishes in the East Indian group. Zanzibar and Pemba, however, islands off the coast of Africa, yield about 90 per cent of the worlds supply of this spice. like Paterson, Iowa. as a sort of record of City dregs of the population. A man of fine character named Gedaliah was appointed governor over them, and he tried with all his might to give the poor wretches some sort of government But a rascally adventurer arose, assassinated the noble Gedaliah, and tried to organize a fresh revolt against Babylonia. Dreading the certain consequences, the more energetic of the population straightway fled from the land, forcibly taking the old prophet Jeremiah with them. They escaped to Egypt and settled down in the cities of Mlgdol and Tahpanhes, which, as you can see by the map, were commercial centers situated on the main caravan route going to Mesopotamia. Other of the fugitives settled In Memphis, while still others went for up the Nile to Elephantine. And tbua the Jews, an erstwhile shepherd people, now iierforce became traders. But with the vast change from pastoral life In the hills of Judah to commercial life In the market placet of Egypt, there came an equally vast change In the whole outlook of the people. They began to fall away from the religion of their forefathers, and took to the religion of the heathen people around them. Soon they began to cultivate the manners and vices of the Egyptians. The lust recorded words of Jeremiah are a bitter attack on hla fellow Jews In Egypt fur their apostusy; and, according to tradition, the heroic old prophet was beaten to death for uttering them. It la significant that when the Inhabitants of Israel were deported they disappeared as a separate people. But 150 years later, when the far fewer Inhabitants of Judah were deported, not alone did they not disappear, but on the contrary they became even more distinctively a separate people and lived. And that seems to have been due altogether to the prophets of Judah who bad preached and been persecuted for their preaching. In those 150 years preceding Judah's deportation, the prophets bad managed to breathe Into the tiny nation a spirit which served to make It quite Indestructible. For Judah did not go Into exile feeling that Its sufferings were accidental. No, Judah was convinced that Its own sinfulness had brought on Its present afflictions, and was further convinced that In but a little while, when Its sinfulness had been expiated, these afflictions would come to a final end. And It was this heartening belief that almost alone made It possible for tiny Judah to survive. It Is Important to realize just how tiny Judah actually was, for then the miracle of Us survival becomes even more Impressive. After the catastrophe that occurred In 580, the Inhabitants of Judah were left divided Into three main fragments. First there was the dispirited remnant left behind in Palestine poor, benighted peasants who were harried constantly by wild tribes from the desert Then there were the fugitives who had congregated in scattered settlements In Egypt Finally there was the community of exiles In Babylon. But all three groups together probably would not have sufficed to people an ordinary American city fair-size- WNU Oorvlc. Chewing on Cloves Was Ancient Chinese Custom The custom of chewing on a clove j d N. J, or Dea Moines, Their total number could not have been much more than a hundred or a hundred and fifty and twenty-fiv- e thousand about half as many Jews as there are today lo the city of Chicago alone. And yet that little nation, dispersed across all the Orient, tossed about In the welter of empires like a cork In a furious whirlpool, managed to live on and come out triumphant. The atory of that survival Is largely the story of the bandful that was dragged off to Babylon. And not even of all that handful, for many of those Jews deserted and took to the gods of the conquerors. Babylon was a mighty city whose outer wall was 50 miles In length, and so thick that four chariots could drive on It abreast In It were mighty temples adorned with Jewels and precious metals, and vast palaces brilliant with colored bricks and tiles. To the bedraggled Judeans, destitute wanderers from a backward little hill country, the sight of all the magnificence of Babylonia must have been overwhelming. nas Pew Built On June 29, 1698, the Common council of New York city appointed a committee "to Agree with Carpenters for the building of a Pew in Trinity Church for the use of ye Mayor, Recorder. Aldermen and Assistants of this City ni for theii Successors. thousands of Judeans left the despoiled land were the The Life of the Exiles not all the exiles were swept off feet by the grandeur of Babylon and Us gods. The majority went the way of all majorities, but an herioc minority stood Its ground and refused to be stumpedrd. Of course, the temptations to tie satisfied with things In Babylon was almost Irre BUT This went on for some time and always the sons letter finished with another feather in my cap." Later the father received a letter which ran: Dear dad, I am broke; canals In Babylonia. Recently discovered Inscriptions in- please send passage home. The father replied: form us that the specific canal was the Nothing doKsbsru, which ran eastward from the ing. Take the feathers from your city of Babylon to the andent shrine cap, stick them on your back and of Nippur. Its waters flowed through fly home. as fertile a region as was to he found MODEST SARAH The Jews anywhere In the Orient. dwelt In the villages along this canal, In the huddled little villages which sistible. The exiles were not scattered throughout the empire, but settled together on the batiks of one of the s to had been built on low escape the spring floods. Probably a goodly proportion of the exiles took to trading, for the canals which Intersected this region In every direction were used as much for commerce as Irrigation. The prophet Ezekiel, who was the spiritual adviser of the exiles, describes the place as a land of traffic, a elty of merchants, a fruitful soil, beside many waters." The Jews were ollowed every opportunity of making themselves comfortable In their new home. They were unhindered by their conquerors and allowed to manage tlielr private affairs as they pleased. Chances were given to those who desired weulth and station, for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylonia who not undeservedly was called the Great put do obstacle Pattern s Is tic and warm browns, or one color only If you prefer, will make a handsome scarf, pillow, chair set or refreshment cloth. Pattern 1164 comes to you with transfer pattern of two pea- mud-mound- In tlielr way. lie had destroyed the kingdom of Judith not out of any hatred for the Jewa but simply because the existence of that kingdom had menaced his hold on Palestine. He could not afford to lose Palestine, for It was the one open approach from Egypt and therefore was the most vital region on the western frontier of the Babylonian empire. Now, however, that Palestine was safe, Nebuchadrezzar wished the defeated and exiled men of Judah all the good In the world. And rapidly many of them began to get It But always there were the few who could not be at ease In Babylonia. They tinted this strange land, for It was not their own. It was unclean" to them. And longingly they thought only of the little bills whence they bad been taken In tlielr minds those hllle became Ineffably lovely, and the men who once trod them seemed Immeasurably great. Like beggars around a fire, the exiles warmed their hearts with tales of past glories, with glowing stories which they elaborated about Moses, and David, and Solomon. Many of the exiles grew rich and forgot altogether the bumble land whence they had come. But the rest plodded along In aching homesickness. They could not sacrifice to God In Babylon, for that would have meant a violation of their Holy Law which as the only recognized Jerusalem proper place for sacrifice. The best they could do was to devote one day of the week, the Sabbath, to undivided thought of tlielr God. Perhaps on that day they prayed and fusted In little aynagiigues that is, assemblies" tlielr faces turned yearningly toward Jeruaulem. And piteously they begged for the coming of the day of tlielr redemption. And at last the day of redemption seemed abont to dawn. A new empire was arising in the East, the empire of Cyrus, the Persian. Babylonia aeemed certain to foil, for King Nebuchadrezzar was long dead and a weakling sat on the throne. Feverish whispering went on In the little settlement of the exiles, and then loud and herluc agitation. Finally In 538 B. O. Cyrus, king of the new empire of Persia, captured Babylon and the power of Assyria was destroyed forever. Now Cyrus was a despot of the most enlightened sort, and one of his first sets after he conquered Babylon was to grant permission to the Jewish exiles to return. If they so desired, to their own ancestral homeland. But not all of the exiles 'took advantage of Cyrus' decree. The rest found It too hard to tear themselves away from the shops and homes they had established In the unclean" land, and they remained behind. Perhapa some of them even resented the decree, considering It a reflection on their Babylonian citizenship. They refused to think of themselves any more as Judeans; their boast was that they were 100 per cent" Babylonians Even most of those who admitted freely that they felt themselves spiritual strangers In Babylonia even they did not stir. Instead they gave monpy and of course much free moral encouragement to the few daring souls who did make ready to go back. A Highland Slant In other days the Hlghlandcn Scotland would sleep In the 0ni any weather, protected by noihlnx cept the tartnn. Before lying d they dipped the cloth In water, nui It almost Impervious to the wind, the heat of tlielr bodies kppt wanner In the wet woolen lihiiiket In dry. 1164 bluish-green- cocks 12 4 by 14 2 inches and four motifs 5 2 by 3 2 inches; color suggestions; material requirements; illustrations of all stitches needed. t Send 15 cents In coins or stamps (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraf Dept., 82 Eighth ave., New York, N, Y. 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