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Show SARDINES FROM THE SEA OF GALILEE It will soon be possible to buy sardines sar-dines .from the Sea of Galilee. A company com-pany has been formed to establish a plant for the capture and canning of the succulent little fisheB at the village vil-lage of Tiberias. The "Sea of Galilee," or Gennesar-et, Gennesar-et, or Chinnereth, or Tiberias, is a fresh-water lake thirteen miles long and eight miles in breadth at its widest wid-est part. Tiberias, which Is now a place of 3,000 Inhabitants, most of whom are very poor, was an important import-ant city in the time of Chrst, but It was then regarded as unclean by the Jews, because It was built over ancient an-cient tombs. One of the interesting placB on the lake is Magdala, which gave its name to Mary Magdalepe. The miracle of the fishes was performed per-formed on this lake, but it is believed Jesus never entered the city of Ti-berlas Ti-berlas because of its unholy assocla- tjons. In Capernaum, however, which IS quite near, he dwelt after he lert Nazareth, and there tro began his preaching: It was called "His Own City." Capernaum is gone now, ana the place where if stood Is known onlv as "the little hollow," while wicked wick-ed Tiberias still stands. As Simon Peter and his brother Andrew An-drew and James and John, the sons of Zebedee, were all fishermen of this lake, the privilege of eating sardines which are taken from its waters will no doubt be appreciated by all godly people. New York Evening Mall. on |