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# Palestine Exploration Fund - Quarterly Statement for 1894/Notes from Herr Baurath von Schick

NOTES FROM HERR BAURATH VON SCHICK.
Herr von Schick reports that on the 31st October last the foundation stone for the new German Evangelical Church was laid at the ruins of the Muristan, and that on digging down at the side of the remains of one of the old piers of the ancient church the rock was found 31 feet below the surface, or about the level 2,437 feet above the Mediterranean Sea. Another pier was found so badly built that it has now to be taken out ​and built up new, A remarkable ancient wall was found running east and west in the centre of the church. It is of large stones, of which some are drafted. The thickness of this wall could not exactly be ascertained, as on its southern side the facing stones no longer exist. The wall is not founded on the rock, but at a depth of about 18 feet rests on earth and débris. It has been thought, Herr von Schick says, that it might have once belonged to the "second wall." He will watch and report if any further discoveries are made in connection with it.
Winged Figure from Palestine.
In the Quarterly Statement for 1893, p. 296, Herr von Schick described, among other antiquities in Baron Ustinoff's collection, a red stone with a
​winged female human figure and two Greek inscriptions upon it, and at p. 306 of the same number is a note by M. Clermont-Ganneau on the inscriptions. Herr von Schick has since forwarded a photograph of the object, and remarks that he was mistaken in supposing that the hands and feet terminate in fish tails, that the five fingers on one hand can be counted, and that in the other hand there is "something like a serpent." He thinks the object was painted red and gilded, and that the figure represents Psyche.
# Palestine Exploration Fund - Quarterly Statement for 1894/Notes on Mr Davis' Paper

NOTES ON MR. DAVIS' PAPER.
By Major C. R Conder, R.E.
The author having kindly showed me this paper, and asked me to add any remarks that occurred to me, I venture to make a few, though little can be added to such a scholarly explanation of the Siloam text—a subject never as yet fully treated in the publications of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
The word נקבה sense of a "rock cutting," survives to the present day in Palestine, in the term Nukb (masc), for artificial passages cut in cliffs, as will be seen in the Name Lists of the Survey Memoirs.
There can be no doubt that the translation of the sixth line of the inscription is at present very uncertain. It must have recorded something important in connection with the levels or measurements—perhaps the difference of level of the two galleries where they met.
The hieroglyphic origin of the alphabet is not disputed by any scholar. The Egyptian origin was always denied by the late Dr. Robertson Smith, and seems to present many difficulties. All attempts to trace a derivation directly from the Cuneiform have failed, and there only remains one other known source, namely, the hieroglyphic system of Syria, usually called "Hittite." My impression is that this system developed first the syllabary known in Cyprus, and afterwards—either independently or directly—the Syrian Alphabet and the larger Ionian Alphabet, which is closely connected with the Cypriote. This view is supported by the resemblances between ה and the Cypriote E; ו and the Cypriote u; ח and the Cypriote Khe; כ and the Cypriote Ke; מ and the Cypriote Mi; ע and the Cypriote â; פ and the Cypriote Pe; ר and the Cypriote Ra; ש and the Cypriote Se.
As regards the hieroglyphic origin, there seems little doubt that Aleph represents a "bull's" head and horns, and the Cuneiform sign noticed by ​Mr. Davis (No. 232) is also, in its oldest form, the bull's head. The same sign occurs often on Hittite monuments.
The suggestion as to Gimel is novel, as is also that about Zain (supported by the peculiar form of the letter as appearing on the Siloam text). The sign for Yod, "the open hand," and that for Caph, "the closed hand," both resemble signs used in Hittite. The sign for Resh is also exactly like one of the most peculiar of the Hittite hieroglyphs. These comparisons have the advantage of accounting for the names of the letters, which have never been explained by the theory of Egyptian origin.
# 10. The Ten Plagues

10-01
God warned Moses and Aaron that Pharaoh would be stubborn. When they went to Pharaoh, they said, “This is what the God of Israel says, ‘Let my people go!’” But Pharaoh did not listen to them. Instead of letting the Israelites go free, he forced them to work even harder!
10-02
Pharaoh kept refusing to let the people go, so God sent ten terrible plagues on Egypt. Through these plagues, God showed Pharaoh that he is more powerful than Pharaoh and all of Egypt’s gods.
10-03
God turned the Nile River into blood, but Pharaoh still would not let the Israelites go.
10-04
God sent frogs all over Egypt. Pharaoh begged Moses to take away the frogs. But after all the frogs died, Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the Israelites leave Egypt.
10-05
So God sent a plague of gnats. Then he sent a plague of flies. Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and told them that if they stopped the plague, the Israelites could leave Egypt. When Moses prayed, God removed all the flies from Egypt. But Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the people go free.
10-06
Next, God caused all the farm animals that belonged to the Egyptians to get sick and die. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the Israelites go.
10-07
Then God told Moses to throw ashes into the air in front of Pharaoh. When he did, painful skin sores appeared on the Egyptians, but not on the Israelites. God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and Pharaoh would not let the Israelites go free.
10-08
After that, God sent hail that destroyed most of the crops in Egypt and killed anybody who went outside. Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and told them, “I have sinned. You may go.” So Moses prayed, and the hail stopped falling from the sky.
10-09
But Pharaoh sinned again and hardened his heart. He would not let the Israelites go free.
10-10
So God caused swarms of locusts to come over Egypt. These locusts ate all the crops that the hail had not destroyed.
10-11
Then God sent darkness that lasted for three days. It was so dark that the Egyptians could not leave their houses. But there was light where the Israelites lived.
10-12
Even after these nine plagues, Pharaoh still refused to let the Israelites go free. Since Pharaoh would not listen, God planned to send one last plague. This would change Pharaoh’s mind.
A Bible story from: Exodus 5-10
# 36. The Transfiguration

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One day, Jesus took three of his disciples, Peter, James, and John, with him. (The disciple named John was not the same person who baptized Jesus.) They went up on a high mountain by themselves to pray.
36-02
As Jesus was praying, his face became as bright as the sun. His clothes became as white as light, whiter than anyone on earth could make them.
36-03
Then Moses and the prophet Elijah appeared. These men had lived on the earth hundreds of years before this. They talked with Jesus about his death, because he would soon die in Jerusalem.
36-04
As Moses and Elijah were talking with Jesus, Peter said to Jesus, “It is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” But Peter did not know what he was saying.
36-05
As Peter was talking, a bright cloud came down and surrounded them. Then they heard a voice coming from the cloud. It said, “This is my Son whom I love. I am pleased with him. Listen to him.” The three disciples were terrified and fell on the ground.
36-06
Then Jesus touched them and said, “Do not be afraid. Get up.” When they looked around, the only one still there was Jesus.
36-07
Jesus and the three disciples went back down the mountain. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not tell anyone yet about what happened here. I will soon die and then come back to life. After that, you may tell people.”
A Bible story from: Matthew 17:1-9; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:28-36
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# Our American Holidays - Christmas/Neighbors of the Christ Night

NEIGHBORS OF THE CHRIST NIGHT
NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH
Deep in the shelter of the cave,
 The ass with drooping head
Stood weary in the shadow, where
 His master's hand had led.
About the manger oxen lay,
 Bending a wide-eyed gaze
Upon the little new-born Babe,
 Half worship, half amaze.
High in the roof the doves were set,
 And cooed there, soft and mild,
Yet not so sweet as, in the hay,  The Mother to her Child.
The gentle cows breathed fragrant breath
 To keep Babe Jesus warm,
While loud and clear, o'er hill and dale,
 The cocks crowed, "Christ is born!"
Out in the fields, beneath the stars,
 The young lambs sleeping lay, And dreamed that in the manger slept
 Another white as they.
To Thee their love was given, For in Thy baby face there shone
 The wonder-light of Heaven.
# Our American Holidays - Christmas/Sery

SERY
RICHARD WATSON GILDER
With wild surprise Four great eyes In two small heads, From neighboring beds Looked out — and winked — And glittered and blinked At a very queer sight In the dim starlight. As plain as can be
A fairy tree Flashes and glimmers And shakes and shimmers. Red, green and blue Meet their view; Silver and gold Their sharp eyes behold; Small moon, big stars; And jams in jars. And cakes, and honey And thimbles, and money, Pink dogs, blue cats. Little squeaking rats, And candles, and dolls, And crackers, and polls, A real bird that sings. And tokens and favors. And all sorts of things For the little shavers.
Four black eyes Grow big with surprise; And then grow bigger When a tiny figure, Jaunty and airy, (Is it a fairy?) From the tree-top cries, "Open wide! Black Eyes! Come, children, wake now! Your joys you may take now!"
Quick as you can think  Twenty small toes  In four pretty rows. Like little piggies pink,  All kick in the air— And before you can wink  The tree stands bare!
# Our American Holidays - Christmas/Santa Claus

SANTA CLAUS
ANON
He comes in the night! He comes in the night!
 He softly, silently comes;
While the little brown heads on the pillows so white
 Are dreaming of bugles and drums.
He cuts through the snow like a ship through the foam,
 While the white flakes around him whirl;
Who tells him I know not, but he findeth the home
 Of each good little boy and girl.
His sleigh it is long, and deep, and wide;
 It will carry a host of things.
While dozens of drums hang over the side,
 With the sticks sticking under the strings:
And yet not the sound of a drum is heard,
 Not a bugle blast is blown,
As he mounts to the chimney-top like a bird.
 And drops to the hearth like a stone.
The little red stockings he silently fills,
 Till the stockings will hold no more ;
The bright little sleds for the great snow hills
 Are quickly set down on the floor.
Then Santa Claus mounts to the roof like a bird,
 And glides to his seat in the sleigh;
Not the sound of a bugle or drum is heard
 As he noiselessly gallops away.
He rides to the East, and he rides to the West,
 Of his goodies he touches not one ;
He eateth the crumbs of the Christmas feast
 When the dear little folks are done.
Old Santa Claus doeth all that he can;
 This beautiful mission is his;
Then, children, be good to the little old man,
 When you find who the little man is.
# Our American Holidays - Christmas/New Prince, New Pomp

NEW PRINCE, NEW POMP
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
Behold a simple, tender Babe,  In freezing winter night, In homely manger trembling lies;  Alas! a piteous sight.
The inns are full; no man will yield  This little Pilgrim bed; But forced he is with silly beasts  In crib to shroud his head.
Despise him not for lying there;  First what he is inquire: An Orient pearl is often found  In depth of dirty mire.
Weigh not his crib, his wooden dish,  Nor beasts that by him feed; Weigh not his mother's poor attire,  Nor Joseph's simple weed.
This stable is a Prince's court,
 The crib his chair of state;
The beasts are parcel of his pomp,
 The wooden dish his plate.
The persons in that poor attire
 His royal liveries wear;
The Prince himself is come from heaven:
 This pomp is praisèd there.
With joy approach, O Christian wight!
 Do homage to thy King;
And highly praise this humble pomp,  Which he from heaven doth bring.
# Our American Holidays - Christmas/On Good Wishes At Christmas

ON GOOD WISHES AT CHRISTMAS
FRISWELL
At Christmas, which is a good holiday for most of us, but especially for that larger and better half of us, the young, there is, as everybody knows, a profusion of good things. The final cause of a great many existences is Christmas Day. How many of that vast flock of geese, which are now peacefully feeding over the long, cold wolds of Norfolk, or are driven gabbling and hissing by the gozzard to their pasture — how many of those very geese were called into being simply for Christmas Day! In the towns, with close streets and fetid courts, where the flaring gas at the corner of an alley marks the only bright spot, a gin-palace, there a goose-club is held; and there, for a short time, is the resting-place, side by side with a bottle of gin, of one of those wise-looking and self-concentrated gobblers, whose name men have generally, and, as we think, unjustly, applied to the silly one amongst themselves.
   “It snowës in our house Of meate and drinke;”
“To the cottage and the crown, Brought tidings of salvation down,”
to think that we can touch and hold each other with friendly hands all over our land. We all of us shake hands on Christmas Day. Leigh Hunt had a quaint fancy that he had, as it were, by lineal descent, shaken hands with Milton. He would argue thus: he knew a man who had shaken hands with Dr. Johnson, who had clasped the hand of him who had shaken Dryden’s right hand, who himself had thus greeted Andrew Marvell, who knew Master Elwood, the Quaker friend of Milton, who knew Milton himself; and thus, though our Sovereign has her hand kissed, not shaken, by her subjects, yet doubtless she will clasp the hands of her children, who, shaking those of others, will let the greeting and the good wishes descend to the lowest on that ladder of society which we are all trying to climb.
As for hearty good wishes, spoken in all kinds of voices, from the deepest bass to the shrillest treble, we are sure that they circulate throughout the little island, and are borne on the wings of the post all over the seas. Erasmus, coming to England in Henry VIII’s time, was struck with the deep heartiness of our wishes—good, ay, and bad too; but he most ​admired the good ones. Other nations ask in their greetings how a man carries himself, or how doth he stand with the world, or how doth he find himself; but the English greet with a pious wish that God may give one a good morning or a good evening, good day, or "god'd'en," as the old writers have it; and when we part we wish that "God may be with you," though we now clip it into "Good b'ye."
# Our American Holidays - Christmas/Preface

   The Publishers desire to acknowledge the kindness of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons; Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Little, Brown and Company; Dodd, Mead and Company; Bobbs-Merrill Company and others, who have granted us permission to reproduce selections from works bearing their copyright.
PREFACE
Christmas is our most important holiday, and its literature is correspondingly rich. Yet until now no adequate bundle of Christmas treasures in poetry and prose has found its way into the library of Santa Claus.
While this book brings to children of all ages, in school and at home, the best lyrics, carols, essays, plays and stories of Christmas, its scope is yet wider. For the Introduction gives a rapid view of the holiday's origin and development, its relation to cognate pagan festivals, the customs and symbols of its observance in different lands, and the significance and spirit of the day. This Introduction endeavors to be as suggestive as possible to parents and teachers who are personally conducted and introduced to the host of writers learned and quaint, human and pedantic, humorous and brilliant and profound, who have dealt technically with this fascinating subject.
# Our American Holidays - Christmas/O Little Town of Bethlehem

O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
PHILLIPS BROOKS
O little town of Bethlehem,
 How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
 The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
 The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
 Are met in thee to-night.
For Christ is born of Mary,
 And, gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep
 Their watch of wondering love.
O morning stars, together
 Proclaim the holy birth!
And praises sing to God the King,
 And peace to men on earth.
How silently, how silently,
 The wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
 The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear His coming,
 But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive Him still,  The dear Christ enters in.
O holy Child of Bethlehem!
 Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
 Be born in us to-day.
We hear the Christmas angels
 The great glad tidings tell;
Oh, come to us, abide with us,  Our Lord Emmanuel!
# Our American Holidays - Christmas/Old Christmas Returned

OLD CHRISTMAS RETURNED
All you that to feasting and mirth are inclined Come here is good news for to pleasure your mind, Old Christmas is come for to keep open house, He scorns to be guilty of starving a mouse: Then come, boys, and welcome for diet the chief, Plum-pudding, goose, capon, minced pies, and roast beef.
The holly and ivy about the walls wind And show that we ought to our neighbors be kind, Inviting each other for pastime and sport, And where we best fare, there we most do resort; We fail not of victuals, and that of the chief, Plum-pudding, goose, capon, minced pies, and roast beef.
All travellers, as they do pass on their way, At gentlemen’s halls are invited to stay, Themselves to refresh, and their horses to rest, Since that he must be Old Christmas’s guest; Nay, the poor shall not want, but have for relief, Plum-pudding, goose, capon, minced pies, and roast beef.
# Odom v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
400 U.S. 23
Odom v. United States
Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
No. 300.
Greater severity of petitioner's second sentence, as Court learned after granting certiorari on issue of retroactivity of North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, was based on petitioner's conduct (specifically referred to at resentencing) after the first sentencing; writ is therefore dismissed as improvidently granted.
403 F. 2d 45, certiorari dismissed.
PER CURIAM.

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# Odom v. United States/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
400 U.S. 23
Odom v. United States
A writ of certiorari was granted in this case on June 22, 1970, 399 U.S. 904, 90 S.Ct. 2203, 26 L.Ed.2d 559, limited to the question of the retroactivity of our decision in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 23 L.Ed.2d 656. Since the granting of the writ there has come to the attention of the Court an order of Judge McRae of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, dated July 1, 1970, denying a motion of petitioner Odom to set aside his second sentence as illegally imposed under Pearce, supra. The order makes it clear that the greater severity of the second sentence was based on conduct on the part of the petitioner occurring after the time of the original sentencing proceeding, and that the new information was specifically referred to at resentencing. Since it is now apparent that this case does not present the issue of the retroactivity of North Carolina v. Pearce, supra, the writ is dismissed as improvidently granted.
Writ dismissed.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS.
The question is whether North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 23 L.Ed.2d 656, should be retroactive. In that case we said that 'the factual data upon which the increased sentence is based must be made part of the record, so that the constitutional legitimacy of the increased sentence may be fully reviewed on appeal.' Id., at 726, 89 S.Ct. at 2081. The information now reported to us by the District Court was never made a part of the record. Hence an issue of retroactivity of Pearce is present and I would decide the case on the merits.

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