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week with his daughter Mrs. Charles Cook
of Trenton.
Mr.. ard Mrs. James Walker, of Haddon-
field \. j. have hcen visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
James Johnson.
Lydia Truss, of Wilmington has been
visiting her parents this week.
Henry Coleman of Elkton, has been visit
ing Mr.. W. B. Coaleman.
Z. +. Crockett: proprietor of the Park
Hotel gave Il delightful dance last Friday
evening at Ericsson Park pavilion and was II
grand success. The music consisted ofseven
pieces. Among those present we noticed,
Mr.. and Mrs. Manley DreDnen, Mrs. Il. T..
Manlove. Misses Nan Summers, Rose and
Elizabeth Drennen, Maud Hague, EstelIe
Haines. Messrs Samuel Foard, Fred Gilpin,
Frank Frazer, John Evans, Joshua Clayton,
Hester Hess. John Hartnctt and DR.. Stanley
Steee. Of Elkton Misses AIDA Foard,
Daisy Naudain. Helen Clayton. Mr.. Lou
Naudan, Alice Plat OF Midd!etown. The
Miss Armstrong of Newark Dol, Miss
Frederick. Of Alabama, Miss Woolfcrd of
Wooliord Nd Miss Bond Of Port Deposit,
Mcssr-. r. Z. Lee and Eben Frazer. Of Earle
Vile. Mrs. j. II. Steele. Mrs Egse, Misses L.
NJ. Joyce. Evelyn Kisler Jennie Knorr,
Anna Pyle. Nettio aud Lulu Boulder
Florence EGec Nellie Beaston Minnie and
Lucy Reed, Lille johnson, Mary Willis.
Hattie Morgan, Mary S cele, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Clayton, MIR. and Mrs, julius Clayton
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rees Messrs Frank and
Harry Howard, John and Charles Reed
Dorsey Dunlap. Bennett. Groome and Har.
old Steele. d. Palmer Bondcp, John Grason
and Rowland B0uchcle Of this town.
/ The thirty dollars which We're given by
/ some of our prominent men to be utilized
| for prizes in our schools, was awarded TO the
successful contestants the last day Of schoo
whatever psychologists may say to the con.
! trary against prize giving no one can say
! that they have not been an incentive tC
greater zeal at Chesapeake City. The prizes
! next year will be awarded in public at tbs
commencement exercises in June. The
names Of these who received prizes this ycaI
are as follows: Class 1901-Mary Walters
50. scholarship: Harold Steele, 81, attend,
! ance; Frank Conrey, -. scholarship; Lucy
F., Reed, Il. att enhance: Howard Stevens, y
attendance: honorable mention of Thomas
Hopper. Glass 1908 Ida Bouchelle, 80
scholarship: Sadie Tatman, 81. attendance
honorable mention Of Helen Ellison. Sixth
GrGde-Florence Boulder. 50, scholarship
Clinton F0ard, 81, attendance, honorable
mention of Emma Pensil and Wannie Wright
Filth grade Warren Barwick, 20, scholar
ship: Clarence Rowland. ST. attendance
Fourth Crade-Sadie FilIlnEame %, scholar
ship: Eta Filingame, ST. attendance. Thirl
grnde-John Hopper, 50, scholarship; Lizzie
! Tatman 81, attendance honorable mention
| OF Charles Schafrer. Second grade, new
| huiidinc-Appa Hevclow, Fl, scholarship
! Jennie Lloyd Il, attendance. Second grade
! old academy George HOrem 81, scholarship
! Eddie PcGsel 81 attendance. First grade
new buildinr-Warren BristOw, 81, scholar
| ship, Ella Queek. 81. ATTENDANCE. FRS
grade. old buiSing-Eva Foard 81, scholar
snip: Lula Hayes, 81, attendance
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Farnington.
FARMrNGToN, June Is, 1900.


Copies of the " CecU Wig" are on sale
each ,ceet al The store Of Elmer Naybcrry. 3
cents copy.
Some farmers have commenced harvest
ing.
Quite heavy rain visited us on Monday
night. The lightning was very sharp ana
followed by heavy thunder.
Miss Eva Brickley is visiting friends in
Lancaster county.
Clifton Kirk visited his parents on Thurs
day and Friday.
Ro bert Shock and Allie Kirk, of Phia
deiphia, were Farmngton visitors from
Saturday until Sunday.
Mr., aud Mrs. Wesley Ewing. of Blake,
were the guests Of friends here this week.
The festival at Ebenezer ON Saturday even
ing was grand success. quite Il largo crowd
was present.
The ladies Of Hopewell Church held a
lawn fcte at Joseph Smiths on Tuesday even
ing.
The Pennington Sunday Schoo. held their
Children's Day services with Nottingham
last Sunday morning.
Carpenters have commenced work on the
HopeweIl Church where many improvements
are to be made.
The case of scarlet fever that was reported
here. was not serious one we are glad to
say.
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PriinCipio.

PRGNcIPIo. Mp, June 10, 1900
.r5.,n CeoY l,,Ljo, ;s m, sale eacL ,r.ei j.,
"J
Tflh'Ptp, ~ '"" h"'"'"'"H > ''"'" '"i3'
Cnmmissionrrs on MONDAY. asking them to
oonstrucf n hrid,p over principio Greek. Mt
prinrinio II Is badly aeeded. and we hone
,he mattrr viii be niven due considerat!ou.
II II KirI; and fnmilv visited +. ". jack
son and wife on SUNDAY
Miss Mary T. REYNOLDS WAS plcasantly en-
fartoired hy Miss lydia Maxwell lost week.
Miss Phiinna Y cameron j. the quest Of
Mr. and Mrs Jane. II, Maxwell at Farming.
1cr
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not exceeding 10 per cent. of your
cash purchases. Big attractions
every day. Industrial day, Floral
day and Firemen's day. Thous-
ands of people are coming and
your railroad fare will cost you
nothing if you want Clothing,
Hats and Shoes for men and boys.
Big special bargains all week.
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Calvert,
CALVERT, MP, June 18th, 1900.

CALVERT, Mp, June 18th. 1900.
The rains we have had of late have been
benefit to the crops as they are looking
we'll and bright prospects of good harvest.
James TrPinor and family are entertaining
friends from Baltimore
Miss Louie McCarus, of Nottingham has
been the guest of her friend Miss Mollie
Foster the past week.
Miss Minnie Brown has been spending n
few days with friends in Wilmington.
Mr.. Samuel Iinglng, of Cumberland
Allegheny county. spent a few days of this
week with his cousin Mrs. Rache! Foster.
George Ramsey, OF Baltimore, is the guest
Of Mr.. Vim. White.
Quite q pleasant surprise was given Miss
Matte Foster on Tuesday evening June 10Th
i'll honor of her 18th birthday, aboxt fifty
guests We're present and the evening was
spent il playing games Of different kinds
and some very fine music was rendered by
Mr.. McCarus and daughter of NOTTINGHAM
and Ion. I. X. Stubs, of Oxford which
was very mach enjoyed by all present. At
Il O'Clock all We're invited TO the dining room
where refreshments were served after which
all departed to their homes expressing them
selves rs having had Il delightful time and
wishing her many happy birthdays.
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sons of Perryville, spent Sunday last with
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Wilson.
Last Thursday evening North East lodge
No. 80, elected the following officers, Noble
Grand, r. G. Reeder; Vice Grand, n. r.
wilson; Recording secretary, j. ". Nc
Cullough. After they adjourned the newly
elected officers invited the members to II, g.
Wildsmiths to partake Of ice cream.
Local Preachers Camp opens August Is
and will continue two weeks.
Miss Lois White, OF Clarone Pa. Is the
guest Of Miss Ada Abrams.
Mrs. Mary Gill, OF Virginia is spending
several weeks with Mrs. John Davis.
Mrs. Margaret Hughes Is the guest of her
sister Mrs Rittenhouse in Chicago.
The W. Q. I. L. of this town celebrated
their Fourteenth anniversary In the NJ, e.
Church last Wednesday evening. special
program Of music and reading had been
prepared. Mrs. Alice COale Shippers, noted
W. y. L. U. lady was present and delivered
a short address, eX-prcsident of this associa-
ton Mrs. c. S. Abrahams was present and
also made few remarks.
Miss A. X, Beatty spent Monday with Mis-.
Bessie Ricard in Elk Neck.
Henry Deckmon was arrested on Monday
on warrant sworn out by his hired man
Louis l. ng charging him with assault ana
battery. MIR. Deckmon pleaded guilty and
was lined SO and costs by Squire Cramner
mr.. Deckmon took an appeal and gave 800
Dali Tor his appearance at court On Tues
DAY Mrs. Deckmcn had Il warrant sworn out
Tor Louis Long charging him with beating
two small boys who live Mr.. Deckmon. de
was tried before Squire Cramner on Wednes-
day. Lawyer Falls representing the state.
Case taken 10 the September court.
A telegram was received by North Eas t
Lodge L. o. 0 f. on Monday from Pittsburc
stating that the bOiv of II II ITarris ,rho
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Millions Given Away.

i is certainly gratifying to the public To
know OF one concern in the land who are not
afraid to he generous To the needy and suffer
Ing. The pr0pretors Of DR.. Kings NcT Dis
covCry for Consumption, Coughs and Colds.
have given away over ten million trial bottles
Of this great medicine; and have the salts
faction of knowing it mas absolutely cured
thousands CT hopeless cases. Asthma, Brcu-
chitis. Toarsoness ana al other diseases Of
the Throat. Uast and Lungs are surely cured
10y it, Call on r. b. Frazer, Druggist. and
get a free trial bottle Regular sizes soc.
and II. Every OottIa guaranteed. or price re-
lundnl
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Diocesan Convention.

The annual convention of the Diocese OF
Easson' in session at Berlin. adjourned
Thursday. Rev. William schouler and DR.. r.
o. Mackall represented Trinity Parish Rev.
Edward r. Rich. of Easton, was elected Sec
rotary and Rev. +. B. Adkins assistant secre-
tary. The new standing comrnittee elected
is as follows: Rev. James S. Mitchell, Rev.
w. Y. Beaver, Rev. Algernon Bate, Rev.
j. Gibson CAN'T and Rev. William Schouler.
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Working Night and Day

The busiest and mightiest little thing that
ever was made is DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
Every pill is sugar-coated globnle of
health, changes weakness into strength.
listlessness into energy, braln-fag into mental
power. They're wonderful in building up
the health. Only 25c per box. Sold by r.
b. Frazer.
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North East.


The "Ceci! Wig IL on S,,ie each ,ceef u.
North Ea& at Rtyaoi.ts Ne,cS Stand. )
cssis cory.
A band Of eypsie passed through town on
Monday.
Erasins Rattcr while at wort on house
in PeryvilIe last Monday was overcome
with the heat, he Was brought TO ms hosle
Saturday IL Il critical euMdI &n.
Farrutg gtDu aHd Moth 5hst played game
i'of base baG I<s SaltfdaA afternoon. on the
North East eI6nud-, l,nrrringtun Non by the
,coFe OF Is u u Thr- game war iu:eresEing
tlroushou.,nh and rrtd.tube one O. North
Eas rs 1t I,iIs the fret game ms season and
the team bad absoru-eN no practtte.
Gfr4dr"p- y ~ * Tct. Euse held in tho
NJ. II tirtcrh list sunday.
Edward Jefsrs has III wed into sAa Ssea!l.
cross properA, vacated ny W. Il. knes and
hab opened five cent eturo
F. Ii. Ford aud Miss Sage For1, % WaSh-
inston ID. O.. peglt Suutey Al IN I'D home.
g.cal,
Albert ". al Ter. has houg't ont the stoelI
ami HXtrsr,s md g.ood vii OF Harry PsrGl" :
wls nm accepted position wuh u, NJ.
Clark, to .ucaned Il, i. PlersoS who b q
gone fsro the life lnsutsslco hu-Desls.
Mrs, n. Dubois NetAeton and littiu dough-
ter, OF Ridley Park, is thq Iscst " her
parents Mr. and IIrs. john ~ MeCutoueh.
Mr.. and Mrs. John W. Alexander I'D tive
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Would Net Suffer So Again for Fifty
Tines It's Price.

lawohr last night With severe pains in my
stomach. In"Tcr fclt 50 badly il ali my life
When cam" down to work this morning l
felt so weak l could hardly work. went to
Miller 4 McCurdy's drug store and they rec
commended Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoca Remedy. 1t worked like magic
and one dose fixed me all right. 1t certainly
Is the finest thing l ever used for stomach
trouble. | shall not be without it in nv home
hereafter, for / should not care to endure
tn" suferings of last night again for fifty
times its price.-G. II. Wilson, Liveryman,
Burgettstown. Washington Co., Pa. This
remedy is for safe by all Druggists.
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A CARD of Thanks.

cations for what ChamharIaius Cough Rem
edy has done for oar family. We have used
it in 50 many eases OF coughs. lung troubles
npd whooping cough, and is has always
given the most perfect satisfaction, we feel
greatly indebted to the manufacturers OF this
remedy and wish the to please accept our
hearty thanks. Respectfully, Mrs. BotS.
Des Moines, Iowa. Foe saIe ~ all Drsr-
gi~ts.
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Principle Furnace.
PRINc1r1o FURNACE. June 18th, 1900

PRINCIPE FURNACE, June 18th, 1900.
Miss Mamie Wright Is visiting friends in
Baldwin.
Mr.. James Deayes and Mr.. Potter of Con-
shohocken, were guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. E.
O. Jackson.
Mrs. James Little and daughter Hattie, of
Perryyille, spent one day this week with Mrs
Mary Ann Jackson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Jackson, of Havre de
Grace are guests of Mrs. Ellen Jackson.
Mrs. John Nickel, of Woodlawn, spent
Wednesday with friends in this place.
MIR. Rowan, of PHILADELPHIA spent Sunday
with Miss Alice Hartenstine.
Mr.. John Gregg, who is working in Mag
nolin, spent Sunday with his mother
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-03-31
Hardinass In Poultry.

-Fl AAoA AAAAUVO az
To The Farmers' Review: I desire
60 call the attention Of farmers and
farmers wives to a few facts Of consid-
cradle Importance. It Is without ques-
ton true that. in all branches Of stock
industry, good blood is the key to sue
cess. In fact, in all business. whether
mercantile or Industrial, the best goods
make permanent success. This is true
also in poultry culture. Common hens.
like cheap labor, : not to be depend
ed on. The object Of the poultry raiser
is eggs and meat. To produce the
former weshave the Leghorns, Minor
yeas, Spanish, Hamburgs, and the like.
For meat we have, IL our aim be for
roasting. superior qualities In the Ply
mouth Rocks, Brahmas, Cochins; and
ifor broilers no better breed than the
iWyandotte can be secured. Now, II
We properly raise, house and feed these
breeds, no cross-bred fowl can equal
them. We have come to this conclu-
sion after years Of experimenting with
both cross-bred birds and With pure
bred ones.
But some say, when we use pure
bloods. We have q great deal Of sick
ness In our Jocks. while our mongrels
ARE always hardy" It issa pity that
too often such IL the case. What Is the
cause? / believe It to be due to In
breeding. In-breedins u Injurious to
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JUST HOW NOAH BUILT HIS ARK

fill their tanks from above. mat the
natives of the Euphrates retained the
! antiuuated manner of loading up strength
ems our theory.
Here are some of the most striking
passages from the Babyionian tablets.
which given the ancient Asiatlc story OF
the flood, which is substantially the same
as the Biblical accounts. but with DIFF
ferent names of people and several gods
instead of one Jehovah.
1.-The hero, Shamashnapishtim, instead
of Noah, tells B~izdhuber, the poet. that
i the gods had decided to destroy the
ancient town of Shurippak. situated at
the mouth of the Euphrates, because the
vices of her inhabitants made them un-
worthy to tread the face Of the earth.
Three deities. Ea, Anu, and Bel, In
conference assembled, decided to make
an end of their wickedness by means OF
a great flood. But as Shamashnapishtim.
the son Of Kidin Marduk, had found favor
In the eyes of Ea, word of what was go
ing to happen was sent to him, and ne
was ordered to build a Mighty ship of
certain colossal dimensions and to load
! it with grain and all sorts of food so that
the cattle and other animals which he
| was permitted to save from destruction
! might have nourishment.
The ship was to be six stories high, to
contain sixty-three compartments and
made watertight. Shamashnapishtim
smeared it with pitch within and without.
'Shamashnapishtim speaks thus of his
! preparations:
All l had of silver and of gold and
of living seed I collected together and
stored it in the ships hold. All my male
and female servants, the cattle of the
fields and the game of the forests and
all my relatives found room in the great
. ark.
And after the sun had risen the pre-
scribed number of times, then a voice
spake to me: Thou shalt enter into the
interior Of thy ship and lock the door,
for at dusk the heavens will open and
the rains of destruction will burst
forth."'"
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Railroad and. Car improvements.
The Phila dAlnhia Record nnfes soma raGu,

S&E OVCM
The Philadelphia Record notes some railway
improvements. The contract made by the
Pressed Steel Car company for the delivery Of
ten years-over 5000. 900 tons, which seemed
meet the demand. The car company is now
using 1900 tons Of steel daily. and IL increas.
ing the plant so that soon 1,o00 tons viii BE-
consumed daily. This business La. only three
years old. but the contract calls for more steel
than was produced, altogether, in the United
States in 1875. Twenty years ago the big steel
cars could not have been used on any road in
About 1880 Dr.. P. II. Dudley, a civil enx,-
neer. invented aid had built q. car, filled with
apparatus for measuring. and recording road
bed defects. The car has run over nearly every
road in the country 30 perfect 10 its working.
Dudley in 1883 designed the Shrst 6-inch 90.
pound steel rail. the design having been sur-
gested by the diagrams recorded In the expert.
mental car. Experts say that the stored enerrv
OF the heaviest pfojectils :sysr nred dos nok
equal the stored energy .1e Il modern railroa6
train running at twenty-five miles per hour.
During the past year the New York Central 4
fiudson River roAdt has put on grain trains Of
eighty care each carrying 10000 pounds-2,40o
tom IN all o. cargo. The trains are $500 feet
long and weigh. empty. $500 tons. The train
expenses are only $50 Per mile The grain
csrs would carry about 10000 pounds Of iron
ore; ana cars to meet that nesd are now being
built. The wear and tear Of the track il rreaf
and now the Pennsylvanta. road has laid DOM
nickel steel rails on its famous ...Horpe Shoe
Curve" and the Record thinks that po-fhiv
after 2 trial, the nickel steel wifi mako a NJ
transformation In railroad track euuipment.
4he ago OF steel ID sure enough.
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agreement of the radical ~consonants In
the two names, that the words are identi-
cal. Moreover, the gopher or cypress Is
native to the soil. This does away with
one of the objections raised against he
Biblical story.
"Now, as to the shipbuilding. After
putting dow the keel or backbone, the
natives lay across it the lower ends OF
tamarisk trunks, which serve as ribs sup
porting the sides. On the floor formed by
these cross pieces the keelson, also of
gopher wood, is placed and firmly bolted,
while gopher timbers are put in between
stem and stern to retain the ribs in a
Parallel position. Both the stem and
stern posts are gopher trees, set in the
Keel.
THE employment of tamarisk trunks
for ribs is a deviation from the plan of
the ark owing to the light usage to which
the present day ships. serving as petro-
leum tanks, are put. The Euphrates is
far from being a raging ocean. and ten
thousand gallons or so of kerosene are
sure to cause less commotion than the ag-
gregation of clean beasts, and of beasts
that, are not clean. and of fowls, and Of
everything that creepeth' on Noah's ferry
did.
"For the same reason the natives along
the Euphrates also dispense with gopher
pianking-they merely fill the intervals
between the wales with reed basket work,
and make the points and seams watertight
by forcing oakum into them.
"Then, after they have pitched the
whole structure within and without with
! pitch it's ready for use. have seen
several SO constructed tank ships that
carried excessive loads excellently we'll,
as their Biblical prototype must have
done.
Neither is the door set in the side
lacking in the twentieth century ark.
Noah's animals entered their floating
! stable on foot, hence the gate between
the wales. Nowadays he would probably
let them into the hold with q crane and
! pulley, just as modern kerosene shippers
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QUEER CAUSE FOR INSANITY.
Man Who Found Calamitien Follow
ing the Breaking of Glass.

Man Who Found Follow
ing the Breaking of Glass.
Thomas Hennessy, manager of the
st. Louis Radiator company, who
killed himself by leaping from q third
story window at Mercy hospital, was.
according to DR.. w. Lewis Tallman,
who had attended him. impelled to his
death by the strange influence broken
glass had over him. Dr.. Tallman said:
"For years the breaking Of glass, so
Hennessy said, had always been at
tended by some calamity. He was a
prosperous contractor in st. Louis and
the inventor of a steam heating ap-
paratus. Once he was on his way to
Milwaukee to close a $1O0,OO contract.
The car window at his elbow was &C:
cidentally broken, and in terror froW
previous experience he left the train
and tried to do his business by tele-
graph. He failed and lost the 100000
ccntract. At another time a glass bot.
tie broke in his pocket, and to that he
blamed the failure of another contract.
saturday night, in a Chicago res
taurant, he lifted a goblet of water to
drink it. and the glass split from top
to bottom. The Sheen 81 ..he ---..as.
glass was too mitch for him. He be.
came violently sick and I was EHN:
moned to the fremont house to attep0
him. There he told me Of this peculiar
mental craze that was upon him. He
told me not to tell II unless something
happened to him, but some terrible
thing he knew var impending. He
said that he had been drinking heavily
lately, but had taken nothing since
Wednesday. This left him weak. He
did not want to go to the hospital, but
the next day, when I called, he was
gone, and the next I heard was the re-
and sprung from a third story window.
His mind had evidently been unhinged
by the recurring association Of broken
glass with some observation-disclosures
Record.
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U 11<AtE seen the type Oh NOAH
HIH ark on the Euphrates. where
III it was being built by heather
" II natives for every day pur-
poses," writes DR.. r. Kolde-
wey, the explorer. from Babylon, Asia,
where he is engaged in digging out the
palace of Nebuchadnezzar, under the
auspices Of the German Oriental society.
ION my horseback journey of twenty
four days along the Euphrates." says DIR.
Koldewey, Il saw not one, but half a
dozen Of them going up. and they i'm
pressed me the more powerfully as my
mind was pondering on the tale from
Genesis. This is the Biblical description
Of the ark:
"'Said the Lord to Noah Genesis vi,
IA, 10, 1G, MAKE thee an ark of gopher
wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark,
akld. shalt pitch it within and without
with pitch.
80 And this is the fashion which thou
shalt make it Of: The length of the ark
shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth
of it fifty cubits. and the height of it
thirty cubits.
"'"A window shalt thou make to the
ark, n in a cub shalt thou finish it
above; and the door of the ark shalt thou
set in the side thereof, with lower, Sec
ond and third stories shalt thou make
it,
Like others, I once doubted that Moses
quoted Jehovah correctly, the prescribed
line of architecture, the wood named, the
dimensions-all puzzled me. 1t does so
no longer, for on my protracted ride
across this historical territory I SAY
thousand of heathens who never heard
Of the Bible lay own ships with keels
of gopher wood and finish them in the
manner described by the Jewish lawgiver
and the Babylonian poet, only that the
material for the side walls was of lighter
substance, in accordance with the nature
of the stores intended for these vessels.
1.-The commonest sort of tree h~ereabouts,
the cypress, is still called gopher in the
vernacular, indeed, several learned men
a these parts convinced me from the