Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-03
Reason for Pharaoh
 Dreaming Dreams
NEW THEORY ADVANCED IN RE GARD TO FAMOUS BIBLE
 STORY.
Sir William WfIcocks is the Greatest Living Expert On Subject of lrrisa- tion-Lifts the Veil of History-His- tory of Joseph's Famine Becomes Inteaiqible.

| As Joseph interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh, so today, nearly 1000 years after, does the practical wisdom of Jo- seph stand revealed in a new light.
 We are lifted out of world of won- : ders into one of possible realities, writes Sir William Willcocks, and the history of Joseph's famine becomes quite intelligible."
 Sir William Willcocks is the great est living expert on the subject of ir- ! rigation. He is the late director gen. eral of the reservoirs in Egypt In a lecture delivered at Cairo recently on the subject of the Assuan am he has lifted the veil of history, Biblical and otherwise, and commented with the weight and authority of a vast cAperi- ence on the topic of irrigation as it manifests itself today aD2 as it mold ed the fate Of Egypt :n remotest dim past Sir William mas sent a reprint of this interesting lecture to the Lon don Daily Mail
 Like the Nile in fiood-its theme the lecture teens with valuable ma terial, but the attention of the curious will be riveted by the new reading it supplies of Joseph's forecast of the famine in Egypt and of how as wise, God-fearing man, he is conjectured to have anticipated the seven years of dearth that overlook the land.
 In ancient days there was a huge lake in Egypt-Lake Moeris, whose waters held in thrall by a great dike, were allowed to flood upper and lower Egypt in due season and impregnate the earth with richness and plenty. At the head of this dike, Sir William Will cocks writes was Ha-Oar, fortified is- land, of lower Egypt, for it could con- mand the floods that were as liquid gold to the land.
 History tells us,' says Sir William, that Joseph arrived in Egypt late in the time Of the Hyksos. who ruled low. CT Egypt, while Theban dynasties rul ed upper Egypt Between the two crowns there was an intending war As years rolled on the fortune of war wen; gradually against lower Egypt and up per Egypt kings won their way down the Nile valley, and about the time
 hat Joseph arrived they might have been nearing Ha-Uar, the regulator of Lake Moeris, and the true southern frontier of lower Egypt.
 ''The very natural anxiety about the
 loss of the stronghold and the dire con- sequences which would ensue must have made Pharaoh dream repeatedly of fat and lean kline, of full ears and ears blasted with the east wind.
 Joseph, a thoroughly capable and shrewd man, as well as God-fearing 1ne, while lying in prison for many ears, would have learned from his fel- 'ow-prisoners. many of them captives rom upper Egypt, that the aim of the Theban kings was the construction of T fleet and the capture of Ha-Uar. He iook in the situation, and when he stood before Pharaoh boldly told the king to put away his fiattering advis- CTS and to realize the fact that upper Egypt was preparing a strong fleet, and that when it was ready Ha-Uar might fall.
 "The collection of corn was set On foot on a gigantic scale Ha-Uar fell into the hands of the Theban kings; he Nile failed to overflow it's banks in lower Egypt. The predicted famine came.
 Making a final effort the Hyksos king retook Ha-Uar, and closed the dike. The Nile flood rose to its ordi- nary level, and the land which had long lain fallow brought forth by handfuls.
 "To my mind," Sir William adds, there is no doubt that Ha-Uar is Hawara and Pa-Zefku is the lake on which Hawara stood. the ancient Lake Moeris. The name Moeris was giv- en the lake by the Greeks a thousand years afterwards"