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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-19
The God Baal.

AS to the worship of Baal. there have been gods
OF that name back almost to the beginning Of his
tory. Il is question, indeed, whether the word
Baal did not mean lord, being the general term for
male gods of various kinds. Later on the Greeks
considered Baa the god Of the chasing him with
the god represented by Heos the city OF Heopo-
lis in Egypt The worship Of Baal through the
Bible. Samuel rebuked the Israelites for bowling
down to him., and Jezebe had four hundred priests
OF Baal who were COMPOUNDED by Elijah. Indeed, it
is a question whether Belzebub. the devil not
Baalzebub. term to show the horrors and nieknames
Of the false gods of Baal.
Here at Baalbek the finest statue OF this
god. It was Of gold and it represented beardless
young clad in aruor standing between two golden
bulls. He held whip in his right hand and thumb
erbolt and OF in his left. There were
also statues Of Mercury and Venus, Hall OF Bae-
chus. and and statuetes Of exquisite work
manship These images were destroyed by the early
Christians. who threw down parts Of the temples and
broke up the carvings
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-19
wonders of Mechanical Engineering.

All this, however, gives no idea of the construc-
ton People wonder how the mighty stones of the
pyramids were put into place and books have been
written to show how the obesks taken from the
quarries to the sites where they have served
uments. The work of this temple was far greater
mechanical triumph the materials FOR It, including
columns Weighing hundreds of had to be brought
up the steep Lebanon mountains and carried over
higher than the tops of the Aleghenies There
is granite here which came from far up the Nile;
there marbles from Greece and limestone blocks
Weighing hundreds of tons from the quarries by
The temple has walls sixty feet high and the mighty
columns seven feet in diameter and including the
pedestals and capitals, tall eiGhtstory house.
rest upon platform which is than fifty feet
high = These mighty pillars put up in three
blocks each twenty feet in height and seven
feet in dameter they placed that each looks
like solid block and the erection without the
aid of machinery
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-19
The Oedars Of Lebanon.

/ am surprised at the scanty vegetation of these
mountains of Lebanon; l had expected to find them
covered with forests whereas they almost treeess
Their lower slopes well cultivated and some of
them terraced almost to the top. Thousands OF
acres, made up of little patches rise step-ike one
above another, covering the hills for miles and miles,
the patches contain mulberry orchards Vineyards
there also peaches and apples, and in the valleys
are rich fields OF wheat barley and clover chief
formation is limestone, and there rocks every
where although the soil seems wonderfully. rich.
The cedars of Lebanon may have been great in
the past, but they have now disappeared; the only
ones left situated about nine or ten hours from
Baabek The trees grow in the thin soil, which
the white limestone, the ground being coated
seven in number and the tallest is not more than
eighty feet high the largest OF all is about fifteen feet
thick, you they sprouts in comparison
with the big trees Of California quite small as
compared with the giants Of Washington and Oregon
The cedars which taken for the temple probably
came from the region where the old cedars stand al
though other parts OF the Lebanon mountains may
have then been covered with woods The logs must
have been cut in the forests and carried over the
mountains distance of forty OF fifty miles to the
seacoast The rafting done under the direction
of King Hiram Of Tyre and the logs were probably
towed down to Jana and thence carried up the noun
tans Of Judea TO Jerusalem distance OF about forty
miles. The cedars bear which are about as
large egg the leaves spines OF the cones
being solid rather than detached, as those OF our
eedars at home The wood is whitish IN color; Il is
soft and for building is far inferior 70 cypress or pine
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-19
! ONE OF TEE BRoKET Columns ~

Of the mighty temples they IN their wonderful
beauty. The ruins of themselves cover more than
ten acres and the Great Temple alone was about 800
feet long by 100 feet wide; It had roof upheld by
Corinthian columns, six of which still standing
These columns eighty feet high and twenty-five
feet in circumference In entering the temples went
up gigantic staircase great part of which has been
destroyed, and into what is known the fore
court which is about 200 feet from one side to the
other, the floor of which paved with mosaic
We next went through another court known as
the court of the altar, which must five or six
acres 1t is of marble and granite gigantic
columns and delicate carvings being thrown helter-
SHELTER together Beyond this and up series of steps
the ruins Of the Great Temple, which cover VEN
ture, great that of the capitol Wash
ington at the left is the exquisite Temple Bacchus
and everywhere great shafts of marble
fully carved that they would be treasures in any
museum.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-19
THE LAST OF TEE Gnms% ~
WHOSE GROVES BUILT SOLODGoNS TENGPLH

forum. Here at Baalbek the sultan gave him carte
blanche, and he has erected Temple of the Sun
tablet bearing an inscription in and Turkish
testying to his the sultan and his pleasure
at visiting the ruins Shortly after leaving he sent
German scientists, and they organized an army of
natives and put them to work excavating the temples
The Germans laid down a railroad track, and by
of dirt they have carried away mountains
of earth and debris. They have used modern ma
chinery to lift the vast into place and have
for the first time, given adequate of these
most wonderful temples
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-19
The Ruins of Baalbek.


It is in this little valley which is less than 100
miles long and from five to eight miles in width,
walled by these mighty mountains that lie the ruins
of Baalbek, the most wonderful temples known
the ages. have spent hours in wandering through
them, and their immensely and beauty steadily grow
despair of being able to describe them and can only
hope to give you bits of the details. have seen most
Of the worlds mighty ruins. the past year have
wandered through the tombs of the AIings outside
Mukden, Manchuria; have stood upon the Temple of
Heaven in Picking and have climbed the great Chinese
wall. have gone through the Temples of Karnak at
the hundred-gated gated city Of Thebes, far up the
Nile; have taken photographs Of the CoIoss OF Men
non and have measured the stones Of the pyramids
with two-foot rule. Not long ago visited the Tenn
pie of Boro Boedor in the heart of Java describe
it's three miles Of wonderful carvings and last year
spent some time in the forts of the Mogus at Delhi
and wrote Of the Tai Mahal and it's wonders. have
also seen Timgad the exeayated city the edge of
the Sahara, and have lately gone through the Coos-
scum at Rome and inspected the equally wonderful
amphitheater which lies at El Diem in the heart of
the Tunisan desert All these are wonderful but
Baalbek is their superior.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-19
NcOpyright, 1910, BY Frank G. Carpenter.)

AALBEK-(Special Correspondence to
The Bee)-I am in the valley of Leb-
anon, the high, plain which
lies between the two ranges of Lebanon
#hrnrfffeN mountains. The word Lebanon means
eSlttiia4afi white and the Lebanon mountains
of Syria, the higher peaks of which are covered
with snow. These mountains extend north and south
parallel with the cast of the MEDITERRANEAN sea- They
begin little below the border of Asia Minor
themselves in the Holy Land. In reading of them
have always considered them hills. They are higher
than any mountains of country east of the Mis-
sssipp and the average height the range nearest
the coast is a thousand feet greater than that of
Mount Washington. Mount Hermon is over 5000
feet high and Jebel Makmel measures 10000 feet.
The valley Of Lebanon itself twice as high as the
topmost peaks Of the Blue Ridge of Virginia, and
It slopes from here the far as Aleppo and
to the south beyond Dan, where rises the Jordan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
A Timely Warming.

The London Sketch has the following
which we recommend to the reading
of the new Legislature. because it may
have wrong idea of its construction
and may blow up" without being
prepared for the change:
When YOU come TO consider il. why
should you worry about such trivial
tiles as the general election?-Nou are
nothing but a few chemicals, and all
the politicians are the same. The hui
man body contains no fewer than four
substances which are so intiammable
that, in pure state. they Will go OF
by spontaneous combustion. For in
stance. there is phosphorus. The body
of person weighing 100 pounds con-
tains 30 ounces of this substance,
which. as everybody knows, readily
takes fire of its own accord. II eX-
posed to the air. II is combined with
lime to make the bones. taking the
form of phosphate lime. The body OF
a human being weighing l2O pounds
contains nearly enc and a half ounces
of magnesium, two ounces or sodlum.
and nearly two and a half ounces of
potassium The first of these, SUD
stance OF silvery whiteness, is so read
ily and fiercely combustible that IL has
to be kept tightly corked in bottles to
prayent it from igniting of its own ac-
cord. Sodium will take fire if thrown
into water. and so likewise will po-
tassium-the latter with great vio-
Ieuce. finally exploding and throwing
shower of sparks into the all"
We deem this timely advice. in view
of many reports in circulation. Legis-
lators should not allow themselves to
become overheated, neither should they
take a bath. Just think of the pre-
dicament of Maine if it should be dis
covered necessary to cork up in bot
ties, for fear of ignition, all these law
makers. Some of EN- weigh as much
as $40 pounds and would thus con-
tain Al ounces of phosphorus. Think
of the chances a man of that size takes
in exposing himself to the air the
new state House, too, is endangered.
So Democrats who oppose Single
ton as State Treasurer should weigh
the circumstances and consider pos
sible results before resorting to COM
bustible rhetoric. Obadiah is known
to contain as much as two ounces Oh
magnesium and, contrary TO reports,
none of it has been exploded. Pie,
even in homeopathic doses is sooth-
ing to these combustible elements. so
we may hone that the danger is past.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
That Rines Hill Embankment.

That Rines Hill embankment needs
attention. 1t is a dangerous place.
More than one have called our atten-
ton TO it. In the living delight of be-
ing able to negotiate that hill with
Out the fear of being knocked into
next week by train that had been
watching for victim, the average Au-
gusta citizen is inclined to enjoy him
self while going up and down. But
within our city this winter are many
strangers and the sidewalk at the
worst point is not well lighted at
snight. In a stormy night it is a very
dangerous place. If person should
walk or stumble over there it might
not result seriously but We are willing
TO bet doughnut it would surprise
him bit.
Again If one Of those lawmakers
should tumble over there the popular
verdict would be that he was from
Bangor-and legislators cannot afford
to take any such chances. Won,
somebody whose business 1t is please
put rail or rope or board fence
OF Democratic promise along thai
bank s&sas lbs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
Coming Events

Jan. 10-Superior Court opens. Augusta.
Jan. 10-Meeting of Governor and Coun-
Gil, Augusta.
Jan. ll-Annual meeting Of Maine Opt
clans, Portland.
Jan. 11--Annual Meeting Maine State
Bar Association, Augusta.
Jan, II. Knox Pomona Grange. Union.
jan 1I-Legislature enters upon dis
charge of duty of election of U. S. Sen
ator.
Jan. 1S-19-4sth Annual Meeting Maine
Press Association, Augusta.
Jan. 27-Kennebec County Christian
Endeavor Union, Gardiner.
Feb. 6-11-Commercial Travellers Food
Fair, Bangor.
Feb. i8-19-Maine State Y. NJ. c. A.
and College Y. NJ C. A, Lewiston.
Feb 21-s2-Western Maine Pythian Jn-
bilee, Lewiston.
March 3-Cony Hlgh-Portland High de-
bate, Augusta.
April 19-26-East Maine Methodist Con.
ference, Oldtown. Bishop Cranston pre-
siding.
April 1s-2e-Malne Methodist Confer
ence. Biddeford Bishop Neely presidinR
Oct. 25-26-27-Annual Convention Maine
Teachers Association Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10

as now reported from Penobscot alb
solutcly Indifferent to existing condi-
TONS
No doubt there may be spectacular
raids here and there to make IL show
of carrying out party pledges, but
there will continue to be indifferent"
officials on the county jobs. who find
that 1t pays financially to remain in
different. especially in localities where
heavy men in the ranks of the liquor
interests are in position to see that
business is business and must contin-
Ne to pay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
Editorial Comment
Enforcing the Law.
cortland PresSD

one of the Democratic pledges be-
| fore election and the pledge of the
Governor in his inaugural was the en-
| forcement OF the prohibitory law.
An excellent illustration is now being
given OF the manner in which these
pledges are being fulfilled. In the city
of Bangor news dispatches in the
Boston papers tell the story of 800
| saloons which are wide open, of beer
and ale being sold by the glass as it
is in Boston, OF competition so great
because of so many saloons That the
| liquor dealers themselves are COM
planning and Of the absolute indifter-
ence of the sheriff of Penohscot coun-
ty TO the existing conditions.
In Portland a similar condition ex-
lists according to all reports. There
may not be as many saloons and the
LIQUOR business may be conducted in
a more quiet manner but the law is
net being enforced and the prospect
is that 1t will not be enforced.
In the face of these conditions the
Democratic Governor has asked the
Legislature to remove from the statute
books the only weapon he can use to
make good his promises Of law en-
forcement. Without the enforcement
commission or some similar law the
Governor of Maine is powerless how
ever much he may desire to live up
to the promises he has made. Judg-
ing from the manner in which the
Democratic sheriffs elected in Maine
are setting out upon the performance
OF their duties. the Governor of the
State will have his hands full making
Maine las dry as a covered bridge"
as he said it would De after he was
inaugurated. He may come to real
ization of the necessity for some such
weapon as the Strrgis law as did Gov
ernor William T. Cobb and he may
wish he had some such club to use to
make good his pledges to the people
of Maine as was used so effectively
by Governor Bert NJ. Fernald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
TROUBLE CHASERS.

Some men can write poetry and yet
make q living.
Kill time. and it will eventually come
back to haunt you.
The absentminded man seldom for
gets to pick up his change.
Labor is ennobling, but a lot of
Americans are opposed to the nobil-
it,.
Laziness sometimes borrows the
cloak of patience and poses as vir-
tue.
The price of ostrich feathers has
advanced, but what is home without
them:
The man who is a successful horse
trader would have similar reputa-
ton I'm any other business
Business is n mantle that covers
a multitude of queer transactions.
Some people go in for the simple
life because of the notoriety it brings
them.
A woman always calls it feminine
intuitfQny when she succeeds in max
ing a FAIRLY good guess.
A short purse and a long face go
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10

4 New York cat has just lost all of its
nine lives while lying upon a *2'o couc"
Of catnip. from the very human disease
go1It. Not even the delight in It's own
christmas tree. in its own room' ana III
il. feasting and festivities of the Christ
mas occasion. could save even one Oh i's
lives Even rich cats must pay the pen
atty. They should give away their sur
nh,s ia poor, yowling cats who sneak
about the back alley ways oil huif'ai'
babitations. Be he ever SO rich cat
sbouId not allow himself to sleep on
high cost catnip bed when a neishpoi
cat has neither bed nor VIM
catnip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Subterranean springs are undermine
ing the leaning tower of Pisa
Coal is So scarce in Siam that gas is
not used for illumination and the only
city using electricity is Bangkok.
The chief meat-eXporting countries
are Australia, New Zealand, Argenti-
ma, Canada and the United States and
the chief meat importing countries the
United Kingdom, Germany and, in q
less degree. the ether European coun-
tries.
Parisians spent more than 10O00, 900
on public amusements last year The
figure is official, being known because
of the tax for the poor levied on all
public entertainments. THIS tax Is
now paid by the public. the managers
having raised their prices year ago
sufficiently, borrower it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
Penalty for Promoting a Strike.

hill is to be introduced in the
,..sbinatan legislature by Senator
coorse w. Shaefer fixing penai'S
If $1,000 for melting strike or loeh
out The measure as whole "ouiu
s.an radical at this time in the east
ern states but. we venture 10 preoic'
that within the next ten years many
states will have written into their
statutes provisions just as strong OF
oven more drastic. On the PACING
coast where labor conditions are more
acute and where arbitration has not
made as good progress as in the East
the proposed measure promises 10 meet
determined opposition by both en-
blowers and organized labor.
The bill provides that any empiose
NAV be fined $50 for every day he is
on strike, while any employer causing
a lockout becomes liable to fine oil
$40 a day for each employe thus de-
p,ivee of work, this in no instance
to be less than 800 day in the ag-
ereaate. The arbitration board is to
he cornuosed of five members, two each
to be selected by employer ana en-
Moved. the four chosen to appoint the
fifth. ANY member accepting a graf
nifty from either side is liable to fine
of 5000. Seven classes of Industrial
disputes are named as coming within
the jurisdiction of the arbitration
board. as follows: Wages, hours ana
terms OF employment, employment oil
children, favoritism, faulty material
or damaged work, established customs
and uses of various trades and inter
probation of agreements.
Difference arising out of any of the
foregoing causes is ground for apply
ing 10 the commissioner of labor t(
appoint a board of arbitration, follow
ing which neither employer nor en-
plovcd is permitted to make any
change in the terms or conditions OF
employment until a final decision has
been given by the board. In the event
no decision is reached a new board
may be summoned at once. While tn,
board is empowered to summons wit
nasses and take testimony. attorney
at law are barred from appearing ex
cept by agreement of both parties ant
all members of the arbitration body.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
Why This Agitation?

Tho Portland Express Advertiser
publishes a report that State Treas
urer Singleton is to be asked by
Democrats to resign because of ru-
mcrs connecting his past with the IL
ouor interests
We are surprised. The very idea OF
a conservative old newspaper getting
excited ana using scare heads over
something that everybody expected!
And didn't the Express Advertiser IT
self, along with some of the rest oil
lis. predict that the liquor clement
would have a large and controlling
hand in Democratic State affairs? 1t
seems to us that it did-and now 1t
exclaims right out in meeting that
men prominent in the liquor interests
are being given important places.
Perhaps our distinguished Portland
contemporary has been listening SO
intently to the rift in the Democratic
Lutte that it hasn't heard of the Bangor
MAN.. or that the plan is on its
job ut the present time. "W. q. Il.
doesn't mean Worthy Our Best, put
| Wide open Bangor and "Whopping
Old Business" So why should the
| Express Advertiser expect the hest
| man for the best place, when man
with a barrel can be found who
wants it, and he is happily located
in the right part of the State for the
pie to go? Our neighbor is incon-
sistent.
| OF course there are good men III
the party-men against whom no
breath of suspicion ever connected
them with the liquor business, and
men who are competent in every way
to fill important State offices, but
political exigencies are not conducive
of moral turpitude. and sometimes 1t
is necessary in politics to be deaf to
rumors Outlines unfoundedD and take
the man that is needed. AS whole
we think the selections of the Demo-
cratic leaders do them credit and &c
long way toward redeeming the par
Itys pledges to do things right-but
who ever expected a party that has
REPRESENTED the liquor interests all its
DAYS, and that has persistently and
consistently fought the enforcement OF
the liquor laws, to suddenly change
its religion? Gov. Plaisted and Other
party leaders may have seriously in
tended 10 make Maine as dry as 9
covered bridge believing its effect
would initiate toward the repeal OF
the prOhibitory law, but they no doub,
realize by this time that 1t is easier
said than done. The liquor dealers OF
Maine understand these things and
are taking advantage of the time ant
the place. Bangor is not the only
Maine city which lays it's thumb Il
it's nose and waggles it's fingers afte
the departing Sturgis deputies-if WI
are correctly informed. Reports conn
from Portland, Lewiston and else
where of re-awakened interest in lif'
by supposed-to-be moribund liquor
, dealers.
The Governor has grabbed the en-
foIcement big stick and has asked hi
r Legislature to throw it down TIL
/ spout With that out of hand hi!
! sheriffs and deputies will grin and d.
as 1t seems best to them, according
, to conditions of mind and material
: Some Of these officials will no doub
attempt to make good on their oatl
of office but others are bound to b.
-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
suNFLowER PHILOSOPHY.

Those riding in automobiles are not
as happy and comfortable as those on
foot think they are.
A man should either be able to KEEP
his temper or be able to whip the man
he is quarreling with.
There are thousand things the peo-
pie ought to do, and although they adj
nit it, they never will do them.
No man is able to understand why
his opposition isn't taken out and
horsewhipped and ordered to leave the
community.
The present popularity of dogs is
due to story. told years ago. and
never authenticated, that there was
once a dog that would so after the
COWS. - aAi,x.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
Tuesday, January 10, 1911.

Youth has vision. II is
Young eyes that see the m
visible. When we were chill
dren we saw ghosts. and
santa Claus. and angels, and
giants. They were real. We
PLAYED with them. Old people
wondered why we laughed and
capered and shouted. When
we told them they shook their
heads and smiled indulgently.
Having eyes they saw not. and
having ears they heard not.
what we saw and heard. God
has put into our young eyes
and ears some subtle alembic
that transformed the beggarly
clements of the commonplace
into the glory and trappings
of knights and kings and
courts.-Dr. Frank Crane.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10

Llewellyn b. Trafton. a Guilford con-
tractor ard builder, was seriously in.
jured last Friday by the bursting of a
rotary saw. \ large piece of the saw
struck Mr.. Trafton upon the right arm
near the shoulder. smashing the bone
and tearing the flesh in frightfui
manner. The outcome Of the accident
is uncertain and it Is feared that the
arm may have to be amputated.