Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-15
Modern Warfare ON Spot Where Samson Executed Feats

Special Correspondence of The Stnr.
MARSEU.LE, France. July 3, 1917.
e HAVE information from a party
who knows GAIA.
IL At last hearing. tho British. in
a raid OF Camel Corps, mounted
troops. desert column and field en-
eineers, blew up. simultaneously, TWEEN
ty-nve mil $ Of the Beer-sheba rail-
road-"not a length of rail remained
whole, not a railroad tie intact, and
not a holt without its head knocked
of"-so that the Turks. who. in great
need Of material. were tearing up the
road to build a new line back of GAIA
could not find a sound rail or sleeper
He is a Frcnchman. learned in the
languages who rendered service to the
English and knows everything about
the old Bible land Also. there Is a
woman. l can name her, for she is
a friend of mine-the celebrated
Myrian Harry who was brought up in
Jerusalem and the SINAI peninsula. Do
not the names stir you? There is scarce
one bald-headed American born bust
ness man today who did not a little
boy fof sunday afternoons or in long
winter evenings pore over the steel
engraved plates of the family Bible
"IIapar and Her Child in the Wilder
ness" abraham and the Three Angels"
and Samson. the Strongest Man, Car
rylhs OH the Gates OIL 'aza'
"Abrahams old homestead Is a
wreck" saws the learned French spe-
,,,
elaiist' ana we noiii''a' oe' "' .
we'll with great shells. DO not lear
fl was not vandalism The spots re-
main. the water of the wen still runs
What they smashed was seventeenth
century Turkish masonry"
f2ear.shrI.,,
Iiat,a- cast out. vas "wanderfnr In
,ba y,,,,ia~,,nsa Of Peer chrbo'' with
1ar ct,itd and ",he Tatnr v.as spent
In bcr tott1e" So rsj,c cast the child
,,,i,.r ont az the s,rr,hs and went
,I GO. p. ,,Ia1 nav off az II ware
~, - 60 ,ha id. .Tat mo not
~ ~. - ~ ai,i,d" Ana che
-. ~ " 'i' " ~ !, -. :,
iii ,,z up ~ No't -, on" .1iS.,a +oo
ne '''l"y nus iaNe
'"r VOC hea'u ne ~ IN ~.
ana the ah:ti Oh N,u saiiei ~ 'nsai
out or maven: nat ate'h thee;
lagar! rear not. LOT Ioo hd,h htaFu
the voic" of the lad Whefe ne IS. ARISE.
lift UP the lad. ana hold hlm In thy
hand, for ] Will make MN great ma
ton And God opened her eyes. ana
she saw well of water. And God was
with the lad; and he grew and dWelt
in the wilderness and became an
archer
Could such well be really de-
strovedp
"rhe lads name was Ishmanl," saws
49,, Ia.rped Isrnnchman and IshrnaeI's
,,,.as nut there. are occupied as store
't,''', ,,.c. WHIT ra,,Ia ~ IA
''"" t .hi,i, nf +anlsp III sb.1l ba
~ , ..;., ~ .,,.,a, >, II.,..
n VIII" '''.,'' 80 -. " ,5 -
but an ,'a, - is 49, III
"a" prss'n'' w o. ~ Ia; w. i H.. 'i''i ~
and th"St ~" ny az ~ US
Ntnrr, is our ally. Turks ana Germans
pushed him too hard. 1t was always so.
NleNaf'tl W :, i't', '+6'"'s1. 80 !
.."rs't,H' ,h ,i,,.,,I,.!, -; 49,, c,,-
,urics the Turks themselves. since
land the wild sons OF lshmael. pro
tectcd by hoary prophecy They shall
dwell in the preSenr" of all their
brethren Only once, when they ceased,
temporarily. to be wild ANA evolved Il
brilliant partial civilization. did the
sons of Ishmael, under the name Of
S:tr,cens, in the sixth and seventh cen
turtles, evade the decree and AL but con-
Gucred Europe. 1t was not thrr place
or role. Driven back ANONYMOUSLY.
they We're punished by q certain loose
schpolmasterinE Of the Turks up to
this war But now the time is NJ and