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Evening star., 1926-05-20
CoLoRED METHODIST
BISHOPS ARE NAMED
Right Rev. j. Arthur Hamlet 10
Preside over This Conference.
Others Are Appointed.
By the Associated Press

ff lis AeNbtidtI lifNr
KANSAS CITY, Mo, May -.
Assignments Of bishops TO serve 1"F
the next four years were announced
yesterday by Rev. II. S. Williams
Of Augusta, Ca, following the clos
ing of the fifteenth quadrennial sts-
sion Of the general conference OF the
CoIored Methodist Episcopal Church.
The assignments:
North and South Carolina, Florida
and East Florida. Bishop L. =. vii
Hams; mississippi conference, Bishop
Elias Cottrell; West Kentucky, Ken
lucky. Ohio and California con
ferences. Bishop G. II, Phillips; Georgia
conference, Bishop X. A. Carter; Okla
hona and Arkansas conferences,
bishop n. {. CleaVes; Alabama and
New Orleans conferences, Rishop T..
r. Brown: Louisiana ana Tennessee
conferences. Bishop j. &. Martin
Kansas and Missouri, Southeast
Illinois. Washington and Philadelphia
conferences. Bishop j. Arthur Ham
lett: Texas conference. Bishop John
w Mckinney.
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trusIoo~ of \cighhurhuud Iluas'. aud
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dent.
Evening star., 1926-05-20
A Matter of Feet.
a London Answers

From the London Answers.
Sweet Young Thing says
he worships the very ground
stand on.
A Rejected Suitor~-I don't blame
him. A farm Of that size is not to be
SneeZed at
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through the prlauu huiiiiuHv ta HY
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Evening star., 1926-03-28

An exploring expedition into the
trackless and waterless Libyan des-
ert furnished adventures of a far
different nature from what Mr..
Harding King anticipated. AS re-
lated in two preceding articles.
while traverSing the sands with the
intention Of reaching the border OF
French Sudan, he and his caravan
were put in a sorry plight by the
treachery of an Arab guide, who
had emptied all the water tanks at
an advance station, thus causing
the abandonment of the journey.
Harding King had become sus-
picious Of this guide. Qway Hassan
Qway, because of his association
with members of the SenuSsi, a sect
of dervishes who had always shown
hostility toward any nonMoham-
medans entering the desert. Even
.tually Qway, after being tracked
through the sands, surrendered
himself and was lodged in prison as
q traitor. But Harding Kings eX
periences with the Senussi had not
ended. as a reading of this article,
the concluding one in series by
him, will disclose.
That there was a basis for the
belief of Harding Kings men in the
existence of buried treasure In the
desert, as related in this article, Is
shown by the recent findings by an
expedition headed by Count de
Porok in the French Sahara, bor-
dering the Libyan desert. There,
in a tomb as large as those eX-
plored in Carthage and Utica, the
expedition unearthed a wealth of
gold, silver, bronze and precious
Jewels.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
Sea Serpents.

He appearance of sea serpent
on the Canadian coast and re-
ported by Capt. c. J. House. command
er of the Government fishery protec-
ton boat Cloyah. some davs ago re.
calls a similar visit or appearance of
one OF those ''sea monsters" on the
ew England coast in 1851.
Statements of numerous eye-wir-
nesses, as to its form, size. color and
movements. its body cylindrical in
shape. struck the observers with won
der and awe at such a sight at the
time, 10 years ago, all of which con
firms the statEment of Capt. House
The creature s body. he says. emerged
spirally. like Il snake, and then
Strengthened out, the head wider than
the rest of the body. II was about
feet wide and 2,2 feet long. he de
clared, adding that Sne sun gave the
monster greenish geld appearance
The first sea serpent to he seen by
mariners or scientists, described from
accurate observations of the first TO
see il as being from so to 100 feet i'm
length, with body the size of a large
'arrel. with 80 or more protuberances
compared TO 4-gallon casks. waS first
seen in PenobScot BaY. After The
trustworthy testimony of several sea
captains in command Of coasting yes
sells on our New England sea coast
the serpent became a reality and was
no longer a myth
So much testimony was gathered
and volunteered that the Lfnnesn So
clety of Bosom appointed a commit
tee of emineIE scientific professors to
collect evidence on the subject. They
drew up a report giving i'm detail the
statements of the various witnesses
who had seen the creature from the
shore or a sea. some of them claiming
to nave been within 10 yards of the
monster.
IL was reported to have come 10 the
surface in calm and bright weather
it's head being usually carried about
: feet above the water and being of
dark brown color. II was also re
ported that the creature swami at the
rate OF 20 miles per hour
According to the statement pub
llShed in the ZOologist i'm 1851. RELAXING
the experiences of q party of EI,N-
llsh officers on II fishing excursion
from Halifax To MahOn Ray, the exist
ence OF the American sea serpent was
reality and not the local trurnped.lp
wonder which was beirved to exi,,
only i'm the mind of some Yankee skin
per by some persons.
The fact that the sea serpent'S
course was not confined to places ON
the north Atlantic coast, hut went as
far south as Cape Hatteras, a latitude
OF 30 degrees, was a we'll verified state
ment in those DAYS
Geological writer's of eminence. espe-
cially in that department or branch of
the great science which treats of
fishes, their anatomical structure.
form, classification and habits, have in
recent years beer unanimous in their
opinion as to the actual existence of
this remarkable marine innabitant
long known by the name of sea
Evening star., 1926-03-28

and diverse qualifications demande
stamp the chosen ones women of un-
usual attainments. Prerequisite to
appointment is unmistakable evidence
of the possession of courage, grit, de-
termination, perseverance. finesSe and
diplomacy as we'll as professional skill
and the willingness to consecrate one
self for period of years. in spite of
hardships known to strew the way, to
spreading the principles and practice
of health among forgotten people.
Isolation. primitive conditions and
extreme poverty characterize every
field in which the Delaro nurse labors,
and every day she must solve prob
lens of which her sisters of the cities.
even in the slum districts, do not even
dream
Typical of the Delano corps is Miss
Margaret Harry, who for more than
three years has been assigned to Ma
con County, 400 square miles of wild
mountain country in the northwest
corner of North Carolina. Around
Highlands. the highest village east of
the Rockies, 25 miles from a railroad
station and where Miss Harry has
her. base of operations, circle noun
tain ranges on which dwell families
of pure American stock amid con-
ditions that have not perceptibly
altered since the infant days of the
republic. Superstitions that ruled
their forebears continue undisputed
sway in many instances in the candle
lit log cabins in which they live. The
| conjuring away of disease and extraor-
dinary remedies" constitute a we'll
nigh battling problem for the one who
would impart real knowledge of dis
ease, it's prevention and control.
In this rich virgin field of service
Miss Harry. soon found opportunity
not only for nursing and teaching but
also to work for the Improvement OF
general living conditions. Hardly
any problem of life was beyond her
sphere and often as the little mission
airy of health trudGed over the f1intr
mountain trails on her ezra nds of
mercy she was overwhelmed with the
wish that she might do something to
bring about expansion of the meager
education that was all even the fortu-
nate among the eager, brightfaCed
youngsters she encountered was able
TO gain. She succeeded in a small way
at first. for she was the means of help
ing a few of the children add to their
schooling. Her great opportunity
came quite unheralded.
The Junior Red Cross of Atlanta
had 5000 which it wished to devote to
two scholarships for mountain chill.
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hes in Libyan Sands Become New Goal of Expedition

the whole region Of Dakala Oasis. He
was sitting on a rug in tse shade Of Q
small fig; tree, ostensibly engaged N
pious meditation. He wad apparently
prepared for Journey.
The situation was perfeGtly clear.
The little ramp OF the Senuss:a having
missed fire, they were desperately
anxious that IT should be overlooked
So the natives of the oasis, with their
usual kindly instincts. had arranged
this meeting in order to make the
peace"
Oh Mawhub, at whose house I had
once tremendously .dined, expressed
himself delighted TO see me; but !
noticed that he omitted the forrnality
usually made to one returning from
journey, and did not praise Allah for
my safety.
Mawhub explained that he was on
his way to Cairo TO sell some horses'
he had with him. His caravan was
most wretched-looking collection, con
sisting OF a couple of camels and a
miserable horse. while two sorry look
ing screws, mounts for himself and hts
son, We're apparently the horses he
was taking into Cairo for sale.
The old skeykh suggested az we
were both OF US travelling 10 Khargs.
that we should join forces and make
the Journey together. Though ] was
ready to let bygOnes be bygones to q
certain extent. ] was not prepared to
go TO this length, so finding that he
was intending to travel by the lower
or Gubary road, decided to take the
route across the plateau via Ain
Amur. Mawhub. apparently much
disappointed jumped up into his sad
die with a nimbleness surprising in a
man of his age, and rode off wishing
me most cordially safe road and safe
journey"
We kept a careful lookout at night
and took no risks during our remain
ing time in the desert. At Kharga
the nights rest that ! then managed
to get was most welcome; there had
not been a night since leaving Qasr
Farafra, fortnight before, when |
| had been able to get more than a
very limited amount Of sleep.
A sleeping man is so utterly defense
less that had been put TO great shifts
to get any rest at all on the Ave days
Journey from Bu Mungar TO OAK khla
IT was not till we got to Nut that [
felt l could trust my men enough 10
risk being caught by them asleep.
Then I took the train for Cairo. left
the romantic desert" to look after #
self, and exchanged the heated atnos
pi1ere of the Arabian Nights" for the
saller one of Europe
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1926-03-28

Qwaytin's men, after they had been
working for a short time, downed
tools, declaring that that sort of work
was a job that was only fit for the
fellahin, and beneath the dignity of
the Arabs. It was not until / pointed
out that the we'll was the most likely
place in which to look for treasure,
and reminded them that the three
Sultans were. said to have buried
theirs in the well on the top of the
hill described in Qwaytin's book, that
they could be induced to resume their
work. Then they fell to with a will
and soon had the we'll cleared to the
bottom.
1t was about feet in diameter
and feet deep. Before we COM
menced to dig the well was completely
filled with sand that had drifted into
it. About halfway down our expecta-
tions were raised by the sand becom-
ing damp; but though the well was
cleared out to the bottom and the
sand got considerably damper as we
descended, no water was to be seen.
We stayed for day or two more at
Blu Gerara, during which time the
men found a small earthenware pot,
some broken fragments of glass and
pottery and one or two more copper
coins--and that was all! Then as we
had drawn a blank, so far as treasure
was concerned, at Blu Gerara, the men
all wanted to be taken off to the hill
Uhera th<> riches 0f the. fhraa E1Iltana
Evening star., 1926-03-28
BY WILLIAM S. ODLIN.

the quite unanticipated by
~ product OF humanitarian en-
Il deavor that is the legacy and
4 4 the monument of one of Amer
ica's noble women. 45 boys and
girls of the Southern mountains are
receiving an education which a short
time ago seemed definitely beyond
their reach.
Early in 1919. a few weeks after
the guns had ceased splitting death
and destruction, Jane A. Delano. who
as chief of the American Red Cross
nursing service had modified nurses
for World War duty by the tens Of
thousands. died in France. Worn out
by the almost superhuman efforts she
had put forth while the struggle ragged
and the labors eXacted by the over
whelming problem of human recon
struction that was the aftermath of
war, even that sturdy physique and
mighty will with which she was
blessed proved unequal to the demands
to which she subjected them. Her life
was forfeit not less certainly and
gladly than had she been a doughboy
dropped by bullet In no mans land.
To the very end she labored with
the selflessness that marked her
whole busy and achieving career and
when her will was read the deep love
of humanity that dominated her life
spoke from the grave. The will di-
rected that out of her modest estate
there be set apart $25, 900 and the
royalties from her writings for the
establishment of a novel undertaking.
1t was the maintenance of visiting
nurses to carry the gospel of health
to those remote communities that
otherwise would remain in darkness
She established the fund in memory of
her father and mother.
Thus 1t came to pass that since the
death of Miss Delano especially quail
fed and selected public health nurses
have gone into the bleak wastes of
Alaska. to the desolate and forbidding
islands off the coast of Maine, to the
almost impenetrable Businesses of the
Idaho forests, to the backwaters of
civilization in the mountains of the
South. In every field they have en-.
tered their names have been written
large in the hearts of the people they
came to serve.
The service they give begins liter
ally before birth and it ends not even
with death, for they have given to
mothers the prenatal guidance and
care that hitherto had been a closed
book, while in more than one instance,
defeated at last by the Grim Reaper,
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were buried with the least possible de-
lay. Qwaytin was the most insistent
of them all, evidently assuming
that I had given up my plan of going
to Farafra and had committed myself
TO whole seasons treasure hunting
instead.
The hill where the mystical Sultans
had buried their riches was not far off,
though it did not lie in the direction in
which l had intended to go; but 1t was
in part of the desert that had never
been mapped. so I thought it best to
humor him once more and let him
take me there.
X x
WE got off early the next morning.
w Qwaytin led us straight toward
the hill in the wady, near the foot of
which we found the promised road.
We sighted the hill We were in
search of in the afternoon, and. in an
hour before camping, reached the top
of a steep descent on to the lower
ground, about two hundred and fifty
feet below us that Qwaytin said was
called in his book the "Negeb er Rumi''
descent Of the Europeanl. The road
down to the valley below was OBJ
viously to some extent an artificial
one, and though extremely steep, was
negotiated without difficulty.
We reached the hill itself at noon,
and camped on it's southern side. AS
soon as the camp was pitched the men
rushed up the hill and began minutely
searching every nook and Granny for
the reported well, while Qwaytin wan
dered disconsolately along its base,
vainly searching for the broken glass
that his book foretold would be found
there.
In the evening Qwaytin, Add er
Rahmann, Dahab. and held serious
consultation. The position of the hill
tailed so we'll with the description of
1t in Qwaytin's book that he felt sure
that 1t was the right one but he was
terribly worried over the failure to
find the well.
After much serious discussion, we
came to the conclusion that, in the cir
cumstances, it was no use for us to
waste any more time in examining the
hill, but that at the end Of the trip we
would go and get a really first-class
highly certified magician from Cairo.
or some big town, and get him to come
out and do the job. In the meantime,
as Qwaytin had told me that there
were some mounds in the Kairowin
hattia we should go there through the
eastern part of the Farafra depression
and see If they did not contain treas
ure.
Whenever 1 spoke to him the next
day he began gassing about his
wretched hill, and saying that he
wanted to go back to it; but toward
evening he rather recovered himself,
and when he came to my tent l again
threw out feelers about the country
Of the Bedayat. Though he declined
to tell me anything about the district,
he started giving me a lot of informa-
ton about the Bedayat themselves,
which, as they are an almost unknown
race, proved extremely interesting.
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before me, for he left almost imn1e-
diately afterward.
On leaving the dunes for Blu Gerara,
I sent Qwaytin, who had replaced
Oway as guide, and Add er Rahmann
off to look for another oasis that the
former had heard of, that was said to
lie some distance to the west of our
road This, however, he failed to find.
In the evening before his departure,
he came into my tent and announced
that his book said" that on the fol-
lowing day we should reach the Cara
bu Gerara.
There, he said, the road forked. and
one branch, leaving the usual road fol-
lowed by caravans going to Dakhla,
and keeping more to the west, led to
Bu Gerara-the oasis we were in
search of.
This was the first mention he had
made of any "book," so / inquired
what the book was to which he re-
ferred Qwaytin seemed rather sur
prised that I had not heard of 1t
before, and said that it was his book
of treasurer
Cautious questioning elected the
fact that he had never been to Blu
Gerara before, but that he was relying
entirely on the directions given in this
precious volume to take me there, and
evidently when we reached the place
that we should all fall to digging in
search of the buried riches that the
boolk said we,a % DO &osznA <hsges.1n
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dates eager to throw off the shackles
of their environment.
AS news of the opportunity trickled
up and down the rocky hillsides
around Highlands, Miss Harry was be
sieged with applicants. At length the
university found it could provide
scholarships for As boys and girls who
would he willing to work their way
through. The list of eIigibles was
pared accordingly, and for this mum
Der Miss Harry, all the while carrying
on her regular nursing duties, helped
round up the necessary clothing out
fits. of to Lincoln the lucky 45 were
packed and today they are opening
doors of knowledge which 80 Shors a
time ago seemed definitely closed to
them. Their rescue from the slavery
of ignorance will be simply a by
product of the vision Jane Delano
had.
1t was to the storm. swept, ice
bound coast of Alaska that the first
Delano nurse, Miss Stella Fuller, went.
So isolated. so shut in. do the inhabit-
ants of this area feel that they invari-
ably refer TO the rest of the world as
outside Miss Fuller had her head
quarters at Seward, but she made regu-
lar trips into the surrounding country
and during her first year of service
she travelled more than / 900 miles.
visiting most of the settlements, can
neries and salteries. Sometimes she
travelled in bobbing little ice-encrusted
steamers and often in the native ca
noes or biGarkas.
Similar hardships and the fact that
she works entirely on islan nds compli-
cate the endeavors of the Delano
nurse assigned to Penobscot Bay
Me-, Miss Edith NJ. Spiers In the
Winter, months of gales and angry
seas. snowstorms and ice blockade
spell absolute isolation from the main
land and other islands.
An example of her problems was an
experience during a "flu" epidemic
when pneumonia was prevalent also.
She found one of her patients, an
aged man, alone in his camp by the
sea. His two-room shack was appal-
lingly dirty and he was very i'll. No
one could or at least would stay with
him until the place was cleaned up.
The president Of the village ladies' aid
three other women and a man volun-
teered to help Miss Spiers and while
the nurse worked at the attic bedside.
reached only by a ladder. they put
in n full day downstairs making the
hut fairly livable At length the
patient was pulled through.
To carry out her work, Miss Emily
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ii "A
ton of Qway, the guide who
had betrayed us by spilling
Il 4 our reserve water in the
sands, I went to Rashida for
the fete of Shem en- Nessin (the smell
ing of the breeze). The officials of the
oasis were also there, and we cele
brated the day in the usual manner.
In the morning we put on clean
clothes and took our breakfast out of
doors literally to smell the breeze.
Then we went up among the palm
plantations to a primitive swimming
bath the 'omda had made by damming
up a stream from one of his wells.
The natives stripped and disported
themselves in the water. swimming
about, splashing each other. and en-
joying themselves immensely.
The next day l returned to Nut to
pack up. A number of callers came
round to see me during the short re-
naming time I stayed in the town.
For since l had come out on top in
the affair with Qway, the whole oasis
had become wonderfully friendly.
Among them was the Sheykh ell
Afrit from Smint. He was extremely
oily in his manner and kept on ad-
dressing me as Your Presence the
Bey!' He gave me a lot of informa-
tion about afrits (evil spirits). He
spoke in the tone of a man who
had had lifelong experience in the
matter. 1t was most important, he
said, to use the right kind of incense
when invoking them, as If the wrong
sort were used the afrit always be-
came very angry and killed the magi
Giant seemed to be a dangerous
trade.
He gave me lot of information of
the same nature and recited a number
of instances of encounters with afrits
to illustrate his remarks. Among
them he mentioned-quite casually
that 1t had been an afrit that had
led Qway astray. The object of his
visit had apparently been to put his
opinion, as an experienced magician,
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They claim to be descended from an
afrit (evil spiritl, whom, for some
crime, either David or Solomon shut
up in box till he grew to such an
enormous size that he burst it open.
There still exists apparently mongrel
Bedayat-Tibbu tribe, known as the
M'Khiat er Rih, that possess the mi
raculous power of being able to walk
over sand without leaving any tracks
behind them-a most useful accom-
plishment in the desert for a race of
born freebooters. This popularity
they owe to the fact that wherever
they go they are followed by wind
that Immediately obliterates their foot
prints!
When at length we reached the
hattia, my men spent most of their
time in grubbing about in some large
mounds. AS the total result of their
treasure hunt in kairowin the men
only unearthed one corpse and few
bits of broken pottery, without finding
even single copper coin to crafty
their cupidity. They were consequent
ly considerably disillusioned with their
occupation, and l experienced no diff
ficulty in getting them to start for
Qasr Farafra.
WE sighted Qasr Farafra on the
w evening of the second day after
leaving Kairowin hattia but as night
fell before wa could reach IT. VA
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dren. To Miss Harry was intrusted
their selection. This was no difficult
task and soon her two candidates were
off to Lincoln Memorial University at
Harrogate, Tenn.
The children must have proved ac-
ceptable students, for the school au-
thorities wrote Miss Harry they would
admit such other raw material as the
Delano nurse could send. Perhaps
they did not realize the extent of the
virtually untouched mine of collegiate
ambition she had tapped. Perhaps
just a handful of mountain children
were expected. But the nurse had no
difficulty in finding hundreds of candi-