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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1929 BL CITIES IN PALESTINE -' Endeavor to Corelate the . Little Known Palestine erusalem.--In an endeavor to cor- the little-known Palestinian eology with that of Eaypt an expedition organized by Sir Flinders Petrie, noted tologist, has spent two seasons at Tell Fara, 18 miles south of Gaza, examining two mound _of ruins on the Egyptian border of Palestine, where two lost cities of : flea, Beth-pelet and Gerar have 4 n discovered. 2 The expedition, says a special ac- * count by Lady Petric ust received here summing up the results of last season, revealed that Gerar was in - the midst of a corn country, as bor- "ne out by numerous sickles of iron and flint, as well as by the Biblical account of Isaac reaping a hundred- fold; and that Beth-pelet," described in Joshua, was an important military centre from which David drew half his bodyguard. In speaking of Gerar, Lady Petrie "says: "Here was settled Abimelech, .a Philistine resident for the corn ex- ports, Very fine weaving was done here in early times; iron was brought in by 1350 B.C, and furnaces were built about 1200 B.C. nearly all the gold is of 1200 B.C.; the allusion to the Ishmaeites wearing gold marks the record as being contemporary. At the time of Shisak the lozenge- marked lance, the triangular arrow, the. arrow -with a barb, the broad 3a ger, the chariot models, and hum- oxen of pottery, came down from over the" Euphrates. The Assyrian sion brought in eastern pottery, ense altars and the lazuli Cylinder stly the Persians built immense naries here which would hold corn r an army of 100,00 during three A so that the route to Egypt {Was assured. Few sites have so "many contacts with the history of Corr ownaine 'peoples; the cities of Gerar illustrate and amplify the an- "Gient records. Professor Petrie found that 19 out Wf 38 areas containing cities men- Stioned in the Book of Joshua retain their Old Testament names. - 'In the present season the work has ne lower, and under the fort and sidency of the Roman age have -" found an earlier fort and resi- $& Before 1600 B.C, the Hyksos, or epherd kings, had dominated this strict. Their history, as it emer s willbe "helpful .in determining e dtaing"of -the middle period of ptian. history and with it the Gating of early Europe, and this in- eases the importance of the Hyksos. esc eople had cut a vast earth- work round the flanks of the Tell, with a trench 80 feet wide, descend- y 28 feet into a ditch and rising 62 fet to the fort, with steep glacis Tis "HEAP CASH MAYBE. COMING TO RED MAN FOR OIL HOLDINGS EJ -- har Rat --- - RS ------ -- r «aN Yay. \ - 'A he Stoney Indians on the Morley Reservation along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway near Calgary, are benefitting by She oil develop- ments in Alberta. Every man jack of the 640 mem- bers of the tribe, representing 125 families, receives jo per annum Tor oil lease rentals on the tribe's nd and should oil materialize will receive a 12% per cent. royalty on all production, a certain amount of which will'be set aside for agricultural imple- ments. They gathered in all their Indian bravery of feathers and finely worked shirts, shawls and mocassins on the occasion of the first payment. Pictures show Chiefs Wolf Teeth, Lost Buffalo and Black Buffalo saluting the derrick, source of their new wealth. Chief Hector Crawler receiving pay- ment from R. Hinton, Indian Agent at Morley; Indian with pipe "Wild Woman." with driller. in' mouth is "Wild Man," son of Chief Wolf Teeth inside derrick Squaw Becky Beaver and papoose, counting her money. She looks heap happy. of a new king (raising the number to 34 known kings). It may now be assumed that at the end of their time they ruled Egypt and Palestine un- der one lordship. In the past five years Canada's re- venue from flax fibre production has increased by 206 per cent; from fur farming by 121 per cent; from tobac- co growing by 94 per cent; from poultry and eggs by 71 per cent; from farm animals by 58 per cent; from wool by 57 per cent; from ho- pes as in Egypt and Syria, copied Central Asia. Their = tombs tained daggers, ~ togglepins and ney by 38 per cent; from field crops 1 many scarabs = one with the name! t National Telegraphs. by 22 per cent; from maple products by 17 per cent; and from dairy pro- ducts by 7 per cent, The Western Union Telegraph sys- tem operating in the Maritime Pro- vinces of Eastern Canada, compris- ing 6670 miles of wire and 188 offices, has just been bought by the Canadian With this ad- dition the Canadian National Rail- ways Telegraphs Department now serves practically every settled dis- trict from Nova Scotia to British Col- umbia, operating 153,066 miles of wire and 1943 offices. Y Watch Our Windows i ------------ For the --=8 MONEY SAVING ECIALS -- for Thursday Friday _ Saturday BL S| 9 SIMCOE ST., SOUTH A WILD VEGETATION ATTACKS TRAVELER Barked Arrows of Plants Make Journeying Per- ilous Washington, Aug. 20~From a hell's cathedral of rock-floored des- ert and impenetrable jungle, where wayfares are shot with barbed ar- rows by bushes instead of savage men, a Washington couple has just returned, after a six-mcith botanical exploration. Dr. E. C. Leonard of the Smith- sonian Institute, accompanied by Mrs. Leonard brought back from the desert of the northwestern peninsula of Haiti and from Tortu island, off the coast, approximately 5,000 plant specimens, many of which are believ- ed to represent new species. Mrs. Leonard is the first white wo- men ever to have spent a night on sria island, and' the first in many cs to have gone into the inhospi- desert, where she and her hus- Jd traveled by donkey and lived tent, Hitherto the country has nknown to natural- ton couple found aLyes 'a curious lot, but suitable, The same can- © the plants, which are savage in the vege- 1. rt apd the mountain slo- : the home of the "picquant ge tus, proba bly the most ag- ve pr the "jumping thorns." ; plant grows about two feet high id is covered with pads about a half h in diameter, each pad contain- ing several thorns from an inch to two inches long. The slightest jar to the brush will cause it to "throw" these thorns with considerable force. 'this jar might come from the im- pact of a mule's hoof on the rocks, or even the air stirred up by the passing rider, The thorns move in a parabola, go- ing a maximum distance of five or six feet. Shoe leather, says Mr. Leos nard, is little protection, since the thorns will penetrate it as if it were so much cloth. They will penetrate the flesh for an inch. One thorn of an allied species went nearly two inch- es into Mr. Leonard's leg and had ta be cut out, The mechanism which operates these cacti is obscure. Mr. Leonard said, and has caused considerable dis- pute among botanists. Some have claimed that the plant has something akin to a nervous system, which is extremely sensitive and transmits stimuli, although operating in a diff crent way from the animal nervous system, Others hold that this «is not necessary and that the pads are joined to the cactus by a brittie and fragile connection so the slightest jar is sufficient to dislodge them. Norwegians in Canada recently held their annual convention at Swift Cur- rent, Saskatchewan, with representa- tives from all parts of 'the Dominion and from certain sections in the Unit- ed States present. SILC ERE ER "Mr. Andrew Fulton, Tormetly of the markets division of the fruit branch of. the Canadian Government, has beeh appointed permanent com- mercial fruit representative of the On- tario Government in.Great Britain. The total number of dairy factories in specation last year, in Canada was comprising 1,265. creameries, 'I,- 303 cheese factories, 288 comb bined butter and cheese factories, and 29 SOUTH POLE SHIP HAS UNIQUE CARGO Famous Vessel "Discovery," Carries Unique Equipment for Work in South London, Aug, 20--Under Captain J. M. Davis of Australia, the -Dis covery has just left on the first leg of its voyage to the Antarctic to con- tinue the research work begun in 1911. 'Sir Douglas Mawson, famous explorer, and the remainder of its party of 12 scientists will be picked up at Cape Town. A stranger assortment of gear than ever was loaded on Spanish galleon, Elizabethan venture-ship, or pirates' schooner, is stowed in the little Discovery, writes a Daily News correspondent. The vessel will chart an unknown coastline, study marine life from the humble sea-worm to the "leviathan of the deep," and prospect the coastal valleys. For example, there are about 20 gross of empty bottles--bottles of all shapes, sizes and costliness, from five ounce milk bottles for sea-water sample to intricate brass Ekman bot- tle for deep sea study. Some of these bottles are of fine workmanship, made with many chambers of heavy brass, some are coated with silver. Some may be sent nearly four miles down into icy, briny depths, there to take in a specimen of sea-water. A brass "messenger" then sent down the wire will seal them; their con- tents will be carefully recorded, re- bottled, labelled and stored for fur- ther examination on return. An oceanographer will determine the chemical and physical properties of the water, while a marine biol- ogist or "planktologist" will exam- ine the minute forms of life which swarm therein, for this "plankto," as it is called, is the food of small fish, which in their turn feed larger ones ~--jincluding whales. More mumerous than the bottles are cigarettes; 100,000 are being tak- en. Half a ton of suet, however, was too much for the cook; the amount was cut down. There will be trawling nets of many different makes and meshes, from the finest silk 'to the coarse rope of Otter and Monogasque trawls. Pianp wire is another important item; there will be more than 20 miles of it, for sounding depths, A newer sounding method will also be used--the "HEeho sounder. This em- its a tap from the hull of the ship, sound waves radiating in all direc- tions. Those that finally "hit the floor" of the ocean are echoed back, and from the length of the time be- tween tapping and receiving the echo the instrument calculates and records the depth on a dial plate. Other items of equipment include a Moth aeroplane fitted with wire- less, which is to be the "long arm" of the expedition; an elaborate short- wave transmitting set; sets of chess- men, and a phonograph. There is an Owen's Dut More Coun- ter, to determine the amount of dust in the Antarctic--an important fac- tor to meteorologists, Bottom Ooze Samplers will collect ooze from the sea floor. A féw sledges are being taken, patent finish leath- er bound . real leather, colors. Special SCHOOL BAGS, ing in price from 75¢ 1, $4.50 Oshawa Luggage I et GOODS; SPORTING GOODS AND Specials for Thursday Friday and Saturday BOYS' SCHOOL BAGS, *50¢ GIRLS' SCHOOL BAGS in different $2.50 OTHER Boys' and Girls' rang- Initials Free Dressing sets, Um- brellas, Boston Bags, Belts, Bill- folds, Music Cases Writing Cases, Brief Cases, Pipes, Cigarette Cases, Key Tainers, Bag- gage tags, pens and pencils, Bible cases, Razor straps Baby straps and Harnesses. 10% discount on all ladies handbags $3.00 and over others specially priced. Ld sng ee wer, pe Lu -- YL I 2 tm So 3 SA ---------- cases from We always carry a large stock of club bags and suit moderately priced $1.25 ., $50.00 20% Discount On all Summer Sporting Goods A few Tennis balls left at Langmuir, Mendel Wardrobe also carry a large stock of Steam- er and Box trunks. Both in steel and fibre. Hartman & McBrine trunks. $25.00 to $85.00 $5.00 to $25.00 Harness & Harness Parts, Always in Stock Repairing Neatly and Promptly Done Saywell & Son Bond St. W. Phone 338 but no dogs. The work being mostly goastal and oceanographic, only "day excursions" will be made ashore: A few random items from the food supply are 48 pounds of Christmas |and--seven pounds of Epsom salts! pudding (with buttons and saxpen- ces?), four dozen bottles of horse- The face is a preface to the char- radish sauce, 28 pounds of tamarinds | acter. se Sm | LADIES' DEPARTMENT | Women's coats, fall patterns in tweeds, | comelted, etc. Smart styles. | $22.50, $24.50, $29.50 COATS A $2 prize will be given by us to the person who will find the mysterious man in our store. MEN'S ATTENTION All our SPRING COATS Go at Sale Price $8.95 and $10.95 New Autumn Dresses. and newest shades $9.95, $10. 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