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GAVE BREAD FROM HEAVEN MODERN MIRACLES IX THE HOT SANDS OF ARABIA. Airships Brought Food When Starvation Stared Them in the Face, Relief Conies to the Beleaguered Warriors. He gave them bread from heaven to eat.?John 6:31. The most of us know the old Bible oVv/mi+ the pliilrlren of Israel. Slui ?? auwut v.4i^ ? v just out of bondage in Egypt, lost aiafcrwandering in the desert, weary, footsore, disappointed, hungry; a scorching sun in a cloudless sky, a waste of burning sand stretching to the horizon on every side, and of how they began to yearn for the flesh pots of Egypt and to grumble at Moses and Aaron, who had brought them to this pass. And then, when it seemed that starvation must come soon, the Lord opened the windows to heaven and rained down manna upon them; they ate and were filled, and marched on, arriving finally in the Promised Land, a place where milk and honey flowed. That happened 3,410 years ago. And just a few months ago, in the spot where the children of Israel were so miraculously fed from the heaven 34 centuries ago, some of their own descendants, starving in the same, desert, were fed from the . sky, too, but this time it was not a . miracle, unless it can be called a 1 miracle when an airplane loaded with ( bread, fluttered down from the clouds and landed in their midst. It was just one more startling in- . cident of the great war; and the story of it is told by Jules Chancel, a French war correspondent, in the last number of "Lectures PourTous," a magazine printed in Paris. { Chancel was sent by his magazine to watch the allied campaign against , the Turks in Palestine and Arabia. He was attached to the Arabian army J commanded by the 34-year-old Gen-eral Feysal, Emir of Hedjaz. Feysal's warriors were Arabs? mothered by the desert, and trained , ^ I to ride horseback before they could waiK. i nese rougnrmers ou me sauu; wastes of Arabia and Sytia were mounted on lean desert horses, and ^ armed with jeweled daggers and long , barreled saddle guns of the Levant. ^ They wore flowered robes and silk turbans with long, loose ends falling , over their shoulders to protectt their necks from the hot sun. They were t without artillery or modern equip- j ment of any kind, and their "supply train" was simply a small caravan of t camels that carried food and water in the long and swift flight across the desert. The Turkish troops against which they fought were commanded by Ger- i man officers, were well drilled in ^ modern military tactics and were s \ equipped with modern rifles and { small arms; but they were often beat- ^ en by the wild riding Arabs. Chancel tells how a detachment of , 2,000 of these Arab horsemen made a raid on a Turkish railway that had t been pushed out into the desert east , ( of Palestine, the same "wilderness" , in which the children of Israel wandered for 40 years on the journey J from Egypt to the Land of Canaan, j The Arabs planted a mine under a < long trestle on this railway line. Then they lay hidden behind the cactus plants of the desert and set off the mine while a train loaded with Turkish troops was crossing it. Many were killed, and in the panic the < Arabs took 1,000 Turkish prisoners. 3 In trying to escape, the Arabs 1 v were surrounded by a large force of Turks which camped in the desert ] and began a siege of the Arabs with- 1 in the circle, expecting to starve . them into surrender. 1 Tho Arohc Viarl a moaprpr snnnlv i of water from a spring in a little 1 1 grove of palm trees, but they had | ] rations for only a few days. Fevsal knew that unless he could get relief , from the British forces on the Red \ sea he would surely have to die of i starvation out there on the desert, j or surrender to the Turks. At night < he sent couriers on camels but he ] had little hope that they would ever reach the British, for first they would ] have to get through the Turkish . lines; and even if this were done, the qamels were weak from lack of nourishment, the way led across the desert of Sinai, a journey of more 1 than two weeks. An officer of Fey- 1 sal's army thus told the story to Chancel: ] "It would take five weeks to make I i the journey to the British on the Red I sea, even with the best of liick across the hot desert, and back again with i supplies. While waiting we lived on green dates, and each day we butchered two starving and emaciated i camels and ate them. The morale < and discipline of our troops was admirable in this terrible situation. Lying in the burning sand, anaemic and exhausted, they waited with the same faith with which their ancestors waited the celestial manna on those same hot sands long ages ago." The Biblical story, found in the sixteenth chapter of Exodus, tells how the children of Israel camped in tliis same desert, began to murmur and complain when the food ran short. "And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against .Moses and Aaron in the wilderness," says the Biblical account of it. "And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. "Then said the Lord unto Moses. Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day." The Biblical account goes on to tell how the children of Israel looked toward the sky and "The glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud." The bread that fell from heaven was a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the grounds. "And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: It is manna; for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat." The modern children of the desert lineal descendants, it might be, of those very children of Israel, were more courageous and patient than they, for they did not murmur nor despair, although they had only a little hope of relief. But, away off in the Red sea a British fleet rode at anchor, and one day from out the desert a camel with an Arab upon its back staggered to :he shore and fell exhausted, and the nessenger told Admiral Wemyss of ;he-plight of the little band of Arab ;roops away back there in the desert. The British admiral did not wait to send relief by camel train; that night be too slow. With the fleet vere several airplanes and the adnira1 waited not a minute, but, gathering up a few sacks of bread, le sent it off in advance to try and each the beleaguered force and :heer them with the news that an>ther airplane would follow with food for all. And so out across the desert, ind up over Mount Sinai soared a British airman, and the very rocks )f the mountain top upon which Moses might have stood when he received the tables of stone bearing the en commandments, the same rocky leights that rolled back the thunders )f Jehovah,v echoed the throbbing of he engine and the whirring of the jropeller of a British airplane. The story of General Feysal's officer, who must have been a Bible stulent, tells of the arrival of this nodern manna from the skies, as tallows: "And one day, in the blue heavens, he manna appeared. It came in the tarm of a huge airplane, sent high jver the mountain and the desert md the Turkish lines by Admiral tVemyss and much reassurance, for :he pilot announced that another and i bigger plane would follow with supplies. The next day it came, and )ur men were saved, for this manna from the skies gave us strength to ^ ^ -? AM /*"? 1 A It -U ^^..1 J no;a out unui uenerai Aiieiiuy uuuiu send troops to drive off the surrounding Turks."?Kansas City Star. They All Joined In. The attack had been made with a 3ash in the woods, and though it was not yet dawn, the Yanks were getting their breath in their new positions. From his dugout, which a late lamented Heinie had burrowed, one of them spied something which another and less fortunate member of the bunch had regarded as so precious that he had carried it into the attack. It was a banjo, made of a cigar box. He crawled forward, got his hands nn the trophy and retreated with it to his shelter. It was battered and two of the strings had snapped, but in another moment that whole nervous frazzled group was humming as tie played: "I wanta go back, I wanta go back, [ wanta go back to the farm."?Stars md Stripes. On Broadway. A couple of whom the Milwaukee "? ^ t? J 1 ?4. r ree t^ress lens us nau iusi menivay in their new and expensive ear. "There is a sign, dear," said the lady to her husband, who got out of ihe car and directed his flashlight on :he board. "Are we on the right road?" she lsked. "To the Poorhouse," he said. "Yes," he added. "We're on the right road, you see, although we Jidn't know it." SHOOTS BROTHER-IN-LAW. Claude Martin Held for Death of Wil Tiner. Gaffney, May 25.?Sheriff Thomas of Cherokee county, committed t( jail Friday night Claude Martin, \vh< is charged with fatally shooting his brother-in-law, Will Tiner. Then were no witnesses to the shooting except the wife and daughter of th< dead man, and both testified thai they knew of no reason for the deed as the men were apparently friend ly. After the conclusion of the in quest Sheriff Thomas and Deput] Sheriff Watkins discovered when whiskev had recently been mad* within about half a mile of Martin's house, and this fact may have beer responsible for the killing, as it is thought that Tiner and Martin hac something to do with the plant. The parties lived about 14 miles frorr Gaffney, in the eastern section of the county, and both men had beer looked upon by their neighbors as law-abiding citizens. Martin was arrested and is now in the Cherokee county jail, and will probably be tried at the next term of the court in July. ^ mm "My husband said he'd be home by 9 o'clock." "Fooled you, eh?" "Completely. He was."?Kansas City Journal. ~r*r Don't worry about a cook. Do yon. nwn pnnkin? with Universal Electric 3-heat grill. Economical to use. 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