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, . Krom ,h' '""""l'1 London Newi. Drann from plana una other material lupplltJ by Sir William Wlllcocko. Sir William Willcocks s plan .....irrigation of , the original home of the Jews. His great scheme to prevent floods, to irrigate 3,000,000 acres of best land and to build a British railway from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. ditional tax upon tho normal revenues Famous Engineer Who Restored the Garden of Eden Has of the Egyptian exchequer. While Here He Will According to Sir William Willcocks Help Solve Problem of Regulating the Increased tho Garden of Eden was situated at the Area of Cultivable Land by His Work Junction of the Tigris and tho Eu- Mississippi and Other Great Irrigation Works to phrates in Mesopotamia, and his views in , Asia Minor and Elsewhere about tho matter are identical with Be by U. S. thoso of tho late Gen. "Chlneso" Gor- Undertaken Government ll P. CU.M.IKFK-OWK- by vis- famines which has been above and below Ilindleh, about sixty don, who was a fervent Biblical inundation covered tho entire world and llles which have been for generations Since taking his pension ited periodically dawn of his- miles, he has turned one who succeed In since the and a hundred miles to the south scholar, as well as with those of many commenced building high towers to Identified with English rulo In India, engineer, and Is now building railroads tory, shouhl entitle her to tho gratitude, of Uagdad, one of the effects of which experts In est-np- ANY the urea of cultivable land other Scriptural history. future Inundations. Tho Tower nnd to which the llrltish Crown Is In- through tho heart of the Indian forest of tho teeming native population of has been to revert the Into Thanks to Sir William, tho Garden, of llabel was ono of tho first of these, debted more to anything else through a benefactor of mankind. millions, by than for the sheer love of work. over three hundred and should Its old channel past Habylon, the wb.ch had degenerated Into a mero and while It was under way tho people Its ability to hold with a mere hand- None of however, being Is be regarded by the brothers, Is This the case, tlicro mankind as the finest waters of which the Jews hundreds of fever stricken swamp Incapable of sup- from tho surrounding countries all ful of white troops thu Immense empire likely to live so long In ns years cap- history Sir no otlu r man now living to whom the and most useful of all memorials of licforo Christ mourned their plying even the llg leaves used by tho rushed there for safety when nnother of Hindustan, with Us 300 millions of now llrltUh sovereignty over tivity and wept over William Willcocks. In the United world niM's fit great a debt of gratit- Hindustan. the remembrance Father and Mother of the human race flood appeared Imminent. Naturally natives of rival races and creeds, who States. For he has built for himself, llrltish South Africa, In particular of their distant Zlon. Tho two liar-rag- es Is now being ude ,n this respect as It owes to Sir for raiment, restored to thcro were many languages spoken, but for English rule would bo engaged, in the big across the at As- the Transvaal, the Orange State and In question have already had the tho samo degree of fertility as In tho and a "confusion of tongues" was tho as In suan, nn enduring William Willcocks, who Is at present Capo Colony, to of formerly, internecine war and memorial of granite have had recourse Sir effect restoring to cultivation ome dayy when Evo wooed Adam with tho result. This, according to Sir William, consequent which In Its cyclopean grandeur may purl- ad- 600,000 ruin and devastation. It vlfltlnt: tin' Knitcd Stutes for the William Wlllcocks's experience and acres of land, which means that fateful apple beneath tho slmdow of led tho Tower builder to believe that Is owing to In regarded cen- paid this birth and education be as a worthy twentieth ins., .f affording to the natlonnl Gov- vice. Ho has ucveral extended the cost of the building of the will the branches of tho Tree of Knowl- God had sent a "confusion of tongues" Is tury counterpart paid India that Sir William able to grasp of the Pyramids of ernment at Washington the bcnetlt of visits to that part of the world. Tho be quickly off through the of edge. because of tho penetration of tho to a greater degree than any ono reared thu Pharaohs. Irrigation works there already In oper- tho land and through tho taxes which Sir William, by by, Into hi advice and of his unrivalled expcrl-in.-- .. the rather Tower Heaven. In Western dimes the peculiar train ation have been designed by him, and Its new owners can afford to pay the story of the apple on Sir William has views of his own thought, processes, in iVulint: with the dlltlcult many more Is of the mental the there are for which he thereon. the ground that apples have never about tho Scriptural wtory of Moses queer moral and ligures Beer Pail Bag with regulation of of grown In standards the The in the the responsible that are either in course Sir William estimates that the cost that particular part of the leading tho Children of Israel across speech dif- of of of the Oriental, all so latest method invented for tho the Mississippi and the various great construction or still in a state of his entlro scheme of Irrigation of world. He Insists that If Adam and tho lied Sea. Ho points out that If ferent from our own, Irrigation works now In course of project. AH this means Immediate and the valley of the Euphrates and of the Evo were turned out of the Garden of Moses had gono to tho Hcd Sea In the THE carrying of beer from prospective to Tigris will amount to $73,000,000, It wan He hns even acquired from his con- or about to be taken In hand addition the cultivable that Eden not because of their eat- time ho Is credited with having taken, the wet goods emporium to the area and consequently to the revenues tho land reclaimed thereby for culti- ing tho apples of the Tree of Knowl- he would havo to lead Hook, stant Intimate contact and Intercourse I'.v tin- - Administration. had his In something home may be seen In Harlem uny week- of the State and to the prosperity of vation would amount to 4,000,000 acres edge, but because Eve, prompted prob- which thero were many children, with the Orientals of their It across Imagery of speech: Is fond, as ho con- day. A woman devised the scheme li diltli'ii:t to estimate with any tho people. and that lt value when reclaimed ably by tho serpent, had hit on a plan lorty-fou- r miles of desert in twenty- - ( precision the vast extent of Of indefatigable energy and of alto- would, according to conservative cal- of making wine out of the bounteous lour nours. fesses, of talking in parables, and when which for months kept the neighbor- Will-la- culation, (500,000,000, applying them to Western, twentieth t'tr.t .r.v which Sir William has trans-fiiriii.- il gether phenomenal activity, Sir reach supply of grapes In tho Garden, thus "TlioHo people," ho declares, "who hood guessing nnd caused Innumerable ' 11 life, not content with his labors In It Is because Sir William Willcocks causing Adam to become tippler. ut lnulul tll't tl.A .11 ..II century phases of such as official either from swamp or from a a quaint persons to rack their brains trying to India, In South Africa, and as the mas- can show xuch estimates as these, and Sir William has many other some- the lied Sea ain tho t If hey did io nn,d1 "rm'a,c manifests desert Into cultivable land. In Egypt .. . ivhlph la hum fiiuetitiiflnir discover why this particular woman ter and mentor of old Father Nile can point to what he has accomplished what disconcerting views about tho inn lien....Men nmur nnmi niu.,.1 alone lie has ini. Indeed, given In carried a Gladstone bag with her m manured to double tho formerly so unruly but now entirely In India, In South Africa nnd In Egypt Old Testament and takes no stock In thirty-on- e, miles further at the luncheon his area north than It ' Club In New idle was thereof, thus adding enormously brought under subjection accepted to prove that his figures are correct, tho story according to which Noah's does Why should It bo honor at the Whitehall often when left her home. It a made York tho other day by tho Pilgrim So- tu 'lie revenues of the State und to the some years ago tho lust of chief of the that governments nre willing to under- Ark rested on the top of Mount Ara- to como up thlrty-on- o miles. to surprise when It was learned that a beer Just ciety, Us Ki'lfar. Irrigation Department of the Ottoman take tho expenditure Involved In tho rat. He polntrt out that tho word Ara- satisfy those who to with president, pall was Inside bag. and prosperity of the people. adhere a mistake In the Kniplro and set himself to work to works which he designs and which ho really lan-gim- Joseph II. Cho.ite, the chair, he In ihe Sudan, since Its reconqueut by rat meant "desert" in tho made In the translation of the Scrip- Just to Illustrate how resourceful the t restoro the ancient to what It recommends, renlizlng that the returns of ancient times, and that what tures? was ho entertaining In his explanation Urd Kitchener In 1S9S, William's will be of thu reign of Saint llakshecsh In the woman was It Is only necessary to men- Sir was In olden times, namely, tho gran- quick and In tho long run a htippcncd probably was that when the "What Moses did." argues Will-la- Sir to. 130 although Ignored work h.w been similarly elllcaclous, each ary of the then known world. In tho hundredfold. It was this confidence In rivers Tigris and Euphrates Inundated "was to lead his followers across Orient as almost reconcile the tion that slut adults year lowing a largo growth of the thousands of years that preceded the Sir William's estimates that led Sir Er-ne- st their valleys owing to tho forty days tho Itlver Nile by means building prominent bankers, business men and she was particularly anxious to have of a city officials present to cultl ai.'c atea: while by his Ingenious Christian era tho valleys of the great Casnel and other great captains of of continuous rain the settlers In tho dike across. When the Israelites State and the the children In the neighborhood recog- finance In London to all lower Idea that graft was, after all, a some- nize her. When they tho woman anil 'ierensful rivers Tlgrla and Euphrates, which run advance the part of the valleys hurried over crossed Moses cut the dike and the beheld contrivances for the parallel with each other from money needed for the construction of to Noah to refugo In what necessary and certainly a rather coming along the street with tho Glad- reniov almost take his Ark, Egyptian army following them were of tho sudd those huge tho In Asia Minor the most importnnt works for tho reg- which, when tho Hoods re- picturesque evil. stone bag securely clutched In right . mountains nort'iern receded, drowned." her maiM ,f impenetrable and tangled lo tho Persian Oulf, were crisscrossed ulation of the Nile, notably the great mained stranded In the valley. Sir William, llko his was Sir William entertains a very high band they flew away from their pas- dam, brothers, Vrsniit .in which not only prevented In every direction by a wonderful net- Assuan which have all been Sir William adds that the sufferers born and educated In India and Is a opinion of the capacity of American times and over to her side, grasping her brought Into prob-lem- s the (,f boats upon the Nile work of canals, the ruins of which, even existence without any ad from this flood really thought that tho member of one of those English fam- - engineers for dealing with the free hand and bidding her farewell. Ap- to day, a to Irrigation given strik- parently through tho machina- 'al),. Kli.irtutn but also of this are of nature excite of and has woman's sent much admiration for the Ingenuity and skill ing evidence thereof by engaging the tions the children were led to believe Ihe i ,r to waste In fever breeding, of the Ilabylonlan engineers who I services of II. I.. Cooper (who acquired that she was going away for a time and fetid uumpH covering thousands of and built them. Bjjjjgjg n so much note In connection with the 'he children were anxious to shako her 'luar. miles .Sir William has opened Intentional destruction, during the construction of the famous Keokuk hand and say good-b- y. the , xii,. to navigation to tho Interminable wars and invasions which dam across tho MlsHl."sippl) as consult- Some may think that It was indiscreet have; ing engineer Ihe, Wilt :;ai vYrh constitute Its succeeded ono another almost for construction of tho on thu womanVi part to attract atten- Interruption in part of new hydro-clcetr- le dam across the Nile, when was really sho was oun i without that the tion that what iluis creating a new artery of world of as well trying to avoid. Hut was trad- - for tens centuries, Each of the brothers of Sir William there method i.. i ween Central Africa and tho us that neglect nnd Incompetence which Willcocks has mado his mark and has In her mndness, ns it developed later. outer w .rld, at the same time greatly are so characteristic of Hfo In the near rendered useful service to the llrltish Ilex Idea in cultivating the good graces atixir r.i.ng the volume o." t'i Nile Orient, completely put an end to tho Empire. One of them Is the foremost of the children was for the purpose of for purposes of Irr'satlon existence of this system of Irrigation, railroad engineer of the Indian Govern- making spectators believe that sho waa ainiu length with the result of transforming the val- ment nnd the creator of many of the going on a trip and the children wcia entire of the Nile VaN leys of the Tigris Euphrates In portion wishing a Journey, le .1 ., and the most Important linos that of her successful t the Mediterranean. and tho country extending many hun- King George's empire. Still another Tho woman knew the effect that such Hi i . undertaking all this wonder- dreds of miles east nnd west of these brother has done admirable work as an Impression would have on the busy-bodi- ful w uk in connection with the Nile, streams into alternate swamp and des- one of the heads of the Indian Medical of the neighborhood and she was W "r ,l,.im won his spurs, and Incl-uVtii- ert, unlit for cultivation or even for Service. Yet another, Sir James Will- very desirous of allaying all suspicion. much fame, by achievements habitation. cocks, Is one of the most brilliant of She realized that so long ns ihu could Sir William after tho downfall of generals, took part In the march deceive the women nnd prevent them f ndred character In as ono Indian India Sultan Abdul Hamld some live Calm! Cnn-daha- r, had to fear. "t ti or six of Lord Iloberts from lo from gossiping she uotlilii't principal engineers of the Irrl-K.v.- .,i years ago, having been Invited by tho lias fought In Egypt, in thu So she used ihe unsuspecting children branch of the Public Work De-I'an- n. now regime nt Constantinople to give Sudan, In llurma. in West Africa, In to work her scheme. t Orl-tni- his t Kn jj George's great n: advice about the matter, undertook South Africa, and In any number of No mailer how clever, sucli sch.incs to i.iplre. There haB always been restoro the valley of tho Euphrates Indian frontier wars, has been repeat- are only made to be discovered, At flrel a t, and of tho Tigris to their former fer- edly by as well as tho women of the neighborhood were 'icy, not among peo- - thanked Parliament thoughtful tility and prosperity. As of freedom City when they noticed tho Me among the result presented with tho of the Just Interested tho general public In an elaborate, survey o. dis- now one bag bidding thi the entire of London, and commands of woman with her Gladstone 'd States, to regard thu llrltish trict he submitted to tho Sublime Porto tho two ill visions of which the Anglo-India- n tho children adieu. They thought no nil.. ' India as tyrannical, oppressive completo designs and estimates for n army Is composed. In charge more of the matter. and Wt-- Jn Its alleged disregard vast series of works, comprising the of tho northern division, lie may be Hut what were they to think when reconstruction of most of Ilaby- bo woman 'if ih. welfare of tho natives, the old ald to entrusted with the guard of about an hour afterward the nut even lonlan system of canals and the build- of India. coming atound the . a i.i bind had accomplished the frontier this time nothing ing of n number of new ones as well re- opposite They were puz-zlc- of else , Still another brother, whom some corner7 India, her marvellous achieve- - as a serltn of barrages ami dams for Is course nnd resolved to look further Into Mien gard as the cleverest of them nil. a u connection with the tho purpose of regulating tho two riv- at Oxford for his the matter. Their suspicions grow when Hon clergyman, famous all part of the country and ers In question and preventing them deep and varied knowledge of Oriental tho woman with tho Gladstone bag made h- -r from overflowing their go day. neyer oiense, addition to banks and thus languages, who spent u quarter of a It a habit to on two trips a the cultivable feeding tho over growing swamps. forgetting to say farewell to the chil- area 'Me land, diminishing century of his life us a Government N thus the Two great dams across tho Euphrates a while thu busybodles urn iiul chaplain In India, where ho Incidentally dren. In short severity of thoso terrlblo have already been completed Just The great Assuan Dam is an enduring monument to the genius of Sir William Willcocks. became famoiw as a big gamo shot. knew the truth.