New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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NEW ULM ENTERPRISE, NEW ULM, TEXAS
on the Slopes of mt Sinai
THE very peak upon which Moses
stood when he received the
Ten Commandments has been
looked down upon by the
French and English war avia-
tors. Where, according to the Bible,
“Then, were thunders and lightnings,
and a thick cloud upon the mount, and
the Voice of the trumpet exceeding
loud; so that all the people trembled,"
the shots of the cannon of the nations
may resound, and the detonation of
bon bs may be heard within a short
time.
It is now something like thirty-four
centuries since that historic revelation
of the Ten Commandments—the basis
of all the laws of civilized humanity,
accepted by Jew, Christian and Mo-
hammedan alike. No prophet has ever
dared to attempt to rewrite these ten
words, for they have been accepted as
the basis of the moral law wherever
law prevailed or was preached in the
name of the one God. Yet now, in
the Twentieth century, almost as if in
irony, the supreme engine of human
ingenuity, the aeroplane, by which
man spurns the earth and mounts to
the skies, sweeps over Mt. Sinai and
seems to reply to the commandment,
“'Thou shalt not kill,” by the forecast-
ing of wholesale slaughter.
What the Men-Birds Saw.
Mt. Sinai had been famous for thou-
sands of years. It had been held as
sacred to the moon-god, Sin, by the
ancient Babylonians. The Egyptians
worked the copper mines in these
mountains for centuries, and at the
base of the largest of the peaks they
had an elaborate Egyptian temple,
which was in existence when Moses
led the Israelites to the spot. This
temple was explored by Professor
Flinders-Petrie a few years ago, and.
he found that it had been a popular
shrine of the Egyptian deities, and
that many of the Pharaohs had
adorned it with statues and rich of-
ferings.
The only building now near the Sinai
group of mountains is the monastery
of St. Catherine, but it is a most in-
teresting and ancient structure, in
which one ’of the greatest and most
valuable discoveries of modern times
was made. A noted scholar, Doctor
Tischendorf, made a visit to this mon-
astery. Studying in Its library the
valuable ancient manuscripts, he saw
a leaf of old parchment in a fuel bas-
ket.
A Priceless Find.
Upon examining it closely he ascer-
tained that it was a single page of a
very old manuscript of the Septuaglnt,
the Greek version of^the Old Testa-
ment made in Egypt'"under the Ptole-
mies, third century B. C. Further
search brought to light many other
pages, and now this priceless manu-
script, which is dated in the third or
fourth century A. D., is held to be
one of the most valuable, as it is one
of the oldest manuscripts of any part
of the Bible.
A new understanding of the purpose
of Moses in bringing the people to the
foot of Sinai, and the conditions of the
revelation, is brought home to us in
the light of Professor Petrie’s excava-
tions.
The popular idea has long been that
Moses led the Israelites through a des-
ert to a great mountain in the midst
of the wilderness, a place hardly
known to.any human being before that
time; that there one of the most stu-
pendous scenes In the history of man-
kind was enacted—the revelation of
the Ten Commandments to a people
that was to transmit it to mankind.
The finding of the great Egyptian
temple near the Mount of Revelation
will be news to a large part of the
thinking world, and will compel them
to very considerably revise their ideas
of the revelation. Now, perhaps, we
shall understand more fully what is
meant in the Bible by that strange
story of the making of the golden calf
and its worship by the people.
Place of the Golden Calf.
When the Israelites came to the
mountains of Sinai they found there
a well appointed Egyptian temple ded-
icated to Hathor, the mistress of the
turquoise; for here were great tur-
quoise mines upon which the Egyp-
tians had been drawing from time
immemorial, or ever since the first
dynasty, something like 5280 B. C.
Here Flinders-Petrie found a tablet of
victory inscribed in the name of King
Senerkhat.of this first dynasty; one
in the name of Senefru, 4750 B. C„
and other tablets, among which was
one of Khufu IV, the builder of the
pyramid. But, most interesting yet,
there are tablets bearing the names
of Rameses II, the Pharaoh of the op-
pression of the Israelites, and of
Merenpthah, the Pharaoh of the Exo-
dus, proving that the temple was be-
ing used at the very time when the
Israelites came to Mt. Sinai.
There are 11,200 square miles of
comfortless country in the Sinai pe-
ninsula, which forms Asia’s juncture
with Africa. It was over this bridge
and through the Sinai desert that the
Israelites wandered 40 years toward
their promised land, says the National
Geographic society.
Peopled by Bedouins.
The Suez canal divides Sinai from
Africa. The bordering Sinai is 230
miles long and 15(^miles wide, or
about the size of Ireland. Its whole
population does not exceed 5,000, and
practically all of these are Bedouins,
who tent along the intermittent
streams and pasture their flocks of
goats and sheep in the desert’s grudg-
ing oasis. The Wady Firan Is the
most fertile and the best known of
these oases. It is called the “Pearl of
Sinai,” and here alone, it is said, has
earth enough of paradise to make the
Persian bulbul, sweetest of bird sing-
ers, forget his roses and, content with-
out them, sing his thousand songs.
In the early years of Christianity
the Sinai region was sought by many
of the sterner-purposed hermits, who
filled the numerous caves of its honey-
combed hills and mountains.
Sinai has been called “the best des-
ert in the world” by one of its en-
thusiastic friends. However, with its
fearful scarcity of water, with its end-
less, burning stretches of yellow and
gray sands, with its bare and brown-
ish rock masses, and with the night
songs of those children of the desert,
the jackal and the hyena, as the kind-
est break in its monotony, it is cer-
tain that those fighting in Sinai’s waste
will find their theater a fittingly grim
stage for the work they have to Ao.
GENERAL DOOMS
NEPHEW CAUGHT
AS A DESERTER
LAST REFUGEES LEAVING YPRES
The once beautiful city of Ypres, which has been so terribly battered by
the guns of both armies, is now utterly abandoned by its inhabitants. The-
last of the refugees are here seen leaving the city.
Russian Commander’s Vote De-
cides Fate of Young Pole
Who Quit Regiment.
JOINED THE AUSTRIAN ARMY
General Radymno Had the Misfortune
to Preside at the Court-Martial
Which Sealed the Fate of
His Favorite Relative.
By DR. WOLF VON SCHIERBRAND.
(Correspondent of the New York Sun).
Vienna.—Doubtless the darkest na-
tional tragedy in this world war is
that of the Poles. There one sees a
distinct ethnological entity, a people
whose tongue is the most musical and
cultivated of all the Slavic languages,
with a fine literature showing names
like that of' Henry K. Sienkiewicz, of
universal fame, advanced in all the
arts, Paderewski being a fine exam-
ple; the most gifted of all the Slavs,
of high valor, of a quality both dis-
tinct and elevated. Yet the curse of
destiny has brought it about tljat this
people of altogether about 22,000,000
has been split up into three unequal
parts—roundly, 12,000,000 of them un-
der Russian rule, about 7,000,000 un-
der Austrian and about 3,000,000 under
German rule. And what results of
even the present giant upheaval will
be so far as the Poles are concerned
not even the wisest can foretell.
Tragedies Every Day.
Meanwhile every day tragedies on a
minor scale are happening among the
Poles which, for the most part, will
never see page and printer’s ink. Yet
many are worth the telling. Here is
one in point. I tell it just as It was
told to me. without the slightest at-
tempt at coloring the facts. Let the
reader judge for himself.
Among the Russian prisoners taken
at Tarnow, Galicia, some three weeks
ago by the Austrian army was a fine,
dignified looking man, a general who
had not yielded without first using
his sword. He was General Stephen
Radymno, a Pole Ly race and lan-
guage, but a brave, undaunted soldier
of the czar. He is now recovering
from his injuries in one of the reserve
hospitals of Vienna, and later on will
be taken as prisoner of war to one of
the great camps in Bohemia.
Nephew a Deserter.
General Radymno had the misfor-
tune to be forced to condemn his fa-
vorite nephew to death. He presided
at the court-martial which sealed the
young man’s fate, and his was the
deciding voice that doomed the young
man to immediate execution; for the
nephew, Jan Radymno, had committed
treason. Although serving in one of
his uncle’s own regiments as first
lieutenant, he had gone over to the ene-
my—to the Polish legion fighting un-
der the banner of the Hapsburgs. This
he had done in the middle of the
night, and in his shabby quarters, a
short distance back of the trenches,
there was found the next morning a
slip of paper on which were a few
lines addressed to his uncle, the gen-
eral saying he found himself “forced
to choose between two duties—and
that toward Poland came first.” Then
he had added a word or two to the
general himself imploring him to fol-
low his example “and help free Poland
fr^m the Muscovite yoke.”
Poles Make Raids.
All this happened early last De-
cember; the general’s trenches were
held for five months longer. Back of
HAIR OVER EARS HARMFUL
Medical Examiner of Public Schools
at Fargo Says It Causes
Deafness.
Fargo, N. D.—Hair held closely over
and below young girls’ ears and cov-
ered with constricting ear bands to
aid adornment for the sake of fashion
are responsible for an increase of deaf-
ness in Fargo public schools, accord-
ing to Medical Examiner W. S. Skel-
sey, whose report was read at a school
board meeting.
“It would be a rash male member of
this board who would try to interfere
with Dame Fashion and the a-fimiring
mothers of these female children,” the
examiner said.
Just a Gold Story.
Great Falls, Mont.—-The discovery
of gold coins in a tin can unearthed
by a plowman employed by Alby Oui-
lette on his iv.nch near Kalispell re-
vived tales of treasure burieJ by pio-
neers during Indian raids. Ripped
by the share the coins rolled from the
can on to the ground The farmhand
his positions were woods, impene-
trable, deep in snow, and into them he
was frequently obliged to send skirm-
ishing parties to attack the rear of
the Polish Legion of Austria, who
made frequent raids. The rumor some-
how spread in the regiment to which
Lieutenant Radymno had belonged
that he was with these legionaires and
that he even directed a number of the
raids and sudden attacks. The Rus-
sians were bitter, and many prison-
ers captured were given short shrift.
One Russian soldier named Destyatuk,
who had belonged to the “rotte”
(squad) formerly commanded by Lieu-
tenant Radymno, swore he had rec-
ognized his former officer in the ranks
of the enemy on one occasion.
. The general, his uncle, never heard
ary of these rumors, however.
One night late in March, when the
snow still lay thick and a gale was
blowing, the very company to which
the deserter had belonged was sur-
prised. The men had changed their
quarters only the day before, having
lost many in their trenches, and had
been sent to the rear. This particular
raid was singularly bold, rapid and
desperate. The Russians were sur-
prised in their sleep, and before they
could gather for a stand they were
badly beaten. But at last there came
succor, and then there was hard fight-
ing, chiefly with the bayonet on ac-
count of the uncertain light. With
half the little force slain, the Rus-
sians finally got a small band of their
foes into the church, and there, after
a hand to hand struggle, took some
prisoners.
Uncle Condemns Him.
Among the prisoners was Jan
Radymno, or what was left of him. A
bayonet thrust had split his cheek aud
cut his lips. His blouse hung about
him in tatters. In this condition he
was taken before his uncle, the Rus-
sian general. The general looked his
nephew over, but said nothing.
At once (it was but six in the morn-
ing and still dark) he summoned a
court-martial. There were five—he
himself as chief, Captain Stchukin,
Captain Fyedotoif, Lieutenant Tau and
Sergeant Major Yevseyenko. The ac-
cused was called in, then the wit-
nesses. Among them was the man
who had bayoneted his former lieu-
tenant, and two others who identi-
fied him. The facts were plain, indis-
putable. Jan Radymno was questioned.
He admitted everything—in a thick
voice, for the thrust had lacerated
his tongue—but without flinching.
Two of the five in the court-martial
were in favor of having the prisoner
taken to headquarters, some ten miles
off; two others, including Captain Fye-
dotoff, wanted sentence .pronounced
and executed at once. The decision
rested with the general. He said that
told Ouilette of his find and a search
revealed several other pieces of gold.
The total estimated value was $300.
And It Waa “Guaranteed.”
Jeffersonville, Ind.—Mike Wall,
chief of police dropped his .38-caliber
revolver, “guaranteed not to go off
even if the hammer is hit,” but the
guaranty did not hold. The bullet
broke two rails of a chair, penetrated
the door of a cabinet and imbedded it-
self in the stock of a shotgun. Four
persons, including Sergeant Summers
and a reporter, were in the office,
which measures ten by six feet, but
none was bit.
Caught Twin Catfish.
Biloxi, Miss.—John Aggregaard of
this city has a curiosity in the form
of a twin catfish which he caught
some time ago, and which he has pre-
served in. alcohol. The fish are
small, not more than 2Vb inches long,
but are perfectly formed and joined
together like the Siamese twins. Mr.
Aggregaard believes he has the only
specimen of the kind ever caught.
inasmuch as responsibility regarding
operations in the woods had been con-
fided to him he was in favor of imme-
diate sentence. The two captains nod-
ded their heads. Jan Radymno had
been a gallant officer, a good comrade,,
but this was a plain case.
General Pror.out.crs Sentence.
So the general in a cold, inflexible
voice pronounced sentence. Then he
said, as an afterthought: “Have you
some wish to express?” Jan Radymno-
took on_ step forward, leaned hard on
the table and said: “I have a little
boy, Piotr, six years old. I ask, I
command, I implore, that he be
brought up as a Pole—to remember, to
love his people and" his native land,
and to be informed how his father end-
ed. That is my last wish. My ever-
lasting curse on you, uncle, if it be
not carried out.”
Then they took him away behind
the house. His uncle leaned against
the wall and shaded his eyes, but he
said nothing. This had been his fa-
vorite nephew. He sank into a chair
and hid his face in both hands. He
waited. Outside six men were digging
a grave in the sandy soil. Jan sat
motionless near by, his head on hi»
breast, gazing at a faded photograph
of his little boy. At last he lifted his
head. He stood up, removed his torn
blouse, and that showed his shirt in
shreds as well. He slowly moved to
the wall and put his back against it.
The sergeant of the firing squad came
up with a handkerchief. Jan motioned
him away.
Then the old general, waiting, heard
the shot that meant his nephew*®
death.
VETERAN STILL IS WORRIED
Soldier Stole Pie During March in
Civil War and Now Can’t
Find B9ker.
Quitman, Ga.—W. B. Gornto of Bar-
ney returned from the Confederate re-
union at Richmond bitterly disap-
pointed because he could not find the
woman he stole a pie from fifty yeara
ago, when he was with the Confed-
erate army in that city.
He carries a deep scar on his hand
as a memento of the lady’s resentment
over the loss of the pie.
After an all-night march the troops-
of which Mr. Gornto was one were be-
ing hurried through Richmond with-
out time for breakfast. This woman
had pies displayed on a window ledge
and Mr. Gornto grabbed one. The
woman ma'de a swipe at him with a
butcher knife and cut his haijd. but
he held on to the pie. The next sol-
dier who tried to grab a pie got his
fingers almost cut off. Mr. Gornto
says that pie saved his life.
30 DAYS FOR STEALING HUG
Carnation Worn In Lapel of His Coat
Delivers Ossining “Masher”
to Justice.
Ossining, N. Y.—Clarence Hagadorn
was sent to the workhouse for 30
days for stealing a hug from Miss
Madeline Gates A carnation be-
trayed him.
His defense was that when Miss
Gates was entering a street car he
ventured to put his arm around her
to help her onto the runningboard.
“I only wanted to assist her,” he ex-
plained when Policeman Irving had
caught him after a chase of several
blocks
Life Saver Gets $10,000.
San Diego, Cal.—Paul G. Kruger of
Rialto, whose bravery fourteen years
ago in stopping a runaway at Kiona,
Wash., saved the lives of R. T. Brown
of Denver and his family, learned a
few days ago that he had been left a
bequest of $10,000 in the will of the
man he rescued.
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