Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — Great Genealogical Record. [ARTICLE]

Great Genealogical Record.

In mysterious Mecca’s archives Is the most wonderful genealogical record in the world —a roll of parchment about 50 feet long and four feet wideon which each ruling emir of Mecca has written with his own hand his name. Every one is descendant of the Prophet Mohammed;, the thirty-sixth in direct line of descent, and therefore the chief of the tribe of Koreish and Keeper of the Holy Places, is Hussein, new king of the Arabs, whose rise Insured the downfall of the Turks. The thirty-seventh on the list of those who wearthe propliefs green Trnmtte is Feisal, the thirty-two-year-old son of Hussein, who is«now ruler of the Syrian government,’with his seat in Saladin’s city of Damascus. He is at present in Paris. \ j