Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — Illustrating the Text. [ARTICLE]

Illustrating the Text.

In Iris book on India, “The High-Road of Empire,” Mr. Murray enlivens a description of the carts of that country with a story of a fellow Englishman who had traveled in the East. He was a Kentish squire, who was interested in giving bis tenants an intelligent Idea of what he had seen abroad. lie had mftde a journey In. Palestine and being an admirable draftsman, had brought home a number of excellent sketches. One winter evening after hit return the squire gave a lecture to his village, and showed a number of his drawings. Among them was a carl very similar to that which I drew at Jodhpur. The squire explained to his audience that it was a tj]pe of the most primitive conveyance known, and that it had existed iu precisely this same form in Palestine from the earliest times; Indeed, that It was probably a cart or wagon of this description that Joseph had sent down from Egypt to bring his father and his household goods from Canaan. , Afterward an old farmer came up and expressed his great interest in what he had hoard, adding that there was one thing above all others which had iuterested him, and that was the cart. “For now,” he said, “I understand why Joseph said to his brethren, ‘See that ye fall not our by thexvay.'”