Stories by Harold J. Shepstone

Walking Around Jerusalem

The Ancient Walls of the City of David and Solomon Are Being Restored

Head Hunters of Burma

How England, at Considerable Cost and Peril, is Obtaining the Freedom of Thousands of Slaves from the Tribes in the Naga Hills

Psalmist's Spring to Supply Jerusalem with Water

How the Problem of an Efficient Water-supply for the Holy City Is Being Solved by the Establishment of Modern Water Works on the Spot Associated with the 23rd Psalm

Buried Secrets of the Holy Land

All Over the Bible Lands, from Dan to Beersheba, the Archeologist Is Busy Turning Over Ancient Mounds and Revealing City Sites

Solving Greenland's Historic Mystery

The Medieval Tragedy of White Colonists in the Far North

A Race with Nature

A spectacular engineering feat is the construction of the great Sennar Dam, on the Blue Nile, in the Sudan. Here the engineer has been wrestling with the Nile floods and by herculean efforts is erecting an immense barrage, two miles in length, across the river, in order to hold up water for the irrigation of a million acres of parched land, where cotton is to be grown by means of hundreds of miles of canals...

Reconstructing Stonehenge

Work of Preservation That May Solve the Origin of Britain's Most Mysterious Ruin

Coal and Iron from the Arctic

Spitsbergen's Vast Mineral Wealth and the Question of its Future Government

Gathering Kauri Gum in New Zealand

A Little Known but Important Industry

Baalbek the Mysterious

In many Respects the most Famous Ruins of Bible Lands

The only Mammal Equipped by Nature for Flight

Curiosities of the Bat World

The Bagdad Railway

A New Factor in the Turkish-Balkan Situation

Recent Excavations at Samaria

Discovery of the Palace of Ahab Herod's Buildings Unearthed and Ancient Jewish Inscriptions Found

Hebrew Weiǵhts and Measures

Ancient Measuring Vessels Found on Reputed Site of the House of Caiaphas

The Monasteries of Palestine

Historic Buildings, Rich in Legend-Lore

Fishermen of the Sea of Galilee

The Potter's Clay Industry of Cornwall

Monsters of Bygone Ages

Some Remarkable Restorations of Extinct Animals

The “Holy Mountain”

Exploring in the Sinai Peninsula

The Shepherds of Palestine