Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-02-01
THE HOLY LAND.
Bringing Water into Jerusnlenl-tht
Truth of Sacred History.
From tho v,r iyy,ee

Bringing Water into Jerusnlem-the
Truth of Sacred History.
From the New York Times.
Among the MANY things dons by
Miss Burdett Coutts, for which her
name will be held in lasting gratitude,
her contribution for bringing water in
to Jerusalem will not be the least es-
teemed The indirect rather than the
direct consequences Of this gift have
proved the more important Miss
Coutts' primary donation was placed
in the hands of a committee of gentle
men interested in Jerusalem, and was
meant TO defray the cost of surveys for
preliminary examinations. These were
to have been preparatory tU costly and
substantial water works. This scheme
has been defeated by the Turkish au-
thorities. Jerusalem, therefore, must
go for the present without water; or
father must continue to depend on such
noisoifie sources Of supply as her open
cisterrs. which often throw off nliasma,
the larrest of which is known as the
Pool of Hezekiah.
Miss Coutts' benevolent purpose has
led to noble results, although not pre-
cisely the ones she intended. 1t fur
nished the original stimulus to what is
called the Palestine Exploration Fund,
and has led to the publication Of book
intefestine to all the Christian inhabit-
ants of the world. This work, in which
several officers of engineers have had a
hand, and to which the introduction
has been. written by DR.. Stanley, the
Dean of Westminster, has just appeared
in Lohdoil; aid is exciting much atten-
tion It contains the report Of Cap,
tains Wilson and Warren, r. E., con
cerning the water supply; accounts of
expeditions to the Hauran, by Captain
de Vogue, and to Mount Sinai, by Rev.
F. W. Holland; paper on the general
survey Of Palestine, by Lieut.. Ander-
son; an account Of the famous Moa-
bite stone; descriptions of various ar
ehitectural remains in the Holy Land,
by Mr.. Spiers; and, what may be deep
ly attractive, contribution by Rev. G.
J. Chester, on the pottery and glass
found in late excavations.
The Ordinance Survey of Jerusa-
lem - was made in 1S64-5 and the re-
port of it accompanies the new book,
as does also Capt. Watson's account of
" Excavations at Jerusalem. " It has
beeh confirmed, 1t seems, through these
excavations, that the "fountaiH Of lv.
ing waters" supposed by Tacitus to
have been stationed within the lime
stone on which the city is built, could
never have existed The water supply
contained in the cisterns of the Temple
Mount was in fact chiefly brought from
solomoh's Pool. In our day, during
the dry season, the precious fluid is so
scarce iii Jerusalem that half filed
goat skin costs about fourteen cents. -
The Temple Mount cisterns held
about ten millions of gallons, and
it was in searching for and ex-
amining their locality that much
whichis most instructive and interest
ing In the publication referred to was
obtained. On the southeast side of the
Mount, near Robinson's Arch" at a
depth below the surface of the soil of
go feet, the Phenician masons' trade
marks have been found on the stones,
together with other important relics !;
and the surprising probability is forced
upon us that underground Jerusalem
is destined, like Pompeii, to furnish
data of vital significance as affirming or
correcting existing records.
Rev. Mr.. Holland, one of the authors
named above, has been five times to the
peninsula of Sinai, and has taken ex-
traordinary pains to verify and eluci-
date the Biblical narrative of the wan
derings of the children of Israel. His
associates, too, have had wide expert
1,11o ropnor,hoc ord fh vuOrk nf
all has received the examination and
approval of DR.. Stanley. It will be
grateful to many, and especially SO at
this particular season, to hear that,
speaking for his companions as well as
himself, Mr. Holland winds up his
contribution with the follow
ing momentous conclusion: "Not q
single member of the expedition re
turned home without feeling more
firmly convinced than ever of the truth
of that sacred history which he found
illustrated and confirmed by the natur-
al fe a lures of the desert. The noun.
tains and valleys, the very rocks, bar
ren and sun -scorched as they now are,
seem to furnish evidences which none
who behold them can gainsay, that
this was the great and terrible wilder
ness through which Moses, under
Gods direction, took his people"
A New York SCHOOLGIRL in Love with
Jem Mace.
f4H Correspondent st. Louis Republican.
An instance of the Americus has come
to my ears. and very funny I think i
! is. It seems that during the run O
GAS You Like It." pretty young
school girl witnessing the performance
became desperately smitten with th'
charms of James Mace, the wrestling
hero of the piece. @ q 1s9dl go
It appears her infatuation was no
too deep for rtterance, and she gushet
inseveral notes, which We're sent t.
Mace's home in Twenty third street
The fair demoiselle laid her plans. Sh
would write frequently-interes tn
pugilist hero, and probably at tn
/ Leiderkranz or some masque ball of tn
winter. they would meet, and sh
would disclose to him her identity witt
the loving "Eoline, y as she had signe,
her letters. But at the "Americus
she found herself squeezed up in
corner with-who of all persons 81 bu
the redoubtable James
Heaven knows how she opened tn
conversation, but Mace finally took tn
whole atrocity in, and addressed tn
little sufferer thus: 7a-as
$50 you're the one as wrote then
letters signed Anodyne2 Well, just lie
up on 'em, will you9 I have been in
pretty sweat about 'em. For you Sc
my old woman is up to the house, an
always laying for letters. She read
writing first-rate, and if she'd eve
nailed one o them letters, l might jus
as well Jump out four-story winder
it would have been all day with me. "
Poor Eoline Lucky, for the child
perhaps, this first indiscretion wa
committed in that direction-for she
thoroughly cured by DR.. Mace for a
coming time.
ACCORDING to the Missouri Democrat
there is a Methodist clergyman preach
) ing in ST. Louis who expects shortly t
be able to build churh of his Owl