The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-03-28
GRANTS TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
INTO .IERTSAIEM
Personal---very. 80 go 80 5000

Correspondence Of the Nelo Yorh Herald
We expected to enter Jerusalem in
our quiet, plain way, pilgrims really
coming to see the Holy City, filled with
| its renowned memories, But. To and
behold here is an army with banners,
and we are commanded to enter AS con
Iquerors, in triumphai manner! Well,
/ know Of one in that company who
looked with sorrow upon the pageant.
and he it was for whom it was intend
ed. But there Yves no help for it. So
we assembled and were in due form
presented, and there were coffee and
cigars. More than all, there were h0r-
SEES for the General, the Pasha's own
white Arab steed in housings of gold.
1t was well that this courtesy had been
prompted, for the bridge over the
brook was gone and our carts would
have had a sorry business crossing.
We set out, the General thinking, no
doubt, that his campaign to enter ,Je-
Tusal6m at 4 had been frustrated by an
enemy upon whom he had not counted.
He had considered the weather, the
roads, the endurance of the horses but
he had not considered that the Pasha
meant to honor him as though he were
another Alexander coming into a con-
quered town. So we traIled UP the
winding ways Of the hill the hill
which sheltered Jerusalem from the
Canaanite and Philistine. Jerusalem
is $500 feet above the sea, and even
then it lies beyond a hill that must be
passed. So we wind around and
around, up and around, steadily, pa
tiently straining toward the summit.
The mist and the clouds that had been
over our path finally envelop-
ed us, and we could trace with difficult
ty the path which we came. ThevieW
on clear day must be wonderful for
breadth and beauty, and even now with
the gray clouds about us, and the rain
falling in mist, we looked down the
dizzy side and saw hill af-
ter hill sweeping like pillows on to- |
ward the sea. AS q glimpse Of nature, |
there was beauty in the scene to be re- |
membered in many dream. But we
were thinking Of the valley below, as
scenes Of events which have stirred the |
souls of'Christian men for centuries,
as the path of conquering armies of
Joshua and David-of Alexander and I
VeSpasian-of Godfrey and Saladin.
And here we were coming with ban
ners and men, and at cur head, riding
side by side with the Pasha's Turkish |
Lieutenant, is one whose name will
i've with that Of the greatest comman-
Ter Who ever preceded him over this
rocky way, The valley passes away.
We ride abouta mile through suburb,
The highway lined with people. The
General passes on, with barred head, for
On both sides the assembled multitude
10 him honor. We see through the
mist mass of d0mes and towers, and
5he heart beats quickly, for we know
hey are the domes and towers Of Jeru-
salem. There are ranks Of soldiers
drawn in line, the soldiers presenting
arms, the band playing, the colors fall
ng. We passed through a narrow
gate, the gate that Tancred forced with
MS crusaders. We pass under the
walls of the tower Of David, and the
lag that floats from the pole on the
Consulate tells us that our journey is
1t an end, and that we are within the
walls Of jerusalem.