Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-05-26


to oriental towns and | like it very
| much : it IS so characteristic. The col
ony is quite like country towns else.
where, and being very clean forms a
I delightful contrast to Jaffa. There are
! several frame houses there--the first
had seen since had left America 1t
seemed so natural A colony came out
there !rom Maine soon after the war,
but did not succeed, and most of them
| returned home, but there are q few
| families left. Isuppose that accounts
tor weather-b boarded houses, etc.
Monday morning. early. we started
| for Jerusalem in spring wagon, the
| usual conveyance. We drove out be-
tween the celebrated orange gardens
! of Jatfa and soon after passed Jewish
agricultural school. After drive of
about two honrs and half across the
plains of Sharon, we reached Ramleh.
supposed by some to be the Arimathea
OF the bible. There is a crusaders
tower there, but IS il was at some dis
tance from tue hotel where we stopped
for breakfast, and we had but three
quarters of an hour, we did not visit
it. The view from the top is said to be
remarkably fine.
The day before had been rainy and
| the roads We're miserable in some
places it was almost impossible to get
along at all. Several other wagon
loads of travellers left .jalfa after us in
the morning, and they we're almost ali
obliged to get out and walk .throdgh
the muddiest part. As We had three
good strong horses we got along better.
Shortly after noon we passed the vii
lage of Latroon on hillside in the val
ley of A.ialon. Tradition says that this
village was the home of the two thieves
who were crucified with Christ. About
two o'clock, we reached oursecond rest
ing place. We stopped there about an
hour, and after eating our ilnch start
ed up the hillside in search of flowers.
| We found most beautiful variety,
and quantities of every kind. Among
them we found blue corntlcwers, scar
let anemoEeS, and PINK and white cy-
clamen. never saw the latter flower
in touch abundance. From there on to
Jerusalem the hillsides were covered
with it. A bunch OF cyclanen peeped
out from under every rock The re
mainder of our route lay through the
mountains and and everywhere there
were wild flowers of eve.y variety.
The scenery, too, was beautiful, and we
enjoyed the drive very much until
about five o'clock, when hard lain
storm began. We were just passing an
Arab village, said to be the Kirjath
Jcarim of the old testament. There
was a very picturesque rum Of an old
Cl usaders church, which belonged,
was told, to the French government.
From there on, it rained almost
steadily till we reached Jerusalem, so
that we saw little more Of the scenery
along the way, an were deprived Of a
view of the city before reaching 1t.
Shortly before eiaht o'clock lights
appeared on the horizon. and our Ger
man driver said to mt. ''there is Jeru-
salem" We afterwards found out they
were from the long rows of Jewish
dwellings outside the city walls. We
were 20 stop at the hotel, Fiel, outside
the walls, and at eght o'clock we
reached our destination, much more
fortunate than the plrtles who started
an houl behind US nj the morning.
and did not reach Jerusalem until un-
til aftel eleven that night.
But / must leave you for this week
just outside the .Jatla gate, and thor
oughly tired out with our eleven hours
drive Next time snail write Of our
visit to the city itself =.
Your loving daughter.
JESSE l.. THATCHER.