The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-08-07

are abominably filthy, in them and I
would not advise anyone to venture
about in them without clothspin on
mis- nose. Dead cats, rats and dogs are
plentiful. l even ran across one or two
dead donkeys just outside one OF the
city gates. There are many sacred ca
pools which have stagnated from dis
use, and would be rooted out by the
health board of any we'll regulated city.
Walking is difficult, as the narrow streets
are paved with ugly cobiestones, which
have become very slippery and are ex-
ceedlngiy hard on shoe-leather. Night
is made hideous by the bowling of hun
dreds OF hairless. scabby dogs that seem
to have nothing else to do. The bray
ing OF the donkeys is also something
awful. A single bray can be heard a
quarter of a mile, and there is no limit
to the possibilities of well. trained
chorus.
The number of pilgrims here thus
late in the season is astonishing. But I
am particularly surprised to see how
many poor people there are. Great
numbers of Russians may be seen wan
dering about in the hot sun, and living
almost upon husks. These people walk
from Jaffa here, if they cannot get a
cheap ride, and never go any further into
the country than Jerusalem and it's en-
Worms.
The European citizens live for the
most part outside of the city wall on
the road to Jaffa. There are some quite
comfortable homes. The Germans have
fourishing colony west of the city.
There are quite good many French
people here also.
The Mount of Olives is the greatest
disappointment of ALL In the first
place it is hardly mountain ct all, and
in the second place it is painfully con-
spicuous by reason of paucity of OIL
ives. There are plenty of other hills
hereabouts that are much more thickly
wooded. In the third place the top is
disfigured by a large number of tawdry
mosques, dirty huts and manure piles.
This may seem like a savage arraigment,
but it is sincere. [ doubt not that in
the days of Christ the mountain was all
covered with olive trees, and altogether
more attractive place than it is now.
The valley Of Jehosapah, otherwise
known as the valley of the brook
Kidron, separates Olivet from Mount
Moriah and Bezetha. AS this valley
is quite deep, Olivet is made to as
sumo the proportions of quite hill
when you stand at the bottom of the
ravine; but looking toward the mount
from point in Jerusalem where the
valley is not seen. Oivet sinks into
painful insignifcance. The popular
path by which Olivet is assembled is be-
ieved to be the same which David pur-
sued when he fled barefoot and weep
ing from his son Absalom, accompanied
by band of faithful subjects, who
heaped earth upon their heads in token
of their grief at the disobedience of the
usur ping prince. Up this path have
toiled in order to familiarize myself
with the country round about, pausing
anon to look back at the city which has
played so important role in the drama
of the nations. From the summit of
the mount the view of Jerusalem is
really satisfactory-all that one could
wish. The extreme top is, as I have
said, cluttered up with unattractive
buildings, but one can hardly resist
the temptation to reach the summit in
order to command at once a view of
the Jordan valley, including the Dead
sea on the one hand and view of Je-
rusalem and it's environs on the other.