Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-09-19

we're Rratified with his portrait eide by
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A REPORTER VISITS TIE HOLY LAND.
An Instructive Study Of the Geography Of
That Region.
Minneapolis Tribune.
II have been up to see that great pan
orma of the Holy land you were speak
ing about" said the reporter, as he
dropped into cushioned chair and ele-
waited his brogans on the city editors
desk.
SWELL, how was it? Tell Us all about
it. 1t is 80 long since was there have
forgotten about many of the points of
interest"
"Well, l went up one flight of stairs,
from Seventh street into Mount Olivet,
and sat on the ropes that surrounded it
to keep spectators from falling off into
what appears to be a life sized section of
sheol below. Then the professor came
up and took long stick and began
poking it at jericho and the Dead sea
and Damascus and other places you have
probably read about"
when went to Sunday school We
didn't 60 around poking site ks at the
Holy and"
SWELL, that was because you went to
Sunday school in California, where they
advertise the garden of Eden as 9 suburb
of San Francisco. Besides, you didn't
stick to it long enough to learn anything
about it, anyhow. Don't you see, this is
panorama, an Illuminated canvas dis
playing tie whole country in miniature,
just as you see it from balloon view
with the mountains and villages, the
hills and seas, and rivers and cities, in
fact the whole contour of the country
displayed in their proper proportions. l
tell you it was pretty fine, but it takes
fellow who is well-informed in bib
lical lore to catch on to the interesting
points. The professor with the long
stick pointed out Jeruselam and the
temple, with its many courts and gates,
and the tower of Antonio, on the right,
where Paul was rescued from mob of
influential citizens, who waited on him
for the purpose of carving him into
small pieces.
"Then l wanted to see Lots wife and
the place where the young dude who
went down from Jericho fell among
thieves and was robbed of his watch and
valuables.
The professor took his long stick and
pointed out a green spot on the map
which is claimed as Lots wife.
II hadn't expected the lady to look
so fresh, having been sailed so long, but
it must have been the paint.
"Said he: Il have chunk of the salt.
When we 20 down the mountain I'll
show it to you. It's modern Lot, of
course"
"Job lot. suppose" chimed in the
city editor"
swell, then he displayed Bethel.
where Jacob slept with q stone for q
pillow; it must have been rocky travel
ing in those days, and the roads where
the caravan used to run from Damascus
to Egypt before the Northern Pacific
was completed. and the vineyard of the
chap who walled up his lot and then
went of into far country; maybe he
went to Jeruselam to apply for a fourth
class postofice professor didn't
say.
Away out on one side OF the scene
were lot of white dots which repre-
sented the cities of the plain, every one
$4,000 people, twenty of
which Solomon gave to some royal duff
or for furnishing cedar wood for the
temple.
"But the most curious thing about the
whole business was the mountains and
valleys, very life-like, indeed; the noun
tains all cut in gorges, with streams
down to the valleys below,
which were most luxuriantly furnished
with heritage, palm and fig trees, and
other vegetables to order.
The professor gave me some points |
about oranges growing Six inches in d. |
ameter, and grapevines as thick as the
electric mast, bearing punches of grapes
twenty inches long"