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Read Better than Pension +" on page 3.
A Mere ConVentiORalltY.
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A young Englishman the other day was re-
lating his first experience at an ice cream table
with a Philadelphia girl. He said: Z" / was
utterly broken up and astonished, don't you
know, when, after finding strawberry in her
half finished plate of cream, she fshed it out on
her spoon and offered it TO me.
80 Won't you have it?' she asked.
SO No, indeed replied, no doubt looking
the horror / felt in my soul.
Why not she demanded, seeming to be
hurt by my refusal.
"'Why, my dear girl, don't you know ex-
planned you have had the spoon in your
mouth?
We'll, what OF that?' she pouted prettily
as she made her perfectly paralyzing reply.
You'd kiss that mouth if I'd let you, wouldn't
yOu?' / confessed that would be only too
glad to do SO, and since then l have made it my
business to get better accustomed to the ways
of the place"
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were not admitted Even now permission
from the Turkish Government must be gotten
to gain access to il. aud you go accompanied by
the Cavass of your Consulate and guard oil
Turkish soldiers.
But what is q Cavass?
Well. the Cavass is the Major Domo the
High Muck -a.muck which Consuls in these
Turkish countries take with them wherever
they 60 TO protect them from the rabble, and
TO impress the natives with their great impor-
tance. Our Consul at Jerusalem has two
Cavasses. They are tall straight Syrians, who
are attired more gorgeously than Solomon in
all his glory. They wear vests covered with
bands of gold embroidery, with long sleeves
like the flowing sleeves OF the old.style fashion
able ladies' gown. Their trowsers-legs are OF
tho Zouave order. and each pair would make
two ladies tailor made snits. including tho
overskirts and .bustles. They have great
scymetar.like swords at their sides, and they
carry ebony poles rs thick as the handle Of a
baseball club, and finished Mt the top with
great knobs Of silver as big rs your fist The
United States Government furnishes the out
fits. barring the swords. When our Consul
comes out of the cavernous regions of bis hotel
or walks down the narrow stone stairs of his
Office, these two gaudy officials precede him
aud make the pavements ring with their stalls
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While visiting the Mosque of Omar ex-
King Milan, of Servis, came in with the Pasha
Of Jerusalem, and / had n good look at this
man who has been forced to abdicate his throne
in favor of his little son, who is just about en-
tering his teens. He Is n well made full. faced,
black mustaehed man Of about 49, and he has
been spending Easter here He first had to
write to the Sultan 10 get his permission to
enter his dominions. aud he now goes about ia
as much style as though he were real King
instead of dethroned one. The Pasha of
Jerusalem has about the same place that
Pontus PLATE had when Christ was cruciAed
He Is the Governor OF Jerusalem and Palestine,
and The people here say he is a very good Gov
ernor. though he hates the Jews, aud opposes
their coming back into the country. He is q
Mahometan Of about 40 years of age, and dur
ing the times ] have seen him he has been
dressed In European clothes, with rcd fez
cap resting we'll down over dark brown FORE
head. lie has little army here with him,
and tho Turkish army contains neither Chris,
Gans nor Jews. The Pasha, however, collects
tax on ell subjects for military purposes, and
every male IN Palestine of a year old and up
wards has TO pay for keeping out of the army
which he cannot get in. As to the Mahomet-
ans, they can stay out OF the army for Ave years
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Read Better than Pension " on page 5.
A Serious Case.

Customer My watch won't CO."
Jeweler texamining it)-"Myl My! Have
you been in a railroad collisionP"
Customer (surprised) "Why, no."
Jeweler (solemnly)-" When you undress
you should not throw your vest down on the
floor when your watch is in the pocket"
Customer (thoughtfully)-" never do. ]
have been exceedingly careful with that watch.
Don't know how it got hurt. How long will it
take you to fix it?"
Jeweler latter another examination)- )-"You'd d
better leave il here at least a week, but If you
can get along without it would advise two
weeks"
Customer Very we'll. Do it up right.
Good day"
Jewoler Ito assistant" Hans, blow that
speck of dust off this wheel aud charge up S
for repairs"
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10 De continued.l


The Chicago e. Northwestern Railway offers
exceptional opportunities for an inspection OF
the cheap lands and growing business centers
Of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wyoming, North
and South Dakota. Colorado and tie far West
and Northwest, by series of Harvest Excur-
sons, for which tickets will be sold at half
rates, or one fare for the round trip Excur-
sions leave Chicago Aug. and 90, Sept. 10
aud "a, and Oct. 8. For full particulars apply
10 any ticket agent, or address T. =. WILSON.
General Passenger Agent Chicago 81 North
western Railway, Chicago. Ill.
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bg Hie CuntiuuOuS CoH-
tact of human lips.
Thousands Of old men,
thousands Of boys, thou
sands Of women aud
beautiful girls kiss this
slab every day. They
walk reverently into
the church, cross them
selves, kneol down aud
bow their heads TO the
floor before IL, and then
creeping on to 1t press
their lips again aud
again against it, aud l
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Read "Bettor than Pension" on page 5.
England, Bewarei

"Wiliam!" exclaimed Mrs. Highstrung. as
she laid down the paper. There's likely to
be war with England over Behring Sea-"
"What do care ," growled her spouse, who
took no interest in military matters.
a don't care what you care or don't carr" ("
returned Mrs. Highstrung. with some vehe-
mence "This war is about seals. and If Eng
land wins they can charge any price they please
for seal-skin saeques. and / amt got one yet.
If war breaks out you've got to go aud fight fer
y'r country, dye hear?"
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AIosonE nF OMAR.

as they clear the way. When he steps acTo@s
the street to church, though the town is desert.
ed and baby might 20 about without injury,
his Cayass goes with him and waits outside the
building until bis highness Is ready to return.
il is a sort of parody on the name Of pomp. but
1t is the custom of the country, and the Con.
gul conforms 10 H.
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Read "Better than a Pension " on page B.
Har.niOny.

IIHf"HIWNls
NeIV Fork WeeklV1
Reporter-You have led great many choirs,
/ understand
Organist-A great many.
"And you have no doubt seen good many
love affairs among the singers?" !"
eyes"
"Well, what I want to know Is this: Does
the belle Of the choir generally marry the
tenor or the basso?"
1.-THE tenor He gets the most salary"
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- EhA3fh AsA1hhl &NN<es
JERUSALEM is tho
most holy city in the
world. II is the
Mecca of the Chris
tians, and next TO
Mecca itself it is the
holiest city on the
earth to tho Mahom.
etans. It will sur
prise some OF your
readers to know that
great numbers of Ma
hometans make pill
grimages to Jerusa-
lem, and that the
Mahometans believe
in Christ. They con.
slider him one of the
four great Prophets.
OF whom Mahomct
was the last. One of
the finest buildings in
the East is the Mosque
of Omar, in Jerusa-
lem, which stands on
she site of Solomon's
Temple, and to which
for years Christians
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The great interest OF this temple plateau
however, is It's ruins. Every part of 10 is
wrapped up in history and the columns and
pillars and curious marbles most probably came
from solomop's Temple. The Mosque Of III
Aksa, at another part Of the plateau, has subter-
fanean vaults. which arc upheld by pillars rs
big round as the boiler Of q railroad engine
each pillar or which is OF solid rock Near here
there are vast quarriea. or catacomhs away
down under the present Jerusalem, where
solomon Is supposed 10 have gotten much Of
the stone for the building Of the Temple. aud
in which you can still SEQ the marks Of the
sionecutters' tools In front of this mosque
there are subterFanean cisterns. which cut
out of the solid rock, and which are so feet
deep and more than an acre ln extent. These
e!sierns are mentioned by Tacitus, and they
are as old as antiquity. We went down into
S0lomon's stables, consisting of roon after
room, fioored with dirt aud with stone roofs
upheld by hundreds OF vast square stone col.
umns each four feet thick. These were used
by the Crusaders rs stables in the Middle Ages
and you still SEQ the rings TO which their horses
were tied. They are lighted from little holes
near the top. and the pillars are In many places
imbcddod in from 10 90 Is feet Of rubbish. Tho
whole would cover, judge, nearly block and
this Is away down under ground, and on the
same level with what Was once the base of
S0l0m0n's Temple In looking at them one
cannot but he impressed with the fact that this
whole plateau is filed with wonderful ruins.
aud IL excavations could be mado We might
1Dd q great part of the temple still in existence
IL Is the Same with Jerusalem itself. Exeaya-
tionA have shown that there are two cities
buried below the present site OF Jerusalem, and
you come upon room after room under the
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are from three to four feet thick, and are Of
solid blocks of jasper beautifully polished; of
delicatey- -veined marbles of richness of
beauty which you will find nowhere else in the
world. 1t is supposed that many of the noted
buildings of the world were ransaCked to find
them, and they probably come from some of
The great ruins Of the very remote past. Be-
tween tho spaces of the, inner row of these col
umns n wrought-iron fence of complicated pat
tern extends in latticework high above your
head. and looking through the meshes of this
you see the Holy Rock, in honor of which this
great structure is built.
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Surrounding this great rotunda, in which the
Sepuleher stands, are churches, each of which
belongs to different sect, and each of which
embraces some spot or relic connected with
Christ In grotto is shown the place where
the cross Of Christ was discovered, and high up
flight of stairs is the place upon which the
crucihxion is supposed To have taken place
The stocks in which the feet of Jesus were fas-
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LIE FruIls af PraleciIan-

LOleett fNess3 C0nrfcy.l
Paper never was so cheap in the United States
as il is to-day. 1t is not cheaper anywhere else
Ia the world. And that IL is SO cheap is due TO
the fact that ii is weiI-protected industry.
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again against ~, ana thVhSh of 2EfpL-
have seen some of them CHER.
drop tears upon il as they did so. Great candles
stand beside it in candlestieks taller than a
man, and lights burn around it night and day.
You pass by it in going on into the rotunda OF
the church, aud here you find the Sepnlcher
itself
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The real Chapel Of the Sepucher is further
on. It's entrance is door so low that you must
bend double in going into it, and so narrow that
only one person can pass in and out at the same
time. 1t will only hold four persons and il is
about six feet square. At the right, set into
the wall, there is a marble slab OF the purest
white, which rests upon another slab about four
feet high, forming n box or ledge which fills
one side of the room. This is supposed to be
the Sepulchcr of Christ, ana it is this that
brings the tens of thousands of pilgrims TO
Jerusalem. 1t Is to kiss this that Russians
walk the thousands of miles from the borders
OF Siberia To the sea coast. Ii is TO kiss this
that Abyssinian women make pilgrimages here,
and 1t is here that the Latins aud the Greeks
come to weep and to pray. You can have no
idea of the emotion expressed by these wor-
shippers Their faith is real TO them, and the
tears they shed are know, real tears. The
whole surroundings of this church are to them
holy. and many of them pay to sleep on its
floors during their visits
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Ifyou will take the rotunda of our Capitol aud
build in It's center an oblong marble structure
about so feet high, about Ii feet wide and 20 feet
long, you will have some idea OF the proportion of
this Holy Scpulcher. You must cover its top and
front with lamps and put painted candles as
big around as your arm in big candlestcks in
front OF it. You must have a platform of mar.
bio leading to its front door, and this door
must be so low that You must stoop TO enter it.
You first come into small room which is
lighted by dim lamps, aud in which there is q
square stone set In marble which the pilgrims
kiss again and again as they go by il. They
lay their beads upon it, and they think they re-
ceive blessing from the contact. This is the
stone which Is said to have been relied away
from the Sepuleher of Christ, and there are not
five minutes during the day that human lips
do not come In contact with it.
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cies. aud sometimes
they were not found
fer weeks. The writer
on one occasion receiy-
ed money which had
been placed in a small
vial and concealed in q
jaT Of canned frsit on
another occasion in q
package Of ground cof-
Zee. and again in a loaf
of bread where il bad
been placed before bak-
ing. Diher parties fonnd
snrls articles in 3 roll Of
butter. deity inserted
81 3 plug Of tobacco. OF
laid between twO leaves
q q book aad the edges
pasted together. The
result Of this suspicion
on the part of The off,
cials Was that great de-
lar ensued IN the deliE-
cry Of packages, and
they were rtlfhieSsir
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/ walked around this iron fence in my stock
ing-feet aud peeped through at the great stone
from every point of view. 1t Is big enough,
but there is nothing wonderful about it. You
could build house Of 40 feet front and 60 feet
deep upon it, and il rises q solid mass of brown
ish gray about six feet above the floor. II it
lay in the Rocky Mountains it would DO only
an ordinary bowlder, and 1 have seen many
rocks in the Alleghenies of much the same
shape and size. Still the Mahometans believe
that upon this rock the Angel Gabriel will
stand when he blows his blast calling the peo-
pie to come to Judgment on the last day. They
will assemble in the Valley of Jehosaphat.
which is just outside the walls of tho plateau
on the south, and upon pillar which Is built
into the wall Christ will sit. and on the Mount
of Olives which is perhaps n milo across the
valley. will be seat for Mahomet. These
two will judge the world, and there will be
thin wire rope extending across this valley
from the feet of one to those of the other.
Upon this rope all men must walk. The
righteous will bo upheld by their angels from
falling, aud Will cross to Heaven; the wicked
will drop down into hell.
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A Pleasant Prospect.
M Ka..L u-askTuT

She-Ma says she knows that when we are
married we won't live so like cats aud dogs as
she and pa do.
He-No, Indeed. Your ma is right.
Eyes she says she is sure you'll be easier to
manage than pa is.
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S0L0MON'S TEMPLE,
All About the Wonderful Mosque
Which Stands on Its Site.

The Stables OF Solomon and Che Holy Rock or the
Mahometans-A Look at King and Something
About the Pasha Of Jcrusalem-A Visit TO ihe
Holy Sepnlcher and It's Thousands or Pilgrims.
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Read Better than a Pension on page 3.

There was young fellow of Ga,
To know him, no joy 'twould affa-
He called one whole day
On lady, they say,
And then remarked, Hope hain't ba-"
- brakes AaOasine
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The Holy Sepulcher is far different from what
/ had imagined it to be. 1t is built you know,
on what is supposed to be the Mount of Cal
vary, in the very center Of Jerusalem and it
consists of great church, on the top Of which
is n dome bigger than that OF our Capitol.
which is crowned with cross, which lighted
Mt night becomes very cross of fire. This
Church of the Sepulcher is very large. Built
of'yellow limestone, it rises, surrounded on
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for little over 5000, and the able bodied Ma
hometans of Palestine are continuously drafted
for the use Of the Sultan.

Tor the use Oh the sultan.
The soldiers dress in European uniform, wits
fez caps. They are not bad looking high pri-
Yates, and the greatest fault have to find with
them is their music. They have their barracks
in the Tower of David. and from in the morn
ing until about midnight their trumpeters are
blowing. or all the cornstallz fiddle screeching,
of all the catterwauling of midnight felines,
this Mahometan music takes the palm. The
soldiers are on duty everywhere. and the chief
business of the Pasha Is to see that every man
pays his taxes. These soldiers have watch
towers in the rich parts Of Palestine, where
they keep lookout over the crops and see
that every man gives one tenth of what he
raises to the Sultan. Jerusalem has seven
gates in different parts of its walls, and at these
gates these soldiers are stationed, and every
market woman who brings in a basket of eggs
to sell or some vegetables from her garden for
the market must pay tax upon them before
she gets in. These soldiers are on duty Mt all
of the Christian celebrations, and they have
station at the very entrance of the Church OF
the Holy Sepulcher. During the services OF
Easter they are required to keep the Christians
in order, for there are n dozen different sects,
and these sometimes engage In fighting N what
is to them the holiest place in the world.
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loorYRronrrD ny FRANK @. CARPENTER, 1851
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As travelled around the rock the turbaned
guide showed mo its wonders. Here" said
he, pointing to n little round hole In one of its
sides, " is tho imprint of Mahomet's heel. Our
holy prophet assembled from here to Heaven,
and as he rose the rock started 10 go up with
him. holding on TO his heel. The angel Ga
briel had TO put his hand upon it to keep 1T down.
and here" pointing TO five curious marks
" is the place where Gabriel's fingers rested
when he did so." There is cavern under the
rock. and into this hole we descended with
candles, and the Mahometan showed me a
square hole of about the size and shape of n
Saratoga trunk, where he said, Abraham was
about to sacrifice Isaac when he received his
command to desist. This spot is really be-
lieved by the Jews to be the place of Abraham's s
sacrifice, and David also sacrificed here My
guide bad more wonders to show, and he told
me that this rock was the very center of the
world, and that some people believed IL to be
the gate of hell. He showed me plate of JAS
per about as big as a checkcrboard, in which
were three golden nails and lie told me that it
originally contained 10 nails, and that Mahomet
had driven these into tho stone. One nail
drops ont at the end OF each age. and when the
last nail is gone the end of the world will
como. The guide offered to let me pull one
out of IL for n dollar, but / had more respect
for the Fastening Of the judgement Day, and
refused. The devil got at this plate one day,
Ahu was jerking out bnt HhlIS NJ great rate,
when the angel Gabriel found il out and II am
quoting Mahometan belief pulled the devil
away, aud thus saved the world The stories
seem silly, but they are only samples of hun
dred that ! heard inside this temple. Never
theess. millions of Mahometans In the world
believe them. and when | was watching the
rock gray. bearded, turbaned men and white
gowned, vailed women came and kissed 1t and
prayed over it. They touched their fingers to
tata ta uR
their hands 20 their lips. They kissed the
marks Of Mahomets footprints in another part
OF the mosque, and rubbed their handkerchief
and beads over the foek. evidently imagining
that from this they gained some merit. They
believe that at the last hay tho holy stone of
Mecca will come to Jerusalcm, and that Gods
throne viii be planted upon this rock. Ma
homct declared that one prayer hore was worth
thousand elsewhere, aud he prayed here
himself
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Special Correspondence NArrovAr. TRIBUNE.
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Read " Better than Pension" on page 8.
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Read "Better than Pension. on page 3.

The tenor. He gets the most salary"
Decorah-posten., 1889-03-27

s Iaret 1898 blep ben franSse Vp
Bonoiderrp / Sitinoien beleiret of gu,
selltmanoene. 8psn tunoe lite peuts
nOssn Sielp fra Mooerlanoet, ium INF,
Do bar tnopiflet / en- Ramp pau aiu %
Sso meo Here eurOpaiiie Muater. men I
Ioriuareoe fig life beitO minbre meb aor.
tuileliens Wob.
On Dag bar Beiatninsen imiblertib
lloe at Stanb til at b~eiuare Gnolanber.
mes Slo. Der fanotes tilftraffelio
&ruOt' men 5Orraaoet Of aualer bar
OpOrasf. alt Sern, Tom fanotes boa
Ylaolen, bar alereoe lpuset uo mob
SsOtlolerns; liseleOes S~ernitatitet On.
FIRING ROnumsntet, ginoasieu. :
2aaene % ROriene paa srr~,etoorusu,
oar i0r0an0leOs til 8rois,ilsr o. for.
bruste.
Decorah-posten., 1889-03-27
Nrbeioernes Yrosrattt |
Norge % Spert8e.
(Nf 3atarias Sermannerl

S 1879 bolotes bet fsrfe iusnI.e UT
beioermsost / Stodbolm, os / 1880 bet
fsrite norife | 8ritiania. s 8runben
par Wsbet | Rriftiania bet treble ncr{e
arbeioermsoe, buiS mon re9ner Re /
1850 ps 1851 uuoer 2sraniter 5soeael=
len afsolote Msper mso. Smioleriio
er Msoet 1880 ~officielt falot bet isrfe,
os oerfor faar man 5oloe fig til bet
Hnoa bet bar facet.
s 0orse bar man tioen ben lib aOlbt
3 Wgoer. nemlig / 1brDnbhiem / 1882,
g rift,anianb 1885 os / Samnv 1888.
9isie Wsoer bur idmlst arbeiberne ON
ct fe0ss Brosrnm. buOri bet fsrfte
Yunft sr &rauet paa %alminoelis Stem.
meret, FAINT / 5orbiaoelie bermeo at
galset foresoar paa en- 5ribas, %
oirsite Yals.
Derneft froper Nrbeiberne en- sors
anbrins / Beifatninssiptemet, ioet be
finder, at ben nuu9renoe 7%olobeitatnins
er ureiferbis mob be minbre 8emioleoe
% snifer berfOr. at 9olotor,ffen unbers
sipes Pig 5orauorins. at 7Olben iaas
p,ot mul,st opbaues eler neoiattes paa
almnoslis bruste gIrer, (fOrnsmmelis
Raife, Suffer % 2psolier) 1om / ncaeu