Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-09


 are at all dissatisfied with former work done by mo and who desire to return it now and have it terscd can do so.
 The name Jerusalem, as most students are aware, is Canaanitish, though it would seem to have Hebrew root The Hebrew name is Jerushalaim, and as painted in Hebrew characters on the railroad station of the JOppa and Je- rusalem road looks to me like the Sten- ographic report of Chinese autopsy.
 Joshua speaks of Jerusalem as the shoulder of the Jebusites (Joshua xv, S): also, if my memory serves me prop erly. in chapter xviii, verse 16. Joshua farther on refers to tho nice fresh figs which are still to be had of the pea nuttist who has the day run from Jaffa to town.
 Four hundred years or moro Jerusa- lem was in the grip of the Jebusites, and the primaries were in their hands.
 A nomination by the Jebusites dur ing that period was tantamount to an election.
 q use tho word tantamount by per mission of Rev. Joseph Cook. with an agreement on my part not to muss it up)
 Jerusalem naturally seems to have been located upon a succession of hills and reminds mo of Asheville, N. C., in that respect.
 After David's conquest of Jerusalem it came moro into prominence and coas- cd to be regarded as tank town.
 q should have said at the start that l am only undertaking to give some of the profane history of the city.)
 During David's rule and for 460 years. in fact, Jerusalem ranked with Thebes, Tyre, Babylon and Nineveh. But she had no opera house. no railway connec- tion with tide water, no system of light ing the town, and even the royal palace was big stone cistern less cheerful than the Tombs of New York city.
 People wore their bath gowns to meeting, and candidates for office bathed the feet of voters-prior to election after which the candidates reversed mat ters.
 We hear much of the magnificence of Jerusalem, but Grand Rapids is bet ter town for investment. and Solomon in all his glory never lived in half the style that do when times are good.
 Of course ideas about style were diff ferent. While like fine stock and lit erature he ran more to harems and so- cial life, but he did not have stationary soapstone tubs in the laundry or hot and cold water elsewhere in the house.
 Jerusalem was thus for 460 years tho county seat and metropolis until cap- tured by NebuchadneZZar. It is said that when the city was taken by Shi- shak he gathered up the magnificence of Solomon, and among other bric-abrac the 600 shields overlaid with gold which Solomon had in his country house in the forest of Lebanon. These shields represented the sum of SEQ. GOO, which in those days, when ono could buy q whole Dorcas society for $So. represent ed q sum that could hardly thrn he comprehended.
 Jerusalem again regarded her inde pendence R. C. 94l and began sending out commercial men on the road. Shis victory filled Jerusalem with joy. and times were better in every way. The commercially speaking all wool clothing trade picked up. and thrre were less red figure and fire sales.
 For 50 years prosperity seemed to fol low the fortune of the ancient city un- der Asa; but, alas. thers came then an alliance with the idolatrOus old man Jehosaphat and the vulgar Ahab and Jezebel.
 In all secret or profane history per haps there was never moro unpopular person at the time of her death than Jezebsl She was turned down by all the better class of people, and her tuner torical facts as frost
 Jehosaphat's son married a daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and idolatry was revived. He began probably by idoiis- ing his wife. This shows that we can not be too careful. for inside of year idolatry became general.
 This went on till the city was invad- ed by Philistines and Arabians, who captured the majority of tho king . children and plurality of his wives
 Idolatry and polygamy seem to have gone hand in hand after Solomon s time. He was the first great historical polyga- mist and poet of passion.
 But our correspondent asks more par ticularly about modern Jerusalem and how to reach it. So let us pass on rap idly to speak Of these matters of moro vital interest perhaps to the trifiing and :Aoughtless worldling.
 Starting out from Boston. nne would cross tho common and either tnke the train for New York or ship direct to the Mediterranean. Constautinople, whence one can sail across to Jaffa.
 Jaffa was formerly Joppa and is in the province of Syria, D miles north west of Jerusalem. There are 5000 inhabitants, 27 of whom are Syrian train hands and the balance beggars. s.,-.
 Jaffa was 8, 900 years ago the port of Jerusalem. and the cedars of Lebanon