The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-08
JERUSALEM As IT NOW IS
Interesting Description Of the Holy
City by Pierre Lott.
THB CITY IS STILL SARACEN
But the Air Il Filled Nevertheless with q
Sentiment OF Religious Reverence
which Effects unbelisvers ~
Well .as Believers.
From the Figaro.

Well n Believers.
From the Figaro.
On foot, and accompanied by an
Arab for my guide. ! left my hotel to
go at last to the Holy Sepulchre. 1t Is
almost in the heart of Jerusalem. l
passed through little, narrow, and tor
tuous streets, between walls of houses
old as the Crusaders. without windows
and without roofs. On the damp pave
ments and under a sky still obscure
appeared the costumes of the East,
worn by Turks. Bedouins, and Jews.
The women looked like phantoms with
their long wells.
The town still remains Saracen. On
the way 1 noticed that we were pass
Ing through an Oriental bazaar, where
the stands were occupied by vendors
wearing turbans; and in the shadow Of
the covered little streets there moved
along slowly file of enormous camels,
which compelled US to take shelter in
the doorways. A little further on we
were again obliged to stand aside to
make room for long and strange pro-
cession of Russian women, all about
so years old at least. They walked
rapidly, leaning upon sticks or UNI
fur cloaks. Their faces, with an ex-
preston Of fatigue and suffering. were
framed, as it were, by black handker-
chiefs, presenting a dark and gloomy
picture In the midst Of the high colors
OF the Orient. They moved along with
an excited and at the same time an ex-
hausted air, jostling everything and
everybody without noticing anything,
like somnambulists, with fixed eyes, as
II In a celestial dream; and old moujiks
by hundreds succeeded them, with the
same expression Of ecstacy on their
faces. Upon their breasts were many
medals, indicating that they were old
soldiers. They had entered the Holy
City the day before, and We're coming
back from their first visit to their place
OF alteration, where I was going. Poor
pilgrims! they come here by thousands,
travelling on foot, sleeping out doors
under the rain or snow, suffering from
hunger. and leaving many of their dead
upon the roads.
THE BASILICA.
As they approach, the Eastern objects
upon the stand disappear to give place
to objects Of obscure Christian piety-
beads by the thousand, crosses, relig-
ious lamps, images, and icons. And
here the crowd becomes greater. The
pilgrims stop to purchase the little
beads made OF wood. and little two-cent
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lives III ehieii.ls ticIe ior tne nrst
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anu opsnliSs Ihe thc entrances 10 cav
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prush against spectres alofs the siues
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tnis III SORT vi nan HIEnl: eAcent mere
ana tEere great rays OF isht' Wnlcn IN
tensily tne nelghDoring opscuilty, the
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l,a!nes Vi soiuel anu silver Jumps Whicn
descend III thousanCs from the vault.
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