Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-17
TEN SONS TRAVELS.

,ood nights rest in the hos
10Y ,n,,,e of Mr.. Falscheer in Ma
pltapie .,,,,a ~, cbarginp mo |
blous, VINO h'9's'Ne -, o, aari,, |
,otbing for my Keep arose at carry
h,,ht and continued the journey !
day"e.'' ,,,,aia,, Immediately east of /
toward 'e' -, -. ,,,,, O.,
the town OF Nap'ous
,,ootfs well, which we stopper TO exam
desired a drink from that his
me- ,t,, lint the attendant in
t0ric fouh'"'i' H.. ,,,,t,,,i,, ~,
formed me that II "uS
. the summer months; so hau 10
Int myself with peep into its
eoh'eN' .a,,on Jacobs well belongs
dark eXcaNht'o"' 80,
"a the Greeks ana mas Deeh e"cioseu
IN wall. Jews, Christians ana
WIN an o,rea that this is the well /,
Moslelh' o. 40 tradition ia that
Of jacob anu '''
adeet is traceabie as far BACK as .he
s,rrth century. situated as 1t /" on the
ioui ero,, Jerusalem to Galilee
high rodu i,V -, l., ~,
il accords with the uarre'iNc VI '','"
4, b-30 The samaritan woman VINO
,,o,sed with Jesus at the well did
eoh' ,r,,, cherbem hut from
not come ii""' -,
sychar, which is prooapiy iueh''o"'
In the modern Asker In that case
M VIII polntcd to this place as
Iaplmis well In the day of Christ tJohn
s'FG) and the field which jacob pur-
ii.sssd and where Joseph was alter
tn".rds hurled, (Josh. "a: 32.) The well
cistern Is 75 feet deep and '1e feet
~ dian,eter; IL is lined with masonry
u, ,Il.e,,b's tomb IL shown in building
sEout half u mile to the northeast OF
eiocob's we'll The Jews burn small
SotIve offerings in the hollows oil the
W. iittie columns of the tomb
,F.l w
.,ain of Makhnn, or Moreh, where
P%rabam pasturcd his tlocks after
heir long and weary march from the
and of the Chaldeans.
Ravond the plains of Mnkhna we
.rnssed the mountains Of Ephraim,"
,rvsrsed several valleys. among which
Et.Iuhban, the ancient Lebonah(Judges
~ 1871 which Is situated in the north
sast corner of small plain. Beyond
Ms plain we crossed mountain of
considerable hight. During the entire
davis Journey we Travelled over very
lad roads, which were generally en-
closed with rock walls on both sides
lin numberless rocks thrown in the
center where animals and people travel.
In fact, we simply rode along the
ridges of huge artificial rock walls
most of the way from the plain oil
Nakhna to Jerusalem. At 2 p. m. we
arrived at Betin, the ancient Bethei
From the rocky ridge Immediately
north of this place. obtained the first
glimpse of the holy city; put partlcu-
iarly the Mount of olives, on Whlch
the Russian Greeks have bullt hlsh
tower which Is visible For ionS us
tower which is visible for long DIS
consists of miserable novels with ABOUT
400 inhabitants stands on a NM 10
miles north of Jerusalem ana ~ inlies
south Of Shechem, or Nablous. II Betln
is really identical with the ahc,ent
s1..
tory II was orlBlnally caileu LUZ,
and here Abraham bullt an altar
unto the Lord Gen ~; 81. In the year
following his return from Esypt ne
again encamped here ana parted on
friendly terms from LOT tGen. ~: 8-lol'
Jacob, flying from Es idJ 70, ,o''aru ' ii"run;
saw here the vision on the lauuer' hhu
the angels ascending and descending
upon IT (Gen IS; 81: ID twenty years
later, on his return from Padan Aram'
he fingered at this sacred spot nu,it
an altar to the Lord, ana received the
promises of God, and erected ere az "a, mere a
pillar Gen. 80; w: 2si ~ 2o-Z2l' mere
Deborah also died. Three hundred
years after this, in the distrlputloh OF
the land under Joshua, bethei pechnl
the portion OF ben9aihin on the Dull
daries Of Ephralm INTO whose MINUS ~, a,
afterwards fell GOSH rs; ID -, 10 l. ~. ~,
II was for some time the consecTuteu
20 Is, 26i sam. ~; %. samuel ,a nv'
here MS court IN ms annual .iieu W.
Near Beth-aveh Jonathan s son n
fhlNstlnes u sun onn
Seioooai' 10 yosiu,.' nv, nipi ~ ,ha ,vore
!eais II was ussecta'o,u ~ -" 49,,
mp OF uie Eoiay ~, cs' ,o. oo 90. Se.iiS
y, 20 ~ 10; u hiiiSs ~, 80, 90 49,
~ by Tees9n W t,,s - a., "a sranra,,,
Ihe nuiiIv VI beln-e,, eIi, III ,,,, ttIos
suvluV' VI piOphv.tN ,,,s rES
~, ;%, Nelse q, ~ $3.50 -, tat'o M,
Llisn' Was Eplil; ION ~ ;,,,nin,,s
pI iLg m"en n'ouNuu ~, T., r,anns nv
u ui,,n IN Wno WI. W o. 90 o. rtay
,haa,,,t,.t,, I. ,,,n, rai7,iit 1is1ro ., oS,
w ~ 1S IVY :. ~, 'aa ,i,,,,, az nc Stacco,
t' en a. ~ t,1 81 Gr,iI,' 40
s,ro,,ad %,, vnsrasisr Two biil unnn
ThI:b a., ,.os Lii, u,os mite over
snread y,,,,' r,,tps amnn, which ore
Ne rer,atn' ~ o., tn,,nonea cistern ana
fss, L. Ia,,sr,h - a. 10, l,,a.dtb
Havine tvaterad ourselves and anl-
nals al tbe snrtnr near Rethel we
continued our ,nnrpcv through E,l
pireb r,artion,1 IN Ioehuo q, II and
ssan, - p,,.i,,,r nv, y,a Travelled
lmmei,ateIv "a Inc rissht If Er Ram,
the nnricrt po,nah M RepiopIn This
Mace 10 eItuotad on ,be ron ~ n hin.
and in anctant da,,s 4, formed n kind
N frontin, so,,Ia hatu,aan tho north
and south l,ingdnms n KINGS IL. ia
After tbe canti,it,, n NOS renaonIed. IL
i now occnnied 10 abo,t ffteen fomi-
lies onlv Thia ,,loce he obout six miles
| nortb ~ Iar,,soIa,,, hin,,t thraa ,,iies
fur,hor s",,,h - ,,,,.,,,,S ~ Iii, oaiioa