Arizona republican., 1898-12-05
WILLIAM IN JERUsALEM.
An English Correspondent Story Of
 te German Emperor's En,ry.

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 It was a mos prosaic approach Coy Irailroad) to the city of many dreams to the place which my fancy had in vested with wonder and awe yet it was net entirely inappropriate to the huge modern ngs-schoo!s, hospitals, churches, nasterics-which have planted themselves D the west Of the sacred city. But in the course of Q
 shCTt drive to thC Jaffa gate some Of
 the true holy places UPened up. Look
 ing down the valley Of Hinnom. the
 Mount Of Olives came into view, all
 bare and brown under torTid sun, dot
 ted here and there with olive trees and
 crowned with the spires and towers of
 religious buildings. There was no time
 at that moment to gaze and mediate.
 The Arab driver piled voice and
 whip; the horses struggled up she steep
 and so into the hear Cf a picturesque
 crowd, gathered before what the sultan,
 ill his resolve that the kaiser should
 ride into the city, has left of the Jaffa gate | was at the finish a neck-and
 neck race with William II, who had
 only ius reached his camp as our little
 train steamed into the station. Our
 own camp, which had come up from
 Jaffa, travelling all night, had been
 pitched on some very waste ground
 near the Damascus gate, and only a
 shcrt walk from what l believe 70 be
 the true Calvary. My condition was such, however, tha. I could not remain there, and, shifting my quarters to the Now Grand Hotel, 1 had from it's lofty roof a ffne view Of the latest entry into Jerusalem.
 His imperial German majesty, as usual with him. lost no time Shortly ac CT o'clock he was in the saddle, with his faithful Teutons, splendid samples Of their race, in his train and the Turkish officials, whom the rapidity and punctuality of his movements must considerably astonish, at their several posts. The sun shone f3ercely, not a cloud was in the sky, the Noun. Of Olives sent back the glare it received from the merciless luminafy, and the city lay simmering in the heat.
 It was an agiratod city, nevertheless. Not only crowds of visitors, but the residents, were anxious to look upon the great white sultan, and every point of vantage. to that end was fully occu- pied when the police permitted. Those fUnctionaries were, on the whole, tol- erant, but they distinctly preferred Eu- ropsaDs to natives, whom they have all along taught, sometimes with blows, the pTopTiety Of pu5ting themselves in evidence as little-as possible. No douyt jhere was some reason for this, while, as between Europeans and natives, we may be sure that their information re- garding the frst-named was both ex- tsnsive and peculiar. Weary waiting in sun and shade ended when a move ment of the crowd along the Jaffa road and the increased activity of the police n h. ing.
 Trumpets blarad the peculiar flourish which Turkish trumpst-majors regard as appropriate to such occasions; the spectators cheered, the German '.ACch' being most conspicuous, and down to the gate came the procession, led by the hewass and staff of the German con- sulase. with sundry cysn more gorgeous or lciaIs whose functions l do not know. Of the imperial party, the empress and her ladies were first. They occupied a carriage drawn by four horses, behind winch rode the emperor and his numsr- oUs suite all mounted. In rear of these came a crowd Of Turkish officers, and 50 the procession ended. I cannot say that it was very impressive, but, as the entry of a pilgrim in6o the Holy City it may perhaps clam to be unique. l could not help thinking Of another entry, which took place two thousand years ago, when 9 poor Galile9n peas ant, riding upon an ass and followed by a suite Of twelve men Q 5 poor as Him self came down that white path on the Mount Of Olives, which 1 could seo with a turn of the head, and was met y a multitude, who cried, H0sG--ia to tne Son of David. Blessed is He that com eth in the name of the Lord"
 A few days later, it is true, the same voices shouted, Net this man, but Ba lahbas," But now all Jerusalem is the monument Of the peasant whom count less millions worship as the Son of God. . It matters little that the Mosque Of Omar cands Cn Mount MoTiah: it is dominated everywhere by the symbols of the faith winch bears the name of that neck and gentle visitor from Bethany. with whose entry into Jeru salem nos0ther kingfys progress can possibly compare. On reaching the narrow streets Of the city the imperialI party preceded to the Church of the Holy Sepulehre and the German con sulale, where certain formal proceed lngs took place. TC these he press were not admitted, and about them l have nothing to say.