Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-03-31
IN PALESTINE.
Isfa, Ancient Iepps, Where Two Ex-
Richmonders We're Found Running a
Hotel Visit 10 the House of Simon.
the Tanuer-Lettsr Number -
OK Board NEW ENGLAND.


On BOARD New ENGLAND.
March 9, 1900.
At Cairo the paths of the tourists
became divergent and the Richmond
party was no exception. The Misses
Robinson, Mrs. Yeo, Miss Goddard
and Miss Stigleman all went on up
to Luxor and Thebes, and returned
with such glowing accounts Of what
they saw as to make US wish we had
gone with them. They reported also
some sense of discomfort the first
night on the sleeping cars, but
that kind of experience is 10 a tour
what a breakdown is to a sleighine
party.
AS for the rest of us, we had
thought the allotted time was none
too much for US to do Cairo and its
surroundings and we were kept busy
there. All came on to Jaffa on Feb
ruary %, and again we diverged,
meeting twelve days later at Gaia.
Benjamin Johnson, the Misses Rob
inson and Mrs. Yeo stopped in Jaffa
a day and a night at the first, and an
equal time at the last of that period
OF time, the interim being spent at
Jerusalem. All the rest went on at
once to Jerusalem, and five DAYS later
S. c. Cowgirl, Miss Stigleman, Miss
Goddard and the writer took the
horseback tour through Sa-
maria and Galilee, the others spend
ing their time in and around Jeru-
salem.
At Jaffa, ~(ancient Joppa) noted for
its extremely difficult landing, we had
the calmest landing of all thus far
experienced, the waters being as
quiet as those of a small lake. On
landing, we were taken at once TO
the house of Simon the Tanner bv
the seaside, where Peter lodged.
This we found to be a one-storv stone
building containing two rooms, aud
by a stone stairway on the outside
we went to the top, where Pete.
went to pray. From here we walked
some distance through the narrow
crooked streets, and frequently
climbing steps, until we came to a
place where vehicles Were in waiting
to carry us to the station. And
there we found a neat stone building,
with a fenced enclosure, and differ
ing from the usual order, only pas
sengers We're admitted through the
gate, and vendors and loafers were
obliged to remain outside the fence,
and we We're left to choose the dis
tance between us and them. But
the finest oranges are raised at Jaffa,
and our people stepped up to the
fence and purchased the tempting
fruit, at low price, till all were loaded
with it,.
Here we met two brothers, James
and Daniel Hall, whom some Of the
Richmond people will remember, the
former having been once an employee
of Benjamin Johnson, and the latter
a student in Eaylham.
Both of them hold natural
ization papers, and are proud of their
citizenship in the United States.
Daniel said, 1.-THE most beautiful pic
ture to me is a United States postage
stamp on IN envelope containing my
address" They r p~roprietors of a
hotel in Jaffa, and when the German
Emperor visited the Holy Land
heirs was the only hotel within ~
at which he seopPcd.@WhkAl
he asked them how they learned to
manage a hotel so successfully, they
replied, "By having been in Ameril
ca" Next year they will start a no
tel in Jerusalem and will especially be
glad to receive Richmond people.
Speaking of these reminds me that
in Cairo we met another Earlham
student, Mr.. Narseen Arbeely, who
is "a practicing dentist in a popular
center of that large city. A visit to
his place Of business gave proof that
he is a most successful practitioner
in that art. His father, Joseph Ar
beely, now dead, will also be remem-
bered as an Earlham student, both of
them being native Syrians.
Also at Cairo we had the great
pleasure of meeting DR.. Besharra
Manasseh, wife and daughter, Maria
Feltham and Helen Clayton, all of
them having been many years in
the Medical Mission at Bru-
mana, near Beyroot, the family of
DR.. Manasseh being natives, and the
two ladies residents of England. We