Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-02
Des Moines.
Presiding Elder Green preached In the
M. E. Church Sunday morning.
SCHOOL NOTES.

M. E. Church Sunday morning.
SCHOOL NOTES.
Nellie Packer will teach the spring
term at "Bloody Run"
F. j. McKeever is teaching the Dun
dee school this spring.
Kate L. Trier closed a successful
term of school and will resume her
duties at "Rocky Nook"
James Cavanaugh has put forth q
noble effort to raise money with which
to secure books for his school library.
AS result $50 is at his disposal. A
partial list of the books secured is as
follows: Webster's International Die
tionary, Carpenters Geographical Read
ers in 3 volumes, Peterman's Civil
Government, Guthridge's Civil Govern
ment and the Making of Iowa by
Sabin. These are very valuable books
and do credit to any school library.
March 18th we visited the Delhi
schools. Here we found an enrolment
of 104 pupils. In the primary room
there is an enrolment of 40 under the
instruction of Lizzie Fraser. This
spring term more are expected to swell
the ranks. The teacher and board are
confronted with the perplexing prob
lem of more room. The intermediate
room has 80 enrolled with Ella Burton
as teacher. In the high school room
there are 80 pupils with Prof. Chase as
instructor. Although Mr.. Chase was
absent on account of illness, yet we
were convinced that good work was be.
ing done, due to the interest manifested
by the pupils.
Prof b. j. Still and his corps of In
structors are doing excellent work in
the Earlville schools. AS a whole we
found the best work being done in this
school of any in the county. (This
does not include Greeley for we have
not as yet visited there, but reports are
tiattering.) The primary room has an
enrolment of Sc pupils. This room is
superintended by Matte Murley, as
sisted by her sister, Maude. The grade
of work done is excellent. This spring
there will be over sixty children in this
one room. Every seat is already &C
cupied. The school board are contriv.
ing plans to accommodate all. Misses
Whipple and Commercials work is
commendable. Co. Teacher.
From the Ancient and Historic City.
Jerusalem, March 30, 1900.
FRIEND STEwART:-In compliance
with my promise now send you few
lines from this ancient and historic
city. We left Cairo the 2Sth and q al
eight hour ride to Port Said, sea port
town on the Mediterranean. Our route
was all the way along the side of the
Suez Canal, wonderful piece of work,
all having been excavated, as you have
undoubtedly read, by the natives carry
ing nearly all the sand and rock from
the excavations in buckets. 1t certainly
looked odd to see the largest ships of
the world and many of them sailing
through the desert. at some places We
could only see the tops of the masts and
then you could imagine that the vessels
were on the real desert blowing through
the sand. And at other places we had
q fine view of the canal and all the i'm.
mense shipping from all parts of the
world going to India, China, Australia,
etc.
From Port Said, we embarked for
Jaffa, "Ancient Joppa," at which place
we arrived at $50 a. m. yesterday, the
goth. Our ship, one of the Austrian
Lloyd, anchored about one-half mile
from the shore and then we went in
small boats to the landing. 1t is ex
ceedingly rocky and dangerous in this
harbor, but we were safely landed with
all our luggage. The first place of in.
terest to visit here was the house of
Simon, the tanner, and this was reached
by going up steep incline ana then
up many, many steps until we finally
reached the ancient spot. OF coure the
identical house has long since gone to
decay but was rebuilt the same as it
originally was, and as l looked around /
could imagine all the hist as well
as traditional accounts of this ancient
place. went up on top by means of
stone steps and hae a fine view of the
harbor and city.
At Jaffa we took the train for this
city, a distance of eighty-seven miles,
about two-thirds of the way through
the "Plains of Sharon, "and 1 can assure
you that it is beautiful and fine coun-
try. If our own farmers were to oc.
cupy it, am sure it would produce
wonderfully. The last third of our
way was through the mountains of
Judea and they are really quite high
mountains. The road winds in a ser.
pentine manner.
We saw the cave and burial place of
Sampson, and other places of historical
Interest that have not time to mention.
The mountains are wonderfully inter-
esting from the fact that they are all
terraced with paths and plateaus, lux.
uriantly verdsnt, and the focks and