Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

and saw the great city OF the Turks, with
its numerous mosques and dogs. They
have the worst looking lot Of dogs here I
ever saw and they are the most numerous.
The noted mosque OF st. Sophia did not
come up to its descriptions, and, except for
its age and great size, would not attract
visitors at all. There are other more beau
tiful ones in the city, and the mosque OF
Omar. in jerusalem. built upon the site
Of Solomon's temple, as we'll as the Ala
baster mosque in Cairo, are far richer and
more beautiful. When we sailed out Of the
harbor there must have been 10000 Turks,
in their red fezes, on the wharf to see us
of. One old fellow stood upon a box and
shouted in pretty good English, "Hurrah
for America" and as the mighty throng
waved their hats and handkerchiefs we
realized more than ever before the dignity
Of being citizens who live under the Stars
and Stripes.
In the Holy Land.
We have visited Palestine, with all It's
sacred associations, and saw its natural
beauty and its wonders. Jerusalem is a
city Of so, 200 people and the old part is
enclosed in high walls Of stone. It's streets
are narrow but we'll paved and not very
we'll kept. Outside the walls, the newer
part Of the city. is much more modern.
1t has more hospitals than any other city
of the same size with which l am ac-
quainted. Som of them, especially the
Jewish hospital, would be a credit to any
city.
Tiberius, a city Of 5000 people, on the
Lake Of G~alilee, was the most uncleanly
town we saw, and we wero not so much
surprised that the cholera had recently
carried OF 1000 Of it's inhabitants. The
streets are too narrow, the houses are too
closely built and there is too little atten-
ton paid to hygiene to have health.
Sights in Egypt.
After leaving Palestine we sailed to AL
exandria and took train $50 miles distant
to Cairo, a city Of 500, 900 people and the
Saratoga" for all Europe in the winter.
It was charming weather here and the
hotels we're swarming with people. The
streets were lined with as fine equipages
as you would see on Fifth avenue in New
Yory. The Pyramids, Cheops and the
Sphinx, only a short drive from the city,
will never cease to be sources Of wonder
and amazement, for although they have
been robbed of their marble covering, these
massive stones lie piled upon each other,
in the one case 452 feet high and covering
thirteen acres of ground. Here we took
the train and went $50 miles up the Nile
to the ruins of old Thebes and saw Luxor,
Karnak, the tombs OF the kings and the
mummies. The bodies Of Seti and Rameses
II, the Pharaohs of the oppression of
Israel, are shown In the museum at Cairo
pretty thoroughly mummihed. But In one
of the most deliberately decorated tombs
we found the bodies OF one Of the Pharaohs.
! his wife and two children. These tombs
- -r1aN A,,-AoIg ant IN tho rorEa Of tho
hills, making a gradual descent Of 200 or
800 feet, at the end Of which are one or
more rooms excavated in the rock, the
largest of them being ten feet high and
twenty feet square. The rooms are very
| richly decorated with paintings and Hero
glyphics illustrative of the life and history
of the king who was here entombed. In
some cases the walls Of the tunnel as well
as the ceiling, from the very entrance to
its end, are covered with these designs,
which tell so much history.
In Southern europe,
We later sailed for Naples and visited
Rome, with its marvellous history and
ruins; Florence, with It's world OF art in
painting and statuary; Venice, with its
streets of water and st. Marks cathedral,
square and pigeons; Milan, with it's splen-
did cathedral; Lucerne, which has centered
about it all the beauty of Switzerland, as II
rests upon the bosom of the lake and lies
at the foot of the Alps. whose snowy peaks
| hang above II in I%espleDdent glory, while
the valleys around are rich with verdure
and annually has more than a quarter OF a
million visitors. We lave now been in Mu-
mich for some days and although the weather
is cold and there Is more or less of snow fall
daily, yet we find It q very pleasing city OF
half a million people. industrious and thriv-
ing. OF recent years this has come to be
a great educational center n the large
hospital. with 1900 beds in fits various de-
partments since the new part is In use
affords excellent facilities for medical In
vestigations. In some respects It has the
best equipment Of any I have ever seen.
We have been very fortunate in that We
left Jerusalem Just before the earthquake
cracked the Mount OF Olives and shattered
the great Russian tower built upon II, and
we went away from Rome only two days
before the great strike came which
paralyzed business there. So that all the
way around we have been highly favored
and have had the most delightful. as well
as profitable, experience. W.. o. HENRY.