The Newtown bee., 1904-06-24
TOWN TOPICS
TlDINdS FROM THE ORIENT.
AN INTERESTING NOTE FROM A FOR
 MFR BEDDING BOY.

No two persons ever travelled so far and saw so much that have been so highly favored as we have as to wealth CT conditions, for from the start we have had sunshine, without any delays and that was last Thursday in BeyrOut. We were being driven in victoria out to Dog river, when crossing a small stream one of the horses shied at wheel on the roadside and carried the other horse along with him and the carriage, and all went over the bridge. was the only one thrown out, as Mary, the dragOman and driver had 9 chance to jump. I landed on the bank of the stream, like shot out of a gun barrel, and looking up saw poor Mary flying through the air after me. Strange to say, all the damage we re- ceived was shaking up. The draeo- man and driver fared little worse for the Turk tore his flowing trousers from end to end, and besides he was treated to a first-class bath. But after the horses had regained their feet they stood in the river and never moved, and that was a mercy. The lamp and guard of the carriage were smashed but aside from that no harm was done, and in half an hour we were on our way to Dog river. It was pretty drive along the shore front, and indeed the environs of Beyrout are attractive.
 Up on the bluff there is the American college with beautiful buildings, the finest I think in the city. I called upon our consul but found only the vice consul, and he is the man who was shot at and brought Admiral Cotton ar thu pr0o111vyv, hAr0 Oa 1off fhn place on Saturday last and went direct
 Monday morning, enjoying every mo- ment of our stay there, for it contains one of the finest temple ruins that we have seen anywhere, built by the Ro- mans about 15O years after Christ, and although destroyed by the Greeks and Christians, still it shows some of the most remarkable chiselings on stone to be found. For instance, clusters of grapes in full relief showing the veins of the leaves very perfectly to the naked eye; and there saw three blocks of granite 62 feet long by 13 feet high and deep raised above the ground into that temple, and to-day I don't you can IorEe thex nntG snd no cement. On Monday morning we came on to this place. When was in Bridgeport, Conn.,, and about IS years of age, I went to Christ church (Epis- copaD one morning and heard a most impressive sermon from this text: "Are not the waters of A bana and Pharpar better than all the waters of Israel and may not I wash in them and be clean also?" And here they both are running right through this city. The city has population of about 250, 900. It is not attractive as Cairo, but is much cleaner than I expected to find it. Yesterday we drove through the valley back up on the mountain side just to get good view, and as the fruit trees are in bloom, it was sight to look upon. In short, you never saw such place for fruit, and the people,
 they say, live on it eight months in the year. They have apples, pears, plumS, peaches, apricOtS, oranges, lem Ons, figs, almonds, English walnuts and others, and all in bloom now. We
 were shown the old walls ot prison from which St Paul is said to have been let down in basket, and also
 beautiful tomb in the center of a great morgue, which, is said to contain the head of John the Baptist, and then
 here is where Ananias figured a little.
 But really, l must go home and read
 up the Bible little myself to refresh my poor old memory. We leave here in the morning early for Beyrout again and will sail on Saturday for Smyrna,
 where we take rail for A thens, Greece.
 Remember that this is Syria, and in cluding Palestine, etc., it is all Arabia.