Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-02

..,sm. palestine, March J. 1904
,,,y Friends, Through the
70 g ~ ness Of the News
,,HEN ! left home to visit IN
WI Holy Land, ] promised 10
w send YOU some photos CIR,
w cums,ances have prevented
.,u now from finishing any
% !, ,,'.. / have taken. To-day | send
v, I, photo Of lhf Mount of Olives as
wv team the platform or area of the
s.mole Of SoIomon-or where now
. . the grand and beautiful and
Vs. a, seventh wonder of the world
uo.ono of omar You have the
las , %y Of seeing what happens hut
y, ' lines In a generation-the Mount
hr o, Ives covered with snow. ] prefer
W rd This one, as II shows thu
W., 10 better advantage than the
nv. .S,rS The fine olive trees seen In
y. playground are in the grounds OF
W rnos1ue and their characteristics
~ shown best against the snow
ANCIENT OLIVE TREES.
o,,o trees in this land hold the post
Vt soror They live TO be several
..,1rsd years old, and provide much
sNrs %r Inc inhabitants. The olives
y. ,,,ely used green, as with us, but
r,ostly allowed TO ripen, and Tor
~ srs cured In oil. They are then
W. nutritious, and are used by the
we s of people much the same as we
NO. N,ter. Bread and olives make
~ y. NV convenient and good meal, and
MI. fact in part, may be attributed
y, "wonderful He sustaining power Of
NJ, and. where there Is, comparative
!. lgtle water An olive tree, once
.,,,sd goes ON for hundreds Of years
Landing food and with never a bit
!, water except the rain, and with no
.y,ntIon whatever. People OF wealth
,,ys In their Wills specified olive trees,
~ alnrome' from which shall be de-
ss.a TO SOME specified charity, or
| ,Snrrh or to keep certain lamps filed
,,rh oll 10 their memory. This is q
l,rS q, candles and lamps, and to keep
lamp burning for several hundred
v.sn wifi keep a good big olive tree
ioslng but the income is more sure
| lhsn a gold mine.
You will never realize, until you come
i 10 jerusalem, how important the olive
,,sa n A person raised In Utah could
D ,arely imagine It possible that every
rountslu for hundreds Of miles in every
Trtc,on has been for thousands OF
|y,ar denuded OF every vestlge OF tim
isr That every tree you see grow
5i,g IN week Of travel is artificial and
owned by some person. All Jerusalem
N,s not a tree so far as / can learn,
Il common property, With this
/ nat In mind YOU go about the coun-
ny and behold hll after hill-thousands
La hIls-covered with the soft silyery
.olage Of the olive tree, Ancient and
|r,r.d and blaokened, but ever and
iorysr sending out Of seemingly i'm
itosIble stumps, bright sprlgs and
innthes, 10 20 on forever providing
isot and shelter for man and beast and
Itlh,
GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE,
ne immense trees IN the Garden OF
Gs,hSmane | have not the least doubt
Bro .1e selisame trees under which the
BAYLOR walked and prayed. sYou will
Easily lelIeye this when show you
BE pictures Of them on my return
bone Not only does the tree give
|up lis fruit to man, but, In the end Its
new body to serve the hundreds Of peo-
BIZ who gain a livelihood by making
|he 0liyewood souvenirs for sale. Most
BEAUTIFUL are the markings, and OF the
sIohs OF pieces made. there are
hTer two alike, This Is a very i'm
fertsat Industry here, and many OF
PIE workers and oarvers are very
tkNr and Ingenious, For instance, a
panel four feet high, carved from
biye wood, opens and forms a lady's
itsk most beautiful, The head open
Pc to form Jewel case, and the
pain Of the wood being matched In