The Newtown bee., 1904-05-20

house is left unto you desolate." This quotation may not be strictly accurate nut it has been in my mind much since We drove through the gate ort ne of the gates that brought us inside the walls ol this great city so hallOwed u Iii these wall and upon these hills was enacted the story that we are all so familiar wllh, the crucitixlOn and death of Christ No matter which way one turns there is the evidence that Christ was the Son of GCd. We left Cairo last Wedneday, running for distance along the SueZ canal to Port
 Said, where we took a Russian steamer
 the Princess Eugenie,' for Begrout, which we reached Thursday afternoon, and instead of disembarking at Bey- rout, as we expected, we sent our hlt trunks ashore and came by the sam" steamer right on to Jatfa, where We arrived Friday morning about o'clock. we left home for at time 1t is |: o rOu n that you can't land at all and people | have to go on on the same st r, but fortune favored us, and after b't
 rowboat was filled with people anc
 baggage we started. The shores r1 JaIfa are all rock bound and the wa1el shallow so the steamers anchor out lt
 the open and'every body and every thing
 has to be padded ashore, good three, quarters of a mile. Well we started with six men at the oars aud lht
 waves running pretty strong, and just
 aS we reached the narrow entrance. | (the danger point,) huge wave came along and lifted us up and carried Us l through so easily and delightfully."- that we wanted to go back and try it over.
 Jaffa is small town and the only | thing that I saw that looked like en- terpriSe Was the orange groves 1adened
 with fruit and now being harvested Then we took train at O'clock wltf' d DragOman by the name of Saleem George for Jerusalem. 1t will Ot
 course be quite impossible for me to take you with me through the city, from the manager to the Judgment
 hall and from there up the hill to Cal.
 vary, and from there to the Mount of Olives, where Ia cloud received Him out of their sight," but enclose lit
 tie flower that l picked right on the
 top of the Mount of Olives,a land I don t
 think that there were but two and
 they were so beautiful and fresh bloom ing there surrounded by stones and dry soil. I stood for little time to look
 at the two and concluded I would only
 take one. It looks like the French
 poppy, but they call it the Rose o1
 sharon. And then I bought some
 flower seeds right near the top of tn.
 hill and 1 enclose them all here anC
 hope they reach you safely. On Mon
 day morning we started by carriage fol
 Jericho, across the mountains. 1t wa
 a glorious day and we had a fine vic
 toria with three horses, and at Beth
 any we were joined by native Bed
 ouin with a rifle strapped across hi
 back, and with his Arabian horse ant flowing robes was a picture to look at From that point that BeduOin neve left us until back at his home. Al through the mountains of Judea werl
 the same focks of sheep with thu shepherd on watch as were feeding
 there in Christ's time. No changes il dress, customs or habits of the people
 I saw man the other day perfec !, picture of Christ as He is always de , picted. No doubt that Joseph ant Mary and Christ were all dark. w . arrived at Jericho the same afternoon after visiting the Dead sea and the :. River Jordan and on the following morning recrossed the plain of Jericho and were soon in the mountains on plateau, just beyond the ravine wher' Elijah was fed by the ravens, we cam = upon camp of Moabs who haC
 stopped there for the night with n'
 covering but the stars. We return t(
 Jatfa tomorrow morning and thel
 steamer to Beyrout and then t.
 Damascus and Balbeck.-*x