The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-26


 A From the Valley of Hinnom--Whcre the Broad Level Slabs of the Roman f Pavement May Still be Found--The 4 Supposed Site of Pilates House.
 Tn view of Jerusaleum is the history \ the world' So wrote Disraeh early N the nineteenth century, and he ad- ed, Tt is more, it is the history of farth and of Heaven; and to-day in frusaleum an epftome of all the na- sbns represented. and strange world E8 to be studied within the walls of Son. The walls are still glorious fact hd most impressively do their ruddy, wny bastions and embattled summits 7wer up against the deep blue of the Ay, as we descend the Valley of Him. $m, thence to ascend to the Jaffa Ate; where is the only break in the Eighty wall; that ugly rent torn open |twix the Tower of David and the | Sffa Gate to allow the cavalcade of Riser Wilhelm the Second to enter. |itt, in spite of this rent, the scene in E Jaffa Gate is full of life and color. Head and cake and fruit sellers, in Aored robes, are clustered round it's 'lars, and under it's vault Jews, in .ind, flat hats bound with fur, and in robes /of velvet and silk, are stled by ragged Bedouins in gray brown patched robes. Turkish of lals in the regulation fez halt before ruddy pile of pomegranates at the Rh. A Jew in yellow robe, with black fvet hat, passes in, as some Persians ared sheepskins hustle past lemon Ter, who is crouched by pile of his low fruit, smoking his hubble-b bubble ardless of trade. Negro porters in rags elbow women, yelled and un- led. and make way for an ass led by Ehephefd in brown robes, with a f-veiled woman seated on it's back. ntinuous come and go everywhere Etter and shouting, no two figures Ee in forms or color Women in rich nients and girls with openbreasted es balancing water vases on their Ids. And inside the gate rises up massive base of the solid Tower of rid, Turkish soldiers are patrolling F for just beyond is the citadel But us turn up a narrow way to the
 Lying at the corner of a great se is the naked body of a poor tch, brown piece of sacking pwn over his loins; he awaits aims, makes no sign. A Roman priest ses by, then a Greek priest and a
 in a brown robe on little ass;
 aII all in Ee from head to foot, save her black veil. Such is the ever varying, k, eager shifting crowd, so full of r, so ever changing as we penetrate bling on our steps, down through busy David's Street. on into the ammedan street, where dark sha- are thrown by the arches, and the iant colors are sotened by the le. The stranger can soon learn to Id his way amid the narrow, tor S streets that intersects Jerusaleum. city is so small, that, lose ones as one easily may repeatedly, the walls must soon be reached. If Inter by the Jaffa Gate on the west broad temple area lies to the east, soon blocks the route around to the srn walls, and so we bear to the h. continuous narrow thorough is struck, below which far down ath the accumulation ages, runs pavement of the way of paill' len by the feet of Christ.
 ere is spot where to-day that al pavement may be seen, but to to 1t one must enter into 8 house descend many steps; and then,
 twenty feet below the present t, are seen the broad level slabs he Roman pavement. One of the IS of Sion, to whom the house be- points out the squares of a
 scratched on one flat stone, and
 being near a low arch, suggests
 a good deal of waiting had to be red here, and so the wearier wait lad scratched out this plan of
 to while away their time. There liche as for a figure or seat at the
 and a portcullislike groove slit e natural rock. This is supposed and with fair grounds for the bsition, the site of Pilate the gov
 s house, and so the latter arch in treet above is called "Ecce Homo
 The terrible obstacle in Jerusa- to the study of holy and historic
 in the passion for building over
 sites, and to-day that evil is in ing. Every section of the Christ