Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-04

many of my readers have read hoy
this cruel Corsican murdered 400
Albanian soldiers in cold blood. Thes
had surrendered Jaffa on condition
that their lives should be spared
which condition had been acceded tC
The only excuse the Emperor couiC
give for this act was that he could no
spare a sufficient force of men an6
provisions to guard and take care o
them.
little further inland we see wha
appears to us a settlement of moder1
stone houses, surrounded by orchards
= AS we drive up we find the lands are
better titled and the whole surround
ings more like a German village
| which it really is. l find it a settle
ment from Wurtemburg (my own ma
| tive country. They belong to a sect
of Adventists Ca devout religious sect,
who acquired a strip of land from the
Turkish government. They erected
| substantial dwelling houses, church
a first-class school, where, with Ger
| man thOroughness, Latin, English and
| other languages are taught, as well as
| higher mathematics; an excellent ed
| ucation may be obtained. We stopped
| at the inn of this colony for lunch.
which we had served in the open un-
der the shade of tree, and we enjoy
ed it, along with some imported Ger
man beer. Our landlady was rather
uncommunicatiye and our guide had
to supply us with all the information
we eagerly sought-and he was not a
very excellent English scholar, though
otherwise well informed. It happened
he brought his mail along unopened
AS he opened one of his letters he re-
marked, Here is a letter I just re
ceived from America" 1t was a let
ter from a lady of Wilmington, N. c..
Mrs. Latimer, who thanked him for
commission he executed for her so
satisfactorily. He had guided her and
a party of friends a few years before
through Palestine
In asking as to the object of the
colonists we learned that unlike the
Americans, they did not come here for
PEELED the idea. They had a hard
struggle to maintain themselves their
sole purpose was to reclaim the land
and make it fit for the expected day
of jubilee. The Jews from all parts
of the world, they say, are to return
to Palestine, and there is to issue out
of the Holy Land a new divine i'm.
pulse, which is to be the regeneration
and salvation of the world.
We would like to have gone further
into the Plain of Sharon, but our linn
tied time forbade; SO we returned to
Jaffa and our steamer, to be ready to
take the train next morning for Jeru-
salem. We were fortunate in making
our steamer, also another good land
ing the next day We further played
in luck in securing good accommOda
tions in Jerusalem. There is, practi
ca1ly speaking, but one good hotel in
the city, and that was filled with an
excursion from the steamship Arabic,
but these excursionists came back just
as we got ready to take the train. The
distance from Jaffa to Jerusalem is
fifty-three miles by a narrow gauge
railroad, and it takes about four anu
one-half hours to make the trip. Yet
The first stopping place was LYDIA,
which lies about midway in the Plain
of Sharon. 1t is an uninteresting,
small village of mud-daubed farm
houses. From this point we can
plainly see in the sunlight the greyish
looking Hills of Judea.
We stop at Ramleh next. This lies
just at the foot of the mountains, and
is a place of Importance mainly on
account of its historical memories, for
it was here that Samuel judged the
people when they demanded king.
of the Philistines, who caused so
much trouble to the children of Israel
To the west is little Arab village,
which was Ekron in the Old Testa-
ment times. Several miles to the
north is the Hill of Gezer with it's
ruins of the ancient city, which was
presented to Solomon's Egyptian wife
as a dowry by her father. Nearby
was the town of Zorah, the birthplace
of Samson. 1t was in this valley that
the Philistines held the Ark before
| they returned it to the Israelites. AS
we go little higher up the mountain
our guides point out, high in the
rocks, a grotto called Samson's Cav
ern.
AS we wend our way around a tor
tuous route, following the once fertile
watercourses, we come to the station
called Bitter which was at one
time strongly fortified, and is the
place where the Jews made their last
stand against the Roman legions un-
der Titus, where seventy thousand OF
them were slain after siege of three
years. Our train is besieged by 6
large number of children, who offel
flowers and oranges for sale and viii
not be refused. A gallant Turk who
travelled in our car made considera
Bile purchase of both and presented
them to the ladies of our party. W.
regretted that we could not make our
selves understood, as he looked intel