Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-12-02
PROF HARRISON TREXLER WRITES OF
PALESTINE, THE TURKS AND BIBLICAL
SCENES-SECOND OF HIS ARTICLES
WRITER DOES NOT WONDER
THAT THE WHALE GAVE UP
JONAH WHEN 1T CAME
UPON JoPPA, AS IT is TO-
pAY-NATIvEs ALL 6EeeARs

the Mount Of Olives to Bethany may
be to the point. On the road we
pass clean-shayen Roman and long
haired and bewhlskered Greek
priests. The threshing OF barley
is in progress via the ox-tread pro-
cess and the grain is loaded onto
kneeling camels. Every laborer rush
es to the road for aims, or back
shesh" (gift) as it is Arabic. Vi
cious looking Bedouins with modern
rifles pass by and Mohammedan WON
en- with a veil from the eyes 10
the chin, but little care as to toilet
otherwise.
Bethany is a soualid hamlet with
-perhaps the identical houses In
which the contemporaries of Mary
and Martha lived. l would not be-
lfeve, except on authority, that
they had been swept out or busted
since Lazarus died.
A pack of dirty but bright look
ing urchins ran out to meet us ano
all said, me show you Lazarus
tomb. Me show you house of MARY
. and Martha" Wishing to be gal
I liant, l chose a pert looking las
. to be our guide. We saw the at
fractions and on the way back Il
the highway my "lass'' placed
!. good sized rock in a sling made o
! wooden yarn and sent it far dow
/ the Jericho road. "Well, miss,
/ said l. you're quite a sumner. AT
all Bethany ladies' Of your caliber?
My LASS replied, "Me no woman
Me Mohammed Ali" Then IA
tieed that all the children VOL
what a vivid imagination migl
translate into a dress.
A man who has chaperoned L
a ladies' college for two years ougl
to know one in broad daylight. b
as puffs, switches and Mennen
Tale are not profuse In Bethan
I may be pardoned. Mohammed A
Wanted twenty cents for his slim
but | was through with gallantr
and lowered the price to n &c
and have sling, perhaps the We
kind that David used against G
liah. The imps followed us half W
back to Jerusalm shouting !
a "backshesh" all the way.
An old Bedouin shepherd "
=. tending sheep and black goats VIII
10 were nibbling at what could spri
ey. up between the stones. A long ca
0, van of camels laden with 81
dull and brassware from Damascus pa
lay ed. And thus have they trave
his the Syrian roads since Abraham
day.
In ~crevices of rocks live Ar
so meager in appearance that {
concludes that what little nourI
ment they get goes to their whisk
which are %profuse. That remi
me of the two hairs from the be
of Mohammed in the Mosque
Omar in Jerusalem. They are
hibited to the faithful at GER
intervals. His footprint in a 6
tie boulder, as we'll as the fin
prints of the Arch Angel Cab
are also exhibited. The Holy
ulchre, Golgotha, Calvary and
site of Solomon's Temple are
absolutely identified to the salts
ton of all scholars of to-day.
Roman, Mohammedan and Turkisl
vasions, as we'll as the Crusades
hundred OF years Of Turkish
eAI have sadly distorted ancient
jects Of generation.
But some things ARE absoll
identified: rhe Village OF Beth
an Bethlehem, the Tomb of Ra
the and what is also very INTEREST,"
the actual sword with which
orate frey de Boullion hammered at
rusa- Gates of Jerusalem over 800
t in ago. But Jerusalem is there an
few Mount OF Olives and enough
coun- to keep a sturdy traveller
round many a day.