El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-10

that those who believe in the cure can
rub themselves into a state of good
health.
The Good Samaritan Inn.
A little farther on [ stopped Tor
bottle of ginger pop and cracker at
the Good Samaritan Inn, which stands
on the traditional site where lay the
man who fell among thieves, when the
Pharisee passed him by on the other
side 1t is right on the road about half
way from Jerusalem TO Jericho There
was crowd in the inn while L waited
and among them a Syrian peasant who
had been robbed by party of Bedouins-
The man was covered with wounds. and
was crying and sobbing as he told how
he had been attacked, and the money
which he had just received from the
sale of some sheep stolen from him.
This country is very unsafe and no one
who has money dares travel alone. All
the way to the Jordan l have met little
caravans on their way to Jerusalem IN
every party there were some men Win
guns on their backs. The guns were
often old-fashioned flintlock muskets.
1 passed some donkey trains taxing
bags of charcoal from beyond the Jor-
dan. and a caravan of camels, each or
which bore two great bags of wheat
sIung over his back. The drivers OF
both donkeys and camels were armed.
They had come from the land of Moab,
and were now going up through Judea-
The Mount of Olives in 1910.
spent several hours on the Mount
Of Olives before starting on my way
to the Jordan. This mountain is 200
feet higher than the hills upon which
Jerusalem stands 1t is directly oppo-
site Jerusalem. being separated from
II by the valley of Jehoshaphat or Ke-
dron, and it can be easily reached on
horseback, by carriage or on foot.
There are good wagon roads up the
Mount of Olives, and most of the holy
places are now visited by carriages
The Mount of Olives is rapidly
changing with the prosperity which Is
coming to Palestine Its slopes are
now cultivated. the rocks are being
picked up and laid in stone fences, and
charred spots planted to crops and to
orchards. There were many olive orch
ards of this mount in the days of the
Savior, and He came here frequently
to get away from the crowds of the
city. The soil seems fertile and the
crops upon the mountain grow luxuri-
antly There are many green patches
of wheat. barley and oats. and here
and there are carob trees, on which
hung the pods which furnished the
food for the prodigal son when he ate
with the swine.
Among the Carmelite Nuns.
The Mount of Olives . now spotted
with churches and chapels. It has
monasteries and converts. a great Rus
sian church and several hospices, in
GLIDING the one which is now being
built by Augusta, the empress of Ger
many. One of the most interesting of
these institutions is a Carmelite num-
merry, which has been built over the
spot where tradition says Christ taught
the Lords Prayer to His disciples. The
church is called "Yhe Church of the
Lords Prayer" and it has in it's court
tablets inscribed with the prayer in
80 different languages. 1 visited the
chapel of the nunnery, where prayers
go UP every day and night, and every
hour of the day all the year through
The nuns so divide their time that one
is always praying They kneel behind
a screen and are not to be seen by Wis
itors. This church is one of the quiet
est and most solemn of all in the Holy
Land, and it is a relief to enter 1T, COM
ing from the noisy scenes which take
place about the Holy Sepulcher.
The Carmelite nuns are devout. They
do not go out of the nunnery, except it
be absolutely necessary, and when they
walk in it's garden they wear such
heavy wells that they have to hold them
out from their faces to see where they
are going My guide tells me that
each nun digs her own grave, and that
when about 10 die she is dressed In her
grave clothes and laid out in the church