The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-04-14

of the horses and flowed down into
the sea-" AS we neared Jerusa-
lem we passed the place marked as
the home of good old Simeon and
the site of the juniper tree where
Elijuh was refreshed by an angel.
When we went to enter carriages
for our hotels the shouting anu
contention of the drivers for occu-
pants, almost pulling guests in,
quite alarmed the timid, though
for weeks previously impressed
with the boisterousness and con-
tentious spirit of the orientals.
Jerusalem is very disappoint
ing place to one who sees it for the
first time, unless previously pre-
pared by knowledge of its his
tory and condition at the pres
ent age. 1t is a very old city
whose early history is one of war
and conquest. While David, Is-
rael's first great king, made it the
capital of Palestine, Solomon made
lit famous as one of the mighty
and magnificent cities of lhe world
at that time and the place of the
most beautiful and glorious tenn
pie of his day. Since then Jeru-
salem has been besieged sixteen
times, and is today built on the
ruins of its seven predecessors.
The part more recently built is
outside the walls and contains
many modern and imposing build
ings. The city is under Moslem
dominion since A. d. 637 except
the century of Crusader occupation
but only about s, 900 Of the $4,000
population are Moslems The re-
mainder are Jews and Christians
of various types. 1t has eleven
gates, five of which are closed Our
hotel was just inside the Jaffa gate
Two main streets divide the city,
David and Damascus, but no 9th
er streets are named and no houses
[nnmbered Inside the walls the
q
streets are narrow, dark and dirty
No carriages, carts or vehicles pass
through them, only people on foot
and donkeys bearing burdens, but
they crowd the streets Thee are
, no street cars any where IN Piles
tine aud it j. said that h. rniirnad
/ between jerusalem and Jaff does
not pay for the investment. At
night the streets are entirely dark
aud even in the day time the tour
ist is not prudent who attempts to
go about the city without guide.
While there is a Jewish quarter
and a Christian quarter, the latter
including Greek and Roman Cath
olics, there is large Moslem quar-
ter. Many of the buildings outside
the wall are modern and imposing.
Forty different languages are spok-
en- by the humanity included in
Jerusalem, which with the variety
of types of nationality suggests the
gathering of peoples of every kin
dred, tribe and tongue.
My first view of the city was
from the top of our hotel-a house
top with battlement as the law Of
Israel required. The old grey wal
and battlements, the white washed
houses with their fiat roofs and
Euddled close together along crook.
ed streets, the slender minarets
and many colored domes, ga city
that is compact together the Val
ley of Hinnom on the west side
across which we had driven to th'
Jaffa gate, the valley of Jehosa
phat in the south, the valley o
) Kedron on the east, where is th'
brook Kedron, and across it Mt. o
Olives; at the foot of the noun
> the spot marked as the Garden o
Gethsemane, and above it a churcl
with golden bulbs and pinnacles
and on the top the great pointed
tower built by the Russians ant
from which booms out louder tlal
any other of the many bells of tn