Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-15

, air your knOwledge!
&c bit her lips; but the officer, wishing to
and also to hear her voice, solicited fur
ther information.
s. 1t is asserted that it held more than
twenty thousand worshipers at one
time" the English girl said, although
1 doubt it unless they were packed in.
1t has more than four hundred columns,
and is forest of aisles and naves, re-
cesses and inches, of which you will be
able to catch glimpse from the out
side; but the points of its history that
appeal to me most, despite the fact that
Sultans, and sheiks, emirs, and humble
ones of the faithful have contributed
to it's extension and identifying, are
these: First, it was founded and all the
initial work done by woman who fell
heir to riches after she was widow and
her only son had died. She impoverished
herself for the memorial Secondly, it
stands to me as tangible evidence of
faith, and it doesn't much matter in the
sight of God, l hope, what creed we
may have, so long as we follow it and
do the very best we know how"
she looked earnest and sincere and
~ walked ahead, saying no more. Nor
did he ask more; for he began to ven
crate her beliefs. Had he wished to con-
tinue the conversation, it would have
been difficult to converse; for they had
entered more crowded street and were
passing between bars intended to keep
out all four-footed animals. 1t was
thronged with white robed men wearing
turbans or pointed hoods, and here
and there a red fez made its way,
showing that soldiers were everywhere.
The mingled scents of market and a
coffee rooster came to them as they
pushed forward, and the press became
so dense that the officer feared they
robed men, stately and stealthy, slid
to one side under the commands of their
guide, who persistently called Way
make way!" in the Arabic tongue,
adding something which Miss Marshall
explained was a sort of announcement
that the sister of Kaid Hamilton Clarke
wished to pass.
Some of the men stared at them for
moment; but as rule they dropped
their eyes to the ground and crowded
back. At the bazaar shops they paused
and loitered in front of the gloomy re-
cesses where sat dark skinned men who
stolidly and reluctantly answered ques-
lions. The money changers counting
over heaps of blackened coins with
clawlike fingers, piling up tiny columns
of gold or pickering softly with some
customer, the more progressive sales
men beseeking them to buy metal orna-
ments, some of which were ancient and
barbaric, and now and then some word
of English spoken for their benefit. all
seemed part of a clamorous play for
their diversion. Boys running here and
there sometimes got within reach of
their guides hand, and he seldom failed
to use it effectively. Once they passed
a place where women, most of whom
were veritable hays, sold vegetables to
others who shrouded their heads when
the men passed and peeped at them
e curiosity from the one uncovered eye.
greeting they were certain of curses. and
leir way they passed holy men whose
to attention seemed to be that they could
r than the others and had a vocabulary
ge by much practice. One was nude and
a long stick with which he made passes
long meaningless sentences, and
was given great veneration. After un-
himself of various maledictions, he re-