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church and several hospices, including the
one which is now being built by
Augusta, the Empress of Germany. One
lions Is a Carmelite nunnery. which mas
been built over the spot where tradition
says Christ taught the Lords Prayer 70
His disciples. The church is called
has in it's court tablets inscribed with
the prayer in thirty-two different Ian
suages. / visited the chapel Of the nun
merry, where prayers go up every day and
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 visitors. This church is ono Of
the quietest and most solemn OF all In the
Holy Land. and 1t is a relief to enter II.
coming 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 1t
be absolutely necessary, and when they
walk in its 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 to die she is dressed in her grave
clothes and laid out in the church in or
der that she may pass away there.
shall not take you to the Chapel OF
the Ascension near the nunnery, nor show
You the spot in It's floor which looks like
a footprint, and is said to be where the
foot Of the Savior rested before He
assembled to heaven. The chapel belongs to
the AIohammedans and is let out at times
to the Christians. 1t will be more interest
ing for us sto visit the Garden OF Geth-
semane. which lies at the foot of the Mount
of Olives, Just of the Jericho road. It Is
surrounded by a wall Of yellow limestone
twelve feet in height and about four feet
in thickness. On the outside of It in the
shade OF the wall a score Of lepess
hold out their hands for aims as we pass
They are dirty and filthy and the disease
has made them disgusting. Some have
no fingers, some no noses and one holds
Of her wrist. the hand having dropped Oft
The garden goes up the side Of the
mountain. It is almost square With
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My carriage was an easy Victoria drawn
by three Arabian horses, and the coach
man was a Syrian Jehu, with hair as
red and a face as fair as. mine own. J.
had Turkish soldier with me TO keep off
government of Jerusalem Al a cost of 81.
and is under the direct command of the
sheik here at Jericho. This soldier car
ries a gun and sword. and he goes ahead.
nominally to clear the road. Every party
I met OH the way had similar soldiers.
and this included the Russian pilgrims as
we'll as hunters from Jerusalem on theiD
way for game in the lands beyond the
Jordan.
] stopped at Bethany to lock at I.aza-
RUS tomb, and as I did so was reminded
Of what Mark Twain said. namely: 'That
he would rather sleep in tn" tomb than
in any other house in the place" The
Bethany OF today is d dirty. ragged viii
lage of forty or fifty stone huts inhab-
tied perhaps by 800 people. The houses
stand on the side of a hill, being built
one over the other. The people are small
farmers who have patches Of stony land
and little orchards Of olives and figs.
They have COWS and make butter 10:
Jerusalem. They are all Mohamrledans.
and all beggars crying for backsheesh.
Entering the town, ! took look at the
tomb 1t Is n sort of cavern cut ont of
limestone and entered by steep steps. 1t
belongs 10 the franciscan monks, and
they often say mass there.
The house Of Mary and Martha, in which
Christ stopped. is said to have been In
an Enclosure which is now full of bram-
bles and wild cactus. There is no build
ing left, although the guides point out a
pile Of stones which they say was once
a part of the wall
On the way to Bethany ] was shown
the site of the fig tree which was cursed
by the Savior and from then on never
bore fruit. There are many fig trees
about, and orchards Of them are to be
found In most parts Of the Holy Land. I,
was on the road to Bethany that Christ
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t.rv farmhouse which appealed to him
under the circumstances as oHerlng J" u
possibility of much-needed shelter. par
ticularly as a storm which had been
threatening all day now started in with
fury and an evident intention to con-
tinue during the dark hours. Wiley
counted with confidence on supper ana
nights lodging for he had his ped
der's pack on his back, stored with ar
ticles. a few Of which would repay his
host. In fact. he was accommodated
with a meal, and. this being concluded,
he espied e. checker board in the room.
You play draughts?' he asked his
host.
fish dialect, that he was in effect COM
plete master of the game: that there was
nothing about checkers, or draughtS, that
he did not know, and that none could
beat him.
Wiley expressed a desire for a game.
and his host. with condescending in
diligence. laughingly granted his re-
Quest But the latters- smiling ex-
preston soon yielded to one OF
dunlfopnded amazement as he saw
his pieces swept from the board as
If by magic. The peddler had to repeat
his moves again and again In order to
show there was no mere straightforward
in the thing. Then his host began to sst
alarmed. he Ielt lie was up against
something uncanny. something superna-
tural. This man. whom he had heediessiy
entertained. was quite evidently in league
with the powers OF darkness. Unwilling
to harbor an emissary Of Satan. the
farmer, in whose emotions wounded pride
no doubt figured to some extent, incon.
tinently turned Wiley out into the night
and the storm. returning him such articles
as he had obtained from him. He evil
IDENTIFY fancied that the innocent gewgaws
might be talismans Of evil.
This old Scotchman. who was such a
wonderful checker player. VAS remark
ably quaint and blunt of speech. He al
luded to one of our members who enter
tanned him and who was an ice cream
merchant as 1.-The mon who keeps the ice
shop
lone night when Wiley was playing q,
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DELICS Five Thousand
N Years Old-In the Foot
steps of Elisha and Rahab,
King David's Great-Great-
Grandmother Where the
Bears Ate the Babies and
Elijah Was Fed by the Ravens
Across the Wilderness of
Judea-A Rock Which Cures
Lumbago-At the Good Sa-
marian INFLOW the Mount
of Olives and Gethsemane
Look in 1910.
Copyright, 1910. by Frank u. Carpenter
0Desisi CORRESPONDENCE Of The Star.
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mounted the colt which carried him on
his triumphant march to Jerusalem
curious sight by the roadside. This was
man leaning backward over great
gray bowlder. and rubbing himself MO-
lently upon it. There were some stones
on top of the rock and / observed that
the man added another stone to the pile:
and that he kissed the rock as he left. 1
asked my guide the secret of his actions.
He replied: "That stone Is called the
father of rocks. and it is SAID 10 De
sure cure for lumbago and backache
The people here think that any one so
afflicted will be cured if he can rub his
sore spot against it. I am told that those
who believe in the cure can rub them
selves into a state Of good health.
4 little farther on I stopped for bottle
of ginger pop and a cracker at the 0ooo
Samaritan Inn. which stands ON the ira
ditional site where lay the man who reli
among thieves, when the Pharfsee 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 ! waited. and among them
Syrian peasant. who had been robbed by
a party Of Bedouns. The man was COW
cred with wounds. and was crying and
sobbing as he told how he had been at
tackled, and the money which he mad just
received from the sale of some Sheep
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 with
guns on their backs. The guns were often
old-fasilioned flintlock muskets. 1 passed
some donkey trains taking bags of char
coal from beyond the Jordan, and a car
AVIAN of cameIs each of which bore two
great bags of wheat slung over his back.
Tie drivers Of both dOnkeNs and carnels
were armed. They had come from the
land of Moab. and were now going up
through Judea.
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 opposite Jerusalem,
being separated from it by the valley Of
Jehoshaphat or Hebron and it can be
easily reached on horseback, by carriage
or one 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 chang
ing with the prosperity which is coming
to Palestine. It's slopes are now cult
waited. the rocks are being picked up and
laid in stone fences, and the cleared spots
planted to crops and to orchards. There
were many olive orchards on this mount
In the days of the Savior, and He came
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her house would be spared. She then
let them down by cord through the
window, and they escaped and reported
to Joshua. That was good days work
for Rahab The promise Of the spies
was carried out by the Israelites, and
Rahab was not only preserved, but she
married one Of the princes Of Judah. a
man named Salmon, and thereby became
one of the most famous women of the
ancestral tree Of the Israelites. She was
the mother of Boaz, who was the husband
of Ruth, and King David was one Of her
great great grandchildren. On the next
step OF her genealogical ladder We find
King Solomon, and away down the CEN
turies comes the name Of Joseph, the
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the spot where he was Knocked by the
children who cried after him: go up
thou bald head; "Thereupon.'' says the
Scriptures. 1.-THE prophet turned and ours
ed them in the name of the Lord. And
there came forth two she bears out or
the woods and tare forty and two chill
dren of them
1t is said that the place where Elijah
was carried up in whrlwind to Heaven
was not far from Jericho, and on my
way down here from Jerusalem 1 saw
the cave in which that prophet is said
to have been fed by ravens. 1t is in the
Wady Kelt, a great dry rocky canyon
with walls many feet high. The cave is
a. few miles from Jericho, halfway up the
side of the gorge, and is partly hidden by
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e Old JechoAcstan Scientists Uncovng Walls Of Joshuas City,

width of something like three hundred
feet. 1t does not cover two acres.
and is cut up into flower beds Dor
dered by inverted beer and wine bottles.
It has eight ola olive trees. pansies OF all
shades Of the rainbow. and other beauti-
full flowers. There are also cyprus trees.
The garden belongs to the FRANCISCAN
monks who open the gate as We knock
The gate is a mere hole In the wall. so
low that all who enter must Stoop. II II
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These old ruins represent not the city
nf Christ's time. but the one Of Joshua
and Rahab. You remember Rahab, the
fair lady who was not SO good as She
should be, who lived upon the walls Of
Jericho. and who hid Joshua's spies I'M
der the stalks of flax which she had
stored up on her roof. She told them OF
the terror which prevailed in the city
over the possible invasion of Joshua and
made them promise to save her when
with her that she should tie some red
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A Great Difference.

DRoF. BRANDER MATTHEW'S. IN
! one of his lectures at Columbfs. let
fall an episram on the drama.
1.-THE difference between q good and :
bad playwright said he. is easiis eS
pressed. 4 good playwright knows more
than he tells. A bad one tells more than
he knows
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here frequently to get away from the
crowds of the city. The soil seems fer
tile, and the crops upon the mountain
grow Iuxuriantly. There are many green
patches of wheat. barley and oats. and
hung the pods which furnished the food
for the prodigal son when he ate with
the swine.
The Mount Of Olives is now spotted
with churches and chapels. 1t has mon
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entered into the composition simply for
the sake of sugar
To pestiferous nterrupter who has
vexed him throughout a long speech Bou-
tell Of Illinois remarks that the gentle
man deserves an epitaph like the follow
ing:
Here Les tho body OF Robert Gordon
Mouth almighty and voice accordin'.
Stranger. tread lightly this wonder.
II he opens his mouth you are gone. by thunder.
Then somebody takes a fling at jolly
Euesterman, the German-American Mill
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f. Payne of New York, and that dis
tinguished knight of the days of Prince
Hal. who was known to his friends as
Honest Jack Falstaff.' and to strangers
as Sir John. In breadth of girth there
is much comparison. They both lard
the lean earth as they walk across 1t.
In adopting the maxim that discretion
is the better part Of valor. there is much
comparison, because the gentleman gen-
orally. indeed. manages to make the last
speech when he is engaged i'll debate,
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| Il p o ] ] L I { d ! y
WeatherWise Will
tell YOU that the
general disturb.
ance of November
s generated in the
atmosphere differ
ences in potential
that portend Sc
we're electric dis
turbauceS center
ing over Capitol
Hill and increas-
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closed by an iron door, upon which q
round black iron bar, ten inches long.
serves as a knocker.
Just back Of the entrance to the garde,
Is a ledge OF limestone upon which the
disciples are said to have slept during
the night of the agony. and perhaps one
hundred feet farther away stands a col
umn which tradition says marks the spot
where Judas betrayed Christ with a kiss.
Both of these places have been worn
smooth by the lips Of thousands Of pill
grims. FRANK G.. CARPENTER
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AVEyou heard of the
excavations which
the AuStrians are
making away out
here on the edge of
the Jordan? They
have discovered the
site of old Jericho.
and are digging up
the walls which fell
down at the blast
of Joshua's trum-
pet. The place is
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a monastery which the Greeks have built
at that place.
But let me tell YOU how I came down to
Jericho. The way from Jerusalem is
through the wilderness of Judea, one
of the toughest and stoniest lands of the
world. There is but little green to be
seen and the glare is intense. The dust
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of the road Is of limestone and chalk,
and it is SO thick that it gets into
your eyes. mouth and nostrils. The road
is the chief highway from the Jordan to
the Holy City. and it is travelled by
thousands. The traffic was even greater
in the time Of Christ, for the Jordan val
ley was then covered with irrigated Farms
and the rich men Of Jerusalem had their
winter homes here.
l left Jerusalem in a carriage. going out
through the Damascus gate. crossing the
valley of Jehosaphat and skirting the
Garden of Gethsemane at the foot OF the
Mount of Olives. A little farther on we
passed slaughter house. in which all
the animals eaten in Jerusa lem are Killed,
and then. mounting the hills, came to the
village of Bethany.
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laughter than the following Shot which
Rodenberg of Illinois takes at the idol OF
the radical democrats. He refers to the
Commoner as "a newspaper which, with
a becoming sense of mOdesty, seldom
mentions the name of its editor oftener
than one hundred times in any one issue.
1T happen, however," he proceeds. ito
have here a copy of the issue Of the Com
noner of February q and March 8. in the
first Of which Mr.. Bryan's name appears
by actual count exactly 135 times and in
the latter 1Os times. and it isn't very
large paper at that-only sixteen pages.
with one name eyer present. But so IN
tent Is the editor on keeping that name
before the public that even the advertis-
ing column does not escape, as Is evil
denced by the following notice:
For sale-An excellent registered
shorthorn bull, year old. In fine condi-
ton; color, red ". J. Bryan, Lincoln.
Neb.
.'The pedigree of this excellent, regis
tered shorthorn bull' is not given, Mr..
Speaker. but in all probability he Is q
dollar blooded heller which We are told
Mr. Bryan purchased shortly after he was
overtaken by the prosperity that followed
the election Of his republican opponent in
1885,
Mr.. Bryan is the target also for this
dart from the ever full culver of John
Dalzell: 1--WE republicans) are unani-
u1ously in favor of the nomination as
democratic candidate for the presidency
Of the great commoner and the great IN
com1noner, William Jennings Bryan"
Later, referring to Champ clarks AMI
billions for the speakership, and his probs-
BILE reign under the good old Reed rules,
Dalzell declares:
Nothing will delight me more than to
see the effect on the genial countenance
Of the gentleman from Missouri when one
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corpse in this wise:
IF you'd a kept your COMPOUNDED mouth
shut you'd had a first-class funeral
Now. doggone you. you go to the potter s
field. without even hired mourners!
Future battles with airships are now
being discussed by this Junior senator
elect from the state of double conso-
nants Hobson-he of the osculatory rec
ord-interrupts to say that if Williams
graphically pictured war balloon were
punctured there would be even more
hot air escaping than there is today
Williams no sooner catches the petard
than he filings it straight back at the
belittler of his eloquence, who. every
member recalls, held the floor the day
before in a two-hour speech.
Yes, more hot air than there is today.
solemnly admits Williams. But not
more than there was yesterday.
Mention of sugar in tariff argument
gives Williams his cue for this:
In the early days of the republic of
Texas some English noblemen were
travelling through that country.
They were entertained by one Of the
local magnates who had settled there.
and he took the English noblemen
listing at that time within the con-
fines Of the republic, the public bar
ROOM and while there he concluded
he would impress the barkeeper with
the magnitude of his social standing.
So he turned to one of the visitors and
said:
my lord. believe you are a mar
quis in your own country
Yes.
land, my lord, I believe you are an
earl at home?'
Eyes.
Then he said: Jim, these are mar
quises and earls. What you think of
them:
Jim said: oh, well, ] don't care much
about that. There amt but two classes
of men in this place. One is them that
takes sugar in theirn, and the other Is
them as don't.
Now, | belong to the class that has
a very tender and soft feeling for the
sugar in a great many things. but l
am very much like that man. ! would
not neglect the real solid elements that
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broken and battered BLADE OF SECTIONAL
ism be left idle IN its scabbsrd. To quote
the familiar lines from HudiDras:
The trenchaat blade. Toledo trusty.
For want OF fighting has grown rusty,
And ate into itself for lack
OF somebody TO hcw and hack
But, finally. Uncle Joe spoi!s all the fun
by rapping loudly and admon!shing the
House to settle down to work.
I'VE had better do little public busi-
ness" he advises-'just to fool the peo-
pie" JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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husband OF Mary, and Of the family
Of Christ. In the first chapter OF Mat
thew you will find the generations from
Abraham to the birth Of our Savior. and
in them are mentioned the names Of only
four women; namely Thamar, Rahab,
Ruth and Bathsheba. the mother Of Solo
mon, who had been the wife Of Criah.
Right under old Jericho where these
people are working Is the fountain OF
Elisha which the prophet made sweet by
throwing salt into 1t. 1t is not far from
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IN Capitol Hill, Say the
~ Politically Weatherwise
Giants of Debate Who Are
Expected to Hurl the Might
est Thunderbolts-Star Wits
and Hunorists of Present
Session. and Samples of
Their Oratorical Thrusts.
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reason or other it was left in better
condition than most of the others. 1t
contained red sandstone mill for meal
grinding and water vessels OF various
shapes. 1t had plates and jugs and also
lamps and iron vessels with handles OF
deer horn.
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and. in mock sympathy with the demo-
Gratis outraged feelings. wells at the top
of his voice:
and Mrs. Adams hung her wash up in
the east room. What's become of the
clothes line?'
The venerable Speaker passes into his
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In going through the ruins ] tramped
over bushels of pottery broken in pieces.
I saw water jars Clipped and cracked.
They had clay corks as big as tomato.
with hole through the center There
are hundreds of these corks lying on the
ground There are also stone mortars
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Copyright. 1910 ny John EIfreth Watkins,
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y old member Of the washing
ton Chess Club was in a remf-
niecent mood the other day. AS
\ he satisfactorily concluded q
problem over which he had been
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about them when no taE * required on
balm OF gilead? Ladies' gloves Will cost
more. out leeches can be imported free,
if any should be needed to supply the
place of those who manufacture the
gloves. Tea and cocoa will be almost
pi'ohibitiNe in price, bat mamma. which
Las been free since the days when the
children of Israel wandered in the wilder
ness. is still on the free list. Fret not
dear people, because soap ia going to
cost cents per pound more than It does
now, for on the free list are ashes and
I've. which the opposition seems to think
are good enough for the poor mans tot
let Perfumery and cologne are raised in
list. 4 few years more of so-called pros
perity such as We have had for the last
two years and rags will be the most
prominent article in the wardrobe OF all
but the protected classes and their satel-
lite,s''
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and who believed it to be their long
lost father. They hurry north. view the
body. recognize It, and order an elab-
crate funeral But just as they are leav-
ing the morgue the binding of the dead
mans jaw snaps. and set of false
teeth clank down upon the marble slab.
Cancel all funeral arrangements.
Father never wore false teeth, say the
brothers. and they beat a retreat, leaving
the lnorgue master to admonish the
corpse in this wise:
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ON TO NEVADA.

SAN FRANCISCO, June lit is
practically conceded by the follolers
of the prize fight game that the death
knell of that sport has been sounded,
so far as California is concerned, and
the cry among the fight fans now in
con to Reno"
Governor Gillett stands firm in his
determination to prevent the desecra-
ton of the national holiday by the
fight, so far as his State is concerned
and the fighters themselves have ex-
pressed their willingness to go to Ne
vada to settle the question of the
championship.
Today the attorney general of the
State will commence injunction pro-
ceedings against the fight principals
to prevent the meeting of July 4.