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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27

can put his mouth through the bars and impress kisJ
on it.
AS walk about the fence examining the rock
our turban guide shows it's wonders Here" says
he, pointing to round hole in one of the sides, lis
the mark of Mohammeds heel 1t was from that spot
that the holy prophet assembled to heaven and he
the rock started to go up with him, holding fast
to his heel The Angel Gabriel had to put his hand
upon it to keep it down, and here pointing to five
curious marks ARE the places where Gabriels fingers
rested when he did So"
little further the guide tells that this rock
the center of the earth, and that believe it to
be- also the gate of hell He shows plate of jas
per as big as a checkerboard. in which three
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27

present themselves before Mohammed and Christ, who
will pass their virtues and sins After that all
must go to the pillar of judgment and a wire
to the Mount of Olives and thence to heaven
down into hell. The wicked will fall in the cross
ing. According to another Mohammedan story the
Moslems will be turned into feas and Mohammed him
self into sheep, in which shape he will ascend to
heaven with the Mohammedan leas in his WOOL
The rock is esteemed sacred by every Mohamme
dan. 1t is surrounded by iron stockade, which
allowed to enter The rock is about forty feet
long and sixty feet WIDE and it rises about six feet out
of the floor. 1t fills the whole Enclosure and
close to the fence that touch it, or if devou
as of the worshipers I in the mosque were,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
Where Solomon Built His Temple.

Mount Moriah is on the eastern edge of Jerusalem
proper 1t is just opposite the Mount Of Olives and
above the Garden Of Gethsemane the valley
Jehosophat. The wall of the city runs around it's
slope and its top is plateau containing thrty-hve
acres about one-seventh of the Whole Of Jerusalem
inside the walls. The walls partially bound this
plateau and in them at the northeast of it is
the gate through which st. Stephen when he was
stoned to death by the Jews On the opposite
the plateau and far down below 1t is the Jews waing
place and hugging it the west south and north are
the box-shaped limestone houses which form the
greater part Of Jerusalem.
In going to IL we leave hotel on Mount Zion
and make our way down David street through horde
of pilgrims of all colors and sexes. We pass
the Church Of the Holy sepulcher go through bazar
where men and women sitting the ground are SELL
ing brass bracelets and beads from Hebron past
candle shops whose to be burnt at the tomb
of our Savior and through a vaulted tunnel-ke
street which was once the cotton bazaar, but which
sells everything else. At the end Of this tunnel
we ascend stairway and find ourselves the plateau
devoted to the mosque of Omar, but formerly the
site of the temple OF Solomon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
The Mosque of Omar.

It is these Mohammedan guides that enable US to
visit the Mosque of Omar, which supposed by the
Crusaders to be Solomon's temple 1t actually
built a cathedral by the Christian emperors who
reigned at Constantinople, and is of the finest
specimens of Byzantine architecture When it was
constructed it dedicated to the Virgin Mary but
about 800 years ago, when Omar captured Jerusa-
lem, he turned it into Mohammedan mosque, and so
it is to this day
Imagine mighty dome Of greenish copper, on the
top of which golden crescent Let this be large
larger than that of the capitol at Washington and
let it rest upon vast octagonal temple walled with
tiles so fine that any one of them would be priced
a piece of china Let there be dado of marble
below the tiles and a wide freze above them, inlaid
with Arabic characters containing texts from the
Koran, and let the whole be entered by mighty DOORS
which arches of carvings, and you have
faint idea of the Dome of the Rock by which
this mosque is known.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
The Temple of HerOd.

The Temple of Solomon had long disappeared be-
fore Christ was born 1t destroyed by Nebuchad-
nezzer SOC B. c.. and new building not erected
until the Jews back from their captivity at
Babylon. This also destroyed many years later
and third and last temple erected by Herod the
Great eighteen years before Christ born 1t was
in that temple that occurred the OF Chrst's
ministry 1t there that He talked with the priests
a boy Of ~, and from there He drove out the
money changers.
The Temple of Herod is said to have been much
finer than Solomons 1t has been described by Jose
plus who probably had ground plan OF the building
before him when he wrote, and who says that the
space which it covered about twice as large as
that OF the old temple Il much the same style
as the Temple Of Solomon, but its approaches were
imposing and II probably displayed all the archi
tectural beauties Of the time which one OF mag
nihcent buildings. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
Where Gabriel win Blow His Trumpet.

But let us take on our shoes and go in. The floor
OF the mosque is holy ground and is permitted
to enter except in his stocking bare feet The in
side is even more beautiful than that without The
walls and roofs a of carvings and mosaics
The mosaic is made up Of bits of gold and glass; the
latter of many colors all delicatey put together
that they form beautiful paintings Each bit big as
the head Of nail, smaller and thousands Of them
required to make each Of the pictures. The col
umns which uphold the roof of marble and the
floor of marble, oarpeted with old rugs from Turkey
and Persia
Right in the center Of the mosque is the huge rock
upon which Abraham built his altar for Isaac, and
upon IL the Mohammedans say the angel Gabriel will
stand when he blows the last trumpet calling the peo-
pie 10 judgment At that time, according TO them.
the souls of the human viii rush this spot and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27

ebony club finished at the top in knob Of silver
as big my fist The kavass is one of the major
domos, or soldiers of the American consulate. Our
consul has two of them and they accompany him
wherever he upon state occasions. They tall
straight Syrians more gorgeously clad than Solomon
in his glory. They have vests covered with gold en-
broidery with long sleeves and trousers of the
order each leg of which contains enough cloth
to make trained skirt for 1 have made a
photograph of the consul with his kavasses standing
beside him He looks like prisoner with the kavasse
guards.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
Guarded by MOhammedan Soldiers.

But, before so farther, must tell you about
the escort which guards us as we move about this
great Christian shrine Like the Of Jerusalem,
Il now belongs to the Mohammedans, and is of the
places which Christians are not permitted to visit
without the permission OF the Turkish the
sui The governor has also given me Mohammedan
soldier and the consul has sent along his chief kavass
the two to act guards. The soldier has sword
a. his side the kavass Is armed with semitar and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27

BRUSALEM-(S Special Correspondence Of The
Bee IL want to take you to the summit Of
Mount Morish and show you the site of Solo
mons temple. It is the spot where
~ Abraham at the command of the Lord
about to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, when he
told to desist and shown the whose horns
caught in the thicket behind him 1t is the place
where the wisdom of the boy Christ sstonished the
wise men; where David, Solomon and Elijah were in
the habit of praying and where, according to the Mo-
hammedans, the blast of the trumpet will sound forth
at the day of judgment The site is sacred to both
Christians and Moslems and it may be called the
hottest the face of the earth.
The biologists say that Mount Moriah is of the
two oldest parts of the world the other being Mount
Sinai upon which Moses received The Commandments
They this by the rocks, saying that when the
world was thrown of by the sun and hoated about in
its nebulous state through the air the parts which
sodifed the summit of Sinai the rock which
now stands inside the mosque the top Of Moriah
This is also Jewish superstition, the being
that as the Lord the solid earth rising out of
choas He blessed these two spots and said:
They shall be great in the history of the human
arce which shall create, and upon of them shall
my holy city be built"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
The MOhammedans Believe in Christ.

Here may be seen striking evidences of the belief
that the Mohammedans hold to Christ and the
prophets. They believe in Abraham. Isaac and
Jacob and class Jesus of the prophets although
not so high perhaps Mohammed. In the verses Of
the Koran on the front of the mosque is saying:
THE Messiah Jesus, is the only of Mary the am
bassador OF God, and His word which He deposited in
Mary. Believe, then, in God and His ambassador, and
do not maintain that in there are three" An
other reads; Blessings be on me in the day of my
birth and my death. He is Jesus, the of Mary
the word Of TRUTH concerning whom some are in
doubt" There are other passages of the Koran
which give the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
and the Mohammedans reverence this spot in
ton with them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27

4IUj uto IIIauo pUDIIO 9OI9IIVIIIO IO0V"1OII
he has been preparing for some years. Captain Won
Erdmannsdorf is a member of the Catholic church
and extensive searcher of religion and scientific
subjects, from which he draws his conclusions. He
has he says made the discovery of the location of
heaven 1t might be well to state that Mr.. Erd-
mannsdorf is religious fanatic and his article
has attracted much attention among the better-read
people of the community. The article follows:
The soul of a human being is in his whole
nervous system. If anyone loses leg he
will have but arm leg in heaven. Proof
Apostle St. Thomas wouldn't believe it was Jesus
Christ till he laid his finger in the wound Jesus
The human soul is mostly electricity and mag
netism Everyone has felt attracted toward someone
else; and when the soul leaves the body it will fly
the great center of attraction magnet which is
heaven and God. The soul will make that journey
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
Our Consul and H18 KaVasSeS .

golden nails saying that the plate originally contained
nineteen nails which Mohammed had driven into it,
One nail drops out at the end of each age and when
the last nail is gone the of the world will occur
The guide offered to let pull out the last three
nails for dollar apiece, but have desire to hasten
the Judgment day, and therefore, refused In that
way, perhaps, l saved the world
THE devil got at this plate one day. so our con-
sulars kavass tells me- land Jerking out the nails
al great rate when the Angel Gabriel caught him and
pulled him away" These stories silly, but they
are only few of many which told us when we are
inside the mosque Nevertheless the average Moham-
medan of this of the world believes them, and we
see gray-bearded, long-gowned turbaned men and
white-sheeted yelled women praying these holy
places They kiss the marks of Mohammeds foot
prints and run their handkerchiefs and boards
the rock. They pray they do so, for Mohammed
said that one prayer here is worth thousand uttered
anywhere else, and he prayed here himself.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27

APTAIN MAMMALIAN Won ERDMANNS-
DORFF a retired officer of the German navy
and later a captain in the United States army
during the civil war now living at Rich Hill,
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-29
Fine Art of Letter OPENING.

In Russia one letter In every ten
passing through the post Is opened by
the authorities as a matter If course
Indeed. the postal authorities of every
country have experts who have raised
letter opening To fine art Some
kinds of paper can he steamed open
without leaving any traces. AMI this
simple operation is finished by re-
furnishing the Hap with II bone instru-
mcnt. In the case Of Il seal Il matriX
Is taken by means of new bread be-
fore breaking the wax. When other
methods fail the envelope is placed be-
tween pieces Of wood with edge pro
jectins One-twentieth Of an inch. The
edge Of the envelope is first flattenetl.
then rOu.henel and finally slit open
Later 4 hair line Of strong white gum
is applied and the edges united under
pressurc.-IOnjOn Chronicle.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-29
A LIVE PROBLEM.

The Methodist church in the slave.
holding states adopted q separate and
independent organization in ls45 un'
der the name Of the Methodist Episco'
pal church, south. That name has
been retained for sixty-Gve years.
Now it has been decided by the gener.
al conference Of the church, in session
at Asheville, to submit to the next
general conference, which will be held
in 1913, a resolution changing the
name Of the church. This resolution
asks the bishops "to submit the old
historical name. the Methodist Epis-
copal Church in America To al
opt this suggestion will require the ap-
prevail Of three-fourths Of the mem.
hers of all the f"rty-fve annual con-
ferences. after which the resolution
will be submitted to the general con.
ference in 1913. 1t seems that the de-
mand for the change came largely
from the church in the western states.
The opinion appears to be that the ne
cessary majorities will not be obtained.
Churches are usually extremely con-
servative, and men do not take kindly
to any changes. especially in so i'm.
pOrtaut . matter as the name.
The division Of the Methodist
church was not occasiOned by any
question Of theological doctrine.
About the time Of the division there
Was . constant and very bitter agita-
ton of the policy ofslavery. In 1874
there was q movement in the general
conference to depose Bishop James o.
Andrew because his wife owned
slaves. It was believed that the de-
position of Bishop Andrew would
work . great injury to the church in
the south, and that the church in the
north would be injured if the bishop
exercised his Office in that section.
Besides this. the constant agitation of
The slavery question in the general
Was creating heartburnings
md bitterness. In 1916, when the
,eparation took place, the southern
church had about 1852, 900 members,
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-29
FARMER OWNS NATION.

The farmer. not the money king Of
Wall street, is the real owner Of thu
United States. The CLEAN Of his fields
is another Aladdin story, only instead
Of rubbing lamp he has simply scrap
ed the ground.
Our cereal crops last year were worth
81, OOO, OOO.OOO, which is sufficient to
pay for all the tools, implements and
machinery Of the whole Of American
industry. While this sum seems huge
as it stands alone, you haze only to 60
back a few years in the story of our
agriculture to see the miracle Of steady
increase that has been achieved.
Eleven years ago the value Of all our
farm products for a single year was
reckoned at s4.4l7,OOO.OOO. You
have already seen how that figure was
doubled by 1909. During these years
the sum total that the soil has yielded
the farmers is s7O.OOO.OOO.OOO. The
advance is 50 steady and sure that you
can almost calculate upon it year after
year.
Compare this record with the ebb
and flow of earnings iE steel or any
other industry, and you will realize As
never before how agriculture keeps
the even tenor of its prosperous way,
nnmindfnl Of panic or depression.
Why? Simply because land is stable,
aud. given proper methods Of farming
the more you take out Of it the more
valuable it becomes. 1t cannot be
moved away, it is, in truth, the very
foundation Of the nations material
welfare. It would take s24, 600, OOO,.
600 to buy our farm lands, and their
value is real and not watered, save by
irrigation.-Isaac F. Marcosson in
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-29
EXCUSES FOR ADVERSELY.

BY exercising sufficient good will. it
is possible "a h,.liavr that every aslver.
sity has ITS appointed use. The reviv.
ing breath q. spring has No meaning in
land where winter is "a myth. Heal
til, which in its abundance is hardly
held at pins ier. when it has onrc
been lost will b, diligently sought af:
ter ut earth's iiirihcSt ends. Bread AMI
meat. common I" the point oi being
despise'l. To the starving become prizes
Of rarest lhster What Is 81 precious
to the aged man a. those golden hours
which in his youth he flung away like
grass? The joy that is v"',chsait,l to
day may he magnilied in retrospect by
future adversely. AMI should be the
more eagerly enjoyed On that account.
In like manner present disasters will
he the better borne by considering
that they may serve to heishten the
pleasure Of comforts that are on the
way.--Willard Dillman.
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PIONEERING STILL COMPAR-
ATIVELY HARD.

Forty years ago the United States
saw the great movement to the west.
Everywhere in the Mississippi valley
country the resident saw the white
prairie schooner drifting. as if with
some vast tide wind. westward. Kan
sas, or Bust-any other place vest
ward, cor bust" the motto paint
ed upon the weather beaten white cam
vas of the wagons.
Within the last year or more his
tory has been repeating itself in q
great measure. With the price of the
round trip ticket AMI money for meals
in his pockets, the young man today
may cover in hours a territory which
required weeks and months in the ear.
ly '7Os. Many of these young men
have been doing this; more of them
will follow.
The old westerner OF today decries
the degenerating of the west as he
found it. 1t is lacking in most of
those old hardships and privations
which required all his manhood To with
stand when he was pathfinder in the
wilderness. Sharp rs present day
comparisons may he between the city
and the new west, the old weSterner
looks upon it rs chiI.ls pIay-,lilett-
ante, eilenIinatc.
He has forgotten that his har,lships
are half century behind him now.
He OverloOks the fact that the desert
upon which he settled has been bios
sOming for these many year. But
blossoming As it may have been. civil.
Zed as the newer west today is, that
young man from the centers Of city lif.
will find crude towering of the wilder
ness compared with the diversions AMI
ease Of the city which he has Left so far
behind him. lie will need all his for
titu,le AMI spirit "f his faihcrs.-.Iohn
a. Rowland.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-29

ground safe. These jewels have, Of
course, nothing to do with the crown
jewels, which are kept in the tower
They are the private property Of the
royal family. Queen Alexander's
personal jewelry is of immense value,
and for precautions sake has, We be.
lieve. been all duplicated in paste.
But Windsor castle is not the place fol
the enterprising burglar to 60 - burg.
ling" There is an old law, still
unrepealed, which enables the reigning
sovereign to put to death any person
or persons through whose carelessness
any of his gems may be lost. What
would happen to burglar one shud.
ders to contemplate.
The royal library at Windsor con-
tains over 100000 volumes, among
them many that would fetch enormous
prices If put up at auction. There is
q Metz Psalter for which q collector
would sell his last stick, q Charles /
Shakespeare, q magnificent Caxton on
vellum, and other treasures too numer.
Gus to mention.
Below the library is room contain.
ing one of the finest collections Of
prints in existence. These alone would
probably fetch fifty to seventy thous-
and pounds If sold. In the same room
are no fewer than 10000 drawings Of
the old masters and q collection of
over 1000 miniatures. The late
Queen Victoria collected these min
iatures.
Besides all these ancient treasures.
King George will presumably inherit
the great collection Of valuable objects
got together by his father. These
include the coronation presents. valued
at over a quarter Of a million, and
many Indian works Of art, including
a wonderful embossed shield Of solid
gold given by a number Of rajahs.
There is 10 reigning monarch in the
world, not even the Tsar Of all the
Russians, who is master of such an
amazing collection of beautiful and
valuable objects as is George "
PearsOn's Weekly.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-29

JUDGE PROUTY, PERFORMER. -
The defeat of Representative Hull
for denomination in the seventh con.
gressional district of Iowa, is alluded
to by the reform press as an 'insurgent
victory-a victory of honesty over dis.
honesty, and a rebuke to Cannonism."
While the nomination Of Judge Prouty
is an insurgent victory, his defeat Of
Hull was not a victory of honesty over
dishonesty.
For twenty years Hull has repre-
sented the seventh Iowa district in
congress. When he was first elected
he was poor man, and he is q poor
man today. If, as charged by the
insurgents, he has represented what is
termed the System" then Hull ought
to be q millionaire. But the fact that
he is a poor man today as he was when
he served his first term, is proof suffi.
cient to brand as false the stories coin.
ed by Judge Prouty and his friends.
In every campaign Hull has made for
reelection he has been compelled to
fight large corruption fund contrib.
ute,i by his enemies. In three cam.
paigns the Greenbay Lumber COM
pany, represented by its president.
James Berryhill, fought the renomina.
ton of Hull, and in every campaign
was defeated. Then the work Of des-
troying Hull politically was turned
over to Judge Prouty, for years the
attorney for the Greenbay Lumber
company. Prouty is a millionaire and
made his money in questionable land
deals over thirty years ago. When
the government was allowing pOliti-
clans to practically steal large bodies
of pine timber land, Judge PrOuty was
one Of the benefciaries. He secured
title to valuable tracts of land in Wis
cOnsin and Minnesota, which has since
placed him in the millionaire class AMI
enabled him to purchase nomination
for congressional seat.
The defeat of Hull is Iowa $ shame.
A valuable member of the house. who,
for twenty years was faithful to his
trust, has been turned down and an
alleged reformer of the Isaac Steph-
enson brand placed in nomination, and
his success in buying enough demo-
Gratis to vote the republican primary
ticket has been heralded throughout
the country As "a great victory for the
insurgents"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-29

1t ia further recommended that nc
proxies be allowed. and that delegates
present from each OF the respective CO.
unties be authorized 10 have the full
vote of their delegation. In accordance
with the rules OF the republican state
committee, credentials Of delegates Ia
the convention should be filed with the
secretary OF the state committee at least
five days before the date of said conven-
ton
The members of the county central
committee for each county, who are to
conduct the 1910 campaign. must he
chosen at the delegate county convention
which elects delegates to said state con-
ventiOn. and reports ut once to the state
committee.
(SignedD CLYDE BARNARD, Sec'y.
MYRON L. LEARNED, Vice Chairman.
Dated Lincoln, Neb., June IL, 1910.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-29
the REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The republicans OF the state Of Nebra-
ska are hereby called to meet in conven-
ton in the city OF Lincoln on Tuesday.
July &c, at IL O'Clock noon for the pur-
pose Of adopting platform and select
ing state central committee and for the
transaction Of such other business as
may properly come before the conven-
ton. The convention shall be made
up OF delegates chosen by the republi-
cans of the respective counties Of the
state at the regular delegate county con-
ventions, in the manner provided by law,
spportioning one delegate for each $50
votes, or fraction thereof, cast at the
1908 election for o. @. Bell. republican
nominee for presidential elector. Said
apportionment entities the several cOun-
ties t. the following representation in
o,l ,nnvont;no-