Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-01

water of which, If drinketh, he shall never thirst
but there shall be in him we'll of water springing
up into everlasting life You will find the story in
the fourth chapter of st. John. This we'll is one of
the holy sites OF Palestine about which there be
doubt. The village Of sychar corresponds to the
village OF Askar, which stands Mount Ebal per-
haps thousand feet away from the well where the
Samaritan woman lived The we'll itself lies Just be-
low the carriage road from Jerusalem. / went
through olive orchard to reach It, 1t Is surrounded
by wall and is in the heart OF a garden now owned
by the Greek church, which has made It resting
place for pilgrims They have built stone chapel
the well and services held there several hours
every day.
Some of the priests went with us down the steps
to the we'll 1t lies right in the floor of the chapel.
1t about three feet in diameter built up with stones
which laid in the shape OF tube, being smoothly
cut One Of the monks brought pan which was tied
to rope in such way that it remained level. Upon
this he placed lighted candle and then slowly low
cred il down into the we'll 1t descended perhaps
sixty feet before II TO the water. The sill of the
we'll is OF marble and shows the marks of the ropes
which for ages have been lowered into It, The sill is
some distance above the floor and It may have been
the original stone upon which Christ sat at that weary
hour OF noon.
Jacobs we'll has been known and visited by pill
grims for many years. 1t was probably once even
with the surface of the earth, but the debris and
earth washlngs from the mountains by have
filled up the valley and It is considerably below
the country about. within the last year excavations
have been made in the garden and the remains of
church which built the we'll 500 years
ago have been discovered. 1 found immense granite
columns and also many pieces of the stone walls of
the church. l persuaded the Greek priest who low
cred the pie pan with the candle upon It into the well
to come into the sun and be photographed.
The dissatisfied American.
While was at the we'll a party of travellers, con-
Quoted by of the great tourist agencies arrived
They were Americans doing the Holy Land at SO
much per day and they were bound to get the worth
Of their money. One l shall never forget His gi-
eAntic frame was such that shall call him Goliah
When the party went down to the well the services in
the chapel had Just begun, and after pointing the
hole in the floor the guide brought them out AS
they into the churchyard heard Goliah remark:
II amt satisfied"
about whatY" said the guide
IL alnt satisfied about that well. How do l know
there's a well there7"
you saw IT," said the guide.
NAV. / saw only a hole in the floor. How do
know there's well? How do / know it has water?
tell you amt satisfied. Here I've 900 miles
to Jacobs well, and how can prove that rye
saw it,"
In short the man protested that the guide took
him back stopped the service and had them let down
the candle. Further than that he brought up some
OF the water, which Golah drank at a gup. This
huge doubling Thomas would not believe in the spot
where Lord baptized in the Jordan, saying
that the banks too steep, and that IL he couldn't
crawl down them one not even John the Baptist.
could do 50.