The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-04-20
Prom qHE LAND on rHE PHAR0Es

E&
he Old Country Interesting BIZ
America is Better-NO Mountain
to Equal IN Beauty Those Of Wes
tern North Carolina Writes MR.
Cora Ransier From Across the B9ll
Pond.
Luxor. Egypt, Marchl19-In dreamy
romantic. hoary Egypt how strang'
ii all seems. to have the silent sohs o
the old PharOes waiting Oh one ~
table; gliding noisely in and out p
OF ones presence. in almost an uncan'
NY way, giving one the feeling thai
somehow one must have become Y
denly reincarnated. and to wonder L
ii is not after all a dream OF some
former life and story.
The birds i'm the palm garden are
having q choral service while the
breeze floating through the windows
in laden with the perfume Of many
flowers. The old Nile glides past the
ancient piles Of stones, relics Of for
gotten glory, and I sit here in the
midst of it all but not entirely lost to
its mystery and charm for I am
thinking of the dear old noun
tains of Carolina, of the little
town nestled in their bosom, and
my neighbors and friends of Hem
Jacksonville are so near n dear
to me at this Enznent that my REIN
carnation dream goes floating down
the Nile with the other slow and pic
turesque crafts-and / I'm glad it is
SO. Glad I am only a part of this old
civilization, or lack of it, for a short
time only. For I like home better.
The Azores were unique. Gibraltar
conglomerate. Seville, pronounced
S~ee-vee-yah, don't on your life say it
any other way Seville, romantic, and
Granada and the Alhambra one be-
witching dream. Malta with its tab
lets and memories of the Knights OF
ST. John made a mortially heroic i'm
preston on ones mind which faded
only with the calmy classic antidote
Athens. The blue of the Phaleron
Bay, which one may easily immagine
has been caught from the centuries of
cair azure skies. caught and held and
concentrated, the restless waters OF
which smile alluringly into your gaze.
Constantinople and Algiers, with
oriental stamped throughout. The
Did city of<Damascus-squalid fanatt-
cal. with it's hangings which / had the
pleasure of witnessing. The three
executed men hanging by their necks
rom a tripod s~caffolding on the bridge
the public square, hanging there in
he hot sun all day, for a spectacle
Tor the people to rejoice over. and
incidentally to take note of.
The antiquity of Damascus, the city
Scnem and also Jerusalem, with
Is co. 900 Jews out of it's 10000 popu-
alton, not the jew that we know in
who is the pleasant neighbor
md American citizen; but the Jew
akin to the Arab and hardly distin-
guishable from the sons of Ishmael.
In fact the legitimate and illegitimate
children of Abraham seem to have in
the same characteristics. And
Why not?
Joppa with it's miles of orange
the oranges hanging so closly
On the limbs that it would seem an inn
possibility to to stick another on, de-
Ifciously sweet and juicy-where they
ask you a shilling, twenty-five cents)
q basket for them on your arrival and
take a cent and a half for two dozen,
On the moment Of your departure.
ALI these old places, filled with TO-
history and past grandeur are
Of Interest to see and note, but for al
place to live in, the unanimous vote OIL
our six hundred Americans aboard
ship is for the Land Of the free and
the home of the brave" And as I
the volcanic rocks that make
the Azores-the snow-crowned peaks
the Pyriness-which rise grandly ma
iestic in Granada, the arid slopes of
Pentelacon-old Greece's historic
knobs when ascending the barren.
rocky ranges enclosing the narrow
of the Jordan and the ap-
preach. to Galilee, when bordering ON
Ehe desolation of the massive, majestic
and canyon where Eliza was
fed by rayens-when seeing all these
samples Of mountain formations, both
Singly and collectively, / can truly say
hat there are non that surpass in
verdure, delicacy of flower and
'ern and real besuty, our own loved
Land of the Sky
Their g~Fateness stands out in some
particular attraction or attribute.
Ours has the blended characteristic
md attractions, though perhaps in
of them all.
Here in Egypt all comparisons must
for the bluffs that guard the
'iver sides are the accumulation of the
Irffts of sands from the deserts, and
very rocks themselves speak of
world and Deople far removed from !
Western standards or comparisons.
There are so many things I would love
. tell you of! OF the roads our Great
Teacher trod. of fair Galilee whose
waters quieted at His word
# the mount where He preached the
most wonderful sermon ever uttered
the "blesseds" for humanity. OF all
# earth and sky and stream that hold
acFed associations to our hearts be-
u Lord and Saviour once ira
Tersed beheld. and blest them by his
'~esence, but this / must leave till
alter, when space and time permits.
CORA RANSIER.
Greensboro. N. c., April 17.-Rev.
)r. w. M. Mcfarland, pastor of the
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