The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-21

quench their thirst fell upon their knees and drank regardless of peril were stupid and not available for the purpose which he intended to assign them, but the 300 who lapped the water from one hand, held in the other their bow or arrow and gazed over the morass as they drank being alert and on the qui vive for the possibly ambuscading foe. It was the strategy of a masterful mind and d military man. There is a wonderfully large cave immediately adjacent to the spring and the waters of the pool are remarkably lmpid.
 Shunem was our next objective point and we found it a mass of filth and poverty. If it's present condition Is typ ical of that which obtained when Elisha had an upper chamber with the woman, should not care to be star boarder' in that place. Here lived the poor sun stricken lad who cried out My head. my head" and here was the home of Abshag, the fair damsel who cherished and minstered to the chilled and aged David.
 We lunched at Main where Christus raised from the bier the widows son, and while was eating I was amused to see my donkey boy fast asleep with a stone for a pillow upon which he slept most soundly.
 This use of and fondness for stones is most remarkable among the Syrans, and Is the still obtaining remnant of q worship and veneration for such objects which in olden times amounted to a fetich. Many of these stones are still encountered in eastern Syria and they are of four kinds-menhlrs, or standing stones, which were erected as memorials and worshipped as deities and upon which libations of blood, milk, oil or honey al 4oll e.1,o ,1I structures of stone, employed as sacrflc- | ial altars; cairns, or heaps of stones, augmented by successive contributions of pilgrims to some memorial spot; and cromlechs, or stone circles, resembling open air temples The latter have gem erally menhir or dolmen in the center and the dolman displays a cup like hol low which once was filled with human blood.
 The most famous cairn was erected at Mizpeh by Samuel to celebrate his vic tory and Gilgal means a cromlech or circle of unhewn stones; 1t was the first unroofed temple.
 As we moved on after lunching we passed close to Endor where Saul in- voked the witch to call up the spirit of Samuel and began the ascent of the Nazarene hills. The road beggared de- scription. being one at which any re- spectable goat would elevate his nose and yet it is the highway from Jerusalem to Damascus. Over this road Paul pass ed. and if no better than now this con dition might have contributed to his change of spirit Carriages are impos- sible and more than once I nearly top pied from my saddle. l was struck with the extremely high altitude of Nazareth and in its approach I felt as though l were mounting the roof of the world.
 A railroad of narrow gague passes down the center of the plain of Esdrae- lon from Haifa to Damascus, and so diminntive and slow moving were the locomotives that they suggested mann moth wasps in their creeping.
 At the foothills of the range we en- countered several German colonies and noted that the numerous races repre- sented in Palestine Is one of the striking features of the country. Druses are found at Haifa Moslem Slavs from southern Austria at Caesarea, Roumanian Jews, African negroes and Bedouins are scat tened here and there and even Circas- sans are found at the foot of Mount Hermon It seemed to me. however. that the Germans will eventually dominate the land
 After several hours of climbing we at last reached the city of Chrst's home. Our tents were already pitched but it lacked several hours of sun down, and at once strolled through every street in the place
 Nazareth is not mentioned in the Old