The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1919-07-24

- ERUSALEM is full Of strange
aud interesting hooks and cor
u nerS that are almost unknown
20 the outside world and that
most OF the tourists never see. In New
Age Ph. J. Baldensperger writes enter
tainingly Of some Of them
The Church OF the Holy Sepulcher
and its surrounding honeycomb of
cloisters may be said approximately 10
have separated the Christian and the
Moslem quarters Of the city. Two gates.
closed at night. shut OF the church
from the town-one below Christian
street. beside the Jami'ei Omarl. and
the other. "A small one. leading to the
Alauristan. The Jami'el Omari Is the
real Mosque of Omar. II was built In
A. ID. 637 10 commemorate the first
prayer said by the Caliph Omar ibn e.
khattab after his entry into the con-
quered city. The small gate ~ppos~
across the court leads straight into tne
Moslem quarter. No jew IL ever Al
lowed TO pass an front of the church or
through either of the two gates. Once
or twice an inquisitive son of Judah
has tried the experiment. but ne has
not lived 20 tell the tale Of his adj
venture. so roughly was he handled
by the mob.
Outside the small gate. in the Mos
lem quarter. are shops for the sale of
glass beads and bracelets. kept by
men Of Hebron, and soon you come
into the street Of shOemakers- The
trade was established here In old days,
when the abattoir was In the Mauri-
stan. among the ruins Of the ancient
hospital Of the Knights OF 81. John
The Mauristan was given by Sultan
Abdul Aziz as a present TO Frederick
William. crown prince OF Prussia. when
he visited Jerusalem In 1863. The Ger
man Church Of the Redeemer (Erioser-
kirche) was built here after tiie war Of
1870. The slaughter house had previ-
ously been removed 10 waste land just
inside the walls up by the Zion gate.
The hides OF beasts were thrown upon
the road. and people walked on them
till they were tanned enough for shoe
making. European boots and shoes
were then unknown 10 the majority.
The Moslem and Christian men wore
soft red shoes OF sheepskin: the wom-
en- yellow slippers OF the same. The
mission schools and converts had cob
blers Of their own. who had been
taught the ways OF Europe IN such mat
tiers.
/ Round the corner TO the left. below
the Abyssinlan convent. were the
sweets shops. Great was our delight
when az the New Year every boy In
the school received a cake enriched
with clarified butter and sweetened
with honey and sugar. But Halaweh.
sweetstuff made Of sesame meal and
honey. was our perennial JOY.
Butchers, spicers and Dyera
All along behind the Mauristan run
three streets parallel to one another,
appropriated by the butchers. the
spicers and the dyers. respectively. In
the butchers street. the dealers. all
Moslems. sold nothing but mutton and
goats flesh. As the streets are arched
over. semidarkness reigued. and often
we have tumbIed over fat and lazy
dogs which were attached to almost
every meat shop These dogs not only
kept good watch at night. but also kept
the greasy street in a tolerable condi.
ton by licking up the blood and eatina
bcnes- But for the presence OF the
spicers' street at hand the shoemakers
street. with its old skins the butchers
street. with all its offal, and the dyers
street. with blue colored stuffs hang.
ing from the roof. would have made
the whole region smell as foul as thu
town slaughter yard Once or twice
n week We wQrQ sent IN fofck vv.o~<
needed for the kitchen on our donkey
The butchers street. l forgot to SAY
hardly measured three yards across, buI
with the carcasses hanging out befoev
the shops there was hardly room in tn
butchers street for two to pass abrenst
The Gpicers' street resembled II n -