The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22

former President, was the honor man ly along the streets. Some formed in circles about two dervishes who dased madly at each other with swords and
 shields, but just as one came to ex- pect a killing, they separated and
 stalked each other blindly about the
 ring striking out at the empty air. These were followed by long lines of ordinary, everyday Moslems, who kept up continual refrain of 'yahamalali yahmali, yahamalai- yahmali, yahamala- 1i-yahmali." Everywhere were the Jerusalem gendarmerie of the British forces keeping order among the spec
 tators.
 When the service was ended, the pill grims as fast as they issued from the Temple Area, set off with their ban ners, tomtoms and cymbals for st. Stephens Gate and the Jericho road.
 Today Brgadier General Storrs vis
 ited Neby Musa, accompanied by his staff. We left Jerusalem in a driving rain, but Neby Musa. which lies 20 miles east and $500 feet below Jeru- salem, was dry and hot
 The new motor road to Jericho is a British edition of the old Turkish road. During the campaigning in this end
 of Palestine, motor lorries chewed it up badly, but at present it is in very fair condition It Is a wide, paved road, in many places carved out of the bare mountain side It is full of hairpin turns and steep dives and in many places one can see the road ahead winding like white ribbon, still seek ing the lower levels in which Jericho. the Dead Sea and Neby Musa lie. Jerusalem had been trying to work up shower for two or three days be- fore we started. There are many the ories about Jerusalem's weather. Some say it is the coldest town in Pal estine, because it is the highest; and some that it is the hottest because it
 is the nearest to the sun. It is safe to say that Jerusalem lies on the very roof of Palestine, and that If there is any weather wandering anywhere about Palestine, sooner or later Jerusalem catches it.
 On the other hand, the country around the Dead sea is hot and unhealthy. You may be shivering under sleetstorm in Jerusalem at noon, and hunting the shade at Jericho two hours later.
 Jerusalem's S effort at a rainstorm broke into success just as we left. In the teeth of cold hailstorm we went cautiously down the slopes of the Kedron valley. stopping frequently at ticklish corners until the storm moderated enough to let the driver see his way ahead. In five minutes we were sitting in cold pools or water.
 Twenty minutes brought us up out of the Kedron valley and into Bethany, now a collection of squalid novels inhabited by Mosems An hour brought us to ar ancient khan, called the Inn of the Good
 Samaritan, on authority which is, to say the least, doubtful. Here the rain began to moderate and the further we descended the more noticeable the heat became The road, despite the abominable weather conditions, remained very firm It has been a good road since the visit of the German Emperor in 1s9S although he did not travel by 1t. It follows the ancient pilgrims route from the Pilgrims ford in the Jordan up to Jerusalem. rev roads in Palestine have larger religious and political interest than the Jericno road
 The further out we went, the wilder the country became, until the road was a mere ribbon thorugh miles of vacant, naked mountains, freckled sparsely with camel scrub Presently we issued rom under the storm which filled the SKY over Jerusalem and came suddenly unoer clear sky, in which the beautitul uarh blue pool of the Dead sea lay ahead or us, flanked by precipitous mountains or every shade of red and brown
 A Jerusalem we left the Jericho road and turned aside into a comparatively un- used track which shortly disclosed the low white cluster of the buildings oi Nebv Musa. fronted by a Moslem ceme- tery. It lay on hilltop ahead of us, wlth a sprinkling of rough Beduin tents apoue it. and the moving black dots Of peopie silhouetted against its white walls anu the low white domes. which form it's rooI The sun struck across the little minaret that crowns the reputed Tomb of Moses with a dazzling white effect. Down here beside the Jericho plain, it was hot ana clear and still.
 Throughout all the year when the pii- grimage does not occupy 1t, Neby Musa lies on it's lonely hilltop in the care or an Afehan Mosem, who is retained by the family of Ismail Bey of Jerusalem, owners of the property It is then a resort TOT whatever robbers are still at large in the vicinity of Jericho and good place io stay away from. During the week oi the pilgrimage and feast, however, II ID guarded by the gendarmerie of Jerusalem, now under command of British ofllcer' A little row of mounted gendarmes con fronts the rosd leading up to Nepy Musa' and carriages of Moslem women and chii- dren' are ee corted to and from the near bv villages by mounted men. each Wiln q rifle slung across his back. These men are as fine horsemen as any in the world. and they possess dignity to which the Texas cow-puncher, excellent horsemah though he is, makes no pretense.
 Neby Musa is in reality sort or par racks, with he inner court bisected by a wing in which is the traditional Tomb Of Moses and the mosque. The front or the buildings contains the guest cham bers and the quarters for the housivs or the better classes who come on the pii-