American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-04-11

n Interesting hooks anu CUT
ners that are almost unknown
to the outside world n that
most of the tourists never see. In New
Age Phi. j. Baldensperger writes enter
tainlngly of some Of them.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher
and it's surrounding honeycomb OF
cloisters may be said approximately to
have separated the Christian n the
Moslem quarters OF the city. Two gates,
closed at night, shut off h church
from the town-one below Christian
street, beside the Jami'el OMAR, and
the other, a small one, leading to the
Nauristan. The Jami'el OMAR is the
teal Mosque of Omar. 1t was built In
A. ID. 637 to commemorate h first
prayer said by the Caliph Omar ibn ell
Khattab after his entry into the CON
Quered city. The small gate opposite
across the court leads straight into the
Moslem quarter. No Jew is ever al
lowed to pass In front of the church or
through either of the two gates. Once
or twice an inquisitlve son of Judah
has tried the experiment. but he has
not lived to tel! the tale Of his ad-
venture, so roughly was he handled
by the mob.
Outside the small gate, In the Mos
lem quarter, are shops for h sale OF
glass beads and bracelets, kept by
men Of Hebron, and SOC 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 st. 5Jhn.
The Mauristan was given by Sultan
Abdul Aziz as a present to Frederick
william, crown prince Of Prussia. when
he visited Jerusalem In 1869. The Ger
man Church Of the Redeemer (Erloser-
klrche) was built here after the war oil
1870. The slaughter house had Hrevi-
ously been removed to waste Ian 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
we're then unknown to the majority
The Moslem and Christian men wore
soft red shoes of sheepskin the WON
en- yellow slippers of the same. TIT
mission schools and converts had cob
blers Of their own, who had beer
taught the ways Of Europe In such mat
tiers.
Round the corner to the left, below
the Abyssinlan convent, were tn
sweets shops. Great was Dur deligh
when at the New Year every boy II
the school received a cake enriche'
with clarified butter and sweetene'
with honey and sugar. But Halawef
sweetstuff made Of sesame meal an
I honey, was our perennial Joy.
q Butchers, Spicers and DycrS.
II All along behind the Mauristan ru
n three streets parallel to one anothel
appropriated by the butchers, IN
spicers and the dyers, respectively. /
the butchers street, the dealers, a
IS Moslems, sold nothing but mutton an
- goats flesh. As the streets are archie
a over, semidarkness reigned, and ofte
d we have tumbled over fat and lag
o. dogs which were attached to almoi
every meat shop. These dogs not on
kept good watch at night, but also kel
the greasy street In q tolerable cond
ton by licking up the blood and eatir
bones. But for the presence OF II
spicers' street at hand the shoemaker
street, with It's old skins; the butcher
street, with all its offal, and the dyer
- street, with blue colored stuffs han
"A ing from the roof, would have maj
= the whole region smell as foul AS Il
town slaughter yard. Once or twi
a week we were sent to fetch me
n needed for the kitchen on our donke
The butchers street, / forgot TO 50
~ hardly measured three yards across, b
~ with the ~rcass hanging out befo
70 the shops there was hardly room In I
u butchers street for two TO pass abrea
The spicers' stree resembled 1t In u