Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-07-12
A Wanderers Diary


June 10 Afternoon. Went to Y.
NJ. c. A. rooms. Got Literary Digest
and Egyptian papers and lot of u. S.
Magazines. Had nice lunch there at 6
for 6 piastres. Weather ideal here.
Wrote Capt. Buffers card and went to
Jerusalem War Cemetery" north of
city on slope of MtScopus with lovely
view of old and new city. 1880 Brit
ish soldiers buried there, all killed or
wounded in battles here. Nice Arab
gardens from Cairo will have charge
of it.
June ID They have sown alfalfa
over graves and it keeps green and
has abundant blue flowers Have 5
rows of small pines planted on three
sides. Along front viii have low hedge
of fragrant geranium. Nearly all the
graves are marked by wood crosses.
Bethlehem water will be piped there
soon. Went on south toward Olivet to
Maabadi House, an English mansion
behind which is corner stone of jew
ish University to be with small found
alton for cistern. 1t overlooks the
Jordan, Dead Sea, and hills of Moab,
Mt.Nebo etc.
June Is Went to Greek consul and
paid $40 for visa to enter Greece. Had
fine chat with secretary; told him his
little nation was only one paying inter-
est on war debt to u. S. A. Got 1
meter of toweling and did up stones
from Sol's quarry and from southeast
corner Temple WALL kilos WEIGHT,
postage SLAP. Went to see the mod
els of the Temples by DR.. Schick, great
German authority now dead. Paid 80
cents to hear lecture. Went with a
New Hampshire lady from Ramallah,
ten miles away where is a Friends or
Quaker school and Mission founded by
Maine Quakers. Her mother was a
Whittier, relative of the poet. With
her was a very lovely young Syrian
girl dressed modestly and up-to-date,
who could answer questions about the
Tabernacle and Temple These Amer
lean Missions and Mission Schools are
worth all they cost. Spent evening at
Y. M. C. A. My guide to the quarries
took me thru the Moslem quarter and
asked if | had eaten any Moslem
sweets. He declared the Moslems were
cleanest in preparation of food and
bought for me some of their sweet
food which is delicious He told me
of the green figs which find very nice
The apricots, like little peaches, are
sweet and good.
June 16 Wrote in A. NJ. Paid rent
four days, pound Egyptian; cost me
Sap. Went to Y. NJ. c. A. rooms;
read American news; had tea there.
Has 500 members in Jaffa and Jerusa-
lem and is supported by Christians,
Jews and Moslems, who all come here
to read and play billiards, crichet etc.
June II Went with H. H. Davis to
Passport office to get visa to leave Pal
estlne. Another id holdup of SIPS.
Hope Joe Beck gets some legislation
through for the benefit of the poor
tourist in a foreign land. II is not
the 70 plastres we paid but the fun of
hunting out o passport Office and
standing in line two hours among a
lot of natives that sours one. II is
worse than Russia ever had il before
+ the war; a passport full of visas cost
/ tnen perhaps IS to get in and all over
and out of Russia. I've got SAT in
vested IN my passport and expect TO
put 500 more into it. So far Il has
cost over IN per cent of my money
spent, Uncle Sam sets the price and
other nations retaliated. "Recipros-
lty, retaliation" the Greek consuPs
secretary told me. Went to Y. M. C.
A. and read proceedings of the Pro-
Jerusalem society; object TO clean and
preserve c1ty's antiquities and, outside,
build properly on streets laid out well
with parks, trees, etc, where needed.
they are doing q lot for the better
ment Of the city.
Sunday, June is Chimed bells
sounded beautifully. Went to Mosk
at area and could not find man to ad-
init us into Solomon's stables. They
had mats and carpets of great mosque
, spread out on stone pavement south
emo Of Temple Area where Solomon's
: ICY wives used to scrap with one an
!, other. Wonder where the other 800
4 women were housed. p. M went with
: Il. Fl. Davis to American COLONY. Ar
I rived Just. after they had concluded
. their Sunday services. This colony
Z came to the front during the great
! war. They fed at times two or three