Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Honors to Our Common Mother. [ARTICLE]

Honors to Our Common Mother.

According to Arabian tradition the mother of the human race is burled at Jtddah and her grave is marked by a •mail temple which is held by Mohammedans as being especially sacred. Every seven years the f*ious Ishmaelites make a pilgrimage to the supposed grave of our alleged common mother. The spot is surrounded by a high wall, and through a oraok in the rock roof of the little temple grows a gigantic palm. It is a most desolate-liking spot and contrasts strongly with that delightful paradise pictured by Milton. On June 3, which is supposed to be the anniversary of the death of Abel, the doors of the temple remain open all night. The Arabs say that- on that night the spirit of Eve laments the murder of her best beloved, and that awful eries of grief and despair ring from the tomb, transfixing with horror all who hear them.