Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 March 1889 — Page 3

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MOLIECTION OF JERDSALEV

3A Pajer Read by Mr. John W. Davis

Before the Royal Arch Masons.

P^^'PEESONAL IMPRESSIONS OF withlj THE HOLY LAND. pamed whicftSomething About It That Every that one Does Not Kaow—The Bpellec Holy City.

On Friday evening Terre Haute Chapter NO. 11. R. A. M., gave a banquet at W&B 21*

yhich Mr. John W.'•Davis read a paper MlflflAfl their hin "?erBoria* Recollections of Jerusalem1 club hai*"0*1

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unusual interest that

couples^ IE EXPRESS takes pleasure in giving it are: the public this morning as follows: Amanda"^'very°ne knows something of Jeruaa LenaReictM It is the birthplace of our religion Flora Duen? shrine of our faith. We, each of Tufie'l)ue^r

heard at our mother's knee and

.JuliaSeeberg Sunday school teacher from pul Helen Kloer. chancel descriptions of the Holy 'fllA

was

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afte:|fcr agai«&^

a,8)

field?#*

the

ont

,?ee

of Solomon and David and the 8p: al line, reaching down to "Jesus °'eth." We have seen the gorge °.'nonies of the Jewish ritual in is have fought over the Macca for independence. We have id'3 Palace: we hare almost son Absalom. Indeed Jerusa !fn en familiar to us from child

PShese things one pictures in I one sees from a description

he has never seen and peo yAever met. ,, a good many years since on of a bright day in jv pe arrived in sight of the r10'^"fc was before us at last. Our

bor8a'd

and we looked out over

nar.ro' There lay the city,

Byj,Ba

situated on the spur of

nage. ,c]ed by a high wall, with here a^ tower

an(j

directly in

citadel or fortress. The

?vr

lct

object one sees is the

MpsqViar," with its gilded dome, i° .'Sn the site of the temple

,wip'Temple enclosure. The r?i '8 Church of the Jloly oej Then there are nnmer "u®

co°VLarioussects,Armenians,

ssjss C^fltholic,_you

Bee

here the gleam

of a croes.jjg

eheen 0f a

Across th.

no one can,

Vl£i.

ar«

crescent,

ia the Mount of

descended ,ered

Olives,

that vaHe^HOn—but let us go on into the

cMr(lgoman

said. So we

by the

gate, just

,lJoppft

wer6

closing it. They

always clo»a^.0a

a(. sundown,

and

love

they say,

gates at t,

te.

or money opened the

formerly

allow the hyenas the dead animals don't permit that

to come in fa. and offal, bu now. M^n?\Ln8'^0PPa 8ate 'B tb0 only un of the pla^ |n

enterprieing

"?rman-.r flighted in thegathii '''^^'oing through along alley, entered

te 0 the h£teL w|

ro°m 0,ing

the square, and

r?-raa!r'the

evening, for we

n^'yHfter

If ho

Jt tvna tfr°ws

the hard ride

sea

atr

supper, at which

WH l°me

S0^.

iSfef

which the land

nn thi hrn'^

m°a

Brams grown

erntuM Se'l i!'""

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m0r,,i

n„

K«Iby

°rlse the square below

'l" neWfl^a"P®ni,?gt utter8we found so intra \t 'here in the open thini/fhnfre '^'"sellers of every-

ti'vBB

hancM

unfavored land.

y,cr

too, representa-

WnrW T? fV6ry this P«"* of the ninno a Turk, ArmeEgyp There were pilFRNM8 A

fuL,awijssia,

and Jews

Austrian-Pola There were the

s,ave®0f s&ich

naps,

the

Turk, per-

pasha proig for the fam-

ton Tk6rr'i, ^h.ere women there, ,^tle I urkish wocTvith ber cov-

a.n^

white nle. There are

weBS and Frankiah len, and there, too, is nn English mat

wll'fiQd

sometii a fair-haired

young mother, disconii of some cruder dressed in blue white of the adoma, with her chiwalking in the Thr?

or.8ltt'n^

in ainny door-way.

life of these simppeople does not seem to have changemuch in these ore than eighteen ndred christian years. .orc^'oary Syriiwoman, however, is a dirty, filty create, her finger nails stained with hema, teeth blackened, ner reet bare—but \en an hour or so later we 6tood wittur Dragoman in the square, the market as over, except some old women were Jvering over a few baskets of lentils vhich remained un sold.

Where go said iat Dragoman who, bright christian srian is at once "guide, Philosopher, frien?" We said we had thought best to tke a walk round the walls outside tb city. Better ride norse, Jong journtf. No, we're too sore to ride, will walk you please. Said rei|r™?"y yielded, for he was lazy. The ouildmg which is part of the city wall and beside the Joppa gate is the citadel, the tower of David. We were now in the court of David the Forum of Pilate. .. is 0P®n square under David's Tower is the high place of Zlon. On the side of ti'he square is ,Pa

ace

the,' English bishop.

The ages_y^.\ fery close together here. The antipodes nearly touch. There come from that English missionary church a troop of Arab boys and girle, clad like English charity children and chaperoned by a British female.

The Joppa or Bethlehem gate is the chief entrance for commerce and pilgrimage into the Holy City, and it is a busy place. You do not go directly througn it, bu- tirst north and then west. On the ouBi,je

are

doors. Inside

heavy wooden

thte

doors, under the

archways, is quar^re^ the Turkish guard. These soldiei

are not

Arabs, as

can see. lhb.

conie

from

other province.

you some of war has copied tL tactics

6rftti0awriter,

The miniBter

his European neighbors h,

doefl not &1.

low the soldier from any lo^j^y. g^ay in his native oountry. We wander through the'g» jostled bv loaded camels P"B. ar and «thither by hurling dnvere.<p></p>S"~5

th. ton K.™

tuth

and east past David's tomb, masonry which tradition Bays tomb of the poet king- k-w rf some reiic or ine asueuuuu luwtMsr.

The ridge Blopesoff^®ajjeyB

the ravines unite—the valleys phat and Gehennac.

of Ichoao.,ay

Kedron lie the^'asheB^of a hundred gen-

Jebusite, Hebrew. Syrian,

Macedonian, Egyptian, Rom sro6?'n^aLkof

thi IhSh m%£

whose Absalom, St. James rank among the oldj^ infinite art

by the rank among tne oiu—» 7* carved land being true like those of Petra, with

and labor, into shapes not less induring than the earth on which they stand. Around these saints and princes are the unarmed dead, each man with his white head or slab above his head, so that the lower part of Olivet is scarred with a countless multitude of ghostly memorial stonee."

It waa awe inspiring for one, a humble pilgrim from afar away western home to stand in this weird silent land amid the dust of those who lived and died before Columbus sailed from Palos, before our civilization was born, this land where Solomon and David ruled, where the Saviour was bora and loved and labored and was crucified.

The Holy city has seen many changes since those old days, has been sacked and destroyed many times. The religion of the Master

Bpread

itself over the

world, and anew religion rules now in the city of David as different from Jewish or christian aa their architechure. The Christian is here only by sufferance, The western pilgrim worships in the presence of a Turkish guard.

Occasional olive trees, gnarled and old, spring from the side of Olivet, enlivening the landscape with a touch of tender green.

To the right of us, away up the slop® of Olivet, is the traditional garden of Gethsemane, which is tended by the Roman Catholics. They have indeed made a garden of this arid slope. Some of the olive trees in it are hundreds of years old, they say. In the garden and around it are various prayer stations where the pious may offer up his oblations to Deity. On the summit of Oli vet is a Roman Catholic convent, with its square towers and medivael archi tecture.

I was struck with the intense quietness of the city. You hear no hum of busy life. It is a sort of prayerful quiet, There are no sounds but of convent or church bells.

We are now opposite the gate of Saint Stephen, and as Said says it is time to eat we climb the rocky hill and hurry to the German inn.

After luncheon ifre skirted along, the western wall towards the Damascus gate. Here about the Damascus gate are caverns where they say the marbles were prepared for Solomon's temple— the first temple. They are large caves, whether natural or not, I don't know. Then we scattered around broken columns, some of them unfinished, and tradition says workmen on the temple were engaged here and this is some of their unfinished work. I was not a mason then, but I believed Said's story about it implicitly. I see no reason why it might not be true

I show you now Mosque of Omar, says Said. So we passed under the arch of the "Damascus Gate," in front of which Saint Paul's miraculous conversion occurred. The gate through which comes the pilgrim from the north, the merchant from Damascus.

We are standing on the Temple Hill, on "Mount Moriah." A wall surrounds the platform, as it did in the time of Solomon. The Haram es Shereif, is the center of Moslem life in Jerusalem. It is next to Mecca in every believer's heart. From here Mahomet ascended to Heaven. The beautiful saracenic dome covers the ston6 on which he stood there is the print of his foot.

The space covered by the temple en closure—which is in the northeast part of the city, the eastern wall of the city makes part of the wall of the enclosure is, perhaps, as great as that covered by the temple wall. It is paved with marble, through the seams of which grows the rank grass. It does not look as if it had as many visitors as you will see in a christian shine.

In the center is a fountain, or well, which is always found in the court or incloBure of every mosque, no matter how humble. It is part of the Moslem religion to wash before he enters the house of the Lord. The camel driver to the pasha, it is the same.

Towards the south, and occupying more space than the tent-like building of Solomon or the high priest, stands the mosque of Omar, a beautiful specimen of Saracenic architecture, built by pious hands over the scene of the ascent of the founder of their religion. Back of this is the mosque of El-Asks, still in the temple inclosure. These are all the buildings within the walls of the harem.

Here then was Solomon's temple and later the temple of Z9rubbabel with its colonnades and porches, the glory of the celebrated craftsmen who built it. Destroyed once, and the people enslaved, they returned after seventy years, still remembering the most High, they re built their city and temple, on the ruins of the old, even perhaps more magnificent than the first.

There is nothing left of either now, except a bit of wall below and outside of the present wall, which has been washed with Hebrew teare and worn smooth by Hebrew lips.

Entering the mosque we found several Arabs asleep, and we asked Said why this was? "Mosque Arab's home," he said. It is indeed true, and you will hardly find a mosque empty of weary musselmeu.

The tired camel driver is sure to find water in the court of his mosque, in the sacred edifice he is sure to find shade. After finishing his devotions he may throw himself on the mats and sleep

No vergn has the pretention to expel him from the house of God." We go now to the Holy Sepulchre that place which contains all that is sacred to the christian—the verv opposite of what we have just seen. Here hud died together under a lattice dome are Calvary and the well-known tomb of the Savior the place where Peter stood when he denied Him is marked by a white stone.

The place is lighted with waxen tapers of many altars, and ia perfumed with incense from many censers.

Under a rule laid down by the pasha, each sect is allowed one hour for service, and one is always writing until the other's time expires. Frequently they have trouble. If one is a moment over time the other murmurs, and sometimes the wrangle becomes uneeemly, and the Turkish guard is called in. They have some times to close the church entirely to prevent bloodshed. No wonder the Arab often says, "How these christians love one another."

The sects who worship here are numerous. Greek and Roman, American aad what not.

Pious pilgrims come here from every corner of Europe professing various shades of belief but all to worship at the shrine of our departed Lord, to carry away and place upon his home altar some relic of the ascended Master. To

a prayer for wife and ""leones. There IB not much of value in all these digs to the western Protestant for we

of it worship placee nor the memory eervits. So after watching a Latin k. Ththrough we left the church, we

calPre

no such things as streets, as I

has no *ete, in Jerusalem. The Arab ways are 1 for them. The ural rock ved. Sometimes the natyou stumbtfrs. As you walk along broken coluarer a fallen frieze or interested in ryp which no one seems

The bazara ^ing. every Oriental Vnumerous as in Hera you can

NOTE THE TERIiE HAUTE EXPRESS. SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 31, 18»9.

buy everything you can think of in your vocabulary of eastern wares. A sword from Damascus, silks from Aleppo, figs from Egypt, perfumes from Arabia, rugs from Smyrna. These bazars are simply a passageway with roof of mats to protect the wares, like the arcade of a modern city. In Oriental cities they are the exchanges where merchants meet to barter and sell well as for the ordinary shopper. Here the Oriental transacts all his business.

Often you will happen upon an open place. In the center is a fountain and kioske grass is growing in the pavement. There is a half-ruined mosque. A great olive tree throws ita shadow all around, which looks inviting after all the glare of the sun on these white walls.

The coffee houses of an ancient city are peculiar. It

a large room on the I

ground floor around the room iB a wide divan or sofa. Here yeu sit and smoke and drink your black coffee. The Arab's delight is story telling. These coffee houses have professional story tellers, so Said says, who weave long romances

wonderful as those of the Arabian Nights. Very tame seems this life to one from the West. The Arab is a fatalist. He is in a certain way a slave. He can't expect to become rich and keep his riches, so he don't care. If his house burns, be sits on the ruins and eays: "Allali is great and Mahomet is his prophet." He is in no haste to repair it.

If he dies he will go to heaven—that heaven where Allali reigns—"in which the heat is never fire and the cold never frost, in which the wells are always full, the date always ripe, and the virgins ever joung." So what does the, Arab care whether the world progresses or not, whether roads are built or bridges made. He does not care to investigate the motion of the stars. He has no interest in the steam engine.

Everything is closed at nightfall in Jerusalem, even the city gates. They know nothing of amusemens—they have no concerte, no balls, no theaters. The streets and archways are entirely unlighted. Said says the Arab has no light in bis house, may be a rush light whose flicker satisfies him.

No one goes abroad at night without a lantern, for one going about without a light would be arrested for a thief.

A Moslem could hardly be tempted from his home after night "he might be touched by a leper, he might be bitten by a cur fall into a pit he might be knocked on the head by a Bedouin—for the streets in sunlight are difficult enough, reeking with filth and festering flesh.

Well Said, our horses are well rested by this time, so we will start for the Dead sea in the in the morning, we said. In the morning bright and early Said marshaled our cavalcade in front of Hauser's inn, three horses and a donkey, the donkey carrying our baggage and provisions and taken care of by a young Arab. The Bedouin who waB to be our escort met us outside the walls and we trotted off towards Bethany. Just as we were passing the crest of the hill I turned to take a last look. There lay the city bathed in sunlight which was flashed back to me from the gilded dome of Ootar and the cro6s in the tower of the holy sepulchre. "Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sake 1 will now 6ay: Peace be withiu thee."

ANOTHER BEAUTY—If you don't find just what you want in ready-made clothing you can have it made to order on short notice, and in full style.

J. T. H. MILLER,

Clothier, Merchant Tailor and Gents' Furnisher, 522 Wabash avenue. *.

Fresh made candies at Eiser's.

A. C. Bryce & Co. have the nicest spring overcoats in the city.

WHY l'AY HIGH prices foor shoddy clothing when Can buy good, nice, and well made goods so cheap at J. T. H. Miller's this spring. 522 Wabash ave.

A suit for the boy Co.'s for S1.50.

at A. C. Bryce &

WORTH SEEING.

It is worth the time of any gentleman to call at the rooms of Messrs. Owens & Knight, at 523^ Wabash avenue, and take a look at the magnificent array of spring suitings, overcoatings and trouseringe, which are on display. The firm have always been noted for carrying superb goods, but their present exbibition^eclpses all their former efforts in the point of design, quality and extensiveness of display. Their fabrics embrace the most beautiful patterns, delicate in combination of colors and exquisite in finish. With such a display of piece goods it is only natural to presume that Messrs. Owens & Knight will carry off the honors in the capture of orders for spring suits.

A. C. Bryce & Co. have the nicest spring overcoats in the city.

WHO EVER seen the like before. All-wool spring overcoats from $5 up, at J. T. H. Miller's.

If you want to get a perfect fit in a spring suit or overcoat go to A. C. Bryce & Co.

All kinds fresh fruits at Eiser's.

SOME STRONG BUr TRUE ASSERTIONS. McGrath & Co., 651 Wabash avenue, are in a position to convince gentlemen that the handsomest spring suitings, spring overcoatings and pantaloons can now be seen at the rooms at the above number. In a word, it would be difficult—in fact impossible to find more beautiful patterns, better finished and better quality of goods in any city, town or village in Indiana. This may seem to be a strong assertion, but gentlemen have the opportunity to prove the same. The important point with Messrs. McGrath & Co. is their prices are beyond competition.

If you want., to get a perfect fit in a spring suit or«. ^at go to A. C. Bryce Jc Co.

WITHOIT DOUb. ihe beet line of suits ever shown in the city, from $5.00 up, at J. T. H. MILLER. 522 Wabash avenue.

Think of getting a standard novel for 10 cents. Call and see them at Smith Dunn's, 319 Main street. Nothing over 10 Cents.

A PREVENTATIVE—Mothers if you don't want to be bothered sewing on buttons and repairing your boy's clothing every day, buy your clothing of J. T. H. Miller and aave money and trouble at the same time. He represents the best manufacturers. 522 Main street.

Smith & Dunn will re arrange their I magnificent Sand 10 oent bargains this week. Certainly unexcelled. Nothing over 10 cents.

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MORE PIGS.

Smith & Dunn have sold loads of I "Pigs in Clover" and will have anew lot on hand to-morrow morning. Don mies getting one. 319 Main street.

Nothing over 10 cents. I If you cough at night take K.

K. K. kures tickling koughs.

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Ladies Button Shoes.

NOTICK.

In a few da?i you will teethe greatest dlsplayjj^^jiBde In any show window la Terre HauteV ,•

COHKNTS, POPULAR TAILORS.

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LADIES' LIST OF BARGAINS:

French Kid Shoes Hand Turned" Oxford lies

Patent Tip.

Opera Toe Slippers....

Children's School Shoes Misses' Boys' Youths' Ladies' Rubbers

hi1'

NEW YORK AND TERKE HAUTE. Great excitement over the wonderful

MPigs

in Clover" puzzle. The only place in the city to get them is at Smith & Dunn's. Foremost in all lines of novelties, 319 Main street. Nothing over 10 oents.

Try K. K. just once. 25c per bottled

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"FAILED AGAIN. COME AT ONCE."

The above words were the contents of a telegram received by our buyer from the large jobbing house of Lowell L. Alvord & Holt, of Boston, Mass., one of the oldest established houses in Boston, and has always bore the reputation of having nothing nothing but good, honest made^f

Our buyer is always on the lookout for failures, and immediately upon receipt of this message hastened to Boston and succeeded in purchasing the entire stock, amounting in all to $67,437. The stock is here and our entire force of help has been working day and night getting it in readiness for Monday, April 1st, when we will surprise the people of Terre Haute with the ridiculously low prices we will, ask for this purchase.

BEAR IN MIND!

We advertise no price or make of shoe we cannot produce and furthermore, we intend to remain here §nd not leave within a month, as our competitors have been trying to make the people believe, and any article purchased of us that does not prove satisfactory to the wearer we ask you to return the same to us, as we stand ready and willing to right all wrongs.

$ 98 1 25 1 50 2 00 2 00 50 68 28 62 78 97 14k 14

PIXLEY & CO.'S

Great Display

-OP-

$8, $10, $12, $15, $16, $18 $20

If You Value Money Don't Mi

Every suit from $2 to $10 less tnan the ordinary retail clothier can sell them at.

BOYS' and CHILDREN'S

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:New Goods Received Every Day.

PIXLEY &• (d.

JEFFERS

19,

4 MANUFACTURKR3 OF

MEATS

FINKST FBKSH AND CUBED

FRESH

fish

Men's Hand Sewed Shoes. ii a Kangaroo

Alligator Congress

IN SEASON.

pe*JOSEPH HORN, Proprietor. t&~8iS2 NORTH SIXTH 8TRKET.

RIITTFRI

CREAMERY DU I I LHI

Ptent Leather Dancing Pumps Plow Shoes

,-'V" Hip Boots Kip Calf Goat Leg

Fat Babies' Shoes

Full line of all the popular itaakes of fine shoes. Any shoe made we have and can always be purchased of us at one-half the original price formerly paid for the same makes. Full line of Oxford ties. Party slippers in all colors narrow widths a specialty from tripple A to EE can always be found at the popular New York Shoe Co.. buyers and sellers of bankrupt stocks in all parts of the United States and Canada.

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Medium' and Light Weights

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Are surprising every one who sees them.

Confirmation Suits IMMENSE ASSOETMSST! LOWEST PRICES I HIW PATTMS!

I pr

HERMAN,

A I A E S

Vtisetons, Landaus, Coupes, Buagles,etc.,^

1001, 1003, 1Q0JS and 1007 Wabash Avenue, TTDBV HIIITII' IVII 2, 4, «, 8, 10,

14, 16, 18, 80 and 38 Tenth Street,

Seals Stencils ill Staiis.

T1£KK,fi

1H"-

GEO. J. MAYER,

15 South Meridian Street,

Send for Catalogue. Indianapolis, Ind.

aAnd^GAme

M. C. ^OUTZAHN, 1O0 South) Sixth) Street.

Phoenix Market,

Jnst received and will constantly keep for sale a fine lot of fresh creamery butter In prints and buckets. Orders promptly delivered to any part of the city tree of charge.

MEN'S LIST OF BARGAINS:

Jftute, Indiay"^'^r

....$2 -45 3 00

00 50 98 25 65 95 79 50 25 98 25

CO,