Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1918 — Jerusalem Blooming Again Like a Rose, Says Writer In Letter to London Times [ARTICLE]

Jerusalem Blooming Again Like a Rose, Says Writer In Letter to London Times

The Rose of Jericho, writes a Jerusalem correspondent to the London Times, when one buys It In the shops, is a queer little withered ball of shriveled fibers, which the inexperienced think fit only for the rubbish heap. But put it in water and the thing revives, turns freshly green, and begins to sprout anew with life that has been always dormant but never dead. This strange plant is .symbolical of Jerusalem. The more rapid recovery from condl ti ons of misery was delayed by the maneuvers of certain speculators whose object was to hinder the British advance into Palestine, bringing with It a vivifying tide of honest Egyptian notes and silver. z Scenting profit, rascally speculators went about among the more ignorant, cunningly representing Egyptian notes to be only worth in gold the value ot discredited Turkish paper, and thea» thu» succeeded in buying up a quantity at the average price of Bs. 6d. Such chicanery caused great distress to the mass of the people and considerable inconvenience to the military; administration by shaking public confidence in the Egyptian bank notea But the good names of Britain and of Egypt are helping things to right themselves, and trade is now being done in goods coming from Egypt daily. Jerusalem had become Uke the Rose of Jericho, which had withered and was seemingly dead. To us is It given to watch the Holy City revive and renew her youth.