THE DAILV HERALD, PLATTSMOUTII, NEUliASKA, FlilDAV, DECEMBER 2, 1667.
CHEAP CLOTHING.
THE CANALS OF MARS.
LIFE IN JERUSALEM.
(TS3HIIES.IP
REVIVAL Ol- SNUFF TAKIMG.
The Story that Come AeroM lha AlUn
t lc I'riM-tlco In Col(al Tliu.
Tho ri'iKrt come from Paris that tho prac
tice cf unufT taking will lm restuu-itaUvl dur
ing tho coming winter by the laiIis of the
French capital. Tho young men aro hunting
up thoir ancuitral Biiuir boxen and Kt.uilymg
oll family pictures in orh?r to itcquiro the
gruixtul Htylu of taking a rlivh practiced by
tho old court gallants. Pawnbrokers Mid
ili.'nlc-rs in antiquated articles have realized
very largo tain for snufT bos"s that have
lain on thoir tshelven for forty or fifty
years. Most extravagant prlws have been
paid for auuft boxes that In-longed to mcm
Itcra of tho old nobility. Hoveral jowtli-rs
urn engaged in making onuff boxen of an
ti'jao and original denigna. In many club
rooms ornamental vouch, fillod with various
LIiuLs of snuff, stand on the tables or man
tels. In colonial times, daring the revolutionary
war, ui id for many years afterward, the use
of Knuir was very common in this country.
Nearly every gentleman carried a silver
suuiT Ikx, which was often inlaid with gold.
At tho entranco of the senate chamber, in
tho national Capitol at Washington, are large
receptacles for snuff, at which members of
tliut august body once filled their boxes on
pissin.'j into their scats in the morning.
Many fan remember the time when tho snuff
box was passed around in social circles every
few minutes, and when it was as common to
as!c for a pinch of snuff as it now is to ask
for a light for a cigar or for a chew of to
bacco, Poor people generally used snuff be
cause it was cliaap, or, more projierly, be
cnu:o "n little went a good ways." Tho use
of snufT liecatno general in all northern
countries, esiecially in Scotland, Holland,
Kwcdon and Norway. In Iceland nearly
every person used large quantities of snulf,
which v.as kept ju an ornamented horn. Tho
practice was, and perhaps is, to insert the
"liltlo end of the horn" in the nostril and
to thump tho large end so as to discharge a
jjortion of tho contents. The host often
wrtllud among his gii'jsts and jwrformed this
oilieepsa niark of hospitality. Sometimes
servants or members of the family were in
structed how t;j handle tho muff hprn with
grace and dexterity. Before the invention of
friction matches considerable difficulty was
found in lighting cigars and pipes, but tlio
iiiufr l.ox was elways ready to" bring forth.
Forty 3 ears ago there was scarcely a grocery
in tho country thut did not keep several kinds
of sniuT, and tho name of one Scotch manu
facturer wns known throughout tho civilized
world.
Tho uso of snuff has leen steadily dot-lining
lii almost every country in the world during
s. I'm iod of fifty years. Various i essona may
te assigned for its gradual dlsu.se. So far ns
deleterious effects are concerned, snufling to
ba co w oien to the least objection, as tho
emoiuit of nicotine taken iuto the system is
rpry small. This method of using tobacco is
ii attended ty tU smallest cijnse to tha
c-.'iLsuiuer. Chicago Timet. '
Hi Hanjo's Successor.
Vv oKi.il aro worse than the ancient Athenian.-?
in thoir lovo for a new thing. YVhat thf-y
U,v-. ssi 1 yvear by one season they v. ill abaii
!o:i tha uo'xt, and nothing that is'cld, froih a
iHjiniet to a carpot, finis favor in their eyes.
Yh-u-siitlja J anjn, Three years ngo every
other Rirl in tho country had one strung by a
yellow ribbon about her neck and was thrum
ming tho strings and singing darky melo
O.ia with all her might and main. Most of
thorn never learned to play at all; they too":
a k-sson or two, learned tho scales and frag
m,.;.U of about three tunes, and then it lau-pu:.-:h-.4
nitif they would read in hp. IjikIo:
letters of hew Noika Vsuasa eaved a dull
frveniii and "delighted tlio rrince of IVcles
by throwing ht-r.-Vif into the breach with her
bnnjo, and then tho young women too! to
earncvi study i;?ain for about tkr-e weeKs.
liut it h:u gone to hopeless limbo r.t last, be
yond revivaL Its successor is a mandolin.
?-7o s -If rospceting girl is without one.
V'j t ti L'i'jio or copper colored ribbons, instead
((f yoliuw, it is a dainty thing, all, shell and
jjoiri. !Sl4 studies assiduously undep the
nitelrtgtr of the picturesque, dark eyed Italian,
Sigr.vi- Rieca, onl learns from him how to
grap and manipulate the littlo oval bit of
tortoise shell, with which the strings aro
swept. To bo thoroughly good form, the
young woman musical ha3 to arm herself
with a viuuwia, which means an instrument
manufactured by the mandojia maker in
orJim-ry to her majesty tho queen cf Italy,
BL.d thc--o toys come high, some of? tho moro
luxurious ones costing several hundred dol
lars. The mandolin is melon shaped and has
eight Firings, or rather four couples, and
tuned in fifths. The music is raado py sweep
iij'ii tliLs suings vith a bit pf shell held
hetweoa tho thumb and two first fingers of
tho riht hand. It rxiuirc-s aij exquibito
light nt.-s and smoothness of touch, and a
firm, supple wrist to brush tho strings so that
the nvuIc will be both soft and even, but
when i t is well played the music is charming,
ar.d it is an instrument with far greater
carv.city than the banjo.
ii.-s. Willie Astor is a good performer on
the m:nliJin, having learned it while' her
iiiisbaii.i wai minister in Ronie.'" The queen
of Ital3"; is an expert and has a suberb
yinrccia bearing her monogram and a crown
in diamonds. With the reign of the mandor
jjn i.Ki fcyia? a fancy for fwik songs uud mufie,
and the airs the Neapolitan libbers and Vene
tian gondoliers are fond of are heard in New
Yorl" di-awing rooms, or the wild, half bar
biiric t!ie:nes of the Spanish gypsies. Now
York "World.
Chemical Confusion.
"Yv'hct Li tho matter, Dr. OtisP
! cz.- mad; mid at ohemistry and the drug
businec.. Look here, oil of vitrei is no oil,
neither ere oils of turpentino and kerosene.
Cor'.ci-z3 is an iron compound end contains
to copper. Salts of lemon ii the erti r-mely
x'isonoiw oxalic p.eid. Carbolic jicfd is ' cot
acid," but" aa clooholi ' V-obalt "cjntsiini
iione of that metal, but arsenic. Soci-t water
has no trace of soda, ncr has sulphuric acid
of sulnhur. Sugar of lead has no sugar,
cream of tartar has nothing of cream nor
m;Xi of limo any milk. Oxygca means the
acid mi.er, but hydrogen is the essential
element of all acids, and may contain no
oxyrren. Germaa silver has no silver and
black !orl no lcd. Jlosak poid is only a
fcTp'ji.o of tin. These tro caiy souic of tho
inLsLibsbf nomenclature in rar bu-iness.'-
Cinclm ati Telegram.
FiffUtcrs Don't Qnarre!.
?'TTby don't you ever seq flght-rs with
bunod up facts?1 osketl a reporter of Bill
Edwaivl . in th.V I Tollman bouse the other
evening aa he' glanced at a gentleman v.hoso
face v.as scratched and swollen from soiro
i-eetnt altercation. '"They have to maka
their li-i:ig fisuting,'1 was tho ccs-.ver "j
pevej saw a rtian who chopped wood all day
phop a"7 at night for pmustniijnt, Yo.;
vculdn i go to a theatre and report tho show
just for fun, 1 11 bet. Then, too, a fijhting
man appreciates tho risk to his hands ho runs
in hitting soma fellow who may have a hard
bead, and ho knows it is no credit to him to
thrash anybody except a clever opponent in a
ring. A fighter is the safest man to insult I
know of. ilany a time I have to pocket talk
men wouldn't day use 'to anybody elsa"
fhwYorkEfWlngTrcHd.- v - . -
LIVES OF WOMEN WORN OUT ON
READY MADS SUITS.
IVliat It VunU to Put "Burgaln" Price
?I.irkt on WvnrlDg A pparel Uanjeri
of Hit "Slop Shop" Trade A ISiuineM
Ii'ecdln Trntlbillon.
Tho nlop shop i i tho biggest thing hi tho
c'licopclo'-iiing trade, and tho slop shop keep
ers ere tho hardest ta ;kmastcrs of tho jjoor
r.l ive. ( f tho ni- trpoli.s. Competition in tho
retail clothing LwinvM ban brought this con
dition of things r.bfmfc. liesides, tho wholo
sysiciu on wliicli tho inmufacturo of cheap
clothing is carried on i as bad as it can be,
and its continuance U a menace to public
1 f a!t!i find a danger to tlrt general welfare of
tho community lnjuido which tho much
talked of tenement house manufacture of
cigars is nothing.
There are comparatively few clothing tac
torio.i in New York. 2Iost of what trocallud
'uch are simply shops v.-hero tho cloth is cut.
't then got.fi, each wort of garment separately,
to the "tailrs," so called, who have their
siio all over tun citj", but chiefly in tho most
densely populated tenement house districts
vji 1 in tho very slums. One tailor will take
out hundred or thousands of pairs of panta
loons in a week, another carries off tho coats,
and the vests go somewhere elso. If thesa
men or women havo any nhops at all they are
simply their living rooms in the tenements,
vhero they hire f;ir!o to come for from noth
ing to a few dollars n week mid work at sew
ing machines making up t.o garments. In
many instances men instead of girls are hired,
especially on heavy work, but ia cither case
tho ixKplo aro crowded "lis closely as tho lua-
hhies can l.-e put together, often four or five
u one small room where all tho household
lives and all the domestic work is carried on.
tu thc.su places, reeking with all tho vile
odors of the tenements, with dirty chil
dren crawling over tho filthy floors, play
li' among them by day and sleeping upon
thorn at night, in an atmosphere, in short, of
clirv, disease and death, tho garments are
finally made up. They may lo "finished'--
that is, have tho buttons put on and the other
hand sewing done in tho same place, or this
work may bo farmed out to s;till more abject
slaves than thoso who toil over tho machines
--to women who are prevented by invalid
InL.bands, young children, or other reasons
from leaving their homes, and who are there
fore obliged to lake up for their work what
ever plftanco tho Mop Shop barens will dole
out to hem, and trust to. charity for enough
more to ttavo off starvation, In tho lir
rcn rooms of theso lowest of slaves
tho garments have a chance to g..
a now variety of odors ani diseaso
geruu. Then they go, most likely, to th
buttonhole factory, whero they touch shoal
ders with similar lots from do;rfrH of r-tl;cr
tonemem Uusii hbojv, ar 1 when 'thiir 'U'u
k1oi3 and germs hav o thus been amaJga
mited with tha cxlois and germs of all tho
?noments for half a mile around, they go
back to the original slop shop, and theneo in
tho course of litu to the alleged ' manufac
turer, who sells them to a wholesaler, maybe,
Ti'cm v.'hom they go to the retailor, arid affcr
all .the&e dilTerent hands havo taken their
toll tho grne,.",.l ptbj!c Li invited 10, co'mo "in
and look at tho wonderful bargains in clotlf
i;i. Often the- aro wonderful bargains indeed,
iu spit 3 of tho nuincrous profits that Jjave
been mads o:f cf them; bat if they aro cheap
it is boc-iuuo women have turned their umews
into thread and their b!oo:l ?r.tw stv. jr.a
chir.v uii iu th. mahJr.J of them. Ti.-
aava auu lUiawt. iml cleansed, mavbo
b: .o:e t.io y aro sold, but a man in tho bna
nt-s says: '-If ioo:.lo hncvt whero tbox-
c;o-a(.M
them.''
havo
rZi ilic-y 'Mould navcr buy
Pliillp Lei-.lcs.Iorf? has lx;en in business f jr
c'c'itcea years. His brother i; with him nor,
and they havo a buttonhole factory. They
take the work after tho.-?j who got it Iionjth-mariiif-ictiMti
i, have marto it tip and putii
ih : l:t:tto:ihcles for to much a hundred.
'TLiii tenement house work," ho says, "ia
tho ruin of tho clothing business, and worso
yet, it's the ruin of those tbflt work at it.
Somo th:y popki wiI wmlo uj to what thia
cherp fle.tLi.:g business means. Go into
sd:;io of the. tenement and you'll find in
so mo cf the littlo rooms a wholo fan:iiy liv
ing, and threo or four girls working at m;
chines all day. They take tho goods from
tho tailor's and mako them up in tho room-i
whero they cook and tleep. Vv'hj', they use
tbo e'ethjs for bedding, oven. If pcoplo
could sec once the vile holes in which the
cloihiir? Ls mad-? up they'd never buy any
anyoiit. I wish t'isy could sv.mo of it
when it comes Lt ro t havo tho buttonholei
put in. It get i uiivd and cleaned before it is
put up for sale.
"The way theeo people do is to rjet young
girl i to come and learn tho business. They
mako them work six v.coks for nothing, or,
maybe, a week for their work, mid they
pack just as nanny of them as tbcv can get
into one room, along with the children and
the cooking and all tho rest. That way they
maka a little money for themselves at tho
expensa of the girls, but it don't do them
much good, for pretty quick the manufac
turer c;rmb down tho price antither pey,
and the more they grind the girls the lnorr
tho manufacturer grinds them, until nobody
Li making more than a baro living. Tho
peo2;lo that taho tho work oat in tho country
to do aro pretty near as bad as tha tenement
house jicoplo for prices, but, of cours?, they're
cleaner. If it wasn't for thorn prices would
be a good deal higher, in tho city. "New
Ycrk is the worst "city iu tho coahtry for
sowing wcrneri. In Philadelphia, even, they
pay them a good deal bettor. It's all on ac
count cf this tenement houso work, and it'll
louver Lo any better till they pan lws mak
ing it illegal for mora than c-ue, mackiho'to
be put in an ordinary living risen."
"There's another thing," said David Leides
2cS, a brother, ' and if cholera or any such
diseasocver gets a start i:thiscitypeoplo
will imd it out mighty quick. Thcte tene
ment Louse factorie-j would spread the dis
ease through tho wholo country. I've always
said that if ehelera ever got a start in STcw
York I'd drop this business and get out right
away, and I'd do it, too. They liavo a board
of health ar.d lfiv3 enough here, but I've
never Loon in a city yet, and I've Locn all
over tho vrorlJ, whore they aI3ocd tuch
things as ihey do here. Only lat whiter, at
a placo ia-n street right near here, tho chil
dren in h, family wcro sick cf rmallixj i'l tho
same, room wher lho clothing was' jeug
ma J o up and s?iit yiit every day. These peo
ple don't have any more regard for tho law3
or for ether people's heahh thaa they do foi
their ov.ii health," mid if you have ever teen
in any of tho hole3 whero thev live and v.-crk
you know Low Pttk, that ii This v.hole
bttsiuessuf th? oanuf actaro of 'cheap clQthim;
needo a showing itp,,-."rTe'.v York cJua.
.Soreness cf tZic Feet.
" TThcn the feet arj swollc:i from walking cr
long standing, lha eo:-c:ic.t3 may ho relieved
by roakinj them iu the f ellovring: Tahoeo-.c
wood &Lc3 and cevcr v.h water; let it rtcuiJ
Cor twocr threo hours; strain oj the water
cud pkieothc fj-et in it. Tho toren-sswiii
diX5pc4r t-h-:ot i.aiiiatcly.---l)oelo i Drl-
WHAT ASTRONOMER SCHIAPARELLI
SAW THROUGH HIS TELESCOPE.
fsoiuo Remarkable Appearance Which
IIb Noted 1 Mara Inhabited? Facta
IVIilrh Seem to Call for au Anirma
tive Auiirrr.
It wan in 1S77 during a favorable conjunc
tion of Mars that 1 to say, at the timo when
liars was unusually near to tho earth that
Schiaparelli first saw the canals. It will bo
recollected that in that same year Professor
Hall discovered the two tiny moons of Mars
with tho great telescope at Washington, an
instrument in comparison with which Bchia
parelli's telescope i3 a pigmy, and yet, so far
as wo are aware, the canals were never seen
with the Washington telescope. This fact,
however, is by no means decisive, for in the
first place Schiaparelli'a telescope, though
comparatively small, is of acknowledged
great excellence; secondly, and more impor
tant, tho skies of Milan aro incomparably
clearer and better suited to delicate teletcopic
observation than thoso of Washington ; and
lastly, Schiaparelli, who possesses exception
ally sharp vision, liko the celebrated Dawes,
of England, was engaged in tho special study
of tho features of Mars' surfaoo when he
mado the discovery. It may bo added that
last year threo observers M. Perrotin and
M. Pollon, at Nice, and Mr. Denning, in Eng
land succeeded in seeing tho canals of Schi
aparelli, and detecting some of tho excep
tional appearances which he noted. When
Schiaparelli first saw tho canals in 1877 they
appeared as single fines, but subsequently he
found them double. lie eyorj ate.hed tho
process of doubling, which was a very cu
rious phenomenon. But wo will let him speak
for himself, as quoted by M. Flammarion:
"There aro upon that planet great dark
lines, traversing: the continents, to which
may be given the namo of canals, although
we do not yet know what they are. Various
astronomers havo already detected several of
them, notably Dawes in ISoL During tho
last three oppositions I have mado a special
study of them and have recognized a consid
erable number, pioro than sixty. These lines
t un from one to another of the dark spots
that we regard as seaa, and form a well de
fined network over the light or continental
regions. Their position appoara to be inva
riable and permanent, at least acourdiiig to
the judgment I have been able to form by
four smd a half years of observation; never
theless their aspect and their degree of yifu-i
bility aro not always the same, and defend
upon cirenmptanees which tho present state
of our knowledge does not yet permit us to
discuss with certainty. In 1S79 many wero
seen which were not visible in 1887, and in
1S33 those that had already been seen wero
detected again, accompanied, by ynea!
Several of thi. vanats pi e&ent" themselves
under ; tho form of vaguej shadowy lines,
whild others are clear and sharp, like a mark
mado by a pen. In general they are recti
linear, that is to say. drawn upon the Vphere
as lines pf gvat eii.tJea! They cross one tat
other obliquely, or at right angles. They are
fully two degrees broad, or 120 kilometci-J,
and a number extend over a d istaoeu t eighty
degrees or 4.S0O kihtmeuir.
i'.'l'heir color io very nearly that of tho seas
of Mars, but ft trifla lighter. Every canal
endu At lta two extremities in a sea or in
another canal ; there is not 3 single example
of one extremity ending in the middle of the
solid land. That is not all. In e;-tsh4 s-;a-sons
theso canals epH j or, i'a'ther, beco.tlo
dc,'thlo. - -
''"".!" phenomenon appears to occur at a
fined time, and is produced Pimnitanou'ily
over lho whole extent of tho continents of
the plant-t. No, indication of it was shown
in 1877 during tho weeks which preceded and
followed tho southern solstico of tho world.
A single isolated case was presented in 1S70;
tho 20th of December in that year (a little be
fore tho spring equinox, which occurred on
tho 2lst c' January, 1530), I remarked the
dividing oi tho Nile between tho Lake of the
Moon and tho Cerauaiquo gulf, Theso two
regular markings, equal and parallel, carded
me, I aflmit, profound surprise, lho greater
becauso some days before, tho 23d and tho
24th of December, I had observed with care
this samo region without perceiving any
thing of tho kind. I awaited with curiosity
the return of the planet in 18S1 in order to
loam if any analogous phenomenon would j
present itself, and I saw tho samo thing re-
appear tho 11th of January, 138:2, a month j
after tho spring equinox of the planet (which i
occurred on tihe fth of December, 1SS1) ; the j
division was still more evident at tho end of j
February, On this same date, the 11th cf i
Jamiary, another doubling manifested itftt-if, j
that of the rtnddlo section of the Cyclops ca
nal, on the side of the Elysee.
"Greater yet was my astonishment when,
the 19th of January, I saw the canal of Ja
muna, which was then in the center of the
disk, divided very accurately intc twp
straight, parallel lines traversing tha space
Which separates 'the ' Niliaquo lake from tho
Gulf of Aurora. At first I thought it to bo
an illusion, caused by fatigue to the eyo and
a sort of strabismus of a new kind., but one
must needs yield to the evidence. After the
10th Pf Jamiary I simply passed from ono
surprise to another: in succession tho Oron
tes, tho Euphrates, the Phison, the Ganges
and more of the other canals showed them
selves very clearly and incontestably split ia
two. There wero not less than twenty ex
amples of doubling.
"In certain cases it haboen possible to ob
serve PC ma precursory symptoms which aro
not lacking in interest. Thus tho 13th of
January a light and ill defined shado extend
ed along the Ganges; the ISth and 19th only
a series of whito spots was distinguishable
there; the 20th tho Ganges showed itself in
the form of two indecisive parallel lines, and
the 21st the doubling was perfectly clear, as
I observed it up to the 23d of February.
"These doublings are not an optical effect
depending upon the increase of visual power,
as happens in tho observation of doublo stars,
and neither is it the canal which divides itself
in two lengthwise. Notice what it i3 that
appears: to the right or left of a pre-existing
line, without any change in tho course os X
sition of that line, ono etez another, line pr
ch'.ced equal and parallel to the first, at a dis
tance varying generally from 6 to 12 degs.,
that ii to say, from S50 to 700 kilometers;
there even seem to be some produced, stilj
nearer, but the telescope 13 nvt powerful
enough to cnablo ono, to distinguish, them
with certainty. Their tint is a rather dark
reddish brown. These twin canals aro recti
linear or very slightly curved. Thea i
nothing analogous in terrestrial geography.
Everything points to the belief that it is a
peculiar periodical phenomenon of the planet
Mara, and intimately related to tha rc-urs of
the seasons. .
'-Here, thea, are observed facts; the in
crease in the tlitfance of the planet and tho
prevalence of rains prevented the continua
tion of the observations after the end of
Februarj". It is difficult to decide quicklv
upon the nature of that geography, ui&iu
edly very different from th"t 4i tfur wcxHi.'
-.New York gnp. - -
A general smilo was caused at a Buffalo
railway station the ether day by an innocent
ccantryran who ached fc-r' cccouuccidctkuu;
"ii ce tt them Led room ear:.'
1 CHRISTIANITY AT ITS WORST, MO-
HAMMEDANISM AT ITS BEST.
A It turned Mliuloitary'a Intrrtli;; Ac
count of the Ktitte of Afl'alra In the IIo!j
City Destitute Jrwi from Arabht The
American Colony.
Rev. T. F. Wright, who lias returned from
Jerusalem recently, talked with a reporter in
regard to tho condition of affairs theio at t he
present time.
"Tho state of religion in Jerusalem is very
interesting. I remained five weeks in the
city, and was brought into contact with per
rons of every class. It must be confes.;c;l
that Christianity is seeu at its worst there,
and Mohammedanism at its best. Tho Mo
hammedan in the early morning hears the
cry: 'God is great, prayer is better than
Bleep,' arises, prepares himself, puts on his
whito outer garment aud goes up into tho
mosque ground where Solomon's temple for
merly stood, and there goes through with his
devotions, bowing down before God and ask
ing that ho may be guided through tho day.
This means to him that be must be strictly
temperate, truthful in every statement, kind
to all men, and that ho will in no case Iww
down to any idol. In all Mohammedan lands,
idols, images and pictures aro utterly ex
cluded. The single exception to this rule is
an equestrian statue of Mehemet Ali in the
great square of Alexandria in Egypt; and
the erection of this statue was. strongly op
posed on tho grounds that it might become
to some of tluj ptoplo an object of worship.
'The Christians in Jerusalem aro in a stato
of bitter sectarian conflict. They are not
agreed among themselves as to the sacred
sites, and they havo more than once come to
bloodshed in acting together in tho celebra
tion of somo of the Christian festivals. In
tho Cavoof the Nativity at Bethlehem, where
a silver star in the puvement marks tho place
where our Lord Is believed to have le.en
born, a Mohammedan soldier of the
Turkish army stands always with loaded
musket to keep tho Christian wor hif ers
from slaying each other. In the
Church of tho Holy Sepuleher, in Jeru
salem, the traveler notices at cmue a group of
Turkish officials who have ho interest in the
place -ami spt:nd their time smoking and
thinking coffee and chatting with each other,
but whoso presence U headed to keep the
monks from actual warfare. At tho time of
Eaatf trho I'urkish guards are increased to a
wholo regiment, so that it is difficult to mako
one's way through them to reach the interior
of tho church.
VARIOUS RIVAI SfffcT!.
.nui i. nancrscans ai-
hternate vlu the Greek monks in tho perfor
mance of masses, and somotimei t-irtmltaneous
masses aro performed by priests standing
within a few feet oh other. Tho lamps
with wh.ieh, the shrines are decorated have
bouii apportioned to the different bodies
Latin, Greek, Armenian and Coptic so that
the3'- may not coma into conflict in lighting
tho place- '4'hu greatest mid most unpleasant
xcJUarieut is reached at tho time of the
descending of the holy fire, which ij believed
by tha more Ignorant to descend from heaven,
aud to be received by a priest It always
airives at a certain hour of a cortah- day,
and its arrival is waited c (,y a crowd
which surrounds tha iiaee," waiting for many
,lour!!i Vkhm received, every ono present
tvxk to, light hi3 candle j the Came; and
runners unmediatjf set forth to every iart
of thelao.d., kmg to obtain the prizes which
nrv tflS.'red to those who first arrive at the
oiitlying village,
"The bells on the Church of the Holy Sepul
eher and on the Mount of QUve ara rung by
tho rival sects, apparently only for the pur
pose of ejrpr-smsing their unkind fwliiigy.
Thoy never sound in harmony; they never
ring a chime, although thoy aro fitted to do
so, but they continually raise in the cars of
tho contemptuous Mohammedan their mi
pleaant pounds.
There is in Jerusalem at the present time
a remarkable American colony, which it was
my privilege carefully to examine. About
twenty persons arrived in Jcniaalem in the
year 1881, having gcji;t mostly from tho city
of Chicfgft, where some of their number had
been active Christian workers under Moody,
and whero they had been led to think that
they could do more good hy going to the Holy
Land. On ther way out they received some
cccessioiis. from England. Among their num
ber is Mr. II. J. SpalTord, once a leading Chi
cago lawyer; another, Capt, Sylvester, was
formerly of the English army; another was a
clergyman of the Church of England, who
visite-l the Holy Land in company with the
lata Cren. Gordon, and who decided to remain
with these people; another is a venerable
lady, the widow of a colonel of the United
States regular army, All are most deep
interested, in their, work, and share and have
a oummoq purse, and now havo become
known far arid wide through tho region, be
cause they make no profession of faith, bur
simply acknowledge their allegiance to Christ
and express by constant deeds their desire to
lovo their neighbors as themselves.
JEWS FROM ARABIA.
"When they first arrived in Palestine an in
teresting migration of Jews had just taken
place from Arabia. About WI Jews, called
Temanites, and believed by themselves to be
tho remnant ef the, tribe of Gab, had moved
fvJU tha desert in which the trilxs had long
had its home, and had come to tho Holy Land.
They aro small in stature, delicate in fea
tures, wholly free from tho money changing
disposition, grateful for every kindness, and
eminently chil.dli.ke. in their characters. They
wero lying, when tho Americans arrived, ir.
the fields outside of the city with no one to
care for them, Tho Amerjeaiia immediately
began to prepare d&ily rations of toup for
them, tq teud the sick and in every way to
watch over them according to their ability.
At the present time the Temanites havo es
tablished themselves in a prosperous colon 7
south of tho village of Siloam, and. in their
synagogue every week they hiv a prayer in
which Horatio (Spaffwd and. his friends are
mentioned, and the divine blessing is invoked
upon them.' for their many good deeds.
'"Tho house of these American Lt daily
visited by persons coming ff'pjat all parts of
tho land, to inquiry it Vhia wonderful phe
nomenon,, Tho liedouins of the desert lean
tfcsir tali spears against tho wall, and arc
cordially welcomed, and occupy ?, room ia
tbo house as long as they desii'p to remain;
, and the America;1 g4nS fearlessly across
the Jordan, havo returned these visits and
been received with the utmost kindness, and
have had an influence over the lives of tho
Bedouins. They deal especially with the
Adwan twbe, long known to be the
fiercest class east of the Jordan. Tho felkv
hin, or peasant class of the country, find al
ways here a cordial welcome. No eyailn
passes without seeing its cgpiiy of poc
and rich, of peasjrt and. Tuiiish, efTeadiii
gathered r . iii6t saTci, o' listen to the hymns
jhU.n tV Americana sweetly sing; and
tvei'y'o:ie, on leaving the room, expresses his
gratitude for what ho has come to regard aj
the greatest comfort of his life. In thia way
Mohammedans and all clascA - Jerusalem
are reached for POOi, a lesson is taught
i.s in regard W 1 h spirit ia which Christian
rvidsicci hhouid 1-0 . a: tied on," Boston Ad-
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