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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1904)
) 1 J -J - I f 1. W. A. Hampton, President A. S. Rkbd, Vice President R. M. Hampton, Cashier G. Hampton, Ass't Cashier. i'UmG First National Bank, ALLIANCE. NEBRASKA. Capital, $50,000. Surplus and Profits, $20,000 Directors: W. A. Hampton. A. S. Reed K. C. Hampton. R. M Hampton. 1 At Both Ends - QUALITY and PRICE You will find us not "Just about Right" but Exactly Right . . . We have kind of lumber you want Dier ks' Lumber Coal Co The best work Is the cheapest Do you know who does it? mi BV RFPVP The Painter. PaPer Hanger and ' ' lUJlJllJk), Decorator. Work guaranteed. PHONE 335. Dray and Transfer Line. ' Phone 139, W HEN YOU GO TO LEAVE TOWN, don't worrj about what to do with your Household Goods. S. A. Miller will take charge of them; store then in a nice, dry and cool place and pack and sbii them wherever desired. Charges reasonable. The only spring dray line in the city. S. A. Mille. Coffee Sc Dowd PROPRIETORS OF THE Palace Saloon Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Agent for FRED KRUG UREWING CO , SELECT CABINET, EXTRA PALE and Other Popular llrands. . . PaiECLly Trade Solicited. . Goods Delivered to nnv part of the citv. Come and Us. Phone 206 The Old Way Was good but the new way is better. We deliver large or small orders of high grade coal TRY OUR COAL i Forest Lumber Co. HOLSTER'S PHARMACY.... Is One of the Most Up-to-Date Drug Stores in Nebraska Prescriptions Carefully -, Compounded " Watches and Daimonds. A SELECT STOCK OF Fine Watch Repairing a Specialty. . r. E. HOLSTEN, Proprietor. Alliance, Nebraska. T) iamonds, Watches, u Gold Jewelry, . Souvenirs Repairing in all its . nail orders promptly Branches. m attended to. IU. O. Beurnes, Jeweler and Optician, I. M. HOLLIBAUGH, Proprietor. P. L. WILSON, Manager. u RANCH SUPPLY STORE EVERYTHING MARSLAND, NEBRASKA. AROUND THE WORLD Scenes Surrounding- the Sea of Nazareth, Hethsaida, Capharnaum and Chorazian. Damascus, Syria, March, 1903. 1 present this somewhat lcngthly ac count of the cruel Dainascan tragedy because intcrnntional jurisprudence re gards this event as one of the most noteworthy, with which it has con tended. Damascus has no less than 249 mosques, of which the Great Mosque has a world wide reputation. From one of its towering minarets, the city and environs were viewed in a most satisfactory manner, although I had formerly visited the chief points of in terest such as the House of Ananias, and the House Naaman, and that part of the wall wheic Paul was supposed to have been let down in order to escape. The Great Mosque is 500 feet cast and west and 300 feet north and south. The interior has a nave with isles and is supported by columns. Slippers must be put on at the door as shoes would desecrate the sacred shrine. The Mohammedan in his effort to surpass many christians, prays five times a day. It matters not what sort of business is on hand, he drops every thing and prostrates himself upon his prayer rug, with face towards Mecca. A biograph is the only instrument by which the devotion of a follower of Islani can be presented properly to a distant people. Many a time have I listened to the muezzin, the call to prayer as it is made from the lofty minarets. It is set to music and n part of it in English means "God is God; there is no other God but God, and Mohammed is his prophet." In the transept is a chapel which contains the head of John the Baptist, if the claims of Islam be true. They also declare that the have his hands in Beirut and his feet in Tripoli. Passing down street from the Great Mosque via the bazaars to the hotel I noticed a crowd of men gazing at a poster that had been posted on a tree in the middle of the street. Being anxions to know what it contained, I requested my dragoman to read it and tell me what it announced. He complied and re ported that it stated that 70,000 people died of cholera the past year in Damas cus and that Co.ooo of them were in fidels and only 10,000 were Moham- medians, showing that Islam was an antidote to that disease. Before leav ing the Mosque I should have mention ed that one of the mincrats is called the Minaret of Jesus because a tradi tion affirms that when Jesus conies to judge the world, he will descend to this minaret first. One of the streets of Damascus is called Straight Street, the one Paul traversed when he entered the city. It is as far enough from being straight to be called Crooked Street. In referring to the Bible it is noticed that the Book docs not say or even infer that it is actually straight, but simply refers to it as the "Street called Straight." To say a thing is straight and again to say that a thing is simply called straight are two things as different as crooked and straight ate different in signification. .-lVrVrVVVV ' FPOM DAMASCUS TO ATHENS. I had finished my work at Damascus and retired to well earned rest the sec ond night iii the city, expecting to rise on the morrow and proceed to Baalbek, but at midnight- that lonesome hour of midnight, when one day is dying and another is springing into life who should come to the hotel but a messen ger from the British Consulate inform ing us that we should leave the city at once as an order had been issued placing the great city of Damascus and Baalbek under quarantine. Paul once escaped from the city during the dark hours but I lingered within the portals till seven o'clock, the time of the de parture of the first train and the last one also before the decree went into effect. I shall ever remember the crowd gathered at the depot, e.aeb per son who could get away, Laving gathered his or her effects, bad tum bled them in upon the floor of the waiting room and upon the Ion? plat form. What a mob! everyone pushing his neighbor and climbing over luggage of every description old trunks that had weathered the better fraction of a century, old sacks well filled, saddle bags, old carpets wrapped about wear ing apparel, boxes of provisions, tents for camping, narghilehs (pipes) by the wholesale, and numerous articles not convenient to mention with English words. Veiled women, with command ing, tyrant husbands hurried here and there. A general scramble for tickets added interest to the lively scene. Jews were walking to and fro, weeping, hav ing been refused tickets as no Jews were permitted to leave, the cholera prevailing more generally in their quarter than elsewhere. As that last train steamed away those Damascenes loft behind looked fotlom as they were compelled to turn to their homes and face the possibility of fall ing before that dreaded disease. Rejoicing over the hair breadth es cape, 1 paid littlo attention to the scenery enroute over the Lcbauous, oc cupying myself chiefly in recalling the events of the sojourn in the quarantined city and returning thanks for deliver ance from the horrors of a prospective Turkish imprisonment. This road is the only one known to me where the engine is changed from one end of the train to the other from time to time. The track having been headed off by mountain fastnesses, could go no farther, requiring acute angles, hence the change of front at every such point. I am told that this railway project put the world's best engineers to a severe test, and the doubling system was substituted as the only solution. On arriving in Beirut I boarded the first outbound steamer for I did not care where; anywhere would do ex cepting to Constantinople in order to avoid the .Turkish quarantine. As my tezkerch was signed by the officials at Damascus it would not be discreet to land again at a Turkish port as the paper would be self convicting of a Damascus residence and a sure pass port to the quarantine station. Securing a ticket for Piraeus, Greece, I stepped aboard the steamer and was soon sailing southward, this steamer having been scheduled to make the trip via Sidon, Tyre, Acre, Haifa Caesarea, Jaffa, Port Said and Alexandria. For this I was very glad as it gave me another opportunity to see these very' historic points. The vessel taken be ing a mail boat of Khcdivial Mail Line, a stop of several hours was made at' Haifa under the shadow of Mount Carmel, and at Jaffa and Port Said. So much time was spent in port that we were nearly three days in reaching Alexandria, where we were transhipped to another and larger vessel, the Prince Abas" of the same line, which was of only 2200 tons register leaving nine hours in Alexandria I went ashore and reviewed old im pressions of this city where Greek is is very much in evidence, the city having been founded by Alexander The Great. Passing out of the harbor for Greece, forts Ada and Pharos were ob served to the right, Pharos being the site where oue of the seven original wonders of the world stood. Since reference has been made to the seven original wonders of the world, I shall here mention them in their order of precedence. First, the Pyramids of Egypt; second, the Tomb of Mansolus, King of Cairo, erected Jy his queen; third, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, supposed to have been 220 years in building, being supported by 129 col urns of marble Co feet high, each weigh ing 150 tons; forth, the Walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon: fifth, the Collossus of Rhodes, a bronze statue of Apollo; sixth, the Statue of Jupiter at Olympia, sculptered in ivory and gold by Phidias; and seventh, the Pharos at Alexandria, which was a watch-tower built of white marble, so high that it could be seen for 100 miles. All of these have surrendered before the approach of time excepting the Pyramids of Egypt and they are gradually declining, in slow but sure process of passing in their checks. Nothing is surer than that monuments of human grandeuer perish. One need not stop here but may add that the astronomical laboratory surveys the eternity of space and declares that the that the great wheeling orbs of the heavens are hastening to decay among the fathomless centuries of unnumbered disintegrating world. A day's sail to the north by west brought us alongside Crete, an island of the Mediterranean, which figured so prominently in Grecian mythology. Here legends grew with the rapidity of mushrooms. A volume would be re quired to present Crete, doing justice to Minos, Minotaur, Theseus, Acidne and Zeus. E. C. Horn. "In The Good Old Summer Time" People bought their Staple and Fancy Groceries at Graham's grocery store. Now winter is here and they buy them just the same and so they will the whole year through because he carries the best selected stock in the west. Prompt attention and courteous treatment is what customers like and what thdv always get at .... GRAHAM'S GROCERY STORE 'Phone 50 Corbin Building I F. J. Brennan & Co.... ' I ?" 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Gilbert Dunning & Gilbert Violin and Guitar Solos, Duets, Mimics, etc. Music furnished for Parties, Receptions, and other social gatherings. Alliance, Neb. Nebraska Hide and Leather. Co Established 1878 Dealers in Hides, Tallow, Furs, Cow and Horse Hide Robes, Leatherand Saddlery Hardware J Always Reliable. L. C. BURNETT, M'gr. Nebraska City. Nebraska.
