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THi: OMAHA SUNDAY 1EE: OCTOBER 0. 1010. D Holy Land Exploration; Tomb of First Woman Missionary Ml-. .... f 1 1 j Itfemtiwlia to Dan. era with me and w ith pen and photograph shall show you the land of our Lord as It looks In thia good year 1310. In the first place lot me give you a tlrd's-eye view of the country, is not large. With one of Mr aeroplanes we could fly over thi it in a very few hours, and were It crossed by railways ar fast express would carry us from one clda to the other In about fifty the mountains of Lebanon and much other country in addition to Palestine proper, It Is not aa Ions as from New York to Pittsburg, and ita average width is less , than fifty miles. It begins at the boundary of Asia Minor on the north and extends from there southward along; the line of the Mediterranean sea until it ia lost in tho sands of Arabia. As for the Holy Iand itself, that Is not as bin as Rhode Island. If you could tuke It would hardly make a patch of court plaster on Uncle Sam's body. Dropped lown upon Kngland with one end at Boston, the other would be at Mount Washington, and the most of the country would not be wider than from Boston to wM Mi' ) in in' u urns II I 11 last i isaisi n i i , . - , , , n , , , mmm .iM,MWM, , m, n B mus its ,.nU- -o . ku..lr.. .if ' ' 1 ' ,1 i-VJl' ";fe"-t ir.-k ...A.;-r-i, - ' -li-?; tilt If Cy 4 . 1 7k y7: y, ' - . , I 1 1 ; ; In. r:'.lr ,1 1 -rf i . f . ! ' 3 - . ) . . . I ; ? I 1 -Bm 1 iff CCopyrlgrht, 1910, by Frank O. rarpepter ) that it was from hera Jonah took passage A (Special Cnrresprm1nce upon the ship from wTitrh he ws? thrown. or Tho Hoc.) Willi Iiiik iuur overboard Into th mouth of the whale. I trrin the story of my travels H0 remained In the whale's belly three I" i:.o Holy Land, dm inn which days, during which time he prayed to the' timvi hhall visit the most In- Ixird, and the Lord spake to the whale, torctlng places, golnw on foot, whereupon he was vomited out uiin rtrJ on liurseback and in carriages from the land. Jonah was bom about 8M years be- jainniTttrrR.iuan to me ieai si a. ami troni fr,re ('hrint He was a bnhv when Homer I shall have my cam- . tellins the ntnrv of il. Illo.i A inn years had yet to ellipse before the founding of Home. I am not suro as to the exact -spot where Jonah was taken up by the sailors and thrown Into the sea. Inn h i . I'alistltie Baid , ,,ave bpon burc(1 ot f(ir fron) vvilHIIt-n JerUSAIC-m. and there ar drnfnmnn ...-.. mi ... wnv.o ,u Palestine who will show you his tomb. liver since Jonah's time sailors have held a superstition against having jSreuchors on Knar4 thlnltr. Il.nt 1. . . . the harbor of Jaffa is one of the worst In the World. It is almost always rough, and often it is impossible to land. Upon our arrival tho sea was quiet, but, nevertheless, the swell was such that the boats which took us ashore bobbed up and down and tho waves soaked our baggage before reaching port. As to Jonah himself and his murow escape, one of our preachers on board has it up and stretch it over the United States 1uotB1 a now version for tho rcaBon of his leaving the' whale: "I threw up Jonah," said the . whale, Who'd lately come to town; "I threw up Jonah, For I could not keep a good man down." I- V A f riaD. named Irtoae In coming in I looked about for a whale flnHnrflftM T f anrAn mi, ...... n n TliftrA WAS none ill' Hlirht allh.mrrl. T W. J . ' -w.. I 't t "n - IfcS - " uu unn uut uinill - --- .-uuhii i aill Illinois the whole might be Included In- told they are still to be seen In the Medlter ide a line drawn from Chicago to Aurora ranean. In their place, however, were and thonoe to Decatur and back to Chi- many Jellyfish, of an opalescent blue. These lah were 88 b'K ' fot ball, and of the toijaffa. whence they' were carried tip. to the sea serpeant were carried to Rome and creamed as they fell, making; the rocks ' $ ahape of a mushroom. There were hundreds Jerusalem by camela and men.' x placed on ejchlbitlon there. re-echo vlth their cries as though tho nn,. V MlllLmZ f lhem ntln,f about' and thy bumped Jaffa waa an important port In the Jaffa I. 1010. beautiful Andiomoda were still chained - ! m.,?? J, terrttory again and again. against the hull aa we lay days of the crusades and wafc fought for The Jaffa of today stands upon'a rocky f'ere. We had no trouble with the cus- m.t h - i? ! "uk0 tt6r nohor' s-aln and again. At one time its walls bluff washed by the Mediterranean sea. touts, largely, I believe, because our drago- ini nave come oy contrast with the were overthrown by Saladin and a little The city is built right on the rocks and me" ''al Siven the officers a liberal -JrJ.w , ,, . , . V, soiomoa-i imser luiu. ,ater tneT wcre rebullt by Richard the its yellow, white and blue houses come baksheesh. The examination was short. i,t.M uia AMmoiioa kiKvuicu till Llieir wtljr The city of Jaffa has now about EO.000 ef Jaffa by a young Syrian named Moms. Inhabitants, of whom 33,000 are Moliam We went together through streets so nar- mcdans, 1,000 ChrlHtians and 5,000 Jews, row and winding that carriages could not It has a considerable trade, and is rapidly enter them, and at times were altogether growing. Tho rich plains of Sharon at shaded by tho houses, the roofs of which, the back furnish sesame, grain and ollvo touched overhead. We entered several of were rebuilt hv Richard the its yellow, white and blue houses come baksheesh. the examination was short, oil, while the hlciilands of Judea and the dwellings. Rurh onnnlHiMl at hut nn In addition to the Story Of Jonah there t ifln ...i, n i, ...... tn .... i nurn n KA ,(' -.I .. rrv.M, ,,n urul within half an linur a ft ,v r luixlintr u m Siii in 1 1 ii-, wl iii. w.wit f.Juv it.Av aa - ..I.. -A , , . . . f,.-J. . . . - u. i.., '- in a wi " " v " " ' ' curo. tiVf nog Ui "a " --. t .j " ' J 111, AtA.iii WIUIUUU VUUll, nuvil UlfJ " " mr oi"r wen a.uinenucaiea racts attempt to rescue the holy sepulcher from the steep sides of the bluff, making a waU e comrortabiy housed at the Jerusalem in the times of our Savior. All about the men women and children were herded to- i h T "5 ih m "nu i' lr'-i bWUt JK whlch Inaka u lnteret- the hands of the Turks. ' In addition to all which cuts off the view of the country hotel: I menUon this hotel because it is towns are orange groves, the fruit of geUier. hi k r Jh'JTtk , v,rlm ,n- " has always been the chief port this there is a tradition that Andromeda, behind. At the south of the bluff, as far kept by a man who was for a long time which Is shipped to all parts of the Medl- The house of Simon the Tanner waa da , , " go with stones, is tho Mis- for the Holy Land. It' was at one time -the beautiful daughter of the king of this as one can see, are white sands. At the our American consular agent. His name terranean. The oranges are almost the stroyed some centuries ao. but another issipm valley compared with It. The owned by the Phoenicians and later when country, wsa here chained to the - rocks north are orange groves and then more Hardegg, and he spices bis food with a shape of a lemon, but they are of great n0uBe. which Is probably of the same char country has a backbone of mountains, Solomon built the temple it was here that in order that she might appease a huge sand. religious doctrine of his own kind. The size and sweet as honey. They are packed acteri stands on its alto, and tanning ia oomprlslnB; the hills of Judea, Samaria the timber used In its construction was 8ea serpeant, which threatened to eat up As we left the ship we came down a hotel rooms are not numbered L 2, S. etc.. in boxes at the groves and are carried ,tm done ln the neighborhood At least I and twJIlee, with a low coastal plain, landed. The most of this was cedar which the people. While bo imperiled she was gangway and were lifted into the boats, but are named after the sons of Israel and down to the harbor on the backs of camels, judge as much by the smell This bouse la Where the Philistines lived, running be- came from the forests of Lebanon sev- rescued by Pereus,' who killed the monster The third-class and steerage passengers the various Old Testament prophets, and I met caravans of these huge beasts sway- now UBed as a gocond-olass Inn It Is a Jw 'l nd the Mediterranean sea. On era! hundred miles up the coaat The and married her. In Pliny's time the his- were hung over the sides of the deck of each of them contains a book which Hard- ing along as they made their way to the gton(J Btructure Dullt hlgh u ove'P the other side of tha backbone is tha logs were dragged down the mountain and toriana state that the chains by which the steamer by the arms, and dropped egg has written entitled, "Bible Pills." It steamers. More than 600 steamers and wlth t ,llltide whirh lead to th eel arrest ditch ln which tho R nf tik-io. .v., i... .u. . . rr - j Di . . . . .. .. . . ...... ... . . . ... ... . , n. i ... , wun Bteps outsiae, wnicn icaa to uie seo- - jii.v, mo m m. iju uu oiuua. Anaromeaa was Douna to the rocks were uown tnto me boats, wmcn are twelve i."i"i't;vi ui irio uuu mo bciijiiuics x.'w biuiiuk voanem can ncr every uay. '-nA " Wlln wmaing i ney were there mde into rafts and towed still to be seen and that the bones of or more feet . below. Some of them Otted to one's dally Ufe. Jordan running from one to the other. This ditch is below the level of the sea and parts of it have (lie hottest and most oppressive climate on earth. On the op posite side' of the Jordan toward the east is a country niuoh richer than Palestine. It is composed of highlands from 2,000 to .000 feet above sea level, giving excellent pasture, and in the north large orops of wheat. This was the Bashan, GUead and How Stimsoa Won Itoosevelfa Favor Moab of the Bible, and it is now lnhab- Gossip and Stories About People in the Limelight lted chiefly by Mohammedan Bedouins, who live in tent,, driving their camels, oatUa and sheep from plaoa to place. In the past it. was thickly populated and Its ruined cities are now being excavated. Explorations are also going on In the lands wwt of tha Jordan. Many discov- H ecution. Mr. Stlmson proceeded both House for the day, and accordingly he de- Stinison ENRT LEWIS STIMSON, repub- against the railroads and the trust. The cided to spend the afternoon in seeing cutor." 11 can candidate for governor ot New lork Central, the Great Northern, the Borne of the country around Washington New York, la 47 years old. He Rock Island, the St. Paul and the Central from horseback. was graduated from Yale as an Vermont roads were all either convicted or His Journey took him Into Rock Creek Casdlnal Merry del Vat. Cardinal Merry del Val. who Is reportod not" be carried into effect until formal no honor man in 18S3 and studied pleaded guilty and the fines amounted to park. Suddenly his attention waa attracted to have warned the state officiaJs of the law at Harvard. He became a $400,000. The sugar trust was flhed $lu0,0u0 by a whistle and halloo from the other side recent anarchistic outrage ln Spain, Is a of the cieck f.iid tUWiiilg aioUttd lie bckW lAiiiUOiiur by uiiiii, aiia oil . bid mothers the presider. and Kllhu Hoot out on one tuo is connected with Knirland, relates the peated, but unsuccessful, attempts to of those rambles, which afforded one of London Mail and Express. His grandfather catch the cardinal. One day it came to the law clerk for Senator Root In the In 11)08 for accepting the rebates, firm of Root Clarke in 1891 and Vnriv in iY7 kh mnin hnoro r Vilu In- years later became a member of h PaiMr.. -rjT.T j, , '"" years later Decama a member of vesUgaUon Into the sugar uuderweighlng In SS ouie ! ? "T flrm- Mr SUm"n Wa" ,n the flrm t frauds and this resulted in a suit in which mfy vfsU old Jerieim wh. ,h. aII "h n! n0? fctimn ,n - -"en Senator a judgment for H34.4U was recovered based 1 m rZ o,; rt. wiv I Went Roovelt a. good material for United eminent then started out after extensive 1. th.Tnciei tLl ot SLZ wZ-h h Te' di"tr,Ct UOrney ,n th" dU,trtCt- Mr- ,raud veaied by the evidence In the suit 1iJX1ZLuJ12E? I mttrried Ubel Wel,lnton Whlte tried, and the sugar trust compromised all r TtTZr T hall nr " "Ve8 " ? UT " crtba them as we go over the ground. ayenue. the payment of UOOO.000. In addition the g Mr. Stlmson was appointed district at- government got lUM.OUO from the Arbuckles torney In January, 1W6, ond-story and roof. I climbed to the ton. I was taken through the native quarters Ulere httd about tho ame vtaw a, that of St. Peter at the time of his remarkable vision. In front of me the blue Mediter ranean stretchiid out toward the west. At the north could be seen the sands rcacliing toward the ruins of Caesurea and the foot hills of Mount Carmel, while at the south were those near which Askaion stood. It was here that St. Peter had that wonderful dream, in which all the beasts of the world were let down from heaven ln a sheet, ln order that he might eat of them. You re member that ho refused, saving: "Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is conrmon or unclean." And then came a voice, which said: "What God ha cleansed that call not thou com mon." J It was these words that first led to the did would make a good prose- action in the Italian courts concerning' a , bequest of 2,000,000 lire to the holy see. Tho papal authorities were not represented at the proceedings, and the judgment could tice had been served either upon the papal secretary or on the pontiff himself. k ui' two iiiuiiiiis a court omiiai uiaue re- He resigned soon and 604,000 from tha National Sugar Kefin- after President Taft waa Inaugurated, but ing company. agreed to prosecute the customs frauds In the earlier davs of Colonel Roosevelt'. waa landed at Port Said, at the mouth of T; " " lrual special counsel term ln tne White House Mr. Stlmson had the Sues canal, where I got a steamer ' " "ri. no naa not Deen tn office made not infrequent trips iiur man Prosa Kaypt to Palestlae. X oasne here from Egypt I took the ex press train at Cairo and In four hours Mr. Roosevelt s chief diversions while in was at one time member of Parliament Washington. " for Southampton, and his eminence hlni- "Hello Stlmson," cried the president, self was educated near Slough. His father and after a brief excharffe of greetings, was for many years secretary of the Span- "Come cn over." ish embassy ln London. Mr. Stlmson, without stopping to look ln his young days Cardinal Merry del for a favorable place to cross, plunged his Val, although not a particularly brilliant horse in. The creek was swollen by a re- sccholar, was nevertheless a brilliant ath- cent rain, and thia, with the uncertain lete. , footing, made his trip a perilous and-, ex- He is stTll an exceedingly athletic man; citing one for both horse and rider, but in fact it Is said that he ia the only one finally they pulled themselves out, drip- of the august body to which he belongs ping, on the opposite bank. who ever make.i any attempt to take phys- After he had appointed Mr. Stlmson to ical exercise. This, perhaps, is not sur- which brought ma to Jaffa. The whole VLV WM thmilrh tha lona nf t. Tlll.lm The depot from which w started lies not entral nd other railroad companies was far from the spot where the guides say the baby Moses lay ln tha bulrushes, and the railroad runs owr the old caravan route down which Jacob and his sons rain a Into Kgypt for corn and over which Joaeph and Mary must have brought tha Infant Jesua when they fled to escape King Herod, the baby killer. Wa struck tha canal at Ismallla, about midway of tha Isthmus of Sues, and thence rods northward along its banks to Port Said. Our steamer was crowded with pilgrims from Russia, Kgypt and North Africa. Vhere were many Americans. French and Germans traveling flrst-claj-s, and hun dreds of Syrians and lOgyptiuns gotna Bteerajre. We left at I o'clock In the evening, and our first view of tha Holy Ind came at 7 o'clock the next morn ing. We had been awakemd at 6 with the cry that we wera Hearing shore, but this was a ruse of the captain to get breakfast out of the way before landing. When I first tame up on deck nothing but the aea was In sight The sun was about two hours high and the sky. a light blue with long streaks of fleecy White drawn like a half-veil over It, ntted down ".nto tha ocean at the eastern horixon. Aa I looked I saw two lines of haxy gray vise up as It were out of the water, which i-lppled In sapphire wavelets, caught by the sun. The first line was tha sandy beach that ed?s the rich plains of Sharon and the second" tha wall of smoky gray which marks the hills of Judea or the highlands of Palestine. Coming nearer these lines Increased ln size, and the first turned to daxxllng whlto sand, out of which a little later the wooded green strip of the port of Jaffa came tuto view. Nearer atil! wa could sea the shipping In the harbor, and above and behind It tha walls of Jaffa, oue of tha oldest towns of the World. la the KMtsteps of Joans.. Wa get soma Idea of the age of Jaffa f: out the story of Junan; for the Bible ar nearer 70 ID WaSUinaXOn. tha ITnftoH fil,it,a .llu,la ....!.,.... ...1..... I. . !., 1 1 . i ninnth uhun ,l - ,, . . . "'"u iKwiv.. uuiiic;eiiiiiiidiii, whuu u-ia iciiicuiuuieu mni. lilUBk .. ... v i-a j muii L ui l i visits uema usuanv or foetal cna.ri4.eter m - t. ... i k i n i rebate, to the sugar trust by th. .New York and not always announced in advance. added ' 1 1 n rniA 11 f 1hKA 1 r I a narlv In 1 'M Ui V. a. r .1 i . 1. . . , . .. . . , hrmurht , n. ,,., , . ... i miuukui uii tuiyDoay mat was IOOl brought to his attention and be began pros- found that the president had left the White enough to jump into that stream the way of his brother curdinals than 60. Last year the cardinal was the hero of a very amusing Incidoi.t arising out of an lire. 1 Social Gathering Where Good Cheer Ruled Supreme 1 3 V, Is 11 ' " ) I . i J ' n . .-! J HANQCL"r OP TUB DANISH SX3TLKHOOO AT WASHINGTON HALL. official's knowledge that his quarry had Preacliing of tho Gospel to the Gentiles, gone to the lake Hracciano. Hurrying bringing about the conversion of Corn-jllus. thither, he cajno face to face with the the H,,man centurion, nud later on ths cardinal while bathing, whereupon he Preaching of Christ to all the world, flourished his all-Important paper. -As lny guide refreahed my biblcal mem- But his eminence, who is an excellent and ory with this story, he lold me of an Amerl- powerful swimmer, made off for the shore can who had visited this place with hiiu and regained his cabin. When he emerged last week. Said Misses: the official was nowhere to be seen, and "This AmeriCH.a was a funny man, and it the cardinal Immediately drove off to a seemed to me a foolish one. He was net restaurant, whero he lunched in a private satisfied with jweii g this bouse, but ha room. asked me to show trim the vision t.hut M Presently he called for his bill. He was Peter saw. and vlen'&nded to know what handed a slip, only to find that he had had become ot lha ii?et. He said be did been given a court decree. But the Judg- not think be ough: to pay me without 1 ment was simply to the effect that the could show him the Vlon. but I told him Italian government had authorized the that I could not do thfic i-l,hoiit he had tit. Vatican tvj accept the legacy of 2,000,000 Peter's heart, and I was jure Utit Un hrnl not." Tills American was probably facetious, but his questions are not unlike those of many of the tourists whose Ignorance and superstition surpass belief. Many of thorn credit the stories of every guide, and they go about kissing spots which titey imagine to be hallowed by their connection with the Bible, but of whose authenticity no one knew. At the Tomb of Dorcas. But there is one thing I must not forget about Jaffa. And that is that here was born tho' modern sewing bee, and 1 might almost say the Women's Missionaries society. You have all heard of Uorcas, the queen of the needle, wtio was rained frout the dead by St. Peter. She was noted for the garments she had made for the poor, and at her funeral tho people gathered round tnd showed specimens of .her needle work, which xho had sewed and hemmed and stitched for them. This Loieaa lived two or three miles ouinliie Jaffa on a hill wlili h has a com manding view of the country for nilli s around. It overlooks the sea and lanj, iucluding thouxauds of acres of orange groves and gardens conluining all kinds of fruits. The titu of lir house Is now occupied by a Uussiun Greek Catholic church arid a tomb has been erected over her giave nearby. 1 drove out to the place, winding my way In and out through orange groves and up the hill to the church. Here 1 met a Rus sian priest, who was acquiring merit by guarding the bones of the saint in whose honor ptayers are said daily. It was with him that 1 visited the tomb. It is of stone and is roofed with a dome, the whole being covered with plaster. There Is a door at the front, and by descending several steps one can see the piece of morale which covers the spot where Dorcas lies. There are catacombs to the right and left con taining the bones of saints, and over tha whole ojo magnificent trees. i'ttANK U. CARPENTCiL t 3 - i