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K0s5,; &7 . V! Letters From i Abroad. h,d '??m iv :5 3(M 1HE I auy husbands (John | the] The well belongs to I and .AN OASTER NEWS, MA y cling to their ancient fai customs. Among other f< Y 1, 1*07. ; i ' > / YOUR 2E ?7. .. v-' Av" ^ ; a' V' .* * ' '.-> BY A. M. (Copyrighted, 1WJ6, b; NO. 1 Through North and S^ the Greeks STACK. o T. a wall. It y R. F. liensley.) , . chapel erec upon the r ot the four! ern Palestine excavc frjg is round, and is surrounded by turc lies in the crypt of a peri ted by the Crusaders the uins of au old church ther th century. The well mor ited in the solid rock, bigu about nine feet in di At ] 's Of their religion, a man siitted to practice bigamy first wife be barren. But e are about twenty m e than there are wom< imy is practically imposeib least twenty men are doom ? D m i ted ?? nO IPPOET1 but Oue leaves Jeru gret. A second yi the departure a kc After seeing the p of interest in and i old city, we ar ameter and salem with re- ^ course, isit only makes "hacheheefl ;enpr regret.? oue rincipal place? time the w irouud the dear "hving wal ranged to go 'n^ wom:in seventy-five feet deep, to ii a traveller must pay mar h" to see it, but no mal that. In the summer or iell is dry. But the o\v. ler" offered to the sin- sore is perennial. won ivoluntary celibacy. Whei ried man dies, his near e relative other thanabrot * compelled to marry the w The heir-apparent m letimes heir a wife w lid cause him to lose his i a est, "We offer below for y< id_ appeal to all who wan W e Ar jur consideration some p t to save money on their ] e Not Ci rices that should purchases. -ushed through Northern horseback. For miles a fairly good has been graded, has been suspende be resumed withir We sent our liorsei Palestine on About o twenty-three father i , carriage roa l J?sePh ^ But the work '^0 ( d and may not P1'wrai!'6 ,c 1 a generation. 'lom kgyP1 s ahead the day lo ne hall mile north of nm< 3 well is the tomb of mm ielore he died Joseph tan. jhildren of Israel to met i earry up his bones quit t. After sleeping on of 1 r more than three f un- tin*: <1 i i, T an iney are forbidden ry any one except a Sama And the Samaritan du( kly submit to this foolish re men t wheu there are plei pretty girls around thetn wi : fo marry. ll o Initio nnirnr b o/l tmi nli to nor running a CRUSfc ri- item quoted here not ] ]es until withdrawn : re- $5.00 Overcoats at S ity coats at 7.50. Men's Suits from 3. 54-inch Broadcloth, Wide Taffeta Silk, 1 I SALE, but we will forfei now in stock. We make th< 5.98 ; 7.50 Overcoats at 4. 98 to the best in stock at 1 sold at 1.00 and 1.25 yard, )lack and colors, at 87 cen t $1UU.UU tor any 3 following prices 98; 10.00 Over).00. , now 85c yd. its yard. Hi before and left ear ing by carriage. V ed the crest of Sco farewell look at was taken. Along in the long ago pa Jacob, Joseph, J n . ..i j ly iii the morn/hen we reach- was carriec pus, a final and 'orty years the Holy City in the SiUm the same road Jacob ssed'Abraham, (J08'1* xxn oshua, David. *nc'?sedi ai ni._: . favoritft sr uic iiiiHiiiu v ui * 1 in the wilderness for an and finally deposited Nei 3 parcel of land bought the of Hamor's children nioi 7:32.) The tomb is has ad the bones of Jacob's All 111 lip in flip tprritorv wor Iiu WVMO lie T Ct 11 Cl VA 111UV/II opinion of the Samaritai her have I, since 1 hei high priest fell a lie icy. Buf the Jewish predud probably been overstati that talk about the Je lid not even Dass throu u' 54-inch Ladies' Clot tl8? 20 pieces A. F. C. G ird Solid case Cotton B1 lor Only six of our 6.00 ice Men's Odd Pants fr 5.00 Fi trh $3 SO Krinnpndof SI h, 42 1-2 cents yard, inghams and Linen-finish lankets at 63c, 89c and 1.2: ' Wool Blankets left to clo: om 75 cents to 3.48 pair. >rbush Shoes at ; inps nt 9 98 Chambrays, 10c. 3. se at 4.25 pair. 3.48 .reiwr, raui ana four miles out we right a cone-sha which Uibeah of B Here Saul was bo here he went out tc ed asses and foil On thnf hill hn ro jurist. ?om?? passed to the ass^,ie^ * ped hill, upon 8I)r'ng ?f * leujamin stood. evtir'ast'ng rn, and from a,1(* ^Ter'7' > find the stray- v'8^8 over nd a kingdom. rao^ 9 Pri" liffnoil ue Linn WhO80 11 .o Ephriam, ihe off- Sari Joseph. Near by, the oasi ; mountains of Ebal m keep their silent is a the remains of Pha- son le minister, the stoiy acci fe is the most, beauti San tiaria, but travelled on t t side of Jordan to avoid | through Samaritan territo: n exaggeration. The real n , I am persuaded, was < ount of the bad roads throu naria. The country is moi ;be Ladies' Fine Shoes s xo 2000 yards heaviest 2000 yards 6c Plaid: r>' Job lot Men's Fine 1 ea' Big lot Laces, Inser oa Get our prices befoi gh tee to save you moneji in at 75 cents pair and up. weight Sheeting at 6 cenl s at 5 cents yard. 2.00 and 2.50 Fur Hats at tings and Embroideries at re you make your purchas* r Yours for business, ts yard. 1.48. old prices, es. We guaran from it he went f and there the s David's harp Booth spirit. On the sa married David, i father acted the ] father-in law (I. orth to battle', ful of aD7 weet tones ol ^osePbcan ed his troubled b*8 bretbr rae liill Michal tbem "'n 1 and there her to I^otban part of a mean Pa9se(^ tbe Sam. xviii.} ? is about se in all history. Hither tail le from Hebron lo find wh< en, and failed to find I he field," he went on roa ? a place which we Ho next day and which pie venty miles from He- ,()o lous and< very rocky. A arever the moat rocks are been well said, there's 1 d. it is actually unsafe to ri rses are shod with a sc ce of iron covering the ent t, and can hardly climb or < 1 Funder de. ? lid the great, plain of Esc ire Nazareth is aday'sjou ie- vast plain fell to the 1< burk Con Irae'lon to aon ridgeB. The irney.This importance bef< it of Is9a- era, and is not ipany > place was of no ore the Christian mentioned in the On and near th tragical history m Over to llie left on is ancient is Samuel resided a He was a circuit held courts at Gil; at spot much bron. ^ * ras enacted. prise 'o i a little further cou^ niak iizpah, where a mere .nd held court. a ru'er o) rider, and also ^al'ier or c aal and Bethel. in 80me Wfl las always been a 6ur- see me why Joseph, who hoi e lhat trip alone when me , did not when he was n-nc f Egypt visit his old anc ommunicate with h:m Mu iy, since Hebron is not wal nd the rocky hillsides, se fell under me and thr several feet. The horse )ther man in our party 1 broke an arm of its rit ich of the time you m Ik and lead your horse My cltar, and is one of I ew p?rtsof Palestine. 1 of tbe plain one gets t fell view in every direct ler. mountains of Samaria i ust those of Galileo in Iror in on 1 lie west, Gilboa on the richest 01(1 Testament n crossing In Christ's time l splendid that nothing f. ion. The out of Nazaretl ire behind, town, of 6acr< it, Carinel Sivior spent nu the east, in it today or in Josephus. i it was believed cood could come i. In this little memory, our )?t of hi? life, and His circuit was \ Bethel is only a further north on road. At one time Jerusalem in irap< school for the pre some time was tin rery small, for ver^ lri short distance ,loL know the right of the ,'ie ':i,,er > Bethel rivaled wa8 and 81 jrtauce, had a etlfort t() ev >pheis, and lor 3 center of the , Nablous om hfrypt. Jacob dot pas where Joseph was, but bla cnew where~his father the eems to have made no ? 'en hear from him. of jj anc , tlie modern name of ;sing through Samaria. I d( me the Jews for travelling i other side of Jordan, seven miles to the northw Sliechem is the site of dent city of Samaria. r V stood on an oval-sha; l Ti.1.111 it >n7t utue nermon ana Ml on the north. Wo pass Jezreel, n rest Saul fought the Philis the the slope of near by U rhe ing all was lost, he f< ped sword and died. Jezre rauif^AnoA a f A It l> a ? d t. laror to "Even the lift For thoughts oar which The Church tines. On stands oyer the ilboa, see- dilion localize ill on own where Gabriel el was the that she was sc u;? 3 of Gnd IT ,nkn i 'less stone is dear of Him.' of Annunciation spot which tras as the place 4^ informed Mary ? ^ > highly favored it'ifi ^ A nort af worship of Jehova em Kingdom. Tc ing. Near the end i road are the ru where the Taberi set up permanent ih in the North- Shechem, )day it is noth- of Joseph' beautilul of tlie carriage north ins of Shiloh, south. Th aacle was first of blessini Jy in Canaan, mount ot - - 1-1 or? v is about a mile west 's tomb and lies in a f0U W11 valley, with Ebal on and Gerizim on the e latter was the mount or i and the former the 0m cursing (Deut. xxvii: ?nr i. iius mil is ill h vaney ^ nded by mountains. F< ile it was the capital of tribes, and later the Emj Augustus presented it to J . the Great. That old sea bellished and % beautified 1 i^linncpil ifn nnrno tr\ WoKt lyr iODiuciibc ui ii(vu (lint or a wife. Three miles nor the nem, the native pla >er- pretty girl who wa 3e- David Jinti about whoi nip had his brother Adoni [ it It is but an hour's ri< ulo to t.hp vil hch nf Nh 11 in W1UK.CU V th is Shu- an olti synagogi ce of the ,lie very one i 8 nurse to preached, is n ti Solomon church belongii jah killed. Greeks. Tradit Je further enterprising in in tvhprii has rescued fro Lie, claimed to be in which Christ ow a part of a ig to the United , ;ion, which is so the Iloly Land, m oblivion even .tiere, too, the Ai the (lays of Joel the end of the li here the land was into tribal possesi the east of the to occurred that teas rk stayed lrom 11 ilia till almost J'le ?U fe of Eli, and association divided by lot departed, sions. Just to people, all iwn, in a glen, medans e: t at which the Jews, Sain U ? ?I . Tltn nViiaf city ifl rich in historic ln is, but its glory has It has about 25,000 ,ur of whom are Mohams:cept 1,000 who are aritans and Christians. n a t ?/\rt C lit a We honor of the wife of August ny fragments of ancient sti es, granite columns, he cks and broken capitals r 1 be seen. There are t nding a few columns t re in the grand temnle whi us. Christ raised the wi uc- (Luke vii:ll-15.) In wii more Endor is reach* nay Saul came the night 1 itill fatal battle of Uilboa hat the witch to raise th? ich. Samuel. The words of dow's son ^ie workshop o i ot)e hour th? kitchen ( ?d. Here factions of Ohr aefore the covered at le i and had where Christ's i i tfhost of men *Memptec the tihost trom the hrow i if Joseph, as well >f Mary. The rival istlans have disast three places rate fellow townsI to thrust him of the hill. Aside uau^LiiiciH U1 OIUIU the light fantastic jaraite men came i denly from tlie ne and carried them (Girls who dance be 011 the lookout There are rr.anv ii wwr? tripping A,,? v",c' when the Ben- ple> when upon them bu<1- making no iarby vineyards There are away tor wives, soap factor should always ju'lfdng fr< .) 'he peoph Dlaces of minor strictlv In j/ti' vi tuc pow* they work at all, in HCC ap out of olive oil.? ere something like fifteen ^n ies in the place. But, no II orn the appearances of 3, the soap is made lnc r PViior! arwl i>nt fr?v il,,( ordiug to Josephus, He cted in honor of the Ron iperor. But all is desolal iv, as was foretold (Mich, i sea xiii :16.) While the pi e ol Samaria is very roi :1 hilly the soil is good i rod proved true on the nex nan career of Saul was [ion inarkable. In hisyouni i :6; he was a splendid f ov- Sim. ix :2) "From his ugh ?nd upward lie was hi mid any of t he people." Th Lldav. The ^rom "asoci rather re- " place c>I t c manhood now- ^ ',e p?pu cllow. (I. Christian?Uni shoulders Greeks, Latins gher tlian ^ rot est ants. I al. dfgcrip. and e|e?? atioiiH, the town imall importance lation is largely ted and Orthodox , Maronites and he place in fairly ' i and has some importance alonj the next spot ofe is Jacob's well, w a half miles east c cient Shechem.) the western edge of a field purchas I the way, but domestic u ipecial interest Nablous at hich is one and icism and >f Nablous (an As there t The well is in in the tot of the "parcel foreigners ed by Jacob of please. 0 ?e. Tlie Moslems ot ^1C e noted for their fanathatred of Christians. w'' tre no foreign consuls Pe< vn, the natives treat es" pretty much as they "01 ?ne of our narlv was ')rc ) country is pretty thickly d. A stranger is at once str th the peculiar dress of opie. The women wear bree In America we occasion* ir of a woman who "wears >eches," b.:fc in Samaria set- tion of Saul suggests uck nificent form of Hon. Hie ton of Winston Sal sell- would have made a b tlly every way than Saul t the little matter at Kndor, all Saul did something i>r?uy women. the mag. T ,, ,, r ive miles n J. C. Htix . on the road to em, who , ~ , , T,. of Galilee, tlie ] diet King . * , 11 i .1 . miracle ol Jesut lid. In that .. . tian sects, in tli , however, , "?ve wrought a that Mr. ~ orth of Nazareth, Tiberias, is Can a place of the first i. Modern Ohriseir /actional zeal, uother miracle in Hamor lor 100 pi< (Gen. xxxiii: 19. of this well is unq Jews, the Samai leras and Christiai this is the well at the conversation 3ces of money" rather late ) The identity one evenin uestioned. The good rocki ritans, the Mos- I was i ri8 all agree that see the ret which occurred of Saraarit of our Savior Shechem. returning to the hotel }*'e g and they gaye him a ng. tjg somewhat anxious to nnant of the old sect ans who still reside in These people have th< > women wear them. The at pant* worn ia not the dud ht-legs, but large bloomerf ;-legged breeches. III. At Jenin, where tourists ap< 3 night, we pass out of Sai yle Buxon perhaps would lish Samuel's ghost appea ) or Buxton probably woul remained to engage ir tiou with it. From Endor it is ' 011(1 hours' ride to Nazaretl Tift* lilfln Oinrn in a Kou >. urt 1 ntjy not,. When , , f . , places out of th red friend ' . ter was turned id not have ~ .. .. . Catholics have i conversaexact spot, lh but a few 0ne boUer: lh i, a pretty a church over tl In An f Ka fllAV ulirktv iU a nave made two e one where wainto wine. The a chapel over the ie Greeds go theni^j ey not only have he exact spot, but 2^.^ L * with the woman c >f Samaria who | dwindled c - . .. .. ... lown to 150 souls, andjria into Galilee. From Jenino ^ 00 n - I " ? Mi?o verjsouth slope of sorae lo r - iu vu I lie I w"w J "Mvn bile ffy Leba-1 were used on tl v??y jars wmcn be occasion. For