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TULLIDGE PUBLISHED f GREAT SALT LAKE mzrl&se TALE alroy OP' A BY BD1 ISRAELI M PP C PART IV Tradition delivered that tho sceptre of Solomen could be found only in the unknown sepulchres of the ancient and that none might monarch dare to touch it but one of their descendants Armed with the cabalistic talisman which was to guide him in his awful and difficult researches Alroy commenced his pilgrimage to the Iloly City At this time the love of these sacred wanderings was a reigning passion among the Jews as 'well as Christians The prince of the captivity was to direct his course to the heart of those great deserts which iii his flight to Ha- inadan he had only skirted Following the track of the caravan he was to make his way to Babylon or" Bagdad From the capital of the ealiphs his journey to Jerusalem was one comparatively easy but to reach Bagdad he must encounter hardship and danger the prospect of which would have divested any c ic of hope who did not conceive himself the object of an omnipotent and particular Providence 'Clothed only in a coarse' black frock common amoung the Kourds girded round his centre by a cord which held his dagger his head shaven and covered with a large white turban which screened him from the heat his feet protected only by slippers supported by his staff and bearing on his shoulders a bag of dried meat and parched coni and a leathern skin of water behold a youth toiling over the glowing sands of Persia whose life had hitherto been a long unbroken dream of domestic luxury and innocent indulgence' i4 He traveled during tho warm night or the early starlit morn During the day he rested happy if he could recline by the side of some charitable well shaded by a palm tree or frighten a gazelle from its resting-placamong the rough'' bushes of some wild rocks Were these he resources wanting threw' himself upon the sand and made an awning with his staff and turban Three weeks had elapsed since he ' quitted the cavern of the cabilist Ilith-erthe had met with no human being 'Jhe desert became less arid A scanty -' ' e - ' o Vegetation sprang up from a more genial soil the ground broke into gentle undu-latiohis Reuses were invigorated with tV odour of wild plant’ and his sight j TWENTIETH CITE U'T NOVEMBER!! WAIID 186-- ' IN THE SALT LAKE CITY No statue that now lies shivered at its base 7 refreshed by the glancing form of some — all suffused with the warm twilight of wandering bird a pilgrim like himself ' ' an eastern eve but more at ease He gazed with wonder and admiration Soon sprang up a grove of graceful ' upon the strange and fascinating scene’ palm trees with their tall thin stems The more he beheld the more his curl-osi- ty and bending feathery crowns languid wits excited He breathed withi Around the verdant sod and beautiful he advanced with a blended' difficulty gleamed like an emerald : silver streams and hesitation feeling of eagerness flowing from a bubbling parent spring Fresh wonders successively unfolded wound their white- forms within the Bach turn developed a new themselves bright green turf From the grove scene of still and solemn splendour arose the softening song of doves and The echo of his step tilled him with awe showers of gay and sparkling butterflies He looked around him with an amazed borne on their tinted wings of shining air a fluttering heart a changing coun- - " light danced without danger in tho liquid tenance All was silent : alone the He- air A fair and fresh oasis ! ’ brew prince stood amid the regal' crea- Alroy reposed in this delicious retreat Em- tion of the Macedonian captains for twTo days feeding on the living dates and drinking of the fresh water Fain pires and dynasties ’flourish and 'pass jV would lie have lingered nor indeed until away the proud metropolis becomes a solitude the conquering kingdom even a 7J he rested had he been sufficient! v con- desert but Israel still remains still a:‘A‘ scions of his previous exertion Hut the descendant of the most anciert king remembrance of his great mission made breathed amid these royal ruins and still him restless and steeled him to tho sufthe eternal sun could never rise without ’ fering which yet awaited him At the dawn of the second day of his gilding the towers of living Jerusalem ' A word a deed a‘ single day1 a singlo' journey from the oasis he beheld to his A man and we might be a nation astonishment faintly but distinctly traced A shont he turns he is seized four on the far horizon the walls and turrets ferocious Kourdish bandits grapple and' of an extensive city Animated by this unexpected prospect lie continued his 0 bind him The bandits hurried their captive progress for several hours after sunrise At length utterly exhausted he found through a street which appeared to have been the principal way of the city refuge from the overpowering heat beneath the cupola of the ruined tomb of Nearly at' its termination they turned Jby a small Ionian temple and clambering' some Moslomin saint At sunset he conover some fallen pillars they entered a tinued his journey and in the morning J found himself within a few miles of the quarter or the city of a more ruinous had hitherwhich that than watched Alroy and anxHe halted with aspect ‘ city to visited The path was narrow often iety for some evidence of its inhabitauts obstructed and around wero signs of None was visible No crowds or caval- devastation for which the exterior of tho cades issued from the gates Not a sin' ' ! V citv had not prepared him gle human being not a solitary camel The brilliant but brief twilight 6f tto moved iu the vicinity ' orient was fast fading away a sombre The day was too advanced for the pilflufch to the succeeded rosy tint his to purple grim proceed but so great was the distant towers rose black although'" anxiety to reach this unknown settle' defined in the clear and shadowy air and ment and penetrate the mystery of its the moon which whdta he first entered' silence that ere sunset Ahoy entered had studded the heavens like a small r’ the gates white cloud now glittered with deiep- A magnificent city of an architecture 5’tive IHit with which he was unacquainted offered to his entranced vision its gorgeous ruSuddenly before them rose ahugo d ins and deserted splendour long streets pile Oval in shape and formed by tiers of arches it was evidently much dilapi of palaces with their rich line of lessendated and one enormous irregular ing pillars here and there broken by rent extending from the top some fallen shaft vast courts surroundalmost sepa nearly to the foundation ed by ornate and solemn temples and rated the side Alroy’ and nia luxurious baths adorned with rare moV companions advanced saics and yet bright with antique gildClambering up the remainder of theing : now an arch of triumph still haugh-- ' massy wall the robbers aud their priso- - i ty with its broken friezes how a granite ner descended inban immense ainphi- - f obelisk covered with strange characters theatre which seemed vaster in tho’ s a prostrate and proudly towering-o’e- r shadowy and’ streaming' moonlight Ih m companion sometimes a void and crumb it were groups of men horses and cam- ling theatre sometimes a long' and ele- elsIn the extreme distance reclining gant aqueduct sometimes a porphyry or squatting on mat or carpet wta a column onca breathing with the heroic $ |