| Show I 1 I 1 KAISER IN PALESTINE haifa sept 24 1898 I 1 I 1 we are now nearing the time when kaiser william of germany win will pay us I 1 a visit and as this leti letter will arrive for about the time bime the kaiser biml be here it maybe may be interesting to your readers to know a tittle little concern laig the going on tn in order to give everything as good an appearance pe arance as possible for some months the villagers have been forced out to do work on the roads roada from haifa to jerusalem vla via jaffa and from haifa to Tib biberias erias vla via nazareth the first to in order to ho to is the landing put in at the foot of the algan street in this colony A pier slightly curved is being rum ruin out irato ina tine the sea bout about o twenty rods tor for a landing stage upon the job many men and teams from the colony have been id at work uni der the miama mia gement of dr schumacher i the united states consul the sultan will poy pay tor for thia work he is As however not bathe in the habit ot of paying for road making and improvements hits government generally rally finds a way of the people to do the work without pay this job Is done dome in a very verry way however with large rocks nocks and cement the kaiser will only land at haifa as her majesty the kail serin has bias insisted on an overland it rip to jerusalem from jaffa to jerusalem people have been mending up the bridges and putting in new cul verts so 80 also the road to Tib Tl Derias erias to in many places heavy fills filla have been made with a view to show and not to dura billay bill ty I 1 have nave seem nils fills of more then than ten feet out made of black loam the sides finished to the engine engineers ees line and packed ead and thed while st dt to is well known that those banks will not stand i one winters storms in this cau country tt it not only but it pours so that the best graveled roads need nearly every year in order to keep them in passable condI tim extensive axe ame made of loose boll inmost of which will be washed into deep gullies by but wh who G cares it does not cost the government much and the officers make money while the villagers are forced out the whole country around avoult to put the routes in passable condition what tt fl lit it dont last next year they can be out agan it iff needed whole villages men and women are ea aft work the se men do the picking and shoveling while the woman pack the aad on their heads and dump tt it where directed by a main ka put 0 the dump for that purpose sometimes aheu rooks are needed thew the timen will gather theme in their baskets and pack them on their heade to the men who will break them up tov for finish work it is a real pity to see aee so much match labor wasted the budge bridge over the kishon seems to be put in well buethe but the dump is of soft and solvable resolvable de material which will not mot toe be long lin finding its way to the sea the bun the kaiser to be his guest buthe but he it is said he well weal knew the consequences to the poor people en route to the places too to be visited they would be forced to furnish the equipage wherefore the kalow kaiser sef ref reused used not wishing to be a party to such snob an outrage the royal agi travel ama vel under the management of the thomas cook and sons tourist company mr cook being the chief manager the party will not go to any hotel but wim wilia camp out on the whole trip TO meet the demands of so large a following the company win will have to put in a tittle little village ot of tents I 1 will only don one days daya service to gave an idea of the immensity of the affair for Ine instance twice on the trip to tl berfas the party will go to nazreth for lunch when twenty fout four tents be required one for the em emperor chief salon special reception for the eim emperor special reception far the empress ladles ladies of honor gents of honor onie two table dining dini nig tent and one ome chiree table dining tent the of the twenty four for cooks and kithen kitchen amid other necessities prom nazareth they go by horseback to the top of at mt tabor where they will spend the night among 85 ae tents divided up ens as follows foU owa one saloon and one reception cep tilon tent for the emperor and empress respectively two sleeping apartments for the emperor two for the empress and for ladies of honor three polo pole tents tenta end and two pole tents tenta for dining fourteen tour teen and twelve rope tents forr for sleeping apartments far books apartment and the rest resit for other this part ot of the royal camp will require about four our acres of land to put that into shape and to find the required space books men mem are hard at work besides this the fihe sultan sends a body guard of three hundred picked men while of gennadi soldiers there will amly be eight A large number of at special envoys will be gem from the different coura as well as from his majesty the sultan some of these will find quarterma quartee qu artera to in the h oteis at th the e different stops os as they are an not included in the terms with cook aird son sm this firm hias has the whole trip even to the paylag pay inar of the emperors checks for spend s pe ilig money from froan time to time that juans a small caulking becking baul king outfit must sw aileo be found trip makes a great stir at jerusalem and at nazareth and a nd Ti bertaa as well as at jaffa the royal is all the the germans here hem in the colony we sure steps tor for a deroon st in the bartys pa irtys honor while warships will parade and salate IV ib i B honor the me trip will put a little money in circulation through the retinue rennae that will naturally fidlow while lih ete aa pers per peir ors s camp wail spend their money mostly with cook and son A carriage for the royat royal couple will chibe be sent down from constantinople and the best arabian ste steeds eda that can be two pro cured will be at his service the particulars tic ulars of the dedication of the church I 1 suppose are already known through the dispatches but great will be the day at jerusalem we will next note a few observations of another traveler not a king but bat in the service of one greater great er than earthly kings this traveler does not ear abc 6 aeed in attracting very much attell tion that is not his mission tt his bla labors labor humble and obscure broj the notice of man as they may bi kiy possibly yet be a mite in the tion of a great work to follow which will carry with lit it a more lasting fame than the visit of emperor william of germany or any earthly potentate in the course of events it became necessary to make a trip to mt tabor and neighborhood via nazareth the road from haifa to nazareth is ia being put into good shape for present traveling but the government has put watchmen on in several places to keep the teams off until after the kaisers keisers kai sers trip lest the travel should spoil it the roads lead east under the foot of mt carmels north slope here the mountain rises quite abrupt and is quite high and altogether uncultivated it is covered with a heavy undergrowth and is said to abound in wild bears hyenas and some leopards these animals are certainly not very numerous as they are seldom seen the bear is the only one at all aid frequently mett mat as it makes its visit to the pea fields to steal a feast from the fellahs fellars fel lahs the first village out is Bel adieh sheik it to ia located on a knoll under the mountain it has a number of olive trees around and below the village and also a palm pahn or two and a few fig trees this village is not supposed to be healthy because it faces the swampy mouth of kishon this stream has through ages of work deposited its muddy liquid matter over a very large area of country immediately bordering on the he sea this is as may be comprehended ended very rich soil but marshy in places when the year is a f favorable avor one the crops are exceedingly good this year the crop was not so good owing to fo too much rain this place as well as the next village east bachur belonging to mr S olim kharl are rich places but for want of proper drainage they are unhealthy just how much malaria may be found is not easy to discover they live so filthy that it would be unwise to make any investigation lest one should contract fever or small pox which can always be found among them more or less they are troubled with eye diseases very much it would seem that half the population have either weak or sore eyes eye much of this comes from un cleanliness lean liness many a child may be seeli seen playing around in the dust with its eyes filled with matter hardly able to see and it looks as though it was never washed it is a wonder that they live to this exceptions must be not ed there are some villages where they do better and where the general appearance of ats population is far ahead of the ordinary it if these rich villages were put under proper care and wisely drained it is no doubt a fine country but draining as a whole needs nee ds to be experimented with as the draining off of the water too much would be a great injury as it must be remembered it does not rain at all during way may june july august and a good part of september all that is needed to is to keep off the surface water to keep it from stagnating and to prevent the breeding of malaria other wise moist ground is necessary as it helps the dew which keeps the soil in a damp condition the crops do excellent when the conditions all harmonize nearer the narrows of the kishon is located mistel itel it Is ia better located but its ita land Is 18 poorer this belongs to the great bursuk estate here we cross the kishon now the bridge being nearly completed at this point we also leave the kishon and take to the wooded hill country and pass pas s hartich on the right hartich Is isalio also lussik property all these theae villages which ha have ve been mentioned have thel their r springs and wells located in the bottom and hence haw have to pack their water rather a long distance armance Ara ance they of course do not notice it their forefathers for gen erat orations era tiona ions have drunk at these wells and have labored as they do and they know no different they are happy 1 the young maidens go chatting and singing to the well tor for water as happy as anyone need be and it is evident that happiness is not necessarily the companion of knowledge and progress but that happiness is chieffa in being content cont enit with that which we have and in being satisfied in the sphere god has placed us ua for nearly a mile the road leads up through a long ravine and finally we reach the top where all travelers camp for lunch to the right on a knoll we have sheikh el brehe a mohammedan ham shrine and the property of lessuk at once the road drops into the bottom again and crosses another rich bottom with bethlehem of gallilee off to the left atheni we climb a small hill and have also bursuk property kleaving we come onto another rich bottom east cast and soon have Samon Sam onieh leh on the left here the german temple society attempted to settle the country looks inviting its bottom lands as also all former mentioned bottoms open into the plain of jezreel here the germans lost a great many lives they did not know the conditions and the malaria and overlabor over labor carried them off one by one until they had to abandon the place the spring is onty only noticed by the many cacti growing around lt it these cacti which are from ten to fifteen f feet high are just now being unloaded of their fruit crop the natives gather bushels of these cactus figs which are about as large as muck eggs yellowish in color and look quite inviting they are said to be fine eating all along the route the people were working on their thrashing floors it is wonderful how they have preserved so many ot ol the ancient custons customs so tar fat as can be judged they are doing the same kind of work inthe in the same way as did the israelites in days of old we read of roas boas sleeping on the threshing floor when ruth made mad e her histon loal matri manial proposition it may be surmised he slept there to watch 11 his 1119 19 grain on the same principles as the tha Arabs doo do here today the time lasts nearly t two wo months during which tame many men are am on guard their interests there is no security there is no trusting your neighbor so it Is today so eo lit dt seemed in im times past the te threshing flow floor is a large open space new near the village ranging in size according to tibe the needa of the of the plaice place bah man has ha s his place for Ms blis stack or pile ait oit grain from the field it to la not ham to get the grain dry as they do not ott ten reap recap until the graan is dead ripe when the proper time comes to thresh then they arran arrange gc 4 place about the size and ipe of odthe the space we use for our horse powers on the threshing machines A layer ot of grain is then ladd in a circle around an open center the me strack varies in size according to tio the amount of ant ais ate the thresher expects to use tey nearly always have a drag much resembling an ore sled used by the mamers this is made of heavy plantes planks and do furnished with sharp flints on the bottom to help to grind up the straw and bring out the grain this drag la Is pulled round and round by a horse or two or by a pair of oxen as ais the case awe may be until the whole to ground into and the grain worked out of course they must lift and turn it until thres threshed hedi As it is found to be ground to chaff it ft is worked to the middle in the baoe tn ja silde the circle emd cund piled up to in a conic file th ight is i done the slower qt at such a te is not bard to but batt th dihe job fob is i not enda an so as tike mud grind y ln process is over they begin cl clew tf t by lifting it to the wand they do aoi throw it toward the wind az as the deeb or clean lit it by holding it ft high and alta I 1 the wind to separate alt ait once no th have the most awkward way w of all they lift or pitch the chaff and crift grain T nearly up for tour flour or five foo thus letting a little of the dust and est eat off at the time the little that jl 1 cleaned falls back hito the pile agate and aind thus the same gradis or kerne bernela ar often lifted hundreds of times bafo before rem X is ia finally this cleaning aft cess cesa takes many days when the chena in course of time begins to show it bt ta IS I 1 swept windward and piled up while ebal chaff and dust gradually gl I 1 i 1 on the opposite side witch the wind by degrees by lifting thus the grain ak finally separated from the chaff and it i Is ia to be measured the toft 71 gatherers 99 ebers taking their tenth and the I 1 owners the taking their i fourth or fifth according to agreement not until then thenis is the fellow allowed to i take bake his graan girasin in one ome would this tro trouble tuble enough 1 I 1 for the small amount of grain obtained 71 it Is probable that they othey dont dant thresh oft ai the average much more than tham one basw bus bel per day an all through the germans big separators hence they dean though they use ue the coy ife thresh with as stated in a former aru y cle As stated the hardship is not avei now that the men have got th the women must have their turn huoh f of thie the graan Is very filthy amid dustily deota 1 l hence lit has to be carried to the rit fla or river rivea and there washed or it if drw handy wash it at home bame and dry it tai 1 3 the house top this last process te i 1 l bemuse of the use of aa mals on a dusty thresh ling ft floor 0 0 r often a number of loose s are r e driven around in the grain one day a maa hiding a donkey and driving daving three head V of cattle around the threshing ring noticed this followed tor weeks on an the same round or circuit will of make the cheat wheat very filthy and aaa 4 the lowest of these creatures cam l the |
