Show LEBANON TO NAZARETH the trip was accomplished chiefly on root foot yet an occasional ride upon a brass lunged donkey was not disdained disdain ed on the worst of roads or the hottest of stretches lebanon is a short mountain range running north and south in what anciently bore the name of phoenicia Phee nicia filose cedars which formerly graced these pleasant mountains where the murmur of cool fountains is heard all over have nearly disappeared however between baal bek and tyre there stand less than a dozen very old lebanon cedars which it is claimed are remnants of the forest from which the axe men of hiram drew wood for the temple built by solomon only here and there is a small grove of cedar saplings found planted for lumber fifty or less years ago by some french levantine what nature brought forth unassisted was cut down dew nin by the turks for the tar rosin ani k kindling adling pitch these trees furnish without ever re planting as much as asa a pinyon As lebannon is near the sea it receives a heavy nightly dewfall gra grapes il Os and figs grow and flourish in the e best vignolles vig nobles of burgundy and in the choicest vineyards of the roman and neapolitan N campagna Camp agla or even among the hills chills of sicily nothing is found to surpass the fecundity of the mount lebanon vines A single vine twenty years old is cut so as to cover a circle of about five feet diameter on some of these the crop is so great that one almost imagines the vine groaning under its own weight as it is found necessary yas as the young grapes swell increase and mature to set up stilts and supports r many of them under one vine to hinder it from breaking under ita to sweet and succulent bur deo sometimes the clusters are so very thick heavy and long ten to fourteen inches each and so close together on the vine especially if the latter is trimmed close that like the cluster which the spies carried between two men from fro rn out of the vineyards of canaan it would take two men today to carry a lebanon vine growing as it does all in a bunch or cluster lebanon is noted for the great number of ancient sects and religions to lo which its Inhabit inhabitants auts profess to belong for instance to show the uselessness of giving their modern arabic names to american readers guess who are the Zi duchie the sadducees therefore I 1 will not quote names the sadducees who also live at antioch whence I 1 wrote a little about them hold that the hebrew original says the rhe blood is the soul of mw man whereas others hold that the brood blood is the life of man consequently a dead man has no spirit and resurrection is impossible but by some mystical process explained with difficulty the blood of man his soul is supposed to wend its way into a dog cat horse etc and thus become immortal by a continuous process of metempsychosis or transmigration of the blood or soul from one animal to another so every cat lizard or came camel a sadducee meets may chance to be a brother cousin or great grandfather in disguise and as a second consequence cruelly to animals is tantamount to an infringement gement odthe of the commandment thou honor thy father and thy mother etc pharisees Pharis ees are found among the moslems who besides holding to all of meds injunctions observe the law or five fifths id est pentateuch as laid down by moses keeping the mohammedan sabbath friday and the jewish saturday these carefully attend to ablutions or washings and prayers on the squares highways or markets wear long flowing robes and make a great show of charity on holidays or at funerals for instance changing 10 cents into 40 or more mites of copper and with the greatest oriental pomp and mock piety he puts this vert de gris stained half balf farthing into the palm of the beggars hana closing the poor mans fingers upon it so that no one not even the beg ga r should see how bow insignificant ant the coin is and to receive mure more honor of passers by he blesses the beggar aloud saying may allah sive thy soul alive comfort thy heart take this gift go to thine house anaheed and feed thy litt little leones ones and the beggar accustomed to the hypocrisy and trained to the business knowing that thama it he does not extol his miserly benefactor he will never again receive a copper shouts blessings aloud upon our long robed silk girdled pharisee with gold and silver embroidered sandals thy soul live jive forever and may light ever be unto thine eyes thou generous and savant effendi 1 from the authentic that is scribe or ich lar may the lord return it unto into thee many fold and more he beggar keeps up a stream of while the donor shouts U sa peace to thy tongue and 04 thy words who asketh thee compliments thou dog go y way and be happy harass not kolaj ww bowels with th ne empty but secretly it is well unde adera nd era that if the beggar does not coong y to vociferate his he welter in the sunshine and an many a day before his pseudo factor gives another bilte mi lebanon are the cruses a of he athens partly converted conver tid islam there are many other WK too some worshiping fire pa some the sun others the 1 only the stars others rs servi serving 9 sun and moon another wt seel 00 ship about a great stone in bw II 11 mountains which came froza from ven a meteor the gadfly gad fly COMO oo 00 in as a protecting deity perhaps per Pot fly god of phoenecia necla and W I 1 dagon the philistine god I 1 wj few votaries vot aries some brutish cg remains among a few remley amb perhaps of the rites of moloch 1 l know no written scripture or D 0 and their only idols are rel repress eions of the generative generate gene rati ve organs TAW majority however in mount aj non nod are marosites Maro ack nowie by the pope as true carisa Cb risa their priests or fathers are de delt ignorant yet occasionally occasional Y lr a tooth cure a headache by w or disenchant a bewitched coo or 11 and relieve a heather heathen christian of disease generally genera n v ver by singing dancing and ir ing the drum or stringed 1 ments in his presence 1 on this trip I 1 stopped four d dwa 0 rosh bosh pinah one of the eleven ish agricultural colonies bettl 8 carl ed jf M der the auspices of baron is tw ij de rothschild of paris it jbv dil t smallest anti least im important immortal portal it of oiin L ott all yet to me it seemed MO korep re rep J ant than a cool fountain in tho of the ert under the patronage baron it was settled six years ye as a trial by 40 jewish chiefly from bulgaria nenad nearly persons earlice ceides wheat schooling brud ier 10 1 weekly medical at attendance a francs a month a very dereso neat this country for tobacco coar 1 clothes and table relishes tb col 01 is 8 editions upon which a person wt onist are he or she must personally at gardening p ing or indoor dalry dairy M similar employment ft a of s t 1 hours every day the res eat t day can be devot devoted eld to any anyta gling tl sj or she likes the sabbath m T kept strictly not dot even a arts so art ls pipe should be lighted broo fr on friday to sunset on th e or else the offender breaks by kindling a fire a wv the sabbath I 1 attended 00 X the services at the syung syD agog e thas marriage was celebrated an jy sabbath the feast was mide made wine flowed during tie the I 1 d A flab tit sunset tobacco pipes were ap and more wine distributed n 1 garian musicians struck up P allter COO al and russian melodies dances with a few waltzes ess d 0 o fisches and polkas intersperse I 1 oj indulged in the men were oil au t room and the women in dapa dancing plug separately cass 14 another letter ater I 1 will speak ex the tha of f various colonies and n varied 1 purposes of jewish settle nib here c occident oc ident nt of some interest oclad about halfway between naj and abd lebanon two bedein lt j abs tbs relieved me of everything I 1 with rae me blanket clothes books A M fluery stamps penknife purse lufti evell my traveling pass ou on the amog of the day upon which this occurred askild erred I 1 had a strange foreboding did promised to act cautiously I 1 BB ato to some me extent and avoided to bev inflict j f clubbing which chic h they started club luba 0 ome e stones too and a to e re flung ung atme all endeavors T C ve r anything were use useless fa A 61 question of a judge I 1 rt thou 16 h on a moslem and when er nay master I 1 X 1 ay am a I 1 afine ne it ens ends all my prospects or of the i well and among friends one ae local saints henry vocken bocken of baft a died k ill the fA f sith I 1 on august fever rages there C U L ANON ON august 20 1889 |