Show 11 MOUNTAINS OF LEB LEBANON A N N cox and jn III the tile city DAMASCUS september 29 A city which holds tho the ashes miles of sala sal adin dinand and buckle and is li tho the home of abdelkader abdel leader which had the glory of st SL pauls conversion and the honor of meds most oriental complin compliments lents is not to bo be seen in a day or dismissed as a mirl mirage ago of tho desert if it had not once been tho the capital of tho the Arab world the paris of tho the orient its claim aa as the elder beauty of the Arab hemis exodus from mesopotamia into the holy land would 11 give added sparkle to each drop of its rive rivers Ts canals and fountains biallo W every v at atom out of its dust dug t and gild every object D upon which its it i fierce sun shines iines sl when therefore we nye left behind tho the blue sea and the promontory of beyrodt Bey rout yesterday and wound our way over the tile bare hills on oil hillsand hill sand bleak mountains on mountains ns which led us hither and when we bade farewell to the heights and vales of the lebanon by the sea so much beloved and the glory of its cedars prim mulberries fig trees and vineyards and began our long ri ride e among the i rocks mountains and plains of the lebanon beyond tho the sea wo we knew that there was a generous recompense i ia I store for travel if our road was elevated and our path ZI zigzag zig zag were nver c we not repaid by the s shadows and splendors aa of the lebanon ranges and the peerless 11 magnificence of mount hermon armon if our companions were of an alien race were we nye not repaid by views of mountain vales and cones and the wide verdant p plains lains at their base not to speak of the ever eyer recurring vista of that biblical iea which met our gaze t through mountain defiles anil and which ever lifts itself up asin as in a Pla hii ain what prospect we nye have fion these moun I aina of lebanon lebano n wh whal tt encino memories I wonder whether tj theeo I we mountains in the spring when tile aliey arc tire aid said to td be green and beau pitiful or at the end of surn summer as in j our oar when all ia is amber and rock but it i that even when the terr terrace acci arc tire tricked out in their finery of vines olives and mulberry aill the mountains look brown from bedorr as you are osse ascending ending but otherwise when descending when tho tile terrace walla walls are not Zer observed ved however that may be wo have now something of f that contrast wherein little atlo dinue much i delights when the tile water supply y hero bere ia is full then the spring and summer arc are generous us of sering t their L i r g grace race and goodness but I it is not truo though poetically p pretty retty as our english Engli sli minister lowell in his heyday of inspiration once sung eung that I tig hoa alone that given gives avyan tia only god may be had for the asking there is no price set on the lavish summer and june may be ha had d bythe by the poorest comer i no heavenly beauty no lavish summer no I leafy cal juno june is to be had here gratis thy there io is a price e which is paid in hard labor for all te that I lat the lebanon gevea ves to its stewards and toilers boilers toi lers either ai ali e r in ill loveliness or reward something more than rhapsody is is required ired to td tell how we passed the day on the road to damascus damascus damacus is in our view then appear the tile eis six minarets mina inina two black tipped and domes innumerable bursting out of 21 green green environs environs it is a splendid for it furnishes to tho the famished eye signs signs of damascus tho the elder snap crack I whisk Tirra lahl from the horn and amid a crowd of bystanders bystander se open fly the gates and we are tire within in not only the city of uz the tile CLIP capital of syria the delight deli glit of the tile orient but within the precincts of the tile grand diligence establishment and near earthe alie hotel dimitri which is tho the goal of my ambition preliminaries fur return and a trip to being settled we are met by a courier and escorted to our hotel As we enter eliter the narrow nud and low gateway its court gives us an interior which has all the local color which trees and fountains colored walla and arabesques of grace could give it waa was a welcome place it ia is a grand old city arid wo took it not without some chivalric endeavor for how else would one take tho the city which holds the tomb U salad in |