aE. Duo Reletotis, P. April 26, 1912. The Awaking of the Older Nations. Palestine and High Politics—A Deep Discontent Pervades the People and Myriads of Them Have Emigrated to the United States. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Jerusalem.—Of all the old nations, Palestine is the one in which the world is most interested. Over these comparatively few square miles have swept most of the forces that have made history. Here were given to the race those influences which have done most to change the history of the past two thousand years. Ruins of half a dozen civilizations strike the eye of the traveler through the land. Yet, notwithstanding all, the life of the Syrian peasant is not greatly dif- ferent from what it was in the time of Abr®am. Wonder of Wonders, this old order i8 now undoubtedly passing away. This is the most interesting of all the sights here for the discerning traveler. It is a revolution wrought by the return to this land of forces which had their inception here. After affect. ing most of the surface of the globe, they have come back to do their work in the place of their birth. Palestine is more deeply traveled by the prevailing unrest of the times than any other nation I have yet vis- ited. Pressed upon from many sides by the most modern influences, made sensitive to human rights by centuries of oppression, it is small wonder that the Syrians were most enthusiastic in hailing the new regime, with its prom- ise of “Liberty, Justice, Fraternity, Bquality.” In those phrases is em- bodied all that the people have covet- ed in vain for generations. Now they want these boons, and they want them right away. Failing their immediate realization, they turn their faces toward America. From One Land of Mromise to Another. One morning | witnessed the week- ly excdus of Bethlehgmites at the Je- rusalem station of the Jaffa railroad. {t was a scene for a painter's brush. The young people who were leaving for America were dressed in foreign style; only the young men still wore the fez of Turkish subjects. This they would exchange for hats as soon as they zot on board ship. The stern- visaged old men, clad as their fathers had been clad before them for gen- arations, grimiy tried to suppress all signs of grief; they must abide the old conditions to the end. The women did not wail aloud, as is the usual ori- ental way, over the departure of sons and daughters; for these fine-looking, strong-featured women are almost Anglo-Saxon in their appearance, thanks to the strong strain of Crusa- der blood in their veins. The flight from Bethlehem to America has been unusually large because of these ira- ditional qualities of aggressiveness and independence. The loss to Syria is great, for the Bethlehemites are fa- mous workmen, especially in the carv- ing of mother of pearl. The magnitude and importance of the migration to America from Syria can hardly be overestimated. More than a quarter of a million are now in the new Land of Promise, to which 30 many more have their faces turned. The government sent the conscription officers after 150 Christians in Jeru- salem; it could find only 20, the oth- ers having fled, mostly to America. The return of emigrants to America and their letters home have a power: ful influence in increasing the unrest here. All over the Lebanon, which has an autonomous Christian government, and where property is therefore safe, the returned emigrants have built fine houses—and then, in a surprising number of cases, have left them and gone back to America, usually taking an number of their neighbors along. The town of Zahleh, in the Lebanon, has 30,000 of its people in the United States, where they have created a new village with the same name. More re- markable still in the case of Hamma- 1a, which now has 800 of its native sorn remaining here, while 1,200 are mn America. American Oil “the Light of Asia.” In other ways America is contribut- ag directly to the awakening of this ’ld nation. Probably the most typical single accessory of the life of Pales- ine is the water jar, carried on the aeads of women. As it was in the days when Rebecca went to the well with a clay jar upon her head, so it continues until now. But a change. 8 coming. The water jar, as an in- stitution, is beginning to crack. Stand- ard Oil tins are taking its place. 1 saw 2 woman at Jacob's well at Sy- char carrying water on her head in one of these square tin cans. The water, by the way, was used in mak- Ing mortar for the building of the new Greek church over the well. At the fountain of the Virgin, in Nazareth, I; aave watched the village women fill! their jars and carry them off on their heads, just as Mary used to do at the same spring; but some, I noticed, car- ried the square cans of the Standard! 211 company. These same cans furnish most of. the tin that is used in Asia. As Ii have watched long caravans of camels’ searing cases of Standard Ofl into the. mterior I have recalled the hundreds of little tin-smithing shops I have seen; ull over Asia, wherein the native: workmen were beating out these tins ind fashioning them into a score of irticles for domestic use. In Egypt ! once secured a mummified cat: how. i S——— eo | ot to carry it without breaking was my preblem. I put it up to the first tin. smith I met, and in ten minutes he had transformed part of an American oi! can into a well-made coffin for pussy. “The Light of Asia,” Standard oil is called out here, because it has displaced olive oil and candle dips as an illuminant. The School Teacher and Statesman- ship. There is no novelty in the state- ment, which has been repeated by ev- ery observer that has ever been in Turkey, that the greatest part Amer- ica has in the awakening of this em- pire—and no other nation has had a greater—is through the American schools, which have leaven-1 the whole lump with American ideals. These are “yreaking down, to some de- gree, the religious sectarianism which is the curse of the country. They are even making the new generation of Moslems tolerant. A case in point is that of the Maronites, who were so bitter that they would not even let a | foreign traveler pitch his tent in one of their villages. Now the people them- | selves are forcing their religious lead- ers to admit or provide schools. It is in a stiff Maronite district, out- side of Beirut, that the only woman physiciar in Turkey who possesses license from the government to prac- tice has her headquarters. Dr. Mary Eddy is » wonderful American woman, of tireless energy, masculine initiative and extraordinary skill, whose experi- ences in itinerating among the Arabs and throughout Syria read like a ro- mance. Now she has opened the first tuberculosis sanitarium in the empire, and she plans a nation-wide anti-tuber- culosis campaign. In this she is sup- ported by the American Red Cross at Beirut, established by Consul-Cen- ony here In Jerusalem. It has existed for more than a score of years, and outwardly appears to be more pros- perous than at any other time in its history. It numbers more than a hun- dred persons, none of whom, strange to say, is a socialist. They claim to be merely a big family, with no partic- ular theories to work out. They have all things in common, and each does the work for which he or she seems best qualified. While a large percen- tage of the American colony are Swedes, the majority of the group hold American citizenship. They do an extensive business in pressed flowers and clive wood articles, and | their store is admittedly the foremost | in the city, showing that even in the Orient the one-price principle can be made to pay. An official at the Amer- ican consulate said to me, when we were discussing the colony, “I notice that when anybody in the city wants anything done he usually goes to the American colony.” Thus the American trait of efficiency has come to be the dominant characteristic of the com- | munity. Like the ill-fated American colony | at Jaffa, this one was started on a | peculiarly religious basis. A Chicago | lawyer and his wife came out here te ' a | wait for the return of the Messiah. : They held extreme views on many sub- | jects, including the making of money. Hard times eventually drove them to work, and now, while the religious as- pect of the colony has fallen very much into the background, it is a no- table commercial success. There was | no marrying or giving in marriage in | the earlier years of the community, ana n.equent and grave charges were | maae against it, especially in the mat- | ter of free love. The members them- | selves, and their friends, have always | Camels Laden With American Oil. eral G. Bie Ravendal. be seen how the American influence in Turkey is working in humanitarian and inspirational ways. Europe's Designs on Palestine. In contrast with the altruistic la- bors of America for Turkey and es- pecially for the Holy Land, is the con- | Thus it ay | marry, aithough all eat at the same | | i | duct of the great European powers, | who are playing a skillful game for the ultimate control of this land, and even making use of religious preju- dices to that end. Russia fosters and supports pilgrimages. As one instance ' of her may be said that she maintains in Je- rusalem a hospice where 10,000 pil- grims may be entertained at one time. She stands behind the Greek church, and, equally important, the Greek church stands behind her. A wide- spread ecclesiastical support is of more value out here than a warship. France is no longer allied to the! church, but just the same she is the proteciress of all Roman Catholic in- terests. Nobody is so blind as to sup- pose this interest represents religious zeal, Both these nations, as well as Great Britain also, seem to be hopelessly outdistanced by Germany. The kaiser impartially supports Protestant and Catholic, anl also goes out of his way to throw elaborate, if artificial, buo- quets to Islam, all in the interest of Germany's schemes here. The Ger- man name has been written large all over Syria. Up in the famous ruins of Baalbeck, which Emperor Willism visited in 1898, may be seen an incon- gruous marble and inlaid mother-of- pearl tablet, recording his sentimen:s of appreciation of the ruin and of Ab- dul Hamid--hoth ruins significantly coupled. On the tomb of Saladin the Great, who drove the Crusaders from , Palestine, is still preserved a faded wreath of flowers, laid there by the Christian emperor of whose eulogy of Islam the Mohammedans have made 80 much. A gold wreath, with a pen- dant which ig apparently a posthu- mous decoration, was presented to the tomb by William. But as the decora- tion contains the figure cf a cross, its presence is counted sacrilege by the more fanatical Moslems, and it is nec- essary to keep two guards always on duty in the tomb to prevent the for- cible removal of the wreath. Tre most conspicuous objects in the landscape of the Holy Land, except Mount Hermon, are the two towers, or steeples, erected on the Mount of Olives by the Germans and Russians. These are the first objects that meet the traveler's eye, from whatever di- rection he comes. They may be seen from far over the Jordan: by them the Holy City's site may be located from Mount Nebo. Local residents point to certain features about these towers which indicate that in time of war they could be readily used for other than religious purposes. Naturally, the object of the present activities of the powers which have ambitions of their own for Syria is to be ready for all eventualities. An American Communistic Experi- ment. The only communistic experiment of wnich I have knowledge that has not cone to an early and inglorious end is what is known as the American col- interest in this direction, it | | | | | | | hotly denied these, and called them slanders. At present the members table and share the same life. They seem uncommonly happy, and are in | especially good repute with the na- tives, to whom they show hospitality. Certainly their life is in lovely con- | trast to the bitter religious sectarian- ' ism here. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Lighthouse Without a Keeper. “What do vou think of a perpetual lighthouse, nezding no keeper and yet as regular in its flashes of light as one maintained by the government?” asked Albert D. Van Wyck. | “This natural light never fails, and ' that means much for navigation. It is a volcano on the island of San Sal- | vador. This volcanic lighthouse is | about eight miles inland from the port | of Acajutla. of cloud by day and the flash of its | light by night has been valuable to | mariners for years: It can be seen | far out at sea and a burst of flame | has gone upward every seven minutes without the variation of a second for | many years. “A lighthouse fee is collected of ali vessels that put in at the harbor near- | est the volcano and no skipper ob- | jects. He knows that the volcano is more reliable than the lighthouses | kept by human beings on other coasts | and the novelty of the light is worth the price charged by the government.” : 1 The Jews in Palestine. A wonderful result is following the | opening of Palestine to the Jews, by | proclamation of the Turkish constitu- | ‘tion. The influx now in progress is | enormous. Jews are reckoned by tens of thousands in Tiberias, Jaffa, Safed and Haifa, while the Hebrew popula- tion at Jerusalem now numbers at Jeast 100,000, or four-fifths of the whole population. Thousands are flocking from Persia and Russia. The Jordan valley, which was the property of the ex-sultan, Abdul Hamid, is be- ing bought up by Jewish syndicates. So is the large and beautiful and fer- tile plain of Esdraelon: The value of land is already quadrupled. One day the world will wake up .and rub its eyes with wonder when it discovers what is going on. To Honor Distinguished Woman. Mme, Curie, codiscoverer with her late husband of radium, has been in- vited to come from Paris to America next year for the purpose of taking part in the International Chemical congress, which is to be held in Wash- ‘ington. Last year the Chemical So- ciety of America elected Mme. Curie an honorary member. Maybe Not. “You ought to wear clothes, de- clared the missionary. “Clothes are as cheap as dirt.” “But are they as healthful?” de- manded the South Sea islander. Room In Front. Conductor—~Move forward there, please. Casey (who has moved along twice) ~Divil a bit furder! Of paid me nick! 4 1 { 1 i TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES. It is a veritable pillar | : t' ride not t' kape on walkin’ It would be js as sensible £0 3 your | “stomach trouble,” who could have been | wpma edical Dis- | Coal is | | covery, the great remedy for diseases of | pockets with coal and expect to aim, 3 it is to fill the stomach expect to keep strong. converted into heat only by conbustion. | | the id of digestion | and nutrition. 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