SR RR a 7 ** Thee we but, taken all! interesting avan of the Christian earthly city of Da- | keeping of the solemn For when the of spring j= calling out the destinies of song in ripple of leaf, and throat of bird, and in the longings of the hu- man heart, Easter glows a work proclaiming that Jeru- salem, “abode of peace,” for- aver through the mists of distance on the horizon of human aspira Jaffa is the port of P the oligrims land, whose goal is Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the facade of the “Holy Fire.” Jaffa, oldest among old cities of the world, to whose shores the Greek sent its Persoay, harbor has the Pharaohs of Egypt, the brs bee, the shadow that fist of Saladin, the Lion's lips, the glint crown, and the great eyea of Saint Louis, king, a barefooted through tt} erown of th to his ship--this old Jaffa, fez-shaped hill, looks dest nothir g inter ia bright with groves The sky beauty, and those long bands of burn ng Gre that threa he Medit off there, ] thie holy fre some ovrowd jostling iis ng ta way ward threo streed: Arms tic, Latlin, grims whe theae ® year, Thei beltway walle; Russian boge color menian pea the dull blues eloak: the pe hredbare br the Coplic raiment, d the 1 eloth of the rich Israelite in the throng keep his Passover in The Ntile donkey fore and aft a glance that Abraham and Plato, with bright saddleel pings, for they are going from to Joransalom These detestable little beasts are execrated in eight tongues plus 800 fringed with unparliamen- tary language, in Russian, Syrian, Coptic, Abyssinian, Greek, Armenian and Halisn. Nay, with all the scope of the Mnglish alphabet from D to N. from the English tourist. But these Httie Oriental donkeys are lords of the situation until yon are well geated it is half dramatic, together it is wholly move with a car world toward the vid for the feast of LO Kaster. Hight ACTOSS some Arises fon wh ere the and | alestine w hose seen Ave shook from the | curve on 1e arns town set late fr sting But pom ates egran and olive is baptized 13 ants he the Or, who also i pressing Jerusalem g that are kick and su upset the gravity are dressed and ont ths and have clutched, some warily, of the won- | fig. alarm up the | and | that But eccentricities around hin hall begin the hunchback, The amiable camel, as you walk You s cent of this hist you For he suddenly language of the argues it out, 1 yrie takes Christian tourist, ipingly, with he won't “get up.” poor fellow! there {8 something in learning lowli- | ness from the camel the verge of the Holy Land And con- quer and learn the entire pass his gait, | whet You on then, you Wi v y { 1 yints larood way is legged way | of Naplous, the Neopolis of Herod. From this point vegetation disappears completely, You leave behind the palm gardens and the tawny orange trees, the white houses and gypsy sheds. A two hours’ ride through a mountainous, desolate looking coun- try brings the pilgrim to an open spot where a long line of wall surmounted by scattered towers comes suddenly into view. A shout shivers down the long file of pilgrims, followed by a profound silence: JERUSALEM! The prelude to the first the Holy City is the ery of twenty ages for the manifest God The Mosque of Omar tops the sacred hill, bunt the face of God's Son erowns Je- rusalem forever Your own heart beats answer back to the heart beats of that Man who walked the off Through highways thread the surg ni x long 1 of earth, ing themselves now against Buddha agninst Mahome t, gainst bleak wall of Now foam sight of gireets there, those ine . now now the against on And you and look wird those . usalem solemn line of broad cry: THE LIGHT WORLD. stand i hig ond the hways “1 AM OF THE The atmosphere that ig Poetry, the mist that arr Powe ut the alem is old Rome is upon tion. There seems , however that i: of thiy resting no rest throng h the sing, suing on throug the last ear hirist ut one sum up the Itroversy eager gate toward ed around “Holy PI iurch of the Holy heart that dic you stand wi and witness the grip rid upon a great the since the aces’ in Jerusalem Si tates, not th. disg cyt ong 8 putes, as in its enclosure tual wide we and the gra Ideal. For hri Idea, sp of soul R&R great century of the C stian era, pavement fonate and of The twin Sepulchre rise in above the buried Between these h was, been worn by pilgrims, of calm browed dor ma jest city has of pass kings phers, philo domes, a Turkis establisl aver building sheik centuries ago, by Saladin to mount guard throng within the the domes a As aie “Now when the first day of the week, He peared first to Mary Magdalene, | out of whom he had cast seven dev. iis Jesus was ap- up there, how you survey fire of the eyes in the crowd half a mile or more below who cannot join | the chameleon throng pressing on through the gates of little Jaffa! Through the rich shadows thought your pilgrim path leads on through spaces of sun in the valley gardens around this little Jaffa. You pass by hundreds of Persian water- wheels, cracking like the shading of the Nile valley. It is the month of April, and the Jaffa gardens are en- chanting. The perfume of orange, lemon, apricot is an Araby of attar. Seven miles of blossom--and beyond stretch the plains of Laron, men- tioned in the Bible, extending along the sea from Gaza to Mount Carmel on the north. It is a vast and im- pressive outlook. Across the undu- iations of plain the crystal shimmer of the mirage flits. Afar, a squad of Arab horsemen, outlines itself on the burning haze. On the northeast rise the mountains around Samaria. At Rama, the ancient Arimathea, we pass an old convent resembling a for tress rather than a monastic estab Hshment, if one can judge from the thickness of its walls. The view from the parapet is magnificent, and the convent is surrounded by tall Oriental palm trees, which greatly enhance the picturesqueness of the solemn place. Farther on, beyond the sheen of of | the cascade that forms through the Burnand ‘And she went and told them that From the painting by and wept that And they, He was when they had alive, and had strangely at variance with the mental imagery around it. In front is the large open court, thronged with relic mongers, who are offering their sa- cred wares that will soon be borne to every part of the known world, Above lead in and out to galleries and cham- bers within the church. The great building is all an odd tattered mass, but laced together with the sigh of ail the centuries for Light! You enter. At one side is the ultimate splendor of the Greek Church that triumphs in its possession of Constantine's ba- silica and of the rock of Calvary. Yonder in that,deep corner is the squalid poverty of the two Coptic and Syrian chapels. Across these shrines, across the jeweled geometry of the Greek glitter, threading through the great syllables that were first sllvered by the voice of Homer, breaks the melodious and duleet chanting of the Latin Church. Stand still and listen to History in these varied voices that are supplicating the Father of Ail it is Easter even. Above the great rotunda of the nave soars the dome of the Holy Sepulchre. The sky is seen through the opening in the centre which, like the Parthenon of Pericles, admits the Orient morning. You are watching, breathlessly, in the gallery. on the north glide, Below you is the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, divid- the Sepulchre and a for ed into two parts ‘Stone of Angels It is est white tapers. On its north side | the round aperture fro the Holy Fhe is to the great Greek Church side t for the Armenians, who Syrian, Coptic and Abys- This Chapel of the verily, above of of ym wh for south ich tream On the fire outls ght the pligrims line to Kk &1 1 or IONE Oonlie O other up. other's up, volee throng. ing in whirl the whole great rotun- da It maelstrom of men It swirls huge vorte around h Chapel lel That chapel is in awful silen still; but nt- vilable of Greek broldered pro- chant and ca- echoed from the the Dress all. Cha the yond: ar. from out irch, ! ave iber, that have thun- he throne the Battle of with the yelll of Constantine Navarino, mingle ng of the voices of the This mob drives the Turkish soldiers from the church its on-seething rush bears the Greek Patr Damianos from within the procession toward that silent still Holy Sepulchre. And to Chapel of the shut unda is now an uproar like phases and of Homer Hundreds of bare arms are stretched out toward that silent of the Bepulchre off there peaks not Beside aper- a Greek priest stands waiting Suddenly a bright flame flashes acr the tiny window The sus tained excl of the next few moments never be forgotten as long as life The fire is caught by the pale-faced priest And slowly, randly, gr then quickening a8 the burning of sunrise on the seca the fire leaps from wave wave humanity, kindling fr taper to taper, caught from hand hand, till the whole Church of Holy Sepulchre is a sheet of fire, acreage of flame. Every candle has a voice, and the tremblings the traveling light.are only the shudder. ing sobs and cries and thanksgivings of the loving, pathetic throng who be lieve that God Himself has descended upon the holy tomb within the silent darkness of the sepulchre, and once again across a world sald, “Let there be Light!” Amidst the oriental confusion, the clamor, the color, the riot devo- tion, the Greek patriarch Damianos is borne out of the church on the shoul ders of the pligrims, in a half-fainting state. And It is at this moment that to a horseman at the gates is given the sacred fire to bear quickly to the lamps around the Silver Star in the midnight cave of the Nativity of Beth. lechem-—the lamps that are never ex. tinguished. It is at this moment that still another horseman gallops rapid. ly away from the courtyard of the Holy Sepulchre, bearing the lighted taper northwards to Jaffa, to the ils door is The rot the oceanic phra BOR Mo the ORR tement will lasts adually sacred of ym to the an of of its harbor, waiting to bear the Holy the patriarchs Spiridon of Antioch, Konstantinos of Constantinople, and to Sophronius of Alexandria. throng back into the church, and, like children in a father's home, lie down to sleep within the great ro. tunda's calm. They are waiting for the midnight service. You, too, re. turn to think and ponder--and to lated as is this scene of to-day from any experience in your life, it has stirred the deep consciousness within, the grip of the actual world upon a great Idea; and the grasp of the soul upon a great Ideal, who said, the Light of the World! "Lucy Cleveland, - FE TILA I PTR po bh A. BHAWYER, Prop. @eod table board and sleeping apartments Bho aholosst liquors a the bas, Blabls as tl rs | f 1 Jno. F.Gray & Son Sueccdssors ly .s URANT HOOVER Control Stxteen of the J atgen Fire aud Life rance in the World. phnles THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST ., . . . No Mutuals No Assessments Before insuring r life see the contract of THRE HOMB which in case of desth between the tenth and twentieth years re- turns all premiums paid in ed. dition to the face of the policy. to Loan on Fires Mortgage Office in Crider's Stone Buil BELLEFONTE, PA. Telephone Connection TTT rrr TTY rrr Irrereriiid Money THE ories of ICE, Arctic ex+ p in tha ships fast, and In ike eggshells, steamer, with hemmed in nown BaThor, iCe 1 » the Year May, 1909 harbor of St the way tc field bore nming her in twenty etched and hur harbor, » in OR r fee or th out to ymocks It blocking it Mongolian, entirely tight in the joe BEA nd the bul a very sudden in crush the ron un estou! AR was not this was pol 0 A pressures might a moment At once, f left the Mongol voyagi har! opening choked by ice, two small but to the rescue The Diana pushed inte d opening it with all her might, to make a lane for free steamer Prosperc best to reach the ice But the cx efforts The fielé as they attacked it. the Prospero hersell was 1d canght ans ; Mon veggels came out B08 gleamer the , ramming an water The coastal her Moug thei: aise bound mocked seemed to grow By night and was and still the regs being fifteer with many ome polar bear @ true 1 passengers, unable «i the strain of anxiety, undertook ach the land the ice field capiair sured TT, immea: ' high, a 1 3 and jesse wert » floes olar scene stand to re The no over them {ti} ate brave fishermen now on the ict toward the steam and auvice from t! reassured the these five m d to got RETR they But min id they mounted the d picked their iding like th places other en and womer to the shore and in eke oken the an WAY over Lie fee, sl children Watched from the Mongolian and they struggled to the field at only a strip of wat tween them and tug, which had been took them ashore Their e: to remain on the since it was now the Mongolian crushed, all hands could easily take to the ice field and be rescued from its shore ward edge pero, free again, were still not able to get. any nearer. Another night came gn, but now the pack was mov- fog, under a change of wind, and breaking up slowly but surely. The steamer rose and fell with the swells; she became little by little more free; ‘and at the dawn of the third day, with all steam up, she began to nose about through the ice field, and slow- | | 1y, painfully, thread her way between | the broken masses. The great ice jam was over, and the Mongolian left her involuntary Arctic experience be | | hind--not to be forgotten, however, | but to remain in the memory of every passenger, and to pass into the stories of the Ashermen.— Forward. HANDED DOWN, “Yes: 1 have a rich brother.” “Does that do you any particular good “Oh, yes. penders.’—Loulsville nal, Owing to the rapidly growing popu. {ation of Germany, especially in the industrial cities and towns, and the relative scarcity of productive land, the natich becomes each year more fependent upon foreign countries for Ie food supply. Emo both shore, the ice where anxiously, the border of harbor mouth, iay he. There a awaiting them, the the town fety encouraged the others ship until the last, were I get all his old sus Courier-Jour- i ATTORNEYS AT-LAW EsorLz Broom BELLEFONTE, PA Bucoessors to Onvis, Bowes & Orvis Consultation in Englah and German. me = dk CLENENTD DALE ATTORYEY-AT-LAW BRELLEFONTS, PA. Office N. W. corner Diamond, two doors from First Nations! Bank. irs W G RURKLE ATTORNEY AT LAW BELLZFONTE FPA All kinds of legal business slionded to promplly Special sttention given to sollections. Offoe, Mf floor Crider's Exchanges re H B. SPANGLER ATTORNEY AT -LAW BELLEFORTRP A Practioss (no a!l the courts Consuliation Is English and German Office, Orider's Exchange Buuding tyed Oi fot Hote! EDWARD ROYER, Proprietor Loostion : One mie South of Centre Rall Assommedations firnstclam. Good ber. MW wishing to enjoy sn evening given attention. Mesls for such oocasiond pared om short notice. Always rt... for the transient trade. BATES 1: $1.06 PER DAY. LIVERY Special Effort made to Accommodate Com mercial Travelers... D. A. BOOZER Centre Hall, Pa. Penn'a RL Ry 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE | GUTIE Tape Manns Desicnn CorymionTs &C. 8 sketoh and dene indion may ot her AS A nvane sending guickly = " Patenis t Laken through uy cial mothoe, wit hoot chan Scientific American, A handsomely 13 vetrated weekly rest a. reinth fn ¥ a aad ry Terma, Fear y alt ie te MUNN & Co.cc New Tori Brauch (hee Penn's Valley Banking Cana CENTRE HALL, PA, W. B. MINGLE, Ceshie Receives Deposits . . Discounts Notes . . . ¢ H. @. STRCHNMEIER, CENTRE MALL, . . . . . PENN Manufacturer of and Dealer In HIGH GRADE ... MONUMENTAL WORK in all kinds of Marble am (Oranite, Dont fail 0 got my prio Tee. eT... 4 LARGEST [ASURERGE Agency IN CENTRE COUNTY H.E. FENLON Agent
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers