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the sumrfsouTE
MARCH 29, 1902
THIRD <PAGE
at are the Prospects for a New
Jerusalem?
Zionist Movement Exhaustively DiscussecDWith Plenty of Local Coloring
By C H Levy
Written for CAo Sunny South,
! s it possible for the Jews} to
buy Palestine' and erect a
Jewish state there.? This
question has been raised
by the Zionists headed, by
Dr. Theodore Herzi* of
Vienna, and Dr. Max Nor-
dau, of Paris. It has-been
answered in. various ways
by various men the ■ world \
over.
If the Oriental«dispatches !
are to be believed. Dr. ;
Herzi was not long ago i
summoned to the Ylldiz Kiosk, the palace 1
cf the sultan, and there encouraged to !
believe that he can arrange for introdue- |
lng large numbers of Jews into-Palestine. j
upon favorable terms, with the implied !
unders'tand'mg that he make it worth j
while for tho sublime porte to reverse
the adverse position it has occupied of
late years.
Suppose it be true that if tho sultan
were paid a few millions, or many mil
lions, he wou.d permit the Jews to re
establish themselves oil the soil of
Palestine, would it be feasible or even
possible?
it is asserted that tho European powers
would oppose sucli a mow most vigorous
ly; and msiory seems toiupdiold this con
tention.
How does it happen that the sultan
holds possession of that lano whicn is
iiio.-t holy to all Christian nations even
though any one of tut in is strong enough
U> wrest u trom his grasp? Tile re core
of the crusades answers this. Palestine
would now be in the hands of trie Chris
tians had it net been for tne jealousy
and mistrust with Vmic-h Franco.and Eng
land trCifetl each other.
» nee crusading nines two new nations,
Germany and Russia. have grown up.
ai d advanced to commanding positions m
me world's affairs, and neither of these
has failed at any time to grasp all that
, oul .i ill Palestine. There is not a sa-
ered rite in all the Holy Land on which
the czor has not erected churches and
monasteries, which on occasion could be
turned into fortresses.
The German kaiser conceived the bril
liant idea of a pilgrimage to Palestine
a few years ago. and the peCenOerotUhe
Faith as he called himself, showed them
Church of ihe Nativity, Jerusalem
the r veren.ee in which he holds its sacred
shrines.
France has hundreds of monasteries
through the length and breadth of the
land, many of them dating back in origin
to the middle ages, and her people are
most jealous to guard their interests in
each settlement.
The. entire tittle country is only 150
miles long and SO miles wide at the widest
ed in its narrow confines, so large a part
of which is almost barren.
Tht barrenness of Palestine has been
accounted for in various ways; it is prob
able that tln» chief reason for its degen
eration is the fact that for centuries it
was the battle ground of the nations,
from the time of tjie oge*long contests
of Assyria and Egypt for world suprem
acy to the more modern conflicts between
themselves who, with all the fanaticism
for which they have so long been fa
mous, would oppose the touching of the
shrines more sacred to them than to
Jew or Christian.
Whet:, more thain thirty years agv>, the
then prince of Wales, now Edward VII of
England, was'visiting Palestine, he wish
ed to eater the famjous "Tomb of Abra
ham,’’ and although he had the authority
conferred by a special order from the
sultan, there was almost a. riot among
the Moslems- on the day that the prince
was admitted Into th:e mosque covering
the tomb. Even then, he was .not per
mitted to got farther than the rail around
the -tomb of the patriarchs.
If it was necessary then for the.sultan
to protect his guests with his soldiery,
what would happen now If an attempt
were made to surrender this and other
shrines by the fanatic Arabs?
It may be asserted that these sancti
fied sites are to be exdepted from the
control of tho Jewish state. If this were
dene, there would be more outside of the
Jewish statle than In it. Jerusalem, the
capital, is not a city but a. shrine. Every
street has its famotis spots, and' churches
of all creeds are crowded upon one an
other. Thle very capital of Palestine
would be outside of the proposed Jewish
State. But going farther and always ex
cepting tho sacred spots, Bethlehem, the
Christian city, would have to he left out
also, and Nazareth with all its churches
marking the house of Jcsu3, the carpen
ter shop, etc.
Whole mountains, like Mount Tabor,
would have to be excepted, for it is the
traditional site of the “Transfiguration of
Jesus.” And would not the Jo-dan river
and the Sea of Galilee themselves, also
be beyond the control of this proposed
Jewish government? For to the former,
thousands come for baptism in emulation
of the example of Jesus, and thousands
seek the latter for its associations with
the miracles and parables of Jesus.
It would turn this article into a cata
logue, in fact, to enumerate all of the
■pots now marked as sacred by the Chris
tian churches of the
places covered by the
Mohammedan Mosques,
from the site of Solo
mon’s temple, now occu
pied by the Mosque of
Omar to the reputed
tomb of Moses, the Holy ‘Mousa’ of the
Moslems. But it is easy to see that if
entire cities like Jerusalem and Bethle
hem are to be excepted, the scheme of
a Jewish state in Palestine has tremen-
Wealthy
Hebrews
Oppose
the
Plan
dous opposition to encounter; t'Ue sultan,
the "sick man of Europe,” who is per
mitted to hold the Holy Land, merely
because no one Christian power would
permit any other to control this land,
would certainly not be permitted to dis
pose of the entire country to the Jews,
who to this day, reject Jesus as Divine
While the Moslems at least accept him
as one of the prophets.
Nor should it be forgotten that certain
parts of Palestine, like Jericho, for in
stance, are. unhabitable by Europeans,
on account of the climate, thus further
limiting the cultivable area of the al
ready limited country.
The opposition by many influential
Jews to the whole idea is, however, one
of the most difficult objections to over
come. Both Nordau and Zangwill fthe
latter, after two years of opposition is
now a pronounced Zionist) may rail at
the wealthy Jews for not coming for
ward with their millions In support of
them to a plan whioh seems impractica
ble and visionary.
Many of these men hold that even if
a Jewish state could be founded, they
would not like to see it: for the Jew
Is such by virtue of 'his religion, not
of his race. He is called a Jew because
his religion is Judaism, but he is a Ger
man, an Englishman, or an American
just as truly and sincerely as any other
citizen of these lands.
The wealthy Hebrews pity the condi
tion of the oppressed Jews in. Russia and
Roumania, but they believe, that it would
require hundreds of years and billions of
money to remove five or six million men
and women and give, them a start in
Palestine or anywhere else. They be
lieve that the Jewish problem must be
solved in the lands in which Jews now
live.
So there are several potent reasons why
the dream of a Jewish state will proba
bly never come true. The sultan could
not sell Palestine if he would, because
of the opposition of the European powers,
and of his own Moslem subjects, not to
speak of the opposition to the founding
of this state on the part of many influ
ential Jews. It is one of the greatest
obstacles in the way of the realization
of this visionary scheme.
General Lloyd Wheaton is very popular
with his soldiers in the Philippines, who
speak of him among themselves as "old
dad.” It is a favorite joke that he needs
no staff, because he can make himself
heard half a mile without straining him
self.
Ascent of Popocatapetl Danger
ous But Sublime
Jin Intensely Interesting Account of the Conquering of North
America's Second Highest Peak
cA Samaritan family
part. The
ea is 6.040 square miles, ac
cording to the English
Palestine Palestine exploration
.Small fund, smaller than the
and Hope* state of New Jersey,
lessly which contains 7,576
Sterile square miles.
Thus
the Jewish state
has less ground to
the million and a
of New Jersey, and it is feared that the
five million oppressed Jews of Russia and
Roumania aione, might be rather crow.l-
it appears that
to be erected
stand upon than
half inhabitants
Prominent People and. Odd Events
Governor Ferguson, of Oklahoma, has
iust b' j en photographed for the first time
in twenty years. The governor is not
eccentric, hut old-fashioned and extieme-
ly modest.
The name of Lieutenant Charles Car-
roll Wood, a grandnephew of Jefferson
Davis and a great-grandson of President
Zachary Taylor, appears as tne first on
the roll of honored dead on Canada’s me
morial statue to her soldiers who fell in
the Boer war and which wtll be ere.%ed
in Halifax.
Though he failed in mathematics at
West Point, Lieutenant Louis J. Van
Schnick managed to make a record for
himself in the Philippines, having an arm
nearly sliced off ir a fight against over
whelming odds. He is now In New York
to undergo an operation necessitated bj
this wound. Grant and Sheridan, it will
be recalled, stood low at West Point.
Otto Schmahl, of* Cincinnati, has re
ceived $12,000 under the will of his grand
father, Max Schmahl. a wealthy German
sugar refiner, "because he was brave and
loval to his country in the time of trou
ble ” Otto Schmahl lives in modest cir
cumstances with his parents. When war
was declared with Spain he was one of
the first to volunteer in Cincinnati. He
saw service in Cuba and in the Philip
pines. ^
The Association of Graduates of the.
United States military academy has is
sued a bulletin containing a roll of mem
bers, which shows that Thomas A. Mor
ris, class of 1834, is the oldest living grad
uate of the institution. There is only one
survivor each of the classes of 1835, 1S3S,
3840, 3811 and 1848. These are respectively
Herman Haupt, William Austine, Robert
P. Ma 'lay, Simon B. Buckner and Joseph
C. Clark.
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The severe illness of King Leopold cf
Belgium brings to mind the fact that the
heir to the throne is Prince Albert of
Flanders, who visited this country tor
three months in 1898 and made many
friends. The future king was horn m
1875. His father was the late count of
Flanders and his mother. Marie, princess
of Hohenzolkrn. Prince Albert married
in ItKJu Duchess Elizabeth, third daughter
of Duke Charles of Bavaria. A son and
heir presumptive was born to them a
year ago.
Too Late.—The good minister of a Srot-
Persia and Greece and Greece and Rome.
Clearing the hills of their trees has made
it possible for the heavy downpours of the
roiny season to sweep the soil from the
rocks and leave them exposed, giving
little space for the cultivation of the soli
or even the breeding of cattle.
Tho practical bearing of the country’s
sterility upon the re-population scheme
has been commented upon adversely time
and again by observant travelers, and
even the best friends of the Zionistic
movement admit that the country must
be reclaimed before it can yield the pro
duce to make it self-supporting and that
the reclamation must be gradual.
it is true that some Christions hold
a sentimental prejudice in favor of the
return of the Jews, based upon certain
conceptions of the mean-
Christian ing of biblical prophecies
Objection which seem to indicate
to Jewish that Jewish preoccupation
Reoccupa- will precede tne mlllenni-
um. But these prophe
cies were uttered before
the. return from Babylonian captivity and
many biblical students hold that they
have already been fulfilled so far as they
will ever be.
Moreover, it is probable that the very
< hristian nations who are interested in
the coming of the millennium would he
the last to surrender -their sacred sites
into the hands of the Jews. The Greeks
hold possession of the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre at Jerusalem and of the Ba
silica of the Nativity of Bethlehem, be
sides many other sacred sites, and so
jealously do they guard these that the
Lat'n Catholics are admitted on suffer
ance only. There have been many clashes
between the Christians of different na
tionalities at the Church of the Sepul-
and the Turkish guards have re
chrc
tish parish had once upon a time a g
wish for an old couple to become to
talers, allien they were in no wise e:
to carry out. After much pressing, how- | t ia,n city, with only
evir, they consented, laying down as ■■
condition that they should be allowed
ktep a 1 Kittle of "Auld Kirk’’ for medic-i-
t peatedly been called in to quell the dis
turbance.
Bethlehem, indeed, has become a Chris-
a few Jewish and
Moslem inhabitants, and the Christians of
the town would certainly not give up
nal purposes. About a tortii'ght after- j their homes at the command of the sul-
wards John began to feel his resolution
weakening, hut he was determined not to
be tho first to give away. In another
week, however, he collapsed entirely
“Jenny, woman,” he said, “l’v an awfu’
pain in my heid; ye mioht gio :ne a wee
drappie, an’ see gin it'll die- me ony
guid." “Veil gudman.” she replied, “ye’re
<.t>, re late o’ askin’, for ever sin' that bot
tle cam' into the hoose, I’ve been both
ered sae wi’ pains i’ my heid ’t is a 'dune
an' there’s nae drappie left.”—New Yarlt
Tribune.
tan unless forced to do so. The leaders
of the Zionistic movement have recognized
this difficulty, but have waved it aside
by stating that, of course, they would
not interfere with the sacred spots. But
what kind of a Jewish state would that
be in which whole towns would be beyond
the control of its government. ’
There is another and even greater
difficulty in the w>y of the founding of
this proposed state. It is the Moslems
By Robert S Barrett
Written forV/te 5unny South
HE first object to greet the
travelers’ eye as he. looks
over the valley of Mexico
I? the snow-capped moun
tain. of Popocatepetl, the
second highest peak In the
North American continent,
and one of the most beau
tiful objects that grace the
glorious scenery of Mexico.
Tt Is now an extinct vol
cano, its name signifying
"the smoking mountain,”
but sul'phur fumes and
smoke are still emitted, and there is no
telling when it will again arise in its
fury and pour down a flood of lava and
ashes upon the valleys ol' Mexico and
Puebla. According to the latest and most
exact figures its elevation is 17,800 feet,
which gives it the first place among the
mountains of Mexico and second only to
Mount SL Elias n i lie North American
ci ntinent.
From the first time I looked upon Popo
catapetl there came to me a great longing
'to make its closer acquaintance, and, if
possible, to ascend to its very summit.
n he trip had been made a number of
times previously and parties who had un
dertaken it spoke so enthusiastically of
the magnificence ot the view, the beauty
of the scenery and the novelty of the
climb, that even the great difficulties and
dangers that surrounded its aecomplish-
ment seem'd to be but a small matter.
Alter some little difficulty, I secured
Messrs. Lottbens, McLar.a and Searle as
companions and preparations were soon
completed for the journey.
Leaving Mexico City in the early morn
ing of one of the Innumerable Mexican
holidays, we took the Interoceanic rail
way to Amecameea. a little village nestled
at the foot of the mountains. The road
fellows the route taken by Cortez on his
I first trip from the coast to the capital
j of the Aztecs, and it is easy to see that
! hut little progress has been made in that
I part of Mexico since that memorable jour-
j i.ey nearly four centuries ago. Ameca-
i meca is a typical Indian village and there
is only one person in the town that speaks
English. Its population is 8,000 and its
houses are built in the most primitive
manner. Back of the city rises the re
markable Sacro Monte (sacred mountain),
a solitary hill, heavily wcoaed. cn the top
of which, reached by a magnificent stone
stairway, are two famous churches.
At Amecameea the arrangements for the
ascent were completed after a great
amount of talk and bargaining. Horses
and pack mules were se-
tions Car cured, four guides, mozo
the Ascent md driver engaged, and
Included permission secured from
Much the representative of Gen-
Bar^ain* oral Ochca, the owner of
intf ihe crater, to sleep at his
ranch on the mountain side. I discarded
all evidences of civilization and looked a
typical desperado in an old suit of
clothes, heavy black sweater, broad-brim
med Mexican sombrero tied tightly under
my chin, and white handkerchief knotted
around my throat. My companions were
similarly attired, and as we mounted our
wiry ponies, weighed down with heavy
Mexican saddles, and galloped through
the main plaza of the city, we looked as
if we might have been as villainous a
gang of horse thieves as were ever exter
minated.
Leaving the roughly paved streets of tho
town we were soon galloping through a
beautiful valley, green and gorden with
grain, the immense fields being parted by
hedges of maguey. The road began to
grow worse as we left the town behind
ana scon we were traveling in a single file
a. the bottom of a great barranca. The
uust was at least 4 inches thick and rose
ia such a cloud that it was impossible to
even see the ground. At first it was In
tensely disagreeable, but alter the eyes,
ears, mouth and nose were completely
filled the dust was not noticed.
A half hour more and we were beyond
civilization and were steadily olimbing
upward. The character of tho country
began to change. The fertile fields hail
given wray to brush and rocks which
were now In place giving way to a forest
of pines which filled the air with their
resinous odor. One fact that was dis
tinctly noticeable was the absence of
animal life. There was not a bird in
sight, nor was the stillness of that vast
ferest broken by a sound except the
steady hoof beats of our horses.
After three hours’ ride we came in
sight of the hoary head of old Popo, shin
ing In the sun, and at the same time there
came a chilling breeze from Its ice-clad
sides that went through our thick cloth
ing as if ii were paper. The sun went
behind a cloud for a second and a feeling
of dread surrounded us as we thought of
the perilous climb to the top of that great
monarch of mountains. In a second, how
ever, the sun had come out and wc were
continuing our journey upward. One of
the hoys commenced a song and soon the
mountain sides were echoing the refrain.
A little further up, at an elevation of
11,000 feet, a glorious view of the valley
was caught through the tre.s and far
away the little town of Amecameea lay
at the foot of the dark grfen Sacro
Monte. With the aid of a pair of powerful
opera glasses ihe buff colored tower of
the old church, in the main plaza, could
be distinguished.
As the sun was commencing to fade
away we turned out of the main road
into a path that led through the woods,
1 he country now became wilder and more
barren. On all sides were evidences of the
terrible storms that sweep across the
mountains leaving great trees upturn by
their roots. There were also signs of
devastating forest fires and at places
grass and stumps were still burning. The
horses stumbled, over dead logs and sticks
and every few moments the guide Voulrt
give us a warning “cuidado" of the over
hanging branches that threatened ’to
sweep us out of the saddles. The silence
was now oppressive, and the shadows,
which had been gradually creeping up the
mountain side, enveloped us. The air be
came colder and Instinctively each man
touched up his horse in order that we
might reach the ranch before darkness
settled over tie entire land.
Three hundred yards more and we began
to descend a steep ravine covered with
coarse grass, where the horses had diffi
culty in keeping their
Arrival at feet. At the foot of the
Tla*nac«»--hiil we crossed a small
plateau of rock and vol-
A Night’s canic sand, and almost
Shelter before we knew it the
rough stone chimney of
the sulphur furnace at Tlamacus, as the
ranch is called, was in sight.
i do not remember how I got off my
horse, as my legs were stiff from the
difficult ride, but I managed it somehow
or another. In a few minutes Francisco,
the mozo in charge of the horses, had
tuilt a roaring fire in ihe center of the
ranch house, which made everything
cheerful and bright. A half hour later th<>
guides arrived with the pack mule and
soon a pot of chocolate was bubbling
merrily over the flames. The buildings at
Tlamacus are of the most primitive char
acter and consist of a rough boarded shed
tor horses, a log and board ranch house,
partially destroyed, for the men, and a
furnace used to purify the sulphur which
is taken out of the crater of the volcano
and brought down on the backs of the
miners. There are i:o beds and when
supper was over we tolled up ir. our bian-
k< ts before the fire ai d tried tc get some
sleep, for it was ot r intention to leave in
the morning at 3 o’clock in order that we
might get a good view of the sunrise. The
elevation of Tlamacus, however, is 12,50<)
feet, and owing to the great rareflcatlon
of the atmosphere and the uncomfortable
l*ds there was but little sleep for any of
the party.
At half past two we ordered the horses
saddled, hastily swallowed a cup of hot
chocolate and were soon under way. The
moon was just coming from behind old
Popo when we started out ana it threw
a ghostlike glimmer over the entire
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Edge of Crater Popobatapetl
scene. Far above loomed the eternal
whiteness of the mountain, broken only
by the black rock known as Pico del
Fraile (the friar’s cap), sticking up on its
western end. Leaving the ranch we
crossed through a gtove ol small pines
and were soon on the edge of a baranca
a( least 150 feet deep. T..e guide cautioned
us to let go the reins and let Ihe horses
have their way, and it was weil we did
lor the path was only about 12 inches in
width, cut in the side oi a cliff and
slanting downward at an angle of 45 de
grees. A misstep of the animal would
have meant a fall to the bottom and in
stant death. Luckily fc r us, it was so
dark that we could r ot see what a dan-
gtrous place v.*e were crossing or I am
afraid there was at least one member of
the party who would have hesitated very
considerably before crossing over.
We now entered a vast stretch of vol
canic sand into which tho horses feet sank
6 inches and which made traveling very
difficult. All Vegetation disappeared and
it seemed as if we were gradually losing
held of everything tangible. Ihe grade
On the summit of Popocatapetl, Mexico
Robert S Barrett 1 H Searle M McLane-
became so steep that it was necessary to.
adopt a course ot short zigzags which
made progress very slow Gradually .
however, we ascended until at 4 o'clock
wc reached a low ridge of rocks known as
La Cruz, from a small cross erected
there indicating the death of a man on
that spet. Tins was the highest point
that could be reached by horseback and
from here commenced the supreme test.
A sublime spectacle was presented fro t
La Ctuz, which is nearly 15,000 feet above
the sea level. Tho eye ranged over n vast
valley, down the ridges
Indian Lei above the black belt of
gend volcanic sand, across the
Beautiful pines to Ixtaccihustl. the
and White Woman, another
Jtartli n rf great snow-capped vol
cano. There is a tra
dition among the Indians that these
two volcanoes were cnee living beings, in
the early years of the world, in ihe shape
cf a giant and giantess. The Supreme
Leity became off/nued at some acts of
theirs and changed them into mountains.
He struck the giantess dead, and there
she lies to this day, stretched silent upon
her bier, rcbed in glistening white. The
giant was morel}- rooted fast to the spot,
where he could co itemplate his loved
companion; and he was wont to express
his indignation and grief by fiery floods
of lava tears and by pouring forth vol
umes of smoke. In his agony he wmii'd
shake the whole earth with his trem
blings. The affrightened Indians thus
recognized him as Tlaloc. the. “god of
storms,” and Popocatapetl. the ’ hill that
smokes.”
Certainly the resemblance of Ixtacei-
nuati to a dead woman lying cn her bior
er.d covered with a white sheet is most
suggestive.
The guides furnished us each with a
heavy wooden staff and we started out in * 1
a single file, making short zig-zags
through the black volcanic sand that
came to our shoetops. We had not gone i
I tindred yards when I begi n to feel op
pressed. My heart was beating like a
tt ip-hammer, my temples were throbbing
as if the blood would burst through the
thin, terrible pains :hot through my head,
a feeling of weakness came- over mo and f
fell face downward, almost on top of
McLene who was stretched out on the
mountain side. A few sec nds and tho .
feeling had disappeared, but when Z
raised my head everything seemed b.a.ck
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