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" M , mPBu-imm ' j - - T " """-"-'-!i'i',i,egl 1 11 111 ., MADE MILLIONS IN MEAT. Jerusalem . AS IT IS TO DAY f J. A. DZTZER In foe lllustratet Home Journal HI HE Jerusalem of to-day Is only a mournful relic of tbe ancient city. Its former glory lias de parted. Blighted, bleak and barren. It now rests upon Its crumbling bills 41 city of ruins, rags and wretchedness. From Julia, the ancient Joppa, a sea port on tbe Mediterranean, it is fifty three miles by rail to Jerusalem, Yes, even Into tbe very center of tbe Holy Land have the iron ribbons penetrated, and tbe silent hills am) slumbering val tfeys are startled by the thunders of the 'overland" and the shrill scream of the locomotive tbe advance agent of a new age. Each day a passenger train leaves and arrives at Jaffa. Tbe schedule' time between Jerusalem and Jaffa Is four hours. The locomotive And cars were brought from France. They were originally intended for tbe Panama Railway. But when the Pan ama Canal Company, which had also contemplated building a railway, went into bankruptcy. Frenchmen bought the material at a greatly reduced price and utilized it for the Jerusalem Hail ' road, which is still controlled by them. The crews consist chiefly of Arabs. Tbe entire railroad with all Its equipments is kept In excellent condi tion. After the train leaves Jaffa It ters the city, be Is at once prepared for the turmoil, disorder and filth be yond tbe gates. Coffee bouses and booths, over which preside shopkerti" ers and merchants who are evidently at war with soap of every description, and a perfect swarm of humanity fro li every nation under the sun, don keys, camels, horses and carts block tbe way through, the gate. But even tVa oi'cient gate has been much mod ernised by painted signs and the ever- prosem group of travelers. And here, as everywhere, we find tbe English laugurge known and understood by al most e erybody. at least sufficiently lo make known the ordinary wants. The filthiest place in tbe entire city is the governor's palace, the vile odon of which civilized people can scarcely en dure. Along the entire Via Dolorosa the tourist: is obliged to cover his nos trils with his handkerchief strongly perfumed. Stenches new and strange, decidedly unlike the fragrance of Ara bia, almost asphyxiate the civilized traveler. The remarkable thing Is that people can breathe and thrive amid conditions so adverse to health. Wa ter for cleansing purposes seems to be unknown in this quarter. Jerusalem has no parks, public Ittes and theology are dscussed. It Is the place where the. laborers stand Idle at tbe market place, waiting to be hired. Here caravans may be engaged to carry merchandise to the very bor ders of Asia Minor or Egypt. On tbe open street lArrbers may be seen shar ing tbe heuds of the Bedouins. Immediately within tbe walls there Is another public market place, some what smaller than the one outside. The cram(ed space does not permit so huge a trade. Here are the European consulates, banks, tourist agencies, Eu ropean restaurants, , curio shops, and the largest hotel in the city. Back of It Is tbe Christian quarter, tbe best and cleanest section of the city. Bat here, too, the streets are generally so narrow that man and camel can scarcely pass one' another - without coming In contact " The treasurer of the Greek 'ehureh. Etithuynus. is the richest man of tbe' city, and inhabits tue finest bouse. No stranger can have any conception of the begging nuisance tolerated throughout the entire city until he finds himself in tbe midst of it.' Three-fourths of Jerusalem' citi zens "make their living" by draining the wallets of the tourists and pil grims. From the time the traveler en ters the 'city until he leaves It he is surrounded by beggars and peddlers, and great Is the number of swindlers who sell spurious relics to the unwary. Carloads of trinkets, said to be made from tbe wood of the trees that grow on the Mount, of Olives, are sold each year, though the few venerable trees still standing there have not been feVJ w Art or Managing a Man. This fable, as old Aesop would say, "Tbre are three things," eaitb an lias a moral. Choose pictures that have atxk'iit proverb, "which can only be j a meaning: and tell the children about managed by coaxing: A kid glove, a them. They will prove an endless lire, and a man." Tbe woman, married : source of entertainment, and then, are we not continually crying for culture and an upward way In education? Chicago Post. or single, who fights for her right has a hard and bitter struggle, often to fall at last, while she who takes them grnceful.y, with a smile and a sweet thank you, sir, is allowed to walk off freely, if not Invited to come again. Any married woman, gifted with even a small degree of diplomacy, may have her own- way quite as much, if not more,, than is good for her,, if only she be careful always to defer to ber nomi nal loid and master and never to allow any one, himself least of all, to sus pect that she has been able to persuade bim that ber way. Is bis own. The secret of her power lies in a nutshell; It Is the power behind the throne which never openly asserts Itself. ' All decent men are, as a rule, good to their wives, according to their lights; It Is the part of a clever "wife to keep those lights trimmed and burning. The mail who swears at his wife Is a bully and a coward, still be exists, and It Is jMiMaiaMiaaaiiiiiiiiiittwiaa nawfiU mttmHaMtZmtmi' IV - , . I AND RAILWAY STATION NEAR JERUSALEM. VIEW OF SURROUNDINGS FROM THE JAFFA GATE, gradually, and sometimes abruptly, as cends the hills, until It crosses the mountains of Judaea at on altitude of 3,500 feet above the level of the sea. Then it slowly begins to descend until It reaches Jerusalem, which lies upon Its hills at an altitude of 2,500 feet above sea level. Before the railroad was completed VEGETABLE PEDDLEB OF JERUSALEM, this Journey was connected with many hardships. Camels and sedan chairs were then the means of transportation, and the trip consumed from twenty-six 1 hours to two days. Imagine the pleas ures of a swinging ride of twenty-six hours on a camel's back. And yet. many lament the fact that to-day the din of the locomotive has disturbed the repose of this ancient region, mak ing its way to the very gates of Je rusalem and destroying its traditional . aspect. Some declare its presence an actual profanation of its sacred mem ories. If this were the only "profana tion" of tbe Holy Land, of Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem, It might be easily endured; for it has proved itself to be of tbe utmost convenience to the thousands of pilgrims who annually travel to the tomb of Jesus. . Approaching Jerusalem from Jaffa, the tlrst view is so disappointing that all, as it were, give utterance to their feelings in the words of the prophet: "is this the city that men call 'The Perfection of Beauty,' 'The Joy of the Whole Earth?"' The Impression made upon the beholder Is akin to the feel ' ings of one who has been sadly dis appointed In a friend woful, desolate, direful and repulsive. At the Jaffa Gate, through which the traveler en- squares, promenades, driveways, dou levards, libraries or reading rooms. For this reason the depot is alive with citizens and the many officers and sol diers of the Turkish garrison every time a train arrives, especially when tourists are expected In great num bers. This is tbe principal amusement these ' people find. The drivers shout and scream, and no effort is made by the police to silence them. The ubiqui tous hotel runners and carriers Inso lently grasp the traveler's baggage. place It upon the cart of a friend, and will not give It up until they receive their Inevitable "bakshish." The depot is built outside of the city walls, near the Jaffa Gate, the busiest spot in Je rusalem. To the right of the gate is the so-called David's Tower, where the coffin of David Is placed on exhibition. Tbe tower is a picturesque building, and is the only one of the three an cient towers of the city spared by the Roman general Titus when- he de stroyed the city. Coming from the depot which, by the way, is located on the road leading to Bethlehem the tower has the appearance of a medieval castle. The Jaffa Gate Is the Wall street of Jerusalem. Here are the horse and camel markets, the headquarters of tbe saddlers, smiths, veterinary surgeons, money changers, caravans, merchants, buyers and sellers of all kinds of mer chandise; In short It Is the general market place, the bank, the board of trade, where anything and everything may be bought and sold. Here the I something in the way of excuse for him touched for over fifty years. The Gar-I tnttt he ls ,,sunI1y husband to some den of Gethsemane is another place of uo uK. eu ue um, ue such relics. Shiploads of beautiful , best endured by nonreslstence, or at leuHi uy geuiug oui oi nis way. lue uiuu puwer is usually lue BiruugBi, and a fortress which resists assault may sometimes be easily carried by insidious approaches. All men bate to be ruled; indeed, no man will be If he knows It. Tbe henpecked husband of the humorist ls almost nonexistent. The woman who Is truly mlstrees of her household never fails to set her husband upon a pedestal and to Insist that all the house hold shall honor him as lord and master thereof. A woman's privileges are In most cases by far more valuable than her rights; the best way in which to In crease those privileges ls to take them with great show of gratitude to the man who confers them. "Vanity, van ity, all . is vanity," and no man ever lived who was not accessible to flattery in some form or other. To conquer, a woman must sometimes stoop, tbe more gracefully and readily she does so the better for her purpose. Gentle per suasion goes a mile often where aggres slveness cannot stir a- foot. There are not many things In the world outside of matters of cousclence, pure and simple, which are worth contention upon a woman's part, against the man whom she loves and who loves ber; and fqt these few things he reward, gained through martyrdom, comes usually In the hereafter. Standing up for one's rights against one's husband Is weari some work; "It is more comfortable to relinquish them: still they may be had, except In rare instances, by asking for them as a favor, to be granted for love's Moreover, the submissive wife Hinta en Fnrniahlne. There are a few general points In the furnishing of a boy's room that may be well to bear In mind, says tbe Washington Times. On the floor should be a good Ingrain carpet of a cheerful tone almost every boy likes red. The furniture need not be ex pensive, but It must be strong. The sofa may be an. old one, but should be covered with some durable material of small pattern that will not show the wear and tear. Cushions? Of course! What boy was there who ever owned a sofa and didn't clamor for cushions? Have them of gay colors, but see that they blend with the rest of tbe room It ls a mistaken Idea to Imagine that theue little things will not be noticed by the boy and tell on his taste In the long run. We are all affected, per haps unconsciously, by our environ ments, and just because It happens to be "only the boy's room," there Is no earthly reason why It should not be made as attractive and comfortable as possible. The average boy loves ' light, and does not care for heavy curtains at his windows. One boy a cousin of the writer has fine cheese cloth curtains close to the windows, tied back with a bow at each end. These, of course, only come to the ledge. Within are curtains of turkey red, which hang In straight lines to the floor. They are light and cheerful In tone, and add especially to the beauty of tbe room. See that the Illuminating qualities are good In the boy's room. Gas fix tures are, as a rule, so placed that they are of little service to the young fellow working at his desk. A stu dent's lamp is excellent; so Is a bracket one. The latter may not add especial ly to the beauty of the room, but ls useful, and what is still more to be considered saie. These are a few hints In the furnish ing of the boy's room the details will have to be added according to the indi vidual taste of its owner. Packer Swift, Who Died Beceatlr Father of the Hefri aerator Car. Gustarus Franklin Swift, who died hi Chicago recently, left a fortune esti mated at from $7,000,000 to $ 10,000,000. All of this money hemade in the course of forty-live years by hard work. He was born at Sandwich, on Cape Cod, ' Mass., June 24, 1830, of parents who bad been Americans for sev eral g enerattons; and when he went to Chicago in 1ST5 GUSTAVt S F. SWIFT ... nf . souvenirs have been sent from here to every quarter of the globe, and not 1 wlle' one article among tbe many thousands Is actually made of the trees of Geth semane. The garden lies between Je rusalem and the Mount of Olives in the Kidron valley. It comprises about an acre of ground, Inclosed by a fence. It .still contains an olive tree that ls sard to date from tbe time of Christ The Mount of Olives is the highest hill of Jerusalem. It Is about 180 feet higher than Mount Zlon. The entire city rests upon a rocky elevation which is divided Into two almost equal parts by a valley. The eastern portion ls called Mount Morlah, where stood the temple of Solomon. 'The western half is Zlon, the holy mountain of David. Jerusalem Is a hotbed of eccentric in dividuals, especially religious fanat ics. Great is the number of those who are attempting to atone for their sins at the holy places. Many claim to have discovered new methods of salva tion. Most of these fanatics have cer tainly lost their reason. The number of churches and monasteries In . ' the modern city, without counting many crusading chapels now either In ruins or converted into mosques, is very large. Since the year 1187 the . Crescent waves over the City W David. Ac cording to Josephus, Jerusalem was 2,127 years old when Titus destroyed the city, which would make Its age to day 3,900 years. , may easily escape responsibility which she does not care to assume by plead inir her duty to her husband. "Jack likes this," or "Jack objects to that are reasons the validity of which no one can question. , However perfect a bit of mechanism nfay be, Its bearings must be kept well oiled or there will be friction; what the oil can Is to the mechanical en gineer is tact to the wise wife. Defer ence to her husband ls the drop of oil which keeps the wheels of the domestic machine running smoothly; if she ls clever enough to, turn those wheels In the way in which she would have them go, while to oil intents and purposes she is acting under his direction, so much the better, perhaps, for all concerned. There is much in mental suggestion. Take It for granted that a man will do a certain thing nine times out of ten be does It. Tbe tactful person drops suggestions and leaves them to take root and bear fruit, Just as tbe husband man sows his seed upon fertile ground. Ignorance and conceit are twins. .LONG THE RAILWAY FROM JAFFA TO JERUSALEM. Pictare in the Home, While out. calling the other afternoon a small boy answered the ring of the bell, and at the same time volunteered the Information that "mamma was dresslna nnd the girl was out." I said that I should wolt for mother and, childlike, be proceeded to entertain me. He began by showing me the pic tures on the wall all of which had been selected with care. Before a fine autotype of a familiar Corot he bad a story to tell of Orpheus and His lute, A small print of Canterbury Cathedral brought out the tale of Thomas a Becket first riding on his white mule with jingling chains and gorgeous rat ment, then lying senseless at the foot of tbe altar. There was a portrait of Beethoven, an Aurora, a Sistlne Madon na, a Greuze "Broken Pitcher," and of these and more this boy of 8 had stories to tell. He was not an extraordinary child In any sense of the word nothing but the ordinary fun-loving, marble-playing boy but he had been let Into the se cret of enjoyment in pictures. Before a colored print of a landscape by Diaz, which was pinned to the door frame and had probably come with the Sun day paper, his Imagination found a way Into the depth of the woods, he admired the coloring and peopled the forest with robbers and creatures of fancy. Some clever person had given him the magic key to a world of en joyment beyond the sidewalks and car tracks. Wherever he might travel In after years be would never be alone. ' Women Too Listhtlj Won. Sordid and commonplace? Perhaps, to those who. know nothing of the mis eries of mlsmated couples. Home and family require money, and its posses blon will not prevent a growth of sen timent. Make the body comfortable and the soul will find Its peace without much difficulty. Mind you, I am not Advocating a marriage for money, but am strongly in favor of something sub stantial on which to build the new life. And that Is not all, for congen lallty ls absolutely necessary to make the life of two beings, no matter what sex, livable within the narrow confines of a home. There is altogether too much sentimentality in American women. It permits them to overlook the estimable qualities of their own husbands and overestimate those of other men whom they have not tested The same charge can be laid up against men, and somebody Is to blame for the serious state of affairs. Per haps women are too' lightly won, too eager to accept the first masculine hnnd extended to them. It is abso lutely true that when a man Inserts a matrimonial advertisement in any kind of a paper, even the most obscure, it Is found by feminine eyes and Is met with an overwhelming number of an swers. The winner or such a proposi tion generally has cause to rue her luck, but I can find precious little sympathy for her. The stock of good men has not yet been exhausted; so why put up with Imitations, and pretty bad ones at that? I can see some real ly justifiable reasons for divorce, but they are a mere drop in the ocean of applications. Where ls the remedy? In common sense, my friends. Betty Bradeen In the Boston Traveler. ulne New England Yankee, determined to win a fortune In the great West. Mr. Swift removed to Boston when he was less than 30 years old, where he might have a bigger Held to work In. In Boston he followed his profession. but he had early seen there was some thing more to being a butcher than buy ing a hog, a steer and a sheep, cutting it up and selling It at a little profit, and he broadened his business, being care ful always not to attempt anything be yond his capital and business experi ence. In Boston he remained, conducting his, butcher business and buying and selling bogs and cattle until he was. worth 150,000. In 1875 he moved to Chicago. He had not beeu in the city two years until he thought the busi ness of supplying fresh meats to the people of the country was not managed just as it should be, and bis thoughts materialized In 1877 In a plan for the first refrigerating car. He thought it would be cheaper and the meat would be better if the animals were all slaugh tered by those who made a business of , doing that; and consequently knew bet ter than others how to do it, and tho meats, instead of live animals, were shipped to the Eastern markets. He and his scheme were laughed at. He had great difficulty in prevailing upon the railroads to help him, and his capi tal was not large enough at that time to enable him to build many of the cars he deemed necessary for the work. He did a small packing business at first, but It grew rapidly, and it was not long before other men saw the ad vantages of his method and Imitated him, and now the refrigerating cars- carrying fresh meats to the people everywhere are familiar sights along all the railroad lines In the country. Mr. Swift not only was the oldest pack er at the time of bis death; he was the first, the originator of the method that has made many men rich. He had never attempted to make money In any other line of business. He knew the packing business In all of its aspects, and he was content to de vote all his time and energies to it. II never permitted anything to swervn him from the course he had mapped. out. He first decided what he wanUd and how the result could be accom plished, and then began, confident that he would be successful should he live long enough. The packing house of which he was the president and tbe controlling spirit has developed Into a great cftrporatlon. Its employes num ber 22,007. III I l.rVr.l rW; iTVi J Mlaa MIHred Howells. The young lady whose portrait ap pears In this Illustration, Miss Mildred Howells, though handicapped by hav Ing a famous man as father, made name for herself In art while still In her early twen ties. She was In troduced to the lit erary world by her father, Will lam Dean ' How ells, when be put ber in a book nailed "A Little miss howells. Girl Among the Old Masters," which contained her im pressions of Europe's great paintings and specimens of her work. A few months ago her engagement to Profes sor Falrchlld, of the Smithsonian Insti tution was announced. Straw Hate for Glrla. Large, flat-shaped straws will be about the smartest of the new hats for girls of all ages, and they are quite simplv trimmed with largo bows of oft, wide liberty satin ribbons, and look ss If they were dented Into most becoming shapes by the lavish wealth of spring flowers. Five-sixths of tbe cotton used In Brit ish mills Is American. N. G. Goodwin In Tragedy. Mr. Goodwin possesses much tragic power In that little body and power ful, well-shaped head of his. His reci tation of "The Uncle" will convince anybody of that. It won for bliu Law rence Barrett's regard an hour after Mr. Barrett bad almost snubbed hint many years ago. Mr. Booth, at a benefit, had Introduced "Goodie." as he always affectionately ' addressed Mr. , Goodwin, to , Mr. Barrett, who gave Mr. uooawin a reserved and haughty stare, and then a nod, and passed on to a box with Mr. Booth to see the rest of the performance.. Then. Mr. Goodwin recited "The Uncle," and won more applause than all the rest of the performers at the benefit com bined. And Mr. Barrett hurried to Mr. Goodwin's dressing-room to apolo gize for his rudeness. Leslie's Month ly. Material for "Hot Stuff." ' r A veracious chronicler of the times of Jonathan Edwards gives figures which prove a liberal consumption of fuel in the household of the great the ologian. In the winter of 1740-41 th town of Northampton supplied tbe Ed wards parsonage with seventy-five loads of wood; In the next season eighty-two loads were delivered; for tbe succeeding winter tbe total was seventy-eight, and a year afterward the astonishing quantity of ninety-five loads was supplied. There was no lack of fire at the Edwards hearth. Is It wonderful, then, that he preached burning sermons? New York Tribune. Brains Coat Money. This ls the opinion of a large retail merchant on wage-earners. When an Irate customer complained that tho store was full of Insolent chumps who did not understand the first principles of waiting' on a patron he said: "If my clerks had brains enough to amount to anything thoy would not be working here at $7 or $8 per week." "Why don't you hire clerks with brains?" asked the customer. "Because brains cost more money than I can afford to pay," was the rep y. "In our business we pay large salurte to slave drivers and nothing to tlm slaves." t A man Is not held entirely blamebua by the women for his wife's death un less he had at least three doctors to's,e her In her final sickness. A boy Isn't having a good time In UU school vacation, unless he bus a foot or finger tied up with blindage. !