. Christian herald. Jews in Ala Shehr, itsmarket day, when almost all the trad-ing is done, on Saturday, and itwould be a profanation for a devoutJew to buy or sell or get gain on theSabbath day. Possibly the shrewdGreeks, who number about 5,000 out ofthe 20,000 men, women and children ofmodern Philadelphia, have decreedthat the Jewish Sabbath shall be theirmarket-day for the express purpose ofexcluding them from their city. One of the interesting andbeneficent natural products of AlaShehr is a .splendid spring of mineral water, famousfrom the time of the apostles. The np
. Christian herald. Jews in Ala Shehr, itsmarket day, when almost all the trad-ing is done, on Saturday, and itwould be a profanation for a devoutJew to buy or sell or get gain on theSabbath day. Possibly the shrewdGreeks, who number about 5,000 out ofthe 20,000 men, women and children ofmodern Philadelphia, have decreedthat the Jewish Sabbath shall be theirmarket-day for the express purpose ofexcluding them from their city. One of the interesting andbeneficent natural products of AlaShehr is a .splendid spring of mineral water, famousfrom the time of the apostles. The npring rises amiif from the city, and is brought in pipes to amofiest hydropathic establiHhmeiit near the town,where the water in Ixittlefl in large ()uantities andsent all over western Asia .Minor. It is a refresh-ing tonic-water, and is an untold tnion to travelersin that land, since it can be had in almost cverj-town of any size, where the ordinarj water ih filledwith all sorts of dangerous microl>es and is un-. .SOME «Jh THE lEW KOrSD AT IH ILADELfHIA drinkable by one not accustomed to it from almost no excavation work has been donein Philadelphia there are many indications that itwouiri be most rewarding could any one be foundwith time and money to unearth the buried treas-ures. In digging the foundation for a Greek schoolan ancient Greek cemetery was discovered withmany beautiful stili, funeral urns and mourningfigures. These are preserved in one of the roomsof the school, which appeared to he an udmirablo institution for so remote a town. «were told that in a vineyard near fthe workmen who were setting ijtvines had recently fallen through |eearth into some large undergroi^chambers. Going out to the vineyawe found that the rumor was trand there, a few feet under the sface, were arches of brick and st<and chambers with mural decoraticstill fresh, though the painters hibeen dead perhaps for 2,000 yeaWreaths of painted flowers, tied wribbons,
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