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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Ezekiel, xxvii:18.)--'Damascus was thy merchant
in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.' Damascus
has always been a very important commercial city. On the great highway between the Mediterranean and the nations of the east
it has always been an influential trade point. At the time Ezekiel wrote this twenty-seventh chapter Tyre was the seaport
town of Damascus as Beyrout is to-day. In the above picture we have an oil mill photographed by our artist. The oil produced
in this mill is olive oil. The olive furnishes oil for nearly all the cooking which is done in the east as well as furnishes
lights. There is an old saying that, 'When the oil fails the lamp in the dwelling of the poor expires.' The olive berries
begin to ripen early in the autumn . They are allowed to remain on the trees sometimes, though guarded."
Exterior of an oil mill and several animals; the second floor of the mill is partially screened by tree limbs and branches
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