, 1870-12-15
-..HETELEHEH.
"A PltRfinnXe.
s:HY LUCRET1A 2. HALE.

laye often thought shat, II wc choao 70
put on our travellers eyeEat home, we should
hs zurpxisedt 70 find hon much there Ia that 10
ric.drceqae shout Us. In the Curved, n.rrow
1ows OF old houses, or In Its ser1ied brick
blocks and eEnooth pAvsmeuts, We might Ind
the charms Of foreign city, II We only stop.
ped to look, and we're not hu11ying along, fu9
OF our evely-day CONCERNS. In the crowded
groups Of wagons, hnEses, tied and unt1Id,
ma1kEters, shopping men a5d women. with
tcme yhrietY Of color, md much busy &C.
,iyity, IL We were only not too busy to look 1t
them.
say md '1a en.2ss o1 S@Ss
= mafket-day in rome Oriental torn, even tho
amalleAt. II any one, with travelled or un-
travelled eyes, could bo dropped suddenly in
the midst Of / fair 1t Tants, in Egypt, or the
market place Of Jaffa!
Fer II not merely The gay, changing pio-
lures which one sess, but The whole 9tmGs-
ona into smother work., ,-lnfe1nA1 perhaps !?
In the Aab street Giles, thers IL something
sharper than our Widest neVaboye shrek,
with eomethirg, too, deeper and more gut
tural than ones ideal Of ths GermAn lan-
The gabblinS md shont1g h4 Is sng ,9sea r.
TslnIpss af e feep oat Of q tie Wy: 1 'A'
Boys with liye g.ese ind turkeys gobbling
| unGi,r THAR arma man With traya OF bread or
! vegetables On their tufb1ns; poftera st1BgaE.
| ing under large ekius distented with water ;
| Run On with wktet- 1aIs upon their heads, aud
one Of their children over their ahoulders; al
" Iosshii if,sshi n to keep ont from under the
feet at the hoxees, donteys, and camcls thai
arc mixed up In the whirling mass Of people,
IA 60 along on my donkey, my way y
stopped I suddenly find my feet deep in
tasket uf cahbages belonging to street. old
and s1nilea upon me- benikniy ~ e1h'l
cate mSFelf from bis saddte-bags ~
pass ON, sinking into doorkay to avoid +
ipg knocked out Of my saddle By the pso1st
i.SS- losd Of = camel.
In thia market placa OF Jana. We DO
about him to. ayosd the nnisoue touch. ~
withdrew to the hoase-top to dre.m, an}
bis vision. warning hi1n-th1t " God %
,respecter of pexsoaa." Jana h. Eep9ted
one of the oldest cities In the World III
Is tho di1tiest; and old and dirty, It uua
o:her EaGtern city. Which il sAsing gre1
deal when recall how SIS nose went up u
the MnnAh {the principal street Of Catro1
| and how tho other s. Ahtank h1ck therl
when, In the midst Of the crowd, broa
:: faced Lsysnti5e wonAn, n among Y
| "
dripping quarter Of limb. with tho inseFkl
Ing rsqnset, /" carne, mAdamA7' y
But Peter, perhaps, hhrank from the VT
e1n tcuch, with his Oriental notions, he.Fac
for tie first timo some of the languass.oo-
yond the sea, looking o9t over ths vide s;es s;ie'.
!. aId getting an ideA suddenly 1t oo,fa1ng Il
! larger than the narrow circfb ouE of ass
! wa awakening.
What ths Contrast is between this Esste,
.. and cur Wsstssn life. no one can fully kno
srtaut PlaneinE sn,e- II md In SYM
JafIs fnrs11d, we found ourselves sudden
: walking in tha Bible atmosphere. We b,
ecen Mtahsxa md 11sas and 1Aeoh maytt
I abous with their cAmess In Esypt-aTon No.
eo,pg mseonts work, LAYING stones and
= ment and in Syria, all the Landscape cams
! help US Hith its scenery.
Such lovely vartety Of scanery hetwean y
green plains oi Sharon aud tho baro hi
r arou1 the Dead seA and tho difficulties
: travelling cnhaoee III the beauty,
: pass through; 20 different from hu
2 ned visvs iran = railway oar! b,
tread under their feet-yellow and rcd tulik
such - we watch over IN our garden posde
:, In spring.
!. Iadse5, wonder how lever got ont
= jana m ny sN.yisg p.lanq9in. l. remind
y rrettx sure 1t uuss have been tho ysry or
ID eold un hy sone Of Sur Cha1fs9~ deacendsI
G in ecme furniture auetiun- Il hid narr
. seat with 4 straight back, shaped hke I c
+ 11aKe for one, With square windows to Let
ID | And down on..eAeh side and In 'front.' lnata
Or OF powdered footmsu to bear It, had
:, mules, one In mont md one behind. Tht
I" were tethe1ed to tho pslanqufn by two 10
d. keafrrs. extending back and forward, 4
IS fastened to tho beazts hv ropee. eute.
O. the thing through = door n the tau Of
o. fro1t nnle, mounting BY chair kindly plas
y, for tho purpose.
NJ We m1do our start from tho door OF
ve Du.tian convent, on Jsha stroet ecaro
X tbsee feat vide, whlch' wound up hill stt
=" ~ . Fight OF ataIrs. With AnHeg,!1As pa
70 neut OF stone. : The rest Of the Fl
nE were mounting their Arab horses A.
~ doorsteps little furtbsr On. III
too. wefe barring their struRg1es- Tbs ~
he beasts did not look Ike the ise.l of Z
cA An, s,eed =; and they had = Way Of etantt
rth on their hind legs ;, }. were g :tting init
Ne Eou wern to sit upon It the whole dAT; Z
ID .ou. found The unazsy pl.oe IL :&ha fiss: il
qe- ute. All the Arab attendants vese yef
The md screaming; everybody felt be b
vi vi &c. eaeed " had. e 1hsre % ~.s u' r. genera
fE- ssiistaetion, "a thete8al~ays "A at m K
md start ErerJbody ii talking. but +
he body IL talking to anybody. You ask 4
,uS tiona, and NOBODY EtSea - aoe yer 70 y
tho perh1ps 70 sotnebody ease, VINO don't ID
axo etAnd. Indeed, nobody uhdef9tands-
@ AL thts 70 yerT chASnaiuS In EGYPT OF
lrs, Nils, vhefs there prsyula
IL 1 80 ~