Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-15

| hungry eyes. They seized on every
crust, and greediiy devoured the lemon
and orange peel as it was thrown on
the ground. Many of them have their
faces and arms tattooed, and the chill
.sren of the poorest sometimes have
strings of coins fastened around their
heads. These are heir-1ooms, and can
never be alien ated.
TREATMENT OF WOMEN.
After marriage, though the husband
generally treats his wife with less hu-
manity than he does his camel or dom
key, lie never takes away her coins.
These form the wife's iaalienable dover
and are transmitted by her to her chill
dren. The value attached 10 these or
naments illustrates the parable OF the
lost coin. The woman did not prize it
as she would any other piece OF money,
but attached a special value to 1t, be-
cause it was a part of her head-dress,
and when one was lost, she lighted her
candle (there is no window in the rear
chamber of these Syrian hovels), and
swept diligently till she found it. One
OF tie girls in the cloud of witnesses
that watched us as we ate cur lunch,
was very pretty, With the slight disad-
vantage of probably never having
washed herself in her life. One must
come to the Orient and learn by con-
trast what Christianity has done for
vomen. Here the wife is a menial.
Eha meyer eats at the same table with
1her husband. She always calls him
lI,ord, unless indeed she has son, and
Then she ventures to cali him father of
nav kn,n "Mohammed," o. whatever
the Doy's name may be? IF the hus-
band meets his wife in the street, he
does not give her even nod of recog-
milton, though he may give har beat
ling, when he gets home, for going out.
Even in the mosques, the women are
only admitted to the gallery or by side
door. Our dragoman told US story OF
& Nohammedan of his acquaintance. a
ruau OF wealth and intelligence, who
had ses en- souE, Of whom he was very
proud, and whom np lavished money
lpon and treated with the utmost ln-
diligence. At last daughter vas hofE,
and eae would have supposed he might
have treated her, the youngest Of the
household, at ieast With liberation if not
with kindness, but ca ttaa GaptE2Ey lie
did not attempt to conceal his disgust,
and when at the age of six she sickened
end died, he gave small sum Of money
1. = man to bury her, without going
himself 70 the grave, and without any
more ceremony tsaaG + she had been a
dead cat.
Before we left the territory OF the
tribe Of Benjamin we passed through
HThe Valley of Figs" 1t was pleasant
/ to see thousands of these delicious fruit
trees in bo9y. The olive tiourishes in
Palestine more than any other tree, and
lives even on the rocky hillsides, be-
eaasa it requires less moisture from the
ground to support it, and can derive
more from tie az than any other tree.
WATER FROM THE ELI O4 -AssffARiA.
On entering the Inheritance of
Ephraim the appearance of the country
changes for the better. Jacob, who
knew how to drive a good bargain, made
Il splendid purchase when he bought
| tx. az "oarcel of ground" from the cons
Of Haino3. Is is level, fertile, and well
watered, but with has Characteristic pru-
dence, remembering; the jealousy that
existed between the settled inhabitants
and n omad herdsmen with regard to the
watering of cattle, he sunk well of his
own, which remains until this day, and
which has an interest attached to it such
as ,saIongs to no other we'll in all Sama-
ria or in al the world. Here it was that
!. .-,1r Lord, when we2T,al With his Jour
nev, sat, while be hsid tlab WGlaerfnl
conformation with the Samaritan Wo-
man. recorded in the 4th chapter cf
Johns gospel.
oUERENS ME SEDIST1 LASSUs:
i sever did the chapter seem so full o.
meaning as wnea- .asaa it sitting on
the spot, and seeing aDoys iI.s tie
helieve me the hour cometh, when We
shall neither in this mountain nor yet
in Jerusalem worship the Father" The
stones which line the we'll once rose
aGoye the surface of the ground, but
F., now they have been removed for several
: feet beneath, and, to prevent accidents,
: there being nothing nov to guard its
:, mouth, the top has been Waile4 oyer,
and until recently no water could be
i drawn from it. But lately one of the
: large stones has been displaced, and we
procured water-jar, to which We at
taehed cord seventy or eighty feet
. long, and thus drew it up full. Not far
from Jacobs well Is the
TOMB OF JOSEPH,
! and more appropriate place for such a
ei solemnity coS,a not be found than the
= plain between the two IlolnIain slopes,
- where the people of Israel stood behold
: ing as the body of the patriarch, which
e had been embalmed and 'put in a coffin
| in Egypt" was buried in Sheohem, in
Y parcel of ground which Jacob bought
: Of the sons of Hamer, the father of
? sheale,4l, .or 2 hundred pieces of silver,
, and it became The inheritance Of tha
children of Joseph"
Our Sabbath, spent at Sheohenl, was
our most interesting day in Palestine
, Our camp was pitched on an eminence
e overlooking the plain, about a furlong
= from the town which stands on the
! ruins of the ancient city. 1t was re-
hnjlt by Vespasian, who called it Ne
es apo,;;s, anj ite modern name Nabulus,
r or NahloI,A, IS y Is aotn atirles written,
! is a corruption of its homan n.ma. We
had an early visit from the Rev. Tou-
r hannah Ell Karey a Baptist minister and
e native of Nabulus, who Was educated
r and married in England. lie invited
e us to his morning service. l made an
! address to the children Of his Sabbath
school, about 20 in number, all of them
5 i of l. O; lauamedan parents, Mr. Ell karey
translBting into krT2h.c IS sp9ke.
THE sAslARITAN FENTATEpGH.
: | Through Mr.. Eli karey's influence
: with the Samaritan High Priest, to
whom he INTRODUCED LIS. we were per
mitted to see the far-famed oama.
) Pentateuch, one of the oldest manu-
!, sotiats in the worlo, not written in the
Chaldiean chsgaste- - which our He.
brew Bibles are printed, but in the old
Hebrew character, such as was used be-
, fore the time of Ezra. 1t is a strange,
, exclusive bigotry which makes the Sa-
, maritans of Nabulus unwilling to show
. their ancient versions of the penta-
j tea2.4. They have ir their synagogue
two copies, a,.1 i IS said that they
sometimes exhibit che oi ttl2se as the
f original manuscript, but on this occa-
, sion we saw the original and the two
copies at the same time, so that there
y Uas, as Mr.. Ell Karey assured us, no
. possibility Of deception. l have a let
, ter from him il which he informs me
f that the High Priest Of tns t.aEaGTT5stans
; has IN his possession another manu-
. script, between seven and eight hun,
dred years old, copied from one still
! more ancient, which contains two re-
, !..9e,,ll1Rble statements concerning our
Lord. tie ane relating to His birth ana
, the other to His CruciGE zion. 1t is enti-