The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-16

the young man walked behind and
supported himself with a stick. The
old woman was wrinkled and gray,
and bent half down to the ground,
and tugged hard and looked miser-
able, but neither she mol anyone else
had any thought but that it was all
right, and just as it should be. 1t is
only once in a while that a little en-
lightment comes to them. AS for
instance when a young Englishman
whom we met in Egypt saw a mar
fogging his wife. The neighbors
were looking OF and rather enjoying
the scene as the fellow jerked and
pounded her, and the woman screamed
piteously, until the Englishman who
was passing by could stand it no
longer. He got off his donkey and
walked up to him and in the approved
English fashion planted his fist against
the astonished fellows face, and after
spending sometime in the air he came
down heels uppermost on the ground.
And strange to say, the man never
said a word, and the people about
looked on %stupehed, while the
Englishman mounted his donkey
again and rode off and left them
standing and rejecting and wonder
ing what it all meant. 1t seemed to
them so utterly without any motive
or provocation or any point at all.
They thought he had gone mad.
We had heard rumors of Circas.
slams at the head Of the lake. And
only a short time before a man had
come running TO the town of Tiberias
saying that these highwaymen Of
Syria had met him on the road and
robbed him. We had thought it was
only a scare, but at the same time had
gone we'll armed, and the Draguman
had said that SO long as we kept to-
gether and displayed our terrible
engines of war, which consisted or
my part of a small pistol of ordinary
goose-quill calibre, carrying a ball
about the size of a pin-head, we would
not be molested. And sure enough
before we were aware OF it, we were
right in the edge of their camp, scat
tered along the shore on the plain of
Gennesareth. Their great white dogs
gave the alarm, and ran savagely at
us, jumping at our stirrups to pull us
down from our horses. The horses
kicked at them, and we struck at
them with whips and guns, and
pointed our pistols to scare them off.
We turned to go about the camp
along the sea-shore, and when now
and then we passed a group Of them
looking out at us among the tall
reeds, with keen eyes and faces
white like our own, but cold and
cruel, as if they would like nothing
better than to clutch our threats and
our pocket-books with their slender
fingers; we tried to appear very
self-possessed and indifferent, but the
sensation was far from comfortable.
l was glad hat old Nejem was on
hand, that he sat on his powerful
black horse like a giant-''We called
him Goliath Of GATH" and that he
carried a rifle across his saddle that
looked like a Calling gun. For a
time we kept pretty closely together
until we passed out of the plain, over
the ruins of the ancient Bethsaida,
where scarcely INT stone stands upon
another, and around the face of the
rock-bluff through the bed of the old
acqueduct cut in the hard blue stone
which supplied the town of Bethsaida
with water from the mountaineering
and at last halted on the site of the
old city of Capernaum. You a
understand how completely this once
grand city of many thousand people,
with a wealthy trade and a temple of
worship that must have cost hundreds
of thousands, has been demolished
and obliterated from the fact that
the only shelter we could find any
where from the heavy rain-storm, was
under our umbrellas. And a small
caravan which halted neal by, had