The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-14

WatCn ana see Wnat became OF MIN.
But there was one member Of our
party whom must not forget to men
ton and that was the soldier or mill
tary police, the Zabtieh as he is called.
But for the sake of convenience, to
borrow the expression of Miss Brown
one OF the lady missionaries. we will
call him "The Government. Be-
cause he represents the government,
and the advantage of having him with
you is not SO much that he is a kind
of travelling masked battery, con-
cealed mostly by earth-works, nor
that he always provides himself with
fast horse so that in case anything
happens he will be able to turn tail
and skeedadle Immediately, so that
the next party going over the road
may not be left without guide and
protector, not so much that his gun is
likely to be a fint-lock without any
flint in it, although of course these
are considerations Of some value. But
the greatest usefulness of Zabtieh is
that when you have him along and
are attacked and plundered by rob-
bers, the Turkish government is bound.
to make good your losses in such a
way that your grandchildren if they
live long enough will have the bene-
fit of them. That determined Law
rie and | that we would take Zab-
tieh. Well we came to the place
where the roads divided, and parting
company the young ladies took the
way to the left leading into the heart
of the Taurus mountains.
The sun had gone down and the
moon had taken his place in the
heavens when we approached the
ancient city of Mopsuestia. We had
seen it for at least three hours only
just ahead of us, but it never seemed
to come any nearer. In fact il seem.
ed as though it were moving ahead on
the road somewhat faster than we. l
tried to remember whether | hadn't
read in a book somewhere that at a
certain season Of the year, cores
ponding with our Ist of May, the in
habitants of this country take up their
houses on their backs and 60 off with
them TO new place. But l couldn't
seem to remember anything like that.
At last it became dark and was glad
Of it because / thought that if those
people were going off with that city
they would probably want to set
down their houses and rest when it
came night and we should have a
chance to overtake them. And now
the moonlight began to act upon us,
and we began to sing. First Mr..
Lees servant Crecor started in-I
thought l recognized the tune and
was about to join in with him when
suddenlyit changed to something else.
At first l was sure it was 81 need
thee every hour" Next minute it
was "Pull for the Shore" and said
to myself I'd just as lief sing that
but before could get my diapason
ready and my mouth open, it Aad
changed again to al want to be an
angel,"--allright said l, SO do l, but
then | want to stick to it, and be an
angel until | know what it's like. But
before l could join with him and be
an angel he had flown the track and
was off again. And when at last he
wound up and put on the fourishes
with strain that limped on one leg
like Yankee Doodle and then limped
on the other like old Hundred, and
finally leaped up into the air and
vanished in heart-rending cry of
anguish, topped off by howl that
shook the stars and brought tears to
the eyes of the man in the moon. 1
didn't try to follow him. thought
that if he wanted to "pull for the
shore" like that he might do it all by
himself for all of me. And l sus-
pected that no matter how badly he
wanted to be an angel, he never
would be one or else Heaven wasn't
what l always thought it was, until he
could make better music than that.
At last we came to the old river
Pyramus. 1t was about as wide as