The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28

| RiNao1hh tOOnAhH NAsy3 NSF>$~y 1850
you view it from a distance and think
that you haven't got to live there.
On the second morning we we're
off again, Mrs. Fuller decorated each
of us with button-hole boquet, asked
us to call in again anytime, and OF
course we said we would. The mis-
sionaries accompanied us out of the
town and then turned back with fare
well wishes and we went on together,
happy with the thought that to.mor
row we should meet Miss Doane, and
perhaps hear something from home.
Now it happened that there were
three separate roads by which her
party might have come from the
coast to Aintab and we had tele-
graphed them to take certain one Of
the three and manage to camp if
they could on certain night at a
place SdllCd thS SiSdt INildi VI lLOiSi
and we would meet them there.
On the afternoon of that day, as
we were beginning to have misgivings
whether, after all, we should meet
them, there came in sight a party OF
mutileers-driving their animals
ahead Of them--and as we came
nearer, we saw trunks strapped on the
mules with the old familiar initials,
u. S. A. We asked how far the par
ty was behind. They said "about 90
minutes" 1t was smooth road and
we started on the full gallop. We
turned one bend of the mountain and
then another, expecting each time to
come face to face with them and sur
prise them suddenly, until at last we
caught sight of them where they
had just crossed the ford of the river
about a mile away, and we were not
long in getting there. 1t was go-as-
you-please, with the lines on the
horses necks; nose, neck and tail
straight out, with that reckless speed
that an Arab horse likes better than
his dinner.
They said they took US for Bashi-
Bayouks, coming at such rate
with faces tanned as black as Arabs.
An Armenian in front rode forward
to meet us, with a double -barrelled
shot gun. We said, "Halloo How
are you !" And left him standing
and looking after US. There was a
party of seven or eight missionaries
altogether-fve of them ladies--all
of them going to Harpoot. Miss
Doane was among them and we visit
ed together as long as We could,
which was only short half hour, but
we improved it as much as possible
by all talking together about every
thing and everybody at home that we
could think Of, and when we bad sep
arated going in opposite directions, it
was such a sudden, strange meeting
under such unforeseen and romantic
circumstances, in SO outlandish a
place that it seemed to me then, and
does now, more like dream than an
actual occurrence. We learned after
wards by letter from Mr.. Lee, that
Miss Doane arrived safely, having
come through Aintab with some diff
Guilty on account of the missionaries
there determining to keep her now
that she was in their hands. Which by
the way IS the one great trouble with,
missionaries, they will steal from
each other when they think they can
get good thing. And letter which 1
received a few days ago from Mr.. Lee
says that she is making remarkable
progress with the language and un-
like most missionaries who are obliged
to sit down and wait year before
they can do anything, she has COM
menced already to give instruction in
music, and with such success that the
Turks and Armenians outside of the
mission have invited her to teach
their children in their own public
schools. And, as have had. occa-
sion to remark more than once in the
course of these lectures, there is noth-
ing in which these people are more
deficient than in music. They know
music when they hear it and they like !,