Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-09-29
WHEELING W. VA MONDAY SEPTEMBER

under the Turk, and what the Turk
is against easy wharves, against steam
erS, against rail-trains, against printing
presses, against civilization. Darkness
is always opposed to light The owl
hates the morn. Leave those rocks
where they are" practically cries the
Turkish governments: 1--WE want no Dco-
pie of other religions and other habits
10 land there; if the salt seas wash over
them, let it be a warning to other in
yaderS; away with your nineteenth CEN
tury, with its free thought and modern
inventions" That Turkish government
ought to be blotted from the face of the
earth, and it will be.
As we descended the narrow steps at
the side of the ship, we heard the clamor.
and quarrel, and swearing, of fifteen or
sixteen different races Of men OF all fea-
lures, and all cOlors and all vernacu!arS:
all different in appt lrance, but all alike
in desire to get our baggage and our
selves at cxhorbitant prices Twenty
boats and only ten passengers TO 90
ashore. The man having charge of us
pushes aside some, and strikes with a
heavy stick others. and by violence that
would not be tolerated in our country,
but which seem to be the only manner
of making any impression there, clears
our way into one of the boats which
head for the shore. We are within tif-
teen minutes OF the ChriSt-land. Now
we hear shouting from the beach and
i'm five minutes we will be landed. The
PROV of the boat is caught by men who
wade out To help us in. We are tremu-
louS with suppressed excitement, our
breath is quick and from the side of the
boat we spring TO the shore, and Sun
day morning. December l, 1889, about
eight o'clock, our feet touch Palestine.
IN PALESTINE.
On the back of hills one hundred and
fifty feet high Joppa is lifted toward
the skies. 1t is as picturesque as it is
quains, and as much unlike any city we
have ever seen, as though it were built
i'm that star Mars, where Il few nights
ago this very September, astronomers
through unparalleled telescopes saw Il
suow-storm raging. How glad we were
to be i'm Joppa. Why. this is the city
where DorcaS, that queen of the needle,
lived and died and was reSurrccted.
You remember that the poor people
came around the dead body of the ben
efactrcss and brought specimens of her
kind needle-work and said, "DorcaS
made this" "DOrcaS Sewcd that; Dor
cas- cut and fitted this" ''DorcaS hemmed
that" According to Lightfoot, the
commentator, they laid her out in state
in public room and the poor wrung
their hands and cried, and sent for
Peter. who performed miracle by
which the good woman came back to
life and resumed her bencfactiOnS. An
especial resurrection day for one wo-
man. She was the model by which
many women of our day have fashioned
their lives, and at the first blast OF the
horn of the wintry tempest, there ap-
pear ten thousand DorcaSeS-DorcaS Of
Brooklyn, Decreases of New York,
Decreases OF London, DOrcaScs of all
the ueighborhoods and towns and
cities of ChrStendom, just as good as
the DorcaS of the Joppa which visited.
Thank God for the ever-increaSing skill
and sharpness and speed and gcncroS-
/ ity of DorcaS's needle.
What is that'man doing?" ! said to
the dragoman in the streets Of Joppa.
"Oh, he is carrying his bed" Multi
tudes of the people sleep out-of-doors,
and that is the way 50 many in those
lands become blind. 1t is from the dew
of the night falling on the eyelidS. A.
result of this, in Egypt. every TWEEN
ticth person is totally blind. In Ori-
entail lands the bed is made OF a thin
small mattress. n blanket and pillow
and when the man rises in the morning
he Just ties up the three into bundle
and shoulders il and takes it away. II
was 10 that the Saviour referred whcr
ne said to the sick man, Take up thy
bed and walk" An American couch OF
! an English couch would require ut lcaSt
four men to carry it, but one Orienta
can easily manage his Slumber equip
ment.