The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-06

Of the Atlantic which have been the instru-
ments OF annoyance and harm to that Jew.
ish race, TO which belonged Abraham and
David, and Joshua aid Baron Hirseh. and
Montehore and Paul the Apostle, and Mary
the Virgin, ana Jesus Christ the Lord
YELLED WOMEN.
On the way across the plain Of Sharon
we meet many veiled women. Ii Is not
respectable for them TO go unveiled, and it
Is a veil that is so hung as 10 make ITEM
hldeous A man may not even see the race
of his wife until after tetrothal, or engage
ment OF marriage. Herce the awful mis-
takes and the unhappy homes, for God mas
made the face an index OF character, ana
honesty or dishonesty usually is demon
strated in the features. / do not see what
God made fair face for If 1t were not TO
be looked at But here comes the crowds
of disfigured women down the road
on their way TO JOppa, bundles of
sticks for freHood on their heads
II ey started al O'Clock in the morning to
get the fuel They stagger under the bur
dens. Whipped and beaten VIII some OF
them be if their bundle of sticks Is too
small All that is required for divorce
ment is for a man to say to his wife: "Be
off; don't want you any mora" Woman
q slave in all lands except those in which
the gospel of Christ makes her a queen
And yet in christian countries there are
women posing Is skeptics and men with
family deriding the only religion that
makes sacred and honorable the names OF
wire, mother, daughter and sister.
What is that Town of Ramleh. birth
place, residence and tomb Of Samuel, the
glorious prophet. Near by,
TOWER OF FORTY MARTYRS,
called because that number of disciples
persisted there for Christs sake; but If
ia g. ali hO in,
the time of war In time OF peace, have
fallen on this road during the ages past, you
might almost walk on turrets from Joppa
TO Jerusalem.
Now we pass guard houses which are
castles of chopped straw and mud, where at
night and partly through the day, armed
men dwell and keep the bandits off travel
lers In the caves of these mountains dwell
men to whom massacre would be high play
and a purse with few pennies would De
compensation enough for the struggle that
the savage might have with the warfarer
There is only one other defense that
amounts 70 much in these lands and
that is the law of hospitality. If
you can get an Arab to eat with
you, if only one mouthful, you are sure
of his protection and that has been 80
from age to age. The Lords supper was
built on that custom, a special friendship
after partaking food together. To that GUS
"Talsman,n where Saladin. with one stroke
of the sword, strikes the head from an
enemy who stands in Saladin's tent with a
cup in his hand and before he has time TO
put it to his lip, and does itso suddenly that |
the body of his enemy, beheaded stands for
a moment after the beheading, with the cup
still in his right hand. After the cup had
been slipped It would have been impossible,
according to the laws of Oriental hospi- |
tality, to give the fatal blow.
ARMED ATTENDANTS.
The only lands where it is safe TO travel |
unarned are christian lands. Human life |
is more highly valued and personal rights |
are better respected, and | |
am glad to believe that in our |
country, from the Atlantic ocean to the |
Pacific ocean, there is not a place to-day /
where a man is not safer without pistol |
than with one. But all through our journey |
in Palestine we required firearms. While |
only weapon / had on my person was a |
New Testament. we went through the re-
gion where | said to the dragoman: David,
are you armed ~ and he said EYES," and |
said "Are those fifteen or twenty muleteers
and baggage-men and attendants armedF' |
and he said Yes" and felt safer.
On we roll through the plain of Sharon. |
Here grew the rose after which Christ was |
named, Rose OF Sharon, celebrated in all /
christendom and throughout all ages. There /
has been controversy as TO what flower it |
Yves. Some say it was a marshmallow that |
thrives here and some claim this honor for |
the narcissus, and some for the blue iris, |
and some for the scarlet animone for you |
must know that this plain Of Sharon is a |
rolling ocean of color when the spring 1
breezes move across it. But leaving the |
botanists in controversy as to what It is, l |
would take the most aromatic and beautiful |
of them all and twist them into a garland |
for the ''Name which is above every name"
Yonder, little to the north as we move
on, is the plain of Ono. The Bible men
tions it again and again. The village stand
ing on this plain of Ono is a mud village. |
Two great basins of rock catch the rains for |
the peonle. OF more importance in olden |
time than in modern time was this plain of
Ono. But, as the dragoman announced it,
and in the Bible read of it, | was reminded
of the vast multitude of people who now
dwell in the plain of Ono. They are, by
their nervous constitution or by their lack
of faith in God, always in the negative.
viii you help to build a church, o, no!
VIII you start out in some new christian
enterprise 0, no! Do you think the
world is getting any betterl o, mol
They lie down in the path
of all good movements sanitary, social,
political and religious. They harness their |
horses with no traces to pull ahead, but |
only breeding straps to hold back For all |
sand of them the price of clipped ten-cent |
piece. They are in the plain of o, mol |
May the Lord multiply the numbers of |
those who, when anything good is under |
taken, are found to live in the plain OF o, |
yesl Will you support this new charity! |
o, yesl Do you think that this victim of |
evil habit can be reformed? o, yes Are
you willing to do an thing, whether obscure |
or resembling, for the welfare of the church |
and the salvation of a ruined world9 o, |
yesl But / am sorry to say that the most
populous plain in all the earth to-day is the |
plain of Ono.
Here now we come where stood the fields
into which Samson fired the foxes. The
foxes are no rarity in this land. counted |
at one time twenty or thirty of them in one
group, and the cry all along the line was
'Foxesl Look at the foxesl" and at night
they sometimes bark until all attempts to
sleep are an absurdity. Those / saw and
heard in Palestine might have been de-
scendants of the very foxes that Samson
employed for
AN APPALLING INCESDIARISM.
The wealth of that land was in the harry
ests, and it was harvest time and the straw
was dry. Three hundred foxes are caught
and tied in couples by some wire or incom-
bustible cord which the flames cannot
divide and frebrands are fastened 10 thoea