Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-08

leading spirit ard, though suffering from
chronic Inflammation of she eyes, from
those eyes flashed more indignant on
against ChrIst's followers than any one
of the horsed procession. This lille man,
| before his name was changed to Paul.
was called Saul. So many of
( the mightiest natures OF all
ages are condensed into small
meas Of stature. The Frenuhmau who
was sometimes called by his troops .'Old
One Hundred Thousand, - was often be-
cause Of his abbreviated personal pres
eace styled ''Little Nap. - Lord Nelson
with insignificant staiurs to start with,
AMI one eye put cut ct CaIvi, ami his
right arm taken OF at Tenn.iffe, proTes
himself ut Trafaigur the nightiest hero
o: the English navy. The greatest of
American theOlogians. Archibald Alex
andcr. could stand under the elbow of
many OF his contemporaries. Look out
for little men when they start out for
some especial mission OF good or evil.
The thuuderbolt Is only u condensation
of electricity.
Well, thet ge!lopag group OF horse
men on the road TO Dam asrus were halt
Ell quicker than hombsheL or cavalry
charge ever halted regiment. The
Syrian MONDAY, because OF the clarity
of the atmosphere Is the brightest of all
nOoniavs, and the MONDAY sun III Syria
is positively terrific for Driiliauce. But
suddenly that noon there
FLASHED FROM THE HEAVENS
Sight Mich made that Syrian sun seem
tame us 81 star 10 com parisou. II was the
fuce % the slain and aiaented Christ,
looking from tho heavens, and under the
dash of that overpowcrIug Light all the
horses dropped with their riders. Human
face ana horses maDe together in the
dust. And then two Chaps of thunder
followed utterug the two words, the
second word like the first: saul.
Saui!'' For three days that fallen
equestrian wus totally blind, for excess
sive light will sometimes extiaguish the
eyesisht. Aud whn: corIea and crystalline
lens could endure u brightness greater
than The uOoDdAy Syrian sum- / had
read IL u hundred times, but II never so
impressed me before, and probably will
never so impress me again. as took nv
Billie from the saddle bags and read
eleu to our comrades 10 travel: "As
he jnurneyed, he came near Damascus,
aud suddenly there shined rouul about
him light from heaven, and he fell TO
him, Saul. Saul! why persecntest thou
me?' aud he said, who art thou,
Lord?' And the Lord sBid, i an Jesus
whom thou persecutest. -
But We cannot stop longer on this road,
for we shall see :his unharssd equestrian
later In Damascus. toward which his
horse head is turned and ut witch We
must ourselves arrive before night. The
evening il near at hand ind ns we lenre
snowy HeTmon behind us and approach
the shadow of 200 rni:larsts and domes
we cut through i circumference of many
miles OF garden when embower the city.
SO .uXurlGnt are these gardens, so opu-
lent Ia coiors. so luscious of fruits, 80
GATHERING WITH FOUNTAINS,
so rich with bowers and klosSs that the
Mohammedau heaven was fashioned
utter what are TO be seen here
of bloom and fruitage. Here In
Damascus ut the right season
are cherries, and mu berries. and april
cots, and almonds. and pistnchIos, and
pOmegTnnates, and pears, and apples,
ana p!uns, and citrons. and all the rich
ness of the round worlds pomology.
No wonder that JuliaD called this city
1.-the Eye of the East. ami that the
poets OF Svrin have styled it "the iustre
on the neck OF doves and historians
said: lit is the golden clasp which
couples the two sides of the world to-
Cether.
Many travellers express d!sappoin tment
with Damascus, but the trouble is theT
have carried on their minds from boy
hood, the book which dazzles SO many
young peopie-the ARABIAN Nights
and they come into Damascus looking for
tladdin's lamp, and AiaGdin's
ring, and the geui which
appears by rubbing them. But,
a. l have never read the Arabian Nights.
such stuf not beng allowed around orr
house i'll my boyhood, nud nothing
lighter in the way of reading than Bax-
ter's Saints, Everlasting Rest, Rud
ID Auoig1y's History OF the Reforms
ton, Damascus appeared TO me az sacred
and secular history have presented 1t,
and so the city was not disappointment,
but with few exceptions q surprise.
UNDER MY WINDOW
tonight In the hotel at Damascus hear
the perpetual ripple and rush of the river
Abans. All, the secret ia out. Now 1
know why Gil this fora, and fruit, aud
Why everything is so green, and the plaip
one great emerald. Ths river ALBANIA!
And not far of, the river Pbarper,
which our horses wadrd through to-day!
Thank tie rivers, or rather the God who
made the rivers. Deserts 10 the north,
deserts 20 the south, deserts to the east,
deserts TO the west, but here u paradise.
And. as the rivers Gihon AMI Piscr,
and Diddekel, aud Euphrates, made
the other paradise. Abaua and
Pharpar make this Damascus O paradise.
That is what made General Naeman of
- city Of Damascus 90 mad when he