Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-06
IN THE HOLY LAND.
Iconllmned from Fnst Paac.

Continued from FIRST Pagcl
the Apostle, and Mary the Virgin, and
Jesus Christ the Lord.
YELLED WOMEN.
On the way across the plain of Sharon
We meet many yelled women. II is not
respectable for them to 90 unveiled, and
it is a veil that is hung so as TO make
them hideOus. A man may not even
see his wife until after betrothal or en-
gagement of marriage. Hence the
awful mistakes and the unhappy homes,
for God has made the face an index Of
character, and honesty or dishonesty
usually is demonstrated in the features.
| do not see what God made fair face
for, il il were not TO be looked at. But
here come the crowds OF diSfgurcd
women down the road on their way
TO Joppa, bundles of sticks of
f. frewood ON their heads. They
started at o'clock in the morning to
get the fuel. They Stagger under the
burdens. Whipped and beaten will
some of them be if their bundle of
sticks is too small. All that is required
for enforcement is for man to say to
his wife: BE of, don't want you
any more" Woman is a slave in all
lands. except those in which the Gospel
of Christ makes her queen. And yet
in Christian countries there are woman
posing as scepticS, and men with family
deriding the only religion that makes
sacred. and honorable the names of
wife. mother, daughter and sister.
What is that? Town of Rainleh,
birthplace, residence and tomb of Sam
uel, the glorious prophet. Near by the
TOWER OF FORTY MARTYRS,
called because that number of disciples
persisted there for Christ'S sake: but If
towers had been built for all those, who
| I'm time of war as in time of peace, have
/ fallen on this road during the ages past,
/ YOU might almost walk on turrctS from
/ Joppa To- Jerusalem.
Now we pass guard-hOuSeS which are
castles of chopped straw and mud whcre
at night and partly through the day,
armed men dwell and keep the bandits
of travellers. In the caves of these
mountains dwell men to whom massacre
would be high play and purse with a
few pennies would be compensation
enough for the struggle that the savage
might have with the wayfarcr There
/ is only one other defense that amounts
/ to much i'm 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
] IN ! =
/ Supper was built on that custom, a
special friendship after partaking food
| together. To that custom Walter Scott
refers i'm his immortal TdilSmdn, where
| Saladin. with one stroke of the sword,
strikes the head from an enemy who
stands i'm Saladin'S tent with a cup in
| his hand and before he has time to put
/ il to his lips, and does it so suddenly that
| the body of his enemy, beheadcd, stands
/ for 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 hospitality to give the fatal
blow.
ARMED ATTENDANTS.
/ The only lands where il is safe TO
| travel unarmed are Christian lands.
| Human life is more highly valued and
personal rights are better respected.
and / ann glad to believe that in our
country. from the Atlantic Ocean TO
the Pacific Ocean, there is not "A place
to-day where man is not safer with
out pistol than with one. But all
through our Journeys in Palestine we
required firearms While the only
weapon | had ON my person was New
/ Testament. We went through the region
where / said To the dragoman: David,
are You armed?" and he said Yes. "
and said Are those fifteen or twenty
muletecrs and baggagc-men and attend
ants armed?" and ne said "IeS," and !
felt safer.
On we roll through the Plain OF
| Sharon. Here grew the rose after
which Christ was named, Rose OF Sha-
ron. celebrated in all Christendom and
/ throughout all ages There has been
controversy as TO what flower it was.
Some say 10 was a transformations that
thrivcs here, and some claim this honor
for the narciSSuS. and some for the blue
iris, and some for the scarlet anemOne,
for YOU must remember that this Plain
OF Sharon is "a rolling ocean OF color
when the spring brccZeS move across IT..
But leaving the botaniStS i'm cOntro-
verSy as TO what 10 is would take the
most aromatic and beautiful of them all
and twist them into garland for the
Name which is above every name.
AN APPALLING INCENDGAEISM
The wealth of that land was in the
harvestS. and il was harvest time and
the straw was dry. Three hundred
foxes are caught aud tied in couples by
some wire or some incombuStSblc cord
which the flames cannot divide, and
/ fire-brands are fastened to'thoSe couples
of foxes. and the atTrighted creatures
are let loose and rum every whittier
among the harycStS. and in the awful
blaze down go the corn shocks, and in
the vineyards, and the olives. and all
through the valleys and over the hills,
and among the villages is heard the cry
of fire, And in the burnt pathway
walk hunger and want and dcSoation'
All this for spite. And some
thcologianS learn one thing, and
some another but | learn from it
that great man may sometimes
stoOp 10 "a very mean piece OF business.
and that if men would use as much in
genuity i'm trying to bless as they do In
trying TO destroy. the world all the way
down would have been i'm better condi-
ton. Yet the fire of the foxes kindled
that night i'm Palestine has not gone
out. but has lcapcd the seas, and the
sly foxes. the human foxes, are now
still running every whittier, kindling
political fires. fires of religious contro-
vcrSy. fires of hate, Worldwide fires,
and who'd harvests of righteousness
perish. IL took the hard work of null
titudes ON all these plains OF Palestine
for months and months to rear the vine
and raise the corn, but it took only
three hundred worthless foxes one night
to blaze all into ashes.
An ANCIENT ROBBER.
Now we pass the place where once
lived one Of the greatest robbers of the
century. Abou Gosh by name. From
this point you see he could look over all
the surrounding country, and long be-
fore the travellers came up to him the