The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-02-23

HIdn SdlIlson, ana CONNEXIONS ln!etS
where had been moored Hiram floats
! laden with Lebanon cedar for the Tenn
pie in building at Jerusalem.
And Me-iarkon and Rakkon with
the border before lover agai +, Joppo
(Joppa(," were deemed to the Danites
in Joshua's grants of Palestine islands.
From JOppa, Jonah sailed for the port
Of Tarshish, instead o. to Nineyah. The
territory and town still belonged at that
date to the PhGnicians from whom the
Hebrews had never been able to take
them. Joppa had been bone of con-
tention among Turks, infidels and Jews
and enough blood has been shed in de-
Tense and conquest of this rough kew to
Mediterranean TO dye the blue waters
crimson. In using the figure, we look
toward the east at group of sand
dunes, pale yellow in the sunlight.
that should be forever red. There
Napoleon-the great Napolecn-had
three thousand prisoners shot in pla-
toons, to avoid the trouble and expense
of transportation to Egypt.
On cur way to the hotel we met a
funeral procession, and turned aside to
let it pass, and then followed the line
of march through the very muddiest
streets We have ever seen. even in Pal
esune. No one person in the company
OF mourncrs has shoes, or even sandals
on their feet; the men wear abiehs and
turband, the women, gowns of dark blue
cotton and white (by courtesy, izzars
! They are not too much afflicted to hold
| these up, We perceive, when the pud-
dies reaching clear across the street are
unusually deep. The bier is born upon
the shoulders Of four men. Our guide
makes rs notice that it is an implanted
open box, SO shallow that the breast,
shoulders and profile Of the corpse are
visible from the ground
tie was poor and the friends cannot
afford new coffin. This has been used
many times before. Rich people have
new and handsome collins, which are
sometimes buried with them. You
hear that they sing happy songs" con-
tlnues the speaker, Jatfa man, and an
acquaintance of David. THAT means
he was a good man. He made a pill
grimage to Mecca but lately, so short
time ago that he has, the Moslems
think, surely gone to the bosom of the
Prophet. He has not had time for
much sin since. So nobody cries, and
the hymns are glad
Maybe so, to an ear cultivated into
appreciation of Syrian melody. To us
the happy hymns are as dolorous as
dirges, and like ali other Moslem music,
tunelcss, but tor the rhythmic beat of
time such as drum stick brings from
drum IN the intervals of march or quick
step. The chanting OF Southern negroes
in antebellum days, of long sentence,
all upon one, or at best, two notes, was
something akin to the nasal sing song
to Which the motley crew splashed
through pools in the lanes, and the stiff
fer mire Of the market square, where
not man or woman turnes out of his
way to make room for them-up to the
door of the mosque, where we leave
them.
Our solitary call III Jaffa was upon
Miss Arnott, the principal Of one of the
best schools in the Holy Land, now
aver thirty years in successful opera
ton. Since leaving Beirut, we had not
sat in room that remiened us of home
so forcibly as the parlor where we were
entertained bp the gentewoman and
phllanthropist, to whom is due the good
accomplished by his great light in a
dark place. David Jamal has two
daughters here, one engaged in teaching
where she was herself taught, the other
as pupil. All the native assistants are
graduates of the school, and the gentle
dignity of the principal is reflected in
the department of her subordinates.
Disnis8ing David and sending Alcides
with him, | had long and, to me,
deeply interesting talk with Miss
Arnott. She left her home and country
in her youth to devote her whole life
to the task of lifting her fellow women
out of the depths wherein they have
lain for ages Of despotic rule and I'M
speakable degradation She has laid
hold of the only hope of her sex in
Syria, and toilcd hopefully for the girls
who are to be the wives and mothers of
the next generation. After all these
decades of patient labor and manifold
discouragement, she sees her school
recognized power in the land and sits
a queen-mother among her grateful
children-in heart.-Cnristian Herald.