The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-02-23
A Journey to Joppa.
BY MARION UARLASD.

colonies is in the Immediate vicinity OF
ZOrah, the home of : a certain man of
the family of the Danites, whose name
was Manoab." and the birthplace of his
son. A large rock, lately uncovered, is
supposed from indications that it was
used as an altar, to be that-upon which
the Canite offered the kid to the Lord
"And it came to pass that when the
flames went up towards heaven from
off the altar that the angel of the Lord
assembled in the fame of the altar, and
Manoah and his wife looked on"
SImson's range in his fighting with
the Philistincs, and his courtings of
divers women, Law between the hills on
either side Of the road, Zorah, Enron,
Gath, kirjathjearim, GAIA, the rock
EtGm, Lehi- are names that suggest
the years upon years of waring with
the original lords of the land who were
a chronic pest to the conquerors. The
house of Dagon at Ashdod has left no
trace upon the landscape of today:
Ashdod itself is represented by a few
mnd-huts rooted with straw and turf.
Gezer, made City of Refuge by
Joshua and afterwards taken by
Pharoah of Egypt, rebuilt and given by
him to his daughter, one Of Solomon
wives-crowns hill on the right of the
right Of the road. Far up the heights
on the lett is the cave of Max kedda Il
also lately discovered in which Joshua
cooped the five kings until the battle
was over when, che smOte them, and
slew them, and hanged them on five
trees, afterwards casting thir bodies in
to the cave and laying great stones up
on the caves mouth, (which remain IN
til this very day.
From the brook marginal reading
valley now a wide, dry waterbed
paved with loose white pebbles, cross
ed more than once by our track, David
took the five smooth stones for his sling
aud some where in this same valley was
the great fight between Saul and the
Phillistines, " who stood in the noun
tain on one side, while Isreal stood on
a mountain on the other side, and there
was a valley between them" 1T is i'm
possible to designate the exact spot
where the STRIPPING confronted Goliath
Of Gath, bat we select locality to
please ourselves, and fight the battle
over TO our satisfaction.
Lydia was nigh unto Joppa," when
Peter, tarrying in the smaller town
with resident saints, healed Eneas, who
had been bed ridden for eight years
in the subimely simple formula
"Enea5i Jesus Christ maketh thee
whole. Arise and maze thy bed"
He was still a sojourner in LYDIA
when summoned to Joppa by the news
Of Dorca's death. The village is
brought so near to the seaport by rail
that touch of New World enterprise
would make it suburb easily accessible
for merchants who care for purcr air
than can be had in the narrow streets
of modern Jatfa. The Crusaders set
their stamp upon LYDIA in the form of
a noble church built above the alleged
burial place Of St George, the patron
saint Of England. and coupled in every
body's mind with the dragon The re
mains Of this structure, dated from the
twelfth century, are amiably shared by
the treek church and the Moslema.
part Of them being used az mosque
Besides this building there is nothing of
interest in this square village.
The approached Jafia is heralded by
groves of orange and olive trees.
Bleak hills, where the only signs OF hu-
man habitation are villages oflow stone
houses, the material being taken, in
many cases, from the ruins of citadels
and walled towns, made way for sand
dunes driited from the seashore bv
winds that make the harbor of Jaffa a
word of terror over the world. Fertile
patches fight with thcse-sometimes
vigorously, sometimes with such indif-
fercnt success that the thin fringes of
grass and starved looking grain edge
GASES of wine and fig-lands, and end
abruptly in yellow sand. Then, the
orange groves thicken into orchards en-
circled by hedges of prickly pear with
big, tleshy leaves and ugly stalks as
crooked as snakes and large as a wan s
arm, and We plunge suddenly into a
labyrinth of alleys, lined with dirty
stone houses, standing flush with the
pavcment-the usual and now the old
story in Syrian towns. One of these
conducts us to the Jerusalem Hotel, a
rambling building of various ages, over
the modest doorway of which we read,
Go through, 90 through the gates.
Gardens lie behind it, and by way of
these we 90 10 see the house OF Simon
the Tanner, where Peter lodged. While
neither OF US believe that the unpre-
, tending building, evidently not more
than five hundred years old, and which
may be less, is that one occupied by the
APOSTLE landlord, it is quite possible
that the site may be the same Tan
nIn- has been the business of the 10
caIty for perhaps twenty centuries, and
the always restless surf Of Jafa booms
against the sea-wall bounding the court
ward. We pay to enter this, the fee be-
ing taken by a man in the carb of a
Moslem priest, the sarc-taker Of the
mosque Of which Simon's house is an
appanage Another man, similarly at
tired, lowers skin bucket into the old
We'll in the ward and gives Us to drink
Of the water. l. is exceedingly hrack-
ish and salt, as might be expected. We
pluck 4 few leaves from tig-tree over
hanging it and ascend the short stair
case, built upon the outside ofthe house
10 the flat roof. 1t Is surrounded, like
the pretty nest on the housetop we Wis
tied in Jerusalem, with hollow tiles ar
ranged horizontally in geometrical de-
sign and set in cement for the conyen-
fence Of Noslem women who would