The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-09-15

AS foolscap paper woven i'm from head to
foot on each side near the arm, black on
each end and red in the center. The
women dress in gaudily braided stuff.
On the front and back they are like the
embroidered waists the daughters OF
America wear. The native Christians
wear red tarboosh or cap shaped like
a tin well bucket and black tassel
hanging from the center and gracefully
dangling. Many wear white altogether,
like office coats, others a rice color. You
can dress anyway and be O. X. Yet
the poor foolish people here have as
much as they do anywhere. Women
wear heavy coils of coins on their heads,
as the custom is an heirloom handed
down from one to another or given as a
marriage dowry, and the poor fools wear
it all on their heads instead of their
backs as we do. If she gets hungry she
can take Que and buy a loaf of bread
Some are quite valuable, being made Of
gold coins of several hundred dollars.
The women do the work. The men
manage three or four wives and concu-
bines with large families. So the old
man has to scratch and scheme to get
bread, for all the old wives must 60 to
the field early and stay until late. The
youngest or last wife is the queen until
her lord gets another. The poor old
WORKOUT mothers of his children, who
have labored from daylight to dark,
besides bearing children, must become
subject to the new favorite, from eleven |
to twenty. Few or none can read. Only |
the judges, officers or teachers of religion
can read, SO the Bible, God, love and
justice are unknown. Yet they are
open, frank, sincere and true to all they
know. But that won't save their poor, Il
dark, stupid souls. 0, you mothers in
luxury there, pray for your sisters in
heather darkness here in this Holy land,
for if one confesses Christ she is killed.
The Jews cast off their children and wish
them dead, and count them as dead, but
the MoslemS put them to death if they
accept Christianity A Moslem woman,
who boldly confesses Jesus before her
people, is in the house now. They have
given her poison several times, but God s .
promises, If we take up serpents or
drink any deadly thing" is verified in
her life. A poisonous snake bit her.
She looked to Jesus and was well at once.
Behold | give we power to tread on
scorpions and all the powers OF
enemy, and nothing shall in anywise
lurt," is Gods Holy Word tried and ]
proven. Il will preserve thee from all
,vil The sun shall not smite thee by
lay nor the moon by night. will pre-
erve thy going out and thy coming in
Pisa. 121 Luke 10:17 10,
70, 81. Pray that may be one of His
,abes, that the son may be able to re-
cal the father to me.
This country has peculiar charms that
10 other possesses. Beautiful scenery
ever firing us, changing as the season :
hanges, not sprig of grass anywhere
n the hills, fields barren, no clover,
reeds or stubble, yet the goats, sheep,
onkeys and camels live on briars and
histles, and in these the country
bounds. Water is the most valuable
hing. At Bethany they carry water in
lrge eight to ten gallon jars ION their
eads) from the Apostles Fountain,
nile down steep mountain. So you
ee the work the women have to do
let all the year round we have fruit.
We have apricots, peaches, pears, APP
les, tomatoes, and fine Irish potatoes
lost all the year, blackberries, plums,
gs, grapes in abundance. Grapes are
yo cents a pound, large, luscious
unches, sweet and juicy, long as your
lumb and larger than pigeon egg, a
llf bushel for twenty cents, in Union
ity quarter OF pound for the same =
oney. We have also dates, raisins. II
monds, and many other kinds of nuts, 4
erything but strawberries, all kinds OF
getables, including peas, beans, cab
ge. So we are feasting on many good
ings. We have good peaches and
apes now Peaches are 6l cents for
pounds; grapes II cents for pounds.
e had squash for dinner to-day, but
ely cut off one end, clean out the center
ID stuff with rice and meat. / like
e whole squash cooked without meat
d rice.
Days are slipping fast, so speak TO lost
uls. ! am teaching a Mahommedan
lglish at night Pray for God to save -,
m through and through / have two ~
nday school classes and a singing
iss, besides services four nights week
We love to all and pray for your hum r
pAUT ~