The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-12-07
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
Making Fun of the American Col
Ony I'm PaIestfne.
II. IA. ROBINSON, a.'"
PUBLIsHER AND PROPRIETOR.

Ong IN I-aleStlne.
The Pail Mall Gasetie Is Gacetious over
the exploit of the Maine colonists who have
gone to the Holy Land II says:'
"Thc Telegraph notices the curious fact
that the ship Hetty Helen, from New York,
brought over to Jaila q whole assorted
cargo of Yankee enigrnnts who, of all
places In the world, had pitched upon the
plains OF sharon for a settlement, There
Is really something very odd and striking
III this importation ofthe newest people into
one of the most ancient localities and popu-
lations of history. A greater contrast than
that between New York and JaIIa could
not be found In all the world. Every body
knows what the American city Isl. that Of
syria Is gray Arab town perched upbn a
little hill, with no harbor. no life no hustle.
nothing to care about nothing TO take up
the attention save coffee and pipes, and the
occasional swindling OF Na2arene dogs who
land there on the way to Jerusalem Jafa
sits blinking in the SUN atop of Its hillock,
with the Meditsrranean waves fissing into
roth against its tumble-doWn quay, lust
as ifit were dreaming of the af1tiuue times.
when 1t was In the language Of these
new visitors quite aplace.' For only to
remember what Jafia used to be makes
these Yankees as Jafiaists would say, sons
ofyesterday.' F'H hrt ie tna ffis
'Ilet no one. however, doubt that these
cute New Englanders know what they are
doing Jaiia Is of little account for bust
ness, beauty, Or any thing else, except mel
ons and ancient history but outside 'and
behind the city lies plain unsurpassed for
richness. 1t Is the plain of Sharon, whose
roses blossom and shed fragrance through
the religious literature of half tile world.
and which boast the very finest Otangeand
lemon gardens In all the earth. The soil
that can produce such fruit ought, with
Yankee culture, to do almost any thing,
and. indeed, the plain Of Sharon never
wanted much more than water and little
scratching with the crooked stick called the
Syrian plow, to produce whatever is want
ed. Our transatlantic frienils always had
"A sharp eye for water privileges and al
mighty fine locations;' but what a scent
they must have had for them to lind out
this fat and likely place from thtother side
OF the globe. Doubtless they viii prospect
the country, they are there ;aRd should
they go north TO the plain Of Esdraelon,
under the nils OF Nazareth. they VIII see a
still more promising site for enterprising
Yankees, if they can only managD theBe-
douins and bribe the Turks, The fattest
and richest corn ground in the world, fiat
as a billiard. table and close 10 the sea, Is
TO be found by the hundreds Of thousands
OF acres; but II is untitled, and yields only
the mandrake, the great Syrian thistle and
the Palestine lilies, for the Turks have no
power or VIII TO Keep Arabs from turning
their mares into the barley of the peasants
when IL comes up. The Yankee and the
roses Of Sharon or the lilies of Jezreel come
oddly enough together; but we should not
grudge the contrastif il could do something
for sad and iair Syria."u, i I t.u.I