The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-11-19

else in the Holy Land. How do I ac-
count for that? Solomon sent out his
ships and robbed the gardens Of the
whole earth for flowers and planted
these exotics here, and these particular
flowers are direct descendants OF the
foreignplants he imported. Mr.. Meshu-
liam, Christian Israelite, on the very
sight Of these royal gardens, has in our
day by putting in his own spade, demon
onstrated that the ground is only watt
ing for the right call to yield just as
much luxuriance and splendor 1890
years after Christ as it yielded Solo
mon 1000 years before Christ. So all
Palestine is waiting to become the rich
est scene of horticulture, arboriculture
and agriculture.
Recent travellers in the Holy Land
speak Of the rocky and stony surface Of
nearly all Palestine as an impossible
barrier to the future cultivation Of the
soil. But if they had examined min
utely the rocks and stones OF the Holy
Land they would find that they are be-
ing skeletonized, and are being melted
into the soil and being for the most part
limestone, they are doing for that land
what the American and English farmer
does when at great expense and
fatigue he draws his wagon-lOad OF lime
and scatters it on the fields for their en-
richment
The storms, the winters, the great mid
summer heats OF Palestine, by crum-
bling up and desolving the rocks, are
gradually preparing Palestine and Syria
to yield product like unto the luxuri-
ant Westchester farms Of New York,
and Lancaster County farms of Pennsyl-
vania, and Somerset County farms of New
Jersey, and the other magnificent farm
fields of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and
the opulent orchards Of Maryland and
California. Let the Turk he driven out
and the American or Englishman OF
Scotchman 60 in, and Mohammedanism
withdraw its idolatries and pure Chris
tianity build its affairs, and the irriga'
ton of which Solomon's pools was only
suggestion, will make that land from
Dan to Beersheba as fertile and aromatic
and resplendent as on the morning
when the King rode out to his pleasure
grounds in chariots so swift, and fol
lowed by mounted riders so brilliant
that it was for speed like a hurricane
followed by cyclone
AS look upon this great aqueductoi
Palestine, wondrous specimen Of an
cient masonry, about seven feet high,
two feet wide, sometimes tunneling the
solid rock and then rolling its waters
through stonewore pipes, an aqueduct
doing its work ten miles before it gets
to those three reservoirs, and then gath
ering their wealth of refreshment and
pouring it on to the mighty city Of Jeru
salem, and filing the brazen sea OF hel
temple, and the bath rooms of her pal
aces, and the great pools of Sloan, and
Hezekiah, and Bethesda. l find tina
our century has no monopoly OF the
worlds wonders, and that the conceitet
age in which we live had better take il
some of the sails Of its pride when it re
members that it is hard work in the lat
ter ages to get masonry that will las
fifty years, to say nothing Of the 5000
, and no modern machinery could lif
blocks of stone like some of those stand
, ing high up in the walls of Baalbec, ant
} that the art of printing claimed for re
cent ages was practiced by the Chimes
, 1,400 years ago. and that our midnigh
, lightning express rail train was foreseel
! by the prophet Nahum, when in the Bi
BILE he wrote, THE chariots shall rag
| in the streets, they shall jostle on
against another in the broadways, the,
, shall seem like torches, they shall rul
r like lightnings," and our electric tele
| graph was foreseen by job when in tn
| Bible he wrote, 'Canst thou send light
nings that they may go and say unit
thee, Here we are?"
, What is that talking by the light
nings but the electric telegraph! 1 d
3 not know but that the electric forces
: now being year by year more thorough
: harnessed. may have been employed il
l ages extinct and that the lightnings al
up and down the sky have been runnin
around like lost hounds TO find thei
3 former master.
Embalmment was more thorough az
D 5000 years ago than to-day. Dentistry
: that we suppose one of the importan
: arts discovered in recent centuries,
n proved to be 1000 years old by the file
/ teeth Of the mummies in the museum.
Q at Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth o
Q gold plates found by Belzoni in tn
tombs of departed nations. We hav
s been taught that Harvey discovered tn
h circulation of the blood so late as tn
4 seventeenth century. Oh. no! So
n ONION announces it in Eccles
astes, whore, first having show
Q that he understood the spin,
g cord, silver-colored as it Is, and that
Q relaxes in old age, 1.-THE silver cord /
d loosed," goes on to compare the heart {
l. pitcher at we'll, for the three cana
l. Of the heart do receive the blood like
+ pitcher, ''or the pitcher DO broken at I'll
l. fountain" What is that but the circul
Q ton of the blood, found out two tho
II sand six hundred years before Harve
Q was born? After many centuries of O.
IS ploration and calculation astronom
t finds out that the world is round. VIII
q Isaiah knew it was round thousands
t years before when in the Bible he sal
9 THE Lord stitch upon the circle of IL
a earth" Scientists toiled on for ce
d turtles and found out refraction or tn
l. the rays Of light when touching Il
It earth were not straight but bent
IS curved. Why, Job knew that when ag
/, before in the Bible he wrote of the ligh
|. ut is turned as clay to the seal"
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