Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-11-03

are being slxelctonized, and are being
melted into the soil and, being for the
most part limestone, they are doing for
that land what the American and En-
glish farmer does when at great ex-
pense and fatigue he draws his wagon
load of lime and eaters it on the
fields for their enrichment
The storms, the winters, the great
midsummer heats of Palestine, by cru1n-
bling up and dissolving the rocks, are
gradually preparing Palestine and Syria
to yield product like unto the luxu-
RANT Westchester farms of New York,
and Lancaster county farms of Penn
sylvania, and Somerset county farms
of New Jersey, and the other ma gnlfi-
cent farm fields of Minnesota and Wis
consin, and the opulent orchards of
Maryland and California. Let the
Turk be driven out and the American,
or Englisnan, or Scotch1nan go in and
Mohammedanism withdraw its idolatry,
and pure Christianity build its affairs,
and the irrigation of which Solomon's
pools was only a suggestion will make
all 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 chariot SO
swift and followed by mounted riders
so brilliant that it was for speed like a
hurricane followed by a cyclone.
WHERE THE ANCIENTs EXCELLED Us.
As | look upon this great aqueduct
of Palestine. wondrous specimen of
ancient masonry, about seven feet
high, two feet wide, sometimes tunnel
ing the solid rock and then rolling
it's waters through stoneware pipes, an
aqueduct doing its work ten miles be-
fore it gets to those three reservoirs,
and then gathering their wealth of re
freshment and pouring it on to the
mighty city of Jerusalem and filling the
brazen sea of her temple, and the bath
rooms of her palaces, and the great
| pools of Sloan and Hezekiah and
| Bethesda. [ find that our century has
no monopoly of the worlds wonders,
and that the conceited age in which
| we live had better take in some of the
sails of its pride when it remembers
| that it is hard work in later ages to get
masonry that will last fifty years, to
! and no modern machinery could lift
| blocks of stone like some of those
standing high up in the walls
| of BaaIbec, and the art of print
| ing claimed for recent ages was prac-
ticed by the Chinese fourteen hundred
years ago, and that our midnight light
| ming express rail train was fOreseen by
| the prophet Nahum, when in the Bible
| he wrote, ''The chariots shall rage in
the streets, they shall jostle one against
another in the broadways, they shall
seem like torches, they shall run like
| lightnings,'' and our electric telegraph
was foreseen by Job, when in the Bible
he wrote, ''Canst thou send lightnings
that they may go and say unto thee,
Here we arep" What is that talking
by the lightnings but the electric tele-
graph I do not know but that the
electric forces now being year by year
more thoroughly harnessed may have
been employed in ages extinct, and
that the Ightnings all up and down the
sky have been running around like lost
hounds to find their former master.
E1nbalmment was a more thorough
art three thousand years ago than to-
day. Dentistry, that we suppose one
of the important arts discovered in re-
cent centuries, is proven to be four
thousand years old by the filed teeth
of the mummies in the museums at
Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth on
gold plates found by Belzoni in the
tombs of departed nations. We have
| 49,. +l,o4 To IiSoovornd tho
| circulation of the blood SO late as the
Seventeenth century. Oh, no! Solo
mon announces it in Ecclesiastes, where,
first having shown that he understood
the spinal cord, silver colored as it is,
and that it relaxes in old age, 1.-The sill
yer cord be loOsed, !" goes on to compare
the heart to pitcher at well, for the
three canals of the heart do receive the
blood like pitcher, ''or the pitcher be
broken at the fountain.
What is that but the circulation OF
the blood, found out twentYsix hun
dred years before Harvey was born /?
After many centuries of exploration
and calculation astronomy finds out
that the world is round. Why, Isaiah
knew it was round thousands of years
before, when in the Bible he said, 1.-THE
Lord sitteth upon the circle of the
earth" Scientists toiled on for centu-
ries and found out refraction or that
the rays of light when touching the
earth were not straight but bent or
curved Why, Job knew that when
ages before in the Bible he wrote of the
light, sit is turned as clay to the seal. .
BUT MORAL SUPERIORITY IS OURS.
In the old cathedrals of England,
modern painters in the repair of win
dows are trying to make something as
good as the window painting of -four
hundred years ago, and always failing
by the unanimous verdict of all who
examine and compare. The color OF
modern painting fades in fifty years,
while the color of the old masters is as
well preserved after five hundred years
as after one year. [ saw last winter on
the walls of exhumed Pompeii paint
ings with color as fresh as though made
the day before, though they were bu
ried eighteen hundred years ago. The
making of Tyrian purple is an impossi
bility now. In our modern potterie:
. pitchers and bowls as exquisite as those
exhumed from Herculaneum, and ou1
artifcers are attempting to make jew
elry for ear and neck and finger equa
to that brought up from the mauso
leums of two thousand years befor'
| Christ
We have in our time glass in al
shapes and all colore but Pliny, NOR
than eighteen hundred years ago, de
scribed a malleable glass which,
thrown upon the ground and dented
could be pounded straight again by tn
hammer or could be twisted around tn
wrists, and that confounds all the glas
manufactures of our time. tried il
Damascus, Syria, to buy Damascu
blade. one Of those swords that coul'
be bent double or tied into kno
> without breaking. could not get one
; Why? The Nineteenth century canno
:, make a Damascus blade. If we go O.
: charging our cities we may, after