Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-06
est star that ever shone from the hsav-

Although these Solomonic gardens are
in ruins, there are now growing there
flowers that are to be found nowhere else
in the Holy Land. How do l account for
thatS Solomon sent out his ships ana
robbed the gardens OF the whole earth
for flowers and planted these exotics
here, and these particular flowers are
direct descendants Of the foreign plants
he imported. Mr.. &eshullam, Chris
tian Israelite, on the very site OF these
royal gardens, has IN our day, by put
ting in his own spade, demonstrated that
the ground is only
WAITING FOR THE RIGHT CALL
to yield just as much luxuriance ana
splendor 1900 years after Christ as 1t
yielded Solomon 1000 years before Christ.
So all Palestine is waiting to Iecome the
richest scene of horticulture, aboricul-
tGre 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 enrich
ment. The storms, the winters, the
great midsummer heats of Palestine,
| by crumbling up and dissolving the
rocks are gradually preparing Palestine
| and Syria to yield q product like unto
| the luxuriant Westchester farms of New
York and Lancaster county farms OF
| Pennsylvania, 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
| be driven out and the American or Eng
| lishman or Scotchman go in and Moham-
mechanism withdraw its idolatries, 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 Respondent as on the
morning when the king rode out 10 his
pleasure ground in chariot SO swift, and
followed by mounted riders so brilliant
| that it was for speed like
| HURRICANE FOLLOWED BY A CYCLONE.
AS l look upon this great aqueduct OF
! Palestine, a wondrous specimen OF an
Gent masonry, about seven feet high,
| two feet wide, sometimes tunneling the
| solid rock and then rolling it's waters
| through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct
| doing its work ten miles before it gets to
| those three reservoirs, and then gather
| ing their wealth of refreshment and
pouring 1t on to the mighty city of Jeru-
salem and filling the brazen sea of her
| temple, and the bath rooms of her pal
J aces, and the great pools of Sloan, and
! Hezekiah, and Bethesda, find that our
century has no monopoly of the world s
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, 10 say
| nothing of the three thousand,
aud no modern machinery could
| lift blocks of stone like some of those
| standing high up in the walls of Baalbec,
| and that the art of printing claim
| ed for recent ages was practieed by the
| Chinese 400 years ago, and that our
midnight lightning express rail train was
| foreseen by the prophet Nahum when in
the Bible he wrote 1.-the chariots shall
rage in the streets, they shall jostle one
against another in the brosdways, they
shall seem like torches, they shall run
like lightnings, and our electric tele-
graph was foreseen by Job, when in the
| Bible he wrote, ''Canst thou send light
| nings that they NAV 20 and say unto
| thee, sHere we are?' ~ What is that
talking by the lightnings, but the electric
telegraph! 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 lightnings all up and down the sky,
have been running around like lost
! hounds
| TO FIND THEIR FORMER MASTER.
Embalmment was more thorough art
| 5000 years ago than to-day. Dentistry
| that we suppose one of the important arts
! discovered III recent centuries, is proven
| to be 4OGO years OLD by the filled teeth of
the mummies in the museum at Cairo,
Egypt, and artificial teeth on gold plates
found by Belzoni in the tombs of de-
parted nations. We have been taught
that Harvey discovered the circulation of
| the blood so late as the seventeenth CEN
fury. Oh, no! Solomon announces it in
Ecolesiastes, where first having shown
| he understood the spinal cord, silver
! colored as it is, and that it relaxes in old
| age, 1.-THE silver cord be loosed, - goes
| on to compare the heart to pitcher at a
well, for the three canals of the heart
do receive the blood like a pitcher, ''or
the pitcher be broken at the foun-
tain.' What is that but the circulation
of the blood, found outs2600 years be-
fore Harvey was bornf After many
centuries of explorations and calculation,
ksstronomy finds out that the world il
4 6und. Why, Isaiah kyaxssssss fosad
thousands of years when in e
Il the rcle the ead Scients
4 tsss on centuries ~ found 9asre-
\ 4fsffactfag that the ra ~ u light then
touching earth weE nj straiaH but
bent or q sed. ", whM Up ~ knew Ho that
VT e. the he, 1iF at is hrnS asslay to
IN the old cathedTslsE of Eagland,
modern painters IN thoxeRair II windows
\ are trying to make something 8s4ood as
the window painting of ,tou1 hundred
4 years ago and always sfailin by the
unanimous verdict of AT who&kamias
ana comparSGhe solor Messff
printing fade NIFTY @sas while the
Tor of oIAmasts is assweil preserved