Connecticut western news., 1890-11-05

when looking down into the we'll they saw the star reflected in the water, and that cheered them, and they resumed their journey, and I have the notion that though grandeur and pomp of surroundings may not afford peace, at the well of Gods consolation, close by, you may find happiness, and the plainest cup at the we'll of salvation may hold the brightest star that ever shone from the heavens.
 FOUNTAINS WILL MAKE PALESTINE
 BLOOM AGAIN.
 Although these Solomonic gardens are in ruins, there are now growing there flowers that are to be found no- where else in the Holy Land How do I account for that9 Solomon sent out his ships and robbed the gardens of the whole earth for flowers and planted flowers are direct descendants of the foreign plants he imported. Mr. Me shullam, a Christian Israelite, on the very site of these royal gardens, has in our day, by putting in his own spade, demonstrated that the ground is only waiting for the right call to yield just as much luxuriance and splendor eight cen hundred years after Christ as it yielded Solomon one thousand years before Christ So all Palestine is wait ing to become the richest scene of hor- ticulture, arboriculture and agricult- ure.
 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 mi nutely the rocks and stones of the Holy Land they would find that they are being 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 En- glish farmer does when at great ex- pense and fatigue he draws his wagon load of lime and scatters it on the fields for their enrichment.
 The storms, the winters, the great midsummer heats of Palestine, by crum- bling up and dissolving the rocks, are gradually preparing Palestine and Syria to yield a product like unto the luxu- riant Westchester farms of New York, and Lancaster county farms of Penn sylvania, and Somerset county farms of New Jersey, and the other magnifi- 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 Englislnan, or Scotchlnan go in and Mohaminedanism withdraw it's idolatry, and pure Christianity build its altars, and the irrigation of which Solomon's pools was only 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 riden 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 its waters through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct doing it's 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, te say nothing of the three thousand, and no modern machinery could lift blocks of stone like some of those standing high up in the :, walls of Baalbec, and the art of print ing claimed for recent ages was prac- ticed by the Chinese fourteen hundred years ago, and that our midnight ight- 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 ightnings," and our electric telegraph was foreseen by Job, when in the Bible he wrote, "Canst thou send ightnings that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are2" 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 lightnings all up and down the sky have been running around like lost hounds to find their former master.
 Embalmment was 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 filled 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 been taught that Harvey discovered the 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 rela1es in old age, ''the sil,
 yer 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 pitcher, ''or the pitcher be