Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-11-13

-htA iau examiner lnlnuieiN the rocks ana
stones of the Holy Land they would find
hat they are being skeletonized and are
being melted into the soil and, being for
the most part limestone, -ley are doing for
that land what the American and English
farmer Goes when, at great expense and
fatigue, he draws his wagon load of lime
and scatters it on the fields for their en-
riehment. The storms, the winters, the
great midsummer heats of Palestine, by
cumbling up and aissolving the rocks are
gradually preparing Palestine and Syria
to yield a product ike unto the luxuriant
farms of New York and Ian
caster county faims Of Pennsylvania, and
Somerset county farms Of New Jersey and
the other magnificent farm fields of Mime
sofa and Wisconsin, and the opulent or
chards OF Maryland anG California. Let the
Turk be driven out and the American OF
or Scotchman go in and Mo-
Withdraw its idolatry and
pure Christianity build its affairs, and the ir-
rigation of which Solomons pools was only
a suggestion viii make all that land from
Dan to Beersheba rs fertile, and aromatic
and Respondent as on the morning when
the king rode out to his pleasure grounds
in chariot 50 swift and followed by mount
ed riders so brilliant that 1t was for speed
like a hurricane followed by cyclone.
WISDOM OF THE ANcIENTs.
As look upon this great aqueduct Of
Palestine wondrous specimen of ancient
masonry, about seven feet high, two feet
wide, sometimes tunneling the solid rock
and then rolling its waters through stone
ware pipes, an aqueduct doing its work
ten miles before it gets to those three reser-
voirs. and then gathering their wealth of
refreshment and pouring it on to the
mighty city Of Jerusalem and filing the
brazen sea Of her temple, and the bath
rooms Of her palaces, and the great pools
of Sloan. aud Hezekiah, and Bethesda
find that our century has no monopoly OF
the worlds wonders, and that the CON
ceited age in which we live had better take
in some of the sails of its pride when it re-
members that II is hard work in later ages
TO get masonry that will last fifty years,
to say nothing of the three thousand.
and no modern machinery could lift
blocks of stone like some of those stand
ing high up in the walls of Baal-
bee, and the art of printing claimed for
recent ages wits practiced b.. the Chinese
fourteen hundred years ago, and that our
midnight lightning express rail train was
foresecn 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 broad ways, they
shall seem like torches, they shall run like
lightnings, and orr electric telegraph was
foreseen by job when in the Bible he
wrote. ,'Canst thou send lightnings that
4 IL ss-af
arey'n What IL that talking by the light
nings 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.
Enrichment was a more thorough art
three thousand years ago than today. Den
tistry, that we suppose one of the important
arts discovered i'm recent centuries, isproven
TO he 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 ia the tombs Of de-
nartcd nations We have been taught that
Harvey discovered the circulation Of the
blood SO late a. the Seventeenth century.
on. no, solomon announces il in Ecclesias
tes. where first having shown chat he an.
dcrstooi thespinal cord, silver colared ms il
i. and thar it rrlaXcs I'M old age the silver
cord Sc luosed. 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. "ar The pitcher BE broken az the
Fountain What is that but tie circula
/ tion of the blood, found out twenty-siN
| hundred Years before Harvey was born.
/ After mnnv centuries OF exploration and
calculation astronomy finds out that The
/ world Is round Why, Isaiah knew il WIS
round thousands of years before when IN
the Bible he said: "Tie Lord sitteth upon
| the circle Of the eartL.n Scientists toiled
| on for centuries and found out refractiou
or that the rays Of light when touching tht
Garth were not straight. but bent or curved
! WHY. Job knew that when ages before in
I the Bible he wrote Of the light: 1T i
turned as clay to the seal
OLD PAlNTErs AND OVERS.
In the old cathcdrals OF England mod
/ ern painters in the repair OF windows ART
! irving to make something as good rs th,
window painting of four hundred years
J ago and always falling by the unanimous
verdict of all who examine and compare
| The color of modern painting fades in fifty
wears. while the color of the old masters Is
as well preserved af.er five hundred year,
As after one year | saw last winter on th'
walls of Cxhumed Pompeii paintings witt
color as fresh as though made the day Toe
fore though they were buried eighteer
! hundred years ago. The making of Ty
rian purple is an impossibility now
In our modern potteries we are trying
hard to make cups and pitchers and bowl
as exquisite as those eXhumed from
/ Harculaneum and our artificers an
attempting 20 make jewelry for en-
and neck and finger equal to tina
brought mp from the mausoleums Of tw'
Thousand years before Christ We have II
onr time glass in all shapes and all colors
hut Piny. more than eighteen hundre'
wears aga described malleable glas
which. II thrown upon the ground ans
dented. could be pounded straight agaii
nv the hammer or could be twisted aroun'
the wrists. and that confeunds all the glas
manufactures of our own tin'e. tried Ii
damascus. syria, to buy damascus blade
one Of those swords that could be ben
doulle or tied into knot without break
inc could not get one Whyi In