Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-02

4, the most artistic Mosaic patterns!
| There are also hundreds OF smaller ar
ticles, such as rulers, Jewel boxes.
| crosses. etc.
THORNY FUEL
The reason why there is 10 timber In
| the immediate neighborhood OF Jeru-
| salem II, firstly an indisposition to
| grow where there Is so little water
and, secondly, the great scarcity OF
| fuel in the land. Every scrap and chip
| OF wood, every shaving and sawdust
and root or weed II saved for burning.
The ovens for bread are heated with
the grass OF the field which IL In
reality a plant so thorny and prickly
that | hesitate TO even touch II. Nearly
every plant that grows here that In OF
the nature Of a shrub. Is priCkly. The
hills are ablaZe with wild flowers. IAN
nuals) but everything that is not pro-
tected by thorns has long ago been
used to death.
You are not to infer from this that
the country Is either barren or desc
late. Far from It. The hills and val
leys are perfect carpet OF verdure and
bright flowers, very much as our Utah
hills look In spring and summer Wild
flowers IN endless variety and beauty
are see on every side; added to this the
hillsldes are all iarmed and planted to
grain. Utah people will never be able
to imagine what hooks and corners
among the rocks are planted to grain.
! have seen people blowing a piece that
did not contain 10 superficial yards,
and this high up on the hillside where
It was difficult TO climb with the
camera. The reason this land is cul-
tivated, is because all the land is cul-
tivated-and these rocky hills were the
only ones left for this man. You are
not TO think that this infers over popu-
latlon. II means simply that there Is
no waste here, The land IL all owned
by somebody.
TERRACED GROVES,
II you own a farm. and II is more
than you can use, you lease part OF II,
There are plenty who do not own any,
who are ready to use II. Everywhere
are terraces, Terraces upon terraces,
From the bottom to the top Of
mountain perhaps 10000 various shaped
terraces large and small. high and
low, And these are the farms and olive
groves, You travel for hours and days,
and still there are terraces, ancient
and modern. OF course there are val
leys. but mostly narrow. For instance,
the valley OF Jehosaphat, where are the
great vegetable gardens of Sloan, Is
but what We would call rocky gorge
The vale Of Hnnom is very similar
In fact they run In together Just below
Mount Zion. All these steep gorges are
terraced into small garden patches, in
the aggregate almost supplying the
whole city OF Jerusalem with vege-
tables. And such vegetables as only
a Utah state fair could show.
USEFUL BoULDERS.
Next to the olive trees, as friends 10
the people, are the stones stones on
the ground, stones In the hills, stones
In the houses-stones everywhere
Stones followed out for utensils, stones
for weights and measures, stones TO
cook upon and stones to sleep upon.
Stones for floors and stones for roofs.
You will scarcely believe me that nine
tenths OF all the roofs he,e are made
from thick paving stones, laid In ce-
ment as we lay the stone flags. The
commonest shack" here is made OF
stones. and usually nicely hammer
faced. don't think / have seen
half dozen lumber shanties in the
whole of Palestine-the only one
think OF, being the small police sta
ton that has been built near the
Jaffa gate which Ia OF lumber and
painted blue-a striking example OF
civilization "a word much used here
by Europeans).
CIVILIZATION.
II you take the trouble to ruin this |
word to earth you find that their idea |
of civilization is TO introduce European |
goods-coal oil, brass Jewelry, canned |
fruit, smoked ham, cheap tinware, |
French neckties ana French pictures. |
Ostensibly they are TO teach "Chris-