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Show The Jews as Farmers. The Jew was a great farmer in the times of the Scriptures. You see everywhere every-where in traveling through Palestine the evidences of scientific farming. The hills of old Judea were all terraced, and j wall after wall of vines rose in steps I from the valleys to the summit of the ! mountains. The remains of these ter-' ter-' races are now to be seen, though the rains of eighteen centuries have almost denuded the limestone rocks of their earth, and the mountains now are only used for grazing. Palestine was formerly a well wooded country, and it will probably become fertile again if . trees are planted. It produces the finest fruit in the world, and the oranges, of Jaffa are equal to those of the Indian river in Florida. When the million Russians get to Palestine Pales-tine they will probably recultivate the hills, and an increased rainfall will make the country again a "land flowing with milk and honey." , . One of the Jewish farms is near Jaffa. It has 700 pupils, and it contains something some-thing like 28,000 acres. There is one on the plains of Sharon, which, by the way, are as rich today as when the Philistines grew fat on them in the time of Goliah, and it has tens of thousands of vines and olive trees. The Jews are continually acquiring more property in the Holy Land, and while I was in Jerusalem the Rothschilds bought another tract of lasd to add to their school. Frank Q. Carpenter in National Tribune. |