Show PALESTINE AND CALIFORNIA A has been exploring Palestine in n nan nau au an agricultural and botanical way His name is He says sas Palestine is more like California Cali Call I fornia nia than any other state in iii our union In the first place it is longer north and south than it is isI I east and west It has both high mountains t I and deep depre depressions The Dead sea sea is 1390 1300 fe feet t below sea level Like the Death valley of California California Cali Call fornia furnia it is situated in hi the southern extremity of If f the country Such formations give a great diversity diversity diver diver- sit sity of soil and vegetation Where ancient civilization tin tion exists such as in Palestine such formations likewise favor the development of many varieties I of cultivated plants and give rise to 0 different methods of cultivation In Palestine there is a a. coast lill line extending along th the Mediterranean Then comes the backbone of the country as there is in Judea and Galilee Further east is the valle valley I of cf the Jordan the diversified valleys of which arcI arc are similar to the Imperial and Death valleys Finall Finally Final Final- I l ly lr still further east cast are the plateaus of the trans- trans I Jordan with ith their fertile soil of volcanic origin devoted from time immemorial to pasture and the cultivation of cereals In Palestine just as jn in California there is a wet and a dry season The rainy seasons extend from October to Nay May fa and the dry seasons extend from May to October The rainfall n varies according to locality from less than six inches in In the extreme south near the Egyptian b border to more than forty inches in the north of the countr country p. p The They are arc alike in other respects We Ye have it from good authority that a certain man went down clown from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves Now Nv it would be lc easy for a man to go down clown from Stockton or 01 San Jose to San Francisco and fall among l ng thieves And then when California gets real h are arc just the class of fellows fellow'S that in an emergency would crucify a good man and and cry to released l Now ow Barrabas was a Bobber Bob ber an i incendiary and was wa given to going on night raids He would find many a congenial spirit in California Of course Burbank has ma made maden e n new w flowers and new fruits in California and taught them to grow He Ic has not yet Jet been able to tel produce the best kind of dates but he can raise I b bananas and a pretty fair sample of oranges his prunes pT are better than an any that grow in the holy holyland l land ld nd and the grapes of California nl are nrc as fine fino as those that the spies had to carl carry back on a pole to their l leader when they were sent to look up the theland land hind of promise The people of the holy land were given to favoring extremes The people of Calif California Cali Call f fornia this year Jear threaten to elect Mr 11 Johnson g governor velnor We Ve expect the climate has something to tu do with it And so the the- habits of the people have become careless from the fact that they ther do not need to have warm houses solicitude for the domestic ani- ani nials is unnecessary because they can shift for themselves Finally we know of no temple in San Francisco so sacred that thai if the money changers had hal hada hala a chance they would fail to turn it into a den of f thieves |