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to the tourist, but the few who cent, of solids in solution, the below the level of the sea, that it
have sailed o.i and explored this Dead Sea holds lrom 24 to 26 per takes the name of Wady-eti-Nar,
sea's shores [such as Cady, Mas- cent., or five times as much. The or the Fire Wady. At last its
terman, Lynch, Molyneux, Costi- water is very nauseous to the taste dreary couise brings it to the pree
gan, et. al. j testify to its exceeding and oily to the touch, leaving on ipices above the Dead Sea. into
perilousness and terribleness in the skin, when it dries, a thick which it shoots its scanty winter
the strongest of crafts, its vicissi- crust of salt, But is is very bril- waters; but all summer it is dry.
calm, the bant. Seen from faraway no lake The imagination of a prophet who
earth looks more blue
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tudes of storm and
sweltering heat, the danger of on
the treachery of the
of all heart medicines is
Miles’ Heart Cure.
fleart disease made my feet
ai so that they had to he
eed in several places. One
tie of Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure
ped me and twelve bottles
rked a complete cure.”
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uarantce.
jand of Promise
(TO AND FROM)
.y Rev. C. O’N. Maktinmai.e.
ARTICLE XLIV.
TURKEY' [Continued]
Z in the feet or ankles
from a weak or diseased
-a heart that cannot keep fever and the treachery of the beautiful. Swim out upon it, and
i circulation. The blood j Bedouins. at a depth ot twenty fee: you can
ettles in the lower limbs The waves when disturbed beat count the pebbles through the
the watery portions ooze on a boat like sledge-hammers and transparent waters. I he buoyancy
into surrounding tissues on shore likethunuer bolts. There die Dead Sea is well-known; it
ig bloat and swelling, are distinct traces of several * s difficult to sink the limbs deep
leart must be strengthened beaches or terraces of stained and enough for swimmingjif you throw
milt up before the dropsy greasy and very friable marl and :l stick on the surface, it seems to
te cured to stay; and the rubbish below, indicative of for- rest there as on a mirror, so little
mer levels of the sea. Lieut.' of actually penetrates the water.
Lynch states: “At times it seemed ^ be surtace is generally smooth,
as the Dread Almighty frowned die heavy water rises not easily,
upon our effjrts to navigate a sea, but when in storm it does rise,die
the creation of His wrath. There waves are immensely powerful.”
is a tradition among the Arabs This we tested for ourselves,
that no one can venture upon this We sat on the water, vve floated
sea and live. Repeatedly the on its surface without the move-
fates of Costigan and Molyneux ment ot a limb, we stood in the
had been cited to deter us. We water to necks and trea^d on it
prepared to spend a dreary night with the greatest ease, without
upon the dreariest waste we had slightest tear of sinking—though
ever seen.” He further speaks of some of us couldn't swim a lick
| being “in the midst of a profound anywhere. But the movements in
* . e “ , K® stlon restores , anc j aw f u | solitude,” and says the water were very slow because
Sold by druggists on ,,-phe curS e of God is surely upon of the great density,and no plunge
this unhallowed sea." It is like a! was indulged because of possible
vast caldron into which the sun I injury to the eyes, or if indulged
pours its intense heat and makes 1 by some it was with eyes tightly
the air stifling. Every twenty- shut. In this instance, looking on
, four hours the Jordan pours about was not believing; but, experienc-
3,000,000 tons of water into the ing the tacts stated, we had all
Dead Sea, and as there is no out- previous doubts dissipated fully.
i let but by evaporation one can 1 But you may be sure some of us
I easily see what a part the sun ! had taken the precaution before
plays in carrying off the great sur-. hand to carry bottles of fresh wa-
; plus of these bitter and imprisoned ter from Jericho thither, so that,
j waters. I after our Dead Sea bath we could
On this Dr. G. A. Smith finely ! nnse off the sticky feeling and save
! says: “The Dead Sea receives, be- j irritation. Others not so fortunate
I sides the Jordan, four or five I waited till they arrived a short
smaller streams, but has no issue while thereafter at the Jordan
. | or relief for its waters, except 1 where another bath was taken to
We drove under a broiling af- tbroU g b evaporation. This is
raised to enormous proportions by
and always haunted the austere and
weird, Ezekiel, tilled the Wady of
Fire with water from under the
threshold of the temple,water that
came up to the ankles, and then
to the knees, and then to the
loins, and then became waters of
swimming,a torrent that could not
be crossed. And the bare banks,
that the sun blisters, had very
many trees on the one side and on
the other. And these waters went
down to the 'Arabah, and went in
to the sour waters, and'the waters
were to be healed. And the Dead
Sea was to swarm with fish, and it
shad come to pass, the fishers
shall stand 14)011 it from Engedi
to En eglaim. But in the midst
of the vision there is a curious
reservation of a utilitarian kind,
the fens and the marishes thereof
shall not be healed, they shall be
given for salt - salt which under
the Old Covenant the Dead Sea
ever supplied, for house or temple,
meat or sacrifice, and still sends
up to Jerusalem by the long camel
trains you see traversing the coast
from Usdum to Engedi. But the
vision opens out again. And by
the torrent upon the banks there
of, on this side and on that side,
shall come up all trees for food,
whose leaf shall not fade, neither
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9). PALESTINE:
^ Lut [the Lake of
Dead Sea]
To Bahrj
Lot, or
eminent is introducing into Cali
lorn in should also be experimented
with by Southern nut growers.
The English walnut has not done
well in California, and the Gulf
stales may prove a better field.
Then there is the butternut. Ac
cording to Burton II. Albee, who
writes in the American Nut .lour
mil published at Petersburg, Yu.,
the butternut tree will grow in
waste places about the farm where
other nuts will grow. It is a rapid
grower, requires little attention,
irnoon sun over the steep down
rades between Eriha [Jericho| to i f erven t heat which prevails in
le Dead Sea. or as the Arabs | ^ sunken vall during the
all it, Bahr Lut, which means; er part of the year . The ex _
the Lake of Lot. ow P eas ‘ tracted moisture usually forms a
int to come to a halt on the low I ha/e impenetrable to the eye for
ground beach of the northeastern more than a few miles, but some
shore ot this wonderful body ot
water. The surface of the sea is ;
7290 feet below the level of the
Ylediterranean, while “the bottom
>f the sea consists of two submer
ged plains, the one 13 feet below
rhe surface and the other 1300
feet below,” and the depth of wa
ter varying according to the rain
fall. It has a clear and greenish-
counteract the Dead Sea salt bath.
“And Jehovah rained upon
Sodom and upon Gomorrah sul
phur and fire—from Jehovah, from
the heavens—and He overturned
those cities, and all the Circle, and
all the inhabitants of the cities,
and that which grew upon the
times vast columns of mist rear ground. And Lot's wife looked
i themselves from the sea, heavy
i clouds are formed above, and
thunderstorms, the more violent
for their narrow confines, rage, as
the torn coasts testify, with light
ning and floods of rain. To the
j everlasting evaporation is due the
j bitterness of the sea. All rivers
contain some salts, and all lakes
blue cast, and stretches southward. w j tbout j ssue to the ocean become,
for forty-two miles, with an aver
se-e width of eight miles, the Moab
back as they fled to Zoar and be
came a pillar of salt. And Abra
ham looked down upon Sodom and
Gomorrah, upon all the land of the
Circle, and saw, and, behold, the
smoke of the land went up like the
smoke of a furnace" [Gen. 19:24-
28. | According to Dr. Smith,
“Some have identified these words
as the description of such an erup-
mid will yield abundantly.”
ed; it shall bring forth new fruit 8ouu , timi . bjM . k , pushed
according to his months, because | Mome testimonials from reliable
their waters issued out of the I sources, showing enormous yields
Sanctuary, and the truit thereof j f,. om even 1.00 pecan trees, which
shall be for food, and the leaf j staggered belief,especially in those
thereof for bruises and sores. | who u W „„t want to believe. I
[Lzek. 47:1-12.] So there is noth- b ,,| uw ttll item from the Mash
ing—nothing too sunken, too use- vilu , Herald,telling of a tree
less, too doomed [here on earth] | neur thm .. lt is not possible for
but by the grace of God it may
be redeemed, lifted and made rich
with life.”
(To be continue I.)
Nut Culture.
so important a paper to publish
such facts for truth, so near by, if
they were not true, without being
brought to redicule. The tree is
in Berrien county. The article
says that “this tree has a spread
of branches of I2.‘l feet and a trunk
in consequence,more or less briny, i tion as that ot Vesuvius upon
But the streams which feed the Pompeii. But there is no need to
Dead Sea are unusually saline;' invoke the volcano, and those are
they flow through nitrous soil, and 1 more in harmony with the narra-
they are fed by sulphurous springs, j tive, who judge that in this heavily
Chemicals, too, have been found I bituminous soil there took place
in the water of the sea, which are 1 one of those terrible explosions
not traceable in its tributaries, and 1 and conflagrations, which have
probably are introduced by hot | some times broken out in the
springs in the sea bottom. Along ! similar geology of the oil-districts not som ,. other Imsh that, would do
the shores are deposits ot sulphur of North America. In such soil as W ell or better! Why spend so
, in a word, on the lowest spot anc j petroleum springs. The sur- great reservoirs of oil and gas are Imu; h labor in cleaning oil'grou
le earth s surface, and ami a roun( jj n g strata are rich in bitu 1 formed,
mountains rising precipitously on
the eastern shore from 2500 to
over 3,000 feet, while on the west
side are the grand and lonely-look-
jjng but not so high hills and crags
•of the Judaean mountains. On
this shore we stand about 3800
feet below Jerusalem and 1300
feet below the Mediterranean
level
on the
scene of lonely desolation yet
strange fascination. Encircled as
How ninny miles of ditch banks circumference of seventeen feet at
have you! If you have !) ditches
averaging -00 yards each, you
have over t wo miles of ditch banks.
What are growing there? Usually
nothing profitable. How much
labor do you spend cleaning these
off every year? Very much, with
no returns. I have been thinking
recently that such land might lie
planted in hazle nuts or butter
nuts. They grow well in Georgia
around bottoms—would they not
grow well on ditch banks? If so,
we might plant them there and let
them stay and bring many bushels
of profitable nuts in place of Hie
elders and briars, which now in
fest, them to no profit; or is there
and suddenly discharged
each year which
bushes that would perpetually
minous matter, and after earth- by their own pressure or by earth
quakes lumps of bitumen are so quake. The gas explodes, carry- j yjejfl a „ abundant harvest* If you
it is with purple-tinted mountains, often {ound floating on the water j ing high up into the air masses of have any other suggestion to save
is is a thing of beauty and delight, as tQ j usti fy jts anc j ent name of the oil which tall back in fiery j this waste, give it to the public,
yet no living thing is in its waters, Asphaltitis. [Bitumen is petroleum rain, and are so inextinguishable
no human habitation is on its j hardened by evaporation and oxi-1 that they will float afire on water,
shores, no sailing vessel brightens i dat j on . The bituminous limestone, Some times brine and saline mud
two feet above the ground, and
nine and one half feet at live feet
from surface. If is said to bear
from 12 to 15 bushels of nuts an
nually; and although they are un
improved or common variety, they
never sell for less than 15 cents
per pound, and bring from >5*70 to
>5*00 annually for the crop. The
tree is between sixty and seventy
years old.”
Who can doubt this statement.
It is true. If is also true that 100
trees like if would bring at least
#5,000 income every year. It, is
also true that 100 t rees of best
budded fruit, will yield better than
that if planted now. It, is also
true that .5*5,000 10 or 15 years
hence will be as helpful as it, is
1 now. It, is also true that the ma-
tnighf be planted jority of people will never believe
its surface, a place of ill-omen and
a brooding terror. Its history
opens with the iniquity and de
struction of Sodom and Gomorrah,
and closes with the fearful massa
cre of Massada.
As the Rev. Wm. P. F'inney
graphically and rhythmically puts
it:
■•I looked upon a sea,
And lo! ’twas dead;
Although by Hermon’s snows
And Jordan fed.
How came a fate so dire?
The tale's soon told:
All that it got it kept
And fast did hold.
All tributary streams
Found here their grave,
Because this sea received,
But never gave.
O sea that's dead! teach me
To know and feel
That selfish grasp and greed
My doom will seal.
> And, Lord, help me my best,
Myself, to give,
That I may others bless,
And, like Thee, live."
The sea looks fair and inviting
which burns like bright coal, is the
so-called Dead-Sea stone from
which articles are made and offer
ed for sale in Jerusalem and Beth
lehem. The floating lumps prob
ably are from petroleum springs
in the sea-bed. These springs
were evidently more common in
ancient times than now. Gen. 14:-
10 says the Vale of Siddim was
wells, wells, i. e., full of wells, of
bitumen.] At the southeast end
a ridge ot rock-salt, 300 feet high,
ruus for five miles,elsewhere there
are deep saline deposits, and the
bed of the sea appears to be cov
ered with salt crystals. [The salt
are ejected, and over the site of
the reservoirs there are tremors
and subsidences. Such a phenom
enon accounts for all the state
ments of the narrative.”
He also calls attention to this
remarkable coincidence: “It is in
accordance with the grace of God,
making that first which was last
and that last which was first, that
this awful vale of judgment, to
which its inhabitants sometimes
gave the name of Hell, should be
the scene of one of the most lively
and stupendous hopes of prophecy.
To the north of Jerusalem begins
the torrent-bed of the Kedron. It
this; lienee the greater opportunity
for the wise man who c an see afar
off ami who has patience to wait.
A. S. Jones.
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Tickets 011 Hale June 24, 2(1 and 27, 1906.
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Vanderbilt Biblical Institute, June 14-
Aug. It, 1905. Tickets on sale June I I,
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ridge is the Jebel, or Hashm,! sweeps past the Temple Mount,
Usdum. The Arabs take salt from ; pas t what were afterwards Calvary
this and from the Lisan on the an d Gethsemane. It leaves the
other side. All dredging brings | Mount of Olives and Bethany to
up crystals of salts.] To all these the left, Bethlehem far to the
I said in an article last, week
that every important newspaper
advocated the planting of pecans.
Below will be found a little clip
ping from the old reliable Macon
Telegraph on this subject:
“The cultivation of the pecan
nut is becoming a profitable indus
try in Georgia and other Southern
states, and the outlook for the
crop in this state for the present
year is reported to lie favorable.
Our progressive farmers recognize
that there is money in pecans and
other nuts. Mr. J. B. Wright, of
Cairo, speaking before the Georgia
Horticultural Society recently,
said: ‘Granting that a wise selec
tion of varieties has been made and
that you take good care of your
trees, you will not regret the day
you decided to become a nut
grower.’
An Old Coweta Citizen Dead.
Mr. David Nolan died at his
home here about 2:80 o’clock
Thursday morning. He hail been
in feeble health for several months
but seemed to be getting along
very nicely Wednesday evening.
He was eighty-six years, two
months and twenty-five days old,
being born on March 28th, 18111,
in North Garolina, moving to
Georgia when alxmt ten years old.
He was twice married, seven chil
dren born by first wife, five of
whom survive him. They are J.
T. Nolan, J. It. Nolan, J. Y. No
lan, W. T. Nolan and J. H. Nolan.
His second wife died two years
ago in April.
Mr. Nolan was for a long num
to do his Master’s bidding. He
icver took a very great interest in
polities, except when it came to
the matter of selecting between a
prohibitionist and a non-prohibi
tionist, when he was a constant
supporter of the former.
The Iwdy was interred in the
cemetery at this place Thursday
evening. Rev. J. W. Bailey, his
pastor, conducting the funeral ser
vice at the Methodist church at
4:80 o’clock.—Senoia Enterprise-
Gazette.
1 solid ingredients, then, precipitat- r jght. It plunges down among j is in Louisiana, where a company
j ed and concentrated by the con-! the bare terraces, precipices and | was recently organized with a cajn-
stant evaporation, the Dead Sea crags of the wilderness of Judaea | tal of #200,000 to establish a pecan
owes its extreme bitterness andj—the wilderness of the Scapegoat, nut nursery and put a half million
buoyanev, While the water of the i So barren and blistered, so fur- trees on the market every year,
ocean contains from 4 to 6 per I nace-like does it become as it drops The pistacio nut which the gov-
j her of years a leading member of
ft is said that the largest grove j the North Georgia Gonferenoe,and
of cultivated pecans in the world 1 during old war times and long be
fore was constantly in the work,
covering some of the largest cir
cuits in the conference. Those
who are most familiar with his
vork speak of it in the highest
terms, and say he was ever ready
Found a Cure or Dyspepsia.
Mrs. 8. Lindsay, of Fort Williams,
Ontario, Canada, wlio lias suffered quite
a number of years from dyspepsia and
great pains in the stomach, was advised
by her druggist to take Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets. Bite did so
and says, “I find that they have done
me a great deal of good. I have never
had any suffering since I began using
them.” If troubled with dysptmsia or
indigestion why not take these Tablets,
get well and stay well? For sale by
Holt & Oates, druggists, Newnan, Ga.
Mrs. Z. Greene, of Newnan, Is
spending some time the guest of
her father’s family, and her many
friends.—Senoia Enterprise-Ga
zette.