New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-27
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
80 ar NOTE IN ALL AGES.

-,sro,,r FAMILY YRERe-How MxrnoDIsM BE-
cAxx POLITICAL FACTOR.
RI. obslisk IA tho chief leyellex. fellow who is
49,, =, only has 10 20 and look at il and feel that
...shar obelisk hence, It will make no difference
- vs. Vapderhilt and who was Johnny Bouquet.
n - % long ego that the poet OF yesterday got
confused a 10 which God be wanted to particuisfze
and aid;
Older than HiiuS mighty food
OR tan he sea. thou God hast stood
Thou God whom we're adorinR.l
Waiting like mathematical accuracy, even In po-
esxy.
Wben this obelisk was brand new, being heWed
ont BY the Jews End Copts snd Philistines ss wages
Of eishteen pepoe yearboard included OF radisnes
and ssrlic bouquet business OF Egypt was con-
ipsd to the lotus and lily. Joseph was deadthe Only
GOOD Joseph before Joseph Audrews-who could not
tai lie yet cut this obelisk with little hatohet
and stood IL mp, 90 that 1t could not he. On Wash
iueton's birthday the coincidence was celebrated
and Lmay add that tho king who ordered this ODE
lisk was also coincidence. IN that he iisped 30
badly that be could not lie II he wanted to. and
sus,ect him to have been the brother of Moses.
His name was Thothmosis. manifestly lisp
of the lady who discovered him in
The buIrushee and said. pointing to the one
with the Roman nose: "Thith Mothith mot thoth
Mothithn Afterward for distinction they called the
King Thotb. and MothiSh became Moses. but Moses
wrote for the newspapers and obtained the envy OF
Thoth, plagiarized his name and his record on the
obelisk as Thothmoss. During life Moses was
decorated with bulrush and Tbeth with palm
showing the antiquity af the nosegay; 1t was In the
year 1921 d. G.
Under this obeIisk, and may add that he learned
the story of Joseph in the place and painted it
nm little 60 that Josephs coat has too many colors
The family Tradition that Joseph and his
brethren ran q way with q circus thaI
Joseph wore q beautiful jacket, which fascinated
Mrs. Potiphar, so that her husband bought him from
bis bigger brothers and his stern virtue led him up
to be Secretary of the Treasury.
am familiar with oil this history but difident
about telling IL, or rather about warming 1t up.
which is 80 offensive to my friend, the Pharlsee'
whose meat and feet equally cold. by his chew-
ing SO much unleavened bread. But that vast ana
young-hearted public which Is more willing TO learn
Than To ask who teaches 1t, may always remember
the history of the obelsk in the Central Park from
tbis, that its builder was the friend OF Noses the
little Jew boy who sat under this very obesk at the
City of Helopoiis or Sun town, and heard the tale
of his own ancestor. Joseph, aud 1t made him reig
ious and he became priest right beside this tall
stone aad az an Egyptian priest he grew learned
and taught his people and took them away. because
the son of King Thothmoeis, whom VIC call Pharaoh
had lost bis fathers liberaltty.
THE FINGER OF THK oBELIsK.
Why was Egypt so learned and 80 useful to every
Sbodyf
Because 1t was SO easy TO get living there, yet
took such intelligent observation on the behavior OF
the Nile In its annual and fertilizing freshets that
men were neither idle nor overtasked, and their
brains grew and they took rote of time and Hood,
and kept register of both on stones, and 80 the
almanac and the alphabet were first made in Egypt,
and their monuments are the obelisk and the
pyramids.
Eyes, my son, wisdom Is opportunity, and half Of
opportunity In locatiop-and that rs why prefer to
stand with my posies about Twenty-third-st. and
Broad wsy 30 can catch the Fifth-ave. trade, the
Broadway promenade aud the Sixth-ave. young
gals all at once. and sell ont like merchant
That was the situation of Egypt. at the crossing
of the currents Of the nations; and the Nile which
brought down rich mud to grow the crops brought
also gold and ivory and stone and skins and ores
which the neighboring Jews and Phenicians lusted
for and knew how to work into ornaments
and fabrics. Thus arose large cities in
Egypt aud the assembling Of wit and adven-
ture led to science. which is nothing but the infer
ences and fluctuations from many searchers aud trav
pliers At last the conditions OF Egypt were too
small and too annoying for certain men OF enter
prise who departed with colonies and founded
Greece Etruria, Canaan and the Ph@nician ports OF
the Mediterranean. This stone which, like tat
tooed finger points to the sun and moon. is mOhu-
ment to that Opportunity. and says. keep your end
upi Go West!. Enlarge Opportunity! Find better
land than the delta of the Nile! Find America.
Columbusl For science increases eeometrically
with good acreage. and the Hudson River. flowing
down from the Oldest mountains In the world is a
better opportunity than on the NileP
And 30 the eternal stone, like surveyors stake,
is removed from Alexandria to Eew-York, after @
rest of 200 years 1t was more than thirteen hun
dred years old whom Julius Caesar made Cleopatra
Queen of Egypt and abe had borne him q son. Ca
sar not in the shadow of this obelisk one day and
said 10 the astronomer Sosigenes -" Old Sausage;
yet me up Caiendaf for Rome. giving the year. its
bropcr commencement and true number OF days
lor 70 are sbort Of an honest year in Rome and
Ronft know tho Fourth Of July when We get to it"
There sitting ct the bass of this stone. they in.
vsnHed Leap Year, and gsvo all the old maids a
shsnce and Soslgcnes said to Cesar -" Julius, how
hall name these moutbsT
Pat me in for July said julius; and ~ I'm
Ahove every body else In sense and arms. you may
call the other months after my family aud the gods
ri take tho best monsh-call 1t Julius or July
CAV the aslioving month for my nephew. Augustus
In honor u Cioopatra call the month before me
jun, Tor Jsnei Can she first month for the god
Jssaas, whose tsasls hola pew in, aud call the
Windy month for Mars. the turbulent chap II
ssaysn."
Thsebelisk, type Of manhood and multitude. 9th
ptsm and che increase. the stamep and all howeragc
hsssiso been adopted % the form Of two great
sAsuts In the Western age. bunker Hill and Wash
ingtse. Herssse Groeneash suggesss the obsiisi
for Bunker Hill. without opposition. bat when II
was also proposed to commemorate our Thothmosis
Wsshisgtos. With an obelisk. little dangerous cui
taxsEisu had crept In and the different architect'
and critics objected to the venerable form. as they
would have oiyjsetod to any other form 1t was the