Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-01-13
MEANWHILE TENNESSEE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 49, 1888
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Now let US move up a little, just
4S7 years this way on the graduated
scale of chronology, and imagine our
selves standing on the plains of the
Jordan amid all the splendor and mag
nificence of Soloman's illustrious reign.
Here we see in our fancy a man clad
in royal purple and wearing kingly
garments, covered with just such
quaker hat as that which VIM Penn
wore when treating with the Indians
under that huge elm tree near Phila.
delphia (Which measured q feet in
circumference, We fancy that Solo
man was quite lady's man from his
dress aud drift among the fair sex of
his day. So popular was he among the
ladies that not only was he called upon
to decide whose babe the disputed
child was. but even the queen of Sheba
left her throne and made a pilgrimage
to Jerusalem to see this gallantand pol
ished beau of the age, and reported on
her return that the half of his magnifi.
ceuce hal not been told her, which was
report exactly the reverse of all those
made in our day, in that not the half
is true that is told of our counting gen
try. Dressed in bon ton style, and
polished in his manners, with all the
three WIS at his command, owls
dom, Wit and Women" we are not at
all surprised that his career was bril-
liant brief and broken hearted, and
that he should exclaim at its close:
IAN is vanity and vexation Of spirit"
Passing on the wings Of our imagi-
nation over the 466 years of this Pc
rod, we are brought before man
whom the world Justly calls great,
Cyrus the Great. Fancy man of the
Robert E. Lee style, good, grand aud
magnanimous, seated upon finely ca
parisoDed Persian gray horse, with the
Washingtonian bearing and dignity OF
one of the +. +. vs. and you have our
idea Of King Cyrus the Great. All
that goes to make up the great Is here
combined, the good, the true, the hu.
= name, the generous and the magnani
$ nous are blended into one grand com
pound called great. Cyrus was true tc
himself, just to his fellow man, humane
to prisoners, and above all, temperate
in his habits. He drank no wine, al
: though it was at the cost of the dis
, pleasure Of King Astyages, his natura
: grandfather
5 Pardon our fancy for the notice o.
= the second great character of this pc
P Rod, of whom although the world wa,
not worthy, yet whom the world cOulr
: not avoid noticing and even calling
r great. Fancy that you see low, un
calmly figure, rough and course, very
/. corpulent and unwieldly frame, a mar
=. of sarcastic appearance, walking tn,
;. streets of Athens on a Saturday even
( ing in November, 400 B. c., barefooteC
Y and slouched hat on, Fastening to al
e exciting crowd of babbling Greek
" who are contending about some poin
k in philosophy, to-wit the origin of al
Y things, and thus maintaining their dis
i putaeious character, and then see hin
e silence them by first proclaiming thu
r he knows nothing himself, and the
l. showing that they know less-tha
e man is Socrates, the philosopher.
|. Pass now to the seventh period an
e see an ambitious young man emerg
Il from the classic walls of log schoc
i house-the groves near Athens-know
v as the Academy of Aristotle. Thi
young man has just finished readin
Homer's Had under Aristotle, an
with gun and dog Ghe dog mostly
and of himself) mounts his horse b
cephalous, crosses the Hellespont, COZ
quers Persia and the world and weeI
= for more to conquer, and dies wrec
" and a drunkard-this man was Ale:
ander, whom the world falsely cal
. Great. Here the seven periods en-
-, -. and our fancy subsidies.
5, ROund tO SOuaWl.