The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-12
HISTORY or s.syLoN.
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The history of BAeylca is tsaasAs ~ssA sadness. It illustrates only too painfully that the people of town make or ma, ,ts success rather than the natural re- sources and advantages 1t may possess on the start.
 Thus Babylon, with ; GOO years the start of Mlnneapol $. IS today A hole in the ro"nd. while Minneapolis socks her MINK -four into every corner ot the 1tuoc, and the price Ot real estate would make common dynasty tot,er on ie throne
 Babylon is good illustration ot the decay of town that does no, keep up with the procession. Compare her to. day with K lnSas C,iv.~ Wh,lc Babylon was the capi al of Chaldea l s7o years be lose the birth ot Christ and k Ansas Cit> vas organized so mauy wears after tha, event that many Of the people there have forgotten all about 1t. k AnsAs City ha, doubled her population ln ten years while Baoylon Is simply a gothic hole tn the ground.
 Why did trade aud emigration turn theH back upon Babylon and seek out Minneapolis, St Paul, Kansas Guy and OmahA2 Was it because they were bles, ~th bluer sky or more genial sun Not by any means. While Babylon lived upon what she had been and neglected to advertise, other towns with no history es tending back into the moldy pas, Whooped with an exceedin great whoop and tole up the ground and shed printe,s' ink and showed marked Sigps ot vitality. That |, tbe reason that Babylon Is no mora.
 A.. f.f tivity. We cannot rest long in idlenes' without inviting forge,iutness. death and oblivion. . Babylon was probably the largest and most magnificent city of the anc,eut world" salAh. who lived abou, 300 years before Hcrodo,us. and whose remarks are unusually fec from local o' political prejudice. refers to Babylon as the glory Of kingdoms, the beauty o' the ChAldic's tNcellency,' and yet while Cheyenne has the electric light and two daily papers, Babylon hasn't got so much Rs a skating rink,
 A city. fourteen miles sqnare with a brick wall around n 3Ss feet high, she has quietly for totten to advertise, and ,n turn she also Is forgotten.
 Babylon was remarkable for the two beautiful palaces, one on each side of tAs river, and the great temple of Beius Connected with one oi these palaces was the hanging garden, regarded by the Greeks as one of tho seven wonders oi the world, but that was prior to the cree ton ot the Washington monument and ctvil service reform.
 This was q square of 100 Greek feet on each side. The Greek ,oot was not so | Ion kA ...a~ |. Miss Mills, of Ohio. This garden wAS supported on several tiers of open arches, bull, ono over the other, like the walls oi A classic theatre, and sustaininR at each stage or story A solid platform from which the arches of the next story sprung. This suucture vas also supported by the common council of Baby lon, who came forward with the city funds, and helped to sustain the immense weight.
 It Is presumed that NcbuehadnsxEir erected this garden before hIs mind be came affected Tho to ser ct Belus, sup posed by historians with A good memory to have been 6oo feet high. as there IS still a red chalk maFk in the sky where the top came, was a great thing in i.s way am glad l ~as not contiguous to 1t when it tell. and also that had omitted being born prior 10 ,ha, tune.
 When VIC tuin from thls picture oi the past" says the historian, RAwlin1on, referring to the beautes of BApyion. ito contemplate the present condition ofthese localities, VIC are At first struck with as- tontshment al the small traces which re- main oi so vast and wonderful a mc,Iop ohs The broad walls of Babylon are l utterly broken down. God has Swepi Ii with the bosom ot dcstru uoa '" O0e cannot hol, wondering why the use of the bosom should have been ab in. doned. As we gaze upon the former sre | of Babylon we arc forced to admit tha, the new bosom sweeps clean. On its old site no crumb ing arches or broken col umns are found to indicate her former beauty. Here and there huge heaps oi debris alone indicate that here goddess seAllh and wicked, selfish, tndolent en- evAt'ng. ephemeral pomp. rose and de- hed the supreme laws to which the bloa.ed, selfish million aire and the hard handed, hungry laborer alike mus; bow and they gre dust to-day.
 Babylon has fallen. do not say this in q sensational way or to depf eciate the value oi real estate there, but from actual obse, vation, and after . full investigation asser without fear of successful coo,ra diction that B.bylon has seen her best days. Her boomlet is bus c 1, and, 10 use a political phrase, her oriental hlde is on |t Chaic q sn fence.
 Saeh is hie. We enter upon 1t Felac- tantiy; we wade through it doubtiuiiy. and de at last iimidiy. How we Amer. cans do blow about what we can do be fore breakfast, and yet even in our owp brief bistory how we have dcmopsu ted what iittIe thing the common ,wo.leggsd man is. He nses up rapidly to AcquTs much wealth, and n he delays about go. ing to Canada he gses to S,ng S,Dg, and ~e forget about him. These are Lots ol modern BAbylonisns h New York city today. and if n were my bas,ness would call their attention to it. The &sseriop that gold wiil procure ali things has been