The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

was the hanging garden, regarded by
the Greeks as one Of the seven wonders
of the world, but that was prior to the
erection of the Washington monument.
This was square of four hundred
Greek feet on each side. The Greek
foot was not as long as the modern foot
introduced by Miss Mills of Ohio. This
garden was supported on several tiers
of open arches, built one above the
other, like the walls of a classic theatre,
and sustaining at each stage or story a
a solid platform, from which the arches
of the next story sprung. This struc-
ture was also supported by the COM
mon council of Babylon. who came for
ward with the city funds and helped to
sustain the immense weight.
1t is presumed that Nebuchadnezzar
erected this garden before his mind
became affected. The tower of Belus.
supposed by historians with a good
memory to have been six hundred feet
high, as there is stlN q red chalk mark
in the sky where the top came, was
great thing in its way. am glad I
was not contiguous to it when It fell,
and also that had omitted being born
prior to that time.
when We turn from this picture of
the past, says the historian, Rawlin-
son, referring to the beauties of Babylon
ito contemplate the present condition
of these localities, We arc at first struck
with establishment Mt tho small traces
which remain of so vast and wonder
full metropolis. The broad walls of
Babylon are utterly broken down.
God has swept it with the bosom of
destruction
One cannot help wondering why the
use of bosom should have been aban-
doned. As we gaze upon the former
site of Babylon we are forced to admit
that the new bosom sweeps clean. On
its old site no crumbling arches or
broken columns are found to indicate
her former beauty. Here and there
huge heaps of debris alone indicate
that goddess wealth and wicked, selfish,
indolent, enervating, ephemeral pomp,
rose and defined the supreme laws to
which the bloated selfish millionaire and
the hard-handed, hungry laborer alike
must bow, and they arc dust to-day.
Babylon has fallen. I do not say
this in sensational way or to depreci-
ate real estate there, but from actual
observation, and after 4 full investi-
CATION assert, without fear of success
full contradiction, that Babylon has
seen her best days. Her boomle! is
busted, and, to use a political phrase,
her oriental hide is on the Gladden.
fence.
Such is life. We enter upon it re-
luctantly; VIC wade through it doubt
fully, and die at last timidly. How we
Americans do blow about what we can
do before breakfast, and yet even in
our own brief history how we have
demonstrated what little thing the
common two-lcgged man is. He rises
up rapidly to acquire much wealth,
and it he delays about going to Canada
he goes to Sing Sing, and we forget
about him. There are lots of modern
Babylonians in New York City to-day,
and if it were my business would call
their attention to it. The assertion
that gold will procure all things has
been so common and 80 popular that
too many consider first the bank &C.
count and after that honor, home, re-
ligion, humanity and common decency.
Even some of the churches have fallen
into the notion that first comes the tall
church, then the debt and mortgage,
the ice cream sociable and the kingdom
of Heaven. Cash and Christianity
ought not to confer responsibility on
anybody who comes into the church to
purchase It. 4
often think Of the closing appeal
Of the old preacher. who was more
earnest than redned perhaps, and Il
winding Up his brist sermon On q,