The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-06-20

u Scotland, st. Patrick Of Ireland and 81
IayId Of Wales? ''Noiae enough Il
Waken the Seven sieePes," 10 an ex
Iression often made use Of In reference h
great tumult, but the remark l. NOR
ommon than q knowledge Of its origin
Very briefly the story Is this; It Is I
Christian legend originating 10 the Orient
brought TO Europe by GREGORY Of Tour
md often reproduced BY the midileagl
writers. When Decias was king Of Ephe'
.us and presenting the Christians, seven
Young men Of that city, to escape the
uurdeFous king, took refuge in q cave,
md being discovered they were order
4 the tyTant, walled In and left - perish
Of hunger Their names were kelchus,
Maximien, Denys, John, Seapion, Con
stantine and Martinian. Three hundred
and seyenty-two years afterward. when
the good Theodosius was emperor, an
Ephesian started in to make stable out
Of the cave, and TO do this they first tore
Iown the wall. The noise Of the workmen
aroused the youths, who had been all this
time miraenlOusly kept asleep, and one Of
their number was sent into the city to
purchase bread. He found the cross ex-
hibtted in public where but yesterday its
private possession meant death. He
recognized no place nor person, and on
presenting his coin, an O6tS Of . date
obsolete Tor centuries, he was looked upon
with suspieicns and finally taken before
the authorities. They did not believe his
story, but being conducted to the cave
the other six young men were found alive
and freshly awakened from their long
sleep. The details bear many points Of
resemblance to Washington Irvinge
story Of Grip Van winkle."
THE SEVEN sLEKPERs.
The Koran relates the story Of the
Seven Sleepers; the Persians annually
celebrate their feast; the spot is still
shown at Ephesus where the tabled mir
aele took place, and we believe the Roman
Catholic church has conssCTated day to
their memory. Scarcely less mythical.
perhaps, are the Seven Sages, who figure
in an old English metrical work under
the title Of the ''Seven Wise Master"
and written Of in Arabic, Hebrew. Greek,
Latin, French, German and Spanish.
The story is probably Of Indian. that is,
Of Hindoo origin, Is It u tcdnded on the
truly Oriental idea Of Seven Sages telling
the emperor . new story every night in
order to distract his attention from \ con
tenplated execution Of his son. These
Seven SsSss are not to be ConiOunded
with the Seven Wise Men Of Greece, who
lived about 54s B. c., and who devoted
themselves to the cultivation Of practical
wisdom. They were Colon, Thales, Pit
!tacus, Bias. Chilon, Cleobulus and Peri.
ander Of COrinth. They were the authors
Of the celebrated notices inscribed in the
Delphian temple, which, as the crystalli-
EatiOn Of seven lives experience, are
worth repeating, II not remembering.
The motto Of Scion was. know thyself, !"
that Of Thales, "suretyship is the pre-
cursor Of RUM" that Of Pittacus was
Know thy opportunity !" Of Bias, "MO~t
men are bad;" Of Chilon, Consider the
end;" Of CIeObulus, avoid excess .
and Of Fernandez. Nothing is impossible
to industry" Yet another remarkable
septet was that composed Of the Seven
Chiefs Of War who, according to the Greek
playWTights, lived In the thirteenth cen
tury before our era-and who were named
POlynice, AdTastA, Tyde. Capaneus, Am
phiaEaus, HippomedOn and PaTthenope.
Six Of these owners Of high-sOunding
names were Argein princes who. under
the leadership Of Polynice, laid siege to
the city Of Thebes. where one EteOcles
had taken refuge. Eschvius wrote a
tragedy on the famous siege, which be
entitled The sevenC hiefs Before Thebes,"
played in Athens 460 B. c., and which
was extremely martial in style that at rs
conclusion the people rushed out Of the
theatre clamOring for WIZ. In the more
reliable annals Of comparatively modern
campaigns the number seven also takes
its place. There was, for instance, the
seven years war, carried on in Germany
from 1855 to l76S, In which the centend.
ing party was Prussia, with England Al
its ally, against Austria, Russia, France
and Sweden. The war was q mosI
disastrous one. devasted Germany, cosl
Europe blood and gold without end, and
closed without yielding material advant
ages 10 any party except Prussia, whict
annexed silesia and thenceiorward tool
rank - one Of the Eve great European
powers. Even In the few blOod-staineC
] pages Of our history ruddy seven is seen
The time was short. but In those sever
ldays' battles which were fought near tn,
ChickAhonliny from June Is to July l
1862, when Joe Hooker and stonewal
Jackson forced the fighting, there fell n,
less than 1000 Union soldiers.
THE sEyEN wONDERs or THE WORLD.
This collection Of curious facts relatinl
TO seven would be looked upon as curl
!. Ously incomplete without q reference b
the Seven Wonders Of the World. Thes
very remarkable objects, some Of whi,I
, still remain, have been variously enumer
ated, but the following classification Is tn
J one most generally received: IN Tn