The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-12
FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS.
A Timely Topic Presented in an
Interesting Manner.
Rev. T. Dewitt TaImage Reviews the Gus
tom of Holding Fairs in Both An
cient and Modern Times-What
of the Fair of 1892 2.


They traded in fairs-Ezekiel XVII, IL.
Fairs may be for the sale of goods or
for the exhibition of goods on a small
scale or large scale, for county or city,
for one nation or for all nations. Ny text
brings us to the fairs of ancient Tyre. {,
city that is now extinct Part of the city
was on an island, and part on the main
land. Alexander, the conqueror, was
much embarrassed when he found so
much of the city was on an island for he
had no ships. But his military genius
was not to be baked. Having marched
his army to the beach, he ordered them
to tear up the city on the mainland and
throw it into the water an build a cause
way two hundred feet wide to the island.
So they took that part Of the city which
was on the mainland and with it built
causeway Of timber and brick and stone,
on which his army marched to the capt
ure of that part of the city which was on
the island. as though a hostile army
should put Brooklyn into the East river
and over it march TO the capture of New
York. That Tyrian causeway of ruins
which Alexander's army built is still
there, and by alluyial deposits has per-
manently united the island to the MAIN
but q promontory. The sand, the great
est of all underwriters for burying cities,
having covered up for the most part
Baalbec and Palmyra and Thebes and
Memphis and Carthage land Babylon
and Luxor and Jericho, the sand, so
small and yet so mighty is now gradual
ly giving rites OF sepulcher TO what was
left Of Tyre. But. oh, what a magnificent
osk w g
Queen of international commercei All
nations casting their crowns at her fee Il
Where we have in our sailing vessels
benches of wood, she had benches of
ivory. Where we have for our masts of
ships sails of coarse canvas, she had sails
Of richest embroidery.
The chapter from which my text is
taken. after enumera.ing the richest
countries in all the world, says OF Tyre:
"They traded in thy fairs" Look in
upon a worlds fair at Tyre Ezekiel
leads us through one department, and it
is horse fair. Underfed and overdriven
for ages, the horses OF to-day give you
no idea of the splendid animals which,
rearing and plunging and snorting and
neighing, were brought down over the
planks of the ships and I'D into the
was a minister of religion and not sup
posed to know much about horses, cried
oct in admiration: "They of the house
of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with
horses" Here in another department Of
that worlds fair at Tyre, led on by
Ezekiel. the prophet, we find every thing
all ablaze with precious stones. like
petrified snow are the corals; like frag-
af Fall Oh. Yl,a A.
and here is date ablush with all coIors.
What is that aroma we inhale? 1t is
from chests of cedar which we open, and
find them filed with all styles of fabric
But the aromatics increase as we pass
down this lane of enchantment, and here
are cassia and frankincense and balm.
Led on by Ezekiel, tho prophet, we
come to an agricultural fair with dis
play of wheat from Minnith and Pannag.
rich as that of our modern Dakota or
Michigan. And here is a meteorological
fair. with specimens of iron, ana silver,
and tin, and lead, aud gold. Bat halt,
for here is purple Tyrian purple, ali
tints and shades, deep almost unto the
black and bright almost unto the blue,
waiting for Kings and Queens to order it
made into robes for coronation day:
from the Orchilla weed, but the extinct
purple, the lost purple. which the an
clients knew how to make out of the gas
teropod mollusks Of the Mediterranean.
Ga, look at those casks of wine from
HeIbonl See those snow banks Of wool
from the back of sheep that once past
ured in Gilead. Ga, the bewildering
riches and variety OF that worlds fair at
Tyrel
But the world has copied these Bible.
mentioned fairs in all succeeding ages,
and it has had its Louis the Sixth fair at
Dagobert, and Henry the First fair on st.
Bartholomew's Day, and Hungarian fairs
at Pesth, and Easter fairs at Lsipsic, ana
the Scotch fairs at Perth bright was the
day when was at one of them), and
afterward came the London Worlds
Fair, aud the New York Worlds Fair,
and the Vienna Worlds Fair, and the
Partisan Worlds Fair, and it has been
seeded that in commemoration of the
discovery of America in 1892 there shall
DC held in this country iu Is a WORLDS
Fair that shall eclipse all preceding ma
tional expositious. l say, God speed the
movement Surely the event comnem-
GRATED is worthy of al. the architecture
and music and pyrotechnics and elo-
quent and stupendous planning and
monetary expenditure and Congressional
appropriations which the most sanguine
Christian patriot has ever dreamed of
Was any voyage that the world ever
heard of crowned with such an arrival as
that of Columbus aud his men?
After they had been encouraged for
the last few days by fl ght of land birds
aud floating branches IF red berries, and
while Columbus was down in the cabin
studying the sea cart Martin Pinzon,
standing on deck and looking to the
southwest cried: Land! Land! Landp'
And Gloria III Excelsisn was sung in
raining tears on all the three ships of
the expedition. Most appropriate and
patriotic, ana Christian will be a COM
memorative Worlds Fair in America in
1892. Leaving to others the discussion
as TO tho site of such exposition-and l
wonder not that some five or six of our
cities are struggling 10 have it, for it
will give to any city to which it is as.
signed an impulse of prosperity for a
hundred years. say, leaving TO others
the selection of the particular locality to
be thus henored, l want TO say some
things from the point of Christian pa.
triotism which ought to be said, a1,l the
earlier the better, that we get thousands
OF people talking in the right direction.