Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-03

caster county farms of Jennsyifania, ana
Somerset county farms Of New Jersey and
theother magnificent farm fields OF Mime
sofa and Wisconsin, and the opulent or
chards Of Maryland and California. Let the
Turk be driven out and the American or
Englishman or Scotchman go in and No
hammedanism withdraw its idoatry and
pureC Christianity build its affairs, and their
rigation Of which Solomon's pools was only
a suggestion win make all that land from
Dan to Beersheba rs fertile, and aromatic,
and resplendent as on the morning when
the king rode out to his pleasure grounds
in chariot SO swift and followed by mount
ed riders so brilliant that it was for speed
like a hurricane followed by a cyclone.
WISDOM OF THE AEcIENTs.
AS look upon this great aqueduct of
Palestine, wondrous specimen Of ancient
masonry, about seven feet high, two feet
wide, sometimes tunneling the solid rock
and then rolling its waters through stone
ware pipes, an aqueduct doing its work
ten miles before it gets to those three reser-
voirs, and then gathering their wealth of
refreshment and pouring it on to the
mighty city of Jerusalem and filing the
brazen sea of her temple, and the bath
Of Sloan, and Hezekiah, and Bethesda,
find that our century has no monopoly of
the worlds wonders, and that the con
ceited age in which we live had better take
In some of the sails of its pride when ii re-
members that it is hard work in later ages
TO get masonry that will last fifty years,
to say nothing of the three thousand
and no modern machinery could lift
,,f al /; 10 gNP eta
ing high up in the walls of Baal-
bee, and the art of printing claimed for
recent ages was practiced by the Chinese
fourteen hundred years ago, and that our
midnight lightning express rail train was
foreseen by the prophet Nahum, when in
the Bible he wrote 1.-THE chariots shall
rage in the streets, they shall iostle one
against another in the broad ways, they
shall seenn like torches, they shall run like
lightnings," and our electric telegraph was
foreseen by job, when in the Bible he
wrote, "Canst thou send lightnings that
they may go and say unto thee, Here we
areP" What is that talking by the light
nings but the electric telegraph? do not
know but that the electric forces now being
year by year more thoroughly harnessed
may have been employed in ages extinct,
and that the lightnings all up and down
the sky have been running around like
lost hounds to find their former master.
Embalment was a more thorough art
three thousand years ago than today Den
tistry, that we suppose one Of the important
arts discovered in recent centuries, isproyen
to be four thousand years old by the filled
teeth Of the mummies in the museums at
Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth on gold
plates found by Belzoni in the tombs ofde-
parted nations, Wehave been taught that
Harvey discovered the circulation of the
blood SO late rs the Seventeenth century.
Oh, mol Solomon announces it in Ecclesias-
ties, where first having shown chat he UNI
derstood thespinal cord, silver colored as it
is, and that relaxes in old age-"the silver
cord be loosed," goes on TO compare the
heart TO "a pitcher at a well, for the three
canals of the heart do receive the blood like
pitcher, "or the pitcher be broken at the
fountain What ID that but the circula-
ton of the blood, found out twenty-siX
hundred years before Harvey WINS bornf
After many centuries of exploration and
calculation astronomy finds out that the
world is round. Why, Isaiah knew it was
round thousands of years before when in
the Bible he said The Lord sitteth upon
the circle OF the earth" Scientists toiled
on for centuries and found out tefraction
or that the rays of light whom touching the
earth were not straight, but bent or curved.
Why, Job knew that when ages before in
the Bible he wrote of the light: ut is
turned as clay to the seal, "
OLD PAINTERS AND OVERS
In the old cathedrals Of England mod
ern painters in the repair of windows are
trying to make something as good as the
window painting Of four hundred years
ago and always failing by the unanimous
verdict Of all who examine and compare
The color Of modern painting fades in fifty
years, while the color Of the old masters is
as we'll preserved after five hundred years
as after one year saw last winter ON The
walls of eShumed Pompeii paintings with
color as fresh as though made the day be-
fore, though they were buried eighteen
hundred years ago. The making OF Ty-
rian purple is an impossibility now.
In our modern potteries we are trying
hard to make cups and pitchers and bowls
as exquisite us those eXhumed from
Herculaneum and our artificers are
attempting 80 make iewelry for ear
and neck and finger equal to that
brought up from the mausoleums of two
thousand years before Christ. We have in
our time glass in all shapes and all colors,
but Pliny, more than eighteen hundred
years ago, described a malleable glass
which, if thrown upon the ground and
dented, could be pounded straight again
by the hammer or could be twisted around
the wrists, and that confounds all the glass
manufactures Of our own time / tried in
Damascus, Syria, to buy a Damascus blade,
one of those swords that could be bent
double or tied into Knot without break
ing. j could not get one Why? The
Nineteenth century cannot mako Damas-
Gus blade If we 60 ON enlarging our cities
we may after awhile get city as large as
Babylon, winch was five times the size Of
London,
These aqueduets Of Solomon that / visit
today, finding them in good condition three
thousand years after construction, make
me think that the world may have forgot
ten more than il now knows The great
honor Of our age is not machinery, for the
ancionts had some styles of it more Won
derful; nor art, for the ancients had art
more exquisite and durable; nor architect
ure, for Roman Coliseum and Grecian
/ Acropolis surpass all modern architecture;
nor cities, for some Of the ancient cities
were larger than ours in the sweep OF their
pomp But our attempts must be in moral
achievements and gospel victory In that
we have already surpassed them, and in
that direction let the ages push on. Let
us brsg less OF worldly achievement and
thank God for moral opportunity. More
good men and good women is what the
worldwauts Toward moral elevation and
/ spiritual attainment let the chief struggle
be. The source Of all that | will show You
before shutdown of this day on which we
have visited the pools of Solomon and the