New-York tribune., 1890-08-09
THE POOL BETHESDA.
UNCOVERED BY AN EXCAVATION IN JERU.
SALEM.
OTHER REMARKABLE ANTIQUITIES DESCRIBED
BY T. F. WRIGHT AT CHAUTAUoUA-
COLONEL HIGGINsoN on HIS:
TORICAL STUDY.
DY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

ChautauQua, y. Y, Aug ST. /. Wright, Of Cam
bridge Mass honorary secretary of the Palestine Ex
ploratiOn Fund, told an interested audience at the
Hall Of Philosophy this Afternoon OF some important
recent discoveries in the Holy Land. 1.-Two years
ago." he said, French monks in Jerusalem were
digging in garden, when they came double rool
cut in the solid rock. This has since been denhed
as the pool of Bethesda The five porclcs undoubtedly
formed by Of columns going around the pools
and across the division. Just south Of the Temple
in the city rises the hill where Solomon built
house for his queens. There VIC expect to find the
sepuclrcs of the kings of Jerusalem in their best
days. Capenaum believe shall locate high
rocky prom0ntory on the of Galilec Not long ago.
in village cast Of Jerusalem. found Greek in
scription on a rock. containing the words, Isaiah
Prophet and Priest. 1t is understood to mean that
this rock, that has stood there, man knows how
long marks the grave of Isaiah. 1t is known that he
buried somewhere In that neghborhood. Tic last
actual excavation made this year on a hill near
Eglon, one of the cities captured by Joshua. mound
found 200 feet square, full Of ruins which repre-
sented three civilizations. There were great walls
of baked bricks. Phocncian pottery and other relics OF
the time of the Amortes the lsraclc occupancy ana
fhe Greek supremacy These relies will probably en-
able scholars to classify future ruins uncovered
round stone has been found in tomb near the
Damascus gate bearing puzzlinG inscription IN an
unknown language II Is suggested that the eptaph
Is I'm Cufc characters and that further investigation
NAV identify as the property OF Joseph of Armathc
but this Is only surmSc. Photographs OF the lnscrip
ton have TO many famous scholars, but none
can dccipher it,"
Colonel Thomas wentworth IIigcinson severely scored
some American historians and teachers of history In
an address this morning on How TO study History
alt has always seemed TO me crcdltablc to our chill
drep's brains he said. that they dislike the study
OF history There is nothing, IL We give it fair
chance which. by its conformity to the instincts OF
CIR nature to standard Of an absorb
inc study And If our children like fiction better thai
truth il Is because make tho fiction interesting and
the truth unintcrcstng. DR.. Guhre's formula for
sermon writing was proving painting and pcrSuadlng
and that should lie the formula for teachers Of history
History is all that was said and done and thought
BY all the human beings who ever existed on tl'
planet Therefore. the first duty OF the student Is
obviously to select. have met only three persons
Professor Agassiz Theodore Parker and John Quincy
Adams who had a really encyclopedia memory, ana
the average man must undertake to fix In his mind
comparatively few facts Just enough to furnish series
~ steppinc stoncs on which he can walk down the
stream of time After you have those facts You "aii
10 know something Of the life tnat made the people
Of the past human lou want 10 know OF their ar''
their spirit and traditions and those Things are l" "
found IN their dramas novels and their folklore. but
We are never taught history in that way AZ school.
MANY teachers still think OF nothing but cdnilhe r
pupils Win facts, The point th ma u,n , III IL i',"t
s inst as much I'm the path 81 duty when he l. rcidlnS
what will point "a period when c !, collecting i'lN
and that fcarlcs~Hc,s and candid nina are necessary
to enable him 10 Judge Of what he has learned.
Professor Charles IIor-Wcll conducted inc collcFo
so-vice this morning. Dr. i. VI. buckley lcciur' on
= PreventahIc and Unprvcntihlc Canoes Of Failure,
and the ben IIur Company gave another cui"ri"lhhc
In last nights taLcaus there appeared III iri|' ri|'
Lansing Harvey Gent. Professor y. MarA-, Mlss
Gcrtr1 r1ldc Nuttuc Nj, Lizzie Wait Mis- Lillian HoWdv
Mis- Daisy Carpenter. Mi, Harriet anthony Ml,'
iia,tic Thcobod and Nil, Lille Bonhch. Every
Available scat in the Amphthcaiic wa, taken an hour
twenty minute, before the hour appointed.
The rev II. \. Jones. Ernest Ior>dykc and sever!
members of the First Cumberland Presbyterian church
of Memphis Tenn, arc here for tho season. -Four
hundred visitors invaded the grounds yesterday from
Eric. Penn - -, ,,t
Clokcv Of Nc,r Albany, and Dr = Wilson 'lokcy, of
7ancsvillc ohio: Mi~s Mary CloRcy, Z" sprhsuoh,
ohio: Miss Anna Cokcy Drury, Of Tpy, Omo ana
J. VI. COlcv, OF Decatur, H. 80,
Dr. i. VI Fairbarn. Of oxford. England. has t"le
graphcd announcing hi, arrival at New YORK from
LivcrpoOl. lie Is t0 lecture hero next w'-k.
Their, have arrived j. !. Wade, Ridgc"ay' Penn
pauI J. Sorg, Mddctown. ohio; Robert T.. lNdcr'
uroOklyn and Mrs. John j. Carter Of IItusvillc, Penn