Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-01

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lenco and pomp and cruelty and
abomination that paralyzes the fingers
of the historian when he comes to
write it and the fingers of the painter
when he attempts to transfer it to can
vas. | suppose he was one of the worst
men that ever lived And what con
trast of character comes at every mo-
ment to the thoughtful traveller in Pal
estine, whether he walks the beach of
this lake or sails as we now do these
watersl
TWO GREAT CHARACTERS OF THE RE
GION.
Side by side are the two great char
acters Of this lake region, Jesus and
Herod Antipas. And did any age pro
duce any such antipodes, any such an
titheses, any such opposites9 Kind
ness and cruelty, holiness and filth,
generosity and meanness, self sacri-
flee and selfshness, the supernal and
the Internal, midnoon and midnight.
The father of this Herod Antipas was
genius at assassination. He could
manufacture more reasons for putting
people out of this life than any man in
all history. He sends for Hyrcanus to
come from Babylon to Jerusalem to be
made high priest and Stays him He
has his brother-in-law while in bathing
with him drowned by the kings at
tendants. He Stays his wife and his
wife's mother, and two of his sons and
his uncle, and filled volume of atroci-
ties, the last chapter of which was the
massacre of all the babes at Bethle-
hem.
With such father as Herod the
Great you are not surprised that this
Herod Antipas, whose palace stood on
the banks of this lake we now sail, was
a combination of wolf, reptile and ny
ena, while the Christ who walked
yonder banks and sailed these waters
was SO good that almost every rood of
this scenery is associated with some
wise word or some kindly deed, and all
literature and all art and all earth and
all heaven are put to the utmost effort
in trying to express how grand and
glorious and lovely he was and is and
is to be. The Christly and Herodic
characters as different as the two lakes
we visit and not far apart, Galiee and
the Dead sea; the one flower banked
and the other bituminous and blasted;
the one lowered over by the mercy of
Christ, the other blasted by the wrath
of God; the one full OF finny tribes
sporting in the clear depths, the other
forever lifeless; the waters of the one
sweet and pleasant to the taste, the
other bitter and sharp and disgusting.
Awful Dead seal Glorious Gennesa-
ret!
NO DESIRE TO SHOOT ANY ONE.
We will not attempt to cross to the
eastern side of this lake, as | had
thought to do, for those regions are in
habited by thieving and murderous
race, and one must go thoroughly
armed. and as | never shot anyone and
have no ambition to be shot, said,
Let us stay by the western shore"
But we look over to the hills of Ga
dara, on the other side, down which
two thousand swine after being pos
sessed by the devil ran into the lake,
and bringing down on Christ for per
hitting it the wrath Of all the stock
raisers of that country, because of this
running of the pork business. You see
that Satan is aspirit of bad taste. Why
did he not say: Let me go into those
birds, whole tlocks of which fly over
Galilee" No; that would have been
too high "Why not let me go into
the sheep which wander over these
hills" No; that would have been too
gentle. Rather let me go into these
swine. / want to be with the denizens
of the mire. l want to associate with |
the inhabitants of the filth. Great is
mud l prefer bristles to wings. l |
would rather root than fly. | like |
snout better than wing"
Iniidelity SCOTS at the idea that those
swine should have run into the lake. |
But it was quite natural that under
the heat and burning of that demoniac
possession they would start for the wa
ter to get cooled off. Would that all |
the swine thus possessed had plunged |
to the same drowning, for to this day
the descendants of some of those por-
cine creatures retain the demons, and |
az the devils were cast out Of man
into them, they now afllict the human
race with the devils of scrofula that
comes from eating the unclean meat
The hoalthiest people on earth are the
Israclites, because they follow the bill
Of fare which God in the book Of lie
viticus gave to the human race, and
our splendid French doctor Pasteur
and our glorious German doctor Koch
may go ON with their good work of
killing parasites in the human SYSTEM
but until tie world corrccts its diet and
goes back to the divine regulation mt
the beginning The human race will
continue to be possessed of the devils
Of microbo and parasite But l did
not mean to cross over to the eastern
side of Lake Galilee even in discussion.
PULL AWAY, YE oAHsMEN!
Pull away, ye Arab oarsmenl And
we come alJng the shore near by which
stand great preeip,eea of brown and
red and gray limestone crowned ty
Dasalt, in the SIDES OF which ara vast
eaverns, sometimes the hiding place of
bandits, and sometimes the home of
lnnnst shnnherds and sometimes the