Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-02-02

d rose, another into the shape of trumpet,
another into the shape of bell, with tongue
of pearl, and this presentation aroused the
jealousy of the throne and caused the con-
sequent downfall of Cortez. But the depths
of the sea were decorated with those en-
eralds for in shipwreck they went down
off the coastof Barbary. Napoleon wore an
Imerald at Austerlitz
In the Kremlin museum at Moscow there
are crowns and scepters and outspread mir
acles of emerald. Ireland Is called the
Emerald Isle not because of its verdure,
but because it was presented to Henry II
of England with an emerald ring. Nero
had magnifying glass Of emerald through
which he looked at the gladiatorial contests
at Rome. But here are 800 miles of emer-
aid sweeping around the heavenly city in
one layer.
But upward still and you put your foot
on stratum of sardonYz, white and red,
seeming commingling of snow and fire,
the snow cooling the fire, the fire melting
the snow.
ANCIENT sPLENDoRs IN STONE.
Another climb and you reach the sardius,
named after the city of Sardius. Another
climb and you reach the chrysolite. A
specimen of this, belonging to Epiphanus,
in the Fourth century, was said to be SO
brilliant that whatever was put over to
conceal it was shone through, and the en-
peror of China has specimen that is de-
scribed as having such penetrating radiance
that it makes the night as bright as the
day.
A higherclimb and you reach the beryl.
Two thousand years ago tho Greeks used
this precious stone for engraving purposes.
1t was accounted among the royal treas
ures of Tyre. The hilt of Murat's sword
was adorned with it. 1t glows in the i'm
perial crown of Great Britain. Luther
thought the beryl of the heavenly wall was
turquoise. Kalisch thought it was chryso-
lite. Josephus thought it a golden colored
Jewel. The wheels of EZekiePs vision
famed with beryl and were a revolving
fire.
The beryl appears in six sided prisms
and is set in seals and intaglios in neck
laces and coronets 1t was the joy of an
cient iewelry 1t ornamented the affiuent
with eardrops. Charlemagne presented il
| to his favorites Beautiful beryl! EXqui
sitely shaped bsrylt Diyinely colored beryl
| 1t seems like CONCEALED color. 1t looks lik'
frozen fire.
But stop not here. Climb higher and vol
come to topaz, a bewilderment OF beaut.
and named after an island of the Red sea.
Climb higher and you come to chrysopra
sus, of greenish golden hue and hard a
flint.
THE FABLED PREVENTIVE.
j Climb higher and you reach the jacinth
named after the flower hyacinth and o
reddish blue.
Take one more step and you reach th
top, not of the wall, but the top of tn
foundations Of the wall, and ST. John erie
out, 1.-THE twelfth, an amethyst" Thi
precious stone, when found in Australia G
India or Europe, stands in columns an
pyramids. For color it is violet bloom
ing in stone. For its play of light, for il
| deep mysteries of color, for its uses in Egyl
tian, in Etruscan, in Roman art it has bee
| honored. The Greeks thought this stone
/ preventive Of drunkenness. The Hebrew
] thought it asource of pleasant dreams IL
all lovers of gems it is a subject of admir
) tion and suggestiveness. Yes, the wor
amethyst means prevention of drunkel
: ness.
Long before the New Testament mao
/, reference to the amethyst in the wall
| heaven the Persians thought that cul
made out of amethyst would hinder al
kind Of fliquor contained theleiR from becor
ing Intoxicating. But OF all the amethy
= tine cups from which the ancients drar
not one had any such result of preventio
: For thousands Of years the world has be-
a looking in vain for such preventive am
: thystine cup. Staggering Noah could n
q find it. Convivial Ahasuerus driving Wash
i, from the gates could not find it. Nab
!. breaking the heart Of beautiful Abigt
could not find it. Belshazzar, the king
i. reveler, on the night that the Chaldea
q took Babylon could not find it.
J Not one of the millions of inebriat
whose skulls pave the continents and pa
;, the depths of the sea could find it,. The
j is no such cup Strong drink from HI
= lowed amethyst imbrutes the same
. strong drink from pewter mug 1t is n
!, the style Of cup we drink out of, but th
q which the cup contains, which decides t
e helpful or damning result of the beveras
Z All around the world last night and toda
out Of cups costlier than amethyst, m
! and women have been drinking their oy
doom and the doom of their children
i this life and the next.
; All, it is the amethystine cups that
;, the widest and worst slaughter. T
= smash of the filthy goblets Of the rul
f meries would long ago have taken pla
. by law, but the amethystine chalices p
E vent--the chalices out of which legislatui
and congresses drink before and after th
-, make tie laws. Amethystine chalit
: have been the friends of intoxication
!, stead Of its foes. Over the fiery lips
- the amethystine chalices is thrust t
= tongue of that which biteth like serpe
! and stingeth Hke an adder Drunkennt
:, is combinatA IN of apopleXy and dement,
= The 4Q0,000,c00 victims of opium COZ
= = out to meet the 15o,oOo, GOO victims of alt
II hol, and the two agents take the contra
IS for tumbling the human race into per,
II tion, but whether they will succeed in Fl
ar filling the contracA depends on the acti
1t of the amethystiDe cups, the amethyst
a denijohns, the anethystine ale pitche
4 the amethystine flayons, the amethyst
c. wine cellars. Oh, Pegsiansl oh, Assyrial
Of Oh, GreeksI oh, Egyptiansl you we
wrong in thinking tb-at cup Of amethy
is would prevent inebris5ion.
lie But standing on the top of this ameth,
Is tine layer of the foundation of the wall
10 heaven l bethink myself Of the mista
that many of the ancient Hebrews ma
y when they thought that the amethyst W
!. I. aproducer of pleasant, dreams. Just we
y. = apiece of amethyst ovsr your heart or p
y y it under your pillow, and you would la
!. !. your dreams filled with everything bean
. full and entrancing No. no. The style
W nillow will not, ffeciTe the character of {