The Penn's Grove record., 1895-01-18
PENIS GROVE. N. j. FRIDAY. JANUARY IS. 1896.

.oo,ino and refreshing for twelve centuries.
Ruins more suggestive b Melrose ana
KanIlworth. Ceylonian Karnaks and Luxors.
Ruins retaining much OF grandeur, tnougn
wars bombarded them, eno .me pr. al
chisel on every block, and, more IMAM ~;
vegetation put Its anchors and pres ans
wrenches in all the crevices. Dagooas, or
places where relics Of saints OF diettes sre
kept-daeobas 400 feet high thelr lailen
material burying precious things, ios w
light OF which modern curiosity mas u,ksg1
and blasted In vain. Procession OF ere
chants In imitation, wrought into lusirous
marble. Troops OF horses in fuh run.
Shrines. chapels, cathedrals wrecked On inc
mountain side. Stairs Of moonstone. Ex-
| ouisite SCROLLS rolling up more mysteries
| than will ever be unrolled. over sixteen
square miles the ruins Of one city strewn.
Thronerooms on which at different times sgt
165 kines, resIgning in authority they M
haritad. Walls that witnessed ~coronations,
transformations, subjugations, triumpns. AZ
tars Mt which millions bowed ages before the
| orchestras celestial woke the sheperds WIZ
midnight overture. 5000 s..u
.red the site OF some ofthese cities, be foun1
congregated In them undisturDsd ASSEM-
bla0es Of leopards, porcupines, h8mingoes
and p~elicans ; reptiles summing themselves
on the affairs, prima donnas rendering
archaeological chant from deserted music
halls. One king restored mucn o.tns Rfau
eur. rebuilt 1900 residences, but ruin soon
resumed its scepter. But all 10 down-tnf
spIres down. the pillars down, the table
down. the glory OF splendid arches down.
what Killed those cities2 Who slew the New
York and London of the year 900 2. " WAS
il unhealthed with a host OF plaguesf WAS
1t foreign armies laying selgef was Wno.s
Mystery sits amid the monoliths and brick
dust. finger on lip in eternal silence, while
fhe Centuries guess and guess in vain. we
simply know that genius planned tnose
cities, and immense populations 1nnaoIeo
them. An eminent writer stimat MAJ q
nile Of bricks In one ruin Of Ceylon would De
enough to build a wall ten feet high rom
Edinburgh to London. Sixteen hundred
| pillars with carved capitals are standing
sentinel for ten miles.
You can Judge somewhat of the size OF the
cities by the reservoirs that were required
10 slack their thirst. Judging the size OF the
city from the size of the cup out OF which II
drank. Cities crowded with inhabitants.
not liz American or English cities, but
nacked together as only barbaric tribes can
hack them, But their knell was sounded
their light went out, Giant trees are fks
Z only royal family now occupytpS<t Mos
palaces. The growl OF Eld>ss-ss whert
ahpura and Pollonarna will never be 70
lbuilded. Let all the living cities OF the
earth take warning. Cities are human. hay
lnga time to be born n a time to die. NC
more certainly have they a cradle than
grave. Alast judgment is appointed for IN
diyIduals. but cities have their last tudg'
ment in this world. They bless, they curse
they worship, they b~laspheme. they suffer
hey are rewarded, they are overthrown;
Preposterous says some one, TO tnlni
that any Of our American or European cities
. which have stood SO long can ever CONT
: through vice to extinction. But New Yors
t and London have not stood as long as thost
r Ceylonese cities stood. Where Is the throne
, outside OF Ceylon on which 1856 successive
) kings reigned for q Lifeline. Cities and ma
ions that have lived far longer than on
present cities or nation have been sepul
/ shered. Let all the great municipalities o
: his and other lands ponder. 1t u as tru,
aow as when the psalmist wrote Il and a.
8 rue OF cities and nations as OF individuals
iaThe Lord knoweth the way OF the RICH
I :eous, but the way Of the ungodly shal
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