The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-09
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Flesse publish the '.odo to watcr''--I think
ev Paul Dcnton--whch has been So clcauent-
" spoken by John n. Cough In his temper
ance lectures In England and America.
Subscriber.
You mean the "Apostrorhc 10 water" by
Judge Arlington. tho Texas missionary, WHO
was also known under the nom de plume OF
Paul Denton. The "Apcstrophc'' is an ex-
tract from sketch called paul Dcntcns
Barbecue" It follows:
Look at that. We thirsty ones Of earth
| Behold 1t, SEQ It's purity, See how It Slit
tiers. MS II a mass OF liquid gcmsl II is a
beverage that was brewea by the hand Of tho
Almighty Himself. Not In the simmerinS
| still or smoking fires. choked with poison
GUS gnses, and surrounded by the stencil OF
| sickening odors and rank corrupticns, doth
| our Father In heaven prepare the precious
| essence OF life. the pure. cold water, but n
| the green glade and grassy dell. where, the
| red deer wanders and the child loves to playl
| There God brews It. and down. down IN the
4 deepest valley. where the fountains uurmur
ane the rills sing and high upon the 'al,
mountain tops. where the naked granite Gilt
tcrs like gold in the sun. where the storm
clouds brood and the thunderstorn,s crash !:
| and away. far out on the wide sba. where tho
hurricanes howl music. and tho big waves
roar the chorus, sweeping the march of Cod
I h. <~1xx D sHat hav ura -
1 he,ilth- giving water!
"And everywhere II is n thing OF beauty
| glceming in the dcwdrops singing in tho
summer rain, shining Ia tho icc-gem, till the
| trees all seem turned into living Jewels =
| spreading a golden veil over the setting sun.
| or d white gauze around the Midnight moon
sporting in the cataract. sleeping In the gia-
| ciers, dancing in the hall showers--folding its
bright curtain softly about the wintry word.
| ami weaving the many-coiored iris, that
seraph's zone of tho sky. whose woof is TN"
sunbeam OF heaven, all checkored over witS
celestial flowers by the mystic hand of ra-n-
,, fiction still always 1t is beautiful. that
| blessed life water! No poison bubbles on tho
brink, Its foam brings no sadness or muir
der no blood stains in It's linpid glass
broken hearted wives, pale widows aud starv-
ing orphans shed no tears In its depths; no
erpnkards shrinking ghost, from the grave
curses II In words of eternal despair. Bead
tifui, pure. blessed and glorious, Give me
forever the sparkling. pure, cold water!''
In last SUNDAYS issue OF The Post l no.
tlccd several solutions to the following prob
lem: "A stick of lumber is 6x6 at one END
and isis at the other end and IL feet long.
How many lumber feet docs II contain, board
n,cascrc. that is one inch Thick In order
to understand that solution In sunday Post
u knowledge of the geometricat demonstra-
ton which the solution depends would be
necessary. Stand the stick OF lumber on
horizontal plane. with It's larger base down.
Imagine the edges of the stick produced UNI
til they meet In n point The edges appronch
each other is minus equals l. inches, when
the altitude IS II feet III the altitude was
foot the adjacent edges would approach each
other but | inch; When they have approaou.
ed each other Is inches they will meet IN a
point Therefore the conclusion rs .hat the
loint Of meeting of the four edges Is Is fot,
from the large base. 1t is well known prih-
cipie that the volume of any pyramid is equiv
aleni to the product OF its haze multiplied by
ohe-third of its altitude. Applying this prin-
cirle we find the volume OF tine Is foot pyra-
mid to be 1875 cubic feet. The 6 foot pyrn-
mid or the one formed by producing the
edges, has volume of Y cubic foot; there
fore the difference between these two pyra
nlide is 10 cubic feet, or the volume OF the
stick of lumber. Thirteen times II Is equal
10 1856 lumber feet. which is the answer to
the problem.
W. J.. Eason, Giddings. Texas.
Several additional solutions OF tho probic;n
hs,o been received. but. as it has a,rcaay
been demonstrated that 1876 is the correc. an
swer it will not be necessary to go into 'Lr-
ther details
Please tell me something definite about the
"lAon of Lucerne." MINI.
The Colossal Lion of Lucerne," the work
ri
was erected in 1891 as n monument commence
rating the Swiss guard who fell in defense
of the Tuileries August 10, iT92. Surely
says Carlyle, few things In the history OF
carnage are painfulcr Honor to you,
brave mon: honorable pity through long
tines! Not martyrs were ye, and yet almost
more. He was no king Of yours. this Louis,
and he forsook you like king OF shrcds ana
patches; we were but sold to him for some
poor sixpence day; yet would ye work for
your wages, keep your plighte1 word. The
worl. now was to die and We did It. Honor
to you, o kinsmen. and may the old Deutscn
Bicderkeit and Tnpperkeit, and valor which
is worth and truth. be they Swiss be they
Spycn. fail in no age, Let the trav-
eler. as he passes through Lucerne, turn
aside to look "A little at their monumental
lion not for Thorwaldsen's sake alone. Hcwn
out OF living rock. the figure rests there. BY
the still lake waters. in lullaby of distant
tinkling rance desyaches. the granite noun
tains dumbly keeping watch all round, and
though inanimate. speaks"
Can you furnish figures showing prlnolpai
ca, ses OF death in this and in other conn
tresg Beid.n
Consumption is by far the deadicnt disease
in the United States. In 1890, l02I:3 deaths
were caused by it. Pneumonia .ooK second
place. with 1896 deaths. Consumption also
leads all other diseases In France. Cerran,,
Russia Italy, Switzerland Belgium. the
Netherlands and Scandinavia. In England
bronchitis is the most deadly disease. IN
the latter country consumption stands ,s,-
ond heart disease third and pneumonia
fourth. Next to consumption, pneumonia Is
probably the worst of diseases in all oun-