The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 1897 Page: 4 of 6
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£*£ wb 10 b.
to M carious
_ toUs, with *11
wealth of the an-
I at their bocks, end the
of Mexico, California,
the Transvaal, in eddt-
here to consider ways and
with anxious care before
! a government office, tbs
raerchs raised palaces and
by the hundred at wUl.
raghtless have ready ex*
_ see labor did it all.
i la the first place, the slaves
somehow—by
455^000,000 ananally from
in the Btohari iWssrt,
m equal anas by taxatien, is
aMdevale. hot when the
Most valuable writer—who
only when be re*
_____ of other men—
to deal with Babylon, be
lets himself go. There was a gold
statue of Zoos—the Greek assigned
his own gods to Babylon as usual
—forty feet high; of Rhea equally
tall, with a lion of gold at each
knee, and silver seipenta to corre-
•pond; Juno weighed 500 talents;
in front of her was a golden table,
500 talents, upon which stood two
cups, 300 talsnta each, and three
bowfo, 1,200; 600 and 000 talents.
These ornaments of a single tem-
ple represented about £11,000,000,
and the building was covered with
. _ gold plates. It has been calculat-
l be procured somehow—by ed that the statue of Nebuchsdnes-
war or pureness and either means ser mentioned in Daniel would be
was expensive. There is a reply worth three and a half millions
to that objection equally facile— sterling; that the treasure left by
the war paid its own cost in loot. David amounted to a hundred and
But this only leads us a step back- liity millions in gold, two hundred
ward. The loot must have been millions in silver; but the value of
come 1 the Hebrew talent is doubtful. We
In the second place, those are told that Pytheus, seemingly a
had to be fed, and, however private gentleman of Pbrygea, en-
cbeap their rations, the sum total tertained Xerxes and all his army
■tot have been immense when —“with most sumptuous 100018,'’!
vast numbers were employed., too—and then bad £4,770,000 left,
DUBLIN,
19. »*97-
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But captives of war could only or, as some compute, £3,600,000.
do rough work. They might build The tale of Alexander’s loot is
the ooliseum or the pyramids; di- most wonderful of all, and that is
rooted by an army of skilled crafts- historic. If we entertain doubts,
men. But the sculpture of Assyr- it is futile to express them when
fan palaces, the painting of Kgyp “—***----*-------'-----J “
(ton temples and tombs, mu
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MERITS
AYER’S
Cherry Pectoral
would include the cure of
every form of disease
which affects the throat
and lungs. Asthma, Croup.
Bronohitia, Whooping
Cough and other
complaints have (whan
other medicines failed)
yielded to
Ayer’g Cheny Pectoral.
W. E. LOWE
iSss's MHl la t««
l to rtta a vksat
iSw 4m art M
AW |M, llw fart I m l euamal.
Hhm'm Mtf art*.
Hrt anal'* Moats ar* araal iW lr».
Yrt a..| by ma u *hn nalpJH.
AW. though h» r *y** art d.^.1; bias.
No oM-ull for.-.- h*r xtaa.-** bill,
earn not f.»r lb* day. of «>kl.
Kor du. tbr fatDr. -b.roi b-r n*».
Mu> <b* . n>4 work for faiu* or -bA,
Anil yrt tbr * II' »
Ail h'.invx* at h.-r «hrin* I. du*
H.-r <la tin no m- rial itan-a to amra.
Ml. from lb" inflniti- tak*. b«-r rtt*.
Mb ■ ll. »h .a earth'* |>rilu*V*l lii'.rB.
**ln- fa*V* life with uMufn.
1'or. n-,«r to |»mvr my at.t. iu. nl. tru*.
It a ai.ri-e <4ii. ni<«,n iltm- ah* «u I- rn
Ybtt a.-.-, *b. a new!
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ERATH COUNTY]
Land and Abstract!
Xante
A YOUTHFUL EXEGETE.
Xots
Bought,gold or
Exchanged,Xu
or Rendered for
v
must have
effected by artists, probably
', or, if slaves, trained at great
the statements are so clear and the
fci..
means of disproving them absent, his own hands. This is not so
In the Ursian tamp then, and at grossly improbable as it seems.
.... , - i "toxander secured some- His predecessor had sucked all the
expense. W hen we read that the thing like £70,000,010; at Perse- universe worth sucking And
city of Dur-Hargunu was crested polls £180,0(10,000; st Pasargurd;. curious evidence might be given «»r
on •« ompty plain, by order of the a trifle of £fl,OCX),<*)»>; at Ecbatana **
ki«g, in eight years, standing on a £270,(100,00U; say £550,000,000.
mound of brick 700 acres in area. And Darios carried off £0,000,000,
Ito walls aixty feet high, broad which his murderers seized.
enough for seven chariots to run We come to the prosaic facts t 1 *""rr’u
ifrr»/pd fr* f,h *»■ *» Bkich liave been collcvtrd by .... “‘iV,
lb# evidence la needed to make us eral patient inquirers from a note l»rg*iy (rim ..n r., .«■«.,.Lilr
credit tbsi story; but the marvel or a hint here and there. OfKgypt, work big havoc m i»u> ncclu»rd» at tli-
the excessive rarity of gold
Greece.—Scientific American.
booomes far greater when we ob-
Mrvo the miles of sculptured stone
tbat decorated Hargon's palace with
colossal bulls on each side of every
doorway. No unpra^ticed hand
carved those reliefs. They are the
indeed, nothing profitable caii be fall «»( tin- year Tln-y are not
said until the age of the Ptolemies.' —w*tu<r partridge .-gg». and mi tin* a-
and little even then. The I’ha- °°aat are nm la loviW by tb*i aportanuia
raohs certainly drew a considerable *h, T >'
tokew wanted, but to order, each cious metsl from kthiopis and little climber* are fond of uplifting tu-
slab telling its fragment ol the Hyria in the days of their supreni- Piu® emu a ami eating tlm k**i* then.if
royal annals. Were all the sculp- acy. Before and afterward the *ln* *b°ve all flung* «r|uim-U ur-
tors of tbs empirs summoned to people were great manufacturers "f fu,,KU" Th«-y wilt not lutu
tkto task, to be finished in eight and traders. Ptolemy Philadel- the eommou or gar
- pri»«. piiu, nit tto.aoo.oeo « i.mi i„ £2ZZiZ7S!2Z£Z
years? Bat tbs tombs of pH
individuals in Egypt mast 1
keen painted at the cost of
patotad « lb.’ coel .Mb” £ £SSW
family by masters of the craft, under Darius Hystaspes, and the tb*«y know well that funizi will u.,t
Animals and birds show a skill not moderation of the sum is assurance keep They devour them gr-ulily a*
to beaerpassad. We may ba quite tbat ha obtained bia tigures from a lh**r «mM> to light ami re\i»u tho
•ure tbat work like this waa highly competent authority_it was about M •ou" “ ,n‘,h »l»wu maew* tin* fun
paid—by comparison, tbat IS, with £3.250.000: but thia waa —I. Tb,,n, a,v toiwever. many kinds
slave laboi
Uu liurpnlallaa of lb* brrlplam Waa
N«t Ortbvdat.
Sfrangti are the workings of the in-
fant mind. The Utile aou of a well
known naval ofHrer stutiouisl hen- has
adv.ut<-<sl a new version of an oil text.
Tb« wife's mother, who makes her
borne with her daughter, is of the old
aeliool. a dear creature, with |mtls and
laps, who reads her Bible from prefer-
eneu. It la a custom for her to teach her
little grand son every day a verve from
the Bible, and mi .Saturday of lav* wi-ck
t h*» verve selected was:
"Kemetuber the Shbbatli day to keep
it holy."
The child had unusual di (Realty in
committing tho verve, but, oure tna»-
tered, it must have settled dei<p into
the very largest brain cell possuMed bv
the litth* fellow
ijutiday luonung th«- youngster came,
fresh, white and starched, from Ids
nurse’s bands and was dt‘|saiitcd mi the
fnitit porch until the family assembl'd
for church. Kui.-tging at th- last mo-
ment, the mother wav holTltl'd ut the
vight of h<-r viuall "(Ts|iriiig seated upon
the terrace, digging with all his might
into the moist ground.
"Baby, baby, come here this minute.
Itou’t you kiiow it is naughty to pluv
on Sunday and get yourself all dirt *’’
cri'.l the mother.
The little ft Ib.ixr I'-.k'd uj> with a
puzzbsl air >md made answer, "Why,
muvver, d« ar. 1 is digging boles for
Sunday. "
"Digging hob-s f-r Sunday? What
nonseiim ! You bad. Uid little son. " re
tuned the mother, none t«»» g-ntlv,
trying to rescue the in-e immaculate
vutt.
"Now, muvver. dear. I did learn ve
vers** from grandma, and it was ‘K^1-
lie mis r ve ,>ubl'ath day to , keep it
holy,' and I I' "tily digging Vo holes for
Humlay to make it holy, and 1 isu’t a
had '111le mui at all ”
There Was u suspicious trend,hug
about the mouth, hut it is needkaa to
relate that the little phihuwtpher was
caught in his mother's arms and kissed
before the cry developed and that he
was given two plaU-s of deaart for hts
Sunday dime r, all lss-uuse «>f his orig-
inal tbeorv. — Washington Star.
I fiothe question recurs, bow much
gold sad silver did tbese ancients
possess? In tbs Roman time men
•ppoer to have boon struck witb
■Iwlfows of vest wealth die-
CI.-iaO.MO; bql ibi. »m cub „ ...............
•Ion., Solomon ■ revenue i, e"i, .....
to have been far greater—over touch -Detroit Kosj i*rvss
. many____
of toadst.sds tliat M|ntrrels know to Isi
will uot
played by their predecessors, such
M the Ca rers could not equal,
they sscapjdthsdifliculty
(ttk ease, bj
thoy escaped the diffionlty
i, by grantiog thorn riches
beyond tho dreams of
Dr. Arbntknot, for ex*
bee patiently reckoned up
of treasure heaped up-
ftte of Bardanapains by
a, and he finds' that
to £16.953,190,000 at tbs
If e computation which
wolf suggests bo ed-
(total would be about
After thia, the
wrote, and that
the taxes in kind and the tribute . T1*0 Lanadian department of agrfcul
iv vialdad far more than tb . tnrw estimates the |*<pulatiou of the 1>»-
“°.r* .the /eturns to U- 5. IUM a ..... of
__ ___ ^ w w
£7,000,000 in gold, and as much in
silver; bat it has been mentioned
that Hebrew talents can not be
computed with certainty. Tbat
with such an income the Persian
monarch* could contrive to hoard j
IsItrMlIai lafortMvin.fi.
"Tho riuM>u they mako so much fus*
over my birthday. " explained Kitty to
the young man in the parlor who was
waiting for mum-body else, "is that I’ve
the amazing treasures cautured bv °“,jr h,wl 3i- mu,i
Alexander h»> nflmn i ^ don't evea mcotiou
hM 'IUM- >m How m«.y birthday, have you
tlOOed; bat we may suppose that had, Mr upoouamorc?"—Chicago Trib-
the revenue had increased vastly one.
since Herodotus
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cumulation of ages. But it is a re- , m*#u_’
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Pliny remarks tbat the tressary
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more than once. This to a resaon-
nbl# figure. Wheh Augustus had
organised the public service, and
aecertained prectoely what the re*
celpte and expeneea of Ike empire
might be, he foond that the annual
income was about £40,000,000, and
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Daley, James S. The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 1897, newspaper, November 19, 1897; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth530468/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.