The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 05, 1905, Image 7

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?. - ,. . ' e> I i - -x ' ' [ A SERMON FOR SUNDAY r ' " - x i y A i ^ * ^ an eloguent discourse entitled. The tragedy of a queen." f? Th? J% T. F. F. Shannon Draws a Timely Lesson From the Story of YwhtiTher? Are Few Finer Exhibitions of v * Sacrifice in tb? History of Womanhood Brooklyn, X. Y.?For his Sunday ^ rooming sermon, in Craee M. E. Church, F tie pastor, the Rev. Frederick F. ShanI nan, had for his theme "The Tragedy of a <^ueen.'J The text was from Esther i: 11-12: a "Bring Yashti the queen before the king ^ with the crown royal, to show the people nn/t Kpp 1 it?aiitv! for she was fair to look on. But the Queen Yashti jrefused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains." Mr. Shannon 6aid: i The Abasuerus of the hook of Esther is tfcfe Xerxes of profane history. By common consent of historians he was one of the most powerful monarch* that ever lived. The pages of Herodotus are tilled * with his exploits, and (irote and Rollin, also, dwell upon his power and achievements in an interesting manner. But his tawdry greatness is worth while only as it * serves to set forth the heroism of Yashti. Already the centuries have tarnished the brilliance of his court, but not the beauty of his queen. Shushan. the palace, exists only in name. The hundred and four score days during which he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his. excellent majesty are less % than a shadow on the dial. The white, green and blue hangings, tied with cord9 of purple and tine linen to silver rings in t pillars of marble perished long ago. The )- gold and silver beds, which sat upon a .pavement of red and blue and white and p^ack marble, have had no occupants for more than 2400 years. The golden vessels, from which princes quaffed tne royal wine, are all one with the golden sand grains of th? desert. Time is no respecter of persons. If it buries-the common things in Oblivion, that shadow of darkness/' it does not forget "to pluck the spangles from ' the robes of kings, tossing them* into the night also. But time cannot dull the beauty of a great soul. Time cannot quench the flame of a white life. Time cannot attain the snow of a pure heart. And that *m why Queen Yashti and the tragedy of her life forever hold our admiration and ourtears. Perhaps we shall be more caoable of measuring the unfortunate queen by glancing the monarch she ODDosed. Ahasue rus possessed the almost unlimited power of an Oriental despot. His will was supreme in everything. We find him here gating a feast to his lords and princes. Bating conceived the idea of making war ?n Greece, this feast to his subjects is a step looking to that end. Whatever he V undertook usually came to pass. He could dig a canal through the Isthmus of Mount I - Atb os. He could build a bridge of ships across the Hellespont. He could scourge the sea for its tempestuousness. He could bedeck the branches of a tree with jewelry as a reward for its fruitfulness. He coula raise an army of more than 2,250,000 men. He could even shed tears when he re.. fleeted that in less than a century not one i of these men would survive. But we have in our test one thing this monarch could not do. He could not coupe] a helpless woman to permit him and his drunken -V -courtiers to make a toy of her beauty. He } could not drag a high-souled queen down from the pedestal of her stainless puritv! "Consider, in the first place, that the lifestory of Yashti recalls the fact that palaces have furnished the actoip in some of the darkest, deepest tragedies in history. JWben Shakspeare wanted material from . which to create his immortal dramas, with unerring vision the i_ighty master began to probe the btfe history of kings and queens. - From their laughter and tears, from their splendor and shame, from their \; .rise and fall, he wove a literary tapestry which is the growing wonder of men. Indeed. as we watch Shakspeare move his royal players over his mental chess-board, <w&fcave to'-ex claim, with Aeschylus," What a Shadow of a shade is human royalty!" Hieing in brilliance, these royal stars set * in darkness t and, usually, their darkness "i,.* made more terrible by the ominous flashings of red lightnings of remorse. After a palace and its occupants have 7 passed unddf' Shakspe&re's pen, this is the conclusion of the whole matter: Thrones are painted bubbles, and kings and queens are bubble chasers! This is ?* + Kot-o arp no ffood 'tines and c JW/V OUJUlg VMTWAV ??? -- - s /queens, because there are. It is, rather, emphasizing the fact that the happiest : people are those who .ore, fortunate enough set to have been born under, the star of : royalty. We all know how the historian loves to > dwell upon the character of Cleopatra. Be{ { yon a question, she was one of the most captivating women of paganism, descended from a long line 01 kings, royal blood flowed in her veins, beauty adorned her person and brilliance sparkled in her wain. When Nature called for an Egyptian oueen, this fascinating Greek princess was tJie answer. At fourteen, she was an accomplished linguist, a student of history ? and a skilled musician. At nineteen she conquered that Caesar who had conquered the world. Forty-six years before the Christian era she accompanied him to Rome, where she lived in pomp and luxfpry "until Caesar's assassination, r.-lien she returned to Egypt. She met Mark Antony -at twenty-eight?'a i>eriod of life." according to Plutarch, ''when woman's beauty is most splendid and her intellect is in full , ' maturity.'' Antony summoned her to ap.' pear before him in Cilicia. charged with naving assisted Cassins before the battle of Pbilippi. Upon this imperious summons hung the destiny of that gifted Roman; and he knew it not. You know how she answered the summons?not as a craven culprit, but as the peerless queen : of the south. As she went up the Cydnus In her royal barge, the like of which was never beheld before or since, the scene enthralled the fancy of both Plutarch and Shakspeaie. He who could make words e*y what no other man could, had to oon" Ids?, "For her own person, it beggared all description." L'ke a burnished throne, her barge'bunted on the water: the poop was beaten gold; the purple sails were so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them; the silver oars kept stroke to the tune of flutes; she was couched in a gold pavilion like Venus, "where we see the fancv outwork nature;" dimpled boys, : J- -j.?J:? J1K6 smiling V/UpiUS. WClf MdUUlUg uu each side fanning her; gentlewomen, like Nereides, tended her. When she arrived ~ at the city the people rushed cut to see her, leaving Antony alone in the marketplace. Like the incomparable Julius, she came, 'she saw, she conquered! Antony was dazzled, bewitched, enslaved by this siren queen. Ever afterward, with the possible exception., of three years, lie was her slave. Not satisfied y^ith lavishing silver and gold; and precious stones and silks and works" of art upon her, he threw whole kingdoms at her teet. as if they were so * manv Koman forget-me-nots. He was as helpless in her power as a bird under the hypnotic spell of a snake. All the world kjiowo how, at a critical moment in the battle of Aciium, Cleopatra, for some unknown reason, was seen leaving with her vessels for lvrypt. This was a signal /for Antony to abandon the battle and follow his so-ctress. For strength, she gave him weakness. For infatuation, she gave him deceit. For the sweets of love, she gave him the cges of sCo^pions. For idol* atry. she gave him death. The Egyptian Delilah had clipped t-re locks of this Jtoman Samson and he wist not that bis ' * strength was departed from him. So far this bewildering woman has only 4 ioyed with strong men. This chiM of the . palace has held the golden bit of destiny tP" . * ? between her teeth of pearl and her pods have not reined her in. JJut her end is coming. After betraying Antony, she retired within a castle, which had been built for just such an emergency. She then sent her paramour word that she had killed herself and his grief was such that he fell upon his own sword. But he lived long enough to discover that she had deceived hint again. Dying and soaked in his own nf/'loroil liio cfM'Vfmfcs tf> MITP U*WU % tiv V1U* 1V\? .u..vw .w ? him to her mausoleum. As the only en- : trance to her retreat left unbarred was a window, he was drawn up by ropes into ! her presence and died. And what became of her?this actor from the palace? You know the story. How she tried her charms upon Octavius Caesar and failed. How the prospect of being carried a prisoner to Rome stared her in the face and how, rather than be "led a captive princess up the Caoitoline Hill."' ?die died by her own hand. Lacking mora! sense, she wore aface of brass to the end of the tragedy. Unlike the sweet-souled Yashti, Cleopatra had no veil of modesty for her face., and she asked none for her soul. Darker than Egyptian night, she has left, a dark stain uix>n the brow of universal womanhood! Whiter than the whiteness of the dawn. Yashti. like Shelley's heroine, "clothed in virtue's adamantine eloquence, paves her path with human hearts!*' Consider, also, that in studying the tragedy of Yashti. we have to reckon with her beauty, ''for she was fair to look on." When some genius equal to the task of writing a history of beauty appears, men and women will find a perpetual charm in its glowing pages. It will contain a page of joy, a page 01 sorrow, a page vi peuv.-r. a page of war. a page of love, a page of hate, a page of poetry and a page of art. But it will contain many pages developing this thought?the tragedy of beauty. i But along with her beauty, Vashti pes- j sessed that other quality which lends beauty an enduring freshness and charm? modesty. Vashti owes her place in history not so much to her beauty as to her mod' esty. If beauty made her a queen, modesty made her a woman, which is far better. As queen. Xerxes could banish her: as { woman, he was defied by her. As queen, i be could and did dethrone: as woman, she sits upon a throne that has hearts for its cushions ,and centuries for its pillars. The Dubarrys, the Pompadours, the Mon- : tespans have their day and cease to he: but the Yasbtis go on forever. The Civ- ; temnestres. t^e Aspasias. the Cleopatras are meteors flashing through the darkness ; of eternal night; the Vashtis are golden suns burning through womanhood's end less day!Indeed, modesty is so inherent an element. in the great essentials making genu- 1 inc beauty that without modesty beauty : is impossible. We are indebted to no hu- j man law for this truth?God has woven j it into the fabric of our natures. Art 1 critics tell us that the eighteenth century : was pre-eminently the century of women. Then, we are told: "Her grace possessed the most prestige, her coouetrv the most j disquieting elegance and her beauty the most triumphant authority." It was the " , age in which Mme. de Pompodour reigned in the court of Louis XV.. The brushes of Latour and Boucher have pleaded with all : the eloquence of their genins and art to i deify this daring woman. She appointed ministers, she exiled those who incurred ; her ill will, she sentenced to the Bastile ; those who ran counter to her imperious : wish. She was the patroness of philoso- ! phy, art and song. Through her magic , wand Versailles was touched into a dream j of splendor, which has not yet vanished."'! Her collection of pictures, crystals, cam- ! eos, antioues and gems was unparalleled in j the kingdom. She squandered fortunes on ' her palaces, fetea and. ball; and then other fortunes on her tcilet. For twenty years this butcher's daughter held her tm- ; perial sway, which was broken only by death. But when the historian tells us : that it was the dream of her girlhood to j seduce the king: that her shameless nrodi- j gality makes the cheek of decency burn; j that modesty found no hospitality among : her sensual charms, we may well repeat the question of another, ."Was La Pom- i pa dour beautiful, or merely pretty?" Instinctively drawing back as we would in ; the jwescnce jot a snake, we answer, "She was neither. She was a royal harlot, paraded in gilded shame, lacking most of all ; that jewel of modesty which sparkles in j the cfown of true beauty." Alas for that land whose women forsake their veils of i modesty to show the people and princes j their beauty! ^Consider, finally, the price Vashti paid ! (or her modesty. For her refusal to come < at the king's command was the immediate ' cause of her dethronement. Surely there are few finer exhibitions of sacrifice in the history* of "worn eh hood. We love to read of Telesilla, who united courage with the | gift of song, and saved Argos; of Octavia, , shielding tne children of Cleopatra, her shameless rival; of Sulpicia, renouncing the pleasures of Rome to go into*exile ' with her husband; of Lncretia. who killed 1 herself rather than live in dishonor; of ' Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, urg- ; ing them to deeds of patriotism; of Paula, , leaving her palace on Mount Aventine, to ; walk as an angel of charity through the slums of Rome, but not one of them out- ; shines Vashti. Nor has history given this lovely queen i her dues. We read much of Lais, who ; lived in the same century as Vashti, and i who was a notorious courtesan; of the j immoral Aspasia, who counted Socrates and Pericles among her -org list of ad mirers; of the treacherous Lucilla, who ! ruled the court of Marcus Aurelius; of ! Agrippina, the infamous mother of still : more infamous son?Nero. All of these names have been emblazoned high up in : the hall of fame. Rut. sadly enough, the I events of Vashti's life, like Sappho's songs, ; have been lost. Ami yet these few j glimpses we have of her in the first and 1 second chapters of the Rook of Esther will cause people to look at her forever. . She was beautiful in Shushan the palace, aud she will be beautiful for all time. ! She was fair to look on five centuries be- ; fore Christ, and she will be fair to look j on to the last day of the world. It was ' Vashti's beauty of soi\! that proclaimed ' /\( that- rortOIKfcance for 1 LXCX tUC iUICi UUUV.A vi j which the world is suffering to-dav, viz.: ; A genuine revival of the old-fashioned, ! homespun, immortal virtue of modesty! ; While the Bible says nothin<- of the sac! rificesbe made, be assured that it was big i with pr.in. Long nights of sorrow shut ; her in. She knew the bitterness of friend- J less days. . Like Dante, she experienced j how hard it was to eat other's bread. But she took uo counsel of her expediency. ! Let the king's anger burn within him. let ! the godless court make her a laughing- : stock, still Vashti never faltered. She ! knew that beyond her Gethsemane, Ascen- ' sion Mount was robed in glory. She 1 knew, with all queenly women of like spir- | it. that gates of pearl would swing back to j let her in. and that she would march to another coronation on high. The Many Mansions. < jOne thing I have desired, that will I seek after; that f, in my stuiiv; X, in my ! shop; I, in my parlor, kitchen or nursery; 1. in my studio; 1. in my lecture ! hall, "may dwell in the- house of the Lord : all the days of my life.'' In oar "Father's I house are many mansions." The room : that we spend most of our lives in, each of us at our tasks or our work tables, may ' be in our Father's licuse. too, and it is only we that can secure that )t snail be.? Alexander Maclaren. Be llunible. j I charge my thoughts be humble still, And nil my conduct lmld: Content, my Father, with Thy will, And quiet as'a child. Unite, my roving thoughts, unite In silence soft and sweet; And thou, my .soul, sit gently down At thy great Sovereign's feet. ?Doddridge, j r * THREE YEARS AFTER. ' Eugene E. Lario, of 751 Twentieth j avenue, ticket seller in the En ion Sla- j tion. Denver. Col.. says?: "You art- at ! liberty 1o repeat what I first stated through our *9^* Denver papers about Doan's Kidney Tills in i the summer of 1835). for ?S|2?jW ! I have had no reason in j the interim 1o change my 1 opinion of the remedy. I BpflEflh was subject to severe atlacks of backache, al- HB25 ways aggravated if I sat fWS long at a desk. Doan's mfi Kidney Tills absolutely stopped uVy backache.' I WW have never had a pain ifS or a twinge since.*' "SB? Foster-Mil bum Co.. Buffalo.' ,V; Y. j For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cen Is per .bo::. ? I FAR-FETCHED REASONING. "Why do you say that Gambley Is ! no good simply because he wears a | suit with large checks?" "Well, do you like the checks?" j "No." "Do you know anybody who does?" | "No." - ' . | "Well, don't you call a man 'no gooff If no one will endorse his checks?" ?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Jealous. , Bookkeeper?The boss came In and caught me taking a kiss from the pretty stenographer. Actually said I was dis- ( honest. Mail Clerk?Iu what way? Bookkeeper-Said I was taking some-; thing that DeJoDged to him. I CUTICURA SOAP. Tho World's G: rateat Skin Poap, tho Ktandanl of Kvarr Notion m th? Earth. Millions of l.be world's best people use Cuticurn Soap, assisted by Cuticura Oint nient, tbc purest and sweetest of emoiJient skin, cures, for preserving, purifying j and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the j scalp of crusts, scales and dandruff, and j the stopping of failing hair, for softening. | whitening and soothing red, rough and j sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings and chafing*, and manv sanative, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, especially mothers, us well as for all the purpose* of the toilet, bath and nutaery. ?? Sleep Producers. Mrs. Stubb-John, here is an article i stating that runday papers keep people | from church. Do you believo i ? Mr. Stubb?Why, yes, Maria, you can j go to sleep over a Sunday paper ju9t as i quickly as anything else. FLOWERS COLORED TO ORDER. By a Very Simple Method Most. Beautiful Effects Have Been Obtained. : * v >. ' ' .c \ We know that horticulturists create almost at will wild flowers of varied colors by practicing forced culture, artificial selection and hybridization, in this way obtaining a very extended scale of colors. Still, in any case, the color of the flower, although it is possible to give birtb to millions of j varieties, can only be modified within - ^a_ t 1 certain limits. With reiereace to iuu> ^ fact the colors of .flowers have been I divided into two great categories, the I xanthic series?yellow, yellowish | greep,1 orange, red?and. the cyanic j series?blue, indigo, violet Never has a flower of the first series passed into the second, nor nas the reverse taken place; never has a gardener, no matter how clever he may be, been able to obtain blue roses. The florists, however, obtain this j color. The method of the florists is j that classic one which has been long i employed on the case of violets, for example, making them green with ammonia, white with vapors of sulphuric acid, etc. Id this case, however, it is the coloring matter of the flower itself which is modified, although in the production of green carnations the | method adopted is that of artificially j introducing coloring matter into the ; tissues of the plant, the coloring mat- j ter than being incorporated irito the , peta's. When the first green carnations ap- ; peared in Paris the city was seized with astonishment, and many persons ' willingly paid as much as 40 cents j apiece for the flowers. The municipal ! authorities instituted an investiga- J tion and soon discovered how the dowers were colored. It appeared that j a young girl accidentally poured into ; the water of a vase eontaing white I carnations coicring matter with which j -v.> t- noin-TiT ? i#?af ereen. ' OilC *> as |>t4/uwj*r) m ?wv _ . What was hor astonisnment to see ! the carnations lose their white color j and assume a beautiful green tint; j from this to the regular manufacture j of r^e flowers was only a step. All plants, however, do not lend tbipselves in an equal manner to these vagaries. The carnation, hyacinth. orange flower, gilir flower, iris, chrysanthemum, and cameiia are the most easily colored, and in this respect it is amusing to experiment with j the many hues that can be obtained, j It is only necessary to prepare a i coloring solution, then cut the stem j cf the flower and place it in the solution. The plant draws up the water, and little by little rhe coloring matter is distributed throughout the plant's tissues. A common gilly flower placed in & solution of light green analine dye is quickly transformed, at the j end cf twenty minutes the white parts j being blue, ten yellows green, and the j t reds violet.?Cosmos. ' j MAKES QUITE A DIFFERENCE, j Crawford?Did the coming 01 mo stork make cinch difference in Lis home life? Crabshaw?Yes. His wife changed her lo*. c fcr him to the baby and he i trans-ferved his to the nurse.?Town j Topics. 4 " V No Lawyers in China. To prove the laws of China in re- i gard to marriage was found by Mrs. Low Sheets attorneys to be a more difficult task than they at first sup,- ; posod, but they finally succeeded yes- i rerday, when they put Chung Pao Shi, i the acting consul-general, on the wit- : ness stand in Judge Coffey's court. J Low Sbee. who resides in China, is ' claiming the estate left by Chew Bing I Quoia, a merchant of Chinatown, and J the opposing claimant is Lum Quoia, i a woman who lived with Chew Bing j Quoia for yearshere. It is alleged that I Low Shee was legally married to Chew j Bing Quoia in ChiDa and that Lum : Quoia for years here. It is alleged that j bine.. Vice-Consul Ouyan King interpreted the Consul's testimony. No i regular Chinese, interpreter in the city spoke the Consul's dialect, it was stated, and so the vice-consul was called. Judge Coffey smiled when informed by the consul that there were no attorneys at law practisng in China, and thit lawyers were not wanted in the courts there, the judges doing all the questioning to ascertain the facts. The consul stated that he was acquainted with the laws of the Chinese empire and had read the Chinese law relative to marriage. He identified Chinese books which were produced in court as copies of the laws of the empire. . He said that an essential feature of every marriage in China was the sending of a card glttng the bride's ancestry for at least three generations.?San Francisco Chronicle.1 SOUNDED THAT WAT. Mrs. Snappy?Was that the piano in your house I heard yesterday? Mrs. Naybor?Yes, my daughter is taking lessons by the quarter now. Mrs. Snappy?Indeed? I thought it was by the pound.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. : ? SUFFICIENT TO HIMSELF. "If I do say ft myaelf," remarked Bragg, "she's craxy for me." "What a work of supererogation!" exclaimed Miss Kostique. "You don't need any assistance in that direction." ?Philadelphia PubHc Ledger. AT LEISURE. Mrs. Farmer?Have you no trade? Tramp?Lady, I have ten?but dere's a strike on in each.?Puck. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great N*rveResiorer,#2trial bottleand treatise free Dr. R. H. Kj.ijcje. Ltd.. 231 Aroh8t.,Pbila., Pa. Excavations in Egypt have revealed a bond dated A. I). 100. A Guaranteed Cure For Pile*.. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pile?. 'Drugfiat* will refund money if Paso Ointment fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. 50c. The English waiter has been virtually bunted from English hotels. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and cold?.?N. W. SaMcei.. Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. The Swiss military zhtilorities are about to adopt khaki uniforms. 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