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he deprived matthias of the high priesthood as in part an occasion of this action and made joazar who was matthias's wife's brother high priest in his stead |
and because he could not officiate himself on that account joseph the son of ellemus his kinsman assisted him in that sacred office but herod deprived this matthias of the high priesthood and burnt the other matthias who had raised the sedition with his companions alive and that very night |
and this by god's judgment upon him for his sins for a fire glowed in him slowly which did not so much appear to the touch outwardly as it augmented his pains inwardly |
his entrails were also ex ulcerated |
an aqueous and transparent liquor also had settled itself about his feet and a like matter afflicted him at the bottom of his belly nay further |
his privy member was putrefied and produced worms and when he sat upright he had a difficulty of breathing which was very loathsome on account of the stench of his breath and the quickness of its returns |
he had also convulsions in all parts of his body which increased his strength to an insufferable degree it was said by those who pretended to divine and who were endued with wisdom to foretell such things |
were also fit to drink which water runs into the lake called asphaltiris and when the physicians once thought fit to have him bathed in a vessel full of oil it was supposed that he was just dying |
but upon the lamentable cries of his domestics he revived and having no longer the least hopes of recovering |
and he also gave a great deal to their commanders and to his friends and came again to jericho where he grew so choleric that it brought him to do all things like a madman and though he were near his death he contrived the following wicked designs |
he commanded that all the principal men of the entire jewish nation wheresoever they lived should be called to him accordingly they were a great number that came because the whole nation was called and all men heard of this call and death |
was the penalty of such as should despise the epistles that were sent to call them and now the king was in a wild rage against them all the innocent as well as those that had afforded ground for accusations |
i shall die in a little time so great are my pains which death ought to be cheerfully borne and to be welcomed by all men but what principally troubles me is this that i shall die without being lamented |
and without such mourning as men usually expect at a king's death |
but by those commands of his which savored of no humanity since he took care when he was departing out of this life that the whole nation should be put into mourning and indeed made desolate of their dearest kindred |
when he gave order that one out of every family should be slain although they had done nothing that was unjust or that was against him nor were they accused of any other crimes while it is usual for those who have any regard to virtue to lay aside their hatred at such a time |
which when they were read their purport was this that acme was slain by caesar out of his indignation at what hand she had in antipater's wicked practices |
and that as to antipater himself caesar left it to herod to act as became a father and a king and either to banish him or to take away his life which he pleased when herod heard this he was some what better out of the pleasure he had from the contents of the letters |
and was elevated at the death of acme and at the power that was given him over his son but as his pains were become very great he was now ready to faint for want of somewhat to eat |
so he called for an apple and a knife for it was his custom formerly to pare the apple himself and soon afterwards to cut it and eat it when he had got the knife he looked about and had a mind to stab himself with it |
whereupon a woeful lamentation echoed through the palace and a great tumult was made as if the king were dead upon which antipater who verily believed his father was deceased |
grew bold in his discourse as hoping to be immediately and entirely released from his bonds and to take the kingdom into his hands without any more ado so he discoursed with the jailer about letting him go and in that case promised him great things both now and hereafter |
as if that were the only thing now in question |
and raised himself upon his elbow and sent for some of his guards and commanded them to kill antipater without tiny further delay and to do it presently and to bury him in an ignoble manner at hyrcania chapter eight |
and to certain others five millions when he had done these things he died the fifth day after he had caused antipater to be slain having reigned since he had procured antigonus to be slain thirty four years |
but above the consideration of what was right yet was he favored by fortune as much as any man ever was for from a private man he became a king and though he were encompassed with ten thousand dangers |
he got clear of them all and continued his life till a very old age but then as to the affairs of his family and children in which indeed according to his own opinion he was also very fortunate because he was able to conquer his enemies |
dismissed those that were shut up in the hippodrome and told them that the king ordered them to go away to their own lands and take care of their own affairs which was esteemed by the nation a great benefit and now the king's death was made public |
and the first thing they did was they read herod's letter written to the soldiery thanking them for their fidelity and good will to him and exhorting them to afford his son archelaus whom he had appointed for their king like fidelity and good will |
after which ptolemy who had the king's seal intrusted to him read the king's testament which was to be of force no otherwise than as it should stand when caesar had inspected it |
so there was presently an acclamation made to archelaus as king and the soldiers came by bands and their commanders with them and promised the same good will to him and readiness to serve him which they had exhibited to herod |
he had a diadem upon his head and above it a crown of gold he also had a scepter in his right hand about the bier were his sons and his numerous relations next to these was the soldiery distinguished according to their several countries and denominations |
and they were put into the following order first of all went his guards then the band of thracians and after them the germans and next the band of galatians every one in their habiliments of war |
and behind these marched the whole army in the same manner as they used to go out to war and as they used to be put in array by their muster masters and centurions these were followed by five hundred of his domestics carrying spices |
for there by his own command he was to be buried |
for so many days are appointed for it by the law of our fathers and when he had given a treat to the multitude and left off his motoring he went up into the temple he had also acclamations and praises given him |
and returned them thanks that they did not remember the injuries his father had done them to his disadvantage |
but that he should abstain at present from the name of king and that he should have the honor of that dignity if caesar should confirm and settle that testament which his father had made and that it was on this account that when the army would have put the diadem on him at jericho |
he would not accept of that honor which is usually so much desired |
although by his acceptance of the government he should not want the ability of rewarding their kindness to him and that it should be his endeavor as to all things wherein they were concerned to prove in every respect better than his father |
by so much did they more highly commend him and made application to him for the grant of what they desired some made a clamor that he would ease them of some of their annual payments |
but others desired him to release those that were put into prison by herod who were many and had been put there at several times others of them required that he would take away those taxes which had been severely laid upon what was publicly sold and bought |
chapter six ships the cargo slave and the ocean greyhound are already differentiated by marked characteristics and in the twentieth century the divergence between the two types of vessels will become much accentuated |
the object aimed at by the owners of cargo boats will be to secure the greatest possible economy of working combined with a moderately good rate of speed such as may ensure shippers against having to stand out of their capital locked up in the cargo for too long a period |
and the possible applications of natural sources of energy will be keenly scrutinised with a view to turning any feasible plan to advantage the sailing ship and the economic and constructive lines upon which it is built and worked |
will be carefully overhauled with a view to finding how its deficiencies may be supplemented and its good points turned to account one result of this renewed attention will be to confirm |
even on the sailer if it is to hold its own against steam for mails and passengers on the other hand steam must more and more decidedly assert its supremacy |
yet the mail packet of the twentieth century will be very different from packets which have made the running towards the close of the nineteenth she will carry little or no cargo excepting specie and goods of exceptionally high value in proportion to their weight and bulk |
nearly all her below deck capacity indeed will be filled with machinery and fuel she will be in other respects more like a floating hotel than the old ideal of a ship her cellars so to speak being crammed with coal |
and her upper stories fitted luxuriously for sitting and bed rooms and brilliant with the electric light but in size she will not necessarily be any larger than the nineteenth century type of mail steamer indeed the probability is that |
on the average the twentieth century mail packets will be smaller being built for speed rather than for magnificence or carrying capacity the turbine engine will be the main factor in working the approaching revolution in mail steamer construction |
the special reason for this will consist in the fact that only by its adoption can the conditions mentioned above be fulfilled with the ordinary reciprocating type of marine steam machinery it would be impossible to place in a steamer of moderate tonnage |
engines of a size suitable to enable it to attain a very high rate of speed because the strain and vibration of the gigantic steel arms pulling and pushing the huge cranks to turn the shafting would knock the hull to pieces in a very short time |
for this very reason in fact the marine architect and engineer have hitherto urged with considerable force of argument that high speed and large tonnage must go concomitantly |
practically only a big steamer with the old type of marine engine could be a very fast one and for ocean traffic at any rate a smaller vessel must be regarded as out of the running |
very large tonnage being thus made a prime necessity it followed that the space provided must be utilised and this need has tended to perpetuate the combination of mail and passenger traffic with cargo carrying |
the first step towards the revolution was taken many years ago when the screw propeller was substituted for the paddle wheel the latter means of propulsion caused shock and vibration not only owing to the thrusts of the piston rod from the steam engine itself |
a propeller which was entirely sunk in the water and therefore exercised its force not in shocks but in gentle constant pressure upon the fluid around it such as the windmill is for wind and the turbine water wheel for water was the screw propeller |
although adapted not as a generator but as an application of power having made the work and stress continuous the next thing to be accomplished was to effect a similar reform in the engines supplying the power |
this is accomplished in the turbine steam engine by causing the steam to play in strong jets continuously and steadily upon vanes which form virtually a number of small windmills |
thus while the screw outside of the hull is applying the force continuously the steam in the inside is driving the shafting with equal evenness and regularity the steam turbine does not appear to have by any means reached finality in its form |
such questions as the angle of impact which the jet should make with the surface of the vane and the size of the orifice through which the steam should be ejected being still debatable points but on one matter there is hardly any room for doubt |
and that is that the best way to secure the benefit of the expansive power of steam is to permit it to escape from a pipe having a long series of orifices and to impinge upon a correspondingly numerous series of vanes or perhaps |
upon a number of vanes arranged so that each one is long enough to receive the impact of many jets hitherto the steam supply pipe emitting the jet has been placed outside of the circle of the wheel |
but the future form seems likely to be one in which the axis of the wheel is itself the pipe which contains the steam but which permits it to escape outwards to the circumference of the wheel the latter is in this form of turbine |
made in the shape of a paddle wheel of very small circumference but considerable length the paddles being set at such an inclination as to obtain the greatest possible rotative impulse from the outward rushing steam |
the pipe must be turned true at intervals to enable it to carry a number of diminutive wheels upon which these long vanes are mounted and a very strong connection must be made between these wheels and the shaft of the screw |
but to the extraordinary rapidity with which the shaft rotates the twin screw with which the best and safest of modern steam ships are all fitted will soon develop into what may be called the twin stern |
each screw requires a separate set of engines and the main object of the duplication is to lessen the risk of the vessel being left helpless in case of accident to one or other the advisability of placing each engine and shafting in a separate water tight compartment |
it will be found best to build out a steel framework from each side of the stern for holding the bearings of each screw in connection with the twin water tight compartments holding the shafting and thus will be evolved what will practically represent a twin or double stern |
in the case of the turbine steamer several of the forms of screw which were first proposed when that type of propeller was invented will again come up for examination notably the archimedean screw wound round a fairly long piece of shafting |
the larger the circular area of this screw is the less will be the risk of smashing the water or of losing hold of it entirely in rough weather |
with twin screws of the large archimedean type the propelling apparatus of a turbine steamer will if the screws are left open |
in this way there is evolved a kind of compromise between the two principles of marine propulsion by a screw and by a jet of water thrown to sternward the water jet is already very successfully employed for the propulsion of steam lifeboats in which |
owing to the danger of fouling the life saving and other tackle an open screw is objectionable the final extermination of the sailing ship is popularly expected as one of the first developments of the twentieth century in maritime traffic |
steam which for oversea trade made its entrance cautiously in the shape of a mere auxiliary to sail power had taken up a much more self assertive position long before the close of the nineteenth century |
and has driven its former ally almost out of the field in large departments of the shipping industry yet a curious and interesting counter movement is now taking place on the pacific coast of america |
as well as among the south sea islands and in several other places where coal is exceptionally dear trading schooners and barques used in these localities are often fitted with petroleum oil engines which enable them to continue their voyages during calm |
had the effect of enabling shippers to realise upon the goods carried more speedily than would have been possible under the old system of sail power alone it is already found that in the matter of economy of working including interest on cost of vessel and cargo |
but the rate of speed which the best types of marine engines impart to this kind of vessel is strictly limited owing to considerations of the enormous increase of fuel consumption after passing the twelve or fourteen mile grade |
for ocean greyhounds carrying mails and passengers the prime necessity of high speed has to a large extent obliterated any such separating line between waste and economy it is however a mistake to imagine that the cargo steamer of the future |
will be in any sense a replica of the mail boat of to day the opposition presented by the water to the passage of a vessel increases by leaps and bounds as soon as the rate now adopted by the cargo steamer is passed |
and shortly before noon she heard their voices in the hall mister francis who was presently introduced to her seemed a harmless kind of man she thought not interesting though he seemed in earnest about this bill |
it was not until breakfast was nearly over that she understood who he was don't go mabel said her husband as she made a movement to rise you will like to hear about this i expect my wife knows all that i know he added |
said oliver again why certainly then she heard that he had been a catholic priest a few months before and that mister snowford was in consultation with him as to the ceremonies in the abbey |
she was conscious of a sudden interest as she heard this oh do talk she said i want to hear everything it seemed that mister francis had seen the new minister of public worship that morning |
and had received a definite commission from him to take charge of the ceremonies on the first of october two dozen of his colleagues too were to be enrolled among the ceremoniarii at least temporarily |
and after the event they were to be sent on a lecturing tour to organise the national worship throughout the country of course things would be somewhat sloppy at first said mister francis but by the new year it was hoped that all would be in order |
at least in the cathedrals and principal towns it is important he said that this should be done as soon as possible it is very necessary to make a good impression there are thousands who have the instinct of worship |
without knowing how to satisfy it that is perfectly true said oliver i have felt that for a long time i suppose it is the deepest instinct in man |
as to the ceremonies went on the other with a slightly important air his eyes roved round a moment then he dived into his breast pocket and drew out a thin red covered book |
here is the order of worship for the feast of paternity he said i have had it interleaved and have made a few notes he began to turn the pages and mabel with considerable excitement |
drew her chair a little closer to listen that is right sir said the other now give us a little lecture mister francis closed the book on his finger pushed his plate aside and began to discourse |
first he said we must remember that this ritual is based almost entirely upon that of the masons three quarters at least of the entire function will be occupied by that with that |
beyond seeing that the insignia are ready in the vestries and properly put on the proper officials will conduct the rest i need not speak of that then the difficulties begin with the last quarter |
he paused and with a glance of apology began arranging forks and glasses before him on the cloth now here he said we have the old sanctuary of the abbey |
in the place of the reredos and communion table there will be erected the large altar of which the ritual speaks with the steps leading up to it from the floor behind the altar extending almost to the old shrine of the confessor |
will stand the pedestal with the emblematic figure upon it and so far as i understand from the absence of directions each such figure will remain in place until the eve of the next quarterly feast what kind of figure |
put in the girl francis glanced at her husband i understand that mister markenheim has been consulted he said he will design and execute them each is to represent its own feast |
this for paternity he paused again yes mister francis this one i understand is to be the naked figure of a man |
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