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“WATCH THE WHITE STAR BUGGY” W HEN nflxt you buy running vehicle nude iri'the Unitad Alter June 111. 1SHS, _ _ WHITE STAR BUGOY. none but th* flneit “ A-GRADE' Whwla.luit Ilka mvmry r\nm nf nur UnaUM Wa will Kuti A>)( rtfl in the WaRe. on exhibition by axery one of our Dcalara. We will p*v f&VOO lu o*ih it •ny WHITE STAR Wheel, having our private mark, Is not Just like the sample shown. LOOK FOR OUR PRIVATE “ A-GRADE ” MARK ATLANTA BUGGY COMPANY, - • Atlanta, Georgia Land of Promise (TO AND FROM) lty Rev. C. O'N. Maktindai.e. ARTICLE LVI. I T A L Y. (3). From Naples, via Capua, to Rome, "The Eternal City." On Wednesday morning, May 4, we take final leave of "the Grosser Kuofuerst," get into carriages at the wharf at 8 a. m. ancj drive to the station in Naples, whence we take first-class cars to Rome. Re fore leaving Naples, it may be said that here, especially in the Great Gallery Umberto I (an immense cruciform arcade), is the best place to buy gloves and corals,and j if one is inclined, also mosaics, I statuary, and splendid pictures of Vesuvius, and other interesting! points in the vicinity. Neither must we forget that, as Dr. Wm. E. Rarton says, "A'ound this Ray cluster more objects ot interest and beauty than can be ! shown by any bay on earth. On these slopes Caesar and Caligula and Nero and Hadrian and Pom- pey had their villas, and drank of the wines of the hillsides, and looked out over this beautiful land and sea. On yonder hill lived Virgil. There he wrote his Aeneid and his Georgies, and there was his tomb; for though he died away from here, the Emperor Augustus, who was with him, respected his dying wish, and brought his body here to be buried at Posilipo,above the bay. On yonder little island of Nisida, Cicero held his last con ference with Rrutus after the mur der of Caesar.” Furthermore, we want to say that it looked as though the ends \ of the earth were gathering at | Naples to emigrate to America, j ship-load after ship-load containing j thousands of emigrants leaving | even while we were here. If we wondered at the number of these people sailing for foreign shores, as we viewed them at the docks, our wonder greatly increased as we passed over the distance of about 162 miles from Naples to Rome; as lovely, wooded, cultivated,and roll ing a country, and with as great fertile plains as we ever saw, a beautiful land, with here and there square towers on the levels and fortresses on the heights, and long lines of the remains of massive Roman aqueducts. Why leave such a delightsome country? As Bro. Studley puts it: "We passed ! through the greenest, sweetest, , neatest orchards, vineyards thatj we have seen on the cruise. Why should the Italians leave such a; land as this, a combination of fairy- j land and Eden, to come to Ameri- j ca, live in twenty-four tenement! rookeries, and shovel out the glacial gravel of New England for new electric lines of travel? There 1 can be but one economic answer: It 1 is taxation. Standing armies and i costly navies and exactiug capital ism are an analysis of the curse that is on the land of Italy. The Campagna, that level district about Rome, once supported an immense population; now it is largely deserted and malarial. The land of the Agro-R.omano section is said to belong one-half to ec clesiastical corporations, one-third to nobility, and barely the remain ing one-sixth to small proprietors. The Italian peasant cannot carry a fort, a warship, and several pal aces on his head, e^en if his feet do stand on land which is or may be as fertile as any on earth.” It is a common tiling to speak disparagingly of the Italians going to America; this a grave mistake. While in Italy we heard several leaders who were thoroughly con versant with affairs throughout the oountry say, many if not most of these people were from among the most substantial in the land, and indeed constituted the very back bone of Italy. It is becoming a problem how to keep the people from leaving their fatherland; and this is all the more aggravated as the outgoing tide increases. We arrived in Rome about 2 p. m., after seeing Maria Capua and Capua and many other places of interest along the way that we cannot pause even to mention. The very efficient and affable manager of our party to and in 1 Rome was Mr. Goldthwaite, one of I the best informed and most agree able men in the service of Mr. Frank Clark. We make this special mention of him, because he I not only deserves it, but is a man much above the average value to 1 he tourist. Under his direction | on arrival at the Rome Station we I took coupes for Rertolini’s Hotel Splendid, where we remain as long las in the city, and are not only hospitably entertained but con veniently located for sight-seeing in every quarter,' The only fault we Americans found was that we could not put in some of the early as well as the late hours of each day to profit in seeing things of note. Rut there are certain hours in which to see Rome, and we saw enough to satisfy the most fastidi ous and careful during our stay. The first afternoon in Rome Mr. J. S. Carroll and the author after a brief rest and refreshment pro ceeded to take a good long stroll, calling at the respective olifices of ' Cook and Son and of Clark’s ; Rankers for possible mail from the home-folks. It was but a short 1 way off to the lovely Fincian Gar dens, on a high eminence, whence one of the finest views of Rome is obtained. Annexed thereto is a i museum open on certain days and hours. Returning we dined at 6:15 p. m., afterwards going out ; and looking at some of trie pretty 1 displays in the store-windows, especially on the street our hotel j fronted upon. Just before start ing out for the evening our man- ager gave us an admirable lecture upon Rome, emphasizing its de velopment as lateral rather than horizontal, denominating it the careful collector and preserver of ancient and modern art, and sig- , nalizing it as the spiritual utilizer ; of the federal or territorial prin-1 ciple (which was notably absent \ from the state until 30 or 40 years before under Victor Emmanuel II,. called "the Father of the State," j for whom the way had been paved j 1 by the noble General Garibaldi;, i He also suggested as interesting ] 1 reading upon "Rom” Lord Ryron, also Chas.Kingsley’s "The Roman and the Teuton,” and “the City State” (published by Macmillan), | among other works, at our leisure, as contributing to a better under- | standing of the city which Virgil ! in his Aeneid (1:279; styles an j “Imperium Sine Fine,” a kingdom | without end. Rome has been styled "the Eternal City,” not so much because of her long continu ance, (other cities out-classing her in respect of age; as from her con stant importance since the begin ning of her history, no matter what the power over her, (wheth er kings or dictators or emperors or popes or as the capital of an United Italy ). The next morning found a friend and myself walking out after a 7 o'clock breakfast to the historic "Yellow Tiber," a well-rock em banked stream of decidedly yellow water in the very heart of Rome, and from thence around the l’al- ace of Justice, then in course of completion. At 9 o'clock our party took carriages and drove through the Piazza del Popolo with its Egyptian Obelisk and twin churches, opposite S. Maria del Popolo on the haunted (?) burial- place of Nero, and ascended to the tavorite Roman park and pronie nade on the Pincian Hill with its statues and busts and trees and fountains, and grand views, seeing the Villa Borghese, and having the 7 hills on which Rome was built pointed out by our conductor in detail. Thence we drove to the Vatican, visiting the Sistine Chapel with Michael Angelo’s great wall-paint ings—“Creation” and "the Last Judgment,” and the rooms and Loges of Raphael, the l’inacote- que, the Museum of Sculpture with its treasures. This took us all the time until mid-day luncheon, wien we returned to the hotel. Here n.ail from home gladdened us all. Among the things of in- terest to the writer came an ap pointment as a Commissioner from the Southern Presbyterian Gen eral Assembly to the Pan-Presby terian Council meeting in Liver pool June 28 to July 6. After lunch we again took car riages with our pleasant guide, Mr. Arthur Castelli, and went through that great church edifice, St. Peter’s, the largest and costliest in the world (St. Paul’s in London being the next in size;, with its fine statuary ami mosaics, and treasury, with notably grand works of Michael Angelo, Bernina and Canova. The size of St, Pet er’s may be guaged from the fact that at least 70,000 people can be in the building comfortably at one time, a veritable city for content. Beneath its lofty dome is the re puted (?) tomb of St Peter, while, in the nave above, beneath a ca nopy is a statue in bronze seated on a throne of white marble said to represent him,and the extended bronze right foot is a favorite kiss- ing-spot for the faithful Roman Catholic, rich and poor alike. The main building of itself cost $5o,- 000,000; the construction of the whole covering more than 176 years; and the annual repairing- out lay being no less than 131,500. “Rut,” as Dr. W. W. Moore notes, “it cost the Romish Church far more than money—it cost her the loss of all the leading nations of the world, which had been under her dominion till that time. For the expense of the vast structure, with its ‘insolent opulence of marbles,’ was so great that Julius II. and Leo X. were obliged to 1 meet the enormous outlay by the : sale of indulgence, and that, as is well known, precipitated the Ref- 1 ! ormation. So that Protestants i may well feel a peculiar interest in J this mighty cathedral.” j Resides containing half of the I bodies of Saints Peter and Paul (the other halt of Peter being in I the Church of St. John Lateran, and that of Paul being in the | splendid Basilica of “St.Paul with out the walls”;, and ancient wood- , en chair encrusted in ivory de clared to be the Cathedra Petri or episcopal throne of Peter and his successors in office, the four huge piers supporting the dome are em ployed as shrines for the church's four great relics (“the lance ot St. Longinus, the soldier who pierced the Saviour's side; a portion ot the true cross; the napkin of St. Veronica, containing the miracul ous impression of our Lord s face; and the head of the apostle An drew”—let him believe who can! We do not.) The next great thing here exhibited, in the Chapel of the Holy Column, is a pillar which they claim was the very one against which the Lord Jesus leaned when praying and teaching in the Temple at Jerusalem—im agine it! Thence we passed to the Roman Forum or rather what remains of it, “where Cataline delivered his famous oration, where Caesar's re mains were carried and Marc An tony pronounced his eulogy upon him, and where Virginia was killed by her father." Here wete seen the ruins of Caesar’s palace, the Via Appia (just uncovered), the Rostrum, Constantine’s Basilica, the houses of the Vestal Virgins, and the great arches of Septimius Severus, Titus, and Constantine. Just here we will pause awhile as we look at the arch ot Titus specialty. Standing to the northwest of the Colosseum, this Triumphal Arch of Titus is at a point where the Sacred Way leads to the Forum, and commemorates the destruction oi Jerusalem by Titus in A. D. 70, and has delineations upon it purporting to be of the spoils from the Temple there, such as “the Golden Candlestick’’ ( Ex. 25:31 40), "the two trumpets ot silver” (Num. io:2), and ‘the table of shew-bread" (Ex. 26:23- 30). It is with regard to the fig ure of the Golden Candlestick es pecially we wish to speak, or rath er, let speak the distinguished Ex- President of Davidson College, No. Ca., Rev. J. R. Shearer, D. D., L. L. D., who had never written out his view before the author asked tor it, though taught in class-work tn course. Says he: "Yours is to hand asking my views ot the Golden Candlestick. They may not he worth much, for they are not sustained by any au thority that I can quote. It dis appeared along with the Ark of the Covenant and the Uritn and Thummim about the time of the Captivity. They were not carried to Babylon, for every vessel and piece of temple furniture carried ;iway was restored by Cyrus by catalogue up to live thousand in number. The Second Temple had neither of these three, nor any imitations Of them. Jewish tradi tion says that, during the three months of respite in the siege of Jerusalem, Jeremiah and the High Priest carried them out ot the temple and hid them in a cave in Judea. The picture of the Can dlestick published in our Bible Dictionaries and Cyclopaedias is copied from a carving still seen on Titus’ Triumphal Arch in Rome, erected to celebrate his destruc tion of Jerusalerrf and the temple. It was the product of the artist, and false, as was so often the case in the self-laudation of conquering heroes. No such thing was cap tured in the temple—they seemed to have used only swinging-lamps in the temple. No Jew would have undertaken to imitate the Candlestick any more than he would have undertaken to repro duce the Urim.or the Ark, the Mercy-Seat, and the Cherubims, 1 and the two Tables of the testi mony. Then, again, the maker of Titus’ Candlestick was not familiar; with the description or the pattern 1 given to Moses in the Mount, after which it was modelled Our Fall Opening Special Sale for 15 Days Ouv sjKHiial OetoluT Kalr is now going on. I lio pooplo iuv responding to onr (dl'orts and are lndp- ing ns make it a grand success. Conic and get your share of I he bargains. Dress Goods More limn 'Jo dill’ereiit styles to choose from, oll’ering Mil lies up to | .50 All wool materials, 42 to 51 inches wide, many pretty novelties, also popular shades in all colors, choice . 79c Fleeced Flannel One ease double-llcceed Man nels the kind usually sold at 1 2 I-2e a yard; on sale now at 7 1 -2c Ladies’ llcecc lined vests and pants, finished with pearl buttons and silk ribbon 25c New Skirts Will find among this collec tion Puneheves, Panamas and other popular weaves, show ing the newest effects in plaits and t’ueks. 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Values l.fiO up to 4.00. Will sell at less than wholesale cost. Men’s walkabout shoes, good as any 4.50 shoe; wo retail at only 3.25 READY WITH NEW FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY New York Bargain Store Gottlieb & Delaney. its growth—a modified spiral. These lateral branches formed the usual head or cone of the tree in skeleton rising to different heights. There hung from each of the bran dies knobs or burrs containing ripe or maturing almonds droop ing in a natural way and also fresh buds or (lowers—you will remem ber that Aaron’s rod showed simi lar groupings. The central branch was divided near tliU|top into lour small branches, and each one of the six laterals parted into three small branches—22 in all.—On each one of these 22 small branches was set a bowl, or receiver tor a lamp, having the shape of an al mond hull, either the lower halt (truncated; or else the more con vex side of the hull (split from point to base; pul on the stem horizontally. These were distri buted throughout the symmetrical cone or head of the tree. "Then seven lamps were set in The only seven of these 22 bowls (possibly point"of L correspondence is in its at random;. The conchoidal shape having seven branches.lt is claim- of the almond-shaped bowls made ed that there was a seven-branched each bowl a reflector for each one candelabrum in the Herodian the lamps—254 reflections _of fern pie, and that this wai repre- j light to the eye, whatever the po sented on the arch; and Josephus sition. Then the numerous knobs is quoted in confirmation;and that | and flowers greatly multiplied there was a similar one put into'these reflations of light from the Temple of Zerubabel, which their burnished sutfaces. A was carried away by Ant.ochus! Christmas tree, in an otherwise Epiphanes. This evidently had darkened room, with lights set al branches for lamps. The one carv-1 through it, and numerous tinsel ed on Titus' arch has sea-monsters ornaments for reflectors may sug- and other pagan devices carved on gest, but nothing can equal the the base-this evidently discredits beauty and the glory of the Can- the whole thing. , ulestick-the most wonderful “So much byway of introduce . , , tion. My theory of the shape of " eed not confound the Moses’ Candlestick is this: It was 1 symbolism ot it with the symbol an almond tree simply copied from of -the Seven Golden Candle- nature with a few necessary modi-j ^cks o Revelations which rep- fications. We know nothing of; rented ‘the Seven Churches of the shape of the base. The tree Asia. Moses Candlestick sym- hada central branch, or rather, bolised the ‘Seven Spirits of God trunk that rose highest as in na- and His wonderful office-work o ture It sent out six branches, I enlightening and searching and three on one side and three on the watching. This seems to be the other-not in the same plane but meaning of the name in Hebrew, regularly according to the law of 1 ‘Shaked,’ as we see from Jer. •mi. WHEN AN Expert Plumbe r IH NEEDED — Gall — W. L. Sexton, The Nowiinn Plumber. Shop and Wareroom on Hancock Street, next door to Dr. T. J. Jones Building. The LurKi-st Brook of Supplies ... and ... Fixtures In Nuwnuu at BICXTON’B. § v $ It has been translated—‘assiduus et deligens.’ The symbolism may be traced in the purity of the white flowers and the maturity of thft fruit, and the beauty wrought by tbe Spirit, as well as in his en lightening and stare ling and dili gent watchfulness. Whatever we may ascribe to the Spirit in his of ficial functions as perfecting the work originating with the Father and administered by ihe Son, we may trace it all in this glorious symbolism. And in doing so we are not open 10 the charge of an allegorising exegesis. Please par don the length of this, for I have never written it out before, and I have been obliged to omit much that might seem necessary to for tify my conclusions.” These views seem worthy of at tention by a wider notice, and we ar^ inclined to side with their able exponent in their maintenance, (To be couuuued.)