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Volume XhVL—No 28.
ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1892,
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I DR. DUNCAN'S TOUR-
HE VISITS PLACES OF GREAT
INTERE3 r.
A Chmm^at I «Iter Tflllnf or
Xlil»c« Srtm I niter Kiinnr
Italy* IHae oki*'.
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We visited the home or ol<l palace
of Michael Angelo; it 5s\N»tha lov< 1-
of erf, one of the most it-ter- s'tog*
plucks la Europt ; it contains a.i oi
the original drawings for the SistlD-;
Chapel, the MoAel of ImvI.I, and other
studies of the great maskr workman.
Here is hi.s little study, with his little
boxes of paint us he le<t them on the
shelves and about the room; a window
lights the frqnt of it,-and hit models
and drawings are on the table.? and
walls. Here also is ids private chapel,
and the room containing all his.
wreaths and madalliuns; there are
many frc?co3 on the waits and ceil
ings; several portraits and bust? of
Angelo, the work of enVnent artists,
are scattere l about the rooms on the,
walls and tables. I: is said that Am-'
gelo claimed that the old Vatican
Torse was the original inspiration oi
all his work, and that wrren old and
blind, he would sometimes ask to be
led to it, and would rhea embrace it
with tears. '
We virile l the mausoleum of the
Medici family. It wus-derigtel by
Angelo three hundred and fifty years
ago, and |s the uiojt extensive family
tomb in the world, and cost more than
$5,600,000 40; no other building ol its
size is so elab >ra:ely furnished on the
inside. All the diffjfSut cities of
Tuscany furnished bramental shields
•of their city corporations. These
shields are quite lareo and the difier-
■ent colors of the design are formed of
precious stones. Oae shield has seven
•colors; it has the onyx, j tsper, ruby,
opal, topaz, amethyst and emerald;
•other shields have different colors,
and precious stones. There is a very
:fme echo in- the Mausoleum; in the
rear, is the chapel which is also the
work of Angelo, as are tlft two statues
■of the Medici; and thestatues'of Dawn
and Evening, recibent under each.
•Opposite the altar, is an unfinished^
marble statue of the Madonna and
•Child, by Angelo. This chapel and
Mausoleum are entered through the
•qrypt, which I3 a low vaulted chamber
•containing an altar. The price o!
admission is ten cents.- Some angles
dn the' Mausoleum rtfltet a double,
•dome as you glance along the highly
polished, colored, marblfi corners.
.Around the corner from the Mauso
leum is the Cathedra! of St. Law
rence.' Here we heard the priests
•chant the service in a side arch or
•chapel of the main building. It had
:an altar, and an orgau, behind a picket
. iron railing or fence, with a gateway
•entrance. The priests stood inside the
railing with a large music stand in
■front of them, and ou it was a large
• music book. Each note was an inch
• long, so that they could be seen at a
distance. The priests took d-fficent
parts, and sang sol05 and choruses
’beautifully, to an organ accompani-
mant. It was the finest thing of the
kind which we heard in Italy, save a
..similar incident in St. Paul without
%e-£ate3 at Rome, the staging re-
miufcd ns of the'recitation of “King
Kobert-ef Sicily.”
.Qne day we heard the great organ
f9 the Dtioraa; the priests and people
were ehantiug a responsive vesper
service. I never heard such soft
melodious echoes in. any other Cathe
dral in Europe. 'The melody was en
chanting. We saw here, as we did in
Rome,- a public bake-shop, where
meats are roasted for the public on a
long iron cylinder, some four or five
feet long, and two feet across; on' the
outside of this cylinder, were hung
ribs of lamb, chicken, rabbits, steaks,
pork rtb3, and various other articles;
this cylinder is then slowly turned by
a crank attached to the center iron
shaft; which is operated by the pro
prietor, and each | iece of meat is thu-
brought in turn before the fire while
the matrons sit before him, n a eblrig
him do the work. One great beauty
of it is that all-the customers receive a
share of ail the tt ivors and gravy aoo
as chicken, pork, beef and mutton
gravy, ‘becomes hopelessly m'xed,
la the Cloister of St. Lawrence, we.
saw the rooms where the monks
formerly dwelt. They were the be-t
looking apartments of the kind we had
seen, nere, in the centre c >urt, at
noon each day, all the poor eats in the
neighborhood gather, . and are fed
with stale meats, and butcher shop
trimmings; we saw about twenty cats
chasing each other around the garden,
or court of grass and flowers. Some
were fat and shine were lean and
sickly looking, but all waited patiently
for the stroke of the bell, when the
disgusting feast was to begin.
In the (1 lister of St. Lawrence, we
I saw the rooms where the monk3 for
iineriy d«w!t. They were the best
looking apartments of the kind we
had seen. Here, iu the centre court,
at noon esch day, all the poor cats in'
the neighborhood gather, and are fed
with stale mer's, and butcher shop
trimmings; we saw about twenty cats
charing each other atoe.nd the garden,
•r court grass and flowers. Some
were fat and smite were lean and sick
ly looking, hut all waited patiently
for the stroke of the be'sl, when the
disgusting feast was to brgiri.
in trie crypt near the altar of this
C&’bedra), we saw the caapel built by
T)o< atelli, and in which he is buried.
In ,he Duomo we saw the bust of Gi-
ot'o, the architect of the Canmanelle,
and of Brunnelii, who built the dome.
Chore is another statue erected to his
memory ori the right'd th9 cathedral
outside aod across the street in an al
cove in the wall. He is represented as
looking with.admiring gaze upon the
beautiful dome which be has built.
An American cannot go through the
street of Florence, or Pisa without be
coming indignant at the disgusting
precticesof the Italian men. They
have little public modesty. Florence
and Pita are the two vilest cities rn
this respect that we have thus far
seen.
We vi. itrd the Ufizzi Palace, again
and agav, taking the South side one
morning, and the opposite side the
follow lag day.
We walked across the river and
through » covered gallery over the
bridge, li re, and in some of the
uot tit-west side rooms, we saw very
objectionable pictures iu biaek and
white, exposed with the others; men
and women come across them seci-
dcntally S3 they walk along the gal
lery. We selected photographs of two
fln.e bror.z 'S of Cain and Abel; these
bronzes represent Cain "as standing
ereer, with hi3 arm acos3 Lis brow
endeavoring to conceal the maik,
while' Abel lies dead- at his feet. A
pie'ure of the babe Christ sweetly,
sleeping on his future cross, was very
lovely. We saw some old paintings of
the Panthenon, which represented it
as covered outshm with polished "col
ored marble. 'We-visited the Royal
Palace, where the king lived wfyen
Florence was the capital of Italy, be
fore Rome was annexed. Here the
King and Queen siili live, several
weeks, each year. The' rooms are
beautiful, especially the throne room,
ar.d looking into the two mirrors and
elegant ehaudiders. Standing in the
center of the room, and looking into
the two mirrors, you can see eight re-
peatings of your figure till at last they
fade away in the Distance. The
Queen’s bedroom, boudoir, and con
versation room were finished iii rich
velvet. The a'elvet furnishings are
quite as rieh in the King’s apartments,
and the connecting suite. The colors'
in his visiting or business room are
very rich, and the yellow, or saffron,
mingles with a rich brilliant b’lte, the'
silver gray, and brown. The por
traits of the. K<ng and Q teen are ex
cellent. We bad seen their residence
in Genoa, their palace in Borne, and
it lent an additional charm to remem
ber that tv a had seen their old ances
tral castle, and home, in Savoy at
Chambrey.
Iu the uorth wing of the Unzzi- gal
lery, v.e saw many quaint; and curious
things'the Work of different artists, as
well as many lovely works of art. An
old painting of the hermits on a moun
tain top pleased us very mneh. In the
tree tops, oa the tops of rocks, and in
the valleys, wore the hermits; some
friends were reeding them, using ropes
to let down the baskets containing
food, and the wa’er buckets. Other
men were carrying them to church in
sedan chairs, while the hermits we"re
busy reading their prayer books. We
saw many old’ Roman and Grecian
tablets, momorial stones, rings, pins,
and precious stones; a gallery Allied
with portraits of the old masters, pain
ters like Rembrandt. Titian, Rubens,
D.elSarto, and others; it was very in
teresting. Iu another room were por
traits of modern artists such as Mil
lais, Turner’s and their contemporar
ies. Oae room was filled with the or
iginal drawings of the old masters;
some of these were very small-, and
-oine of very large painting*. The
Utbzi Gallery is a most wonderful
collection of works of art. We visited
Biea-'cio’s Gardens, where during the-
plague in the fourteenth century he
read his storks to the ladies and gen ;
Uemen of Fiore nee. The garden is
?aid to be in the same condition as
when he and h>3 friends used it as a
daily rendet vans during the plague,
he reading his talcs, and they listening,
o drive sway the thoughts of death.
I, visited a public school where there
were one’thousand children in atten
dance—650 boys and 350 girls, with a
corps of twenty teachers. The spools
are absolutely free for five years, and
even"the books are furnished free if the
children brfag a certificate of their in
ability to purchase them. The teach
ers are cbilged to attend a Normal
Echool for three years, and must then
assist in actual work for two years
more before they can receive an ap
pointment. While the teacher con
vened w ith me, the boys were busily
engaged in whispering, but on the
whole, were under good discipline.
There were no fireplaces in the build
ing, and they never have any fires.
The principal had a pleasant toou on
the first floor, and a lady assistant -to
look after the cffice.
The old home of Mrs. Browning, is
a five s’tory stone building in a small
square, opposite the Royal Palace. A
tablet in the wall marks the place. It
has an open centre court, and stone
stairs. It is said that her husband
never visited bis wife’s grave, or the
City of Florence, after her death in
1860, but made Venice his winter home
where he died two years ago. He is
buried in Westminister; she is buried
in Florence and has only “Jfi. B, B.,
1860” carved on her tomb. Her son
of whom she wrote so tenderly, never
visited Florence after Jiis mother’s
death until this winter.
Buried in same cemetary with Mr.
Browning, is the body of Rev. Theo
dore Parker. His friends have lately
placed a marble slab over his grave.
Unhappy Keats, the poet, requested
Ins friends not to carve his name on
any marble slab, “My name is writ in
water”, and this we saw carved in the
marble over his grave, when we vis
ited it io Rome, The new slab over
Theodore Parker’s, says “His name is
carved in marble” I a this cemetery
are also buried Birara Powers and
Walter Savage Landor. Over the
grave of Parker and of Shelley in
Rome, flowers bloom the whole year
round.
One of the guests at the hotel at
which we are stopping is Lady Amp
till the widow of Russell who repre
sented England at Washington during
the late war. He was afterwards en
nobled. His widow is the sister of the
wife of the present governor General
of Canada: another guest is Dr. Paton,
the founder of the University Exten
sion movement in England, and Presi-
*dcht Of the English' Chautauqua Read
ing Circles and Assembles. This
Circle work sprang from our Chautau
qua’ work, and has ten thousand read
ers at the present time, reading under
the direction of Oxford and Cambridge
Professors. The established church
has also organized a religious reading
coarse^roodelled after Chautauqua, and
the British government has issued two
circulars, urging School Boards to use
these reading courses for young people
after they leave the publie schools.-' •
There are ten .thousand English and
French visitors in Florence at the
present time. It would seem that it
one took the same eara of health in
Italy as in America, there would be
no more ill health here than at home.
Hotels are plenty and well kept; prices
are as reasonab'e as in America; food
as well cooked; servants and proprie
tors are kind and courteous, in fact,
far more so than in America. At all
tf the stations official' porters stand
ready to help you, and are never
troublesome or extortionate. The
Italian are kind, q iiet and inoffensive.
The idea which .prevails in America
that they are quarrelsome is a mistake.
The bad ones often go to America, but
we have not seen a troublesome Ital
ian. They have peculiarities, but it is
not in the line cf egressivejiess. They
make good servants, aid aret willing to
do anything for their employers.
They are misunderstood and misrepre
sented.
The weather is like May—a little
colder perhaps, bat fltwers are in
bloom and the flower markets on
flower day are well patronized.
Wine is so plenty tills year, that it
is said they are selling it for two cents
per bottle. Nearly everyone drinks it
on account of health. However, those
who drink water, do more work than
the average wine diir.ker. and erj iy
good health. Possibly, the wine
drinkers drink more water in their
wine, than itrtheir eeff-e-a-lay.
In the Florence Cathedra! of the
Holy Cross, the guide showed us bow
a jealous artist in the 16:h century
whitewashed the inside of the build
ing, covering most beamifu! frescoes
oa the sides and ceding. The govern
ment has spent 200,000 francs cleaning
a small portion with nitrate of silver
aud are to spend 2,000,000 or $400 000
more to finish the work; that would
baild a respectable American Cathe
dral, but it shows the value they put
upon these old frescoes. .
The guide showed ns Kiss ini’s grave
covered only with a tl ior slab.
“Where is his monument?’’ I a-ketl,
“Do-yoa-sce-ihat”?, lie said, po’ntlrtg
with a shrug of his shoulders—to a
new memorial group on the other side
of the church, “ile-die-in-l4:h-cen-
tury, statue-only-just.erected. Rossi
ni-well-sometime-me-no-when-now. ”
He pointed out Michaeveleis tomb;
it has over it a seated figure of Apollo
over it holding in one hand a pair of
scales, while with the other he points
to the face of the great Florentine
Statesman of the 14th centnry which
is carved on a marble shield. By the
side of Apollo lies a harp with broken
strings, to indicate that justice and
politics cannot go together. He
she wed us Michael Angelo’s grave—a
marble floor slab marks the spot, floor,
while his monument is near by on the
cathedral wall. He pointed out the
monument of the Duchess of Albany,
wife of Charles the Pretender, who
lies buried here. Pointing to the
statue of Grief in the group, he said,
“Look, she weeps.” then turning to
Dante’s monument, he said, “Dante-
gave-tbe-first- expression - to - Italian-
Liberty. So we have- on his left a
marble tablet in the wall,-to Mfizzinni,-
who was the*brave Italian who gave
the modern expression to it; and on
his right a shield to “Garbs S^i, the
hero who executed it and was the
right arm of Liberty.”
Pointing to the figure on the left,
directly beneath the sitting statue of
Dante he said with much emphasis
“She ought to speak, but she dont so
they put underneath In letters of gold,
Dante’s own words about Virgil, “The
Greatest Poet”.
Dr. Paton said that ten or twelve
years ago he heard two McAll clergy
man talking in Switzerland about the
C. L. S. C.: upon Inquiry they ex
plained to hira-its workings and he at
onee accepted it and said, I hatKmake
that work in England- He never
forgot that conversation till he met
Dr. Vincent in London some six years
ago- He then made a course of reading
for different classes of citizens and ar-
tizons adopting some seven books to
be read; he has held four successful
summer meetings at Blackpool, Eng
land ; there are three other English-
Assemblies; the one at Oxford has
been very successful. He read a letter
from bis son, a master at Rugby,
which related how one of the signal
men at Rugby took up the course of
reading, went to the Blackpool meet
ings, became interested iu the study of
spiders, and lately read a paper about
spiders before one of their scientific
clubs on spiders. lie said that the
English public «and Sunday schools
keep the children till they are about
10 or 12 and then they open the gates
and shoot them out iuto the world as
into a great gnlf, and then do nothing
more for them. He thought that the
great question of today was how to
keep or hold the children during this
critical period of character makiug and
building. Secretary Edoirdo Valla,
said that the Florence Sunday schools
had a weekly teachers meeting, and
that the Waddenrian church was the
strongest in- Italy, as it was quite
strong in all the cities, and had Sun
day schools such as 1 sawthe day be
fore; he said that the people loved the
"House of Savoy and Victoy Emanule,
Humbert, and Nrzzini, their religious
prophet, and Garabaldi, the great sol
dier: That Italian Unity was secure,
but Italy had assumed all the debts- ol
the old Duches and bad spent much
money in improvements in the old
province 8 to help keep the perp'e
happy, and had so many soldieis -that
she was very poor. He said that
Humbert was very popular; he had
gone among the sick aud.poor, aEd
with Qaeen Margiteritte was much
beloved by the people, and that she
never troubled the king about bis pol
itics or his religion.
Dr. Paton said that in England the
working people seldom or never went
to church, but sent their children
early to Sunday school, but nearly all
the Sunday school teachers belonged
to the middle class and 4"ery few of
their children eyer attended, as their
parents claimed that the religious
training of children should be done at
home, but he really supposed that the*
real reason arose from a feeling that
the schools were for the poorer classes
and they did not want tiieir children,
to associate with them. He said that
very few of the higher classes, or the
nobility, either taugh in, or attended
Sunday school. That five million
children in England, or nearly the'
great mass of the children of the work
ing class were in school from between
10 and 12 and that then tighty-four
percent, dropped out and that only
about five per cent joined the church.
A certain gentleman who was in the
habit of giving -a yearly supper to
criminals, found that nearly all liad
been to Sunday school aud could sing
the school hymns, yet h„d dropped out
before Christian character had been
formed. He thought that the years
between ten aDd sixteen were more
critical and dangerous to boys and
girls than the usually quoted period
of the first six years; that they do not
reason much before the age of ten;
had little or no religious or moral
power and could not reason or direct
themselves. He thought we should
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in Wales and home portions of’Scot
land, where the Wiiole population is in
the church and school, anil where ’the
Sunday School perfor ms what might be
called the ‘‘Teaching Function” of the
Church. In Wales and some parts of
Engtand two services are held for the
same children, one at nine and one at
three, each about Hr] hours long.
We visited the Convent where Sav-
anarola lived. His room here has bis
own cress and beads, his chair and a
model of his writlhg desk. We saw in
the Ufizzi picture galler/a painting of
his martyrdom and that of his two
associates; the original hangs in bis
cld sleeping room; there is also a piece
of a fagot taken from the fire. His
ashes and the ashes of his two associ
ates that were burned with him at the
top of the pole, were scattered in. (he
Arno, and went out to the sea. We
saw in this old convent the rooms
frescoed by the Fra angetiele a friend
of Savonarola. All of the rooms were
without fire and all had been orna
mented with beautiful frescoes. In a
gallery near this mcnastry we saw
Angelo’s “David” it is a magnificent
conception; the yqung Hebrew shep
herd has a stone in his hand which be
is making ready to sling. There is a
very fine “Flower Market” held here
every Thursday morning where the
people buy and sell beautiful flowers;
it is said to be tbe only one in Italy.
Figs were very plenty and we were
told that all they did to prepare them
for market was to pluck and dry them
in the sun or an c-ven. The small ones
are dried whole, the large ones are
broken open but no sugar or scalding
is attempted. Tne large ones retain
the best flavor. I saw a thousand
children under eight years of age with
baskets and books come out of a school
house—the mothers were standing in
line at the door waiting for them and a
police stood near watching the* opera
tion.
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