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3£ CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY. FEBIIUHY 19. 1884- TWELyApaGLES.
IN STRANGE LANDS.
FICTt'BEH OB OTHER PEOPI.E AND
OTIS BR t'UUEN.
MEXICO AND MEXICANS.
OmOaii Md HaMU—Oplat»iM-X«t Bolted
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R, A, Bacon, Special Cormpundcut o£ The Con-
•titution.
Cnv of Mexico, February 10.—There
it a prodigality of Catholic churches
here, even now, although Juarez confiscated
an immense number, Home of which were
converted into business houses. Oue is now
facings and pillars is tchiluc, quarried bun
dreds of miles away. Toe carving is so old
that in many places it is stuccoed over for
protection. Au American lady visiting here,
has a daughter studying at the conservatory.
No charge is made and the director teemed
r anxious to secure others as he wanted foreign
the public library building. It is astonishing I g'rls on their return home to show bow fine
‘ w —* * the teaching was.
Tne National public museum contains
curiosities to modern people. Tnere are
original Aztec manuscripts in the shape of
symboiie characters and drawings represent*
ing epochs in their history and great deeds
of the Incas. Vases of antique shape with
horrible faces and forms wonted thereon, ap
pearing to have been the very thing for the
fashionables of a thousand years ago. Beside
theie are cookiug utensils, differing only
from those in use here at the present because
of their having Aztec symbols in place of
those of ChristianUy,ahowing that oookiugis
not one of the progressive arts of this republic.
There are many other antiquities preserved
here. The rooms are in the rear of the palace
and but a short distance from the National
ert gallery which contains a collection of
paiotingssuch us one does not find in
America, for Mexico revels in the past while
our people seem to have no idea except re
garding the future. Some of these painting:
are to my taste the perfection of art. One <
the deluge has the face of u man clinging to
rock, that for agony cannot be surpassed. Oue
of the angel Michael portrays a figure that in
grace and beauty of person it has never been
my fortune, to see equalled. There are
many pictures of the saints and of the cruci
fixion. Iu all these, as in the frescoes at
Chapultapec, the women are fair complected.
Those by native as well foreign uriists all
agree on the blonde wom an as the perfect
type of beauty. Since my airivul an
American gentleman by the name of 0. C.
Kendall wtio has travelt-d over every country
•in the world, told mo he had collected.pboto*
graphs, in every country where such things
were to be had, of types of female beauty.
Such a collection would be of great value aud
it astonishes me that more travelers have not
thougnt of such a thing.
HOW POMPEII LOOKS.
that the Mexicans, who as a race are as de
voted Catholics as the world knows, quietly
slood by and saw the sale of church property.
It is to be presumed that his defeat and execu
tion of Maxitniliau had given Juarez s.uch a
hold on the people,that, when it was known
that money bad to be raised nnd no other
means seemed possible, the people acquiesced
iu the “gobble/’ As to the right or wrong it
is no question of mine to answer. At any
rate, Juarez left enough churches to accomo
date a great many more than worsnip. The
Catholic churches of this republic h*ve no
seals. The ancadants kneel and offer their
devo ions. Many elegantly dressed ladies sit
on the floor after kneeling, as was seen in the
Cathedral by me last week. The floor is very
dirty, and my sympathies went out for ilie
dress. If such a method was carried out iu
all the denominational churches of Atlanta,
there would be some tall swearing done by
the heads of ftaulies, who pay for the fine
drees; or e l se the ladies would get a reguiur
church dresses.
Many a ragged barefoot Mexican woman or
child, have 1 seen, with a load packed on their
backs, and their hands kept busy scratching
their heads, walk into tho grand cathedral
aud flop down on their knees, with their rags
touching the silks of elegant indies. The
church here is a great Icveler, and that I pre
sume helps to sustain it. Ail classes are
equal when kneeling before the images aud
altars here.
There is a church at every hacienda. The
Mexican is great on church and for feast days.
Without these he would he as badly off as an
American boy with no Christman. Feast
days are too numerous, as they c inflict with
work, If Sundays were observed more on the
plan of tlie United States, and lets feast days
were holidays. Mexico would mnke more cot
ton, sugar and corn. But my wish is not to
reform any one, so if it suits the Mexicans it
subs me.
Guadalupe is the patron saint of Mexico
and tbe church at Guadalupe, about three
the top of which a
had of Popocatepetl
oco, which lake is two
miles from the city, is the finest in Mexico.
The railings and balustrades are of copper-
gold and silver mixed, aud tbe interior trim
mings and fixtures are worth about seven
millions, livery thing about it denotes care
aud cleanliness—a net common failing here.
The floors were well swept; and the walls,
and dome towering neurly 150 feet, were
white. My visit to it was a pleasant one, ex
cept tbat the great organ did not play. In
fact no orgaus have been played at any
church, which nas so far been patronized by
me; and my experience has been large since
arriving. The church business though is as
little understood by me as tbe Spanish lan
guage, but if my grip does not slip i am
bound to know something of both.
There is a little chapel at Guadalupe set on
an immense hill, from the top of which
magnificent view was ha *
volcano and InkoTexcoco,
feet higher than this city.
At Guadalupe I saw a man and woman
kneel at the door, and work their way tho en
tire length of the cathedral on their knees up
to one of the altars. My supposition was
they thought themselves horrible sinners.
Tne Mexican is very devout outwardly, but
the lower classes have among them many
who ure a little slack in their ideas about
property, as the loss Of an overcoat has proven
to me. Two dogs following a worshipper in
to church did not disturb any one. My be
lief is tbat the people aro (so earnest, when
repeating their aves aud prayers, that they
really pay n® attention to anything else; or
else they put ou that kind of air to perfec
tion.
The cathedral in this citv is an immense
building, but my expectations were not real
ized. It is not m magnificently furnished as
the one at Guadalupe, and is dlDgy looking
and dirty outside nndj inside. During masses
on Sundays cr feast days, it is crowded with
elegant people as well as the lowest order of
Mexicans sandwichrd in. The reverend John
W. Butler of tbe Methodist church'has been
here seven years. He is now a young man,
full of life and energy and has made a very
successful struggle here. He published a
Spanish paper devoted to bis church and gets
out an almanac, which gives lines in scripture
in place of names of the stint* days. From
him the information was gained that there
are in Mexico pro tea tan ts of all denomina
tions. 13,090 and others of tbat belief, who at
tend regularly 27,300, and 13 Protestant pa
pers, 40 ministers native, with 00 foreign
born, besides 1G3 candidates; 201 congrega
tions; 45 churches; 210 halls rented for wor-
chip; 5 theological schools. The Episcopal
church and that of Mr. Butler are both
portions of an old convent. The services in
both are condacted in Spanish. The Kpisco-
pal Sabbath school of littlo Mexicans was a
very interesting sight. I very much fear
though that, all attempts to protestanize these
people will fail as those who have been ap
pareotly changed have in many instances,
where tbe subsidies of food aud raiment have
been cut off, shown their true nature and re
lapsed.
Tne opera Is here three nights in the week,
and twice on Sundays and feast days. Think
of that, in a city of about 250 000 people,
when New York can scarcely afiord one a
few : weeks in the year. Here
the Italian opera is necessary. Music soothe*
the Mexican and he forget* his poverty while
under its influence. Diaz understood his fel
low citiz ms. President Gonzalez keeps up the
K policy of Dias, who will be president next
ar for bis second term. No president can
elected his own successor in Mexico. The
ont term and akip is all right, Diaz is certain
ly a great mm and if this country ever be
comes, which'I hope it will a great republic,
it will be due maiulyto his brains and energy.
On New Years day Faust was well rendered
in the Teatro Nacional This theater has a
stage about aa large ss DeGive’s opera bomt*,
ana it was filled on New Years ove night with
schoolchildren to whom premiums were
given, President Goes tit z delivering each to
tbe child f«r whom intended. Many of the
children were little barefooted girls and boys
half clad but bright eyed. Like at the church
tbs public schools )are levelers, for richly
dressed fair haired children and ragged un
kempt Indian children sat side by side.
The custom that the gentlemen have of
putting on their hats between the ac's at the
theater, and then standing np in the par-
quetteand looking at the ladies with very
fixed gsze, would at first embarrass an
American girl. It is the fashion however. In
fact it seems to be taken as a compliment
here, when a gentleman stares at a lady and
does not drop his eyes when she looks at him.
The conservatory of music is subsidized by
the government. It is an old convent, sit
uated on a abort narrow street which is used
a* a market place. The transition from
sq ialor to the beautiful court inside with its J
lovely flower garden was more like an appari
tion from the Arabian nights than* scene in
real life. Outside rsgi and hucksters filled
the street and tbe women trying to sell their
fruit and ticket* to the Nstional lottery; and
inside the finest painting, to my eyes,’that I
have seen, and grand old carved stone and
wooden door* which must have cost many
thousands. This is Mexico, very poor or very
rich, much splendor within, much poverty
without.
The conservatory is a grand building with
its many rooms for practice on all instru
ments; its beautiful concert room with its
aniigue workmanship. Those monk* of the
olden time knew well how to erect edifices
that would stand for centuries. The arches
in the old cbapel are perfect; and here it i<
meet to say that no nation, living or dead, struck him, and he fell and perished. Twenty
understood how to build a perfect arch better centuries after the body was found, the bony
than the Mexican. It is the ’ perfection of fingers clasping the bags to his bosom, os
architecture, and* is seen in every cathedral, though he were determined that death should
The taste for music in the masses is being not wrest them from him. There was on his
cultivated at the expense of the government face a mixed exnressiou—love for bis gold
and in a few years it may be the fashion for , and terror at death, and it would be hard to
American to coin* to this conservatory in ! say which was the most pronounced, the ter-
place of going to K uue, to study for priraa . ror of leaving his money or thatof dissolution,
donnas. The s'ooe used for the inner door | Another in the same house was pitiful. It
was a young woman, probably the daughter
of the miser. She bad warning in time, but
her child was in an inner room, and she
rushed frantically to save it, and the delay
was fatal to both. The hot, suffocating blast
struck her at the door,'and she perished upon
the tbreshhold, with her child clasped to her
bosom. Both clasped to their hearts what
was most dear to them—the father hi* gold,
ami the mother her child.
Gamblers were found scattered about tbe
tables on which they were playing, the sul
phurous death surprising them at their busi
ness or pleasure,as they were hawks or pigeons.
The gold tney were playing for was left upon
the tables and by the way to show that hu
manity is tbo same everywhere and in all
ages, dice were found in oue gambling room,
the six side loaded with lead to make sure of
that number being always thrown. The
gatuhler of Pompeii 2,000 years ago, could
substitute false dice ior honest ones, aud
pluuder the innocent as well as now.
I’KEMHIVED Koon.
Cellars and depositories of food were found,
some of them in a good state of preservation,
as the shower of ashes had hermetically scaled
them. It is asiuguiar fact that we are in
debted to Pompeii for the great industry of
canning fruit. Years ago, when the excava
tions were just beginning, a party of Cincin
natians. found in what had been the pantry
of a house, many jura of preserved figs. One
was opened and they were found to be fresh
aud good. Investigations showed that the
figs had been put into the jars in a heated
slate, an aperture left for tho steam to escape
aud then scaled with wax. The hint wa:
taken and the next year canning fruit was
introduced into thelTuited Slates, theprocess
being identical with that in vogue in Pom
peii twenty centuries ago. The old ladies in
America who can tom.
hot realize that they ure
to a people who were literally ashes but ufew
years afier Christ. There is nothing new un
der the sun. Canned toniutos and loaded
dice; tbe people of Pompeii had both.
VESUVIUS.
It is not the greatest wonder in Europe,
looked at simply ns one of the great freaks of
nature, for everything gr»e.t is a freak,
whether it is a mountain or a man. The reg
ular thing is a dead level, aud anything
which challenges attention and holds it, is a
freak. The average is the natural, anytuiug
beyond it abnormal.
Vesuvius is by no means as imposing, con
sidered merely us‘a mountain as score* of
others, nor dots it so impress the observer.
Mount Blauc, lifting its snow-crowned sum
mit into the skies, is it greater and grander ob
ject, and k> is the Yungfrau. And so like
wise art* aeons of mountain peaks in theSier
ras. Vesuvius is a mountain of no extraor
dinary height, clad with vines at the base,
aud above, to its very crown, as uglv 03 sin
when you are near unough to it. There is
always a column of smoke rising front ils
summit, winch s beautiful at a distance, but
iu aud of itself does not either awe or inspire.
As a part of u p'eturo tbo mountain is won-
drously beautiful. It is a proper finish to
tho magnificent hay at its bi>e, ami the
islands that dot the hay would lose half their
beauty hut 'or tins giant among them that
makes always a great buck-ground. By it
self it is only hi m> as a part of a magnificent
whole it is wonderful, hream-e it is exactly
what is uecessary to the rest. Nature always
fln>sh*s up everything. J he only tiling in
ttie world that does not IU In and add some
thing to its sutroutulhp's is an American
grain elevator. That umla to no landscape
aud improves nothing. It is immense, and
as ugly as it is immense. But the elevator is
not u work of nature. It is horn of greed,
and there is nothing beautiful in greed.
To get up to the crater there are two ways.
English capitalists, who are argus-eved, saw
that the whole world had to go up Vesuvius,
and they immediately act about making profit
out of it. A company Imilt a railroad from
the foot of the mountain almost toils sum
mit. straight up the aide, tho same as the one
to the top of Mouut Washington. This read
U extended In almost to the edge of the crater
and you go that way if you choose.
Up the mountain you climb. For a few
miles you ride through vineyards, olive and
mulberry orchards, througn little lanes and
by villages all crowded with beggars. Then
you come Into vast fields of cinders, through
The Uncovered City Tbat M’u« Kurlad Centurlco
Ago-A UUmpflO mi • Head Tows.
“Noaby" in Toledo Blade.
The covering of ashes has been removed
from perhaps oue-tbird of the
city of Pompeii, and the paved
streets and the walls of tbe homes
stand there to-day as they did 2,000 years ago.
Tne pavements areas they were, and tne
houses, except that they are rootless. A
curious story they tell. Here is the house of
a wealthy banker whose servants perished at
their various employments. They did not
realize tbe terror of the catastrophe till it was
too late to make their escape. Skeletons
were found iu the kitchens with imple-
menia in their bauds; they were found Just
outside doors, having been stricken down
the moment they left the cover; they were
found iu the bed and everywhere just as they
met their death. In the vaults under one
house was found a skeleton with bags of
treasure. Whoa the alarm was given he
rushed to save his wealth, and thus lost the
time to save his life. Young women were
^mothered in their chambers at their toiletts,
prostitutes met their death while in their
haunts, tho sick, the well, the rich and poor
all met a common fate. A soldier died at his
post because ho would not desert it without
orders, hid superiors who could give the
orders dying tit the same minute. Parties
were surprised at banquets, and died wine
cup in baud, and priests officiating iu the
temples died with those before their altars
Thirty thousand human beings were en
wrapped in a shroud of ashes and all met
their fato together. •
Curious relics have been taken out of these
houses and preserved in tbe muaeums.
Bread charred by the heat but in a good state
of preservation, coins, household utensils,
furniture; everything known and used at the
time remained preserved under the coat of
asbes to show the world to-day how they lived
2,000 years ago.
Pompeii presents a curious fight. There
are the walls standing and many of
the frescos on the walls be
ing as bright as when the brush of the artist
left them. The streets are very narrow, too
narrow to admit of vehicles drawn by ani
mals and tbe dwellings were very small in
comparison with tbe places of to day. The
bathrooms wero always large and commo
dious, and so were the dining halls, but the
rooms for sleeping were merely dens fur
nished very plainly and cheaply. The tied
was a block of stoue on which matrasses were
receive it. The Puinpeiiuus were
hut tbelr tastes nil ran to one or two things!
Tney knew nothing of tbat general average
which we call comfort, which insists that the
sleeping room shall bear some
the banqueting hall, and that
not be me ouly magnificent room in the
house.
One experiences a curious sensation at
waaderiug up and down through the city of
the deau. The houses are here just as they
were on the fatal afternoon that blotted out
the city, and the temples, the theaters, and
amphitheater as well, only it is assileutas
the grave. There are evidences on every
hand of a busy, gay and luxurious popula
tion, but the population itself is not. All
the record that is left of them are the stand
ing walls, which they could not carry with
them.
No description of it is possible. There are
only evidences Chat lire was. The life is
gone, but what they struggled for iu lifo re
mains. The stones they trod upjn, tbo walls
wherein they dwelt, tbe couches upon which
they slept, tho tables upon which tiiey ate,
the baths wherein they laved their limbs, the
money they accumulated, that is hero, hut
where are they? lady and harlot, soldier
and mechanic, poet and historian all envel
oped in one winding sheet, and ail gone in
i hour. That is Ponfpeif,
Who knows but what cities existed 4,000
years airo on the very site of Pompeii, and
tbat while Pompeii was being snuffed out,
wise and learned men were examining skele
tons and coins and such things thtft they had
dug up, to the end of determining who the7
were, and all about them? Vesuvius mny
have erupted 2.000 years before Pompeii, and
did just as wild work that time as she did
for Pompeii.
Pompeii had been forgotten for ages. A
peasant digging a well came upon a painted
chamber, and he reported his discovery. Tne
learned men, remembering Pliny and his ac
count of the great eruption, dugand found it
Who knows but that t.000 years ago a pemaut
dug a welt near Pompeii and found a painted
chamber, and that the learned men of tbat
city were investigating just ss we ore?
It is rather an old world, nnd our knowl
edge of it does not extend luck a great ways.
And come to think of human knowledge
doesn’t stretch over a very great surface any
how. H we only knew as much as we don’t
know!
HAT WAS FOUND.
A TR1UMPH_0F SKILL
pr fl Pri©@ s «
^"special ■®
out and with a secret aujurgitiou at the ne
cessity that compelled you to the toil, you
reach the lower edge of the lava fields.
The crater is simply a vast bottomless gulf,
but with the breatti of the fires in the earth’s
non ter, which cannot be described. From
this gulf ascends for ever the smoke of nature’s
torment. It is as near an approach to the old
orthodox idea of a hell as can be well imag
ined. It is a gulf with fire in it* Interior, a
lire that is never quenched, but burns oil for
ever and forever.
What feeds it? Who knows? 8cience
stops short at this point, as it does at many
others. Conjectures are as plenty as black
berries, but as to certainties, it is, and that is
all that is known of it or ever will be. No
one can ever go down into the devil’s kitchen
to find out, aud it doesn’t make much dif
ference whether it is over known.
AN OLD FAHIIONKD IIKI.I.
You are ou the edge of a vast gulf, the lava-
rock hot under your feet, and a sulphurous
smell, that is overpowering, filling your syt-
tem through your nostiils. You insy endure
tbe smoke and smell for a time if the wind
be blowing from you, but woe to you if it
c inies your way. Then you may well believe
in a hell and fancy yourself at it* portal*.
And it Is not certain butthatitis. If there
is a literal lake of fire and brimstone into
which fcbp wicked are plunged, os is shown in
all the paintings in the churches of Italy, it
could not he more properly located. Every
thing should be nearest to where it is to bo
tho most used. If there must he a hell it
should be located in Italy, to save unneces
sary transportation of the greatest numbers
to be plunged into it.
Like a great many other things Vesuvius is
at its best at a distance. Distance softens the
horrors of the cinder and lava fields. Across
the hay you cannot see that horrid cavern,
the crater, the smoke tbat ascends forever is
soft and feathery, net angry and fierce a*
when close to it, the horrible precipices and
ugly j*gi?*d rock* aro softened in their out
lines, and tbe baza of the armoephere softens
and blends what is really fearful, close at
bond, into something beautiful.
Vesuvius is btnutiful from the Naples ship
—it isa terror when you are actually upon
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Among the exhumations of which casts \ Lottery of IxxiUyille. Ky . and l*si mturrfay h-
were made was tbat of an old man prone up- H.li'hT.•/ni® 1
on the earthen floorof the cellar of h s house, n»^ lucksr number hefng'is 212. Mr Rau^ber u an
with bags of gold and jewelry clasped to bis |nd>istr!on> working man and one of our most re
breast. When the alarm of the first shower : spectc-d eitixena.
of death fell upon the doomed city, he sought . , T £* r *l l ***?*,*¥:* r « ID ’. . .. .
gold *bat he bad toiled and toiled {<<r so .0ng , p«jrnent In full for pr'x • ticket No is.212, drawn
came to him. There was no tune for delay. | Dec 27th. wild prise ticket drawln* thou-
Minutes were everything—seconds count* d o»nd dollars (ItO.COO) mid o»n*d by E. D. Baughtr.
at tbat awful moment. He started for the , Wward*oonaty. Kaniws.
door, but he could not leave his treasure. ^ Bank of Kentucky, by E. C. Dulaney, Clerk.
Down into the vault he went to secure it, he ' M tioSw 1 *? ^ eb#
grasped the precius bags, and turned to fly. Ticket* o'nljto: halves. |l ‘ Address you
At the very door the stifling, poisonous blast j. j. Douglas, Covington, Ky.
tin Nome u;ooa ron«on which naa
s of treatment. The Bpeciflc rellev
utly, aud I shall use li In my prao-
soars, M. D., Cyprus Kidge, Ark.
was very much exposed to mala
18V2 found my blood so contain
i*»t»’on that I wssforced to glvi _ r
miriness. 1 was t eated by tho physicians without
relief.
My trouble finally determined In an abscess ol
ibe liver, aud nrarlv every one (myself Included)
thought I wss doomed to ale within a few days. In
this condition 1 wss advised by a friend to take
Swift's Specific, and I took It just ss a drowning
man would catch at a straw, but as soon ss my sya
urn got under tbe Influence of the remedy, the ab
le* ss came to a point and burst, passing off without
p«tn. % In flftcsn days after this I was up at my work,
and have since enjoyed excellent health.
Every sufferer from malarial potion should take
Swift’s Specific. c. (1. f rxNcsa.
Bup’t Rome Gss Light Company.
Our tres'ls* on Blood aud Bkln Disease* mailed
free to applicants.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Drawer I. Atlanta, Go.
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aa nraal, tho Uoion A Hamlin won. China peopK
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POSSESS TWICE THE MUSICAL VALUE,
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