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THE WEE 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 !• • mcHfaBft-fharvfce*, E c. 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. 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