the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury if c hay 16 1878 no 30 ftoffl tli l"uca n y daily republican fable 1 the trouble with the bat a kalll.k for oi.h chjldkiw v.ml klnirilom iwr iiiankln.l „ . „ , vlna their progress bad made up us mmd ' . ., their government usages laws •:• i tine monan h without any cause nauonal caucus democrattc in style sin electing a president try thai awhue i o lackass lor chairman both aged and gray where a chairman does nothing nut i>rnv • n,n a e caucus was nulled when face to face strnncii t contentions of each angry race sald the hawk had embittered her mfe 1 i me i mi td the wott bad abducted ids wife while the mouse and t lie rat , ,/. i iskance at the cat andtv rabwts remarked that the dogs were too in fact all the delegates raised such a din , vl u old panther with blood on his chin . fresh eaten meal stowed away in his maw uc meeting to order bj raising his paw then mounting the nistnun tnwe ids long tall a flirt saying friends you must bury that old bloody ti e nast with it's sorrows most bury lfs dead u tjjrera and pant hers musl have dally bread ; ir uui'ts do suffer why we must be fed u e were born to eat besh lu>t look it that view i n j swallow our insults while we swallow you it we ever unite %\ l • > . you must be quiet tt e love you sincerely at least as a diet milmugh you outaumbi r you must let us be nd adopt in this caucus a new policy . in our teeth and ni«'od in our claws but this the result of inflexible laws inlj calk tor an effort for conciliation i name mr lt.it as a good nomination . i convention was struck with surprise i j , ,, , due even had tears in her ej ee : the bai more astonished than anyone there ed down in their midst fron ncealment v mew hi re . li uttle harangue he thanked the convention rutthoukht he could paj thcin tor the condescen sion jhe bat was elected at least i minted in ucy then did begin . rs bloody ot law the tigers and panthers he hailed with eclat bat an i hlh policy dreaded their roar while the quiet old sheep cooled their heels al the di or bui none ot the beasts in the veracious fable ;•• | ion waseverable ..[•„, b iiea '■ ' said the bat just feel of my fur in a cat i the rellnes just hark to my purr i bird i li buzzards jusl see how i fly pin a rat to the rodents just look in my eye h i tooled them all with his teeth fur and ii ,„.,- -,.' iiin - 1 i all and yet not anything till the i iirir convinced he was naught nut a mole dm when presto he bed t i his ttole w hem he beasts tried to grab him he rose on the re us above them he'd saucily swing b asts vi led the but was n bird : while the birds in co i dust it demurred kul ii thi one item they came to unite thai no mongrel ruli r or in rmaphrodlte he hi evei no loving serene or demure could build up i government strong good or pare moral thai is why un di ar children the bal is so queer and shows his iiead onlj w hen darkness is near he tried to be lion and eagle and cat bui lie burated in swelling and turned oul a bat tlmcsn statesman gets lost in a i"i ■. a hi i x-nt to the shades in the midst ol his days l\mkloig the following article was mislaid and ami just now recovered mr vebkox n c april 4th 18/8 l»i w watchman :— the folding cur tain i the murky storm-clouds it length closed upon the sunny pictures in whose weird loveliness our vision tins been rev elling for weeks together balmy south ern tales have given plaee to chilling arctic blasts aud to the seemingly end li s drought the slow cold and continuous april showers succeed orchard trees loaded with pink and white blossoms like oriental brides bedecked with jewels itaud shivering in sad surprise the daises lay their sweet pale heads down on the turf and meekly bow to the behest of late the piteous lowing and bleating of the farm-yard hoeks is heard all through the gloomy distance as they gather more closely to the barns the music of the song-birds whilome so joyful is hushed ami the poor little feathered musicians ensconced among the thick boughs of pines and laurels and cedars hide their heads under their wings and for the time forget they ever made a tuue the squirrel went to his hollow hours since aud is sound asleep iu his warm nest we ton driven hy stress of weather toward the shelter ing shores oi home must leave the plow to rust in tho lush and suddenly aban doned furrow and hasten in to the fire side alter seeing the work-horse comfor tably provided for and quietly muchiug his oats in the warm stable there is a delicious charm in rural life even upon such days as this when the citv's cheerless wails look like one vast bleak prison the patter of the rain drops miugled with the sound of crowing fowls and tinkling bills and crackling tires mis one's soul with a sense of inde scribable comfort the strong home feeling of independence and elbow room and quiet satisfies one of the deepest cravings of the human spirit and here are the growing crops the feeding hocks and tho results of one's clear-weather labor in full view to cheer anil gladden more than dark skies can depress when a cold wet spell comes over the farm there is no pleasure like the housiug and feeding of animals to take from the well-filled crib a little basket ol corn and calling the shiveriug swine from the dis tant woods to pour it down aud see them eat is a pleasure kings might envy who docs not love to see a hearty hog cat ? ami yonder come the swarms of pigeons and muscovy dinks and chickens and guineas and geese all following your foot steps and asking for their portion give me lands rich enough to make plenty of corn and then the privilege oi feeding it and you may have all the luxuries of town life for what 1 care but when the crop fails through ill-luck or neglect and you have to stint these hungry creatures there is little enjoyment on a farm for you or them therefore to keep jusl what stock you can teed well and to plant bountifully indian corn and other cereal grains is tin only wise or hap py course a rough denizen of our north l'aroliua mountains used to say he knew when a neighbor was prospering by ob serving the grease marks his children's hands made upon i lie house-doors — if these were plentiful he knew the father had good stoics of bacou and had made a good corn-crop to fatten it with homely but truthful reasoning there is nothing like a big corn-pile to drive trouble away and bring happiness to the farm given this anil you can have what you please — bread meat mon ey clothes or whatever you want with out it farming is a miserable make-shift — an unutterable sorrow buy then good land and work it well and keep it up to its original standard of fertility 1'iant cotton anil tobacco if you will ; but never till you have huge and roomy cribs and smoke-houses well-tilled with the indispensable stamina of life something to eat e j h pompeii : its burial and resurrection showing that modkux sinners are as rad as ancient from the new york observer next year 1879 will complete eighteen round centuries since pompeii went un der : was buried it is a quarter of a cen tury since 1 first saw the resurrection of it and in those twenty-five years the work of disinterment has made no great progress indeed a city that has been in its grave 1,800 years cannot be very lively the cities in italy that have not been buried aud are supposed to be alive do not grew much rome itself profane ly called eternal has shrunk immense ly since pompeii was covered with the pall naples aud all these villages and towns along the wonderfully beautiful shores of this bay of all water were one great city iu those days the city was buried in the year of our lord 7 its existence was forgotten peasants digging above in the year 1748 found it and seven years afterwards its disinterment was begun i do not see that they get on very rapidly with the work sometimes it is suspended for a series of years it costs much money to dig out a town and the government of naples never had money to spare for such romantic work as this italy now has it in hand and the treasury is always empty it is estimated that if the work goes on with the same rapidity as in the last hun dred years it will be completed and the whole city disinterred in three or four hundred years more there is no need of digging out any more of it it is only inure of the same sort that ncs to light as the work proceeds aud there is enough now unveiled to tell the story bulwer's last days of pompeii is the best writ ten account of it we have and that is all fiction but like many other fictions is terribly true pliny has left us a descrip tion of the scene as he saw it but when you come to staud in the open sepulchre the story tells itself vesuvius is looking right down upon us smoking unconcernedly and so near it seems incredible a town could have been built within such easy reach of its fiery flood now the huge clouds of smoke are rising from its open mouth in succes sive folds they wave a moment about the summit and then roll down the side of the mountain we have a vivid idea of the ease with which the great eruption of ashes lava and stones might have over whelmed the town and may do it again we would prefer to go about this town without an official guide it is quite safe for then are no people in it there is nothing lying around loose to be stolen so there could be no harm done by leav ing us to ourselves but it is part of the system to charge each person a fee of two francs forty cents for the privilege of going into the city and this entitles the parly to a guide who goes about bother ing you with talk and putting all senti ment and reflection out of mind it was not christian to wish that he were tme of the original inhabitants but we did wish he were not with us at present lie led us to the museum in which are placed the results of explorations among the ashes the most valuable of these have been taken to the museum at naples where the collection has become the most interesting of any in the world yet in the midst of this room on platforms cov ered with glass lay the bodies of men and women in the posture in which they per ished the process of preservation and exhibition is well known the flood of ashes came down upon the city and bur ied the people alive each victim was thus enclosed in a case that fitted precise ly to his form as now the soft plaster is put around a person whose east is to be taken by a sculptor in course of time the case of ashes becomes hardened while the body decomposes and is absorbed by th surrounding mass when the work men now excavating come upon such tin object instead of breaking it iu or seek ing to preserve the shell they report the discovery ; ingenious skill comes to the task and pours liquid plaster into the hol low until it is full when it has harden ed the outer casing is removed and the image of the person in the very posture in which he ceased to struggle with death is presented some are frightfully con torted a woman lies on her side in re pose as peaceful as in sleep her rounded limbs in striking contrast with the angu lar muscular development of the men those boilies are fearful witnesses of the fate of the city ruined temples thea tres bathe and homes are magnificent in their graves and we walk among them with solemn awe reminded of their an cient grandeur of the life that once filled these streets and courts but the house that is euipty may have been deserted by its inhabitants and left to decay iu soli tude these ghastly bodies in their death struggles speak of the awful night when the cities on the shore of this lovely bay of naples were covered with the melted mountain like the cities of the plain when the lord rained upon them fire and brimstone a horrible tempest the day of wrath that dreadful day !"' in the mu snem at naples there is nothing in the va>t collection that touches the visitor with more tender interest than the cake of clay bearing the impressiou made by the breast of a woman lying in it : such a sight tells the sad story of a slow and aw ful death but these full-size perfect forms in their various attitudes are very graphic i brought away with me from pompeii no relics that will outlive the memory of those glass cases and their contents this museum and the one at naples are to be studied before walking the streets of the city as we go from house to house and among the shops and baths and pub lic buildings we see where the things were standing which we have exam ined the uses to which they were put and so learn the habits of domestic social and public life in the days of the caesars when wc know thnt it was a city of less than 20,000 inhabitants we may learn something of its wealth lux ury and wickedness from the number and extent and nature of its amusements and occupations ar attested by these reve lations it is not impossible that naples or florence paris or new york would be convicted of as gross licentiousness if it people were banished in a moment and all the evidences of their guilt left behind them it is not probable that the art of painting was prostituted more shameless ly in italy then than it is now and the arts of painting aud photography are now employed with fearful ingenuity and in dustry to do the work of the devil with a wiftnessof evil that pompeiian voluptuous ness never conceived i had a curious illustration of this fact on the very ground and while yet in the midst of this city of the dead i walked two hours with the guide aud had been properly shocked by the many evidences of the ancient lasciv iousness of pompeii : the faded paintings on the walls that may not be described though one of them is to be found also in st peter's church at rome : some of the houses are kept under lock and key that women may not enter them unawares while men tire freely allowed to be cor rupted if they please to look in upon these mysteries of iniquity : we had come to the house of diomede and had gone down into the basement rooms where seventeen persons most of them women were found with their jewels of gold and precious stones : and as this was nearly at the end of our explorations the guide an official set here by authority to conduct visitors through the city took me intooneof the re motest rooms of the house and produced a complete series of photographs of the most disgusting and indecent pictures that had been found in the whole city when i turn ed away rebuking him for such a traffic he said he was forbidden to receive any fee and this was his mode of getting pay for his services : and he wished to sell these pic tures at a franc apiece here were a government official making sale of copies of the very pictures that were on the walls of private bed-chambers and which are now pointed to as proof that pompeiians were dreadfully wicked people they were so beyond all doubt but the tower of siloatn did not fall on those eighteen because they were sinners above all that dwelt in jersusalem and the dry rain of vesuvius did not suffocate the pom peiians because they were greater sinners than the rest of mankind if it were so then the dwellers in naples and new york may set their houses in order for the elements are as highly charged with electricity now as ever and it is just as easy for the god of infinite purity and justice to drop his bolts of vengeance and make deserts of cities as it was in the days of lot or pliny i came out of this house of diomede very sad and somewhat sick at heart iu a moment 1 was in the street of tombs ; s'o called because iu the walls on each side arc set slabs and sepulchral monuments with epitaphs familiar classic names with the dates of birth aud death : life over again : we write them and set them up just so now : vix anno nil :" he was scarcely twelve early dead — how many memories such a record brings to life again ! and they had their griefs as well as pleasures these gay rev ellers and then the ilood came and car ried them away we rode back to naples through a rol licking crowd of jolly peasants the most careless thoughtless set of people under the sun a dozen in a cart with big wheels aud drawn like distraction by one little horse : some ou donkeys ami more on foot asses laden with panniers filled with vegetables and women on the top of all the load : everybody iu a gale of laugh as if life were a perpetual frolic — this was the scene and long before 1 got to ller culaneum the sentimental sadness of the buried city had vanished iu the amuse ments of this suuuy italian people iuex.eus north carolina belle in columbia the following from the columbia reg ister refers to a young lady from salis bury who has recently been visiting in charlotte and who is well known through out the state : we forget who it was that said if he had ninety years to live he would if permitted divide it and lead it as fol lows : the first thirty as a beautiful wo man ; the second thirty as a great general and the last thirty as a bishop the lovely belle from north carolina who all tho boys are going crazy over makes us think we'd take the whole ninety as a beautiful woman if it was left to us from the bible society record within the russian lines at adrianople steamship esfero ) sea of marmora march 6 1878 ( dear sir — i have been so occupied since my return from adrianople that i have not had the time to report to you the results of that visit i left constantinople february 13th in company with rev j f clarke of the bul garian mission by the first train that was allowed to take passengers after the sign ing of the armistice we were provided with passports vised at the german consu late and anticipated some risk of detention and examination at the russian lines but we we passed the outposts of the turkish lines and the first of the russian without the slightest delay at any point it seemed strange to see russian officers i..rd soldiers and hear russian german and french where only a few months before there had been nothing but turkish and remember ing how little encouragement i found in the faces of the turks for any success in bible distribution i scanned the new-comers with . much interest wondering whether they , would be more accessible my first feeling i was one of disappointment the men seemed : stolid and the officers flippant there were few specimens of tine physique still fewer of real intelligence and my thoughts turned j more favorably than before to the turks i was therefore not a little surprised when i reached adrianople to learn from our , book-seller llatchadoor that he had sold j all his stock ot russian scriptures supplied to him sonic months before in anticipation . of the russian advance and that he was daily j receiving requests for copies especially of the j bible the first thing to be done then was to get up a supply as soon as possible i , had intended to go out to philippopolis . and perhaps to samakov and yambol ; but on learning that the railroad would not take , freight in the regular way i decided to re , turn to constantinnple and if necessary take the books on with me there being no train on that day 1 had an opportunity to call with mr clarke on m dc nchdofl j to whom he had letters ot introduction from i prince rcuss german ambassador to con , btantinople and also on general stein com mander of the headquarters both gentle men received us very cordially entered most heartily into mr clarke's plans for relieving the distress of the bulgarian villagers and gave him a pass through all the russian . lines and on all military trains i had thought some of requesting a special permit for colporteurs but as ilatcjiadoor had met with no hinderancc so far i decided to post pone it until my return after narrating the incidents of his jour . ney to constantinople and back mr bliss proceeds | it was good to see the eyes of our earnest , hard-working llatchadoor glisten as we got the boxes into the bookstore and took out the longed-for bibles he started out as , soon as he could get them arranged and sold sixteen bibles ami testaments in a couple of hours on this trip i had brought a letter of introduction from mr schuyler our consul-general to general count igna tiefl asking his interest in regard to some american property at samakov so that i had an opportunity of seeing the famous , diplomat he was very busy and i only had a few minutes chat but his cordial hearty manner would have made me think that the greatest desire of his life was to further the interests of american bible and missionary work had it not been for a cold scrutinizing twinkle of the small eyes that recalled to my mind certain experiences of my father's with him when he was ambas sador at constantinople a pass was secured from the command ant at adrianople but several days elapsed before a colporteur's permit could be ob tained but at last an interview with the proper official was promised accordingly i went again with a full sup ply of russian scriptures and a catalogue of all our books after some examination to sec that i wished to sell only scriptures i received three papers one for myself and two for my colporteurs giving full permis sion to circulate the scriptures anywhere within the russian lines in european tur key or rather bulgaria as i suppose it must be cailed now i also received a pass for constantinople securing me free passage on all military trains of course i was greatly pleased at my success but almost the best came when three or four officers bought all the nice copies that i carried with me and requested the book-seller to come again the next morning with some more as they had other friends who wanted them thfc gen eral himself sent for one and all seemed very glad of the opportunity to secure the bible in full i had been detained so long that i had no time to visit philippopolis but engaged a young man who knew some russian to as sist llatchadoor in adrianople and go on to philippopolis i also sent to rev mr clarke asking him if he found a good man in the region of yambol or yeni-zaghra to send him to adrianople for a supply of books and one of the permits that i left with llatchadoor the next day i started for constantinople and this time was 27 hours in making the 14(5 miles of distance ' now that peace is signed however we hope that the trains will run more regularly thus my object in going was obtained and more easily and completely than i had expected i found the russian officers and men wherever i met them most cordial and apparently interested in my work and my being an american was a sure passport to their regard the more i talked with them however the more my first impression was increased and tho more i felt that the in terest they manifested in the scriptures was prompted by a sentiment almost supersti tious for the book itself rather than by a deep regard for its truths i found that all wanted the nicest bindings and all our gilt copies were very soon disposed of once or j twice i saw one open the book and read a if he bought the book for its contents but most looked more at the outside than the inside i couldn't help thinking of paul's description of the athenians but i hope that even this reverence for the form may lead to a love for its truth we arc doing all we can to reach all classes among them and teel much encouraged by our success pray for these men that as they go to their homes and read in quiet thev may be tau-dit by the spirit " ° yours very truly edwin m bliss • st sophia it is the only great christian church which has been preserved from very early times for the basilicas ot st john lateran and st mary the greater at rome have been considerably altered and in itself it is a prodigy of architectural skill as well architectural beauty its enormous area issur mounted by a dome so flat pitched at so low an angle that it seems to hang in air and one cannot understand how it retains its cohesion the story is that anthemius the architect built it of excessively light bricks of rhodian clay all around it di viding the recesses from the great central area are rows of majestic columns brought hither by justinian who was thirty years in building it a d 538-5g8 from the most famous heathen shrines of the east among others from diana's temple at ephe sus and that of the sun at baalbec the roof and walls were adorned with superb mosaics but the mohammedans who con demn any representation of a living crea ture lest itshould tend to idolatry have cov ered all these figures though in some places you can just discern their outlines through the coat of plaster or whitewash in place of them they have decorated the building with texts from the koran written in gigan tic characters round the dome one letter alif is said to be thirty leet long or in enormous boards suspended from the roof and in four flat spaces below the dome they have suffered to be painted the four arch angles whom they recognize each represent ed by six great wings without face or other limbs one of the most highly cultivated and widely traveled ecclesiastics whom rus sia possesses they arc unhappily few enough told me that after seeing nearly all the great cathedrals of latin europe he felt when he entered st sophia that it far transcended them all ; that now forthe first time his religious instincts had been atir>fied by a human work mr ferguson in his history of architecture says something to a similar effect this will hardly be the feel ing of those whose taste has been formed on western or what we call gothic models with their mystery their complexity their beauty of varied detail rut st sophia certainly gives one an impression of meas ureless space of dignity of majestic unity which no other church unless perhaps the cathedral of seville can rival you are more awed by it more lost in it than in st peter's itself — macmillan's magazine american wood fdr paris one of the most remarkable exhibits designed for the paris exposition is a tablet of native american woods which consists of a mosaic tablet eight feet wide and twelve feet in height and was de signed expressly for mr william h lip pincott the well-known philadelphia lum ber dealer by the best artists and archi tects of the quaker city the tablet is iu the egyptian style aud consists of a flat moulding on the outer edge made of three-quarter circles of bird's eye and curled maple with a triangular shaped piece of bois d'arc and beech filling the blank portion of the circle the main panel is of white and yellow pine ash tripped and plain walnut poplar apple chestnut and sycamore the bottom is a broad piece of close-grained oak skilfully carved resting on the oak rail is an antique vase of various woods from which springs a lotos plant with a wide-spread flower aud leaves all carved with great delicacy from ordinary american build ing woods at the right ami left upper corners of the tablet are dragons made of california red wood the open spaces of the design are filled in with rosettes in relief composed of florida north caro lina and new jersey cedar with caps of white holly and locust forming a most beautiful contrast to the deep red cedar the tablet is suspended by huge rings of black waluut relieved with hickory from n handsome bracket with a polished hick ory roller on eaeh side of the bracket is a flying bat carved from butternut wood eorry-thrce different varieties of native american woods enter into the construc tion of the tablet including besides those already named birch elm cypress spruce gum hemlock anil others two cross bars bear the words lippincott bois d'amerique pour l'exportation the whole affair has been pronounced to be the finest collection of american woods ever gathered together two huudred people in new haven have telephones at their residences aud offices it dont pay the following from the newark daily advertiser has some wholesome truths which it would be well for nil classes of citizens to ponder : it don't pay to have fifty workingmen poor and ragged in order to have one saloon-keeper dressed in broadcloth and flush of money it don't pay to have these fifty work ingmen live ou bone soup and half rations in order that the saloon-keeper may nour ish on roast turkey and champagne it don't pay to have the mothers and children of twenty families dressed in rags and starved into the semblance of emaciated scarecrows and living in hovels in order that the saloon-keeper's wife may dress in satin and her children grow fat and hearty and live in a bay-window parlor it don't pay to have one citizen iu the county jail because another citizen sold him liquor it don't pay to have ten smart active and intelligent boys transformed into hoodlums and thieves to enable one man to lead an easy life by selling them li quor it don't pay to give one man for 815 a quarter a license to sell liquor and then spend 2,000 on the trial of tim mc laughlin for buying that liquor and then committing murder under its iufluence it don't pay to have one thousand homes blasted ruined detiled and turned into hells of disorder and misery in order that one wholesale liquor dealer may amass a large fortune it don't pay to keep six thousand men in the penitentiaries and hospitals and one thousand in the lunatic asylum at the expense of the honest industrious tax payers in order that a few rich capitalists may grow richer by the manufacture of whiskey it never pays to do wrong your sin will find you out whether others find it out or not the sin knows where you are and will always keep you posted of the fact — it don't pay a saloon-keeper sold a drinking man one pint of new rum making fifteen cents clear profit the man under the influ ence of that pint of rum killed his son in law and his apprehension confinement in jail execution etc cost the county more than one thousand dollars — which temperate men had to earn by the sweat of their brows it don't pay the loss sustained by society morally aud financially the sorrow and suffering the misery aud destitution produced anil augmented and what is infinitely a great er consideration than all else the destruc tion of soul and body the inevitable re sult of using or trafficking in intoxicating liquors — these all attest the truthfulness of tho verdict — it don't pay from the new y<rk observer the washinxgton capitol i>y miss lcct e saxfoud washington is the centre of an amphi theatre the anacostia on the east anil the potomac on the west unite and flow southward on the opposite shore of each is a range of hills that lose them selves in the hills of virginia a cres cent formed height sweeps around north of tbe city about two-thirds around it breaks to let a tiny stream pass and then rising ninety feet spreads out in a broad plateau tin which stands the capitol eleven streets and avenues from 130 to ilio feet wide lead to it it has 52 acres of ground and covers yj acres it cost in round numbers 12,000,000 it is the largest building of the kind in the world and when finished will be it is claimed the finest it consists of a centre with two wings and connecting corridors length of all 751 feet at present the accessories ate superior to the principal which greatly mars the effect but the plan of the accomplished architect mr clark changes this and in time will be earried out the centre the original capitol is free-stone painted white when the ex tensions became necessary the question arose shall they match the centre or be as perfect as possible ? perfect was the answer for it was to be built for an un limited future and in that future the cen tre can be changed the wings therefore are of white marble each with porticos ou three sides and 42 marble corinthian monolithic columns each 30 feet high above pedestal all the grand old trees that toned the painted centre have been cut down and the glare of white makes one cry out for the good time coming when the soft tints of delicately veined marble shall take its place and that wear i.-ome sky line of 750 feet be broken by a grand central pediment full of scriptuie according to the plans the west facade is broken by three broad porticos those of the wings tire each reached by 4o marble steps with four landings and two buttresses the house extension is rude but tho senate pediment has a group by crawford : the progress of civilization in america the bronze door is 144 feet high and !» feet wide in two leaves and six panels the panels have battles of hunker hill mon mouth yorktowii inauguration of wash ington and laying of corner-atone of capitol sept 18 1793 this was mr crawford's last work indeed it was tin ished by a pupil on the south buttress of the central portico is a marble group which ro*t persico five years labor celnrnhns ii armor copied accurately :. m some woru by him and now in genoa he holds a globe aloft in one hand and on ii america half at his side peering around to look up at him is a beautiful indian girl with an expression of awe and adoration on her face as if lie were to her a god on t n opposite buttress is a group by ' een ongh : a hunter who is seizing from be hind an indian to wrest from him tbe tomahawk with which he was about t scalp a mother who is clasping cr babe n either side of the grand brona dooi is a niche in one is war mars mailed in the other l'eace a lovely maiden iu flowing almost transparent robes with an oli e branch in om hand and fruit iu the other both of finest carina marble by presico each nine feet high and coat si-j.imh fu tiie words of mr clark if peace were in the vatican it would bo the admiration of the world yet hun dreds pass in and out without glancing at it the grand bronze door of rogers is 19 feet high 11 feet wide weighs 20,000 pounds and cost 28,000 it was mod elled in rome aud cast in munich l-.li it is a marvel of beauty it is in two leaves each leaf divided into eight panels and each panel is a complete picture in alto reliero of scenes in the life of colum bus 1 before the council of salamanca 3 before ferdinand and isabella .">. landing at san salvador 7 triumphal entry into barcelona then 8th in chains and 9th dying ou the frame of each leaf are 10 statuettes of his patrons and be tween the panels are heads of his histo rians every facial expression is wonder fully tine the dome rises from the centre of the maiu building and was built in 1856 its diameter is 136 feet the fifth in height and fourth in diameter in the world it stands upon l bug interior columns with heavy arches upon which rests the mosaic pavement of tin rotunda as it leaves the roof line of the building ii is 124 feet in diameter and has mil iron fluted columns 27 feet high on the apex is a lantern m feet high it is lighted \,\ electricity and only when one or both houses has a night session in it is a re flector so the light ean 1 seen . 11 o r the city would there were more reflvi tors below so their lights might be w ei throughout the world n this stand what seems a graceful young lady but she is 1!'j feet high aud weighs more than six tons ! remember what kind of preacher jeans christ was he was a son ol cousola tiou indeed it was said of him a bruised reed shall ii nor break and tha smoking rlax shall he not quench li was gentleness itself his speech did ol fall like a bail shower but it dropped like the rain and distilled is the dew upon the tender herb the v low at the gate of xaine dried her eyes v len he spake ; ind jairus no longer mourned for his child mary gave over weeping and thomas gave over doubting whe i jesus showed himself now . if such be the person who declares he \\ ill comfort the broken heai l ed if he be such a preacher we mi y rest assured that he will a romplish ii s work spurgeon current comme . another week has passed and a no torions thief indicted for penitentiary offenses and afraid to stand trial still o enpics a seal as member ot the tinted state senate from the state of ut!i cat iii a about how long do the li members expect the traditional diguity of the senate to survive with john 1 patterson's right to a place in their body unquestioned :" springfield rrpahlicau ind mr j w alspaugh of winston writes the editor of the statesville american concerning the proposed railroad from danville to that point as follows : u we are informed that danville will grade twenty-five miles of the road madison has pledged 30,000 winston 25,000 it is believed that davie county will givi 75,000 and statesville and iredell wi come in for a liberal duure the .--•.. • will give convict labor sufficient to do the grading and to all apppearauccs if tho people along the liuc but will tin work can be effected tin philadelphia record says now that mr henderson has retired from n.-w j york evening post ii may be ranked as an independent newspaper with deino • cratic proclivities the pieface to the law plainly teache i us that god requires man to keep his commandments not merely because he is jehovah and has a natural right to : their obedience but also becaus he ■■> ! the covenant god aud redeemer ot ii ■ ' people j meiklc \ a scientist in europe has inventc microscope that magnifies 12,000 time i the debt of sew i ork eify ;- p . 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