Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1892, Page 11

10 T ARIONA KICKER| AND OTHER STORIES. BY “M. QUAD”. Spocial attontion Is called to the fact that e Ber has exclusive use in its territory of ‘M. Quad's” current writings. (Copyrighted 1892 by O. B. Lewis.] Not Exactiy CYCLoNEs.—-An ehstern sub- eriber to The Kicker writes to ask us if this ection of Arizona is ever visited by cyclones. ‘0 don’t think 1t is, At least we have never cen, read or heard of a cyclone within 100 iles of this town. On the contrary, gentle ophyrs bogin to blow with the rising of the un, and keep it up until the shades of even- ng fall—zephyrs so soft and gentle and good hatured that half a pound of buckshot in a an’s cont tail pockets will keep him plumb p and down all day long. No, we don’t run to cyclones. We have a hotter and cheaper way of gatting rid of the ompany of a citizen who renders himself ob- ox10us to tho community, It also leaves his cmnains fn botter shape for his relatives, it ho hapoens to have any. It Makes A Dirrerexce.—The former huayor of this town was a good hearted man, but utterly unfit to fill the high and responsi- blo position. Strangers used to call at the pity hall, to find him so boozy that he couldn’t 1l an eastorn professor from a Chicago em- bozzlor, and if a spesch of welcomo was to bo Inado ho paid Jim Savage, the city clerk, $10 o stutter it off and wring in a dozen or more atin phrases, Sinco we woere elocted mayor by an over- holinivg majority, the boys ses a great itToro ‘Wo pormit no games of old lodge in tho mayor's offico. We are never runk. Wo always have on a white shirt, hnd whon a stranger calls we welcomo him in a neat little speech without anything ut plain Baoglish in it. Although electad bnly a month ago wo have already been told hat wo aro good for two or three more terms hnd we may udd that wo have already begun nying wires for re-election. A Sap Durr. —Our subscribers will boar ness that we have never mentioned our hontomporary when wo could possibly avoid We have no quarrel with him. Ho runs pn allogod weekly paper which has 430 sub- rs, mcluding deadheads. Ho can cither shoot nor cait. He ought to have omo here and started 8 small cooper shop. Wo uever think of him without a feeling of Inity, and have always stood ready to lend him our card cutter or furnish him with onough patent medicino cuts to fill up his ftourth page. However, unless our esteemed ceases to ol into us as editor and mayor, we shall [have a sad duty to perform. We shall have 0 publish tho evidence in our possession hat ho stole hogs in Now Hampshire ana vas obliged to leave that state between two [days to save his bacon. We don’t want to jinterfere with a man who has come west to hm ke a new start inlife, but he must not interfero with us. A word to the wise is uMcient. Letus alone and we will keep quiet about the hogs; continue to pitch into lus and wo will give the number (seven), the [color (spotted), and the name of the man (George White) from whom they were stolen, Tov Busy.—Wo are in receipt of an invita- tion to deliver an address before the Oregon Socioty of Archmology on the 2d of April next, taking as our subject the artificinl an- tiquities of Arizona. We must decline with thanks. While Arizona has lots of artificial ontiquitics, of which all of us are justly proud, wo are too busy to hanale the subject @s it ouzht to be handled, and we have no #ailroad pass to tako us w Portland and re- turn, ? We are now editor and proprietor of a great weekly, mayor of the town,owner of the only coneert hall and the only capitalist in the place who can lend a man 0 without .ciling a mule or a pair of revolvers. In ad- dition, we conduct a grocery, feed store, har- viess shop, hardwaro store, butcher shop and gun store, and furnish daily weather reports from tho tower of our office. It will thus be Been that our time must be fully occupled. A Prvoest Ma We were out with the Yoys last Friday night to look after the wel- 1 of Catamount Jim, a new arrival, who wus firing away a great many cartridges sround town to make somebody stand in awe of him as a terror. We did not find him. He had got word that the grip had reached town end he didn’t wont any of it. The mule he went away on was only valued at $15, but it probably make the first ten miles in an hour. WITH HIS BOOTS ON. Camp Hard Luck was six months old, and we hadu’v yot lostaman by death. Now fidthen one had mot with an accident to Jay hiw up for a fow wecks, but it was a sub- 4cct of congratalation that no one had ac- tually turned up his toes. Almost while we congratulated ourselves on this good fortune, D acon White took to his bed and became seriously ill. The deacon was a quiet, digni- fled man, who never thawed out even when @hitky iwas plenty, and he was the nc- Knowledged peacemaker of the camp. The cuaps Just over the hill at Cherry Diggings were a quarrelsowe, brawling lot, and but for the efforts of Deacon White there'd have wometimes been Tows in which somebody would have got hurted. ~Three days after the deacon was taken down he sent for two or three of us to pay him a specisl visit. When we had come to- geiber in bis shanty he sai “Boys, I'm a very sick man, It's my last fickness. I'm an old man, and I realize that Y've got to go.” Wo know that 1t was a serious case but yet w talked encouragingly and tried to brace m up. “IUs no use,” ho protested after we had had our sa) I’ve got to die, and the only question is how snallIgo. IfIdie in my bwd the boys won't like it. It would look 100 womanish, and the fellows over the hill would have another chance to brag. They've hed threa men dio, and all died with their bouls on.” As 4 natter of fact wo were a little tender on that polnt, but we were willlug to make a0 exception 1n the caso of the deacon. He Was LOU @ fighting man, snd he couldn’t bs expected to got up off a dying bed and get in 1he way of & bullet. Wae ‘talked and argued with bim, and apparently made him see 1hiugs as we did, and after an hour or 50 weo returned to work, leaving bim in the care of ® man whose foot had beon huryand who was just able to limp around. This was about 3§ o'ciock in the afternoon, At about 4 & Cherry Diggings man, who had filled up on whisky, appeased on the crast of 1he bl and began whooping and yelling and EAVIUg our camp the grand defl, ~Following our usual line of conduct, we paid no atten- tion to him, but ho kept on seeking a quarrel, uud by and by something happened to startle is. Wo heard & ringing war whoop and coked up to see Deacon White, full: Uressed and naving a revolver in his hnm{’: sirldivg up the trail. The man left with hum had fallen asleep, and the deacon had ¢ressed and armed nimself without anybod leing the wiser. He was & man six feev lnll’: but he looked to be a foot more as 1o saw bim now. His long, black hair was blowing out benind from under his hat, and the yelis hie uttered as be went up the trail seut chills Y500 Ry oun Cherey Digsl ‘The chap from Cherry Diggings must have baen sumbfounded, even though half drunk. He ceased his shouting and stood stook still until the deacon cume within pistol shot and opened fire, Then he turned to flee, but a builet in the lex brought him down. The deacon contiuued to advance, firing all the Liwe, and we suddenly saw bim throw up lis ovis and fall at full length. Ouly then did #ov of us move. It had all come upon us in such 8 way that we stood spellbound. When A6 did move a hundred of us went together, and in three minutes were at the crest of the bill, ‘There lay the deacon, shot through Lhe bewrt, and there lay tho Cherry Diggings wen, baviog four Dullets tn bim and dead enough befors we rot there. As we lookea dawn on the face of the deacon we expeoted 80 4ud it wild and istorted, but it was not 80. Thers was a smile thero—a smile fading away into pallor as death claimed the viotory. He had_died with his boots on and sayea Camp Hard Luck from being disgraced in the eyes of Cherry Diggings. HE OWSED HIS FLY. By and by the baldheaded man, who had been asserting that the world was created at least half a million years ago, and that no one could make him believe in the theory of transmigration, leaned back in his seat and sottled himself down for anap. 1 saw him take out an artifieial horsefly and place it on bis nose beforo closing his eyes, but it was a quarter of an hour before it attracted atton- tion. Then a'woman looked back and noticed 1t and said to her husband: “Samuel, do you see that! You'd bettergo and brush that fly oft that poor man's nose. It's a wonder he can sleep with it; bnt I 8'pose he's tired out.” “Yes, 1 guess I'll do that much for him,’ roplied’ tho man, and he rose up and wen vack. The fly was very quiot, and he ad vanced his thumb and finger and carefully picked it off and dropped it on the floor. “Wha—what is it?" asked the baldheaded man as he roused up. “A fly on your nose, sir." “A fly, eh! Whereis it? Ah!Tseo.” Ho picked it up and replaced it on his nose and said : “Sir, I would thank you to mind your own business! This is my fly. I bought him for 10 cents, Attend to your own fly and I will 1o mine!" Bo leaned back for anothor nap, and aftor looking at him in & bewildered way for half a minute the farmer returned to his wife. What is it, Samuel "’ sho asked. ‘Nuthin —nuthin ’cept if 1 had that feller down in our tamarack swamp I'd maul him 'ul'h'u couldan’t breathe for makin a fool of me!" ONLY A LAWYER COULD DO IT. He sat just opposite to me on the train,and from tho legal documents he was perusing I had no doubt that he wasalawyer. I looked outof the window as the whistle blew to note that we were approaching a large town, and a minute later feltthat the car was off the rails. A half open switch had done the busines We bobbed and bumped along for a fow vards, and then the car tilted over and went down an embankment. Wo were all pulled out of the wreck after a bit, and I tound I had w broken ieg and some lesser evils. I was laid on the grass beside the lawyer, who was for a time un- conscious, but” presently he came to and briskly observed: *‘Open switch—train de- railed—culpablo _carclessness--won’t settle for a cent under §5,0001 He scemed to feel of himself for two or three minutes to find out how badly he was hurt and then continued: “Worse than I thought for! It appears that both lexs and this loft arm are broken, and I think [ can also plead internal injuries. I'm good for six months in the hospital, even if 1 pull through, Damages not one cent less than $10,000, and dou’t be ina hurry to settlo at that figure There were people rushing about, st!ll en- gaged in tho work of rescue, and threo or four of us wero groaning and taking on close by, but the lawyer was in no wise rattled. He was evidently sinking, however, for his volce was much weaker as he said: “Papers, cards and envelopes on the body to identify it by, and they'll telegraph my wifo and snip maneled remains home by ex- press, Hurt worse than I thought for. Quite sure I'm golng to die. Will drawn and everything in order, and left note on my oftice desk for my wife to sue for §20,000 1n case of my death, Clear case, and jury won't be out five minutes. If ne sawd any more I dian’t catch it. I was just then busy figuring up my own dam ages and groaning away in four languages, By and by the people came with doors and shutters 1o carry us up to the depot. As two of them were reaay to picic me up I said: “I think the lawyer here 1s hurt a good deal worso than I am, and you may give him the preference. “‘Oh, he isn’t in a bit ofa hurry—he's stone dead!” replied one of the men as he took & brief lock. i It was a fact, and further, I was in the court room when his widow received a ver- dict for §20,000. AS THE FLAME OF A CANDLE. One who looked the crowd over as we waited for the train. would not have set us down as hard bearted and indifferent; butso Wwo proved to be, as a young girl not over 13 years of age, leading “an old man who was stone blina and very feeble, passed slowly around the room soliciting alms. They got a penny here and there, but even those coins seemed to bo given grudgingly, and those who gave nothing consoled themselves with tho reflection that the pair were frauds and really needed no financial assistance. ‘When they had made the tour of the voom tho girl led the ola man to a seat in a corner, and after a fow words had passed between them they began singing a hymn, Sho had a wonderful voice for a child, clear and sweet, and . his was a deep bass. The hymn was that entitled “Nearer, My God, to #'hee.” You have heard it by a full choir, accompanied by the strains of a grand organ, but you never iistened so intently as we did there. There was a plaintin that girl's voice which touched a chord, and there was a quaver in tho old mau's bass which sad- dened you. 'rhoy sung low and soft, aad they bad not finished a verse when half of us were standing up to see them botter, The girl kept her eyes on the floor at her fcet. The sightless eyes of the old man—her father—were raised to ths ceiling, and over his wrinkled face crept a glad smile as they finished the cuorus: Nearcr, my God, to Thes, Nearer to Thee, The hymn was vot finished whon every man began feeling for a cortribution and women opened their portemonnaies, It was different uow. They were no longer frauds and every one was zlad to give somothing. Two or three were ready to move about to take up a collection, but they waited for the end of the hymn. When it ‘came to the cho- rus of the last vorso the old man was singing away bravely. Half way through his voice suddenly choked and thie last two lines wore sung by the girl alone and died away in a sob and acry. Allof us saw the old man’s head drop forward und his body lurch, He would have fallen to the floor had not the girl soized and held him up, A dozen of us were there 1n a moment, but wo w.ro too late, Theold man's life had gone out as you breathe upon the flame of a candle and on his ashen lips still trembled the of the refrain: Nearer to Thee. A PARTIAL LIST OF M. QUAD'S PATENT RIGHTS. Baing still of sound mind, but not know- ing what a day may bring forth, I am pre- paring a list of the patent rights’' I have on hand and stored away for the benefit of my beirs, During the last thirty years I have picked up @ good thing in this line when- ever opportunity offered, and if my heirs displuy proper energy in developing these patents after [ am laid away, every one of them will raok with the mlfl\oun(m. Tho list, so far as 1 have had time to complete it, reads No, 1--A washing machine inventea to save all the soap, half the rubbing and a good deal of water, Makes washing more of @ pleasure than goiug on a huckleberry ex- cursion. Will suvo over £3,000,000 worth of ap in the United States alone in one year, and yet the patentes sold it to me for §300 cash. I have always folt conscience stricken for taking advautage of him, but my heirs need have no qualms. Valued at the low figure of $4,000,000, No. 2—A flving maenine to enable my hoirs to fly. Warranted Lo convey eighteen pass- engors and 2,000 pounds of baggage from New York to Chicago, and thence to St. Louis and return by way of Cleveland in nalf aday. The inventor valued this patent 000,000, butras I happened Lo cateh him Just as he was about to be sued for a twenty dollar board vill, he sold it to me for $750 . 1 advise my adminlstrator to value it at #3,000,000. This will swell my assets and not burt the feoliags of my heirs at all. No. 3--Perpetual motion machive. Can be used o shell corn, paro apples, fresze ice orea, husk corn or dose the childven with castor oil. The luventor was dying in a town in Nebraska wher I walked in on him and basely offered him §500 for all rights, He ac- copted it aud was able to be about next day, Had I discovered bim in Kansus, iu the full enjoyment of health, I should bave bad to pay o great deal more, It shoula be Listed with wy ussets at $1,500,000. The heir who ets it for his share is advised to add another rive wheel and srrange for it lo feed the coal stove, wind the clock and fodder the bogy. 5:7. 4—Labor saving machine for the farm- er. Digs the potatoes, feods the live stock, red notes ropairs the fences, kicks tramps, cuts corn, gathers pumpkins and Pull' turnips while he sits in the parlor and plays the piano. Would also go to town and pay his taxes if it wasn’t for the fonces in the way. Tho patentee val- ued this machine at 300,000, and when he closed with me at £350 there was a painful silonce lasting four minutes. 1 afterwards learned that he was homesick and wanted to 0 back to Omaha. It has not been unboxed 'or twenty-two yoars, but I am satisfied that my heirs will find all the pieces aud bless me for my perception. The estimated value is lainly marked on the box-—$2,000,000. I n{;e it won’t go for less than $25. No. 5—Anothor washing machine. You put the clothes and water and soap into the machine and then go to the opera and pay §3 aseat. On your return the washing is all done, the clothes dried and ironed, and you have nothing to do but sit down and won- der how our forefathers got along without any of these convenionces, There is no sav- ing of soap, but you geta good deal more opera than with any othor machine. I ran across the inventor of this machine on steamboat which was about to founder in a storm, but 1 suppose it was lnk\ngam-nnm;o of him to offer him $400 in cash and a life preserver—the only one to be found aboacd the boat. I expected he would try to back out when we wero finally saved, but he didn’t. This shoula be listed among my as- sots at §00,000. Can probably be arranged burglar alarm, in caso burglars are willing, No. 6—Another fiylng machine, warranted to fly somewhat fastor than the other one. I had no idea of buying this machine, but the inventor borrowed £100 of me and left it on my hands. From what ho told me about this machine before he flew and left it, I believe it will fill & long folt want. I think it should bo listed at $200,000, but do not wish to be captious. Would recommend my heirs to re- model 1t 1nto a fire escape, if not too much oxpense, No. 7- An arrangoement for holding a per- son down on a common table in case it be- comes necessary to amputate a leg. Con be arranged in ono minute, and there is no pos- siblo excuse for a surgeon amputatiag the wrong log. I bought this invention at an oxpress company’s sale of unclaimed goods, and labored under the idea that the box con- tained twenty-four volumes of Shakespeare, The inventor is uaknown to me, and I should liko to open & friendly correspondence with him and get some idea of its valuo. No. 8—A loom for weaving camel's hair shawls, I have been troubled in my con- science over since I bought it. The patenteo was drunk and I got it for §200. I had in- tended long before this to import a lot of camels and make them up into 8500 shawls, but have always been too busy with other matters. My heirs will find full instructions as to tho cost of camols, best mode of work- ing them up and all othor dotails. No. 9-*A fort intended for seacoast de- fense. Can be raised and lowered with a crank by any person of ordinary intelligence. Is armed with a gun baving a range of wen- ty-one miles, I bought this invention out of pure patriotism, intending to present it to Uncle Sam, but as ho refused to inorease my pension after a re-examination I withheld the gift. Would recommend my helrs to hold on to it as a good thing to have some fun with, Sure to astonish a chap twenty-one miles away, and no delicate gearing to got out of order. Can probably be converted into 8 windmill for pumping water and sawing wood, should neace continue too long, and only a small outlay would be necessary to turn it into a carpet beater or a lighthouse. M. QUAD. Ll oy ABOUT WOM. Mrs, Henry M. Stanley has becn busy writing amid tho bold, romantic scencry ot the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Miss Martha Morton, the playwright, 1s under 30 years of age. = Sheis a woman of medium height, with an interesting face and @ head covered with dark brown hair. The singer, Lillian Russeil, has a German maid who teaches hor the language while dressing and undressing her. Now York is sald to have moro widows than any other city in the world. London ranks second in the list of the bareaved, and Paris third. The widow of ex-President Salomon, of Hayti, who has lately died in Paris, loaves a daughter who is a stuaent of medicine, Miss Rosa Lee Tucker of Okolona has been re-elected state llbrarian of the two houses of the Mississippi legislature, and Mrs, Mary Brown Russell Day has been chosen state librarian of Kentucky by the legislature. Itis said thattwo poor Parisian women who earn a livelihood by making artificial flowers have hit on & process of dyeing natural flowers 1n brilliant hues, Public attention was called to the matter by tlorists who received in a lot of flowers some sweet williams of a bright green color. Miss Harriet Hosmer is to get $25,000 for Isabolla of Castile, which is to be nnveiled at the opening of the women’s department of the Chicsgo exposition. Mrs. M. 8. Ingersoll, a leader in the Boston movement for “rainy-day dresses,” says, id relating her experiences, that sha was staren at on the streetp but not *'‘guyed.” The foot- wear of this costume may be boots to the calves; loose, wrinkled, calf skin boots or leggings over ordinary shocs. vs. Belva Lockwood is an elderly woman of a distinctly matronly appearance. in fig- ure shelis quite portly, and her race is fair, plump and plecid. She laughs easily and talks well in a voice that has in it no trace of masculinity, and in fact thereis no indication in her domeanor of the vinegarish traits of character with which some people have un- justly credited hor. At a recont dinner party, at which Mme, Modjoska yielded to importunities to give a recitation in Polish, the members wore pro- fuse in their praise of hor eloquence and pathos until they learned that, having for- gotten the verses sho intended to recite, the fair artisto had merely used in her declama- tion the numbers from 1 to 230. But her fig- ures were turned with much polish, S Gustave Jovanovitch, the greates breeder in Russia, anda called the “King of the Steppes,” owns 600,000 acres of land and possesses mora than 1,000,000 sheep and 84,000 shepherd dogs. The new minister to Ecuador, Rowland Blennerhasset Mahaney, is a young man and & brilliant scholar. ~ While a student at Har- vard he had a serious controversy with Pres- ident Eliot, in waich the latter came out much the worse for the treatment ho re- ceived. James Whitcomb Riley's income from his roadings and recitations equals a bank presi- dent’s salary, while Bill Nye in 1891 cleared $40,000 from his apposrances on the rostrum. Max O'Rell and Will Carleton get $200 a night from thelr managers, and George W. Cable receives $100 every time he reads. Less than_ thirty years ago President Mo- Leod of the Reading railroad was a rodman on the Northern Pacific. fe is now the head of a 2,600-mile trunk line aud tho employer of 100,000 subordinates, George Washingtou is said to have de- clared toward tpo end of his life thav he never wroto but one poem, *That.”” said he, Siwas the name of my flrst sweetheart, Mary Cary, and she was a poem in herself.” Dr. Gatling, the machine gun maker, is 72 ¥GIN of age, but e does not let that little fact prevent his constant attention to desired improvements in his famous engine of de- struetion, Timothy Hopkins ought not to {experience any serious difficulty in keeping the wolf from the door, even if he do not succeed in getting any of Mr. Searle’s money, now that his Uncle Moses has left him §210,000 in cash and $100,000 for his wife and children. Whon Paderewski was in St. Louis re- cently the cloak-room in the hall in which he was 10 play bore & number of piacards in- iet your hair cut at the Southern" ; “Hair cut 15 cents at k'rench Market;” *Use Randolph’s r remover;’’ *Cut your hair while you wait at Brand tor- sorial ‘parlors;” and *Highest price paid for human hair Wiggins';"" and when the ianist advanced to the dressing table he lound a copy of the song, *‘Get Your Hair Cut.” The St. Louis papers hint that hedid not altogether relish the joke. Of Sir Morell Mackenzie, Kate Field says, in her Washington: The very men and women who could not be hired sing, ac or recite for the delectation of private audi ences assembled in grand houses gladly a0 cepted Sir Morell's invitations to dinner and volunteered to enteriain his guests after wards. They looked upon him as one of themselves, for all went to him with their ailments, and little would he ever accept in return, In his commodious drawing-rooms I have heard Irving recite, Toole tell a story, Arthur Cecll, Corney Grain and George Grossmith make the werriest music. There I have met Christive Nilsson and many other great siugers, all of whom were Sir rrnldl"l patients, and all of whom were his riouds. —— Dr. Cullimore, oculist to Mo. Pac, Ry GAY GENOA, CLASSIC ROME Mrs. General Urook;b.mowing Pen-Piotures of Two Histatio Oities. sdou A PERFECT PARAUISE. FOR PAINTERS. — Beowlldering Splendars §f the Ancient Me- tropolis of the Cmsarssihn Unrivaled Ag- grogation of Stately Blifices, Magnifi- cent Churches, Gorgeous Palaces, T Rowr, Feb. 12.—|Speeial Correspondence of Trr Ber.)—On issuing from the station at Genoa, one 1s confronted with a colossal statue of Columbus, a magnificent work that would show to more advantage were it placed in a more elovated position. KEvery- thing relating to Columbus seems of moro importance and interost than it did a fow years ago. Assoon as tho Italians know wo are Americans, and not English, as wo 1m- press upon them,they overwhelm us with po- liteness and kindness, In thoe cars, hotels, or whorever we are known as from the United States, every courtesy s extended to us. We might have thought before wo came to Italy that it would be a very easy thiug to whip Italy, but since we have been here and seen the number of her soldiers, particularly at Rome and Naples, where wo scé rogiment after regiment marching through tho streets, and where uniforms are as ‘‘thiok as leaves in Vallombrosa,” we begin tu doubt whether it would bs such an easy matter, To roturn to Genoa. It is much larger than we expected. Builtin the shape ofan amphi- theater, and rising from tiie sea 500 feot, it 15 grandly imposing, and the view from tho church of Santa Maria ai Carignano of the town and harbor is truly superb, Thore is o double line of fortifications—one inclosing the city, the other surrounding it— which st the most elevatea point have towers, which are fortified and give a picturesque, medieval effoct to the town, A Clty of Marble Palaces, Genoa_must be a vory wealthy city, is full of handsome marblo palaces, modern, many full of historic interest. The harbor is a semi-circular bay and is filled with ships of all kinds, from the little boat bringing fruit from Sicily, to the large ocean steamers bound for all ports in the worid, carrying their merchandise from lands of sun to lands of snow. Two very handsome old churches were the only ones wo visited. One was the oathe- dral of San Lorenzo, a Gothic structure dating from the eleventh century. On the facade is a marble sculpture of Sau Lorenzo being broiled on a gridiron,and higher up are bas-reliefs of Christ and the four evange. lists. A fino statue of the Madonna and Child in bronze decorates the altar. The most interosting relic in the treasury 1s the dish from which 1t is said our Lord ate the last supper. It Is of such great value that it is only shown once a year, and then the priest bolds it by a cord, so the faithful cansee and kneel in ecstatic joy and worship. The chapel of St. John tha Baptist is said to be the most beautiful part of the church, but in this holy of holies no woman is al- lowed to enter oxcept pn oife day of the year, a law made by Pope Iunocent VIIL, because a woman had been th& caude of the saint's death. Ttold the oldmonk who showed us around, it bad been 'So long ago, [ thought ‘mous autres femmes)” a$ the French say, might be forgiven, and ‘be permitted to o tho beauties of the clippel’ The interior of San Lorenzo1s exceedingly beautiful and graceful—a high circular dome supported by sixteen Corinthian ¢blumns, above a second row of columns. A very fine Madonna and Chiid is the gem of "the ¢hurch, and .is by Sansovino. The chutch is builv of white and black marble, in horizontal, strips, and gives tho building a weird” and gloomy appear- ance. “ An Impressive ‘Worl In Wood. The church of L’Apaunzata to us seemed finer than the cathedrat. It is filled with rich marbles and mosaica; and has several fino pictures, ono the Annunciation, by Andrea del Sarto,very fine,and a Madonua by Guido. The verger showed us the treasures of the church. One was a maguificent carv- g 10 wood representing the descent from the cross, There were six life-sizea figures besides tha Christ, and the verger assurca us it was cut from one piece of wood. The igures were so beautifully carved, so well painted, and so realistic, that we wero haunted for days by tho sad, melancholy and depressed faces. ~ This wonderful piece of carving is placed in the main body ot tho church on Good Friaay, surrounded by black draperies and a *dim religious light, to ronder it still more impressive. Ono of the finest picture. galleries in Ttaly is at Genoa, the ono of the Palazzo Brigroli, or Red Palace, as it is called. We cannot remember half the names of the painters,and not always the subjects. There was a picture of Christ and the doubting Thomas, which seoms to have been'a favorite subjact with the old masters, The coloring in this picture was marvelous, but the subject was 00 harrowing. There was a Christ by Guido, said to be very fine, a John the Baptist by Leonarao ~ da Vinci, and a gnrlrnib of one of the Brignoli family by Paul Veronese, which was exquisite in its tints, and the coloring well preserved,and a magni- ficent,grand painting of Judith and Holofernes by Carlo Dolci, I think, This_galiery con- tams works of Titian, Guido, Veronese. This palaco and collection were given tothe city by the Marquis Brignoil. Thorois hers also a very fine monument to Columbus, The finest and most interesting of all the palaces is the Doria, which is surrounded by a beauti- ful garden, extending to the sca. The archi- tecture of the paluce was designed by Piero del Vaga, wlom the Prince Doria employed when he came to Genoa, homeless and penni- less from Rome. Tho cypress and orange walks, the fountains, statuos, roses and col- umn 10 the garden and the picturesque views of mountain and sea fill one with quiet en- joyment, if it 1s on & pleasant, warm day such as we had. On a conspicuous knoll in the garden is the statuo of a dog, & monument erected by the Prince Doria to a aog pre- sented him by Charles V, That alone would warm oue's beart toa man, To reward a farthful friend, even though he wers u aog. Through Genon's Campo Santo, In Genos, too, we find what is_sald to be the fluest *“*Cam) Sanw” in Italy, and I cannot fmagine anything or any place more beautiful, Most of the monuments are modern, and of surpassing besuty and lovell- ness, There is a Capuchin monk, life-sized, standing in front of a sarcoptiagus, book and breviary in hand, so beautifully modeled that as we approached we expected him to put out his band in warniog and whisper, ‘bush.” The clothing was so perfectly chiseled that [ had to touch it to be convinced it was marble, and not \yhe rough cloth these monks wear, Another; @& woman bending over & couch whero a bent figure was covered, and sho gently’Hfted one ena of the cover and was lookinglp}v futo a dead face, was 60 lifelike one could almost see her vosom rise and fall sud thear her breathe. There must be some fing gnedern sculptors in Genoa. an bl ‘'he new (ienoa has ailing of broad streets similar to the boulevaris of Paris, but the old part of the city, and the fascinating part, has steep, tortuous agll’ Larrow streets, so steep and narrow uwy(i-lmo,'. inaccessi- blo to carriages. And, In these narrow, almost dark places ave born, live and dis thousauds who neverdfeol & ray of God's blessed sunshine wlllfl? Sheir homes, for the as it some the buildings are 8o high no ray of sunlight over reachos these narrow, dark streets, On our last afternoon in Genoa, we drove to the ‘Acqua Sola,” a park adorned with statuary and fountains, and from whore we have fine view of the Apennines, partly cover. ed with snow, the harbor, filled with ship« ping, and the euvirons of Genoa, to listen to the musio of the military band and soo the beauty ana fashion of the oity. It wasa charming afternoon and the wealth and beauty, as well as the poor and ugly, seemed gathered togother. There were many hand- somo equipages and many ofticors on borse back, as woll as many swells. I do not know whether they were (Jenoose or Anglo- maniaes, but I do know they wore swells by their dress and way of riding. Some of the women wore very handsome and dressed in the latest Parisian toilets, Tho pioturesquo peasant dress was only seon on the nurses. One nurse was gorgeous in a green dress with byadore strips of yellow, a magnificent, gold comb that stood up eight inches above hor hoad-dress of gay ribbons, and & white 1ace apron that would be the envy of & con- noisseur in old lace. Columbus in Marble, We could not but wish the monument to Columbus had been erected on the olevation. Then, as the ves- sols approached the land, it would have shone out like a beacon, as our statue of Lib- erty in New York harbor. Tho statue is made of white marble, with tne figuro of America kneeling at its feot. It is sur- rounded by allegorical figures reprosentin wisdom, forco, gaography and religion, an between these reliefs are scenes from the Iifo of Columbus. This mouument was erocted just thirty years ago. ‘We left Genoa with regret, but our hearts wore burning to reach the imperial Eternal City, a city filled with ghosts of the past, rioh ' in antiquities, fascinating alike in its medieval and modern works of art. Wo had charming companions from Genoa to Rome, a bride and groom from Dublin and an English officer, and we conoluded to travel at night so as to arrive at Rome by daylight and not miss the beautiful approach to the city across the Campagna or the first sight of the environs of the capital of modern Italy, the ancient motropolis of the Cicsars. Iarly in the morning, as the sun was rising above the sad and melancholy Campagna, wo wore awake, straining our eyes to catch tno first glimpse of the ruins of Rome, once tho mistress of the world, and first to break upon us was the Claudian aqueduct, which lends 50 much interest to the scenery of the Cam- pagna, and as the train rolled along we saw the Soven Hills, covered with modern palaces, where Rome still in her grandeuv sits enthroned. Tho railroad passes two very interesting ruins, the Aggen of Servius Tullius, which, when the railroad was cut throngh, uncov- ered o massive Ktruscan wall of im- mense blocks of peperino, and the temple of Minerva, As we leave tho station and enter the Piazza di Termini, we see some mag: nificent ruins, the baths of Diocletian, only fragments of them, but they serve to show tho splendor of Rome under the emperors. As we drive to our hotel, through modern Rome, the Rome built upon the Campus Marits, we see what the popes and potentates of modern times have done to maoke Rome, and still lmoP her the most fascinating city of the world. We can but sigh to sce how the hand of superstition has demolishied her temples and classic buildings, to ase tho stones to erect ugly churches and palaces; but it is Rome, The city that by temperance fortitude, And love of glory towered above the ciouds, Then fell; but fulling, kept the hizhest seat, And in her loneliness, her pomp of woe, Where now shedwells withdrawn into the wild, Still o'er the mind maintain from uge to age. Her empire undiminisked. Some one has beautifully said, tuat Rome is “not tho capital of a country, but of humanity.” Because the people” of every country, protestant or catholic, congregate here, not only because it is classio ground, for nero is found most wa have of antique ary, but on account of its mild and seductive climate. Thore is something dreamy and contemplative about it, _and every day, almost every hour, you havo set before you a rich feast of beauty in the lovely and charmiag drives, the churches ana palaces full of the grandeur of the past. Met Frionds From Home. . We have met many dear friends in Rome, friends whown we'did’ not know were on this side of the Atlantic. Among these friends is a charming, brilliaut woman, who has been eleven winters in Rome, and who knows overy block of stone from the Coliseuw to St. Peter’s. Under her guidance wo are see- ing Rome, and every day the mystic charm of the je ne sais quo of the city weaves 1tself around us, Among the fiiends we have hers are the Bryants, Mr. B. is the vice president of the Columbian exposition. He, with the com- missioners, is trylng to intercst the govern- ment, shich will not appropriate anything for a'display, Tho kingand queen, hoivever, are deeply interested, and ave aiding the com- missioners. Mrs. Bryant,one of the loveliest and most intelligent of our countrywomen, has been received most cordially by Queen Margherita.who has prormised to doall she can toward having a display of Italian works. The queen has & romarkable collection of Italian laces, which she will send to tne ex- position: she will also influence the lace makers of Itary o send their work. "'here s a question up bofore the Italian Parliament just now of great iuterest to us foreigners as well as the Italians—a bill to prohivit the owners of works of the old mas- tors from selling, Thereare so many im- poverished noblemen who cannot afford to koep up their palaces and villas, who are obliged to sell their colleotions, The motion has caused a great deal of discussion in political and social circles—whether a man has a right to sell his own or not. We were in Rome in time for the earthquake, and up in the fourth story of the Hotel Quirinale. We bad a |good shake. Lake in the days of Tyre and Sidon, or Pompeii and Herculaneum, we take no warning, but go on from day to day making our plans and living our lives as seems most pleasant to us, By and by ono big shake, and the vatican anda St. Peter's wiil be another Coliseum, another Forum. M. D. Crook. e Dr, Cullimore, oculistto Mo. Pac. 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