The Democratic advocate., 1878-03-16

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daHseuse, pirouetted aud clicked the cas-
tanets. In the background Phebus sal
alone, behind mountains.
Aphrodite, the goddess of love and
beauty, great favorite in New Orleans
burst upon the multitude en- graRde tenue
in cockle-shell boat, drawn BY swans
and attended by the Graces. She was
heralded by Cupid and Hymen, mounted
on the swans, and was attired la mode
She wore a gold circlet and myrtle sprigs
in blonde hair; gauzy veil; low bodice
gathered at the waist by cestus blazing
with jewels. She trailed skirt and long
and ample train of sea-green silk, caught
up with rows Of pearls.
lie Generate Boum was mounted on a
cannon as big as Krupp's biggest gun,
and wore military uniform, cuirass,
epaulets, shield, spear, Hessian boots, au-
burn imperial, an arsenal of weapons at
belt. On the Cascobel, Bellona Around
the cannon we're officers and a soldier clad
in semi-heroic style-arms Of all ages.
Diana was seated in a crescent-shaped
canoe, seemingly bent on impaling Orion
with an arrow from the CULVER at her back.
Mercury came as a commercial traveller
in a piebald jacket and vest, variegated
tunic, azure tie on his neck and winged
cap and sandals. He stood on a pile of
merchandise. In front were bales of
cotton, sugar hogsheads, m6lasses barrels,
and whiskey barrels. Seated on these
were cotton factor, sugar broker and
wine merchant, with implements of trade.
Bacchus was drawn in a car by tigers,
and carried on a lively conversation with
Bacchante by his side
Silenus ambled by, mounted on an ass,
and Vulcan, at work in his smithy, came,
surrounded by the Cyclops Pyracmon,
Heropes and Brontes, working the bellows
or striking the anvil, supposed to be forg-
ing the armor of Achilles.
Janus and the months followed, the for
mer on throne He had two faces
one sad and the other smiling. Around
him the months were represented by the
signs of the Zodiac-Aquarius in yellow
plug hat, inscribed "Total Abstinence, ("
yellow breeches and green coat, with COB
let and pitcher; Pisces, as a fisherman,
with rod and line; Aries in citron -colored
coat, slashed doublet, frilled shirt, knee
breeches and rapier; Taurus in prize fight
ing dress, with champions belt; Gemini,
an old gentleman in dressing gown and
night-cap, supporting on each arm small
baby; Cancer, in armor Of cardinal red
with sword and spear and a crustacean
shield; Leo, in scarlet costume, with royal
insignia; Virgo, middle-aged maiden in
variegated dress, broad -brimmed hat, lead
ing poodle-dog by a string-hair auburn;
Libra, another middle-aged lady in loose
gown, cap and spectacles, weighing a new
baby in the scales; Scorpio, a spindle
shanked gentleman, with long coat-tails;
Sagittarius, with cross bow, and Capricor-
nus in fancy costume smoking a cigar.
In happy sequence to the months came
Old Probabilities, on a rocky height and
surrounded by barometers, chronometers,
and other meteorological instruments.
Within was old Boreas, with white beard
and hair, shivering in a loose tunic; No
tus, black as an Ethiop; Euras, in manda-
rim yellow; Zephyrus, with butterfly pin
ions and garlands of flowers.
Vesta, attended by the vestal virgins.
came next, throned in the temple of inno-
cence and virtue.
Comus and his band came revelling un-
der the shade of canopy, Comus, wine
cup in hand, reclining on dias.
The Siren Choir next claimed attention.
Unblessed the man whom music wins to stay
Nigh the cursed shore and listen TO the lay.
Fly swift the dangerous coast let every ear
BE stopped against the song; It's death % hear.
Seated on rocky cliff, strewn with
victims bones, sat three Sirens. Their
feet were webbed. They were trying to
beguile the remnants of Ulysses band,
clinging to the base of the cliff, by play
ing on the concertina and accordion.
Gree was represented by voluptuous
young woman.
Momus came attended by scientific, lit
crary and art critics, for Momus was a
great critic himself.
The Gorgons and Furies next appeared,
the Furies with locks waving in the winds,
serpents twined about their limbs and
gore dripping from their eyes; Gorgons
looking at themselves in hand-mirrors;
Medusa in Dolly Warden dress.
The Fates were represented by party
of old ladies in white caps and spectacles.
Charon came as an old man with white
locks and steering his boat over the Styx.
This boat bore the legend, "To He'll
No Return"
The regions of Pluto were represented
next Earth above-Pomona, in charge
of fruits and trees; murky caverns below
Pluto and Proserpine and three-headed
Cerberus watching for Charon and the
Shades; 0rpheus searching for Eurydice.
The Supreme Court of He'll showed
Minos, Rhadamanthus aud Eacus seated
on a bencb-4Eacus holding a black book
with red border, inscribed ''Records of
Hell" Rhadamanthus giving judgment on
several prisoners, guarded by hell's sheriff,
a red demon with wings, tail, striped legs
and pitchfork. One of the prisoners was
dressed in Italian bandit style-girdle
stuck full of pistols and K K X (Ku
Klux Klan) on his hat-another a darky
in canary colored coat and .streaked
breechcs.
Tantalus, Sisyphus and Ixion were
among the worst criminals condemned by
the above court The tableau represented
Sisyphus as haggard, white bearded man,
dragging ball and chain; Ixion bound to
a wheel; Tantalus, head and shoulders ex-
posed, tied to a rock and vainly reaching
alternately for a neighboring pump-handle
and for pies of birthstone and cakes of sui
phur held under his nose by fat cook.
A fantastically dressed female, one Of
Plutos walters, torments him by exhibit
ing a glass and bottle of "Old Bour-
bon" Red imps with pitchforks guard
the convicts.
The heroes came in groups. There
were Castor and Pollux, Jason, Thesus
Hercules, Hippolyte, the Amazon Queen
I-Perseus in the centre, Theseus, clad in
the Minotaur's skin; Jason, a young war
rior in armor, brace of pistols in belt, the
fleece pendent from his shoulders, around
his neck string of dragons teeth; Her
cules brawny, red bearded man, wrapped
in the skin Of the Nemean lion and car.
rying a cannon on his shoulder; Castor as
a ring master and Pollux in the striped
suit of clown.
Paris and Helen now came, seated in q
boat under a canopy. Helen wore jew.