Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-07-12

were not present when ii was adopted.
Thus it will be seen that the common
understanding TO which history and
art-notably in the case of Trumbull's
famous picture in the rotunda of the
capitol at Washngton-have ministered
is very wide of the truth, with referenc,
TO the facts, though it has made no mis-
take rs to the principles involved in
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The New Babel.
The Magazine of Art.
Here are airs of Marseilles and of
Pekin. The shops along the streets are
like the consulates of different nations.
The passers-by vary in features like the
slides of a magic lantern For we are
here in that city of gold TO which adj
venturers congrcgated out of all the
winds Of heaven; we are in land that,
till the other day, was ruled and peo-
Piled by the countrymen of Cortes: and
the sea that laves the piers of San IRAN
cisco is the ocean of the cast and the
isles of summer. There goes t.Ic Mex
lean unmistakable; there the blue-clad
Chinaman with his white slippers; there
the soft-spoken, brown, Kanaka. or
perhaps wait from far-away Malaga.
You hear French, German, Italian,
Spanish and English indiflerently. You
taste the food of all nations in the
various restaurants; passing from n
French priX-tiXe, where everyone is
French, 10 roaring German ordinary
where everyone is German; ending,
perhaps, in cool and silent Chinese
tea-house. For every man, for every
race and nation, that city is foreign
city, humming with foreign tongues
and customs, and yet each and all have
made themselves at home. The Ger
mans have German theater and in
Vulnerable beer gardens. The French
fall of the bastile as celeb with
squibs and banners, and marching pat
riots, rs noisly rs the American Fourth
of July. The Italians have their dear
domestic quarter, with Italian carl
catures in the windows, Chianti and
polenta in the taverns. The Chinese
are settled rs in China. The goods
they offer for sale are as foreign as the
lettering on the signbOard of the shop;
dried fish from the China seas; pale
cake and sweetmeats-the like, per-
haps, once eaten by Badroubadour;
nuts of unfricndly shape; ambiguous,
outlandiSh vegetables, misshapen, lean,
or bulbous-telling of a country where
the trees are not rs our trees, and the
very back garden is a cabinet of curl
osities. The joss-hOuse is hard by,
heavy with incense, packed with quaint
carvings and the paraphernalia of Il
foreign ceremonial. All these you be-
hold, crowded together in the narrower
arteries of the city, cool, sunless, n
little moldy, with the unfamiliar faces
at your elbow; and the high musical
sing-song of that allen language in
your ears. Yet the houses are of Occi-
dental build; the lines of hundred
telegraphs pass, thick as ships rig
ging, overhead kite hanging among
them, perhaps, or perhaps Two, one
European, one Chinese, in shape and
color; mercantile Jack, the Italian
fisher, the Dutch merchant, the MeXi-
can vaquero 90 bustling by; at the
sunny end of the street n thoroughfare
roals with European traffic; and mean
while high and clear, out breaks, per
haps, the San Francisco fire alarm,
and people pause to count the strokes,
and in tbe stations Of the double fire
service YOU know that the electric bells
are ringing, the traps opening and
clapping to, and the engine, manned
and harnessed, being whisked into the
street, before the sound Of the alarm
has ceased to vibrate on your ear.
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