The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-17

wneIe were spread the Still majestic ruins Of
the temple which the Romans erected to Mer-
curry. The excavation is recent and partial, but
enough Is brought to light to place this
among the most imposing ruins in France.
me size and form Of many, chambers are re-
ssoredi long galleries are unearthed, portions
steps front the sun, constructed of massive
cubes ofshard stone five or six feet in diameter,
the outer edge worn of by the attrition OF
Ages; remains OF reservoirs and aqueductsre-
appear, built without mortar, but the stones 30
stones came from and how they were got into
place-these are are among the hard nuts for
scientific men to crack.
4 COLOSSAL STATUE.
here, upon this magnificent base, at once
temple and pedestal. stood, 1000 years ago,
the mighty bronze statue to Mercury, the god
OF commerce. seventy feet high, and second
only IN its dimensions to tho Colossus OF
Rhodes, Many of the works of anti guilty al
Of it: %
Inc statue OF Mercury, executed by Genodorus.
IN u city IN the Auvernes in Gaul, under the presi.
dencv of Vibius Avitus, surpasses, in the grandeur
OF It's dimensions, all gigantic statues made in our
day. 2
Pliny was buried beneath the great eruption
or Vesuvius--if my memory serves me correct
ly-about 10 of our era; and as the statue
seems to have been widely known then, it was
probably made considerably earlier, probably
under the Roman republic. before Julius Caesar
made his visit to this country. Tn writer
added that the statue was so excellent that Nero
wanted it removed TO Rome as a statue of him
self, but finally compromised by fetching the
artist apparently a Greek) to Rome and having
another great statue made there. For centuries
1t was worshiped. During all the holy days
assembled here, with great effort climbed
up to the mountain summit, and
there participated in the rites of a
fantastic religion. When Christianity came
Iay-,a1n a.. N l.
religions broke out fercely. They fought
desperately, and those dark centuries come
down to us in an unbroken chronicle of per-
%secution, blood and misery. At last tho church
was triumphant, and it celebrated the victory
by destroying every relic of the old religion it
was torn from its height aud melted up; only
bits Of it escaping to be preserved in the
museum OF Clermont, where they
known that the statue of Zenodorus was located
on the Puy de Dome, but a terrific blast of
lightning struck the peak a few years ago, tore
OF some everything vegetation, and brought to
light the RUNS of the temple l have spoken
of, with other great blocks bearing inscriptions
to Mercury and locating the. bronze colossus.
The puy de Dome Is also celebrated L. as the
place where Pascal "a native of this villsge)
discovered the laws of atmospheric pressure.
The view from the Dome is most inspiring.
North and south, along the spurs of the Ceven-
mes, stretches a phalanx Of twenty extinct vol
canoes, whose concsve %craters, now filed with
grass and flowers, are distinctly visible. East
ward spreads a vast valley, opuient with vege-
tation aud starred with white villages. Be-
tween the occasional woods the whole
landscape is divided into checkers of deep
green and light green and reddish brown; n
lake of golden lupin here and there, ard on its
shores a long, fiery splash OF peoples, as if the
bronze Mercury had come to lifo and drawn a
vermilion brush across the grass. And all the
scene, visited in detail, is full Of pretty brooks
and IMMORAL springs and t,.mbllng cascades
and lovely cool srottoes III the overhanging
crystal and basait. l know no pleasantcr place
in The world to spend the early months of
summer.
Clermont (of which Rozat is a suburb) &C
CURED 3 deicstable fame by being the start
ing point of the first crusaders. l visited the
cathedral this morning and stood on the plat
form where, in lO9S. Pope Urban ii. stood
and haranged his great assembly of cardinals
and bishops aud proclaimed the first crusade
for the recovery Of Jerusalem. And just out
side is a rock by the side of the high wall
whore Peter the Hermit waved his cross and
shouted his frantic appeals to go on that wild
aud foolish expedition. From here, too, a cen
fury later, when billions of dollars had been
quixohc errand, 1000 or 5000 unpro-
tected children started to go to Jeru-
salem and '.rescua the holy sepulchre'
from the Mol!ammedans, all by themselves. 1t
was supposed that God would guard them,
guide them, feed and clothe them, arm them,
and give them victory over ''the intdels;' but
they suffered feartully, were beset by starva-
ton, and hundreds were sold as slaves on the
African coast Few ever returned. There is,
nalurally enough, a good deal Of miracle
~working all about here. There is the statue of a
black Virgin down at the cathedral that works
miracles any day when it feels we'll, without
regard to race, color or y. C. of ., 1t is visited
by great crowds of the faithful every week.
4 n,y-. H.. -, 80 .-a e ~ ~
Virgin that was whitfield out by the
Prophet Jeremiah in his leisure moments,
that can work any kind of a miracle with neat
ness and dispatch.
THE SPRINGS OF EoZAT.
Still, there is a dreadful amount of incre-
dulity poisoning the minds of even the French
peasants, and when people are afflicted with
real bodily they skip the Virgin aud
60 for a mineral spring. The mineral springs
Il HoZat have been famous for 5000 years.
These waters are good for all throat diseases,
incipient consumption, skin diseases and rheu-
matism; but their specially is govt If the
dear reader has govt, let him come to Rozat
Rozat is death on govt. Enough govt has
been left here during tho last century
to. make cripples Of the whole army of Peter
the Hermit, If it had been absorbed uniformly.
All the peasants of tho Auvergne are noticeably
strong and agile in their legs. This is prob
ably one of the chief reasons why it occurred
to them to walk to Jerusalem, before anybody
else thought of such a tremendous picnic. The
bathing establishment, in the center of a large
garden, is enc of the finest in the world, con-
tanning lao baths, a large swimming bath, q
gymnasium, two bath rooms OF carbonic acid,
and equipments for inhalation, aspiration, pull
vcrization and gargling. In this park is a
magnificent jet of water, the Eugenie spring,
which bolls out OF the earth at a temperature
Of 80 deg, and with a force equal to that Of
$4,000 gallons in twenty-four hours.
A running stream is turned from this
hot geyser directly through each bath room.
There are three smaller springs in the park,
one of them cold, fenced OF like those of Sara
toga, and Two of them as agreeable to the taste
and somewhat resembling the Congress spring
there. These waters are arsenical, alkaline,
chalyDeate and chlorinated, and are somewhat
acidulus and effervescent. They are used for
both baths and drinking purposes.
A little ways from my hotel is a .Grotte du
Chen, y or cave of the dog, as remarkable as
that near Naples, which is always so full of
carbonic acid gas that a dog falls down dead
on entering 1t, and visitors must lift up their
Gus exhalation. There is also a spring of
water called the "'petrifying spring" that ap-
parently turns to stone everything it touches,
covering thickly with lime anything subject to
its influence. These "petrified' men, women,
cats, dogs, horses. etc, are grouped around
tie yard, quite cemeterical in their aspect.
THE AMERICAN HERE.
Some hundreds of Americans have been here
during the last year. Miss Minnie Hauk has
just loft, after toning up her larynx and cpl
CLOTHS with sundry tiitrations of this healing
water. Some score are here now, including
John G. Moore, president OF the Mutual Union,
and family; Edward Luck, q retired banker,
and family Miss Brewer aud the families
Cola, Ney. Lynn, Kelly and Parkman, mostly
from New York. The natives here
speak of America aud New York interchange
ably as synonymous; and I am not certain
whether they consider New York the capital of
America, or America the capital of New York.
Boston and Chicago they have never heard of.
Everybody here takes a bath, either for health