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BRooKI.yS. ". ". Nov. ee.-It seemed
| as IL morning would never come We
| had arrived after dark in Athens,
| Greece, and the night was sleepless
| with expectation. and my watch slow
| ly announced TO me one and two and
| three and four o'clock; and at the first
ray OF dawn, called our party to look
out OF the window upon that city 10
which Paul said he was debtor. and
| TO which the whole earth Is debtor for
| Greek architecture, Greek sculpture,
| Greek poetry, Greek eloquence, Greek
prowess and Greek history. That
morning In Athens we sauntered forth
armed with most generous and lovely
| letters from the President OF the
| United States, and his Secretary OF
| state, ana during all OF our STAY in
that city those letters caused every
door and every gate and every temple
and evesy palace TO swing open before
us We PASS through where stood the
| Agora, tpe ancient market place, the
locality where philosophers used to
meet their disciples. walking while
they talked and where Paul the Chris
tian logician flung many n proud stone,
and got the laugh on many an imperti-
nent Epi Jurean. But before we make
our chici visits Of today we must take
n turn q, the Stadium. IL Is little
way out but 90 we must The Stadium
was the place where the foot-races
| occurred
We con now to the Acropolis. IL
| is a rock lbout two miles in circumfer-
encs at The base and 1000 feet in
circumference at the top, and 800 feet
| high. Or it has been crowded more
elaborate architecture and sculpture
than In any other place under the
whole heSvens Originally a fortress,
afterwnrt n congregation of temples
and statuss and pillars. their ruins an
| enchantm emit from which no observer
| ever bres KS away. No wonder that
Aristides shought 1t the center Of all
| things--(iseece the center of the
| world: Atica the center OF Greece:
Athens, TIE center OF Attica, and the
| Acropolis the center OF Athens
Earthquakes have shaken IL; Verres
| plundored H.
The TuKks turned the building into
powder magazine where the Vene.
tian gups dropped fire that by explo.
sion ser. the columns flying in the air
| and falling cracked and ,splintered.
But after ell that time and storm and
war and iconoclasm have effected, the
Acropclts IS the monarch OF all ruins,
and btyae IL bow the learning, the
genius tho poetry, the art the history
OF the rFs4 / saw 1T as 1t was thou
sands G years ago.
Nondcr behold the pedestal OF
Agrippa, twenty feet high and
twelve feet square. But the over
shadowicg wonder of all the hill is
the Parthanon. In days when money
was ten times more valuable than now,
il cost $1,000 IL is a Doric grand
eur, having forty-seven columns each
column thsrty-four feet high and six
feet Two inches in diameter. Wondrous
observation-disclosures Painted porticos.
arch ltravss tinged with ochre, shields
Of pold hung up. lines OF most
delicate curve, figures of horses
and meu and women and gods,
oxen ou the way TO sacrifice,
statues o. the deities Dionyslus, Prone
theus, llermes Demeter. Zeus. Hera,
Poscidon; in one friele twelve divini-
ties; centaurs in battle; weaponry from
Marathon: chariot OF night: chariot OF
the moriing; horses of the sun. the
fatss, this furies; statue OF Jupiter hold
ing in his right hand the thunderbolt
silver footed chair In which Nerxes
watched the battle of Salamis only q
few miles away. Here Is the colossal
statue of Minerva in full armor. eyes OF
gray -colored stone, figure OF Sphinx.
on her head, grifiins by her side (which
are lions with eagles bcakl. spear Ia
one hand, statue Of Liberty in the
other, shield carved with bat.
tie scenes, and even the slippers
sculptured, and tied on with
thongs of gold. Far out at sea the
sailors saw the statue OF Minerva ris.
ing high above all the temples, glitter
ing ia the sun. Here are statues OF
equestrians, statue OF lioness, and
there are the traces, and yonder a
horse In bronze There is a statue
said In the time OF Augustus 10 have
of its own accord turned around
from east 20 west and spit blood
statuea made out of shields conquered
in battle; statue of Apollo, the ex-
peller OF locusts; statue of Anacreon.
drunk and singing; statue OF OLYMPIC.
dorus, Greek. memorable for
thc fact that he was cheerful
when others were cast down, a
trait worthy Of sculpture. But
walk OF and around the Acropolis and
yonder You sec statue OF IIygeia
and the statue OF Theseus fighting the
Minotaur and the statue of Hercules
Staying scrpents. No wonder that
Pctronius said that ~ was easier to
find god than n man I'm Athens. OH
the Acropolis. The most OF ITS temples
and statues made from the marble
quarrics OF Mount Iestelicum. little
way from the city. have here on
my table a block Of the parthenon
made out OF this marble, and on IL Il
the sculpture of Phidias ] brought
} IL from the Acropois This speci.
men has on IL the dust OF ages, and
J the marks of explosion and battle. but
you can get from IL some idea OF
the delicate lustre OF the Acropoli.
when IL was covered with mountain
OF this marble cut into all the exquis
tie shapes that genius could contrivs
and striped with silver, and aflnmc
with gold. The Acropolis in the morn
ing light OF those ancients must have
shown as though IL were an aerolit,
east off from the MONDAY sun. Tn,
temples must have looked like retrifiet
foam. The whole Acropolis must hav,
seemed like the white breakers of tn,
, great ocean of time.
We next hasten down the Acropolii
10 ascend the Are opagus. or Mars hill
as 10 Is called IL took only. abou
. three minutes To walk the distance
. and the two hin tors are so near thai
. what ! said In religious discourse on
Mars Hill was heard distinctly b,
. some English gentlemen on thu
I AeYopolis. This Mars Hill Is a rough
nile of rock nftv feet hftrh n xva,