Connecticut western news., 1891-11-19
CANAAN CONN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 1891.

herd by the name of Pixodorus, while watching his flocks, saw two rams fight ing, and as they missed the interlocking of their horns and one fell, his horn knocked splinter from the rock and showed by that splinter the lustrous whiteness of the rock
 The shepherd ran to the city with piece of that stone, which revealed a quarry from which the temple was built, and every month in all ages since the mayor of Ephesus goes to that quarry to offer sacrifices to the memory of that shepherd who discov- cred this source of splendor and wealth for the cities of Asia Minor. In re- moving the great stones from the quarry to their destined places in the temple. 1t was necessary, in order to keep the wheels. which were twelve feet in diameter, from sinking deep into the earth under the unparalleled heft, that a frame of timbers be ar ranged over which the wheels rolled.
 To put the immense block of marble in it's place over the doorway of one of these temples was SO vast and difficult an undertaking that the architect at one time gave it up, and in his chagrin intended suicide, but one night in his sleep he dreamed that the stone had set tied to the right place, and the next day he found that the great block of marble had by it's own weight settled to the right place. The temple of Diana was four hundred and twenty five feet long by two hundred and twenty feet wide. All Asia was taxed to pay for it. It had one hundred and twenty-seven pillars, each sixty feet high, and each the gift of a king, and inscribed with the name of the donor
 Now you see the meaning of that passage in Revelation, just as a king presenting one of these pillars to the temple of Diana had his own name chiseled on it and the name of his own country, so says Christ, Him that overcometh will I make pillar in the temple of my God, and will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, and will write upon him my new name." How suggestive and beautiful
 GREAT WAS DIANA OF EPHEsUs.
 In addition to those pillars that l climbed over while amid the ruins o1 Diana's temple saw afterward eight of those pillars at Constantinople, t, which city they had been removed, and are now part of the Mosque of St. Sophia. Those eight columns are all green jasper, but some of those which stood in Dianas temple at Ephesus were fairly drenched with brilliant col ors. Costly metals stood up in various parts of the temple, where they could catch the fullest flush of the sun. A flight of stairs was carved out of one grapevine. Doors of cypress wood, which had been kept in glue for years and bordered with bronze in bas relief, swung against pillars of brass, and re- sounded with echo upon echo, caught up and sent on, and hurled back through the corridors
 In that building stood an image of Diana, the goddess. The impression was abroad, as the Bible records, that that image had dropped plumb out of heaven into that temple, and the sculptors who really made the statue or image were put to death, so that they could not testify of its human manufacture and so deny it's celestial origin. It was thought by intelligent people that the material from which this idol was formed might have dropped out of heaven as an aerolite.
 We have seen in the British museum, and in universities of our own west, blocks of stone hurled of from other worlds. These aerolites were seen to fall, and witnesses have gone to the landing places, and scientists have pro- nounced them to be the product of other worlds. But the material out of which the image of Diana was fash toned contradicts that notion. This image was carved out of ebony and punctured here and thae with open ings kept full of spikenard so as to hin der the statue from decaying and make it aromatic, but this ebony was covered with bronze and alabaster.
 A necklace of acOrns cOiled graceful ly around her. There were four lions on each arm, typical of strength. Her head was coroneted. Around this fig ure stood statues which by wonderful invention shed tears. The air by strange machinery was damp with de scending perfumes. The walls multi piled the scenea by concaved mirrors Fountains tossed in sheaves of light and fell in showers of diamonds. Prax- iteles, the sculptor, and Apelles, the painter, filled the place with their tri- umphs. Crmsus, the wealthiest of the ancients, put here and there in the temple golden heifers
 The paintings were so vivid and life. like that Alexander, who was moved at nothing of terror, shuddered at one battle scene on these walls, and so true to life was painting of horse that when Alexanders horse was led up to 1t he began to neigh, as one horse is ac- customed to greet another. One paint. ing in that temple cost $193, 75O. The treasures of all nations and the spells of kingdoms were kept here for safe deposit. Criminals from all lands fled to the shelter of this temple, and the law could not touch them. It seemed almost strange that this mountain of architectural snow outside did not melt with the fires of color within,
 The temple was surrounded with groves, in which roamed for the temp tation of hunters, stags and hares and wild boars, and all styles of game, whether winged or four footed. There was a cave with statue so intensely brilliant that it extinguished the eyes