The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-17


fe<t high were the gorgeous upholstery.
Tornadoes of ashes. Furnaces. seven times
heated, in which walked the Deity. Grand
march of God sounded by the aValanches.
The earth bombarGing the heavens. Dante's
inferno" lifted into the terrestrial. Maniac
elements tearing the clouds into tatters
and grinding rocks under their heels. That
night of June 9th, that awful night in New
Zealand. when the native settlements we nj
down under the ashes of bursting Tarawera
as completely as pompeH and Hercuaneum
under the burial of NesUvius, seemed to
play accompaniment to the words Ct the
old book, as much revered in New Zealand
as in America, an accompaniment in fun
diapason, an earthquake with its foot on
the pedal; The perpetual hills did bow
THE hills melted Ike wax The founda-
tions OF the earth We're shaken" lie
looketh on the earth and it trembleth!'
That downfall OF the New Zealand Ter
races was only a conspicuous circumstance
in the history of the world Mountains are
mortal, and they write their autobiogra-
paies on leaves of stone. An the mountains
of New Zealand were nursed in cradle of
earthquake by. a percentage OF rock and
glacier, and they will have their descend
ants. You cannot bury mountains unob-
served. There must be black pail of smoke,
and dead march sounded by orchestra of
elements, and thundcrs tolliug at the pass
ing funeral of hills, anu spade of fire to
dig their grave and the discharge of all
Heavens Artillery
at their burial and the solemn and over
wheimng Iitany sounded: Earth to earth,
ashes to ashes. dust TO dust!'
You see it will be well for biologists to
cone to New Zealand. OrnithoIogists ought
also to come Last evening. although it is
here mid-wuter-Ne Zealands July cor
responding with Americas January, al
though far from being as cold was stand
ing near clump of trees which still kept
all their foliage and there We're bird voices
absolutely bewildcrng for numbers and
sweetness. If the notes OF the music there
rendered by the winged choir had been
written on each leaf the rendering could not
have. been more dulcct ana resonant. 1t
would take more room and time than pos
S,ss to describe the OrnithOlogical riches OF
New Zealand. First oG all, its extinct moa,
whose skeleton stands in the museum at
Christ churCh-a Winglrss bird, or only
apologies for wings. but ten feet seven
inches hilh neck like a giraffe, and foot
as wide as a camors. This moa the larg-
est bird whose skeleton has ever been re
ticulatcd. its eggs the size of a small band
box WHAT the maStadon was among quad
rupodS and the ichthyosaUrus was among
fishes. the mua was among birds. But
among the living birds in New Iealand's
aviary are the whale bird. black on the
back and white on the breast-morning
rising from the night; the hu'z. a sacred
bird of the aboriginrs-but all birds ought
to te sacred the parson bird. so-called be
cause the white feathers round its neck give
II the a,,ncar~ncr of white Choker;' the
bell bird with voice like
: chime from the Tower;
the New Zealand pigeon, three times as
large as the American pigeon and more
VNss4
Of wing and feathers on which to be beau
ttr,iI. fine ;pa. that wars on the sheep, fas-
teufnr itself on the back of the live sheep
and not relaxing but pecklng its way
through the wool and the flesh until the
sheep les dead and the be9k reaches the fat
around ire Kidneys. Tor which this Bird has
a special lupetite-a habit learned probably
ly prc.iuw 3t the butchered sheep around
tie door Of the shepherds hut; the storm
petrol like flake of the midnight; the
crested penguin: the paradise duck, its
name taken from the fact that its richness
If color sugs pSts The Edenic-and birds
with an wealth of feather and curiosity of
Jaaz and rcc"uricity Of habit and defense
,f claw, ana aud2citv of flight, and bearing
lll colors-the white running into crimson,
like snow melted into the fire, the blue as
r. in some higher flight it had brushed
lga.lst the heavens. or yellow as if it had
nestled amongst cowslips ana buttercups,
pr spotted ana tringed and ribboned ana
thame until there are no more fountains OF
radiance into which they can possibly dip
their wings ON! for some scientific gun
ner TO 90 for New Zealand what Audubon
lid for America. Eut what / never knew
before. the native birds are dying out be-
fore foreign birds that have been introduce
ed, ana the native.
Flowers Are Dying Ont
before The foreign flowers. Although now
Sew Zealand IS so abundant in all styles
of quaorupcd, il had not, when discovered
a single quddruped except the rat, and q
foreign rat having been introduced, the
aboriginal rat has already disappeared. The
English EraSS hr1&ght here has killed the
nauvc grass. The birds OF America, Europe
and ASIA imported here have killed tine
birds of New Zealand. All TIA" earth Las
been rausdoked and all The botanical and
icuthyulog1csd and oruithological and no
illogical words nave been called upon 10
make up the present ana the future %
New zealand.
a., CONS 10 this "wonderand' all who
want 10 see enterprise ana advancement.
l)aIy newspapers with scholarly men in edi-
tUrial chairs ana reporters capable of pump
in, news from the most reticcuU ana c,iu-
tiUus and make SPHINX speak. Two thou
sand miles OL railroad. over sixteen nun
bred schools with compulsory education,
building up intelligence Tor the present ana
anOrGmg no opportunity tor ignorance III
tnt. next century. I}athS, thermal ana cneul-
zeal miles long, and capable OF putting an
end to rneumd tiSln and SCatica ana in
VaIiGism that have deted the mineral by
OF the continents. Lake Iaupo,
SO deep that no plummet has ever touched
bottom, and occupying the hollow OF an
extinct volcano as a bright child might
lau TO sleep lu the bed previously occupied
by Il Srm giant. Yea, come To New Lea-
land, the naturaliSts, the artists and the
students % ui-ii and things and come quick
A. for nothing remains here as il originally
was except me mountains, and even the
mountains, as on the night of June 9, 1856
,vueu me wuus of The Terraces" fell down
al the blowing Of the trumpets of terror
proved themselves no longer to be the
"everiastias hiils."
r. DEWITT TALMAGE.
Peaches from California? Yes, and Mich
igan, too. All made INTO delicious short
cake with Dr. Prices Cream Baking Pow
der.
Mohammedons Attacks tho uindoos
bombay September ia serious riot has
occurred IN the city OF POOn1, in the Bonn
bay presidency, which may lead to further
outbreaks \ congregation OF Mohamme-
dans was praying in a mosque, Wnen a
Of HindooS, accompanied by ma
tive bands of music, passed on their re-
turn from their temple. The Mohammedans
became incensed at having their devotions
disturbed by the music. and sailed out and
attacked the HiadoOs. The latter were