The times., 1901-03-10

man Catholics should take the oath of
allegiauc, TO the King of England. and
should then bs preserved from any dis
tuyhanCe o1 account of tn. IT r-hSi"h.
( This provision was adhered To by VI Ill am
III. hut was broken hy Queen Anne, since
which time Limerick has r,cti.ei the
souhriquct of-"Thc city IF the Violated
| Treaty
The Aztec calendar. cut in stone, pre-
served for centuries from destruction Is
/ now built into the walls Of tho CaiheifaI
Of Aiozico lt was carved IN the me, yt4r ~.
1872 s. d.. and brought TO the ancient tllf
OF TenOrh!iJtan. now AeNc'- nth /,
had nearly reached its destination IL
broke down The floating bridge on which
/ it was loaded. and was preetPitated into
the lake. The priest experimenting the
moving and many of his assistants Srre
drowned, but the great stone caien1ar
WIS IA 5sgi with difficulty from the water
and brought to the great temple located
by TizDc and Aluit-oth, where it was in
au-uratod with human sacrifices.
Not many years later this temple. with
many others. was destroyed, and the huge
/ calender stone and other objects Of
heather worship were buried i'm the sur
rounding marshes. as the best way to get
md of them. by order of the Spanish au-
th0rities 1t lay hidden for two cen
turics. until the L.. of December, 1870.
when the grade of the pavement IN font
of the Cathedral was lowered, and II was
brought to H-ht.
The Spanish Viceroy. then controlling
Mexican affairs, allowed the commission
ers of the cathedral to build 1t INTO the
sacred edlNCe on the condition IldI II
should bo preserved and exposed always
in a public place. It is now. however
held as the property of the National Mu-
scum.
The zodiac. or calender, wrought upon
the stone. is twelve feet in diameter made
OF a piece of basaIt of immense weight
F Tt gives a clear exposition or the uiElsloH9
of time as understood by the AzteCS
/ into cycles, years, and days. fitty-tWo
years constituted q cycle, the year Hdu
800 days, with five very unlucky inter
/ caIary days wholly devoted to human sac
+ rifca Esrh wear had eighteen months OF
twenty days each, and these months IouT
weeks of five days each, Ihe Gays han
/ peculiar names. such as Sea Animal,
small Bird. Monkey, KAN, lhfSe
J names did not reCur every week. but were
; as numerous as the twenty days of the
I month The points of the compass We're
named Reed. House" ''Eiint. 'Rab-
bit" instead OF our east, west noFth, ana
south. Thus an Aztec might say, 1 a'n
going House on Sea Animal which
would merely mean that he was starting
The months. it appears, likewise had de
sCriptive names thus the third mohil'
which correspondcd approximately with
our March was called Victims tl&Eed
Alive" while the more propitous tltle TOT
the sixth month. near TO our JulN, was.
"GarlanGs Of Corn ON the NeckS of idoiS.
IS their writing was pictorial instead of
by letters selected from an alphabet. theE
could give long phrase in brief space
Win q Tow auItlt tNl ilS tA oliNlA Ni'Ni'IS
Instruments.
JUTRNEYINGS OF THE AZTECs.
There is a painting in the Museum of
Mexico called the 'Wanderiuss Of the
Aztecs." It Is forty-eight feet long and
fifty inches wide. all in black, except that
the line Of travel is marked in red. This
painting gives the routes Of the Aztecs
from the time of their departure from
AztIan atlantis until their arrival in
the Valley Of Mexico. On the island. in
the land Of Aztlan. stands a troCaH, like
the temples of worship in Mexico The
chronology year by year is given, and
the various journeys made by the wan
dererS, with the principal events that be-
fell them. A short piece at the end is
torn of and missing. which probably de
picted the founding of the City of Mexico.
peep out from the windows of two an
tique gahled houses opposite each other
two stones remotely in the likeness Of
human heads about which the following
story is told. During the prevalence of
J the plague i'm Rotterdam all the people
living on this street were stricken except
two old men. who were afraid to venture
out. But from near windows they agreed
that at certain hOur every morning
each would look out of his window to-
ward his neighbor S. Day after day each
( looked anyiously for the other When all
danger had passed they met. and shak-
ing hands agreed to commemorate their
solemn "good-mornings" byereCtiug. each
men have long since passed away, but