Year: 1878




the rest Of the Kurium treasures.
Dainty danes were those Cypriot
ladies, whose glittering gewgaws
are here spread out before us, and
whose vanity has earned them i'm
mortality. Mingled with the dust
of Kurium's proud temple are the
ashes of the fair dam S and proud
warriors and holy priests, whose
very existence was forgotten thou
sand Of years ago yet here are
their rings and their bracelets
and armlets and ear rings; the
puff boxes and paint cups with
which they made themselves more
bewitching and lovely to the
dandies of Cypress more than two
thousand years ago. To those
who read the papers and magazines,
it is not necessary to say that these
treasures were exhumed by General
Cesnola from beneath the temple OF
Kurium, on the island of Cyprus,
where they had been buried for
twentY-four hundred years. When
the Persian invader came down up
on Kurium, it's temple was one Of
the richest and most magnificent
in the East upon it's sacred affairs
had accumulated the votive offer
ings of ages; triumphant warriors
had brought to it's shrine the holy
treasures Of other lands, and wicked
kings, anxious to propitiate the
gods, had laid their crowns and
Jewels upon it's altary the virgin
and the matron had brought pre-
cious love gifts, and had earned a
blessing by hinging their treasures
away, and they lay upon the altar a
glittering pile, when the wild cry
of the invaders startled the priests
from their dream Of security and
peace. Hastily gathering the offer
ings to their gods, they hurried to
the strong vaults away beneath the
temple floor, and throwing them in,
iney closed the door which was to
open no more for twenty-five hun
dred years. Priest and warrior,
youth and maiden, old and young,
perished in the carnage which
followed, and the secret Of the
Kulium treasure seemed locked in
the bosom of eternity; hut, aided
by a special providence, they are
brought to light again, and here in
New York, we are able to examine
with critical eyes the dainty jewels
of the Cypriot danes of two thou
sand five hundred years ago. Nay,
more than all this, the great jew
eler, Tiffany, has made such exact
copies of their work that you can
scarcely tell them from the original,
and you can send them to your
wife or your sister, and she will
never know the difference.


The present season seems to be
devoted almost exclusively to art.
Aside from the Oliphant Exhibition
at the Academy of Design, and the
celebrated loan collection at the
same place, many private collec-
tions have been thrown open to the
public, and Brooklyn has her reg
ular winter exhibition. There is a
healthy Improvement in American
art; home pictures are now bring
ing living prices, and people are
beginning to realize the fact that
something good can come out OF
Nazareth.


Since I last wrote we have sent
another bank cashier to States
prison, and we have another bank
president in the Tombs. A horri'
BILE story has just come out which
may eliminate in the death OF a
beautiful young girl, and which ez-
poses the iniquity of our police
system seething with rottenness
and crime. Some few months ago
a young girl from the South came
to New York to seek her brother.
She was an orphan, young and
beautiful, and scarcely sixteen years
Of age; her little store OF money
was soon exhausted, and she adVer-
tised for a situation her ad7er-
tisement was answered, and she
entered a house kept by one Of the
most notorious Cyprians in the
town here she was subjected to
the vilest outrage, andrealizing her
desperate condition she sought to
escape. She was dragged into an
infamous den by 8 policeman who
should have been her protector,
who outraged and abused her and
drove her into the street. As a last
resort, sick at heart and weary OF
life, she took poison, and was found
dying in the public highway. Hu'
manity shrinks appalled, from the
contemplation of such an atroclty
perpetrated in open day in the
midst of churches and Christian
associations in the grandest city Of


the United States, and by one Of


those very guardians whose main


tenance costs US millions and mil


lions of dollars. An active investi


CATION is now going on, and We


hope the perpetrators may be made


20 suffer the penalty of one OF the


most atrocious crimes that has


marked the expiring year.


Before this letter reaches you the


sweet Christmas chimes will have
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