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CLOISTER TO HEARTH.
The Mexican Home of the
Lady of the Marigold.
Sht Hid Transformed the Austerity
of the Monastery Into a Fasci
nating Dwelling Place.
Her balr wa the hue of the purple
black space that aink away between
the brightest stare la the midnight
ky. Yoj caonot comprehend it, if
you have never teen an Andatutian cf
the purest type. We com pi red the
finest texture with it deep napped
velvet and masses of real Spanish lace
they were all gray against it mar
vetous sheen. A glorious mass of it
surrounded her dark eyes, and little
tendrils of it nestled on ber blue-veined
temples, and in its folds, heightening
its luster, rested a yellow marigold.
When the portero opened the gates
of her Mexican home and she extended
her welcoming hand, it was with a
grace that captivated her guest on the
instant. "It wag for this that she had
left the hills of her sunny Spain and
come to live in the valley of Mexico
that she might greet us in her home!"
It was at Tlapam, once the capital of
the State of Mexico, now a little city
rich in tradition and ruins, and the
new country seats of wealthy citizens
of Mexico City, only ten or twelve
miles away. But the house of the Lady
of the Marigold was not new. One of
its greatest charms was its age. A
long time ago it was a monastery, and
its enclosed passageways led to what
bad once been a prison of the inquisi
tion. As we approached its blank and
forbidding walls, we could not dream
of the hidden beauties within; indeed,
no one can ever guess at the possibili
ties of a Mexican home from its exte
rior. The great doors of thU one
opened upon a paved court, ornamented
with potted plants and leading to a
loggia on which opened the doors of
the house, and through which could be
seen the Inner patio, with its fountains
and Its flowers. Here, at the portal,
we met the Lady of the Marigold, and
followed her Into the mysterious rooms.
Though they are now softened with
the hangings and upholsteringa of mod
ern luxury, we could feel the solid
stones beneath our feet on which the
sandaled footsteps of the monks passed
to and fro for eo many years. The
winding stairs that led to the upper
chambers were broad stone blocks
worn In the middle by many footfalls
with cut-stone balusters outlining them.
It would have been a crime to carpet
this beautiful bit of architectural de
tail, as firm and as closely fitted now
as when it was laid, nearly 200 years
ago. In the walls were niches for cru
cifixes, and indentations in the stones
showed where penitential knees had
bowed. Here was the holy father's
room, and there the cell ot a recluse,
with one tiny window so high in the
wall that nothing could be seen through
it but a glimpse of heaven.
The Lady of the Marigold explained
all the apartments to us, and then
drew us to a window that overlooked
the garden. "I shall give you but a
glance," she said. "Come, let us dine,
that we may the sooner go Into the
garden; its beauties cannot be seen
from here. In Spain we say: 'What Is
woman's life without a home, and what
is a home without a garden?' "
When we went out through the glass
doors that led from the dlning-hall to
the inner patio, here extended into a
garden, the scene was like fairyland.
The palms of this sheltered spot were
the palms we read about, the feathery,
umorageous leaves of the pictured palm
and the palm of the patio not the
storm-riven tree of the wayside. And
the banana-leaves were broad and
smooth not torn into combs of ragged
green, but glistening in the sun and
newly washed in the spray of the foun
tain. Luscious roses crowned the little
rose trees that bordered all the walks,
and clematis clambered in great wild
clusters on the walls. Beside the walk
along which we passed were a score of
wood pigeons in a vine-covered aviary,
and conversing with them of their
Jtfrs. Viola Emory
Indigestion, Cramps
Es the stomach, dyinepsla and catarrh of th
waif, caused my wlfa trtHnfferin. Stat has
en taking Hood's Sariaparilla and now has
Hood
' Sarsa-
parilla
on of these symptoms,
sm Improrad In look
Mdwalgbt I hart alio
taken Hood's Sariapa
Cures
rilla (or S)crfala ant Gcaeral Debility
with much benefit. I am satliDed Hood's taraa-
Earllla ! a splendid teste and blood purifier.
Immham P. Kmbt, 4I Slith 81, Portland. Ore.
Maad't Mil car all Uver Ilia, BUlonjneu,
llded captivity and her own freedom
, this world of beauty, was a gay )aro-
'vjuet, balanced on a vine-wreathed ped
esUl, and holding a broken pomegran
ate in one claw. Vine hung on every'
thing; around a fantastic grotto that
the dainty hands of the Lady of the
Marigold had themselves helped to
build of the variegated lava rock pe
cullar to this volcanic country, and all
over a rustic arbor, framed of native
bamboo and hung inside with the all
very Spanish mii. In one end of this
bower a fountain tinkled, Its basins
filled for the occasion with cut flowers
and in the other end a tea-table invited
to rest and refreshment. The dwarf,
sleek, black Indian peons of the place
brought nosegays of heliotrope and
violets as we sat and drank tea and
laid them quietly by our cups. So
skillful are they when they are taught
the ways of indoor life, and so like bur
nished bronze do they look when they
are reclaimed from the mountains and
accustomed to the bath.
After the tea we went on to the far
thest end of the garden, through the
now almost forbidden gates, into the
paved and willed passages that lead to
the halls of the Inquisition. There we
saw the cramped cells, the narrow cor
ridors, the blood stains, the old instru
ments of torture riveted to the walls
and floors, the black opening that led
to the dungeons, the crucifixion on the
walls, and the crumbling confessionals
and thanked heaven that put an end
to this bloody tribunal. From 1527 to
1820 the Spanish Catholic Inquisition
was the terror of Mexico; and within
the walls of lis prisons, in the City of
Mexico, here at Tlapam and in other
places, the "pestilent Lutherans," and
many poor souls who had never heard
of Martin Luther, were burned or
otherwise tortured to death. By a
royal order the native Indians were
exempt from this dread power, but
long before it was abolished it was dif
ficult to draw the line between Indians,
Spaniards, and Mexicans. Oneof ti e
last acts of the band of merciless priests
who carried out the rulings of the In'
quisition was to put to death the pa
triot Morelos himself a priest, but
condemned as an "unconfessed heretic'
and shot.
To leave the place that called up so
many gloomy reflections and enter
again the beautiful garden was a real
joy; and we involuntarily drew .long
breaths of the heavenly air and clus'
tered about an old tree on which our
hostess laid her hand.
"In this tree top," she said, "under
a rude shelter made by his own hands,
and not larger than Diogenes' tub, a
monk lived for a quarter of a century,
never once descending to the ground,
so the legend says, but night and day,
In sickness and in health, keeping his
lonely vigil in penance for his sins.
When at last he failed to respond to
the call of the monk who brought his
food, they climbed up to his eyrie and
found him dead. He was buried with
great honors, as one having expiated
all his sins and worshiped God unremit
tingly."
To one unacquainted with the skilled
agriculture of the Mexican people, the
gardens are a never-ending surprise
Almost Japanese is the magical effect
of their methods. Here were rows of
trees planted seven years ago now
20 feet high, with the tiny irrigating
ditch close beside them, while a few
yards away were other rows of the
same variety, planted at the same time,
but not more than two feet high, as
symmetrical and apparently as vigor
ous as the larger ones, but dwarfed by
the expert pruning of both root and
branch. Though It was said that a hen
the brothers of this monastery died
they were taken away to be buried in
the pantheon of the cathedral, the
earth of this lovely garden was always
turning up bones; it bad never been
digged that poor Yorick's skull had
not grinned at tha diggers, and cross-
bones were intermingled with the roots
of the oldest trees. Whose were they?
Alas, the tales that these abandoned
homes of the old orders of the church
might unfold ! The closed pages would
be too sorrow-laden to read if we had
the power to open them up.
When night comes it comes apace in
Mexico, and we had yet to return to
the city. "But you have not seen the
view from my housetop!" cried the
lady. "It is the finest of all!" Again
we followed the yellow gleam of the
marigold through the dim corridors,
up the stone stairway to the housetop.
The vision that burst upon us there no
pen can portray; it was sublime. High
in the heavens rose the peaks of Popo
catapetl and Ixtacaccihuatl, covered
with their everlasting snows, now
glistening with the rosy light of the
declining sun. A long sunset cloud
cast its shadow at their feet and deep
ened the purple mists that always cling
about them and seem to disconnect
these two great volcanoes from the
earth. Look toward them when one
will, they are like great steadfast sen
tinels in the sky, so fear above and be
yond the other mountains of Mexico,
but on this night they were illumined
by the light that overleaped the cloud
In the we3t until they were indeed glo
rified. Behind them the blue sky of
this wonderful clime spread a great
pure background for their showing,
and between them and us lay the peace
ful and beautiful valley of Mexico. We
drank deep draughts of the scene, so
long to b) remembered, never to be re
peatedfor such a mountain view is
not vouchsafed to mortal eyes more
than once la a lifetime.
We turned to bid farewell to our
hoet and hoeteis. TLe first, a Scot of
the Scots, bearing the name of Stuart
moot graclouely and rightfully, being
a lineal descendant of that royal line.
and sharing it with the Lady of the
Marigold, whom he bad brought a a
briJe from the old to the new Spain.
Instantly her dep eyes and her glori
ous hair reclaimed us and we aaktd,
sure of being confirmed In our belief:
"Do you always weir a marigold in
your balr?" And she said: "In Spain
a lady always wear a flower in ber
hair." Mrs. J. K. linden in Kuhsm
City Star.
IX HOXOtt OF UEOKUE.
Patriotic Sons Indulge In Spread-Eagle
Oratory.
The Patriotic Order Sons of Ameri
ca fittingly observed Washington s
birthday, yesterday, in this city.
Nearly half a hundred delegates from
all parts of the state were present.
This order, as a standard of its loyally,
always observes Washington's birth
day at its yearly anniversary. The
meeting was held at the hall on the
corner of Bloomlngton and Franklin
avenues. The following state officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
President, T. G. Walther, St. Paul;
vice-president, H. A. C. Thompson,
Hopkins; master of forms, George F.
Gordon, Minneapolis; recording secre
tary, W. A. Lowell, Minneapolis;
treasurer, R. M. Gray, MlnneaKlis;
lnspoctor, William Harding, Hopkins;
guard, H. A. Morse, St. Paul;cbapljin,
Rev. C. E. Hixon, Minnearo'ls, Jay A.
Hover, Minneapolis, and D. C. Smith,
St. Paul.
Last night the local and visiting
delegates assembled at the Guaranty
Loan restaurant to enjoy the yearly
banquet. Good speaking and patriotic
songs were Indulged in. E. O. Bonn!-
well acted ai toast master. Toasts
were responded to as follows: n "Our
Country," George F. Gordon; "True
Americanism," Rev. S. G. Arnett;
Are We Patriots," Dean W. S.
Puttee. Minneapolis Jim mul.
Education.
"Education outside the control of
the Roman Catholic church Is a damn
able heresy." Pius IX.
Must we therefore believe that all
who refuse to receive idolatrous in
struction from Rome are the greatest
of heretics and should bo consigned to
perdition? But who made the Romh-h
church or the pope the autocrat of the
world? Where is the proof that one
man or succession of men, seated in the
fabled chair of St. Peter, have the
right to absolute supremacy over
church and state and are higher than
all the kings of the earth? This is the
blasphemous claim of Leo XIII to-day,
hence, he is putting his nose into all
the affairs of the world and embroiling
the nations in political strife. Paul
describes the popes, "Who opposeth
and exalteth himself above all tnat Is
called God, or that is worshiped,"
claiming for his edicts, authority
higher than the Word of God. JHenco,
when the civil government performs
Its duty by providing for the liberal
education of the youths of the land,
that they may be taught morals and
principles of good citizenship, the
popes hurl their anathemas at such
patriotic work of the government and
pronounce it a "damnable heresy!"
Civil government Is a divine institu
tion, and has authority to govern and
power to punish evil-doers. The
power that has a right to govern, has
a right to teach. Has civil govern
ment the right to demand rectitude
and morality of her subjects, but no
right to teach them morality? Go
away with your pagan nonsense, Pope
Leo! If you were over here and did
not behave, Uncle Sam would put you
in the lockup, and if you did not know
how to behave according to the morals
of a free, Christian nation, he would
put you in the ''little red school house"
awhile, and when you had graduated
there, we would take you to a Protes
tant Sabbath school and teach you that
it is murder to kill people because they
protest against the- abominable idola
try of popery and that the inquisition
is not a divine institution and its In
struments of torture not a means of
grace, but diabolical mode of "wear
ing out the saints of the Most High."
The papal claim to supremacy is the
"mystery of iniquity" which began to
work in Paul's day and which he said
would come to a head in the revelation
of the "man of sin," the succession of
popes. Rome is maintaining this same
character to-day and if there is "dam
nable heresy" on earth, it is popery.
It is the personification of all that is
cruel, tyrannical an abominable.
Rome in the Scriptures, is called "the
mother ot harlots and abominations of
the earth." Rome claims the mo
nopoly and control in everything, even
in business, 60 "that no man might buy
or sell, save he that had the mark, or
the name of the beast or the number of
his name," papists have even the mo
nopoly of begging, priests, nuns and
tramps are in the business. Oh,
shame!
Rome's ambition is to get control of
education, and by that means get con-
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trol of the nation. She cares nothing
for the education of the masses, she
does not want them educated. The
illiteracy of all Roman Catholic na
tions is the evidence of this. But she
wants to break up our free school sys
tem and direct tha education of our
xbuth so as to make them her vassals
and the victims of her sorceries and
get the reins of government in her
bands. Rome knows that our school
system Is one of the strong bulwarks of
our nation. It Is in ber way to the
"White House," You canr.ot enslave a
man properly educated and who knows
his resp mslbllity, duties and rights.
If the people of the world were In
structed in the true principles of civil
and religious liberty and knew their
rights, evjry despot would be burled
from his throne, and every system of
false religion and superstition would
be swept from the world. Thst Is what
Rome is afraid of. Despots and us
urpers have eo power when the people
are rightly taught and know their
rights. Rome fears the light. She
can make her Jesuitism and hypocrisy
work among heathen and a depraved
and illiterate populace, but she cannot
face Christian intelligence. She fears
the declples of Luther and Calvin more
than the thunders of Sinai or the fires
of purgatory. Stop a little, a priest is
not afraid of purgatory, because he
knows that it is a forgery and is only a
machine to get money out of ignorant
victims.
If the American people, generally,
knew what they ought to know and
might know, Rome could not buy our
politicians, senators and presidents.
Shad-bollied priests would not grow
fat on luxuries and liquors of sectarian
institutions, supplied by money drawn
from the treasury of the United States.
The prophet' Daniel, chapter vll.,
struck it when he said of the "little
horn," that his "look was more stout
than his fellows." Rome has the brass.
Why lavish money on sectarian Rome,
which Is trying to overthrow our In
stitutions? Why not go round all of
the religious sects? If all the Protes
tant churches should do as Rome does,
where would the Government get
money to supply the demand of so many
publ ic blood-suckers? But the Ameri
can people are learning, the A. P. A. is
educating them. They are learning
what should have teen learned forty
years ago. A criminal indifference
has given Rome a chance to steal a
mar ch on up, but she will not find it so
easy to ply her craft on Americans in
the future. When the world ceases to
"won der after the beast" and get their
eyes open, Romanism is done up. She
who sings, "I sit a queen, and am no
wi dow and shall have no sorrow," will
be overwhelmed by the judgment of
God and the rath of men: Rome, the
Vatican, with all ita treasures, will be
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consumed, and the beast and false
prophet will be driven from the earth.
Calvin.
No More Religion Bequests.
At almost every session of tho Mary
land legislature bills are introduced to
sanction the bequest of some pious per
(on to a religious institution. Senator
Johnson has introduced such a hill this
fesslon in regard to the legacy of Mrs.
Hubbard to Spedden's church, in the
Neck district. The circumstance calls
attention to a peculiarity of the Mary
land law. which forbids any land from
being sold, given or devised to a re
ligious body or for religious use with
out tLe concent of the legislature; nor
is any priest, clergyman or preacher of
any seliglous Beet permitted to occupy
a seat In the general assembly.
Of all the states in the Union, Mary
land is the only one which has such a
law, and it had Its origin in early
colonial days, as far back as 1611, only
seven years after the settlement of the
colony, as a result of difficulties be
tween the lord proprietary and the Jes
uit priests.
It seems that various Indian chief
tains, in gratitude to the missionaries,
had bestowed upon them large tracts of
land, and the Jesuits were disposed to
claim exemptions from the operations
of the common and statute law of the
province, holding themselves answera
ble only to the canon law and to ec
clesiastical tribunals. Lord Baltimore,
though a Romanist, at once took issue
with this position, and took the ground
that all his subjects, clerical as well as
lay, were subject to the common law,
and that no lands should be held in
mortmain. He took steps to have the
Jesuits recalled, but receded from this
position upon their executing a release
to the lands they had acquired from
the Indians. For future protection, he
issued an order that no corporation, ec
clesiastical or lay, should acquire land
without the consent of the proprietary.
The action of the first Lord Baltimore
left a permanent imprint upon Mary
land legislation.
That Statue.
Editor The American: In a ac
cent article written by Elia W. Peattie
she takes occasion to criticize the ac
tion of Congressman Linton and the
A. P. A. of Peoria, 111., when they ob
jected to the placing of the statue of
Marquette in statuary hall, along with
that of such men as Lincoln.
It may be that something besides hot
rage and ingratitude prompted the ob
jections of the gentleman from Mich
igan and Illinois. There are princi
ples that are dear to the heart of every
true American, and which brook no
encroachments without protest.
A peep into the misty past shows
that at the beginning of the seven
0
teenth century the French wore the
trading Catholio power of Europe, the
English the leading Protestant nation.
With the early settlement of this coun
try there begin k contest between
these powers for supremacy. The Jes
uit fathers Marquette, LiSalle, Jollet,
Hennepin and others carried the Cath
olio faith all over the western country.
They by craft and cunning secured the
aid of the lavages In their warfare
against the Protestant colonies. Every
student of history Knows of the terri
ble struggles tbat followed. The
French succeeded fo well In convert
ing the Indians to their faith that It
seemed for a time as though the Eng
lish colonies would hardly survive. If
the Jesuit brought a message, of love,
it brought forth curious fruit. When
we honor Marquettefas an explorer, we
must honor him as a Jesuit priest. His
life was too closely linked with the
work of his order and church to be
separated. Like his cowl and robe,
they were a part of his existence. He
came to America t' establish the creed
of his people. If he broke down the
superstitions of the Indian, he substi
tuted hi own, which were scarcely less
dangerous than their. He sought to
perpetuate a faith that has ever been
a men ice to the fre3 and non-sectarian
educatioa of the masse. He belonged
to a class of people whojfought the
freedom of conscience as bitterly as the
Indian did the advent of the white race
on the American continent. When ho
penetrated the wilderness, it was not
to lay the foundation of a state that
would give us a Lincoln. If he and his
co laborers had succeeded in establish
ing their religion 'universally, there
would have been no Lincoln and no
call for one.
Wh.n we compare this man's work
and object In life with the broad and
noble nature of our Washington, our
Lincoln, and many others we might
same, it is no wonder that our patriots
rebel at the thought of his statue being
placed among theirs, in the presence
of the high dignitaries of the church
for which he so zealously labored. We
may be ungrateful, but we are grate
ful to Almighty God that these same
dignitaries do not rule our country.
Contributed.
Too True.
They say that Cullom of Illinois, an
old Know-nothing and a present A. P.
A., is to be tho St. Louis nominee for
president. It is he or Linton. Linton
the more deserves it. He has voiced
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