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DOHIl.
(Copyright. 1901, by Krnnk CI. Carpenter.)
I.IOKJAKAItTA. Java, Oct. II. -
(Special Correspondence of The
lire.)- Away out hero in the
heart of Java, in the midst of tho
Indian ocean and live degrees
below the equator, are some of tho most
wonderful ruins upon earth. I have Just
returned from a visit of exploration to
tiw m nml niv ticn halts as I try to dcscrlbo
them. 1 have seen the Parthenon at nig was done when our ancestors in the i miy tor renr or stepping on poisonous co
Athens, tho I'orum of old Homo, tliu wilds of England and (Jermany wero tat- bras, ard we looked fearfully Into th!
myriad' ruins of India and the pyramids of Ing with their lingers, living In huts and darker shadows before entering tho ter-
.i ,.i 1.. .-.f t,,i", 'Plinv
are. scattered over a vasi leiruuij. puh' j ,,v..... .....u. ...i. in..,,,.!.- ... nu niui'inu ,1 inifniriii m uu- sn-jin m mi
nt them cover many acres and somo arc knew that Java existed. pyramid to admire the giant statue of
miles In extent. Tho most wonderful of Hut why did the temples not fall to pieces lluddha which sits there. its beautiful
all lies within a few miles of Djokjakarta, long ago? They He In tho heart of tho features were life-like and peaceful In the
It Is known as the Temple of Iloro lloo- tropics, on the edge of the octiator, and they moonlight. It seemed as pure and fresh
()ocr are washed by the most terrible rains on ns ihough It hail been carved yesterdny. and
This temple is the greatest monument earth. They have lasted largely through Wl, eoiild not realize Its age.
ever erected to lliid.llu. It surpasses tho their wonderful workmanship and nlso be- i'aHsi,ig up the steps wo climbed from
temples of Slain nml tho giant lluildhas of eauso they have been burled from wight terrace to terrace to one gallery after an-
1 . n. llfitlur fnrnat nnil nnrtli Thnv nrn 1 I j 1 wltti. .. .... . .
. i , C3n..,il
Unimkok. H Is more wonuernu uum uiu
Japanese creations In bronze and stone and
inmer tlinn nnv Huildb st monument in
China. Somo of you have Been tho pyra
mids. The greatest of them Is that of
niiWeti which covers thirteen acres and
upon which several hundred thousand men
:: . . . .
aro sa d to nuvo women ior iweiuy jriiun.
.. ,i i nf nnrn iioedncr
n i inn oU ' ' nr thnn
rTi01:!"3,0"1 V u , L uZ as ho
DOO.000. It is no Ito so Inrgo as tho
greai pyram.u, u.u mv !" -
Infinitely greater. I liavo climbed the pyra
mid of Ghlzeh and havo explored Its In
terior by tho light of magnesium wire.
It is a huge mass of stones laid up In
terraces In pyramid shape. There Is no
decoration, no carving nothing but grent
blocks of stone.
TIiimm' MIIch f CiirliiK.
This co-cnllcd Temple of Iloro Doedoer Is
nlso pyramidal, but It Is one mass of carv-
lug and statues. It Is built upon n vast
stono platform rising terrace by terrace to
a gigantic cupola more than 100 feet above
the base. At tho bottom it Is r.00 root
square and It covers, I Judge, from elgut
to ten acres of ground. All the terraces
aro decorated with statues and their walls
with bat, reliefs of wonderful carvings.
There are, it hns been found by actual
measure, more than thrco miles of carvel
figures, somo two or three feet In height,
somo no longer thnn your finger, and all as
nvmilultnlv nil no hniit.h nicked nut with
a knlfo by somo nattent Chinese. I counted
In places eight different figures In a space outside to co tho stntuo of Mcndoot, and could hear tho chirping of tho crickets, "'emo-l no larger tlian nogs, nun grauualiy u,,, K nt kneeled was llfteen Inches. Tho
n yard square, and such figures contlnuo then went on through tho valley until wo tho chattering of tho lizards nml now and "l0 Kteen fields were spottid with llttlo pnes were very grotesque, but sllll won
rlght along nronnd nnd around tho tcr- came to the great hill upon which tho tcm- then tho beat, beat, bent of tho policemen patches of white, the men and women who derfully lifelike, 'l in y have eyes about as
races, so that tho length Is about three
miles! Kvery figure must have taken weeks
to make. When It Is remembered that tho
work Is that of an nrtlst you can see that
a vast population must havo been engaged
upon It. Altogether thousands of lives nro
i,nttie,i .in in iim.n rnrvt..L.Htiin lives of
tho past telling tho story or their times to
tho present. Somo of tho figures nro won
derfully lifelike. Every face has a dlffer-
t expression and some smile ana irown
na inniipn nuvn
Lire In .lilt ii 1,000 Venrn Ako.
I can't give you tho number of statues
of Iludilha. Thero aro GOO largo ones rop- merit 'rom tn0 stops of tho rest house,
resenting him In n sitting posturo In the There la n wldo avenuo of kanarl trees
different positions he held when ho prophe- leading from tho hotel to tho tcmplo. Tho
sled, taught and thought heforo ho was trees ovorhang, making a great arbor reach
translated to tho Nirvana. There aro fig- ng perhaps half a mile to whero tho torn-
ures representing tho life of tho court nnd
common people of this Island a thousand
years ago. I went by miles of elephants,
peacocks and monkeys. I Baw all the vego
tables and fruits of tho tropics portrayed
In stono. Stono pcasnnts drovo stone but-
faloes as they dragged stone plows through
Among the Ruined
:i:Ni:it i,
tho stone fields 'llieio wcie stonu men
carrying Mono rice upon their shoulders
and Btono women bearing water Jars on
their heads as they did In tho days of tho
Scriptures. There were dancing elephants
and elephants carrying fans and state uui
brollas. The life of the sea, as well as the
laud, Is depleted upon the temple. There
nro snips ami boats In action, and, Indeed,
all tliu figures and scenes of the life of these
people a thausaml years ngo.
Yes, 1 mean a thousand years ngo! Kor
it Is estimated that these rums are at least
1,000 or l.nuu years old. The templet were
conslructnl wlun lluddhisui was at lis
height on this Island. This beautiful carv-
hoffll'n Alnerlfll WHS lllsfovereil mill I lint
ill!. Ill' Voflt'U Illirf1.il Mill (lil.l.ll.l ,lf l.'i.r.i,!,!
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The stones nro
Joined ns closely as the llnest mosaic and
tin ugh many of them are exceedingly small
they still hold together.
When tho lltuldhlst religion was over-
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fit nnosed that tho ncnnlo who owned tho
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temples buried them. In time trees grow
"I'Oti them and for COO years Ihey wcro as
""known to the natives of this part of tho
Qf 1uni jb1 to (ho
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Italians. The notch took nossession nf iho
Island and kept It for several generations nf tl,u Kreatest monument ever mado to
and did not discover them. Then the Eng. tlla Kods. At ono b1,1(! "a wcro ' vol
llsh conquered tho Dutch and during their noes, und all about wcro cloud-capped
short rulo In Java found theso temples. Sir mountains, tho plain nt their foot extending
Stamford Halllcs kept 200 men busy for nronnd the little hill upon which tho tem-furty-flvo
days digging out one of them Ilo stands.
and since then, tho Dutch having ngaln As we stood there tho full moon was Just
taken possession of tho Island, have mado oveiliead. Clear and beautiful, It seemed
further excavations.
l'min njol.Jn to Horn lloeiloer.
nut ct (,(,Hcrll)0 my trl1 t0 Uur() 00.
(ne(. , w(int ft hn)f h()ir by fM nn(, (liun
too,. n carrln(,0 ll!Uk,a ljy f()lr p()iea. i
,m), n C(mclimilll , f0lman nud tho duty
of ,,lc ,aUcr wn8 () j1mp trnm ,lja J)0cll
()l0 rlnr of lm) C!irrnK0 and thrash the
,,on,,a a Kallop at every long hill. He
Br.,nciimca allowed tho team to walk on
lho mit Ilcver wi,n K,,llg ,, or
,jw K,-ndo, and wo went nlmost on tho
Rallnp over one hill after anothor until nt
nst wo came Into a beautiful valley sur-
rn.iiuimi iiv miiMitv vnlcnnoos. Wn dnshn.l
through a village of bamboo huts, stopping
pie stands. Tho hill Is about ISO foet abovo
the plain. It Is Jtlbt nbout largo enough to
noiu tno teinpio ami mo government resi
bouse and It looks ns though it were erected
for tho tcmplo by tho hands of man. Tho
nnlx stopping place Is nt tho rest house.
There are but few travelers who get so
lar in lo uiu iuici.ui unu ua ou uuu w.io i-a
pected, tho mnnagor nf the rest houso was
absent. I found half a dozen servants,
however, and finally managed to senro up
a bed and a dinner of rice, fried eggi and
coffee.
I drovo around and nround tho hill going
up It, and got my first sight of tho monu-
plo begins. Ilotween tho trees nil along
this wido avenuo are gigantic stono Iludd-
has sitting cross-legged, with their feet ly-
ine on their knees, nnd I looked nasi their
pencoful faces through tho trees at what
seemed In the dusk of tho early evening n
might pyramid of carved grconlsh-gray
view ok tiii: tkmim.i: ok iiouo noi:noi:it
-tone. As It stood out aginns! tho blue sky
it npi'iiri'il in bo cut riom one solid block,
lis ruined ami broken condition being lost
In Iho distance.
Moiuillulil mi Horn llneilot'i
.My visit to the temple was mado In com
I ; 1 1 1 with a Dtiti-li l UII engineer who went
with me from DJokJa. After dinner wo sal
ami smoked until the moon rose, ami then
xtrolh d down through tile avenuo and took
our llrst view of the ureal temple by moon
light. We had the full in i of the tropics,
tinder wbleb everything about the temple
was plainly visible, lint softened and mel
lowed by Its rays. We had to walk enro-
tlerrn nvea nf n lleer alnrltit' nt nu
. otm.l.n.l i .1 .. (1... .(...... Itin
oinor, irncuw x no rnrviuRS uy tno mriu or
the moon, and at last reached tho platform
covering perhaps llvo acres, upon which
aro great cones or mounds of stones, In
each of which was a sitting lluddha. Wo
mounted higher and higher up rough stone
stops, and finally stopped on tho very top,
with tho vast monument below us.
"
Wfl
platca.
What a plaro for a lemplo or a lombl
wcro on a hill In tho center of a great
piaieau siirroiiiiueii ny iiinumnins, in an
ntnphltheatcr of the gods, on the very top
o I at U ooU.m ...w nu v h.
gl'uy work of I i co so inbnd u
gnty woru oi man onco so splendid, but
to
mighty
now fast falling to ruins. It touched tho
rough outlines with tender hands and ap
parently smoothed them out and mado Iho
great pile now again. Under its rays tho
lluildhas became llfe-llko. Tho lines of
carvings wero vivified and tho whole was
much more grand than when we saw it on
tho following day la tho glnrlsh light of the
tioplcal sun.
Tll scp" Wl19 strangely peaceful, tho
n'r waB ns soft as that of an Ohio Juno
nnd tho night breezes from the volcanic
ranges about us whispered stories of tho
past as they swept over tho ruins. Wo
on their wooden drums marking the hours,
wMiIitiii-hm .r llrol.t-ii MiHnex.
Coming down from tho summit we walked
for miles about tho carvings, studying
tho various characters and looking nt tho
peace-loving lluildhas in their niches nhovo
us. Everywhere wo went wo saw tho work
of tho Iconoclast. Thoro wcro hundreds of
nenutirui statues without ncaus. itoro a
great sitting figure was overthrown, thoro
was ono with Its arm broken, and farther
on another which had lost Its toes and
fingers, In order that somo relic hunter
might nfid to his collection. Kor genera-
lions both natives nnd foreigners havo been
robbing tho monument. Tho lnwns of somo
of tho Dutch have been decorated with Its
statues, nnd tho foreign soldiers have
amused themselves by decapitating tho
lluildhas and carrying their heads nway to
use for targot practice with rllles nnd pis-
tols. I found n beautiful hand lying on tho
ton nf tho structure, nnd had I wished
could cosily havo carried It off without ills-
covcry,
My next vlow of tho mighty monument
Temples of Java
w is at dahionh We had the sonants call
us at r o'clock, and, after a eiii of colTee
as black as 1'ik and nil thick as molasses
wo walked down to tho temple. The day
was Just bte.ikliig, and tho huge pile looked
ghost-llko In the light of tho early morning
It seemed half fort, half palace, ami had I
been in China 1 should have Imagined my
self in front of some mighty city.
I climbed to the top to watch the sun
rise. As I Htood I here I could Hi e II redden
tho clouds upon Iho volcano of Merapl. Its
in 38 struck tho steam rising out of the vol
cano ami turned It to gold. As I looked the
mighty mountain spouted up a great Jet of
vapor which In the situ became a fountain
of gold. At the same lime the clouds be
hind the mountain took on a roseate hue,
and a moment later the great i omul sliver
disk of the sun Jumped up, as II weie, Into
the sky and II led tho world with light.
Curly Moiiiliiu In .liin.
Tlic scenes of early morning In .lava ale
unlike those of our country. I am here In
the almoi.phero of the tropics, where the
heavens Ho close to the earth, where tho
moon appears larger, wheie Iho stars shed
a light almost equal to that of the moon
ami where the sun is always dazzling. On
1,10 l "f "", temple, surrounded by a
thousand lludilhas. 1 seemed to bo on a
great stone Island lloatlng upon a sea of
vapor. The vapor covered the plain In a
thick fog. banking up In billows at tho foot
of the mountain, tanking tho whole plateau
a sea of lleecy while spotted with Islands
where the cocoanut tree rose out of tho
fog. This lasted until tho huh rose, when,
as though by a wand, his majesty nf Iho
heavens cleared Iho i hunts away.
As I watchel this spectacular extrava
ganza operated by Mother Nature as mali
nger, the orchestra burst forth with Its
morning concert. The musicians wcro hun
dreds upon hundreds of birds, toinu no
larger than cauarlos, others as big as
robins and others still larger. I could nco
the pigeons Hying about us. making n
whistling nolso through tho wooden pipes
to their tnlbi. thus scaring off Iho
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great crow-like blids and vulturea hovering
about. The birds Hew through tho monu
ments of thu old temple, hopping from
stntuo to statue, resting now and then on
tho nutui or hand of a Iludilha, while they
sang away with nil their mlglil.
Ah the sun rose higher the concert grew
lomlnr ami mingled with It came the busy
hum that Is always heard throi.ghotit tho
daytime In this Island hive Inhabited by
2.",G0'),r00 human bees I could see II. i
workmen going nut Into lho fields, looking
like ants on tho landscape. Seine ol them
lrnio along buffaloes, which In the dlslaiteo
wero working In tho Holds
I'll N I HlllllH III' III lll.lllllllllll.
Tho temple of Iloro lloeiloer, however, Is
hut one of the great ruins of Java. There
are otherB scattered over tho country.
Thoro nro tho remains of l.'.O temples lying
between DJokJa and Solo, and about twenty
miles from hero tiro the vast ruins
nramiiaiiiiii unu nm inr away mini mem
tho slto of tho Chandl Scwu or tho thousand
temples.
I have spent a long time In wandeiliig
nbout through this region, llrainhanan
only aiiout twenty units irom ujoiijn ami it
can bo nnched by rail Krnm the station it
Is but a flmrt wnlk In the ruined temples
nml I bad no dllllculty In finding them
without a guide. The ruins cover an area
greater than the ground Hoor of tho cnpltol
at Washington. They are Biiriounded by a
grove of cocoanut and breadfruit trees, In
which tho birds Bang ns I walked from lim
I stono building to another and photographed
tho statues. I mounted the Htcw of one
great pile of volcanic tock. Tho btono was
cut Into blocks and carefully fitted, Its sides
A til NT 01 ltl
ti:mim,i:s
ok Tin: Tiioiswi)
being pa fusel) lai'M'd Th.i building was.
I Judge, about folly fei t high ami at Iho top
was a great stone 'Itiiuibei whose loof was
Iho sky.
iillhl- Willi (he llellllllllll Hill.
Ill the hack of this chamber, upon a ped
estal 'Jusi us high ns my shoulder, was a
most beautiful stnliie lepteseiiling a maiden
hlaltillug and looking down with sleepy
eyes The statue was at least twcul) feet
high nml It made me think of some which
hail been hiniight horn Eg pt ami Nineveh
to the llr.tlsh museum. The race was beau
tlfttl ami evidently taken fioui life. Thu
llgttre was one of almost pel feel pi opot I loos
-:ive that II was mimiw at the hips, fiom
which fuel II Is called by the p npe line
"The goddess with the beautiful hln." The
inline of I he goddess Is l.ol a Joilgrau. I hiii
down nt her feet ami rested, looking up
Into Iter sleepy ejes nml baldly leall.lng
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,M t im j.(,.H
, examined the bas-iellefs on the
,,. ,,,,,.. Th(,y ,m. Ilut ,.,. ,1H(,
(lf ,n, ,,,,. :, 1 1 Ii m Kl i they savor
.,, nf , iiii,,(io gods, Urobilin and Siva,
ml, ,,r iiuihlh.i. in the chambers ,e
fm Keat stone god with the body of a
,ran and Iho head or an elephmi. it was In
a silting iinlure, tlte feet being sn ai ranged
.that the sub came together. Tho carving
was excellent, but the face of the fat old
god frowned, It seemed In me, us I limited
at him tbiiiitgh the giouinl glass of my
camera.
TIhiiimiiiiiI TiniileN,
heaving tills mass of ruins' I walked n
couple of miles In Iho site of tho Thou
sand TcniplcH. The innul of those liae
disappeared, but theie Is a vast ntiue
P"Uorm reach y long walks, guanli,,
'r"" '
Thmo are four eulinncoM to the leiupln am
platform reached by lung walks, giiiinled
1 1 1 1 il ' ami
two of theso lulglily llgtties lit each en
trance. Kncl. llguie lesls upon lis knee
II holds a gieat club in one hand and
snake In the other, while another great
Mial.o Is wrapped aiouml over lis shoul
ders. The figures are each caiei i in or one
solid block of vulcanic link ami allh'i.igli
kneeling Ihey are nine feel In he. gill I
climbed up on the knees nf one of ll.eui and
fiom there got to the should, rs ami with
my lap.ilno look the dimensions of 1 1 1 -l
ead. II measured Jusi two fi el two lncl.it.
A line iii'iosh from shoulder to shoulder was
(.I..HX eiies and the p desiul nit wlileh
big atouml as a baso ball and so mad '
that they seem to be popping out of tluir
heads. They apparently wear wigs, hut
whether litis Is an evidence of Hie woolly
hair somellmiH seen in the south ueas or u
representation of false hair I do not know
KKANK 0. OAItl'HNTUIt
of (jl0CtlOUS ! l liUCUClor
N w Yoik I'ress: Tho man who doesn't
fall I hi i I always a hiicci sh by a long shot
Any hi iodide woman would rather win an
is ,( i Kinni'ti t ihan be right
We wilt to try again and lose, we Ioho to
try ngaln for the same thing.
i'he inference between men and wonu u
who lie Is thai the women don't mean to;
tho men do.
A slide down hill seems tell times a
swift and fast when you aio on It us when
the oilier follow Is.
When women am going In have a eluti
inn dug to debate an Important qu.sito,
Mnlr llrst prep.iiutlon for It i om em,, n.
lum I. and lloral do. orations