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PRISON OF Chains That Boxu Xieai William E. Curti? in thi Rome, Jan. 24.-No spot ip Rome is more interesting to trie Christian world than the. Mamortine pris* on, which is excavated from the solid rook under the oapitol hill of Borne, for there the Apostles Peter and Paul were confined for nine months, bound by chains to a pillar which is still shown. There io no ; doubt as to the historical aoouraoy ot this statement, although most of the traditions and legends connected with the place are probably fabulous. For example, via itors are shown a deep impression in the rocky walla of the dungeon whioh bears some resemblance to the profile of a human face, and the monk in charge telle them that it was made by Peters head as he leaned against the stone. Another version aooonnts for it in an even more remarkable manner. One of the guards is said to h*Ve jammed Peter against, the wall of the dungeon with such violence that bia head made this deep impression. In the center of the floor, whioh is of natural rook, is a flowing spring, a remarkable phenomenon which, ac cording to the legends of the church, opened miraculously in anower to the prayers of St. Peter ia order that he might have water to baptize the guarda whom he had converted. Livy and Plutarch, however, mention thia spring long before the apostles were confined here. Juvenal also describes it, and it is mentioned by Sallust who depicts the horrors of the prison in his account of the exeoution of the Catiline conspirators. A o tai reas o leading to the dungeon is compara tively modern. At the time of Peter and Paul prisuners were lowered through a hole in the upper floor. It was from this prison that Cicero came forth and announced to the people in the Forum the execution of the Cati line conspirators by the single word "Vixerunt" (they have ceased to live.) What is more interesting to us, however, is the fact that from here Peter wrote his second opistle, and Paul his second epistle to Timothy, their farewells to the Christian world. Peter said: "Shortly I mnst put on this tabernacle, even aa our Lord Je sus Christ has showed me. Nove?:the leBB, we, according to His promise j look for new heavens and a new earth : wherein dweUeth righteousness." I And Pani said: "For I sa now ready to be offered, and the time of my de parture is at hand. I have fought a good fight; I have finished my ooursej ! I have kept the faith." The prieona are entered brough a small church known as "St. Pietro in Caroere,' ' hung round with -votive of fering and bluing with candles and lamps. It is the favorite church, of the criminal classes, and upon the walls are curious contributions to the honor of the ??inta-rusty doggers, knives, pistols and other instruments of murder and vi?lenos, which are supposed to haye, been brought here fresh from uso and hungup beside the altar to propitiate St. Peter/ It is customary for the assassins,- thieves, piokpookets and burglars of Rome to make offerings here as soon as possible after they have committed crimes, with the hope, no doubt, of securing pardon. Formerly, when the o clergy had a stronger hold upon the people, the receipts were very large. Now they are much less and growing small er every year. A most valuable and interesting contribution to oriminal annals might be made if the priests of "St. Pitcro in CarcereM had kept a record of the confessions that have been mudo in this little church. Thero is an impression that the priests haye had frequent and close communion with the .police authorities, but the se crets of the confessional have never been violated. A little further up tho hill ia the churoh of "8t. Pietro in Vinooli,'* in whioh chains worn by Peter in priaon are now preserved and form one of the greatest attractions to.pilgrims in Rome. In chapter 12 of the acts of the apostles we read, "And when He rod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter waa Bleeping be tween two soldiers bound with two chains and the keepera before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came ripon him, and a light shined in the prison; .and ho emote Peter on the thigh and .raised him up, saying, 'Riso up, quickly.' And his chaina fell off rrom his hands." Tu? identical chains are said to haye been . recovered in the year 126 by the martyr Balbina and by her given to Theodora,' elater of Helmes, prefect of Rome, from whom they passed into the hands of Pope Alex ander. They were depositod by him i in this churoh, wi tah waa originally founded by Theodora in the year 109, and here they havo since been preserv ed. .Both Hermes, the mayor of Rome APOSTLES. ad Early Ohiietiaii dors. 3 Chicago Hceord-Herald. at the time, and his sister Theodora, who was a woman of wealth and high social position, were converted to Christianity by Alexander, t Many legends are told of miraoles performed by these ch ni DB. The sick have been oared, the wounded have been healed, cripples have been made whole by ki s Bin g the iron, and in the early oontnries it was customary for the popeB to send minute filings from them in crystal receptacles as a re ward to kings and emperors and oth ers who performed great service for the Ohuroh. They are preserved in a beautifully sculptured casket of gilded silver with glass panels, through whioh they can be plainly seen.iTbere are two ohaina, each about four feet long, with links of unequal size, whioh is-duo to the many filings. At the end of one of them is an'iron col lar, whioh is said to have encircled the neck of St. Peter. According to one of the legends the chaine were di vided in the early centuries, one of them being taken to Constantinople by the Emperor Constantine, but af ter the schism whioh divided the ohuroh the ohain in Constantinople was translated to Rome miraculously and soldered to the other by invisible power during the pontificate of Leo X, the Great. Tho Constantinople por tion was not missed for several months/ and the monks in charge of the relies in Rome were almost paralyzed wita astonishment when they found what had' happened. The glory of this churoh is the tomb of Pope Julius the Great, whom nature intended for a warrior, but des tiny clothed with the robes of a priest. He waa one of the greatest men in history, and if his activity had been directed in secular affairs hs would have stood with Alexander the Great, Caesar, Charlemagne and Napoleon. Under his pontificalc ti ara were con cealed the brains of a great statesman and during hie reign the ohuroh made rapid advancement. According to the custom of the time he designed his own tomb and gave an order for its construction to Michael Angelo. The original plan proposed a sepulcher 18 feet high and 12 wide, surrounded by 40 statutes, inolnding those of Moses, Peter, Pani, Raohel and Leah, bnt only three of them were completed I because Leo X, his successor, did not approve of snob mortuary grandeur. Fortunately, he did not prevent Mi ohael Angelo from completing the moat famous of all his statues, whioh represente Moses, with flowing beard descending to hit waist, horned head, deep sunken eyes and a majesty whioh was not represented in marble even by the Greeks. On either o?do of this great masterpiece appear the figures of. Raohel and Leah, and above them the Madonna with the infant Jesus in her arms. The worst figure in the group, and one whioh seems out of placo in the presence of Moses, is that of Jul ius himself i who, through the jealous ly of Leo X, waa sonlptured by an in competent artist and liea upon an in significant sarcophagus instead of that originally designed. Tho famous "Quo Vadis church," whioh has aroused renewed interest sinoe ?he publication of the novel of Henry Sienkiewiez, is on the Appian Way, and was originally built over the pavement to proteot the impression of the Savior's feet upon a stono. The 'original stone has been removed to the Churoh of St. Sebastian, but a fac simile is fitted into its plaoe. The atory, as told by St. Ambrose, is that when Nero accused the Christiana of having attempted tq destroy Rome by fire, Peter, then the head of the church, tried to escape. As he fled along tho Appian Way about two miles from the oity the Savior appeared in bia path.* In his amazement he ex claimed, "Lord, whither goest Thou?" to which the Savior, with reproachful sadness, replied, "I go to Rome to be again crucified," and vanished. Pet er, interpreting this as instructions'to submit to martyrdom, returned to the oity, and, ra a monument to mark the site of his momentous interview, the Savior left hie footprints in tho pave ment. This old ohuroh stands among the entra?osa tc the catacombs, whioh, as everybody knows, were the burial places cf the early Christians, and consist of tortuous, subterranean gal leries, from two to four feet in width excavating the soft stone t!?at under lies tbs hi??niu ibo neis'nborbood of Romo. The walls on both sides of theso passages are pierced; with hori zontal niohes like the shelves of a book case, and upon them the bodies of the dead are laid. The extent of the catacombs is enormous; they are supposed to contain over 6,000,000 dead, and the actual length of the galleries as estimated by the archaeol ogist exoeeds 600 miles. If stretched in one continuous line thoy would ex tend the entire length of Italy. Ori ginally they belonged to private f smi lies or ind' .iduala who had catatee in the neighborhood of Rome and, hav ing become converted to the faith of Christ, devoted their wealth io His service and furnished a burial placo for their fellow Christians in theso vaults, where their bodies oould not be desecrated by the Roman persecu tors. There is abundant and indisputable evidence that Peter and Paul both moved among the best society of Rome; that they made oonverts among the nobility and the aristocraoy and even in the imperial* court. There waa scarcely a patrioian family which had not at least one Christian among its members. The majority of the early Christians were poor and oft?u slaves, and Paul, writing to the Corin thians concerning the results of his ministrations in other lands, said, "Not many wise men after the flesh; not many mighty; not many noble are called," but in other places he fre quently alludes to oonverts of conspic uous rank and position, and Bays, ''Those of Ceasar's household salute you/' Tacitus, the historian, oonfirms the*early Christian writers concerning the conversion of the nobility, and says that many of them were followers of a man oalled Christ, who claimed to be King of the Jews and had been put to death by the procurator, Pon tius Pilate, on aocouut of ths detesta ble superstitions he had introduced in to Judea. While Peter was at Caesarea on his way to Rome he baptised the com mander of a Roman legion named Cor nelius, who belonged to one of the most powerful and aristocratic families of the empire. Scipio Afrioanus and Soylia were both near relatives. He gave Peter letters of introduction to hia friends. In this way both Peter and Paul obtained a foothold among the nobility. In those days the intel lectual and 'educated classes had al ready passed beyond the influence of pagan superstitions and were without religion. Peter brought them one that appealed to their philosophy as well as to their emotions, and Paul, who was the greatest of the contro versialists cf that day, was eminently qualified to explain and expound the teachings of Jesus to men of that stamp. When Peter reaohed Rome he was the guest of a senator named Pudens. He and his daughter Claudia were among the first Christian converts in Rome. Paul mentions them in both his epistles to Timothy. St. Prassede was a sister of Pudens, and gave shel ter in her house to perseouted Chris tians, 23 of whom, it is said, were murdered in her pr?senos. She was a woman of great wealth and of ioffi cient influence to defy the Roman of ficials, and her'house was large and furnished plenty of room for guests. She buried the bodies of the martyrs upon the estate of her grandmother, Priscilla, and sopped up their blood from her floor with a sponge, which she plaoed in a well in her own boase. A ohapel was built over this well in the third oentury, and the site is now poeupied by the Church of St. Praaoede. Domitilla, niece of the Emperor Vespasian, was a Christian. She was a sister of the Emperor Domitian. Two of her sons were put to death by her uncle because they adopted the new religion, and she herself was sent by him into exile to the Island of Pontia in the year 97. . m m> mm Cancer Cored by Blood Balm. ALL SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES CUBED.--Mrs. M. L. Adams, Fredo nia, Ala., took Botanic Blood Balm which effectually oured an eating can cer of the nose and face. Tue sores healed up perfectly. 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Their savings may be estimated as not more than 10 per oent. of what they earn, whioh is very often permanently invested in this country, and does not go to China. Laborers seldom save anything, and this is aa true of the Chinese as of other nationalities. In the first placo, the Chinaman is usual ly charged more for what he buys than any one else, and, again, he is inclined to bo a spendthrift when ho oan. He is an opioure in his own way. He is also fond of silk clothes and expensive shoes. Very of ton ho is a gambler. The actual needs of tb") Chinaman are greater in this country than in China. Tho climate in tho Kwang-tung provinces is so mild that all he requires at home is a thin cot ton blouse and trousers, and two extra garments for winter. His hat is of roughly plaited straw, and he wears straw sandals. In this oountry he j must wear wooloo underclothing, a felt hat, and leather boots, if a labor er. His boota in America coate four or five timos aa muoh aa hia whole out fit in China. The food bought by the Chinese is often quite as expensive aa that of the whites. Instead of living almost alto gether on rioe and shop suey, as is the general impression, Chinamen, being I quite as fond of meats aa Americana, buy pork, beef, and chiokens. Chop suey ia made to sell to curious white persona who visit Chinatown. In the vioinity cf every large city where there is any considerable Chinese colony, there are truok gardens devoted to raising vegetables exclusively for Chi namen from seed brought from theil native lands. These vegetables arc unknown to Americana. But thc Chinese also consume large quantities j of the finer kinda of American vege ! tables. Tho Chinaman has a eweei ! tooth also; and in the best Chinea* restaurants in San Francisco, Nev York, Chicago, and other large cities the beat of wines are served to Chin ese aa well as American customers together with the finest and moat ex penaive foods. In the average Chin cae restaurant in those cities goo< board oan be had by the Chinese fo from $15 to $20 a month, and the s restaurants are lagely patronized. A a rule, tho Chinamen are oompelled t lodge in mean quarters; but in Nei Tork and San Francisco there are t number of well appointed homes, oe enpied by the families of well-to-d Chinese merchants, which the Amer loan seldom or never sees. In No* York there is no apartment house up-to-date in every respect, oeoapiei by Chinese families. The Chinamoi sticke aa closely aa he oan to the tri dillons and enstoms of his oountrj whioh are strange to the Occidents and, therefore, a oubjeot for ooinmec and often for derision. There are not many rieh Chinamo in Amenos; but some-of them ai very well off, with fortunes rangiri from $100,000 to $500,000. There i one multi-millionaire, Chin Tan Sa] who :a che richest Chinaman in tl country. Chin Tan Sup owns whol towns, and employa hundreds of whit men and women in the factories ac canneries. He owns ranches, oil real estate, gold mines, and diamond he oonduota a real estate busines and he has several merchandise eton in San Franciaco. He ia a self-mac man and very shrewd and progressiv He came to America in the steeraj as a lad, and went to work in a kitol eu. He married a white woman, ar with their savings originated a "litt lottery" business in San Franciso He was largely patronized by Amei cans, and soon grew rioh enough become a merchant also. From th beginning he developed into a comme oial and political power. He is calli "Big Jim," on account of his siz He is six foot tall, and a well propc tioned, good looking man. In bm ness he is regarded as the soul honor. His wardrobo is magnifi?e?, and several valets aro needed to ca for it.-Sunyowo Ping, in ThoForui ?t Phillip's Church is Also a Ughthouse, ! The only church in the world, so far as is known, that is also a light- _ blouse is St. Phillip's Church, Char leston, S. C. St. Phillip's, whioh is ono of the )!dcst ohuroheB in America, is known . is the "Westminster Abbey of South Carolina," beoause within and about its walla so many distinguished men lie buried, inoluding John C. Calhoun. The history of the old ohuroh is close ly interwoven with that of South Carolina, and many of tho most cele brated events in the history of tho Province are oonncoted with it. It is one of the sights of Charles ton, and strangers aro always taken to Bee it and shown its graves and inonu- * monts. The most remarkable feature of tho old church, however, is the fact that its lofty steeple serves tho purposo of a lighthouse and is used to guide tho seafarer and mariner safely into tho port of Charleston. The uso of tho steeple as a lighthouse dates back to 1894, when the United States Light house Department succeeded, by dint of repeated efforts, in induoiug tho vestry of the old ohurch to allow a lantern to be placed in the upper story of the steeple, to be used as a range light for vessels entering the harbor through the jetties at its mouth. The light used is very powerful, and is placed at an altitude of about 125 feet above the ground, so that it is easily visible thirty miles at sea. Ships making for Charleston Harbor at night always keep a sharp lookout for St. Phillip's light, and as soon as they sight it get it into line with the beacon on Furl Sumter and then make a straightway run for the mouth of the jetties and up through them into the harbor of Charleston. The light is attended by the old sexton of St. Phillip's Church, T. J. Riley, who has oooupied the position of sexton for more than fifty years. He has never failed in his duties, and, rain or shine, he mounts the high aud narrow winding staircase of the oid steeple every evening at sunset and lights the beacon in its lofty pcroh. His limbs are feeble now, for he is 70 years old, and the climb is a long and stiff one. St. Philip's Church steeple is con sidered ono of the handsomest, archi tecturally in the world, and always attracts the eye of strangers entering Charleston from the sea by its com manding height and artistic propor tions. During the Civil War it shared with St. Miohael's Churoh steeple the rather unenviable distinction of being the ohief target for the "Swamp An gel" and other Federal guns on Mor ris's Island, that were trained against the city. Both steeples, however, escaped with slight damage, and, although terribly shaken up and shat tered by the great earthquake in 1886, St. Phillip's gray old tower still stands and sends its light oat across the sea to. weloome the wandering mariner into port.-St. Louis Republic. Chronic Diarrhoea. Mr. C. B. Winfield, of Fair Play, Mo., who suffered from chronic dysen tery for thirty-five years, says Cham berlain's Coho, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy did him more good than any other medicine he had ever used. For sale by Orr-Gray & Co. Many housekeepers think that to turn down a lamp saves oil. In point of fact, it does nothing of the kind. The same amount is consumed, only that whioh is not burned in a flame passes off as gae. You cnn notice this at cece on entering a room where a lamp has been turned low for any length of time. Besides tho disagree able odor, the gas is most injurious to flowers or plants that may be noar it. 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