ATLANTA'S EXPOSITION. It WUI Be Dne of the Grandest Shows of the Age. Tho Gate City of the South Is Now Mak ing Active Preparations for the Cot ton States and International Exposition. Every day brings clearer evidence of the fact that the Cotton States and In ternational exposition to be held at At lanta September 18 to December 31 will, indeed, be international in its scope of usefulness and interest. Tho proud and dauntless Gate City of the GOVERNMENT BUII.DINO. South will coine to the front with one of the greatest expositions of the age. A glance far over the area of Pied mont park, all graded and terraced and dotted with foundations for the hand some buildings now in course of con struction; a sftrvey of one hundred and eightv-niueacres of land fairly growing into a garden of loveliness, with a glimpse of the splendid building going up in the name of the national govern ment on one of the highest elevations, overlooking a do/.en other handsome structures scattered hero and there amid the rising hills and sunny slopes; a view of the spacious avenues, all paved in crushed limestone, and of tlio MASUFACTURKS AND LIBERAL ARTS. lake whose waters cover thirty acres and touch the threshold of all the main buildings Throughout the park—these, with a knowledge of the efforts being put forth by all the great nations of the civilized world for comprehensive ex hibits, arc quite sufficient to show how great a mistake it is to fancy that the ! Cotton States and International exposi- ; tion has been built upon a trilling plan, j The site selected for the Atlanta ex- j position is a natural amphitheatre, two i miles or so from the center of the city j and in the direction that the wealthy i folk are following in choosing their building sites. Peachtreo street is the fashionable I TRANSPORTATION HUILDINO. thoroughfare, and for a mile or more is lined- on either side with fine houses. Some of them are set in the midst of handsome grounds, which is no idle tiling in this southern country, where the soil does not encourage landscape gardening and the hot summer sun burns out the grass roots. The gov ernor's mansion occupies a sightly cor ner and is a spacious structure of brick; but the hotels and shops and boarding houses are treading closely on its heels, and its most noteworthy neighbors now ar6 the capitol club and an old fashioned frame structure with a por tico of long, slim pillars, in which Gen. Sherman resided when he visited the Ml N Kit ALS AND FORESTRY BUILDING. city in 1801. It is a boarding house now. Peach tree street is decorated by a trolley, which turns off at the right after the fine houses are passed, and heads down a broad highway to Pied mont park. It is the only means of reaching the exposition grounds at present, but there will be half a dozen street-car lines to the gates before Sep tember, and the Southern railway, •whose tracks puss the grounds, expects to furnish all the transportation needed for a five-cent fare. Piedmont park was sn old fair ground and race track, ami there was an exposition there also in ' s. w!,i h President Cleveland ope**.' <1 wiJi some ceremony. It is a 1 '• r.i a p i.;s. , 1,1 the hills, but the >s '* ' : :". r shoveled away uul 0 •• • .. by a lot of coavicts, who wear flannel suits of wide black and white stripes, and have their legs chained together so that they cannot run away. With every gang of labor ers is a guard, carrying a ride as an in ducement for them to behave them selves. The bottom of the amphitheater is being excavated for a lake of thirty acres, winding around among the build ings in terpentine fashion. It will he covered with electric launches and gon dolas. There are to be a dozen great buildings, pictures of which appear with this article. The Manufactures building is 210 by 370 feet, the Transportation building 126 by 413 and the Art gallery 100 by 245. The women have a building to themselves 100 by 220 feet, and the negroes likewise 100 by 800 feet in size. The designs of most of tliein are artistic, and several are in tended to be permanent. UNCLE SAM'S EXHIIJIT. It I'romlM'S to Ku an InteroHtins as Wan the Chicago Display. In view of recent diplomatic squab bles the exhibit of the state depart ment at Atlanta will be particularly in teresting. It will be divided into two groups: First, the history of the United States; second, the workings of the state department. Under the first group will ho presented such historic relics as the Declaration of Independ ence, in fac-simile, the original docu ment being too far decayed to be re moved. a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, the desk upon which lie wrote the Dec laration of Independence, his papers, notes, memoranda, etc., a photograph of Monticello, Jefferson's home. A not able feature will be the photographs of the signers of the Declaration of In dependence this will bo the most complete set ever shown—Franklin's writings, Peel's portrait of Washing ton, the treaty of alliance and friend ship with France, and other historical relics of like nature. Under the perjod of the constitution will be exhibited photographic copies of original docu ments and of the framers of that in strument; explanatory maps showing the growth of the representation of the United States abroad; the treaty of the purchase of Louisiana; the treaty of peace with Great Britain; the treaty with Spain for Florida; the treaty with Mexico when Texas was admitted as a state, and the treaty with Russia when Alaska was purchased. These will be accom panied by Washington's first procla mation, Jefferson's proclamation an nexing Louisiana, the nullification proclamation, the emancipation proc lamation and the seal of the United Mtates; sample written instructions to diplomatic officers; letters of the presi dent to the heads of foreign gov ernments; documents of the consular service, and consular regulations, ar chives, rolls, libraries, accounts, stat utes, commissions, pardons and pass ports will be shown.in the proper man ner. In addition will be displayed let ters from the heads of foreign govern ments—from Louis, king of France, acknowledging receipt of the letter, re calling Thomas Jefferson as minister to France December 11, 171)0; a letter from Napoleon llonaparte, announcing his marriago to Princess Marie Louise, April 5, 1810; from Victoria, queen of England and empress of India, an nouncing the birth of the prince of Wales, and other letters of like char acter. The department will also ex titbit a collection of drawin fs of the ministers of foreign affairs and the secretaries of state from 1781 to 1893, thirty-five in all, mid fifteen oil paint ings of secretaries of slate. There was probably no exhibit at the world's fair which attracted more wide spread interest than the exhibit of the United States fish commission. The ex hibit of this commission at Atlanta will be even more complete and inter esting. The space allotted to the ex hibit is in the southwest corner of the Government building, and its area is upwards of eight thousand square feet. The aquarium tanks will be arranged in a grotto, with aisles lighted from the water. The scientific iffvestiga tions of the commission will be illus trated by casts of fish and other an imals colored from life; collections of sponges, oysters, and other shell fish, crabs, lobsters and shrimp, corals, sea lilies, sea pans and numerous others brought up by the dredging and trowling apparatus of the vessels of the commission. This apparatus will also be shown. In addition to sea fish the numerous and beautiful fresh-water game and food fishes of the south will be shown. The bureau of forestry will exhibit its work in the line of the introduction of useful trees to suitable localities, the system of orchard protection by planting surrounding forests and hedges, the method of stopping the in- V?, * AGRICULTURAL BUILDINO. roads of sand along the coast by the j planting of grasses and trees, and the j replacing of forests that have been de stroyed by ignorant anf! unskilled fo: ; estry. The windows of the exhibit will I be utilized by substituting for glass transparencies, showing a series of views of the most important timber ' trees, surrounded by transparencies of | the leading sawmill establishments of the south. The usual complement of exhaustive maps, statistical tables,.and so on, will be shown. The exhibit of the navy department will be very complete. Large and com- j plete models of many of the ships of | our navy from the beginning of the | * HORTICULTURAL BUILDINO. century to the present time will be ex hibited, together with some models of ships of an earlier period. These models will enable the spectator to see the changes in the designs and arrange ments of men-of-war from the time of the Spanish Armada to those of Trafal gar, from Trafalgar to our war of 1312, l.eneo to the wooden steam frigates that bombarded Sehustopol, the moni tors of our late war, until at last we reach the huge ironclad monsters of NEGRO BUILDING. the present tiny. A torpedo boat be longing to the armed cruiser "Maine" will also be exhibited. The exhibit of the war department will be one past as well as fu ture. historic interest. In addition to a full exhibition of all modern war equip ments there will be exhibitions of arms and accoutrements used by the United States armies froiu the beginning of its history. The exhibit will be very full in every detail, including small arms, I FINE ARTS BUILDING. cannon, rapid-fire guns, the equipments of the commissary and ambulance corps, signal service corps, ordnance depart ment and all the other branches of the service. Many historic relics will be exhibited, and the present equipment of the armv will be fully exhibited THE ATI.AKTA BHD IV AY. .♦la ly of Your Olil ('iilcaiyo Ftiantlfl T 1 I,ocat Tliepp. I marine a street one-third of a milo long, with a coutinuous frontage of picturesque structures on either side. The street begins at the lowest point of Piedmont avenue, and ascends the hill toward Bleckley avenue, making a long curve until it reaches Jackson street. In the foreground will bo the I Mexican village, the Guatemala vil lage, the Oriental village, the Dahomey colony, the Esquimau village and the wigwams of the northwest Indians. Passing these, the Scenic railroad, with its undulating surface and at the far end a long cavernous Inclosure, shrouded in darkness, and only lit on alternate trips of the car, and at such tiroes for an instant only the dazzling effects of the electric light show hun dreds of scintillating points, icicles, stalactites and stalagmites, and further on a reflection from the sunlight in the d ;eo gorge of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. This dazzling spectacle is made all the more effective by the in stantaneousness with which it con fronts the eye. On the other side of the street appear in quick succession Hagenback's arena of trained wild animals, Inside of which the visitor may see an elephant actually riding a bicycle, lions holding hoops for horses to jump through, and other spectacles equally ma/ velous. Attached to this is a house ono hun dred feet square, inhabited b3' seven hundred and forty monkeys, represent ing almost every known species. Passing along, the Ostrich farm, the Palace of Illusions, the Mystic Maze, the South Sea islanders, the Chinese village and the Japanese gardens ap pear in succession. The grand culmina tion of the amusement features at the end of the street is Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. The Oriental village will be produced by Mr. Nageeb J. Arbeely, of New York, a distinguished Syrian educated at Beyroot, and for some years a resi dent of this country, who is editor and publisher of the Arabic newspaper Kawkab America (Star of America). Mr. Arbeely has already closed con tracts with a number of oriental mer chants who will offer their wares in the different villages. The little com munity will be peopled by natives from Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Syria and Persia. The American villages from Mexico, Guatemala and other localities will be very carefully reproduced, and will contain much of ethnological interest. In the Mexican village, for instance, will be shown photographs of bas-re liefs taken from the famous ruins of Palenquc. Among these relics will be a bas-relief of a cross, which far ante dates the advent of Columbus, showing that tho Toltecs must have had some commerce with Europeans in the early centuries. In the Guatemala village the musical stones, peculiar to that country, will bo exhibited. Those stones emit tones wlier struck, and, by a proper grada tion r f size, the scale is formed. In this way ii kind of music, not unlike that of the Xylophone, is produced. The Indian villntro will be nroduced (Continued on I'uge I.) POETICAL PICKINCwr. A Sprynl.lylle. Ohl the gentle graS* Is growing In the vale and on the hill; We cannot hear it growing, still 'tis growing very st'll; And in the spring it springs to life with glad ness and delight; I see it growing ay by day—it also grows by night. And now once more as mowers whisk the whiskers from the lawn, They'll rouse us from our slumbers at the dawning of the dawn. It saddens my poor heart to think what we should do for hny, If grass instead of growing up should grow the other way. Its present rate of growing makes it safe to say that soon 'Twill cover all the hills at morn and in the afternoon; 'Twill carpet plain and meadow, common, park and dale and lea. In fact, 'twill cover all the land not covered by tho sea. If it keeps growing right along it shortly will be till. It humps Itself through strikes and legal holi days and all. 'Tis growing up down all tho streets and cloor around tho squ ire; One end is grow ing in tho ground, the othoi in the air. If earth possessed no grass, methinks its beauty would be der.d; We'd have to make tho best of it end use bale 1 hay Instead. I love to sing its praises in away none can surpass, And poets everywhere are warned to "Please keep off tho grass!" —Nixon Waterman, fn Puck. Lullaby. Swinging and swaying to and fro, Crooning some ditty quaint and low— A woman young, a woman fair, With gclden glints in her t wny hair— in tho old-time rocking chair, llalf way lost in the cushions deop, Singing her baby boy to sleep. Swinging and swaying slowly, more slow, The lullaby sinking low, and more low— The fair little head to her bosom prossod Will never sink to a sweeter rest. A haven moro sure than his mother's breast. Nor find, wherever his lot may lie, A swoeicr song than her lullaby. *"*. Swinging rnd swaying to and fro, Slowly—softly— and still more slow— The girlish face with its tender care Making a picture sweet and rare, Framed by tho old-time rocking chair; Almost lost in tho cushions deep. Mother and baby—fast asleep. —Laura Derteaux Dell, in Good Housekeeping. A Little While. 'Tis such a little while we walk togethor along life's way; Some weary feet that march beside us falter each passing day, Dear friends that greet us in the rr.< -nlng vanish o'er It is noon, And tender voices melt away in silence—a broken tune. We long to seo the dear, familiar faces, but all in vain# The footsteps that kept pace with ours so bravely come not again; We catch the echo of a voice grown silent, faint and afar; A dim. whito face gleams out among the shad ows like some pale star. 'Tis such a little while for loving kindness or cold disdain- To smooth tho way for weary feet that falter or cause them pain. A littlo while and it were unavailing kind words to say, For those who walked but yesterday beside us have passed away. —Llzzio Clark Hardy, in Chicago Record. I Shall Not Pass Again This Way. The bread that brlngcth strength I want to give, The water puro that bills tho thirsty live; .1 want to help the fainting day by day;. I'm sure I shall uot pass again this way. I want to give tho oil of joy for tears, Tho faith to conquer crowding doubts and fears. Cenuty for ashes may I give alway; I'm suro 1 shall not pass again this way. I want to gi -o good measure running o'er, And into angry hearts I want to pour Tho nnswor soft that turncth wrath awayj I'm suro I shall not pass ngain this way. I want to give to others hope and faith; I want to do all that the Master salth; I want to livo aright from day to day; I'm sure I shall not pass again this way. —Great Thoughts. Love's Power. Though tho storms above it beat. Love shall make thv dwelling sweetj Though the winter fallcth gray. Thcro shall bloom a rose of May; And beneath tho darkest night Thou shalt rost in peace and light. Kind and sweet shall bo thy rest, With love's roses on thy breast; In tho dark or in tho day 110 shall kiss thy tears away. Sweeter hoaven may not bo Then tho hoavon love makes for thee. —Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. In the Springtime. Now's tho time fer flshin', An' plowin's to bo done; An' I nm kinder wishln' That when it's time fer fun. That sbmehow it was sorter fixed To keep tho things from gittin' mixed. When ilsh sets in to bitln'. An' llshln' worms is thick An' want to go a kitln' Down to a shady crick, I think it's mighty hard somehow To poke along bohlnt a plow. Ther's comfort Jlst a settln' 'Longside the sleepy stream, Feelin' you're fergcttin' Lifo ain't nil a dream; That's why plows ain't hardly right Jisl when tho Qsh begins to bite. I guoss I'd be contented Some bettor with my lot. Ef that chap, that lnventod Piowln', had have not. Leastways. I'd go llshln' now But fer that dad blnged old plow. —W. J. Lampton, in Detroit Froe Press. Emulation (Up to Date.) " 110 who would th'lve must rise ut Ave," Tho old folks used to soy. And so. of course, to thrive tho moro, 'Tis better still to rise at four, And make a longer day. Still smarter he who wakes at three. And hurries out of bed: And ho who would this man outdo Must riso when clocks arc striking two. To earn his daily bread. To riso and run at stroke of one, Is advantage still to keep; Hut ho who would them all forestall Must never go to bod at all, An.l die for lack of sloop. —James CI renoe Ilarvey, in Truth. j Betrothed. There's a now. glad light in tho arching heav ens; There's a new song sung by tho old. old soot Tho world is fresh-bathed in joy and beauty— I love my lover, and ho loves me! Oh. gladness! Gladness beyond comparingl Oh. rapture! Joy that nono else have known! For I know that, of all the world of lovers, Wo two lovo truly, and wo ulone! ' —Elizabeth Harmon, in Peterson's Magazine. CASTORIA 4, for Infants and Chiidren. 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