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is Pompey's lieutenant. He fights hero
ically at Pharsalia, strives to rally his
discom6ted, troops, and failing, puts an
end to his life rather than to fall into
Caesars hands. 1sv .ItJI EHl I,
Another commander stalks across the
aulitorum-General mark Antony, Gov
ernor while Caesar is absent in Africa,
Twenty years or more younger than the
great commander--a wild, reckless fellow
"a debauchee, filling Rome with riot and
disorder. H. r sa~ u ug sirt
But now Caesar returns from Egypt.
1t is quite time, for under Antony's rule
things are getting in bad way. The
great General has not lost his ambition
to be king, but, on the contrary, his sue
cess in Africa has stimulated the desire.
1t is the month of March, and beautiful
spripg-time on the Campagua, that here,
lolves to wear crown. And now, in q
chamber of the Senate house, at one look
we see not of noble Senators whispering
secretly in each others ears. We sec
them enter the auditorium, to wait the
coming of Caesar. He comes, to pass up
these very steps at ouy, feet, which led to
the chamber of the Senate. .f. d, ...t,,,.
Climber stands by Pompey's Pillar
waiting to present a petition There. too,
we BEHOLD Brutus, Casslus and Casca,
and a crowd of fifty Senator'S. We hear
the confused hum of their footsteps on the
marble Observation-Disclosures has pic
tured 1.-THE kneeling of Climber the
blows of the conspirators: the stroke of
Brutus. We hear the reproachful words
of Cesar to him--"And you, too, my
son?" We hear. as it were. the "burs-
ting of that mighty heart u ''rfo-1" 20
Nineteen hundred and eight years
have passed since that tragedy, and vel
it seems to US while sitting here as but an
event of last year. Here are the witncs-
ses-these stones, these pillars, these col.
umns. Ask them what they have SEEN
and listen to their reply. They saw the
great Caesar fall, covering his face with
his mantle; they saw the eonspirator'
rush into the Senate house to hold secret
conference while gladiators guarded thes'
!, steps with drawn swords to keep out the
crowd. They beheld the General Marx
Antony meditating how to turn the tragc
j dy to his own advantage--seizng C9sar'i
/ papers and all the money in the treasury
I-moking C@sars will such testamen
as Cesar never thought of devising-giv
ing gold 10 the poor citizens, land to that
one, and something to all--thus by arti
fec and subterfuge rousing the anger o.
the populace and turning their vengeuct
upon Brutus and his fellow-c -conspirator'
all for General Mark Antony's advance
! ment to power. he7r 1dI yI yel
Amid the multitude we discern til,
countenapce Of the poet Virgil, born thir
ty-six years after Cicero --oDe who il
= boyhood. weldoubt not often listened II
! the great statesman here in the forum
perhaps called upon him at his villa, sen
! ding in his card to 5e warmly welcomed
by his senior. And the historian Sallus
4 is there--a boy in his teens-twent,
( years or more the junior of Cicero. H
in after years, a great house on the Quir
iual hill, where the ruins are still to b
seen. There, too, was his garden wher
he walked, mcditated and wrote Of tn
Z mutations of human affairs There is
4 boy named Horace running across th
Forum. perhaps to climb the marble step
and find o seat at the feet Of Cicero.--
This lad, when he arrives at mans estat
writes 80 we'll that not only at Rome
eighteen hundred years ago, but 10 tn
universities and schoolrooms Of the Uni
ted States, at this very hour, his word
I, are studied. q h#siti .Laaa
Still younger is lad named Seneca
historian and moralist in after years, an
many more whose names have come dow
to us, but whom we may not stop to rec
ognize this morning. These are all con
temporary with Cicero, all undoubtedly
at times, attentive listners to him as h
stood here where we stand. No crum
bling ruins then in Rome, but marble pal
aces, great temples and amphithcatres ri
sing on every hand. l abas e8
But leaving the Rostrm let US walk u
the Forum towards the Arch of Titus.
TEMPLE OF PEACE. 10 elat
4 The street which lies at our right hand
which runs past the Forum, past tn
: Temple Of Jupiter, is the via sacrh tn
f sacred way, where Galen the physiciaI
q had his apothecary shop. We wal
0 along tho way to the Arch Of Titus w
have little time to linger by the tempt