The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-12-18
BILL NYz IN ROME.
Ancient "reminiscences, Soma Of
Which are Not Fragrant.

WD4Su dI5 &NOb ) TdQIaQL,
| We arrived in Rome last evenin!
via the Rock Island road, and al
old cattle friend of mine from Nortl
Park, who is staying here, invited
me TO come and visit him durin.
my stay in the city. He is here, ht
says, to obtain that polish which b,
was unable to obtain on the range
It has long been his hearts deares
wish to 60 abroad and complete al
already very thorough education
He was always pretty fair in arith
metic, and could cipher the socks
right off our most eminent men, bat
he was a little rusty on Rome, he
says:
he has been showing me the
town and telling me all about it
Rome, be says, has been the coun-
ty seat of this county for upward
of $500 years, and still they haven
got first class hotel in the place.
Romulus filed on Rome under the
desert land act, 600 hundred years
before Christ, and butt lunatic
asylum on the CapitoIine Hill. In
those days everybody was highly
educated, aud every common DAgo
on the streets could talk the dead
Languages like a northern school
graduate. Greek and Latin we're
talked just as common at prize
fight or church sociable in Rome,
among the middle and lower classes,
as cigar box Spanish is spoken in
Southern Colorado to-day.
Before the christian era Rome
was ruled by kings who were elected
for life or during good behavior.
This was done to curtail campaign
expenses, 80 that the surplus funds
could be frittered away on bread
and other Roman delicacies. There
was also a senate and college of
pontifices and two inch augurs who
explained the will of the gods.
These augurs became at last a great
bore (Etruscan relic found near a
Roman corral.
For many years there was a great
between the partricians
and plebians. The partricians
were people who had made great
deal of money, and whose blue
blooded daughters showed their
proud and high lineage By eloping
with the family coachman. The
plebians, as a rule, were not check
ed up so high, but they generally
got there Eli with both feet, as a
proud Roman told me yesterday as
he socked his Roman nose into
tumbler of Roman punch.
Rome got this term "plebian," 1
learn, from West Point in an early
day.
They had pretty hot timss from
that on for 400 years more. Some
times one was on top and some
times the other. l could give a
long and glowing resume of the his
tory of heather Rome in my own
crude way if 1 had space, but
have not.
The present Rome is built over
forty. or fifty feet of debris that is
between two and three thousand
years old. Those who have been
in Chicago when the street gang
was engaged in raking up old per-
and things that had been
for fifty years, will re-
the subtle odor of the de-
ceased past. excuse me a mo-
ment while I go and eat little as
Well, Rome is older,
and, therefore, it is worse. 1 hate
to speak about it, but when they
IRE excavating for a new building
here, and turn up q few discarded |
socks of the time of Romulus,
along with the other relics of for
gotten era, the excavists run and !
stick their noses into the bosom of
a Limburger cheese, and the people
lee to the mountains till it is safe
20 come home again.
This puts kind of dalnper on
building, and real estate is rather
dead. At lesst, it is not feeling
we'll. So they only build a new
house every fifty or sixty years.
Then it takes half century for
5he air to get fresh again.
1 have been trying several days |
20 find some Roman candles to take
home with me, but have failed so
'ar. 1 should feel ashamed of my
self to make this long and expen-
,ive trip to Rome, the very hot bed
If Roman candles, and then go
home without any.
My next letter will be Verona or
do not know which.
I've got to hear from Eli Perkins
irst. We agreed to write from the
same place at the same time, for we
night get confused.