The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-07-11
raR EMPEROR NERO.
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Ner~. wA0 was Romaa emperor from S& to 6S A. D. was said to lave beea one ot the most dtsAgveeahla monareAs to meet tat Rome ever had. He vas a nephew of Cahgala, the emnercF, oa his motAer's sade, aud . soa of Dominilus Ahee o6arenS. ot St. Lawrence cornty The above was really NeroS name. but in the year so A. D his mosAeg married Claudius and her soa adopted the name of Nero CiAadius Cr sAr D'usas German. icuA. This name he was ln the habit ol wearing duFfng the cold weather, et5. toaed ap in trout, DsaStne the Ao, weather Nero vas all the aams Ae wore
 h 5 Nero mAirsed OctAviA, daughter of ClAudius. and Went right to house keeping Ne,o aud Ottawa did not Eet along hrsttate. Nexo soon weared ct his yoaag wike. ard SpAlly transferred her to the New leFuaAlem.
 h S4 NeTo'x moshcv. by coacealin1 the rigntful h~,E ho the thFone for several week., aud doctes,ng ,he returns, sue. ceeded .n ge,sase the steady lob oi em- peror for Nero al a good salary,
 Hs reign vas Qu,te stormy aud sew erAl long. bloody wAFs were earned on during thA, pes,od He was a good VI. cauoos 6ghtes. and could suocrasfuliy hold a an'x co Il all day while the 'an wen, so the iron, ,o ges killed He loved 10 % ou, r,d,ng over the sa,tle fields AS soon as II wAs safe, in his gorReouxlv be. d Eened band chariot and he didn't earc 't the wheels .olted la gore up so the hub providing IL was some other man gore lt gave him grea, pleasure 10 dr,ve abou, over the held of carnage aud 9loat over the dead. Nero ~as nat A great AucceSs As an emperor, but As a gsoates he has no rvAl in history
 <ero's re,gn was character iaed, also by the great conAAgrai,on and Rom An hresorks ot July, e. by which two-thitds of the city ot Rome was destroyed. The emperor vas ch AFged with starting this fire in order to get the insurance on . so ot dry goods on Man street.
 Instead Of taking otf hts crown, hans. ing II Np ln the hall and helping to put out the hre, As other empeFors have done tune and agA.n. Nero took hts v,oln up z als and played, "l Il Meet You When the Su- Goes Down." Th,s occasioned part oi those who opposed the admins uaaon. Several pessoas openly cIiac,sed Nero's policy and then dted.
 A mAn ID those days would pu, oa his overeoat m the morning. and tell h,s wife not to keep dinner wtiuog. :" am 1o- ing down to~n ,a etiueise the emperor a iew momentx,' he would say "it do not ge, home in tune fot dinner, nee, me on the evergreen shore
 Nero, after the death of Oeiavia, mar ried Popp:e. SAh.na She d,sd alter. ward a, her husbands sarnes, solicita- tion Nero did no, care much about be ing bridegroom, bu, the exci,cment oi oetng a wld over alsays gTanhed and pleased him
 He sAs a very jealous monarch, and kip, Rome pretty we'll stirred up during hIS reign If man failed to shos up anywhere on time h,s friends would look sadly at each other and say, Alas, he has or,tcised Neso,'
 A man could wrestle with the yeliow fever, or the smallpox. or the ANauo cholera, and stand A chance for recovery, but when be spoke sMca HieAlly of Nero 1t was gooc bye John.
 When Nero decided that a man was an offensive partisan thst man would generally put up the following no,,ce on hls office door.
 "Gone to see the emperor in relation 10 charge of offensive partisan htp. Meet me al the cemetery al o'clock
 Finally, Nero overdid tha thing and ran it into tae ground. He did not wAnt to be disliked and 90 those who dislked him were killed. This made people timid and muuIed the press good deal
 The Roman papers ln those days weie fearless and oatspo xen for lear that Nero would take out hs ad. So they voold con hoe taemseives 10 the statemea, thai The genial and urbane Ahanius Burr hus had painted hts Be~ and ,seh<yeAf picket fence last week." or. "Oar en- terpr,sing teIlov ,o~nsman. Cesar Ksr. s,kes. wiil remove the taii of has iAvorite bulldog next ~eek, II the weather should be ausp,cious.' or
 Miss Asrippiaa Bangollne. eldest daughter oi K omulus E .ngoline, the great Roman rinkist, wili teach the school ., EapAtofium, Tnfoilaium Holler. this summer. She is highly accomplished yoang lady, and a good spellsr :"
 Nero got more snd more fatal as be grew older. aod 6saily the Romaas be- gan 10 wonder whether he woald not wipe ost the empire besore he died. His back yard was fall all the tune of people who had dropped in ,o be killed, co tha, they could have II of their minds.
 Fla ally Nero himself yielded to the great str ain that had been placed upon him, and in the m ids of an insaTfec- ,ion ID Caui. Spain, and Rome iseif, he fled and killed himself.
 The Romans were very grateful foF Nero's grea, cro~ning aes in the killing inc. bat they were dissatisfied because he delayed Il % IonE, and therefore they refused to erect x tall monument over his sesssins While they admired the royal sulcide, aad regarded 1t as a sac- cess. they oeasared Neso's segiigence and poor adgmept in saiciding Al the w.oDg cad Of hls reign-
 1 have of,eo wondeSed whai Nero would have done fl he had beeo emperor