The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28
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ATHENS.
IBili Nye, In New Yorh Mercury. l

W0 SAtGAUA sAt1G&iS aA V GNGntuk &oC0l sunset without attracting any Atieetion. Wherever we have gone heretofore, VI have received one continued ovation bus here in Athens, a ely that vas duly in- eorporaeed and supplied with city oisi- ciAls, 6re department and floating debs, over a thousand yeaTx before Christ, the people showed the most piliable ir- noranee In relation 10 our party. Here whete Pluto taught school, Aristotle pre- sided over the Lyceum, and where people are supposed to know something. so one knew who we were, lfl had founded q city and h had run nearly three thousand years and lt had every advAn axe as Athens has and didn't knew any more than Athens does, l would retire from that hraach ot business and form \ cord wood syndicate CT slave bolt corpora ton by myself
 Athens is situated in latitude Y dex. se mia. W longitude 2, deg. lsS tnin. K tt has A population ot about 10 oSso, 1 estimated, though my figures may be imperfect and several people may have been counted i~ice m making the esti- mate. Athens lies in the lap of beau tiidl aMph,iAeaue, and has done so ever since can remember. do not know whether her parents ate aware of it cr not,
 Athens is bounded on three aides by beautiful mountains and faces toward the dlmpllag sea. The air IS beau,igui. Many years ago. when the eld.ashinned Ath- enians were here, oCo years os more be- fore Christ, and who are nov no more. they used Ia year then summer clalhea till late in he fall It dldnt cost g. So to feed q hard coal furnace and & Tor un. deUtothes and uvefshues and hot whisky, ,n Athens Who. then, can speak harshiy of A,henSl l am sure 1 do not blame her. II could lie ia the lap of beau,i- fui amphitheaIe with my h,,le, bare, p,nk feet tn the swelling t,de for three ,hoa- sand years, would do II and wouldn't care how much talk il occasioned, either. Three thousand years IS a long while to lie, but would be almos, willing tn try 1t.
 In 4o4 Lysander captured Athens and abolished 'he democracy, but the denoc- racy couldn't have beea so powerful 4ok years before Chriat as II was last fail.
 Dem osthcnes used 10 speak in public here at that tune He va. certainly an able speaker. l never heard him myseif, but from what can learn he could lar the masses Wilh hts els qnence In A very remarkable way. When the liberty of Athens was threatened, Dcmo4thenes as- sailed Phillip and told him what he though, of him. and hred phillipics at him till he wished that he had never been born. lt Phillip had lived in our day, he would have gone Co DemoSthenss and said Here, partner, you aTe 1T turing your voice taking SO much in the night air. You arc A good public speaker, and we can't siflTd to lose you. Rather than see you go around Athens next spring with your silyery voice done up in rag, would be willing to suffer little ineon- venience myself Go to Florida, aud stay there till send for you Take oas ef my slips H you want is. Take that one with a hole in the bottom of ii. if you ~ant 1t. Go to California. Visit the Sandwich islands. Mis up ~iih the can nieaI'. Eoloy yourself Don, hurry buck. Here's my check for sio GOO. When that sums oui. let mo know. Draw on me At sigh. Stay away as long as you please, The logger you stay away the more money 1 will shower on your widow"
 [ wish had more room 10 give to the history of Athens. | could go on for hours telling about Inc beauty cf ihs laad- scape. the ~onderiul history of the city and the mighty work accomplished by hsT orators, artists, =st!r.c:= aaA states men, but have no, the timc or spsss ts do Il. have spoken mainly ot Athens prior to the Christian era, knowing that my readers will mos' tf them easily re- member cha. hss .iacs ncrurrrd.
 About the Fifteenth century. however. Athens under the Turkish rule began to decline and continued 70 decline ~ith great success for many yeafs Now, however, 1 feel more encouraged absut her, She is certainly reforming ID that line, for l asked ,everai leading Athenlans 'o Join me m ( slight token oi Te peci ,o Kiug Gambfinus and none af them de. ciioed. Probably they have learned to see the folly oi II.
 :s :h. igiTis5f,ih ceniary Nero sas dokc of Athens, and hn family hung en to i, for sixtytSo years Nero WAS tough duke. He was hardened wretch and very poor amateur vtnliniS. But he has gone to his se~srd. La us pause and reacc. 'n sorrow and in sileace over his new made grave A good many harsh things have been said of Nero, ss. nos that he has been taken away, lst his ashes rest 10 peace!
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