Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-26
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..;srce that no place e'e'
81 night it would; but in this respect
y. eaps the climax, While yOu have
linz and dreaming OF its ruin and
- the little old city has taken the
n again becoming the capital Of q
almost of an empire. 1t respect
lines your pity, and grows with a
HH r,e 3 Western railroad terminus
S"D -, c,rs, electric lights, subur-
! -. and any number Of daily news
81 when you look upward to get a
~ A. the same sky which Romulus
iDI YOU ind as many telegraph
ronr light as you would in Osh-
srs ,nsls City. New-made hotels,
BsaC ,, tenement houses are jostlisg the
SfS ~" ont OF their way and tramp
ID Fas MN after ruin. Gou have 70
I1G aYV S.,m all this and forget a lot OF old
Ey., ,1ei literature with which yon
bsn'OIS somehow entirely saturated be-
!pa'ssn an spiov q single identical ruin.
bfe ~, It,l,an Government, which in
Ba' Wv asy. has brought about this state
tIo.s'I prospcrity, has partly made
%rIt Nv digging open q lot oil the
~ AMI showing us what treasures Of
PAe's' So h,en concealed by modern
hs.S.y and ronyeuts. There are places
lfasuS - syrry spadeful of earth is a leaf
5rr - over. We are each year
or uS'' Gro and more news trOm the city
,.'u1 yr-se,ting it out OF the ground.
d. 10, N d;s many feet before We lind
We A',T - ,hrc used to walk on and the
ia' '"''a wr.r wont 70 iuhahit. Bat
n'I2 N here, many Of them have been
,.j and more Will be.
"5a'' ,,.r we gst ~recouciled to such Por-
~ The nntteenth century as are
Pm ", a7d bowling about us, and begin
$50" "a, there = something of Old Rome
. g. a.. the question: occurs, Where
'S., 80 N 6rsts Aud Of course the an
'l ". direc,ly-To the Palatinc Hill
'"SI 60 We have campsd in dreams ever
old enough To read Goldsmith's
~ s,or, 81 Eore.
w., E,s pa. ?tarurd for a sight OF that
var ia rifce where the royal twins
I {, mud. Where the shepherd took
Il them. aud let his vile feed them
w.,. who WA ~ much like q wolf IN
IN hi. history gives a sure
On ,,oIf IN, credit Where the sturdy
80, linus rlm. back when old enough,
,L,i,f.l a rity. and watched from the
49, ,,rh.s and the srilcent Avenue Hill
~ y~a.rures 10 H. past, 80 ~ 10 see when
w.. .rogrl I've Alul. Who has not stood
r.,,b g,mulu. during 4 breezy April day,
49,, NJ, Of. a, the usighhO!iug valleys aud
HM.-fy and by TO he enriched with pal
- loI.es and arches OF triumph?
TIL. plll,ine is enclosed now, and we
o., .oit asst ~ We would into 4 circus
ne b7yfag ticket at the dOOr-or rather
ON. III a >ruare-shaped elevation Of
s-uaG perhaps 4 quarter Of q mile long
IA ;brte !0ur,hS as wide. The earth Ia
gr5of brick and s,oue and marble; palace
,s,sr D,lace ms been built and ruined
INN T. We have 70 walk along under
,Es western brow OF the hill 10 find some
,.rf, civ wills OF Romulus; but here it
. .. -alll aad massive ~ when first laid,
,z u;y six hundred years ago.
Aad here, upon the southwest corner of
,ae hfI. VI IRE pointed TO the very spot
pg,.p the royal tSius were washed ashore
"a. the lttls book branch Of the Tiber,
.i,r having hven lett TO drown like so
NAV kittens or puppies. Ii il had not
b. p ia this little humane freak Of fate,
,. map of the world might have been
y4,,'y tlEereul Tor twelve hundred yesrs
.trrwmd
Gomulu> seems 10 have grown mp about
cap,aa.l shepherd ard niue-teuths rob
lsr. bat success Is a .iisteniug. bswil6eI-
.rg affair. and covers q hundred times
g., many sins a. charity itself
Iae nation that he founded was a rob
Der nation IN every sense OF tine word; but
.s glory commands our admiration and
wmpv,s rs TO make PIgTimages in order
70 study H.. The young rascal who plat
,.i Tie l,t''r town here on the hill muir
irlri ts hrulh.r. invited all the rOgues
and ysglhauts ct the ucighbOrhoOl TO join
him. AM ,tul, tie wives and daughters of
tlr Sihgurs IN ;uruIsh his little one-horse
city With domestic appurtenanCes;-and
Dr. Ms \ type OF the whole future king
iOm, republic and empire. There has
1ecu mere grandeur and more doubly-
dyed iUlq1ity on this little patch ofgreund
than on any one spot OF the whole globe.
There are 80 sets OF things here on the
Iilallar. The frSt are those which we
can See-heCauss time, fire and the de-
s'ruCtIve nature OF man have rot been able
10 u+e them all up. The second are those
which We must Imagine, because we sim
ply know that they once existed. The
]2ls,arlyi describe to uS almost exactly
where the most interesting buildings stood,
ant the excavation show us the remains of
o. GerS. Here are sNIue things that We are
Shown to-day.
/. The place whore stood the temple of
Jupiter S,ator. | have here the same
feeling that I had once in Richmond. in
iae it'll" room where Patrick Henry made
4 Speeth that the English language will
land down 10 4 great mony future genera
Ions. For this temple ct Jupiter Ststor
vas where Cicero gave Cltlhnr that tre-
Deadou7 orItorIral duyssing down that
will tbull millions OF Fueshmen vet ur-
orn. AZ | stand here, the little oh room
~ college comes SlillG" lrrasS the sea all
'' lse'i, aud | oacr more laboriou,ly de-
CIPHER aud triumPhabtly spout the i'm
moral philippe
" TIE House Of Augustus. This house.
IKE much OF old Rome. il entirely under
S'ouud. We are allowed only 10 peer
low among the bare and bleak rooms.
'' an eXcISatOr Wa killed there some
!ets ago 10y fragments falling upon him.
anu since then the public are not admitted
1's'e Augustus lived after becoming En-
geIoF, with a sort OF Jeffersoniap simnlic-
~ until the plain building took FIRE and
II'hrL Then the people subscribed and
.,"' nun q grand palace, whose
Jus are at present aH under
t'o0hi, with = Catholic convent above
.1s'a. In" nun will allow nobody 10 .,
pore their rich marble strewn cellars. and
We o'eroanglng earth still keeps the o.
cs.' % eighteen hundred years ago. But
~.'s.DiHen' has bought the land; the nuns
h, I',nS 10 other quarters; and it is
M r.t tnat e5e many months one more re-
tory. u " N'ih"n MS
I9e ruins Of the palace of Damltian.
b1r a.s AFTER the house of Augustus was
inn II- ~ pomitian piled the ruins