The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-10-23
ROnRe,ItnIy.
Written for San Saba News.

beauties of the for famed city
Rome. A man who far few
years has been accustomed to the
wild free life IN your Western
prairies do feel strange in Rome,
Do as l may I cannot act like a
Roman. 1 am suffering the hard
ships and humiliations of green
lad in a large city. 1 find that two
of the largest ,athedrals in the
world are here, The largest theatre
In Sue world is also acre, eacIs
having seating, capacity of at
least five time rs much as any
building in tho United States.
The buildings ale of a peculiar
architecture, but strikingly mag
nifcient in appearance. l visited
the old Amphitl1eatre, in whose
arena the Gladiators fought to
death, merely to satisfy the e1cita-
BILE anxieties of a multitude who
delighted in seeing their fellowman
go down beneath the sword of his
antagonist. We 10 day are horri-
fed at the thought of a vast con-
course of people assembling to
witness fight, to death, of two
persons armed with swords or
knives, knowing mt the time that
one must die. Yet we pay no at
tention when the good name or
character of our fellowman is
brought into the arena of public
discussion, and every trivial fault
magnified into a crime, and every
weakness, declareda sin, and every
error, a scheme of villainy. And
whenever his plans fail, or he
does an act different from the way
they would have done, the big
know it sll's, are promptly on hand
with their smart Didn't 1 tell you
sos. I also visited the great
council chambers in which the il
lustrious Caesar was assinated. /
could not refrain from picturing to
myself that tragic scene. The
imagination may lead you, kind
reader, to picture to yourself the
feelings of Caesar when all una
ware he was attacked by those
whom he thought, not only his fol-
lowers but his friends, and as
their knives were plying his flesh,
he saw his friend, Brutus, sp-
preaching. Caesar no doubt, ex-
pected Brutus to Help him, he ex-
pected assistance and relief, but
what was his utter establishment
when Brutus, too ..aised his hand
and stabbed him. Brutus gave as
his reasons that Caesar was ambi-
tious, and that the general welfare
of Rome was at stake while such q |
man as Caesar ruled. Atthe same |
time Brutus was more guilty OF
the charges he brought against
Caesar than was Caesar himself.
How often is this same scene enac-
ted at present, except in a more
sneaking, stealthy manner. How
often do those we believe our
friends stab us when we are least
expecting it. How often do the
busy meddlers lie in wait for their
unsuspecting victim, and suddenly |
assail his characte5:; or good name
with their tongues more ruinous
and deadly than the knife of Cas-
ca or Brutus. How often does it
happen that a man, because he
may differ in opinion, in actions,
or in any other respect have his
name, or his chara ter brought in
to question, denounced and con-
denied by people more traitorious
than was Brutus in his dealings
with Caesar. How often has it |
happened that one person is de-
nounced as immoral and dishonest
by men who are ton times more
guilty of the cry act against
which they cry SO lCddly than the
one denounced. When Caesar
was attacked by a host of others,
Brutus then helped to kill him.
But Brutus would never have
openly attacked him hand to hand. |
Is it not frequently the case TO-
day? When a man is down
every body is ready to kick
him, and when a persons honesty,
moral character, or reputation
is questioned or attacked, even
seeming friends will do as did
Brutus. The fact in the case is
Brutus had an axe to grind. He
saw by a little undermined work |
he could poison the minds of the
people against Caesar, and that if |
he acted to please those as traitori-
GUS as he, himself was, that he