Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-08-01

Croft However, up to the time when
the Romans became the dominant nation
in Italy and prior 10 the trouble in the
Flew Orleans dynasty, the Etruscans had
extended their influence over South
western Europe and managed to
undersell many Of the Jewish cloth
ing merchants Of that country. They
were bold in war and enterprlsing
in business. Their standing army
rarely sat down and their nayies
were seldom seasick. All this was the
case up TO about JSG b. C.-to the best Of
NV recollection. After that they had
the air of having been checked up too
high. Their pride prevented them from
sweating and they perspired very little
too. Finally their letters were all dc
tated" 10 stenographer by private sec
Rotary, and century or so later we find
the Etruscans suffering from brain flag
before their whiskers broke out. They
sat for hours trying 10 remember back
10 when they were young people, but
finally gave it up. They did not marry
outside of their set at all, and 80 man
aged to confne all the broad heritage OF
antique and ancient diseases, which many
generations Of Incidence, insolence and
rich victuals had engendered, 10 their
own proud but bilious race.
And 50 at last, Wanda, they petered
out, to use the glowing words OF Liyy,
and the places that knew them once now
knows them no more forever.
Think Of it. Seven hundred and fifty
oh ha
Etruscans were powerful nation, with
glorious history, heritage OF liberty
for the purpose Of forhng over TO poster
ity and a war debt.
Later on trouble broke out with the
Romans themselves, many Etruscans
having been skinned, il would seem, by
interruptions real estate dealers, who
sold the Etruscans lots in Uncle Re
mus addition to Rome which after
ward turned out TO be in another county
This precipitated upon the Etruscans
war which was most disastrous, many
of the choicest and best dressed Etruscar
officers Of the regular army having beer
killed or overhet in their fight, 80 tina
they were no good after that, or thei
uniforms were 30 unused up that the,
were ashamed almost to go TO larg
place like Rome, where the next battl
was advertised for
Eighty-nine years before Christ tn
Etruscans were admitted to the Romsl
,, franchise, but still even az subordinat
power they constantly threw 1t up :
their conquerers that they were a yer
old people, and it was indeed raw, disa
' greeable day when some Etruscan di
not 20 home with beautiful Swiss sun
set under each eye and tell his wife tina
: he got 1t while reaching the tail Of
casual mule.
The Etruscan writers were not of
= high order generally, but they excelle
u in all the arts. AS a people, they a
!. lowed nobody to Guido them in arr
y Sculpture, painting, etc, etc, had
great hold on the people, and home dec
, ration was run into the ground. Eve
lasting flowers and dried grasses wit
= powdered alum on them were In the
70 full meridian when the Etruscans curle
. up and died as a people, leaving the
u gIittering bones TO ornament the shor'
T. Of time.
y The 30 called Tuscan architecture is
lie modification Of the Doric, and locks we
a. on an unencumbered piece Of pre-, ,ert
of The Cloaca Maxima, at Rome, whie
d, many travellers will remember has bee
ss unoccupied for 30 many years, IL attn
uted to the Etruscans during their don
r nation. They showed in this buildir
a, that they were acquainted with the pri
n ciples involved in the construction Of Il
ne arch, and the plumbing is said to