The Newtown bee., 1895-08-16

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 MOTHER OF THE CHURCHES OF ROME
 "BUT IT DOES MOVE, THOUGH" ."-THI
 BIRTHPLACE OF THE PROTESTANT REF
 ORMATIoN; 1.-THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY
 FAITH."-GRINNING SKULLS AND GAL
 LERIES OF GHASTLY ART.-THE yATI CAN PALACE, THE PoPE's PRISON ! HOUsE.-MICHAEL ANGELo's FRISCO
 OF THE LAST JUDGMENT.-DOWN IN
 THE CATACOMBs. CITY
 FAREWELL.
 A little girl came pouting home to her mother from school one day, seemingly rutfied and all out of sorts. 'sWhy what is the matter, Edith?' ?'' the mother in. quired, ''what has happened? Has your teacher been cross to you?" 1T don't like her one bit," sobbed Edith, ''for I think she is real mean" "Mean!' interrupted I the mother, "pray, what did she do?'' ''She took me by the shoulder" replied the daughter. whose feelings had evi- dently been grievously hurt, land put me in chair and told me to sit there for the present; and I sat and sat, and she didn't give me any present at all." Here the little girl broke forth in a fresh flood of grief. Now, do not think, dear reader, that have been sitting still so long and have not finished the series of travel sketches that begun so long ago, simply because l have been mercenary enough to be waiting for the present from some body that has not come. My travelling did not inoculate me with the poison of backsheesh quite so thoroughly as that; but, perhaps, if the editor of THE BEE does not mind, better let you into my confidence, and then that will straighten matters out, and we can have a smooth passage the rest of the way home, for it would never do to end our pleasant jour ney together in storm-tossed waters. A subscriber of THE BEE was rash enough to say to one of that papers pushing agents, ''Let my paper run on until Mir Barker's letters are concluded" Of course it is as easy as counting two and two to see that the longer these letters run, the longer that particular subscrip- tion runs and the more cash comes into the cotfers of THE BEE men; and so, at last accounts, both letters and subscrip- tion were running good race, and the judges declared it was nip and tuck as to which would be winded first.
 THIS SERIES OF TRAVEL SKETCHES had included one paper on Rome, but do you think that that one paper exhausted the theme? It exhausted it about as much as the suns drawing water from the ocean exhausts the oceans fathomless depths. We only had three full days in Rome, and in those three days we gave an excellent illustration of the meaning of the American-coined word, ''hustle;' ;'' but we hardly made start at really see- ing "Tae Eternal City," and hope I may try it again some day when my len- tent congregation wish me to rest while. See Rome in three daysl Oh, dear no; you could not complete your seeing in three years, not even if you made a regu- lar business of it and put in bigger work every day than the discontented motor men on the Brooklyn trolley lines. Why, there are nearly 400 churches in Rome and the Vatican palace, the papal resi- dence, has Il 1000 rooms; and all these churches and nearly all these rooms are packed with frescos and statues and paintings and gildings that would repay the most careful study-that is only faint cno0aatiny1 of tha xxynr1Y lx7iy, haf you, if, with set teeth and resolute pur- pose, you determined, as tourist, to conquer Rome or die. Rome is forums, temples, fountains, palaces, museums, piazzas (so they call the public squares over there), basilicas (so they call many of the churches), ruins and monuments, -tLese ad nauseam and, like Tennyson's brook, going on forever. am going to take you on brief zigzag, or hit-and- miss, journey through the streets, and then we shall leave the imperial city on the banks of the muddy Fiber behind. First, in starting out from our hostel ry, Hotel du Quirinale, we engage a 'tcabby" for two lire an hour. Oh, it is nothing to ride in carriage in Rome :; there is no style about it, nothing that marks you in any way as an aristocrat. Everybody rides in cab over there j; the washerwomen do. am sure, for I have seen them, and-I am almost certain that the bootblacks dn, too, once in while, | just to see how it seems. We bar gain with the man on the box, as say, for two lire an hour;