Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-30

To a man eXiled, ruined, with price
sci on his head in his own country, and
w.5h MS heart aching ce2selessiy for all
he had left forever, II was q thrice
! blessed sanctuary.
When the Woodlanders climbed the
SUBMITS of the colossal pines 10 gather
! the ripe cones, they could see if they
cared to look, and if the day were clear,
a glistening ray of gold. a shining band
of silver and the one was the cross of
! st. Peters, and the ether was the Tyrh-
ennian Sea.
Only the highway traversed lie Selve,
| one which ran croSswise, and met the
old coaching road which goes still, al
though scarcely ever used except by
muleteers and peasantry, from ViterbO
| by Ronciglione, and Sutri TO La Storta,
| and on to Rome itself.
But past Of more than two thous-
| and years is touched at every step in
these heather-covered lands. a pas.
which makes the BOrgia, the Farnese,
/ the Medci, seem but as mere paryenues
of a near hour
Within the forest there were traces of
rock-dwellings and of Etruscan tombs;
he would willingly have consecrated his
years to their exploration, and led such
a life here as AvOEO of CCrnet0 and the
Campanari OF Toscanelli had led amidst
the sepulchres of a vanished race.
There were small. very poor holdings
here and there. scattered many miles
one from another in patches of more or
| less cultivated ground. And in earlier
times some wanderer turned adrift by
fire or sword, some criminal fleeing from
pursuit. or some nomad tired of roam
ing had made hut Of boughs, and
called the spot their own; and in the
peasantry living on and by these clear
ings. the newcomer found his greatest
enemies and his greatest anXiecies.
| I,org years of license and centuries Of
occupation had made these sons Of the
soil look on it as their own; indeed, in
a manner. the Latin law confirmed Their
title. and plumber had become with them
2 RIGHT divine. All his natural sympa-
thies were with the poor and the creeds
Of his teacher held them eXcusable in
all errors, and these people were very
moor indeed. but their cynical dishonesty
revolted him, and their habitual insur-
! hordinatiOn met and thwarted hlm at
every turn. They cringed 10 him to his
face but cheated him and mocked az
him behind his back. He was sensible
/ of n. and 1t strained his patience sorely.
There were not more than dozen
families scattered over the fifty miles
of forest; but every che OF these was
ooeins' The foreigner-wOuldh have been
equally against him whatever ne might
have done if ne had been st. M-chaeIs
,alf as Caternia and Mureilla some
times thought that he was. Ihey haG
always been poor. but they had enJoyeu
thieving. drinking, SHINING as ny
chose. He wished to make mem -
Moor. but he strove also to make 1ieih
more honest. They did not want "
learn thrift. or cleanliness, OF cOH a,4,'lI
sense. They only wanted TO De HI'nS
and law and corrupt, and thievish' IN
tbe inonnamorial way transmitted from
'G,eir fathers. They wanted no new
tangled virtues. Any wrong they. did'
srr6 as kniving ne!ghbor or iiftihg d
Gals was nut I'D in bundle, as they
NJ mn weeds TO burn, and was thrust
go, an Easter. when the priest waSneu
= ciean as once a year their women
washed their shirts in running W''.el
Tb9t was the use OF priests ana W.
men. o-5 his
To the people of this volcanic ana ms
foric soil the newcomer, lie MlneSlI CO a.
he was called. was accursed as He
nortberner"-northerner whether rom ron
P I3oi 1 or Mllano. wheEher from Rus