The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-04

transported polished and erected all in
seven monthsl There is smaller ooe-
lisl among the ruins of karnack.
There is another lonely obelisk which
stands hrooding in silence over the ru-
ms of Heliopols, the ancient city OF ON
of the Genesis; it has maintained its
sentinel watch for ages and was even
gray relic of the past as long ago as
when Joseph married the daughter of
the priest before whose temple this ST.
lent witness looked calmly down, The
two needles" which We're brought
from Upper Egypt during the reign OF
the Emperor Tiberius and re-erected
upon the sea shore at Alexandria have
been carried away, one to New YORK,
the other to London. Still another ode
lislk is to be observed at Constantine
pie. while Rome boasts the possession
of no less than fourteen of these giant
monollths. In Paris, in the beautiful
Place Concord, stands the obelisk
called the sister of the one nov
standing at the Temple of LuXon, thus
ofthe large number whichonce orna-
mented Egypt only twenty-five now re-
main.
Not far from the Piazza Monte O.
torco," in the little Via Lata and on the
Corso at the corner of this short street
stands the small church of "St. Maria
in Via Lata;" it is just beyond the OBJ
servatorio of the Collegio Romano.
The church is so small and unimpor-
tant that one may pass it by without
noticing the homely exterior. But we
must stop to inspect it, for 1t, as the
home of st. Paul, where he "dwelt two
whole years in his own hired house and
received all that came unto him.
And when they had appointed day
they came into his lodgings" and here
is the house and / stand bowed with
uncovered head for / feel as If stand
ing on holy ground. The church was
founded centuries ago, and below it
(for the street level has been raised full
ly ten feeD is the old house. A tradi-
ton which was current in the early
centuries of Christianity points to this
spot as the home of st. Paul but very
little remains; the cellar walls with a
spring of water where converts were
baptized, and the kitchen, are still to be
seen; all is dark below and torches
must be lighted to inspect this very in
teresting place.
1t is thought that st. Pauls fellow
prisoners Aristarchus and Epraphas
dwelt with him in this house; his
friends were faithful to him at Rome.
Among these were Luke Timotheus,
Tychicus, Mark and Demas and Onesi-
mus, although Demas loved this pres
ent world" and forsook Paul. AT a
1ot o,. i,,1h ,t-o1l 10 no
Mammertine prison near the Forum
and visit the dark dungeon where Paul
spent his last days in Rome. Here
doubtless he wrote his second Epistle
to Timotheus CHS last literary laborl,
when he an innocent man exclaimed, II
suffer trouble as an evil doer even unto
bonds, but the word of God is not
bound only Luke is with me-" and
then shuddering, shivering with the icy
chill of this dank stone prison dungeon,
theapostle writeswith benumbed fin
gers, THE cloke that l left at Troas
with Carpus when thou CONTEST bring
with thee" Before Timotheus came to
Rome with the faded, worn garment
and the parchments the man of God
had left his dark cell for a brighter and
Ct LIS lily, WfiliN VIC lulpiouS, wi
rupt Nero lived on and revelled drunk
with the blood Of Christian martyrs.
We will now take a SHORT cut through
a narrow "calle'' or lane, passing by the
Exchange, which was once the lovely
Temple of Neptune; its facade of elev-
en- Corinthian columns remain badly
shattered with the spaces between
them filled in with brick work: these
columns are forty feet high and once
there We're fifteen of these on each side
with eightat each end: II is a noble
ruin. We pass the Pantheon, the only
ancient edifice in Rome which is still in
perfect preservation as regards its roof.
and walls. This has been Christian
church ever since the year 500; it is one
of the most interesting of all the build
ings of ancient or modern Rome. Our
destination is the Piazza Navona," so
we will hasten along the Via di Cres-
cenzi which leads Immediately into
that Piazza. This is the old Circus
Agonale' of the Emperor Domitian; it
is right in the busy center of the city,
and coversan immense tract, vast OBJ
long square. In it's center stands an
obelisk which once stood in the Circus
Maxentius' while four great fountains
gush forth near it's base; above these
are four marble gods, which represent
four great rivers, Danube, Ganges, Nile
and Riodella Plata, or Europe, Asia,
Africa and America The old circus
can be traced in the present shape of
the Piazza, and here in the days of Do
mitian famous contests, races and
wrestling matches took place Houses
and churches surround the place. and
where thousands daily screamed and
shouted hoarse applause scarcely a
voice is now heard The muleteer
bringing his wine into the city from
Tusculem or from Albano, goads on his
weary beasts and with his strident
voice shrieks to them to hasten
through this quiet and lonely locality.
Many old palaces and churches are to
be seen in this neighborhood The
church of est. Maria della Anima" is
church of deep interest and might form
the subject of long letter. In the old
church of 'St, Maria della Pace" are to
be seen the -four sibyls'' of Raphael; to
view these only, it would repay one to
come all the way to Rome. Very near
the Piazza is the famous statue of Pas
quin, the originator of the Pasquimade
There was, it seems, a witty tailor or
cobbler Pasquin by name, who lived
here in the fifteenth century, as he was
famous writer of "lampoons, he
would place his jests at night on this