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ner of gold brocade for tho prize; the
second for riderless horses, with ban
ner of crimson velvet for the prize; and
the third for mares. the prize being a
banner of purple velvet. On the last day
Of the carnival there was race Of asses
and buffaloes, and as usual there was
reveling and tumult in abundance. At
night there was a comedy in the Caffa-
relli palace"
THE PAPAL. PATRONAGE
OF the popes who were patrons and
promoters Of carnival celebration, Paul
ii was one of the most notable. In his
time the Jews of Rome were compelled
to pay a yearly sum of 1130 golden for
ins, which was expended on the carnival.
There is also extant decree Of Paul II
minutely providing for and encouraging
the diversions which were to take place.
Among other things his Holiness orders
that four rings of silver gilt should be
provided for the burghers and the re-
tainers Of Of the mobiles to practice riding
at the ring. The pope also orders va
rlety of races. the expense to be betrayed
from the papal exchequer-one to be run
by the Jews, another for Chr, 5tian chill
dren. another for Christian young men,
another for sexagenarians, q fifth for
asses and sixth for buffaloes.
Under julius III bull-baiting took
place in the forum, with elaborate and
magnificent accessories, and enormous
suppers were given in the palace Of the
conservatory. In the capitol, where seven
cardinals, together with the Duke Orazio
Farnese, supped at one table, and all the
ladies by themselves at another. Paul
w used to keep carnival by inviting all
the sacred college to dine with him, but
the vigorous Sixtus v, elected in 1885,
kept II in different fashion. Finding
that the license permitted gave rise to
much abuse, he prepared for the celebra-
tion, to the no small dismay of the Ro-
mans, by having erected sundry gibbetS
in conspicuous places, as well as whip
ping posts-the former as hint to rob-
bers and cut-throats, the latter as a
reminder for minor offenders. 1t was
Sixtus, too. who reformed the evil Gus
tom of throwing flour at passengers,
permitting only flowers or confetti"
Clement TX used, on the other hand,
to shut himself every year during carni-
val time in the convent of st. Sabina,
that at least he might not see what he
could not avoid tolerating. Gregory XIII,
in celebrating the jubilee year in 1875.
forbade all carnival observance, ordering
all the money usually expended for the
purpose by the apostolic chamber should
be used to assist poor pilgrims. Other
OF the popes have similarly suspended
carnival. and in 1908 Plus VII. forbade any
manifestation on account of the French
invasion. nor would he permit any to
take place in 1909. Notwithstanding that
the French in the occupation Of the city
had proclaimed the celebration of the
carnival. OF course the pope had no
power to enforce his wish. but 1t is
strangely suggestive, as indicating the
feeling OF the people, that the corso re-
mained deserted and all the stores
closed.
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fthe supreme being or heaven) and faces
the north. The platform is laid with
marble stones, forming nine concentric
circles: the INNER circle consists of nine
stones. cut so as to fit with close edges
round the central stone, which is per-
feet circle. Here, the emperor kneels
and is surrounded first by the
circles of the terraces and their
enclosing walls and then by the circle
of the horizon. He then seems to him
self and to his court to be in the center
of the universe, and turning to the north
assuming the attitude of subject, he
acknowledges in prayer and by his posi-
ton that he is inferior to heaven, and to
heaven alone. Round him on the pave
ment are the nine circles of as many
heavens, consisting of nine stones. then
eighteen, then twenty-seven, and SO on
in multiples of nine till the square Of
nine. the favorite number of Chinese
philosophy, is reached in the outermost
circle of eighty one stones.
GAINS UNLUCIxY OFFERING
And so back to the central plains Of
Asia-the very cradle of the Aryan race
and there too Is found the festival idea.
1t is not possible to trace it. There are
Jewish scholars who express the opin-
ion that when Cain Drought of the fruits
of the ground as an Offering to the Lord"
he was celebrating a harvest festival.
Whether this be true or not, certain 1t is
that the Jewish feast of first fruits was
considered one of the most important of
the year, and there are historical stu
dents who do not hesitate to claim that
the festival of first fruits was borrowed
from the Egyptians. Jacob and his
family went down into Egypt B. c. 100.
but the monuments of B. c. 2500 repre-
sent professions, with music and dane
ing, bearing sheaves Of grain, bags of
corn and f1agons of oil and wine, on their
way to the temple to offer up thanksgiv-
ing for a bounteous harvest.
In Nineveh, too. there is bas-relief
upon one of the palace walls. executed
with great care and painstaking skill,
1t represents a procession, headed by
several musicians with trumpets, Gym
balls and drums, and composed Of men
bearing bundles of grain, baskets Of
grapes and other fruits and receptacles
which appear to contain bread and
other kinds Of food In the rear are
young men and women, boys and girls,
dancing and leaping with every appear
ance of exuberant joy. The road they
are pursuing leads to a temple in the
distance, and in the sky appears a repre-
sentation of the NOON. The harvest
moon and the harvest festival have al
ways gone together.
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element of his character was his decis-
i've will. Without imagining that be-
lief In supernatural powers could render
him Independent of external circum-
stances, he accepted It In order to gain
his definite ends. Therefore he con-
cerned himself only about the substance;
the forms were Indifferent. and he freely
borrowed them from others when he
himself was unable to create them.
The OLD Roman religion can hardly be
said to have had mythology in the
Greek sense. AS early IS the times or
the kings the Greek Olympus began to
migrate ito Latium and to transform it,
self into a system devoid of myths. With
the exception, perhaps of the double
faced Janus, the Romans could scarcely
show a national deity. But they adopt
ed the gods of other countries besides
Greece, and their tendency in this d.
rection became continually stronger.
Their utilitarian sense was so Sharply
developed, indeed, that when besieglng
a city they venerated its gods In order
to win them for allies. The priests oc-
cupied a different position to those or
Greece, although here. too. they were
neither a hereditary caste nor a dis
tinct class. Their ONCE was a public
position, to be obtained like other pub
lie employments, or was legally
associated with some of the higher mag
istrates. Only a few priests, such as
the "augurs" and "famens," held office
for life.
According to Juvenal. the Roman pop
ulace cared for only two things-bread
and the public shows. How far the lat
ter resulted from a lack of the former Is
a moot point. without bread the peo-
pie could not exist without the shows
they would have felt their lives were not
worth living. The circus and the amphi-
theater were indeed an absolute reces-
sity, both to the people and to the gov
eminent. To the people they furnished
the means Of passing idle days in pleas
ure and excitement; to the government
they gave the opportunity OF diverting
the minds of the people from political
affairs and of supplying them with less
dangerous food for rivalry and discussion.
ALLOW them. Caesar" said Pylades. "tc
excite themselves about us. for then they
do not think about politics.
The participation Of the priests was re-
ouired at the public festivals with which
the calendar was we'll provided. During
their continuance the senate, courts and
schools were closed, no criminals could
be punished, slaves were granted hoi-
day ard allowed many liberties. friends
irterchanged gifts and fairs were held
in the pubic squares. The public games
had here, as elsewhere, religious origin.
Romulus was said to have instituted
them. but Tarquinius Pricus made them
permanent by founding the Circus Max
linus.
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| Ceres were the mysteries celebrated a
Eleusis, concerning which we know
| that, in the presence of individuals in
| itiated in the secret ritual, scenes were
enacted which represented the alterna
| tion of life and death in nature and thu
| resurrection and immortality of man.
OUR LOCAL PROTOTYPE
In seeking for the prototype of La FL
esta we have to go to the Atheniaf
festival, where many similarities ma,
| be found to exist between the seat anC
center of ancient culture and the City Of
| the Angels of4today. !.
Athens, or to be literally correct
Athenae, was founded B. c. 1o56 bS
Cecrops and an Egyptian colony. 1t wa.
called Cecropia, from it's founder, anc
afterwards Athenae, in honor Of Athene
the Grecian name of Minerva. Man
Muller derives Athene from the roo
"ah," which yields the Sanskrit "ahana'
and the Greek "Daphne''-the dawn
Athene is therefore the dawn-goddess,
but she is also the goddess OF wisdom
because "the goddess who caused people
to wake was involuntarily conceived as
the goddess who caused people to know
(Science of Language. 1:54S-551.) The
relation between the awakening OF the
day and the awakening of thought Is
also preserved in the name OF Minerva
II being connected with the Latin
"mens." Greek ''menos. Sanskrit
"manas"-mind; also with the Latin
"mane"-morning.
Athene (Minerva) was a virgin god
dess. and sprang from the brain OF JoVe'
agleam with the panoply of war; sne Is
the goddess of the lightning and OF the
storms, and also of wisdom, OF skill, OF
contemplation, of spinning and weaving
of agriculture and OF horticulture. she
is the protectress Of cities, and Athens,
her own city, was awarded to her as the
prize of peaceful contest with Neptune,
who also aspired to It. In the reign OF
Cecrops. the first king Of Athens, the
two deities had contended for the posses
sion of the city. The gods decreed that
II should be awarded to the one who pro-
auced the gift most useful to mortals.
Nepture struck the ground with his tri-
dent, and the horse sprang FORTH en-
blem of war and carnage; Athene pro-
duced the olive, emblem OF peace ana
prolificness. The gods awarded the city
to the goddess, and after her II was
named.
Athene (Minerva). then, is eminently
a goddess of peace; armed in the pano-
ply of war, but having no sympathy win
iit. prediiections OF Mars, save IN me
cause of right and justice, and then as
Pallas-Athene, she made the heavens
reverberate with her cries. In such
ruise she inspired to deeds of valor and
patriotic devotion.
"can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be,
And Freedom find no champion anu no
sucb as Columbia saw arise. when she
Sprung forth a Pallas, armed ana unoe-
filed"
Among other of the characteristics OF
the tutelary deity of Athens must not
be forgotten her zeal for navigation. Her
care of the Argonauts, which caused the
Argo to be built with some of the oaks
of the forest of Dodona, and they being
gifted with prophecy, gave warning OF
coming calamity, made her the patron
ess of all those who ''go down into the
deep in ships"
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.


The practical sense of the Romans was
especially apparent in their religion
In the Greek view the gods, though
placed above man, were yet his compan-
ions in beneficent scheme of existence
as well as subjects for the exercise of his
imaginative faculty; to the Roman hi.
gods were alien powers, whom he ac-
knowledged as such because he con
ceived of man also. primarily, as pow
er. and whose favor he wished to gai
because he needed their assistance. II
was deeply religious, because his sens
Of dependence was great: but the main
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AN IMPOSING EDIFICE
Where $4,000 Reveled in the Gladi-
atorial Contests

"Where are the braveries. fresh or frayed?
The plumes, the armour-friend or foe?
The cloth of gold, the rare brocade.
The NANTES ghttering to and fro?
The pomp, the pride. the royal show!
The cries of war and festival?
The youth, the grace, the charm the glow
Into the night go one and all
W. z. HENLEY.
The herald., 1897-04-25

With the introduction of Christianity,
or, more precisely, when Peter, accom-
panied by Paul. went to Rome and
founded there church over which he pre-
sided as bishop for rs years from the
first year of the reign Of Claudius. Al A.
D. to 81 A. d.. eventually suKering mar
tyrdem in the same year and on the same
day as st. Paul. in the persecution under
Nero, the AK was laid at the root of the
old NEUROLOGICAL festivals
30 long as Christianity was the religion
ef an obscure sect and Of a prosecuted
minority in the Roman state lying also
under the suspicion Of political disaf-
lection, its influence upon the everyday
life of the nation was insignificant. But
with the firm establishment and recogni-
ton Of the church 1t Rome, q gradual
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They are flown

lQey are HOWL,
Beautiful fictions of our fathers, wove
In Superstition's web when Time was young
And fondly loved and cherished; they are
flown
Before the wand of Science"
Thomas Darlington.
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THE CARNIVAL IDEA
CRUELTY AND FOLLY A DISTIN-
GUSHING FEATURE
But Encouraged, Under Protest From
the Church, as an Incentive to
Trade and Commerce

at becomes extremely hard to disentan-
gle our idea of the cause from the effect by
which we know it."-Burke.
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srrhis life theatre we well may call,
Where every actor must perform with
art;
Or laugh 1t through. and make farce of
all,
Or learn to bear with grace his tragic
part"
-Bland's Greek Anthology.
The herald., 1897-04-25
THE ROMAN SPECTACLE
IN CONQUERING THE WORLD
ALIEN GODS WE'RE ANNEXED
The Spirit of Utilitarianism That
Later Degenerated Into
Bloodthirstiness

"self reverence. self knowledge, self con-
troll
These three alone lead life to sovereign
power"
at is the nature of tyranny and rapacity
neysr to learn moderation. From
cruel men they are transformed to savage
beasts, with no other vestiges of reason
left but what serves to furnish the inven-
tions and refinements of ferocious subtiety
for purposes of which beasts are incapa-
BILE and at which friends would blush"
BURKE.
The herald., 1897-04-25

"The injury of prodigality leads to this
that he that will not economize will have
to agonize.
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THE GRECIANFESTIVALS
BASED ON LOVE OF NATURE AND
NATURAL RELIGION
The Time When the Good Greek Was
a Model Of Excellence and the
Bad One a Scoundrel

GLORY Of warrior, glory of orator. glory of
song,
Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an
endless sea-"
-Tennyson.
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OF the
Festival of Agone and Testaccio
Celebrated by the Gentlemen of Rome
on the Thursday and Monday
of Carnival
in 1545
According to the practice of the ancient
Romans, Together with a True De-
scrption of the Triumphal Cars
In describing the spectacle of Monte
Testaccio Crescimbeni says: "All the
positions were crowded with people, and
there was great number of stands and
scaffoldings In the midst is the large
open meadow which was entirely sur
rounded by infantry and cavalry. Along
came the procession, and then COM
menced the great hunting match, in
which thirteen bulls were slain, and six
cars were sent down from Monte Testac-
cio on each of which was red standard
and a live pig, in scrambling for which
no less efforts were made than in slay-
ing the bulls. Among the many liv-
cried companies seen was one of thirty
six mountebanks, clad in red, with IRON
shod poles In their hands; and these were
the first to assail the bulls. But the most
splendid thing seen was company of six
cavaliers, consisting Of the Cardinal Far
nese, the Cardinal Santa Flora, the duke
Of Camerino, the duke of Melf, the count
or Santa Flora and the prince of Mace
donia These were dressed as knights
of old, and their garments were of gold
ard silver and silk, with embroidery and
lace, and needlework upon needlework-
such an elegance that 1 have neither
the patience nor the courage to describe
it! Their horses too, were adorned with
the same splendor. and they performed
such feats of horsemanship (these car
dinalsD that the people thought It q
miracle! Then three races were run,
the first for riderless horses. with ban
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Couldn't Hold Him.

The fortunate finding of Supreme
court decision by his attorney, Captain
Ernest Dart, yesterday saved Joe
Watson from serious scrape. Con-
tractor J. B. Leonard had Watson or.
rested on a warrant tor obtaining
money under false pretences. Watson
had secured an advance of S. from
Mr.. Leonard, on condition that he
would work it out. He did not show
up at the appointed time. Attorney
Dart read Supreme court decision
which expressly declared that money
obtained in such manner by lsborer
from a contractor did not come under
the head of false pretences, Watson
was discharged.