The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-19
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vancement for this grand and glorious
nation in the centuries ito come


1.-THE Roman Forum" by Maude
Heimbach.
"At the time of the foundation of
Rome, the bartering trade, between the
various tribes, settled on the heights of
the Heft bank of the Tiber, was concern
trated in the hollow ground between
the Capitoline, the Palatine and OUR
inal hills Around this elementary
market place were a few conical straw
nuts. such as the one in which the pub
lie fire was kept, afterwards the temple
of Vesta. There were also clay pits
under the Capitoline, which, as time
went on, were transformed into prisons.
According to the Roman legend,
Romulus and Tatius, after the media
ton of the Sabine women, met on the
very spot where the battle had been
fought and made peace and alliance.
This spot low, damp and grassy
place. exposed to the floods of the river
Spinon, took the name of Forum. Az
forwards a stone Enclosure was built on
the Forum for the meeting of senators.
Then came the state prison. built by
ANGUS Marcus, in one of the quarries.
The Tarquins drained the land, trans
formed the unruly Spinon into the
Cloaca Maxtma and gave the Forum Il
trapezoid shape. The Forum was the
heart of the Roman empire-where it's
public business was transacted, where
great questions of policy were dis
cussed. So it became crowded with
state buildings. marble temples and
courts of law to such an extent that we
wonder how there was room for them
all in such narrow area, for the
Forum was only 1855 meters long before
the temple of Caesar was built, and
then 1t was reduced to a length of 102
meters.
ha of "a %1o% re
Constantine the history of the Forum is
represented by four great fires followed
by three great restorations, in the
course of which the space for the ac-
commodation of crowds was vastly i'm
proved, new buildings were added and
new art collections formed
'On a bright, clear morning, as we
stand in the Roman Forum, facing the
rising sun, we can see a group of hills,
crowned with a vast assemblage of
temples, colonnades and sacred groves.
The storks can be seen stalking along
the temple of Concord, place in which
they were encouraged to build on ac-
count of the peculiar social instincts
which We're attributed to them, one be-
ing that they brought good luck to the
house to which they attached them
selves. Turning about and facing The
west we see the Campus Martius, de-
voted from the earliest period to mill
tary exercises. On this side of the open
meadow stand some Of the principal
temples, the great Flaminian circus
and theaters of Marcellus and Pom
peius.
But as the city of Rome wakes to
life different sights are to be seen.
There comes load drawn by oxen;
now passage is cleared for some dig
nified patrician, who, reclining on his
litter, is borne to the Forum. Soon all
tumult ceases, and as the night ad-
vances, the sights and sounds gradually
fade away, till in the first hours of the
new day the glilnmering lantern IF the
last wandering pedestrian has disap-
peared and the great city lies under the
stans-asleep."
Education of the Greek People" by
Maude Beebe:
What was the education of the
Greeks? There can be no better and
clearer answer than the words of Ho-
mer. The Greek was taught to be a
speaker of words and a doer of deeds
A speaker of words and a doer of deeds
mark the two great divisions into
which Greek education at all periods
Elemental education and physical ed