Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-08-23

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severus and OF Titus, with the Palatine
Hill adjoining. Afterwards standing
on the Palatine I could overlook at .
single view the whole ofthess historic
grounds and ruins and In imagina-
ton could see before me many tragic
scenes In Roman history. There by
Pompey's Pillar the crest Caesar fell;
and Just there Antony pronounced
his wonderful oration over Caesars
dead body.
Just out east from TIE lDalatine was
Oicsro's home and yohasr I've pro-
nounced his philIppics against casta-
line. Here on the Palatins A1gnstns
Caesar was born; and not far away
they point out to you the place of
Nero's golden house.
To-day ss We drove out OF Appian
Way I could see, In Imagination. this
old yilIairous emperor In his golden
chariot and AgrippinA with her retinue
Of maids aud she assoc, as described
in "Quo vadis.n By-the.way, In that
drive we stopped at the old "Quo
vadls" church, which seems to be
located In Just the right place.
1 have enjoyed nothing more In
Rome than that quiet drive along the
"Yia Appia.n Our party OF four had
cut loose from the tourists and had .
carriage all to our ourselves TO go
where we pleased. After visiting st.
Panic without the walls, we drove
across 10 the catacombs and the tomb
Of MetslIus on the Applan Way. /
sat up with the driver, who could
speak no English, and away from the
giddy chatteriag onesi In the carriage,
I was left TO myself in meditation and
thought In this drive of two or three
miles. I did not think so mucn Of
Caesar, or Pompey, or Cicero, or Hor-
ace, or Nero and Commodus, as Of
that one lonely man on his way from
Jerusalem to Rome to be tried for his
life, Paul Of Tarsus, whose very feet
trod this very road over which We
were driving. We had Just CONS from
the church dedicated to his memory
and near which he was beheaded.
This great old city Of Rome is ga
cred to me more from its association
with this one grand man than from
all ether historic associations.
The church of st. Paul greatly sur
prised me in its magnitude and deco
rations. Some Of the finest marble
columns / have seen in Rome are here
and they are still adding to 1t.
We all greatly enjoyed the cata-
combs; they were just as my magma
ton had pictured them. 1t would
have been 8 novel sight for our friends
at home to have seen Us with q lit.
tie wax candles down In the bowels o.
the earth, led on by our littles old
dried-up and quaint guide, winding
around and around, exploring the re-
ceptacies of the dead Of centuries ago
IL was q pathetic experience occasion
ally to raise our little candles and reas
some of the rude engravings on thu
walls. Obi II these old chambers
could speak what tales they woul'
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