The Harrison times., 1900-11-24

ton and folks read about it in the
newspapers. 1t was called the EZRA
of good feeling" and lasted almost
to the time of Monroe's administra-
tion a good many years later. But
Numa died. The people gave him an
expensive funeral. Congress ad-
Journed and appointed a committee
to attend the funeral in STYLE and
choose the best orator of the time to
deliver a funeral Grafton and deliver
a funeral Grafton and then proceeded
to forget Numa the next day and be-
gan to scramble for his shoes. The
government paid the expenses of the
funeral and levied tax on the peo-
pie and they thought it a blessed
privilege to be a Roman.
Tullus Hostilius was elected to the
throne by large majority after an
exciting campaign in which the
stump speakers had said many mean
things about each other and the
newspapers waged a fierce war.
Most of the editors got pOstof1ces,
so everything was lovely thereafter
and the goose hung high.
The new king was an expansionist
and felt that Rome had been losing
ground by sticking too close at
home, so he decided to stir up troub-
is and have a little fun. They got
into a dispute with the Adams, a
people who had settled out west
sve.eresrs-bcSorr-and-afa,i---rfade a
lot of good farms that were worth
trying to annex.
They were about to engage in a
heavy battle when they thought of
Il way in which the contest might be
decided with less loss of life, and as
both sides were a trihe short of men,
they proposed a scheme to settle
their qu arrel, and at the same time
save the men.
They decided to settle it by means
OF prize fight between three broth
ers called the Horatii and three AL
bans called the Curiatii. There were
the usual preliminaries through the
papers and challenges sent to each
other till the people laughed at them,
and finally when they could not put
it off any longer, they came together
and at the first round two of the
HOratii fell mortally wounded. Ho-
ratius, the Roman who stood his
ground, was game, however, and he
was up before the gong sounded and
dispatched the three Curiatti with
single blow.
AS the victorious Romans marched
into town in grand procession, the
victOr'S sister came to meet i'm and
noticed that he was carrying a pair
of embroidered slippers that she had
given one of the Curiatii the Christ
mas before. She wept loudly and it
made the brother so mad that he
slew her. For this he ought to have
been hanged, but he stood in so well
with the people that he was par
doned.
King Tullus finally over-reached
himself and Jupiter struck him dead
with a thunderbolt for having
offended one of the favorite gods.
1t may seem to some that Jupiter
might have been in better business,
but the Romans had a very convent
ent way of disposing of any ruler
who became obnoxious They
would have him killed by request
and then blame it upon Jupiter.
There were a great many mysterious
deaths in those early days in Rome
when the country was new and be-
fore courts and jails and police had
been well established. 1t is said that
even in those days the police would
be asleep when they were needed
most. They got so in the habit ot
it that most of them have not walked
up yet. Their policemen came from
Ireland as early as Tullus' reign.
Marcus was the next king, and il
has been claimed that be was a dis
tant relative of Mark Hanna, but il
is undoubtedly campaign lie, and
as such we shall nail it right here.
He built the first bridge out o.
Rome and also the first jail They
were beginning to learn something
about civilization. You will observ,
that no uncivilized nation ever build.
jails. One of the first things a coun