Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-02-13
Hills Of ROms-Othsr Things.
" vAIrrE WILLIAMS y ooluxmA HInAlD

seven Hillo 10 ancient h0me Lee
the names be recorded here: Th,
Capitoline, Ralatine, Aventine, Quiri
nal, Nimnial, ESquiline and Caelian
Modern Rome abandoned the hills
however, and after the barbarIans haS
cut of the water supply which tn
old aqueducts afforded, moved dow
10 the river Tiber, which looks like
miniature Missouri river, from which
the dust blowsin the summer time.
The old hills we're mainlv left h
weeds and to the goats, and, indeed
the Caelian, being for years, known a
the "hills OF goats Lately thesI
hills are being ~re-occupied. UpoI
one, the broad and sloping Q%uirlnal
the Insignificant palace OF the Italian
king stands.
or larger interest to the world thar
the petty maehinotions of the younl
king, with his love OF horses and biz
hatred Of liberty, is the Rome of the
past from the time Of the adventure
Romulus had with a wolf.
Rome is a city with a pasta past
that goes back beyond recorded history
and enters the delightful domain Of
romance where we all may write his
tory not as it was, but as it should be.
What we did not see would make
books sufficient to fiji the half-millior
dollar library building which will
shortly be erected on the campus OF
the University Of Missouri.
GLOW long have you been in Rome?''
asked a great Cardinal, a prince OF
the church, Of a young woman to
whom he had just been introduced.
"A week: All, then; you know
Rome,n
''And how long have you been in
Rome?" he inquired of a second young
woman. "a month"; Thenyou think
you know Rome"
To the third, who said ''ten years, "
in response to the same inquiry, the
Cardinal, candid If not entirely courte-
Gus, replied:
"You know after ten years'residence
here that one can never know RUmel"
The Cardinal was right. Rome
mean the ancient world. To write its
history means to write the history Of
the mysteries OF sea and land, OF the
most powerful people who ever lived.
To read its history Alright one must be
ar~chaeclogist and artist, statesman
and sculptor, poet and preacher, phi.
losopher and historian. For this his
tory is written in the marble monu-
ments, bright frescoes, marvellous
paintings and on the hearts Of men
long dead.
The spade is bringing 10 light the
past. Unlike the meanness which the
spade has displaced In other localities
the spade In Rome is confirming rath-
er than destroying the traditions Of
the fathers. The very latest dictum
Of the archaeologist is that there was
a ROmulus. Think Of that To.
morrow's Tribune may tell that the
great she-wolf herself has been found
A CITY OF CHURCHES.
The church is a familiar sight In
Rome. In this cityOf 10000 inhabi.
tants there are more churches than
there are beer-salo0ns in st. Louis.
Practically all are Catholic. There
are two or three Baptist chapels, q
Scottish Presbyterian church,a Metho-
dist church with a stone facade OF sur
prising beauty, English and Ameri
can Episcopal churches, three Walden
sian churches, while all the others
some four OF five hundred in number
are Of the Catholic faith.
There are priests and bishops and
arehbishops in Rome, monks and
friars, Cardinals with scarlet beret.
tas, theological students, known BY
the color OF the eloaks and girdle.
they wear, while, a self-imprisoned old
gentleman in the Yatican-the larg.
est palace In the world-sits land
sleeps most Of the timel-the head OIL
the Roman Catholic church, nov
more than ninety years OF age, 8
worthy successor Of the best Of the
Pontifs, Pope Leo XIII, venerable
and v~enersted man.
There are churches Of all size, shapes
and previous condition OF heathendom.
Even the Pantheon. that best preserv,
ed relic Of ancient Rome, a single
building, lighted by a hole in the ROOF
and sacred TO the gods Of pagandom, Il
now a Catholic chapel.
Here Victor Emanuel is buried and
here the Kodaker ran bolt into a cor
don Of soldiers that surrounded the
church while the dead kings family
visited the grave. There was no seri.
Gus consequences.
Opposite the tomb Of the first king
OF reunited Italy is the tombof a
greater than any mere monarch,
Raphael, the diyinely-inspired paint
er. Raphael was only ~thirty-seven
years old when death called him.
Above his tomb is the inscription
which Cardinal Bembo wrote anc
which Alexander Pope thus trans
letes:
"Liaing. great nature feared be
might outvie
Her works; and dying. fears herself Il
die"
The tomb OF the Italian maiden q
whom Raphael was betrothed and
who died before him is not far from
his own grave.
GREATEST CHURCH IL cHRIsrEEDoN,
st. Peters looks familiar. ManJ
other churches are strange TO the eys
Of The oeholder, but the first impress
sion in visiting st. Peters Cathedral
is that one has been there before. The
pictures Of the mighty structure arc
50 widespread that the edifce itself
appears an old acquaintance. IL IL
the largest church 10 Christendom.
On Christmas morning We heard the
Cardinal Secretary Of the present
Pope-and his logic successor in st.
Peters chair-celebrate mass In the
splendid high altar. The church was
thronged and yet 50 spacious are It's
aisles and 50 vast Its area that the
thousands present appeared a mere
handful. The view from the dome Of
ST. Peters is superb. And directly