The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

"Ars reota vivendi," said I. holding out my hand to help him over the fence. "Bonas,'i he replied with a smile. <'Du bist ein veni sidi vici avec la occur dun hujus hijus hujus,- he added. "Savvy" 'tOli. "s said I. 'tJe savvy," And then I added in Greek, "Enteuthen exelaunei?' "Oh, yes.,'' said he, 't"rhat is-toierabiy well. The baby has the humps, but
 what's the use of being a baby if you Quite so," said I.
 Might as well be Pierpont Morgan without dollars as baby without humps eh. said he genially. -''f ---.---.t
 'TIic habitat jackulorum sed quod nec
 in vino,'' replied, somewhat caustically, for his fiippancy irritated me. =. Excuse me- said he. + meant we'll, but I didn't know. Now that you have spoken so plainly let me say in return that custOs rutuio.um de bene esse In mudilsa nee pintaris. Had I guessed for
 a momen that you were veritas veritatis.
 should not have ventured the veritau | veritatem however great the veritas veri- tate,,, q k se 43
 held out my hand and grasped hts firmly. <, 3.. 3%.&s
 .'Don,t. mention 1t ', said I. Because l
 am saHo. annaa. 3afnat,:; ,why should not some other man be amamus. .amayis. 1 amant? I'm no snob, my dear fellow. I try to be broad and liberal and though all
 my aspirations are along the lines of the
 arma virumque cano, I do not frown on
 him who ties up to the principles involved
 in that beautiful saying-was 1t Horace's? -de senectute non est disputandum. May
 l ask your name?'
 "I am Marcus Curtius,'' he replied sim
 ply. T am the man who when Rome was
 visited with a wide open ditch that would not close up until her last treasured son
 jumped into it, jumped in. I did, 1t for
 Iarks. little thinking that was :se afore-
 said treasure and shouldn't get out again. The chasm closed over my head, much to
 my dismay, and I have been wandering around in the centre of the earth ever since, looking for a hole to crawl out of, and. by thunder. it has taken me twcn- ty-two hundred and sixtytwo years to find it.
 Here, indeed, was a discovery, and one
 perhaps that would prove of inestimable
 value to my we'll beloved city of New
 York, which for years past has presented
 spectacle of uprooted ruin to make the gods weep. ,s .,a.-s.. s.
 The Debt Rome Owed Him. Marcus Curtius, eh?,' cried with a
 real enthusiasm. The man to whom
 Rome owed So much"
 That's the chap he replied. And whom Rome had she possessed any kind of gratitude whatsoever would have dug up agaln the minute the great Assure in l the earth closed over him. I should never
 have jumped in if I hadn't supposed a
 relief expedition would start to my res- cue instanter.''
 ''1n emerging from your retirement into New York you have come to the right l place, MT. Curtis" said I. We stand
 very much in need of an expert of your | precise kind in this town. It is physically | wide open, not to mention the moral as D9Cfg "a n har tv,
 any direction w.a~out being confronted by | yawning abyss of one kind or another. | either for the laying of water or gas pipes the building of the subway or the erection of new skyscraper that must
 be anchored to the bowels of the earth
 to keep 1t plumb. l haven't a doubt that
 the public spirited citizens of this mn-
 tropolis will pay you a half million
 dollars if you'll do for New York what you did for Rome''
 Never again. replied Marcus Curtius
 Money wouldn't tempt me. Moreover,