The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-08
By Fred eric ]. Haskin

/ scrlPts We're gathered from the nnonas-
TIC institutions and brought in carts
10 Home- This valuable Uiunder was
plieo IN a haphazard way in an empty
Dulldlng and left in charge of a pcr-
ter Sometime afterward an iupoVer.
1Shed scholar who had beer 10 the mar
ket place found dis purchase of w,
ounces or butter wrapped in an auto
graph letter Of CHRISTOPHER Columbus
An Investigation followed aud it was
found that the Porter had hecn ScEine
some OF the most valuable ins1uScrit,ts
and records in the WOrII as waste pa
per in order 10 proSure the wherewit:l-1
to make himself and his crOnies drunk
While the quantity of material was not
nearly so great as tnat DESTROYED in
Alexandra, the porter WAS dispoSh.a
of it in hundred-pOund lots and much
was lost which can neve- he replaced.
Diamonds Sell for Glass.
Every one who coes 10 Rome fire.
quents the piazza where the ray fair
is held IN no ether marker III the
world can be seen SyIcn IN endless va
riety of wares. To writ down IiSr
of all the things one NAV discover in
these long lanes Of dirty booths. would
be almost equal 10 copying the Gietion-
airy. When II is remem bered that Rome
WAS once giutUed with precious loot
from all lands. it is not surprising that
NalU3bleS are constantly being IN
earthed and brought to the market
with the rubbish from its Tun!ns. One
Of the largest diamonds owned By the
car of Russia was sold here as Il piece
of glass The peasant who found IL
IN the Campagna. and the greasy Old
peddler who sold il in the market. had
no idea of its value and sold IL for a
few cOppers. Day after day the eN-
perts make the rounds looking through
the odds and ends. and although they
may be unrewarded for a while it IS
nf n nail ~
makes his find
One of the favorIte excursions n
Rome is a moonlight visit to tls Coll
Osseum. On such occasions a good
talker like Sisnor LEONARDO can make
the shivers run light up and down your
back. Imagine $4,000 bowling. roar
lng Romans in the tiers uD there. frcn-
zied with the smell and sight of blood.
No mere by-Dlay or make-belieEe in
those old times Sport vas merely an
other name for death. Every blow sunk
deep into quivering flesh and was fol-
lowed by the Sickening crunch of bone.
Over there e the dead room where the
fallen g,ad!atOTs We're thrown i'm piles
like slaughtered rabbits, until the
blaci1smiths could find time to breaB
their armCr Orf.
And This Was Sport!
That gate Jed 80 the animal cages.
I The beasts were starved lean 10 make
each performance was feeding them
with live men and women What
/ sight II must have been, The biear-
eyed. rOugh-thrOated spectators eig-
ing forward on their seats. the fam
| ished lions growing and clawing at
/ the iron bars for release a gate rat
ties on the far side. then a girl IN
white robe is pushed forward by brutal
hands. The gate slams behind her and
! she sinks upon her knees. AS the lions
! ar-76 her he v-d fro rs
feet She lifts her eyes above the lee--
! ing line of sodden faces and raises her
hands 10 heaven. How could peOpls
/ look when the lions killed her? All,
you must remember they were ROM
ans They even stopped to watch the
| keepers forcing the big cats back in
to the cages. and laughing because one
/ of them dragged In its teeth a bloody
mangled mass which a few minutes
before had been q Christian
FREDERIC J. HASKIN.