Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-22
CIIY IF ROME
 IS INTERESTING
 10 TOURISTS
Capitoline Hill Is One of the Present Day Show Places of Ancient capitaI-The Spot Where Caesar Fell.
(C. c. Young.)

and also place him in a position from which he is loathe to make departure.
 A strange experience happened today as we ascended this famous nil for the second time since our sojourn in Rome. A man was killed in tae street as we passed for the ascension
 from the north side. Like a flash the
 soldiers hustled the murderer in a car
 riage, but in less time than it took
 to do that great crowd had gathered;
 and, as the carriage and officers hur-
 ried away. the bowling mob ran fran
 tically after them They passed by us,
 ion to the prison hundreds aastened
 land for what purpose I never found lout. But shows how exciteable thes peo lple are. American officers would nave Ieluded the crowd or have driven them back and led, almost alone, the prison .er to jail. All this happened near the iplace where Brutus killed Caesar and
 running with the mob to the capitol lhill made a frey speech to the people IagainEt Emperors and Kings. In a few moments we were standing in the place where bloodthirsty Brutus had
 made his speech and to me it was a Irrespective in measure of long agone days. The ancient capitol hill of Rome is now crowned by some govern lment buildings and a large museum,
 the latter containing very valuable
 relics of Roman history. A few days spent in this place is worth months of lreading of ancient history.
 About the first thing to attract the
 visitor is the real live wolves kept in a cage-the real article of the Roman
 wolf which is said to have been the nursing mother to Romulus and Rem
 us who were the founders of ancient
 Rome. Then there is preserved here the original bronze statue of the fe-
 male wolf which suckled the mythical founders of Rome. Surely a fine Ipiece of art. Most of the bronze stat lues of ancient Rome were melted to tpieces for guns by the Goths and Van
 da;s in their invasions, but one great lequestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius is yet extant. It is in the middle plaza Iof Capitol hill and represents the Elm iperor seated on a horse with out stretched hand, and in the manner of Igiving a decree from which there Icould be no permissible appeal. Mar lcus Aurelius was perhaps the best RO- lman of them all No man was more ljust in his time than he; and he says In his own diary, From my tutor l
 learned the endurance of hard labor,
 to want but little, to work with my
 own hands, not to meddle with the af-
 fairs of others, nor listen to shameful
 slander." There are at the entrace to
 the Capitol plaza two things of inter-
 est. One is series of ancient stat
 ues each bearing the Roman eagle
 which once was at the head of the
 standards in the army; the second one near by in cave are some real live eagles of the ancient descent and the whole arrangemen brings fresh to my mind ancient Rome On the south side of Capitol hill l visited the , lold Mamertine prison, So called from statue of Mars which once stood
 tnere Excepting no prison now in ex- , lstence this is the most famous in old history A few others have been just as famous for time but not for so ong and are not so we'll preserved in heir identity. It is only about thirty : fards from the ancient Roman Forum } md there is no doubt about it being he one in which the many Pagan and l Christian noble men and women have awaited their death with and without t trial Five hundred years before
 Christ Claudius Oppius, two of the I decemvirs here committed, suicide 3 Here Jugurtha was let down to the bottom by rope, exclaiming as he [ felt the water on the floor, Hercules
 how cold year bath;" and here he was
 by degrees starved to death by Marfus
 Here Julius Caesar permitted his gal.
 liant enemy Vercingetorix to be put
 to death 45 B. c. Livy gives an ac count of the Catiline conspirators be . ing imprisoned and put to death here Here the noble Christian defender oi Jerusalem in the siege of Titus met his sad death. He was killed and his faithful dog, left by his side. watched three days and nights; finally the body was thrown in the Fiber and the dog diving to the bottom lost his life try ing to support the dead body of his master-meanwhile all Rome was look ing and doing nothing. In this prison the apksstles Peter and Paul were bound for nearly year and some ol the books of the new testament nc doubt were written, here. Read sec ond letter of Peter and second Tim othy. There are also some strange but fitting relics of that bloody age pre- served in one of the chambers of the prison. They are rusty daggers knives, pistols, clubs and numerous in struments of torture. murder ana violence. brought here fresh from tho slaughter and .hung up. Such a storJ : Iof the past. If the blood which long lsince has drained and dried off then lcouid now speak how much greater would be the just accusation againsf offending Rome. No wonder she fel for they who live in the sword and the blood it spills will likewise die Such was the story of Rome, for Van dals, Goths and Huns laid it waste and the recent excavations have shown the forgotten glory and proud history which were buried under de
 bris by invading enemies
 A few works of art in the Capitol lmuseum and some notes on them will . be of interest. Seeing the o-igtna
 i"venus of the Capitol" in marble wal