Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-10-23

date on. Rome suffered. The enemy
suffered. lie had hankering TO wipe
things OF the face OF the earth. He
had been thrown down. and thrown
hard, and he hadn't the sand TO bid
his aching heart cease to ache and
look around for another mash.
LET us not be too hard on Nero.
Give him q show. Name your boy
babies after him. Ask yourselves II
you wouldn't have done the same in
his place.
Lucrszia Boreis Not All Bad.
"And take notice how history has
picked up Lucrezia Borgia and held
her up as the monster OF that age.
History has committed great wrong.
l started out ON Lucrezia's trail feel
ing that hanging was too good for
her. but as traced her career step by
step had TO leave prejudice behind.
As a child she wouldn't hurt fly. The
sight OF bulldog picking up a cat
by the neck would have thrown her
into commissions.
"As a girl Miss LucreZia was consid-
crate of other peoples feelings 10 a
wonderful degree. Had young man
with a pimple on his nose been court
ing her she would have died before
asking him why he didn't have 1t
shaved off. She was a favorite IN So
clety. She always sat down on the
edge of n chair and folded her hands
and replied Yes, ma'am. and NO.
ma'am,' and she knew nothing what
ever about Irritation.
ut was only when Miss l.. B. has
become a young woman and discov-
cred that her relatives were plotting
to rob her of her Inheritance and send
her out TO work IN sweatshop at 81
a week that she turned to poison. She
dosed the family right and left, and
when she saw what a good thing II
was she began to give II to outsiders.
You may say ii was naughty. but what
was the poor girl to do?
ut is pretty well authenticated that
the charming Miss Borgia poisoned OF
fourteen different people before the
doctors COTTON to the trick, but l feel
assured that each and every one of the
victims ought TO have died with con-
sumption If not that way. And, be-
sides, they had large and liberal fu-
neral professions, and the cost Of their
tombstones was immense.
"And then, too, it was a time when
every body was poisoning everybody
else They weren't using the shotgun
or the baseball bat, but inviting a
friend to drink glass Of claret with
them and then drop dead on the door
step while waiting for the taxi to ap-
pear. II Miss Borgia hadn't got ahead
Of the game it would have got ahead
of her, and there you are. l trust
that ere l appear in Huckleberry Hill
again there will be q female baby
born and that 1t will bear the name
of Lucrezia-
Square Deal For Cyrus u.
"And let US for a moment take up
the case of King Cyrus II. According
to history. nothing pleased him more
than to fling GOO or 800 people over
a precipice or to tie half thousand
innocent children to the tails of wild
horses. 1t Is asserted that In one day,
with his own hand. he stabbed $50
captives to death. and the very day,
TO change the program, he buried the
same number alive. When Cyrus was
in merry mood, as the historians tell
US, he Topped OF the arms OF fifty
captives and set them to climbing trees
and turning handsprings. If he got up
in the morning with a rocky feeling
100 prisoners lost their heads to make
him feel better.
MY huckleberry friends of Huckie-
berry Hill, don't believe all you read
about Cyrus. Don't believe half OF
ii. He was q pretty hard case. but
there was a good excuse for 1t Wo-
man again. Married a girl who pre-
tended to think the world Of him
and then ran away with circus bare
back rider. Never even stopped to
shut the henhouse door or feed the
cat before she went She just drove
that man into being what he was
Every time he Topped of 500 heads he
thought of her. Every time he Topped
or feet he thought OF that bareback
rider. You or / would have done the
same. Name your boys Nero. II you
haven't got any boy babies then name
your dogs after him Give everybody
a fair show. including the old uns who
have passed away. 1t will cost moth
ing and make you feel good There Is
ever badness, but there is ever a good