Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-11
impression of Americans on
Tour of Eternal City.
On Banks of River Tiber-6rlef Re-
sumo Of the Historical Sights OF
Ancient Capital Depicted In
Humorous Vein.

London.-There is a large place
down in Italy between Naples and
Florence that is known as the Eternal
CITY. You may have heard OF 1t. IL
was the place, you know, where no
muIus and Remus; julius Caesar, the
victim of the black hand plot; Nero,
and some other famous persons useu
to hang out, and which was once
saved from some one because bunch
of geese cackled at the psychological
moment. Young Remus and his Drotn-
er Romulus, it seems, started tne
place and it has been eternal ever
since, although a number of loWbro"s
attacked it With armies and broke up
great quantities of its statues ana
statutes and tried to swipe it on the
map in other ways. But 1t Dit lts
thumb at all these agitators and sun
manages to worry along on the IRE
and centisimi it can wheedle out Oh
curious visitors. Hotel keepers nave
become it's principal citizens.
For many, many persons, who just
love antique things, go to see Rome
every year. Yes, that is the name OF
the place, if you haven't already
guessed it, If you want to do as the
Romans do, you can call 1t Roma
The ruins are great stuff for those
who like to investigate the civillza-
ton of the folks who lived at the time
that Uncle Remus drew circle on
the map and called it Rome, and When
julius Caesar flashed the news to an
eager world that all Gaul is divided
into three parts. You must remember
when he did that all the papers got
out extras"
We were in Pompeii one day and
soldier in the place that must nave
been the corner grocery of the Pom
peiians. for 1t still seems to be the
favorite hang-out for soldiers, guides
and other unemployed persons, told
us that although these were pretty
fair little ruins, If we wanted to see
some ruins that were ruins we snould
run over to Rome for few days. we
had been out to the Blue Grotto the
day before, and as we were still 1eei-
ing rather blue from the experience
we decided to take a look at tina
Rome place and see if we couldn't get
cheered up a bit.
So we caught a train that after
noon that happened to be going to the
Eternal City. We entered nrst-
class compartment. The man VINO
collects the tickets came around after
a while and asked to see our billeu.
He looked at them a moment and In
formed us In a grieved tone that they
were for the second class compart-
ment. We assured him politely that
that was all right; that we should
Just as soon stay where we were, as
we didn't like to change now that we
were all settled. And just to show
him that we had no hard feelings TO-
ward him we gave him couple OF
lire. He understood at once our aver
sion to making a change and locked
the door of our compartment 80 tnat
we shouldn't be disturbed. Those con-
ductors are charming fellows.
We arrived in Rome along about
nine o'clock and took carriage TO
hotel. I'm the Eternal City at last,
we murmured Every one else was
saying the same thing in rapturous
tones as he got into his carriage, 80
we did likewise, thinking 1t was GUS
tomary; 1t seems to be popular re-
mark. Just like every one pulls the
old one about seeing Naples and dying
when he lands there.
Early the next morning we started
out to see the Eternal City. We had
rs 'ssifrs.hat. II was quite place
age thar the two famous brothers
down Nnething when they founded
and chattWe strolled around to look
One of thtr. We couldn't discover
Bowie, annaehould look at the Tiber,
At the descro be a popular pastime,
him, and MOVE rest of them. Red
to what was I'd in the sunlight as
sightseers leaned on