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A GLIMPSE OF ANCIENT ROME.
Customs of tho Timo Whin Csstar
Dined .With Cicero.
The correspondence of the great
men of the ancient Greeks present
little that is not philosophical, po
litical or didactic in its character,
and it was not until the age of Ju
lius Caesar that the Romans began
to reflect in their letters something
of the incident and spirit of their
times. The following letter of
Cicero to Atticus gives an interest
ing account of a visit by Julius
Caesar very shortly before the trag
ical death of the great soldier:
“Oh, this visit, so much dreaded!
And yet one which I am not sorry
to have received, for it went off
most pleasantly. When he came
the evening before, on the 18th, to
my neighbor' Phillipus, the house
was so crowded with soldiers that
there was scarcely a vacant room
for Caesar to sup in. There were
about 2,000 of them, which made
me feel a little uneasiness for the
next day. But Barba Cassius set
me at ease. He assigned me a
guard, made the rest encamp in the
fields, so that my house was kept
clear.
“On the 19th he stayed with Bal
bus until 1 o’clock, but admitted no
one. He was settling accounts, as I
suppose, with Balhus. He then
walked by the shore to my house.
At 2 he took the bath. The verses
on Mamurra were then read to him.
[These are supposed to be a satire
on Mamurra’s aebauchery and lux
ury. in which Caesar also was satir
ized by Catullus.] His countenance
was unchanged.
“He was rubbed and anointed
and then disposed himself at table
after taking an emetic (a habit con
sidered by the Romans of that time
as conducive to health as well as
to luxurious gormandizing) and ate
and drank in a very free and easy
manner, for he was entertained hos
pitably and elegantly, and our dis
course resembled our repast in its
relish and seasoning. Besides Cae
sar’s table, his attendants' were well
provided for in three other rooms,
nor was there any deficiency in the
[irovision made for his freedmen of
ower quality and his slaves, but
those of the better sort were ele
gantly entertained. Need I say
more? I acted as man to man. Yet
he was not the man to whom one
would say at parting, T pray you,
let me have this visit repeated when
you come this way again.’ Once is
enough.
“Not a word passed between us
on business, but much literary talk.
To make short of the matter, he
was perfectly pleased and easy. He
talked of spending one day at Pute
oli, another at Baiae. 'You have
thus the account of the day’s enter
tainment—an entertainment not
agreeable, but still not troublesome
to me. I shall stay here a little
longer and then to Tusculum.
“As he passed by Dollabella’s vil
la his troops marched close by the
side of his horse, on the right and
left, which was done nowhere else.
I had this from Nicias.”—Hallam
Winter in National Magazine.
Shopper*’ Confidence Game.
“I find fault with women,” grum
bled the man in the checking room
of a large store, “because they have
a habit of leaving things in my care
and expecting me to send them
home.
“By no means all the women who
check goods in a department itore
are patrons at that shop. When
ever a woman finds herself down
town burdened with anything that
she doesn’t want to carry she makes
for the nearest department store
and checks it. According to the
rules of the office, she is supposed
to call for it, but half the time she
doesn’t.
“She writes the next day saying
she forgot it and asking us to send
it home. Delivering checked goods
is not a part of our legitimate busi
ness, but a department store has
got to be accommodating above all
things, so of course we send it.”—
New York Times.
Ancient Surgery.
The first surgical implements of
which we have any record date back
to 400Q B. C. They were splints
found in the Nubian desert. In
one place a graveyard was found,
and here were remains of bodies
with fractured limbs that had been
set with bark splints. One was a
right thigh bone that had been
broken and was still held in posi
tion by a workmanlike splint' and
bandages. All the knots were true
reef knots, and the wrappings show
ed bow the strips of palm fiber cloth
were set just as a good surgeon
would set them nowadays, so as to
use the full strength of the" fabric.
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Revising the Declaration.
“All men were created equal,
were they not?” asked Mr. Meek
ton.
“Equal among themselves,” re
plied his wife, “but, as between
themselves and us, distinctly in
ferior.”—Washington Star.
FRENZIED ELOQUENCE.
An Outburst of Oratory That Enlivan*
od a Ball Gama.
"I have heard learned discussions
full of high sounding phraseology,”
said Frank Houseman, a retired
ball player, “and I mtist say that in
my time I have encountered many
men who could throw the English
language around most delightfully,
but I wish to say that there was
once in my life when I realized the
possibilities of English, the glories
of our native tongue and the flexi
bility of the unwritten dictionary.
This occasion was in Florida many
years ago. I was wintering down
there with a lot of other players,
among them being Johnny McGraw.
“We were playing a game one aft
ernoon, and I was on third base.
McGraw had reached second and
thought 'he saw a chance to get
clean home when a safe drive went
whizzing out in the field. I saw
that he could do it; also that the
umpire was looking after the ball,
and as Mac drew nigh I gave him
the hiplock and the double tackle.
He whirled round and out and shot
far away into the suburbs. Over
and over he rolled, bringing up with
his'face in a clump of weeds and
tns mouth full of sand.
“McGraw scrambled back to the
base before the ball could reach
him, and I judged it best to move
up the line a bit, out of his reach
and there he stuck, with his foot on
the bag, and delivered an oration
And what a speech it was!
“Sometimes I wake up in the
night and think I hear once more
the words Johnny used. Eloquence,
fire and forcefulness, complaint and
denunciation, classified reference tc
my personal habits and appearance,
my destination after death—all
these were features of MeGraw’s
oration. I listened spellbound, bul
I did not move. Not even when he
added persuasiveness to his elocu
tion and offered me attractive in
ducements to come within his reach
did I change my position.
“I have heard Bourke Cockran
I have heard William Jennings Bry
an. I have heard them all. Bui
never in all my life, before or since,
have I heard anything to equal ths
speech McGraw delivered there upor
the coral sands of Florida.”—Neu
York World.
It Made a Difference.
An excited man rushed into a
lawyer’s office and without any pre
liminary burst out, “Has a husband
a right to open his wife’s letters?”
“Certainly, sir, certainly,” was the
reply. “Open all you please.”
“Well, here is a letter my wife has
written to your wife and asked mo
to deliver. I think there’s some
thing unpleasant in it about me. I
wish you’d open it and if there is
just burn it.” “Humph! Does my
wife know your wife is going to
write to her?” “Yes.” “And if my
wife doesn’t get ■ this letter she’ll
soon find it out, won’t she?” “Of
course.” “On second thoughts,”
said the lawyer thoughtfully, “I be
lieve there is a legal finding to the
effect that it is a criminal offense
to open a wife’3 letters. I couldn’t
take the risk, sir; indeed, I
couldn’t.”
A Queer Compliment.
A nice but not especially clever
young man went to a little evening
party in the east end last week—so
the story goes.
This young man was introduced
to several pretty girls, but he show
ed a preference for a certain one of
these, and her he led to supper and
distinguished among all others by
his favors. Finally he got her into
a corner and stammered forth his
admiration thus:
“I like you a lot!”
“Why do you like me?”
“You’re the only college girl I
ever liked.”
“But why am I?”
“Aw—all the other college -girls
seem to know so much!” — Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Very Much Impressed.
In the days when the sight of
young America abroad was not as
common as it is today a beautiful
Connecticut young woman made
the ascent of Mont Blanc in the
company of a party of English and
Americans, mostly artists. The
others had given expression in awe
struck whispers to the impression
which the sublime scene made on
them, while the young lady stood
apart in silence, gazing out over
the vast prospect with eyes'bright
and lips parted.
Finally they turned to her for
some expression of her emotions,
and $hc suddenly exclaimed: “My!
Ain’t I high!”—Everybody’s.
Flimsy Evidence.
She—But how do I know you
love me ? __
He—Why, I can’t sleep at nights
thinking of you.
She—That proves nothing. Pa
can’t sleep at night thinking of von,
but I hardly think it is love.—Lon
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