Show tim THE COLISEUM two things are most notable in the Co coliseum liscum the awful desolation of thc jhc present and the with which you realize chepas the past t standing in in the grass grown rown arena which the bright coining sun had coaxed into a melancholy smile there came before me with a vivid and distinctness ness the whole scene as it was waa on sonic some great festal day dax the myri ads that lined the mighty walls a flashing jaehing and palpitating tating multitude it etude tier above tier far up in into to the deep bauo sky and above me where I 1 stood the rush of af chariot wheels the gleaming in swords the dust the smoke the blood the terrible spring of th elion I 1 could stand it no longer amiger 0 and turned to leave the place this was what I 1 saw in in ima imagination gi nation what I 1 saw in in i bality was a few haggai looking 0 figures moving slowly horn one to tile other of a few stone shrines ranged around the arena arena arid and kissing them with muttered prayer it seems that by a sufficient number or of such gyrations you m may aty escape the consequences of almost any amount of sin these are the only gladiators these the only games exhibited there now tois still look down upon them from tile vast in multitudes countless as of old but the multitudes are the creeping plants and waving trees and tangled masses of mournful beget vegetation aaion which feed arid and flourish on its decay ill magazine agazine |