Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — Lies Credited to History. [ARTICLE]

Lies Credited to History.

There was probably no such man as Romulus. Hi- | There never was such a person as Pope Joan, ttye- so-called female Pontiff. Wellington at Waterloo did not say: “Up, guards, and At 'em.” Alfred the Grdat did not visit the Danish camp disguised as a minstrel. The existence of the Colossus of Rhodes is considered by some historians extremely doubtful. There is no historic authority for the statement that little George Washington cut down the cherry tree. Cromwell and Hampden did not attempt to sail td'America just before the outbreak bf’tfhe English revolu- , tidn. i £>'■ Philip 111. of Spain was not roasted ’ to death by a roaring fire because court etiquette forbade any one to come to his assistance. He died a natural death. Pocahontas did not save the life* of John Smith. It has been- ascertained that this worthy man was the most able-bodied prevaricator of his century. Seneca was not a half-Christian philosopher, but a grasping money lender and usurer who died wor th over JC3,000,000. Caesar did not say: “Et tu, Brute." Eye witnesses to- the assassination deposed that “he died fighting, but silent, like a wolf.” Richard 111. was not a hunchback, but a soldier of fine form, some pretensions to good looks, and great personal strength and eoiirhge. Gen. < 'ambronnbdid not say: “The guard' dies, but does not. >urrendor.” The words were the invention of a Paris journalist, and attributed to him. Mary Stuart of Sect'ana was not a beauty. She had., cross eyes, and to save the trouble .of having her hair dressed cut it off close to her head and wore it wig. Sappho, the poetess, was not a wanton beauty,»or diii she thrqw herself from the Lcricadian cliff to be cured of an unworthy love. The latest investigations prefte her a ljespectable married woman with a large family. Queen Elizabeth/was not th,e angelic creature represented in the history and pcems of her own times. Her hair \fras red, her red . hot. She 'sometimes drank too much, and at any provocation wotild carry on like a trooper. caf