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However, toe city was destroyed, or rather “[ire- served" by “dust to dust and ashes to ashes," till the spade of the excavator opened it up to “shame and everlasting contempt." finer Shelley’s conception here is true also, to life, as one stands in the midst cently formed lava-beds and the mouth of this belching demon of nature. No truer picture can be seen of proximity of the world to the horrors of the pit, and that too | with all the look of prosperity about them. Oh, the temerity of man, living and laboring ^on the verge of hell and caring not! On the descent we stop at Cook's Restaurant, passing tin Observatory, and have lunch, af ter which we proceed by a three hours ride It mi the lower station on the line through Naples to the quay, and thence by boat to our ship. We could not have had weather for our trip, wind We again go to the city later, and see things novel and in- The SPECIAL SEPTEMBER Silt at the New York Bargain Store Land of Promise (TO AND FROM) By Rev. C. O’N. Maktindai.e. ARTICLE LV. of this tenantless city of the dead:, teresting. By the way, one who likt I T A L Y. (21. From Naples to Pompeii, Vesuvius, Sorrento, and the Isle of Capri. “I stood within a city disinterred And- heard the autumnal leaves light foott'als Of spirits passing through the streets, and heard After “doing Naples" it is the n.ost natural thing for us like oth er travellers to visit Pompeii, which we do, leaving the Neapoli tan R. R. station at 3 p. m. and arriving within easy walking dis tance of Pompeii in 30 minutes af terwards, passing Vesuvius and going to the southeast, a region of abundant verdure and under fine cultivation, where we remained for several hours vjsiting the ruined baths, stone houses and streets paved of lava-blocks deeply cut by chariot wheels,temples and courts, forum or courts of justice, tragic and comic theatres, etc., etc., in good state of preservation, also the local Pompeiian Museum with its petrified human bodies (male anti female), and old unique pottery and various utensils. It is indeed a place of inexpressible sadness as well as a snapsnotof real antiquity, just as it was, and not as it would have pictured itself for a future generation to see, had it realized its etui was so near. Once having a population of aid of the gods; otheisfancied that they no longer lived, and believed this to be the last and eternal night, when the world was to dis appear into its grave. 1 At last this dreadful darkness was dissipated The mountain's slumber-less voice nt in- bv degrees, like a cloud of smoke; tennis • 0 , , , , Thrill through those rootless hulls, the real day returned, and even * the sun appeared, though very faintly, and as when an eclipse is coming on, Every object that presented itself to our eyes seemed changed, being covered over with white ashes, as with a deep snow." Sir Edward Buiwer Lytton in his popular novel, "The Last Days of Pompeii," finely says: “Neatly 17 centuries had rolled away when the City of Pompeii was disinter- . , , . . . red from its silent tomb (first dis- ,n 6 ‘; arr,a g es a,ul dr ' v ' n S fr " m , 8 ‘° Tonight (Saturday > after tea we spend quite a little time watching Old Vesuvius sending up its fiery 1 dashes at intervals, followed by a sinking back into utter darkness around about—the first fiery inti- j mations seen at night since our 1 arrival. On Monday, after early devo tions and breakfast we are off by l-oat for the wharf of Naples, tak covered A. D. 1750), all vivid with undimmed hues; its walls fresh as if painted yesterday—not a hue faded on the rich mosaic of its doors—in its forum the half finish ed columns as left by the work man’s hand—in its gardens the, sacrificial tripod—in its halls the chest of treasure strigil—in its theatres the counter of admission—in its saloons the furniture and thejlamp—in its,, , , , ...... , . ( .. , . be employed. Cooks guide triclinia the fragments of the last 1 1 / , . .. . ... t One needs. Vesuvius ranges feast—in its cubicula the perfumes and the rouge of faded beauty— and everywhere the bones and skeletons of those who once mov ed the springs of that minute yet gorgeous machine of of life." Here one may see the house of Pausa and the mansion of Sallust and many other notabie residences, nearly 11 a. m. to Thos. Cook & Son’s Funicular Railway Station, where we take cable car up the gradually heightening incline of Mt. Vesuvius to the last station 300 metres from the top (one me tre being equal to 100 inches), which we had to climb under the its baths the | lead of 0U J S uide< No need of a mountain-helper here, though they are numerous and bothersome with their solicitations and urgencies to is all ges from 3900 to 4500 feet high (and about 30 miles around, isolated on the Plain of Campania, and with 8 000 people or more living in its luxury and cbestnut valleys, furnishing a love- j ly view of bay and cities and coun try about), according to the cone’s condition, which varies according as an eruption builds up or melts about 3 c,coo (when at its best), ^duc^d'now'to o'n7st'or7'height’! down ’ There have^ been some 53 it was completely overwhelmed by matter from Vesuvius in state of eruption Aug. 24, 79 A. D., (just nine years after Jerusalem was de stroyed by Titus), accompanied by premonitions ut danger suffi cient for most of its inhabitants to escape. It is ever true that God warns the wicked before doom Excavations are still goinj both governmental wit.iin, private without, the walls. The influence of Greek art is every where manifest. Not far away from here is the overwhelmed city of Herculaneum «f the same pe riod. As to the exact mode of or more eruptions since that which n J destroyed Pompeii and Hercuia- i neum, the more recent ones evi dently encroaching upon Naples. Whiie one car descends another ! ascends on the inclined railway; \ | and there is a well-graded road up Vesuvius, also, which is an easy destruction, of the various theories L, P ri8e for Pagers preferring comes upon Them, and if lost it is I pre8ented( Lord Lytton’s seems carna & es ' but tor horses a hard and the result of their own folly, Pliny the Younger, an eye-wit ness of the awful calamity and then a biiy of eighteen, thus de scribed the disaster in a letter to the historian Tacitus: “It wa3 al ready about seven o’clock in the morning, and yet there was to be seen but a faint light, like that ot prolonged climb. We see Vesuvius in action at most probable: “That which is most generally received,and winch, upoti inspecting the strata appears the only one admissible by com mon sense; namely, a destruction ! distinctly the fire coming out of a goes up Vesuvius ought to wear old clothes because of the dust. We would like to see it again,only by night-time instead of by day, it would be grander and more ap preciable. The room-mate of the writer, however, says he has no desire to return to the summit, since while lie was on it a livelier than usual spurt of the volcano sent up rocks that beat the ground . all about him, one large lump striking the earth but a foot or two j from him. We do not blame him at all. One cannot afford to be too ven: tiresome on this uncertain ground. On Tuesday morning we take \ an early start on the steam launch for the steamer “Regina ’Elena”! outside the mole, later on coming close up to Sorrento, where we put; off and take on passengers. Sor- j rento has about 7,500 people, and is beautifully located on a high plateau of the mountain-side, with large orange and lemon gardens on precipitous rocks, and a great! social and health resort for the j people ot Italy in summer and of Europe generally in winter with its many excellent hotels, once be- j ing the home of Tasso. From here we sail on until we come to the famous Isle of Capri : with its remarkable "Blue Grotto.” The water in front of Capri and the Blue Grotto is bluer than the deepest blue sky, due it is said to! the mineral and vegetable and ani mal matter of the surrounding sea- bottom. The Isle is about six square-miles in area, with cliffs! rising 600 feet abruptly out of the sea, and visited by over 30,000 strangers yearly. The first place of interest here is "the Blue Grot to," which one must visit when the sea is calm and the wind tiom east or north, one boat with three passengers beside the boatman (each ducking head and shoulders down in boat) only being able to enter at a time anti that at an ebb or outflow of the water. Inside is llow do you gel such crowds in your store? Tliut’s a question frequently asked of us, and it is so easily [an swered. It’s natural for people to appreciate a store that is continually striving to serve them bettor than another store can. Is n’t it? Well, then, it’s due to flic courtesy show n patrons, the high grade merchandise wo carry and the low prices at w hich we sell that briugltlio crowds here. One visit is so profitable that another call is alwaysHbrth- ooining. The Public has Confidence In Our Advertising! Wo aim to be definite in our advertising—try to have something to say and say it in such a manner that; you un derstand it. Advertising space is too expensive to waste in generalities. Those who have goods to buy want to know whore they can Imy them to the best advantage. Wo have goods to sell—just the things you want to buy. By making definite statements concerning these goods: the styles, the qualities, the prices, we arrest your attention. 11 an investigation follows, then it’s up to us to satisfy an old customer or make a new one. NEW BARGAINS DAILY Special September odiurings in Clothing, Dress < roods; Table Linen, Towels, Luces, Embroider ies, Ladies’ Skirts, Underwear, Skirts, Bed spreads, Ribbons, Corsets, Shoes, Millinery, etc New York Bargain Store Gottlieb & Delaney. close range. As we look down in-i a chamber about 175 by n o feet to the crater, we see at intervals by showers of ashes, and boiling water, mingled with frequent ir r by part m measurement, dazzlingly blue ail about, water blue, paddle or mouth several times, followed by hand or anything in the water ot the hurtling of steam and sulphur the same color, this illumination uptions of* large stones,and "aided va P ors and rocks redhot ver y hl « h j of lhe GroLto being attributable to *'^ '£ vc "” t ^ace’dthe men iy partial convulsions of the earth. above our heads as we stand back the an S leat whlch tne l, ? ht str,ke “ of Tiber ius-lhe evil genius- twilight. The buildings were aha- Herculaneum, on the contrary, ap at safe distance £ ken by such heavy shocks that there was safety nowhere. We resolved to abandon the city. Ar rived without the city, we paused. pears to have received not only showers of ashes, but also inunda tions from molten lava. . . The i volcanic lightnings . . . were evi- nd watch. One has to hold his handerchief over his nostrils often to keep from in haling the suffocating vapors. The cone is surrounded by great de posits of yellow .sulphur; and the sound emitted from the volcano as the water and the shelving rock below. We never saw a lovelier sight than this Grotto. From the hotel we took carri ages and drove up the terraced Acting, hower, as if he were to live indefinitely, he built upon these cliffs twelve splendid villas, each vying with its neighbor in magnificence, and all of them adorned with theatres, statues, groves, ami gardens. In each of these palaces he lived a month, in j 1 urn, throughout the year, making : this island for a time the centre of the civilized world, whence by a word or gesture he could spread j terror through an empire extern ; ing from the moors of Scotland to j the cataracts of '.he Nile. Of the imperial abodes which once stood forth above the jeweled water of j the bay, like tinted alabaster in j the setting sun, scarcely a trace remains, but eighteen hundred mory genius—with his cruelties and debaucheries Sad termination of a youth of promise—as a young man a fam ous general, a skilled diplomat, a prudent governor; but supreme TWe sea seemed to be turned back (Jently among the engines of ruin upon itself and to retreat. Over at Pompeii. Papyrus, and other ...iw,...- 'cares gave him a haunting against us a black andawtul cloud, of the more in fl amraa ble materials, we stand and listen and feel lhe the Monte Solaro - a he, « bt of '? 20 of being murdered, inclining him earth-tremor beneath us is, as near : feet, the outlook is nothing ways to the Villa of Tiber,us with wlth it „ aUendant rIbks and its magnificent view * ll,: rom ' cares gave him a haunting dread crinkled with darting, wavy fires, are f ound j n a burnt state. Some opened,and showed us great flames , substances in metal are partially like thunderbolts. Almost in an; melted: and a bronze statue is instant the cloud fell to earth,; completely shivered, as by light ning." While Pompeii was Cover- Turning my ed 20 feet, Herculaneum was from covering the sea The ashes be gan to tall upon us less as we can describe it, like tbe lash ing of many waters, the hissing of than superb. Of this Isle Dr. John L. Stod- to orgies of unutterable dissipa tion, varied by outbursts of inhu man cruelty. What a significant head, I perceived behind a dense to | UO f ee t under thesuiface. smoke, which was following us, Luxurious and dissolute of life,. and spreading itself over thej the Pompeiians have !eft upon cer subsidence, after an interval, js ground like a torrent. While we i am walls painted in colors, and could still see, I advised my mo- carved in stone projecting out ther to leave the principal road, f rom the wall in another place,and lest the crowd whicn was following j j n numerous mosaics and statuary, Capri, we are peculiarly struck with the exqursiteness of the lines: “My soul today accompanied by the thunderous when gilded by the dawn, mantled [ e88 infamy,in one of the obscurest Bailing the blue Vesnvian bay. -*• ' ’ With watchful eyes My spirit lies Under the walls of Paradise. high-pressure steam, and the muf- dard writes thus graphically: j tact itis that while this hated fled roar of an angry lion at bay, “fhis seen at any time, either ■ sovereign was living here in shame- and crashing report of distant in purple by the sunset light, or artillery in action. This and a turned to silver by the moon, is wonderfully beautiful. Moreover, few spots on earth can boast of more historic memories. This home of the Sirens became the home of the Caesars. The Em- what we hear and see. It took the author from 20 to 30 minutes to climb to the top, and 4 minutes or less to come down. Climbing corners of his empire Jesus died upon the cross. Moreover, it was here that Tiberius heard of the Crucifixion, if at all, from the Judaean Governor, Pilate. . , At Capri is a cliff designated ‘the Leap of Tiberius,’ 1,000 feet high, peror Augustus was extremely f rom which he used to have his fond of Capri, and made it a bower victims hurled after protracted of delight. 'I he poet Virgil,there- tortures, while, lest by any possi- in our steps should crush us in the { evi(Jences of the most utter sham*.! throu g h ashes above ankie dee P 13 darkness. Hardly had we left it, lessries8 . After seeing these ! no easy work, as we know from when the darkness so increased , things (because of their excessive i ex P er * ence * that we seemed to be, not as in vi [ eness not ordinarily shown to Stone houses are seen all up the, fore, and his sovereign lived then bility they might survive, sailors volved in a black, moonless night, j v [ s j torS( especially if ladies), we i sides of the mountain, from which ; directly opposite each other across j were stat joned below, to beat the but as shut in a chamber wherej are not at ad surprised that upon women run out to travellers offer- the bay, the poet at Hosilipo, tbe mar , K i ed bodies until life became every light had been extinguished.! tde walls of one of the houses ex- > n g f° r sale the w ‘ n,; °* tbe re g' on Emperor at Capri. When Augus There was nothing to be heard cavated were found inscribed i n ’ called strangely enough “Lacry- i tus died, this island was bequeath but the lamenting of women, the j [ ar g e letters the words “Sodoma, mae Christi” (“the tears of ed by him to his successor, lib.-r wails of childien, and the shouts , Gomorra”—done by some Jew or Christ"), truly appropriate for that ius, who, when he felt the end ol of men. One was calling a father, some Christian, which time h another a son, anotner a wife; peo ple could recognize one another which intoxicates a man. Cultiva- his life approaching, came to th tiffn (of vineyards and other wise); sea-girt rock, in the 26.!) year ol ! proven oruy too realistically pro jphetic. The visitation from Ves- ; is here apparently carried almost j the Christian era, as a woQndet: only by the voice. Miny besought j uvius on this city was but another , to an extreme, well nigh to the re beast crawls into a cave to die, extinct. On our return trip we see the Isle of Ischia, and pass in sight seeing distance of many places of interest On this quiet, lovely evening as we return for the last urne to our “Ocean Home" aboard »hip, on u’erlooking the Bay and Fur, vajrue, and dim The tnountains swim, While on Vesuvius' misty brim, Witli outstretched hands The ({ray smoke stands O’erlooking the voloanio lands. There Ischia smiles O'ei liquid miles, And yonder—bluest of the isles— Calm Orqiri waits, Her sapphire Kates Beguiling to her bright estates. No more, 110 more The worldly shore Upbraids me with its loud uproar. With dreuinfnleyes My spirit lies Under the walls of Paradise ” ('to he conduced.)