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THE BUR Nineteen Centuries ag Town of some Written for The State by Prof. . If K Pompeii, Italy, July 1.-With all the cities that have been destroyed in the ages qc the paBt, there is to the world of today only one "buried ei ty"-Pompeii. Nineteen centuries ago it was a flourishing town of some 20,000 inhabitants, situated upon the, Mediterranean ooast, at that time eclipsing'Jae neighboring town, Neap olie (Na.pleb), both in commerce and in wealth. It was then three centu ries old, and ?is life was a mixture of the Greek and Bomen. It- had wen by its magnificent situation far renown as a pleasure resort and many wealthy Homans were wont to come thither from time to time when the stress of business or gaiety became too great in the Eternal City-a sort of Newport for Rome of the Gaetars, with a busi ness attachment. Behind the oity and away from the sea, rose a mountain wooded to the top and used as a kind of suburban park by the Pompeians. This moun tain was known as La Somma. The inhabitants of the oity looked upon La Somma with as little suspicion or fear as the inhabitants of St. Pierre looked upon the wooded slopes and lake-crowned summit of Pelee-not within the memory of man had the mountain given the slightest sign of life. To be nure, some of the wise men of that time had said that it was the tomb of a long dead volcano. But the Pompeians were quite too .much taken up with the business and pleasures of their own lives to con cern themselves much with the tonaba of volcanoes, or with the possibility of a resurrection. So, like the people of St. Pierre, they went about their ways, and on occasion ran up for a day to the summit of the ancient hill to get the sea breenas and cool off. But in 63 A. D. the city with lia neighbors was almost destroyed by an earthquake; which threw down the houses and overturned the temples. People are muoh the same though in all ages. Galveston is visited by a wave whioh drowns thousands of its inhabitants and ruins millions of property-but soaroely are the dead buried before the survivors determino, to repair the loss. So the fathers of Pompeii issued a decree that the oity should be restored in greater magnifi cence than before. The work was well nigh completed,'when one August day in 79 A. D., with scarce a word of warning, the side of La Somma blew open with great vi?lenos, and the cone whioh is now known as Ve suvius was thrown up. In this, the birth of the famous voloano, there was no discharge of liva. And in this point, the eruption IB very like that of Pelee.' Rivers of boiling mud were thrown out, , and these descending to the sea on one side, overwhelmed the town of Hercu laneum and buried it in an ocean of mud, as the sugar mills were buried at St. Pierre, The mud gradually dried acid became almost lita stone. Today Herculaneum lies under 50 feet of this substance, over which are more recent lava flows? But the -fate of Pompeii was differ r?t. ' The town is situated across a Bb allow basin some eight miles from tho volcano, and could not have been reached by mud or lava. It waa, nevertheless, - doomed to destruction. The new-born voloano, leaping from the bosom of the earth full-grown, like Pallas from the brain of Jove, teemed to exult in its terrible power. A huge-mushroom of smoke, laden frith ash and pumiee-siones^sas sent j to a great height. This was caught by the wind, and bent over Pompeii till day became night on the streets of the fated oity. For three days this Pill shook down its ash and stones. ?nd when the wind shifted, Pompeii was buried/ If any one is disposed t?< read a contemporary account of thiB fearful phenomenon, written by a competent, witness of it all, let him ton to thc letters of Pliny the "inger. . '. v-... .? But the destruction of the popula-j ?on was not so complete as at St. ?re, for whereas ibero were 20,000 n*biUn?, ?Us estimated that only ?<KK> lost their . lives. Most of the pie fled at; the first outbreak* and ! 1 probable that those who lost their | _T *?re. mostly persons who return 'or treasures during a loll in the Manie storm, and who were caught " * "econd outburst. So the city of j ?ttpeii waa taken away, ts it were, ?* tbe stage of the world, and seal* top for 1,800 years, to be opened 'oar generation'aa.'a specimen of I ht long past life. ?se wonders at first why it was that ?time of suoh advancement as that the Caesars, the buried city should ive bcen so lost to sigh J,. But on fought it is piain! Supposo Pierro to be buried now under. 201 :i ?f sah, Would any ono think ?f :IED CITY. :o it wa? a Flourishing >>000 Inhabitants. A. B. Cooke of Wofford College. exhuming it? If people wished to dwell there again, as they might after some generations had dulled the sense of fear, t'jey would do just what the Ntcr Romans did, build over the city, and leave its ashes in peaoe. The interest in Pompeii today, leaving aside the nameless interest of the tourist, is archaeological; and that in terest had no existence in the early centuries. So Pompeii wes left in oblivion till some hundred and fifty years ?go, when interest in it was aroused through the finding by a peasant of a buried house with strange contents. Finally the Italian govern ment took hold cf the matter, end ex cavations were carried forward till the greater part of the city has been ex cavated. Only a visit to Pompeii can do any juotico to the place. Its contents aro so rich and varied. If one may judge from the number of temples discover ed, the Pompeian was no atheist, with all his epiourean life. There were temples to Jupiter and Appollo and Mercury and Fortune, then ther? was a temple to Isis, the Egytian coi ty, whioh shows the presence of that re ligious cult in the city, though it had been put down by the Roman senate some 30 years before on aooount of its immorality. And here again these ancient Pompeians show their human nature, they were prone to run after strange gods. Dowieisui had not then made its appearance, or we might have found a temple to that cult. The remarkable state of preserva tion of Pompeii is owing to the man ner in which it was destroyed. It was not burned. The hot ash and pumioe-stoneB falling upon the roofs, oharred all the wood work-the roofs were of tile supported by wood raf ters-till it gave way. Then the houses were filled with the volcanic dust. When this dust waB removed after 1800 years, the fresco paintings on the inner walls of the houses were found to be in almost a perf cot. state of preservation. These paintings, with other things, show the volup tuous life of the people. Many of the houses had their walls decorated with these frescoes done in the best art, each room having decorations in harmony with the use to which it vas put-fruits and meats and hunting scenes in the dining room, nymphs and fountains in the baths and bed chambers. Some of the finest statues extant were found in Pompeii; for example, the bronce statues of Nar cissus and the Danciog Fawn. The Pompeian was not satisfied to have a few specimens of art in his parlor where callers might see them. His whole house was an art gallery, u be ginning sometimes, SB in the case of the house of the Tragio Port, with the mosaio floor of tho vestibule and running through all the corridors and rooms. And this work was done by artists, not by whitewasher. One can but wonder what it mast have cost a Pompeian gentleman td. have his. house decorated. These Pom?, peian frescoes have a peculiar interest and value in that they are the oldest apeofmens of painting in existence, and it is through'them ?hat we get nearest to the long lost paintings of the old Greek masters. The baths of Pompeii' are remark able, too. They are the most perfect specimens of the Roman bath, an ir stitution which ployed a large part ia the life of the leter Roman. There was a cool chamber whore the bather took off his street dress and prepares for exercise. Large stone balls found here indioate that tho Pompeian played a kind of tenpins. The exer cise over, he went, into a room which waa heated by hot air passed'tbrongb the hollow walls. Then he proceeded to the plunge bath. One feels that he is close to ancient history when ho picks up ono of th?se balls and sets it going or 4places his hand on the mart ble steps of the plunge bath, as smooth as if the Pompeian'a fout had left it but yesterday. j ' ; Ia the houses wwvo found many things of interest. Large quantities of bread were found in the bakeries, oarboatecd, but otherwise looking per fectly cabe'*lt'jost as a loaf of br?-d would look if it were burned bia ok to* day. Bough, wes also found in the ! tray. Whole eggs are to be seen BOW in the national museum at Naples that some Pompeian hen had .'aid about the time of Paul, and Kuglish wal nut?, too, that grew at the same time. Bundies of grapes may be seen there, too, thai were intended for a Roman palate, and prunes ?that any one would recognise, ao.-perfectly have they kept their she pe. Pears and plums were among the fruits exhumed.1 These were allJbiack aa carbon, but other wise quite natural looking. In due house- a largo quantity ci surgeon's instruments were found, probes, lancets, knives, besides many more complicated instruments suoh so our surgeons use today, and along with them many bottles of drugs. How cfteo the knocker of that house sounded in the nights of long ago, calling the good physician to the bed eide of some sufferer. But all flesh is grass, and all the glory of man is ss the flower of grass. The grass with eretb and tb a flower f adeth away. There weis for.nd in the ruins some 2,000 numan bodies, men, women and children; bodies of slaves and bodies of their masters, for the slave still wore the emblem of his slavery. An old maa with bis iron shod cane; a oripple with one foot gone; a mother tad daughter in the esme bed; s young msn with knotted muscles, perhaps . gladiator; s little child with its hands outstretched; and a faithful dog who had kept his master company even in that torrible hour. You may look into their stony faces and build up about them sgsin at your will the life of aneient Pompeii. But their esrs have been deaf these 1800 years, and their eyes have been sealed since that terrible night descended upon them from the top of Vesuvius. So lies Pompeii with its dead today beside the blue wsters of the M?diter* ranean, while Vesuvius sends up its remittent column of smoke, red against the walls of night. And along the crescent bay below stretches the eity of Naples, its streets sprinkled with ashes from the voloapo soon, and ita pavements trembling with repeated quskings of the earth, while its people ooaree lift their eyes toward the smoking moun tain. A. B. Cooke. God is Good to Us. In spite of the things that go wrong, God is mighty good to tbiq country. Never before in the history of this land has nature opened her oornuoopia more generously and poured out great er plenty. / The West has a record-breaking wheat crop that is taxing her labor eapaoity to the fullest to harvest. And it takes less of it to make a barrel of flour than in previoub years. The South has a paying cotton erop coming on, and the growers are talk ing IO cent cotton and prosperity. - Thc corn crop of th? country prom ises to be 300,000,000 bushels larger than ever before. The whole indi cated corn orop, at present prioes, mesas something like $1,640,000,000 to the fsrmerB. There are indicated bumper orops of oats, rye, rice, flss, barley, tobac co and potatoes-worth hundreds of millions. The farmer is not alone ia beiog blessed. Throughout the laud, from the lskes to the gulf sod from sea to ses, the factories are hamming with busy life. There are no strikes of cons?quence and oo prospect of any. The steel industry is many months behind its orders. . Every shipbuilding plant sod oar shop is worked to the fallest capa city. ID the great arteries of commerce the ships and freight trains are oarry jug aii they oso. The barometers of business, the re tail stores, are registering their finest records. The back reports show a steady in crease in savings. Every oity of enterprise has its home-building boom. Perhaps never before, anywhere in the world, did an entire people live better than do the people of this coun try today. jj There is money to spare in pleasure. New York alone ?B spending $60,000,-' 000 on its summer vacations. Before the season ends 200,000 Americans will have sailed for Europe. In Phil adelphia 85,000 people in a single week attended six ball games. Ail goeB well in this land of the free I-Atlanta Journal. Queered Him Willi Easterner. Two Bslesmea who know each other Well happened to call on the same man ai the sam? time, only to discov er that his office, door was looked, ssys tho-New York San: One bf them suggested that they leave their cards sticking in the crack of the door. "Not on your life," said the other, "and I'll tell you why. I bad a good customer in tho machinery line who had an office ia one of tba down town baildings, Ode day when I called he wac ont and the office was looked, co I stnek my card in the crack as you suggested jost now. ' Not long after a rival salesman blew in and saw my card. He wrote on the face of it, just over ray name: "I have been try ing to find yon for two days; now yon can go to; hell/ All I could say never equared it with tho customer *nd the .other fellow got the trade. "How do I know who did it? The scoundrel bsd tho nerve to tell me." Drowned by a Shark, Beaufort, N. C., July 29.-A most h>rrible and shocking acoidcnt occur red at Davis Shore, about ten miles east of Beaufort, yesterday afternoon, when Sutton Davis, a 16-year-old lad, while wading and playing in the water, was suddenly attacked and eaten by a very large shark. Sutton was in the water about waist deep, when sudden ly a ehark appeared, threw him in the air and caught him as he struck thc water, pulled him under and disap peared in deep water with the boy. Thorough search has been made, but no part of his body has been found. Those that were with him were terri bly frightened, but could not help the poor boy. Tho accident has thrown a feeling of horror over our town peo ple and the guests of the community. The people, and particularly the ehil- j dren, have enjoyed the fine dives and ! invigorating swimming mstohes whioh they daily participate in. A largo number of sharks have been notioed ia our waters for two weeks, but no ohs felt muoh anxiety concerning the terrible monster. A large quantity of fat backs have been caught this month, and a quantity of refuse mat ter has been thrown baok into the wa ter from the factories and sharks have come in to feast. It is the first time a person has been molested by a shark in our waters in nearly fifty years. Old-Time Yankee Thrift. H. C. Frick was talking to the Cin cinnati Enquirer man about Yankee thrift. "The Yankee of the psst, the old eohool Yankee," he said, "wes so thrifty that he could literally make something oat of nothiog; he could literally create property where nobe existed. "In West Overton, where I was born, there used to live an old Yankee. This veteran conducted a big business in eggs and ohiokens. I asked him one day how his business started, and the answer be gave me afforded a good example of the Yankee's thrifty genius. "He said that, having little to do one summer he borrowed from a neigh bor a sitting hen, or cluoker, along with a dozen eggs. "He set the hen on the eggs, and she hatched them all out. Thus he was the possessor of a dozen chick ens. "But he had Hill tho twelve borrow ed eggs to return. After thinking the matter out he kept the hen till she had lsid twelve eggs. Then he re turned her along with the twelve eggs to the owner. "Thus out of nothing, out of abso lutely nothing, the Yankee created a property of twelvo ohiokens, which j gradually developed .into the finest chicken farm Wost Oveit-pn had ever seen."_._ A Mule And Millions. In the August World's Work this story is told of the discovery of the famouB Coeur d'Alene mines: Half the lead that has been mined in the United States hsB come from the fa mous Coeur d'Ale?es, the moat pro ductive lead mines in the world. Like many of the richest mines, they were discovered by pure luck. A man lent Lis mule to two prospectors. In the oourse of their wandering the mule was tied to a tree, and he, becoming impatient, pawed the ground and un covered a lead vein whioh is now the site of the famous Bunker Hill Sulli van Mine. The owner of the mule sued for a third interest in the olaim, and* the Courts granted it to bira, stating that as the mule had made th? discovery, and that, as he was its own er, he was.entitled to the male's shsro. The three owners sold their discovery for $500,000 and nothing was too good for that male for the rest of his days. He was exhibited in a private car and lived on the fat of the land, and now a tombstone marks his grave. His harness hangs in a noted saloon, where it is gazed upon With deepest rever ence by the old-time prospectors. The mine is the riohest silver-lead mine in the world, yielding a net rev enue of $1,500,000. Sinco their dis coveryj?kij884 the Coeur d'Alene Mines have produced nearly $200,000, 000 in gold, silver and lead. - It's easier for a wise man to aot foolish than it is for a foolish man to aeiwiae. - Law's delay is the lawyer's meat. nw is m in ? . 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Real izing that he had violated the bank ing laws, he voluntaiily pleaded guil ty and is serving a short teem in thc penitentiary. Ellieon gave up e7?ry dollar to hin creditors. His wife relinquished her private fortune. That is rather unusual to begin with. Now Mrs. Ellison is housekeeper in a summer resort hotel. Her son is porter and chore boy and her two daughters are waiters on table. The boy gives up college and the girls so ciety. Uncommon. But th.:re is another pretty story coming. Years ago Banker Ellison helped a young man whom everybody said was "no account." The young man wen t weet and got rich. When Mr. Elli son's bank failed the young man came to LaGrange and offered his benefac? tor half of his fortune and begged him to take it. Ellison said : "I have violated the law, though with no bad intention. I will take my medicine. My family is a brave one. We will pull through and start again." Anything finer than that ? No, sir ; not even in Plutarch's lives. 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