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Show th walla, custom t)v not chanrd Itroatly alnca ih days of Rome. BAR IN OLD ELECTIONS. Th tourist, for instance, will also b reminded that th bar played a great role In Kman lections, lec-tions, exactly aa ao many centuries afterwarda 1 New Yora and Chl-rago. Chl-rago. Tha Inscription which than rvd aa poatera Informed tha paa-sprby paa-sprby that they would (ladly wal-coma wal-coma and could drink at tha ex-penaea ex-penaea of consul Loll I us provided they agreed to vota for him. Bar-rela, Bar-rela, bvttlea. decanter a and lasses ara all on their proper place, "A little, farther up the tourtat will e ft felt factory. The proprietor fled on time, but the tantta with their plpea and the amphorae ara atlll there. A jeweler'a whop has alao been rebuilt, and a few yards away la a achooL JUST LIKE BOYS TODAY. Tha Pompelan boys hava left traces of their plank and tricks on tha walls of the achool. They were aa dexterous with a atyle or a nail aa tha modern American urchin with the charcoal aHrt or the pencil. pen-cil. Only the subject a vary. Where tha modern bov would draw a head or acrit'ble a aentence the Pompelan cut elephant, monsters and Greek gods. "No. th habit of keeping re fialr In vaaea la not new. The Jom- peian kept In their houses sea fishes fish-es tn aea water. In one tf tha rebuilt re-built houaea a vaae was found with flu he a. Tha water evaporated, but the aalt haa preserved tha small flshra for twenty centurlei." POMPEII STREET TO BEREBU1LT Thoroughfare to Appear as in Ancient Times I ! By CAMILLO CUNPARRO United Preea Staff Correspondent. NAPLES, Au. 1 Profeaaor Vlt- torio Bplnaazola, director of exca- ; vatlon at Pompeii, told the United, Preea that, beginning with (aober next, the touriHt who slope at Ni-! plea will be able to aee for the -flrat j time a afreet of Plmpeli. almost aa It appeared the day before Veauvl- i us, blowing off ita top. awakened I and burled the unhappy city under a mountain of aahea and lapllli. 'xcavatlona at Pompeii," Profe-I Profe-I aor Splnassola aald, "have been going go-ing on for more than a century, but It waa only a few yeara ago that I decided to reconniruct the city. Xly j predeceaaora followed the antiquated antiquat-ed custom of digging and clearing) out housea ami temple, removing! everything they found, furniture, bronzes and monument., to the neareat mueeumn, where they could he exhibited, und at the aame time ! effectively preserved and guarded. The result waa that-the visitor or i Pompeii found himself tn front of a i number of more or less dilapidated 'private and public building, which' I told little or noihlng of their hla-j tory and revealed vrry little of the' life of their 111 fated tenants. "I Introduced h new system. I1 selected one of the main thorough- I fares of the city, and started to rebuild re-build It, uaing the same material which the excavationa yielde!. i leaving on the epot ever) thing that one day had belonged to the houae. and making caats of the people ami 1 tha domestic anlmala that died with-, in the premises lb tragic night of : 7 A. D. ONLY INHABITANTS MISSING, j The result I very different and will be still more different In a few fears hence, when the visitor. In- ' stead of finding hlmaelf before a 1 nechro polls, will be confronted with ' a living metropolis rharacteristlr- i ally Roman. The Abundance street, which I aelectcd. la today exactly aa it waa. except for the inhabitants, j furthermore the street tell a bewildering be-wildering tale, warmly human and profoundly Interesting. "On entering the street, the Arnf lean tourtat will be greeted by something that will remind him of the wet day, a bar, where two young ladles. Aselfna and Zemphir-' Ina, whose llkeneea are frescoed on the outeide walls, dispensed to-the thtrstly Pom pe tans wine and honey and a concoction of the two, which ; muat hava been a kind of Roman cocktail. Tha Imported atuff waa not larking under the form of fa- j moua Oreek wines. I "Judging fey Ue , Inscriptions on |