| Show IN ITALY A railroad up mount vesuvius may be a well known feet fack but perhaps the fact that the cars care are drawn by a steel rope up the steep I 1 icline may not be so BO familiar for some time travelers to mount vesuvius have been terribly annoyed by a class clam ot of persons who call themselves guides aides t 11 but who in reality are qu little e better better than brig ands to do away with this nuisance the railroad was sold to a scottish company who by order and dispatch in business and reasonable charges hoped to win the patronage of the public but scarcely had they continued their operations a month when the buildings and machinery which operate the railway at ghetu the upper per station were totally dest destroyed roye by fire and the traveling public are once more at the mercy of these guides irwill it will probably take at least two months before the railway will be again in operation the fire was evidently the work of an incendiary cen diary the undeniable glee of the he italian journals when they heard of this wanton destruction would lead one to believe that underneath a thin layer of politeness these italians are in some respects as savage as the tribes of cen aral africa nine out of ten of those who ascend mount vesuvius are foreigners and the railway up the mountain threatened to take away the opportunity of extortion from these villainous guides it may not be well known that near the base of vesuvius are the two beautiful lakes Lue Lu crinus rinus and these lakes in the palmy days of the roman empire were fringed by some of the most beautiful villas and country seats that can well be imagined the ruins attest that at one time this region was a concentrated bath newport saratoga and long branch with a far greater display of wealth but the eruption of vesuvius in in the year 79 and the burying of the neighboring cities of herculaneum Hercula neuna and pompeii under a vast mass of ashes seems to have so frightened the wealthy dwellers around these lakes that their costly palaces were abandoned it is only since the invention of railways and steam navigation that these ruined villas are beginning to be rebuilt and now in the palaces of which strabo and cicero and horace wrote may be found hotel accommodations for barbarian tourists from england and france and far off america who come to sojourn for a time in these classic lands the unearthing of pompeii and herculaneum Hercula still stid goes on and indeed during the past summer r with increased vigor several buildings were first exposed to modern gaze during the visit of the emperor william of germany it is wonderful how perfectly the dry ashes have preserved the frescoes on the interior walls of these buildings but the subjects of these paintings do not bespeak a very high sense of morality for the inhabitants some of these paintings indicate the various kinds of food an ana the manner in which it was served to these ancient inhabitants pictures of oysters served in various ways adorn the walls of these ancient dining halls so much so that our modern cooks can scarcely say they have improved upon the ancients in the winter season southern italy Is the resort where may often be found many distinguished persons queen Vi victoria eforia and her eldest daughter the exempress ex empress of Germany will probably spend a part of the winter there on the saturday evening before christmas mr gladstone arrived in naples and had an ovation rarely accorded to any private private individual several thousand shousan students from the various universities repaired to the central station to meet the man whose name is more revered than any other living foreigner in italy but this spontaneous enthusiastic thus thusia lastic testimonial of academic naples was not the only one the officials and leading men of naples just as spontaneously testified their appreciation of the man whose last visit to naples was thirty eight years ago and whose letters to lord aberdeen aroused not only england but the whole civilized world d to the mean petty despotism of bomba and to the cruelties cruel ties of the perjured bourbon government to the purest statesmen and real patriots of italy the enthusiasm on saturday night was remarkable and mr a and mrs gladstone Glads tune found the multitude at the station rending the air with viva Gladd gladstone tone viva italia and andio owa Ir elanda grave men too were there who were youths when the letters to lord aberdeen were writ ten but their blood became yo young ail again when they beheld the tall and venerable man who aroused europe to sympathy for their beloved country short addresses were delivered and responded to in italian for mr gladstone is fi fluent in that language langua e between two lines of students ho holding d in their hands more than a thousand bengal lights mr gladstone and family were conducted to their carriage and slow indeed was the pace for more than a mile till they reached the hospitable mansion where for a time quiet and repose awaited him the students wished to unhitch the horses and do the part of traction themselves but mr gladstone would not allow it of course the neapolitan journals are filled with articles and items apropos of this visit of mr gladstone stol to italy reminiscences of 0 the past thirty eight years are brought forward and take it altogether there is much to show that aba there is real gratitude in Ita italian liall hearts for the grand old man the general run of italians know little about british politics but one thing they think they do know and that is that wm win E gladstone is the friend of italy the residence that mr gladstone has chosen is the home of his true and tried friend mr kendel it is situated at the foot of a steep cliff which shelters shelter it from the noise of the c city and from the north and west wl yet this spot affords one of the aln finest views of the bay of naples vesuvius the peninsula and the island of capri near this spot are the ruins of the castle where history records that the emperor augustus spent so many of his winter months more than eighteen hundred yea years ago nearby near by in another villa resides one of the most distinguished me men of europe louis kossuth the venerable editor statesman and ex dictator of hungary kun hungary gary of all the patriotic H hungarians Hung arians ns who in 1848 and 1849 struggled for the rights ts of their country and then by the combination of russia and austria were crushed and forced to become exiles only one remains who has baa steadfastly refused to accept the clemency of austria and re himself louis kossuth kossuth pronounced at Debre czin in april 1849 a discourse in which he voluntarily toot took a solemn oath never again und under er any circumstances to become a subject of the house of hapsburg kossuth Koe in 1889 from his italian home can look back over nearly forty years which he has passed as a voluntary exile in eur europe bic and america since he swore in the presence of the Hunga hungarian xian nation never again to be under the dominion of the oppressors of his people most of the rights which he contended for and the progress which I 1 he sighed for have become the mod ern heritage of hungary as well as the other parts of the austrian em pire are yet kossuth is firm to his oath no doubt the emperor of i austria would count it one of the crowning browning events of his life if the eloquent old patriot ariot triot would return to his 1118 native all hungary and there quietly spend the remnant of his we life but at eighty six eix years of age does not forget that besides the we personal onal grievances of his own personal gers lifetime m me no less than seventeen of his ancestors were persecuted by the austrian government from 1527 to J 1849 he will never return to the he austrian empire it may be that hat his bones at some future period will ul be carried back to receive honors which the proud living soul once leased in n them em scorned rne to acce accept J H WARD ARD jan 7 1889 |
