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Show JI VESUVIUS A sdltary mountain rising majestically from the plain of the Campania la the first object to greet the eye on arrival in Naples. On the way to the mountain we passed through the mall town of Ischia, which seemed to be populated entirely by beggars and tiny dusky children. On over the dry gravelly plain to another town located almost at the base of Vesuvius. It is very remarkable that after the many cruel disasters these people will build up again on the very spot, knowing that they are subject to the same calamities. As late as 1855 this very town was entirely destroyed, and in 1873 another but lesser eruption occurred, spreading desolation for three miles. The lava which was ejected on the occasion of the first eruption (79 A. D.) buried the two famous cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which remained almost unknown until a century ago. Since that fearful outburst it has been a volcano, more or less active. Once in 1538 the summit known as Monte Nuovo was forced up to a height ot 413 feet In two days. In 1631 the villages at its base were covered with lava, and boiling water poured forth fur twelve days. In 1779, just 1,700 years after the first, came the great eruption, and second only to the first in its colossal upheaval, destroying Torre del Greco and all vegetation within three miles of the base of death-dealin- g :e.,4. ventured WE SCRIBES. of tin- Klglit. of worlds. tire we. The unnamed cril-- , and of uuWnuwu The Kill'll1 f giniy to nit I inn Hr w, worth ; The liiiiMiT of vliiifl mill of inoill- lFor we are the kinsmen of lnigrtw, IIU'IUS and he The one Prince we serve on the whole To soldiers and daring areal men of ths sea; wide earth. liul wo ait tin hitiiirloss. strange dwelNor sold, nor glory, nor name lers 111 teiils. claim atone. to With never a tablet or high-buiV( ask but the right, unfettered Yet what cure we wlu go down in tti fight; To name a wrong ly Ita shameless tight. Though we live unnamed, I hough wo dl name; unknown. To slay the wrong fur the love of tits If only we live un-- we die for the Right. Tbs builder of near the crater. The gases strangled and blinded us, the intense heat and glare duelled us, but we accomplished our aim and a piece of money encrusted with hot lava is the reward we treasure. At each step of the descent we sank nearly up to our knees In the fine, loose pumice (much to the detri- ment of our shoes). It was very hard to walk and we pulled our feet out of the gravel with great difficulty. Before we had gone many steps we broke into a run, which was easier and our feet only sank to the ankle. In fifteen minutes we were at he ragged weary. base bedraggled, creatures. The ride back to the hotel was uneventful; we were too tired to M r - citieM. lt wati-li-tuwer- We are looking away to I ho land, to the sea; We have only it lump In the midnight To silently die unnolseij to fame. hour. Then leave ua the righl to tight or to Then forth in the light, unnamed ami iiluiie. fall. I.et us lead the world to its destined Aa Hud may will, in the front of the high l ; fight, L'nchullenaed, tnnpu Honed for the god F.uough to know. If bin this lie known. We live and die in the ranks for lit of all, HighG For the truth that liven, for the, love Discovered Colonial Coin. While moving the old lie I.ancey mansion from its original site on the Hill, overlooking Hcathcolo sound, at V.amaroneck, N. Y.. recentbuilder, ly, P. II . Spader, a local found a copper sixpet.ee of Great Britain hidden in a erevlce in the interior of the ancient structure, where it had remained for many years. The house was built in 17P- -. ami the dale on the coin is 17517. so that It is Hate to assume that some member of tlie I)e I.ancey family lost it. and that It had continued undisturbed for at least a century. reads, Georgius The Instripiion His likeness III., I), t!.. Hex, 17517." also appears on the same side. Tne nix ponce is nearly as large in as the American silver dollar, and it is almost twice as thick. Since the news of the Hud lias gone abroad tin place is being visited by hill Is many relic burners. Tin home the once was it noted because of Bishop Hol.Hi.ey of the Protestant Episcopal church, and later of Archbishop Hayley of the Human Cutholic see of Baltimore. circutn-ferene- 7Tk At its close eleven cones were in active operation and the discharge so great that at one time a falling in of the entire mountain was feared. Half way up is the crater of the outburst of 1720. Only smoke and steam Issue at present some day will witness a terrible breaking out of this dangerous little fissure. When we reached the top we were allowed by our conscientious guide to sit down and rest. We never appreciated rest like this, even though we were seated on a jagged rock. We were annoyed by peddlers selling centimes set in We wanted to make one of lava. these curiosities ourselves, so we The people moved out during that Vesuvius. period and it is said as soon as the lava was cool enough to walk on they built up their village again. They have no fear of another outbreak. The height of the mountain and form of apex are subject to frequent lava. It changes by the to be at estimated present about is 4,000 feet high. In the eruption of 1822 It lost 800 feet, nearly all of which has been restored by subsequent working. Before this event the summit was a rough and rocky plain covered with blocks of lavs and rent with numerous fissures from which clouds of smoxe and steam were constantly issuing. ever-flowin- g night? There are blighter tilings In this world than gold. There are nobler things In lids world than naiiu-T- n silently do with our deeds untold. The sentries of cities, of worlds, nre we, ; Kuril standing alone on hia high of tin craft to the other. Mr. Russell in trying to kill the fish with one of the oars, accidentally broke a hole through the skiff and It began to fill rapidly with water. Their only salvation then was to reach shore before the boat (mild go down. T:iev had nothing with which to bail out but Miss the water, Plumb, alive to the desperate situashoes and tion, removed one of ht-hailed out the skiff, white Mr. llussell lor the shore. They reached pulled shallow water before their hoat sand. The sturgeon measured four feet six Inches in length and weighed forty-fou- r pounds. r Long Fall of Somnambulist. Front l.ewistuwn, Ia., comes the of the recent remarkable feat of a somnambulist. Frank McNitt. whilo asleep, arose front his lied und walked out of the thiid-storwindow of his house and fell to the ground, a distance of .ti feet. The next morning dents to ilic depth of four inches were found in the ground where Ills hips McNitt's and elbows bad struck. younger brother, who saw him get out of bed, walk to tin window and deliberately step nut, took a light and ran down the stairs, expecting to find his brother with his life crushed out by the full, but he was much surprised when he saw hint standing on his feet looking about In a dazed manner and uninjured. He drank a glass of water that was tendered him, then quietly walked up the stairs and resumed bis slumbers. Although he admits feeling sore this morning he says he does not remember anything of his remarkable fall. e re-ixi- rt Found Rattler In Bed. Miss Julia Lincoln. ol Montclair, a guest at Mountain View harm, near Wurtshorough. N. Y.. took a nap ami awakened to find a rattlesnake aliout two feet from her. coiled and ready enjoy anything. The scenery was all to strike. His warning rattle had green trees and blue skies, or vice awakened her. versa. We couldnt see, our eyes Miss Lincoln managed to secure an ached, and we still had the disagreestock and struck the reptile clinging to what alpine able, sulpburous-odo- r blow, which made it show a heavy clothes we had left It savagely came for her, and fight Our guide took us to the front door it again,, but not hard struck she of the hotel, where we were Inspected it powerless. The render to enough our by a curious lot of tourists, and re- snake again struck at her, but she desperate efforts to escape were it away and managed to eswarded by a atom of questions and pushedfrom the room. The hired man cape not queries. We replied, we know later' dispatched the reptile. what, but a party forthwith engaged The window of Miss Lincolns room our guide and arranged to take the faced a sloping roof, against which reaame trip from which, we had Just behave rested a number of poles. It is turned, so our answers snake climbed the the that lieved been favorable. poles to the room. FRANCES AJLRIGHT. Steamship Manned by Women. The Austrian steamer Zora, from Alexandretta, a seaport In northern Syria, which place she left on July with a cargo of licorice and general merchandise, is commanded by Capt. Calagrovich. The Zora is consigned to L. Ruzelll, and he insisted that the ship be manned by a rw of Turkish women. Said Mr. Ruzelll: Yes, the Zoras crew are all females. Strong and too. In fact, one is, sturdy, every there are no better sailors in the world than the Turkish women of Alexandretta. They are used to the sea from infancy. No one can handle a boat better. Anybow who knows a Turkish woman from a man? They all dress alike. Continuing, he declared that these Turkish Amazons could not be excelled In seamanship. A New Musical Instrument A new instrument which is said to MOUNTAIN RACING IN AUTOMOBILES. combine the tone and compass of a violin, a viola, a violoncello and a double base, has just been invented by a Viennese musician named Kuhmay-erIt resembles a piano in appearance, and is played by means of a keyboard and pedals. Each key is connected with a bow, which passes over the strings In the manner of a violin. The mechanism is Baid to be exceedingly ingenious, so that the most rapid runs, shakes and staccati can be easily executed, while by pressing the keys gently or firmly every graduation of sound from soft to loud can be produced. The lnstru ment is called a Streiehklavier, and the inventor is said to owe the suggestion of it to Gounod. . ft wQk 1 V. The First Motorman. says as far back as 1804 M. Isaac dc Kivaz, a Swiss engineer, first drove a cart by the aid of a motor, the force being gas. The first experiment took place at Sion, In in the Canton of Orisons, 1S04. s 3 the inventor made another exBees Swarm in Ship's Mast. periment at Vevey, on lake Geneva, .villi a cart ten feet long and loaded Swanns of In os have been record wiih 1.4"0 pounds of stone and seved in many strange places, but in fo A large crowd witmore unlikely than the masthead ot eral persons. a ship. A seaman of the sailing ship nessed the drive down the principal licet, and as Hie experiment was Rhone, recently arrived at Bordeaux of the inventor took out a successful one t'u mounted from Dakar, masts on Tuesday evening, but had latent, widen was granted him by he French government.. The docuscarcely reached the top when In beer of ment swarm still exisis, and proves beyond a was attacked by that had somehow established tbeli ioubt that He Kivaz conceived the hive there, and was so severely idea of a motor ear nearly a century stung that he fell Into the water ago. hurling himself rather badly. Ilii Slept While Leg Was Cut Off. the mast, which, ndd! mately A negro man, :!. years obi, was run enough, was of iron, had to be taker, over by a Vineville street car recentldown, and then a lire was lighten y. One leg was cut off. He was under the part where the bees had. lniuk. and lay down at the top of succeeded in establishing themselves l.e bill because lie could not carry to exterminate them by smoke. .is jag any further. He was not par-- . about bis resting place, and it Big Fish Jumps Into Skiff. While Ira Russell and Miss Helen lappened thni lie spread himself out ii the ground where his left leg Plumb were out trolling at Hopkins Toint on the St. Lawrence river, neat Mtuld rest across ilic ear track and Baltimore, recently a large sturgeon :hc oilier foot would rest on the rail. rin motorman stopped the car befora suddenly jumped into their skiff nn-nearly capsized it. The boat, being :t hud passed two feet beyond the but tlie damage was done. Th an light one. without ribs, i'cidont. did lmt arouse the negro. I cracked under the weight of tho big 1 fish, witch floundered from one end Mlnuta Journal. An English paper ! 1 . RACING OVER THE SWISS MOUNTAINS IN AUTOMOBILES. along the surface of the earth with the speed of a bird or of a rifle bullet has developed among the Idle rich with the development of the automobile. It is a sort of speed madness that is constantly on the lookout for new worlds to conquer; a lunacy that lias requisitioned of Inventors strange suits or armor nnd hideous masks to enable its victims to tear through thn ntrnos-phn- a at a blinding, smothering pace. A passion for skimming This madness had a terrible climax in trance recently, when llliiopalro Charles Fair and his wife were whirled into eternity In the twinkling of an eye Now that the limit of speed nnd of the public's endurance of it has been reached, the speed maddened have taken to climbing mountains peaks and glaciers to doing the Alps, for instance, with chauffeurs instead of with guides snow-covere- d equipped with alpenstocks and ropes. Hetye Jong, doubtless, some new Diavolo will be looping the loop" in an auto, thrilling thousands with bis daring and exciting some contemporary lunatic to go him one better." As to the possibilities of mountain climbing In automobiles, they were proved In a recent race from plsny to Vienna, across the crcd mountains of Switzerland. New York Press. i no-.r- o, extn-niel- a? |