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Show TO OPEN IIERCULANEl.M. "Ariangements have finally been made with the Italian government to thoroughly open Ilerculaneum. We arc told that Pompeii was no more compaicd to Ilerculaneum than New Hedfoid Is to lloston, and that it to be expected that what has been found lu 1'ompeli is as nothing to what may bo expected when the ruins of the greater great-er city arc explored. Pompeii was a resort, while Ilerculaneum was the favorite icsldence city of the wealthy Komaiis It is bulled under ) feet of scoria, which Is now half cement, in Just the material' to preserve everything every-thing not naturally perishaulc. "That certainly will bo exciting mining. Aside fiom the treasuics to be expected, the fashions, the dally lives, thu customs In the homes, and a thousand more Interesting facts will be made plain. "The San L'lancisco disaster was a terrible thing, but think what It would have been had the city been suddcnl) trausllxed under a. fall of M) feet of ashes and scoria! All its people peo-ple dead; all Its business stopped in one awful hour; annihilation where on the previous day children woie playing In ten tl "isand homes; where all the rush and bustle of a great, Joyous city. "All were burled allke.the good and the evil, lu one common scpulchrc;the noises all ceased, and the everlasting silenco brooding the lost city under noiseless wings. "Nothing sotcirible as the fate of that clt) is anywhere iccorded. "Iftheie Is anything llko Imagination Imagina-tion hi the minds of those explorers, It will be with awe that they make their way through those burled streets and those homes that in a day became supulclires. Savo in the interests of science and art it would be better to leave that mighty masolcum unopened and much better to keep the lid on that spot wherein the mightiest tragedy trag-edy of thu ages were enacted. "It fell tho spoil of tho Smoking monster or tho mountain above It, that has stood a sentinol abovo It for more than I800 years, wo are not sure that it would not be better to leac It. Tho weight of sorrow that fell upon It In a "single day was enough to make the spot accursed forever."- -Goodwin's Weekly. |