The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-08-19

gy, feast, never so rien as at the
present day lie may ramble through
Spain, and muse over the quaint
architect ef the Moors. recalling tie
heroic prOwess Of the Cid; be nav
climb that bin juttins into the bar
Dor Of Cartagena, and stand in a
building reared By the army Of Han
nibal He NAV trace out the Roman
camps in Northern England, OF the
earlier relics Of the Druids and Morse
men, or be may rome for hours
through the streets Of P0mpeii, read
ing the history Of everyday lite seven
teen centuries ago in the marks Of
the wheels en- the pavements. the
signs on the stores, or the very bread
lying, black and dry, in the ovens
He NAV watch the laboTers as they
slowly dig out the Loose ashes in a
buried room, and viii see them stop
their work when the Roor is almost
reached. Then, as we did ourselves
one warm summer morning not many
years ago, he viii see the men care
fully grope through the residuum- A
sbcut denotes a discovery, and then
very carefully a bar IS pushed down
into the place where the object IS
supposed 70 be. Into the hole thus
made, the liquid plaster is poured.
A few moments Of anxious, curious
deIav and the spot is again attacked.
the ashes thrown quickly upward.
aud the plaster now set anG hard,
withdrawn. Perehanee the mold Of
some heushold object IS produced;
sometimes il is q human figure, such
Is we saw unearthed, which, with its
arms doubled over its head, had
erouched into = corner for shelter,
but only to die there, sutfoested IN
the deadly shower.
Then there are the Syraeusan
ruins. little visited by the tourist, but
overfowing with interest. He NAV
wander past the very walls. cross
perhaps the threshold over which
Archimedes stepped while pondering
the problem, Of which when solved,
be shouted Eureka : Il have itl, and
rushed naked through the streets.
+ On some scat Of the amphitheater,
which he enters, the great inventor
NAV have reclined while devising bis
burning glass, bis levers, and the en-
gines Of war with which be routed
the besieging enemy. On descending
the huge caves hewn from the sold
rock. be NAV marvel at the knovl-
Of acoustics which dictated to the
tyrant DiOnysius the build Of that
labyrinthine passage which so close
fv counterfeits the duet in the human
ear.
Clambering up the rough hewn
steps the little closet is before him
where the cruel king used to sit and
hear the slightest whisper Of his cap
tives in the vaults below. The tear
. ing Of q scrap Of paper sounds there
Ike the rushing Of a vast wide, and
a pistol report is deafening- Hard
bv is the circus made famous by the
story of the slave AndaOcies, whom
the lion refused TO attack because his
antagonist had before removed
thorn from 4 wounded paw. There
also is one Of the earliest Of Christian
churches, erst a heather temple, IN
the crypt Of which are still to be seen
the gridirou, the pineers, AMI the 9TH
er instruments of torment By which
perished the early martyrs OF the
Church.
The subject Is a fascinating one,
and. as we write, il looms up before
Us TO such magnitude that the tradL
tioaal acres Of paper and oceans OF
INK would barely suffice TO do it JUS
tice. But the confines Of newspaper
space are inexOrable.