Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-11
4 PETRTFIED CITY.

Charles Warren Stoddard, writing to
the San Francisco Chronicle, says, in de-
scribing visit TO the ruins of Pompen
81 cannot understand how people who
are supposed to have been luxurious in
their tastes ever lived in such ridiculously
small houses rs are those of Pompeii.
The bedrooms are like state-rooms, and
the stone beds, like berths, fill the longest
side of the apartment. There are no
garden spots even the baths, the crown
ing luxury of the time, are small. The
forum and some of the temples are of
more respectable dimensions, but the
resorts of 80, coo people could hardly be
less. The private life of the Pompeiians
must have been narrow, meagre, and IN
healthy. The gardens without the city
probably afforded their only means of
recreation, and wonder how any one
who has once breathed pure air can have
returned to sleep in such miserable
quarters as the Pompeiian bedrooms.
Single partitions between all the houses,
10 gardens, no open courts, save In the
mansions of the wealthy, and the glare OF
the southern sun streaming on walls
glowing with red and yellow paint-such
was Pompeii in its best days. No doubt
it was a brilliant and lively spectacle,
and Bulwer has made the most of it. 1t
seemed to me to be the correct thing to
loaf about the place with copy OF Bui-
wer's Last Days in my pocket. This
l did at later date. l frightened the
lizards in the forum, and chased the
butterflies in the Temple of Isis, and
languished in the house of the wounded
Adonis, for it was awfully hot. sat the
sole spectator in the well-preseryed
amphitheater, and walked in the Street of
the Tombs. The House of the Tragic
Poet received me, and explored for
myself some dark passages that led under
certain houses, where met with an odor
of sulphur that was almost overpower-
ing"
s4TING rs WEALTH.
One great cause of the poverty of the
present day is failure OF our common
people to appreciate small things. They
do not realize how daily addition, be it
ever SO small, will soon make large pile.
If the young men and women of to-day
will only begin, and begin now, to save a
little from their earnings and plant it In
the soil of some good savings bank, and
weekly or monthly add their mite, they
will wear happy smile of competence
when they reach middle life. Not only
the desire but the ability to increase it
will also grow Let clerk ana trades
man, laborer and artisan, make now and
at once beginning. Store up some OF
| your youthful force for future contin-
gency. Let parents teach their children to
begin early to save. Begin at the foun-
tain head to control the stream OF ex'
travagance-to choose between poverty
end riches. Let our youth go on In the
habits of extravagance for fifty years te
come as they have for fifty years past
and we shall have a nation of beggars
with a moneyed aristocracy. Let gene
ration of such as save in small sums bt
reared, and we shall be free from all want
4 Do not be ambitious for extravagant fort
unes, but seek that which it is the dut,
of every one to neutrality-suspicious.
and a comfortable home. Wealth, ant
enough of it, is within the reach Of all
1t is obtained by one process, and on
only-saying.