Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-04-03
A PEEP AT POMPEII.
The Uncovered City That Was Buried
Centuries Ago.
Cur;ous Sights and Ex?erienccs---A
ssuSGcstivo Question - Pitiful
&pectRc'ca-- Discovery of tho
Faod Canning Process.


aud the houses, except that they are roof
less A curious story they tell. Here is the
! house of wealthy banker whose servants
perishel at their various empoymonts. They
| dill not realize the terror of the catastrophe
| till it was too late to make their escape.
Skeletons wcro found in the kitchens with
| tho implements in their hands: they were
/ found lust outside door, having leen stricken
down the moment they left cover; they were
! found in the bed and everywhere just as they
met their death. In the vaults under one
house was found a skeleton with bags OF
treasure When the alarm wGs given ms
/ rushed to save his wealth. and thus lost tho
time to save his life. Young women were
! smotherod in their chambers at ther toilets,
prostitutes met their death while III their
hannts, the sick, the WE'LL the rich and poor
all net q common fate. a soldier died at his
post because he would not desert it without
orders, his superiors who could give the
orders dying at the same minute. Parties
were surprised at banquets and died winc-
cup in hand, and priests officiating in the
temples died vita tEosa before their altars.
Thirty thousand human beings wero en-
wrapped in shroud of ashes AMI all met
their fate together
CURIOUS SIGHTS.
Curious relics have been taken out of these
houses and preserved in the museums. Breai
chsrrcd by the heat, but in good state ot
preservation, coins, household utensils, fur
niture; everything known and used at the
time remained preserved under the coat of
ashes to show the world to-lay how they
lived 1000 years ago.
Ponpci presents q curious sight There
are the walls standing ald many OF the tre5-
Goes on the walls heihs rs bright as when tho
brush of the artist left them. Tho streets
are very narrow, too narrow to ad-
nit of vehicles drawn by animals and
tho dwellings are very small in
comparison with the places CT to-day. The
blth.roomj were always large and commo-
dious, ana s. We're the dining halls, bat tho
rooms for sleep;n; were merely dens fur
nishel very plainly and cheaHly. The bel
was block of stone on which mattresses
were spread, the room bang just large enough
to receive it, Th, Pompaans were luxi-
rious, but tLc!r tastesal ran to ono or Two
things They kne" nothing Of that gen 'ral
average which we call comfort, which insists
that the slooping-roon shall boar some pro-
portion TO tho hunquetiuS nall, and that tho
hath shall not Lc che only magnificent room
in the house.
IN ONE SHORT HoUR.
One experiences . cu.ions sensation at wan
dcring up and down through the city OF the
dead. The houses are here jist rs theJ were
on the fatal afternoon thas bIotted out the
city, and the temples, tho theatres, and
anphtheatrc rs we'll, only II Is as sl!oAt rs
tAc grave. There are evidences on every
hand OF u busy, gay AMI luxurious popu!a-
ton, but the population ITSELF is not All tAe
record that i, left OF tac.n are tho staining
walls, Which they co1sd not carry with tAeLn.
No desert lion OF 1t is possible. There are
only evidences that lie was. Tho HE IL
gone, but what they stu 55iei Tor III Ike re-
mains The stones rhcy troll UPON, the walls
whAoin thaJ d"et, the coucA9s upon wh.ch
they slept, tho tables upon when they ate
the baths wherein they lay their limbs, the
money they accumulatol, that is here, but
where are tney! Lazy ana haTlot soIu!er
inl mechanic, poet ami historian oil ell
Se.oped III one "I1.s!As' S4'''' a!i' an So-l' III
III hour ln't IS lo!'or!l'
WHO KNOWS!
Who knows but what cities existed 600
years aro on the very site of pomnnii, and
That while Pompei was being snutred cut,
wise and learned men were examining ske!o-
tone end coins and such things that thev hal
Ju,r mn To- the end Of determining who tn-y
wsra nul M alont them, Ne,lyius NAV
b,va orunt,l y oDo wear, basore pJmucii, AMI
d;j inst as wild wo.,; that TIM, as sh, did
for pom,,o;i
Poope had been forrotten for ares. A
no,sant digging a WI came upon a painted
rbamhar a,l he reuortai his discovery. The
learned mo, remembering P,iny and his ac-
count of tina great eruptiOn. du- anl found
il Who L,nv;, Int that 4OCO wear, ag1 a
,nosa,t drr y wei, near Pompei and found
r,i,tal ch,p,bar and that the learned man
~ ,h,+ c;.v wara investigating inst as Wa
ora,
II ;s atbar an oh worll and our k,owl-
edge of il ,oss not exten bac. q great ways
And como to think of it, human kuow!e igo
do,sn't stretch over a very great surface any
how. If We only knew as much US we doNt
knowl
WHAT WAS FOUND.
A,,,o,, tba ox6r,no.ions Of which casts
,,,..,' ,,a ID ,e tho+of -, old n,, nro,n uno,
.ha oo,.,ho, 1,,r Of t,e c,llar of his honsa
,vi,h hoys nf qold and invelrv closnad TO his
,ro,s- lvban III. alarm, of th. first shower
of dnath fnlI rno,, the doomed city he SOUGHT
safot,,;n n;cht 1hon tn, thounht of the
,,i ,,,n. h., bal ,l;,od ord .,;loJ for ca lon,
c,no to hip, Thcre was no tim, for delay,
Minutes ware eyervthinr seconds counted
~ thot ouf,l uouent He started for the
door hnt ho con,I not Law, his treasure,
no,,., ;,,. ~, ,.,,,It. ra want f., s,oura if be
rrrosnoI Tho ,,raci,,,e h,,,, AMI turned to fv.
e. H. ,.o,, d,o +ha stiaipo poisonous hlost