The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-06-26
European Letter
From our regular Correspondent.
Naples, Italy, June /, 1896.

Naples, Italy, June 1, 1896.
The Augean were doubtless bat
enough, hut what would nice New
England or Dutch housekeeper say o.
Naples? This city stands e-eminen,
in the bacteria and microbe manufac
turing industries. This is not meant
10 be derogatory to Naples at all, fol
the interest of the place is largely re-
ferable to the picturesque dirt The
true Napolitan face is not character.
lied so much by black eyes and rosy
Hips as by dirt, and one always thinks
when looking at the children Of Chas.
Lambs rem. rk IF dirt were trumps
what hands they would hold.' In
rainy weather the streets are covered
with a thin batter of mud and the care
fully dressed American and the daily
dubbed" Engishman find themselves
after few hours sightseeing redu ICED
to the real Neapolilan Ltate.
The streets here are painfully mar
ro ", in fact just wide enough TO allow
carriages to pass. On the numerous
holidays two long professions of car
riages block the business streets from
end to end, and the man who has not
yet been SO influenced by the climate
as not TO care whather he reaches the
bank today or next week, finds this
slow moving procession a sore trial to
his patience. The side walks are even
worse. On the principal shopping
they are about two feet wide.
AT one point in this street we saw a
man the other day who nonchalently
led a goat out of a gate opening on the
and quietly sat down to
milk her. L he pedestrians respected
his energy and the entire mass moved
off the sidewalk so as not to disturb
him. The Italians are good natured
people.
The beggars are innumerable. They
conduct business everywhere and there
seems to be between them and the
who are almost as plentiful,
/ kind of understanding that one will
lot disturb the other. There is mag
lifcent arcade in the city called the
ialleria Vittorio Emanuelo, but the |
pleasure of walk through it is spoiled |
" the little beggars who turn hand
somersaults in front of
'ou through the entire place in hope
4 penny A little girl conducts a
us.ness of this kind in the Galleria
nd reaps large rewards, shop keeper
old me, for doing it SO "modcstly," A
nan smoking is followed any distance
ntil he drops the stump of his cigar,
7hen a struggle for it's possession en-
les. In the street that lead up to the
ill the poorer classes. reside and the
ghts these streets afford are worth
rossing the ocean and all OF its atten
ant sea Sickness to see. Many of
nem are only long flights OF stairs and
theirs are so steep that landslides in
he city are of common occurancs. OF
purse horses cannot 20 on these in
in-s so the whole domestic economy
I the families is exhibited in the
rect. rhey live almost altogether
1t Of doors and il is NO common thing
see children washed and dressed and
her domestic scenes of more or less
slicate character enacted in the open
r. But all of these things do not in
rfere with the charm of these pictur-
que, tortuous streets and alleys. In
ct they constitute its charm and the
enc that in America would make you
,sten for policeman forms here the
Ibject of your snap shot. IL Is some
ing in the setting of the picture-the
II PINK and yellow houses with their