Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-19
CITY or STIFFNESS.
hurried Eighteen Centuries. But
eloquent In silence"

eloquent In silence"
Naples special correspond mt Of the
Baltimore Sun writes II is but an hours
distance from the "City Of Many Sounds
foo pCmpoi, the City of Great Stiffness.
THE movement and dash and life Of Ma
PIES AnI a startling contrast in the ex-
traor1ua-y stiffness and immobility OF
Che little city destroyed eighteen hundred
year. ago. and by the very mode Of its
destruction marvellOusly preserved 10 our
lsy.
s'l as Pompen Is. II is by no means
slen.. TO those who can read the mani
'.l tales of the past that II is pcrpetually
telling. and ever renewing. Pompeii IS one
~ the lo, est-speaking cities on the face
~ ia.e round globe.
Tennysn %. in his Voyage Of Maeidune,'
taa- weird and ancient Irish legend, tells
hnU Ue hero n the tale came TO the
.ie. ~ shouting" where every creature
crei with voices that rent the air and
broke loo roofs. and was wholly intolera-
ilf ''lle silent Isle" had already been
visited, where silent ocean always
broke M q silent shore" and where there
w-s movement without sound. as "when
tre brooks glittered on in tho light with
c-t sound" and where "the long water
itis poured In a thunderless plunge TO
ilt base on the mountain walls"
tlt Pompe1 Is quite another style Of
ias. Here there is sound without mo-
ton; voices Tat speak In dead languages,
ana whose words make appeal to the
un4 through the eye. IL Is with Pompeu.
- manner 80 IL was with Juliet when
A.r lover looked at her from beneath the
itcony in Capulers orchard:
she speaks, yet she says nothing; what
II that?
Her eye discourses."
THE WRITING on THE WALL.
pompeil. TO those who are interested in
ihe history Of the human heart. is one OF
10. most ample sources OF information.
ae handwriting on is walls tells IN plain
anI unm.stakable language the secrets Of
ihr men and the occupations Of the
women Of nearly nineteen centuries past.
a peculiar intellectual affection grows up
N ones mind for the place.
nave been visiting IL many years, and
i KNOW IT'S streets aud lanes and alleys,
us dwellings, OF the rich and the homes
p. 'he poor better than / know the streets
~ london or New York or Baltimore
iAt absorbing delight Of reading its
,ois ana ~ piccing out the evidences
we, N furnishes Of the thought and modes
r..... eco f'NIit - uiQlmiNlklcd IN the
course o. years.
sunday evening several years ago
-, wandering with an American friend
So Nha Of Diomede. on the Way OF
sio,,1 when ] heard my name called
~ Vn sunday the entrance 10 the
~,a 10y ia free, and YOU wander sbout
80, panied by a guide when /
-g~Nt t"e person who called me I vocog-
49, ih hiin an American who dyvoit 81
.hain'fe' ana IN the trferx,s1s ~
ms business made ID his ,Iaa..'. 90 -
duiy 10 study PomneH ue $500. s''t
s,t ana my friend 10 the erea, son,sayn
ihat stands az The juncflon ot ,sran
ttfeets' the principal OF v,hioh -
H'I'et OF Abundance. This fouptain Co.,
.sts OF a mask or face tnrD,-,, - ~
mouth Of which the water ancier tiv
lowed into a large trough The 49, s1s' -,
the material IL the stone know, a.. 80 ~
-anlc peporino, a very hard euhs,s,oa
READING THE EVIDENCES
me man from castellamare direc,.d 49,,
.'entlOn 20 the upper edge on ,hts
"V'sh' where small portion OF the
.elth peperlno stone was worn smooth ~,
Is hands Of tho passers-by who stonns1
~ Nnnk placing their right hands ON ths
~. OF The trough and putting their llns
81, "e mouth Of tire mask. through which
@ water flowed. This hands pread,h
A's was smooth, while the rest OF the