The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-10-13
CROWDS WATCH YESUNIUS
Anglo Saxon invasion OF the
Region Around Naples.
KODAK TOURISTS OUT IN FORCE.
POmpeiian Inkeeper's Reflections on the
Two. "EruptiOns"- Flaming Noun
tain Scares the Happy Co
Lucky Natives.

all this peaceful country, and as |
write | can see from my window the
active, energetic ranks of Anglo-SaX-
ons drawn in impenetrable lines
around the dead city across the rustic
highway. They have swarmed
hither within the last week, armed
cap-a-pie-with kodaks. Their eyes
and their weapons are trained stead
lily on the towering fortress that rears
its angry head beyond the city that
was entombed one August night
nearly two centuries ago. The aspect
of war is further heightened by the
dense curtain of smoke that swings
in the air above Vesuvius, and by the
incessant roar and rumbling that
attends the fierce cannonading of ma
ture on the top of the angry volcano.
Two unusual sights impress the
visitor in this locality these days
The man who comes from afar stands
entranced as he gazes skyward at the
head and shoulders of the blazing
monster. To the Neapolitan, how
ever, who has run over here for an
hour or so to look at the eruption
from a nearby vantage point, the in
termittent flames, the thunderOus
reverberations, and the on-creeping
sea of lava are things less curious
than the motley assemblage of for
eigners who have fastened here to
watch the weird writings of the
mighty giant in his commissions
Both spectacles possess great inter
est for those onlookers who chance to
be cosmopolitans, for the interest ex-
cited by each of the rival shows is
unique in its way. One is perform
ance by a troop Of speciality artists,
whose name is Humanity, while the
other is an entertainment with Ma
ture as the stage manager.
Not excepting even a tribe of eccen-
trically accounted savages from an
unknown land, a collection of English
speaking tourists in Europe, gathered
togethered by the roll-call of curiosity,
is about the most singular thing that
the ethnolOgist ever gets a chance to
feast his eyes or ears upon. These
regions to-day furnish an unprece-
dented symposium of human oddities.
As look out upon them this morn
ing, threading themselves in and out
among themselves; humping distant
edges of the Anglo-SaXon universe
together; balancing corners that
never catch the sun on the same day;
plating themselves into ribbons of
marvellous heterogeneous hue; or
ering mass like the splinters of glass
in Kaleidoscope, my eyes go askew
with the variegated vision, my ears
stagger from the mixture of so many
accents in a single language, and
what is left of my bewildered mind
unconsciously initiates Vesuvius, and
has troublesome eruption of its own.
No, naturally all the tourists that
are gathered hereabouts to-day are
not Americans or Britishers. There
are specimens, | suppose, from nearly
all the travelling races OF the earth;
but the others are as lost drops com
pared to the men and women who are
assembled about the base of the burn
ing mountain to-day, expressing their
astonisnment-and other things-in
myriad varieties of English as she is
c.Gyll I'll, 4iii;.,.-=rs-
l went among them about an hour
ago, observing their peculiarities
from close contact. Sitting here now
and looking out upon them, | enjoy
that agreeable sense that comes as
the reward for a kindness done, and
am elate with the consciousness that
| am no longer standing in the way
of thirty-two men, seventeen women,
nine girls and two boys, whose snap
shots at Vesuvius were spoilt by diff
ferent portions of my restless anato-
my. | cannot restrain the satisfac-
tion feel, however, in having once
constituted even an insignificant
fraction of that indomitable aggrega-
tion. 1t was, moreover, a potent
object lesson that has made me un-
derstand better than ever before why
the Anglo-Saxons are rapidly begin
ming to own the earth.
There goes an old fellow now,
burly Yorkshireman, who has already
put 60 different aspects of the volca-
nos dripping physiognomy into his
camara and is bound to catch as
many more phases as he has unused
films in his kodak. Even King Hum
bert would be boosted aside if he
TODD within the hungry range of the