The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-10

thought it worth while to close the
doors.
| Go through an old italian town once
and you will understand how it is that
a native citizen takes kindly and ma
turally to assassination. How can he
help it? Nobody ever lives in the first
story of the houses, and the streets
are so narrow and dark and crooked
and there are so many convenient cor
ners in which one can stand. and dark
alleys up which he can run, and graf
| ings behind which he can conceal him.
self, that it required all my natural
| integrity Of character to enable me to
resist the temptation of purchasing
cloak, and a high-pointed hat and a
rapier, and so accoutred, stand in
corner and polish off a few passers by,
merely for exercise.
The cemetery here is an improve
ment on all existing cenotaphy. There
is building which reaches completely
around large square; the walls which
face the street are high and solid, with
out openings of any kind, while those
which front the court formed by the
edifice, have a succession of windows.
The graves are in the floor of the long
passage thus formed, and the flag
stones are tombstones. The building
being about fifteen feet WIDE room is
afforded for two rows of graves, and
the walls at the side have recesses con-
tanning tablets and statues, many of
which are marvels of art. The court is
devoted to the interment of those whose
friends and relatives prefer them to
lie under the sun and the dew. But
while an open air grave can make no
difference to the remains the elements
crumble monuments and deface statues
and where the deceased had fame
enough or friends enough to call for
stored urn or animated bust, the COW
cred graveyard is used, and the ceme-
terry of Genoa is therefore an art gall
lery as well.
| The city is surrounded by a high
wall with forty bastions 1t was all
very well when built, but why do they
now repair them and fortify them, and
keep up the farce? Our modern i'm
proved artillery would make short
| work of these defenses.
They are candid people, are these
Genoese. The Palace and Villa Pala-
vicino are among the finest in Italy, but
Palavicino means strip my neighbor,"
and that is the family name of the
proprietor. No man but stage rob-
ber a stock broker, or an official in a
Turkish bath-house ought to carry
such a name about with him.
A Milanese hand-organ and a board
ing school piano are of close kin. The
first sound which assailed the ear upon
reaching our room in Milan was Hear
Me, Norma" in the same old dulcet
Jingle which provoked the family ap-
plause in years long gone, and I paused
in expecta ton of the little soprano
sQual1 which usually succeeds the jim
gle, while my companion sank into
seat overpowered by the recollections
Of the old school room, and the hum
dreds of red fingers and thumbs which
even now perhaps are tum-tum-tum-
ming away on the battered old pianos
which infest every female academy.
The instrument which was heard on
this occasion, however, was a huge or
gan or music box on wheels, and it's
proprietor appealed not in vain to the
generosity of the noble American
meaning thereby the writer.
The great plain of Lombardy-in the
center of which Milan is situated-was
most interesting to me, not so much on
account of it's historical associations as
its aqueous facilities. 1t presents the
most extensive, the most perfect, and
the most successful example in the
world of "irrigational'' agriculture-if I
may coin a word for the occasion. 1t Is
now, that which the Colorado and ella
and upper Sacramento valleys probably
will be one of these days, a vast and
fruitful garden, with every inch of
earth and water properly and profit
III 10 Y.iy1 rfa
right, to dispense with which has puZ-
zled the intellects and chafed the con-
sciences of Pacific coast jurists, does
not exist here. The government
whether of the kingdom of Italy or the
local authority of the Lombardy, I can
not accurately ascertain-owns the