Arizona republican., 1904-09-19

were driven up to the little Italian ho- tel on the hillside among flowers and fruits where our luncheon was served to us on the veTanda while we listened to music rendered by Italians. After lunch we drove 10 Anacapri,. where we saw the castle of TIberious, the ancient emperor of Rome, built on the high est mountain top he could find. We saw the little shops of this quaint lit tie village, of which there were many. and still more pretty little things to tempt cur pocketbooks. At four o'clock We returned to the boat and went back | to Sorrento, which we had passed in l the morning, and remained there over | night at the Hotel Tramentano adjoin- ! ing the old home of Tasso, the poet 1 A short distance frC.n OUT hotel was | the villa or castle of Marion Crawford | the novelist. In the evening 2 mum Der of Italian men and women gave the 1 Tarantalla danCe-in the real Italian | costUmes-and gave us music such as we pay the highest prices to hear in America. Ass we sat and listened to l this sweet music under a bright Ital- ian moon, and surrounded with fruit and flower laden trees and bushes | here the lemon and orange-there the rose and magnolia, and everywhere the i fragrance of all combined, a dreamy. | romantic feeling crept over us and we l almost forgot how weary We were from our long voyage and Q hurried day of l sightseeing. The next day we drove | over to ancient old Pompeii always be- 1 ing in sight of angry cid Vesuvius, | which was pouring forth a furious cloud of smoke and lava. along a most beautiful drive skirting the Bay 1 Of Naples. Our visit to PompeI was l somewhat hurried on account of the 1 extreme heat; however. we saw the l principal places of interest, travelled
 through her laval paved streets. saw | the old shops and dwelling houses. in many of which are very well prezerved frescoes and mosaics. The house of | Nettii is the most interesting, being re- ! markedly well preserved. and in the Kitchen even the cooking utensils are | III place. On account of the eruptfve condition of Vesuvius and visitors not being allowed to look into the crater
 We did not go up al all.
 From Pompeii back to Naples we
 mad our first experience on an Italian
 railroad, and while it is very different
 rom our American lines we did not
 ind t as uncomfortable as we had e1-
 peo'ed- We had compartment to our
 selves and felt very independent
 .f
 hacklnan to take us to our pension
 and started. Two of the younng ladies
 In the party wanted to stop at shop
 10 do some shopping and asked the
 utiNer 10 direct them to a shop and
 leave them lie, being very obliging to
 the young ladies, left us staudfn.s
 without driver, and stood there two
 Blocks away from Us and watched for
 the young ladies to return. While they
 were thus engage our horses were
 hacAng into shop window, the lines
 under their feet, and we were simply
 heh1med in by beggars and cu1ioua
 people Of all kinds and were not able
 10 make single one of them under
 stand what was the matter. This last
 ed some twenty minutes and it is need-
 less to say we were recdy to put an
 eHd to that driver when he returned
 beaininS with smiles for having been
 SO cnarminG to the young ladies. fol
 winch he doubtless expected an extra
 'saHc will add here that no place in Z the world can boast of so many beg : gars as southern Italy and one must :. harden his feelings immediately upon l. landing there or he will have nc : money to even get out of Naples. We :. went for several drise es in Naples :, which were very beautiful. and while
 
 ,. klng $ p9laCe,a most imposing buiIdina ,. surrounded with extensive grounds The interior is too magnificent for nce ,. even to attempt to describe. Of course { We sat for an instant in one of the 1: royal chairs"
 , Leaving Naples we went to Rome The Eternal City, First visited the 1. Capuoinni church and saw the original : painting of Saint Michael. by Guide : tieni, and were conduct d, by q devot- . cd monk, to the cemetery below line . church, where for ages and ages tbe l. good old Churchmen have been buried !. in consecrated earth brought from Je- Fusalem. Vault after vault We saw all : artisticaily decorated with human
 bones, and our attention was called to the artistic taste with which they were
 arranged. by the monk who showed Us through. and who neekly said he was
 to rest there, too. Not only did We see
 the bones, but mummies in their Fri est
 iy robes, some having been buried in
 1i56. We visited tha Pantheon and , saw the tombs of the late Kings Hum
 bert and Victor Emanuel II. Here the , feas were more numerous han the
 beggars in Naples and we di1 rot tarry with them long, In the afternoon we went to the Colosseum and saw tn. ruins of the Golden Palace of. Nero ! passed through the Triumphal Arch ol a Constantine and along the old App:ar Way out of the city and through the Portal Gate of Saint Sebastian. pas, the church of Quo Vadis-saw the cir s GUS of Romulus where the scene ot the chariot race of Ben Hur is sup ( posed to have been. Saw the ancien ! Roman acqueducts, showing the man
 her of conducting water over the couu try We visited the Roman Catacomb and with lighted torches went down . down into the earth and saw the count q less tombs and many skeletons and i q was fully illustrated to us that "Dus E thou art and to dust thou shalt re T turn" and we actually saw the dust O 7 human. bodies. Of course we visited St Il Peters and it being the feast day O II St. Peter and St. Paul, we saw tn q grand old churc3; in all its glory an