Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-07-21

stanu better than anything elsa. ana
it is beng snas en- up b being hauled
arcuLd On wagons and cars. and IL
straining TO get out. then q bartender
drives spigot into the bang, turns the
thumb piece. and the pent-up beer
comes out foaming and squirting, and
there you are.
Instead OF beer, Vesuvius Is loaded
with lava. that runs like molasses, and
when 1t is cold it is indigestible as a
cold buckwheat cake, aud you can
make it up into jewelry. that looks
II e maple sugar and smells like a
fire In garbage crematory Besides
the lava there are stones as big as q
house that are thrown up by the sea-
sickness OF the earth. as II heayes and
pants. and then the ashes that come
out OF the crater at times would make
you thinz that what they need there
Is to have china ely sweep go down
and brush out the ilues
To get an idea of what a nuisance
the ashes from the crater are to the
cities on the plain below. you remem-
Der the time you were out in your
back yard splitting boxes for kindiing
wood. and nay chum AID | threw
pail of ashes over the fence, and ac-
cidentally 1t went all over you. about
four inches thick. That time you got
mad and threw cucnmDers at us. when
We ran down the alley Keep that in
your mind and you can understand
the destruction of Pompeii. when We
suvius. thousands of years ago,
coughed up hot ashes. and covered the
town 40 feet deep with hot stuff. and
killed every living thing. and petri-
fed and preserved the whole business,
and made prairie on top of a town,
and everybody eventually forgot that
there had ever been town there. for
about 1000 years II my chum and
] had not run out OF ashes We would
have buried you SO deep In your bac..
yard that you would have been petri-
fed with your Ratchet. and when they
excayated the premises a Thousand
years later they would have found your
remains and put yon in museum.
Well. a couple OF hundred years ago
peasant was sinking well down In
the ashes, and he struck a petrified
barroom with a bartender standing be-
hind the bar in the act of serving
some whisky 1000 years old, and the
peasant located claim there, and the
authorities took possession of the
prairie and have been digging the town
out ever since. looking for more OF
that 2.000-y ear-oid WHISKY
When / told dad about what they
were finding at the ruins of Pompeii.
and how you were Liable to find gold,
and diamonds, and peirified women,
he wanted to go and dig in the ashes,
as he said ii would be more exciting
than raking over the dumping grounds
In Chicago for tin cans ant Jumps OF
coal ard so we hired a hack and went
On carrying an umbrella. so if Vesu-,
vius balehed any more ashes he could
protect himself. Gee. bnt from what
have seen al that oh ruin a man
wonld need an umbrella made of ror-
rugaied iron TO keep from being bur
led
Well, .-hcn we got 70 Pompeiii cad
was for rn!rg right where they we're
digging. but got him 10 look over
the streets ard honses that had bcen
uncovered first. and he was reralyzed
to think that town conid be covered
with ashes all these thousands OF
years. and then he uncovered and find
town that would corr are. In manv
RESPECTS, with cities Of the present day.
with residences cs.snnleic with scr,lp-
tire. paintir cs and cut marble that
would S; in Chicago to a finish.
We went through residences that
loo'-ed az rich rs 70 Vanderbilt houses
in New York. baths that you crs,li
sa'.e a plunae and swim in. II they
had the water, paintings that would
take premium at any hor-a show TO-
day. pavemeDts TINT would shame the
pavcm.nts Of Lopdn7 and Paris and
retrified women that you couldn't tell
from q iOw-r sc,;ed partv in Washing
ton except that tho ashes had eaten the
clothes on. I gl,ess most OF the peo-
pie in Pemneii got away when the
ashes began 80 rain Gown for they
must have seen That I wasrt going to
be light shower hui 6eluxe 'c7use
they never have found many corpses.