The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-06-23

stand better than anything else. ans
Il Is being shaken mp by being haulec
around on wagons and ears. aud b:
straining 20 get out then a bartender
drives a spigot into the bung turns tht
thumb piece. ana the peut-up beef
comes out fOam.ng and squirting. ans
there you are
Instead OF beer. Nesuvius Is loaded
with lava. That runs like molasses and
when 10 Is cold it IS indigestible as q
cold buckw beat cake. and you can
make it mp into .eweiry. that looks
like maple sugar and smells like a
FIRE Ia a garbage crematOry. Besides
NE lava there are stones as big as a
house that are thrown up by the sea
sickness OF Che earth. as it heaYes and
pants. and then the ashes that come
out OF the crater ar times would make
You think that what they need there
is % have 4 chimney sweep gc down
ayd brush out the dues
To get an idea OF wha. a nuisance
The ashes from the crater are to the
cities on the plain below. yol remem-
Der The time you we're our III Your
back yard splitting boxes Tor kiudins
wood. and MY chum and Z threw q
pail % ashes over the fence. and &C
cilentaiiy il went all over YOU. about
four inches thick That time you got
mac and threw cucumhers al US. when
we ran down the alley. Keep that IN
your mind and YOU can understand
the destruction Of P0mpeii. when We
suvius. thousands of years ago.
coughed up hot ashes. and covered the
town 40 feet deep with hot stun and
killed every living thing. and petri-
fed and preserved the whole business.
and made a prairie on top Of a own
and everybody eventually forgot that
there had ever been a town there Tor
about 1900 years II my chum and
I had not ri out Of ashes we would
have buried you so dsep in your bacA
yard that you would aave been petri-
fed with your hatche'. and when they
excavated the premises a thousand
years later they would have found your
remains and put Won i a museum
Vel. a couple of hundred years ago
a peasant was sinking g Wei down in
the ashes. and he struck a petrided
barroOm with a barten Ter standing be-
hind the bar In the act Of serving
some whisky 1000 years old, and the
peasant located a claim there. and the
authorities took possession of the
and have been digging the town
ever since. looking for more Of
that 2.00o-year-old whisky.
When I told dad about what they
were finding az the ruins of P0mpeii.
ard how you were liable 10 find gold.
and diamonds. and pe-rifed women.
he wanted 10 20 and dig in the ashes
as he said il would De more exciting
than raking over tho dumping grounds
Ia Chicago for tin cans and Jumps of
coal. and s we hired a hack and went
% the buried toNr. but sad insisted
On carrying an I'M brel.a. So if Vesu-
wins heichec any more ashes he could
protect himself Gee. but from what
| have seen az that old ruin a man
would need an umbrella made of cor
-ugated iron 70 keep from being bur
led.
Well. when We get 10 Ponpeii dad
was for going right where they we're
but I got him to look over
he streets ard houses tha. had been
uncovered first. and he was paralyzaI
% think thar a town gould be covered
with ashes all these thousands Of
years. and then be uncovered and find
! town that would compare in many
respects. with cities n the present day.
With residences complete with SOUP
.ure paintings and cut marble that
would skin Chicago 20 a finish.
We went through residences that
ooked as rich as the Vanderbilt houses
n New York. baths that you could
axe A plunge and a swim in. II they
the water. paintings that would
axe a premium az any horse show to-
lay. pavements that would shame the
'avements q London and Paris. and
ONE that You couldn't tell
a low necked party In Washing
on, excep- that the ashes had eaten the
on I guess most Of the re0-
'le in Pompeii GOT away when Tie
shes began 70 rain down. for they
must have seen that % wasn't going 70
V a light shower but a deluze. cause
hey never Rave found many cornses
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