Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-07-21
morning, before you had aired out the

morning. before you had aired out the
place. Your ears must have burned
when we were TALKING about you.
If you want to get an idea of Ma
pies. at its worst. so town into your
cellar and roHnd up al the codish.
onions. 3raut, limbercer cheese. hero
sene, rotten potatoes. and everything
that Is dead. put it all in bushel
basket, and Just before the health Of
ficers come 10 pull your place get
down on Your knees. and pu: your
head down In the has ct, and let some
one sit on sour head all tho forenoon.
and YOU will hav. JUS ssich half day
as dad ard ! had in the poor quarter
OF Narles. and II will not cost you half
as mrch as II did us unless. af;er
you haze eE;oyed yourself in yoIr GEL
lar with your head in the basket. you
decide TO have a r,in of sicl ness and
hire a doctor who will charge you the
price CT trip to Europe.
Well. sir. NAPLES IS DARBY. IN It's
clean part The bay Of Nafles Is a
dad ringer for Milwarl ee bag. in
shape anG beauty. but Miival l. ee iaci s
Eesuvius and Pompeii. for suburbs,
and she lac! 3 the customary high-ay-
Yaen TO hold yoI up. Every man. wom-
ard child We hare met ma es a
hysrr ont OF the tourists. and nobody
that | have seen worls at any other
business.
We wolfe up the first morning and
dad loo Cd os,i the window a0S saw
VesnviHs beiching- seyta fame. snS
iaVa and stone fences, and wanted to
turn in a FIRE alarm htt | tod him
that that fire had been ra~.ng ever
s:rce the Christian era. and was not
one Of these incenG,ary barn bIrnines.
hrt he opened the window and yelled
ere. and TIE portors and chamber
maids came running To our room. with
b"ese.s of water. and wanted 10 know
Nhnro the Gre WIS Dad pointed ont
OF the window towards veeuvius and
said: Some hired Girl has been start
ing a fire with kerosene. In that shan
ty On the fncll oa' there. ard the
whole ranch will hnra II you don't
'rrn OFT the fro ccrar'nent. you gosh
blasted law devils Get move on.
ard help carry ont the furniture.
Well. they Gained Odd. and then
had to 60 TO worl Ard post dad MP
en- the geography he had forgotten.
ard finally he remembered seeing
Iinture OF volcano or burning NOM
tain in his geography 80 years ago. but
he told me he never believed there was
o volcano in the world. but that he
always thought they put those pictures
In biographies to m9i q them sei,.
How q man can attain the prominence
ard position IN the business world that
dad has. ard not know any more than
he does Is what beats me
on course you kuaw. having Kept
grocery since the war. and having had
opportunities to study history. by the
pictures en- the soap boxes and irsir-
ance calendars, that Nero. the Roman
tyrant. after Rome was burned. while
he fdaied for dance IN a barn, got
80 accustomed to fire and birthstone
that he retired to Naples and touched
OIL ,esuvius. just SO he could look at
It, But tesuyIus about 1000 years ago
cot 10 birning way down In It's bow
els. and the nre got beyond control.
and | suppose now the fire is away
down In the center Of the earth, and
you know when you get down In the
earth below tie crust. on which We
i've AID raise potatoes. everything q
melted like iron in a foundry. and
yesuyius Is the spigot through when
the fluid comes TO the surface. You
tee don't you?
Just imagine that this earth Is a
.4Ifel OF beer. which gou can under