The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-05

Paris, and petrifed women that you
couldn't Tell from Il loW-necked party
in Washington, except tnat the ashes
had eaten the clothes off. | guess
most of the people in Ponlpeii got
away when the ashes began to rain
down, for they must have seen that II
wasn't going to be a light shower, but
a deluge, cause they never have found
many corpses. They must have run
to Naples, and may be they are run
ming yet, and you may see some or
them at your grocery, and if you do
see anybody covered with ashes, look
ink for Il job give them some crack
erS and cheese, and charge IL to DAD,
for they must be hungry by this time.
Say, do you know that some of
those refugees from Pompeii went off
in such Il hurry that they left bread
baking in the ovens. and meat cooking
in the pots? 1t seems the most Won
dcrful thing to me of anything | ever
saw We went all through the streets
and houses, and saw bathrooms that
beat anything in San Francisco and
when wc went into q building occu-
pied by the officers in charge of the
excavations. ana dad saw a telephone
ana an electric light he thought those
things had been dug up, too, and ne
claimed that the men who were re-
ccivin% millions Of dollars in royalties
on tcIo Dh5ues ana electric lights We're
frauds who were Infringing on Pom
pei patents 1000 years old, and he
wnuIdD't believe me- when ! told him
that telephones and electric iishts
were not dug up; he said then he
Wouldn't believe anything WAS dug
uu. but that the whole thing was a
| put-uD Job to rob tourists. Rut when
We cot to q locality where the dagoeS
were digging the ashes away from Il
! mouse, and were uncuNtrin& pariof'
| where rich things were, being discoT-
cred. he saw that Il was all right
suppose ! never ought 20 nave
| uIave,l such n thing en- dad, bat t0ld
| him that anybody who saw a thing
! first When il came out Of the ashes
| could grab it and keep il. ana just ~
| J old him 4 workman threw out y
! shovel full Of ashes just & : you would
! throw oct dirt digging for an$ e.
| worms and there was d. itt'e silver
ara with c lot of coins IN il and YOU
| could not hold dad. He grabbed FOR
II. the workman grabbed for II. and
| tlpy went down together in the ashes.
! and tho man rolled dad oFe. ana ns
| was Il sight. but the workman got thr
! silver urn. and dad wanted 10 iiSht.
Finally a man with a uniform on came
along and WAS going to arrest dad,
| but they finally compromised by the
man offering to sell tne silver urn
| and the gold coins TO dad for hun
aret; dol arS il he would promise nor
| to omen it up until nc got out OF Italy
ard dad paid the money and wrapped
! the urn up in Il Chicago paper, anC
| we took our hack and went to Naples
| CT a gallon.
Dad could hardly wait I'll we ~, ~
the hotel before opening up his prize
| but he held out until we got to our
room when he unwra pped the urn
| TO count his ancient gold coins. Well
you'd added to see dads face when
he opened that can. 1t was an old
tomato can that had been wrought
out with hammer so it looked like
hammered silver, and when he
emptied the gold coins out on the
| table there was lot of brass tags
that looked like dog dicense tags, and
| baggage checks, and brass buttons. /
| had to throw water on dad to bring
| him to. and then he swore he would
! kill the dago that sold him the treas
ure from the ruins of Pompeii. II
was a great blow to dad. and ne has
| bought Il dirk knife to kill the dago.
| Tomorrow we take in Vesuvius and
when we come down from the crater
we go to Pompeii and kill the dago
! in his tracks. Dad may cause We
i suvius to belch again with hot ashes,
and cover the ruins of Pompeii but II
he can't turn on the ashes, The knife
| viii do the business Yours.
! HENNEEY