Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1910-08-11
REV. I. N. HURST ON
BAY Of NAPLES
In Sight Of Venice, Putting Away
Like 4 Dage Smoking q Gig
arctic

w HOl EtCdii where L wrote
you last but it has been ten days
or two weeks and we have been
on the move. / am writing
from Sorrento on the Bay of
Naples and as | look out of my
window across the bay | see
Vesuvius putting away like a
Dago smoking a cigrett only on
larger scale. We were in old
Pompeii the other day and as we
saw the smoke from the summit
of 'Vesuvlus' and looked at the
bodies of men. women. dogs,
cats and chickens that were de-
stroyed nearly 1000 years ago
and as we walked through the
silent streets and into the va
cant homes and shops of these
unfortunate people we could not
keep back a kind of a shudder
and one woman said; do you sup
pose that there is any danger,
and the guide said: no, no, no,
we have not had an eruption
since 1909, but the earthquakes
come just below us in Sicily. and
then we remembered Messinia
and longed for good old America.
We have spent two nights under
che smoking mountains and have
three more to Spend, but most
of the party are willing to get
away from here. The famous
Amalfs Drive helped US to for
get the volcano and it was to us
all intensely interesting. At
Venice we stayed in the old
Castle of Barberigo and one
night recently we stayed in an
other old Castle and yesterday
lunched in an old Convent and
last night we slept in a modern
hotel with windows looking out
over the sea and a way to Ma
Piles. We go to the island of
Capri today and on to Naples
for the night and then in two
or three days more to Rome.
We spent several days in Flor
ence and Venice and in them
found many interesting things.
Venice has no horses nor carri-
ages nor street cars, but the
people use gondolas instead, as
their streets are canals. Our
first ride in a gondola stirred us
up alright but we soon got used
to it and left the city feeling as
if we had been brought up in
gondola. The many points of in
terest in Venice cannot be
crowded into a newspaper arti-
Gle but | cannot refrain from
mentioning st. Marks and the
Doges Palace and the palace and
the prison and the Bridge of
Signs, of which every one who
reads at all has read something.
We attended mass in Saint
Marks and went through the i'm
mense structure and on through
the Doges Palace. There were
in all 120 Doges which were
simply Governors and II of
them are buried in and around
st Marks and the Palace. The
Guides tell you that the body of
St. Mark is buried here but we
take such statement with a
pinch of salt.
After one has seen the bones
Of the three wise men and the
clothes they wore when they Wis
tied Bethe lehem, and the water
pots in which Jesus made wine
and the chain that bound Peter
in prision and the walking stick
he used in his old age an enough
pieces of the cross and thorns
from the crown to fill a cart his
,redulty begins to weaken and ,
ne needs help to believe some
things he hears and thinks he
sees. One thing we saw that !
We were sure of was the pigeons
n st. Marks square and they are
lind o. Epluribus unum many
y one, because there are thous-
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