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EVEN HIS WIFE COULDN'T TELL THEM APARTI They looked and acted and talked so much alike)
-Who was making love to her? Was it bor husband? Or was it the masperader, be hired". to double for him?
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carbonic acid; incandescent "rocks falling the "ground trembling; and all under black night, broken and only by lightning fashes the lurid glare from the moun- takse roafing throat.
No-one know where to fee, nor how to reach any desired spot, Those on land thought of escap1. ing by Bea: those alost imagin- ed it would be safer to get ashore. Nearly all the priests of thic Temple of Isia were overcome, having taken refuge in theii. that shrine in the arm belief their goddess would protect them.
It was about three days before the eruption ceased, and then no- thing was to be seen of Hercu laneum at all and of Pompeii only a few of the broken upper storeys of the taller buildings or of those built on higher ground.
and
Pompell, Then and Now Pompei,.Just before its destrue tion, was rather a wealthy town, resort, a fashionable residential
beauty 113 mineral built in the district noted for its
natural springs, its genial winter climate.
had dine streets, straight well paved: the principal build- ings were very solidly. construct- ed of brick and concrete. It had many temples, numerous gods and goddesses, also spacious open-ai theatres and amphitheatres, raca courses, athletic grounds and pub- licbaths,
It is a strange and fascinating experience to wander about the ruins of the resurrected city, dead and buried for '18 centuries, and now brought to light again.
he always pursues the path be may have chosen, however, erratic, it may be, his errors often become conspicuous and serious. He is a much Einder hearted man than his thirst for fees would lead people to more ac- imagine, and possesses
attainments, complishments and than perhaps any other man in the Colony. He has latterly taken sharp to growing excessively
we fear will be pre- He is which judicial to his longevity. excessively fond of having every- thing his own way like Nera or Louis Napolean, and being slack of There you see. Dr. Bridges, the jaw and careless of speech, he Your sometimes arrogates positions to measure you drive us to. vigilance will make us prematurely himself ludicrous in the extreme.
The Doctor: enjoys a joke amaz- grey. You certainly are the "soon- est" man we ever knew. To move ingly when the butter is all on his the Court against us, and indulge side of the plate. The other day A slashing speech, on the argument on the rule nisi yourself in
on imaginary facts, de- for a criminal information against halus about the Mazeppa affair, we duced
hyperbolical from
without know- complained at the harsh mode of lucinations,
it. surely procedure, inasmuch as nothing ing anything about was a splendid practical feat of but voluntary affidavits could be of "coup used, which we stood a poor chance legal gumption-a sort
You can walk along streets an. d'etat of litigation. The beauty, of getting against influential peo-. of it is that no one can tell us how ple. Dr. Bridges in reply said the trodden by human feet for many you did it. The intent and object mode of procedure. was dictated years since 79. AD. You can see was doubtless to excite the Court entirely out of consideration to the wheel-marks of the chariots against us, so that the application wards us, in order to avert the de-1 on the cobble stones of the streets. bottles and you made might be granted. The gradation of compelling us to go You can see the pictures on the
to the police court. Why of course walls of houses, see greatest genius has sometimes to submit to failure, but a degree of he and all his witnesses would vases, pots and pans, cups
have had to go up too-the latter plates, knives and forks; sympathy is always accorded by the public as a tribute to talent would have had to swear on the wine and flour and "seeds by way of consolation, which will same bible as the poor men do bread and cakes, and (in Naples) on this iss; and to go into the same box one unbroken egg, also hammers, hardly be withheld you
witnesses are callipers, gauges, surgical instru wherin Chinese occasion.
Every opportunity menta. And, finally, strange sad cata," and Should we procure a suitable re-crunched." sponse to the above named adver- would have been afforded them of forms that once were tisement, we datter ourselves we clearing up such portions of their dogs, and goats, and men and wò shall avert another ambuscade. afidavits as may require explana- men.
In the years immediately fol The learned Doctor may go into tion to the fastidious and as a the Court by the back way himself, matter of mact there would have lowing the destruction of the city. If. Dr. great deal of excavation was and tie up Pedro, but he cannot been quite a "to do."
averting done. The interest then was not proceed without the Judge, so that Bridges Tancies that in
and utilitarian: our watch is sure to be alarmed all this he has studied our in-scientific or antiquarian, but en-
cannot tirely economic although we clinations. in time.
their
property. and for withhold the tenders of our distin- Survivors returned to search for guished consideration, atill we must say that he has quite mistaken our the bodies of the dead, Thieres Emperors looted columns, statues, nature, our pursuits, and our pre- came to phinder, and even the dilictions.
mosaics, etc., etc. from the ruins of temples, theatres, and private dwellings, to adorn the new pala" ces and public bulidings then be- ing erected in Rome.
Dr. Bridged, notwithstanding all gaid about him, possesses good parts and many estimable qual- He is however, too officious, oracular and dictatorial, and as
ties.
MOUNT
VESUVIUS
THE VILLAIN
The Victim
And Pompeii The CHARACTERS OF AN ANCIENT
TRAGEDY
"Pompeii, the Resurected City." as, say, the people of Edinburgh was the subject of an "address by would be if the Castle Rock,
which are the Professor W. Brown, of Hong Kong Arthur's Seat University, at the Sailor's and stumps of old volcanoes ten times Soldiers Home in Wanchai lastas old as Vesuvius, were to break also out again and bury the city in evening. The address was
dust or lava. broadcast.
lost
3 Excavation
and actuall
and
Only in quite, recent time, chiefly from 1869 onwards-has systematic exploration of the bur- ied city been undertaken, under Government control
un-
0.
As has been already mentioned. while Pompeil was smothered un- the neighbouring der dry dust, town of Herculaneum aws burted under mud whi, on drying, set like cement, and was commonly mistaken for laya. Only since five or six years ago has any ser- ious attempt been made to cover the secrets of this lost city. There is every reason to hope that a systematic excavation Herculaneum will reveal treasures and value of greater interest than those of Pompell, because Herculaneum has remained until
undis now absolutely sealed up. When along-silent volcano concerned to-night,"
turbed, and unravished. "We are
breaks out again, the eruption is
Perhaps ten years from, now said Professor Brown, "with an
which the always one of peculiar violence. A
some one else might be prepared ancient tragedy in chief characters were: "The Vill volcano with an open vent is r to inflict upon a Hongkong and ther like a porridge pot with tho' ain", Mt Vesuvius; "The Victim," Pompeii. "For people whose tas- lid off; but an old volcano, with the throat choked up with solida " tes are mainly historical, the em- phasis will be on the human side; fed rock, is like a boiler with no their concern will be with the safety valve, and a furnace rag
ses luckless city and its unfortunate Ing below. The pressure inhabitants. Others again, will until, in one mighty explosion, be interested chiefly, in the vol- the boiler itself is blown to frag cano,"
ments."
appearance of a dense cloud above the mountain. The cloud grew in height and breadth until it dark ened the whole sky and the im- penetrable darkness was one of
The famous eruption of Vesu The lecturer remarked that a volcanic eruption. is surely the vins was preceded by a series of
dramatic and maxt
impressive earthquakes extending "over: 15.01 exhibition of natural forces which 20 years. These might be regard people can ever directly expered as unsuccessful attempts to ience. At a depth of 40 or 80 furet the boiler below the surface of the earth. The great outburst occurred the temperature should be high about midday on August 24, A.D. enough to melt, not only all the and the first sign was the metals, but all the known rocks. T It was at me, time believed that at such depths, the earth's in terior is actually fluid, but there were many reasons for rejecting this idea. The manner in which the greatest dimenities and dan earthquake vibrations, travel, and gers. The ground trembled every- the way in which the earth re- where the sea was restless, and sists the tidal deformation que to abbed and flowed.
Blown Sky-Highị, the moon both indicate that the
After a few preliminary con earth's interior-taken as a whole
is more rigid than solid steel. cussions, the whole top of the The modern belief is that 30 or mountain was blown sky-high. 40 miles down the rocks are hot and incalculable volumes of steam enough to melt, but are prevented were let loose. The stony mater trom liquefying by the tremedous tal was redúced to the next dust, burden of the rocks that He above and blown miles into the air. In them. Buppose, however, that in the immediate neighbourhood of any way 8 crack is formed in the the volcano the steam condensed. overlying rocks, then at some and fell as rain bringing the dust point below the pressure will be i dawn with me in the form of hot reduced, the heated rocks sudden-mud. It was this not mud that | ly get the chance to melt, and are buried Merculaneum, but Pompeil, squeezed through the break If being further away, was, smother, they succeed in reaching the surat in hot, dust that was almost face the result is a volcano
Taken by Sururke Vesuvius, tho
ne
perfectly dry. The difference is important for this mould set like cement, while the dust under which Pompeil was buried never tive in pre-historie times beau became so consolidated, and was completely sleep for thousands, Comparatively easy to dig out, perhaps tens of thousands of One could picture the dreadful years, before the dramatic out- scene in Pompeii and neighbour- burst of 79 AD. PODE who ex hood. The air tumed to baking wing, perienced that bus eruption Isden with red-hot dust poison
by by Jurprise, edwith, Sulphurong Tames
were as anèh
Herculaneum, but meantime h lence a lecture on the wonders o hoped the audience had not found wholly devoid of fascination the strange sad tale of Pompeil. the city that was buried alive in 75 AD, and which now again spreat its silent streets, and empty hou ses, and deserted temples. beneath the genial skies of Italy,
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