From Algiers tho tourist sails for
Palermo, with Its bonutlful gulf, "The
Golden Sholl," encircled by lofty moun
tains. Tho iclty lU-s In hloHomln;
Jilnln, was fought fur, like nil Klellliin
cities, by Greeks, C.'iirtliafcliilniiH, Ho
iiiiiiim, Saracens mid Normans, nnd, itl
thoui,'h still falry-llko of environment,
retains few truces of its origin. When
tho liiHt of the winter snows hns melted
nwny, the orange nnd Judas trees
bloom niarvelouHly, and every land
brec.e brings the city a springtime
freight of the rarest fragrance. Nature
offers nmn an Eden here, but he, mv
mortal that lie Is, hungers and thirsts
pitifully, starving physically in this
paradise of beauty.
I'overty is general In Palermo, yet It
has its treasured sights the university,
tho public libraries, the many famous
churches, clubs and palaces, and courts
of Justice. In some of these edifices
are mosaics which are like old tapes
trie, silken in appearance, but more
enduring than tapestry handiwork
being made of cubes of agate, of Jasper,
lapis lazuli, and other rare and brill
iant stones.
The people are given to many church
feast days, but the poorer workers are
quite industrious. The cobblers work
necessarily to make the money where
with to buy their dally macaroni. The
tailors with extraordinary skill patch
old clothes, which look at the begin
ning as If they never could be worn
again. Tho sellers of poultry carry
their wares tied together by the legs,
and hung suspended from their necks.
The hucksters sell cauliflowers pink,
purple, green or yellow. The fountains
are the centers for gossiping women
and idle maids. Families often have
their luncheons In open doorways.
They sit on the earthen floor with the
shallow platter of charcoal, whereon
their meal is heated, placed between
them. There is a certain friendliness
about tho sunny city, notwithstanding
Its poverty. Tho flowers that grow
charm Irresistibly, and the human ele
ment seems only incidental.
Niples never looks more beautiful
than when the morning mm reveals the
city In a negligee of rainbow colors,
with Oupri and Sorrento 'n night, and
Mount Vesuvius, distinguished-looking
In the tall, white plume It wears.
The Museum of Naples 's a treasure
house of artistic and archteologlcal
gems. Its mosaics and frescoes are
famous, and Its pictures Include
"Scenes from the Story of Hercules,"
"Achilles Delivering BrlsMu to the Her
alds of Agamemnon," and other classi
cal subjects. Here, too, Is found the
celebrated Farnese Hercules, and a
cabinet of medals and the small bronzes
unearthed In Pompeii. It Is an Inter
esting experience to view the Neapoli
tans under the stress of excitement,
such as is witnessed when ar. eruption
of Vesuvius Is apprehended.
All night the wt recta are thronged
with people who wntch ,vlth supersti
tious awe the column of lire that rises
fully 1,000 feet in height and the great
masses of molten lava thnt leap up In
the air and fall heavily to earth again,
carrying destruction with them. The
fact which excites the people most,
however, is that the movntaiin is
"sweating fire" -to use an expression
of an Italian scientist that Is, opening
up new craters which discharge burn
ing streams of lava tint surround and
ruin neighboring villages on the moun
tain's slope.
They realize tho appropriateness of
Goethe's words, "Vesu"lus Is a peak of
hell rising out of paradise." B'or all
of the volcano's lower slopes are fertile
vineyards, where Is grown that famous
wine of ashes, the Lacrlir.a Christl. And
Just above are hardened lava streams,
contorted like lizards and crocodiles In
agony.
From Naples, by a brief dr've, Pom
pell, olty of the dead, is reached. So
deeply was this place covered ty Vesu
vius, that during the middle ages the
site became a historic mystery. It is
a sombre, lonely spot The various
houses shown to tourists have been
given names In accordance with the
treasures discovered In them when they
were disentombed.
There Is the "House of tne Wounded
Adonis," "the House of the labyrinth"
so called because a mosaic of Theseus
and the Minotaur was found In It;
there are the "House of the Little
Fountain," "Tlie Ho -se of the Faun,"
"The House of the Tragic Poet" There
are temples, too, the theater upon the
hill, and the famous forum, never fin
ished, where one can pet the finest
views from Pompeii of the mighty
mountain which ever, eren In compara
tively peaceful mood, flames Us de
fiance at the sun and stars of heaven.
This burled city Js the best source
from wfolcih- to learn what the domes
tic life of the Romans really was. Ori
ginally settled by the Oactnns, and thor
oughly Imbued with the civilization of
classic Greece later, in S2 B. O. H fell
Into Roman hands and became go Rom
anized by Its conquerors that by the
time of its final destruction. In 03 A. D.,
it had been rebuilt In Roman ttyle. The
final catastrophe, wherein the city was
burled under successive layers of ash
es, red hot pumice, and ashes again,
did not take place nntll August 79
A. D.
VPEMMICAN
AND "DEPUYEE,
Equipped with nothing but their skill
and endurance, a few ponies, a gun or
two, and provision enough to last them
for the day, the early mountaineers
of the West set out to make their way
through a vast wilderness that held all
the terrors of the unknown. William
T. Hamilton, a type of these self-reliant
men, spent his whole life on the plains,
and In "Sixty Tears on the Plains" he
tells, among other things, of tho foods
lu use by the Cheyennes, with whom
the plainsmen often came In contact
The Cheyennes were and are to-day
a proud and brave people. Meat Is
their principal food, although berries
of different kinds are collected In sea
son, as well as various roots. The
kettle is on the tripod night and day.
Most tribes of plain Indians dry
their meat by cutting It into thin flakes
and spreading It on racks and poles In
the suu. Pemmlcan is manufactured in
the following manner:
The choicest cuts of meat are select
ed and cut into flakes and dried. Then
all the marrow Is collected and the
best of the tallow, and both tallow and
marrow are dissolved together over a
slow fire. Many tribes use berries ,ln
their pemmlcan. Mountaineers always
do unless they have sugar.
The meat is now pulverized to the
consistency of mince-meat, the squaws
generally doing this on a flat rock,
using a pestle. A layer of meat Is
spread, about two Inches thick, the
squaws using a wooden dipper, a buf
falo horn or a claw for this work. On
this meat is spread a certain amount
of the melted marrow and tallow, the
proportion depending on the taste.
This same process Is repeated until the
desired amount is secured. One pound
of pemmlcan is equal In nourishment
to five pounds of fresh meat
Another Important article of food,
the equal of which is not to be had
except from the buffalo, is "depuyer,"
depoullle. It is a fat substance that
lies along the backbone next to the
bide, running from the shoulder-blade
to the last rib, and about ai thick at
one's hand or finger. It will weigh
from five' to eleven pounds, according
to the size or cpndltion of the animal.
It will keep Indefinitely, and Is usetf
ns a substitute for bread, but Is su
perior to any bread that was ever
eaten.
When going on the warpath the In
dians would take some dried meat and
some "depuyer" to live on, and nothing
else, not even if they were to be gone
for months.
Foatnfflce aa Debt Collector.
A debt-collecting agency which Is run
as a part of the regular public postal
system Is the newest "Improvement" of
the postofllces of Austria. Despite the
noveuy of the enterprise, the plan has
worked admirably, so that many thou
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postman throughout the Austrian em
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iccount due from a customer In, say,
such a distant town as Budapest, which
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the bill to the postofflce In the capital,
whence It is transmitted to the post
offlce at Budapest There the postman
presents It to the debtor, collects the
cash, and remits it to the Vienna post
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tradesman by postman. In the event
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And with Many Knot.
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Captain We find it by the needle
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She Passenger By the needle oh,
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muscles and stinging nerves, but it is a formidable
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