“VESUVIUS IN FLAMES.”

Temuka Leader, Issue 2586, 25 November 1893, Page 4

“VESUVIUS IN FLAMES.”

One day an Englishmen who had become a resident in Naples was astounded and charmed at the sight of the burning mountain. The appalling grandeur of the thing intoxicated him with delight. The terrific explosions, accompanied as they were by the projection of huge boulders and burning lava, presented a scene of weird and awful proportions. From that moment he knew of nothing half so grand as Vesuvius in flames. In the course of years he left Italy and took up his abode in the States. One day ho met an American who boasted very exultantly of his country. In a little while each found himself trying to outpace the other in the relation of the most wonderful thing he had witnessed. The sublimest thing the Englishman could remember was the mountain conflagration. He accordingly told it with all the impressiveness and ornateness of diction at his command. The Yankee gave a chilling smile, shrugged his shoulders, and waited half impatiently for the end of the story. With a cynical and contemptuous air he said, “ Look here, stranger, did you ever see the falls 1 ” “ Falla; no.” “ &.h, I thought so,” replied the man of the stars and stripes. “Now, my friend, you go back to Naples, and bring Vesu\ius over here, bag and baggage, rocks, thunder, lava, and all the paraphernalia of the old .spitfire, and place it under the falls, and Niagara will pour such a volume of water into its belching mouth, th >t in less than a week not a scrap of fire will be left.” “Impossible,” the Britisher exclaimed. “ Its fires would send your billowing cascades into huge clouds of steam and make another crater in its place.” After all, Vesuvius with its fires is as nothing when compared to the hidden flames that burn in man. Internal shocks rend his frame. Destroying forces continue their work until met by Warner’s “ Safe ” Cure which paralyses their strength and finally delivers the sufferer from their grasp. No matter how emaciated or depleted the system, Warner’s “Safe” Cure rebuilds the broken channels, repairs the shattered system, and rejuvenates the whole body.