The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-09

thc Hiiuuie, Hol uHllhe tHe Celtlc re
 mains; except that these never had an,
 impost horizontal stone, like the trle
 thons of Stonehenge. Probably the. are relics of phallic worship, (that o the sexes)-the creed held by all thu heather Syro-Ara abian peoples.
 Most interesting of all are the "Sepol lures de los Gigantes," or Tombs of tn
 Giants, found everywhere in Sardinia These are series of large stones
 placed together without cement, so az I to enclose trench from fifteen to for
 ty feet long and from three to six feel
 deep, covered with immense slabs ot
 stone, The trench is always dug from
 northwest to southeast; and at the
 southeast end rises a large upright
 headstone from ten to fifteen feet high
 varying in form from square, elliptical
 or conical, to that of three-fourths of
 an egg; and always near the base is an aperture about eighteen inches square
 On each side of this strange headstone commences a series of separate stones Irregular in size and shape, but forming
 an immense are. No doubt these were
 graves in some forgotten time, but what manner of people made them none can tell. The earliest forms of sepul- chre of which we have any knowledge are of upright stones with superincum- bent labs-such as the Druidical l1ist- vaene, and the ancient tombs of Greece
 As to the story of giants, there are many traditions concerning the former existence of colossal race in Sardinia, as well as in the neighboring islands.
 Its scanty population and rugged mountain ranges, with dark forests be- tween, make Sardinia very paradise for hunters; while it's many rivers and salt lagoons, and the deep. still chan nes between the islets that line the coasts abound In fish. Railroads and well-kept highways connect the towns and cities; but one has not far to go in any direction from the beaten paths to enter primeval wilderness. Beyond the vineyards and cultivated plains are vast upland plateaus, covered with tall myrtles and heath and branching arbu- tus; interspersed with magnificent groves of cork trees, festooned with blossoming creepers. Then come the forests, the pride of the island-chest- ittoy Ooho, pCCCHCS, letlCHtS--WllLl lellSt thickets beneath and interlacing vines above, making perpetual twilight which no ray of sunshine penetrates. Higher and higher climb the forests to the central region of mountain ridges, which enclose a sublime amphitheater of shelving and precipitous cliffs, rocks and ,pinnacles, crawling torrents and hanging woods. This is the haunt of red deer and mouff1in, both lovers of lofty solitudes. The forests are full of and many kinds of birds; and the barren plateaus are literally alive with hares and wild boars-the atter fattening upon the long, fibrous 'oots of the aspodel, whose beautiful yellow flowers flourish where nothing ,lse will grow. Were it not for it's un- deserved reputation for unhealthfulness Sardinia would be thronged with 'portsmen from all parts of Europe. 1 The story has gone abroad that its cli- l nate is deadly to foreigners. The truth 1 S that from June till October the coast I listricts of the southeast should be lvoided, on account of malaria-here | alled Intemperie which resembles {
  ever, Michigan ague and Santiago cal- l ntura. The strange thing about it is hat while adults who have become to the marshy districts can emain in them with impunity the whole ear through, children and newcomers invariably fall victims to intemperie, nd then the matter of life and death is
 question of survival of the Attest. tut this occurs only in the small por- lon of the island and during the few lonths above named. The malaria is aused by over-fowing mountain tor ents in spring time, which bring down quantities of vegetable matter, ) ferment and decornpose in the coast lgoons Northern and central Sardin- | remain exceptionally salubrious the ear around, with dry, transparent as- losphere and really delightful climate
 wing to the latitude, the winters are ever severe even in the mountains; nd the summer heat is less excessive nan that on the neighboring coast of ialy. Especially during December and anuary, the traveller finds here the cry perfection of weather February
 apt to be month of continual rain. bring manifests itself with full luxu- ance toward the end of March, and om that time till midsummer nobody sed complain of the healthfulness of 1 {, ardinia. Not the least important part of this I o-long neglected country is the small , let's that cluster close around it, like {, ids on the parent stem, There are f lndreds of them, from the size of a , ,d-blanket to a respectable farm; and , ough comparatively few of them are I
 for cultivation, all are of some use, r
 pastureground salt-beds, or the r ,mes of fishermen. The largest and z ost fertile island, and naturally most f pulated, is San Antioco, on the i uthern coast of Sardinia, where it {" rms the western wall of the Gulf of a llmas. So very narrow is the deep s a passage which separates it from the 9 that it is crosse& by a Ro- F an bridge and an ancient ~acqueduct. n n Antioco is only about eight miles Q lg by three wide; but it supports S rec or four thousand people, the ma f 'ity of whom turn their hotest pen e es in the time-honored occupations of fl juggling and wrecking. F The Buccinari islands, on the north- q st of Sardinia, are rocky, waterless n d barren, but of considerable impor- Y nee, as commanding the Strait of Bo- 'azio. They have no land worth cul- e e,t,