The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-06

Garibaldi, and his monument is con-
 spicuous in all the cities. A colonial equestrian monument of GaribaIdi looks , down from the Janiculum upon the dome of St. Peters. at Rome, and dom mates that part of the city.
 The history of Sicily, founded by the Phoenicians. is contemporary with the
 earliest records and legends of Greece
 and Rome. It has been the key to
 the Mediterranean. All the powerful
 nations of antiquity contiguous to this sea have contended for the pos
 session of it's territory. It has been
 the battle-ground of the Cartheginians
 Greeks. Romans. Saraeens, Normans.
 French, Spaniards, and Bourbons, and
 is now, thanks to Garibaldi. part of
 united Italy. All these races. chiefly
 the Greek, Roman and Norman, have
 left their impress upon the manners.
 customs and habits of the Sicilians.
 The people seem more like Spanish than
 Italian, and traces of Oriental life may
 be seen. Geographically. this small island has no superior in Europe for
 exquisitely beautiful and grand seen
 cry. All the hill-set cities and villages
 are surrounded by olive trees, which
 climb the rock heights and seem to
 have eternal life. The valleys have
 numberless orange and lemon groves, and Towering shrubs and blossoms at
 this season are everywhere in view.
 Whenever one discovers the site of a Greek temple or Roman theater it
 is sure to be the most commanding hill
 in its vicinity, and always looking out upon sea and mountain. Sicily has
 more Greek temples, either in good pre- servation or in commanding ruin, than
 in all Greece. Her temples. theaters and other monuments are not in mar
 ble, like those of Athens, which have
 resisted the storms of centuries. but are in native soft stone. which was pre- served with an outer covering of stuceo. | The old Greek theater of Syracuse.
 built probably five centuries before Christ, and accommodating 10000 spec tators in the open air, is sufficiently preserved to show what it was in the
 days of power of the old historic city, The view from this imposing monu- ment as we sat upon it's seats, hewn
 out the solid rock. at sunset, and look l ed upon the sea and mountain. can ney- | CT be forgotten. In the harbor of Sy-
 racuse one of the decisive battles of the | world occurred. 415 B. C., which chang ed the sourse of empires. The Atheni-
 an fleet, which invaded Sicily, was to- tally distroyed, with loss of 5000 to 10000 killed and taken prisoners. The 1 fate of the captives, which included the flower of Athenian manhood, was worse than death, as death came to them by starvation and disease in Its most hid eous form. This battle caused the fall of Athenian power. to which Sparta
 succeeded, and finally the inevitable
 march of Roman conquest. You may lvisft the ruins of the old fort. which overlooks the entire scene of the battle in the harbor, and readily trace the de- tails of the struggle, as described by Theocritus, who was supposed 10 have been an eyewitness. The theater at
 Taornnina, originally Greek, and trans
 formed by the Romans after their oc- cupation, is majestic. One may stand
 among the old ruins. and through its broken arches have full view of Et- | mas smoking crater towering uo near ly 11,O0O feet and seemingly near enaugh to be reached by the shot Of a
 modern gun. The theater is TOO feet above the sea. Mountains Of various
 heights are all around the old town,
 excepting in the opening seaward.
 Towers and old ruined castles. con- vents and monaster!es give variety to the enchanting views,-New York Tri-
 bune