Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-25
co. c Young.)

Athens. The reason is plain when you visit any part of Southern Greece. for all of the buildings are stone the white Pentelicon marble. Athens was found ed about 1500 years before Christ and only one time since then has 1t been totally without inhabitants. Another time since it was very small village. in 1884, which was the end of 400 years of Turkish rule, when King Otto became the ruler of united and free Greece.
 In the present age, as for 2000 years. Athens owes its prosperity not to lo- cation or commerce, but to the fame of ancient days and is still reaping the benefits which come to an empire built on the mind. When speak on empire of the mind, mean learning, literature, art in sculpture, eloquence, philosophy, and democracy. The city is the capital of the world because 1t is Athens, and for this reason students still come from all parts of the world to study here the successes of ancient days, and one meets here some of the worlds renowned writers, artists in sculpture architects and historians. It is certainly delight to spend days in a city so ancient and whose buildings of ancient time speak so plainly of the past, and still be in modern Ath- ems which has, over 150,000 people.
 The language spoken, in the two daily papers, and ip signs on shops every where is Greek, still written in the an- cient letters, but there is enough French spoken for me to do well in trading and study. Greece never paint ed any pictures on canvass; if her people had they would have decayed by this time. All the pictures you see are htose carved on stone and saw many made i've hundred years befor Christ Think of the Parthenon, the Temple Thesus, and two of the old theatres erected four and five hundred years be fore Christ, and still standing whole or in part as when they were made. The Temple of Theseus is the best pesery- dered or ruined The Parthenon would still be almost perfect build if it had not been blown up by powder during the Turkist domination in Greece. The ancient cemetery which is as old as these other places men toned has monuments mace as long ago. Many of them with names of the people are still found there. Seeing all these things about which there can be 10 historic doubt makes me believe more than ever In the facts of anticquity. The things in history which I learned long ago, and which then seemed so strange and unreal, l find here in Greece exactly as I learn ed them. Though the men who wrote the history are long agone to the other shore, yet their graves ara still full of information and the stately Pen telicon marble buildings, with columns 60 feet high, are still standing as the mute, but eloquent interpreters of the past. The only place pointed out which at all doubtful is the prison of socrates, of this We are not certain. He was killed as a teacher of false doc trine, and for that reason no stone monument was erected in the place of the prison, nor was he permitted burial in the regular Greek cemetery, hence no marking of his grave. The Greeks had style of erecting statue to every victor; but none to their bad men, and they regarded Socrates at that time as one, though after his death they respected his doctrine oi immortality of the soul The custom of celebrating victory or success by monuments in marble or by parks oi trees is still kept up in Athens "Con. stitution Square" is pointed out to the
 tourist now as being the center of the city, and it is; and this beautiful park
 was built in 1844 and so named be
 cause the people forced King Otto to grant the country constitution, which makes the Grecian government con.
 stitutional monarchy.
 But Greece for the future feels secure
 against the plubder of the nations of
 earth, and in this rejoice with them.
 Most of the priceless art treasures are in Italy and in the British museum
 in London. The reason of the royal SC eurity in Greece now Is that the crown is vested in King George and his heirs. His oldest son, the crown prince married into the royal line Of Germany
 aud another married Louise Bonaparte the richest woman in France. Thus
 you can see that if there was any dan
 ger of Greece's weak army and navy falling into the hands of a yandal Ger
 many and France. would have a private
 talk with the intruder, and perhaps a public demonstration. My visit to the
 stadium, which is built on the ancient
 site of the Grecian Olympian games
 was to me full of surprises. The races are all on foot of course, the space in the middle where the runners com pete for prizess Is surrounded on all sides by 50,000 seats in one mighty
 amphitheatre. and the entire structure ! is made of white marble-seats and
 a1l-it was in the Stadium American
 athletes won most of the prizes for
 three successive, years. A guide told me
 that all Americans on entering the race course should give three cheers fol
 America-because they had won the
 prizes from Greeks.
 I drove one day in carriage iron gPiraeus to Athens, a distance of sev
 eral miles. A rural scene it was, the
 fields green with wheat and barley fl
 February, the olive trees in great agt
 standing ready again to load this yea with fruit, and the almond trees jus ;pueting out their blossoms. The lanC icorners were marked by white marble monuments about feet high-the Ian Iguage on them was Greek but number the same as ours-along this roat fror, tha haxy of Piraaus fo Afhano oa,