The Cairo bulletin., 1912-02-04
ITALIANS ARE
UNITED IN WAR
WITH TURKEY
Antasonism. Of Tribes Disappears pea
With Beginning Of Prepare
ton, for Big Battle
RESTORE Ho'RTTus ROMAN $
Fauou. Garden. Destroyed Many
Year. Ago, to Be Rebuilt
By Scientists
RESTORE HHo'R HORT ROMAN $

s5& ROH.N, FEBRUARY AhS
Italian war continues of absorbing
INT rest to Italians. and no matter
what monetary cost-it VIII soon
reach 500. 900 ,000---popular feeling
ID that II cannot be too great TO pay
for the unification of his Majesty :
subjects that has resulted, let alone
all other considerations.
The old antagonism OF Neapolit-
ans and Piedmontese, of calabrese
anl Sicilians. OF Genoese and Vene-
tians and Lombards and Southern
ers, has disappeared before the COM
mon enemy. Old and new parties
have ceased to exist, with no other
example in history after 1884.
when Plus TX. also having Joined
in the national war against Austral-
la, the whole country was in accord.
All classes from the royal family
down to the poorest people, have
their children in the entertainments
Queen Elena said: Il wish my son
Umberto were a dozen years older.
to be able to go to the front" The
Duchess d'Aosta, her children too
young to take part went herself as q
nurse. The manifestations of affection
for the army. and navy are many.
A woman sent a rosette formed of
the italian tri-color to the Colonel
Of d regiment, with an apology be-
cause IL had faded, and adding, Il
made 1t with the remains Of the tri-
color with which my grandmother,
when / was a child, made fosettes
for the soldiers Of the Indepehdehce,
risking her head. May this same
ribbon make you victorious"
The devotion of the peasants is
even more moving. A woman Of
the Abrdzai sent to her son, who is
d sharp shooter and served bravely
Under General Fara, two Bologna
sausages. writing In poor Italian,
"One is for you and the other fol-
your General. He has deserved il
also. ia
i'as Y Arabs visit Rome.
Sons Of some OF the wealthy
Arabs of Tripoli who are favorable
to Italian occupation have come here
sto complete their studies. and have
been the object Of friendly demon
STATIONS Recently they visited the
Coliseum and the Roman Forum,
st. Peters and the Cataeombs and
all the other wonders OF the Eternal
City. Asked what had Impressed
them most, they answered, "The
ZOO; we wrote them that it is bet
ter than Noah's ark; Noah had only
a pair Of each animal. while here
there are dozens Of each!"
IVY $3.50 a ww y,nw
Professor GIacomo Boni, the archie
ologist, who won fame by directing
the excavation Of the Forum and
Paiatine, has now undertaken to re.
store to its original glory the Hortus
Roinanus on the Palatine. which was
also called Horto Farnesiano, or Gar.
den Of the Farnese. from Cardinal
Eduardo Farnese, who, In the begin
ming Of the seventeenth century, en-
trusted to the doctor and chemist,
Adino the destruction of that beau
tiful portion OF the historic hill,
which Contained the new plants Just
sent from the American continent.
Flowers Were Interesting.
Professor Boni gives most interest
ing accounts Of this American dora
transplanted into Italy and speaks Of
the Mexican Acacia" which came
from san Domingo, sprouted on the
Palatihe In 1911 and fiowered three
years later. and which was from that
time Tor three CENTURIES spread in all
the gardens Of Southern Europe un-
der the name Of Acacia Indica Far
nes slI He tells Of the influence
the Importation Of trees. plants and
VEGETABLES from North ana South
America had on the landscape, on
Ayricilture and on the economic and
hygenic condition Of the peoples Of
Europe, The Hortua Romanps
which Michael Angelo designed and