The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-03


scenery However that NAV hav
been, 1t seems impossible that h
should not have been impressed h
the splendid views that anyone sal
ing up the coast of Sicily through III
Straits OF Messina and along the sont
Italian shore enjoys, says Rev, D,
Francis E. Clark in his series, in tn
Footsteps of st. Paul, in the Christia,
Herald. He would have seen at fire
smiling, uncovered hills; and befor
he had gone far, glorious Etna, snow
capped for much Of the year.
An ever.changing panorama delight
the eye until we come to Reggie, tn.
ancient Rhegium. Alas. a pitiful sigh
there greets the traveller today. Mes
slna on one side of the narrow strai
and Reggie on the other were both
wrecked almost beyond recognition BY
the disastrous earthquake of 1908. On
the Messina shore one sees great rows
OF little wooden houses scarcely larger
than henhouses. These are the mort.
able bungalows which were TRANSPORT
ed from America, ready-made. to re.
lleve the sufferings of the houseless
and homeless people. They are still
occupied, for little has been done TO
build up the ruined cities.
The authorized version of the tbir.
teenth verse of the twenty-eighth chap.
ter OF Acts says in describing St.
Pauls journey after leaving Syracuse,
and from thence we fetched a com.
pass and came to Rhegium." An anus.
ing story is told of an infidel who de.
clared, misquoting Lukes words, that
now he had proved the Bible to be a
lie, since in the book OF Acts it was
said that they fetched a compass
aboard Paul's ship, and everybody
knew that this was long before the |
compass was invented" The revised
Version has taken the wind out of the
inaccurate infidel's sails, to speak nau-
tlcally. by translating the passage in /
more modern phrase: and from
thence we made circuit, and arrived
at Rhegium." Here st. Paul's ship evil
IDENTIFY waited for one day, perhaps to
discharge some cargo, or possibly wait
ng for a fair wind, which soon blew,
or we are told that after one day a
south wind sprang up, and on the Sec
md day we came to Puteoli," 1872
niles to the north of Rhegium.
Between SeylIa and charybdis.
Shortly after leaving Reggie we
ASS between Scylla and Charybdis,
he tabled monsters of antiquity, the I
ock and the whirlpool, which have
cen robbed Of all their terrors since I
team navigation came to bless the 9
'orld, and to make the travellers bur. ,
ems and dangers light. Soon after, ,
le active volcanic mountain Of Strom. r
oil, on one of the Lipari islands, is f
cen, and all the way along the glori- E
Us South italian shore reveals itself; e
olendid mountains rear their heads i
the near distance, their sides clothed /
it'll vineyards and olive and orange /
'chards far up their slopes. t
As we approach the Bay of Naples
e scenery becomes constantly more S
ltrancing. We see the promontory y
Sorrento across the Bay of Saler- f
}, and soon Capri with it's blue grot- f
comes in sight on the left, and tow a
ing Vesuvius with it's constant il
ume of smoke on the right. C
Sailing across the Bay of Naples, o
st the spot where the notable city "
the present day Is situated, a place Il
lich was then comparatively insig- P
ticant, our travellers came to Pute- lie
!, or Pozzuoli, as it is now called, at 81
esent a decadent suburb of Naples. h;
This miserable and dirty town Of
me $4,000 inhabitants. as it now is, 81
connected by trolley and steam rail- as
y with Naples, and is often visited In
the modern tourist who wishes til
see the remains Of the ancient tenn d.
IS and amphitheater and the mighty us
lie, which still tell of the ancient ar
,ries of Puteoli. be
Nearby, too, is the volcanic field a
Solfatara, not a mountain, but a ell
J plain. the crater of low volcano, cl
O which one can thrust his cane in
ny places and find smoke and sui ci
lrous vapor issuing from the hole as OF
withdraws it. Probably there are in
7 more dreary or disreputable places go
Italy than this modern suburb of yo
pies. It has not the ragged pic. to-
esqueness which somewhat redeems to
worst slums of Naples, but is a Oh
aid. unwholesome town Of the WI
.st type. or
Was Noted Roman Resort.
is difficult to realize that it once Die
hit have been called the Liver asl
of Italy," that here was the Lu-
le lake, which supplied the pam. BILE
ed Romans with their famous oy- the
3. and that the whole bay was coz