Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-24

defective eyesight may have pre-
vented his appreciating natural
scenery. However that may have
been, it seems impossible that he
should not have been impressed by
the splendid views that anyone sail
ing up the coast of Sicily through the
Straits of Messina and along the south
Italian shore enjoys, says Rev. DR..
Francis e. Clark in his series, I'm the
Footsteps of st. Paul" in the Christian
Herald. He would have seen at first
smiling, vine-covered hills; and before
he had gone far, glorious Etna, snow
capped for much Of the year.
An ever-changing panorama delights
the eye until we come to Reggie, the
ancient Rhegium. Alas, pitiful sight
there greets the traveller today. Mes
sina on one side of the narrow strait
and Reggie on the other were both
wrecked almost beyond recognition by
the Messina shore one sees great rows
of little wooden houses scarcely larger
than henhouses. These are the port
able bungalows which were transport
ed from America, ready-made, to re-
lieve 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 thir.
teenth verse of the twenty-eighth chap
ter of Acts says in describing st.
Pauls journey after leaving Syracuse,
land from thence we fetched com
pass and came to Rhegium." An anus
ing story is told of an infidel who de-
clared, misquoting Luke's 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
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
tically. by translating the passage in
more modern phrase: And from
thence we made circuit, and arrived
at Rhegium." Here st. Paul's ship evi
IDENTIFY waited for one day, perhaps tc
discharge some cargo, or possibly wait
ing for fair wind, which soon blew
for we are told that after one day g
south wind sprang up, and on the sec
ond day we came to Puteoli," 49,
miles to the north of Rhegium.
Between scylIa and charybdls.
Shortly after leaving Reggie We
pass between Scylla and Charybdis
rock and the whirlpool, which have
been robbed OF all their terrors since
steam navigation came tc bless tn,
world, and to make the travellers bur
dens and dangers light. Soon after
the active volcanic mountain of Strom
boil, on one of the Lipari islands, Il
seen, and all the way along the glori
Gus South Italian shore reveals itself
splendid mountains rear their head
in the near distance, their sides clothe'
with vineyards and olive and orang
orchards far up their slopes.
AS we approach the Bay of Maple
the scenery becomes constantly NOR
enhancing. We see the promontor
of Sorrento across the Bay of Salel
no, and soon Capri with its blue gro
to comes in sight on the left, and tow
ering Vesuvius with it's constan
plume of smoke on the right.
Sailing across the Bay of Naples
past the spot where the notable cit
of the present day is situated, plac
which was then comparatively insil
nificant, our travellers came to Put
oil, or Pozzuoli, as it is now called, G
present decadent suburb Of Maple
This miserable and dirty town {
some 10000 inhabitants, as it now. /
is connected by trolley and steam raj
way with Naples, and is often visite
by the modern tourist who wishe
to see the remains of the ancient ter
pies and amphitheater and the might
mole. which still tell of the anciel
glories of Puteoli.
Nearby, too, is the volcanic fiel
of Solfatara, not mountain, but
fiat plain, the crater of low volcan
into which one can thrust his cane
many places and find smoke and 81
phurous vapor issuing from the hole |
he withdraws it. Probably there a
few more dreary or disreputabie plac'
in Italy than this modern suburb
Naples. It has not the ragged pi
turesqueness which somewhat redeem
the worst slums of Naples, but is
squalid, unwholesome town of Il
worst type.
Was Noted Roman Resort.
1t is difficult to realize that it on
might have been called the Live
pool Of Italy," that here was the L
crime lake, which supplied the pal
pered Romans with their famous c
.sters, and that the whole bay W