San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-25

n stripped her rival of military an
naval power, the Punic trade
went right ahead getting busine
away from their Roman riva
and it was for this that Carthaq
was finally destroyed.
Carthage was a colony of I'll
Phoenician cities of Tyre an
Sidon, but mostly Sidon, and II
first we hear of it is just after Il
fall of Troy. When the Greek
after ten years, finally sacked II
city band of Trojan refugee
under the leadership of Aenea
II famed for his piety, set sail
4 SIT search of new home. AftS
| being battered all over the Me
81 iterranean, hungry, ragged ar
q with leaking ships, these 50
M tramps found themselves near
YUM little brand new town on the Afi|
can coast, Carthage.
W. 1t was the general custom
p those good old days to rob ar
WI kill unlimited guests from the Sc
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,LayIN so Aeneas and his followers tod
I'm an awful chance when they we
nm ashore and asked for help, b,
IMa there was nothing else to do. TT
FJIa natives were strong for followir
custom, but their young quee
-------- the beautiful Dido, took a likir
thag inian to Aeneas and spared the who
'..,sJ 9Th outfit. She fed, bathed, shetere
ed Figure, and clothed them so well that hid
l H'u sna own people were jealous. Aened
Form Of made love to the beautiful quee
Head: and who certainly thought his int
20 -. tons serious.
ian Fashion Maybe they were, but or
e Momen, night, after his ships had all bed
'ieh Was repaired and provsioned, the Tr
pu'ar in jan prince had dream that
=. ef al II. IN" ought to get right out of the
rue,on Of and be attending to his destin
e City. Aeneas, being very pious an
knowing that dreams are dvirM
hints, sneaked out that vel
At dawn Dido, from her palace, saw hid
ships just passing over the horizon. She ha
rounds for a breach of promise suit, but RI
, bring it in, so she ordered her subjects
funeral pyre and threw herself into til
Pious Aeneas saw the smoke arising, bi
worry. He was obeying divine command
'hen this hero took trip to Hades on anoth4
he happened to meet Dido's ghost and trie
lin to her but she would not even talk TO hin
or her advisers selected one of the best sitd
World for a commercial and military capita
in the centre of the Mediterranean, in til
Tunis, where the African coast stretches u
Sicily on the end of the Italian peninsula,
a position to reach out and grab for anythiH
S worth grabbing. Also it was likely itse
abbed if enemies could get at it, but this LOG
IS almost as impregnable to land attack
1t was a promontory of red rock, with in
e salt marshes on the north and on the sout
at lagoon of Tunis, which also formed
natural harbor. Toward the mainlanM
ID an isthmus only three miles wide, and hel
e only walls needed against land attack.
n business and military point of view it wi
stand anywhere, and the city grew and pro
ntil at its height it had population of ovd
n. 1t gave birth to its own colonies, settle
7 and promptly came into conflict with til
raiders and colonists.
lie, younger and still busy with her job of gel
litary control of Italy, found time to grow
r shoulder at this wealthy power that ow9d
The Greeks fought many battles with II
.inians, and often beat them, particularly
i, but could never dislodge them from Sici
son for this was that while the Greeks wer
oldiers, they were individualists and adve
while the Carthaginians were painful, ia
business men.
thaces, the Tyrant of Syracuse, assembled
these mercurial adventures, landed them
and for three years ravaged the country rigl
e walls of the isthmus. While Inconvenience,
managed to carry on business as usual unit
,eks got tired and went away again. TIL
,inians hated war, and therefore made n
to build up an empire like that of Rom
and Rome wished to conquer the world an