| Show that island of Mity mitylane Ml tylene lone on which officers hv have just had a picnic is ii in the tha archipelago and Is famous it is but a little spot it is I 1 not much larger altogether than tho the site silo of suit salt lake alko city it 11 Is tt healthy place and just exactly ilia point which would bo be convenient for a fleet in case ot of a war it in thai neighborhood it conics into history a its a land of wo rare Int loni it II became effectually stamped on tho history of the world otto years li croin tho the christian era fitly fifty years liter lator it became subject to persia ton ty ly savon years later it regained roal nod its independence pen dence and became a member of the athenian confederacy tit in tho the year before it submitted to ALEXAN in the abo century immediately preceding tho the Chri christian era ll it became the josso salon of panic than in tho the thirteenth century after tho the christian era one of the byzantine emperors coded ceded it to tile venetian family of as a dowry of his il II took it from its owners in thero there ten bert angoy and were born bord it too wits was tho ilia native of PiT and ot of ICUS it v m III ba seen that tatt it was run over by tho persians by tho ilia greek by the abo romao koman by tho the Veno tran and by the turk it was natural then to believe yesterday yos that tho the modern bodoni old bruiser of the world great britain had like wio taken to lo mako it a resting place for lor her floats 0 o still do not bellmo thoro Is boint to bo be any war the ilia u winter I 1 anter Is too near the consequences would bo be too fearful but tho the seizure of at tho the island by great britain would bo be natural it would bo be IS dofice to all tho the IN balloni over there that she Is around and as usual looking filter after her own interests and that if t any bruising brul sinK Is to be b iona done she will do tier her part it would boa bo a stern sumi to franco and to russia girat does not wish to have any war tier her bus bits local Is trade site likes to on a war among foreign powers occasionally and she sells to both sides with equal impartiality but ono one beautiful feature of her whole career has b been oon that u whenever believer war ws was wary she has not shrunk front from it and is whenever hen her soldiers or her tailors sailors are called upon to keep high advanced the ho british fla hig g they dolor falter swept over europe he never was baffled on the continent but once and that thai was by no human raid that was sout against him he ha could not right fight russian snows and frosts and il stoics but whenever neter or a continental army app appeared oAred before him ho he drove it buck back and scattered it beyond recall hut but when fit at waterloo his bis confident conG dont legions beat up against the englishman tho ilia scotchman and tile the celt he be found that his calculations of the power n necessary ecca aary to defeat an enemy adio Gomen bat faulty at tho the time when bell ilia enemy theu then before him ought to have been subdued it simply closed up its ranks and remained A majority of 0 squares died in fit their tracks but while dying they tho strength of their enemy so the grand rand charge that always before had been effective on tho the weakened army filled failed NAPOLEON bo be came an all exile and the map cusp of europe m was as readjusted and even before waterloo when hell all europe was at the disposal ol of the corsican every port art of franco france was blockaded by english shiva ships so this picnic at ml I 1 Is 3 not w without significance the persians fought there with spear and shield so did tile the greeks so did tho the romans so did tile the turks and tho venetians the pear and the shield hao liao passed away they havo have been superseded by ilia iho armstrong run gun suit it II called upon to roar those guns would bo be a mighty echo to the ilia clAu tors loni ago awakened on that spot by persian Ip ralan by greek by roman by venetian and by turk in turn |
