Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02
TO ENJOY GIBRALTAR.
Treat with Scorn All Pro6erS from Guides
=. and Donkey Boys.

~ ENJOY Gl6HNl An
Treat with scorn All Profkers from Guidss
and Donkey Boys.
The way to enjoy Glib is certainly to
leave the faithful but too prosaic Muir
ray in your cabin. When you land treat
with scorn ali proffers from guide and
driver and donkey boy. Cross the draw
bridges as If to the manner born; pass
the semi-tropic garden that flls the
corner, space to the entrance to the town,
noting as you pass ON the right the dis
used nook filled with graves where some
Of the heroes Of Trafalgar sleep, brought
there to die of their wounds. Next ask
the first soldier the way to the D. A.
6. s office, Where q pass is cour teous]y
given admitting to the famous galleries.
The summit is now tabu to all not en-
ployed GA the new works in progress
there, but the lower of the three tiers
of galleries will amply suffice US. This
dates from the last century, and r'ost Of
it was tunneled out during the Eat
four years siege from 1889 to 1903.
A leisurely stroll upward to the Moor
ish castle takes us in right direction
for the entrance. We note the ascend
ing alleys are named ramps, for we are
in a fortress. One is lettered Right
Shoulders Forward" quaint word Of
comma and of the days of powder and pig
tail and the maneuvers of Dundas. We
reach an old world guard-room, with a
large fig tree, leafless now, for the time OF
figs is not yet just within the Moorish
arch OF the gateway we are arrested by
tho trim artillery sentry, with his Mar
tint carbine on his arm. A white-gait-
cred grenadier of Ligonier's were more
in keeping with the scene.
The corporal of the guard inspects our
pass and we write our names in a book
and are then handed over to warrant
officer, master gunner, who has the
keys of the gallery doors. We ascend
by covered way a deep trench
sunk in the solid rock, 80 that our heads
are we'll below the surface-a sur
face liable to be swept in time of siege
with fragments of she'll and whistling
mitraille, now carpeted with verdure
among the jutting rocks. Here spring
is already at work with her flower
show. Already tall plants of some
kind of album are beautiful with
spikes of reddish-white blossom, inno-
cent Of the scent Of garlic, the badge of
most of the tribe.
A purple saffron, with orange-colored
center, nestles in clusters in the hooks,
and shrub of genisra is bursting out
in golden bloom. We soon reach the
mouth of the gloomy gallery. closed by
strong palisaded door. The tunnel
is some ten feet wide by twelve feet
high, and ascends gently. We pass
here under water drip, which in
:reases to a shower bath after a rain,
and we notice the grim, black guns
have wooden waterproofs to protect
them. Glorious are the views that are
given by successive embrasures. Far
beneath as cardboard model, lies
fort and casemate and the houses of the
Town, but beyond them the azure sea.
No model is suggested by that
Anon we reached a battery where
cannon point to Spain. Beneath we see
The race course, worn bare with the
tramp of marching men; for it is the
lrill ground of the garrison. Here, with
their backs to the Mediterranean sea,
are rows of targets painted with blacl
figures, reduced by the distance down t.
the size of dots. These are being fired
At by squads of other black dots Real
live ones these, for the Kings Royal
rifles are at musketry practice. Fain,
comes the crack of the Martins, and
tiny are the puffs of blue smoke. Be
yond them stretches across the isthmus
the narrow gray mound of sand. pierced
at the center by the broad white road
that leads to Sprin.
Wayfarers must keep to this, for OF
that bank at intervals are nine sentrs
boxes Between them by night and
day, year in, year out, pace the British
! se2tinels that watch the neutral ground
Neutral in tint also, level plain and
bare; for here neither grows grass, no,
tree, nor flower. We guess it to be
about mile across to the Spanish lines
and the white-walled houses of the little
town which arises on the further verge
of this little desert-Pall Mall Gazett
LAFAYETTE MONUMENT.
A Work of Art which viii Grace On. q,