Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-18

ney. When there is an especially fine
view she looks at you with a delightful
anticipation of your delight, and says for
the hundredth time: "Mnito bella
capri!' For half days run up and
down mountains, urging and pushing
donkey a woman will be paid half franc
by the owner of the donkey, and prob
ably another half franc by the rider of
the donkey.
THE TOWN OF CAPRI
mile and half distant on the higher
ground is Anaeapre. There are about
1000 inhabitants in each place, though
the hotels for tourists are at Capri and
the Marina. A feud has existed for hun
dreds of years between the two places;
they never iutermarry or have anything
TO do with each other, except for an oc-
casIonal fight. Capri is tangle of little
streets that you can reach across by
standing in the middle and stretching out
your arms. The Hotel Pegano Is the
chief attraction of the place. It has been
the resort of artists for fifty years or more,
and when the poor fellows could not pay
their board, Tpaint!'' said old Pegano,
and SO they did paint, on walls and fire.
screens and door panels, till there was
scarcely place left. Fine paintings
they are, too, done by some very cele-
brated artists. The house obtained a
great reputation; more and more addi-
tons were put on and artists ornamented
the rooms they occupied out of oompli-
ment to the house, so that now the
Pegauo ia the Quaintest and most inter-
esting of art galleries. Some one offered
Mr.. Pegano $500 for the lower panel of
q door painted by Benner; he refused to
sell it. The one who made the
offer confessed afterward that he
could have sold the painting in Paris
for $4,000, but Mr.. Pegano would not
sell the fortune of his house for any
price. 1t is running-over full all the
time; some days TWEEN ty-five people are
turned away for lack of place to put
them; and additions are being made con-
stantly The old man Pegano IS now
dead, and by his will his son Is not al
lowed to
RAISE THE PRICE OF BOARD
above six francs per day; so that artists
will always be able to come there. Lily
ing in Capri is very cheap. A beautiful
villa completely furnished for house
keeping, with flower garden and orange
orchard, can be rented for SS5 to $40 per
month. servant to do all homework
for a small family charges only Sc q
month. We happen to know these de-
tails, for friends of ours have been max
ing inquiries.
The church and the priest have full
sway over the simple, ignorant minds Of
the Gapriotes. One sees here how the
Roman religion is the natural EXPIRE ssion
of the people. They love pomp and pro-
cessions, bright eolored affairs and
blazing tapers. The priest seems TO be
really father to them. They say how
ever, that the young men who join the
army and navy bring back very heretical
notions to their families, and here is
case illustrative OF the fact that the alb
solute power of the priest is being
broken; An old woman ,shad trouble
with her son-in-law; he was unjust, and
she was on the right side of the quarrel ,.
aud, as the way is. Instead of going to
court, she applied so the priest to right
matters for her. He counseled peace;
but the old woman broke forth in such
torrents of wrath that he said: eff you
don t make peace with your son, IN
speak to St. Peter and he I'll tap you on the
head with one of his keys and kill you. -
She was
FRIGHTENED INTO SILENCE
by this, but her nephew, young fellow
who had gained intelligence by travel,
told her 1t was nonsense. that st. Peter
cold not kill her, and advised her to go
and ask the physician if it could be done.
The physician was a foreigner, retired
from professional life. who had gained