Omaha daily bee., 1892-01-10

necks are tho result. but their gree and
brightness as beasts of burden are winSome,
surely. lntermingled with all of these dur
ing the morning market hours are capote-
hidden women from the hills, smart city SER
wants with their endless castanet-like clink-
ing of wooden shoes upon the paveinents;
grim men from the fields leaning upon their
hi ge OK goads which in Portugal always be-
come the travelling stats; noisy youths
hawking fighting crickets in cages scarcely
Two inches squares; all manner OF.
men, many of whom have fallen
out of the ranks of the aristocracy,
and boys selling halves, quarters and eighths
OF lottery tickets, for ever in Lisbon it is a
true saying that ''tomorrcw the wheel goes
round;' important and wasp-waisted mill
tary attaches dancing here and there in blue,
bun and green; grave and comfortable
padres, impervious to forgivable chatting and
badinage; half naked urchins with wonder
fully bright faces; beggars with piteous
though sunny looks, as CHEEKY over rebuff as
reward; and an hundred other folk and
factors SO touched with the semi baroaric
and oriental. that one awakens from the
weird fancies c%oniured by sight and scene,
In a sort of half dismay that in this spot.
where our own wondrous civilization had its
very beginning, everything seems IA thousand
years behind even the drowsy progress of the
Europe today.
Changing Scenes.
Here and there throughout the streets bev-
les of giggling senhoritas, never alone and
always conveyed oy some bright-eyed old
duenna, pass from shop to shop, ever SEEM
ing to avoid but ever in reality compelling
most ludicrous antics on the part of ali males
from Is to so. Roaring and tearing down
from the heights as II pursued, comes one of
the cocheiros of the town with his ramshackle
barouche, to which are often harnessed three
donkeys abreast. He has been nowhere. He
is going nowhere. He lashes and screams
and vents maledictlons upon his beasts. Sud
denly the outlandish outfit comes to q halt.
In an instant the violet cocheiro is asleep
ON his box, and the donkeys' heads
droop d~olefully between their knees.
Now and then a strange horse and rider
will be seen. The horse is a piebald. The
rider Is q gentleman farmer, a "morgado" no
Is called IL Portugal. He sits upon his beast
in a semi-mllitary and semi-cowboy style,
holds bis birdie reins high In the air, wears
a spur and mustachios of wonderous dlmen-
sions, and ambles through the changeful
scene like a hesitant, humbled Quixote.
Everywhere are little donkeys carrying fat
people; burdened with furze, brush wood,
charcoal, dried corn leavea and stalks,
PUSHES aud straw, completely hiding them,
packed with twice their own weight in mer-
chandise gong 10 or coming from the quay,
or driven double with great timbers across
their backs. ''Andel-Andel p their drivers
shout, as they prod them with blunt, iron
pointed pixies as long and as heavy as our
own pitchfork handles. These and OK carts,
each with u box like a half section of a huge
wicker basket, ana solid wooden wheels with
iron spiked rims which creak and shrek
like a Red river train on its way to MIN
neapolis and ST. Paul, in the sixties, are
ceaselessly vending their way along the
thoroughfares to and from the country,
the only meaas of freightage; while each
donkey and cart Is accompanied by more
able bodied, ever yelling muleteers and
cartmen than is necessary TO convey every
ounce OF produce and merchandise thus dis.
posed upon their 0 WI backs.
The Water-Carriers.
Water is brought into Lisbon in one of the
worlds greatest aqueducts, the aqueduct of
Agoastiores, from the mountain village OF
Bellas, ten miles distant. II extends across
the near valley Of Alcantara upon a series Of
thirty arches l01 feet from pier to pier, the
point OF the highest arch rising 284 feet
above the valley bed. The water Is poured
from this aqueduot into an immense COW
cred reservoir, and Is from this conveyed to
the many hatariz or public fountains of the
city. From these fountains, since the time
OF Joao ", nearly ali private houses, public
buildings and shops have been supplied by
water-carriers, men aud women. Most OF
these, particularly the men, are thus solely
employed, Many Of tho women are simply