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The morning call., 1892-02-21
Grind cnH.re

handsO me chenille portieres are hung, Turk
ish rugs are on the floors; the floor is Of
marble, the walls are tiled, and handsome
pillars support the ornate glass dome.
Easy-chairs and divanS are about. stained
glass windows reflect a pleasant light, col
ored women hustle around, and railroad
officials are about to keep you straight.
Downstairs IS the cab-stand, where car
Tiages of all kinds can be found and are
hired through the cab-master, the charges
being the most reasonable found so far.
from % cents 10 70 cents an hour, according
to the kind o. conveyance. 1t is TO be hoped
that the railroad magnatPs in San Fran
cisco, while they are building the most I'M
pOTtant depot on the Coast, have taken
pattern after some OF these Eastern ones
and will build one that shall be something
more than pen, and will adopt a few at
least Of the very admirable Eastern ideas
for the comfort and convenience of the
travelling public, whom they are supposed to
serve.
The city of Philadelphia is by no means a
mixture of the old and the new as one
might suppose, but like Schenectady, the
new has grown up about the old, leaving it
quite unchanged. To be sure here and
there modern house or block has crept in
among the old, but the old are not re-
mode led. Wanamaker's splendid co-Opera-
tive store spreads out over couple of
blocks, reaches out after this corner or that,
IS OF all heights of brick or stone, with an
elegant marble front, and is one of the
things TO see in this city Of brotherly love,
whose motto has been adopted by the Post
master-GeneraL
PHILADELPHIA numbers over a million
people, and spreads out over more square
miles 900 than any other city in the United
States, and this is easily understood when
you ride through miles upon miles of
avenues couple of hundred feet wide,
lined upon either side with elegant homes.
each set in its own roomy garden, there is
no crowding close together 10 Jogging Of
elbows. each home looks complacently upon
its fellow, and all enjoy the roominess to-
gether
The splendid thwoughfares are not cut
up by railroad tracks. but genuine double
decker 0mnibuses low aud roomy, ride
easy upon the asphatum pavements. These
buses are perhaps eighteen feet high. and
have stairway from the back platform to
the double row Of seats above, which are
covered with canopy top.
The sOw-going. thoughtful city fathers
in laying these asphaltum pavements pro-
hihit heavy traffic teams from using them,
and under no conditions allow street-car
tracks upon them. This does not, no viewer,
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road at certain distances by a curious con-
trYancP, huge hose with scoop attached,
The road-bed is smooth as a floor
New ! ork fades into the real morning
light; Elizabeth, city of twenty years ago,
all square somber wooden houses with man
sard roof, rolls into the background; New
ark, with the CRIME Of factory smoke over
il, and its block upon block covered with
Edison shops, is behind; Trenton River is
on the left a few lazy sails on its waters
the little Pennsylvania Canal creeps laziiy
0 d at our right; di!apidated farm-houses, a
lonely schGol-house, busy quarIles are seen,
are gone
The land that was cleared" fifty years
ago fer farms is abandoned and has sent up
new and stately growth-pines, birch and
the white oak, as the soil Is too poor, eX-
Cept in spots 10 produce much of anything
worth growing. However, there are isolated
sections living near the streams that are the
marke,-Eagdens Of the great city behind US.
A few peach orchards are seen, and over to
the east little, trlHe south, are the
famous New Jersey peach orchards.
Such q thing as gardening or OTcharding
IN these Eastern States without a very lib
eTal use or fertilizers. is entirely unknown.
And all day, rs We ilde, we see laden coal
cars from Pennsylvania mines travelling
noTthwaTd 10 feed tue fires and furnaces Of
the great city, and returning southwark
hundreds OF them-flied with stable refuge
OF garbage from the same city-dumped at
the little towns, about which are the mar
ket gardens, or carried on to the orchards
further south.
Our train whirls along under all roadways
or cross railroads through a cu:, walled with
stone on either side, motley group Of
POlanderS, busy on some stoned and
CemeDted embankment, stand aside as We
glide by. over the Delaware, muddy, be-
cause Of its shifting BANKS, but broad and
smooth, with quantities Of river craft, but no
merchant vessels, rs there are no CONNER
cal interests, aud the stream IS broad but
shallow; on into Bristol, not a pause; on and
on faster than ever, until we near Ihila-
delphia, our second stopping place.
The train rides into the city over acres
and acres Of cattle-sheds, over al cross
roads which enter the city, over the freight
wards into the PcnuSy ivania Central depot.
1t is the most perfectly equipped and mag
niiCent depot We have found anywhere in
our jOurneylngs.
A dozen or moro tracks center under n
mammoth, well-lighted and Wel-cOVered
shed on the platforms between the rails
horses handle the trucks eXpeditiously; a
heavy open fence admits passengers with
tickets only. while WGtchmen or depot pOr-
IerS are at every hand to guide You Alright
within the gates a huge hallway has along
its sides a parcel depository, bureau OF in
formation, q cab masters office, ticket
Offices and a depot master. The waiting
rooms beyond are really elegant; between
the smOkingro0m and ladies' waitng-roOm
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AT NAZARETH.
Mary kept al these things and pondered them In
her heart-St Luke nae.

Mary kept al these things and pondered them In
ler heart-St Luke i:J9,
She sat in her IowIy doorway
White lilies beside it grew;
4 circle OF white doves dTilted
over the say SO blue;
The small wild bloSs SONS about her
Gave forth their fragrant bre1th.
Aud green IN their Springtine beauty
Were the mou ntatns OF Nazareth;
And visions Of kiHEy triumph
Came Swallowed by thoughts of death.
Mary's sweet eyes were fastened
On the beautiful child who slept
In her tender arms entoded;
And slowly the salt tears crept
From undo her long dark laShes,
And fell on the infants face.
Which cen in its sleeping beauty
Was full OF pathetic grace
Her tears on his forehead reused him,
And he opened his large gray eyes
Aud looked II his weeping mother
With an infants vague surprises
And Mary kissed OF the teaTdrOps
Ihat cleaned on his golden hair
All who wound kiss OF the blood stains
When the thorn crown should leave them
there?
" And sword through thy own heart Also"
She whispered the prophecy;
Z" My Jesus. my child. my treasu re"
She wepr, "wli II come through thee ?"
" For the rise Of many in Israel
The thoughts or many made known,
A kingdom that shall be endless,
= seat on King David's throne"
II also, all then through thinee
hat trials, what awful sorrows,
Beset thee. tAou child dVines
The angel said that Thy kingdom
Should never know end nor cease,
And surely the hosts OF heaven
At thy blrthtime chauted, peace"
know 10 viii end In triumph
For thee. child. for thee:
And that tl5 uueuding ages
Thy glory and ign shall see.
Sleep In my arms. my Jesus
Gle slept, nor her soothing heard1
And Mary looked up and murmured,
Lord, according 10 thy word"
She sat in her Iowy doorway,
White lilies about It grew:
The leaves OF a stately palm tree
Their shadows upOl her threw.
thorn bush grew beSile it,
But Mary could not see
The palu-stFewu road OF triumph
And the crown Of Calvary.
As she sat and prayed and pOndered
with the child upon her knee
dlOHedG, Cat. Eco. II. 1872 ASELEH
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I heiEh. wholly to the edge Of stone cloister-
! ike porch beneath
To an Opea space are palm trees. And
! these, rising from courts. lifting their
spreading IrOnls high above roofs from
darkeuHd th T0ughfareS. often leaning, ike
( the Tower of Pisa, out OF quaint old courts,
AMI here and there being preserved by an
! eatTe building constructed around them,
! lend q lJeamful. mystic. almost lonesome
ana pathetic cOl0riug to every maSsiug Of
! structures upon which the eye may rest
Ii is city of steep asceu's and paved
/ streets. but OF witcAing old bits OF curious
architecture, and perhaps IS lovely and
splendid interiors rs any Moorish or SEMI
Moorish city can show. All the houses re-
tain features Of Moorish taste and evidences
# medieval forms Of haOtatIOn and
( living. They are not higher than three or
four stories az best More have but the
ground floor with an upper one, and an at
tic called a porCIO. Invariably the entrad as
10 the interior are studies in carved ara
Desgges and tanCifUl Moorish designs Bal
comes are as universal and as huge or as
laCe-lke and as fragile As In Granada or Sc
vile marked popularity Of all struct-
Ures IS their huge projecting roofs, spread
out into pPut-huuseS and frequently most
fascinatiGgIy worked out and decorated.
I And the l1Wlle5t home IN all Palma Is
charming in It's patio or court - that
} lOyeliest Of all interior arrangement around
: which Moslem or Christian home can be
built.
Every one Of these courts is a place Of
beauty, sunshine and song In every one
there is the melOQic sound Of water from
/ running jatty or fountain. In every one,
! whether glittering with slender marble
! columns and daintily wrought arches OF
s0ftened in tones with messy stone and
crumbiug tiles, there are waving ferns and
flowers. Vines ciamgr wantonly over
eutao.alure, arch and balustrade. The
aIc0bas Of all living IN these aOodes are
] within the sound Of friendly calling
I voice. And not one is without birds Of
gay plumage and birds with endless songs.
/ [ often wonder Why the rich Of our own
: land do not build their homes like these. 4
/ dome of glass instead ii the blue Mrdlter-
! rauean skyis all the change required. Ban
/ ism tie paiLlike hanE.ngs and whitening
J shadow places from their stuffy homes and
! learn to live I'D the lfp-giyinE light Ike the
! Latin and the Moor. Put your great New
/ England frepaces opposite your arcGed
| entrances aud make Of these sundt open
/ courts places Of beauty, lghtsomcness,
| melody aud h0meslde Joy.
Only when the feast and professional
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days come is Palma a gay and brilliant
city. At all other times il is sunny, rest
full, SlumberOus and almost silent. It's
street folk are the same as of any other
southern Spanish city. There is greater
content here. No one is in a hurry.
Among the IOwly folk there is less excita-
bility, greater good nature, and the latter
is Of the gentle not the uprOari0us sort.
Here, as in Madrid. is your lecherO or
milkman, who drives bis cows in from the
country and miks for you before YOUR
door The dulcerO or seller Of sweets.
with his songful cali by day and his tink-
ling bells by night, is here. The cOchero OF
cabman with comfortable landaulet and
pretty diligence will serve YOU faithfully
without gcile. The mercanchiste or notion
peddler, the aquadOr or wa,er-seller. the
regateto or huckster who has the sociable
habit Of entering shop or home with his
dOnkeYs and panieT, the ZapaterO or arch
way shoemaker and the latoner0 or tinker
whom ! have found to be Spanish gypsy.
are all here IN their lazy, pleasant and
picturesque ways.
BY day Palma seems 10 the stranger to
be continuously experiencing something
like a soft dFeamful buzz Of activity ~ all
human affairs. Perhaps it is the reaction
alter some great business tension, you ru-
inmate. But no. each day IS as the day
before it. Everything is gently done. No
one is astiT before 10 in the morning. Then
the pretty market attracts bevies OF beau
tifui women and maids.
Cobyrtglt 1892 EDGAR L. wAKEMAN.
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THE QUAINT CITY
THAT PENS BUILT.
Old Brick Homes Where ADidGS the
Spirit Of BrOthGrly Love-"
Conservative Walls-Ihe Peal Of Independ-
ence Bell Is Yet Ringing Down
the Centuries.

Editor Morning Call: We left New York
in the chill of an early morning, the Their
mOmeter below thirty degrees, the rumble
of the carriage sounding strangely loud in
the quiet Of a city stll asleep.
A last look out this window or the other
until at the end of the side street as we pass
we see the brilliant blood-red sun just ris-
ing under the Brooklyn bridge, tipping each
spire and dome and blazing a fair good
morning to Liberty as she stands guard over
city just awakening.
Over the muddy Hudson, alive with ship
ping, the wheeZy ferry boats, which cannot
be compared TO those on the bay of San
Francisco. go skimming this way and that.
Over on the jersey side we lake the limited
foT Philadelphia, via the Pennsylvania
road. Buying your tickets on these paTlOr
cars or Eastern limited trains, by the way,
does not include seats, which must be pur-
chased also.
All! but the service is perfect on the all
day runs out Of New York all ways-but
four stops are made between New York
and Washington, an eight-hOur run. Water
IS taken up from bitches on either side of the
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prevent tho city from having the greatest
number of miles of street-car lines of any
city IN. the Union outside Of San Francisco,
and they are of all kinds-a few cable,
electric doth storage and the troIly sys-
tenn. and In the older part of the city are
horse, or rather mule flor mules predOm-
mate IN car SeTyiCe), "bOb-tailed' cars 90
Jogging through the narrow old streets,
with payements of uneven stone blocks, a
foot square, as old as the ACKNOWLEDGED
sidewalks from which rise the eminently
respectable, well-scrubbed. white marble
steps to the smooth, bright red brick
houses. The brick TO build many of these
old houses was doubtless brought from
England IN the early part of the eighteenth
century.
The old hOuseholders were very chary of
land In those days, with whole continent
unoccupled, and SO crowded close together,
mayhap, for company's sake.
Dick IS stlll favOrite building material,
or mas been until within very few years.
2 1aV0rlte form Of OrnamentatiOn for these
square four and five story buildings, which
Is extremely effective, is the use of hand
somely embossed sheets Of metal many Of
bronze, to cover the finish of the dOOrways
or windows or divide stories, or even occa-
slonally to encase great round, rOOmy bow
windows There is an individuality in
every city, sort Of fitness of things to
people.
Inc reserve aud cOnservatiYeness of Phil
adelphlanS Is nowhere so well exemplited
rs In their manner Of walling in certain
public grounds and buildings, nor is it pos
sble to obtain admission, either, without
deal of red tape.
The State Penitentiary covers about four
squares IN the heart Of the city. has walls 20
feet hlgh OF rough unhewn gray stone, with
gray Watcn-towerS on the corners and over
the massive gateways.
Glrard College. with its many handsome
white marble buildings, is we'll hidden in
its acres OF beautiful grounds. all we'll
walled about with its massive stone walls 10
feet high
Near neigbbor to Girard is Mary Drexel's
magnificent Home for Working Women. 1t
is also walled about in a similar manner,
although the graceful modern buildings of
yellow brick, with granite facings. stand
well TO the front of The street and high; it
is, indeed, honey" looking place.
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40 AlRlers as tropical 10 type and seeming
IS Havana, the amphtheater-ike city Of
Palma once the brightest pearl, Of the
s0qgirt isle-still. stately, silent, beauti-
full, with tone and TINT Of the Orient
In its pinuac,es and minarets, its dome
shaped Delirles and its weird and shadowy
palms. Ruled IN turn by Vandals and
G0ths, the Balearc Islands eventually fell
into the hands Of the M0Ors, shortly after
Southern Spain became prey to the bordes
Of GebT-al- IaTek. CuriOusly, the people Of
the islands reached their highest prosperity
under their African rulers, VINO taught
them all the arts and cTuelties OF piracy,
until The Balearcans became masters Of
and spread terror over the entire Medlter-
rauean The isles were thus merged into
clear yet terrible commonwealth, whose
power was often cOuTted and employed by
Iei9hboring sovereigns. The accumulation
Oh treasure was enormous; so great as 10
invite cuPdHy OF invasion aud even to
holy" cTuSades; until Don Jayne !, King
OF Aragon aud Count Of Barcelona, IN Sep
TENDER, 1923, sailed for Palma with a feet
ol 100 gaileys and $4,000 men, principally
lalaiuulau peasant warriors. Palma fell.
he males If the mixed race OF pirate
doors and Balearicans were butehered,
sold as slaves, or banished TO the
African coast The women became
TIE slaves and wives of the Cata-
luuian peasant warriors. The islands
ere partitioned off among the followers Of
DIn Jayne ], founding titled and-hOldng
aHstocTacy, existing 10 this day, as proud.
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upon this great lan5-locked sea, although it
is longer than the Atlantic is broad between
Newfoundland and Ireland, 1 have never
known orfel- on other waters,
The night and sleep and langu9r0US airs
enfield and hold until the dawn las come.
TIE great steamer, with her now silent en-
-Lerv, softly tagging AZ her anchor chain,
las lr.f.ed with the tide until her stately
ur.w mods gracefully to tie quaint city upon
the port side There are sweetest ZsDayrs
u'arrE through the riEgings Of the curious
Graf upon the bay. These kiss your face
U.-I yCur eyes open laZily, as one who
.Eeus In regret at the dispall1g II a
p easing dream. And yet they omen as
though you are but knowing natler dream
They awaEed upon morning ~ Palma
E ming SO really q dream, SO dreami1l q
realty. that no painters art has ever caus1
DE.e recognition Of lis glory.
Here. just as tie sun Is rising, between
z sea, bed Of crimson and the awakening
CITY. are sWay.ug GA the gentle tide hun
.-e1s Of strange and curious craft, Wild
HrU-.gmerate Of the marine architecture OK
Mediterranean, their yellow spaUs but
. moment nee Ike giant reeds above the
sl Cg Of q sFad0wy marsh, now plnEe1
-.n tip % socket with the glorious sun
-.-, which hints In its play upon their
uly eEsiEus Of the far lands where their
-...e ravens les WINE lar out on lHe
a:sr's horizon, rounding Cape Figuera be-
.a8, comes the morning feet # fsheT-D0ats,
.e5r sails Of every striking hue, and the
.-- IF The fishers stealing across the dis
---es q faint but mRlodious rhythm.
here and there are Turkish vessels with
tremendous single sails, square built fore
..d aft ike q settler lgE cabin. Scores Of
tae clumsy feluCca5 from Crete and the
Lanian Islands, the chebecs Of the Arabs,
and the identical gTeat-boats Of the alden
pirates, lie low in the water round about,
their Ea.f-naked Greek or Arab sailors,
1.-The Of limb and nut-br0wn of face. wildly
recalling those glorious days Of BarCssa,
Ua-y aud blood. But QuaiuteT than all are
the rare old tubs from Chi0ggia and Venice,
WIKI the same high praws aud steTus they
lad In the days Of tile D0ges They come
v..h the glass Of NuraHo, and carry back
t.T corn, oil and wine OF the S0ller and
EaHeuCs7, and on the bow Of each craft is
painted an eAigy Of tie Virgin, and endless
sr latlou 10 the waves against every form
~ -yl and peril at sea.
And there, facing the shining sea and
CD rtul haT58r scene, rises from the
ere more gracefully ,han Naples, as fair
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REDFBRN STYLES.
4 Spring Novelty and an Eli2a5ethal Coat
Tailor Made.
Special to THE SUNDAY CALL

New York, Feb. l., 1892 Probably few
travellers would see in the uureserved, en-
eTgetic. want to see everything globe
tr0tter." who crosses TO London and Paris
some two or three times a year. the noted
English mOdiste, RelferG / ran up against
him in Paris last year, and if l hadn't
known better, might have thought he was
Il PEERS younger son, q wealthy soap
boiler, or novelist searching for material
He is in Paris now. and sends me fashion
hints Of reliable kind that you viii find
acceptable. lie says that capes are coming
in, and that they viii be short. He says
that English women are stiff and Ameri-
cans are gorgeous. but Parisians are angels
Of good taste, dreams of harmony, artistic,
dainty. dear delights. "Nhy," ne says,
cant English girls show little originality
IN dreSs-they are fine and fresh looking
and can stand il; and why can Americans,
Win their undeniable prettneSS, dress in
harmonious mixture II materials and tlntS-
they are clever enough: bat these monkey
faced Freuchw0men beat them b0th?"
he says that coats are no longer stiff,
straight and uuiOvely. They have reyers Of
lovely materials, starting from anywhere,
that look pretty and melting ct into the
WalSt-linr, TWO sides being seldom made
alike. BE says that belts are On everything
coats, Tedng0tes and gowns. He says
that you muSt-ypS, You really muSt-5lYe
up those great ugly 0agEy sleeves.
lie says that cUTse cts are 10 be 4 spring
fashion. aud that braided velvet basQueS Of
a material differing from the rest OF the
gown are T. be worn very numerOusly. He
says that the Partisan gowns are curious
mixtures Of simplicity aud pTetensiOn. lie
says there Is buJ one place 10 make money,
and that is New YORK; and one place to
spend 1t, and that IS Pans.
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7 5KBMAN'S
WANDERINGS.
lg D203nlY Over the Calm and
SUnlit Mediterranean.
IL ,ls Balearic Isles-The Sleepy Earbor and
City Of Palms-COlorful Ways
and Scenes,
special to THE SUNDAY GALL

TAINA, Maiorica, Jan. p, 1892. In these
days of strong and swift steamers plying
between England and all Mediterranean
po,,s, it is hut voyage Of TWO nights and
q day to Gibraltar and the city Of Palma,
the capita, Of the Spanish dependency and
province Of Bslearica, comprising the Bale
auc Islands. or, if you are winteriug in
Southwestern Spain, you may journey in a
night from Valencia or Barcelona 10 this
east visited and most beautiful Of all
Mediterranean regions.
Your steamer is seldom out Of sight Of
-me huge or tiny Mediterranean craft and
..e Is always consciousness of pleasant
rgass Of other human interests and a
g 90 and Testful sense Of C0mpanionship
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Here IS a gown which Redfern has in
troduced as a spring novelty. 1t Is a close
fitting cloth one, fitting like a skin over the
hips, and with the train let in at the back
several inches below the waist. A skirt
like this is one Of those very. very rare things
that fashion admits into its realm; Of course
as the pocket hole is banl5hpd from the
back. the opening has to be introduced in
another place, viz. the side. When the
necessary opening is introduced here it is
ornamented with braiding or embroidery.
The train is usually made Of some other
material. in tbs case velvet A belted
bodice is worn with this gown. the pima
fore style harmOnzing well with it.
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John Swim, Columbus Ohio miser.
aged 81, whose relatives are suing for a
guardian TO care for his 100000 estate. has
received a proposal of marriage from a
widow, who says she is only 81; that her
heart has been moved to pity by reading of
his troubles, and that she thinks size could
comfort, cheer and tighten the lonely hours"
of his remaining wears,
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Judge Botkins the magistrate whose life
has be II threatened In the Seward County
(kanS.) war OF factions, and who holds
court with his rifle within easy reach, is a
dead shot. One OF his ieatS is picking off a
ten-eent piece at hundred yards. lie is
man of very large frame.
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A Complete History Of Our
Government by Admins
trationS and Congresses
WASHINGTON TO HARRISON.
THIS DOUBLE MAP CONTAINS:

A Die gram showing all of the Political Par.
ties. l1x66
Diagram showing all the Presidents anl
Cabinsts 5x66.
Diagram showing the Political Complexion
OF each Congress. 2x66.
Disgram showing the Creeis Of the World
1Sx10.
& Dis gram showing the Standing Armies o.
each Nation. 13xl0.
A Diagram showing the Naval Tonnags o.
each Nation. 13xl0.
A Complete Man OF the World. 1920.
A Ccmplets Mau OF the United Stasss tRalL
MoNallv & Co.'S 1890 46x66.
Map of Central America 10xl3.
A Map of Alaska. 10xi3
A Map of South Africa. 10x13
A Map Of Upper Nabia and HabsIh ., Ab7j.
sinia. 10xlS
AMap of Persia, Afghanissaa and B,lu,AJp
tan. 10x1S
A Complste Map of the So ar Sys.sm-5as. egs:
made. lSxl0.
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A Quebec tonSorial artist adyertises him
self as a "physiognomi al hair-eutter, capil-
larry abridger and Uranium manipulation"