Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-10-22

one man driving eight or ten of them,
one after another. No wagons are used.
Sometimes a cart is seen where the
country is level enough. Corn is
shelled, by hand sacked, and sent to
market the same as wheat. We have
seen thousands upon thousands of
acres of olive orchards, oranges,
lemons, grapes and all kinds of fruit in
abundance. Cork trees, some of them
two and one-half and three feet in d.
ameter are very thick in places. The
bark is taken off every four or five
years and then it grows on again.
There are no fences in Spain and stock
is all herded. Thousands of goats are
seen. They furnish milk for the peo-
PIE. One woman will drive five or six
OF them through the streets, with cup,
night and morning, and stop and milk
wherever they can find a customer. No
collaboration this way Ronda is on a
mountain one thousand feet high,
seventy-five miles from Gibralter.
Numerous traces of Roman construc-
ton are visible in the walls, gates and
castle altered and adopted by the Moors.
he Old Roman acqueduct is we'll worth
seeing. Anteguera is an important
Roman city. 1t was recovered from the
Moors in 1410 by Ferdinando. We stop
here one day. The large cave outside
the city is said to be one of the best
prehistoric monuments in Spain. Gran
ada is our next stop. 1t is here where
To- >a1
side in vault under the chapel adioin-
ing the cathedral. We went down the
iron stairway and stood beside the
leaden collins that held the remains of
the royal dead. The Alhambra hill
with its beautiful walks and drives and
palaces costing millions of dollars, is
said to be the finest in the world.
Granada is The end of railroad and at
evening and early morning there can be
seen the seven coaches filled with pas
sengers, the rider on the head horse
sounding his bugle, driver cracking his
whip, and every horse upon run.
Shaking the bells upon each creates
quite stir for few minutes.
Here we saw the first sugar beet fac
tories, eleven in number. Seville is our
next stop. 1t has 100000 inhabitants.
We take cab and ride six miles out to
the old city, 1talica. 1t was the birth
place of three Roman emperors and was
founded b. G. 2l0. The ampitheater,
just outside the old walls, seating, upon
its stone seats, 10000 people, is where
the christians and slaves fought for
their freedom with the wild beasts that
were let loose upon them. The stone
seats are in a good state of preserva-
ton. We sat down upon them and
thought of the bloody battles these men
had for their freedom-which very few
of them gained only by death. Return
ing to Seville, which city Julius Caesar
captured, Aug. 8, B. c. As and made it
his capital and gave it the name Of
Little Rome" we find the old Moorish
acqueduct that brought water into the
city from several miles in the country,
in good state Of preservation. There
is tobacco factory here 662 feet by
524 feet and employs 5000 women and
girls. They made into cigars and snuff
10000 pounds of tobacco day.
According to the best authorities
from 1881 to 1903 there was burnt at
tho stake, by the inquisition, 81 ,613 per-
sons and 2SS, 100 were imprisoned. The
goods and chattels of every one of them
being first duly confscated