Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-07-27

! tremendous gorge where you look down
| from the bridge nearly 300 feet to the cat
aract below, an electric light station is
seen clinging to the wall of the chasm.
In the parlor of the hotel in this coun-
try village of benighted Spain, we found a
piano in good condition, and among the
papers on the table was the San Francisco
Argonau.
When we drove out from Seville three
olive brown boys not more than ten years
old pluckily kept up with our barouche
for quarter of a mile from the novels
known as 1talica to the well preserved
Roman amphitheater. We named them
Ira jan, Hadrian and Theodosus, for they
showed persistence enough to make them
also emperors like their three forerunners
who went out from here to rule the Ro-
man world. One lad tried for an hour to
sell us a verdigris- covered coin; a second
WED with him in Offering bunch of flow
ers; the third, most Roman of them all,
tiercely demanded money without any re-
turn.
Nothing remains of the powerful city
founded by Scipio Africanus save its
arena, where you still see the bath for the
gladiators, the tunnels giving access to
the seats, and The seats themselves, plen-
tiful enough for many thousand specta-
tors. A donkey grazed on the turf of the
upper tier, dog gamboled among the
mounds and herds of ugly black pigs
roamed about the walls where once sat
Ira jan, Hadan and Theodosius, destined
to rule more men and more lands than
Napoleon played with when at the height
of his power Doubtless they hooked
Jack to go to the show, sneaked in past
the gatekeeper, or crawled through the
fence. Very likely they sold flowers or
old coins to get spending money. But
they couldn't run any faster or laugbImore
mtschievously or look more picturesque
than the boys of Italica to-day.
WINE THAT IS WINE.
If you know that 90 " in Spanish is pro-
nounced like "h" in English you will I'M
derstand how "Jerez wineo got Anglicized
into "sherry wine'. Though Bologna
sausage may be made in Cincinnati and
most Panama hats never saw Panama, all
true sherry comes from Jerez, for no.
where else is found the peculiar soil to
give genuine sherry flavor. As the Jerez
district can produce but small fraction
of the liquid sold under the name of
sherry, there is but one inference-that
most of it is fraudulent. The fact is that
it is next to impossible in this country to
buy real sherry unless it bears the seal of
Iprpz b0ugp Rut Donch of no l..
Gle of commerce that does not confess it
is of American origin contains more or
less of the real thing mixed with other
wine to give it the sherry taste.
The wine makers at Jerez are glad of
the chance to convince Americans of these
facts, and so it is with pleasure that they
take visitors through the bodegas, the
wine cellars, which are not cellars at all,
but large warehouses above the ground.
Our courteous guide, speaking English
I admirably, asked If we had breakfast,
in which case we could sample the wines
with impunitY. He was right, for in
Vulnerable sips produced no effect but
rare delight to the palate. We tasted it at
all stages, from one year to hundred
years old. 1t is best when about thirty years
aloil,; after that it begins to get syrupy
by evaporation. The flavor of the vint-
ages varies from year to year, through the
iu-crutable effect of the different seasons,
and it is partly by the mixtures of vint-
ages that different brands are produced,
We saw dozen huge hogsheads named
after the twelve apostles. In the centre
was one still more enormous, made to
honor the visit of a Spanish queen and
named Jesus Christ. They saw no ir-
reverence in that. Many boy is named
"Jesus', and "Jesus streets are frequent.
LANDING AT CADIz.
The papers aver it would be hard for an
American fleet to lombard Cadiz, as it is
surrounded by dangerous shoals and
hedges. How that may be, don't know,
but Judging from my own experience,
there is plenty of danger in landing. The
steamer dropped us into small sailboat
in the harbor. Few steamers approach
the shore at any Mediterranean port; the
lack of wharves in deep water surprises
the Amercan,) At the pier was a horde
of waiting natives. Scramblng into the
boat, they raided thee luggage. Fortu-
nately expected the attack, and, wrench
ing the grip out of the greedy hands of a
Spanish cavalier, | threw it at an open
space on the pier, jumped after it, and
then sat down upon it-hard.
My companion was not SO lucky. Be
fore he could even swear, his dress suit
case had stated north, his wrap-up had
started south, and his wife was chasing
toward the east a swarthy rutfian who
had captured an umbrella or two. 1t was
ten minutes before we had recovered all
our property and bargained with the
swindlers we selected to carry it to the
railway station. We had not planned to
tarry there, and the hasty drive We took
about the place leaves Cadiz a vague and
shadowy memory. Recollection pictures
it to me most wildly as line of cleaning
white on the horizon as we approached it
from the waters of Trafalgar bay, that
bay where Nelson won a glory never to
die-a bay where the waves sing to every
Anglo-Saxon song of valor, hymn of
triumph dirge of bravery.
STRAY ODDITIES.
Tickets for the theatres at Seville had
three COupOns. for three consecutive per-