The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-24

| days of national poverty, when Httlt but copper coin is dropped into them' To begin with, the cathedral is ap' l preached by a high flight of steps, anc
 the broad platform on which it stands l' ] surrounded by hundred columns, iron
 the mosque which formerly occupied
 the site. On the same spot has stooo
 the successive temples of Astarte, Sa-
 lambo and Mohammed the latter nav
 ing been pulled down to make way tol
 the cathedral, all but the Glralda tower
 at the northern end. There are nlhe
 entrances, two fine Gothic doorWays at i~the east end and on the north side the
 famous Puerte del Perdon, which has
 some exquisite details over it's horse
 shoe arch, and a pair of magnificent
 bronze doors. Entering for the first time, it is we'll to choose the Puerto del
 Egarto, Gate of the Crocodile" so- called from the enormous stuffed croco-
 dile that hangs above it, which was sent
 by the Sultan as present when he re-
 quested the daughter of Alonzo de Su-
 bro for his wife. The king kept the ill- omened gift, but declined the young
 lady, who doubtless thought that her
 suitor's first love-token was not indica-
 tive of the tender regard she deserved.
 Just inside the main entrance is the
 tomb of Fernando Columbus, son of the
 great navigator and last of his illustri-
 ous race A simple marble slab covers
 his dust, with sculptured caravals upon l it representing the primitive ships inn
 winch the new world was discovered. Below the caravels is the unique decree l of a globe. belted with the famous in- | scription:
 l "A Castillo Leon
 MaEdo nuevo die Colon"
 At the opposite end of the church is I the royal chapel, place of unheard-of | magnificence, where beneath the altar | Saint Ferdinand rests in a sarcophagus of solid silver, wrapped in his robes of state and carrying in hls skeleton hand , the golden insignia of royalty. The kingly rascal was canonized in 1927, because he carried fagotswith his own hands for the burning of heretics" Every year on the anniversary of the capture of Seville, an imposing mass is
 celebrated and the troops of the garri- son file through this chapel presenting
 arms as they pass to the bones of the sainted slider, which arc uncovered for
 the occasion. Here also sleeps Queen
 Beatrix his son, Alonzo de Sobio; and
 Maria de Padilla, the morganatic wife of Pedro the Cruel. The war horse of
 the conqueror of Seville, fully capari-
 soned, stands above the grating of the
 entrance and within are preserved the
 banners used by both armies during the siege, the keys of the Moorish city, the nf cite which was given him by St. Louis, of France. It Is said that until he died
 the image never left his person, and was then made the presiding divinity of
 the chapel containing his tomb. It Is called "Nuestra Sonora de los Reyes Our Lady of the King. It is an inartis- tic thing of wood, with hair of spun gold, rubies set in the eyes, and clothed in mantle of cloth-of-gold, embroid- cred with fleur-de-lis and more than one Kings ransom in the way or dia- monds and precious stones.
 More interesting than these are the splendid paintings, sculpture and carv- ings with which the whole vast struc- ture is crowded. Amid this maze of art and beauty three pictures stand forth beyond all others. They are Murillos Angel de la Guarda," in which a glo- rious seraph with spreading wings leads a little child my the hand; Murllo's San Antonio" representing the saint | kneeing in a cell, all the poor details | faithfully portrayed. and beyond the long arcade of a cloister, while above | the child Jesus appears, drawn by the | power of prayer and descending through wreaths of angels. The third is in the great sacristy; it is the solemn and awful Proposition from the Cross by Pedro de Campana before which, at his own desire, Murllo was buried During his lifetime the great master Murilo, whose heart had no room for jealousy, used to remain for hours be- fore this picture Once the sacristan asked him why he stood gazing there. Said he: 1T am waiting till those holy men have finished their york;
 Day after day. when wearied of ex- ploring the cathedral, we go out under the big crocodile. into the Court of Or anges," where the moss-grown foun- tain, in which the Moors performed their sacred ablutions, still sparkles in the sunshine Directly overhead tow CTS the Giralda-far above houses and { palaces and the huge cathedral, it's col or delicate pink, incrusted all over with Moorish ornamentation. Whatev ar you may tire of in Spain, it will new ar be this beautiful minaret. With it's history everybody is familiar-how it vas built in the last half of the twelfth { century, by the Sultan Abu uYakub, for l Meuddin tower. It rests upon a tri- 1 angular base, composed of all the stat les of pagan deties and other idola- ( rous fragments of antiquity that could t )e collected. The tower is fifty feet quare, and the original height was two ] hundred cubits. Tn 1868 an addition of i ichest fiagree work was made by Fer E lando Ruiz, and now it is five hundred t nd fifty feet from the pavement to the | lead of the statue on top. For eighty even feet the walls are of polished locks of stone; above this the material s 5 brick, relieved by tracery and ara a esques of the most capricious design, h iffering on each side, yet so artfully v that one can hardly detect the V ariations. The interior is lighted by l ouble windows, divided by columns of t labaster. The name "Giralda"-from irar, to turn--is given from the figure b f Faith on top, which serves as a ii