The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-12-27
r1oNA, THE PHILADELPHIA OF
SPAIN.

mil aci"'
aoeo"'
81 al 300. The whole Mediter-
p .oa,t. 50 far as we have vet
n.y. f. one continuous garden, in
''' .autrast to Spain's bleak and
...t.ror. A succession of charm
~l .na,, Sheltered on one hand by
as -.u. and washed by the historic
lF ...s IN the other, are cultivated
iD utmost and may well be deS-
~liptural phrase as "a land
l.,r5,d barley and vines and fig
... UNCERTAINTIES; a land of oil
.. nd honey-a land whose
i.uu and out of whose hills
.1e,i die BRASS Barcelona, on
sdge of small but wonder
t+t plain, is the very garden
Its situation is one of the
III kurope-between the
..#5 great rivers, the Lou
... ..ce0S, with green foot hills
r.|. the blue Mediterranean in
l suoW-capped Pyrenees in
district round about is
nth villas amid most lux
ttion: while the smoke
...- uuufactOrieS. the constant
... n. Of machinery and the
W-y seaport, gives 1t the
.... of IN American OF English
. tan of additionally lazy
I.. older country, dominated
so~ac race, it would be an
as Sheffield, Pittsburg or
int in this semi-tropical
preserves intact the TO
Wty that distinguished it
-. vt tie Ages, when Barcelona was
.D nr of the Mediterranean
.....d gith Venice the enriching
..-.-.s.. lie East. Local tradition
a u0rt was tlOurishing four
..r .-lls before the foundation of
,.- ,a blstory does not deny the
.4run Al any rate, it was rebuilt
..,t -ut guturies and a quarter be-
..40.a~t hv Hannibals father, after
.r.1t Nas called Barcino: and it
4rame second only to Tarrago-
rD talther south on the Span
..3> uder the Goths, who took
.YUt tn wear 400, it rose to great
and coined money, which
..-.- e-eud carcinoma. When the
.- .-- oyed the neighboring cities,
.>l. wisely capitulated, and under
..-a ters became a still greater
-. one of the graneries of the
ulg the Eight and Ninth
.,- VAS ruled by an independ-
.,.J- +au Chief, whose twelfth deS-
pped the hereditary title of
rcelona and assumed that
lragon. Then for many
telaus We're at peace the
Neen Moors and Spaniards
+l on at the other end of
Ia. Their commercial code,
to I279 was respected
Tie maritime world. and is
...It. Barcelona's golden day
thirteenth and fourteenth
.Htu it was eminently city
. and learning, renowned
lions of the earth for its
uuat OF art and cultivation
very year its court devot-
70 celebrating tournaments
contests, presided over by
-t. tUe gave science before
presence of thousands OF
tfoubadours and ministries,
- t.-Hd France and Italy ex-
talents for improvisation
ted for the golden laurel
r.ar rewarded the victor. The
-.-s nj those times has left indie
., behind, not only in church
udiugs, but in the character of
b people mike the Castilians, the
n-,-r itelans have never held trade
relation, and we find here
Nr apB die decorations than farther
VI. -fae merchants mark having
N- ru considered more honorable
H ANS rial charge. Literary ambi-
artime enterprise seem to
lugether, or been swallow
manufacturing interests-a
'e affairs which the jealous Cate
III f, butte to their union with the
Hsu manarchy, against which they
Ntpe'Jally conspiring and cherish
Ha hostility. The working
.@-- have always been turbulent
ti-er the restoration, the Condo
ssl4Ha rlled Barcelona with a rod
.7n INIT it arose in favor of Don
'.o> -, and has ever since taken
''ao .u every rebellion against es-
t.r."a authority. Nevertheless,
spite Of Spain's disasters, it re-
N0Sperous hive of manufacture
a-slly commerce, ship-building,
tlds Of iron-work.
reJN once surrounded on all sides
a>N1- line of ramparts, and still
'a0 a7't by the citadel on Montjuich
j. '' 'lrcted by Philip V. mot for
.A.- leaInst a foreign foe, but to