The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-07-26

| bottles OF Compound Extract OF Swart- Weed
| cured me entirely. ] gladly recommend DR..
Plerce's medicines to all sufferers"
lars. 1t deprived Madrid of one of it's
| most picturesque features, the water
carriers, but atones for the loss by Civ
ing cool, clean streets, plenty of drink
ing water free of cost, and chance for
verdure in the erstwhile barren parks
and gardens.
OF the multitude of peddlers of everv
description that swarms Puerto del Sol,
its Sidewalks. and fountains. the most
noticeable because most noisy are the
news vendors Their rasping voices rend
the air in shrieks to be heard above all
other sounds-La Epoca FL impartial.
Ell Globo. La Correspon-den-c-i-a News
boys and newspapers as we understand
the term. do not exist in Spain. Blind men
and old women-the latter often carrying
a child on one arm and bundle of papers
on the other-haye completely usurped
the province of the shrewd and always
Jolly street Arab, who is unknown here
in that capacity. The sheets they sell
re Wretched specimens of typography,
arinted upon poor material. and meas
lring about Is hv 20 inches. There
are severe restrictions upon Journal
ism i'll Spain, for each issue is
required to be carefully sifted and
revised before publication, and must
always bear the official stamp Of the
Censor of the Press y few advertise
ments. an item or two Of court gossip.
Il serial story of sensational character
and no morals worth mentioning. and
occasionally a die-aNay poem by some
female subscriber, compose the con
tents. Yet With all these defects and
| draw backs. it is astonishing what num-
btr Of these insignificant journals are
sold. Each of the several parties and
| factions must have its organ: and as
| tisan he consideres himself III honor
| bound to support the editor who sets
| forth his own political creed. Probably
| La impartial has the largest sale i'll
| Madrid average of 10000 copies a
| day: but La Epoca--a conservative
journal of very old repute. established
| half century go-undoubtedly exer-
cises the greatest influence among the
upper classes. Neither Of them, how
ever, (or both combined, begins to com
pare in Importance, as moulders of pub
| lie opinion. with our own Republican
journal, or any other tirst-class news
paper of the United States. or even
with the best journals of Austria Rus
STA and Italy For fifty years, La
| Epoca, with its twelve OF fifteen thous-
and circulation. has been devoted to the
high conservative party. Its editor and
principal owner, the Marquis de Naldig
| lesias, can indite a longer Heading
EDITORIAL with more bombast and less
meat" in it. than any other Journalist
ever met La Epoca four pages are
mostly given over to alleged news from
Spanish sources, and its supply of tor
eign matter is hardly stickfull. You
NAV read of affairs i'll your own coun
try from an angle of vision altogether
new to you, and learn of Boston as Dor
dering on a bowling wilderness, Sal
Francisco as few hours run from New
York, and Chicago as inhabited by In
dams, bears and butfaloes.
After nightfall the Puerto del Sol as
sumes its gayest aspect The immense
plaza, brilliant with the electric lights
and the gas jets of innlmerabie shops
| has. with the decline OF the sun. draw
to itself as to a focus of political dis
cussion and amorous intrigue. all the
wit, beauty and gallantry OF the Capt.
! tai. "Fosforos." Carillos"' screams
his tray of decorated boxes containing
the tiny tapers which are III such extra
ordinary demand in a land where every
body smokes. ''Cuidado' take care
rings out the warning Of the muleteer
as he urges on his string Of mules, per
haps twenty, driven tandem, that-ne
respecters of persons-oblige even The
gold-laced captain-generalt to retreat OF
the double quick. The mule-string is
in turn driven hurridly aside to permit
the passage of the diligencia, with its 81,
caparisoned horses and load of perspir
ing travellers peering curiously through
a whirlwind of dust. In addition to the
common types of the city, the Puert,
del Sol rarely fails to exhibit represen
tatives of every province in the king
dom; Andalusian Majos: Marcians il
kilt and mania: Maragatos, in trunl
hose and doublets: Salamancan students
in sombre black; tonsured aldeanos o
the Balearic Isles; Aragonese, Valen