The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-08-02
Dr.. PIerce,s Eav0s,ffe
Prescription, makes weak
women strong and sick
women WE'LL

some of the supertiuous fat that the
F, fair Senorita is bound to take on at
middle age.
| Madrid is said to be the noisiest city
in the world, and certainly none that
have seen can begin to compare with it
| i'll the variety, shrillness and peculiarly
! penetrating power of its street cries;
all of which are at their worst when
the perpetrators arise refreshed from
their long midday siesta and HE to the
| Prado, where their readiest customers
are congregated. Everybody buys some
| thing, if only glass of water, OF some
| waxen ''vestas" for lighting his cigar
Sellers Of everything that can be car
ried on the backs of donkeys or the
backs of men. women and children.
wares with the full force of his lungs:
as indeed he must to be heard above
the high pitched voices of several thou
sand vivacious lberians, all chattering
together ''Agua, Aqua, Quien quiere
! aqua: ~ qua helada. treSvlllta como la
nleve" Water, Water, Who wants
water? Cold water, fresh as the snow
veil the aguadores. Scarcely less ear
! splitting are the shriel1s of the match
vendors. the sellers of honey and fruits.
candies, and goodness knows what not
| At the same time you are constantly
beset and importuned by lottery ticket
vendors; while beggals big and little.
| prey and have not the remotest idea OF
| taking a refusal, follow close upon Your
! trail When atoot. and emcamp round
about when you sit. until the nuisance
! is Well-nigh unbearable. Street must
clans add theirnot inconsideIabe quota
to the general din-Gallegos with bag
/ guitars. gypsies with tamborines and
castinets-but, thank Heaven, as vet
not a hand-organ among them. The
picture would not be complete without
the familiar darker shading of omni-
| present loaters whose name is legion,
each with slouch hat pulled down
over one ear, long black cloak thrown
over one shoulder, a cigar between the
teeth, closely resembling solomon s
lilies i'll just one respect. that he tolls
not, neither does he spin. though poor as
the poorest, having nothing to do but
smoke and lounge his life away. One
is more and more inclined to agree with
the traveller who said: "One-third of
the people of Madrid spend their lives
in carriages, one-third III cafes, and
one-t third in begging''-except that in
these poorer days following the war it
would be more correct to say that halt
the people are beggars and the other
half about equally divided between the
carriage riders and cafe-frequenters.
On Sundays and Saints days, more
than half of the Spanish calendar be
longs to the latter-the shops are closed
and all work is suspended, the people
thronging the churches early in the
morning, the bull-fght in the afternoon
the Prado in the early evening, and
the theatres and tertulias, BALLS, until
dawn. Activity there is no end of; but
industry, which is quite another thing,
appears to be at a discount everywhere
in Spain
Somebody has graphically described
the climate of Madrid as mine months
winter and three months hell p" This
unpleasant condition has been greatly
modified, however, within the last
quarter century, by the Introduction OF
water sufficient for irrigation and the
consequent growth of trees. Three
hundred years ago all this region was
dense. primeval forest, in which kings
hunted bears and bears. Subsequently
the trees were all cut down, leaving the
then waterless region barren as desert
and bleak as the steppes of Patagonia
The building of the great aqueduct
bringing an abundance of water fro n
the mountains, has wrought immense
improvements; but still shade is the
great thing lacking to soften the sudden
and trying changes of temperature
Even in summer the near by Guadar
rama range is topped with snow, and il
winter the cold is intense at this ex
posed elevation nearly 1900 feet above
the sea level. From an aesthetic point
of view these mountains are the great
est charm of the Spanish Capital
Walking in the furnace-like streets OF
Madrid at this time of year, glimpses
of snowy SUBMITS so near at hanG
make you fancy yourself at Interlake1