The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-17

| way to the Casa de Pilatas, which had become the family fad. The thing which the duke most prized was an urn containing the ashes of Emperor Ira jan, who was a native of the Roman village, Italica, four miles from Seville. The duke intended to reinter the re- mains of the emperor in his birthplace, amid all the po1np that wealth and in- f1uence of a vice-king could command, and to make of 1t a function so splen- did as to render his own name immor- tai But while he was absent prepar- ing for the event, an oyer-zealous ser- want was seized with a spasm of neat
 ness, as servants sometimes are, and bethought himself that the dusty old urn needed cleaning. So he emptied the precious contents into the gutter,
 scrubbed out the stone receptacle and turned it up in the sun to air like q
 milk-pan. The rage of the duke may
 be imagined but it couldn't correct
 matters and the funeral ceremonies were indefinitely postponed.
 Near the main entrance to Casa de Pi-
 latas are some ancient Roman marbles
 including an angular cross of Marmo Affricano and two cClonnetts of rosso brecciato, well worth looking at. Cross ing the picturesque first court, you come to the beautiful Moorish patio, adorned with white marble columns and most lovely arches and windows. In the hall to the right are some exqui- site tiles and fine coffered ceiling; J Hox n
 are two ancient columns of breccia pa yonazza, ten feet high. Opening out of this court is the famous chapel, in which stands one short column of DOT ta Santa marble, probably the only specimen in Spain. It is a model in size and shape of the column in black and white Egyptian marble preserved in chapel of San Prassede, Rome, as the traditional pillar at which Christ was scourged. Nothing has been omitted from this chapel which pertains to that far-away tragedy. Besides the pillar of the scourging and the cruel whips, there is the basin in which the hands were washed. the table upon which the thirty pieces of silver were counted, the dice with which His garments were raf- fled, the thorns from which the crown was woven, the spikes for His hands and feet, and even the hammer that drove them. At the top of the stairs the cock that crowed is seen, stuffed, in a niche of the wall, with entire disre- gard of the fact that the famous bird did not live in Pilates house, but in that of Cajaphas. Perhaps the object of profoundest veneraton in Seville is this scourging pillar which was pre- scented to the Duke of Alcala by Pope Plus ". At the right of the chapel plain black wooden cross indicates the starting point for the pilgrimage of fourteen stations" which ends at Cruz del Campo, the supposed distance from the Judgment Hall to Calvary On one day of every year penitenties make this pilgrimage on their knees. The way leads through the rough and slightly ascending Gale Oriente (East streeD, passing the Church of San Est even, under the shadow of the great stone acqueduct which supplies Se- vile with water. Half an hours brisk walk brings you to an open Gothic chamber enclosing tall wooden cruel fix. The view from this eminence is charming; so are those obtained from the terraced roof of Casa de Pilatas. There are many other quaint and curi- ous things in the building, enough to keep one busy a long day through l Among the many rare marbles are some columns of verde antico, brought from the ruins of Italica-the Roman city near Seville. There are paintings ga- lore, a paranja ceiling and a gorgeous staircase of purple tiles. TO my mind the glory of the place is it's splendid azuelos, like those of the Alcazar, and l It's garden of enormous banana trees.
 By the way, 1t was in this quarter of Seville that Marshal Primm was assas- sinated. Do you know the story? King Amadeus seems to have been free and l easy sort of young fellow, who found the endless ceremonies of the Spanish l court extremely distasteful In order to 10 away with some of them, and at the | same time to popularze himself. he lsed to walk about the streets and out | into the country, with few attendants, | familiarly along the way with | people whom he chanced to meet On | one occasion. when attended only by | Marshall Primm and another courier. ne stopped on country road to talk to | l muleteer. Of course the man re- moved his hat in the presence of the | king; but the day was hot and the road | and Amadeus kindly told him Q put 1t on, unaware of the fact, which | was plain enough to the muleteer, that | etiquette, it made any man a nobleman 0 be permitted to wear his hat in pres- ance of the king. Marshal Prmm, aware of Amadeus mistake, struck the nat from the mans hand as he was about to put it on his head and set his loot upon it, at the same time offering he mule-driver q sum of money. The money was proudly refused the mule- ger went his way in great wrath, and l few days later Marshal Primm was Indications pointed to he offended mule-driver, the strongest ,eing that he rad suddenly disappeared
 FANNIE B. WARD.
 CANVASS BEGUN.