The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-02-01
Chateaux en- Espagne.

.,,,,,> sailed to the Discovery of America.
SPECIAL Correspondence of The Journal
.,.,rll. SPAIN, Dec. %, 1899. We are
.-+ doing the Spanish tour" in the
.,..l,ohr and narrow way of the orthodox
..5d,. book. but according to the pleasant
..-.ies of our own sweet will as to routes
ami details on the principle that one
.,.. nat travel far to find familiar things,
.... .-n,,ret! the comfortable but common
Mare steamers of England and Germany,
srf took passage at Lisbon on little
i,r-usuese coaster, whose jabbering of
.a.r tongues, unguessable menu and
,-.u ooking crew-each swarthy viii
pHb "a knife stuck in his belt, q la
promised plenty of ''the
Hie."
.. sr sailed down the Tagus and out
'lGging the coast all the way down
.ua, in full view of the dark
taldeiao, but stopping nowhere
tu sharp corner of Cabo do Sac
l~ rounded; thence due east,
Province of Algarve, calling at
ports to take on wine, fish,
and other articles of Portuguese
nsp ,rade. From Lagos, near the
tIr l'uadiana river-which forms
u} line between Spain and Por-
mIrpw guage railway follows the
Getting the coast villages like
rosary. We religiously went
each port of call, although there
them to tempt the traveller All
same general features; sandy
wnjed with warehouses, lighters
HDs craft, one or two struggling
med with white washed, tile
>a>; greedy customs officials and
wasp wasted military at
l4ve in buff, blue and green;
bic looking padres, under shovel
Hapeaux, and half naked urchins
4derfuliy brilliant eyes; brawny
.a.men. in blue kirtles and huge
~ with bare feet and legs and
IS olden hoops in their ears; con
aeggaTs, lounging in the sun, who
lateous expression while whining
appeals ''por amor de lSdnctissinad
. but take rebuff as cheerfully as
...rI and call on the Saints to bless you
r. same AS everywhere else in Por-
t0H Ymnipresent lottery ticket ven
Is ae,uad IN the land no hamlet being
poverty stricken that it has not scores
'itlr- lalp and female, selling halves,
tIsl- even eighths of tickets, and find
ready purchasers. Indeed, the poorer
plc The more anxious they seem to
ior is not the time honored saying
Tomorrow the W heel goes round ~
r knows but some twirl of fortunes
ar viii place the grand prize in the
-. of the man who is hungry to-day?
8.e springs eternal in the human
therefore everybody invests,
he Padre under his shovel hat to
oetul beggar lolling in the sun.
Neauutully hosptable are the Portu~
Ueuple-particularly those who oc-
'Ar golden mean of station between
ld but impoverished nobility and
trate peasantry-that the stranger
lettering away an hour or two,
steamer discharges or takes on
.. 8 sure of being invited into some
HJmt to rest under the shade of
ridor and refresh himself with
llanght of wine or orangeade
he treated with all the courtesy
'Wi TO an expected guest; and when
o..arts, there will be cordial hand
and iervent commencing to the
If the Saints.
.H4 arlo' 5 too contented subjects may
'itIess and unprogressive, but there
cry much to be said in their favor.
laps theirs is the truest philosophy
ecking against the pricks of environ
li but accepting with tranquil happi-
whatever the gods bestow Rest is
-a and sky and earth and air-the
rest of centuries, with peace and
lest plenty. At their back doors are
Wntains and valleys, green the whole
r}r Trough, unfailing in rich yields of
II and grain; in front OF them the sea.
ming with food, free for the taking.
A0cely comprehending how greater
uth might be desirab Bile, they wonder
any human being should worry and
We; and as for him or her, who hurries
Acally wrong about so unreasonable
lson.
To be sure. an American farmer, with
modern methods, would easily accom-
sh in half a day more than gang of
'Ttuguese farm hands can do in a week:
WIT the former misses altogether the
aiming picturesqueness of pastoral life.
}nring the last thousand years Portugal
AS made not single improvement in any
mplement or utensil. Ground is still
ratched with plows of the first pattern
lade by mana sharpened root, Or the
rotch of tree; and it is dragged by
zen hitched tandem, in traces of braided
raw. A dozen men, women and children
9nslder themselves Indispensable to the
ling of each short -clinging to