The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-03-08
Sightseeing in Seville.

rho House OF Kings and the Golden Tow
-, On the Fashionable Promenade with
lee. r,lne de la Creme of AndaIusia. Some
t,ri.rle.- Manuscript.
-u-rial correspondence of The Journal.
~rNEILE, STAIN, Jan. 81, 1900. This
.anuiest capital of Andalusia prides it.
...f nightly on many things, and on moth
..g more than being 1.-The most Spanish
.3y III spain that is, least changed by
t.oal m progress. In place where Father
1-..se seems to have been standing abso-
--i, sill since lie days of the Caliphs-
g iele everybody lives and moves accord
..r, o his own sweet will and nobody pays
. highest heed to his neighbor' S affairs,
U Jeasant happening grows into habit.
Titus We find ourselves arising before the
.e and mounting the Giralda tower
a by day, as regularly as the muezzin of
merely to see the sun spring out of
behind the dark Moreno range and
smiling over the valley OF the Gud-
wiz
nced not climb three hundred and
fret nt minaret, nor even go half way
enjey a glorious prospect. AT your
the fiat-roofed, white walled city;
cathedral the domes of a hun
lunches, all covered with red and
tiles; the splendid towers of the
and score of Moorish mosque
. mnarets; suburban will S amid
...s,S of veIdure; the historic river,
... lHg around the outskirts and away
he sea, bearing the varied craft of
ueIce; the beautiful valley of the
4iquivir-here green and gold with
lc orchards, there shimmerng with
lAage of olive groves; green valleys
ijttle villages nesting in the foot
liz trees and palm trees; hedges of
a.-S and rose vines wreathing garden
ptIs the deep blue of the sky, the quaint
-,pmes of the people astir in the fields
.. HE streets, the Ginning of bells, the
por of hawks and pigeons in the bel
yerhead-all combine to delight the
.r,rs and fill the memory with fadeless
,lo1s Of beauty. The old Moslem min
-G.r ieoks down sullenly upon this Infdel
--ador, and from the balcony under the
Won seem to hear the wrath of the
in still calling to the Faithful
ere is no God but Allah, and Mahom-
is His Prophet? Prayer is better
aa sleep. Come to prayer"'
Scending to earth again from A bu-
aslt lakub's tower, we emerge into the
It of Orange Trees and stand for a
aeut beside the battered marble foun-
where for three hundred years the
.la.y Moors have performed their morn
MS a1utions. Children play all day long
.a5 the cool arcades, stray goats and
.o1Aeys browse in the grove, and water
.uers fill their kegs at the once sacred
u,ain, then tIudge away with cheerful
. Il aoi A'uo' Qaien qujere a uo2
~ Hldy 'uena2' "Water. Water
wants water? Tepid and good -
H-- selling is a profitable business in
and besides their kegs and porous
many Of the aguadores carry kettles
i.ing water; Tor the Spaniartis have a
apgled notion that warm water is
beautiful than cold on summers
'nly two sides of the original Court
iuge- trees remain, and the quaint
-h arch and bronze doors which led
zth century mosque Of Jacub- Al
l. !
adlal disiigured by some terra Gotta
-s made as late as 1919. The old
Fay leading from the street into the
bias been partially rebuilt, and in the
where the kadi used to dispense
-ee two images are enshrined-one of
'aYlor III his agony, with bloody face
rolling eyes, the other His Virgin
j her. The sanctity of these images is
rsred by numerous proofs of miracu-
ures, wrought by interposition of
saints in answer to prayer-discarded
'raes, pictures and wax representa-
Of sores, deformities and other hui
Hl ills-exhibited on shelves. The little
D'I IN front is always surrounded by
ceiling devotees and it's broad copper
'5 Is well covered with coin
NIB a worn stone stair case to a suite
1)oms in the upper story of the old
ne and you will find the most inter
ing if not the most valuable collection
1ooks and manuscripts in the world
E'aty thousand musty volumes bound in
1eiIm, bequeathed to the canons and
a,p6 worms of the cathedral by Column
-s son, Fernando. The great naviga-
9f' original manuscripts are preserved
class case. Some of them were writ
-u u the dungeons of the Inquisition ;
'1f maps and charts with marginal notes
90 hem are discolored with the salt
spray of the Western Ocean. There is
also hat queer old book of nonsense
he Travels of Marco Polo,'' which
abably suggested to Columbus the ex-
.stence of another hemisphere. At any
rate, he set great store by the book and
t"S 1t on all his voyages. 1t bears evil
''N'e of much study ami usage, nearly
't'4 page being enriched with notes in