The Republican journal., 1900-03-22
vas viceroy of Italy, his friend. Pope Plus

V, presented him with MANY rare and
curious treasures of antiquity; aud these
subsequently all found their way to the
Cas- de Pilatas, which had become the
family fad. The thing which the Duke
most priced was an urn, containing the
ashes of Emperor Trajan, who was ma
tive of the Roman village, Italica. four
miles from Seville. The Duke intended to
renter the remains of the Emperor in bis
birth place. amid the wealth and int1u-
ence that ce-king could command. and
to make of it function so splendid as to
render his own name immortal. But while
he was absent, preparing for the great
event, an over Jealous servant was seized
with spasm of neatness, 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 recep-
taele and turned it up in the sun to air,
like a milk pam 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 Pill
atlas are some ancient Roman marbles. in
| Guiding an angular cross of Mdrnt0 4fyi-
ca1ao and two colonuetts of rosso byecrjoto
we'll worth looking at. Crossing the pie
turesque first court, You come to the
beautiful Moorish patio, adorned with
| white marble columns and most lovely
arches and windows. la the wall to the
| right are some exquisite tiles and fine
cotfered ceiling; and beyond it, seen
| through window, are two ancient col
umns of breccid parona@zd, ten feet high
| Opening out of this court is the famous
| chapel, in which stands one short column
of Porta Santa marble-probably the only
| specimen in Spain. 1t is model, in size
and shape, of the column in black and
white Egyptian marble, preserved in
chapel of San Prassede, Rome, as the ira
dltional 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 are washed,
the table upon which the thirty pieces of
silver were counted, the dice with which
His garments were ratified, the thorus from
which the crown was woven, the spikes
for his hands and feet, and even the ham
| 81, a.. 81, Al,
stairs the cock that crowed is seen stuffed,
in 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
Caiaphas. Perhaps the object of pro-
| foundest veneration in Seville is this
scourging pillar, which was presented to
the Duke of Alcala by Pope Plus V. At
the right of the chapel, a plain black
wooden cross indicates the starting point
for the pilgrimage of fourteen stations"
which ends at Cruz del Campo, the sup
| posed distance from the judgement 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 street), passing the church of San
Esteven, under the shadow of the great
stone aqueduct which supplies Seville with
water. Half an hours brisk walk brings
/ you to an open Gothic chamber, enclosing
a tall wooden crucifix. The view from
this emnence is charming; and so are
those obtained from the terraced roof of
Casa de Pilatas. There are many other
quaint and curious things in the building
enough to keep one busy long day
through. Among the many rare marbles
are some columns of cerde antjc0, brought
from the ruins of ltalica-the Roman city
near Seville. There are paintings galore,
naranja ceiling, and "a gorgeous stair
case of purple tiles. To my mind the
glory of the place is its splendid azueios,
like those of the Alcazar, and its garden
of enormous banana trees.
By the way, it was in this quarter of
Seville that Marshal Prmm was assassin
ated. Do you know the story? King
Amadeus seems to have been a free and
easy sort of fellow, who found the end
less ceremonies of the Spanish court ex-
tremely distasteful. In order to do away
with some of them, and at the same time
to popularize himself, he used to walk
about the streets and out into the country.
with few attendants, chatting Familiarity
along the way with people whom he
CHANGED to meet. On one occasion, when
attended only by Marshal Primm and an
other courtier, he stopped on a country
road to talk to a muleteer OF course
the man removed his hat in the presence
of the king; but the day was hot and the
road unshaded, and Amadeus kindly told
him to put it on, unaware of the fact.
which was plain enough to the mnleteer.
that according to long established Spanish
etiquette it made any man nobleman to
be permitted to wear his hat in the pres
ence of the king. Marshal Primm, aware
of Amadeus mistake, struck the hat from
the mans hand as he was about to put it
on his head, and set his foot upon it, at
the same time Offering the muledriver
sum of money. The money was proudly