The Republican journal., 1900-02-08
tan al hut, liking of Fishes of the Moors,

Cardinal, when cooked with tomato sauc,
and golden sherry the Nero, sbou
which the Spaniards have verse:
/ En- la TERRA, ell carnero,
| En- la mar, el Mero''-
which means that it ranks among fish a.
sheep among animals. As to local popu
larity, honors are about equally divided
between the sdlmonetes, or delectabl.
red mullet, which appears at every mea
on aristocratic tables, and the coarser anC
cheaper "Pinarojo," or dog fish, beloved
of the lower classes, who eat everything
but toads.
The Puerto de Mar, (Sea. gate) leads
down to the mole; and the Puerto de Tier
ra, Q4and- gate) opens midway above the
neck of the isthmus, which is hardly two
hundred yards across. Just below is the
station of the railway that runs to Cor
| dova, Seville and other interior cities
| Close by the station is one of the lovlies
spots in Southern Spain-a tiny bit of
tree shaded, tiowery land, which a former
planted for an English cemetery. The
finest sea wall view may be obtained neal
| the Puerto de la Caleta, toward the
| southern end of the promOntory. In the
distance the fort and lighthouse of Sar
Sebastian towers nearly two hundred feet
its flashing lights visible far out on the
| A. oh 1a1u ue
that leads to it saved Cadiz from the sea
during the great earthquake which over.
threw Lisbon in 11155.
! North of it rises the grim but benefcent
Casa de Misericordia, the best conducted
refuge for the poor in all poverty stricken
Spain. 1t is always filled to it's utmost
In its famous interior court yard a great
ball was given by the grandees of Cadiz to
Duke O. Reilly, fresh from his victory of
Salamanca, by which the siege Of Cadiz
/ had been raised and Andalusa saved.
| Following the rampant little farther
toward the west, you come to the great
ed convent of San Francisco, known as
| Los Capuchians. Not only did Lord Essex
make it his headquarters after the lootiEg
of CadiZ, but over its altar still hangs the
last work of the master, Murillo-"The
marriage of Saint Catherine" The paint
ing was almost completed when the artist
| foil from ba rn,tf,ldipu lin tba WOO,
| 1922, and died soon afterwards from in
| juries received. His pupil, Meneses
Osorio, finished the smaller subjects; but
did not venture to touch what the master
had done in the first lay of eolors. There
are several other wonderful Murillo pict-
ures in this moldy old convent-a "Con-
ception' 4 San Francisco de A ssis, and a
; san Lorenzo, whose preservation, strange
70 say is due to a foreign Jew, named Pierrs
isaac. who seems to have killed severa
birds with one golden stone. Probably love
engaged in the wine trade and to concil
late the then all powerful Inquisition, an6
To save his precious ducats as we'll be gave
half OF his yearly profits, an enormou.
sum, to this convent.
! AS to the sights of the town, they are
neither numerous nor interesting. In the
exact centre OF Cadiz rises the Torr,
( Nigla de Tavira to the height of 133 feet
/ Going to the top, you see below smoke
| less, white washed city, its miradores anC
azoteas all filled with Idle, gossping peo
pie; its lookout towers and fiat roofs
from whence the merchants formerly sig
nailed the arrival of their galleons Rota OF
the northern promontory; Puerto SAINT;
Maria; Puerto Real; the village of Carracs
across the channel; the Ronda mountains
rising finely behind the hamlets of Chic.
lana and Medina Sidonia; and all the res
is boundless sea.
CadiZ possesses two cathedrals, stan,iins
close together, La Nieja, (the old) and L;
Nueva, (the new. The former was en-
tirely destroyed during Lord Essex's sieg,
and rebuilt in 1897. The original struct
ure was 13 century work, erected during
the siege of Alfonso X, Pope Urban "
having removed the see of Sadonia to thi
place in the year 1868. The only thins
worth seeing in the reconstructed edifice
is the silver Custodia 25 feet high anl
valued at so, 900. The new cathedra
was more than a hundred years in build
ing and cost enormous sums; and the pit,
is that such caricature on the builders
art was ever finished at all. More inter
esting than either is the unprentious littl,
church of San Felipe Neri, in the stree
of San Jose. 1t contains a Conception b,
Murillo and several other fine old paint
ings. During the war of independence
the Cortes of Cadiz sat here, up to Sep
tember of 1913. There is a tolerablt
museum, a botanical garden, two or thre.
public libraries and an astronomical CD
servatory. There is also an exceilen
School of Music, supported by private
subscription; and the "Institito'' is sale
to bave the most complete scientific ant
physical laboratory in Spain.
FANNIE B. WARD.
Breathing Time.
When trees are bare and fields are white