The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-09

ignored by these neuvo richie. In the
suburban gardens you see the rarest of
tropical vegetation-coffee, orange and
pepper trees, bananas, pine-apples and
pomegranates-all hourishing to perfec-
ton amid wilderness of flowers, wher-
ever irrigation i practicable. But
there is no grass in this part of Spain.
Instead, they cultivate a sort of ivy;
and very rich and strange it looks RI
citing over the ground.
One of the prettiest spots in Malaga
is the English cemetery just beyond
the city walls 1t is a small, but beau
tifully laid out and carefully kept GEM
etery-a perfect garden of shade and
fragrance in which one could contem
plate the last long sleep with less of
horror than in any Spanish burial
ground. The graves can scarcely be
seen for flowers, while avenues of fine
trees and greenest ivy are bordere6
with roses and geraniums, A good
many Englishmen and Americans live
lin Malaga, and naturally some of them
die here. In SPAIN them seem to think
more of you in death than in life, or a
least they are more loath to part with
you. If you die here your body mus
be buried within twenty -four hours,
and here it must remain for five years
before being transported to your home
One of the first graves made in the
English cemetery was that of Major
Thomas Newsome, of Minneapolis
former consul-general of the United
States, who died OF smallpox. In
whatever foreign country you find an
English embassy, or only an insignia
cant consulate, there is also place of
Episcopal worship, if nothing more
than a plainly furnished ROOM Great
and prosperous Britain carries her eve
ry-day, transformations religion wher-
ever her armies march or her flag Ii
planted, and that means all around the
globe. The English church of Malaga
is tiny Grecian chapel near the Gem
etery gates. empowered In Towering
vines. wider contrast can hardly be
imagined, the latter being merely a
vast, bare field enclosed within high
walls. The central space is filed with
pretentiGus monuments and bake-oven-
shaped tombs of rich citizens; and the
encircling walls, being eight feet thick,
are honey combed with rows of long,
narrow compartments like the loculi of
the ancient Roman catacombs Into
each nitche a corpse is slid, head first,
in coffin, or not, according to the
means of the mourners: and then the
stone Is fitted in place and sealed. The
wealthy and powerful occupy the low
err tiers, the poor the upper ones. thus
raVPrSjno no I,0II to,
life.
The long ride to Grenada, through
the famous "raisin belt" and orange
groves, which extend forty miles from
the mountains to the sea, is the expe-
rience of a lifetime. Protected from
winds by rugged peaks that enclose 1t
like semi circular wall, the sunny
valley is filled with the most luxuriant !
vegetation, while the steep hill-sides, !
bare at little distance, are |
covered with grape-vines. Interspersed |
among the orange-groves are many
smaller plantations of olives, lemons
and other fruits; palm trees are aca-
cias add beauty to the scene; gerani-
ums and heliotrope grow wild along
the Indigenous; rose vines and masses
Of brilliant flowers mantle every wall
and purple Judas blossoms leap from
tree to tree across the road, making
miles of shady arbor. Everywhere
white villas nestle among the trees
The most delicious odors fill the air.
and the laborers in the vineyards are
dressed in snowy white At every
hamlet you see picturesque groups Of
all beautiful or face, in spite
Of rags and dirt with olive skins, dark
eyes and a certain indescribable
haughtiness combined with gracious
courtesy, truly Spanish. The muleteers
wear gaudy blankets and leather leg
slngs; and the teamsters short velvet
Jackets covered with embroidery, and
vide calico drawers reaching not quite
% the knees.
The best raisins in the world come
rom the barren elevations where only
A few inches of soil conceal the rock.
The vines are planted upon terraces,
Quilt up Of stones, and are fortified
With loan brought from the valley be-
oW. The estates to which these vine
Yards belong are the most valuable |
he Kingdom and have been in the same
antilles for centuries. Vines are still
bearing abundantly that are known to
)e more than three hundred years old.
they are not trained upon stakes. or
rellises, but are allowed to follow their
'Wn sweet will; and the gnarled and
visited stalks, only two or three feet 4
high, and often eighteen inches in d.
'meter, would never be recognized else
where as grape-vines. The vintage be-
rms about the middle of September ;
IND lasts six weeks. 1t is a popular
estival and is celebrated with the H. ,
ense of the Roman Saturnalia. Its
penlng Is announced to the assembled (
with great formality, by the S
proprietor of vineyard, and is ac-
ompanied by quaint ceremonies hand t
q down from the middle ages. For the s
ime, all social distinctions are leve1led,
ne master, who feels his consequence 1
o stupendously elsewhere seating him ,
elf and his family at the same table |
NTH the servants and joining freely in 6
heir games;-until the end of the fiesta. !
mich closes with a proclamation SINH Y
ar to that with which it is inaugurated, i
nd then Richard is eminently his old I
roud self again. The grapes are gath f
red in fiat baskets, mostly by women, |
nd thrown into large vat When the |
at is nearly full, as many men and {
oys as can get into it. jump in and G
ance upon the grapes to lively strains c
music drawn from a number of gull |
ars and tamborines. 1t is base libel
} saw that thew are all harafootad Gov | +