Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-24
NUMBER 1S.


laden with cork, and In some places
men trimming and baling the stuff.
All refuse is saved and marketed in
baskets or basket panniers. 1t is
astonishing to note the variety of bas-
ket work and the uses to which such
things are put. Tops of wagons. high
ones, are often made of this light ma
terial, framed over bamboo or cane OF
some sort; quite q saving In weight.
and probably in expense. over our
ways, it seems to me. The dwarf pal
metto. vivid green in patches over
the brown fields, is pretty. / fancy it
is of no use, and it may be a cumberer
of the ground. We rode some distance
that afternoon with two fine looking
army officers, who were courtly in
their manners and told US, as well as
they could, about the ..corcha" trees.
&c. The older one had bad scars
about the neck. I wondered If ne
gained them fighting Americans.
IL o'clock:-The sun has got down
to these windows, but it is still cool
here. At Ronda, which we reached
after dark, the night was cool enough
for cover. At 7:30 Tuesday morning
we stopped at a railroad hotel kept by
man who said he had kept hotel in
New York for years. One of the din
ner courses was chick peas-'.gur-
banos" think they call 1t here.
We walked about Ronda for two or
three hours Tuesday morning. saw q
bull ring; in room were the saddles,
flags. pixies, &C., used by the matadors,
and the chapel whore they pray before
entering the ring. A woman was
washing clothes on the shady side in
a large shallow earthen tub, set on
the ground. The hustle of the morn
ing in the queer old streets was very
entertaining. Donkeys with gay cro-
cheted head-gear and back straps,
were loaded with every variety of
pannier. Sidewalk and street were
used without Discrimination. On the
bridge. which spans the great gorge
or chasm in the rocks, were all sorts
of street merchandise. Two groups
of people were about great caldrons of
boiling fat over open, blazing fires.
These men cooked and sold doughnuts
with holes in them. They were strung,
piping hot, on kind of coarse grass.
Professor bought half dozen, which
we tasted and found very good. The
people were very much interested in
us, but not unfriendly. Some boys
followed US begging, who grew to be
nuisance.
The view of the vegas Cultivated
garden-like felds) below from the high
cliffs, of the mills on the stream and
the mountains all about, is extremely
fine. Our guide was little boy, who
served us we'll. In riding to Ron6a
we went through the gorge OF the
Guadiaro, which In places was grand.
The stream has worn great holes in
the rocks. In Seville, from Tuesday
evening till Thursday evening, we had
a fine time, though never knew 1t SO
hot in the sun. The rooms kept the
night cooiness; the courts we're lovely
with fountains and palms, marble stairs
and floors, and cane seat rockers in
abundance. The inside OF palaces we
visited were not very hot. often cool.
We went to the Alcazar before the heat
of the day. How beautiful and inter-
esting it all was. 1t seemed like bit
from the Arabian Nights. The gar
dens with their fountains, bananas,
dates, jasmins. heliotropes and other
Towering plants were lovely. It is
impossible for me to describe the
wealth of color in the decoration OF
these rooms of the old Moorish Kings,
and later of the Spanish soyereigns.
Our drive In Seville was delightful.
The park has such wealth Of palms
and other tropical plants, and the
Guadalquiver is such a 6ne river. The
tide rises six feet here; quite a contrast
to the Mediterranean rivers, where
the tide is scarcely perceptible. The
shipping on the river is interesting;
masts against the sunset sky are fine.
We saw many handsome men and
women driving, and OF course, as in
every city, fine horses. The people
here are not the same type as In the
south. So many here and there are
terribly hoarse. The nights are so
cool and the days SO hot. that colds
are contracted, suppose. The voices
of some of the street criers are hor-
rible. In Italy it was pleasure to
listen, the voices were usually so clear
and resonant. G. wants me TO de-
scribe the bull fight We didn't attend.
All they saw was In the first half hour
when they left at the death OF the first
bull. The elevator boy, who talks
French. which he learned 10 Algeria,
was there and said 1t was better after
fhav, Iafta rpatador i..mned over q