Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-09
MALAGA.
whore the Worlds supply OF Raisins Comes From.

tribunals, by the circumstance. My ex-
perience IL that some kind Of Disagree
able wind Is generally blowing in Mala-
va, stirring up unsayory orders and
p0wdering one with fine impalpable,
doubtless diHease germ-laden dust The
oily IL far from clean ana has none
OF those sanitary arrangements one eX-
poets TO see In a popular sanitarigm.
The authorities rely solely on an oCCa-
sona treshet 20 remove nth and rub
blsh from the malOdorous streets, and
as "A real freghet does not occur some-
times IN whole year. II follows that
the dirt IN not removed, Cholera has
often made its headquarters here.
where the great unwashed' Is more
literally represented than I'm any other
spanish city Of equal wealth How
ever the new aoqueduct Is now eX-
pected to do away with cholera for all
time to come the local physicians hav-
Ing decided that the dread disease has
hitherto been conveyed In the drinking
water. But II has not yet occurred TO
anybody that II might be well to util-
lac some OF this abundant water sup
ply In cleaning the streets, and also
numerous class OF citizens.
Malaga Ia u very Moorish looking
city The older portion lying farthest
from the sea, Is a maze Of narrow
streets, each With gutter Of dirty,
stagnant water In the middle, and the
dark little shops, the oriental costumes
and African physlognomy Of the people
remind you strongly Of Cairo. It wears
more commercial aspect than any
other Spanish city, and even rs
grandees are becoming addicted to the
western vice OF Industry. The ancient
Phoeniclans love Of gold seems TO In
ger In the air; and even since Moslem
days, when the sultans held gorgeous
court here Malaga, proud of her beau
tiful situation and rich In her flourish
ing commerce was known as THE
Hand and Mouth OF Grenada"--lt has
been an important and opulent town.
Few traces Of extreme antiquity re-
main, except in the name, which is
known TO be Phoenlcian: but whether 1t
comes from Melech. king, or Meach,
salat fish, is still a puzzle to phlloliglsts
AT any rate. IL was the Roman MALAGA.
The ancient city having--like Cadiz-
deserted Tyre for raising Carthage. and
then deserted Carthage for raising
Rome, made terms with sclpio and be-
came a munlcIpium. II was so old
town that its beginnings were
LOST IN ANTIQUITY
when Tarlk. Of the Berbers, took It, in
the year no. Under the Moors, who
held sway here, as II happened exact
~ 777 years-Malaga became a very
paradise on earth, according TO
all historians. Ferdinand |.
recovered It from the inhde in the year
l4S7, after a dreadful siege. The king
broke every pledge and followed up his
trlumphs with autos de-fe and whole
sale conilscations but the names Of
the murdered Moors were avenged by
the French, some four centuries after
wards, who sacked the city, killed two
thirds Of the inhabitants, and exacted
twelve million dollars In gold from the
remainder A few years later they
again pounced upon the unresisting
city; and as a last indgnity after thcelr
military promenade was concluded they
assembled the citizens In the Alameda,
drew out the cartridges they had load
ed on the Bidassoa and threw them In
the faces OF the thoroughly cowed pa
triots." Since that day Malaga has
had several rouslng revolutions, and
the town that is not more or less
SCARED with bullets and balls.
Nowadays the place Is a good deal
more celebrated for It's grapes than its
guns, for its good red wine than for
patriot blood The castle Of Gibralfaro
--"Hill Of the Pharos'-on It's lofty
summit $50 feet above the town, is
easily reached by steep and crooked
pathways winding amid half-ruined
| fortiAcatiorq and dens Of filth and pow
| erty through the old Moorish quarter
| It was originally connected by parallel
walls with the Alcazaba. n fertilization
| OF great strength. built in 1879, which
| stands at some little distance and was
once the residence Of the kings Of Mala-
| ga-now shabby prison Even the
| GibralfarO, which looks so formidable
| from below. is found TO be in woefully
| delapidated condition, its score OF
| rusty cannon good for nothing but fir
| ing salutes, In the parade ground are
| two wells, fascinating because of their
| mystery. Both are twelve feet In dia-
meter and cut through the solid rock
| into the very heart of the mountain.
| one Of them Is always full, the other
always empty. and both are so deep
| that a stone thrown IN gives back no
sound. Gazing into their
MYSTERIOUS DEPTHS,
one recalls with a shudder certain Ara
| ban Nights tales, Of political prisoners
who are said 90 have been dropped into
| these bottomless graves. beyond reach
| Of Gabriels trumpet. Everywhere on
the "TIlll OF the pharos'-on gates and
walls and towers. you see engraved the
arms OF the city-the castles Alcazaba
| and Gibralfaro. and the two tutelar
martyrs. San Ciriaco and Santa Paula,
with the tanto m0nta Of Ferdinand for
a motto. The view from the ramparts
Is superb. Far as the eve can see
stretches the unruilled Mediterranean
with an occasional sail resting appar-
| emily motionless on its surface Of burn
| ished blue. The picturesque city at your
feet. from which only a drowsy hum
ascends to the height, IS situated on the
| threshold OF narrow valley so that
| it is completely enclosed within the