Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-04-27

Duke de Nerhgua ~ raising these same |
bulls for the national game!
1t was evening, when "a coach carried
me up the steep shaded roadway, which
leads from the lower town Of Granada,
into the extensive grounds of the
Alhambra. Passing through the gate
way and within the walls, it halted,
| at last, before the Hotel Washington
Irving. Here, In the shadow of the
| palace, which the last Moorish King,
Boabdil, had left, even in the same
year that the mariners first set foot
on San Salvador, i laid down to sleep
in the peace and quiet of deserted
splendor. Little wonder that the poor
Boabdil, looking back from the rise
of ground beyond Granada, sighed as
he bade farewell to his lost possess
sions! The mountain streams are
tricbling down below the palace walk;
the fountains are playing in the gar
dens and marble courts; roses are
blooming, and the pathways are border
ed with the trimly-kept box; while
far above, you may see the snow-cap.
Fed range of the Sierra Neyadas. Gypsics
come from the hillside caves, where
the prickly pear grows wild, bringing
their castanets to beguile you with
music and dancing into parting with
your pesetas; but he who values his
purse will leave it behind when he
wanders into their gloomy dwelling
places. Even today the focks of goats
are driven from door to door and
MIXED to order, while you wait.
Ambassadors, most splendid of them
, all, where Isabella had received Col
umbus, seated on her throne, beneath
the delicate carving and oriental
: coloring, wrought in the marble by
a race that has given Spain all that is
most beautiful in their architecture.
No ornamentation of bird or beast,
, or any living thing was permitted in
, the lace-like designs; but the good
, Queen might have read in the repeat
edly interviewer Arabic inscriptions,
+ such notices as these:-"There is no
f conqueror but Allah" "There are no
gifts among you; but those of God"
: in its walls, some story of chivalry or
' love, of which Irving so charmingly
9 wrote, as he lived in a room looking
1 down on the little court of Lindaraja,
| where oranges We're ripening on the
5 trees. But, climbing at sunset, the
| most ancient one, called the Vermil-
D lion, l saw the old bell which, at
+ nine, every evening, rang out for open
/ ing the irrigating bitches in the valley
A below us, having served the same
purpose for centuries In the Royal
: chapel of the cathedral, looming up
) above the modern Granada, Ferdi-
I nand and Isabella both lie, and beside
5 them, their weak-minded daughter,
), Joanna; her husband, and one little
Q child.
, At strife with her companion in life,
0 Joanna is represented in the ceno-
0 taphs above the crypt, with face averted
, from his handsome profile. Yet she
G was the mother of the great Charles
i v!
o One more look into the sacristy, to
( see the embroidered robe, made by
!, Isabella's own fair hands, and what
purports to be the original historic
t jewel-box of the Queen; ride out
: to the laurel-tree beyond the city.
t whose spreading branches offered her
!, protection during the conflict between
G Mohammedan and Christian, and we
e must leave the romantic Andalusian
n country.
s Less than a decade ago, the State
), department was sending its represen-
@ tative, Mr.. Curtis, to Huelva, to wit
= ness the Spanish, Columbian celebra-
S ton, and seek out those spots connect
n ed with Columbus life, which will
. | aI,rora hind orr countrv'S history IN