The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-18

and suspended from the branch of z
 tree, and he must break the vase with z
 stone from his ssilng before he can dine
 As he grows older and more expert z
 cord Is substituted for the vase as 2
 mark. His food Is tied up in clott
 and hung high as Hamen, and his din.
 ner hous depends upon how soon he car
 sever the string with a stone. AS
 among the Indians of the Bolivian An des, who are continually warning with
 stones, all the murders committed in these islands are done by means of the
 sling. It is cheap ammunition, and a
 man who is whacken on the temple
 with a stone, shied with unerring aim
 by some hidden enemy, cannot flight back" but drops without an outcry.
 Every Balearc shepherd and herdsman
 carries his sling in his girdle, both for
 offense and defence. He can sling a
 pebble so softly as merely to flick the
 ear of a straying lamb, or hurl rock
 with such force as to brain robber or proving animal.
 l The principal islands of the archipel- ago are Majorca (tha largest, as its name indicates); Minorca; the smallest;
 Iveza and Formentera; and beeides there are Cabrera, or "goat island, Co.,
 nejra, or rabbit island" and several others Their combined area is about
 two thousand square miles, and their present population nearly three hun dred thousand. Their authentic. history comes back several centuries before Christ Owing to their central position between Europe and Africa, they were for ages a favorite bone of contention, successively granted by Phoenicians, Carthagepians, Greeks, Romans, Van dals, Arabs; and from the last they were taken by Don Jamie I. in the year 1929. Then followed short period of independence, during which the island- CTS distinguished themselves as the worst of Mediterranean pirates. Final- ly Don Jamie's' undeveoped kingdom was merged into that of Aragon, under Pedro W; and 1t has ever since re- mained a province of Spain.
 Approached from the west they pre- sent series of precipitous cliffs, haunt ed by screaming birds and indented by numerous bays; while on the east dark forests of pine and hemlock slope grad ually from the central mountains to the sea. Majorca Is almost square in form, perhaps sixty miles long and of equal width. The beautiful bay of Pal ma, on the southwest, is one of dozen | equally good around the small circuit of the island, but Is of the most in1- portance because it's port Is also capi- | tai of the province and the residence of | it's captain general. At a little distance out, Nyou descern no break in the wall of cliffs-till suddenly tall promontory Is rounded and narrow opening ap- pears, through which you sail into a wide and sheltered expanse of water On either side are medieval forts and Moorish-lool1ing signal-towers; and presently the city of Palma, on its ter 'aced hillside, looms into view, fianked oy suburbs of summer villas which are during portion of every year ,y rich merchants from Barcelona. You are shown the very spot where Don Jamie landed with his army just even hundred and two years ago this month of April; and where the great jattle was fought which gave Majorca 0 the Christians. It is related that af- CT the fight, the wearied king wiped lis bloody sword upon his doublet and