| Show i to A SUNDAY IN SEVILLE r p t Early Morning In Ono One at 01 the Greatest I 1 In Christendom To thi Top 01 O f Tower Built In thu tho Year I n I l Ul ui UlI I Special I Seville Jon n a clamor I t of bells beUs a ai broke In upon my slumbers In the twilight ot of the morning would lu lia ve e awakened old I le courtyard beneath my t t I window Will In I doubtless the sun lIun ww Vall lit at that moment rising behind the reen hIls ot of the tha Was the city on Cn Ire Had Hada a foreIgn toe oe arrived at the gates Did Didan Didan an earthquake threaten I h had d promo prom 4 bed n ft long Sunda Sundays rest to aliko up for tor Wearisome S tramp through the winding streets ot of otI Beville but amid a tumult sleep I r ws out ot of time tho question So t I hurriedly dressed aed and sallied forth to see what the matter matler No o It wan as not 1 a Chi ChiI esgo caro conflagration a as one might sup HUp supt HUpt I t po Os nor nn an Andean earthquake nor n a nn n Hawaiian volcanic eruption but just the tho reGUlar gentle way In which SelI hans usher In their holy day Vors of the racket apparently bursting from the directly oVerhead came from Iron throat of the I bells In the lofty Giralda ulsted hy by hythe bythe the of n a hundred churches and of Innumerable convents and i swung and hammered arid rattled and A poUnded together In one OnG tintinnabulation In the days of the Moor when this Giralda tower was topped with n a ireat grest round globe plated with gold the Hie call to prayer was us less leu leuMis Mis but probably more effective As is the tho rays raya ot of tho rising sun lun ilium bed Ined the golden colden ball from the gallery below It sounded the tho muez len cry so familiar throughout the world Great Is Allah There Is 11 no God but Allah and Mohammed is 13 lila prophet Come to prayer Prayer Je is better betler than sleep Come to prayer The cry was as caught up and reechoed from frem the tho towers ot of countless mosques throughout th the city The people up and SAW the ful Giralda In the tho pure LIGhT OF DAWN time the fI figure of theo the turbaned standing aloft clear and sharp harp against I the Iky BIcy and high above all the glided gilded domes shining like a now new sun In the heavens and men women and children hastened to thair devotions But It apP appears that Jehovah Is not so 50 exacting as Mohammed In spit of the tho modern clamor the tho faithful ot of to toI I dl day If aroused lit at all KO go to sleep again I md the Is comparatively unattended I found n a few black blackf f robed women hurrying along the streets each followed by Mr her fervant carrying the Indispensable and beggars sleepily bestirring them to pi ply their vocation around tho l sanctuary doors but not a man of the better class Was wag to bl be seen except hero I and there B a priestly form under cowl or shovel hut hat Evidently the gentlemen of B SeVille Ule like the It sterner and more sinful ei elsewhere expect to gain 1 clem ncy through the prayers of their female relatives Inside the great cn cathedral thedral the tho effect of dimly altars magnificent and endless of Clustered columns Is like the awe and gloom of n a mighty In a night Eyen at sunniest It ts Is pervaded by mysterious twilight not notwithstanding notwithstanding withstanding It Its enor enol enormous m us windows of stained glass wrought by the most fAmous I artists of the tho century Wo We klio that this Seville cathedral Is one of the largest In Christendom second only to toft ft leters In Rome that It its Inner par parallelogram part I Is feet long m feet wide t ead aad feet hIgh from the tho cathedral dome to the checkered ot of black lilack and white marble that It has hal reven aisles each large enough for tor a 3 church chuch Innumerable pillars supporting the arches of oft t TUE VAULTED n ROOF op thirty chapels each n a museum ot of art artand i and altars by an army ot of prIes but mere fall to tor r the Idea Idell ot of Its lis vastness and anel grandeur The colossal cal col tames alone so bug and high make makeI I one marvel Ii as do the pyramIds of I how human could place such uch stones In nn an upright posItion and In symmetrical rows rowa Everything lion I on II a gigantic scale from fromI I the contains moro more than n a ton of at wax aC set In n a bronze can high to the thu great organ Of 1400 pl pIpes s No wonder I the edifice was waR a hundred years In building and after five fio centuries Is not yet et pronounced complete The chapter t C which be began an It In HOI 1401 predicted that I future ages would call them mild mad for undertaking to fO vast a structure It Iti i was the special work Ork ot of four genera cenera tl ti ns and ten or twelve generations have already worshipped In It and to their reward Compared with such ot of time Ume how little ap appears I the life ot of one moan man or eVen of one onet t generation While the service was go goIng got t lag Ing on n I knelt In n a dim corner and antl tried to realize the and m my own 3 relative Insignificance Today the tho wan deter derer from the tho western world sits here full ot of health and hope to tomorrow tomorrow morrow she has gone ono her tray ay and nd In 1 a ar r little mUe time has disappeared from the tho face tace of the earth Phe has hns vanished In Into Into to the ocean ot of eternity and left not the smallest ripple the surface surfaceS Suddenly the great creat or organ began to tomake tomake S make the air tremble There are two to toof I of them In this cathedral both of 1 a sll size proportioned to the place and of tremendous volume At first It emitted only t FAINT U of It Its mighty voice swelling In until It flied filled the IoU lofty roof I With melody and the church militant i 1 lItem seemed d to Solo Join with the church trl tn e C um h Lamb of God who ho hot t keth away awny the sins Ina of the world grant grantt t tie Thy d f Later In the day I 1 returned to the cathedral with others of our party to tomake tomake make n a morl cAreful study of It You S might visit It n a tImes and andI I ramble for days dan through h Its aisles and chapels chapel continuallY finding n new w objects a of at wonder ronder and admiration Through e fO Iq years ears this sanctuary hlll has been I accumulating from 1 4 donations and the ale ot of c To many of the great t Iron cot cotI Gt I fare fers are attached each large nil as an anI I ordinary trunk Time was waR when whon the v a of the world were pouring In int tl t Feville that these chests cheats were too small to hold the heaps of doubloons with which adventurers sought A to purchase pardon for their I time Is II In days ot of national po pont pov e nt city little but copper coIn Is Isi C i dropped into them To begIn with the cathedral dral II up op by a hIghs of steps and the broad platform on which It stands i ii by IL hundred columns 1 I from th the whIch formerly ii S DIed th the site lite On the same spot have hae I I stood the successive temples of and latter having been pulled down don to make way ti fr fes the but the a tower at the northern end There ire are nine entrances two tine fine Gothic at the east end nd on 01 the north side the famous U Pardon which his ome k LIU U M IJ details over Its hors horseshoe shoe arch and a pair ot of bronze In En for the time iliac It la Is well to choose tM the Puerto del Gate ot of the so AO Called from the tha enormous stuffed crocodile that han hangs s above ii which was wal b by the sultan sultanas as aR n a present Nelen ho requested time the daughter of d de for his hla wife The king kept the gift but declined the young oun lad lady who doubtless that her suitors first was WILS not Indicative ot of the tender regard she sho desired Just In inside the main Is the tomb of Fernando Columbus son On of the Great navigator and tilt last of t his II race A marble slab covers hi his du dut with sculptured ClUB cara caravels vels els upon the primitive ships In nel new world was QI die covered lelow the caravels Is the unique decree of a belted with the tho famous Inscription A Castillo y a Leon lando nuevo die Colon At the op olle end ot of the church Is the royal chapel n a place ot of magnificence beneath the altar Saint Ferdinand rests In a sarcophagus of sliver silver wrapped In his hll robes of state and carrying tn in his skeleton eleton hand golden Kolden InsIgnia of The kinglY rascal was Val canonized In cause he carrle pith his own hands for the burning or of heretics very year on the of the capture ot of Seville an Imposing amass milia I im celebrated and o of the gar risen file through his chapel presenting arms ns as they times nu to the bones of the sainted soldier which are uncovered for forthe the lIere also sleeps Queen his son lion LabIa and Maria Malia de Padilla th tho wife of the Cruel The warhorse of oC the conqueror ot of Seville tull fully capar caparIsoned stands above the grating of the and within are preserved the banners iw DY DOTH BOTH tInning the siege Iere tIme the the tho Moor MoorIsh Ish city the sword ot o tile the Ferdinand ant anta II a small statuette whIch wu was given him b by St of Jr France It Is said that until he died the tho Image never left his person and was then thea made the pre presiding siding divinity of oC the chapel containing hi his tomb lomb Jt It Is called Nuestra Senora de los noye QUI our lady Indy of tIme the kings king It ItIs ItIs Is an thing of wood with hair of spun pun gold rubles set in the eyes eye and clothed In 1 a mantle mantlo of gold embroidered with and more thin then one kings king In the way of oC diamonds and pre precious lo s stones tonet More ore Interesting than these thele ore are the splendid paintings sculpture turc and lags with which the tho whole ast tune turo Is crowded Amid this maze of art artand and beauty three Pictures stand forth beyond all 1111 others T Tey ey are Angel do In Guards tn in whIch n a glo gb none ler seraph with II a little child bY bv the tho hand Imand San Antonio r pr the tho saint kneeling In n a cell nil all the tho poor details faithfully portrayed and beyond the thelong thelong long arcade of a 11 cloister While above the child Jesus appears dr drawn n b by the tho power ot of prayer and descending through h wreaths wraths ot of angels The Tho third Is In the great It Is II the sol sob solemn and awful from the Cross by Pedro ledro da ana before which at his own desIre Murillo was Val burled lifetime the tho trent great master whose whole heart had no room for jealousy Jealous Used tl to remain for hours before this picture Once the asked him wh why ho he stood gaze lag there Said JJ lie I 1 am waiting wailing till those holy men have hav tin finished Isbell their work workDay workDay Day after day doy when hen wearied ot of x the cathedral we e go out un en under enden den der the tho bIg crocodile the Court of Oranges where the fountain In the thi performed their sacred nb ablution still sparkles In Inthe Inthe the Directly overhead tow ore en the far above houses and palaces and the huge cathedral It Its color colora a delicate pink incrusted all over oer with Moorish ornAmentation What Whatever er you OU may tire or of In Spain It will never neer be this beautiful minaret With Its his history tOt tory everybody I is It was built bulit In the last halt half ot of the he twelfth con cen tory by th the Sultan for a It f rests t upon It a trl tn angulAr base bue composed of all the stat ue eec ot of PAGAN DEITIES and other of an antiquity that could be collected d The tower I Is fifty feet square and the original height was I two hundred cubits In an addition ot of richest work was made maile IW by Fernando and now It is II feet fett from tIme the pavement to the head hend of o tIme the statue on top For 87 81 feet the are ot of polished blocks block of stone above the material Is brick relieved by br tracery and ot of the most capricious design differing on each ellch aide y yet t so artfully combined that one can hardly th variations The InterIor I lx lighted by double win windOws windows I dOws divided by columns of I The name o 0 turnIs turnia given tile the ot of Faith Fait I Ion on top which serves as s a w weathervane Though the great grent bronze bronzI female Is four fourteen fourteen teen feet teet high and IOd weighs n nearby three thousand round pound she Ibe veers corl with tile the breeze and hence henc the standing Joke In all l anent the th stead steadfast fast flUt FAith turning with every WInd that blows blos Although II so high It is 15 ellS easy to ascend to tD the very top of theo the tower There are no steps but u serIes erle of mod inclined pane 1 up whIch one may It go on If so Inclined It ItIs Itis Is paid that man many times the wild caal ions lers of the Spanish h court have ridden to the summit back again with without without out abreast with lan Ian c cee poled poIsed Nothing be more enchanting than Ihan Ihanto to spend ft morning among amonn the birds at atthe atthe the top ot of time tile Giralda where from the brood broad embrasures Iou OU overlook the whole city the rott rot curves curu of f the r and the sunny plains melting Int into distance On great occasions the belfry Is ld when It looks like an immense chan I delter deller from the dark of heaven The hells were all I baptized before the ero hung anoint anointed ed with n I lI cU and christened ar af aften I Iter ten ter the Saints SaInt 1 e largest of the lot called Santa Maria w weighs hh eighteen tons lon Umit Jut she ht is treated In a very ery un undIgnified dIgnified ed manner being tit tied bottom III Mis e eup up and compelled to turn a I series rles ot of complete somersaults whenever rung FANNY D B WARD |
