Show M Mi r MALTA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES P i Gozo Cozo Camino Comino and i Special Correspondence La Villela Malta Aug 10 Can any anything thing more delightful be te Imagined than thana a summer cruise on tho Mediterranean l with a congenial party In a n private yacht Think ot of being altogether un unhampered hampered by jy considerations of ot time business or expense no trains to t make no malls to meet no Impatient pass n nger gers ger to put ashore In and out among Islands coves vove and bays only by the fancies of Qt tho the hour hourI Just such lIuch was our enviable ex ox experience experience during durIn one onO blessed week W el thanks to the tha American consul who kindly made us UD acquainted with some oine of ot the th In Malta Malto whoso families tam Illes are tire killing the tha time of ot their In most roost luxurious It Is 18 Impossible to convoy In words ord orda a correct Impression of ot these charming shining brightness of ot the sky sk the bluer rca fen running far tor Into tho ho brown and yellow land tho the tall cliffs cliffe crowned with torts forts and watchtowers watchtower I the dark foliage Collace of ot trees trece con contrasting I trusting oddly with masses I of ot the loCI air heavy with I spicy odors odore birds of at brilliant plumage i and everywhere the tho for fol to I which Malta has hac been famous since earliest times limes Dont you remember account of ot fragrant fra vant I cushions clI all stuffed with Maltose Maltese roses I Time TIle libra illora of ot three these Islands Is le similar liar that of at Africa though you ou gulch It by smell emell rather than by sight eight In these regions region the great enemy nemy to tot t es In Is the wind nothing fn success successfully fully tull resists It but the Ill kharouba which seldom lIel grow more than twelve feet high but of ot much greater diameter spreading out on all sides Idos like a n huge green preen dome the time twisted touching time the ground Many of ot these are aro centuries old and hell beam enormous crops crote of ot beans bene leans which te d the cattle T P 1 protect the tho crops crop and fruit trace from fr in blighting winds Mal Maltese Maltese Maltese tese AND are laid out In small patches each ench patch surrounded by lIy a 11 wall from train seven soven to ten en feet teet high so that viewed from A n little distance tho the Islands look like a succession llon of ot stone atone quarries ul mu most moet devoid of ot verdure lint Hut wonder vonder wonderful ful tul bloom and fruitage me arc hidden be bo behind hind walls Bo Io too you OU might travel from ojie end of ot Malta Matta to the tho theother theother other and never see sou an orange tree yet nt grow hero In such pro profusion fusion that thai lint the finest varieties sell for 25 and 30 cents a bushel and are arc used as commonly as ns Michigan farmers use apples There are plenty of ot other fruits not only tropical figs lInies s but peaches ponches peals peats plums apricots and other denizens of or orthe the temperate zone lono The Time trees are aro kept low by b constant trimming so that they thoy may mn be safely sheltered behind the tho walls Coasting first around the tho main Island you OU find Ond the tho greater portion of at Its fill shores faced by sheer cliffs rising straight up out of at the tho water three or four foU hundred hund feet teet Casel Cosel Dingle the highest point has an elevation of oC about a n thousand fet feet and close under Its Hi shadow nestles the ancient capital now boW known as Citta Italian for tor Old City La Villetta the pres present ent eat capital of ot Malta Matta Is on Its north northeastern eastern edge where several e verai little bays Indent the lie land 86 SC S narrow narro Is the en entrance entrance trance to Its harbor that only one ves yes vessel vessel sel eel can pass In at a time between two prim grim forts torts whose protruding cannon t eem seem bidding defiance to intruders Forts and batteries are on every side above below crowning all the tho hills lulls anti covering every rock that shows Itself above the water vater and all nil are fairly swarming with British soldiers their coats coals making a n brave showing In the glare of ot tropical sunshine The Time city perched high on Its 1111 twin ridges slopes steeply down to the tho harbor sur surrounded surrounded surrounded rounded by lofty walls At the base bao of ot this wall on the shoreward side runs rune n a wide Ide stone tone walk at all times crowded with pedestrians and the small email donkeys of ot the Island dragging their two to wheeled carts Down below nil all Is Isn noise n lse bustle anti confusion but the city elly proper on Its It IS hilltop Is wrapped In dignified d repose Goro Gozo the second Island In size site has hasan nn an area of at hardly twenty square miles In tho the middle of ot Its rises n a cluster of ot hills whose sharp cones re remind remind r mind one of oC the pigmy plim volcanoes of ot San Ban Salvador In Central America On top of ot the steepest st cone lies the capital ll and d principal city of ot the Island Few Kew l ew countries In the tho world are mont densely populated than this group roup of rocks rooks in the middle of at the Mediterranean an which boasts over two thousand Inhabitants to the square mile Malta only seventeen miles long by nine nino miltS miles wide contains twentysix towns r and villages and Insignificant Gozo has hasten ten some of ot them lanN Iare and prosper prosperous otis ous OU others merely morely a II group of at stone stono cottage cottages around the Inevitable church and English n lIsh school One mar marvels vels wels that these rocks can support sup ort people particularly ns as thera there Is not no II a rivet river lake or TINY on any ammy ot of the Islands blands and nad In many Inan places the thin soil soli had to be eked out for tor gardening Burdening by earth brought from Sicily However copious rains supply plenty plent of ot moisture and ami carbonate of ot lime ll Is a ft 1 wonderful fertilizer The Maltese are excellent agriculturists and tho the best hest possible uso use of oC every Inch of ot ground even the hills being terraced to their summits In recent years ears Malta has become to London what Florida used usell to be to ta New Now York In time the UI Uric hue of oC a n for tor sup plying early fruits and vegetables To 10 day the Islands are as famous for tor po IJO as alt In ancient times for tor roses to toay say ay nothing of ot tomatoes straw berries and anti melons that sometimes weigh a hundred pounds apiece Aro mantle malic haney IH is II another specialty the bees that produce It feeding upon n a 1 kind of at red clover known as DS nulin sulla which has haa largely taken the place of ot cotton tho the time of ot Christ you OU know Malta was wn celebrated for tor Its tine fino cotton which tho time coiled colled vestis and wanted for tor their royal purple Strange to say Ill while the best mules In the tho world arc ure bred here and antl goats are raised for tar the milk they thc give there are lire no cows or other cattle to tat fat ten tell on the pulla ulla all the tho butchers meat being Imported from Several days may bo Ito pleasantly spent t In Gozo especially In springtime when the thc whole Island Is carpeted with wild flowers and nm every house overrun with creepers During tho the quail shooting season the PEACEFUL FurJ FIELDS are Infested with Englishmen who seem Seem never neer so happy as ns when engaged In There Is nn an Important Jesuit college at nt and several severn I I Franciscan I and Augustine convents I rind and monasteries scattered about the tho Island Communication is kept k lIt up lip reg between Malta nod and Gozo by steamers which ply pI two and fro tro twice every day clay Not Nat far from tram Gozo lies tho small 1 of ot Comino and off oft the tho latter the time still sUII smaller Island of at Cominotto Other rocky Islets stud the sea In all directions each cool sustaining a few tew fish fishermen ermen onnen aid amU affording pasturage for tor goats Routs Some of ot them are named such ns Os with MB its to venerable church Pietro Pictro Negro Black Hock Marfo and Fungus on whoso hos otherwise oth barren Cocks Is found the celebrated Fungus In high repute for tar supposed sU post lI medi medicinal cinal virtues It springs up from cro ices In the tho stone and und grows five or six Inches of ot a color In April and May IIa but turning black binok as summer advances Is worth visiting for tor Its stalagmite caverns believed to bo be the tho Identical grottos of oC Calypso who delayed Ulysses One of ot tho the most no t beautiful of at these caverns Ta runs rUM Inland n a long distance c and has haa yet et been only partially explored The main room now visited Is of ot proportions roof root floor noor and anti sides thickly covered with stalactites and stalagmites of ot yellowish or translucent white ot of great treat variety varlet gUa end and beauty All tho the Islands are arc rich In building material having ex cx quarries of ot marble and ala baster betides besides the limestone which takes on a beautiful luster About one fifth of ot the land Is owned by the lint Brit lib hh Kov tho the rest being about divided between the church and private Individuals No wonder Vont er that Londoners nock Hock to Malta to reave the tho winter climate of ot the tho mother country hero Here lI re rethe the thermometer ranges ranIS between fifty and seventy degrees FROST AND SNOW being belog of ot course COUlEe unknown and the hot test midsummer a n perfect paradise of ot coolness computed with New ew York and Washington But Hut there arc are drawbacks ven hero here Ones sense of ot heat depends more lOre upon the time way ot of tho the wind thin than the tho actual temperature The Tho worst thin thing one has to contend with Is time the sirocco or wind from the African deseri rt which take talle up the salt sail sea mists inlets on their wax and become al almost most t Happily they occur August and September and lei eel dora darn long down 01 1 n unexpectedly ns as they hey came corne The heavy rains of ot winter are sometimes varied by I disagreeable hailstones and north northeast east Iatt the bad habit of ot do steno itono anti and landing ships and making It Impossible to cross the harbor for days daYH together These aro arc the winds SPoken of oC In tho time Bible Acts mAcis 14 It as ns and arc ao locally known knolln as its Ie Of Ot course courso Malta Maltas Malt f ancient capital must IrU t be visited If It only for tOI its itA historical cal associations a It II Is seven senti miles mile In Inland land fran La reached In half haIC an hour by train or bettor better yet by byr r c Think ul itt It Seven even oen hundred years year before Christ was M born bern this was ft CI populous city ell 1 after time the first t ct of ot n a k colony In these M il I I ands What HP Its UI heat hest name wall no nobody nobody body Iod knows lmos called It In its It cotton colton manufacture N The after their conquest named It Medina Median Alphonso Alphon a tha time Meg Mag Magnanimous sometime KINO KING r INQ OF OP CASTILE dubbed It commonly known as lIB Cotta Old Ohl City It contains runny splendid churches stately pal palaces palaces aces crumbling fortifications and wide paved streets nil well oil nigh deserted Though still tho the sent seat of oC n II bishopric With a cathedral and college Its Ita population lotion lation tins hus dwindled to loss less than seven seln thousand You go up Ull a n steep steel and toll oh some come ascent to get Rei Into tho the willed town entering through the hO quaintest of ot gate gateways gateways ways says In which Is embedded a n statue of ot Juno bearing her of at a n peacock One of at the most beautiful old In the tho world Is the cathe cathedral dral of ot Hi St Paul which had imad Its Ita traditional beginning A D P 1 53 68 S during the lie three months visit here h re of ot the Apos Apostle pos postIe tIe lie whose whoso name pame It bears sear Near ear It II are thin the catacombs of at th Knights of ot Jeru Jelu Jerusalem salem Halem with passages anti and chambers larger than those at nt nome Home but without mural decorations Other notable buildings are the Magisterial palace now a n military sanitarium the tho old aM dun dungeons geons u of ot the tho and amid dozens of ot old time palaces From the gar gardens gardens dens of ot one ono of at them called San Sail Antonio a n supply of or or oranges oranges oranges anges was vas sent every overy year to Queen Victoria ns as long iong as ns she he lived The house has hll twice been the winter residence of ot the tho Duke end and Duchess of Edinburg and mind andIn andIn In Iii It their daughter tho the Princess Vic Vie Victoria Victoria toria tonia Melita was born years cars ago next November Another show place near nar n nr CIlia Citta Is the time grotto rotta In which St Paul Ii is paid raid to have lived some Dome time Indeed If It the Apos Apes Apostle Apostle tle the Inhabited all nil the caves ell vos to ta which legends of ot his residence hereabouts ore are attributed he ho must havo hayo spent most o ohla ohis oZ his hla LIFE In these Islands In the center ot of this cavern c v m stands a 0 ghostly statue of ot the tha Saint and ond the on one onG white marble foot toot which shows beneath the carven drap drapery cry ery has been worn shapeless by the lips of ot passing generations We have not described halt half the tho points of ot interest In and around Mal Malta Malta ta To visit nil all the forts would oc occupy occupy I cupy a n month to say jay nothing of ot churches monasteries palaces old and new no the fine botanical gardens hardens and the th fashionable suburb called PIcta Pie to The Tho Thela latter la Is time the Long Drench Dranch or Man Manhattan hattan Beach Deach of ot La Ln a 11 popular resort retort for tor tho the better class of ot residents during the summer and crowded with visitors throughout the winter It con von contains tame comfortable cottages and magnificent magnifiCent cent villas lIIas hotels cafes theaters and clubs galore n a regular service of ot steam ferryboats plying between It and VII v V I PRINCE CHUN duN AND COMPANY TO TOUR THE TUE WORLD fr T TI Ti TIC in I I i IC 4 CO COI COI COt COI COI 4 1 i km 4 I I tL t I I i 8 I I I i 1 I I t I IJ I II II II II J fr If i iI I I I I I 1 ii 0 j j J y A I 1 f t w ce c Iller CJ St JJ u 1 Ih hia Chinese Commission sent lent by the emperor tm to express 11 tI to Kahn Hatter lot for to the murder of ot Baron Von Van and hewed by b Prince Chun lh the brother wilt rill probably visit lIlt Day t lity Including the United States before lu its members return homo mam Official have han been lent ent and nd accepted by tho the Chinese delegation from the th of ot England Belgium m Italy taly Japan Ja an and the United States I letta every overy ten ton minutes The drive to Pleta Pieta by tho the seashore lIea hore road Is III most moot ost beautiful within full sight of ot tho the walls with heavy hely guns that stretch along the edge of mit t the mainland and d cover coer every onry rock that Pokes Its bald hald head above time the sea sen One would like Ikc to ta linger long lone In Malta and return to It again a aln and again but wo we must ru t hurry hurr along to whore where wo we were due a a week BRO ago a o FANNin rANNIE FANNIF U n WARD WAnD |