| Show rr u M MALL 1 F ALL ROADS OADS LEAD T TO TOLEDO l La Th s Imperial City Cuy W h I ti a The IThe Crown of Spain and the Light of tit the I I World World of 01 y In the theLand theLand Land of 01 of IN n I FI I area tlc noe t u it lea leau A Merida this u B urn to 0 I of His Ii little to n 1 it of 10 I It f comfort You Youl I and In nt 1 y se l I n two to the t II rl river r mOlt moat of wa 18 the I Ii r th the Tague both n I ray ny changes ot of care t Iut r Jutt drab i I the much snort r t rute or of th tb f u though half halff f It retraced ell c r t steps over oer the r un I plains a i f traversed The Th ThI I fh ant family with whop we w force torr e t a for the tour lOlli of oft t rr NI cin n prefers J the Ih roundabout ro ratite t tt t e r via Ia 1 and Cac Caceres all as ast t 01 t un tin I J territory The Th I was 1181 that W we who I I I 10 arril lit it least a day In ad aden en CT of f the IhrA secure I i fir tor allm all m the bAda lid ld to 10 be the belt beet hotel hott In I h have 10 waiting wailing for tor our be belated II ft I When we finally reached reach 1 ultima thuie some twenty hours J lair bedraggled and warn om from Irom sit 11 tang bolt upright two tO Ion long nights the day were 11 met mett wt t the station by the party fresh and trim after afLer a nights rat In inthe the hotel holI thy they having arrived on the previous afternoon However this eX experience doe not establish a rule Mile to togo I If go by for lor the longest longe t way around 1 s sr r by no means always the surest In InMost land of manana J Most Io t of th the h railways were built by French at al enormous lOll cost and pal 11 who have suffered from Irom them still ag agree that thy they ar are About the Worst constructed and ml mismanaged rail railways was on the face Illee ot of the earth They a appear to be run solely for lb the amuse t merit ment ot of the tarrying long to In places fur for no discoverable t r on and paying not the slightest I i heed beed to making connections And the thea la a mot most aggravating thing to 10 Ih the foreigner Is II that n nobody cares carlS the lest least little bIt I f for r his troubles Native passengers never having known knon any better service take the unnecessary delays quite quit as a matter of course and utterly tall to why any traveler should f raise mile a rumpus over so 0 trilling sit all d nt U ad mla missing the through train thereby having to sit It up another night In the Ibe common C because the train waited alted a couple ot of hours at a aI crossroads Junction for Tome som powerful I hidalgos wife to let get her children r toady for tor a ride to the next town I But Dut even en the creeping pace or of ten mn an average speed of j hens It If on one may w misuse a J better than the old way ay of transit In such dreary regions as the plains ot of Castile I and La IA In pleasanter pans partI f the country the traveler blesses the I lowness which enables him to enjoy the thet t longer Th The rate rale ot of progress usually by la law on account of f the danger Incurred by the spread rag ngo r t f mils malls eX exposed to the full heat or of h ho sun eun on sandy plains but though M he IB rl discourages speed ho has nothing to say In regard to keep ng up with schedule time and with Fifty cats ago there were only oAly twenty kilo metes ot of railway In the whole country t 4 ow about nine thousand kilometre r f are In o and half as many more The belt beet stations lire are poor and the ot of very vert to whIch servants nod ot of every clue class have f err is II notorious Moat tt trains have I ne I betler and somewhat cleaner coach oJ pare lra Senoras ort ed for tor ladies Another singular fea fearo uro ro Is a small square had to 10 some ome trains containing wo I tiny compartments set ael side by side k d Para Parn Senors and San lara sen tae u All the railway from Irom huar is to 10 brakeman brakman ride ten halt half the available I apace ce ceI I a the carriage and always the belt beet ats aIs whatever may become ot of the poor t I who Me have paid extortionate barges packed like sardines In a box And Anil then the Internal trouble with would cause an Archangel to assay his hla temper Indeed the least curry bout about ot of either commo commodity llY or a journey Spain the better for tor your lAach le II permitted to take In with him Into the coach one III satchel III or bundle and the rest ot of hie baggage Is II relegated tt to the van I e lays Jay lit at the Itle In getting ready ady to pass UI satisfying customs etal and paying extra charge for tor over oer w are most vexatious and cause cault you to miss man many a traIn and A as no I are given and robberies of lug lur I g Ire are frequent you OU will fluid It well PI I it Ie put no valuables H Into Inlo your trunk The lla soft answer that sway wrath U If particularly ne needed here often by a lOOt of a nver POlO peso and always by the ex exy y ot of the LaUD Latin To lose patience with the Span Ib ollie of it Is also to bee your row cause inevitably Ud aced I hap hoppers tu to maintain an unruffled demeanor std aDd to outdo is 1 himself In his own coin of always that alien Is II can call be pined gained by br speech m PUIa whatever Ills class Considers Un caballero y A gentleman ot of old and aad hon ItOn honorable and lie looks loolu o upon all rs ae less I wellborn When hi his self af esteem Hm la is stroked the right way y Ilk like the fur on a back his hili na natural tural taral blooms u a tropical flower and nd hi he will put himself to 10 an any trouble to accommodate the judicious stranger whole wont have hae set Nt him up upon on what he ha believes to be his hll proper pedestal An attempts to bully builT and Ad browbeat him ar are worse worM than w want of U time The Spaniard loss not lust laut on I his own could be driven with an Iron rod In the hand of an American and In these uncertain times civil words a are the latter beet bett protection In the land which ItU wronged by superior prow prowess III th these intensely sensitive people bate hata oft on both side is I the of peace ce and good will and when the hats are not lifted lI or oth e tile the Spaniard Ue u up like th the porcupine against ot There I no part of It index Indeed of the world with which to com compare compare pare R province so 10 named from being the e Ora or ex extreme tame conquest of Alonzo IX There Then are steppes In Russia deserts In Ma Ara bla and 1 sandy wastes In Africa which parts ot of but nowhere else elM has nature combined such widely dissimilar features In so 10 small a compass Watered by two noble nobl streams ot of Tagus and the Guadiana lana both loth of oC which any other people would have tendered navigable for hundred ot of region became A flourish flourishIng InK Ing granary ranal under unar the noman and a garden under the Moors To thIs day das the g speak of It all as Chin del tho the land of corn But with lIh th the passing ot of Ih the wise wll and gentle Arabians ArabiAn went back to the original desert bid fair to remain so 10 though a Ili l 1 activity lies been aroused I nt years n by pushing two Iwo and up the mines o or Almaden and Caceres Including Its several town and dUe the whole province or of miles lung long b by Iq 00 I less than Ihn Inhabitant and In a long journey you ou wilt will hardly meet a human creature Evry thing displays the exuberant vigor Ilor ot of the tb sun lun yet the production ot of wed wad and grain fens rattier the caprice of na nat nature t ture lire than the Ille work of mill man Lonely pay pan lures and leagues upon leagues ot of burn tog desert are an a absolute reserve for tor forthe tb the sportsman Dangerous beasts beal abound as welt well as a alt All manner ot of iron trou Insects while the swampy banks bUk of tb the art are literally swarmed with wild by tile the way should bould be hunted bunted In winter If ever because In summer Bummer the region relon Is infected with and ICU ague antS and moe quite art are unbearable des num numerous erous birds of prey enormous flights of oC turtledoves come over from arbary to breed and they coo all over the country In pairs Ir models of l fetidLy These are the me do or of ort t the e Weal or their direct which brought ambrosia a to Jupiter Ie ac according cording to cla classical history and retired to Africa to visit the temple or of Venue How can any man with II a park or of poetry In hi his soul ul one or of th thee pigeons slut put thy they d and Americana They came coms ever here her on pur purpose O t and spend apud months fn the eo sport en enduring during all or of hardships for Cor the Uti mere pleasure of slaughtering the inns Inno Innocent cent It I Is hard bard to understand how bow such luch rich territory hoe hat been allowed tu to re n lapse lapee Into It Its primeval condition The causes art are many including bR bad gov government both civil and religious dle warfare and to hereditary and hopeless the added cures ot of tM the meta mu or migratory system ot of Mer Inc Ino steep which are re the true hocks flock of the nomad The meta muta be pa In this way W the Spaniards of Ih the thirteenth century cx expelled the Industrious Moon toor from lb they rued the cities and ravaged the country massacred most mOlt ot of the trots lants sad aDd drove droe the rest rat away to die In slavery Tite 1 e conquerors called this but It made a barren solitude of the onus once happy ArabIan FeUx Nature U Is extremely ot of weed we and cacti hero and soon lOOn I atad every tra trace t of furrow from vast ut tracts which had previously been under unar highest t cultivation OnlY a very try small portion ot of k was ever er b by bythe the lazy lAIty And the flew population n and Inefficient a as It wa wan perished to a man IlIan h by bythe the great plague ot of 1510 1118 after whole districts were oUre left Itt unclaimed These were nil termed whence the Spanish law term d de valde At length th unclaimed pastures attracted the attention of VY I a I 1 IN F Highland shepherds from Leon n tides Cu Cutile tile who drove their flocks down to them u as to milder winter quarters reo re returning I turning to their cool hills on the ape ap preach of scorching summer by byder der degrees a prescriptive right ot of agist merit ment was claimed over the com oom commons mons and the we were set Ht part apart and accordingly Both cli climate mate and country suggested the system which is II reallY of remotest antiquity and not unlike that of the In Inthe Inthe the Abruzzi of Roman Raman NaturAlly Naturally Ally no end nd of disputes arose between the wandering shepherds and fixed cul cui until in 1676 a compromise Will was effected whore where b by the Ole privileges Of a afew few Cew of at the wealthiest sheep prevailed under the peculiar lIar lion known as Con de la 10 mesta meela which was wa s about sixty yours ao ago The privileges of th the feudal union of nobl nobles and rich landed proprietors proprietor whore orIgin I lost In antiquity abominably unjust and oppressive An All pursuits were made Impossible ethic sible by the regulation which required highways and l farms to remain un unfenced fenc fenced near the paths of the sheep Even those whose lands land lay layat layat at considerable distance from the usual track were not secure but were In Inconstant constant danger ot of having their crops cropo swept away In a moment If there resistance or remonstrance It was as barbarously ns as treason and the was wall that the farmer became ne and In tut tur preyed upon the whose laws had bad driven him from home The term Merino Is derived from Marino quill quasi ultramarine because the original breed of oC was II Import imported eel ed from England Under 11 while others othra derive tb the name from the famous flocks of The sheep beep caned the round ground thy they went nt over load and were divided Into Inlo detachments ot of abOut each Ich Their Theil highland summer quarters WI were quitted late In October for tor winter one on on the warm plains each detachment managed by a mayor mayoral al or conductor who had under him fifty shepherds and II as many dogs doge Some of the traveled more than tiO loo leagues occupying forty days In with th journey every night penned In with rope rop nettings netting ot of Esparta rU Dy By the laws of the 1 meets la 1 a fr free b 00 paces wide VIde WAS loft on side sid ot of the which entirely prevented en enclosure closure or anything Ilk like Good husband husbandry 1 ry To this day the nomadic habits ot of the shepherds who conduct the Merinos on the their r periodical con the most moet striking of Iberia peasant lit life and are a responsible for the desolation of The sheep are driven with crooks as In Bible tuner and shepherds be h rd still watch their flocks b by night as when the Starin Star StarIn In the Announced the birth of Christ When a stream Is reached It II b crossed by means mans of pontoon kept In appointed places placeR for tor the pur purpose pose The courte of the flocks I is marked lIy by complete a agreen agreen green shrub brub nor sprig of grass being left Ift behind Their approach is II heralded herald ed from afar far by clouds of 01 duet duat and aDd the shrill note nole ot of the horns horn Second only to the brown sheep hep ot of are the brown swine IM a pardon of the covered with COre forests tl of 01 oak ORk and nd cork trees be beIng belog log Ing a porcine paradise whose whON sausages laUNa hams and pigskin ar are famed through throughout out Europe Euroll To this thle day about boul the only road la in Art are those mal made malby by sheep heep and aM swine yet nt the strange province has produced two very Iry great end and Cortez who were both swineherd antI and sallied forth to conquer a new leW from the vII vil inge ot of Trujillo the other from Medel edel ho The imperial citY of nt Toledo whose holt bout is II that she has hae been free since th the time tam ot of th the cloths II hies upon a hill hili hilltop top and le II most mott when seen n from Mar afar So steep I s tile the street lead Id lull lag UP from the that the traveler should not trust his bit pres lone loul bones to any wheeled wheel eel vehicle for bon hones art are not easily mended In Spain but walk alk to his hotel In the hta heart ot of the titS city crossing the old Roman nom bridle bridge and avoiding deceptive short cuts cUll FAN FANNIE n D B WARD aaa a a F r In favor ot of the proposed Un line and H says that b by new machines which send Mod messages at the rate ot of 0 1000 words an hour an all letters letter from people In Alaska can be transmitted from the far north to at C cents centa II a word where their th could be rewritten and mailed to their various arlous liana In the States While there I Ier ii very er little Interest shown In this phase of the many members ot of the Senate Senale believe that an overland con connection with the line In Alaska will be better than a military line In the north northern ern part ot of the Territory which has no M outlet to the United States RIVAL mv AL There has been an Interesting eon con loot loat In the house between two to rival committees on appropriations head hea headed td ed by Joe Cannon Connon and the other on naval affairs which I usually head headed ed by Representative of Mn Maine ne but bUl owing to his hll enforced lb Ince Bence on account ot of l le led by various members member of that committee The contest arose when the tho naval ap bill was up In the house Representative Cannon and other memo mems hers bits ot of the appropriations committee committe fought several items In the naval bill wIth treat erNt When Mr Cannon had hod his hili sundry civil bill up for tor con consideration the members ot of the naval committee made a general onslaught all alon along the line but they were not altogether Mr Cannon le Is Isan lean an old and very ery efficient member of the man can handle nn an appropriation bill |
