Show I I JAUNTS A BALEARIC ISLANDS I CurIous Things In a 1 Remarkable Tho Cus j toms o 01 DonG Dono in Platoons I 5 u U M n ru l l l U U u u u u u U U U Special Correspondence Islands April 18 IS None of oC our party tan can tell why we have token taken a greater fancy to one of at the smallest and poorest of at the group than to any nn of the richer and more populous Islands but the fact remains that we unanimously turned turnell to this dirty dirt little speck In the Mediterranean as our chosen headquarters while Ing the rest resl of oC tho archipelago Wo find Ond that all the few travelers who como come to these forgotten Islands seem scorn possessed of the panic fancy Cancy Probably It Il Is because eye for tor the picturesque Is so completely satisfied hero with varied and beautiful scenery and because the uncivilized Island Islan making no attempt to 10 Imitate modern progress offers alters such stith wide contrast to accustomed things and the thief delight In wandering over Oer the world you OU know lies In feeing what does not exist at home Is only about miles long by 1 thir thirteen teen wide and Is covered with p mountains enclosing tiny tin valle latter Inconceivably fertile bc u c e nf the torrents rushing ever where d n the tho hillsides It contains hilt but one town Its lIs port and capital which Is III named but generally known hereabouts her as ns La Ia The fhe It Its walls walla and quaint fortifications cling to a 0 steep hanging a n deep Me commodious bay bayThe TIe The ancient who Jon pus pos possessed It called the place FI In course of centuries under other master It became and in In most mOlt maps mallS Is today tolla written hta Ha Its population U l probably about seven thousand white while that of ot the till Island and which Is II really ono one continuous straggling village being divided Into many parishes each with Its It church and cluster of houses does not exceed thirty thousand It Is I tran e that j u u u u u u u u u ll should be so rarely visited as liS to have hae passed almost out of Tm m OP OF MAN IAN lying as It does only sixty miles tram from tho coast of ot Spain nud not much lIuch more from Algiers almost on the main high highway highway way of tho coa oa between the Strait of or and tho Suez canal directly In the track of oC thousands of steamers that nor never call Perhaps Its reputation for has something to do with this extraordinary There Thore In no denying Unit town is II isono ono one of the on earth and n Yen very hot hell bed of sickness While nil all tho rent relit of the Is as ns a 11 sanitarium for the towns surpassing even cen Holland for fol Immaculate Immaculat ness Inza alone U h haunted the whole year rear through h by lJ diphtheria typhoid smallpox yellow fever feer Indeed every ery disease peculiar to child childhood hood hool and to the tropic The cause Is should we say Ba Impurely local directly traceable to lo abounding filth and absence of municipal regula regulation re tion All slops and refuse ate are thrown Into the streets ond the gutters reek reck with filth of every variety Mediterranean tides are arc very VCr and nud as nil asa nila a natural consequent consequence the beautiful hai bor choked with garbage f dead animals all of 01 abom abominations I more than was tIe the waterfront of at 1111 nl in tn the palm pst days das of the Spanish methods Th town has always been In thin condition and an 1 tho Iho mortality especially c children enormous but the people attribute it to 10 the of ot Providence t to be with patience un until til the hand Is lifted and go on In the same Fame old way of at criminal neglect Another practice In leza tends to still further disseminate dis disease ease WhIm n death occurs no mat matter ter tram from cause CAUS It Is 18 customary for nit alt the friends of the family to as os In the HOUSE OF to give farewell 14 to the face of the dead and then they wonder why new cases caSeI of smallpox diphtheria or what not In other neighbor hoods hoo g The proverbial ol ot hem women Is III tho more molo unaccountable able because b In nit all other othel Islands 1 clean and go hand In III hand In Majorca and Minorca only n 1 fow to miles away the hou outdo tiu tho Dutch In their perpetual III It Is u a funny Night Hight In till the early morning to tu see Heo every evon housewife busy hUll ut II l the tho same task With a n of at and a 11 brush each goes goeR forth before tho In f Standing In tho middle of ot the narrow streets they go AU nil all over Oll the of their houses houlles with tho Ihl brunt dipped In tho solution of lime washing ol n th HII roof and chimneys ami Dually the up meanwhile such a of lint to sleep anywhere U I Impossible one un might as w willi ll come forth furth enjoy thu tho fun fUll Thus no villages In the world are morn mam delightfully Seen afar their theil walls IlIs against a II background chestnut of or olive they look like fairy of ot purest marble and they the lire are not lIot like the of ot old rented merely on the outside but the lors are equally Immaculate Speaking of o the chatter the language of ot the Is III a linguist linguistIc t tIe Ic Ie r no other on 1111 the While the tho leant cant upper dialer t lu I a II to composed ll of words from Crom tho Gothic Greek Arabic and Italian in oil all allIn oilIn In tho together with origin no philologist yet et l n able oble to 10 termini determine tie This In Is not noto so o wonder remembering what whal a n population It Is the tho Islands hating hallIg boen conquered and settled at ut Various lods hv h nil all the nations of the of which let left descendants to mix tho Iho Island race still more Especially In the tho Inhabitants to tu he hp native costumes and tire are In character ALMOST L A of oC their near H II th Jeal OUR and turbulent among themselves given to feuds like the 11 Corsi nah hut but governed by h Arab Arah law lal of ot us 08 laid lahl down In the Koran Whose W lOse broad I hava eaten eatn he In II henceforth my brother Ho who tastes my IU cult IB IA neither I 1 nor my m household shall attack him Bring willo fruit flU foj the passing stranger Gle tho onti who departs tram from thy tents fAUe t hone hOle him who would go from thee take the drom dromedary Olin rosene the lame ono one for Cor thy thyself self pH Therefore being the favored 1 III ran rN you ou may jurne unattended throughout the length and breadth of or ofHie Hie Islands In perfect safety no HO far as II people JJ are arc concerned whereas If IC to the manor Inn nor horn born you OU might often be In deadly peril of or the robbers or the Iho murderous vendetta Kven lit little tic tle heza has Its good roads far tor mule back travel arc 1111 few wheeled vehicles but n delightful long days jun In tho caddie be made from fro the port at the southern end of oC the Is the cast ea t the tho tho room hIts own dOlI beside till the girl with his back to tha rest of or thu company and for fOl ten lell minutes tu 10 her hor very vel In tones tOlluS nii to m malone alone Of OC ho lIu dt his best lIest to malt mak a an all as aN In hi the short time him hima If a thu overstays liln limit or 01 4 to occupy nn all undue share of Ot the woman tho other remind him of Ir It Il by hy boisterous their feet teet upon the 1 1 Should ho rashly I In tho en errOl or of his hili ways ho IB more than to 10 Missed by hy lh COti O 1111 mul III and pitched out th of me common of is h WOUld w not h ed the tho murdered crell by b d t ts The of or tho ru population lation are ill crude Irude enough The fun la known a HI m del ami amila nil la II to 1 1 of Mexico A dent dead 1 suspended from th Ih branch of oC a tro by hy a n coid coni his legs Competitors In III tho th game nn 0 II blindfolded 1111 11 Mo Ill led some HOlne distance from UK tree tinned mound lio rall times ami then thell ordered to III advance upon u tho rod coil he Ill who In III It Il down with n alward being entitled to In sort of oC a n prize of or roun r lh the blindfolded youth Is ut utterly utterly terly bewildered a 1111 to directions ami Ills hll the lr yards away nR from frol the tia are as a lOlS as ns the to III pin on the tall 1111 which wo 10 used IIII to Hee e when I wuie Scattered ll nil over these Islands are most Ilter Io Ionian H nian Nearly all ull tho ami eA now In uie UBI by hy me I hI two thousand years ago I and ntH after ath r twenty centuries are 1110 nu nil toM a over oer The held every point by tJ nf ne u I fOlt the r Infallible castles were ero placed with Judgment in situations herb the f COMMANDED THE THEto to the tho vital points of ivory toad I The ponderous bridges with and a cement seem eem aH Jf Invincible to tn time as the everlasting One of oC these ancient roads roa lis probably con constructed about the time that las born leads tho main gato way WO U I Ivans lua I mediaeval walls off In Into Into to the alt daylong IanI It Is III crowded with and their who as nR in III most of old Spain supply the with wa la water ter Happily then are aie few Cew wheeled wheel ell In III these Acadian Islands and no nil honn tires to cut up Ilia roads The unshod ll hoofs hoMs of the little donkeys and Ind the hare feet teet of oC men nn women maka no Impression upon paw pave of ot basalt and gran It There are other othor ruins much older than the Ho mini so old ohl In that nobody knows their origin Most ost of ot them are In tho form of or round towers similar to those of or Ireland and Mc en ell enclosures closures a subject too to touch upon nt at this time Coming I TO BE QUEEN OP OF THE P W LEAGUE f I J 0 Tho league that numbers among Its members so many man stars of or tho U dra dramatic matic malic stage so many nollY lights of and so many women noted In other branches of at art will henceforth have IIno as us Its presiding Mrs Edwin Knowles She was Installed as os successor or to Mrs A M to 10 the th ac ric accompaniment of ot Hoods of tears t caldrons of ten tea and ond a 0 profusion I of at rs J u I land ond to San Antonio at Its itA northern i extremity returning next day via San Sal Juan JURn Though up Ul hill hili am lalo by b steepest grades oer torrents In by the tide thle If the Mediterranean haO Ing the shoreward cliffs by b breeches so 80 narrow thai Iha they the would any ony eer cry yard ord of ot the way Wa I by lJ magnificent or chestnut trees tre find and the wild lowers that blossom blo som the birds that sing Ing the simple kindly peo people leo III constantly TIll met make ou believe bellelo that this Is l the true The Tho hilly of ot are densely densel wooded woodell and andIn In the tiny tin l valleys lIlIes hemp hem Max corn and grapes ore are grown in wonderful luxuriance though the lazy natives have hardly advanced n 1 beyond the methods of cultivation em employed by b the ancient Homan In places the tho tire are numerous formerly worked by 11 tho Span SpanIsh SpanIsh Ish government but hul now nol In tn the handa of an on English l company There ara oven onn some exports nuch ns liS charcoal oil all wine lend lead and stockings of oC native nathl knitting On n a bill hili n ar the town of oC called Campsey Is placed ono one of or the stations of the celebrated arc of ot the meridian Ono might write a volume about tho I curious custom of ot the lh Wanders 1 some of oC them probably of oC prehistoric origin I Courting for tor Instance Is III not nol dono dona In couple hut but au Of publicly as All Like the grende tin men of Washington n a b lc has hal her regular even oen evenIngs Ings In II at nt home when nil all her alt expected to present thoms ell en 11 nurse find at no other limo An All thu of oC the Ihl girl Irl li I gauged by the number on hand her relatives milk make n It point of oC corralling as many as a possible The fhe parents sit In the tho room pretending to pay Illi no to the or oC th the oung folk tolk hut but In reality giving the CLOSI ST ATTENTION to I o nil tint t at gop go on The girl on a n ont one side of oC tho Iho room and In u n row of ch I PI n td along th the opposite op wall the dispose us U uncomfortably as nil may 11 be has his turn with utmost fair Calr fairn n lieu i Beginning at Bt the end of the line Une down tu h t r time timet but hUl In an nn ai a I preceding our OUI own nr alo many mill which tell of a n oven ovon lIot tr ll and ands Earll ancient church Is BUI nUl I by b thick high pierce I Iiii ut iii Intervals with narrow silts lIts I which the and later the Iho could Ilm ami occasionally larger porthole Is I that was 19 lr to protect th monks and lr prop 1 I I The m wt Important natural I nf f Majorca the tho Island liland are th h famous Dragon Cave Caell h are ably bly It tho moat o In f They Th have never been heen fully tull explore t the M Intricate ate at ol I most hut of oC then have follows for Cor twenty mile t ur lOr more without W coming to tl the end The Ill are arc undoubtedly of Vol origin tho MICH out ages nun ami antl Una p n J by hr taxi overlie the rook In till the Dragon Cave lire are daik 1111 lakes lakel of unknown depth mul ol nt and lofty which for ar nr of nf glittering In e x one of thrill them we n 1 tow toil called HI m l Fralli the of ot Hi It to 10 a R cow Ud monk crowk l n 1 stran II lon 1 n RII Kl RI tb Ihl where the Mulls the like Ilki coal wall d Inn La the lInee Imler of or stalactites ll the roof like clustered candela candelabra ln bra and emerged upon n 1 r jutting out In precarious upon a large At this point the tilde left lett us u taking hl wih wll h him u UfO In III total only for tor a n lI o in nl but quite long enough for tor hu Having clambered nine into the ne ct cavern In II lip Ills hIli i ht I the stul id title In a way ft 8 to Ilium Ine the with t pf t I u Uti stretched the still transparent lIf water upon Its 1111 mysterious bosom horom the tho fan fanta I Ita ta tI columns column and u wor BUT sur 1 us UI The rh most Impressive 0 il the jet et discovered dl Is fl 1 Kl I I A laky lak of motionless wa ln water tel ter whose nt In lust In 1 and holle s no line plum plummet I met has hal been bel able to 10 make Is 18 stir I by lW huge hll columns black ui 01 Ink columns hang fron 1 almost to tn the surface of tin till Ii lake It II g a 11 gruesome place far balo b lo i F the Uw of the earth In total dark darkness ness for tor the th feeble torch of tin till guide which might be extinguished at any 1111 moment by IW what c cp p WP WI It past n C known perils we e dared not Imagine r 1 The are every elry shape nd IJ In one place thov the form COlm a n p per er feet feudal with turrets t and an jl I battlements all KANNin H B WARD WAnD 1 J u TO LIVE ON GOLD SHE DUO DUG I It r t tf H 11 f r 11 I II n C h tf hi tl 1 r 1 e eV V f 1 ii f J jr i rf ii 11 1 I 1 I I I Urs Hattle HoUle E aye up her ns II In a Il Brooklyn Drool department store to b IM 1 g In the Klondike Six months saw her In possession lon of ot a n mine that promises to give gle her aO ral hundred hun rN thou v vand and She will d lo Lu enjoying her riches and Ind educating edu her young oung son Ion v r |