| Show roAY A DAY IN TI TilE THE EAi ALHAMBRA I Ig 2 Tho Day Coy of Days coy In Spain J 5 g 5 M fl fl I February 2 1901 1401 l To anew the nl al already ready read r nd y it n thousand times time s be UE like Ilk carrying come coals 1 to 10 Wo We Vo MO alO i e nut not goIng KIK t to attempt It render reader and I 1 but with willi Irvings and vivid d on In hand both Juth laving having had this II advant alvant advantage age of living lung Ion II In Grenada Gremlin will wander lit ill random through the wonder wonderful ful till hulls halls and gardens and patios avoiding guides ut us a n pestilence though lOlling ourselves In Inthe Inthe Inthe the marble fowl of pillars vho cur curven yen ven foul luge le amt ami a 1111 pendant nod and flowers all richly colored green gruen o 11 and fre fresh h as is It wrought centuries old this Oil y sear ar though ninny many As At a R preparatory measure Hl Bice e the pl before heron it II feast you have bore ha Ie read reail reada a dozen dzen or 01 o r NO HO of the Ihl most famous ac ue account count counts of lit the awl an perhaps utter ufler r your jour eyes ryoe have ha heroine to 10 the lilt glories of lit the place you OU upend days dan In trying I to nd if r corner which has hall escaped hIN erns p nn and hidden E that may stay he be viewed from runt a u tilt Ilir I of f vision vl effort T r Tun many mall hu is hove haw been here lit I before you not only tourists of ot NV nn nY Yn nonn 8 nary mental menial caliber but Jut the tho geniuses world have lavished their art 1111 up upon on ua It H And the tho longer lunger you jou look tie the more you realize that not one une of ot them thern not oven our own Incomparable Irving has come up to 10 the tho glorious mark No Mo No doubt he ho tad did In emotions of or the thu Inner man but though words of or elastic elegance like his tiia may ma paint tho Illy lily what printers Ink can cnn add tidd Ita 1111 subtle fragrance To 10 this tiny day painters i I swarm Tarm all 1111 over OYer the Iho Alhambra photographers und trod ama amateurs amateurs teun crowd each other 01 her at nt every overy turn tAnd AmI of ot course UBIQUITOUS ale and female rush about note notebooks oaks books In hand band Jotting down Items for Cor tear I concerning the luk of ot that went to dust centuries PRO fairy tracery tracer as 1111 fragile and deli dell delicate delicate cate a as a I Yell veil of ot lace yet 11 Ilch has lien wars tint earthquake 0 shock Und mend III the nar nod and nn tear lear of lain of ot rears Bare making tanking paltry commerce of the I whole ole thing na ns they do of or the bb bah taco faca of ut the Sphinx und anti the Iho mystery bf ht tho the Pyramids Probably one reason reaBon why wh this the th Alhambra r bra makes such deep Mep impression upon ha most moat stolid visitor Is IH because every lint sense Is la fully full satisfied In all allu u A Its adjuncts adjunct tul First FIrsti Its i 1 situation U Ii i type tb ti t tuo In l with th U on onon Otte on side tu lI tits the i plain on the Iho theother other mi I th Irl tar fur below tum tumbling bling blIn through wild wIM canyons ns to wot the tho wilder X ll This The Uterus Darro 1 by bya a 11 Gothic bridge and then lion by lIy a 1 broken Moorish arch us as It tt tI front its mountain through the town tollI Is lined with the of houses all 1111 mousy messy sY With ngu n U leaning Marketed over the torrent s It If they might topple In Inot II ot lit any an minute are thick upon every wall add nM every en balcony Is I with ht hued garments i hung hUll out to dry In lu the un while nil 1111 the an lined with huge hu o rest vases In which h purple hyacinths and yellow are growing Ranked d by lIy boxes ho of at pinks nod and trailing one ans And then the mediaeval towers toe K and churches and fortifications and the tho Nl In which the tie first Christian sovereigns of Grenada sleep stile side by side Hide the mini foliage and the forests of or cy cy cypress press pross and elm the abundant fountains the Ihl murmuring mU streams this tho Vega green ns as emerald shut In itt on two tides Hides by ly II beautiful I II I mountains hacked by Iy tho this Nevada Novada one theist sheet of ot lamed snow trio toe to 10 look 1001 upon under r this blue sky kY What un figures fIure are 1110 constantly past pass I I IMI c MI FIN nn hug Ing In to and fro what of at color to delight on an artists soul Cop Call pcr gypsies lleR with hair lounge loun e about everywhere as us If watching a 11 favorable opportunity for tor a n knife under your ribs 1111 and making oft ocr with your purse tha Ile men In embroidered Jackets with hanging silver buttons scarlet bias around their waists and nod wl wIde slouch sombreros tho women In bright pink and yellow petticoat petticoats with enormous ous sus bunches of nt pinned In their raven locks None of the tho pad old I ld masters could have asked fur for mote more effective groupings of or figures flu urea than these with their strange medley ley of gypsies beg beggars gore gars Moors grandees and foreigners front from every eer country their pigs pi goats donkeys disobeys dogs the patter latter always named either or be because because cause those were the names of or the three favored animals that taint t accompanied the shepherds to look upon the Infant at and dogs dos so named never go mud mad mother Another charm charming hug ing peculiarity of or the region Is the great number of singing birds and es especially of ot O nightingales They Thoy lilt at nt atwill will through nil all the th court courts of the Al AI Alhambra hambra fla and und unmolested every everywhere everywhere where whore In Spain because It IH Is believed that they plucked the thorns from the A A N I II II N N NI NGEN I 0 t tr 1 r i 4 t tt t Ir r t 1 I far t l r e r rI kire I 1 e t i iGEN r a t GEN MILES ILES WILL IVILL LEAD THE REGULARS Tho Now New Lieutenant General Will RIde Rido nt nl Their Head Bend In the th e Inaugural Xo No figure lIure In the tho Inaugural parade excepting MeI Inlay lt lf 1111 attract more mote attention than that of pun den Nelson el on A Mlles who has Just Ju t been formally invested with the rank of He lie has I long held the position of general but Jut It Il has hu been beell predicted by b many man that he I would never attain the rank Itself In this matter mUter Mr 11 has haa tho the be prophets prophet di J J Jl l p crown of ot our Savior as he hung upon Ullon the tho cross crotts Again you tarry turry beneath th the great gr a l Arabian m arch t of or the tho gate b ate of ot justice ustIce and n nd study tho the gigantic hand hund and key ke engraved en cn engraved graved raed above AboE It II Those who claim ac or acquaintance with symbols affirm that the haul hand ID Is the emblem of ot doctrine TIlE THE KEY KIY Y OF 00 FAITH and that hath both hand hund and key wore em emblazoned blazoned ed on all tho the In hi opposition to the tho emblem of ot the tho cross when the tho Moslems sub Hied dUNI Andalusia Homo Somme see nee the Oriental symbol of ot power r In the tho sculptured key referring J for proof to Isaiah 22 2 and others tho the i key ky ke of David described in Revelations III ill 7 1 7 Others point to 10 the thu power of oC limo tho keys In tho titu loran Koran by hy b y which the tho prophet opened the tho gates of ot heaven and hell bell mind and tho the symbolical sign of knowledge tho key by which Allah unlocks the tho hearts of ol true be believers lievers For ourselves let lilt us stick to the local tradition that tho the MOorish king who built buill the tho Alhambra 1 was wan wn a l great magician who hud had sold Bold himself to the devil lIelI and through some som hocus laid the tho whole mighty fortress under a n spell through h the tho magical de device device vice of the th hand and key By Virtue of or this spoil the Alhambra has lum with withstood withstood stood the tho wars and storms anil anI earth earthquakes quakes of ot centuries almost unharmed ul while almost all 1111 the other buildings of the have fallen alien to ruin and d 11 cay cuy Hut nut none Home day tho alto spell 1111 be broken the great stone hand will reach down and grasp the key and then the tho whole pile grasl will wll tumble to pieces piece and amid nil all the Moslem treasures burled beneath It will swill be ro Passing beneath tho the double arches of at the portal through the tho two leafed doors doom of or bronze which still swing on their pivot set Into the ground exactly as its when Ferdinands l conquering army urn went through we step ut at once Into an MH N c IY nN other age nHe and the scenes of ot Arabian story This great space paved with WHITE MARBLE and surrounded leJ by long lines of ot ele ole elegant elegant gant gout colonnades of richly emblazoned emblazon ell horseshoe arches resting upon delicate delicately Iy ly slender pillars y wo a recognize ut at once ns nil the de los loo AI Al gibes or Court of ot Myrtles In ht Its center Is nn an Immense basin feet long by 30 broad In III which Innumerable gold fish are arc darting darling l n about Yes Yee there must moat bt be magic In the Iho place for the time Instant our shadows fall full upon the water The gold fish have all disappeared and the basin appears empty of every liv living 11 living ing In thing Retreat a 11 few steps and anda t back they come com sporting a gaily Bally as all be before beCore before fore Core In III the sunshine but bul nothing shall Induce us to bellevo that they merely everyday timid goldfish frightened at nt human approach The Time sides of the tank are lire lined with roses and beyond are arc III hedges of at orange trees and myrtle and Japanese meddlers Arabic Inscriptions lons rover cover the walls and galleries and In to Inthe Inthe the latter may yet et be seen lIeen the Identical Jealousies that once screened from vulgar vUI vulgar gar gaze the charms of at the Sultans harem This court of myrtles was wall the only part of the palace to which the time public was over admitted i anti and we rend read ren renI readI that thai even oven while the common enemy I the tho Christian was thundering at the gates It became the theater of or frequent intrigues between bel hostile Moslem fac Cne factions to whose bitter hiller feuds feud may be he as all ascribed the da downfall of the Kingdom Here llero were sere received the pictures of ot en In envoys Toys voys of at the distant east enst who ulmo brought gifts and greetings from the tho lords of ot l and 1 Cairo Here litre also upon grand occasions wore entertained the flower of at chivalry who came cameto cameto to compete for the prize of at knightly skill anti here the time fiery old Abut Abu Hacen surrounded by b his several hundred wives listened with gloomy forebodings ings to the predictions of ot the astrologer ger who announced the loss of at his hili em pure and the extinction of at his race He lie ordered the sUr nur to 10 be nt lit once and endeavored to forget his fears In the caresses of his beautiful n Star of at the morning but all 01 the same Mille the feet teet of the nemesis overtook overlook him hint hintI himo Everywhere I o In the Alhambra we are Art struck with evidences evidence that the architecture tore ture of or the Arabs was essentially essential rell lous loos mind the offspring of the Koran a as Gothic architecture Is of ot the Bible The Time lorans prohibition to represent tiny any all animal life Ilfe must have badly hampered those Modem sculptors Probably that thatis IK is the Iho reason i why wh hy the twelve lions so railed called which have given name Mille to 10 the ther rant r of or th the relate palace the Court of Lions look less like the KINO II O OF OP BEASTS than harm like dragons dragon Intended to 10 scare away RIIa tie the 1 11 One Om They hive have quad quadrangular quadrangular legs heals without ninar the front of the till fiu NS III thick at as R the balk back the no nose e hardly hard distinguishable from the Ih cheeks dl fkR and that look like cigarette holders In their mouths moths No Xo wonder all 1111 the lions have left the neighborhood of ot Morocco and have hae re me retired reo tired tI In disgust to the Interior ot of Africa a Yet those Moore were wonder wonderful ful tul sculptors as all testified by b the Ih miles of ot mural arabesques that thai somehow re pe remind tee mind one of ot the Intricacies of ot modern muck and the floral orna ornamentation orn ornamentations which Gautier says the a kind of ot marble tapestry worked Into the wall wail Itself The geometrical 1 adorn adornment mints ment win were undoubtedly taken from the I loom It would seem that the Arabs in changing their wanderings for Cor n II set lI t tied lied striking the tent lent to plant it itIn In fn a I more form had c transferred tea mist arc d the luxurious shawls anti hangings of cashmere which adorned their former dwellings to the tho nw new temple templo changing the th tent pole for the marble columns time tho silken tissue for Cor gilded d plaster lle Be Between tween the flowers and designs on every melt Inch of ot wall appear sentences from the Koran Koian anon Intended to keep Its maxims constantly in the hearts ot of If beholders Thousands of ot times this motto occurs Walh Illa Is III no tm conqueror but Allah the words which I A Amar answered to hl his subjects when they carne came forth to meet him him na nil nahe he returned victorious to 10 Orp Over Oer and over OYer again we rend read that Is ts It If ItIe we Ie understand the Cults Curle characters Allah Is la our refuge In III every trouble The glory tiro empire belong in to Al AI Allah Al lah Praise ho hit to Allah for Cor the bless blessings Ings Inge of ot Islamism There are Bro no gifts among you but bul those tho e of ot Allah A per perpetual empire for tho the owner of or th title s palace Glory GIor to our Ix Lord rd the Sul SuI Sultan tan Abdul 1 L prince of or orthe the Muslims or Abu rand nod V II If There Is la no doubt that the Moors were INTENSELY RELIGIOUS In their own WilY way and yet et In n those thoRe very rooms whose walls were Inscribed with seemed sacred sentiments what tragedies have been enacted what scenes of lust tind lid Time Tho he Hall Hallof of at Ambassadors the till largest Jn n the tho Al AI Alhambra Alhambra hambra occupies the whole of ot the tower lower of Comares and Is It 76 15 li feet high This Thin was the throne of oC the till Caliph Its walls willis are of oC Immense thickness so that tho the window recesses are like II e small rooms The colling telling was originally a wonderful stucco Inlaid with mother of ot pearl porphyry and Jasper but most l lor of or thin this has hall been destroyed anti and like King palace It Is oiled 0 II ell in III y I NN JM N f MI rd V Y Y T 1 1 11 I 8 I I 1 I j I ff Jr r 10 i I r r rI if I L I it I 4 J c I Ij Ij j j 4 w I Ii f I a arr l lJ i J t rr i 1 I Ii tt i I S 1 f fr fr old r r i f r rf f t jt r HOW WILL AGAIN TAKE OATH AS PRESIDENT P On the tile spot marked by a n Maltese cross crosson on the tho Inaugural platform now In course of erection over time the broad sf H Irs leading to the time eastern entrance to time the if Capitol Hon Ilon will for tor the tho second time time take mike the solemn of aa us President of at the States Slates Title This oath will be bo administered ii an au It was wall four Cour years ago by hy Chief Justice Fuller of at tho the court robed In gown In III the presence of ot the similarly robed associate ale Justices Judie of ot the Iho s court of at the time of time the Presidents cabinet of ot the and representatives In Congress of distinguished officers of the army urmy anti and navy of ot as large a II number of at American citizens citizen at liS can find standing room on the Iho Capitol plaza and with the gorgeously uniformed ambassadors and und ministers of at j all ull the time leading lending countries of ot the world as spectators 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