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• - - ~ - - --— ■■ § OK Irn to to 'he old Moorish capital of Irar.ada hint upon our o*S New Years, you would ws*e that nomine to find the r’»y \ery error ice and »err Span -h. but I doubt not full as sl-epjr as its wont. Indeed, we -lud not cone tar the rjlpt New Year's ai all; It was rather ft t the t--< ullar indigenous ■ •or. To the Gracad no the first of January is nothing muse rfcaa a feast day »tl.e a f undred other* « the rhsreh calendar. Hut the second u the first day at fhe Toma, the day of masses ard mrnttai *lte day of tauntslas spies ting In t: - nsarts of "be A.f hatai<ra the day trhet Ferdl I ai d and Iscbtila ma-rtiiafead Tloabdil. ust of He * ■« s I: s this del which fc -s t e year iaus'btfi in a fit re o' ec» ler, .*iictl j.yro let la.-m Sc it Is out snrprisinir to find |.b» per f< Icaaiadx vr~ *nes the Xea Year o! ai! the «- ■** . Or.? • t-dui.- la an'lci ,>atiou of Its own T* ago* au.it •<» bad b*-<« announced as the starting jwtci of J». • * roots*tor- 1 was because at ifcj# that s« Skaay had gathers*! earl;-. The Jlar’i had leer heet a fcwtJe of enlor then a bum ' tartar *• t e»--ry one on ttr/oe. As we ii • • way .cto ti e '—*»wd i* w: s ai-root ltr. P* :tde to discs m aa» ymmsiOB At rll Only i » .and then a-re there glimpses of red and t ■ m.iCa-e ragw an . t . tl= hats of tbe city mar.. - Yet t was sough to ret the »- . tt- g ward the c.'brdral. not i e *L„a a < ,»!•» of stage throw - distat *. V. e wer- nwnpt Ini® the r. »f at the loor cf the JHiiysl t’ia|eL throafifc wLicit the pr:tt«ssion •■tad li • whale pup. 1st ton tried to enter st once. *i .» i fir cha;-ei tint Herat t-and and *sabells t’«T> eta L.gi. tejejj hr*a al alabaster. coi//?r or— I matmmtet wk «sss, *«; JfAfTSff/ff Off70O/?J*5f Ql/ff/h5 _— ^ - ?■••• — 1 MAIL OA AAfSA^JAOOAS, AJJM.V3AA' swtACf or v. Tt - • -r-.. »as, «< nwr.r very pompous. WatfSJb lie high a tar a sil l—i l of guid. mot bright »■ ►■-*4 awtsxa going to and fro fs cloud* of In t • r:S* II drepl | icife' fte who sn-tc m.-crd .-boot on TLcj stood the two hours or more in raff wonder After t&asa everybody docked back to the Haas Orl Cifweu for tbe “Hag-waving" On "* teetworvJbV mu'niag ta UK. when RcnMil ' a- *ed liar tairre kefs to the Cethc!:- saier • . ns. V wsd ora. grand cardinal of Sja:n. cl mbed •be lOrk tuner at the Alhambra and waved over the tnUm city a flag made by Isabe’la herself, ■srf which * mil. shown In the cathedral sacristy. It waa a irdotetwos moment when the alcalde a-t*-ar«< Tbe bzud bad launched into 'he na tional antbna. bet cheer after cheer well nigh dr--wood it He waited a moment for the en tfc j 'asm to subside. then shouted Mendoza's cry. <*r*t ad*. Granada, won by the aowtreigna illus tr ue Ferdinand at Aragon, and Isabella of Cjtms !*•“ At ibis the flag waa raised ard vigor •mdy swept to and fro a liaif done:- times. Then •he ceremony waa over and a thousand warm blouded Spaniards bowled “Viva Granada! Viva Kepana* V»va*“ There is another thing \<*c liar to the day of the T"*a We could never have fully ci.derstood »t bad It not been for our young cicerone Let me aas re the unwary »hst ««e Is still as.likely ** 'bos*- parts to have fuit ed upon hltn a Mrteo • a ft* days of Wash": - on Irving This tat • e'demwll'* had altacaed himself to us the mo ment *e left car possda. He had h.ijjed nego tiate far our chairs at tb* ma«*. and warred us ao as not to he late for the flag ceremony Like Mw'ce be nos big eyed and lars1 mouthed, a mouth which spread te grins as bread as bis two c_r* * .-ild allow it tt:<ds him grin roguishly 'o tj ink that we row*J tKK usdarstard all that bell rstm It waa tbe spasmodic ringing from the watch tower which smtuki :be city frotn the extremity at the Aitmesbra ridge. U> had read that K* beC was tcited every morcirg toward davtxeak to regulcte the irrigation gate- or. tie Vega, but this capricious behavior was quite beyond ns rc Co told ike wfce'e tradition of tha loll “You see. aeacres, Its para cascarse— to «e« bt shag da From long ago it was said that tbe gt<is who ran* the bel! on the day of the Tom* ..ad prey d to ti e Hedy Virgin for a 'bus bvad would namely get one before the ccx: Toaia ctsir “ . * . •fter the *>eata. the tiio.e popalati-jn made a b- * rely p'tgt Image up U> tbe Alhambra On through the gate of Pomegrat a:es they saun tered. fen up ’trough tbe Alan.edz—the litlle v-JWy which A*li eg too piac'-ed with elms. Even in tts let.flaess this romantic glen drew a charm of its own from arcaded trunks clung over with ivy. w th their feet lost in a riot of early violets, and 'heir slender branches covering the road in a lacework of shadow. The way Ascended along a hedge of burnished laurel, where streams rushed and scurried down the pebbly beds. After a w hile we had made the sharp turn, and lo! the great Portal of Justice yawned before us. and on its arch were the fabled hand and key of the magi in spite of the careless come and go of holiday-makers, the present seems to fall back when that porta! closes Qver us, like a spirit exorcised. We begin to feel the witchery of the A'han’b'a—tbe prance of cavalcades, the flash of ■cimi ars. the swarthy-visaged Moors, the ro mance of captive princess, the teasing mystery of hidden treasure. Hut "e were only to come out upon the Place of the Cisterns to find a band concert in prog ress. This place of the Cisterns is the broad court lying between the two groups of the Alhambra— the fortress of Alcazaba on the point of the ridge and the palace proper, whose halls cluster about the Tower of Comares. From here we could see how the city lay about the ridge in a ragged ••reset ut. and a half dozen miles away we could barely discern that smoldering village of Santa Fe. the quarters of the Catholic conquerors dur ing the siege of Granada. A Spanish gentleman pointed It out to us. Hut had the senores seen the Alhambra by moonlight? “No.” "Ah, only the saints could describe the picture!” We were happy enough to see it by daylight, and afterwards followed the. crowds back across the Place of the Cisterns and lost ourselves In ike labyrinth of the Alhambra. That afternoon the courts were all reanimate with dancing wa ters and the soft rustle of streams. People t root ted everywhere, whole families of them. The older folks seemed, to saunter about in a matter of-fact a way. and make the rounds as perfunc t< "Itv as though they were promenading on tbe Pa -c< de Colon. Fometlqies they stopped in the Court of Lions, or lingered, maybe, over the vie;.s f:om the Mirador de la Reina. It was all grand, very g.-..nd. Those Ingleses (Englishmen) ••« i ••thing to compare with it. Granada • 11 used perfectly conscious of their supe • mtv No wonder they, to whom even the Al ’ • am bra was a matter of every day, should show themselves amused, sometimes laugh outright, a' the two short-enped Ingleses who always man aged to obstruct the current, who haunted the Hal! of- Ambassadors a whole hour, and who stayed an tinmenticnably long time in the Court <•; Lions. These queer senores, who seemed the only foreigners in the place, looked credulously at the bioi-d-stained marble in the Room of the Abencerrajes and paced again and again, point-; ing and ejaculating, in the Hall of Justice, where arch hangs below arch dripping with many stalac tites. as though inviting to some fairy grotto. In spite of being curiously watched, they explored the subterranean baths of the Sultan, and found their way into the cloistered garden of Linda raja. over which hung the bedroom of Washing ton Irving. But somehow, on that day of the Toma, the Hall of Ambassadors, opening out on the Court of Myrtles, kindled one's fancy most. In the midst of this court lies a marble-lipped pool bor dered with low myrtle hedges. At each end ar cades, needled into filigree, leap from delicate pillars, and under water In subdued gurglings. Towards the Darro rises the great square Tower of Comares which mirrors its tawny bulk in the green tinted water. It is the Tower of Comares. as everyone knows. 1 which holds the Hall of the Ambassadors. One leaves the arcades and crosses the ruined Cham ber of the Boat to find himself under a great dusky dome set over with starry facets of larch wood. Below, mosaics of azulejos weave a bril liant wainscoting in glazed blacks and greens. Above, sallow tinted walls are wrought into a wilderness of arabesque. At first their patterns j are delicate as vine tendrils, then loosen in fig- , ure toward the upper edges. How inevitably its halls summon memories of Boabdil and the Toma! Here were staged the first and last acts of that ill-starred life. The tyrant Abdul Hassam had made "The Morning Star" the choice of his harem. Her son was chosen for the throne, so that young Boabdil seemed doomed to lose his life as well as his sceptre. It was from yonder deep embayed win dow that the royal mother lowered her prince to ' a waiting horseman, who bore him away to the I hills of Gaudix. A few stormy years and the scene again shifts ! to the Hall of Ambassadors. The watchmen on i the Tower de !a Vela have reported a truce bearer hurrying hither from the plain. It is the i demand of Ferdinand and Isabella. The Chris I tian is at the gates of the Alhambra. See Boab- j dil take his throne for the last time by yonder i damasked wall. Low-hanging lamps shed a soft-1 ened radiance through the gloom and make the : burnished weapons gleam in their racks. Swarthy ' councillors with knitted brows stand about the j troubled monarch. Moorish knights finger the | hilts of their scimitars in perplexity. Without, the grecn-tin‘ed pool of the Myrtles lies placid j and mirrors the turbaned figures that linger he-: side it. Morning sunlight glints its waters, now : and then a shadow flits across the arcaded wall,. and the qurtain falls upon the drama of the Moor j ia Spain. Moses Wanted Too Much And Thor* Wit .Much Qutbl'ng When Motwimrod went to the Sev enth Heaven. HiWtnmdl d*U to the Seventh Hcavea U ( Mrf; luirretiluf as Hltt* treUac the tredattty of the people 0 a hem he had bnea called to rule. The *"«Urt of this rlatl. ah ch has come » n t» «. h fall of the most ex i' del detail Whet Mohammed bad left the pres fact' of AUah and descended to the Hearen, he found Moses waiting : or him and anxious regarding the re :t. Vpon learning that the Supreme '!< :t:g had fixed a dally task of 50 prayers. Moses acknowledged the de { siraUility of the divine ruling, but . lueatloned its practicability when ap i plied to the Arabs. “I made the ex periment before thee.” he declared, i 1 tried it with the children of Israel without success. You had better go back and beg a diminution of the task.” Returning. Mohammed succeeded in having t£e prayers cut down by ten; but when he again encountered Moses, the latter declared that even that num ber was impracticable. The reader wonders that Moses should thus place his wisdom upon a plane superior to that of the Supreme Being; but ap parently this excited no comment on the part of the Arabs. Mohammed,, in the account, is made - - I to return again and again, under the j instruction of Moses, until the per diem of the 50 prayers had been final ly cut down to five, Moses still claim ing tbat his experience with the chil dren of Israel did not leave much hope for an experiment involving so much daily prayer. But here Mohammed stood firm, and throwing his judg ment into the balance with that of Allah, overruled the objection of Moses, and, saluting him, took hia final departure.—John Brisbane Walk er, "The Building of an Empire.'’ KING OFDETECIIVES William J. Burns the World’s Greatest Sleuth. Common Sense Is the Secret of HU Success — The McNamara Case Has Made Him Famous the World Over. Los Angeles. Cal. — Common sense the most . uncommon thing in the world, is the secret by which William J. Rums, whose work In connection with the McNamara cases made his name' world-wide, has risen to be crowned king of American detectives. Although he has dealt with some of the most hardened criminals in the country he has never fired a shot at a human being. Herns is the essence of the ordi nary. A man about middle height, broad shouldered, with prominent fea tures and a pair of gray eyes that bore through you and the wall beyond, reddish brown hair, unto.tched by age; his mustache tinged with gray, atiired probably a bit more carefully and up to date than the average busi ness man. and with a manner alert and positive, he presents not the ap pearance of a detective, bnt to the unknowing passes off for a prosperous citizen of fastidious taste regarding dress. Burns was apiiointed to the govern ment secret service in 1S90 and was located in the west, working In Indian territory. Texas. Arkansas and the south. He was soon placed in charge of thr.t district, and in 1894 was trans ferred to Washington, where he was promoted for good work, and got a roving commission, going wherever there was an unusually important case. One of the biggest feats in those days was the running down of the principles in the Brockway-Bradford Cgurtney gang of counterfeiters. When this gang was run to earth and cornered in a building in West Ho boken. N. J., they had in their posses sion more than S2.000.000 In gold cer tificates and a let of Canadian coun terfeit notes. So accurate were the gold certificates the government had already accepted SSu.OOO worth of them, and in order to pick the bogus from the genuine it was necessary to summon one of the counterfeiters to Washington. Another brilliant piece of detective work by Burns was in connection with i tfkUAMJ ] Burns ! extensive land frauds in the west. He was more than three years on this case and when he had finished and turned the evidence over to the gov ernment it resulted in the conviction of United States Senator Mitchell of Oregon and of two wealthy land own ers. Hyde and Benson of California. From these land cases Burns went to San Francisco to dig amid the mass of political and municipal corruption in that city. Three years were neces sary for the investigation. It resulted In sending Mayor Schmitz to the peni tentiary for five years; Ruef, the po litical boss, for fourteen years; Glass, vice-president and general manager of the Pacific State Telephone company, and several others to prison for vari ous periods. Burns, notwithstanding the nature of his profession, has a strong belief in the integrity of human nature. "There never was a time," he says, "when the moral sentiment of the people was more easily and quickly aroused than at present, or when there was a finer sense of honesty in the various relations of daily life. Even bad men want good govern ment—if they are not making money out of bad government. Nor do I be lieve in the heredity of crime. Lorn broso and other scientists speculate and write essays, but coming right down to common experience, which !s a better test than philosophy of long tables of figures. 1 know’ that environment and not birth is the ond great cause of criminal conduct." He has always held that the detec tive business was simply a matter of common sense. He is continually tell ing his subordinates that every crook, no matter how clever he is, always leaves a trail behind. Intellectually, Burns is the most re sourceful and brilliant detective in the United States. Nowhere else on earth, perhaps, can anyone match him in the ability to think out the snarled prob lems of mystery and crime. — Sentenced Six Times to Die. Wahachie, Tex.—One of the most remarkable criminal cases in the his tory of this state is that of Burrell Oates, a negro, who has just been sen tenced for the sixth time to be hang ed. Oates has been tried seven times for the murder of a man in Dal las in 1904 and was convicted five times, the jury in one instance failing to agree. His case after each convic tion was appealed and new trials were ordered because of errors. It is prob able that another appeal will be taken from the sixth and last conviction. UJKMNINT PEOPLE' HEAD OF NATIONAL GRANGE The newly-elected master ot the Na tional Grange, chosen at Columbus, Ohio, is Oliver Wilson of Magnolia, 111. He is a native of Ohio, but has lived in Illinois since childhood. He is a farmer and has been a member of the grange 40 years. For fifteen years he has been head of the Illinois state organization. Patrons of Husbandry, as the gran gers are known officially, Is a secret order of the United States which was founded at Washington, D. C., Decem ber 4, 1867. Its purpose Is to pro mote the interest of persons en- " gaged in agricultural pursuits and In business connected therewith. Gen eral depression in this line of activity following the Civil war was the Im pulse which brought this excellent or ganization into being. Men connected with several of the departments at Washington conceived the idea and prepared the first ritual, but women are gladly accepted as members and na\e important parts in tne initiatory work and conduct ot grange lodges. Today, thousands of subordinate granges, scattered through nearly every state and territory of the Union, bear witness to the substantial growth of this beneficial order. The grange is a chamber of commerce, produce exchange, library, church, insurance company, clearing house for the exchange of valuable Information, and social club, all rolled into one. Outside of its members, few are aware .of the immeasurable good it has done. The large percentage of farmers among the inhabitants of this country is sufficient proof that any great bene fit whicn they derive must of necessity materially benefit the nation as a whole. Understanding this vital point, it is easy to perceive wherein the grange is exerting a stupendous force for good in the great work it is doing. PERSIAN TREASURER GENERAL One of the most remarkable situa tions in history is happening in the rase of the young American, William Morgan Shuster, who, as treasurer general of the Persian empire, has been besting the keenest diplomats cf Europe for the past six months. Thin young man is only thirty-tour year* old and he started life as a ste-. nographer. This youngster, who has one of the biggest contracts in the world on his hands, was born in Washington, D. C.. in 1S77. His parents live there still. After his graduation from Columbia, Shuster obtained a position as a ste- • nographer in the war department at ' Washington. When the Spanish war broke out he was made assistant sec retary of the commission that had charge of the evacuation of Cuba. ^ He was then only twenty-one. Shuster remained in the Cuban customs serv ice three years, and when he got through was special deputy colector oi customs for Cuba. This was in 1901, and Shuster was twenty-four years old. A collector of customs-for the Philippines was needed. It was one of the b:g administrative bureaus of the government's colonial possessions. Shuster was chosen. When Shusteb had done everything in the way of work in the Philippines he returned to Washington and started a law practice. He was a success as a lawyer and relinquished a paying practice to take charge of affairs in Persia. The present situation in Persia, which is well known to all readers of the news, is what took Shuster from America and a lucrative law practice to the general treasurership of that crumbling empire. The financial control of Persia means its political control. Neither Russia nor England would consent to the other having the key to Persia's somewhat depleted treasure chest. So Persia was advised to look for financial advisers of some neutral state, like Switzerland. So, last April, tile state department and the Persian charge d'affaires at Washington picked Mr. Shuster and his tour assistants to reorganize the finances of that ancient empire. Shuster and his men have had trouble to burn ever since, but by continual lighting they have kept on top and are likely to stay there. COLLEGE PRESIDENT RETIRES President George Harris, the vener eble head of the University of Am herst, believes that he has reached the age when he should retire in favor of a younger generation and accord ingly he has sent in his resignation to the Board of Trustees. Professor Harris has been president of the university since 1899 and dur ing his administration the institution has progressed and prospered. It was entirely through the effort) of President Harris that the first fund for increasing the salaries of the Junior professors of the faculty was raised. It was also through his ef forts that the last fund of $400,U(Mi v».s realized, the object of which was to increase the incomes of the senior members of the teaching staff. Professor Harris is sixty-eight yecrs old and is among the foremost edu cationalists in the country. His re tirement, which he wishes to take place before commencement, is deep Iy regretted by his co-workers with whom he has labored for many years. i A GREAT ENGLISH PREACHER j The uian who has earned for himself the title of “the modern Savonarola,' Rev. Bernard Vaughan, S. J., the great London preacher, is now in this country for a long visit and Ameri cans will have an opportupity to study at close range this fiery and impassioned clergyman, who has gained international fame by his ex coriations of the sins and follies of the idle and the wealthy in the Brit ish metropolis. Although without any ecclesiastic al title, Father Bernard Vaughan has as much influence in the church as many prelates. He is a favorite at all the Catholic courts of Europe, and he i* a frequent guest at Buck ingham Palace. And he is also an honored visitor in the London slums, where he is as much at home in a meeting of costermongers as at a king's garden party. Father Vaughan will visit and will preach in nearly all the big cities of the United States during his visit. H.* oratory probably will be a surprise to those who are accustomed to the ratht'r cold formalism of English preachers. It astonished his audience when he freached some years ago before Pope Leo XIII. in Rome. “He can’t be an Englishman." said Cardinal Rampolla to the pope. “No,” said Leo XIII. with a smile. "Father Bernard was born In the crater of Vesuvius and we only sent him to England to cool.” Fashionable society is not the only phase of life which Father Vaughan has dealt with in his London sermons. He is as hard on the sins of the east end of the metropolis as he is on the follies and failings of the west end and wherever he speaks he adjusts his discourses to his audiences. The distinguished Jesuit is not very optimistic about the future of Eng land. The so-called upper classes havr. voted religion dull and out of date, he declares, while the middle classes are waking up to find they are losing what religion they had, and the working classes will tell you they had no religion to lose. With religion gene, patriotism is going, he believes, and the only tt:ng remaining is the rush to get rici.
