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The flpproacliing' marriage of Isa Can ti'lvar, tbe woaltliv belle of Havana, was no peeret in the Cu1an cajiital.- Her Sj:in ish lover, a lineal (lescoiidant of the iierce iibJuer of the Aztecs, old Herman Cortes, uas crossing tbe ocean to claim bis love, and greutpreparations for the event were trolijvr on at the Cantelvar -mansion, whose i'tuiiolation was washed lv the waters of tie i all'. isa was very beautiful, and her accom plislnnents were of the 'highest older. The onlv cliild of a man who wa proud of his name and of her face, she ha'd been petted, but I will not say spoiled. Her jewels were as reniarkable as her beauty, and it was rumored that .Senator Cantelvar lad purchased some of ex-Queen Isabella's irons for Lis daughter's nuptials. This rumor was pretty generally believed, and inanv fashionable people went to .the man sion, hoping to catcli a glimpse of the stones that had once glittered on the bos om of royalty. But the curiosity-seekers were disappointed; they saw no ex-Spanish gems. f In due time, a vessel landed the Oastilian lover on Cuban so and the? great event Isa'd , marriage neared its coiisunimatioii. Among the many people who witnessed the. lover's debarkation, was a tall, dark featured man, about forty years of age. He was remarkably handsome; his eyes were dark and lustrous, and his mouth was shaded liy the silken hairs of a mous tache. He wore the undress uniform of a captain in the Spanish navy, which was j not needed to give him a commanding ap-' peavaiice. His whole bearing indicated a iirmuess of purpose, a stubbornness of will, that would listen to no arguments, and a daring that would shrink from no .under taking. ! lie ftoou apart from all oilier people, watching the debarkation of the Vulture's passengers. The soft tropical twilight lmiio; over the island capital; but he could see the faces of the passengers quite dis tinct ly". 4 .-Suddenly lie started, and mechanically Ins right hand clenched vengefiilly. There was a rising and falling of the moustache, as if the unseen lips had opened and closed again, and the eyes were assuming an an imated brilliancy. The cause of this strange emotion was a man who had just stepped upon the pier, lie stood scarcely twenty fe.et from the captain, and his face was .plainly discern ible. A handsome man he was. There was the stamp of nobilitv on his face, and he bore a resemblance to certain portraits of Cortes still extant. He was watching the debarkation of-nnmerous trunks that bore the name of Don Cortes,. d'Alvaro. But by and by he turned away, and hailed the driver of a violante. lt is he !" muttered the captain, speak ing audibly for the first time. "lie is the chosen lover of Senorita Isa. His trunks were full of jewels, no doubt." And then a devilish laugh rippled over the unseen lips. He watched the violante until it vanish ed from sight, when he" walked forward and began fo inspect the trunks. They numbered qnite a score, and some were small, but heavily, bound. He walked among them carelessby, as it were, but no ticins: everything, and all at once he burst forth with "Five trunks full of jewels! Why, they would make a don of Calevar. A moment later he Walked away, close ly followed by a dwarfish mm who had the peculiar srait of the sailor. I hough the captain walked fast, the sailor gained on him, and as he was about to enter one of the aristocratic hotels of the city, a hand touched- his elbow. The tall man turned quickly, and peered uown into the distorted tace. ''And so-yon are here ?" he said, in me lodions Spanish. "Where have you ueen i ' Y XL The captain's eyes glistened. "He came " "With five trunks of jewels for his bride." "But she shall never "wear them." "Xo." : "Good ! Gome to my room. I want to show you" something." The two men passed into the narrow hall and ascended a stairwa3' to a room. In the centre of this apartment stood a table on which lay an elegant sword of genuine Toledo workmanship. On the sheath, elegantly worked, was the name of "Calevar," and the blade, bore the in sciption : "From the Queen to Calevar." Above the single .bed hung the gorgeous dress uniform of a Spanish naval com mander, and a pair of splendid boots stood under the table. J . All this is-as revealed when the room was lighted up, and Calevar threw himself into a chair beside the table, and drew a paper frqm an inner pocket. Unrolling it he disclosed to the' eyes of the dwarf who, perched upon a stool, was bending over the table like a monkey the complicated plan of a house. "Here is the Gulf," said Calevar, touch ing'a shaded place, with jiis finger, "and here is the entran"to the house. You will wait for me here. You see 1 have designated the exact spot. You cannot miss it. Long ago, some person Cantel ver's father, perhaps drove a huge btaple into the wall. It is there. See it ! You cannot miss if. It is beneath that staple that.voti will wait for my signal." The dwarf looked up, and smiling hid-.' eoiiidv, nodded. .."Can't von fail, senor capitan ?" "Fail T No !" said Calevar. "I know the interior of the house. I can go direct ly to the treasure-room, and so sure as there'sa God in Heaven, I'll show you the girl's jewels on ray own deck. She wouldn't marry Calevar. If she marries D'Alvaro, she shall do so jewelless. Ah ! thitJ, Domargo, is Calevar 's revenge!" He laughed devilishly, and iu that laugh the chattering of the dwarf joined. Then several . bottles of wine were produced from a sideboard, and the twain drauk long and deep. It was midnight when Domargo, the sailor-dwarf,-left the room. He stole out quietly, for Calevar was asleep. The wine had affected him. ".For twelve years Domargo has served Calevar," said the dwarf, when be again found himself on the deserted streets. "He has sailed with hua to other worlds, bid- 7 j i:g his time. That time is very near at i baud. Calevar does not think that Do margo is the brother of the little girl he made his wife in Barcelona, and then mur dered on shipboard." .The last word. full of hellish revenge, dropped in hisses from the repulsive lips of the dwarf, and at last he lost himself among the shipping in the harbor. And Calevar, the revengful, the covet ous, the rejected lover of Isa Cantelvar, slumbered on, never dreaming that the dwarf who had served him so faithfully for twelve years, was delivering him over to a fxite, from the contemplation of which the mind'shrinks with horror. It was the night lcfore Isa Cantelvar s. wedding. The hour was twelve, and Havana slept on the edge of the Gulf. Xot a sound came from the old house so soon to resound with marriage music, and with the groans of one uoomed to a living death. The fair Isa, no donht, was sleeping away her last maiden hours, for the dav soon to dawn was to see her a bride before it departed. Ihe skv was covered with opaque clouds. Not a star was visible, for the J'ts, if there were any. were as black as the clouds. Therefore, the crouching figure .that crossed the llower-gardeu was not perceiv ed. It seemed a man, yet it had tbe mo tion of an animal. It paused before a low door in the east ern wing of the Cantelvar mansion and listened. The swash of the waves against the walls was the onlv sound that came to the solitary being. Then it struck the door twice,-and the portal opened noiseless ly, and closed again. But the night prow ler was not to be seen without; he w as within the mansion. The person who had admitted him seen- ed to be a small man. The person admit ted was tall and wore a mask that effec tually concealed his features. "You can find the way now?" asked the traitor. "Yes; give me the light." The dark taper. was placed in his hand "You have the keys," said the traitor. "May the Virgin" speed you; I will be at the w hart. We sail to-n?ght? 7 "Yes, to-night. Be there!" A moment later the tall man moved off, leaving the other watching him and his light. . More than one long corridor the masked one traveled, and the silence of "death wa& about him. His feet gave forth no sound, for they were encased in nothing but short Cuban hose, and there were no obstacles in his path. Tbe ornamented butts of the pistols visible just above his belt told that he was prepared for an emer gency, and his left hand clutched the hilt of a dagger w hose blade was hidden in his sleeve. . At last he paused before a door much smaller than any that he had yet encouu tered in the house, and its heavy locks told tharit led to a room where valuable treasure lay. The mask listened a long time at the door before ho tried tl.ppen it. He knew that he was under-grond, for the ground on which he stood was quite damp, and and the walls alout him were eovered with an icy sweat. The cnriously-shaped keys tliat lie drew from his pocket opened the little door, and the night prowler found himself in a small room. Closing the door gently, he soon pro duced a stronger light, and the glare that suddenly dazzled his eyes almost sent him to the floor. A table stood in the centre of the treas ure room, and on that table were tbe treas ures for which he had seemingly entered the Cantelvar mansion. There; were necklaces of diamonds and tiaras of rubies; bracelets of pearls and pins of emeralds; head-dresses of beaten gold, studded with precious stones, and rings whoso value seemed incalculable. lie stood before Isa Cautelvar's wed ding gifts ! About him, on the floor, was the old Cuban's wealth coffers full of doubloons, safes well stored with precious stones. The i five small trunks which Captain Calevar had noticed on the pier were there; but they were empty. The jewels they had carried across the ocean glittered on the table. ! For many minutes the mask stared at the array of wealth, and then, as if to test the reality of things he approached and took up a costly necklace. "She shall never wear this!'' he -said, after a moment's reflection, and then the costly bauble disappeared beneath his doublet. A tiara of beautiful rubies followed the necklace, and then rings, bracelets, and other rich persoual ornaments disappeared. lie discarded many rich things with the discrimination of a lapidary, and when he was about to turn away, be laughed: "1 can't take any of your doubloons, Senor Cantelvar!" ho said. "They are very pretty, very good, but your daughter's wealth is more portable. I jruess 1 carry about four hundred thousand doubloons' worth of pebbles on my person. Ha! ha! Isa wouldn't marry Calevar!" He put his hand on the door, wheu the slightest of noises started him. i "Calevar!" At the sound of his name he turned quick ly, ana faced sis men with in;wn pistols. : Had they sprung from the lloor of the treasure-room f There stood old Sf nor Cantelvar, and lis Jios were still quivering with the name inst spoken. Beside, the Cuban stood the youth who iad lately lauded from the Vulture. The mask did not drop his taper and turn for fiijrht. On the contrary, he said, "Well !" md looked into the muzzles of the pistols without a tremor. "We know you !" said Senor Cantelvar. "And I know you !" was the rejoinder. "You came thither for the wedding gifts." "And I have got them !" "Do you expect to keep them?" "Xo hot now !" "Advance and put them on" the table." Calevar advanced without hesitation, and lis hand crept to his bosom. But it did not draw a single diamond thence. It came forth empty, but the next instant it was nled by the butt ot a pistol. He raised it quickly, and Senor Cantelvar went to the ioor. j The next moment there were sounds of struggling in tbe treasure-room, and when they grew still Calevar, w ith the mask stripped irora his handsome Spanish face, sat iii a ffreat iron arm-chair. Strong ropes bound him to the seat, and irori hands fastened his feet to the floor. The table groaned beneath the most palatable of Cuban viands, and a rich can delabrum, suspended from the cellar, re vealed tht sumptuous lmard. I here were numerous bottles of Spanish and island wince on the table, but he could not touch one with his outstretched arm. -Piled up on either side of him were chest of Span ish doubloons, and the doors of iron safes were open, revealing the glittering wealth of more than one mine. He groaned when he comprehended his situation, and then he cursed till his tongue refused to blaspheme longer. "This is vour fate, Captain Calevar," said Senor Cantelvar's well-known voice. "You sought wealth and you have it. What you see is yours. You are welcome to take it away. You'll find the wines the best. There are two bottles of your favor ite Catalon'a, and one of thirty-five years' Madena. i Pleasant dreams to you, senor captasn !" ' The silence that followed was awful. "If Domargo knew this !" cried Calevar. "Holy Virgin ! where is the dwarf f A hellich laugh answered him. "Domargo is here I" said the dwarfs voice. "He is Vinities' brother ! Ha! ha! Good-byeJ captain ! The Sea Cross will sail this time without you." "Betiayed !" groaned the doomed man, and for the first time his bravery deserted him. ! He fainted in the iron cbair. .The next day there was the ound of merrv voices far above him. Angels seemed to be singing to him in hell. By and by the sounds ceased. Isa Can telvar was a bride ! - No sounds now but the wash of the Gulf waves against the treasure-room. Davs came and went. . The bottles on the table grew mouldy; the oranges rotted; the delicacies spoiled; the candelabrum's lights went out; but there1 was a grinning man in the iron chair. 1 he sea Cross sailed awa' without uira A year ago that terrible room was opened . ' A skeleton seated in an iron chair told the story of Cuban V engeance. A new toy, lately patented, consists of a figure of a dandy, with a cigar-holder in his month. In the pedestal there is a small bellows, operated by clock-work and spring. A small cigar is placed in the holder, and when the spring is set in mo tion the dandy puffs away as natural as life until the cigar 1$ consumed, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER A STORY OF GENERAL JACKSON. Many are the interesting scenes of Jack son's life w hich his biographer, Parton, has omitted and not brought tJ light. "When a boy," said Judge J. C. Gould, in a re cent address, "I saw him scare and put to flight twenty thousand men. The occasion was this : Grey Hound, a Kentucky horse, had beaten Double Head, a Tennessee horse, and they were afterwards matched for $5,000 a side, to le run on the Clover Bottom course. My uncle, Joseph II. Coon, carried me on horseback behind him to see the race. He set me on the cedar fence and told me to remain until he re turned. There must have been twenty thousand persons piesent. I never wit nessed such betting between States. Money and negroes were put up. A large pound was filled with negroes and horses wagered on the race. The time had now arrived for the competitors to appear on the track. I heard some loud talking, and looked down the track, and saw for therirst time Gener al Jackson riding slowly on a gray horse with long pistols in each hand, i think they were as long as my arm, and had a mouth that-a ground squirrel could enter. "In his wake followed uncle Coon, Stoke- lv Douelson, Patton Aiuleisou, and sever al others as iierce as bull dogs. As Gene ral Jackson led the van and 'approached the judges' stand he was rapidly talking and gesticulating. As he came by me lie said he had irrefragiblo proof that this was to be jockey race-; that Grey Hound was seen in the wheat fieid the night be fore which disqualified him for the race, and his rider was lo receive live hundreu dollars to throw it off, aud by the eternal God he would shoot tbe first man who brought his horse upon the truck; the peo- le s money should not be stolen lrom them in this manner. He talked incessant! y, while the spittle rolled from his mouth and the fiie from his eve. 41 have seen bears and wolves put at bay, but he was-certainly the most ieroci- auimal 1 bad ever seen. His appearance aim manner, sh uck terror to the dismayed hearts of '.went v thousand eople. if they felt as I did every one expected to be slain. He announced to the parties if they wished sumo lead in in their hides just to bring their hoi sen on the track, for by the eternal God he would kill the first man who offered to do so. There was no response to this chal- u Ulier. waning some time aim they failing 'to' appear, General Jackson said it was a great mistake in the opinion of some that he had acted hastily auu without consideration. "He would give the scoundrel a fail- trial, and to that end h would constitute a court to investigate this mutter, who would hear the proof and do justice to all parties. Thereupon he appointed a sheriff to keep order, and five judges to bear the case. Proclamation was made that tiie court wa& open and ready to proceed to business, and .1 . . 1 .!..r 1 . I. lor me parties to appeal uuu ucuruu mcui- selves. Xot appearing, General Jackson introduced the witness, proving the bribery of Grey Hound's rider, who was to receive five hundred dollars to throw off the race, having received two hundred and fifty dol lars in advance, and that Grey Hound had been turned into the wheat field the night before. He again called on the parties n appear and contradict this proof and show their innocence. Thev tailing to appear, General Jackson told the court that the proof was closed, and for them to render their judgment in the premises, which in a few moments was done in accordance with the fasts proved. "I was trtill on the fence forming one line of the large pound containing the property wagered on the race. .acli man was nx ions to get back his property. Gen ral Jack son waved his band and announced the dkion, and said "Now, gentlemen, trn rt-ilmlr find in nnler ftlldeacll taiC his V. ,1 1 HI lt , uum A . ..... , own property." V hen the word was giv en, the people came with a ruth. It was more terrible thau an armv witu banners. They came bulging against the fence, and in the strutrirle to tret over they knocked it down for hundreds of yards. 1 was overturned and was nearly trampled to death. Each man get his property, and thus the fraudulent race was broken up by an exhibition of the most extraordinary He did that day what it would have required two thousand armed men to have effected. All this was effected by the presence and action of one man, and w ithout the drawing of one drop of blood. A Cceiotjs Marriage. Just outside ofBrooklvnis the .little town of Oyster Bay. It is a semi-ans'ocratic town and quite a watering place during the summer. Apart from the liveliness belonging to a gay company in search of pleasure, the town has just had a genuine sensation in the marriage of two persons. The Eev. Mr. Vogal, aged sixty-five, was joined in marriage to Mrs Jackson, of the gushing age of eighty-five. "She had money and he had none; And that's the way the row begun." Both parties have been very, much mar-; ried." The lady has had three hnsbands and the Minister three wives. The lady's! -treasures are all laid np in heaven. The minister's companions remain on earth. Two divorces and one marriage are more than fall to the lot of . ordinary mortals The first divorce was unquestionably Mr. Voxel's riff ht. The second was an Illi nois affair, and there is a cloud over it The mature bride knew all about it, and made her venture with her eyes wide open She settled $10,000 on her new husband, gave the officiating minister $100, and took her husband into her dashing- team and drove to her own mansion. Her own storv is that she was living alone, her re lations were dead, her property was a very great burden to her. She believed in her pastor, and confided in his good judgment and honesty to help her turpngu. r 19, 1874. Religion Enhances! Evehy Enjot- M.ENT.' e may see hor cornpletly reli gion is adapted to the nature of man by observing that even the elements of en joyment (and they are mftny, though fleet ing) which this world contains are never fully tasted but by religjijms persons. Those abundant soarcqs of pure delight which are to be found in Ibo, heart, the in tellect and the imaginatin,are never re ceived in their fulness buf by them. And why? Because tllev are the ccrms T oi tneir lutnre and morel gl glorious being.- aua can only nourish in soil -akin lo that ultimately destined for tlfcm. In a worldly mind, likj plants removed from their original soil' -arid climate, thev exist indeed, but with a blighted existence; and produce, but how dgenerate is the production ! - I Everything that want religion wants vitality. I Philosphy, without religion, is crippled and impotent; poetry, without religion, has no heart-stirring powers; ife, without reli gion, is a complex and unsatisfactory rid dle; the very arts which -address themselves to the senses never proeeejd so far towards perfection, as when employed on religious subjects. - I Keligion, then, can bj no obstcale to enjoyment, since the onli sources of it, wuicn are coniessediy- pure, are all hanced by its possession en- Even in the ordinary ccfminercc with the world, what a blessing awaits an exemp tion from the low ami srdid spirit, the petty passions a-nd paltry feelings which abound in it ! JItbrcw fckailtr. DiFFiduLTlKS. Pnnslion saysjof difli eulties: "Sirs, are thei difficulties in your path, hindering your pursuit of knowl edge, restraining your bhuevolent endea vors, making your spiritual life a contest and a toil! Be thankful for them. They will test your capabilities of resistance. You will be impelled tot persevere from the very energy of the: opposition. If there be any might in yojjr soul, like the avalanche of snow, it willjacquire addition al momentum from the fobstacles which threaten to impede it. Mlmy a man has thus robed himself in the Spoils of a van quished difficulty; and his! conquests have accumulated at every onward and upward step, until he has rested (from his labor, the successful athlete wh has tlwown the world. 'An unfortunate illustration ' von are ready to say; for all fcannot win the Olympic crown, nor wear the Isthmian laurel. What of him wh fails! How is he recompensed? AVbit'tj does he gain? What! Why, strength for vfc. His' train ing has insured him that: He will never forget the gymnasium antl its lessons. He will always he a stalwart maua man of muscle and of sinew. The real merit is not in the success, but 'in the endeavor; and, win or tese, he wilL.be honored and crowred." r- A Prima Doxxa's. Tooth. Madame Pauline Viardot, the evef to be remem bered creatrix of Fides in- Mererbeer's "Prophete," had one of,thfe incisive teeth in her upper jaw longer jt ban the rest of her pearly jewels, which Somewhat dama ged the beautiful expression of her phy siognomy. A few eyefiings before the production of the "Prophete," during one of the general -rehearsals of that opera, Meyerbeer went into her room in the theatre and advised her that he could not let her sing Fides. "HqJv so?" exclaimed the great artist, stupefied ia't each a dread ful revelation. "Am-' I-wrong iu the inter pretation of any part of! the rotcf- If so, yon should tell me, sir, aid I wilt correct myself. "Madame, von are a perfect Fidea, and I could not deam of any tra gedian songstress to sinj and play better than you, answered the .maestro, "but but yon cannot perfornjj Fides !- unless - "Lnless what'7 louickiv reolied Pauline Viardot, bursting into tears. "Uu- iess you submit to a paihipl surgical opera tion, and 1 guess you teon't, madame." "AYhat do you mean, "Simply this, madame: xoa must navf-that overgrown tooth sawed to the levef of the others." 'fill cir if ninaf la. horN Ii et Knrolv I'll be dead before th.3 excision is. over P "Xot at all, madame. I have gust' ordered tle lentifct of the Oneen of Prussia to come to Paris for the express purpose of attending to your operatic majesty, fand jtou may re ly upon hia unsurpased stub' As it was the sine qua non condition, to please maestro, Pauline Viardot made up her mmd to confide her beautiful head to Herr Mulkeistrom, M. D., whdj first chloroform ed her, and with magic detei'ity removed at once the obnoxious bit of ivory. -A few nights after that "terrihl" trial, Pauline won her crown of immortality in that role of Fides ia which she will never be equal led. When the treniendirtis echoes, of the enthusiastic aDlause antl rappels ha'd aba- ted, and the artists were Allowed to leave . . ... the stage, Giacorne Meverbeer, trembling like a child with emotion respectfully took Fides' right wrist to whifih he adjusted a diamond bracelet worth Su,000 francs, in the middle of which, and surrounded by rubies, stood the small piece of tooth that for so many years had Ixeen prominent in the great artist & features A great many of the sfores in Paris are dedicated to some one of to some thing real or imaginary. Onefsees such signs as "To the Good Devil," "To the Poor Dev il " To the Infant Jesuit To the Gray Overcoat," "To the Madonna," "To the Americans," "To the Universe," "To the Poor James, etc. The stores tor the sale of miscellaneous merchandise are now more generally dosed. 6a Sundays than they were four years ago. . .Tt is said that there are about 700,000 gypsies in Europe. Efforts to evangelize them have not been followed with much success. Thev believe fn annihilation at death. ". i ' Morbid. Moods of Mightt Minds. Men who have powerful brains or gigantic minds are apt to undertake herculean la- Kirs. 1 he motive may be fame, gold, or philanthropy; but when impulses are strong and opportunities many, overwork is almost a necessity. The world knows little of the morbid moods and silent sufferings of those who make the books which instruct, the poems which inspire, the sermons which regenerate, and the fictions which amuse the masses. Authors, poets, preachers, and comedians keep their morbid conditions to themselves, as a general mle. They give their talent, their healthful thoughts, and emotions, their normal moods, to others, and keep their abnormal states, and, may le, bodily tortures and mental agonies, to themselves. !. Their work necessitates this. The world only Wants what thev can do for others. It has no concern with their private griefs. Were they to dwell on their morbid moods, tell of them, or even expose them careless ly, the world would condemn them and their teachings. Their influence would be lost; their hearers do not care so much how they feel, but want to know what thev can say and do. Besides, complaining would only be a waste of precious time. Hard workers are too busy to complain of per sonal matters. The Bachelor. "Oh, who would an old bachelor be to roam in this wide world alone" no one. A bachelor is even more miserable than an old raaid; for he has no one to perform the various domestic offices which she can perform for herself. " None but the married man has a home in his old age. None has friends, then, but he; none but he knows and leets the soface of the domestic hearth; none but he lives and freshens m his green old age, amid the af fections of his children. There is no tear shed for the old bachelor; there is no ready hand and kind heart to cheer him in his loneliness and bereavement; there is none in whose eyes he can see himself reflected, and from whose lips he can receive the un failing assurance of care and love. No; the old bachelor may be courted for Ids money. He may eat aud drink and revel, as such things do, and he may sicken and die in a hotel or garret, with plenty of at tendants about him, like so many cormor ants waiting for their prey. ' But he will never know what is to; be loved, and to live and die amid a loving circle. He can never kAiow the comforts of the domestic firesule. The Brokex Buckxe.-i "Now Daniel kneeled npon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks." Dan. vi,; 10. It is related of a hero in Scottish historv, that when an overwhelming force was in full pursuit, and all his followers were urg ing him to more rapid flight, he coolly dis mounted, in order to repair a naWMiin his horse's harness .Whilst busied with the broken buckle, the distant cloud swept lown in nearer thuniter, but just as the prancing hoofs and eager spears were ready to dash down on him, the flaw was aneud ed, the clasp wras fastened, the steed was mounted, and, like a sweeping lalcon, he had vanished from their view. The brok en buckle would have left him in the field an inglorious prisoner the timely delay sent him in safety to his huzzaing com rades. There is in daily life the same luck less precipitancy, and the same profitable delay. The man who, from his prayerless waking; bounces off into the business of the day, however good his talents and great his diligence, is only galloping on a steed harnessed with a broken buckle, and must not be astonished if, in his hottest haste, his most hazardous leap, he beleit inglori ous in the dust.- Br: James Hamilton. An Ancient Hotel. California holds the most singular hotel in tb.3 world. It is situated letvecn San Jose and Santa Cruz. Imagine ten immense trees stand ing a few feet apart, and hollow inside; these are hotels neat, breezy and romau tic. The largest tree is i sixty-hve feet round, and. contains siftingrroom and that bureau of Bacchus wherefrora is dis tribnted the thing that hiteth and stingeth. All about this tree is a garden of flowers and evergreens. The drawing room is a bower made from red-wood,, evergreens, and raadona branches. For bed-chambers there are nine great hollow trees, wlute washed or papered, and having doors ' cut to fit the shape of the holes. Literature finds a place in a leaning stump, dubbed the "library." If it were not for that same haunt" of Bacchus, it is certain that the guests of this forest establishment would feGl like nothing so much as dyrads. Butter not your lest in your old age bread or butter. bread on both sides, vou be left without Correspondence. FOU TUK CAZETTB. Reminiscences of a Sojonrn of Many Years in the Principal Empires and Kingdoms of Europe NO. XXXIX. Messes. Editors : In one of my nura of the fairs in Europe. and those of Frankfort in particular, 1 then alluded to the fairs in Mnnich, and spoke of the.Qneen visiting them, ana passing bvnno-ri ;md mixin? xin with the neonle. and making purchases. Those kinds of fairs occur twice a year, mere is noiuing placed there on exhibition; everything is for sale. It is true that there are small houses on wheels in which the owner re kJoW .and in which he travels from fair to fair, to exhibit all kinds of monstrosities too disagreeable for w ell-bred people to look at, yet there was always a large i .f ii.. ...V. T-li erowu oi me rainnu wuv hhiuikvu. . sidcB these are other bLowb of a very low WHOLE NO. G7. order. But what I wish to say is that there is another great fair that occurs in Bavaria and at Munich,, at which every- thing is exhibited, and nothing offered for sale. This great national fair occurs in November; the fair, grounds are about a mile outside the city gate, and south-east from the city. The grounds cover a creat pace, and are circular. They are unin lo6ed, and remind one very mach of an amphitheatre. All the southern portion las a considerable natural elevation, in ad- lition to which artificial means have been nsel in cutting 'and forming the natural rise or hill into a crescent shape, which gradually grows less and less elevated un- ti I it reaches half way on each side. The remainder of the irrouhds are nerfeetlv lev el. For a week before the fair the rrovern- , is busily engaged in having plank ?d to erect seats. : Just in the centre of this crescent is a house which is open on all sides. It cannot be called a house either, but rather a pavilion. This pavil ion is erected for the king'and the court; on each side seats are erected, going from twenty down to three seats hirh, and tho way in which they arc arranged reminds one of the way they are erected in a circus, except that it is impossible for them to break clown, as they are resting upon this , artificial ridge above mentioned. In fact. in everything in Europe can bo seen a great regard for the preservation of life. After these seats have been erected, thev then commence to put up small houses in. half circles one half circle rather to tin? right, and another rather to the left of where the king is seated. All these small houses are occupied; some of them have two rooms and all have a piazza, They are rented from the authorities, and I was told that they produced considerable reve nue. I was gony to see some of them oc cupied by gambling establishments and others b establishments' called 'chance.' which m my opinion are not much better. The stock of horses was large, and some were very line, and the stock of cattle was very large and superior.-' Ihe hogs and the sheep were bttt few in number and not at all extra, and id fact it seemed that more attention was paid to cattle and hor ses. The fair continued for about" two- weeks, and the Saturday before the last 'prizes to those day the king awarded the) having the finest horses a rd cattle. Here a man would have a fine stock bull, for which he would get a little white flag fas tened to a little un pain ted pole. Another man would have, perhaps, a much finer bull, and he would get a larger nag with a painted staff, and the same kind wero given those having the finest horses. The most of strangers laugh at the thought of such, premiums a little piece of white cloth fastened to a pole; but I suppose re-. iving it horn the hands ot the king was 1 "TUT 1 . 1 111 premium enougn. n en, 'this an closes on. Saturday, and the next day being Sunday is devoted to the races. 1 have neglected to say that' before and during all the time of the fair strangers werearriving.from ev ery direction: from Austria, Wurtcmberg nd from ail parts of Bavaria, until on Sun day, the day of the races, the concourse 0 J W - was vast, the number being variously esti mated at, from, 7-5,000 to 100,000: The day wasjmost beautiful just cool enough to be pleasant, and thousands commenced to gather early in the morning. We had heard that the races would not. tako placo before three o'clock, but when we arrived at a little after two o'clock not only had every seat been taken at high but.-- we had like to have not had standing room. a" 1 I pushed and edged myself through the crowd to where the king and all the court were standing (the queen does not attend on Sundays). It is said in Europe that Americans are great dinners abbut royalty, and I am forced to believe that some of them are, for I continued to wedge myself alwut until at last I got to the very pavil ion, and by climbing up on seats .got my head on a level with the platform, where I had a fine view of the. king, his sisters and other ladies, and I can say thai with tho exception of the Queen of Holland they were the most homely royal personages I saw in Europe; and here ' I will say that the most beautiful women I saw anywhere in Europe were the Queen of Bavaria and the Empress of France. I cannot say why I acted so foolishly in endeavoring to get near the King's pavilion, for I had of ten seen and met him walking in, tbe streets. It may appear strange that the King should allow the people to be so near hira, but it was a common thing to see him sometimes in the streets with only ono gentleman. I have seen him alone, even without iinv usher or any servant, though as he comes every one gets off the pave ment and stands uncovered until he pass es, and they also "do the same when the Queen passes. But she has -aii usher and maids of honor. , Well, I will finish my remarks about the fail? and the races on Sunday, y My friend tand myself debated between bur selves as to whether we should go or not until there was hardly standing1-room - in an open field; but we came to tho conclu sion at last that, as all strangers and eve ryone in Munich who could get there would be there, we too might afford to go, and we did so, and gpt into the very posi tion to see the King and Court, which po sition was so very uncomfortable that I was glad td go to the north side of the great ring, and stand behind thousands of others; but, strange to say, I saw very well. There w ere six riding at the same time, and when everyone was so excited over it, one of the horses fell, and in fall ing fell before another horse, which caused that horse to fall. fThe two riders, ' being hurt, were taken from the ring, and after a short time one of them recovered, and alwut the other I never could learn w heth er he lived or died. That ended the fair and the races, and we regretted being there. Q?A&Vtfl.
North Carolina Gazette [1873-1880] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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