The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-25

Herald Mana Fairy Tale.
A princess three shades lighter than anthra-
cite coal must be bewitching rarity. The
inky daughter Of jet-blaok emperor appeals
to the eye when we picture her sparkling with
diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds;
clad in sky-blue silk; girdled with zone OF
cloth of gold; mounted on tall, cream
colored charger. whose bride chains are
polished solid silver, and riding at hand
gallop over the Haytian Champ de Mars. 1t
might be absurd to speak of her as the fair
princess, but we are assured that she is good
looking; that her figure is plump and well
moulded that her expression is good
natured her laugh. like her horses bridle
silvery; her mind cultivated, and her
conversation free. pointed and charming
She is not poor princess for her imperial
papa, old Soulouque, was diligent in making
money for his family on the celebrated Tweed
plan, and probably succeeded better than the
William Marcy of our Empire State. The
result to him was that, having heard one
morning that his beloved subjects were desir-
GUS Of saving of his crown and head together,
he resigned the former in hurry and left with
the latter in great haste for Jamaica. Now
they have beautiful black republic in Hayt,
and the plump, good-natured pile of gorgeously
adorned and palpitating anthracite coal -four
ishes her jewelled riding-whip in Port au
Prince as royalty as ever. She is certainly as
remarkable piece Of femininity as news
paper man could desire for q transient COM
panion in a mornings ride over such beauti-
full country as delights the sense in the trop-
ical neighborhood of Port au Prince. Glori-
GUS palms, almond trees, mango trees, and
green sward in the foreground; purple lines
of towering mountain and frowning headland
behind and on either side, the picturesque
town in front, and the calm expanse Of the
great ocean stretching away to the horizons
rim under clear blue sky, are the setting Of
the picture! Lucky HERALD man! the world
will say, thus to find yourself in realization
of fairy land. Lalla Rookh is not richer in
sensuous luxury than the beauty of the sur
roundings Of that matin ride, and the stories
of the witching Scheradzerade are not more
prolific in pleasures to the eye. Thrice lucky
HERALD man! who can enjoy all these things in
the first passionate thrill as they stir the heart
to admiration from the vivid look of nature
itself. He wrote his experiences, however,
with oil the gushing disingenuousness of
simple mind, and people grow happy
in thinking of that HERALD mans happiness
as he rode beside the gorgeous "culled pusson"
in her quarter million dollar ''rig." 1t is
pleasant to reflect that the HERALD mans toll
some search for stubborn facts brings him
occasionally into such soft ways as those that
expanded their emotional glories before him
on that memorable morning Not always is
his career SO enviable. Painting with fever in
the swamps and forests of Africa, tramping
painfully over the densely timber-clad hills of
Cuba, being ushered through q hole in the
roof into Captain Jacks cave, or treading the
submerged deck of the Atlantic in a divers
suit will not, for pleasant sensations, compare
favorably with that morning ride with the sable
skinned Princess Soulouque. Yet all, soft or
hard, fowery or thorny, lie in the path of duty,
and the HERALD man, true to his trust and his
obligation, takes just what comes. Thus it is
that the stabstract and brief chronicles of the
time are made. The public reads each ex-
perience with differing degree of apprecia-
ton, but becomes convinced in the end that
wherever duty calls or occasion offers the
HERALD man will be found. This thought
gives pleasure to the world, and for the
HERALD man it is glory enough.