New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-10

| regency, and 30 accept the present government"
Then you regard the republic pis-dlier" Pre-
| cisely." What do you think of Castelar, He is
| good man and fine orator: but he can never &C
| complish what he has undertaken. We are biding
| our time"
Poor CASTELAR, How ptied him! Atlas bearing
the earth on his shoulders had no such burden
The further went into SPAIN the further OIL seemed
| the republic. Dinner! dinnerl Twenty minutes
for dinner y and off everybody rushed to the dining
| room Of restaurant. 1t was the only occasion on
which saw Spaniards in a hurry. They would have
done credit to Western steamboat as described by
Dickens thirty years ago. had succeeded 20 well
without eating, that to dine seemed like throwing
away money however, early preudices still cung 10
me and sat down beside o nice-lOoking Spanish
woman. who Immediately began to talk broken En-
glish II really is provoking not to be able TO pass
for somebody else occasionally, but the Anglo-Saxon
is branded with national characteristics as to rem
der concealment impossible. This woman ate.
| could not. There came soup with oil in it, Then
dry fish with oil it, followed by pork and oil.
fell back bit Of done death beef and under
done potato. At least made the effort, but had no
knife. Bring me a knife" l said to waiter
laden with dishes. Certainly" said the wait
er, and never returned Bring madam a
knife said the Spanish woman, to another
waiter. Certainly" he replied and never re-
turned. Both, probably came back the next day.
The one word in everybody's mouth is "mdnana'
tomorrow IL appears to be the appropriate
answer to any question, and has so taken posses
sion of the Spanish mind that | don't believe Cas-
telar himself would dare to do to-day what ne
could put off until tomorrow. IL was not feasible
to postpone my dinner, so poised my beef on the
points of fork and gnawed it, to the amazement
of some old Spanards~ opposite, who picked
their teeth in chorus, and gared. Said they,
probably when seated smoking in a Theoretically
sealed compartment What queer people are
the English. They never use a knife They
stick their meat on a fork, and bite around It,"
| didn't like gnawing and, after deferring to my
stomach, by indulgng m several mouthfuls, arose.
The somewhat distant Biinker, who was seated at
the same table devouring all within his reach, also
rose smiled upon me, and sgnied in pOrpOise-like
pantomime that he would pay for my dinner. The
benevOence and oil beaming on that mans face
deserved to be immOrtalized by John Leech He
was leech but not John.
Ii is long night that has morrow. EODg as it
was the end came before | died for want of fresh
air. Thinking me asleep my neighbors stole to the
window and closed it, counted their beads and said
their prayers in unison. They sounded like the hum
of bees. Then the ladies removed their bonDets.
took off their hair, tied their remains up III silk
handkerchiefs, and watched them nod. nod, nod
ding until daylight The view within did not eX-
cite, nor did that without When Dickens wishes
to describe desoaton he says: Few children were
TO be SEEM and no dogs" Had he visited Spain he
would have drawn picture of naked, russell
mountains, stretching north and south, east ana
west staring out of an atmosphere so clear and thin
az to render their bleak monotony all the more
startling, without cultivation, without habltaton,
saving here and there the wrctchcd ruin of a
wretched stone sty, i'll which once may have wal
lowed medieval beggarsigiving no hope for either
time or eternity. became more and more oppressed
by the absence of life. That railroad tack should
be laid down IN such region that tram should be
slowing climbing an inclined plane that occasional
dreary stations, seemingly attached to no town,
should punctuate our progress, seemed "a CHASTITY
joke and When early in the morning, we passed the
Escora built high in the air. and starting out of the
solitude like the great grim parody on humanity
that it is | saw in its erdron the bier Of past and
present Spain. This was the country that once
ruled the world, the country to which America owes
its discovery Is there anything as Incredible as
history h. ,.