Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-20
TWO CIIATEAUX.
DIFFERENCES THAT ARE NOTICED
ONLY ON INVESTIGATION.

The Tourist Liable to Be Deceived by a
High sounding same-A Place That
Should BE Called a Water That
Came Exceptionally High.
France is full of chateaux, under
which name are included a great variety
OIL buildings, so great that when you
near OF place so called you do not at
all know what to expect Information
Is always hard to get in foreign land
and the human mind rebels against
perpetual confession of ignorance, so
that Its owner is apt to accept with a
smile of intelligence instructions in a
strange language that convey but a
| shadow OF meaning to the nearer, and to
trust to experience as the best teacher.
leave it TO any candid reader to say, if
ne would know which promised the
most, the Chateau of the Pharos or the
Chateau of St. Eulalie? Yet one is a
palace. and the other-but let me not
anticipate.
PLEASANT PLACE TO BE sIcE.
On one cape of the magnificent bay
that includes Marseilies and her harbors.
and overlooking them all from its hill,
stands the Chateau of the Pharos, giving
US an unexpected reward for our difficult
walk between quays, fortresses and
lighthouse, in its elegance and quiet Sc
clusion. The palace is closed now, and
| stands as peacefully in its extensive and
well kept park as if it were miles away
from the busy city-a handsome Renais-
sance ediiice, far more attractive than
many more famous royal residences. 1t
belonged to the Empress Eugene, and
after the fall of the empire was given by
her to the city of Marseilles, to be used
Z rC a lafnczr f-I / Ex.ts. - l.
been fitted up for that purpose; at any rate.
it is not now in use. 1t is finely situated
for hospital, in such an open, healthy
location; it would be almost worth while
to be sick in order to recover in such a
| pleasant spot.
THE OTHER KIND.
IL was while we were at Hveres that
we heard of the Chateau of st. EulaIie.
Attracted by the poeticaI name we re-
solved to visit it, although it was repre-
sented as rather too distant for a walk.
But with such an object in view we
would take the best part of the day,
[ start early, and give up our lunch. Fol-
lowing the directions given, we proceeded
| down the beautiful valley of Hyeres,
between the submits of Costa Bella and
the mountains of the Moors, the latter
name Sc suggestive of the times when
! all this land was racked by piratical
/ incursions of those savage marauders
/ Crossing the rapid little Gapand river
/ after two or three miles walk. and fol-
lowing its banks, we looked in all direc-
tons for the stately edifice we expected
| to show its towers above the yellow
! sycamores, but in vain. Finally, being
/ directed by the most polite of French
/ cavaliers, whom we fortunately met,
and who might have ridden directly out
! OF the middle ages. we turned down a
! muddy lane and found-a ranch! A
ranch, though nobody in this effete
| country knows enough to call it so.
There were a number of long, low
stone buildings, scattered among huge
1 old olive trees, peach orchards. groves of
mulberries and grass fields; there were
/ great ricks of hay, an old mill, wide
4 barns and tribes of chickens, but no
/ handsome central mansion worthy of the
4 noble family that formerly inhabited it,
/ The only reminders of the ancient times
when | suppose princes used to visit
/ here were dilapidated avenue of lofty
trees that once formed the approaches to
the chateau, and a singular old tower
This tower must have been built as re-
fuge for the family and dependents when
the pirate galleys We're anchored in the
harbor and the alarm was spread from
one estate 10 dilOlDers a Tall. round
tower, pierced only by loopholes, with a
lookout on the summit of its bell shaped
roof. Around its base were battle
mented walls. now in ruins. the former
! moat ovcrgrown with bushes and trav-
| ersed by chickens, the only useless part
of the farm. Amen! May all war So
vanish in peace and plenty!
AN EXPENSIVE CANAL.
Have you seen the falls of Durance:'
/ yve were asked soon after our arrival in
MarseiIles. We replied In the negative.
wondering to what the lady could refer
when she explained by adding: Where
the water comes into the town" In lS4C
the Marseiiles people, having been short
of water for some centuries and having
as it happened, no war on hand to ex-
haust their finances, undertook to bring
in a river to satisfy their thirsty souls
The expenditure of 10000. 600 francs re-
suited in the canal of Roquefavour
which connects the Durance with the
city, a distance of twenty-five miles
Marseilles slopes gently upward from its
harbor to hill directly east from that
point. about mile and a half, the hill
being 400 feet above the sea level Or
the top of that hill arrives the canal
having passed through several tunnel:
and crossed the final valley on arches
like the old Roman aqueducts. Mar
settles Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.