The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-04-28

the train-dc-lux crowd; the people who
toll not and at the same time neglect
10 spin. do not say this about Cannes
because ! had row with an estimablc
resident of the place, but simply be-
cause il is true. Guy de Maupassant
saws of Cannes: princes princes,
eycryw here princes. They who love
princes are indeed happy. People gath
er together at Cannes because they
love imperial and royal highnesses
De Maupassant is not quite correct
didn't go to Cannes TO see princes;
neither did he. Once l rowed in a
small boat past De Maupassant's little
Yacht, the Bel-Ami. and saw the nov
clist sitting gloomily on deck watching
tile Estral mountains and apparently
thinking how much better he would
have made those mountains IL he had
had the doing of it. Still there is no
use denying that there are great
many titled people about Cannes in the
winter time. do not know the rank
of the man ! had the little difficulty
with. but thought him most objec-
tionable person and have no doubt he
had the courage to look him up since,
but if this should meet his eye beg to
inform him that ! will pay his little
till for repairs If he sends it N to me-
II is a curious thing that Cannes, al
though II is so aristocratic, has many
American names One whole district
Of the town is named after California.
which they spell with final ''e" in
stead of an "a There is the Heel
California, one of the largest in the
place: there Is the Villa Nevada. where
the duke of Albany died in 1854 there
j. United States hotel and Villa
Florida, besides numerous villas named
after several western states, where
billiards. are more common in winter
than the sunshine OF the Riviera
1t was the exploring Of California
hill that led to my trouble. climbed
the hill behind Cannes by steep road
that led 10 little chapel called St
Antoine. This chapel is more than six
hundred feet above the sea. and it
stands In notch at the top of the hill
where the road dips down into a deep
and lovely valley with the little pot
terry and pottering town Of Naliauris
at the bottom. don't know anything
u bout the history of the chapel Of St.
Antoine, but can give you some in
formation about the pub that stands
opposite. They can mix youup some of
the most villainous drinks there that
you can get in all France. which is saying
"A good deal From the corner of the
cafe q narrow lane leads nteeply up the
hill from out the notch. and that lane
lei me into the forest of Mauvarre.
which occupies the summit of the hill.
eight hundred feet or so above the sea.
a the edge of this wood of scraggy
pine there is "A most wonderful view.
The cliff. about as high as that at
Quebec. is not quite SO PERCEPTIONS
The bare rocks protrude here and
there. but the face of the declivity is
mostly covered with shaggy shrubbcry
and bramhles. At the foot are hand
some villas, and along between them
and the sea runs the road from Cannes
TO Antilles like winding white rib
bon. Away TO the horizon stretches
the blue Mediterranean. To the west
the outlook is restricted by the shout
der Of the hill, but to the cast the view
extends into hay infinity. The pro-
nontory Of Antilles projects out into