The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-05

dult IN every par NAN uAeAA "a AANlll 9 anu ~
fiattering to the vanity of which he pos
sessed rather more than a due share
that il was impossible for him not to &C
cept them. A delegate was dispatched
from Rome with proposals and
rode post haste across Europe with
them. When only days journey
from Calais. however, his horse cast a
shoe and fell lame. AS the horse was
favorite animal, the papal messenger de-
termined to wait for a day, rather than
/ take another steed, which might not be
so easy under the saddle. The next day
the horse was well and the Journey was
resumed, Calais was reached, the chan
mel was crossed, and the delegate, arrived
/ in London only to find that on the day of
his arrival Henry had been married to
Jane Seymour, a Protestant; that Anne
had been beheaded the day before. and
! that all hope of a reconciliation was lost
He was day too late A lost horseshoe
had changed the course Of a nations his
tory. A similar mishap is said TO have
been responsible for the arrest and de-
tention of Louis XVI at Narennes. A
guard of cavalry had been sent to meet
qim at the village and escort him in safety
| across the frontier One of the horses
drawing the royal carriage became lame
from the loss of shoe, and the royal
party was detained. Meantime the cav
airy escort, fearful ofattracting too much
attention in the village, withdrew TO
bridge few hundred yards distant and
on the opposite side from which the king
was expected, and there waited his arri-
val. The delay and change were fatal
| The king was recognized, the party was
detained the cavalry, becoming tired of
waiting, and suppoSing that the king had
taken some other route, rode off, and
Louis went back to Paris and the scafold
History records one war that was
I -. IL
| English Am bassador procured for cele-
brated French beauty at the Paris court;
and of treaty, that of Utrecht which
was brought on by quarrel between
, Queen Anne and the Duchess of MARI
borough about pair of gloves Odder
| than either, however, was the cause of
the great hundred years war between
England and France, which impoverished
| both. 1t was in this wise: Louis VII was
no saint, but, so far as the ladies were
concerned, had a weakness that was con-
stantly securing for him penances of one
| kind or another at the hands of his con-
| lessor Finally he was guilty of some
| peccadilloes so very bad that the rev.
erened father ordered him to have his
| luxuriant beard shaved and his flow
| ing locks cropped short. This was
| done, and the change made in the per-
| sonal appearance OF the Majestyo of France
was so startling that when his queen, the
| already not too faithful Eleanor, came
| into his presence, she laughed aloud at
the spectacle. The poor king could not
explain matters for the explanation would
| have made worse appearance than his
| close-cropped poll, so he was forced in
silence to endure her iibes. If she had
stopped at ridicule, the matter might
| have ended there ana been forgotten
| when his beard and hair were grown, but
| he was rendered so contemplate in her
sight that she openly kept company with
the Count of AnJou, then a nobleman of
the court. The shaver king stood the
disgrace as long as he could, but matters
went from bad to worse and finally he
sent to the pope the evideaCein the case,
and succeeded in having the marriage
declared invalid Eleanor then, finding
herself free, married her lover, who
| afterward became Henry Ii. Of England.
. When she came to the throne of Louis,
| however, she had brought as her dover
the rich provinces of Potion and Guiene,
ana after her divorce from Louis, sought
| to reclaim them. To this, however, Louis
would by no means consent; he was glad
enough to get rid of the queen, but he
was eager to keep her dover Henry
pressed his wlfe's claims to the provinces
and then came on a series of wars which
not only lasted for a century, but left an
animosity not yet extiQct.
I Every body has heard of the chance
which led Columbus to change his course
in midocean, and thus leave North Amer
lea for the English to settle. but every
body has not heard of the game of chess
which lea the Spanish monarch to take
an interest in the explorer and spouse
his cause. 1t is a Spanish tradition that
the fate of Columbus once hung on game
of chess. For years the schemer had
haunted the Spanish court, trying to in
| taraet in h,,r l.
despairing he determined to leave and go
to France. The night before his intended
departure he sought an audience of the
queen to communicate his intentio and
TO take his leave. The queen asked him
to wait. while she made one more effort to
interest the king and left the room for
that purpose. She found Ferdinand en-
gagged at game of chess, and disturbing
him by her entrance and thus causing
him to lose piece, he let fly a volley of
oaths at seamen generally and at Colum-
| bus in particular, and then informed Isa-
bella that the result of her petition would
depend on the result of the game II
grew worse, and things looked blue for
the discoverer of America, but Isabella
| overlooking the board, whispered to his
| majesty suggestion as to a move that
could be made: the king adopted the sug-
gestion and America was saved. II is a
| queer story, but 10 stranger than the
one told in Rome at the time the
divorce of Henry VIII. was under
discussion that the negotiations
were broken or by the Earl
of Wiitshires dog. This unman-
nearly cur had followed his master into
the court. and when the pontiff, at the
close of the audience, put out his foot to
| be kissed by the earl, the dog bit it, and so
angered the pope and Mortified the court
that the negotiations were suspended
! The story may be true or false, but in
either case is an excellent demonstration
of the value of triie, when the trihe oc-
| ours in the life of an exalted parsonage,
and gives point to the remark made by
Paschal along the same line, that if the
nose of Cleopatra had been an inch longer
or shorter the course of the worlds his
tory might have been materially changed.
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