Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-05

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 'ae,ed 10 pay the usual salute
 Ssaaish duke at the court of Mad
 opad himself by explaining that
 IN not know the offended noble
 sriend." replied his grace, "the
 .'a |, 10 assume that everybody
 ' aalaee who looks like a monkey
 ' lndpe of the first class
 for tbe startling frankness of
 sats-wbieh seems quite the re-
 of spanish-nothing could be-
 characteristic than this anecdote.
 false. At one strolis it dis
 ,Ae inordinate pride of pedigree
 sb makes Spanish grandees more
 z tban Kentucky colonels, and ex-
 rho utter worthlessness of the
 truth is, the Spanish are
 .ondhly mongrei race, and their con- < o themselves amazes us. Their
 I,rv has probably been oftener over < sud conquered than any other terri % of equal extent in Europe. Phoe-
 Bn. Carthaginian, Roman, Vandal, Erotb and Moor have all success IE made it their stamping ground, |Sv nothing of the more peaceful in zoa of the thrifty but bitterly hated #s-and the effect of all this upon <,.pure Castillian blood,'' what ever H may be, is indelibly stamped on |sy really Spanish face.
 sut playing the gentleman has been Ilpd the endemic disease of Spain," the national vanity is something slesoae.l One of their historians seri sv advanced the theory that the first bbitants of the country arrived by \ so impressed was he by their SUI human qualities that nothing short descent from the sky could account hbem. A subsequent historian, how !. after a long and grave discussion Ihe question, finally announced his bion that they more probably came Band"
 liter this we need not be astonished ] the Spanish claim to possess the, ! est families in Europe. The surpris- circumstahee is that the claim is wholly without foundation. Their ply names can in some cases be aed back to an incredibly remote iod, though 1t .mnst not be assumed { ibe original blood persists in any fly.
 'robably the most ancient family in in is the house of Pacheco, whose ltes are mot far from Carteia, now ed cartaya, in Andalusia. Pl1tarch 8 us that when Crassus fled from y he concealed himself for eight lthsl at Ximena. near Cartela. in ss btIonging to a spSish gentle l namedi Paeiccas. Cicero also men ls this generous spaniard, and there
 be no doubt that he was one of ancestors of the Pacheco family, se name is obviously derived from and who still own the caves. This lies them back about 2,000 years, to eFiod antedating the Christian era; iitis possible to trace the line much her The name isclearly of Phoeni- origin, being ultimately derived "pataicoi,a the word by which the lans designated the carved figure ds of their galleys. The identifica-
 IS made complete by the fact that Phoenicians were the founders of deia, as of Cadiz in the same prov That adds another thousand years 70 to the Pacheeo pedigree. Think "a landed estate remaining in the session of the same family for 5000 IS. This is doubtless the most won Iul family tree in the world, and sually we'll authenticated. The neeos may we'll be pardoned for talk pride in it, though it roots in rather a'ory soil at last, for the great 1nal Pacheco was evidently Tyrian 'booter.
 ames that trace back to the Cartha- an occupation in the time of Han, T are also found, and the title of '@oals own clan, Barch, is perpet- 'u oy the Barcias and Garcias, we'll @a families of Andalusia. There a'so several names of Roman ante .a's--as Ponce and Cano, in Latin uPs and Capius. A Spanish gentle esarlng the latter name was per a, ' trend of the poet Martial; all of 7 sn seems to bring antiquity very m - Spain. The fact of the matter cue i, has never emerged from an- ay' Roman and Carthaginian 1oas persist like the names. lS @ spanish, however, are inclined to : oaek to the Cloths as the purest l M ,'aln of nobility" This certainly .s .ss a strange perversion of senti- Y TOT of all the barbar rians that ]. " uoWn from the north to lay waste ~ ,Sn civilization with fire and sword, 'Ulns' with theig cousins. the Vanr @efe the most eirredeemably sviI- 's. Ss. From them unhappy Spain < fueflVed much of her intolerance sso'ry' and that atrocious system Isall1ed s. injustice which. found its ,s expression in thesInqnisition; also NiqSs .l and conceited Ignorance. and almost orien1al incanacitv for