The Republican journal., 1900-04-05

and retreat to the roof, as the Sevillans
have funny habit of doing. SO enor-
mously high are the sleeping rooms that,
looking up from ones bed, one feels as if
down in the bottom of we'll. The floors
are usually of white marble, and walls
ornamented with brilliant dzulejos; but
the partitions go only little above ones
head and the ceiling is of canvas or
painted boards.
The unintroduced stranger must content
himself with only passing glimpses of these
| luxurious dwellings, for the proud grandee
guards his home with true Oriental jeal-
ousy. There are, however, two or three
places in Seville which are open to the
public, under due restrictions They are
splendid representatives of their class so
far as form and furnishings go, but being
unoccupied, are like beautiful body from
which the soul has departed. One of these
| is San Telmo, the hereditary seat of the
Duke of Montpenser, standing just back
of the Golden Tower, on the bank of the
GuadaIquivir. Here the late son of
Louis Philippe, who married the only
sister of x-queen Isabella, lived in re-
gal state, his halls filled with elegant
furniture, costly paintings and bronzes,
and his grounds containing acres of orange
groves and rare collections of tropical
/ plants. The palace was built for naval
/ school by the companions of Columbus
and dedicated to the mariners saint in
gratitude OF having been saved by TEN
! pest. Isabelle gave it to her sister, the
I Duchesse de Montpensier and after the
/ revolution of 1S4S she and her husband
made it Their principal residence. They
We're exceedingly popular in Seville, where
they did a great deal of good by careful
and discriminating charity, and also in
/ the encouragement Of art and skill Of
every description. San Telmo's marble
courts and hills embelished with ara
besques and verses from the Koran, a
fountain playing i'll each chamber, are
beautiful beyond description; but be-
| ing entirely with ut fire places are al
together too Chilly in winter to meet ones
! ideas of home comfort. The walls are
| completely covered with family portraits
and souvenirs, evidently greatly priced
and cared for. There are dozens of por-
traits of Louis Philippe, Sister Isabella,
Marie Amelie and Nine. adelaide, and
| less distinguished members of the two
families, with many pictures of events in
their careers, such as the baptism and
marriage of the Compt de Paris, Louis
/ Philippe and his five sons on horse back,
and Princesse AleXandrine Victorre rep
resented as an angel of mercy visiting
starving family. In one of the patios are
copies of the tombs of two of Louis
dead children. The first child was buried
in the royal chapel of the cathedral.
When the second died, the parents natur
ally wished to lay ii there also; but it was
not allowed. The greatest insult which
the revolution offered them was this re-
fusal in the words SO You are no longer
royal, the royal chapel is not for your off
spring" The nearest that poor Louis
Philippe ever got to the throne, though he
more than once figured in the role of Pre-
tender, was when his daughter Mercedes
was married to the King, (she was the
first wife of the late Alfonso; on which
occasion it is said that he fell upon his
knees before his own little girl and kissed
her hand-so exalted were his ideas of
royalty, and so thorough Spaniard had
the French prince become
The palace of the Duke of Alba, in the
! Gale de Duenas, is semi IN orish and
/ beautiful beyond compare; but being in
now questionable neighborhood was
! long ago deserted by its aristocratic
owners. 1t contains eleven patios, a score
lars, besides a wonderful garden and a
forest of myrtles and orange trees. Over
/ its magnificent gateway the arms of the
house of Alba are EN- blazoned in colored
tiles, encircled by flags taken in many
hard fought battles; together with the in
sigma of the Golden Fleece and the signi-
ficant motto, stu IN ca ego pho ca" The
crest-an angel holding in one hand the
globe and cross, in the other a flaming
swords supposed to typify the position
which that bulwark of the monarchy, the
oppressor of the Netherlands and cham
pion of the Faith, maintained to the last
in the affections of his suspicious and
bigoted monarch.
More interesting than either of these
building facing the Botanical Garden,
which the stranger at first supposes to be
at least royal residence. 1t is the gov