Show A Spanish Inn Bf CHABLB3 DVDIOZY WARNER All the region for miles and miles around Aroes is thickly planted with olives which give a pleasing aspect to this billy country It was late twilight when we came clattering into the ancient town and were net down at the hawse where tbe diligence dili-gence stopped which eeenaed to be presided aver by three old women We were surrounded at elite by a curious and helplal I pupulatien all eager to matzo our pieces of luggage and bear them to parts Hokavwo The driver who wes oar friend appeared ap-peared to be having a oonferenc with the old women aa to whether they should have the plueking of as or would lend us to the regular posits to which we wished to go In the growing darkness it was impossible to tea where we were or where the posada was and it required all our vigilance to keep track of our luggage lug-gage After a great deal of confusion we found ourselves transferred bag Hud baggage to the poeada which was almost exactly opposite in debt to ball the loafers of Arcoa for their valuable assistance The posada the best in the place showed no sign of light and life We entered the stable and made cur way up a stone staircase stair-case to she hotel apartments No obsequious landlord and landlady welcomed us but we at last discovered discov-ered a talleour faced maidofaUwork haughty and dirty who condescended to show us a couple of clean but utterly bare little rooms and undertook under-took to get us something to eat We felt humbly cbliged Toe stranger in Spain at most inns and elsewhere is treated PS if the most acceptable thing he could do would be to take himself speedily out of the country Our apartments were furnished with Spartan simplicity the guest is allowed a washbowl but no pitcher and the water given him in the bowl is supposed to be quite enough for hia needs but the bed though the mattress mat-tress is made of uncomfortable lumps ot wool is scrupulously clean Oar repast was all that we could expect The person who is fond of tasteless I Dean will find Spain a paradise In this land of olives those served on the table are bitter and rlieagreeable and the oilin which everything is cooked is uniformly rancid But it ahoud be confessed that the oil is better than tbe butter when the latter luxury is attainable Something seems to be the matter with the cows I do not wonder that the Spaniards are at table a temperate and abstemious race It is no merit to be abstemious with such food and cooking The wine at Arcos however was a sort ol Manzanilla that made ua regard any food with favor It was a medicinal draught with a very strong flavor of camomile very useful sortI believe in tbe manipulation of the market eherry and exceedingly wholesome So long as a man can drink this wine he will not die should recommend the total abstinence society to introduce intro-duce it into our country |