The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-03
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Judge Seymour's Able Lecture on
APhilin IL Snaln.s Gx.aaf De.Snaf


A highly cuitiyat ted audience gathered
at Raslks's hall Friday evening to hear
Judge Seymour's lecture ON Philip II.
or Spain" and listened with evident
pleasure to q discourse setting forth the
principal events in the life of that
bigotcd ard heartless monarch. The
hal! was brilliantly lighted and had
been made douoiy attractive By decor
atoms on the stage. which looked like
bower Of beauty. The effect was en-
HANGED by numerous plants. the splen-
id Gala lily predominating.
The evenings programme was opened
with music By the mandolin club. This
was followed with Appropriate selec-
tons by the Juvenile orchestra OF nine
aspiring musicians. after which Mr..
Julius Kahn. In q neat and weil-poanted
speech. introduced the lecturer. AS
Judge Seymour stepped forward. it was
clear to every one In the audience that
they were to listen to a man OF splendid
appearance and natural grace of man
ner- He delivered his lecture In voice
well modulated and expressive, and
filled out his stately sentences in a way
that commanded rapt attention. He
spoke from manuscript. but had the
subject well in hand and was not ham
pered by the pages in front OF him
He spoke for upwards OF an hour, and
ended the address by splendid period.
summing up the characteristics OF the
most powerful monarch known TO the
history of Spain.
The lecture. after short preliminary
on Charles ". the father OF Philip. was
developed directly along the line OF
events. with q pleasing DEPRESSION now
and then into subordinate facts. from
the birth OF the monarch in 1921, to his
death In 1888. From the hour OF his
coming into the world Philip H., the
epeaker said. was little old man with
suspicious looks and scowling brow.
and he who was heir to the greatest
heritage on earth was always cynical.
sclf-contained and taciturn His lower
jaw, through physical defect. was
heavy. and grinness was the prevailing
expression OF the monarch. He talked
little. perhaps for this very reason. and
gave his life up t. Almost incessant
writing. He first loved Philip, then
Spain. and with a remorselcss bitter
ness hated everything else.
Passing quickly over the tour of
Europe. when millions OF people came
forth TO welcome Their future ruler. the
speaker told of the marriage with
May Tudor. the fat, sickly, weakened
English queen. eleven ears older than
himself whose worst defect after all
10 Philip was the fact that she lived IN
England. When they were married. said
the speaker. the English people made a
very wry face-and so did Phliip-but
he made the sacrifice for the sake %
the church. Judge Seymour next smoke
Of the voyage up the Thames. when
Philip with a magnificent silver cross
at the bow ct his vessel. delivered To
par, lament the osation famous for its
rhetorie, calling on the wandering sheen
90 return 10 the fold ef the church OF
Rome. Ali who responded were blessed.
but THE few obstinate heretscs who he'd
cut the king and queen at once mo-
ceeded TO burn M. AT last 'sicker than
sea could ever make him passing
hence" Philip returned home.
The ahdseasion OF Charles made
Philip AT the age ~ IS a greater mon
arch than the Caesars. bat almost his
first act was TO marry lisa bella. the
affanced - his haE-witfe3 relative Dan
Carlos. Charles had imposed upon the
shoulders OF his son the task OF fight
ing the heresy az the reformation, warn
ing htxil THAI II WAS better nos 10 rub.
az al than to rule a land Of he~efssss
But Philip turned the task into a
slaughter OF hts enemies ard 2aaur,,-
rated the Spanish in0nIsztlon with all
its horrors. over which the snosrs--h
pres aed like an evtl genus with MS
pen for wand
Then came vivid account os TIE
persecution Of the Moors, the victories
OF Don Juan. the bastard brother OF
pasl5p. over the Turks. aud lastly the
equipment ard destruction 81 the ar
grsads. gathered together by Philip with
the thought OF universal conquest and
70 discharge che venom Of q nfetinae
uposa the arch-heresie Eliza beth.
The lecture was followed by another
selection by tire mandolin club. TIE
drawing for the lasiy's watch was CON-
Quoted by Mr. Kahn and Mr. Jacob
Fss-th. ard Miss Eva Kennedy. q little
girl 5 years cd. drew Ne. $50. he'd nv
sam Rosenberg TIE remainder OF the
evening was spent In an en5ayanls
dance. in which seven;y-sxe couples
participated
Judge Seymour VIII leave for Jarar.
in a week or ten days.