The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-08-06
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1896.

the Spaniards had slaughtered hun
dreds of them.
At Valencia he visited the church
in which there is miniature of Christ
wounded, and from the wound liquid
resembling blood still continues flow
ing. He spoke of the castles seen on
the mountain side as he passed through
the old country. They we're the homes
of the knights and as the common
people at the foot of the hills looked
up and gazed on these castles it was
no wonder that they felt awed and
Unconstitutional, and paid tribute as
vassals to these knights. 1t was no
wonder that the peasantry often built
castles in the air, dreamt of castles, as
they gazed up the mountains. "This
dream of the peasantry, not only of
Spain, but of England, France and
Germany has been realized" said the
speaker as he eloquently raised his
voice, land the broad acres of America
has given them castles far beyond
their dreams of other days"
He touched on the spot where Col
umbus came to secure concessions
from Ferdinand and Isabella, and
where he died in 1906. He declared
that among great men Columbus was
a star of the first magnitude, and that
the spirit of Columbus may even now
be leading other spirits on a voyage of
discovery.
Mr.. Eustis visited the Escorial, the
gridiron chapel, erected to St. Loren
70, in commemoration of his having
been roasted on a gridiron for refusing
to give to the Moors the gold of his
church. He spent many days there.
The great dead slumber in the tombs
of the gridiron. The sarcophagus of
Charles V is there and is occasionally
opened so that people might look on
his face. Charles V was one of the
kings who, while alive, had his funeral
services preached.
Mr.. Eustis next visited Madrid.
Madrid is modern city, the location
of which is due to King Phillip, who
became tired of moving the capital
from one place to another, and secur-
ing compass found the exact geogra-
phical centre of Spain and located the
capital there. Ell Museum was the
principal object of interest in the city,
He thought it the finest picture gal
lery in the world and he spent a week
alone in the gallery. The paintings
of the holy family, peasant life, etc,
by MuriIlo were the most superb.
From Madrid he proceeded south in
to the country of the Moors who plant
ed the banner of the Prophet Ali on
the banks of the Ganges-that people,
who, within a hundred years, made a
conquest Of the Orient, of the Gauges,
carried the Koran into Spain and
were preparing to plant it in France.
They met Roderick upon the banks of
the Guadalete and after a battle
lasting for five days the banner of the
key triumphed over the banner of the
cross. In q years the Moors made a
conquest of the greater part of Spain
and entered France, and it seemed as
though all Europe was to bow before
the key and scimetar. 1t was then a
question as to whether the Koran or
Bible would prevail. Under the mag
nifcent leadership of Charles Martell,
after battle lasting seven days, the
crescent disappeared from France
over the Pyrenees.
The Arabs or Moors settled in the
fairest of lands. This indolent people,
after their many victories in war, be-
came industrious, they became scien-
tifc, commenced to love romance, love
home, lost the love of war, took up the
torch of science of Athens and planted
it in Granada. They established
post roads and postofices, and it was
no wonder that the crowned heads of
France and England sent couriers
down to Granada to learn politeness.
They founded system of irrigation
that made their land blossom with the
citrus and the orange; they transplant
ed the palm from the Ganges to grow
forever while they fourished in Spain
for only six centuries; they we're scient-
lists, astronomers, naming constella-
tons and stars.
Mr.. Eustis related the customs of
the Moorish people and stated that
the bull fight was introduced by the