The Republican journal., 1900-08-30

.-,4,pondence Of The Journal
.,,NrA. SPAIN, July so, 1900
.r.3opeinting, and yet how inter-
l, ed city OF song and
Pr. centuries the world has
...-umed to think of Salamanca,
celebrated University and
...r..ng students. AS the synonym
.i.r the oxford, Yale, Har-
deberg Of southern Europe;
....- VT the world has gone on
,. .a tu this day, though the
11.tt is that the ancient Seat
...- las for many years been
.. .uin heap of ruins aban-
..., and owls. From Avila to
.... tedious nights journey
... urer an arid and treeless
.If.4 even the halloWed
..l he moon" fails to beau
.Nr AYila at a. m., guild
d, down the narrow. crook
'u hotel to station, I'M
... s.cy step of the way by
u-1l> and lottery ticket sell
numerous and persistent
iaN when strangers are
.s ~o slowly joss the train
hri advanced before you
-..l1 1ca-hurse-shoe i'll shape
... color. with the wide. blue
.r p> lowing close under its
This mighty river. by
-.l which a bluer or more
r-s not exist, proves
acquaintance to the for
. iterS hold in solution some
.d mineral or organic matter.
only plays havoc with the
II one unaccuStomed to
- g. ont covers the body of the
A minute sores, resembling
. rattd case of 'prickly heat"
>... ..4- keep the water standing
..- A, in cisternS before drink
r3er 10 allow the injurious
... f. deposit. The Tonnes. ris-
"Niere III the northern noun
r- more than hundred miles
spanish territory to its june
-Oe buero. the great river of
lazy, shallow trout-Stream
tded. it suddenly becomes
sd and imposing near Sala-
efe 1t Is crossed by a magni-
~.e bridge of twenty-five
|e rule of twenty y-1ive ap-
rc>ail in this ancient seat of
Feuty-tve colleges. twenty
Irs, twenty-five converts. |
rote5sorShips and twenty |
'o its Roman bridge: but
.u- remains intact-the rest
among the things of long
fourteenth century >ala-
--.d 1hp most splendid col |
.mgs in Europe. and twelve |
-drnrS in its great Univer-
It's pride was first laid iii
Luz French. i'll the summer
Nutonly destroyed TWEEN |
u-tegeS and all the richest |
rGrtheI with private palaces |
iot,o Ut Rome or the Grand |
|"Hice. which they first loot
JIrs and then burned for
,.ter On, the law of Queen |
that nu corporate body in |
hold any property. made |
'r royal pllnder. completed |
,lon of Salamanca. \ few
laugS remain TO show what /
st once have been-the great |
dozen colleges and converts.
~.rrY of san Bartolone. now
rldence for the civil governor, |
hltaDishop Palace. occupied by
.l> If the celebrated Colegio |
~,e> IrlandeseS. college of |
"vmen,' founded by Philip |
" to spite his siSter-in-law, |
England. and dedicated to |
The beautiful cream-color- |
Flich forms the walls of the |
labngs was quarried close by |
Nu the banks of the Tonnes. |
Hen were erected early in the |
ctntury, although of course
1neh older: and it is safe to |
pthlng whatever was built in !
ra during the last hundred |
-olshlng up your ancient his |
Iemember that Plutarch re- |
10 l>2, b. G.. Hannibal raised |
e"i salamanca: after the Span
promised to pay three hun
'N's OF silver and to hand over
AHred hostages. 1t seems that |
af aas not famous for keeping it's |
Yea II that early day, and having
'.'4 'omply with the terms agreed |
e 'unic Chief returned and |
place over to plunder. He or
male population to come out |
-."' and being afraid to trust |
4ymanded tnat they leave their |
"lnd. But he did not reckon
Npinen, The latter concealed |
"',ier their sagas, and when the !
'iHl guard, placed over the pre-
harmed prisoners. left their |
loin i'll the pillage, the women