The Republican journal., 1900-09-13
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
MAKES WEAK WOMEN STRONG
AND SICK WOMEN WELL.

the year l2l7. Here Charles v, on a
splendid throne erected in the open air.
shrewdly, but with much spectacular
display pardoned the ComuneroS. Here
his son Philip celebrated the first mem
orable burning of heretics. which led
the van of many similar atrocities dur
ing the rule of the Inquisition. The
cathedral, began by the same pious
King, three centuries and quarter ago,
stuck fast soon afterwards and has re
manned fragment ever since Intend
rera to be the most magnificent speci-
men of the Graeco-Roman style on
eartl-either the money gave out or
the artist died. and only the nave and
towers We're ever finished One of the
towers, there We're four in the PLAN fell
down about hundred years ago. and it
is Enthusiastically Spanish that its
debris remain this day in the streets of
Nalladolid
\ more interesting church, known as
Santa Maria de Antigua. was built in
the year zoe. The University, now the
best in Spain since the decline of Sala-
manca. has an average of fifteen hun
dred students. 1t was founded in the
year 1916, but the present painfully
Rocco" building is not Vet twenty
years old Near the tumble-d0Wn PaIa-
cio Real Of Philip Ill. is the grim con-
vent of san Pablo. a Dominican insti-
tuition Of the earliest days, which was
rebuilt in 1858 by Cardinal Torquemada.
who had been one of its monks. He
was the teroCi0us Nontessor Of Isabella
the Catholic, and ne it was who eXtort-
ell from her the promise that She would
devote herself ito the glory Of God and
the eXaltation of the True Faith" | IL
der Torquemada' influence the numer-
Gus autos de fe, held i'll the main plaza.
fights and were attended by the Court
i'll gorgeous array, the victims of the
burning dressed in yellow shirts. on
which We're painted flames and figures
of devils. The Cardinal was also an
enthusiastic patron of art and litera-
ture, and the inscription 'operibus ere
dite. referring to the splendid buildings
which he founded. is repeated around
his tomb. The facade of San Pablo is
still a miracle of labyrinthine Gothic
tracery; and so is the facade of san
Gregonia, one of the magnificent founda-
tons of Cardinal Ximenez The latter
is the great showplace of Valladolid
case, its artesnado halls and chapel and
the portal, rich in heraldic ornament,
which runs up into an armorial tree.
Close by is the curious old house in
which PhilipIl. was born. The museum
is a handsome building externally, dat
ing back to 1929, but hardly worth a
visit 1t contains all the paintings,
carvings and sculptures that could be
collected in the provinces when the
converts were suppressed. Several of
the x-convents now do duty as bar
racks, factories and shops. The public
library is said to contain twenty thou
sand volumes. There is a fine new hos
pital in the spacious Parque de la Mag
delena, and several seminaries and col
leges. Most interesting among the latter
is the Colegio de los Escoceses, former
ly Jesuit institution, founded at Mad
rid, by Col. Semple, i'll 1927, and trans
ferred to Nalladolid about century
and a half later \ score of young
Scotchmen are always being prepared
here for the priesthood. The English
college (Colegio de los Ingleses) is an
other unique institution. 1t was Ell
dOwed by Sir Francis Engleheld, one of
the most Jealous adherents of Mary
Queen of SCOTS, who withdrew to Spain
after her execution. In 1890 Philip IL.
granted certain privileges to this col
lege, which it still enjoys. Forty-tive
students from the United Kingdom are
| the usual number in training for the
priesthood. The Irish college at Sala-
manca completes the trio of British r.
| C. institutions in Spain
| FANNIE b. WARD.
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