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Show DEAD RULER LED FORCES. TOJICTORY Body ol Cid Campeador Lashed to Horse Terrorized Terror-ized the Enemy. . SPANISH HERO OF V ELEVENTH CENTURY Romance and History Records Re-cords Life and Deeds of Adrenturer. BYJ-SEDESIO 3. ha any. MADRID, Bpaisv Heroe of history are often men produced by eoaditlons. The of legend ar turuaUy th incarnation incar-nation of idal. Th eld ejnpdor, th lord champion, othsrwisa Bodrigo ds Bivsr, was a Spanish hero ef ths lr-nth lr-nth century. As a historical character Bodrigo was a soldier- of fortims who sold his lane alUrnately to Christian king and Moslem amir; but legend hat clothed him la ths virtues that aiade him ths beau ideal eavalier of th period. pe-riod. A a historical character th id ha substane nongh to bo rated by impartial im-partial ehronielers -of latoi .V1 among the heroe. of nations, with la-din. la-din. Beery of Navarre, Prince Henry of Portugal. Robert Bruce, and ven Cromwell and Charlemagne. But it ia "1 mio cid," th legendary leg-endary historical Bodrigo ds Bivar is knowS, that gives the American traveler trav-eler In modern . Spain an iniight into ' tha ideals of ths country that produced soon after hie tim th dazzling jdven-. jdven-. turert who pillaged the palaeea of Peru and Mexie and turned a stream of gold into ths coffers of Spain. ... Even nowadays, when the ay that th disease is not contracted il l mult of merely coming Bit the presence of s leper, every one fears a jnan nfflicted with leprosy. There is a story of th beginning of th eid e. career-which pictures him as rescuing leper from a bog. putting him on hi horse, taking him to hi inn aad eating with him. The horrified guests at the inn aaw the eealee of leprosy fall Into the dish of food. They stampeded for the open air, but Bodrigo' sens of hospitality was sues that he went to bed with th leper bv his aid. His r con.ee.ac wa o lr that k .atapt laswfotia-Uy. la -tk awht. tha .eid was aV.Ksaod by a fuaji. breeae blowing s- upon his bsck. Th lepr waa gon bot St. Lazarus appeared,- informing htm that he had taken leper's term to test the brevery and virtue of Rodrigo. In future th pur knigbU should be vie-torioas vie-torioas over hi enemies, and b respected re-spected and loved by his countrymen. The legend, pietnring the cid as being somewhat more obliging thaa the good Hamsritan, nnd as well armored by merit ss Daniel in the lion den, merely seU forth an ideal of knightli- " Ths historical Rodrigo ds Bivar was probably aot a atickler for the nroprie-iiee nroprie-iiee in warfare, but "el mio eid," the beloved legendary knight waa. King Alfonso the learned called upon the . nobles no-bles of Leon, Navarre. Castile, Galiria and Asturiaa .to help him take a eity. It was suspected that Alfonso had compassed com-passed the death of bis brother. No knight but the rid waa bold enough to express ths suepieion. He not only expressed ex-pressed it, but demanded that Alfonso awear that he had had no part in the murder or conspiracy before his lance should are service in Alfonso' eaus. Th king meekly swors tkst hs waa innocent. in-nocent. But ths cid, bseked by those who had made him their spokesman, demanded that th oath of innocence be taken publicly. Holding the Bible before the monarch, the cid subjected him to a cross exsminstion that would have dons credit to a modern criminal lawyer. His Tarisd Talmta. Thst the legendary eid was s man of blameless domesticity is indicated by the fact that there is a gap of several vears la his exploits, occurring nt the tim of his marriage te a eousin of the king of Csstils. lis is supposed to hsve spent the time upon his estates, carrying out th scriptural injunction that th - bridegroom shall aot go to work nor to war for a given period, but shall stay st horn snd cheer his wifs. A a tactician in war aad a diplomatist diplo-matist in peace the eid was without a peer. He captured th city of Aleoeer during hi exile from Castile by pretending pre-tending to retrest before a sally made from tha gate upon hi small force, whil picked men he had left ia hiding Bear the gate rushed ia snd secured them eo that tha Saracens eoold sot return re-turn from their rash sally. To defend the eity successfully he pretended to overlook an attempt of the enemy to cut oft the water supply. After it was rut off be informed his forces thst they snutt flght or fsmish. Hs sndesred himself him-self to the bob -com ha tan ta of Aleoeer by raiding th surrounding country and taking so much booty that they grew , rirh t reding is what ths cid generously ADMIRAL TOGO OFF FOR NIAGARA FALLS. - BOSTON. Aug. 1 With nearly teetered te-etered health. Admiral Count Togo, whs I touring th I'nltcd State, arose sarly today and expressed the belief, that h a as well able to start for Niagara falls this afternoon. , Shortly after breakfaetlng Admiral Togo To-go received a call from t'aptaln t otrman. ! commandant of the Charlestowa n.vy (yard at his hotel. Admiral T0.0 men called on Lieutenant Governor hroth i s-ham s-ham at the .'alehouse aad oa Mayor I liaise lia-ise raid at the city hall. kit. ew.j. By a strsag stroks ef fste ths rid. who hsd prospered ss aa intrigiisr and doubls desler during, his sxils, lost the , conAdence of Alfonso after their reeoa-riliatioa reeoa-riliatioa by making n tactical blunder thst cut his forces off from those of his msjestv ef Castile st a critical tim. For this he wss outlawed, deprived of sil lands aad castles decreed to aim by ths crows ef Csstils, snd oven of his Jstrimonisl estates, which had eome own to him ns ths heritsgs of a aoMs-maa. aoMs-maa. His wifs sod dsnghters wsrs takes ta-kes from him snd impriaosed. - . It waa auatomary for dual to be fought to settle ouestioas of various glads between noblemen, , end meeau lament la-ment of chests, arms, wrists aad thighs wers ssads to sxsteh th eoa-testaats eoa-testaats fairly. Th eid sent a meaeea-ger meaeea-ger to court to say that hs 'hsd been falsely see used, aad that h would fight any on of hi sge and condition' ia th presence of th court te vindi-cste vindi-cste himself, shoonld ear one have the ( Continued oa peg , . V. - : , - . . at DEAD RULER LED FORCES TO VICTORY (Coatinned front page 1.) hardihood to ar that he had been die loyal to big aovgreiga. Nam Is Olaajwd. While much that ig Hat rue baa been written of the eid, the .event, agree that the doeamoat eonatituting hi.; brief of hi. rase are authentic, aad tho argument he mad ia bta behalf when the king declined to accept hi. terms wa. eleereut, rhetorically effect-Iva effect-Iva and aoldierly. Ho would make aa oath aa eolema'aa that which he had compelled Alfonao to make with regard to tho death of hi brother that he bad aot bee di.loyal, aad would .wear it to the warrior of ki .tatloa aid age and experience ia arm who eared to question hi veracity, calling upon Godj to witaea the conflict and decide it in accordance with tb desert, of tb petitioner. pe-titioner. The monarch declined to accept ac-cept tb condition, but under the rode the rid' juatifieation waa valid, and the stigma waa removed from hie eetne. When the conquests of the barbarous Almoravide had eauaod the overthrow of manv Andalnaiaa prince, the king of C'astfle eummoaed the eid to the fold a. hi. ally, aad when tb two met 'at Martoa, Alfoaeo greeted the d venturer a hi chert. bed friend, but intriguer convinced tb king that the eid wa disloyal, dis-loyal, and ooa ho was forced to Veal out of tb camp at night to oaeap ar-. reet for treason. The influence wielded by tb groat .oldier of fortune i ovi-dent ovi-dent from the fact that although hi. army remained ia camp with Alfonao' force, fearyig to bo alaaasd a traitor, tb eid soon had aaotber army behind him, took and secured the eity of Valencia Va-lencia sad set out upoa a wat with the king of Aragon. ia whhth ke brought that C'hrUtiaa monarch to term. Old Was Abaolrod. Th death of th eid. ia Valencia, waa so lea plrtureeque than hi career. ca-reer. Lik a true knight he confessed hi aina to tb bishop, Don Hieronymo. aad wa absolved. Duriag tho last aavea dav of hi lif he drank balsam, myrrh aad roeewater from a gold eup, and gave direction, a to bow hi faithful faith-ful follower abould escape to Castile, a Valencia wa then besieged by King Buear. with thlrty-eil leaner king and counties horde of Moor. Id obedience obedi-ence to hi direction, th body of th eid, which had been washed many tieaea with roeewater. clad ia mail waa bound upon hia charger, aad hit-good word. Tiiona. waa placed ia hi. hand. Hi v wer "opened equally" equal-ly" a th chronicler put it, and he had every appearance of being alive when hi force rod out of Valencia, hawed their way through th Moor and departed for Castile. The body waa placed upon a wooden hone ia th chapel of ft. Peter's and aiaaae were ung, by order of th king, for tb repose re-pose of the warrior ' aoul. Th body wa than placed upon aa ivory settle or throne, upoa which the eid had aat ia many plaeea while hi gwnrd and hi nam were hia kingdom, and clad ia a cloak of royal purple. Ther It remained' re-mained' for tea- year, with Tuone, sheet d by it aide. Babieea, the aid ' favorite war hone, waa never mounted after th body of the eid waa borne to Cardena, but was faithfully attended bv a servant of the eid till be died at the age of 40, aad wa buried at -the gat of the mon eatery. ea-tery. Two great and ancient elms are new Mated out aa having been planted plant-ed over the body. Jimena, the wife of the eid. lived only foor year after bia death and wa buried at the foot of the ivorv throne. . Oial Diaa, who had faithfully attended Babieea waa rewarded re-warded by being buried soar the body of the charger. -His tlns Place. " ' Alfonso th learned, king of Castile, caused a aeptileher to be bnilded to receive re-ceive the body of the eid aearly two etfaturio after it had bees buried. On a wall sear the tomb is thia inscription: inscrip-tion: . ,-., "Th eid. Boy Di. I J. who ti here buried. I eoaqoered Buear, together to-gether with thirty-eis pagan king, of whom twentv-twe died ia the field. I conquered them hard by Valencia, after af-ter I wa dead, mouated on my hors. With thia one th pltebed battles 1 gained were seventy two. " Ia th fifteenth eeaturr work the foundations of th building disturbed the boaea of th eld aad so enraged the people that a petition was sent to Emperor Em-peror Charle V., whe Issued a deer to replace the tomb ia it forme? poai-tioo. poai-tioo. The soldier of Napoleos who ruthlessly pillaged Spata, reepeetod th eid, and when the old monaatery waa finally tore down the eoffia studded with gilt sail, wag brought to Burgoa. "This eooqoeror of bannr. God' rune light upoa him, jra by his reeo-lutios, reeo-lutios, hi boldnee of wit., bt prudence pru-dence aad wisdom. nd his ineomparj able courage, the scourge of hi. tim. write aa Arab chronicler. The tribute trib-ute of aa enemy i th highest meed of praise. Monday: THB KUfODOnf. OP SPAIN. XVI. The Problem of Morocco. |