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Show So old ex-Queen Isabella is dead. She was a woman of affairs in her day. Forty years ago she was famous. Hers was perhaps the most-talke'd-about court in Europe, in some respects the most splendid, in every respect the most dramatic in striking features. Victoria redeemoS the English court. Isabella did not redeem the Spanish court. . Victoria's grave is a shrine to Englishmen. isa H bella's will not be a shrine to Spaniards. Victoria H was Queen and Empress to the last and her death H came as a personal affliction to millions of her H subjects. Isabella lost her throne, suffered ban- B ishment, died in a foreign land arid will not be H much mourned. But if she was conscious as H death drew near, we think she might at last hae H said, as did the dying Californlan: "Tell 'em i H think I has bested as many as has bested me." H |
