Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1903 — An Unsatisfled Ambition. [ARTICLE]

An Unsatisfled Ambition.

It is said by an old historian that when the Spanish armada sailed along the south coast of England in Queen Elizabeth’s reign the Duke of MedinaSidonia. admiral of the armada, was so affected at the sight of Mount Edgcum be, a beautiful mansion, viewed from the sea. that “he resolved It for his own possession in the partage of the kingdom, which the Spaniards preconquered in their hopes and expectation.” But, as the author quaintly observes, “he had catched a great cold, and he had no other clothes to wear than those which were to be made of the skin of a bear not yet killed.”