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re Rest -Room at Beverly.
"Are you going to town this after-
noon, Bert?" said Anne Walton to
her husband, who was leaving the
dinner table rather hurriedly.
"Yes; want to fix up the children
and come along?"
"I'm not eager to go but I ought
to. How soon must we be ready?"
"Oh, in half an hour or so,"
A merry y scramble with the chil-
dren ensued, and forty minutes later
the family was tucked away in the
old sleigh, and Prince and Kate were
making the slippery journey to town.
The winter wind ways raw and chill,
PART III. t The old man paused. Ha seemed and by the time they relied Bev -
Two hours later the auction was at • to tremble a little, and turned aside eriy the children's faces were purple
its height, and the Pullman Plantag-1 as if his work was over; and then a with the cold.
net crowded to the doors. The Haver -i new voice broke the silence. It was "Can't we go some place to get
gal girls, assisted by the boy in khaki, the voice of the fat man from the warm, mother?" begged Bobby.
had put a number on every article,' Pullman Geraldine, the man whom "There's no place to go but the
while the woman doctor and the Var- the doctor suspected of being a Ger- df c
city freshman had written sketchy man spy. daddy goes can wait there while
descriptions, on which the clergy-; : "Keep it up, old man!". he shouted. to the bank and to the
man elaborated in a manner worthy Keep it up! Its for the boys in the blacksmith shop."
of the most voluble of auctioneers.! trenches; your boys—and mine!" Anne and the youngsters unloaded
The Toronto banker, having begged And at his words a quiver went at the general store and Bert drove
as cash receiver the tin cracker box through his shrunken frame, and the off to look after his own errands. The
in which the porter customarily kept old man raised his head. He drew in store was crowded with farmers,
his hair brush, sat before an impro- his breath and squared his shoulders; their wives, children, bundles and
vised table and did his part in a busi- and as he faced them his indomitable tobacco smoke. Bobby and Bertha
Hess and efficient way, assisted by spirit shone from his sad old eyes. wriggled their way to the big red:
the Montreal millionaire, who, being "Five thousand dollars!" he said stove, while Anne waited at the coon -
a jolly good fellow in more ways than distinctly, looking straight at the
one, had appeared promptly on time, astonished auctioneer. "Five thousand ter with the butter and eggs she had
leading the two little boys, for whom dollars—for your boys and mine!" brought to trade. A half-dozen other
next winter. Think.. there's any
hope?" Mrs. Tompkins looke
' around the group for a sign,
I "Sure there's hope." The indom
itable Mrs. Saylor shook bands with
everybody and carried Anne off to
find Bert and confer with him about
the room.
Throughout the week Beverly won-
dered who was moving into Mrs
.Price's shop. On Saturday morning
it displayed a sign which read "Bev-
erly Rest -Po rr C In," and dur-
ing the afternoon and evening people
came in, a littlo shy at first, but
finding friends and neighbors they
stayed to ehat and rest.
Mrs. Brownell luxuriously wrote
five 'postal cards. Mrs. Lane knitted
while she rested the feet that had
! been ready to drop off the week be-
fore, Tommy Teasd ie and Richard
Saylor built block houses; Bobby and
i Bertha looked at wonderful pictures
and drew others yet more wonderful.
Mrs. Tompkins thought of a dozen
• improvements for the rest -room, and
Mrs. Earlham read two stories and
copied a recipe.
j "I like going to town lots better
now, don't you, mother?" whispered
Bertha, as Anne tucked her and Bob-
by into bed that night. "I'm tired
but I don't feel so cross as I used to
neither does. brother."
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i For the rest, the Gravesend men have
analyzed the record of the corps and
- presented a report on the work ac-
complished during the war,
Took extra Licenses.
The Gravesend pilots are proud of
their record, and may fairly Claim that
it will rank among the foremost of
he procured standing roam on a suit- And it was then that a wild cheer women were similarly waiting.
ease. 1 arose in the Pullman Plantagenet:, "How do you do, Mrs. 'Walton. If
The Montreal millionaire was buy-' The noon train from Montreal to seldom see you any more; where .have
ing lightly. His eyes were fastened Toronto saw more than one strange you been keeping yourself?" said one'
on article 23—for the Montreal mil- sight that evening. In the last day of the women.
Iionaire knew good diamonds when he coach a silken -clad woman sat close "Oh, the roads have been so bad we
saw them. On article 23 he meant to to a little gray-haired lady, her jew-
plunge. i electfingers clumsily struggling with haven't been anywhere and I dread;
There were other eyes that looked the art of knitting. Two seats away coming to town, The children get
longingly at article 23. A boy in a salesman of fine underwear tied up so cold and tired and it takes so long
khaki was making mental calculation a package containing a gaudy hand- when Bert has business to attend to.
and thinking of the girl he'd left be- pin and an embroidered handkerchief, Sometimes I think I'd rather stay at
hind him. As the coveted object was which he sent with a long -neglected home. How much are eggs Worth•
put up, and the auctioneer pro tem. letter to his wife; while farther to -day?"
concluded his florid description, the down the aisle a boy in khaki feasted "I heard some one tell Mrs. Tomp-
boy stepped forward and began the his eyes on somehing in his hand that
pp kins the were thirty-eight cents,"
bidding at ten dollars. : glistened, and dreamed dreams of volunteered a womanwho food at
"Twenty," said the Montreal mil-; that time when there shall be no war.s
lionaire. ; In the Britannia there was also a
the edge of the circle.. "H'm; my
"Twenty-five," said the boy in change of atmosphere. The woman cousin in the pity writes that they're
khaki. , doctor and a stout gentleman—who paying sixty cents in the city right
"Thirty." said the millionaire, i only that morning she had thought along," contributed another. "We'd
dis . ''Forty," awl the boy boldly, to be a spy—were holding an inti- better save up a lot and carry thein
though his voice was -tense. ; mate and friendly discussion on ap- to the city. I'd like to walk through
"Fifty," said the miliicaaire. i pendicitis, while the colored porter one of the big stores right now! I
There was a pause. ; consulted the Toronto banker about
"Is this beautiful and costly dia-' investments, and a Montreal million- hate the mirrors, though—those long
mond ring going for only fifty dol aire sat with two tired little boys ones that let you see how your skirt
Tars?" pleaded the auctioneer in a against his shoulders, trying pain- sags and how shabby your' shoes are,"
voice that would have scandalized his ft/11Y to cull from his varied and dis- and Mrs. Saylor edged behind Anne
at the thought.
"Well, I don't want to see any -
1 •
ny-liin or walk an h e
wealthy parishioners. "It tears my sipated past stories fit for the ears
heart, ladies and gentlemen, to see of little boys.
this gem sacrificed at such a priced In the Plantagenet, the clergyman,
Hasa t anyone a wife, a mother, or. having dropped -not wethout reluc- ( g yw eze, remarked
a sweetheart—" tante—the role of auctioneer, was in- • rs• ne. y eet are reaay to
"Sixty," said the boy in khaki. Bulging in a discussion qn vers libre i drop off. I don't see why they can't
The moment had arrived for which, with the sour -looking author of have a few more chairs in this store
the millionaire was waiting. He en -1 "Good Cheer for Every Day." It was when there is no other place for us
eye
mean , dramatic
just the time moments,
a 1 hadinot until
ity boy, the Havergal
ve galrgirls, the Var- to wait for the rwn folks. I've had
gentle- my trading done for an hour and
were fastened on him, to electrify' man were mingling- in a game of Sam's getting the horses shod; no
them. In fact, the words "Three hun-1 bridge that they realized that the one can tell when he'll be through."
dred" were on his lips. He hesitated, train was bearing them slowly but „
a minute to make his effect more steadily toward Toronto; but their That's just it! Why haven't we
startling; but in that minute he felt' shouts of glee were silenced by the
a pressure against his knee. It came; warning hand of the dark-haired girl
from the Toronto banker, and said , from Havergal.
as plainly as words, "Look up." And! For at that moment she saw that
the millionaire looked for the first t the old man by the window was fast
time into the face of the boy in khakil. asleep. His head rested against the
It took but a glance from those chair like a tired child's, his lips
keen, world-weary eyes to see the ! smiled, and from the relaxing fingers
thing that the banker had seen allresting upon his knee an envelope at
along, and that a woman with tightly which he had been staring for long
clasped, jeweled hands, was seeing ' hours dropped to the floor.
too. For it was more than a diamond The girl rose quickly to replace it.
that the boy was bidding for: it was : It lay face up—an unopened letter,
something beautiful and symbolic-- 'addressed in the shaky handwriting
something that a girl would love and of an old man, to his dearly beloved
dream over; something that would and only son "Somewhere in France."
vaguely comfort a woman in those. Across the corner, stamped with a
days when the boy in khaki was far rubber stamp, were three words:
away. And the Montreal millionaire "Killed in action."
made a little gesture of finality and (The End.)
shook his head as the eyes of the
auetioneer sought his.
"Going," wailed the auctioneer pa-
theically-"this beautiful ring. the
gem of our whole collection, going—
going—gone, for sixty doIlar,s—to the
boy in khaki."
It was then that the Montreal mil-
lionaire plunged. He paid fo-ty dol-
lars for the old lady's sweater, and
ten for a tooth brush. He bid five for
the conductor's garters, and fifty for
the Havergal girl's crepe shirtwaist.
It was at the very last that an old
man rose from a corner, where he
had sat forgotten. He came forward
slowly, his hand resting on the chair
where sat the Toronto banker with
his cash box. The auctioneer was
holding up the last article to be sold.
It was the porter's celluloid collar.
"What am I bid for this useful
article, this traveler's joy?" he cried
with fervor. "No gentleman's outfit
is complete without it, Rid up, gentle-,
men! Bid up ladies! A gift that any,
betrothed would cherish, What am I'
bid?"
It is safe to say that the clergyman
was at last entirely forgotten in the
actor.
"Fifty dollars," said the Montreal
millionaire.
Thera was a burst of laughter.
"Silence!" shouted the auctioneer.
"Is this useful and ornarnental trea.s-
tire going for fifty dollars? What am
I bid?"
"One hundred," came from the
,*'h,te-hsired old figure standing by
the cash box. e
In a moment gal eyee wereurne
upon him; but it was ll.pparent that
he did: not see them. He seemed to
b gazing at something far away.
"Three hundred," said the Montreal.
millionaire, who was enjoying every
moment.
".Four hundred," said the old man
quietly.
Save for the voices of the two men,
there was no sound. Even the aue-
tioneer was silex=t.
"Five hundred," said :he Montreal
,nililona r t
SOMETHING LIKE A MEMORIAL
The "House of Pity" Now Being
Planed by the French People.
When they make a Victory Arch it
is the finest in the world; when they
build a tomb, Iike that of Napoleon
the Great, it is one of the sights of the
city. Now they are planning a House
of Pity, as a memorial of the men,
women and children who have fallen
in the war. a constant reminder to the
nation of the heroes and heroines who
have saved the country,
This palace is to contain 1,040,000
portraits of men, women and children
who have lost their lives by enemy
action. It is characteristic of the
French nation that they do not con-
fine their thanks and gratitude to the
soldiers in the field. They confess
their indebtedness to every citizen
who has given life for the greats,cause.
In the great central hall, with Its
memorial windows finely emblazoned.
and its pictured walls showing the
famous combats of the war, will be
assembled busts of famous generals,
and there will also be a museum of
war relics and a fine library of war ,
literature to perpetuate the memory
and the history of the part played by f
high and low in the struggle for !
national life and liberty.
Tt is proposed that on the great an-
niveistries, such as that of the Battle
of the Marne, the Victory of Verdun, f
F och's great move which brought
eventual success all along the line, ,
and the like, children shall come to
this Palace of 'Victory, this house of I
Pity and Remembrance, to sing hymns
to immortal. France.
Here, then, is Imagination, instruc-'
tion, commiseration, which will cause
teem all to remember the great. days.
•
somewhere else to wait? Over in
Stevenville they have a regular rest-
room in the City Hall, with chairs and
couches and little beds for babies, and
magazines to read and desks to write
on!" Mrs. Saylor forgot her tempor-
ary embarrassment and stepped out
from hiding with a swing of the
hands that suggested all the comforts
that were lacking.
"Yes, but Stevenville isn't Bever-
ly," said Mrs. Lane with the inflec-
tion of a fatalist.
"But why couldn't we have such a
room to use on Saturday? Maybe
Beverly could do more than it does if
we women could wake it up. Since!
Mrs. Price's store has closed I don't
see why we couldn't fix that up. I'll
bring a couple of rockers /and a rag
rug." Mrs. Tompkins had caught
fire from Mrs. Saylor.
"Who'd pay the rent?" This was
a poser; the enthusiastic ones knit
their brows.
"Why," replied Anne, "Bert owns
an interest in that building, and he
said the other day it would just stand
empty this winter. I know we could
have the use of it. There's a stove
in it already."
"Well, I'll come in one Saturday
out of the month and build the fire,
if the rest of you will take turns."
Mrs. Earlham's quiet voice put con-
fidence in the group.
"I'll come, too!" chorused several
others.
"Well, let's tear off a little of this
wrapping paper and write down what
we've got to start with," and Mrs.'
Tompkins took over the •secretardal
work.
'Round the group she hustled, and;
before the tardy husbands appeared;
plans had been made. J
"We ought to have a eo-iple of ,
tables," suggested Mrs. Brownell.
"Each -of us could bring a few maga-
zines to place on a reading table; and'.
I think one table ought to be fixed'
up for a writing table. Half the time
I don't have as inany minutes to my-;
self all the .week as I spend in fidget-
ing around this store on a Saturday;
afternoon."
"Could we have same picture books!
and toys for the kiddies?"
"We'll have to have such things,'
Mrs. Teasdale. That's one thing ,it's
for—to keep the children from get=
ting so tired and cross."
"We'll try it out this way for a'
month or two a.nd .0 believe after we'
get it furnished and folks see what
a help it is the town council may
provide for it by by-law i;. time for,
Child Welfare in the West.
Child welfare is occupying a large
share of attention in British Colum-
bia and Alberta. Early in December
there was held at Vancouver -the first
aunual convention of the Child Wel-
fare Association of British Columbia.
The program included discussions on
educational reforms, juvenile delin-
quency, child mortality and diseases
of children. Vocational training was'
urged in order that children might
become helpful factors in the com-
munity. The schools of Vancouver
were mentioned particularly on ac-
count of the special ^.lasses for the
mentally backward children and the
Association put itself on record as !
favoning institutions for the feeble-
minded.
The Chief Diagnostician of the Juv-
enile Court of Seattle, Washington,
addressed the Association on juvenile
delinquency and its dependence on the
status of home training. A low ebb
of parental responsibility results in
juvenile delinquency. It was recom-
mended that mothers' pensions should
be established because motherhood
should be recognized fis'the highest
service to the State.
In Alberta the study of Child Wel-
fare is concerned with the prepara-
tion and serving of hot lunches to
rural school children. The Depart-
ment of Education for the province
has issued a booklet containing a
number of recipes and practical sug-
gestions whereby the cold lunch will
be wholly or partially abolished. It
is estimated .that more than three-
fifths of the school children attending
rural schools in Alberta are depend-
ent on cold lunches and that these
are eaten at ;irregular' intervals and
under_ conditions not beneficial. The
idea of the Department of Education
is that trustees and teachers shall
make it possible to serve at least one
hot dish each day at noon; well bal-
anced cold lunches are also suggested
to mothers.
ASH PILOTS'
DARING IN WAR
2,000,000 MILES COVERED IN THE
SUBMARINE ZONE.
Work in English Channel Called for
Great Resourcefulness and ,
-Scorn of Danner.
The German submarines, which, in
the dark clays of the war, preyed on
shipping in the Downs and the Eng-
lish Channel, have been brought, score
by score, to Harwich for surrender.
Their menace has been removed, but
the men of the mercantile marine,
who, on voyage. after voyage, cheer-
fully faced the veril of death at sea,
will never forget the anxious watches
passed in the danger zone when "ruth-
lessness"
ruthlessness" was in full activity_ And if
the sailors, who, after all, enjoyed im-
munity from attack when their ships
reached the further seas, have much
to remember, what roust be the
memories of the Trinity House pilots,
whose duties kept them continually in
infested waters?
There is the case of the Ruler of
Pilots at Gravesend, who was torpe-
doed on three consecutive journeys
down Channel with valuable boats,
and on each occasion by sheer deter-
mination and pluck, and the const•
dance he was able to inspire In others,
succeeded in bringing the ships to
port. Tele is but one case among
+Balt.', and there is little cause for sue,
prise that the Admiralty has asked
for the names of mon to whom honors
might be given for their services. The
pilots, wo understand, .or, at any rate,
those working from Gravesend, have
decided to submit no naive except
that of their ruler, Captain 11. Davis.
Britain's seafaring achieyemene. Ow-
n
i g to the dangers, both of ordinary
navigation and those created by war
conditions, they 'were required to take
up a new Admiralty license, as far
west as Plymouth, and encouraged in
addition to go as far as. Barry Roads
and the Bristol Channel. 'They were
also asked to undergo, voluntarily, an
examination for the whole of the east
coast, and a large number responded
and were duly licensed to•eonduct ves-
sels as far as Berwick. As a matter
of fact, it is noted in the`'report,
Gravesend mini have conducted ships
as far north as Scapa Flow to French,
Dutch' and Irish ports( and to Liver-
pool and the Bristol Channel contin-
ually. Measuring outwards from sea-
wards of the Edinburgh lightship, and
taking no account of the waters of the
Thames between Gravesend and that
point, the men covered from August
4, 1914, to November 11, 1918, a total
distance of 1,841,320 miles. Several
individual pilots have alone covered
more than 30,000 miles of unprotect-
ed waters,
One of their body was captured by
a German destroyer and has been a
prisoner for two years; one lost his
life by enemy action, and one died
from sickness contracted on foreign
service. Thirty-two have been mined
or torpedoed, four of them on two oc-
casions and two on three occasions.
-Few have not had many close con-
tacts with the German. One pilot, to
his own knowledge, has seven tines
had the enemy close alongside. Once
he passed over a submarine off New-
haven. Every pilot, too, has 'seen
many sad and imprp,ssive sights, when
ships, large and small, had received
their death -blow from mine or tor-
pedo. It is useful here to quote from
the report:
Saved Many Vessels.
"Often the shock transmitted
through the water was'so strongly felt
on board other ships that people
rushed on deck imagining their own
vessel had been struck. Two particu-
lar cases will live in our memory: One
in which seven vessels in twenty-
eight hours were sunk, beached, or
towed disabled away from one point
and another when six were destroyed
or seriously damaged at one spot
within a few minutes. When one
knows, as we do, the different escapes
we have nearly all had, generally
through being too close alongside the
submarine, and that we have had so
very few accidents with nearly 2,000,-
000 miles covered in the hottest of
the danger zone, surely it may be
taken as proven that our being there
has materially assisted to keep down
the number of casualties to vessels.
"It is quite impossible," the report
continues, "to single out any men for
special mention, for it is impossible
to get like conditions for different
men. Luck eaters very largely into
it. Some have done first-rate work ir
getting their damaged vessels b ,
others with very big mileage, and
many close shaves, have escaped al-
together, probably largely through
luck, though, on the other hand, the
escape may be sometimes due to ef-
ficient lookout, zigzagging and a gift
of doing the unexpected instead of the
obvious thing at danger points. It be-
comes a pretty problem as to whether
a, man who has been torpedoed and
geets his vessel in, or one who has done
big distances and never been touched,
is most to be congratulated. Our work
has been very varied beyond general
pilotage, and,has comprised all sorts
of duties, many of them of a volun-
tary nature. It has been the rarest
event for any ship to ho detained at
Gravesend for lack of a pilot, and in
he times of pressure inert have gone
rom ship to ship till nearly collaps-
ng from exhaustion. They kept going
t
f
. AA +E,Np+,�W.4x. >h+,• .w -•h!: F�'SYfH.�7,�tthJ�r:vde,n
purely from a strict sense of duty,
knowing the importance to the nation
of quick dispatch of shipping, when
they would sorely have liked to rest,
Work With Transports.
"Some in ,the earlier days were
largely engaged with the hospital
ships when first commissioned, sante
at cable laying, others `trooping,'
Twelve went to cover and were e en-
gaged
with transports under the
King's harbor master in taking mon
to Ostend, Zeebrugge and Dunkirk
with a view to strengthening the Ant-
werp garrison, and prevented the fall
of that city. Many have crossed again
and again to Rotterdam and back .at
the request of the Admiralty—in fact,
most of this work has been done by
men of this body. Some, to perfect
themselves, sought instruction about
submarines at Chatham, before the
Admiralty woke to the fact of its im-
portance to us. Others have drawn
attention of the authorities to various
means of saving ships. We have also
been able to report unauthorized sig-
naling from the shore, being acquaint-
ed with the places where authorized
signaling was to be expected. One of
our body detected two escaped Ger-
man officers on board a Dutch vessel,
and turned back and handed them over
to the naval authorities. In fact, as
each has been able, every pian has put
his heart into his work and done his
very best in most difficult and trying
circumstances, and with very little
sympathy or understanding."
Nearly 15,000 acres in Canada are
devoted to wheat growing.
At the recent convention of the
United Farmers of Alberta, Hon.
George P. Smith, Minister of Educa-
tion, declared that consolidated
schools were the only medium to ex-
tend secondary advantages to rural
diistricts.
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LOVE STO
LADY PUT HER DUTY TO HER
OLD AUNTS FIRST '
Great Soldier's Romantic Attachment.
to Scottish Lady Who Warned
Him Against Fatal Voyage.
Far from being the woman -hater
which people supposed him, was Lord.
Kitchener, A romantic love story
was woven about the life of the great
soldier, who hard and stern as he
appeared to the world, cherished an.
ardent and lasting affection for
Scottish lady who died less than e
year after he was lost on the Hemp -
shire. The lady was a Miss Hutch -
Awn, daughter of a gentleman of
independent means who lived near
Peterhead, Scotland, an owner of
quarries, pillars of whose polished
red granite adorn the entrance of
St. Andrew's Church and other
buildings in Toronto.
Kitchener and his lady love met in
early youth, when she was a bewitch-
ing Scots girl with brown eyes and
hair and an out-of=doors complexion,
and the future field marshal a stripl-
ing of seventeen; not yet entered the.
army as an ensign.
Why She Refused Him.
Kitchener later sought the lady's
hand in marriage, but meantime two
of her aunts had become invalids.
She was the sole one whose ministra-
tions they would accept, and the last
one to shirk her duty, and she felt
that she could not then •accede to
the soldier's offers.
Hundreds of letters passed be-
tween Kitchener and Mies Hutchi-
son during their lifetimes, but at the
request of Kitchener most of them
were destroyed. A passage from one
of the few that were saved reveals
the reason that this Scottish lady
refused to become the bride of her
soldier lover. It reads: "I must de-
vote myself to the duty that has been
laid upon me," wrote Mire Hutchi-
son, referring to her invalid aunts,
"but there is another reason why it
cannot be. I have become accus-
tomed to a small life. For you there
is a great future, and you must have
as your wife a woman accustomed to
a lofty station and to presiding over
great establishments. But always to
remain one of your best friends is
the dearest wish of my heart"
Fatal Russian Voyage,
During the rest of "phis life Kitch-
ener, called by the Germans the
Silent Earl, the man whom the world
regarded as relying upon no human
being, went to Miss Hutchison with
his triumphs and also when he need-
ed counsel, consolation and sympathy.
Wherever he was he wrote her con-
stantly telling her all that was in his
heart and mind.
She had attempted to dissuade
Kitchener from going on the fatal
voyage to Russia in May, 1916. But
Kitchener was inflexible against her
pleadings. "You have always been
one," he said, "to be most loyal in
putting duty first. You must try not
to dissuade me now. The Czar him-
self has asked me to go to Russia,
and go I must."
EDINBURGH CASTLE
Was Long the Recognized Strong-
hold of "Bonnie Scotland,"
Edinburgh is the 'heart of Scotland
and Edini}iurgh Castle is the heart
of Edinburgh. A truly wonderful
cluster of stone towers on a stone
foundation, it is no wonder that the
castle was so long the recognized
stronghold of Scotland, in which
everything precious to the state, from
the crown jewels to an undesirable
heir to the throne, could be hidden
away and forgotten until wanted.
It was a fine place for a desperate
king to retire and defy anybody to
come and get him, and it was a coun-
terpart of the Tower of London, in
that anyone with the mediaeval equi-
valent of political pull could have his
or her choicest enemy absent-mind-
edly locked somewhere in the castle
—by an oversight, of 'course.
The one room in which the ordin-
ary citizen visiting Edinburgh Castle
lingers ]ongest is the crown room,
which contains the "Honors of Scot-
land"—that is, the ancient sceptre,
sword, and the crown worn by the
famous Scottish ;leIngs 'and queens
from Robert Bruce to Mary Queen of.
Scots. The crown of Scotland is the
Meal crown of royalty—solid gold,
banked with precious stones of many
colors.
The "Honors of Scotland" had an
eventful history rivalling that of
the kings, who wore them. They were
held by Cromwell, when lie captured
the castle and were stolen away for,
Scotland by a minister's 'wife, who
with her maid and several baskets
of lint for spinning, came with per-
mission of the governor of the castle
to visit a friend there. When she left
in full sight of the governor she car-
ried the Scottish crown concealed in
the folds of her riding .habit, and the
sword and sceptre were embedded in
her load of lint. Her husband buried
them in the floor of his church until
Scotland could claim them openly,
and then, when they were finally dug
up, they were locked ire a eheet and
never seen again for 110 years.
Dominoes is said to be the eietioximl•
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