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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-08-04, Page 3t ii• THU,RS'D3i, AUGU'5T 4, 1932..' THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE, THREE Ind ;pendence; r;• `i , nk.by Link the chain is made!' FrenchRrorere; 1 .. S the Ancient Romans , used to say - "Step .' by step, ' one : goes ' to Rome." :Everything can be "achieved by degrees if you set your face clearly towards your objective and advance in a straight line. "Dollar by dollar, your security is 'made more _certain." Apply this new proverb to your per- sonal financing. Start a Savings Reserve set., an objective and see how, quickly you will achieve it, if you but add to deposits every week. Vitally '\\ important is the beginning - start NOW: ° M1ni, Seventeen' Branches in Ontario PROVINCE OF-ONTA . IO? AVINGS`OFFICE EVERYDEPOS/T611114N\C�ID �9 ON AR/060YEVIMENT \� • PARLIAMENT HEAD OFFICE BUILDINGS SEA'FO'RTH BRANCH, - 7. M. McM'PLLAN,.MANAGER he Lana of: sure LAND of WALLACE' AND BRUCE Returned from 1B'anitec cburn—tAnec- ' ?dote by a Sco,tdhman—.'Smith In- stitution" Baird and Hardie — The Athenaeum —. The old Bridge of Stirling — Wallaces Greatest Victory—Caesewayehead (Ab'bey' Craig—The Wallace Man - emelt — 'Caesar, Wallace and (Cromwell --(The 'Common People and ,the Ar1is'tocracy - iledflectian on the Fate of the Scottish 'Hero —1Catnbuskenneth Abbey To- day and To-reorrow,', iI returned to Stirling as the sun was sinking 'behind the blue moun- tains of the Highiauds, the siveee't- settled .forever the 'claims of the Re- di0als, as they were called, but ' the day carte when those claims . bad to be ;net and granted to'o, so that the principles for which these men's lives were sacrificed is now the law of the land. 'This has 'been the case in g)I lands and in every age, ane gener- ation saws the seed iii sorrow, .in tears an'd in blood, the next reij'oices its the .golden ,h'arves't of 'freedom, and brings hone the sheaves with re- jo'icing "For freed'om's battle once begun, 13e'queath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." Amongst other places of interest scented hawlthoru's of. fair "Snowden," we must not forget the Atheeaeuan, a modern edifice with a lofty spire, hav- were now turning their mellow ing 01 front of it a statue of 'Si•r 'Won, throats and 'singing the requiem df departing day, es I etetered the an- , cien't town of 'Stinting. I was tired and foot -sore. I had been pn. my 'feet all day, but buoyed up and delighted by the ever changing, varied and gorge- ous scenery 'I had been viewing. The walk to Bannockburn and back was. one of at least s'ix males on a stone road, and now that the excitement was over and my patriotism had ebe- ed with the conclursion of "Scot's wha hoe," I felt exharsted. I was ful- ly satislfied with 'Bannockburn, acrd' had no desire to -see it again, or et least to walk to it. History says that. King Ed'w drd was 'fully satisfied, not to say di'sgusted, ,with the sight he had of it, and never wis'h'ed to see it agai • either. I'f he was as tired and foot- sore as I Was, I know how to 'sym- pathize ;with'hi'm, especially as he went faster and ;Farther without stop- ping or taking refreshments than ''I did. I ordered my'su,p'per .immediate- ly, to vehicle 'I did ample justice, a gentleman lin the nteau;tim'te ' relating sante i'nciden'ts in reference. to B'an'- n nockl6urat, nate of which 'I will repro- ' ' dace, A so ahem gentlemen. h ad vis- ited th'e betttle-ground and gat a S'co',ts'mah to dhow him. ;the _various, points: of interest, just nes' a native ole the'soil had done with• Inc. When fel, ]y saltislied he ''pu'l'led out .a gold coin ut arid offePied`'it, to the.Sco'tsm'an, bb , ".Sandie" said, "Na, nae you 'jest keelp your sitter, yer leitt'trynen paid dear enoughfor seeing Baan''ocldburn,".' I'n due eitn'e we retired' to rest and had bhe be's't sleep we naive hadsince we arrived on these shores. Tihe• fallow- ing ;morning• we ‘visited ,several other' places of intere's't, so'nte of which we will merely mention, such as• the " Stisith Ins'titu'tion'.' gvhrch consists of a•read'ing room ;bi!bnary, ntlasouim, and picture gallerry;'th'e U, P.'Ohurc'1 and mcenumiau't whi'ch Marks the place Where Ehenez'er Erskine is .interred'; the old "'m'init," 'where the'firs't e ".bale ; bee" was coined;°`bldFar1'ane's. read- ing room's and museum, containing the library and chair o'f Jiames Guthrie, the, marbyr;" a piece of 'the roof of Beaton Cottage, :' in yviiich Jlatnes, VIII, was 'killed, an old dagger from Ben- nonkburit, e m'as'k and 'hatchet' atseld. at (the -execution olf 'Baird and Herd'iie, the political mertyrs. I'd the da'y's of Castlereagh they had a s'hanp• and sure way olf settling political eeformeris, 'and 'this hatchet that 'severed' the heads of poor"Bard and 'Hlardie ftoim tivelir bodies was suplposed to have flag waving in the ,wind from a certain elevated position—the sign 'he was to receive. Dropping down the river to a spot, which is shill pointed out, he seized ,the cord, pulled it with all 'his might, and the 'fatal deed was done. The 'boatman in the confusion escap- ed, and oft recounted the exploits of that ever memorable day. Wallace gave a good account o'f those who had passed over. A panic seized 'the Eng- lish, acid 'Wallace in the .meantime fell upon them with great fury, all were either speared or drowned : in the Forth, except three neon --the insolenm Cressiit'gham being among the slain. Those on the south side' fled in.. dis- order. Thus ended the battle o:f Stirl- ing--Wallace's greatest ,and most im- portant victory. We now took the way to Alblbey Craig, through the vil- lage of Causewayhnad, A , foot -path lea'd's. round the north side of the Craig, th'rou'gh the villlage o'f Cause- wayhe'ad, JA fo'ot-pat'h lead's round the north side of the Craig, to the su'm- nvit,,where stand's the Wallace monu- ment, which - cost £+f0,000, The "Craig" is a great; -stone hill 500 feet which were numerous !bird's that ap- pealed to be singing the praises of .the h'eeo ;wlt'o !loved liberty like them- selves we 'pondered .on ;the sad ;fate of Sir 'William !Wallace, a man; who deserved swell of his country, o'f all lovers of 'li'berty end tete world at large. 'Defeated 'at'Falkirk on ehe'22n'd of• July, 112918, his array almo's't late'd, this bosons ;friends the <Gireltaltn and the ;Stewart laid Tow, 'Wallace led a wandering life, keeping up a sort of guerilla warfare unite the year 11303, when lee .wa's basely betrayed by ,Sir Jahn •elon'te'ith, a friend in whom he trusted. Having been taken .prisoner, he ma's emceed, to 'London and on the 22nd of August, 1005, executed under The 'English tre'a'son la'w, with every-cir'cunts'tanice of cruelty and ignominy that could he ,devised—the Enelislh populace, however, sympath- izing !with ympath-izin'g'witih .his fate as 'that of a Fellow countryman eaither 'th'a'n an enemy. The student af Scobtis'h history, if 'he appreciates the 'principles of true lib- enty,'and especially if be is of 'Scorch descent, will as he ponders over the page, o'ft feel 1 sdigettet to think that the (Scotch nobles basely deserted their couu,try'S cause, or 'calmly stood alloo'f erom et, leaving the nvtiotal con- test to the headed by the one men who was ;faithful among ehe'faitlhless, bit a'+th'ougihffnt 'student will 'soon Ibe. able ;to solve the ;problem. 'The nobil- ity of''tite country were of 'Normo❑ descent and their ,sympatbics 'were vii this account With, the 'N'ornt,an King of Elegised. (Wallace's family belong- ed eo the, old gentry, whose sympath- ies' ;were naturally with the peo'p'le.. The ;