The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-10-28
Charles is Death and Burial,

10 London, and there tried and be-
headed. rs YOU know. Iou and | have
not the time to inquire and perhaps.
between ourselves. are not clever enough
to decide how far this could have been
helped or what excuse they had who
did it. The only thing we can be sure
of was. that Charles was not Il bad man.
nor Cromwell an ambitious lypocrite.
though / do not think the one WAS
MARTYR, and the other spotless peer.
1t was on the 30th of January. l6l9.
that this terrible event occurred. and.
after that, occurred the saddest scene
that old Windsor ever saw. -Four Of
The Kings faithful servants land he
had faithful servants all through his
career, the Duke of Richmond, the
Marquis of Hartford, and the EarlS of
southampton and Lindsay. requested
leave to bury him. and carried the body
back 10 the Castle. They took with
them that Bishop Juxon who attended
the King on the scatl,old. to read the
service over him now. But the Gov
crnor of the Castle. who was certain
Colonel Whitchott. would not allow the
burial service. He told them that the
common prayer book had been put
down. and he would not suffer il to he
used in that garrison when he com
handed" You will see from this that
persecution was not all on one side. but
that whoever was uppermost in these
violent times did his best to crush his
neighbor. You could not fancy any
thing more heartless than the Puritan's
refusal to allow these heart broken men
to say holy prayer over their Kings
and their friends grave-eXcept, in
deed, the refusal of that same King to
let these Puritans live along with them
in the native England which had room
for them all. When the faithful lords
found it impossible to change this de-
cision they went sadly to st. Georges to
find Il place to lay him. but found the
chapel SO bare. SO naked, SO altered.
that it was only with hard ado that
they found n vault in the middle of
what had once been the choir. whore
they could lay the King. Hero they
found little space for King Charles.
close by the great leadcn coffin where
Henry VIII lay peacefully slnmbering,
unwilling who was coming. The Duke
of Richmond marked ont roughly upon
"a scarfe of lead" the letters of his
/
three o'clock in the January afternoon,
when it was no more than twilight in
the cold and naked chapel. they carried
the coffin, then covered with a black
pail, of which the "fourc lords car
ried the corners, with forlorn attempt
at state. AS they came down the Castle
hill toward the chapel with their bur
den, it began suddenly to snow, and the
snow fell so thickly and fast that soon
''the black pail was all white" Was
there ever a more mournfnl sight? In
the dim chapel that snow recovered coffin
would he the one spot of Wintry light
ness. 1.-The Bishop Of London stood
weeping by to tender that his service
which might not be accepted" Thus
they laid him in the dark vault to mold
er with the other royal bones. dropping
the whitcness of the snow-covered pail,
an emblem. they said. of his innocence,
into the black gulf with him-not II
word said, not prayer, except in their
hearts, the Puritan Governor of the
Castle standing by to see his orders exc
cuted. When all was over. he locked
up the empty cchoing chapel and took
the keys away. Windsor had seen weep
ing and sorrow like every other old
house where men for generations have
lived and died, and more than most, for
in the old days suffering and sorrow
were apt to follow in the paths of kings;
/ but never has our venerable Castle seen
! so melancholy u sight.
If the story of the Stuarts had been IL
| drama, II great tragedy such rs Shaks-
pearc could have made, no doubt it
would have ended here. St Nictoins
/ for September.
4 REARING CALVES WGrHoUr MI.K.-
An English paper says; At the ordi-
nary held at Conglcton on the recent
fair day, Mr.. Taylor. the landlord of
1 the Lion and Swan inn, explained to
the company, vino We're principally
/ farmers. II very economical method, rs
adopted by himself, Of rearing calves
without milk. Subioining is Mr. lay
lor's plan of operation: Soon after II
COW calves some oatmeal is scalded.
mixed with common brown sugar and
made into balls about the size of Il hens
egg, one or two Of the balls being given
three times Il day to the calf, which
sucks them and swallows them greadi-
ly. After the first three days the calf
is fed by hand. and in small quantities,
with chopped hay mixed with bean or
barley meal scai,,ed The calf after Il
few trials, eats voraciously. After the
first three days, too, one quart Of thin
meal cruel is given to each calf The
young stock for which Mr. Taylor OBJ
tainc roparl; I,Iv ,r,,,l ,,r;,... ,..J H..