Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-21
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ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND.
Its Castle, Cathedral and Colleges
Its Ancient History and Pres
eml Appearance.


scotland, one tS seized, In mfdwlnter,
by the spirit Of travel. 1t Is nice point
to decide where to direct ones steps.
On the east coast there are always
winds from the German Ocean. on the
west there are incessant rains, and
everywhere the short days and long
nights of . high latitude. But 1t lie
better to brave obstacles than to rus,
idly away. and especially in so inter
keep always going-like that Inflated
traveller In the days of Job-to and fro
Id the land. and to walk continually up
..5 46wn in It. Fortunately there is
littls danger Of going amiss, for events
havv been so thick sown. and history
ana Romance have so Illuminated every
bmV- eof the country, that glen or a
nafniet without its tragedy or it's ira
dition, would be noted for that very
deficiency.
drews with such an interest as the
january weather conld not chill, so ]
went In quest of the old. out Of the
way town, rich In ruined splendors,
seats OF learning, bold, past deeds and
tragical remembrances. st. Andrews
as is fitting for a place whose richest
life was lived hundreds of years ago, lie
connected with the more prosaic por-
tions Of the earth In an indirect way,
and by the slightest tie. as IL protest
In hA ial
chanical order Of things which rules In
the present century. There is a short
line of railroad branching from the
main one, which retraced, little, the
way 1 had come, and then bore me of
to the desoiate sea shore, and along it
to a station a mile from the town. 1
could only regret that so medieval a
place was not on an island, to which
pilgrims were to be carried on a cum
brous hulk with Tapping, weather-worn
sails, or even-which were better-on
a galley rowed by prisoners condemned
for state offenSes, as In the days Of
chivalry. But st. Andrews being
solidly planted on mainland, it seemed
there was no more picturesque thing
to be done, than to take 3 numbering
coach that wss waiting there. and
drive through the chill rain to the
hotel nearest the ruined cathedral and
its ruined surroundings.
From the hotel made, during a two
days stay, unremitting sallies through
the storm, pursuing my object under
every difficulty. The fret of them was
that q he keepers of the ruins and other
places OF attraction, supposing that no
rian visits in SO utfn1favorable weather,
had gone home with their keys. The
keeper OF the "Burying Ground" alone
was at his post, being at the bidding of
q master who knows neither times nor
seasons, and this ground surrounding
the cathedral and other ecclesiastical
ruins, there was no obstacle In the way
of seeing them. Some Of the struc-
lures are of SO ancient date, that it Is
necessary to go back into very early
times to gather material for an account
OF them. so while on the subject. 1t
were as we'll to go a step farther back,
and see how it came about that st. An
drews exists at all. The good town, it
would seem, owes it's locality to the
exceeding badness of its bay, for had
that sheet OF water been tolerable to
the extent that a vessel venturing on
It, In rough weather, could have man
aged to make it's way out again, its
now classical shores might have been
forever innocent of colleges and cathe-
drals. Now followeth the authentic
history which I have. with great car 9,
compiled from erudite sources.
About the year $40, a Greek monk
named Regulus was warned, in Wis.,
ion, to seek the shrine of st. Andrew,
and pre- curing from 1t some sanity
relics, to sail with them to the farther
most western extremity of the world.
to establish there a religious founda-
ton. The home-loying Regulus had
no liking for the project, and required
a great deal of prompting by the Wis.,
ion, but at last, getting no peace, he
yielded, and having obtained the arm
bone of the saint, as well as three
finger bones and three toe bones, he
gathered together seventeen monks
and three nuns, and set out on his
western venture. Regulus seems to
have chosen q slow going vessel, for 1t
was after q two years sail that an i'll
wind blew him into the stormy bay and
wrecked the ship, and very nearly sub
merged tie poor monks and nuns and
all the sanity bones. However. so
unxu II hap did not quite -overtak6
f5aSl founders Of the church. who
saved themselves through the utmost
lexertiorYl and by the aid, no doubt, of
the sacred relics they bore, and they
took refuge in cave in a rock that jut-
tied out upon the sea. There they set
Iup housekeeping and there they receiv-
ed. one day, a visit from Hergust, king
/ of the Picts The king is said to have
been so pleased with the simplicity of
their domestic arrangements and OF
their religion, that he became a con-
vert to the Christian faith, along with
/ his whole people, and he it was who
built for them the square tower and
chapel called st. Regulus' tower The
walls OF this building, standing in great
strength and entirety to-day, prove
/ that whatever other qualities the new
convert may have had, he was clearly
aApve the meanness of sighting his
Masonry.
After this burst of historical light,
ST. Andrews is left to grope Its way
unnoticed for nearly five hundred
years, when King Huneust of the P1cts,
having invaded Northumbria, found
himself In danger of defeat, imprison-
ment and perhaps death, among MS en-
emies- In this strait the pious KING
made oyertures to his saint, promising
one- tenth OF all his dominions as a re-
ward for a victory. The saint accept
ed the proposal. and laying heavy
hand on the poor Northumbrians, won
his reward speedily. Hungust, who
seems to have been a rather manly sort
Of king. attempted no sharp practice
on the saint. but paid him up honestly,
and even added some presents.
When, in $40, the King Of the Scots
vanquished the King of the Picts and
blotted out his nation, our saint came
to be in higher honor than before. II
that were possible, being constituted
the patron saint Of the whole Kingdom
which he remains to this day The
town which contained his relics ceased
to be known as The Kings Ceu on the
Mount, but took his own name, and
wac made the civil and ecclesiastical
capital of the country. Coming down
to the thirteenth century. find the
annual income OF the Bishop OF st.
Andrews TO be so many times greater