Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1884-10-02
Famous Castles.

Many ancient castles, having been
adapted to suit the changes and to an
swer the requirements of improved
states of society, are to be found in great
completeness and admirable preserva-
ton. Some, standing in the melancholy
conditions of decay, are moldering in
solitude, the green ivy manteliDg the
chasms and weakness of their ruin, and
the owl alone breaking the spell OF their
stern silence. Others became the nucleus
of towns and cities; what was designed
for a defense, became habitation; and
as habitations were multiplied by those
who, protected by the strength of the
castle, administered to the claims and
requirements of necessity or interest,
the tout ensemble became walled town
or CITADEL of which the original castle
constituted the key and fortress. Of
some of these cities, the castles continue
to be, at the present day, the stronghold.
The Importance of such places of
strength and resource has been signally
illustrated in the struggles which held in
equal balance the destinies of the British
Empire, during the civil embroilments
that have vexed that mighty kingdom
even in modern times. The famous
castle of Edinburgh still commands that
magnificent city. 1t crowns the vast
precipitous rock that rises out of the
midst of the Scottish metropolis, on the
confines of the new and the old city,
and its elevated bastions and battlements
that overhang the cliffs on every side,
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air, while its turrets, diminished by their
exceeding altitude into mere outlines,
appear to touch the skies.
The donion or keep of this fortress
was deemed of strength sufficient to
guarantee the security and preservation
of the ancient regalia of Scotland of
which it became the depository about
the time of the union of the crowns OF
England and Scotland, in the person of
James I. of the United Kingdom. By
whom these precious insign a of royalty
were there deposited is not known; but
there, concealed in an iron-bound oak
chest, throughout all the contests and
vicissitudes that have marked that realm
since the beginning of the seventeenth
century, they lay in undisturbed obscur-
ity, until discovered and restored to
light and admiration by the reverent
hands of Sir Walter Scott.
The broad and general features of
human society are everywhere marked
by strange resemblances. The de-
scendants of Japhet exhibit, under va
rious phases, the passional and moral
lineaments which bespeak them of kith
and kin to the descendants of Shem
Similar circumstances elicit the tokens
of sympathies of generic brotherhood.
This is illustrated by the exponents
of the martial and military spirit which
distinguished the contentious of the ri
valry or ambition that at some time
engaged the irascible races of Europe
and Asia. In the early states of both
those quarters of the world the spirit of
war actuated the policies of despot SIN,
and the ruins and relics that remain to
the present age, the wild and stern
magEificence of the battlements that
crest the proud banks of the Rhine,
and the stupendous citadels that guard
the inclement fortresses of Afghanistan,
bespeak common race and q common
condition, however they may differ in
their chronological histories.
But the conditions of people are
changing and progressive, and the time
of castle-building has long gone by.
The development and prevalence OF the
social elements have fused sections into
society, and consolidated clans into
community. The law-defying towers
Of petty potentates or contentious bar
onies have been converted to the pa
cific uses of harmonious and national
governments. - Golden Days.
The Comanche Indians are said to
be starving. There is no reason why
the Comanches should starve. Let
some New York lady of fashion do
away with her poodle and take Co
manche for pet. Then all the other
fashionable ladies will ta;e one. In
this way the Government will not only
be relieved of all the expense, but the
Indians will be fed and clothed. Louis
uiILe Courier-Jou7lal. t
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1t is against flag etiquette not to
take it down at night. The colors
should be raised to meet the sun and
lowered when he disappears under the
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