The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-01
THE lola REGISTER.
FRIDAY, JANUARY l, 1892.
OVER LAND AND SEA.
EnINnrRGm. SrPr. 6, ls!

his royal castle upon the summit of
the precipitOus crag that overlOoks
and commands all the surrounding
ridges and established there the seat
of his government. And although
the modern city has spread away
miles to the north and the west and
the south yet it is to Edwin's Burgh,
to the Old Town, that the stranger
first bends his footsteps.
The castle crag is a long, narrow
ridge, sloping gradually upward from
the plain on the east for mile or
more then suddenly and abruptly
ending, presenting perpendicular
face of Jagged black rocks To the plain
OH the west. At the western end the
castle is built. the black walls SEEM
ing hut a continuation of the black
crag, and apparently as solid and inn
penetrablc The flag of England
floats over it now, but it is garrisOncd,
as i'm the old days, by plumed and
killed and barelegged Highlanders.
Crossing the ancient drawbridge and
pressing under a portculliS one winds
up a'steep, stony path to the doorofthe
old palace.-which is not at all like a
palace now, but very much like
prison, black and shabby and forbid
ding. One of the rooms shown to Wis
itors is called the Grown Room be-
cause there may he seen what remain
of the Scottish regalia, the state
sword and the mace and the crown
and few Jewels. Another room is
called "Quecn Mary's room" where
James / of England was born. 1t is
little bit of dark room with six sides
of unequal length, the longest of
which can not he longer than feet.
Even in its best estate it must have
been a shabby room for Il Queens
bOudoir. These two rooms are all
there are of interest in the palace and
after walk around the ramparts,
scowling with canon, from which
there is magnificent view of the sea
on the east. and the Firth of Forth on
the north, the Fifeshire highlands on
the west. the dark woods of COrstOr-
phine Hill on the south and the city
at our feet. we wind down the stony
path. across the drawbridge, and
down the back bone of the ridge to
the famous palace of Holy rood. 1t
is mile and Il quarter from the cas-
tie to the palace and the way lies
through the oldest part of the Old
Town. through Lawnmarket and
quaint, sharp-gabled houses that
tower ten and twelve stories high,
past the Heart of Midlothian" and
past the old TolbOOth. This used to
he the fashionable quarter of the city
and some of the old houses still show
traces of their former glory. l noted
one especially, formerly the home of
a Marquis, which was distinguished
by series of stone tablets set into
the front wall, each inscribed in Latin
with some philosophic or religious
sentiment. The following free trans
lations of few of them may serve as
samples:
To-day to me, tomorrow to thee,
why therefore careSt thOu?'
"The affair of mOrtals to 4 stead
fast man is as q shadow
"a : thou art master OF thy tongue,
so also am | master of my ears
There is hope of another life
But ii is long, long time since
Fashion Jared along the old CanOngate
and il is now the abode of squalOr and
Indebtedness and the haunt of vice
and crime. 1t was late on Saturday
afternoon when | walked through it
for the first time, and | took the mid
die of the street because the sidewalk
was monopOlized by recling, cursing,
fighting men and women. In that
fifteen minutes walk | saw more
drunkenness than / had seen all sum-
mer on the continent. They say that
the sabbath is more rigidly observed
i'm Edinburgh than in any other city
of equal size in the world. This is
not surprising for a large proportion
of the population must spend sunday
getting over Saturdays drunk.
The palace OF Hollywood is great
square structure, two stories high,
built of brick, with castelated towers
at the corners. There are dozens of
rooms that might he visited, but the
only Ones that anybody cares to see
are the half dozen that were the apart
ments OF Queen Mary. They are
shabby enough now, with their bare,
squeaking floors. their black walls
and ceilings and their little dirty
windows. \ bed. with its faded and
tattered hangings, a table or two and
some old oak chairs remain as relics
of the hapleSS Queen. You pass
through all the rooms and look with
interest into all their corners and cup
boards, but YOU stay longest i'll the
room where one evening long ago
there was rush Of trampling feet, a
white faced woman held back by
fierce, strong arms, a flash and plunge
of steel, and murder done. As was
standing there thinking of these
things an English woman near me
asked the courteous soldier in atten-
dance 10 point out to her the blood
stains that marked the spot where