The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-26

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 of the vault with black cloth and his
 own signet.
 Helen Ketterer when the castle was asleep, gave the signal to her assistant
 They met outside the jewel room. Hel'
 en, the knight and his servant, the lat | ter bound by an oath, and having aIsc
 the same Christian name as the knlghl 1 --an additional proof of his loyalty. AS | softly as they could they removed the | governors black cloth and seals, Helen praying as she worked. When they
 came to the padocks on the door the knight produced files from his boots and they cut through the bolts and | chains, As they worked they heard a noise, whereat the Lady Helen vowed under her breath, to make pilgrimage to St. Maria of Zell, in. Styria, if the Virgin would hear her prayers and
 grant a successful outcome of the at- tempt, and till the pilgrimage could be
 made to forego every Saturday night
 my feather bed"
 At last they were in the vault where
 the crown lay. But they had no time
 to file through the lock of the jewel
 chest, so the knight burned away the
 wood and opened the coffer. There be-
 fore them lay the crown of St stephen.
 To carry it away unseen, Helen took
 much of the stuffing out of 8 red velvet
 cushion and thrust the crown into the
 hole thus made Then they closed the
 chest. replaced the padlocks and chains
 resealing them with the queens signet
 which Helen carried, and put back the
 governors black cloth. The rest of the
 night Helen spent in prayer, watching
 at the same time the precious velvet
 cushion. They got to Komorn late at
 night, to learn that Queen Elizabeth
 had given birth to son, whom the
 archbishop of Gran had already chris tened Ladislas.
 The news reaching Queen Elizabeth at Easter, 1440, that Wladislas of Po- land was about to come to Hungary to seize the throne she decided to go to Weissenberg to crown her son. Helen cut up a robe of the Emperor Sigis- mund. the kings grandfather. to pro- vide coronation robes, and made for him a robe surplice, humeral, stole, gloves and shoes, of red velvet and gold, with silver spots. The crown she wrapped in cloth and hid in the king s mattress, on which she put his majes- tvs pap spoon, so that, as the queen said, "he might take care of his crown himself" On the Tuesday before Whit sunday the queen and her train left Komorn. They reached Weissenberg on eve, Helen having carried the king for much of the way. Five hundred men received them, surround ing their party with drawn swords; and once more felt herself and her son in safety. On Whitsunday the queen and her ladies, the little Princess and Helen carrying the king, escorted hy her royal Hungarians, pre- sented themselves at the cathedral The door to the choir was closed: but the queen asked and obtained admit -ance, and the king was corwned.
 First he was confirmed. Then he was by Mikosch Vida, a sturdy 1night, who smote so hard that Helen 'elt the blow on her own arm, and the 1ueen cried out, begging him not to 1urt the child. Then the king was an- 'inted, and finally the crown was plac- I'd on his head the queen taking the oath for him, "The noble king" wrote he Lady Helen, had little pleasure in lis coronation, for he wept aloud.' On lis way back to the castle Count Ulrich # Ely held the crown over his majes- y's head, and the regalia of Hungary were borne before him in procession. The crown of St stephen, which dated rom 1000 A. D., was lost during the evolution of 1s4S,
 The regalie of Scotland constitute he "Honors of that kingdom, and un- Ter the treaty of union are kept in | castle, never to be carried in- Q the southern kingdom They consist if the crown which Robert Bruce once | wore, the scepter, which dates from time, 1040 A. D., and the word; what other parts of the regalia nee existed have been lost for centur- | es. The last time the honors were | sed was at the coronation of Charles | l as king of Scotland, at Seone in 1851 | after that the king march d south into England to fight and lose he battle of Worcester, and then to ee. for his life to France, not to return or nine years. With his departure and hat of his army, Scotland was left very luch at the mercy of Cromwell The cots Parliament therfore turned the onors over to William Keith, the Earl Iarischal, with the direction that he hould place them in his castle of Dun ottar, "thair to be keepit till farther rdouris." It was due to a Wonan's blity to keep secret that the hon. rs were saved, and still remain in cotland. The woman was Mistress gilvie, wife of George Ogilvie, to hose charge the castle and it's con- ents were committed by the Earl Iarischal Forty men with two ser eants composed the garrison of the lace, which had to withstand a siege
 sting for several months. Finally, In lay, 1852, Ogilvie surrendered Dunnot- IT. marching out with the honors of [ ar, his drums beating and the matches his pieces lighted. Then the English entered, and pro- eeded to look for the honors of Scot nd, which, according to the terms of ,pitulation, were to be delivered to lem But the English had not counted l Mrs. Ogilvie's interpretation. Know g that the castle could not long with and the siege, Mrs. Ogilvie had ar .nged with a friend to remove them 1 ithout the Knowledge of her husband. le had procured the sending of let / r to her friend, Mrs. Granger, wife
 tbo J1oipister of I<jnpaff urho ehort1v !