Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-11-14

badc her rise to her feet, and said to
her. before the whole congregation:
"'Mrs. MacGregor, anybody kcns
that when l got ye for a wife got
10 beauty; yer friends ken I got no
siller; now. II dinna get Gods grace,
l shall have puir bargain indeed"
There Is In the possession of vii.
fred Powell. who represents the Brit.
isl empire ut this port. timepiecc
that told or the hours for England's
royal martyr, says the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph.
After his victory over Charles H.,
Oliver Cromwell wrote exultantly to
England's Parliament. telling how the
enemy was beaten from hedge to hedge
till he was finally driven into WOrces-
ter. There were 1000 prisoners among
the spOils Of that fight. The royal cur.
riage In which the king had been car.
ried was there, too. and In TINT hand.
some carriage was a royal carriage
watch. which also fell into the hands
Of the victorious Cromwell.
The timepIcce of royalty. which still
ticks after Il career Of 202 years. was
made In 1910 for King Charles !. by
the royal matchmaker Of that time.
King Charles |. was .beheaded two
years before his son, Charles H., was
defeated and escaped from the field Of
Worcester.
Ii IL OF the oldest matchmaking pat
tern. being made entirely by hand and
money. The case IL OF solid silver, Or
namented In beautiful pierced filigree
work. and there Is an outer case Of
copper with n handsome leather cover,
silver studded. The royal watch runs
thirty.six hours with one winding.
Only one hand Is used IN designating
the time.
There IL n silver bell inclosed with.
In the silver case. on which the hours
are struck. There Is also an alarm Mt.
tnchment. The watch Is Az inches In
diameter and ~ inches thick.
Cromwell kept 1t as a personal pos.
session for years. But after the res.
tOratiOn It fell into the hands of 10.
seph Kipllng. Esq, Of OverstOne
House. North Hants, England. an an.
cestOr of Rudyard Kipling. Joseph
Kipling was also an ancestor OF the
present owner of the watch.
Though it Is the popular idea that
public libraries are Of modern origin.
there is proof that the AnglO-SaxOn
kings of England We're disposed to
erect them, and works were brought
from Ireland, where sciences had been
much earlier cultivated than In Great
Britain. says the Chicago News. But
the invasion of the NOrmans stopped
the spread of libraries. ana the first
In England after the conquest was cs-
tabllshed ut oxford, In Durham now
Trinity College, In the thirteenth CEN
tury by Richard dc Bury. who pur-
chased from thirty to forty volumes
of the "AbbOt of st. Adams for fifty
pounds weight Of silver. Before that
time books We're kept In chests and
not In room styled Il library. At
the end of the seventeenth century
there were only six public libraries in
Great Britain. The first circulating H.
brary was founded by Allan Ramsay,
in 1928, whence he diffused plays and
works of fiction among the people of
Edinburgh. So successful We're Ram
says efforts that 1t Is said that with
in seventy years nearly every town
and large village possessed library.
The first In London was started by
Botho, a bookseller, In 174O. Birming.
ham obtained its first circulating H.
brary In 1851. The next step was the
free library, Manchester possessing
the first, in 1850. being quickly fol
lowed by Liverpool. Birmingham and
other large towns.
~
Ruth McEnery Stuart, author of INA
pOleOn Jackson" has finished another
story of Southern life with the scene
laid In the city Of New Orleans. i
Is entitled George Washington Jones
a Christmas Gift That Went Beg
glng,"
%e
Experience seems to be proving
says the San Francisco Bulletin, that