Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08

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trunk is still to be in the dungeon
of the tower. its roots spreading out
- beneath the floor. and its trunk pene.
trating through the stone walls above.
Each year Lord Cawdor assemblies
his guests round it, who drink
Health to the Hawthorn in other words, Pros
perty to the House of Cawdor," the fortunes of
which are identified with those of the tree Against
the wall in the dungeon is the ancient iron
bound oak chest which contained the gold loaded
on the donkey's back, and used to build the castle.
1t is Cawdor Castle that furnished the scene of
Shakespeare's most famous tragedy, Macbeth.
and any guest who cares for the experience is per-
ntted by the present owner of the gloomy pile to
sleep in the great high four post bed m which the
silver skin of King Duncan was laced with his
golden blood" 1t is only now and again. however.
that people found bold enough to expose them
selves to the risk of midnight visitation on the
part of the ghost of Lady Macbeth with candle
in one hand and dagger in the other. Macbeth,
it may be remembered, was the Thane of Cawdor of
the ShakeSpearean tragedy.
This One Is a Goblet
MYTH regard to the Luck of Eden Hall sung both
w by Longfellow and by the German poet Ludwig
INLAND it is goblet of Venetian glass, dating from
the ninth or tenth eentuF generally regarded as
the park of Eden Hall is the well of Saint Cuthbert
sometimes known as The Fairies Well" Accord
ing to the popular legend and family tradition,
of the Fitzweines, who owned Eden Hall in ancient
times while wandering through the park at night.
surprised the fairies they were disporting them
selves in the moonlight round the well, and
ried off their cup. imbued with the popular belief
that anyone who had the courage to rush In upon
fairy festival and snatch their drinking cup or horn
would find it cornucopia of good fortune 1t is
said that as he home with the precious goblet
he heard this refrain from the fairies:
II e'er that cup should break or fall.
Farewell the luck Of Eden Hall.
No fall has broken it yet though it had very
narrow escape when it slipped from the drunken
hands of Philip, Duke of Wharton. president of the
famous He'll Fire Club, the leading profigate of his
day, toward the middle of the eighteenth century
1t caught in the very act of falling in the most
deft manner by the wachful old butler of the Mus
the possession of the Musgrave family, through mar
rage. in the reign of King James l. The cup was
again subjected to some danger by the poet Long
fellow. who when he visited the grandfather of the
present master of Eden Hall. and was shown the
luck. Mortified all present by Ticking it with his
thumb nail, to see, he said, if there flaw
Whenever the Musgraves leave Eden Hall for any
length of time, the cup, carefully packed in great
leather of fifteenth century workmanship is
deposited in the vaults of the Bank of England.
Lord Muncaster's Cup
THERE is cup of similar character possessed of
the attributes, and likewise of glass, in the
possession of the family of Lord MuncaSter 1t
the disastrous battle of Hexham to his faithful
want Sir John Pennington, reward for having
saved his life during the melee, the King explaining
that it the only thing of value he had left to
give away. Sir John Pennington the founder
of the family of which Lord Muncaster is the
chief and it is a matter of family tradition and
superstition that long as the cup remains
n broken the family will