Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-17
in the lake. presents the ring and asks
her fathers life. The king replies:

in the lake. presents the ring and asks
her fathers life. The king replies:
My fairest earldom would give
To bid Clan Alpines cheftain live.
Hast thou other boon to crave?
Then Ellen asks the release of Nal
comb Graeme. her lover.
His chain Of gold the king unstrung.
Then gently drew the glittertng band
The links Ger Malcomb's neck he flung;
And laid the clasp in Ellens hand.
And they all lived happily together ever
afterward.
The Scenery Is Disappointing.
The scenery Of Loeb katrine is not
equal to that of the lakes of Killarney
1t is disappointing. In Switzerland or
Colorado it would seem quite insignifi-
cant. But, nevertheless, the loch Is an at
tractive little body of water, and the
heather which lies like q purple blanket
upon the treeless mountains gives them
a color that cannot be initiated. Ellen's
Isle is a little gem. but one wonders how
the Lady Of the Lake could have lived
there in all the splendor that Scott de-
Scribes.
The steamboat makes several trips back
and forth the length of the lake during
the day, carrying heavy loads of eX-
cursionists, and they all seem TO be ab-
sorbed in SCOTS romance. L wonder
how many people would have come mere
without that attraction to draw them
On the south side of Loon katrine Is
the station of the Glasgow waterworks
and the beginning of a tunnel forty-two
miles long through which the water sup
ply of that city is carried under the noun
tain. 1t has a grade OF ooO 1eet, Whlch
gives an enormous pressure. l cannot
pretend to tell you how many millions OF
gallons of water flows through tnat cnan-
mel every day. but the tunnel cost about
Sl2,0U.OOO and good Queen Victoria came
up here 10 inauSuratc 1t.
There arc hote.s all along the road. Sit
uated in picturesque places. but they are
old-tasnioued and without modern con-
veniences. You have TO pay 'thrip-
pence" for candle to 80 to bed by and
everything is conducted after the GUS
toms of half century ago.
At the end of Loeb katrine you disem-
bark from the steamer at the Trossachs
and there TAKE another stage drive
through Il delightful country, Hlled with
historic associations. 10 the ancient town
OF Calender. which Scott calls The
TrossacLs Shaggy Glen and II IRE you
board the train again for Stirling Castle
Stirling Older. Than History.
Stirling is an ancient town, much older
than history. The castle stands upon a
lofty rock, like the Acropolis at Athens,
which in all ages has held the military
key to Scotland 1t stands about midway
between Edinburgh and Glasgow, In the
narrowest part of the kingdom. where the
Firth of Forth extends far into the n
terror 1t is only an e.sy days journey
on horseback from the liver CLYDE. Stir
hing. therefore. commands the approach
from either direction. and there never
has been a time when there wds no fort
ress there.
The present castle was commenced by
James v. the hero of The Lady of the
Lake. and finished by Mary Queen of
Scots. his daughter, who spent her girl
hood there. She was crowned Queen of
Scotland there in 1543. when she was only
nine months old Her son, James VI, after
ward James l of England. VS. crowned
there when he was thirteen months DID,
and John Knox preached the co -onation
sermon December Is, 1866. The fasci-
mating Mary had been forced 20 gn her
abdication so as to allow her baby boy
to sit upon the throne and the earls kept
her from him during his boyhood which
was spent here 1t was only when he
inherited the English throne and went
to Windsor that the castle ceased to be
a royal residence, but 1t has always been
kept up. and is now an arsenal with q
garrison of British troops.
The Old Coronation Church.
The church in which James vi was
crowned Is still standing, and the pulpit
from which John Knox proclaimed the
gospel on that occasion is still preserved
But in these latter days the venerable edi-
fice has been divided into two parts.
known as the East and West churches
and services are held In both every Sab
bath. morning and evening, at the same
hour and after the same order of wor-
ship by ministers of the Presbyterian de-
nomination. The two congregations, the
sexton told me. are about the same size
and there is a good deal of rivalry be-
tween them. Each can hear the hymns