Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-27


| heal Immediately. chronic cases being cured in
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| are seen after an overnight application.
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colony. He died in London July 8, 1921,
and was buried among his forefathers,
under the shadow of the beautiful tower
| OF st. Giles. as l have already told you.
| Yale married in Asia. as stated in his
epitaph. his wife being Catherine Hymn
ners, widow of his predecessor in the gov
ernorship of Madras. They had one son
and three daughters The son. named
David, after his grandfather. died in in
| fancy. The eldest daughter. Ursula.
named after her grandmother, never mar
ried. Anne. the second daughter, married
| Lord Cavendish. and among her posterity
have been number of distinguished men
and women. The youngest daughter.
Catherine, married Dudley North, who
| took over the business of Elihu Yale and
| became merchant prince in London.
Scenery of Wales Is Beautiful.
Two three miles from Wrexham is
the charming village of Gresford, well
known and favorite resort of fishermen.
which is described by Washington Irving
| in The Sketch Book under the title of
| The Angler" 1t was the home of Sam
uel Warren, author of that charming
novel, Ten Thousand a Year"
| One cannot say too much about the
| scenery in this part of Wales. but it has
been described SO often and by such bril-
liant word painters that it is scarcely pru
dent to repeat their glowing praise. The
| charm is in the continual contrasts. In the
great variety of landscape, the gloomy
and the gentle. Bold and rugged cliffs
and peaks arise directly from quiet
slopes; forests and Towering meadows
grace the hllsides. The deep shadows of
proud oaks and elms and birches fall upon
| ivy-clad ruins of an ancient age, relics of
Cambrian struggles for independence, and
upon loWly cottages which are just now
i brightly dashed with the scarlet and GRIM
son of the Virginia creeper and Japanese
s.; ivy.
Feudal Home of the Myddeltons.
| And a great deal of history is scattered
all through this country. The village of
Chirk, few miles south Of Wrexham.
upon the River Dee, for centuries has
| been the seat of two famous families
the Trevors and the Myddeltons. whose
achievements are commemorated in mar
bile and brass in a picturesque old parish
| church. Castle Chirk, one of the finest
specimens Of the medieval fortress in the
kingdom, crowns the summit of a high.
swelling ridge and overlooks a wide
| stretch of country, which it was built to
protect. 1t is still the home of the Myd-
delton family. who are descended from
one Sir Thomas, merchant of great
name and estate and in the days of
| Queen Elizabeth lord mayor of Lon
| don. The castle, fortunately, has never
been allowed to decay. The Myddelton
family have always had the purse and the
pride to maintain the prestige of their
| house, and one day in the week they are
| so considerate as to permit the rest. of
| mankind to cross their threshold and adj
mire the feudal dignity of their home and
flair frca nd ifC of
| brave men and fair women. gifts and
| relics of kings. have accumulated during
| the many generations they have served
| their country. By some strange stroke of
| fate the hat and hat box of Oliver Crom
! well rest beside an exquisite cabinet in
] laid with silver which Charles III gave Sir
| Thomas MIDDLETON as a token OF his es-
| TEEN. and. be it spoken in a whisper his
gratitude for money loaned.
Whipped the Duke of Wellington.
The Duke of Wellington spent his boy
| hood days at Bryn- knallt. the Trevor
family seat, for his maternal grand
| mother. Lady Dungannon. was a Trevor.
One of the village traditions of the boy
| who overthrow Napoleon was the way
he was himself overthrow by robust
damsel. the daughter of a Welsh yeoman
| in the neishborhood desperate con-
| flct followed a dispute over a game of
marbles between Arthur Wellesley. then
|
farmer on his grandmother's estate The
future duke showed great prOwess until
the big sister of the farmer boy rushed
from her washtubs, with her arms full OF
wet garments and beat the victor igno-
| mniously over the head with them until
he was willing to cry enough.
At a farmhouse called Point Melbion
lived Huw Morris, in the reign of James l.
who is regarded by many of his admirers
as the greatest of Welsh bards. He lies
beneath the yew tree that shades the lit
tie ohurchyard. He was a wit as well as
a singer of love songs. and in one of his
poems tells us that the natives OF that
village are habtually SO hungry and
thirsty that If Cefn-ucha. neishboring
mountain. was all bread and the River
Ceirog ran ale instead of water. both
would have disappeared within six
months.
The Abbey of Vale Crucs. with its
graceful proportions and it's lovely mantle
of ivy, is one of the most charming OF
the many ruins of Wales. 1t was de-
stroyed way back in the thirteenth Gen.
fury, and very little is known of it ex-
cept that it was the greatest monastery
in this part of the kingdom and the seat
of valiant Christian community during
the entire period while the pagan Saxons
closed the churches of Briton. They tell
us that the Saxons and the Welshmen
hammered one another for several hum
dred years over religious questions, and
that the Welshmen won.
route between London and Dublin, and
those who pass this way have an oppor-
| tunity of seeing panorama of scenery
sixty miles long that cannot be sur
passed in the British empire. 1t is
great temptation to dwell upon its beau
ties. and the legends and folklore of the
Valley CT the Dee are quite as fascinating
as the scenery. There is scarcely mile
without story.
Tilted Ladies Of Llangollen.
1.-The Ladies of Llangollenp were two
romantic Irish damsels, Lady Eleanor
Butler and Lady Sarah Ponsonby. who.
in 1776. being Tilted by their lovers. pooled
their issues and, attended by Mary Carroll.
a faithful servant. came here and took up
their abode in a lovely cottage called
Pen-y-maes. They lived there for fifty
years and were celebrated throughout this
part of the kingdom for their brilliant
conversation. their wit, their eccentric
habits and their generosity to the poor.
They always dressed like men, or strong
minded women, with their hair short and
curled masculine shirts. collars. cravats.
waistcoats and coats over the ordinary
skirts of woman-very much like the
smart riding habits of the day. They
gave literally TO the poor. fed the hun
CRY and sheltered the homeless. They at
tracted such friends as Sir Walter Scott
William Wordsworth. who dedicated a
sonnet to them: the Duke of Wellington
and other famous men of the time, and
when they died in 1891 they left their
property to the parish. A three-sded