The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-09-23

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been cooked anywhere in New Eng
land-but was not.
Edinburgh is an attractive city, cas-
to get about in, clean and wholesome
as well as finely located and mucl
adorned. 1t is really two cities; il.
old part with Holyrood and the Cas-
tie, separated from the new part with
it's churches, schools, hospitals ant
aristocratic residences by the deep ra
vine called Princess Park.
The new part, with its wide ant
regular streets branching off from
main or Princess street, gives the
city a distinction all its own. These
streets run up slight grades so that
only the sky line is to be seen as their
ending, while little in the foreground
stands a statue 1t is the new city
which fills the resident with pride
but the dirty narrow, crooked streets
of the old city are the historically in
teresting. What, though poverty
stricken children swarm Cannongate
street! Once the flower of Scottish
nobility lived there. Adam Smith, the
father of economic science entertain
ed Ben johnson in a little court off
this street. This was the center of
events when new town was not thought
of. 1t was in old town that Rabbie
Burns lived while he was rich in pat
ronage, but poor in purse; Scott, who
was to gather up her romantic his
tory into tales, was born near all this
throbbing life; the heart of Mid-Loth-
ian, the old Tolbooth, or prison is now
only marked by a stone heart in the
pavement; not far off is st. Giles, a
very military looking church, with its
tattered battle flags of the clans,
hanging from its arches and st. Gau-
dens' bias relief of Stevenson at one
side. This church is full of memories
of John Knox and of the sturdy maid,
Jennie Geddis, who hurled her stool
at the bishop when ne tried to read
the Church of England service there.
Back of this church is the paved
street, but yet it is consecrated ground,
for little square of stone bears the
letters Il K" which shows us where
the only man known to be wholly I'M
influenced by Mary Stuart's beauty and
fascination, as we'll as the greatest re-
former of his time, lies buried-John
Knox. Over all, the crown dome Of
the church, something really unique
in this line of architecture, draws
your attention skyward and you be-
hold this greatest glory of st. Giles
exterior.
The Scotchman is stern and just,
but he becomes likeable because
he has his own style of humor Back
of St. Giles is a statue of Charles II,
not because the Scots liked him, but
because they thought he ought to be
remembered. Up goes an equestrian
statue, with the king in armor, head
on his breast and one between his
shoulders. to show all the world, as
our guide said, that he was a two
faced man. The average Scot is not |
that. He may tell you nothing at all,
but he will not twist the truth even
to be accommodating.
A mountainous rock rises between |
the two towns and here the castle
stands as staunch today as when it
harbored Malcolm, or when Margaret,
the daughter of Edward the Confessor,
died within its walls, even back in the
days of 1893. Her chapel, where she
used to go. to pray, stands today as
ST. Margaret's Chapel. The stones are
living histories of Scotland's most
stirring times, and If one has a drop
Of Scotch blood in his veins, the castle
will stir it and make the owner of 4
plaid proud indeed. 1t was lmpreg-
lable until the days of gunpowder,
and it would be no afternoon tea party
70 subdue it now. Built around the
1uSt VI ln6 lONhs IL tNNlg |,
side of the hill, which presents
,raggy front to the town. We looked
/ moment at the window down which
lanes VI and / was lowered for his
as it was the intention of
lis mother that he should be Catho-
ic and equally the intent Of the re-
rents that he should be baptised ac-
,ording to the reformed religion. That
he would trust her babe to 80 peril
us an escape shows the mettle Of
his queen.
But Holyrood, so much restored that
Is interest is lessened if its appear
nee is enhanced, is where we think
f Queen Mary. The only part 'of it
We had time to visit was the chapel,
where Mary married Lord Darnley,
nd where he not long afterwards
ound a burial place. Miserable was
heir married life and shocking was :
lis death. In the palace itself we
rent upstairs to Darnley's rooms and '
aw his bed, (about all the furniture S