The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-09-22

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only the sky line is to be seen as their
ending, while little in the foreground
stands 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 little court of
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 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. eau
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 he 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 81 X" which shows us where
the only man known to be wholly UNI
influenced by Mary Stuart's beauty and
fascination, as well as the greatest re-
former of his time, lies buried-Johu
Knox Over all, the crown dome OF
the church, something really unique
in this line of architecture, draws
your attention skyward and you be-
ihold this greatest glory of St Giles
exterior.
| The Scotchman is stern and Just.
but he becomes lilleable because
he has his own style Of humor Back
of St Giles is statue of Charles II,
net because the Scots liked him, but
because they thought he ought to be
remembered Up goes an equestrian
statue, with the king in armor, a head
on his breast and one between his
shoulders. to show all the world. as
our guide said. that he was a two
raced man. The average Scot is not
that. Ee 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 il
harbored Malcolm, or when Margaret
the daughter of Edward the Confessor
died within it's walls, even back in the
days of 1898. Her chapel, where she
used to go to pray, stands today as
St. Margarets 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 i
plaid proud indeed. 1t was impreg-
nable until the days Of gunpowder
to subdue it now Butt around the
edge CT the rock. ii commands every
side of the hill, which presents a
craggy front to the town. We looked
moment at the window down which
James vi and / was lowered for his
christening as it was'the intention OF
lie and equally the intent OF the re-
gents that he should be baptised ac-
cording to the reformed religion Thai
she would trust her babe to so peril
Gus an escape shows the mettle Of
this queen.
But Holyrood. so much restored that
( its interest is lessened if its appear
ance is enhanced, is where we think
CT Queen Mary. The only part of il
we had time to visit was the chapel
whe"e Mary married Lord Darnley
and where he not long afterward:
found a burial place. Miserable was
their married life and shocking wa!
his death. In the palace itself W,
went upstairs to Darnley's rooms ant
saw his bed, (about all the furniture
that is left), and into his little cor
nered dressing room. The privat
staircase leading from his rooms t
his wife's, recalled much of the stor
of their lives, even as it has so grea
d bearing upon the events of the times
1T was a place to make you think G
the woman who had two crowns AM
wanted three, and who, more success
full in matrimony, obtained her thir
= husband, even at such price. Slowl
we climbed to Marys apartments, eS
actly above Lord Darnley's rooms, an
{ practically like them. Her bed re
+ mains in her sleeping room, her dress
I ing room is bare, while in that littl
private dining room, where Rizzio wa
surprised in her presence and mul
t dered before her eyes, were som
: blood spots and the stone upon whic
she and Darnley knelt in the Chap'