The Washington herald., 1913-10-26
Court Gossip of Interesting
Epents on Two Continents

stuck TO his post and thus gained the
| distinction for his firm Of having a King
among his actors"
When telling of the Duchess of Gordon
and the Gordon HighIanders and their
origin, failed to mention that the old
est regiment OF soldiers is said to be the
Royal Scots. generally known as Pontius
Pilate's body guard. 1t traces direct
descent from certain companies Of adyen-
turous Scottish infantry who, In 1880
aided King Henry ~, OF France. in his
war with the Leaguers Their services
were retained by the French rulers until.
I IN lS3, the different companies were
formed into a regiment under the COM
nand or Sir John Hepburn, a noted
soldier Of fortune, born in Scotland in
1888
This organization was called lie Rer;-
ment de Hebron" that being nearest the
rrench could come to pronouncinE the
name OF Hepburn Having been cstab-
lished and differed by the officers OF
the Gems dArmss Ecossaisses and the
scottish regiment can lay claim to a
connection with those two celebrated
troops, and through them again with this
Scottish Archers of the Guard and Sc
back to that earliest body of Scottish
soldiers OF whom il is recorded "ths
-FOUR and twenty armed Scotchmen IN
whose fidelity and bravery Charles III OF
france CSS) so greatly confided
This claim to antiquity was recognized
to such a degree by the Kings of France
that they gave their Scottish Guard the
precedence over all the soldiers in the
service Of France. This quite naturall,.
oegot tealously. Especially viruIent in
this respect vas the Picard Regiment
organized in 1862. 1 read in an Old
chronicle that one of the officers of the
Plcardes. during a historical dispute
between members Of both regimenrS, OBJ
served sarcasticaIly:
suppose that next you will claim
that you were on duty at the crucifxiong'
NO. was the ready retort Had We
been on duty at the sepulchre. the body
body would have never left itr'
After the restoration of the Stuart
dynasty. the Regiment de Hebron fol-
lowed Charles ii to England. and it has
remained an integral part of the British
army ever since.
As the Eiffel Tower approaches IN.
twenty-fifth Anniversary of its eonStruc-
ton Parisians are reminded Of the storm,
of abuse leyelled against the proposal
to erect il. To realize what we are,
planning to do, an artist wrote, We have
only to imagine tower vertiginousIy
ridiculous, dominating Paris like a black,
AoSSoAg CRUSHING With
Its mass Notre Dame, Sainte- -ChapelIe.
the Tower of Saint Jacques, tie Louvre.
the Dome of the Invalides, and the Arc
de Triomphe. All our monuments humili-
ated. all our buildings dwarfed. Every
thing disappearing before this stupefyinr
nightmare. And for twenty years we
shall see stretched out over the whole
city bright with the EeEiCs II many CEN
turtles. the black shadow OF this odious
tower OF bolts and iron. Nothing mors
caring was ever written. Yet the EifTeI
Tower has stood as one of the most at
tractive features in all Paris architecture.
Twenty wears this gloomy prophet SET
as the limit of the towers life. Thus
far 1t has withstood the storms of twenty
four winters. How much longer its SWAY
ing mass Will remain safe as a structure.
the engineers are not prepared to say.
Built Of iron latice-work. before the days
OF steel construction, the EiffeI Tower
annually costs thousands for painting and
repairs Men forever are crawling over
il, Tightening bolts, fighting rust, and
soldering chains Important as a wire
less station, a meteorological observa-
tory, and a thing of beauty. The EiffeI
Tower will not fall though it was built
among a chorus of protests.
FLANEUR.