Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-08-20
THE GREAT LONDON TOWER.
Interesting Facts Concerning Place
Where Kaiser May be Tried.

| Ihe rover OF lIOnuOn, suggested
as the place where William Hohen-
zollern might be held pending his
trial, Is described very interestingly
in the following article taken from
the National Geographic Magazines:
palace and prison, once noted
also for its menagerie and its pa
geantry, birthplace and death house
OF monarchs, scene Of hairbreadth
escapes and reputed hidden treasure,
| CHASTITY In its memories of tortures
and killings, and sacred for it's mar
tyrs, the Tower of Loudon amply
| warrants description as the most
ancient and most poetic pile in Eu-
rore.'
William the Conqueror gave to
London a charter, but built the
White Tower to show the people
how little that charter might mean.
Like the English constitution, the
rambling London Tower of to-day Is
a product Of centuries, and not one,
but many towers, now are scattered
over some thirteen acres. The site
had been fortress since Roman
| times.
''To the Middle Tower Elizabeth
| came back a queen five years after
her jealous half-sister, Mary, had
kept her there a prisoner. The hump
backed Richard III hired three as
sassins to murder his nephews in
Bloody Tower. Not until years later
we're their bones found and taken to
Westminster Abbey.
Lady Jane Grey-she who had
the birth Of 4 princess, the life Of
saint and the death Of a malciac-
tor'-was bcheaded in London Tow
er. Henry VIII waited to hear a gun
fire from White Tower, signal of the
execution Of Anne Boleyn, SO that he
might marry Jane Seymour next day.
Henry's minister, Thomas Cromwell,
sent hosts of enemies to London
Tower to be butchered until he
helped pick Anne of Cleves for his
much married monarch; but when
Henry saw this prospective bride he
pronounced her "A Flanders mare
and off went Cromwell's head with
the rest
Relieving such storie3 Of rayol
cruelty are tho Immortal East words
of she brave nlrU and women who
l...u .Aeii neous %. INC aAoin.n s
block.
"'God forbid the King shall use
any more such mercy to my friends,
laughed Sir Thomas More when told
that Henry VIII had mercifuly
: consented 70 let him be beheaded
instead Of hanged, and. to the exc
cutioner. as he moved his beard
aside, pity that should be cut that
has not committed treason
"Thc Countess of Salisbury proud
ly refused to lay her head on the
block because she had committed nI
wrong, so that, says an observer,
apologizing for the eXecutiOncr, he
was constrained to fetch it off slov-
enly.'
If you strike me twice | cannot
promise not to stir warned Mon
mouth. Asked to raise his head Il
bit, Algernon Sidney retorted, Not
until the general resurrection
strike on
Peter inquired Sir Walter Raj
eigh, to keep up the spirits Of his
attendant, 'Dost thou know Of any
plaster to set a mans head on again
when it was cut OFF,
"Consigned to the Tower for some
thirteen years, Sir Walter set fash
ion which made Il salon out Of the
palace-prison. When he was not at
tending his garden and distilling es-
sence from plants, he wrote his
quaint History Of the World and
there, too, William Penn wrote NO
Cross, No Crown not to mention the
Sir John Eliot.
about the main entrance to the
| Tower was Il mcnagerie until a hun.
| dred years ago or so, because Fred
erick II OF Germany sent Henry III
Of England several panthers. and
Henry did not know what else to do
| with them. Later James |, who
liked bear batting, added those ami
mails to the ZOO.
"Thc warders, known as beef cat
| lcrS'--probably because they once