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: ir it bri) to i s i e is Borestone! Half hid: 1 a strong iron grat- into the earth, and the whole countryside * story of the struggle. In runs the Bannock Burn, and in low were two marshes, Milton and Halbert Bog, where to-day a h erop is waving in the breeze. The fold man who comes hirpling up the Brae remembers when the last bo was drained. In the operation several stakes were turned up, and these ap- 0 to have been used in the pits : by Bruce before the battle. Pieces of armor, too, have been found from time to time in the field there. The 'vising ground behind is the Gillis Hill, and yonder lies Coxet Hill, from which Bruce directed the battle. Two upright stones between St. Ninians end Stirling are said to mark the re- positions of Randolph and during the engagement Which | took place on the evening before the betdle. Grand and Awful Picturs. the south. The flood- gination aré opened, ¥ beyond stretch many miles of sons. Around the Bruce are High- rs and Lowland Scots marshall- ed to meet a common foe. The pits are dug, the calthrops scattered. King Robert rides out to see that all is ready, and having commanded his to arm, addresses them in words which have been paraphrased by the Beottish bard in the finest war gong ever written. De Bohun has been killed, and Randolph has recovered his Jost rose. The Scottish soldiers lie in arms all night upon the field, and at daybreak, as Edward sees the Abbot of Inchaffray-- But why repeat tha Jo at Beot knows it. The crowd the Gillies Hill has done its work and there is proud Edward, with five hundred chosen horse, fleeing be- fore sixty mounted Scots. an ¥ | [2 Tradition of King's Death. | * ¥ there is Ingram's Crook, where the wounded knight, Sir In- gram dUmiraville, was taken pris- omer; and here in front the fierce De Bohun was slain. It is not the battle alone that makes the place of his- faric interest. On the field, and close $0 the burn, stands King James' Cot- , or Beaton's Mill, where James . was murdered while fleeing from the battlefield of Sauchieburn. The great age of the house and the thick- mess of its walls would seem to cor- goborate the tradition of its conneo- tion with the King's death. The story of the woman at the well, the fright ened steed, the bruised rider, the stranger who announced himself a Rriest and then stabbed the King to ia familior to every reader of Beottish history But our thoughts are on a far-off event when a usurper was humbled the breeze that sweeps the field bear with it the spirit of liber- ty to distant Beots, and wherever op- on's rod is raised may they hear strains of an ancient battle march, and, hearing it, sing *We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free." STORY OF HARDSHIPS, Alleged 11i-Treatment of Men In the Lumber Camps. La Presse of Montreal in a recent issu three to a thrill i ing of "hardships said to have 'been encountered in : I's chute, and Driftwood | , in New Ontario. | lumbermen are half starved, of their wages, ill-treated by hel. foremen and threatened with arms if they dare resist is hard to believe. Still that is what a reporter of La | Presse, who spent two weeks in the wilds, declares to be true. He inter- viewed a large number of shantymen. 'Before they reached tha camp they say they had to travel 600 miles with and cheese as their only During their long trip on a slow train they were not even given water to drink. Before arriving at camp after tram ing through the woods for miles with- e lumber camps | continental Grand Tronk-- Ge AE en noe Rupert town on the $0 the terms of the contract # must be completed by 1911, and by then we b that the inter-Empire route will ve passed beyond, the realm of Dropabithis, "The guestion is a big one, and we in Grnaae do not gapent that a scheme so far-reaching can be settled off-hand in a few weeks. I have heard nothing that would lead me to think that thers was a tendency on the of the British Government or a section of the Ministerialists to disavow the approv- al given by Lord Elgin at the Confer- ence. I understand that a committee of the British Ministers is now at work considering the project, leaving the question of the subsidies to be considered at a later date by a con- ference com of representatives of the Home and various Colonial Gov- ernments interested. I cannot for a moment belfeve that either Sir Henry Campbell-Banperman or any member © of the Liberal party has an intention to of an undertaking which i be of such grea} value to the commercial prosperity of the British Fpive." 1 E the firm He from the of tractors. In connection with expen- diture under the Military Works Loan Acts, the committec's attention has drawn by the opibuoller and audi ollowing in- stgnoes of the loss of public money due to successive changes of policy. At East Bulford there has been a loss to the public of between £140,- 000 and £150,000 in erecting a Mount- Iain id Bchool, 'which was closed on 1908. (ii) At Tidworth nearly a million has been expended in build- ng barracks for eight infantry batta- only four are needed. The surplus barracks are being al- tered at considerable additional cost, 85 a8 to house a cavalry regiment and certain other troops. (iii.) Near Fermoy, a sum of £35 000 was expended in 1906-8 for thé purchase of Moore Park (8 omy ante ool in Ireland hes and pure fruit flavors--that's Greig"s White Swan Jelly Powder In 15 delicious flavors--both fruit and wine. Just add boiling water and leave it fn a cool place and you have a de- licious, appetite-enticing dessert. Ask your grocer. Price, roc. The ROBERT GREIQ CO., Limited ] Toronto, 8 MANACLED SWIMMER'S FEAT. Nine-Mils Journey In the Thames by Fifty-Year-Old Professor. Prof. Jules Gautier, the well known London swimmer, recently performed a remarkable feat in the Thames, cov- ering the nine-mile course from Rich- mond to Putney with his arms and legs manacled. Despite his fifty years, he swam the distances in 2h. b4min. At 5 p. m. his wrists were bound to- gether with manacles of leather and steel, separated by two inches of steel rivets, while his ankles were united in a similar manner. He then dived off a boat moored under Richmond bridge, while the crowd on the bridge cheered the daring swimmer Gautier at once adopted the stroke which he used all through his great performance. He kept on his right side, his manacled hands being brought out of the water as in the overhand stroke, and when they de- scended into the water he brought them down side by side sp that they formed a large scoop. He could not kick in the ordinary way with his legs, so he adopted a motion like that of the screw of a steamer, which help- ed him go at 8 wonderful pace. | In fact, of through Gautier pro- gressed at a rate which few unfettered swimmers could hope ual. He did the first half-mile to Richmond lock in 11 ginutes and 3 eas { kosping up as average of ¢ 1] | es a minute. The first three miles occupied 43 minutes, seconds, and at the end | of the first hour exactly four miles | had been covered. Barnes railway bridge, five miles from Richmond, was | reached in 1 hour 18 minutes and 22 seconds, and shortly afterwards the swimmér experienced his "bad time." He reached a stretch of nearly dead water, and his task proved nearly heart-breaking. But he never rested, and when he Hammersmith bridge the worst was over. The seven and a quarter miles had been covered | in 2 hours and 19 minutes. The tide | was then of much more assistance. | Exactly at four minutes to eight, | two hours and fifty-four minutes from | the time he had started, Gautier swam | through the central arch of Putney out food they were relieved of their | brid written contracts and subjected to al different treatment. men say that the company will not take cash to settle any indebted- ness for board, railway fares or any expenses, but demand that the men work till they have evened up ol Tings of charges to Loop the men charges to keep the men af work. + A party of workmen once tried to escape, but were run down by pri- detectives and marched back to under cover of guns. is supplied, say, and scores of cases of ex- charges for necessaries of life are recorded. The price even of post- is increased. Italians newly arrived at wanted to eT rubber lore they startéd to work ai 3 BWAmpS. e company refus é "them have any, however, be- had earned them in work. talians insisted, and some of clerks tried to disperse the crowd revolvers. The Italians drew and one of them had a rifle. furnished the footwear. ridge. | "I do not feel at all tired," he told | the pressmen who followed in a boa | "but my eyes have suffered a | deal from Te continual splash the water. AMAZING REVELATIONS. How Government Money Is Thrown Away by Bungling Officials. The stupidit; of officiais, ranking from Cabinet Ministers to subalterns of the army, costs Great Britain a nice jhing satually It is very amus- ing, but jokes are of the most ex- pensive pattern. The reports of the Committee of Public Accounts ne particulars of these matters. t committee is a sort of watch-dog of the spending departments, and ite in- sistent bark draws attention to any irregularity or extravagance in the expenditure of public moneys. The issued the committee ocon- tains some ive criticism of the Jas ae It will > ii at groes expenditure on Army Votes during the year 1905-8 fell short of the estimate by £1,334, 138. The actual surplus on March 31, 1908, was almost double the amount £691,000) anticipated by the War Of- ce in a lorsoast sqbiiiued. to the Treasury as late as nine pre- o's dem y been dropped. (iv.) At Btobs, "the origi was that it was going to be training ground for troops, but it has been given up," the War Office hav- ing "only spent £56,000 out of the £725,000, which had been intended. . . at a time when it was anti- cipated to have six Army Corps." The land purchased is u "mainly for volunteer camps and things of that sort." [ | | | al idea Famous Lilac Tree. Chief among the many objects of interest in the gardens of Eastern , Dunmow, Eng., the residence of the Earl and Countess of Warwick, is the magnificent lilac tree which occupies a conspicuous position on the terrace. This tree is the finest specimen of its kind in the United ingdom. It has;a circumference of 120 feet and a height of 18 foet and it has so dense a growth and blooms so profusely that when in flower it forms a huge Yntet of lilac blossom. The lilac is that commonly krown as the Persian, and described by the botan- ists as the Chinese; but it is not a usative of either Persia or China, but | was raised in the Rouen Botanic Gar- | den in 1796 by the hybridzation of the | true Persian lilac and the common | it was of | a magnificent display that in the flowering season Viscount | Maynard, Lady Warwick's randfath- | or, used to make a special journey | trom London to enjoy the beauty and fragrance of the flowers Wouldn't Lose Two Days. A young man who dropped into the recorder's office for a marriage li- cense, finding that a license had just been issued containing the name of | the young lady who was to figure in | the document sought, purchased his | license all the same with the name of | another girl inserted. That was his day for getting ready to be married, and he didn't propose to let asaall matters bar the way. ~ CUPID'S COURT. An Adverse Decision, an Appeal and Oral Argument.' The judge's daughter was perturbed. "Papa," she said, knitting her pretty brow, "I am in doubt as to whether 1 have kept to the proper form of proce dure. In law one can err In so many little technicalities that IT am ever fear ful. Now, last evening George" -- The judge looked at her so sharply over his glasses that she involuntarily paused. "I thought you had sent him about his business," he sald. = "I did hand down an adverse deci sion," she answered, "and be declared that be would appeal. However, I con- vinced him that I was the court of last resort In a case like that and that me appeal would lie from my decision." "Possibly the court was assuming a little more power than rightfully be longs to it," sald the judge thoughtful ly, "but let that pass. What did he do then?" "He filed a petition for a rehearing." "The usual course," said the judge, "but It is usually nothing but a mere formality." 3 "So I thought," returned the girl "and 1 was prepared to deny it with out argument, but the facts set forth in his petition were sufficient to make me hesitate and wonder whether his case had really been properly present ed at the first trial." "Upon what grounds did he make the application?' asked the judge, scowl Ing. "Well," she replied, blushing = little, "you see, he proposed by letter, and his contention was that the case was of that peculiar character that cannot the blues at last gether in broken When the troopers: their steeds a score: ral horses had bee ance, were Lancers and a horse | latter sustained - a. thigh, a man of thé cors concussion of which he died, and a mi had a broken bone, cut ip falling. It ters did not go furth STOLEN FROM Mysterious Robbory. Keys Taken night Mint, and publie ly shaken in th most people be 0 safest spots in all View cumstances sur nis are full of mystery. 8 were placed in the!safe at. the office to be kept © ht} B E. Pascoe, a Bendigo his own risk, iy accordance, practice that 8 > when people have Wei sit their valuables in the nks. Senior Constable Ba resident police officer in ol the place, went to the safe papers at 10 o'clock in the and the gold then lay wher put it. He went back at I morning, and it was gone. curious point is that the been opened with a key,"and if only available key was dn which Constable Barclay h on the end of his bed when hi to rest. This key was in th in the morning, and the sup therefore, is that the robber m entered the bedroom and | vest, and then, when he h: | his dishonest work, it bik returned the key to found it. A constable on ni was in the office almost thi the night, only leaving for a three occasions to ac he returned. Marks were one of the windows, which that the burglars had e in that way, or had passed through, but the window William street, through whid are passing at all hours of o trace of the culprit has b Fishermen's Ancient The inhabitants of Lech cently asserted an ancient netting the lochs surrgun royal rough for fish calle which are peculiar to the lochs. 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