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STORIES AND TREASURES OF GLAMIS, candleshed in the little boy

ENGLAND'S NEW PRINCESS.

GHOSTS AND SECRET CHAMBERS IN SCOTTISH CASTLE.

Another Princees was born to England on Thursday, when the Duchess of York, wife of the King's second son, gave birth to a daugh ter. Thus, there is still a possibi lity of England once again being wded by a Queen Elizabeth, since the four-years-old Princess Eliza- beth, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess' York, remains third in line to the throne,

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The House of Glamis.

You do not want to find yourself Houses may come and houses may fall alone in Glamis unless you are a member of the family, or per- go, but the "House of Glamis "—

a candlestick and lighting the

was sitting up with his eyes star

ng out of his head. Mother," he whispered, "I saw a man with a dead face."

I would take you to Glamis any time you like, but not in the dead of night. Too many spirits, must wend their way back there. I went by once, when the church war striking the midnight hour, and avory lashing branch seemed GD angry spirit. I will never go there again at that mystic hour.

SUFFERED FOR ELEVEN YEARS

Pimples on Chest, Neck, Scalp, Face Cuticura Healed.

"My trouble took the form of big, red pimples that affected my cheat, neck, scalp and i had some on my face. They were of a dry nature. After the first few cays they burned badly, and when I got warm in bed, it was agony. I was unable to shave while they were on my face, and

as the old records call the fectly at home there. Once when LONDON SELLING ACENTS suffered terribly after washing. Fer childhood home

rear

monster,

of the Duchess I was wandering at the tail of a on for for guests I went through one of of York-seétas to go ever: While other Scottish families the arched doorways, past one of the the many mail-clad figures" which proud walls against onslaughts of time, rear them play sentined under the stone and see them crumble as family passage alone with L

which, when I grew accustomed to fortunes decay, the "Auld Hoose," She is third lady in the land dear not only to the hearts of the dimness, turned out to be a after Queen Mary and Princess Lyons, but to all Scots at home and great stuffed boar Mary, and should-for some hardly fabroady keeps proud tryst in a conceivable reason neither the corner of Angus, Prince of Wales nor the Duke of All our roads in Angus (writes York mount the throne, then Prina correspondent of a London paper) cess Elizabeth would becoine, Queen seem to lead to Glamis, just as all Elizabeth. Had a son been born our thoughts now wing there. Ighosts, as mine was when I was a on Thursday, he would have taken could take you there blindfold from child. precedence over the little Princess, the leafy borders of Perthshire. I since it is the English tradition that could bring you twisting across the the first-born son is the heir.

purple Sidlaws from Ronnie Dundee."

Probably Princess Elizabeth, won- ders what all the fuss is about. Probably she has been told that if she is a good girl and keeps quiet the stork will bring her a. baby sister:

From hump-backed Thrums and its fir-sented glenste, the north we could tramp in a short time:

If we came by the grey old town of Forfar-as Earl Beardie must often do if it is true that this ghost

A Charmed Spot.

To me, at home at the foot of

This promise of someone to play with and "boss around "-for al-haunts Glamis-our trip would be ready Elizabeth knows that she is a slow drop down to the pleassunce a Princess, and loves to give her that cradles the castle. orders, which, of course, are cot always obeyed-has pleased the tiny Princess, but it is certain that she does not know that she must now, to some extent, share the limelight that has been hers alone for the last four years. The baby Princess ranks as fourth lady in the land after her sister,

The Home Secretary's Presence. A curious ceremony, handed down through generations of the Royal Family, was enacted on Thursday.

It is tradition that the senior Secretary of State, now called the Home Secretary, must attend in person or the eventful occasion when a child who may be heir to the throne is born. And there is, of course, a remote possibility that the new arrival might one day be Queen of England.

In olden times the presence of the Cabinet Minister was to ensure that there was no substitution, but in these modern times his presence in an adjoining room is all that is required

Thas Mr. J. R. Clynes, Home Secretary, listened to the wails of the new-born Princess, and achiev ed the distinction of being the first Labour Minister in history to tend such an event.

The Question of Names. There is much discussion regard- ing the name that will given the baby, although no official intima tion is yet forthcoming.

Her sister's names are Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, which includes, most of the family names on her father's side. Thus there are some who contend that she will be named

Cecilia, Liter her maternal grand mother, Countess Strathmore.

There would be widespread re- joicing throughout the country as soon as the news' was known,

The Glamis Ghosts. But your nerves" play you all kinds of tricks at Glamis if you havd had your imagination fed on tales of secret chambers and Glamis

The private chapel, in which all the children to a Lyon, are usally christened, is a place of beauty. The famous Dutch artist, Jacob de Witt, who carried out the de- corations in 1688, illustrated it with the life of Christ and His twelve apostles..

But I would rather lead you to the haunted room or secret cham- her, where Earl Beardie-of whom they say in Forfarshire-

free

Earl Beardio ne'er will dee Nor puix Jock Barefoot be set

As lang's there grows a tree

the Grampiads, Glamis was ever still gambles will he

chammed spot. I grew up basking in the reflection of its smile, steep ed in its lore.. To me, at home in England, Glamis is now a haunting

memory.

I have gone to it when the rain battered its grey walls. I have lingered in its gardens when the August sur it up its windows. I have often in memory driven through its woods, lashed by the wind..

For I know Glamis in all seasons. No matter the weather, it is always the same.

Picture a heavy pile, an oblong cluster of turress grown into small towers guarding a nobler tower in the centre, à regal but secret place which does not dawn on you in all its feudal grandeur until you have traversed almost the length of its mile-long avenue.

The first time you see it your Towering breath futters away. above you to where it can signal the spurs of the Grampians and the

Glamis.

Lord

Earl Beardie, the fourth Earl of Crawford-called "Beardie" be- cause of the exuberance of his beard, and sometimes "Tiger Ear!" on account of the ferocity of his temper-was a boon companion of the Lord Glamis of his day,

Tradition says he was once the guest of his friend on a Saturday night.

In what is now the secret cham- ber these two friends sat, playing. cards or throwing dies. Midnight found them still engrossed in the game. Sunday, still a holy day in Scotland, dawned, but when they were told it was the Sabbath they refused to stop, saying they would finish their game even though it took them till the "crack o' doom" So, because of their defiance, they were condemned to play till the Day of Judgment.

The Secret Chamber.

Some say there is no secret cham-

Sidlaws, it seems alive. Steeped her. Others say that only the earl, in drama and romance, it ranks with the heir-apparent, and the factor Holyrood. Both were nurtured in of the estate know at one time of black tragedy and strife when the its existence.“

Now both

I have heard of it by chance in centuries were young.

the past.

Ancient Treasures.

sleep, perfumed with the breath of two vastly different places. Seven. years ago, when I was in Balti more, I met at the house of an American, belonging to an English If you are privileged to enter family, an old gallant wearing tur- the House of Glamis," you will quoise rings, pink socks, and find yourself right away in the old light waistcoat. He had once ac- baronial ball, now a vast medieval

companied a famous peer On A lounge, furnished with treasures visit. to Glamis when the Duchess The fondness of the British public old as the castle.

The Countess of Strathmore of York's mother-or it might have for the charming Duchess naturally augments interest in the birth usually receives her guests there, been her grandmother was reign-

where exquisite embroideries anding there, a She is the youngest daughter in a family of nine-ard met her hus-tapestries, some adorning the stools When he expressed a desire to band at a children's party given by and chairs, testify to the skill of seg the secret chamber the countess opened & trapdoor and led him Lady Leicester when he was a the ladies of Glamis, schoolboy and she a child of five.. A friendship was formed then that culminated in their marriage, a though there is a story told that at first the Duchess, then Lady Bowes- Lyon, would not listen to the Duke's suit.

It is said that finally his mother, Queen Mary, advised the Duke to propose just once more, and take Lady Elizabeth's answer, whether res or no, as final. This he did The Duchess Answer can be guess ed at

Duchess's First Autumn Engage ment,

Passing through the hall, with down to a door at the bottom of its Jacobean furniture and other a narrow stairway. She said, Jacobite relics for the Strathmore-That is the room. It had some family were ardently attached to old furniture, and three work- busy three. The the Stuart dynasty--your thoughts man were wing back to the night of January American gallant could see nothing 4, 1716, when the Old Pretender unusual about it, but some time slept at the Castle of Glamis on his afterwards he heard that the three way to Scene, where he expected workmen, on the completion of to be crowned. As they say that their job, received a handsome eighty beds were made up for his sum of money on the understand- retinue, you have some idea of the ing that they would all go abroad, ke one to Canada, one to India, and extent of Glamis,OS

Leaving the hall. with its vaulted I have forgotten where the third roof, its embrasured windows, and was supposed to be sent great repince, twelve feet wide. They say Earl Beardie's spirit guarded by rampant lien dogs, haunts Glamis, that the Duchess te panelled walls hang with ancient has seen it as well as other mem- tapestries, and its old copper lamps, bera of the family, but is not lung from chains that were wrought afraid. One wild and stormy in days when electricity and bad night, govoral years ago, an ac a gala matinée of What Every not been dreamt of, you enter the quaintance of mine, who is the Woman Knows," at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket Mr. Boraceng dining-room, bung with valu wife of a neighbouring laird, was Watson has lent the theatre for able paintings, including the famous guest at the castle with her little the benefit of the Prince of Wales portrait of Graham of Claverhouse. son, who occupied a bedroom, off Endowment Fund of Toe H and But wherever you go in Glamis here.

of treasures

It was such a night on which the You find a wealth from the past Up the turret key harf which the Duchess is preri

chick the Buddenly the oks and sew dent. Great interest

Pretender and Sir Walter Scott standing at the foot of her bed a slept Down the crypt figure in armour."Who are which has a low, vaulted stone you she asked, starting up,” jthe roof the walls are decorated with figure replied by fading through ancient Scottish weapons and the doorway into her son's chainmail

room, and when the mother, gizing.

The Duchess of York has fixed Monday, November 24, as the date on which she will be able to attend

be aroused by the matinée, which will be under the direction of vir Godfrey Tearle, as the Duchess's visit will probably be her first public engagement in London in

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