The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1937, Page 10

[ = > _ - % * Siack Agnes of Dunbar - @ NDAUNTED BY THE OVERWHELMING HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY -t By J. CARR(* L MANSFIELD STORY 1S FULL OF STORIES OF WOMEN WHO, WHEN THE OCCASION AROSE; ASS UMED ¢ MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND ACQUITTED THEM- SELVES WITH \nwn HONOR. TAKE,FOR” 5 INSTANCE, NBAR, SCOTT!, uenomz— OF THE 14"“ CENTLIF 51 WIFg"/ THE EARL OF 'INE COMMON FOLK CALLED H AGNES BECALSE OF HER RAVEN HAIQ AND DARK BEAUTY.. IEYEAR\ms 1337, [N MER HUSBANDS ABSENCE AN ENGLISH ARMY UNDER LORD SALISBURY LAID SIEGE TO DUNBAR CASTLE WHEN THE SPIRITED LADY SCORNED THEIR DEMAND TO SURRENDER, THE ENGLISH BROUGHT UP CATAPULTS AND BATTERING RAMS AND BEGAN POUNDING AWAY. OMETIMES THE- MILITANT LADY ER PLACE BESIDE THE ARCHERS ON THE WALLS AND SHOT THE LONG-BOW AS WELL AS ANY MAN AMONG THEM. "HER LADYSHIPY LOVE-SHAFTY PIERCE 1O THE HEART/ “EXCLAIMED SALISBURY| INCESSANTLY THE CATAPULTS OF THE BeereERI BATTERED THE STOUT WALLS - IFLICTED SEVERE DAMAGE ON THE CASTLE , THEY DREW ONLY CON - TEMPTUIOUS JEERS AND MocmNG TAUNTS FROM THE DEFENDERS - - BUT THOUGH THE ENGLISH | NUMBERS OF THE FOE, THE COUNT- OFFEREDPA GALLANT RESISTANCE AND BEAT OFFAU. THE ASSAULTS AFTER EVERY BOMBARDMENT THE HEROIC COUNTESS STROWED WITH HER MAIDENS UPON THE DEBRIS- STREWN BATTLEMENTS IN PLAIN VIEW OF THE EXASPERA ENEMY, FLICKING CLOTHS HERE AND THERE AS Tl-noucit; cAasuUALLY DUSTING A ROOM ! DuRING THE LONG SIEGE THE COURAGEOUS AGNES WAS EVERYWMERE, DIRECTING THE DEFENDERS, DOLING OUT FOOD, CARING FOR THE WOUNDED AND SETTING AN EXAMPLE OF COOL CONFIDENCE AND Fon*rrruDe— @ AT AFTER FIVE MONTHS THE ENGLISH GAVE UP THE SIEGE IN DISGUST AND RETREATED, LEAVING THE DEFENDERS CELE - BRATING THEIR DELIVERANCE AND ACCLAIMING THE BRAVE WOMAN HAD LEP THEM TO VICTORY . ouLD You aeueve- IT«»,Q CAQTE BLANCHE A WHITE PAFEQ In x649 WHEN KING CHARLES 1 OF ENGLAND WAS DOOMEDW ENEMIES IN PAQLIAMENT, HIS SON 4 (LaTER CHARLES I1). A FUGITIVE _§ IN HOLLAND, ENCLOSED A ‘ SHEET OF PAPER BEARING ONLY HIS SIGNATURE- IN A LETTER 10 PARLIAMENT PLEDGING THAT HE WOULPD ACCEPT IN ADVANCE ANY CONDITIONS THAT PARLIAMENT % SHOULD WRITE ABOVE HIS SIGNATURE, IF IT WOULD SPARE HIS FATHERS LIFE GREYHOUND ARE.THE OLDEST /7 KNOWN TYPES OF TRUE DOGS / THE FORMER GOT ITS NAME FROM ITS USE IN THE CRUEL. "SPORT " OF “BULL-BAITING, ONCE POPULAR IN ENGLAND ... . @ cxPeoimenTAL ForE- nuum;cz OF THE STEAMBOAT, THIS LITTLE CRAFT, THE- “ INVENTION OF JAMES RUMSEY OF MAQYLAND, WAS BUILT IN 1787 .17 WAS PROPELLED BY THE FORCE OF WATER SUCKED IN AT THE Bow AND EJECTED AT THE STERN BY A STEAM ENGINE- . RUMSEY PREVIOUSLY EXHIBITED A STEAMBOAT OF omsenswr DESIGN BEFORE GEORGE- WA SH - INGTON . RUMSEYS EXPERIMENTS WERE CUT SHORT m UNTIMELY DEATH IN 1792 . i SIMILAR WIND INSTRUMENTS ARE CALLED HORNS BECAUSE- THE FIRST BUGLES WERE RAMS-HORNS. - P \macargn