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THE SCOTTISH CHIEFS ;
OR
The Heroic Adventures of Wallaoe
and Bruce.
BY MISS JANE PORTER
In tlie Spring of 1296 Scotland
groaned tinder the yoke of the English !
Edward. King B'liol was a prisoner, j
an I Englund's supremacy was acknowl
edged by all the Scottish nobles, save
the brave and youthful Sir Williaui Wal.
lace, who lived secluded in the glen ot
Ellerslie with his beautiful bride Ma
rion, whom he bad tenderly loved from j
his childhood. Suddenly summoned to
Douglas castle, a small iron box, left >
with Douglas by the captive Baliol, was
confided to Wallace's care, with the
charge :
"It will be at the peril of hia soul who
dares to open it till Scotlaud be again I
free 1"
Returning home, he rescued the Earl j
ol Mar fioin a throng of merciless Etig
lish soldiers, killed A'thur Heselrigge, j
their leader, and narrowly escaped with j
i hie own lile. Pursued to Ellerslie by
the enraged E> glish, the wounded Earl
was hiildeu in a dry well, Wallace
climbed into an oak, and Marion con- j
ceaied heisell in a thicket The search j
being bofH.d, Wallace hastened to hide
himself among the Curt lane crags, but j
ihe next daj Governor He-elrigge, Ar- i
iittti'n uncle, came and violently de
.iinded :
• Woeie in Sir Williaui Wul'aee ?"
L dy Marion remained silent
Speak, « man ! It ymi refuse, you
l e
i e I ilit*," « I- ii. sWend,' and may
ii. .v. it pi ■8 I vt- in) \\ a I lace fr mi li e
I E I v.iid ami Ins tyiMiiis!"
Ii Hp'ieiiH'Us wreioh!" cried Herel*
..•yi plii'igiu. hi- HA "i d in her drf- use
-ii bu .i-t
'My Wallace—'> fJ.'d !' murui'ired
vl rmi, us another fit'iid'sh- st.r,.ke
r ached hei healt, and htr pure spiiit
H d in heaven
An a«»-d servant eic ped to the Cart- !
lane crags with the heartbreaking news !
"Oh. uiy muidrred wile! my uiil.-iri.
•iabe!" cried the agonized Wallace,
i/ive me p"wer, Almighty Judte, to
avenge this angel's blood, and then take
me to Tliysell."
Gaih ring a band of sixty brave La
milkers. Wallace fell like a thunderbolt
on Heselrigge's fortress and slew the
wretch witi. the game bloody sword that
had ended Mari m's life.
"So fall the enemies of Wallace,"
cried bis exulting followers.
'•Rather so fall the enemies of Scot- j
land," he replied. "To work our eoun- !
try's freedom, who will follow me?"
"All ! With Wallace lorever !"
The first nobleman to join this daring I
crusade was the rescued Earl of Mar. j
tint be was speedily captured andß ith
wrll castle was seized by ihe Scotch
I Lord Soulis and the English Aymer de
; Valence, both of whom had sued in
' yain for the hand of the Earl's diugh*
■ tor, the lovely Helen Mar. Dreading
; their violence, she escaped with her cou
t gin Andrew Murray by a secret pnsxage
ito the priory of St. Filians Her father
and his wile were oonfined at Dumbarton
oastle, Wallaoe and his few followers
, were hemmed in on the Curtlane crags
by swarme of English soldiers, and Lady
Helen, decoyed from ihe priory, fell iftto
the hands of the brutal Soulis. Cross
ing tbe mountains by night be sought
to take the utmost advantage of his help
less prisoner, whoso hand was raised to
' gave her honor by plunging a knife into
ber own breast, when an unknown
knight suddenly fell upon hiui, wounded
him severely, aud spirited Lady Helen
away to a hermit's cell The strange
knight coucealed his name, but both
Helen and the hermit believed him tube
young Robert Bruce.
Wallaoe, meanwhile, eluded his pur
■ suers, joined his slender forces with those
of Andrew Murray and a lew oilier tear
less Scots, aud marched to attauk i uui
barton oastle. By night the patriots
goaled its walis, eut down the Knitli.ih
garrison, aud plauted the royal Scottish
standard upon the captured citadel The
Earl of Mar* was released, and Edwin
Rutlivon, his nephew, a lad of fifteen,
wag knighted fiir his bravery by Wal
laoe, to whom he attached himself with
more than a brother's devotion The
Earl's wife, Helen's young siep tuother,
was seised with a passion for Wallace,
whose coldness only served to inorease
DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1878.
her guilty love. She persuaned htui i ■
escort the Jiarl anil herself to Ruthsay
castle, in the isie of Uute, where she
shamelessly petitioned :
' Only jiive me leave tu love thee, and j
I shall be happy !"
He hud scarcely finished rebuking her |
when a passenger arrived with news
that Wallace's grandfather and eighteen 1
other Scottish chiefs had boon treach
erously murdered at Ayr!
"This arm shall show how I loved
that good old uian !" cried the afflicted
Wallace, and, hastenit ; to Dumbarton! ;
he gathered his forces and marched in- j
stunt ly on Ayr. The palace was seized
and surrounded with combustibles, and j
Wallace, tearing off part of the roof, |
showed himself with a flaming brand in ,
his hund to the affrighted revelers with* j
in, and cried aloud, as he threw it among !
them :
"The blood of the murdered calls for 1
vengeance, and it conies !"
Iluhdreds perished in the flames and j
by the sword hundreds more surren- j
dered, and a long tiaia of captive chiefs
found release. Castle after castle fell j
in rapid succession before the valor of |
Wallace, and at 1 >st Berwick was be
sieged and taken. At the height of this
victory a letter from Helen Mar informed
Wallace that she and tier parents were
prisoners at Stirling, and that the Earl's
life was in deadly peril.
"1 shall ue on my knees," she wrote,
'till 1 hear you • trumpet before the
walls, fir in y >u und heaven n w rest all
the hopes of Helen Mar "
Another swift march |in ' fierce attack
instanily followed. Hut while victory
hung to the balance sixty thousand Eng 
lish were marching on Wallace's little
army of five thousand The first divis- j
in* of twei ty thou-und es ayed to cross I
the Forth by a bridge, the beams of 1
which he Scots had secretly sawed By
suddenly pulling this down a multitude .
were whelmed in the stream, and the !
rest, attacked botti front and rear, were J
soon overwhelmed. The savage valor of'
Wullac 's followers so dismayed tho Eng
lish that the remaining forty thousand
j men lani dowu thefr arms without i •
blow ! The citadel of Stirling surren
dered at once, and the Earl of Mar. his
wife, and the lovely Helen, were again
set free.
In the rejoicings over this tiiumpli
Helen was aumz d to find in Sir William 1
Wallace the knight, who had rescued her
from the tierce Soulis, and for whom her
j heart hud cl eris i a pure though hidden
affection. Knowing his devotion to the
! memory of Marion she leit herself des
, tined only to suoh love as a nun fells for
' her heavenly preserver. Hut her step
' mother's wicked passion burned with re
! newed fierceness, and she plotted to win 1
' Wallace's regard and make him king of |
Scotland, hoping thus, at her husband's
death, to gratify both her love and her
ambition as Wallace's wife. Hut he re
pelled her wicked advances, refused tho
crown, and consented only to act as re
gent of Scotland till Bruce should re
sume (ha throne. Among his prisoners
was the treacherous Ayuier de Valence, j
who, I'uil of jealous envy against Wal- |
lace, sought to stab hiui in the chapel, I
whither Helen had gone to pray for his
I safety . A deadly stroke meant, for him
pierced Helen's arm, but Do Valence's
, villainy was generously forgiven.
War being resumed, after an ezohange
I of captives, the English Percy was routed,.
and Northumberland was sacked from
) sea to sea by the victorious Scots King
; Edward then marched in person to sub
, due the insurgents, but in the opening
' battle between him and Wallace, the
I amazed king found himself obliged to
j retreat for the fiist time in his life. In
' this veiy hour of iriumph, envy and
| treason began to plot the ruin of Wal
! lace A plan t> surrender Dunbar wag
unmasked by the adroitness and bravery
of Helen Mar ! Edward invaded Scot
hind with a hundred tho sand men ;
Wallace's authority was bitterly disputed"
by traitor*, and on the field of Falkirk
j his army was nearly crushed. Hut
gatneiing his scattered forces, he fell by
ulght on the E gliah camp, an I rested
not until he had driven Edw-trd and his
shattered ht.als over the border bl'ny
a biave Scot wug slain idt this struggle,
and H leu Mar was captured by the
ruthless A)tiler de Vulence
"Swear to me, valiant Wallace," ejao
ulatcd her grief-siriekea father, "that
you will resoue my Helen."
"So help me, Heaven!" answered
, Wi.i|»rfe. looking stendlasilj bpvraWts.
Resigning his regency soon after, to j
qu"tl the d Mention* caused by envy of
[ his glory, ho disguised himself as a min- !
; strel and traveled to the English court,
at Durham, in search of Helen. Here
| he met young Robert Biuco whom Ed |
ward held a prisoner, and even dared to 1
1 play before the king and Queen Marga- j
ret, whose admiration 11 the strange ;
minstrel excited Edward's raging jeal j
' ousy which was not allayed until Wal- j
I lace, escaping to France, sent him a !
letter declaring the queen's perfect inno- !
cenae Followed soon by Brv.ce, the two
;
traced Ayuier de Valence to a castle near ;
Rouen, where Wallace soon penetrated
ito Helen's prison chamber. He found
j her sleeping mid murmuring in dreams:
I '/S&s£u>e, Wallaoe 1"
Diessed in a page's suit, which he I nd
| provided for her, the once more happy S
4 Helen safely escaped from her heartless
j captnr, and journeyed with Wallace and
| Bruce to Paris, where the French king
treated them all with the utmost kind
I ness, Returning at lust to Scotland with !
j tin ir lair companion, the chiefs thought
j it prudent to pass as two brothers, Guy
and Thomas de Longneville. Joining
thus with their countrymen in battle
against an ovelwhelming English forco j
the Scots were on the point of re're.it- j
ing, when de'eat was changed to triumph
by the supposed Guy, who raised his
helmet and shouted : "Scots, if you he
uien, follow William Wallace to victory !"
Tnis sueocta re-esiublished his author '
I itv, and again he devottd himself to cx
j pelling the English from Scotland. But |
| an unknown knight who had j.ii ied his 1
train and fought by his side, suddenly
proved to be the C 'Unless of Mar, whose
' husband was now dead, and who sought
i in this disguise to win Wallace's regard, j
i Firmly repulsed by him, her passion \
turned to hate, and plucking his dagger
| troni his girdle she stuck it into his j
' breast, though not with fatal effect. Her
1 eyes glared with maniac fury, and she
' exclaimed :
' Insolent triutnpher, it is uot for the
dead Marion you have trampled on my
' h'.-t for ihe living Helen!'.'
'I pardon this outruge," 6aid Wallace ;
• "go in p'*ace, only remember, that with
regard to Helen my wishes tire as pure
as her iunnccnee."
"I go," cried she, "to yield the rtbel
( Wallace to the scaffold ! My curse pur
sues you here and hereafter."
Too well she kept her word, for upon
charges of treason preferred by her Wal
! lace was arrested and brought to Ster*
| ling, where tl e wretched w.iuian sought
j by the most shameless perjuries to swear
| away his honor and his life. While his
enemies wero quarreling over the charges
1 atr English army advanced into Scotland
; wsh stinii resistless strides that his very
1 | abusers were compelled tosolieit him to
: resume the com mat. d. On the plain of
• j Dalkeith he conquered again, but his
malignant rivals once moro combined
with Kitvg Edward to crush him forever.
Outluwed by his own ungrateful coun
-1 try, and a price set on his head by Eng
' ! land, his few faithful friends were pow
' ' erless to save him. For gold it soulless
' ' traitor betrayed him tu the English, and
1 j he was flung into the tower of Loudon,
' and condemned to die
' The frenzied Helen, dressed in the
page's suit in whieh Wallace had res
i i Cued her from D Valence, journeyed to
l,'| Londoti alone, bribed thq, guard,.arid
1 "fining access to Wallace's cell, fell ••old
I j at his feet.
i "Helen!" exc aimed he, in
; "dead ! gone to tell Marion that her
i ! Wallace comes ! blessed angel, take uic
i 1 with thee !"
i | But Helen revived at his voice, and
I spoke such w irds ol pure devotion to her
■ benefuetor that Wallace cried :
i "Thy soul and Marion's are indeed
r , one 1
To give her an unquegtioned right to
; 1 stay and comfort his last hours, the
priest ol the prison pronounced the
words that tnade Helen Mar the wife of
[ | the doomed patriot. Life was offered
( | him nt the price of dishonor, but he re-
I fused the gift The furious Edward
i would not relent, and Wallace was led
| '
, to the BCsffnld Rut as he clasped the
Helen in o latN embrace, hi# soul
I escaped from its earthly tenement before
I tbe executioner could act his cruel part
! The ngoniaed Bruce, whose weakness
; tesulting from wounds had prevented
him from aiding his friend, followed
1 Helen to London, *nd in his frenzied
grief was hardly restr i .ed from ug* |
saulting Edward, single handed, in his
palace. Rill calmer counsels prevailed,
aud the royal mourner returned to Scot
land, where Wallace's death had re
lighted tho fires of patriotism nnd steeled
every true heart against the English
usurp«r. At Runnockbun the power of
Edward was broken, and the Countess
of Mar, baffled by Rruco's triumph, be
came a raving uiuniac.
Upon the day of Rruoe's corouation
the body ot William Wallace was re
turned to his native lund. Over his j
coffin the mysterious iron box, confided
to his cire the day he rescued the Earl ;
of Mar, was opened, aud found to con- I
tain the regalia of Scotland. The pale
yet beautiful Helen, clad in a nun's
black vestments, knelt by the biet as (be
crown was placed on Rruee's head.
"Look up," he cried, "nnd let thy
soul, discoursing wiih thy Wallace, tell
him that Scotland is free, and Bruce a
king !"
She spoke not, she moved not Both
well raised her elav-oold face.
' Th.i soul is fled, my lord," said he,
'•but from yon eternal sphere tbey now
together look upon you !"
Period of Self-Conceit.
In almost every niau's life there is a
period of self conceit. But with a true
heart and a well balanced head the dis
ease is of short duratiou, and is not liable
to recur. There are ooly a few inoura
ble cases, and still fewer in wbieh one's
vanity becomes inflated as seasons leave
their silvery register upon his locks.
The period is somewhere between fifteen
and twenty-five, at which men are gen
erally the smartest. They are sages
then, are standards of wisdom in all
things. They are Zaccheuses in the
giddy heights of the sycamore. Some
of them tumble out and break their
necks, while others see their folly and
! come down among humble and wise men
But this is a critical period in one's life.
He m iy aet foolishly towards others, but
| others should exercise discretion toward
him.
I Older men should not aggravate the
ill, but bear patieutly and gently with it.
Kindness and patience will best help a
1 young man through this crisis of vanity.
H-roh treotment may leave unpleasaut
reflections after the patient has been re-
I stored Tho insane and delirious never
| forget derision and ill trentment. So
1 the puffed*up young man may remember
all attempts to puncture him with ridi
cule. After his collapse of vanity, and
the normal adjustment of his faculties,
ho may kuow who bad pity and patience,
\ and who sought to kill rather than cuie
i We would therefore say to our brethren :
Bear with that vain young man ; be
may be ripening into maturer strength
that shall largely advance the cause of
! truih.
Use of Silence.
A pity that so few people understand
1 the full offeet of well-timed silence!
How eloquent it is in ieality ! Acqui
escence, contradiction, difference, dis
dain, cmburrassmeni and awe may all be
j expressed by saying nothing. It may
bo necessary to illusirato this apparent
paradox by a few examples. Should
i you hear an assertion which you may
deem false, made by some one of whose
vuraoity politeness may withhold you
j from opeuly declaring your doubt, yon
| denote a difl'ei'enue of opinion by re
maining silent. Arc you receiving a
reprimand from a superior ? You mark
your respeet by an attentive silence,
i Are you compelled to listen to the frivo
| lous conversation ol a fop ) You signify
| your opinion of hiu> by treating his lo-
I quacity with silence. Again, how uiuoh
domestic strife might have been pre
I vented, how often might the quarrel
which by mutual aggravation has, per
i haps, terminated in bloodshed, had it
I been checked in tho commencement by
1 a judicious silenoe! Those pertons only
who have experienced them are aware
i of the bcuefiotal effects of that forbear-
I anee, whieh to the exa«perating threat,
the malicious sneer, or the unjustly im
putated culpability, shall never answer
a word A *oft answer turns away
wrath ; but sometimes erring humanity
cannot giv-v this soft answer io moments
of irriiatiou ; in such eases, there stands
: th. fortress of silence, with doors wide
j open, aB a refuge for the tired spirit un
til calmer moments come. Tbink of
ibis seriously, you iu having
"the last word."
NUMBER 43
Fenced In.
'Don't believe in joinin' churches,
any way," said Farmer Rye, as he stood
leaning on the bars of iho meadow lot,
talking to his uiece Iluthie, who had
just come from the woods with her arms
and hands lull of ferns and mosses, and
cleuiatii wreath?
She hud found time at last to spesk
a word to "Uncle Charlie," whom she
dearly loved Tncre had been earnest
prayers bslore that, you may be sure,
thai the kindly, upright, honest man
might not trust to his purity of life, but
bud salvation in Christ's tioisbed atone
ment. And she had said just now :
' Then, Uncle, deur, why don't you
stand out on the Lord's side, and come
i into His army ?"
Uncle Charlie tipped up his old hat
from behind, as be was worn to do when
I annoyed; and leaning his crossed arms
i on the fence rail, looked quite away from
the giri's earnest lace, as be continued :
" 'Pears to me, it a body's got any
j religion, they ought to be able to stick
; to it without being tethered up like a
| wild steer."
Ruthie said nothing at first; then,
with a golden maple branch pointed over
I to the corner ot the wide lawn in front
I of the houso, which had been newly re
i deemed from the wilderness and fenced
: in, neatly.
j Outside there were briers, and thick-
I ets, and bogs, and marshy spots, aod
j wandering footpaths and thorny bushs.
j Inside was the level stretch of ro"
| deemed gieen sward, witb the graded
paths that touched, at curves and angles;
j or clump 9 of evergreens and beds of
i roses blooming yet, (hough autumn had
I come.
''Uncle Charlie, what a difference that
{ fence made, didu't it? 1 tbink that
| poor little strip of land must be so glad.
! Now it feels as though it belongs to some
| body, and somebody cares for it; so it's
just blooming out its gratitude because
i it h»B been redeemed : isn't it ?"
Uncle Charlie looked down at the ear
! nest little face a moucnt, and said
"Trot along, dear ; most tea time," and
' liutliie came hotue heavy-hearted.
But a great joy was coming to her*
with the next communion season, when,
in his quaint way, Uncle Charlie said :
"Iluthie, I'm goiu' to be fenced in,
and belong to somebody." And when
the cup ot blessing came it touched bis
j reverent lips, while little Ruthie was
j softly giving thanks tbe while. — Ethel
i Lynn Beers in the Sower.
Think— Speak—Act.
Would that every one could realize
the vast importnnce of these little words,
think, speak act In this world where
character is continually in a state of
commotion, and scarce ever reaches a
climax, it is no little thin?, but it bo
-1 hooves us tbat we reflect how to speak,
think and act. In our lives is not visi
ble the cflects of our action*', but their
influences will show themselves wheß our
b idies arc laid beneath the sod. Tho
influence of many wjjrds and actios no
! ner dies, but like circles in wa(erD%eu.
a Btone is cast into its bosom, keeps wide
| ning till we can scarce define it, or our
eyes reach its boundaries. Many limes
our words and actions may toueh a chord
in the harp of humanity, the influence
1 of which will vibrate throughout eterni
: ty ; and it is the same if the influence be
f r good or evil. Not a thought in our
mind, not a word escapes our lips, not an
' action Is performed, b'ut that God is wit
ness of. How important it is, then, that
' our every endeavor be for tbe good, and
(hut we weigh wfll every thought, word
and action. If we do this, our influence
will assuredly be good, and such that we
shall never have ihe'eause ti regret.
A three-ton iron roller lay at the top
of a high hill in Eureka, Cal. A boy
called his oouipunions' attention to the
. chance for fun in seeing it go dewn the
long and heavy grade. They started it
ijith considerably difficulty, and at the
very outset it ran over a pile of slatee
snd school books, crushing them to MM.
Gaining tpecd as it whirled along, it
soon overtook and fluMeoed a dog. Next,
it smashed a wagon, from whiob a man
jumped just in time to save bis life; and
then, quitting the road, it oroahed
through a Chinaman's shanty, and buried
itself in a ravine. The boys are Mid to
have been fully satisfied with the diver
sion.