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| 4 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927 PAGE THIRTEEN A ----------- WILY, WILFUL AND WONDERFUL (Continued from Page 11) les Greville, and it was then that she made the acquaintance of George Romney, the artist, for wham she pos- ed for a number of idealized portraits of herself, several of which are world- famous, Grenville soon found him- self financially embarrassed and, in consideration of the payment of his debts, he surrendered Emma to his el- derly uncle, Lord William Hamilton, who was the British ambassador at Naples. At first Emma made a pretence of resenting this sordid bargain, but she speedily submitted to it, and in a short time became the bosom friend of the Queen of Naples, who was a lady of easy virtue like herself. After she had been living with Hamilton for five years he married her, and if Emma had possessed any decent feelings she would have remained faithful to the man who had given her the protection of his honoured name, even though he was thirty five years older than her- self and she had no love for him, Her lamentable association with Nel- son commenced in 1798, when the great sailor was on his way home after the memorable Battle of the Nile, and from then until his death at Trafalgar, over seven years later, he was her slave and tool. How the guilty couple suc- ceeded in concealing their association from the trustful husband, or how Emma contrived to hide the birth of her child who was born beneath his roof, is a mystery, for both facts were public property. When the deluded husband passed away in 1803 he was reclining in the arms of the man he thought was his friend, and his hands were clasping those of his beloved but treacherous wife, After Hamilton's death Emma and Nelson lived together onenly, and when the gallant sailor received his fatal wound on board the "Victory" at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 his last thoughts were of the woman who had bewitched him. Nelson's dying request that the Government should grant a pension to Lady Hamilton was ignored, and Emma soon became involved in debt and difficulties, although she was in possession of an income of at least thirgeen hundred pounds a vear from the legacies she had received from her husband and her lover. By this time Emma's great beauty and charm had disappeared and she had become fat and coarse-looking, a' though she was only 40 years of age. She made a futile attempt to heguile the King of the Belgians, and was then forced to retire to Calais for the pur- pose of evading her numerous credit- ors, and it was there that she died in 1815 at the age of 50. She was buried in an unknown grave, and thus ended one of the most sordid lives in British history, (Copyrighted) No. 6. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS In the whole history of the world there is no record of a more checkered and eventful career than that of the beautiful and ill-fated Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, whose personal character has provided innumerable historians with a subject for contro- versy which can never be satisfactor- ily decided. By some she is lauded as an innocent and martyred woman, and by others she is branded as a wanton and a murderess. She was born on the 8th December, 1542, six days prior to the death of her father, King James V. of Scot- land, and her coronation took place when 'she was only ten months old. At the age of 6 years she was taken to France, 'where she was betrothed to the Dauphin, who was fourteen r, and although she was then found ty and sentenced to death it was | not until the 1st February, 1587, that Elizabeth could be induced to sign the requisite death warrant. Mary was executed at Fotheringay on the 8th February, and she met her tragic end with an apparent serenity of conscience which tended to counteract the popu- lar impression as to her guilt, and which is quoted by her defenders as strong evidence of her innocence. (Copyrighted) Ne. 7. GRACE DARLING Few acts of spontaneous achieve- ment have attained a wider and more enduring renown than the courageous feat of Grace Darling, which immor- talized her name and placed her in the front rank of the world's greatest heroines. : Her father was the keeper of the lighthouse on Longstone, one of the smallest of the Farne Islands, which lie off the coast of Northumberland in the north of England, and Grace, who was twenty-three years of age at the time of her famous exploit, had passed the greater portion N her life in the lonely lighthouse with her parents, and had only received the simple edu- | cation which they had been able to give her from their own very limited knowledge. The rock-bound shores of the Farne Islands are regarded as one of the most dangerous spots on the coasts of Britain, for even in the calmest wea- ther the sea rushes with a tremendous force through the narrow channels be- tween the many islands, and among mariners the locality possesses a de- servedly evil name. On the night of the 6th September 1838 a terrible storm swept around the islands, and from the windows of the Longstone Light- | | house Grace and her parents saw a ship | dashed upon the rocks. The vessel! was the steamer--"Forfarshire," which | was bound from Hull to Dundee and ' had on board 63 persons,--39 passen- | gers and a crew of 24. | The doomed ship broke in two soon | after she had struck, and the tern! portion sank almost immediately, car- | rying to a watery grave the majority | of those on board, but the bow re-' { mained fast upon the rocks, where it' | was slowly but surely being pounded | to pieces by the heavy seas. On the | bow were 11 survivors, made up of | eight 'men, one woman and two small | | children, and Grace begged her father | to launch his little boat and make an attempt .to rescue them. When Darl- | ing pointed out to his daughter the im- possibility of his being able to row i the boat alone across the intervening ' channel she volunteered to accompany | him, but he still hesitated, for he well | knew that if they did succeed in reach- | ing the wreck, which was extremely | doubtful, they would be absolutely | powerless to undertake the return! journey unless the survivors were able | to help them with the oars. Grace persisted in her entreaties, | and she finally prevailed upon her fa- | ther to make the attempt at the break | of dawn, when, with the aid of the: distracted wife and mother, who felt that her beloved ones were going to certain death, the lighthouse boat was launched into the seething waters, Inch by inch Grace and her father fought their way through the boiling sea, which threatened every moment to overwhelm them, but at last they succeeded in reaching the wreck with- | out mishap, [ Darling sprang on board to devise some means of removing the survivors, | while Grace was left alone in the boat, which she pulled back into the hissing | waters of the channel to prevent it, from being smashed to splinters on | the jagged rocks. None of the actors in that dangerous and desperate res- cue were ever able to describe exactly | what happened, but: the woman, the two children and four of the men] somehow found their way into the boat, | which made the journey back to the | lighthouse in safety, and then, with the months her junior, and for the next | aid of two of the men, Darling made ten years she remained at the French court. She was married to the Dau- phin in April, 1558, but in 1560 her vouthful husband died, and nine a second trip to the wreck and saved | the other four survivors. i The heroism of the frail and delicate months later she returned to her na- | girl was acclaimed throughout the | world. She was awarded the gold | | tive land after an absence of thirteen | medal of the Royal Humane Socicty vears. For the next 26 vears she was the storm centre of a long series of | plots and counterplots, which made | her life a miserable one and finally | brought her to the scaffold. During her absence the Reformed Faith had taken firm root in Scotland, and her devotion to the Roman Church antagonized her people and evoked the fiery denunciations of John Knox. In 1505 she married her worthless kins- man Lord Darnley, whose ambitious schemes and jealousy added to her troubles and led, a year later, to the murder of her secretary and confiden- tial friend--David Rizzio. He was hacked to death before her eyes, and the shock brought about the prema- ture"birth and deformity of her son, who became the first of England's Stuart kings. In February, 1567, Darnley was blown up with gunpowder, and Mary's re- luctafice to punish his assassins caused a general belief that she had been a party to the crime, a belief which seemed to be justified three months later, when she married the Earl of Rothwell, who had been the prime mover in the murder of her late hus- band. This was more than any mation could be expected to tolerate, even in those lawless days, and the Scottish people rose in revolt, with the result that Mary was placed in prison and forced to sign an abdication in favour of her infant son. In May, 1568 she escaped to Eng- land. where she claimed the protection of Queen Elizabeth, who refused to receive her while under suspicion of Darnley's murder. Her presence in England was a menace to Elizabeth's life and throne, for the country was seething with Catholic plots, and Mary, although treated well, was held as a prisoner for IR years. It was not until 1586 that there was direct evidence that Mary was implicated in any of the numerous plots to place her on the English throne, but in August of that year letters fell into the hands of Eli- zabeth's ministers which clearly show- ed that Mary was a party to a con- spiracy to kill the English queen. It was on this evidence that Mary was placed on trial at Fotheringay Cas- tle, where she was then imprisoned, 2d for two days she was closely ex- anined by a commission of peers and judges. She defended herself with consummate ability, and in spite of the unshaken evidence of her two secre- tan ag s | and was presented with the sum of seven hundred pounds, which had been | raised by public subscription, while | Queen Victoria and many other not- able persons made hér valuable gifts. | She did not live long to enjoy her | well-merited fame and prosperity, for | she died of consumption four ycars later at the age of 27. | (Copyrighted) | No. 8. ; BESS OF HARDWICKE Elizabeth Hardwicke, commonly known as "Bess of Hardwicke", was one of the most remarkable women of i her day. In her youth she was a noted | beauty and wit, but in later life she! developed a fertile imagination and | malicious tongue which created pian | grave scandals. She was married four times, and as each of her husbands | left her a large fortune she became the wealthiest subject of Tudor ver} the | She was born in 1518, and was daughter of a Derbyshire squire, from ; y whom she inhegifed considerable prop- | erty. Her first husband was John Bar- low, whom she married when she was 14 years old, but he died within a year of the marriage and left her a large estate, so that at the age of 15 she became a wealthy widow, in which state she remained for the mext six- teen years. : a in 15499 she became the third wife of Sir William Cavendish, who died eight years later and left her with an- | other handsome fortune and the only issue of her four marriages, namely-- three sons and three daughters. She arranged advantageous marriages for | all her children, and two of her sons became the respective founders of the ducal families of Newcastle and Dev- onshire. After a brief widowhood Bess mar- ried Sir William de Loe, who owned several estates, some of which should have passed to other members of his family at his death, but when this took place the widow seized everything and succeeded in retaining it after several lengthy flaw-suits. Bess was then nearing her fiftieth birthday, but she still possessed much of her carlier beauty and was the wealthiest woman in England, so that, in spite of her reputation for racapcity and losing husbands, she had no lack of suitors. She finally selected as her fourth husband the Far of Shrewsbury, who | Be GIy Sib «8 Whi adh n i PD WAS ave their decision on the 25th Octo-' with the custody of Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Before the marriage took place in 1568 Bass insisted upon ar- ranging a double alliance, between her own children and those of the Earl by a former marriage. Her eldest son became the husband of Shrewsbury's youngest daughter, and her youngest daughter married the Earl's sccond son. In 1574 Bess effected a secret and asty marriage between her daughter Jdizabeth and the Earl of Lennox, who stood high in the line of succes- sion to the English throne, and this union aroused the wrath of Queen Elizabeth, who punished the ambitious and designing Bess with a short _ue- tention in the Tower of London. This marriage resulted in Bess becoming the grandmother of the famous Ara- bella Stuarty who: figured in so many plots, and whose daring escapades harassed the latter years of Queen Elizabeth's life. Bess's fourth marriage was a very unhappy one, especially for thé Earl; who made many futile attempts to se- cure a divorce from his wife, who re venged herself by accusing him of car- rying on a love affair with Mary Queen of Scots, a charge which she was after- wards compelled to admit was with- out foundation. When the Earl died in 1690 Bess, who was then 72 wvkars of age, had many ofiers of marriage, but she de- 'cided to remain single. She became obssessed with the idea that she would not die while she was building earthly residences for herself, and for eighteen, years she kept a large staff of work-| men at work continuously, making .al- terations and additions to her palatial homes at Hardwicke, Oldcoates and Chatsworth. During the winter of EYESIGHT SPECIALIST. Subnormal vision leads to inac- curacy, inefficiency and eyestrain. 1510 wt' HON K~ - 1510 Disney Block opposite Past Offve 325 1708 there was a severe frost which put a stop to all building work, and by a strange coincidence she § d away suddenly, very much to the relief of everyone associated with her. She was laid to rest in All Saint's Church at Derby, where, during her lifetime, she had taken the precaution to prepare an elaborate tomb and montimént for herself, on which she had placed a laudatory inscription for the benefit of posterity. For many vears the sextons of the church reaped a golden harvest by permitting morbid visitors to view the remains of Bess of Hardwicke in her broken leaden coffin, but this practice was stopped in the middle of last century when the vault was sealed up, (Copyrighted) FOR SALE A beautiful with 75 ac of righ clear soil, in rounded on o sides with. less 1 House whi two stories, - chard and spot the man who is fed scurry of the city; : God's pure i breathe air at night. to sleep the crickets the sat croaning s and the the wild 3 bought for a a mere 15,000. It is waiting for you She one mi we chance a life time, the one chance ile of main highway. Apply 161 King St. Oshawa, or 150 Verdun Road for fi r ion. v 5E on Why We Are Subdividi The shortage of homes and the growing de- building sites, city limits, where all convenie: ed and enjoyed, were the persu: induced Mr. Conant to allow us to subdivide this wonderful has citizens of Oshawa and surrounding districts, It is practically Oshawa proper and the beautiful shore of Lake Ontario. It is situated alonz Simcoe street south, on the one of the best schools in the city is located. The CNLR. station is only a few blocks north of the other are of untold value to those who will build and man which bounded property. for home property which for many years th by There are many live in this locality, Two very valuable homes have already been at no less than $35,000, substantiating our claim yihing that one could wish for. Sewers are laid adjacent to the property and mains that supply the whole city pass through the subdivision. Two rain thoroughfares ! teries of Vista Heights, they are Sim. the wate The Truth of Story re Motor Cities here, cach vah and Ritson Road, is so half-way South \ : 30s TTR YE 8 's Newest Subdivision YT DI He "The Prettiest Place in Oshawa" 11 romp = A" hts General Motors payroll 1927 alone, officially es timated at 8,000,000 Dollars, Oshawa is the home of General Motors FF Can- ada, which is an aggregation of factories located in one city--OSHAWA FACTS ABOUT OSHAWA POPULATION 1921 POPULATION Oshawa's Industrial Population, 8,000, Printing Co, 12,000 1927 25,000 In the United States General Motors is an alliance of iactories located in or near half a score of citi Oshawa is also the home of Pedlar People, Ltd. Ontario Malleable Iron, Fittings, Lid., Williams Piano Co., Schofield Woollen Co,, W, E. Phillips ® Co., Ltd., Oriental Textiles Co,, Robson Leather Co., Mundy ete,, ces within the may be obtain. ling features that well known and been desived by the place between Oshawa, where features which that the site is --- . Sai we ¥ oN os, 308 "ne PY. ae oils ri B40 aE DE reall ket sont ett ne / ree "great VT? car re ated § e Aad a » on m a of - ape! he con? Fave oe gro' ne A pin® qe ney py Ww no? TE Sas Layne A ad diet i 1 Modern Facilities and Conveniences Predominating Features in "Vista Heights" . The buildings allowed are of a restricted neture, costing from $3,500 to $35,000. The restrictions are such that it will be a satisfac- tion to everyone who desires to live in this section of the city. South Oshawa is now on the eve of a large development. This is evident from the citi- --zens' viewpoint, wherein they apparently con- sider it necessary to go ahead with the con- struction as soon as possible, of a subway at the C.N.R. that will cost over a hundred thous. ard dollars, Excellent fire protection facilities are at present being arranged for. The present owner, Mr. Conant, has ed necessary land free so that a boulevard of approximately 80 feet may be built, from the C.N.R. to the lake front. Every available corner will be ornamented by shrubs or trees. Two carloads of which have been arranged for. Beautiful ravines are an added attraction to this property which will spell beauty, thade and rest for those resident and passers- by who chance that way. Vista Heights. er- Another paramount feature of this prop- erty is that just where one would desire, nature bas kindly planted a grove of walnut trees; one of the finest groves to be found anywhere in Ontario. In other sections of the property are lovely pine groves, located in places that could do naught but enhance the scenery of Side walks and gravelling contracts have been let and work will continue on these about the middle of this coming week. At the present time houses, stores, offices, etc. are being sought without avail in the city of Oshawa and the subdivision of this prop- : erty and the placing of Vista Park on the market at such reasonable prices will be wel- comed by the citizens We will gladly furnish plans'and specifi cations for the approval of prospective home builders, and if necessary will arrange loans. Several well-known contractogs ready purchased property in "Vista of and a building program is now being Let us Show You "Vista Heights" No better Real Esiate Proposition Exists-- An Ideal Place to Build a Home-- Call and See us. Further information regarding "Vista Heights", the prettiest place in Oshawa, can be obtained from our temporary offices. Motor Cars at Your Service at all 1imes from Office to Property of this congested city. have al- ¥ -- Miller, Sales Manager Temporary Office--8 Bond Street West Permanent Office--9 Simcoe Street South--Soon as Nelson & Bell vacate. Geo. A. Symes Manager