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Before the festival was over, Edinburgh had reason to congratulate itself. More people-some 600,000-were expected to come to the Scottish capital's party than ever before. And no true Scot could be indifferent to the fact that the festival visitors would leave behind them between...
...work of his enemies, he was charged with perjury. A jury acquitted him on both charges, while his congregation filled the courtroom to sing The Old-Time Religion. In 1926, in his church study, Norris shot and killed an unarmed Fort Worth lumberman, D. E. Chipps, got off scot-free when he called it "self-defense." Constantly at odds with the Southern Baptists, he organized some 3,000 churches into his own Fundamentalist fellowship, urged his followers to "use the broad axe of John the Baptist, not a little pearl-handled knife, on worldly card playing, dancing, and hell raising...
...Edinburgh last week noted that a prize cup she was presenting to a member of the Royal Company of Archers was engraved "presented by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth." Annoyed, the Queen ordered the cup returned to jewelers for addition of the Roman numeral II after her name. Many a Scot points out that Elizabeth I was Queen of England, but not Queen of Scotland...
...dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women in a stockade on another island, and kept them busy husking coconuts...
...Ashore, the traders were treated to fireworks and feasting by hong merchants, who alone among Chinese were permitted to deal with foreigners. But opposition to the old East India Co. was growing in England. Company Surgeon William Jardine saw his chance. He and his partner, James Matheson, a fellow Scot, doubled as consular representatives of foreign countries. Soon Jardine, Matheson & Co. were making millions in the China trade...