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A DISRAELI COMES TO IS.
Haw TSe Primrose Premier's Scpbei
\\ ill Voyage to Is.
Career of a Pumperwl Youth In Par
liament One Time and in a Boudoir
at Another
(Copyright. IS3 t
New York. Sept 16.—Another English
man .rl’ >m American* will he interested
in .9 seen to visit this country for the
purpose of seeing the world's fair. This
vi itor is none other .than the nephew of
tiie Kin 1 of Baconstieid. whom many
Amerhans have met in Ixyndon.
Aiaj a very much sought and flattered
and envied young man is this Coningsby
Ralph Disraeli. He was the favorite
while the old oari lived. The cause of
bis pop iarity tics in the fact that young
Disraeli has at last come into his own,
and may now enjoy as ho will the beauti
ful and historic estate bequeathed to him
by his famous uncle. He has just become
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THE SHnCBBHRY AT HtIGHSNDEN. *>
absolute master of Hughenden Manor,
than which there is scarcely any finer
place in all England or one with more his
toric associations.
In the fields about it, Hampden played
a* a boy. Lord Chesterfield wrote most
of his famous letters within the walls of
the old house, and before him its owners
could bo traced back to the conqueror.
Tho great Burke,won much of his fame
while representing the country about
Hutrhendon. •
Lord llcaconsfield .loved this place. In
1880 when Gladstone swept the earl’s
party from power, the latter remarked to
one of his friends:
“At last I shall see the primroses blow
at Hughenden.” And it was in the old
church that stands near the house in
stead of Westminster Abbey that the
great earl chose that his bones should
lie.
A stately, castledike mansion is Hugh
enden. fringed about with cedars of Leb
anon and elms and noble oaks, and it is
not strange that its young master should
be regarded as a fortunate man.
In hints df young Disraeli is an inter
etting type; like, and yet unlike his great
unde. Something over 20 years of age,
he lias nut—as did his uncle when even
younger- made any especial literary stir.
Disraeli published-Vivian Grey” when
he was but 28 years old. and at once
Jumped into fame as a writer. But he
was 8a be I ore lie achieved a seat in the
House of Commons, and considerably
older before he could get that body to
take him seriously. Young Coningsby
Disraeli got into parliament without any
such difrculty as his uncle had, and lost
his seat in the last elections. He has re
cently been made deputy lieutenant of
the county of Buckingham, in which
Hughenden is, and great things are ex
pected of him in the future.
As yet lie has not justified these expec
tations. Of literary tastes and ambitions,
he has not shown what (lowers are his.
With everything in his favor, he has not
evidenced any special skill of strength in
politics, although he admits to having a
taste for f>oiitionl life. But those who
know him say that he has brains, as all
of the Disraelis have had. It maybe
that tl e tact, that he was under the con
trol of guardians until now has hud some
thing to do with keeping him back, for
Ixiru will ordered that his
nephew should not have control of the
estate, now his, until he had reached his
present age.
Avery well set up, handsome and affa
ble young man is Couiugsby Disraeli,
• vA it
BUOirKNDIrN.
E’.ace very popular with his neighliors ! before he can command flip car of the
tb BW . a f !?er u he is ’ too ' in House. Men no longer jump into fame in
mar a t of dress though not as his the House of Commons as they once did
I-?*.! 1 *! k* s .' hunger days, partial to by a single speech. 1 3
ti ittircii',- ,u ‘ , '"t r reen < oats, fancy “The opportunities are too few and tho
h ~ IT, Pantaloons and a loud dis- conditions changed.”
R-thevTvn i i--i ... “What are some of the essentials neo
ra< ‘,i . fb hmlt, young Dis- essary to success in English public life
s . a i • , l sll: 'pc‘l head, the fore- ; now”’
, c*. ' il f, l • u ” 1 Li-oud. The face is dccid- “You must be a good businessman
t-jj,.: "bbom, the nose having a slight i That is essential. You cannot succeed
cover- A™ S ,T' : '“ D !j USt ? che partl - v 1 unless you arc able to grasp intelligently
Uri.ii ■ and Vhe ohiu is the ,-rcat financial nun comm, iviui prob
r ‘}° Uf tow too heavy Not a lotus that are constantly .tuning u, the
rood Me 1 f ’ kCn aU m abutU ’ but a l fror,t in England.
But above all,” Mr. Disraeli went on,
When 1 tar The young tr.an to-day. the
tore we® the out|
: pensive Wewt End tailor, ba. there was
nothing loud atnut them. IJ■ ■ wore a
inxdi coat and his trousers vrereof a dark
gooffs "itll a small Tip' A tun. down
iVilar a four-in-hand tit with a small pin
in it made up the dress A fob chain and
\ a seal ring was all the jewelry noticeable
ties..ie too scarf pin m (tinned.
Nor .s his manner of living in any way
ostenlat; ms. He belongs fo half a dosen
clubs and is considered a dutiable man by
his fellows. He has his he no*, hut. his
turnouts are like his elollns. expense,
hut quiet in tone. Society is open to him
as it was not to his ur.,dh when he was at
an age to care f.r it.
Unlike many of the swapper young men,
he has not found it necessary to connect
his name with .some unsavory scandal in
order to gain notoriety. The touts and
bookmakers at the English race tracks
arc not on speaking terms with him. But
he is admitted to the most conservative
artistic and literary sets, not because he
has done anything great himself, out be
cause he eiv s promise mid exhibits prot>-
er respect for men who have. Sir Fred
erick Leighton, Walter Bcsant and such
men arc his friends, and say he will do
something worthy of his name oue of
,thoso c!U\.-
Young Disraeli is a sunny tempered
affable young fellow, not at all averse to
talking on subjects that he knows some
thing atiout. He visiflul America after
leaving Oxford,and,unlike many English
men, he says frankly that he likes the
United States. '
‘•1 like your American newspapers,
too,” ho said, when I saw him in White’s
club, “and your reporters. They did not
bother me when I was iji America, but I
heard thenS at work upon more impor
tant men. and they struck me being a
jolly, brainy lot of fellows.
“Do you know, I think a young man
has much more chanco to get' ahead in
America than in England. You see in
America tho old pat the young men
on the back and tell them to go in and
win. Here with us a young man is told
to go sit in a corner, bite ills thumb and
watch his ciders until he comes to years
of discretion. It has the effect of dis
couraging all originality in a young
man.”
Mr. Disraeli has followed in his uncle’s
footsteps in that he is a conservative in
politics.
‘‘l am a strong believer in the conserva
tism of the people,” he said, “and I am at
the same time a believer in keeping up
with the times. The conservative party
advances as the times advance, but it
does not aim at revolution, a3 the other
party does. We are the real party of re
form in fact. ”
“I believe I’ve said those things be
fore,” said Mr. Disraeli with a laugh,
“for I’ve been making political speeches
for some six years. I don’t suppose your
American newspapers have printod any
of these speeches, and perhaps its as well
for my reputation in America that they
did not.”
“You intend to stay in politics Mr.
Disraeli !”
“Well yes, so far as my people will let
mo. I like politics. Just now the other
side is at the bat you know, nud I’m
among the‘outs.’ But I imagine they
will change before long.''
“Do you think a young man's chances
are asgood in potiti-s now as when your
uncle began his career’”
"The chances are tne same, but the op
portunities are not. It is hard now to
get your seat and hardfer still to retain it.
Most hard of all is it to make headway in
a House made up of six hundred members
drawn from every element. Further
than this the work of parliament is now
done by about one hundrod members and
tho rest are merely dumb figures. It is
hard for anew and uupraeticed man to
make any headway. He must earn a rep
utation outside the House ns an orator
TTTE MOKXTXO NTTVTS: SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17, IS9H.
“you must hr,re the gift of oratory The
I people demand good speaking when you
i go u)>on the hustings and it is almost in
| diapensibie in parliament I was by his
i oratory that my uncle after many fail-
I ms s. compelled the House of Commons to
111 ten to him and to admit of his anility.
Mr Gladstone's wonderful gifts in the
same way have saved him many times,
where his undoubtedly great political
sagacity failod him What was true in
the day of Fox and Pitt and Burke is
true still. The English people demand
that their political leaders shall talk
well, just as they have admired soldiers
who talked very little.”
Iu the course of his talk Mr. Disraeli
touched upon the problem that is so con
stancy disturbing England, tho labor
question, and here again bis conservatism
cropped out.
“The strike loaders are simply cutting
their own throats.” he said, “anil pretty
soon the working men will see this. John
Burns with his blatant tongue, and Kelr
Hurdle posing jn the House of Commons
in a costermonger's suit are not the men
who are going to bring a!>out the work
ingman’s millennium. Your working
men in America are ahead of our people
in this respect. They insist that their
leader shall wear clean linen and observe"
those ordinary rules that obtain among
gentlemen. Our workingmen will reach
the same policy after a little time.”
Here Mr. Disraeli again referred to the
policy of his uncle.
“It was his belief that there was a
strong vein of conservatism among the
working people,” said Mr. Disraeli "and
that it ought to be worked. Hoobserved
that the working man was often a radical
until his pocket was touched when he be
came a strict conservative. The work
ing rnan of England is finding that the
strike policy of Burns and Hardie is
touching his pockets in a very unpleas
ant way. and so it will have to go.”
Air. Disraeli made one statement that
will be of more than ordinary interest.
He says that he still has papers of his
uncle that tho public has not known of
and that are of inqiortance. It is his in
tention to publish them in thenear future
and they will make very interesting
reading when he docs. The Earl of
Bacousfleld was the holder of secrets
and information such as but few won
knew ot and that might change the current
views of the manner in which the map of
Europe has been changed and rechanged.
Some of these papers Mr. Disraeli will
not publish for they refer to living men
and might givo pain without doing any
one any good. There are some men who
have climbed into fame affho coat-tails of
Gladstone and Disraeli and have been at
times false to each of those great men
who would find these papers that the earl
left behind mighty interesting. But Mr.
Disraeli will not make these public. The
papers he will some day priut are mainly
of a reminiscent character, and will hurt
no one. As some of the last work of tho
elder Disraeli they will have a more than
ordinary value.
Just now Mr. Disraeli is arranging
these papers and enjoying tho splendid
estate that is his. He loves the latter
every whit, as much as his uncle did and
it is in no way likely to suffer at his
hands. Very tender indeed is his care for
the old church in which the bones of his
uncle lie near to those of the wife who
bellied him to his fame, and the primroses
that grow about Hughenden are no more
neglected than they were when Lord
Beaeonsfleld himself was alive.
Mr. Disraeli has no seat in parliament
now. He went to the wall with others
who opposed the policy of the great prime
minister. But he is abiding his time, and
some day England may hear more of
Coningsby Ralph Disraeli. In the mean-
CONINGSBT RAl.ru DISHAKM.
time he has nd especial reason to feel at
all unhappy. A mod many scions of
noble houses iti England would gladly
change places with him.
Foster Coates.
PHIL. ARMOUR’S DIET.
The Richest Man in the West Living
on Bread and Milk.
From the Waterways Journal.
Philip P. Armour is a short-set, broad
built, prosperous-looking man, with a
ruddy open face, dark side-whiskers.. He
isseverly self Six and-forty years
ago he drove a mule team across the
plains of California, and invested what
little capital he had in the grain busi
ness in Milwaukee. Then he bought au
interest in a pork-parking establishment,
and to-day his fortune is estimated at
something like $50,000,000. He now per
haps is the most conspicuous of all
Chicago's multi-millionaires, and is as
modest as the pToverbiul school boy ever
was, and is one of the plainest and most
quiet going of men both as to
manner and mode of life. Of late ill
health has obliged him to restrict his diet
to bread and milk. This would be a sad
affliction to some rich men, but Mr.
Armour has never cultivated his palate to
an appreciation of ortolans and truffles,
and ho likes a baked apple for breakfast
as much as Beecher or Jay Gould used to.
His recent gift of $1,000,000 to the Uni
versity of Chicago brought him into
prominence as a practical philanthropist.
•‘He is the hardest man to go against in
a grain or provision deal that I know of,”
said a lrioud of his recently, “but in an
emergency where ‘money talks’ he will
cough up a cooi million as indifferently as
another man would order a chop in a
restaurant.” Withal he is at his desk
daily, summer and winter alike, before
the clock strikes 7, and he habitually
wears a red rose in his button-hole.
Lost asETrain for Hours.
From the Chicago Herald.
A broad grin spread over the faces of
passenger officials yesterday when they
learned that a western road had lost a
train. It was loaded with the dignitaries
of a western state and for hours the of
ficials of the road made frantic and vain
efforts to locate it. It had started all
right and then had lost itself ns sudden
ly as if it had-been switched to another
road. Finally it was discovered that a
division superintendent had changed the
number of the train and that under its
new number it was bowling toward Chica
go on schedule time. The supposed fog
horns which startled the board of trade
district yesterday afternoon were simply
sighs of relief from the anxious railroad
officials.
WAREMAN S WANDERINGS.
The Ancient Home of Robert ihe
Brace.
The Poet Traveler Chancoe Upon a
Scottish Oipey Camp in Lovely An
nandale Picturesque Scenes and
(Groupings—An Outcast Gipßy Prince
Becomes Our Correspondent's Com
panion in a Visit to the Olden Home
of a Scottish Patriot Prince—Loch
maben Burgh and Lakes—Ruins of
the Mightiest of Border Castles.
(Copyright.)
Lockerbie, Scotland, Sept. I.—Tramp
ing over the hills which separate the
Land of Burns iu Ayrshire from the Land
of Burns in Dumfriesshire, on a vague
and indolent sort of pilgrimage to the
birthplace of Carlyle in Annandale, I
came upon a little band of Scottish gip
sies among whom were some old and
prized acquaintances. I found them in
the nest-like hollow of a winsome brae
beside the winding Annan river. They
were between .lardine Hall and the an
cient clachan, Applegarth, where Edward
1., on his wav to the siege of Caerlave
rock, made oblations at the altars of St.
Nicholas and Thomas a liccket, in the
once noted but now eattinct Applegarth
church; and I ooukl just see, as I was
tramping southward along the great turn
pike road from Carlisle to Glasgow, the
hoods of their tents and their “wliuni
meled” or upturned carts in ragged out
line against the blue shorn of the gentle
river bqlow.
My impulse was to press on to Locbrna
ben or Imckerbie for the night; but there
is, I fear, that taint of gipsy blood within
me that ever draws me irresistibly to this
outcast, vagabond race. 1 resolutely
turned my faco to the south. After a lit
tle I halted. A tiny coppiced hillock had
hid the brown tents. Where I stopped
the road wound with the river bank. X
looked back along the brae. I saw now
the camp-fires; the pots hanging from tho
kettle-sticks; the bairns romping among
the donkeys and dogs; some men stretched
lazily upon the sward; and swarthy wo
men crooning over their daily gossip to
gether. 'This banished my resolution.
All my own vagabond sentiment for the
life o£ the tent and the road swept in
upon my heart like a tide of home-coming
cheer. In a moment more 1 was being
hugged, actually hugged: by a score of
gipsies, men and women; receiving royal
greetings of welcome; and soothing as
best I could shrill reproaches for having
had the thought to pass them by. And I
set this down iu simple recital, for it led
to my being conducted by a Scottish
gipsy prince to the ancient home of a
Scottish patriot king whose ancestral
habitation was here in the very' heart of
beauteous Annandale.
Between Eskdale on the east and
Nithsdaelon the west lies this sweet and
pastoral Annandale. Though not among
the most noted, yet it Is still one of the
mostlovelys valley of the Scottish border.
To the leisurely and sentimental pilgrim
tarrying among its pleasing; scenes, it ap
peals with good fascination, it is but a
tiny vale, 80 miles long; the river Annan,
from which it takes its name, having its
sources in the Hartfell mountains, and
winding with gentle flow through and
between characteristic Scottish villages,
its banks dotted with humble crofts,
larger farmsteads, and all the . lang syne
feature of Scottish country homes.
Though the valley is accorded no special
fame among the Scottish people them
selves, and is scarcely ever visited by
tourists, to mo it seems that in a few par
ticulars it possesses extraordinary inter
est.
Within the distance of one day’s tramp
across five parishes through which winds
the gentle Annan, can be seen one of the
most ancient and certainly one of the
most historic castle ruins' of Scotland,
the first home in Scotland of Robert the
Bruce, at Lochmaben; the birthplace at
Annan of the greatest and most unfor
tunate of all Scottish preachers, Edward
Irving; the wonderful phenomena of the
tides of tho Solway Firth, which are per
haps, better observed from the great An
nan viaduct connecting England with
Scotland, than at any other spot along
the Solway shores • and the birthplace
and burial place of tnc one philosopher,
critic and essayist, who has undoubtedly
left a deeper impression upon intellectual
minds in Great Britain and America than
any other individual who ever adorned
and perplexed this country—crabbed,
crafty, mighty and glorious old Thomas
Carlyle.
It was in the middle of the afternoon
when I found my gipsy friends. Many
of the band were absent. Those who re
mained were chiefly old men left to mind
the camp and pother all manner of tink
ering upon broken donkey carts, donkey
gear that required mending, and pans,
pots and kettles which awere being re
newed in true tinsmith style for peasant
housewives round about; many young
chauvies (gipsychildreu) at all sorts of
children’s rustic games, fairly dressed
and roysteringly happy; anu the gaunt
old spae-wives, too far advanced iri years
for the labors and artifices of the road,
who still always servo to hold the reins of
good government in any gipsy camp well
in hand, while bravely preparing the
evening meals against tho younger wan
derer's return.
During the interval I had leisure for
examination of the picturesque camp and
fpr learning much otthe ways and annual
journeyings of this single community of
Scottish gipsies. There were twelve
tents and half a dozen “whiunmeled”
carts. The whuinmeling of a Scottish or
northern English gipsy cart, means the
turning of the same upside down. This,
with the addition of a blanket or some fir
branches, makes a capital roof under
which to pass a summer night. Altogether
there was accommodation for from two
to three score gipsies. The hollowed
brae chosen for the camp always had its
patch of sunlight, which gipsies dearly
love. Lurch, fir and a few due ash trees
were at eitner side; and the purling river,
convenient for campside needs for men
and beasts, from which a lucious fish
could occasionally be legally taken, as
their camping place was duly rented
from the laird of the manor, was almost
nt their feet.
Here wore representatives of all the
Scottish Gipsy families of note—the Dun
bars, Fans or Falls, Baileys, Boswells
and Blytiies; most of them descendants
from Clydesdale and Yetholm Gipsies
whoce progenitors figured, if not in the
history, in tlm ballad and romantic litera
ture of Scotland. They were all origi
nally potters, packers and tinkers. Their
olden capital city was now the deserted
village of Yetholm, by Bowmont-side,
where the Teviot Hills shut out lrom
Scotland's view the wild Northum lierland
moors and the hated field of Flodden. In
olden times they made much of the rudo
delft ware used by the Scottish peasan
try. They still journey into Stafford
shire, England, over the old Liverpool,
Carlisle and Glasgow coach road, dealing
in the cheaper and “faulty” poreelains,
and occasionally trading with the gent ry
in "Mintons" and “Wedgewoods.” Now
they have their winter homes in Dum
fries. Annan, Lockerbie and Glasgow:
and before the snowdrops fade from the
roadsides and braes, are back here in
their old haunts. The men trade and
dicker at the horse and cattle fairs, some
pursuing their olden calling at tinkering
and osier work, while the women sell wil
low-ware and trinkets* and dukker (tell
fortunes i among the gold wires and las
sies of the Scottish peasantry.
Wanderer that 1 am, it was like a de
licious home coming to *oe the genuine
Gipsy belongings that were here. There,
were the rude forges that could be slung
under the creaking carts. There, innu
merable odds and ends of the real tinker's
craft. There, the camp-fires, which, iow
as they may smolder, are never allowed
to wholly go out,because theyre represent
a lingering loyal trace ofTJlden Aryan fire
worship. There, crouching by cart, or
tent, or fire, or on haunches, at tho
camp entrance, as if sentineling the glad
eventide return of absent masters, were
the brave, loyal, gaunt and voiceless
Gipsy dogs. Here and there were the
kettle-sticks—not the stage tripods which
burlesque Gipsy reality, but the strong,
sacredly prized, crooked iron kettle-sticks
—with their sizzling pots beneath. While
here and there, but always faring each
other and the fires between, were the real
tents of the Romany; hoods rather than
tents; woolen blankets, like our grand
mothers’ stout old sheets, stretched over
bows of ash and fastened with polished
oaken skewers: all so snug and strong
that no ordinary storm can wreck these
tiny Gipsy- homes.
By- aud by as the shadows lengthened
the camp gradually- began to awaken with
returning life. The tires which had
smouldered the day through, were re
newed by tho now bustling old Gipsy
women, and the pots and kettles sung
merrily of good things to come. Gipsy
men and women began coining into camp
from all directions, and nearly all came
single or in groups to the tent I had been
allotted to emphasize the welcome I had
been given as the “Gorgio Chal” (the non-
Gipsy- friend to the Gipsy-) who was al
ready known for his wanderings with
their,“brothers and sisters” in the far
off wonderland, America. Nearly all
brought trophies of the day's outing.
Women who had been among the outlying
farms were laden with poultry, butter,
eggs and cheese, knots of homespun yarn,
and many an article representing hours ol
toil, which had been exchanged for a bit
of gibberish and “fortune.”
While the camp was thus renewing its
eventide life aud activity, a little com
motion near the roadside attracted my
attention. Gipsy men and women seemed
disputing excitedly. On going to the
group I found a rough-looking fellow be
ing pulled toward the camp by some,
while others wore attempting to force
him back to the highway-. Earnest were
the prostestations for hospitable treat
ment, and shrill were the denunciations
and protests. The man’s face was familiar
to me; but a shaggy beard was an un
usually woebegone and hang-dog
appearance for the moment prevented
a recognition. He looked at me appeal
ingly, and at the same moment one of the
Gipsy women screamed at him: “Ye're
na prince o’ tho Nokkums (provincial
Yetholm Romany for Gipsies). Ye're
gang t’ the deil a’ t’gither I” I knew him
then. It was Prince Robert, by royal
right king of all the Scottish Gipsies, but
so hopeless a tramp and vagabond that he
had become a permanent outcast of this
outcast Romany race. The women were
the most implacable; but I carried white
coin and kind words among them, and
soon had Prince Robert's admittance to
the cainp assured. Then I made him
wash in the river; got some presentable
Gipsy gear upon him; saw that he was
shorn and shaven by my own hands: and
brought him, a penitent and comfortable,
if not an altogether welcome, guest to our
Annatjside evening meal.
On the morning of tho second day I
left my Gipsy friends by Anuanside with
vagabond Prince Robert for a companion.
Some discourse among the Romany crew
touching upon Scottish Gipsy family lines
and their antiquity prompted the re
mark from an old spae wife that outcast
Prince Robert's blood had the strain of
the Bruces in it, though his mother,
Esther Faa Blythe Rutherford, late
’queen vt ail the .Scottish Gipsies.
“Then ye inicht weel gae t’ your for
bear's, King Robert's, auld castle 'name,'
at Lochmaben, an’ tak arles (pledge) t’
mend your ways; or ye’ll na ha’ strae
death (a natural death) at t’ eendl”
tauntingly replied another.
The whim seized Priuceßobert to do it.
I had never seen the old castle ruins, and
it easily came about that we should go
together: and we departed after many
solemn adjurations from the Gipsies that
I should refuse all pleadings of Prince
Robert for liquor, or, in the event of
yielding to his certain demands for drink
I should see him “vveel lickit, or weel
lockit in Lochmaben goal,” rather than
to permit him to return to the Annanside
camp.
Less than an hour's walk brought us to
the ancient royal burgh town of Lochma
ben, beautifully situated on the shores of
one of the nine tiny connecting lakes of
the same name. Prince Robert told me
the name was Gaelic and meant lake of
the fair women; aud when I asked him
how he came to know a Gaelic significa
tion he said with a shrug of his fine, ruf
fianly shoulders, “Oh, 1 ken’d it fra’t
ceilidh,” which means auld wives’ gos
siping. But “tho white clear lake” is
nearer tho true Gaelic. The silence of
decay is upon Lochmaben burgh. Two
long, straggling, silont streets intersect
each other at a huge, plain, crumbling
market cross. It is a burgh of quaint old
granito homes, with thatched roofs, in
habited by quaint old granlte-faccd
Scotch folk. Groat square houses, great
square doors and great square windows,
with great square blanched faces in them,
tell the story of olden opulence, older bor
det prowess, and present indolence and
decay. The place was once full of hand
looms and thrift. To-day so deserted and
lifeless seems the burgh that your own
foot-fall on its ragged and uneven stones
impels you onward with an almost startled
sense of fear.
About a mile from the ancient town
on a tongue-shaped peninsular which
extends into the lake called the Castle
loch, we found the ruins of the grandest
fortress the Border over knew. The lake
upon the shores of which the ruins stand,
as well as others of the pretty group, have
low, sedgy shores. Tn these are found the
vendace fishes, from five to six inches in
length, nowhere else discovered in Great
Britain, of a brilliant silvery appear
ance, and in anatomy and flavor much re
sembling those famous American ciscoes,
which in June attract such hosts of an
glers to the shores of Lake Geneva, in
Wisconsin. They are tho most deli
cate fish known to the British gour
mand. Their heads are extraordinarily
marked, and a puce-colored transparent
substance, with the perfectly defined fig
ure of a heart, through which, when
freshly caught, the brain may easily
be seen. Prince Robert disclosed a cur
ious bit of superstitious folk-lore, con
cerning this heart-shaped figure in the
head of the vendace. Every one remem
bers the pious pilgrimage of James Doug
las with the heart of the dead king, in an
effort to reach Jerusalem that the pre
cious relic might be buried in the Holy
City; and that after the tragic death ■of
Douglas and his friends, Sinclair aud Lo
gan. the silver casket containing the
king's heart was recovered and given sep
ulture in Melrose Abbey. There is a lin
gering belief with the superstitious
among the Annandale peasantry that the
figure of the heart iu the head of the
vendace fish of lochmaben is of miracu
lous origin, to perpetuate the pious act of
King Robert the Bruce and the heroism
of his loyal friends.
Along the haughs aud moss-banks of
the lochs the deadly adder lurks; and the
peasantry will tell you that these dread
ful reptiles are kept down by their im
placable foes, the herons, which are cer
tainly continually seen dodging in and
out among, and hovering over the sur
rounding reeds and mosses. Whether or
not it was the original residence of the
Bruces, grunted by David I. in 1124. or an
enlarged successor built in the thirteenth
century, it covered sixteen acres of
ground, and is known to have been abso
lutely impregnable before the invention
of gunpowder It was a stU]Kndoua and
ci age. iff cent pile, and the care and perfec
tion with which it Nvas built ts attested in
the immense walls still traceable, and in
the fact that though its masonry has been
exposed to the elements for fIOU years, one
will to-day as often break the stone itself
as separate by strokes of sledge-hammer
the stone and mortar with which the
walls webe constructed.
A mighty host of reflections and his
toric memories crowd upon the onlookers
here. For not only has the fiercest of
border battles raged round about the cas
tie’s once mighty walls, but it was on
this very spot the compact between the
two claimants for the Scottish crown,
which led to Scotland’s eventual great
ness, was made. It was to this spot
Bruce came in his flight for his life from
Edward’s court. And it was fnm here,
after Red Comyn’s perfidy was discovered
that he sped to Dumfries to avenge that
treachery with Comyn’s life, before the
very altar of ancient Gray Friars church.
Then came his coronation at Scone; his
first defeats; almost the extinction of his
family; his own wanderings and skuik
ings like a beast of the forest; his brill
iant recovery of his patrimonial castle
here; and then all tiie glorious victories
from Glenesk past Bannockburn to In
verury, and Scotia's long-time splendor,
power and peace.
It seems unfortunate that so noblo a
ruin could not have been given better
care and preservation. One half of the
structures of Lochinabeti have b.een built
from the material in the majestic stone
pile. Cow-houses and byre-walls for half
a dozen miles in every direction disclose
the source from which their material
was ravaged in protruding moulding,
splapdid ashlar work or grinning gar
goyles. It is said that a citizen of tiie
burgh warms his shins at the identical
pair of jambs which once rested on the
paternal hearth of Bruce, and the old
key to the outer gate of the splendid pile,
in which had been nurtured tho proudest
line of Scottish patriot I? nigs, on being
discovered a half-century since by the
leaden-headed hinds of the district, was
regarded as such an antiquarian prize, as
il weighed several pounds, that it was at
once turned over to the Lochmaben
blacksmith for conversion into a pair of
utilitarian turf-spades 1
Edgar L. Wakeman.
BALTIMORE SOCIETY NOTE.
An African Prince Displays His
90,000 Suit of Clothes.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Ulato Monszaro, “the great African
prince," whose sermon Sunday night at
the African Methodist Episcopal Zion
church, Cross and Warner streets, created
something of a sensation, appeared there
again last night, but in a new' role. This
time he was a lecturer and musician and
wore his “SO,OOO suit of clothes,” which
the programmes said was a full African
king's costume and “worth its weight in
gold.” The costume was a curious one,
and if African kings go around togged out
like Ulato they earn their salaries. It
seemed better adapted to the climate of
Greenland than to that of South Africa.
He told his audience that he appeared in
it to give them a bird's-eye view of Africa.
A big ivory’ ring which he wore in his
nose •he said was his badge of
distinction. Only those of royal blood
could wear that kind of ring. His hat,
he said, was a king's hat and was worth
over sl-100. It was of the hide of some
thick-skinned, long-haired animal. He
said it was that of the African buffalo.
To prove that it was worth S3OO Ulato
asked where one could be bought in Bal
timore for any price. A necklace of pol
ished bones, he said, was priceless. He
wore a skirt, which he said, was from
the hido of the sacred ox, but which
.looked like the ordinary $2.00 gray goat
skin rugjof commerce. In his lecture he
told stories of African life, and said every
man had an abundance of wives—five,,
ten, twenty, or 100, according to his
wealth. This brought out a ~ roar of
laughter from the audience. At the close
of the lecture his highness and his wife
gave a concert on a dozen or more instru
ments. While the prince was shuffling
off his SB,OOO suit of clothes after the con
cert and donning an ordinary suit of
American make the queen improved the
time by selling packages of royal tooth
powder.
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Weight of an Eagle in Dollar Bills.
From the Cmnati Commercial Gazette.
Said Mr. C. K. Stout, of the treasury
office, as he sat before the scales with
SS,OOO or SIO,OOO in double eagles ut his
elbow: “How many $ 1 bills do you think
it would take to weigh as muoh'as one of
these coins?”
The reporter considered a moment and
then made a guess.
"It takes just twenty-seven unless the
bills are trimmed closo. Twenty-eight
new $1 bills always weigh a little more
than a double eagle. Don't you believe
itf Just wait.”
He disappeared in (he vault for a few
minutes, and presently emerged with a
package of brand new $1 bills in his
hand. Then he counted out twenty-seven
of them, and said to the reporter:
“Choose any coin you will.”
The reporter chose a coin, which Mr.
Stout put on one side of the scale pans
Then he put the twenty-seven $1 bills on
the other pan. The long needle that
moves on the index showed that the beam
was almost lffvel. Tho man of money
added another kill to the twenty-seven,
and the coin went up. Then tho reporter
offered to treat, for his*guess had been
sh£ Just 978 $1 bills.
Senator XTlcn. of Aebraskii. is six feet
three Inches in height, aud of robust frame
A chair has been specially constructed for lib
accommodation in the Senate.
The Queen of England recently sent four
fat bucks to the lord mayor of London. This
was an annual tribute arranged for when the
city gave up its right of hunting in the royal
parks.
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Homemade Pie
You always have
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Seems as though
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Se!f=Raising
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direct lrom Bay street to Isle of Hope, atw
connecting with the steam cars at sandM,
Leavo Is.e of Hope 11:1ft u. m., 12:l-> “if
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