Show r- r rI I ALLING TONS TON'S OTC I KIL KING c 4 g i u ury t tD f f. f D f w ry j. j r y f I d H Hi c i eq D 4 R m bd E I M 1 4 y r J Ja a k 4 f 4 r Y x rr i d q t 1 a W d K I y 1 is 9 s i i s o 4 i r l s c 4 1 s i f ir w Na i a G S St. a aG t. t a T SN y Ey r II SA c d A From a painting by Philip Adams Boston Seumas Prince Bourbon but but in Boston Doston he heis I of Condo et is simply Mr Ir hereditary heredi heredi- Shamus I tary tart Scottish known I chief c c a as a simple soul i Understand there is a King lUng or h nie me such royalty living somewhere ln Boston ost D the editorial telegram ran o after him and if 11 hes he's inte interesting esting IGO get jt an interview The he reportorial unit hied him forth after diligent searching through ilC i the city of crooked streets sheets and unexpected unexpected un- un expected nooks and corners found his royalty Royalty was iras complaisant and andras was ras interviewed By ROWLAND THOMAS S. d CA CANT CAN'T T get over the feeling that It i f J should all have taken place in int t c arble arb halls halls if if it could have hap hap- I U fl opened ened anywhere outside th the land of ot dreams reams th t Instead the local setting was the most mast st st. prosaic and romantic corner of ot oft t tHe tile the city of Boston in the region known t l thereabouts as Beacon Hill Hilt To the t Initiated that means the southwestern h th f lope pe of or the historic eminence It is isto to neighborhood where shabby genteel J and d plain shabby lodging houses rub del fellows with long established rather homes and where you never never l can bo be sure whose elbows elbows' your own own fe feiar b. b Indigenous gentry decayed gen gen- enty en fifty ty and Imported of o awry very type typo of mind and person and of or orry flit rtE r v ry ry aimin aim in l life fe tuck themselves away away h equal reticence behind the rows U. U I f Colonial doorways which line Une the theand 51 tP ee P and narrow streets lust just as as my et eT alty had tucked Itself In a a. a brick lot Jouse J ouse use I in Chestnut Street down at the f Sot oot t of or the hill hin a aj Furthermore some some or j other ther means of personal Iden iden- Identification co fi it Is which royalty uses In I Ilace r lace oi ot the commoners commoner's business I. I card GENEALOGY OF CHIEF SEUMAS OF CLAN FEARGUS As n n by himself chief of Clann Born 1735 Died 1805 Married 1756 daughter of lain Mac Mac Mac-an- an- an Leister of Bernice Their eldest son was Angus the Black born 1775 i Born 1775 Died I 1848 Married 1813 Princess Carolina ka of Poland Their son lain I born bom 1815 lain Iain Born 1815 Died 1881 Mar Mar- I led 1844 Princess Marie de Bourbon I Conde et Navarre Their son born 1847 I Born 1847 Died 1881 Marled Mar Mar- I led 1878 Princess Dollina El EI Cam Cam- Their son Seumas subject of I this his story born 1879 should have warned me whom I was was to face I Seumas lt It should have read read read- Seumas Prince Sobieski Cavalier Marshal of Poland and Pretender r to to I the Polish Throne Prince de Bourbon of of Conde Condo et Navarre in France ex- ex Colonel of Bashi ex-Colonel ex of Cossacks in General of ot the Military Forces of Dahomey and above all the rest Hereditary Chief of Clann and Clann in the I Highlands Highlands' of Scotland Some such advisement would h have ve added much to the the impressiveness impressiveness' of the occasion for me mer As it H was I I mer merely ly climbed four fOUl fligh flights ts of ot rather shabby stairs rapped at the one garret door and when It ivas was vas opened asked If It l I Mr Shamus l lived there and was at home It was a curious way to ask an audience audi audio ence enee of roy royalty lly which I had bad understood under stood must mus must be be approached through a along along long line of chamberlains heralds l heralds pur and nd whatever other functionaries function aries ries mig might t contribute pomp pageantry ry and awe Instead of all that the master master mas mas- I ter of ot the garret studio Mr d Philip p I. I o oY ry Y 1 O p I l a l 1 a P As Colonel of 01 Bashi ashi Ua Bashi in Armenia lie he was put in an I b 11 underground bottle jail as punishment for forI jl cO I his leniency to th the Jews His Palace a an o Attic Studio His Occupation Artists Artists' Model and His Name Is IsNow IsNow IsNow IsI I Now Mr Shamus M Mc- Mc F Fergus erg s Once I It t Was Prince Sobieski Pretender Preten Preten- Pretender der tIer to the Polish Throne Thrond He He Has Led the Turkish Turk Turk- ish Bashi the theR R Russian Cossacks and the Soldiers of Dahomey Dahomey- His Mother Was a Spanish Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish Princess and He Is the Hereditary Chief of a Famous Scottish Clan CIano Adams the painter smiled pleasantly and asked me he me to step in Stage settings tad shad bad been lacking all along the line and still were lacking when a m moment ment later a bedroom door 1 op opined opened ned and the man I r sought came In n. n 1 Chief Mr Adams said this gentleman gentleman gen would like to talk with you I Did ever man get through a presentation presentation presen presen- tation at court with with less fuss and andI I I feathers But stage settings or not I no sooner stood before the gentleman who calls callshim him himself elt Chief of Clan Fergus and all those other things than I abundantly realized I had come In contact with a ai a i personality And real personalities are always more rewarding than mere per per- I It was not the stately Highland dress dressor or the long dark hair nair falling about his shoulders that made him a marked I man though along with the obvious power of his tall lean frame they made him very picturesque It was the face and eyes of him his him his kindly tired se serious ious face his dark and wistful wistful ful dreamers dreamer's dreamers dreamer's eyes his very gentle gentle voice I In my long search for or him I had talked with many men and had encountered encountered en en- countered a deal of ot s scepticism Plenty there were were- who predicted he might prove to to be a farceur or a a shrewd fraud But Butas as I faced him the comI comment comment com com- ment which rose before my iny mind was I that made made- b by a kin kindly IY old Ir Irish sh gentlewoman gentlewoman gen gen- I the afternoon before He seems she said a simple sort t of or soul to me To me too as he stood there in the I bare litter litter of the studio in his tartans dagger at girdle and pouch between his hips sincere unaffected friendly yet remote ho he seemed a simple sort of ot soul By which I 1 do not mean at all I to to say a fool But I thought that possibly possibly pos pOSe sibly his head moved up among the the lev levels ls of the clouds How he was born In Warsaw Poland 1 thirty seven even years ago but taken to the I Western Highlands as a babe and there reared Into a true Scotsman speaking the Gaelic and full of Bielan lore I how his mother the Princess Dollina cl el of oR o Spain descendant of I the Cid Old was so intensely religious that I she would have made a a. priest of him him and how his military tastes and training training train train- I ing com batted such a fate such fate such things came out as we talked He ran lan away to Palestine and at seventeen he said he was a Colonel of Bashi in the Turkish army I had already noticed on his breast one of two decorations a very simp simple e edevice device f virgin gold At that point he too looked d down wn at it and touched it with fingers that fondled It was he said the Star of or David and had come to him In tn those early days He was serving ng In the Armenian war and was as ordered by the Bey of Armenia nia to to march Ills his regiment back Into the hills and exterminate a a. Jewish Jew ish village there there men men women and children He could not obey such an order he said Yet ho lio could not dis dis- obey So he marched by easy stages stages and on on ahead he sent senta a courier express When the troops arrived the village was w-as deserted Because of previous Inclinations Inclinations In In- t toward ward leniency which he had shown the tile Bey was suspicious of I his report Investigation and punishment punish ment went followed Ved and for three days and nights he be was Imprisoned In a bottle jail jail a a shaped bottle well dug In the ground until ground until finally his troops mutinied mutinied mu mu- and brought about his release Later In Damascus he was recognized by some some of the Armenian Jews who Who had fled tied there for refuge and the Hebrews Hebrews Hebrews He He- brews of ot Damascus together with a colony of or Manchester Jews presented the star to him He is prouder of ot that decoration than of any oth other r because It r represents presents the saving Instead of the taking of life He lie told me too how he later explored explored ex ex- ii i ln for two years year and became became became be be- came a of the tho King of af Dahomey who made him a a. chief and set him in command of his army He conducted a campaign against the French and his primitive army Was wag overpowered And he told me of or his entering the Russian army becoming a a. Colonel of coss Cossacks and fighting in the Kusso- Kusso Japanese war till In the battle of or Mukden Muk Mukden den he was wounded and eo so incapacitated for any further military service That Is why he said smiling slightly slight slight- l ly I am here at present instead of being somewhere In France to 1 He showed sue ine the dirk which has I come down through his family for countless generations lIe He showed me metho metho I tho watCh he lie carries Bonnie Donnie Prince Charlie carried it once ho said sardo And Andon Andon I I Ion on his pouch was a silver lion which I Iho ho told me ine came from tho the sword hilt of King John Sobieski S that King John III Who saved Europe from the Turks Turk He showed me his pedigree and explained ex ex- explained It tt Accor According ing to his account he tie Is to-o to to y head ahead of one of ot the oldest families In Europe Europ and holder of ot one of its proudest titles his f forefathers having been kings and chiefs for moro more I than 14 1400 O years descended lineally and directly on the m male le side from that Feargus Mor Mol who carried the celebrated I Stone of or Scone from Ireland over to Scotland in A A. A D. D conquered Argyll I and founded the Scottish monarchy which ruled until the rise riso of or the tho Bruce It js Ja through his great grandmother er who he lie says sage was the tho Princess Carolina Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina of or Poland that ho derives d de derives rives the claim lie he makes to the titles lof of Prince Brince Sobieski and Cavalier Marshal Marshal Marshal Mar Mar- of Poland as aswell well as his preten- preten to Its vacant throne HI His Hla grandmother was the Princess Marie de Bourbon ponde Conde e et Navarre of af France and his mother the Pl Princess Dollina el of Sp Spain in who through her descent from that mighty champion the CId gave to him a trace lof of Moorish blood All these things the Chief did and said with a So sort of mild mUd detachment which more resembled loftiness than pride Over one theme only did the dark and dreamy eyes brighten Into ardor and the lean dark face grow tense That was when lie le spoke of or his I desire to see seo the Highland clans restored restored restored re re- re- re stored on a a. modern economic basis and especially of his Jis hopes for or hl his own clan of Fergus He lie proposes to buyback buy DUY buyback back a a portion of the old did ld Clan Fergus country and to d develop the resources of the tho region In every possible WayA way A glowing picture he painted of or a countryside restored to prosperity the ancient Celtic crafts and arts revived Gaelic letters made roads alive again Best of all he said the clan spirit is the spirit of oC brotherhood Is not that worth saving v I asked him If it all that would not take much money The Time animation began began be be- gan gain to leave his face face as he said it would Rould And when I asked him him him-an an embarrassing question to put to r roy royalty roy y- y alty if altY-if If he had the money In sight eight and he said he had not his eyes were again a a dreamers dreamer's eyes and his face faca was sot again in its patient and tired wIstfulness Decidedly I thought as I went went do down n bis his four flights of stairs and out Into intI the slushiness of or prosaic and romantic Beacon Hill ill a So simple sort of or soul just as my nice old lady had said But one well wellI worth looking up Also I wondered If more men len wl wile who o claim of their fellows bY by right of lineage were simple sorts of at t souls would wo we have have just just for instance co J this this European war |