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Show ITT THE SEMI-WEEKL- E. NATION. Y I. HYDE, STREETER HAS NOT YET GIVEN UP CONTEST FOR CHICAGO LAND l'ubllatiiih til lMW m then Some Noble Madmen UTAH LOOAN. m BBS UB I,et hr hope Mr. Wu may np atile to spend his vacation in the United Stale. Did any woman ever apeak of her husband1 pipe wlinuut preilxing the words that old"? Knrope is attain discussing disarmament. Hut the Krupp gun works are running right along. The old feeling against foreigners is said to he rising again in China, linos anybody wonder? olub of The now Ixmdon lias not yet been absorbed by any of Mr. Morgan's mergers. Anglo-America- Mount 1elee must be trying to sustain itself on a diet of roasting ears, watermelon and green peaches. The new sultan of Zanzibar has one oNoolioiit qualification for ,tne place, lie is a fVrociou.i football player. Tlie Santo Stefano tower In Venice is liircatoning to tumble. It scents to ho high time fo- - Venice to brace up. limit is said to ho on tlie increase in Tii is is one trouble the Alltel ica. (o.iimoti people do not have lo worry over. King Alfonso wants to have it distinctly understood that some of tlie children arc going to be heard as well as SCI n. I'ticle Kusscll Sage denies lliat lie was trying to steal a ride when he was dragged lifleeti feet by a ear the el lor day. If a fathers' congress should ever convene probably tlie proceeding limited to a motion fur an adjournment. would ln They all say that Mackay, the bo nanza King, was a genuine American. is it because he bad so much wealth that he could not count It? In presenting a claim against the estate of laird Francis Hope for $4.-00- 0 May Yohe has demonstrated that she is in no pressing need of a nerve tonic. The fact that tlie six continents earthquakes this an overwhelming podes. Australia alone of wa not visited by year will not cause rush for the Anti- Secretary Wilson, who is trying to encourage Americans to cultivate silk worms, evidently does not know that the rustling petticoat fashion has passed. (Special Letter.) The late Laurenre Oli pliant told some boys once it Is one of them son of the Duke of Norfolk, who writes this that he was staying senior Duke of England, ntay at Glamis castle, one of a large shootperhaps be a relief to the ing party. One day, while the men hard and fast upholders of the divine were away, the ladies, to pass the right of primogeniture; for the unfor- time, decided to learn which was the tunate Earl had been an Idiot front haunted room. To effect their purpose, they dehis birth, and since an attack of bc. to go from room to room and cided fever, when a child, had been blind also. hang a towel from each window. Recent laws would have prevent d When they had done this they were his sitting in parliament to help make to .Inspect the house from the outside laws for the British nation, but in tli fe ind any window without Its towel into the hauntold days only his own Inclination would, of course, open room. ed could have kept him out of the house returned while I,ord Strathmore of lords, and his vote as a peer would have been as valuable as that of any the ladies were still engaged In this peer possessed of all his faculties. Peerage history iu very tender to titled persons. Burke's Peerage the Briton's Bible, some persons have been known to call it in its Recounts of the ancestors of the present Marquis of Quecusberry, says that the dysecond Duke of Qtieensberrry, ing in 1711. was s. by Ms eldest surviving so.i, Charles, 3d Duke. hut says nothing i t tlie elder son, whose death made way for him. This elder sun was James. Ear! of Drumlanrig. an idiot froi.i his birth; but unlike the poor Earl of Arundel and Surrey, an idiot win retained all his bodily powers. He was horn about tiSii ami for years was kept in a retired part ef (i'iienlierry house. Edinburgh, behind barred windows and bolted doors. He grew to be nearly seven feet in height, and sustained tremendous strength; .lie possessed tin enormous conti.in-aily- . appetite. :nd had to be Meat was Lis main food and Dryburgi. Abbey. the smell of cooking would throw him (St. Marys Walk.) of which e luto could paroxysms After slxtoi it yi ars full of strange ing winter the lake waters carried be stilled only by prompt supplies of occupation, and at once put a rtop to as evei- beset any em- more earth up. This action of the food. vicissitude it, gening very nngry and relinking pire. the suit seem to have set upon waves has pone on steadily ever rinre On May 1. 17o7. the union of Scotaily Strathmore witlt considerable until there are 1SH acres of land and tlie District of Lake MickUan. lit and on warmth, even before his guests. f;ok England pit.c. ground where there was water at the that day all Edinburg1! was excited l!y a decision of Judge Oa another occasion tlie claret in the Superior court the right time of the shipwreck. was in the sLncis when gave out at a late supper, and Lord Everybody of Streeter Las lived on this territory the union wits celebrated. The Duke Strathmore refused to let the butler apV Streeter to six acre of land within the territory lie claimed most of the time since then. It is on of popularly detested go Into the cellar for it, but went were denied. This crtablishis a prece- tliis undisturbed, residence that he for Queenslierry. his shar in what the Scots eon himself. He was gone front the tadent that. intiKt result, lawyers say. liases Itia squatter's claim. sidered a slinimful bargain, had a ble for a long time; finally he was in the ultimate relinquishment of the For yeai8 people took him and his prominent place in the ceremonies of found at the head of the main enentire tract. claim as a joke. But the cap'n was the clay, and almost every dweller in trance to the cell: r, badly bruised, Streeter heard the words that in earnest. He had the tract sur- Queensherry house was outside of quite exhausted, but witlt the claret changed Mm from a possible million- veyed and laid It out in lots. He sold Its walls, taking an arrive or specta- and the key of the locked door fast aire, a territorial governor, sheriff, many of them. Then he organized a tors part in tlie day's proceedings. in his hand. and postmaster to a plain "Cap'n" "government He was elected by his At last the story of the haunted That day the Earl of Drumlanrig without a tremor. Perhaps one of six or eight followers territorial gov- broke out of his apartments. He room came out; that is, it Is said to his freshly oiled boots swung back ernor of the District of Lake Mrhl-fatfound a door or a window fastened have come out. To tell it requires a and forth over his knee more rapidly, as well as sheriff. He appointed less securely than usual and did not short history of the family, which possibly lie twisted his red whiskers himself postmaster pro tern until the have to exert all his strength to break now bears one of Macbeth's titles. a trifle harder, lint there was no other president of the Unites! Stales chose tin bars tnat restrained him. Thomas Bowes-Lyoborn in 1773, He wandered through tlie deserted became the eleventh Earl of Strathsign. to appoint some one else. His followit ain't over. I'll lie ditrned ef it ers got the minor offices of eonstabie, house, demolishing furniture and pic- more and died in 184G. He left no Is." said the rap'ii. as be left tures front time to time, until finally children, but he had had a son, the district commissioner, superintendent he smelled meat cooking. In a parcourt room, lint tin old tire was not of public works, and the like. George by name, known generally as In his voice and the silk bat was not Meantime Mrs. Louisa Healy, widow oxysm of fury he found Ills way to Lord Glamis. This Istrd Glantis, actipped at the old familiar angle as lie of George I A. Healy, tiie portrait the kitchen, where a cook and a little cording to the peerage, was born io went it) the street. artist, who claimed the land upon boy were at work. the only persons 1801, and died in 1834, leaving two Thus ends, it is thought, one of the which the court house stood, brought in the house, apparently. sons, both of whom have been Earls The cook fled. The Earl fell on of Strathmore. The younger 1b still most peculiar land contests ever suit to clear her title to the property, the boy before' lie could escape and Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. fought. It. involved the ownership of and won her rase. killed him with the spit he held. . The caslle of Glamis is up in ForNow Streeter's field of operations property valued at more than $5.nni.-flnoThe claimants ot: the one hand will lie Milwaukee, the United States Then lie began to cook him! He was farshire, Scotland, not very far from on the point of eating him when thq Dundee; but it was not in any Dunwere millionaires whose land abutted court his artillery and his new tactics dee paper that a death notire apon the property and whosp com Id tied will consist in placing Alexander H. cook returned with assistance. Thereafter the Earl passed out of peared one morning in 1885 which fortunes were up in the billions, and Ilevell. the Newberry estate and J. on the other hand "Gap'n" Streeter. V. Farwell, together with others, on human knowledge. It is said that he was to this effect: Died At Glamis castle, Thomas was killed then and there before the Their claim were based upon ri- the defensive. Ixtrd could be Glamis, In the eighty-fifttaken body kffrhenboys was of his year a an thdt He has obtained order from parian rights; squatof his from him. age." ter. of Jenkins Milwaukee compelJudge Thomas I.ord Glamis!" The peerFor upward of half a century there It was in 1SSC that Streeter was ling these men to show cause why an wrecked at the foot of Superior street. injunction s.inuld rot issue against was said to be a secret haunted room ages said nothing of such a person. George Ixird Glamis, father of the In the storm his boat was carried rhent enjoining them from interfering present Earl and of his elder brother, further with him. Upon tlie beach and during the folluwwas the only Lord Glamis who could have been more tlinn 80; and he had died in 1834 when not quite 33 years old. Who then was Thomas Itrd Glamis, who died aged 84? According to the story he was the elder twin brother of George Lord Gantis, an idiot from Ms birth, who was set aside and maintained privately In Glamis easili. The haunted chamber was a room througa which entrance was had to the part of the house reserved for hint: the secret confided to eari heir on his coming of age was the fact Hat there was such a person uncle or great-unclwho legally was Earl or Strathmore and Klng'ionic. The reason why the Earl would not let the butbr go for the claret was that the maniac laird Glamis had escaped front Ids keeper and wan known to bo in hiding in tltp cellar; and the Earl's coitdiiion when he Castle of Glamis. brought tlie claret to li is guests was due to the fact that he had barely in Glamis castle, one of the residences from hi crazy relative, who escaped of the Scots Eail of Stratnniore and was of enormous strength possessed Which room it was no Kinghornc. one knew except the living Earl, his and obeyed only his keeper or atDISTRICT COURTHOUSE WRICH MUST BE MOVED. tendant. (The seat of the judiciary of tite District of Lake Michigan" is on lanH factor or agent, and the Earl's eldest The son of the present fatrd Glamis, who learned the on son, secret from his taken Streeter by Judge Chytraus' decision.) of the present Earl of grandson t twenty-firsbirthday. MWWAAVWUWWVWWWWAVWWVWWWAAWVWWWVWW Is 18 years old now, so Strathmore, According lo rite story published in the of Professor Trowbridge. great subject cannot be told to Fine Engineering Feat. Views , Blackwood's about the year 1877 the for him If the story three years or The Ir.if, hate (oiivicred the Experiments engineers Pennsylvania present heir to the title became of told above and the yet. death notice are ncer railroad recently performed a record age Trowbridge th:n lightning 1870 in the house was filled with correct, there will be no secret to imstrikes the surface of the oirui.. an.i fcuL They succeeded jn moving a to the of celebrate coming age piests front this he draws tie1 interesting steel bridge, weighing 1.838 tons, of Ixird Glamis. On his birthday he part, and the Glamis ghost will have been settled. conclusion that light tting discharges which span the Raritan river, 174 was taken aside by his father and can hardly lie supposed to pass inches iu 17.7 seconds, in order that the factor, was absent some time, and If people took as much pains to be through regions of the uir where there it. might be replaced with a stone returned pale and evidently much agiafter matrimony as beentertaining ' a o' rain. structure. The traffic on the railway, is, at the time, heavy tated; he had seen the Glaui; ghost, fore divorce lawyers would ride In There are as ninny n set' tl people which is very heavy, was not delayed ef course. trolley ears Instead o' biles. for a sicoiid. sbo disagree with tie pr lessor. HE death recently of the Ear! of Arundel and Surrey, only 1 fl ra-:- j - I f to-da- y by-tra- t. ' ! ! Carrie Chapman Catt says of the criminals are men. This is letting us down easy. She might s have said of the men are nine-tenth- s nine-tenth- criminals. f!en. Kitchener honor than greater by his countrymen in khaki." It beats or rosettes. should desire no to lie referred to as the gentleman any of the garters J.ondon bridge still stands, in spile the children's doggerel, but the latest dispatches seein to show that a good part of Venice is in dagger of falling down. of Tlie scientist who declares that the skull dug up near I.attsing, Kan., is ::r.,inii) years old appear to have a grudge against poor Adams reput a tion fur previoustiess. The Missouri man who admitted in court that lie had spent JTi'.eiui oil liquor during tlie past seven years ought to lie a good judge of such stimulants. if of nothing else. While lovely woman is supposed to go almost any length in her bcauty (Iih tc.ring. not many of them can make the decision to talk less been use wrinkle are caused by too much talking. The single man should not forget to put an engagement ring in his poeket before starting on his vacation. He may not have occasion to use it, yet it is better to It: ve one handy iu case of emergency. For improving the Mississippi river has been spent in the past twenty years. Farmers with submerged lands adjoining that interest43,ri72.i!;i3 ing stream are wondering what was done with the money. It was to be expected that the millionaire laborer who wore his working elothea when he went in search of a wife would And a girl with imagination enough to guess how he would look In a dress suit or golfing toga. ! I h - e I ; : |