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Show HIGHLAND GARB DYING CUT. To what extent the highland garb anJ the use of tartans is- dying out in Scotland Scot-land is shown by the fact that nowadays now-adays the poorer classes of Scottish people have vlrtus'ly to be' bribed to wear it. and on'y !o-i th tartan either if obliged by iheir musters or landlords land-lords or if it is given to them free of cost. Attention has In-en called 'to this peculiarity by the an::ou:eement ma.!-3 bv the young .Manr-:r ,,f Bute that n ;t morel v all- his tenants and employes, but even the working men employed In building operations on the island of p.ute. wiil be provided on application, gratis, with a fi:M highland costume of his- family tartan, the royal Stuart. Little more than KO years ago tartans tar-tans in general and this turtan in particular par-ticular were proscribed, and. indeed, in the middle of the- eighteenth century, after the rising of 174". an act wn, passed forbidding the wearing of the. highland garb under the penalty of six. months' impiisonment for the first or tense and transportation beyond seas for seven years for a second conviction. Nor was it until 17S2 that this measure, which bad the effect of sending a large number of loyal Prots across the Atlantic, At-lantic, was repealed. |