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Show LITERAL IN HIS OBEDIENCE. Scotch Servant Should Have Made an ' Ideal Soldier. Scottish highland retainers, when mat'e to do tint) as servants, aro said to show a very stolid, matter of fact kind of obedience. A Mr. Campbell, a highland gentleman, visiting a country coun-try house, told Donald to bring everything every-thing out of the bedroom, meaning his personal belongings But flvo minutes later he found all Its movable articles fender, flre-lrous and the like piled up In the lobby, so literal was tho poor man's sense of obodlence to orders! And of this he gave a still moro extraordinary ex-traordinary proof during his sojourn In Kdlnb'ir-;h When the family moved Into a house there Mrs. Campbell Camp-bell gave him very particular instructions instruc-tions regarding visitors, explaining they were to be shown Into the drawing draw-ing room nr-. used the Scotticism, "C.vrr.v any i idles that call upstairs." The flr-.t visitors were two women who came -u the same time. Donald Belzed one In his iirms, said to tho other. "Bide )e there till I come for yo," and In spite or her struggles and remonstrances ushered the terrified visitor Into Mrs. Campbell's presence. |