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Show I CARNEGIE'S CASTLE. H Andre Carnegie la continuing In H flcotland he inunlllienl generosity to H the aid of education aa bo began In tho H United Slates We were, told recently B of hla donation of 1600 000 lo establish B liranrh llbrarle In (llaagow uion tha BBa sami plan for which ho gaio 13,000- BBI 000 to flrratrr Now ork I.aat week BBI came the news of hla gift of $10,000,- fl K) to eatabllah free scholarships In BBJI the historic Scotch universities for BBb )Hor young Scotchmen BBb Of course, thla la a materialistic ago, BBb And no one, on thla aide of the At- B lantlc at liaat, pay any attention to H auperstltltlona. Hut there aro folka In BBJ Scotland (no Insinuation I meant BBJ "gainst the Bcotch, but their old le- BH tends have greater Inllucuco than In BBJ thla now country, especially among the BBJ 'oik on tho country aide) who bollovo BB that by these donation, Andrew Car- H negle will lift tho curso from Hklbo H Castle the old eatato which ho has 1 purchased a hla homo In the High- B landa, H Jlvery one north of the Tweed 1 H .cognisant of the fact that ft. Mood- B- -curdling curso re.ls upon UklbajPale. B and the HcoU are asking whether thla B -curse will work against tho American M owner In tho lame way that the curso H pronounced against tho third I-ord H Ilynm (who made a drinking cup of H the akull of ono of tho old Abbots of M Newateail Abbey), continued to blight H not only all the subsequent owner and H occupants of Newateail Abbey Includ H ling the poet Lord llyron, until Iho late H Colonel Webb n few year ago found H tho long lost drinking cup In an old H curiosity shop In London and by re H storing It to tho Abbot' tomb at New H stead put an end to tho curso that 1 rested an tho place H The ban resting upon Rklbo Castle j date from tho early part of the eight- H tenth century, when by somo foul H wrong tho (Ira) a, who had owned tho H castlo for several hundred ears wcro H deprived of their anccatral inaseaslons by the family of l)oul Misfortune overtook tho latter, and since that tlmo tho curso haa been fulfilled In thla that no family haa posacascd Sklbo for more than one generation It haa pautil thtough tnuny hands, Including tho Mackays tho (lordons, tho Dempster and tho Chlrnsldes, III- I luck pursuing them nil until tho placo , wa acquired by Andrew Carnegie, who apparently la not aupiratltlotu, aa ho ' asaured hla tenants and neighbor tho other day that hu Intcndtd Bklbo to bo tho homo of bis family ' for many gsneratlona" Ho la very popular In tho district by reason of the money ho haa brought Into the country, and la known thcro aa "Bklbo," In Iho samo way as most other territorial magnate aro knowu by tho nome of their land, rather lliU by their patronymic 8KII10 CABTI.U-ANDIIEW CAH.Ni: 01158 SCOTTISH HKAT. |