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Show NOBLEMAN, 75, TAKES FIFTEEN MILE WALK London. June 24 The announcement announce-ment that the Marquis of Huntley was going to marry an American v id-ow id-ow has caused the limelight of publicity pub-licity to shine far mone brightly upon ) him than if his castle bad been burned burn-ed down by Sinn Keiners. Several Irish peers have had that distinction thrust upon them of late but they have not. In consequence, been written writ-ten up anything like as extensively as has the septugenarian marqula lie is 75 years Old. He Is described, as the handsomest member of Ihe peerage and tbe most courtly mannered. man-nered. He celebrated his golden w.i-dlnp w.i-dlnp in 131. Sis f'rst wife died a few months liter There were no children by that marriage. He is the premier marquis of Scotland Scot-land He has 11 other titles besides that of marquis. He has been a lord-ln-waitinnc in his time nnd has captained cap-tained the gentlemen-at-arms. Both are purely ornamental p.ists The former for-mer paj.s something like 7'0 pounds a year and tho latter round a thousand thous-and He has never had to do any real hard work, but detplte the popular popu-lar American notion that hard work, nnd plenty of it. Is essential to health and longevity he is remarkably robust and. according to one chronicler who claims to know him personally, thinks nothing of walking 15 miles a day " There are not many hardworking hard-working American millionaires who could do that at 7S He. comes of ancient and first-rate fighting stock and has all sorts of blue blood in hla veins. His ancestor. Sir Adam Gordon Gor-don of Huntly. was killed at the battle bat-tle of Homidon in 1402. The third earl commanded with Lord Horns the j left wing of the Scots' army at Flod-; Flod-; den Field The fourth earl was killed In c-, c-, tlon. while the next Huntly knew what lit was to be sentenced to the blocki land to find himself chancellor of Scotland on his reprieve. |