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Show Duke's Private Army. Any man may have an army of ( workmen or an army of servants if he can afford to pay their wages; but there is only one private individual in Great Britain who has the right to maintain an army of soldiers real soldiers, that h not tin ones. That man Is the duke of Athol. who is one of tho richest peers, owning 200,000 acres of land and deer forests. He keeps up almost regal state at Blair castle. In Perthshire, and he has an j army of 300 men kilted, armed, regu- I larly drilled, and ready for war at any moment! The late Queen .Victoria presented the army with its colors. At one time tho ancestors of the duke who, by the way, celebrated his sixty-eighth sixty-eighth birthday recently were sovereigns sov-ereigns of the Isle of Man. but gave up thelA kingly rights to the British government for a "consideration" of 70,000. |