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Show A Scotch Chieftain Who Hat Survived One Hundred Years. Isl6 of Hull, Scotland. THIS is the land of longevity; longev-ity; the dominion of iron men. To outlive the Biblical allotment al-lotment of three-score years and ten is nothing in the annals of the Scotch-born. Among the enduring figures of modern Scotland, the more significant sig-nificant In that his roots are easily traced back to the Thirteenth century, cen-tury, Is Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, Mac-lean, Bart., K. C. B., Tenth Baronet of Dowart and Morvaren, born In Dublin 100 years ago and still alive, hale and hearty, residing on the Isle of Mull In his ancestral Castle Cas-tle of Duart overlooking the sea. To this stronghold on the anniversary anniver-sary of his centenary May IS, 1035, came 400 living members of the Clan Maclean association and messages mes-sages of good will from 4,000 others oth-ers scattered throughout the habitable habit-able globe In salutation to the twenty-sixth chieftain. Life of a Highlander. Son of a soldier, Sir Charles Maclean, In command of the Eighty-first Eighty-first regiment, the boy Fitzroy at the age of seventeen, when Queen Victoria had been but fifteen years on the throne of England, Eng-land, enlisted under the British flag. His commission In the Seventh Sev-enth Dragoon guards was signed and delivered by the duke of Wellington. Wel-lington. Within two years the youth, slated by destiny to outlive all his brother officers, was in the thick, of the Crimea, and was at Alma and Sevastopol, winning decorations dec-orations In all. From an attack of dysentery that sent him to the hospital hos-pital in his nineteenth year, with the assurance of the doctors that he was doomed. Sir Fitzroy recovered recov-ered and within the month reas-sumed reas-sumed his command. It was not the intention of fate that he should fall in battle. The fighting Scot was A. D. C. to Field Marshal Lord Seaton, 1S5S-59, and to General Brown, G. C. B., 1SG0-61, a seasoned veteran at the outbreak of our own rebellion, rebel-lion, to which there are but few survivors. Between the birth of his father, 170S, and his own one hundredth hun-dredth year the feet of these two men have been planted on three centuries. In his lifetime, Sir Fitzroy has witnessed transformations transforma-tions on so vast a scale as to baffle baf-fle the wildest prophecies that could have been uttered at the time he entered, the dominion of living mankind. Successful at Eighty. Not until he reached his eighty-sixth eighty-sixth year was ho able to put into operation his ambition and the dream of his father before him to bring back to the Macleans the ancestral castle lost to the clan in 1G!)1, when the chief of Duart, responding re-sponding to an order from King .Tames, surrendered Duart, or Dowart, Do-wart, castle, at that time probably the strongest and most Imposing in the Western islands, In possession of the Maclean clan since the middle mid-dle of the Thirteenth century. During Dur-ing the reign of .Tames VI the family fam-ily of Maclean of Duart, not excepting ex-cepting the MacDonaids of Sleath, and of Clan Ranald, and the MacLeods Mac-Leods of Dunvegan, was the most powerful In the Hebrides. But they were overtaken by calamity before the end of the Seventeenth century, due to the feud which broke out in the reign of Queen Mary between the Macleans and the MacDonaids. Through a successful claim preferred pre-ferred by the marquis, the Argyles took over Duart and the estates, lost during the rebellion of 1715, and for a century and a half allowed al-lowed the castle to fall into ruin while the Isle of Mull was undergoing under-going partition among several owners. own-ers. About 30 years ago the chlef- tain of the JIaclonn clnn, desirous of taking over the historic pile for restoration and occupation, won the acquiescence of Mrs. Olive Outh-erle, Outh-erle, the tlien owner. The transaction, trans-action, closed In 1011, left Sir Fitzroy Fitz-roy In full possession. Ausrnst 24, 1012, after a lapse of 200 years, the fin? of the chieftain was unfurled on the breeze to the sUirllns of bagpipes bag-pipes and the .shouts of the clansmen. clans-men. A Thrilling Sight. Never a more Inspiring spectacle, In which 200 of the blood participated. partici-pated. The members of the clan, each bearing a sprig of crow berry, and led by ' Lieut. A. C. IT. Maclean, Mac-lean, ascended the steps leading to the main -doorway, when the lieutenant, lieu-tenant, turning, cried: "Clansmen an'd clanswomen, Is It your wish that your arrival at Duart castle be announced to the 'chief?" j "Yes." j Ardgour then approached and knocked three times, calling In Gaelic: Gae-lic: j "Fhlr Dluihhalrt tha clann month In a feilheamh a mach gu cur failte oirbh ann an luehalrt ur slnnns.nt-reached." slnnns.nt-reached." (Chief of Duart. the clan Maclean Is waiting without, to give you welcome In the castle of your ancestors.) J copy-igiu. wxn sorvio. |