Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-09
The Duke of Argyll.

LONDON lruM in recent Issue Jaws.
IT one were to meet the Duke hurryino
city ward on foot, and carrying small
carpet-bag, one would set him down nt
once as an intelligent bankers clark.
Meet him in evening dress at lady KS.
and you would still be far from sus.
pecting that he was the descendant of a
long line of heroes and statesmen, In
appearance he is essentially common.
place. 1t is only when he begins to
talk, or rather when he warns to his
subject, that you recognize Ulysses,
Even then you are long time in de-
tecting tue grand seigmeur. His CONVEX.
sation is that of a scholar who has vet
seen something of the world, though
in whom the enthusiast is apt to ire.
vail over the opportunist.
But for one c:rcumst lnce the Duke
OF Argyll might have ended as a mere
replica OF the Lord Vincent whom Bull.
wer sketched in Pelham" d.let.
tamte who had always ditfuse review on
hand, a project of party orgauiz .tion
not quite ready, and some brilliant
ideas which just wanted to be put into
shape. From this fate he was saved bv
passion for hard work. He is simply
interchangeable, and on busy men their
crotchets and their d ubts sit lightly.
while their entlusi4ms are also under
control.
The late Strickland Cookson Nhe
friend aud executor of Wordsworth
told ms he Was once on Royal Com.
mission with the Duke of Argyll. T
think they had to inquire into some
abstruse legal points. In week"
said Cookson, "the Duke had so mas
tered the subject that he knew more
about it than any of us, lawyers in.
cluded." Theology, too, he had deeply
studied, as we'll as natural science, an
tlquities aud politics.
10 the queen Of the sciences, how.
ever, as the schoolmen called theology.
one fancies he has long since hidden
farewell, his mind having taken more
mauly development. As Marquis of
Lorne, and for some time after, he
plunged eagerly into the fray whenever
the merits of the T. Established KIRK. the
Free KIRK, or the Prelatic Schsm came
prominently under discussion in the
land OF teddy and po'emics. At nine
teen he refreshed tne world with his
views on some of these topics in pam
phlet bearing the III questionable-tast
title OF "A Letter to the Peers, by q
Peers Son" Those who disagreed
with Lord Lorne thought it the safest
answer to cul him "prig;' those
who approved said something about
"deuced clever How many on either
side read the 6Ochurr IS another uues-
ton. The men oi this generation are
tn la lao
ments care fully marsh.led. Laughter
or shrewd appeal to seliinterest is
nowadays your must convincing ora
tor.
Still the heir of MacCallnm More
had made himself name as u rising
Young man; an this would have been
sufficient, even if the selfstyled Bsh-
Op of Argyll and the Isles" had not
done his best to give the Marquis aadi-
tional notoriety. The later Argylls,
while remaining staunch Wings and
upholders of the Covenant, had yet
lapsed into the habit CONTRACTED
through constant sojourns in EnglandS
OF taking communion at Easter and
christmas in an Episcopal chapel. One
Christmas the Bishop, who knew Lord
l. 'rne would present himself, wrote to
say that he could not be admitted to the
sacrament an account OF his irreverent
remarks anent Scottish Episcopscy.
Lord Lorne only laughed, till he dis.
covered that the little sect had the big
Church Of England at its back. DR..
Bloomfield, Bishop of London, man
alternately courageous and compromis-
ing, declined to administer to Lord
ha hnr ar xvh
bishop had refused.
The Duke, by the way, tells story
of Bloomfield Coward whose memory
he is far firm bearing grudge) which
is worth repeating as u specimen OF
that rare phenomenon, neat German
repartee. 1t was at party, where the
guest had been am fused with experiences
of clairvoyances. Well" ut length
exclaimed Bloomfield, puzzled at what
he had seen, and unable to explain,
but what, then, were our eyes given
us for?" Buusen, who was present,
instantly replied, To limit our vision,
my Lord" The Duke naively owns
that he did not consider the reason
given as exhaustive. 1t must be- re-
membered he is u Scotchman.
A BURLEsQuE MIsER.--A striking, if
not picturesq he looking, figure OF
man can be seen in New Jersey town.
He is dressed in canvas shirt, with
two meal bugs for breeches reaching 10
his knees; on his head IL ragged,
edged hat, full of holes. He is " gold
blind" whatever that may be; that Is
to say, he imagines that everything has
the hue of gold; or at any rate, he
gathers sticks and stones, under inc
impression that they are coins, arI
boasts of his treasures boarded IN fdo
swamps where he dwells. He calls ~
the shops for advertising cards ana
imagines them bank bills, and tue
bright. colored plscards of patent medi-
cine vendors he treats as United States
bonds. He cries and wrings his hands
when any one threatens to enter dis
shanty in the swamp, and spends hall tne
night counting over his fortune. III
fact, he seems to enjoy life rs well ~
the miser who boards real gold, ana
the community's stock OF wealth Is III
no way diminished thereby. ii, IS
living caricutllre of men who huu