Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-25

our American gall-yes. let II DO gall-and
| framed, OF rather we transmitted to his duke
ship to be framed, our protest against the
! manifest injustice OF his order prohibiting
to cyclists the use Of a road over portion Of
| his domain. The road in question we under
stand to have been built six years ago by
the duke and interested railroad companies
! and though a small toll is charged the road
appears Oh all recent maps and 10 indicated IN
| the guido books u road open TO the use of the
| public. and is, in fact, used by every Other
| form Of vehicle than the cycle.
The beauties of Loeb KatriBe do not seem to
have been really discovered until. in 1910, Scott
went into poetry over them. Then they became
popular and everybody swarmed to Loeb
Katrine. quite overwhelming the farmers of the
vicinity. upon whom. in the absence of hotels,
| the burden of entertainment fell. We went to
discover the silver strand" We were pos
sessed OF private ambition to recline upon it.
We found two. To make sure we reclined
upon both. We got ont our pencil and paper
to compose, but our muse refused to work.
This shows that the same objects affect differ
ent poets differently. Some Of US, too, with
stony. stolid temperaments contemplate un-
moved and without q murmur the grandest
works of God or man, while others become
Pietaresquely eloquent over SO insignificant =
thing As u collar button in q setting OF sweep
ings under the bureau.
DISAPPOINTED IN THE rRosAcHs.
The Trosachs, as Il Scotch gentleman who has
visited almost every nook Of his country said,
are by no means as pretty piece of scenery as
IL to be found in Scotland. We were greatly
disappointed, rs is usually the case when 80
much is said Of place that one ia led to expect
a great deal more than it is possible to real
ize. Bristling country" ii is to be sure; sharp,
abrupt wooded elevations. but on q scale that
gives none of that grandeur one would hope to
md. The most striking portion is that about
the arm Of the lake where, at a rustic pier, the
little steamship-modeled steamer. Rob Roy,
makes Its landings. This region was the stamp
ing ground Of the doughty Rob Roy and his
equally doughty wife. Helen MacGregor. Al
Wordsworth has it.
The eagle he was lord above
And Rob was lord below"
Bold Rob and his wife lie side by side in the
church yard at Balquhidder, about ten miles
north OF the Trosachs, but when he died or
when he was born is not certainly known. II is
eonjcctured that he died in about 1873, after
having lived the allotted three score and ten,
Tor II is known that he lived to a good old age,
however bad his younger days NAV have been.
His claymore and musket we're secured by
scott and are to be seen ut Abbottsford house
among numerous like antiquities collected by
the poet and novelist, who seems to have gone
into that sort OF thing pretty heavily.
The district round about Lochs Ard and Ven-
naehar and the town Of Aberfoyle, southeast of
Loeb hatrine, tradition describes as a haunt of
FAIRIES and mysterious monster known the
water kelpie and OF very fcrocious DISPOSE
tlon- According to accounts n water kelpie in
the form Of a finely marked horse once appeared
to number Of children playing on the shores
OF Loeb Nennachar and by his apparent gentle
ness OF disposition tempted them to mount him.
When the whole flock were securely seated
for he had an extensive dining-room-table
back, and, after the manner of the street car OF
today. there was always room for one more
ne plunged into the water and swan to
his den, where he devoured all save lone lit
tie boy, WHO managed to escape and place
this story in Circulation. In this nncharitable
age yarns OF this description are usually at
trlbuted to what is vulgarly termed II case of
snakes. or to other species of dementia. But it
was different in the old days when our an
cestors we're young and could tell such whop-
pers with the same impunity that they play
fully spltted each other on lances, made pin
cushions of their personal enemies and per-
formed other barbaric capers- There were
even educated men of the day. churchmen,
who deyoutly believed all the trash afloat con-
corning these alleged supernatural people.