Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-10-27
A MODEST GENIUS.
fer Own Nusband Didn't Know She Had
 Gained Fame.


 Gained Fame.
 The Land O the Leal" was not written by Bobby Burns, as is pop ulariy supposed, but by woman who wrote many songs as popular as his and perhaps as much sung today, yet whose name is little known and whose literary history is very strange.
 In l766 baby girl wns born in an old house in Perthshiro, Scotland, to Lawrence Oliphant. a Jacobite gentleman, whose whole family had impoverished themselves in the Stuart cause. His father had been out in the rebellion of 15l5, and he himself had fought for Prince Charley in I745. He had fled Scot land for his life, and only a couple of years before the birth of this his first child had be been allowed to return and settle down on the rem. nant of his estates. The baby was 10 | have been named Charles, for the last Stuart, had it been boy, but as 1t was a girl her father had to compromise by calling her Carolina. Mr. Oliphant was loyal to the los: cause to the last, and Carolina grew up amid love stories and songs of "bonny Prince Charley" songs that she WAS to supe-sede with her own. The incest story you will ever hear about old King George III re- lates how he sent a message to Mir. Oliphant When the laird was grow ing old and as stubborn R Jacobite as ever, the king one day said to the member of parliament for Perth shire, When you go home give my | eompliments-not the compliments of the king of England, but those of the elector of Hanover-to Mir. Oli- 1 phant, and tell him how much re- ! spect him for the steadiness of his principles.
 Carolina was a great singer and dancer in her youth, but she had become q sober, middle aged worn- an before her wedding day dawne,l She was betrothed in her teens to q distant cousin, who. like the rest oi thom, had spent all for tho king over the water, and was for long l years too poor to marry. At last, when the lady was in her foTtieth | year and he nine years older, she i was welded to her first love, Major { Nairne.
 i Tn 1924 Major Nairne was restored
 to titlo that had been obtained iI 1 I915 and became Baron Nairne.
 Lady Nairne was left widow ere
 long, and soon her only child, a son,
 died, too, and she spent the rest .oi l her life in Edinburgh absorbed in
 religion and charity, respected as .
 saint. looked upon with interest 1 because of the romantic political
 history of her family and the sweet
 Scotch constancy of her love story,
 out no one suspecting that she had
 any claims as an author. Sir Waltcl
 Scott had known her we'll, but had
 never dreamed of her secret; it wa: better kept than the authorship oi
 "Waverley." Yet for 50 years, nc less, young and old on every side
 Lad been singing her own songs al around her. The husband died with out knowing she had written line of poetry, and she all but carried
 the knowledge of her authorship tC her own grave. But one sister haC
 been her confidante, and when Lady Marine had passed away the sister
 thought there was no longer any need of protecting her old fashioned womanly modesty and told th' story and published collection oi tho songs. Besides the Land O th, , Leal," some of the others wer, Who'll Be King but Charley,
 The Laird O Cockpen, "Wha1
 Buy My Caller Herrin" and "A Hun dred Pipers and A and A'."-Philn delphia Inquirer.