The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-24
MN4 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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A controversy as to the authorship
of the fine old scottish song, There's
Nae Luck About the House." now
RACES fiercely in Scotland. In Edin-
burgh. Glasgow, and Dundee, not to
mention smaller places, the pros and
cons have been, and are being, dis
cussed with an amount of heat greatly
in excess of the light shed. The ablest
of Jean Adams champions has been
Sarah Tytler," who, writing from
Oxford to Dundee, pleaded the claims
Of her protege in most sympathetic
terms. She has added nothing, how
ever, to what she said many years ago
in her "Songstresses of Scotland.
Apart from Sarah Tytler," the Green
ock schoolmistress has been unfor-
tunate in her champions-local nonen-
titles for the most part, enthusiastic
but ill-informed. On the other side,
the claims of William Julius Mickle
have been found very able advocate
in the person of Mr.. A. H. Millar, an
acknowledged authority on Scottish
literary matters. Having been engaged
some time ago making notes for new
edition of Mickles poems, Mr.. Millar
has been in an exceptionally good posi-
ton for forming an opinion. On
neither side, however, is the evidence
absolutely conclusive, and although
the balance is on the whole in favor OF
Mickle, the dispute is one that is not
| likely ever to be settled.
Distress. in one shape or another,
undoubtedly exists in some districts of
Ireland, and though the pinch of Win
ter has been got over, it is long weary
time vet before any relief can be ex-
pected from the crops, which, in many
cases, have not yet been sown. The
Dublin Mansion House fund, which
was raised by the lord mayor, reached
the sum of 94,S20, but this, and more
besides, has already be9n expended by
the committee. One item alone abb
serbs nearly $1,000 Of the fund, and
this was the supplying of children at
tendln4 the schools with a penny's
worth of bread per day. This was done
for six weeks in fifteen very distressed
parishes at a cost of 9965 los. 1t is
feared, too, that the rise which must
certainly take place in all kinds OF
food, in consequence of the war, will
intensity matters greatly, and the out
look in the west of Ireland for the
next four or five months is anything
but rosy one.
William Waldorf Aston recently sold
some of the vast estate, that the orig
inal John Jacob Astor bought in 1903
as farm land. In agreeing to the sale,
Mr.. Astor for the second time since
coming into possession Of the hundreds
Of millions worth of real estate, has
departed from the time honored policy
of his family, which has been to buy
continually, and to sell not at all. For
ty houses and lots valued at $75O,OOC
are to be transferred as the result OF
the papers signed. They have been
purchased at about the figure named
by Henry Morgenthau, who has been a
heavy operator in New York city real
estate for years. John Jacob Astor
the first, bought the entire tract from
John Samler, truck farmer, for $780,
900. That was in 1903. Today it is
estimated that the same property is
worth $5O,000,O00. That tells the story
of the Astor fortune, and how it was
made.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Mclean, Of Parry
Sound, Ont, are the proud parents OF
the largest baby boy in the Dominion
The youngster is a remarkable child
being only II months Of age; he weighs
So pounds. His measurements are:
Height, "a inches; chest measurement
81 inches; waist, % inches; thigh, II
inches; IL inches round the calf of the
leg, and II inches around the arm. The
boy is healthy, bright and intelligent,
is in no way deformed, but looks like
a child much older in years from his
immense size.
The Oldest clergyman in the Baptist
denomination, the Rev. John Adds,
has just celebrated his Goth birthday
He was for a long period one of the
best known Baptist preachers in Lon
don, but retired in 1877, though he still
breaches occasionally. The distin-
guished careers of his sons have ex-
tended a knowledge of his name. One
was senior wrangler and Smiths
prize man in 1861, another sixth wran-
gler with classical honors in 1868, and
a third second wrangler and Smiths
prize man with classical honors in
1866.
A rejected lover has been taking a
leaf out of the book of Lucrezia Bor-
gia, and has tried to poison a whole
family. The drama was enacted at
Epinay, outside Paris. In that town
there lives with her parents in. splen-
did villa a young lady of surprising
beauty. Recently she attracted the no.
tice of youth who is described as we'll
dressed and handsome. Every day
when she went out with her mother or
a servant, acting as duenna, the young
lady was met by the handsome youth,
| who incictad nm followinO har OIL