Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-08-27
EARLs WITHOUT ESTATES.
One a COttager, One a Cowboy and
Another a Farner in New Zea-
land Among the Lot.

So accustomed is the British mind
20 associating title with vast rent
roll and extensive ancestral estates
that it seems almost impossible tc
grasp the fact that there are to-day
noble earls and other lights of the
Deerage of our land who cannot lay
.laim to any rent-roll or ownership OF
he wide acres at all.
The question came prominently into
notice with the death of the recent
aarl of Perth at that unimposine
house by the side of Kew green. Here
| ne had'lived for many years, humble
and unknown to the man in the street.
| says Stray Stories.
How many of the thousands who
trooped past his house in Kew gardens
every holiday ever thought for min.
Iee that the solitary elderly man
standing watching them at that little
gate was no other than the represent.
ative of that great race of Scotch earls
Who had stuck manfully and bravely
| to the cause of the Stuarts, and lost
their all in land and money by so do.
ng?
! Wide lands and noble estates had
been the heritage of the Drummonds
in centuries onward from the con-
| quest; this earl recently dead
never held any of them. They had
all been confscated by Hanoverian
kings.
The earl of Caithness now lives in
the far west, where he has built him.
self wood house, which he has named
after his ancestral seat in Scotland
Berridale farm.
The earls of Caithness in the older
days used to live at Berridale in Cath
ness; but this estate now has passed
to the duke of Portland, and the pres
ent earl of Caithness now finds him
self, if he lands in Scotland, without
4 single acre of.land in the country!
He went to America to seek his for
tune and has settled there. He works
his farm and makes an honest and
good living by it; but as for his rent
roll and ancestral acres-they are to.
tally minus.
He has been cowboy, has had bush
experiences for ten years, and is yet
only As years old. 1t is hardly likely
that he will figure in the coronation
procession, though if he cares to do
so he certainly can.
The earl of Seafield is scarcely like
ly to journey from his chosen home in
New Zealand in order to take part in
the coming events of the year where
his peers will make such an important
show
His father went out to New Zeala nd
In long years past to seek his fortune,
before he ever dreambed of coming
into the earldom of Seafeld. The
present lord was born in the colony.
and knows very little about England
from his own experience.
He has a good business out there
in the land OF the Maoris-and, accord
ing to his own account, does not intend
to return to the country whence he
derives his title, being far more com
Portable and happy where he is.
He is the head of the great family
of the Ogilvies, renowned in history
and story, and is yet quite a young
man, being but &c years of age.
AT meeting of the Universalist Be-
neficent society in Soho square, some
time ago, it was stated that one of
the chief cases of hardship dealt with
by the society during the year was
that of viscountess who, at the time
of applying for assistance, was try
ing TIC earn her living by making shirts
at four cents apiece, and was in re-
ceipt of parish relief.
Her husband was dead, and had left
her nothing to live on; he had himself
for years had terrible hard work to
support the two of them