New-York tribune., 1908-12-20

stopping to elaborate his hasty outlines. yet his
personal stores of eruditiou are not inconsider-
able. and it is to be inferred that a universal
library giver has resources for reaping wide
fields of knowledge.
The negro has not had a chance yet He is
only up one generation from slavery in this
country and not much longer in other lands.
He has done remarkably well in q short period
Of liberty and education. Look at the wild and
barbarous Scot. How many centuries l. took 10
tame him and to transform him into a civilized
being The negro in some respects shows
quicker progress Such was the tenor Of Mr..
Carnegie argument
Most persons who have read the WaverIey
novels, attended a dinner Of the Caledonian So
ciety, heard the weird drone Of the bagpipe and
watched the prancing Of kiIted legs have in
deed. gained vague idea of national wiIdness,
although tinctured with a romantic charm.
Golf has been thoroughly domestiCated in
America, Scotch whtskey is a household friend,
and the burning phraseoIogy has not tnterfeTed
with the success of mild and pleasant fiction.
That this genial warm hearted people. who
have given US games ana songs and oatmeal
porridge who are the very type Of national
rectitude and religion who are poets Yet shrewd
men of business should ever have been seri-
ousIy wild seems difficult to believe Compare
their past with the black mans present? Who
would dare to do it excepting NIr. Carnegie?
EARLY SCOTCH BAR3ARISM.
However. a survey OF Scottish antiquity and
history brings out illuminating facts. and goes
far TO show that neither the philosopher Of
CraIgenputtock nor the scientist of Edinburgh
sprang full fedged from line Of ever cultured
ancestors. There was time in the days of
"auld lang syne" when the native Scot mad
tools and weapons Of flint like those OF our
American Indians. and such as are in present
use In New Guinea. Lamps Of sandstone with
taIlow fuel and moss wicks matched the simple
device OF the Esquimaus. Lake dwellings, or
craunogs, were built on artificial islands of
earth and piIing in the midst Of lochs These
and the hill forts with walls Of stone welded to-
gether by IRE, indicated a perpetual state OF
internecine strife in the earliest period. HUI
man bones have been found mingled with food
refuse and the bones of domestic animals dogs.
small horses. whales and seals. which might, Al
though it is denied, imply the existence Of can
nIbaIism Whales. least were well relished.
and constituted article OF luxury On the
royal table Of Scotland down 10 $500. A dish or
seal. saIted with ashes. appreciated IN the
Hebrides late the eighteenth century
The negro, even in his jungle days. could not
have followed a more barbarous practice than
that ascrtbed TO some members OF the Scottish
race in the early eighteenth century. In winter
when oatmeal failed. says Andrew Lang in his
history Of Scotland. they bied their cattle and
boiled the blood an article OF diet. sometimes
mixing II with cakes Oatmeal porridgs was a
luxury in the Lowlands. Potatoes and turnps
we're introduced in 1924 and were regarded as
scarcely good enough for cattle feed. A hand
mill composed OF two round stones was used to
grind grain