Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-19


gestion. The nicht the NIGHT and
the lads were the lads. Within four hours
they laid old Neish's head on the table be-
fore their father.
Slept on Top of the Canopy.
One of the later MacNabs left Kinnel-
house with his gillie and went to Dundee
on business. He stopped at the inn and
as there were good reasons for not MAX
ing known his name station, the half
savage chief and his servant were as
signed to the same BEDROOM. The bed
was one OF those monumental four-po
analrS with canopy, something neither
or the two had ever seen before and
they did not quite understand its uses or
significance. After a considerable dis
cussion they decided it was a double
decked bed and one person slept on the
top and the other on the bottom. Mac
Nab, who was always yigilant in defense
of his dignity and in asserting his pre-
negatives assumed that he was entitled
to the upper deck and climbed with diff
Guilty to the top of the canopy, but he
didn't rest well. In the middle of the
night he called down to his servant TO
inquire if he was comfortable. Donald
replied that he had never kennel so soft
bed. whereupon MacNab answered re-
gretfully:
Mon, Donald. if it was ma for the honor
o the thing l wad climb doun and lie
beside ye,"
Tullibardine Castle. now Il ruin, was tie
ancient seat and stronghold of the Nun
ray family, of which the Dukes of Atholl
were the head. and many an interesting
ana exciting event has occurred there.
The Wolf of Badenoch.
Dunkeld Cathedral connected with the
Atholl residence at the gate of the High
lands, and was formerly attached to a
royal residence. 1t is now being re-
CT &c haI;
notorious Alexander. Earl of Buchan.
whose ferocity won for him the signiti-
cant title of The Wolf of Badenoch."
have been discovered 1t has always been
understood that he was buried there, bur
there was nothing to mark his tomb lie
was a younger son of King Robert ii OF
Scotland. grandson of Robert Bruce
and as regent governed Scotland during
the minority of Robert III. The latter
an amiable and weak prince allowed his
uncle to continue in power after lie
mounted the throne, and the Earl o.
Buchan ruled with the cruelty and re
lentlessness of a savage. He is reckoned
the most avariCious and the most brutal
of all the rulers in Scottish history. He
plundered the churches, he robbed the
earls, he burned the cottages of the poor
to crafty his whir1s and temper. and Was
up to his elbows in blood half the time
ploitS was the destruction of the beautiful
Cathedral of Elgin, one of the most mag
nifcent In all the kingdom, to revenge
himself upon what he considered a slight
from the bishop. He profaned the shrines
and the altar, threw the sacrament into
the sewer gave the chalices and vest
ments 20 his dragons, murdered the bishop
and the canon with his own hands and set
fire to the cathedral and the town until
it was laid waste. The Wolf of Babe
noch' was secretly buried and his grave
was not marked because it WAS fea red
some of his victims might revenge them
selves by Dissertation. \ leaden coffin
which was found the other day by work
men excavating in the corner of the cathe-
dral bears marks which seem to show
that ii contains the remains of the ter
ror of Scotland, who died in 1902. The
box was opened, the skeleton was found
to be almost perfectly preserved and the
skull. which is shaped likethat of a bull
dog. answers the descriptions that appeal
in the chronicles.