New-York tribune., 1909-01-25
rHIS PRINCE BURNT
Err. Scion of Royalty To Be
Cremdted.

being
- =. the blood tn modern times to have his
--e-nafed This may be regarded as very
s,,tvs rrecaution against the danger OF being
- sI1e-a peril Of which the members of his
- stand in peculiar dread. So much do they
- this that their fjirstengruft. or mausoleuu
y y ,u,.tde the city Of weimar is provided with
s.sr precautions Thus. hitherto when royaI
-,h-1snts have taken place there the coffin has
-. ,laced on a marble table. and in the fingers
-. coruse are wound strings, which cornrnuni-
y. ss;h an alarm: in fact the least movement
x-.n pulsatioa. will ring she bell in an adjoin-
:, ,bsmber. where guardian is always on watch,
- czn at once OBTAIN. by means OF telephone.
.s,csl attendance
x-o+ until three four weeks have passed are
"a ssrirss communicating with the bell cut and
=. rsrHn finally sealed up and placed in the sar-
,hasus which constitutes its last resting place
-..rs IS a grewsome tradition in the reiFainr
ur-se Of Saxe-Teimar 10 the effect that one Of
=. -,-abers vas eutonnhed alive and whether thf.
. .-ue or not the fact remains that many Of them
,otahlv the late Prince Hermann Of Saxe-wei-
,,sr-have not been content with the precautions
.soze described but have given special instruc-
,ons IN their wills that steps sho Ild be taken by
hssr medical men TO be absolutely sure that they
-s-e really dead before the hnal entombment took
psee-
There only two non-royal personages who
ssooss in this firstengruft at wefmar, namely,
erhiner and Goethe. the presence Of whose bones
-,.u.oeun is well lighted, and located IN grounds
nat een-oy the impression more Of beautiful
rzraen than cemetery. Indeed II is the many
conns and ssrcophagi ranged in lines in the
seieur thst alone recall to the mind OF the visitor
~ real character 90 the building
TIE CURSE OF THE SEER OF BRAHAN
AT the golden wedding OF MIR. and Mrs. r ".
krhuthnot Ct Plaw Hatch. in Surrey. which took
rlsce the other day at their London house. I'm
Curzon street. the nonagenarian mother OF the
Eeltsn bride present This wonderful CID
ze.. Mrs. Philip Anstruther. is the sole surviv
nf child CT the Hon Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie
vie as she hooded lassie from the East" sue
cesaed the estates of the last Earl Of seaforth
taus putting the finishing touch upon the famous
curse which had been placed upon the lords of
sesfor1h more than two hundred years previously
During the seventeenth e1tury the Countess Of
sesforth Of the DAY. irritated at some unpleasant
remark prediction which local prophet. known
as tie Brahan Seer. had made concerning her.
esused him 20 be burned. during the absence OF
her husband. While tied the stake the Brahan
Seer laid a ueon the iIlustrious and ancient
house Of SeaforTh, whose estates extended clear
Scotland from sea. prophesying the
GeEnfsn OF the family and declaring that the
curse should last for seven generations, during
st,h 10 son Of the Mackenzies should ever sue
cssd MS father
He exclaimed: u see a chief the last of his
house both deaf and dumb He will follow his
three fair TO the tomb. and will die. knowing
thst the honors of his line will be extingui.hed
forever. and the remnant of his possessions shall
be Inherited by ! white hooded lassie from the
East. and she is 10 kill her sister. AS sign for
which Il may be known that these things are
cozie pass. there will be four great lairds in
ne davs Of the last seaforth, namely. Gairioch.
ckEsoln. Grant and Ramsay. of whom shall
e huck-toothed. hare-lpped. one half-witted
Ead another & stsmnaerer- And when he looks
around ard them ne may know that his sons
sFs doomed death. that his broad lands shall
pass away the stranger, and that his race shaH
come 70 end
he became deaf and dumb. man Of great
ability, friend of Sir Walter Scott, raised reg-
nent, became Lieutenant general OF the army,
9nd Governor Of Barbados His three sons
grew 10 manhood and he had six daughters AL
though be srodnd him the four lairds with
the respective infruities that The Seer Of Brahan
had foretoId. he refused believe in the curse
Until his three SONS had died suddenly within q
short time. Toward the close Of his life his af-
fssrs became terribly embarrassed. and he. was
forced - sell his KintaiI estates He died in 1913
After his death mis- eldest daughter. the wife of
Admiral SIR James Hood, came from the East
indies to take possession Of the remainder OF the
essforth estates, and while driving her younger
sister in pony carriage through the castle
grounds managed 70 overturn the trap in such
way that her sister had her neck broken on the
spot-
THE HOODED LASSIE FROM THE EAST.
LADY Hood. the Hooded Lassie from the Ea asst
married as her second husband the Right Hon.
DANES Stewart, the Of the sixth Earl Of Gallo
Ssy, and took his name. added to her own maiden
name. dropping her title Of Lady Hood altogether
Ry this marriage with James Stewart Mackenzie.
Eho sss in turn Governor Of Ceylon and Lord
Hsh Commissioner Of the Ionian Islands. "the
seeaed LekSie from the East had number Of
eshtren. her eldest daughter being the mona
fsasrisn Mrs Philip Anstruther, and another
laughter the wife Of the second Lord Ashburton
The hooded lassie's eldest son Keith Stewart
sacsenze. who Inherited the remnants Of her
property. and his son. Colonel James Stewart Mac
fenzis. formerly comma nding the crack regiment
81 IN LAncers. is now known as ''Seaforth" every
soere north Of the Tweed. although he is a Mac
Aenne of seztorth only through the female line:
usi Is 10 say, through his grandmother. He mar
rA Miss steinkopf. the immensely wealthy
neress Of that Ango-Cern1an millionaire, e Stein
sop1 who was the proprietor of the London st
'aness Gazette" the owner of the Apollinaris
s"ser concern and the friend OF Bismarck
hintsil belongs to-day to another Mackenzie. who
mas no connection whatsoever with the Seaforth
asckenzies
toward ;he middle Of Queen Vietoria's reign
efe returned 70 England from India a Scotch
nah known Mackenzie. although, according 10
many, hik original patronymic had been Thompson.
N' han made enormous fortune by trade in
ae oaeni- BE is said TO have been the original Of
Aeekerays "Atamoat. alias Anlory. the repre-
It1uFe of the Nawab OF Lucknow in Pen
peanis- Settling down in mis- native Scotland, he
sSaseo the s0.ooo-aere estate OF Kintail, and on
strength OF this he styled himself Mackenzie
AIltaii This infuriated ell good Scotchmen and
:. % BITTER denunciations Of his usurpaton OF
- historic designation. both in society and in the
he turned deaf ear, however, TO the mat
-a1l ne vas created bsronet-
@fonetcies are usually accompanied by a terri
~l RESERVATION. and when the moment arrived