The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-29
ny LA NIARQUISE DE FONTENOY.
n 20 Cameron In America OF Scottish
N origin can fail to be Interested
" to learn that a son and heir has
lust been born to Lochiel, the

mi origin can Kan 10 be !hteresteu
to learn that son and heir has
Just been born to Lochiel. the
twenty-frth hereditary chief OF the
great Scotch clan Of Cameron. which
has played SO great role In the an
nails of the Land o. Cakes Lochiel
extensive estates of the family, on the
death or his father in 1905, and mar
ried Lady Hermione Graham, daugh-
ter of the Duke and Duchess OF Mont
is a sister Of the Duke or Buccleuch,
and he served in the Grenadier Guaros
throughout the South African War.
Among his ancestors was that Even
battle OF kllliecrankie in 1859, who Is
said to have killed the last or the
wolves that wandered at large in the
British Isles. and who forms the sub
ject or such eloquent praise In Ma
caulay's History OF England. where he
Is described as the Ulysses of the
Highlands. His grandson was that
gentle Lochiel." who was SO devoted
an adherent OF Prince Charles Stuart
the Young Pretender, about whom he
declared:
Come veal. come woe. 1 follow
thee
He fell in the battle OF cul1oden.
and his steel Highland pistols, marked
with his initials, figure in the Museum
of Antiquities at Edinburgh. The
present chiettain is his great great
great grandson.
Highland chieftains. such as LochleI,
| true aristocracy of Scotland than its
peers, and are regarded as such, both
at home and abroad. For Lochiel-
these great chiettains are invariably
known and addressed by their terri
torial title-lives among his people
that sort Of feudal existence which
is seen at its very best nowhere but
in Scotland, where the chiettain re-
CARDS himself as responsible for the
moral and material welfare Of every
their ancestors for hundreds OF years
past. consider themselves as his re-
talners, and as bound to him not mere
" by ties of loyalty, but by ties of
lblood, bearing as they do his name.
Those who wish for description or
the state which is maintained at
Achnacarry Castle. the principal home
of Lochiel, ! would refer to the lata
in the Highlands, in which she de-
4 scribes a visit which she paid to Loeb
iels father there IN 1878. and OF the
profound impression 1t made upo" her.
Now that old Grand Duke Mlchael
! Nicholaiovitch and Count Mllioutlne
have been gathered to their fathers
they died last spring-Kng Nicholas
of Montenegro is the only field mar
shnl Of the Russian Army. The bator
of the office magnifcently jeweled
Iwas presented in the name of the Ca!
4, to him On the occasion OF the recent
celebration of the fifticth anniversary
of his accession to the throne. and OF
! Grand Duke Nicholas Nlcholaiovltch
lwho is regarded at the War Depart
ment at Berlin IS the cleverest cav
!. airy leader In Europe. and who com
4 mands in chief the entire metropolitan
4 military district of st. Petersburg a.
we'll as the Division of the Guards
A 1t may be recalled that three years ag,
this grand duke married Princes
obtained few months previously from
the Holy synod OF Russia dissolution
of her marriage with Duke George o
u Leuchtenberg.
Nicholas presented to the ruler o
Il Montenegro. also on behalf of the Czal
an exuuisitely worked silver gil
crown, all studded with large sap
J, phres. and this Will hencetorth be tn
official crown Of Montenegro; for, al
though the old prince at the iAstanc
d of his subjects, and with the consen
OF all the great powers OF Europe, as
{ sumed thetitle Of King during thereon
jubilee Festivities, yet he had not tax
with the chief insignia OF a King
} namely, crown. This neglect wa
!, repaired by the Gear, who was thereb
enabled to emphasize once more tn
species of unwritten suzeralnty whic
he exercises over the Black Mountai!
and to convey the impression through
out the southeast of Europe that tn
new King OF Montenegro holds nj
In fact this presentation Of a crow
! was a very clever political move o
the part of Emperor Nicholas.
or course, the Montenegrln King
sian Army Is more or loss honorar.
And yet It means much more tina
most OF these honorary military dign
ties, since he has fought both In tn
4 Russian Army and beside It, as II
i most trusted ally Tho late EInpero
Alexander Ill, In fact used to de
scribe him as "Russia's only rea
lfriend."