New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
London. March /.

3d. -7-s sl-ue-rlaLurai always plays 2
~ admit they are not easy 70 1e-'i
with II you believe in ghosts OF u
legends, a great majority OF youT readers
~ 7or believe r. you. II y0u are
skeDt.c. the credEl0uS pass you Ds "''i'
az al. o. panied superiority u oo
neither beHere nor disbe.:er5- yoH d < so
fevn rs an agrost.c; and Iheie -+e
rrsst numbers Of excellent pf'F'7 ~
,r,or7 The word agnostic inlPiSS IT,
,,-asca. An aEuostIc. however, j iio@ '.'-'
,.bo believes or dispelieves. oo1 "-i''
.-re-svar his private conVicri'h may De-
declines either 10 affirm 81 "H' '-i'
ruth Of the matter IL question
Rut although al unbeiieNeF' J Ni'eN
-. one sror- connecting ltsei- Win "a
,,-o,,S legend. which is. 50 far as Il goes
a.-a,,,,aI,. -r,,e. and this 7 am going to
,sy exeeriv a it happened.
T. 1889 was staying ~ Brcchin
ste win Lord and Lady Dalnousie,
go LADY Dalhousie proposed one morn
80 that We should drive over 70 Cor
.acbv Castle 10 lunch. Brechin Castle
.-5 r-ortaehy Castle are both IN For
e,rsfire ana fourteen miles apart A.
80, time Corrachy Castle was let ~ me
,s,s Ear OF Dudley, the seventh Earl of
.frJie to whom IT belonged. having late
~ 5ie5 There's a tragic atmosphere, FOR
re eighth Earl Vas killed at Diamond
gil in South Africa in 1900, one OF
,be n.AHy men Of rank and position and
.r--l,ne s1d everything 10 live for who
a. the early disastrous days OF the BoeF
,.s- gave IN everything 10 tight for the
80 and COR their country and sovereign.
-be family name is Ogilvy. and the
s.miv name and title are both old. going
rssk . at least 1891 They were am
tsssadore and great officers Of state. and
me seventh Lord Ogilvy vas made al
ssrl Two acts of atrainder are resJi-
r5-~ 10 The active part they took in
those troubled times, and 10 their capac-
4-v fo~ holding fas 10 the losing side.
r5sv were ~ the Earl Of Mars rebellion
I'll I-I5 and fought for the P-etender at
Lui.oda--
Besides III that the OgIvys carried on
fcr generations q feud with the Camp
beus. or both sides there were burn
rigs and har-vings and much shedding
o.bloe5. There's no need 10 ask which OF
them IT'S rha more ir fault The stand
sras e those DAYS were ucc as TIE stand
srds e ours. and there was z good deal
less OF that homage which vice ROW pays
70 virtue 80 II happened that one DAY
early II -he seventeenth century the
Cgtlvvs found themselves besieged IN
Cortschv Castle by the then Earl OF
argyll or his lieutenant. The besiegers
sem u z herald with q drummer boy 70
demand rLe surrender Of the castle The
Ogilvv people took the drummer boy anc
hanged him over their battleguents, his
mother looking on from The camp Out
st6e As the fashion was IL those days,
shs launched q curse, or more than one.
Z, tie CgiIvvs, ana 4 prophecy. She
-o-sr--1 thai whenever. through al the
ages to come. death or disaster should
ztzf- them shay would first hear the
beating If The drum by the drummer
BOY
Such IL the story as Il was told to me
i Is { well known tradition, and you are
ro.d also that her prophecy has been
trrictly fulfilled. The beating OF the
drum by Tie drummer boy mas been
heard q east once IN each generation
during the centuries that ever since then
IaEs witnessed Tie varying fortunes q
tn's family. That IS matter as TO
TEleh I neither affirm nor deny Ito"
oeaid I was not there. But the mar
rati7s Is necessary preface 70 the &C
count q rhe cay when the events I set
OFT 70 describe did actually occur
A. luncheon Lady Dudi=y-known then
snd sun - tle beautiful Lady Dudley
-'oa1 rs mar when Lord HardWicie, one
@ IAe guests Staying "itA them, came
Gown 10 lreas-~s- -aat morning ne
ASKED he' "Ael-lef ne drummer boy leg
elt aPF--71 le ne tenants or the castle
ioI ---5 -iil= 1e--z " Only 10 the OgllVys-
I-- OILY 70 me -E- Fgs Of course
l-e- you E9n.r mind my telling you
I-@- heard me drummer boy beating
ne --1m Las night
40 LACY Dudley added
d-o H'f nina ir tne least. Whether
ye-.e.- ~ M menace or not. I never
6esTd tlat Il had anything 20 do with
0'.5pocE Out .Lhe tgliFys. II X could
---7-- any Jels II li-ts case II would be
---'1 Ha'-''-hss VINO heard IL, and not
~l-o --a Aot near H.
iA WHICH We naIurz-.T agreed. We
'1'-aiieo our lunch peaeefllly ard pleas
tAl, ai.l al . O'clock Lady Daihous-e