The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-13
 NEWS EVENTS AND FEATURES FOR WOMEN READERS
Scotland for Ener"

Deep in the basement of the Birming- ham city hall lives a chubby, smiling little Scotsman He came to the city as boy sixteen years ago, and to the city hail in 1914
 His duty it is to see that the steam is turned on in cold weather. off in hot. and to let the great doom ia" when Mir Tharpe empties good booze into the sewer
 His name is Campbell Argyle Me Carthy, utterly disregarding the age old feud of the two clans whose names constitute the first two of his own.
 It was in the cluster of medleaval cottages known as Attire, seen on clear morning from the turrets of Edin- burg castle. that he was horn; coming from that district in Scotland least com taminated by the blood of foreign devils" therefore he is Scotch to the core
 As boy, like most Europeans. he did no little travelling. seeing the his torioal spots of his native heath. One of the stunts he is proud of Is the climbing of Dumbarton Rock, up the chamois defying path pointed out to tourists as the way Edwin Ruthven l climbed when he led Sir William Wal | lace up the cliff to the keep. storming and taking the fortress commanded by Sir Aymer de Valance Mack says it's some climb at that
 | He has roamed the Stirling district; | one of his first trips being over the path taken by James Fitz James" He 1 has been in swimming in Loch Katrin, ', though he didn't try to swim across, and stood at the ford where
  l "Ill fared it then with Roderic Dhu,
 That on the ground his targe he threw, Whose brazen studs and tough bull hide Had death so often turned aside" 1 Tn the very room in Stirling castle he has stood where;
 His chain of gold the King unstrung, The links OCT Malcolms neck he flung, Then gently drew the glittering hand And placed the clasp in Ellen's hand
 Out to the Orkneys he has journeyed, where to this day medieaval fealty is paid to the last lineal descendant of Rob Roy McGregor. SThe simple fisher | folk of the islands recognize only one leader now, he says. a Mrs. Richardson n of New Castle on Tyne. who is the old est living lineal descendant of Rob Roy Mack has stood on Fiodden field
 which military experts call the scien- tific counterpart of Gettysburg. There fthe Scotch army failed to get between
 the English and their source of sup
 plies, and were forced to attack cnv,
 airy with spearmen. Longstreet's fail
 ure to carry out General Lees orders
 in America, hundreds of years later
 to get between the Federals and Wash ington, made the hopeless Pickett charge a necessity.
 On the rolling lands before Castl
 Douglass Mack has stood and seen tn
 spot where the dying Marmion ordere
 Chesters charge, and stood in the ol gateway of the castle where the brill liant English leader defed the grea
 war chief of the Scotchmen. Tn the chapel at Fallkirk he has stoo where Robert Bruce. the younger, stab
 bed his rival for the throne.
 Packed to the gills with Scotch folk z lore, thinking of the verse of Bobb Burns and Sir Walter Scott. and lit
 orally teeming with the gospel as eS
 pounded by the mighty pr. Knos i. Campbell Argyle Mccarthy spends hi
 days readjusting municipal steam pipe and refurbishing the city's old furn ture.