Evening star., 1923-03-31
Lord Nortlesk. Suitor of Follies Girl,
Is of the Scottish Clan of Carnegie

chiId's skull and. of thigh bones.
while By the, side of the hearth was a
child's little eO-cart on four solid
wooden wheels.
Turning 10 his only daughter. Lady
Helen CarneEie-afterwar Lady
Helen Lacy-tllc earl asked her to
wheel the little go-Cart across the
floor Of the room. When She did SO
it was with strange sense OF some
thing uncauny that the listeners
heard one wheel CrCak and chiTrup as
il ran.
The room is now devoted to ordinary
uses. and the ghostly sounds are no
longer heard. The remnants OF bone
and the ashes found on the hearth
have been consigned 10 cOnsecrated
ground i'll the family mausoleum.
while the little go-cart is preserved
with reverence as one Of the relics and
treasures OF the historic house OF Car
negle.
one cannot quite reconcile oneself
to the idea of this go-cart-this
pathetic relic of so cruel Il tragedy Of
hundreds of years ago coming into
the possession Of one of the Ziegfeld
Follies' girls. who. while endowed
with exceptional good looks and fasci-
nation. can scarcely be expected, in
view of her antecedents. to look
upon it or to treat it with a fitting
reverence and of veneration are not
precisely the characteristics and
qualities for which the New York
Ziegfeld Follies' girls are the most
conspicuous, and one wonders what
will be the fate of this memento of n
particularly atrocious crime. and of
! the martrydom of two-year- old
scion of the great house of Carnegie.
/ 10 which the great American IRON
master and philanthTopist of Pitts
bureh. the laird of Skibo Castle. was
, SO proud to belong.
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Few families have furnished a
larger number of distinguished off,
GERS to the royal navy. Thus, in ad
dition to the seventh Earl of North
! esk, who took part in the battle of
! Trafalgar. there was his son, Lord
Rosehill. who was lost on board the
battleship Blenheim. and his brother,
the Hon. Swynfen Thomas Carnegie,
, who was a distinguished admiral,
while the eighth and ninth Earls each
| married the daughter Of an admiral.
| The Lords of Noruhesk, like the Lords
| Of SoutheSk, are descended originally
| from a certain John de Balinhard,
who fourished in the fourteenth CEN
! tury, and who, on receiving from
| King David II a grant of the land
| and of the barony of Carnegie, in
Forfarshire, assumed the name Of dc
Carnegie. OF the origin of the de
| Balinhards. no record remains, all the
| early family charters having perish
| ed in a fire at Kinnaird House in
1852.
Lord Eorthesk has no seat in the
house of lords at Westminster. his
| peerages being exclusively Scottish.
! Indeed. he will have to wait years be-
| fore there is any probability of his
! being elected by his fellow peers of
Scotland to be one II thei~ sixteen
representatives i'll the upper chamber
at Westminster.
! Lord Northesk by reason Of his
youth. is so little known, that a few
| months ago he was obliged TO publisi:
an advertisement in the English
press, warning people against a swim
| dler who had assumed his name, and
organized a number of frauds In the
western counties of England. espe-
| cially in Devonshire. The man was
| subsequently caught, and Is move N
| dsrgoing a term OF penal servitude.