Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-16
Widely Known Spiritualist Medium
Is Prominent Figure in London Society

cures a fortnight's summer holiday III
the country each year for thousands
of the unfortunate children OF the
poorest classes whose homes are situ-
ated in tenementS OF the Slum dis
tricts of big cities.
The Lyttleton family is a very an
cient one. being descended from
Thomas Lyttleton. who was sheriff of
Worcestershire in the reign of Henry
III. James 1 conferred baronetcE
upon the Lyttleton of his day, and
King George III advanced Sir William
Lyttleton to the rank of Lord Lyttle-
ton for his services as Governor of
South Carolina The fifth and present
county of Gotham on the death of the
last Duke of buckingham and Chan
dos without male issue.
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1t Is an error that young Ian Burn.
who is about to celebrate the attain
ment of his majority. has been de-
scribed on both sides Of the Atlantic
as the heir to the peeTage of his
grandfather, Lord Leith of Fyvie, and
of the American born Lady Leith,
daughter of Derrick Algernon Janu-
airy of st. Louis, No. and grandchild
of old Lindell. one of the pioneers of
that city. For Lord and Lady Leith's
only surviving offspring is a daugh-
ter. married to Col. Charles Rosdew
Burn, an aide-de-camp of the king,
and a member OF his bodyguard of
gentlem en- alarms. 1t is possible
that on the death of Lord Leith his
father-in-law peerage may be re-
created IN his favor by the king. but
failing that, it will become extinct
with the demise of it's present holder
Lord Leith was formerly an officer
in the British navy and on marrying
great ironmaster of ST. Louis. Mo-,
he retired from the service, estab-
fishing himself in business in the
United States, and with the
backing of his father-in-law. be-
came president of the Joliet,
and amassed a large fortune in Chi
cago before returning to his native
land to buy Fyvie Castle in Abar-
deenshire. 1t had belonged to his
ancestors in the reign of Robert IL
in 1890, but passed out of their pos
ing repurchased by Alexander Forbes
Leith. who by degrees recovered
nearly the whole property of his
forebears, and on being elevated to
the peerage took the title of Lord
Leith of Fyvie.
All sorts of legends cluster around
Fyvie Castle including that Of the
'trumpeter of F'yvie," whose unhappy
love for annie fifty" has furnished
the theme for so many poems. The
said to have caused the very stones
to weep" led to the imposition of a
curse upon the castle by that master
of magic and spell, Thomas the Rhym-
who; ans anseF r,aro.i beyond all
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that stones should weep, declared
that the ownership of Fyvie should
never pass from father to SON until
the third of the three stones known
as "the weeping stones" should be
recovered.
One of the stones was built into
the castle walls, where it absorbs and
exudes moisture in most curious
way; another is transferred to each
purchaser or tenant of the estate on
assuming possession, while the third,
which is missing, is concurrentIy be-
lieved to be lying embedded in the
mud at the bottom of a terribly
deep lake in a remote portion of the
property.
Whatever doubts may have existed
in the minds of Lord and Lady Leith
as to the value of this superstition
were set as rest by the death of their
only son Percy, in the Boer war, a
quarter of a century ago. Not but
what his parents were prepared for
their bereavement. For fully TWEEN
ty-four hours before the receipt of
the dispatches containing the news
that the young officer. born in Ameri-
ca, had fallen in battle in the Trans
vaal, the occupants Of Fyvie Castle
had been troubled by the apparition
of the "trumpeter of Fyvie," known
throughout the entire countryside as
the Green Laddie." who for the last
500 years has invariably shown him
self when any calamity was about to
overtake the owners, or occupants of
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