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THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY JULY 20, 1883.
Fflt} AND SWORD:
A STORY OF THE MASSACRE
GLENCOE.
CHAPTER XVII.
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still stands It does not date further
back than the So,stiah War of Indepen-
dence, artd is believed to lave been erect -
by Edward I., surnamed Lanigehanks, or
the Hammet of $outland, to overawe that
part of the country. The castle since
then has had a chequered history, and
hu played a prominent part in the stirr-
ing everta of feudal time& A former
castle uocupyiag the present site is said
to have been the residents of royalty
more than a thousand years ago.
The strong military garrison then re
cently erected at Fort -Willem wa the
headquarters of Colonel Hill, and the
soldiers had been transferred from the
Castle because of insufficient acooinda-
tion, only a few men being left to sen-
tinel its dismantled wall. Of this small
garrison party Sergeant Barber formed
a part, and the district being now over-
awed and quiet the military discipline
and exercise was in consequence relaxed,
and the hymn accorded tc social revelries
proportionately extended.
The Sergeant then, as we have just
said, was sitting in the back room .•f
rude roadside hostelry adjoining theCas-
tle.
It was yet the middle i'1 February,and
the days were still short, and the nights
chill, and dard, and long,
The day in question had been a stormy
one, and the night was fast settling over
the brow of the mighty Ben Nevis in
clouds of darkness and snow.
"A wild night outside, lads," remark-
ed the Sergeant, as the wind struck,now
and again, the broad -dinged shutter
which protected the small bole window
of the apartment. •'The wind is off the
Ben, and has a searching pin in it," say-
ing which he thrust his hands for the
twentieth time amongst the tongues of
flames which arose (roan a well-fed fire
of peat and dried turf.
" Nothing for it, Sergant," replied one
of the three /ion -riven, " but to keep
pledging the Kin's Royal health in the
best of liquor."
" God save Kung William ! ' echoed the
third person in the room.
Ha, ha, ha!" laughed the loud -voic-
ed Sergeant, " that's rather good. Let's
drink to that capital toast," and with
one accord the three King's musketeers
filled up and promptly drained off their
tumblers.
" A II out, lads ?" asked the Sergeant,
referring to the conditions of their gen-
eral table canteen ; " liquor dry ?" .
" As a drained moss, Sergeant," re-
plied one of the three.
Bang ! bang ! bang ! went the hilt of
the Sergeant's sword on the rude table
before which they sat, and quick on the
summons the old hostess came waddling
ben as fast as loose clothing would allow,
and although ,well-nigh eighty years of
age still fresh and stuffy on her feet, hav-
ing breathed all her days the finest airs
of mountain and hillside, and drank
nothing more than unvitiated Highland
whisky made from the clearest of barn
water, and run from the " eina'eat of
hem o-utado stills.
"An' what wusa the shentleman's
well'" she asked, in a broken lowland
tongue. •
The three soldiers each sh'.ved over
their empty pots, awl resumed thereaf-
ter their conversation by the fire, the
homely -looking old hostess departing
with empty " atoupe " in silence.
in a very ehurt titye she had refilled
IN MI **AMIDE INN—TEM ULCNUOa Matt•
DICANT.
Slowly, irregt.larly,sud with much dif-
ficulty Glenlyon torched his detachment
forth of the doomed and blasted valley,
the smoke of whose ruined villages blott-
ed the overlying stretch of sky, and hung
in black mournful patches around the
cloven peaks of the mighty hille.
The numerous batches of horse and
cattle which the invaders drove before
them very much retarded their progress
north, and the heavy snowfall of the pre-
vious night had all but rendered the
roads impassable at some parte. The
bloody task to which Glenlyon had will-
ingly committed himself, had been duly
accomplished, and he was satisfied with
himself and men. Only one man of his
detachment had been found guilty of
c nl:iving at the escape of the pursued
clansmen that morning, and without for-
mality, or the briefest court-martial ex-
aminstion,he had been taken to the front
and suntmanly shot.
"Thank God, captain,"- he had answer-
ed, when questioned anent the charge,
"I ani able to truly say that I was sol -
,'ler enough in spirit and true courage to
t ;'isibteetly bre my musket into the air.
I d:e, if need be, guiltless of murder."
These words doomed the poor but
gallant Buckley, for it was w•ne other
e than he, end within five succeeding
minutes he had paid the penalty of his
humanity with his life. So they left him
lying there amongst the,daughtered Mao-
donalds—unburied save by the covering
shroud of the snows.
'11 a Macdonald is seed on the way
north shout him down, men." These
were the Captain's;words to his troops as
they issued from the defiles Of the great
Glen. "The t wernment does not want
to be burdened with prisoners, and we
have more spoil than we can well car-
ry, he added ; "but we can spare a bul-
let or two, when well invested, remem-
ber.
But few if any of the fugitives wore
described during the return march. The
Glencoe men, estimating at its true value
the ferocity of the red -coats. had Bragg-
ed their wives and families to the in-
accessible {etrcata of the mountains
forming the eastern extremity of the
Glen. Within the drear shelter and un-
fathomable solitudes of the •' llevil's
,ice. Staircase" they crouched from sig'. and
the wild ravines of Appin, south of the
Gaeu, screened them from the keen blast
of the wintry air and the still sharper
edge of the cruel bayonets. The mss
sacre of the then of the Glen is a histori-
ical fact, but the tragedy of perishing
families k•cated• within these bleak and
wintry wilds may be conceived in imaein-
aticn but can never he written and re-
mains roc. rded in the ear of Heaven
alone
There was only one open return road
for Glenlyon's soldiery, and that, as we
h&ce already indicated, wee the sliehtly
round -about road by the head of Lek
Leven, a few mile+ east of Invercoe. And
this route the have. straggling cavalcade
favorably impressed her," he added ;1
" but devil seise thew Highland jades, a
Southerner has no chance with them.
They hold the kilt before the trews in
all cases, although the wearer sheuld
sport red hair, a freckled countenance,
and a pair of national cheek-beaes as
high as tup's horns—fact !" and the loud
speaking Sergeant laughed oat bis rude
mirth, and was oharassed therein by his
two sherry associates.
" You're about right there, Sergeant,"
put in one of the revellers ; " Here's
t'ye."
"So be it," ac;xeded the other, and
the Sergeant's " very good health " was
thereupon duly pledged and drank.
`• About right 1 am," Barber repeat-
ed, " should think so,. When we were
garrisoned at Fort William last year I
fixed on to a pretty lass at Faufern, u.
by at Lochell—as pretty a bird as a
fowler ever netted—and I thought my-
self favored by her ; but she flits to the
house of an obstinate old mule of sn un-
cle in Glencoe, and when I next met
her there, lo and behold : the kilt is
once more triamphant and I practically
nowhere. Beshrew me ! but 1 could
have shot the scoundrel. I promptly
challenged him, but the dog would not
fight," and strung in the assurance of
his lying words, the braggart Sergeant
applied his lips to his tumbler, and
drained off a fresh gisas.
" You would have ycurjlrevenge out
during the affair in the Glen, ' put in one
of the sitters.
" Partly, friend, only partly ! The old
man was shot, and the maid throwing
her arms about him at the moment shar-
ed the bullets meant for hint alone, but
the dog whose blood I thirsted for escap-
ed me—coward that he was ! Heaven
send us another meeting some day soon !
Drink, lads, drink !"
At this moment the door of the room
was pushed up, and the broad face and
forte of the homely old hostess tilled the
nether end of the lobby.
" A stranger, gentleman," said Mattie.
May I bring her in ?"
" What ! my pretty Kate t" eagerly
asked the Sergeant, half using from his
seat, not thinking that Ills Highland
hostess had unconsciously confused the
genders. -
•' Na, na, Sergeant, she's only s puir
auld begging gaberlunzie man. Can ye
spare her a coin S"
" Bring the rascal in,' replica the Ser-
geant, and presently the hostess return-
ed to the room, followed by She bent and
wasted looking form of an old man, cov-
ered with a jacket of ragged sheepskin,
and wearing a beard and head of snow.
He had a wallet slung by his side, and
his right hand clutched a knotted crutch,
on which, with every alternate step, he
heavily leaned for support, as if rheuma-
tisod in his lower limbs.
" Alnta, gentlemen, alms ; for the love
of heaven !" petitioned the gaberlunzie,
extending a trembling hand. His voice
had a pathetic quaver in it when he spoke
and his eye alone showed the presump-
tion of aught apse -caching to mental
elasticity or spirit. For these imlxort-
ant facial organs were black and pierc-
ing, and despite the pressure of years
and sorrow, which very obviously bore
clown the poor homeless mendicant, still
looked out from beneath his white bushy
eyebrows with sooneth:int; ..f the fire end
energy "1 youth. " Alma, gentlemen,
alms, for 1 ate starving ! and heaven
Liege your kind hearts'- Le continued
repeating, standing uncovered in the
•
Sash Aneemekl.
We are daily tempted and solicited
into rash and self -festering judgments.
The mental interests of society are ten
few to suffer personal character and
faculty to rentaiu uncaavasaed. Conver-
sation runs on persona rather than on
things, and we are directly asked for an
opinion. Crest evils come out of such
questions. In the first place you may
have no opinion, nor be entitlevi to have
one. Your opinions of ins slowly and
silently grow up in you ; and scarcely
has this process begun when you are sud-
denly &stud to define thein. Yet it is
prebable, such are our habits, that you
will not have the simplicity to resist the
snare. You will be hurried into preci-
pitate judgmeat—mere fiat impressions
will be hardened into permanent concluc-
sion—you rill presumptuously speak of
the deep inner nature or unknown capa-
city in a nun from slight and insufficient
hints—you will commit yourself to wine
defined view of hint, ar.d never again
have the free privilege of open, eandid,
receltive intercourse unbi.anded by you
own rash judgment. There is a rude-
ness and irreverence of nature in Was
assuming to judge any man. It is a bar-
ren attitude. When we have ones judg-
ed a man we have as it were closed his
ascess to us at all unexpected avenues.
We are pledged to nue view of kiss—Ite-
is no more an infinite possibility to us --
we have measured hint, and never spore
can look upon, with the freshness and
reverence of an undefined hope.
Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 2, 1!380.
I know Hop Bitten will bear recom-
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confer uponthein the highest encomiums,
and give them credit for making cures -
all the proprietors claim for them. I
•have kept them &ince they were fiat
offered to the publiz. They took hisk
rank from the tint, and uulantained it,
and are more called for than all others
combined. So long as they keep up
their high reputation for purity and
usefulness, I shall continue to recom-
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before done with any ether patent medi-
cine. 2 J. J. Baaeoo'z, M.D.
CI
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of men and animate_ were f..rced to. take them, and, returning to the room, placed
plc,i.iinetheir way tdtrueh•:adaelegaed them one by one on the table, with the
with drifted snots, the sur rounding hills remark that "hatter drink wastta to be
had between Cepe Wrath an' the Mull o' , presence of the Sergeant and his two
ech".it� all.the way with thetin¢ry a"iso p associates.
Lc wearied crottle. Cantyre, which was a lang cry, as they
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Price only fifty cents per bottle. For
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and heli•ewiega .•f t
Reach'eg the head of Loch Leven, wad alloo. Na, hada, no even in the
the} cr, teed without diftioulty the steal great Duke's cellar at inverse,},' she
rive: which flows into it, and proceeded added as a clinching climax.
thence in oblique north-westerly direction ) " True, true, Mattie," acceded the
towards the military garrisons atatonc;i Sergeant. "But tell me, Mattie, what's
au
come of or pretty granddaughter
at Inverlochy and Fort-\\ illiani. y
Holding due north, the roads in the to -night ? I mins her bonnie face
tirinity. of Glen Nevis were found w noel,"
heavy with snow that the larger portion
"heed, Sergeant," rep ti`-Je The plain
of the !nice s were obliged to bivouac in old hostess, " she's sheltered fore the
the pen fields, forming n cordon -line cauld blast the nicht in the fnulda o' her
K ire
rc and the restive drov.a of cattle,resuni- shepherd's plaidie, I'm jabousin. She
weel and bonnie a
I snolded herse
ing their journey to Fort -Fort -William on the l' n hour
full( wine dey, whither Glenlyon and his
subalterns, with a military escort, had
prect3ed then:.
Tint sante night, and for weeks efte.-
war'!s there wan feasting and revelry
am(n; the rude soldiery rind officers o f
the cnrrisons of Invetl.clty and Foit-
t\ ibLanl.
A portico ; f the appropriated cattle
was sold, ar.d the money thereby obtair.-
eI was duly divided among the officers
aad men who took part in the bloody
work in the Glen.
The sing of the revellers was lond,hut
their mirth ranz a hollow note. The
shrieks of their late victims mingled with
'he Lravedo of their jovialty, and the
• isionary gloms of the burning tillages
.nd the hl•.oel stained snows of the nrag-
e1 voiles. flitted in nighmare trances
through the madness of their mirth.
Fire days after the return of the soldi-
ery, Scrgesnt Berber, alone with two of
iiismilitery aa.ewi.ttee, was sitting in a
back tom of s ride hostelry adjacent to
tie Iu.erh ' r garrison. Tnrerloehy
Castle, it may be mentioned was situated
eeeele'•f mile; north of Fort -William
tion of the T)ochy with I och-
• Eil, sa it is more enm-
The maestri, etrues UT•
ago, an' Ilan no Iookine for her brick till
the 'ten hours ;' at ony rate the plaid's a
warm hap, lad. •
The epartmcnt wherein they sat was
unlighted ,e.e by the ,low '.f the fire-
light, and the face of the ntcudicaut was
in deep find inipcnptrahle sh edow. But
such as WAS; seen of his fa: a seemed old
and feeble and were.
" The devil she is," exclaimed the non -
phrased Sergeant, " then 1 may at once
begin a pilgiiinage of Jerusalem, done up
in tears, lamentations, sackcloth, and
eencral ashes."
" The ashes echoed the old hostess,
not perceiviI.g the point ref the Ser-
geant's net over -brilliant joke, " fat's
the resister with the sakes, Sergeant,
l eking in the direction of the grate s&
she up.'ke) 1 Does the tire need s fresh
pkat 1 There's an :Ornate I,' turf in the
bunker hesi.le 3e there. Tsk' yer well
o' thea, Sergeant, tat' your wall o'
then, for the blest whilk is hlawin' aft
Ben Dcvis and through the anew is e'en
Amp and Snell," and thus deli%ere.l,
the tough old hostess wa idled forth
of the room, to resume her spinning
wheel by the kitchen fire.
" A stiff old forest oak, that, Ser-
geant," said one of the three when the
small door which divided the hrstelry,
had cloned on the old hostess, ' ` a voile of
the Fined 1 should opine."
" Yes,' laughed the !Sergeant : ' and
dam hoer, as you
Kate, her pretty gran g
know. is und•aubtedly a lineal deseendsnt' litiht
..1 he be—tweeter Ft -e Thought 1 had
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A Man an a Oros mete
Never was such a rush made for any
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One lhpertvnre from Marty.
1 had been -fry alai miserable se long
a.td had c,utse.l nay husband so much
trouble and expense, no one seemed toe
know wh.tt ailed nue. that I was complete-
ly
omplete- i
this
dishe rtrnnd and da bottle
op V � � S —� TCN��R,
this Acme of tn+ud I >;••t a bottle of Hop 1v�
Birt, Es and use,! them ,lnknown to my
family. [ seen began to im}�puce and TSE 8 E E Is. 113 MAN _
gained e.. fad that my husband and lam- Wishes to thank the palate for past patronage ant would Inform thrm th at be has now on
ilv th•,m_ht it strange and unnatural, but hand the
when I toll them what had helped rite.. LARGEST
the• sal,', "Hurrah per Hop Bitters :
" Sit down, old man, sit then down, , long ntav they preAper, for they have
said the Sergeant. " If 1 mistake not, made mother well and us happy.' —The•
you are a Mned;Nalcl by the e.,l«or of the Mother.. -
GENTLEMEN,—By request of a large &umber of the yeomen of the County
we have decided to manufacture
E�.PilaT AND McYW ING• IuCACSZ7sFEB,
in oonneetion with our Plow business tor the year 1883, which kw material and
workmanship will be second to none. Do not give your orders for reapers or mow-
ers until you see those manufactured by u& We will attend all the -spring fate in
County, which will give the farmers a good opportunity to inspect our machines.
We will warrant our machines to do as good work as any other mads. We will al-
so have a number of good
LAND NOLLE R,S,
for the Spring trade
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tartan rag wrapped round your extremi-
ties, and meant to past muster for a
kilt, 1 suppose Eh ! What gayest
thou, sir
" Alas, yes," acceded the poor, shiv-
ering mendicant. " I wase a Glencoe
man, but I Wass too old to be shot ; too
old to be Allot : Would to (rod 1 had
died wi' the rest of the leave, praw men
o' the Wien!
" \\-hat, fellow ' w. u:d y. u dare to
speak well of those rascally thieves t and
in the presence, too, of the very men to
mouse indulgence you owe your misers.
b'e life' Have a care, old scrap gather-
er ! Pray, for your on n go( d sake, have
Scare
" •\lack -a -dry. sighed the :tell be?( -
gar " that I should live to wantlei forth
fiver Scotland a fugitive and a beggar'"
Drink etf that ; there," and the Ser-
geant extended towards the trembling
es ndicent a jug • strong pot -ale. " You
arm cold, old man ; ad if i mistake
not there is anew on your bonnet and
shoulders. eh ►"
" That ins so, sir ; the wind is frae the
Ben, an' there is mow in it," replied the
I mendicant, and putting the jug, to his
lips he drained off a portion of the ener-
gizing liquid and seemed refreshed
thereby, and thankful ; but still kept his
face well shaded from the gloawinv fire -
As the fir• stn o1 winter vanish under
the caloric intone• ce of the sun's rays,
so dues Bright's Disease, Dropsy, stone
in the Kidneys and Bladder, and Inflate
matron of the Kidneys, leave the body
upon the administration of Dr. Van lip
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