Tender and True

Evening Star, Issue 8530, 1 June 1891, Page 3

Tender and True

The grand old Douglas motto " Tender and true" was once touchingly illustrated by the representative of another Scotch family. The Duke of Athole had a disease which was certain to end fatally. When he was assumed that he would soon be taken away, he called on all his tenants, and bade each one farewell with a cheerfulness that testiied to bis peace of mind. During his last days there occurred a touching incicident, which is told in 'Blackwood's.' Queen Viotoria visited Blair Athole to bid adieu to the dying duke. She had returned to the station, where a crowd of persons had colleoted; but, in sympathy with the solemnity of the occasion, they maintained perfect silence. The train was about to start, when there was a shout of " Stop! stop !" and a brougham was seen driving rapidly from the caßtle. Out of it, wrapped in flannels, staggered the duke. He went to the door of the royal carriage, knelt, kissed the Queen's hand, waved his cap, and called out " Three cheers for the Queen." Then, re-entering his carriage, he drove back to the castle, and never left it again alive.