Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1913 — UNIQUE FRAGMENT OF HISTORY [ARTICLE]

UNIQUE FRAGMENT OF HISTORY

- Without Giving Hit Authority, Wrltor In Harper** Weekly Explain* the Origin of Babpipea. “Where, tire desire to know, did the Scot get the notion that a bagpipe la « musical InstrumentT Or Isn't that the Idea?" —From the Atchison Globe * What Scot ever called the pipes a (musical instrument? Isn't Brother Ed

Howe a practical man? Sorely he knows the origin of the pipes. In the old wicked days bands of predat ry English marched over the border. They were as bold and sturdy as the Scots and far greater in number. Cluny MacWhauppert. the Laird of Glengarramoyfy, In desperate need of a sure In secret, and never let a skirl out of them till he faced the Invading

Sassenach on the bloody Held. Then Cluny blew a melody so fierce, eldritch, so grinding and blistering to the soul, that every clansman ripped and slashed his way through the English hordes. Intent on only one thing —to escape the fiendish screeching of the pipes. And that is why every grateful Scot to this day cherishes the bagpipe, the preserver of Scottish Independence. He has beaten hls sword into a plowshire, but he always upholds the pipes to beat the band.— Harper’s Weekly. , .