TILE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY MORNISTG, JANUARY 27, 18J7.
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We have all sizes and style.
Also Whist CarJs; In large variety,
by the pack or by the dozen.
Games of amusements, all sorts,
for old and young people.
lilank Account Hooks,
all sorts and all stzes, from
the vest pocket mem. to the
largest Ledger, for all sorts business.
Stationery, everything desirable
for the oliicc, desk or counter,
oil the standard sorts and novelties,
Choice Stationery for ladles' use.
Engraving and Printing to order
of Calling Cards and Invitations
on shoit notice and right prices.
See our Specimens and get prices.
Fancy Goods at greatly reduced prices.
Hargalns in several lines
to reduce stock.
M. NORTON,
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Shavings
The usu of Shavings for bedding
lor horses or cows js uot
New
But put up llUo straw In
Small Bales
, Is something now.
Cheaper Than Straw,
Cleaner Than Straw,
Belter Than Straw.
We keep it.
The Weston lill Go
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EXTRACTION OF TEETH WITH
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PEKSOiNAL.
I.evilman Domlnlek Heuly, of the city
engineer's coriis, Is 111.
Dr. Shumwuy left yesterday tor Harris
burg on professional business.
Dr. anil 'Mrs. CI. E. Hill have returned
from a visit to C'oxsnckle, N. V.
Hon. William Connell, Attorney l V.
Fleltz mid Hon. A. T. Connell went to
Harrlsburt' yesterday.
Mrs. T. W. Vonorhum. of Llttlo Mead
ows, Susquehanna county, Is the finest of
her sister, Mrs. I). C. .Myers, .of lMti North
Main avenue.
REFUSED TO NATURALIZE THEM.
JiucniiM! Tlioy Know Virtually Noth
iiiK of Our Institutions.
Judge Atchbald yesterday retused to
Tintiiiullze two youiiK- men because
thty were deficient in the knowledge
of tills country's institutions. Both of
them could rend and write, but they
were totally nt seu when It came to
telling anything .of the form of gov
ernment. One of thorn would lmve it
that the president made the laws, and
another for the life of him couldn't
name any state In the union except
Pennsylvania.
The judge told them they hail made a
lamentable use of the opportunities
which their live years' residence in this
land of freedom, free press and free
schools had given them, and advised
them to learn something of this coun
try so that they might appreciate the
boon they asked for the next time they
came up to be naturalized.
"My daughter had stomach trouble
which brought on neivous prostration,
and a friend recommended Hood's Pills
ntid she began taking them ami they
have cured her. Mrs. C. H. Fish, Kast
Stroudsburg, I'a."
Hood's Pills cure all liver Ills.
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To Cure a Cold in One On v.
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money It it
talis to cure. 25 cents.
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The ladies of the Penn Avenue Bap
tist church will serve supper Tuesday
es enlng, Jan. HO, from C to S o'clock.
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WHAT WE
ARE DOING
In our show windows yon
will see the greatest offer in
Gent's Shoes for this season, all
styles and kinds. Formerly sold
ut-jo. Will sell for
I $2.50 pafr.
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410 Spruce Street.
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ANNIVERSARY OF THE
BIRTH OF BURNS
Two Observances by Scotchmen of
Scranton.
PROUD OF THEIR PLOWBOY POET
The Summon Caledonian Club and
the ltobert Hum-) Club of the North
I hul Celebrate, liven t with Kl till unite
Itniifiuets--l'itting Tributes to the
Memory of Scotia's (ircatUNt Hard,
Interspersed with Scotch Son;;
and Story.
Scotchmen all over the world were
last night engaged In paying their
meed of tribute to the memory of him
whom they so loved to honor for huvlng
honored them Robert Hums.
It was the one hundred nnd thirty
eighth anniversary of his birth. This
city witnessed two observances, one at
the Westminster under the auspices
of the Caledonian club, the other at
Company 11 urmory, Providence, where
the North End Sons of Scotia assembled
us guests of the ltobert Hums club.
BANQUET OF CALEDONIANS.
Pleasant All'.iir Held Last Night ill
the Westminster.
For the last quarter of a century the
Scrantou Scots have In each successive
year celebrated the anniversary uf the
birth of their beloved bard, ltobert
Hums, hast night the celebration wrs,
as has been Its predecessors, for many
years, In the shape of a banquet. It was
held at the Westminster hotel and was
attended by over four score of the city's
most prominent suns of Caledonia, mem
bers of tlio fc'cranton Caledonian club,
and their ladles. A number of invited
guests were also present.
Preceding the dinner there was an
informal reception in the parlors on tile
second Poor. At S.30 o'clock to the mu
sic of a Scottish air plajed on the piano
by Miss l.ydln Sailor, they tiled down
and Into the dining room, which Land
loid Mcliride hud beautllied with a pro
fusion of tropical plants and flowers,
ilags of Scotland and Amerlcu and por
traits of Hums. When the guests had
been assigned their plutes Chief James
Stein, M. D., formally opened the ban
quet and called upon ltev. Dr. Dixon
to ask a blessing.
Then came the discussion of the first
page of the menu card, over which Chef
hugene Uedat held sway.
It was a most tasteful and substantial
dinner and served in a must creditable
manner.
TI1H SKCOXD PAUT.
The second part of the programme
over which Chef Stein presided was
then entered upon. After an overture
by Miss Dydla Sailor, on the piano,
Chief Stein made a short Introductory
speech In which he welcomed the guests
and complimented the club on having
such personages as Its guests. Then
the song, "There Was Horn a Had In
Kyle," was sung by Third Chieftain ft.
W. Kaukln in same spirited manner in
which he lias rendered it at Very Hurnii
banquet for the last six or seven years,
and was warmly upplauded.
The first toast of the evening was
"The Memory of Hums," responded to
by William Stein, mine inspector of
Shenandoah, and ono of tho most
learned and eloquent Scotchman In
Pennsylvania. He said:
Mr. President Ladles and aentleni'-r.
I feel piouil tonight that I have tha
pleasure of mingling with the members
of the Burns club of Scrantou and also
to have the honor to respond to the
memory of the pftiughman bard of
Scotland.
Mr. President, although I believe that
the subject "Hums" has bulked more
largely in the public view, and has been
more lepeatedly thrashed out than any
other subject of modern times, not even
excepting those favorites of debating
societies, the guilt or Innocence of Mary
Queen of Scots, and whether Cromwell
was or was not justified in the execu
tion of Charles the First, I shall, how
ever, make no apology for again intro
ducing It because, although old and
often told, it Is a subject which Is or
ought to be ever welcome to Scottish
ears and to Scottish hearts. When It Is
remembered, however, that the subject
"Hums" has been fully and ably dis
cussed by I might say almost every
man of note of and since his day, In
eluding among others such names as
Scott, I-ochart, MacKenzle, Byron,
Woodwoi th, Allen Cunningham, Currle
and Carlisle, Lords Jeffrey and Hough
ton, Professors Duguld Stewart and
Shalrp, and the Revs. Hudley Wuddell,
Oilflllan and Smith.
AN APT STORY.
You will not, I presume be prepared
to expect that I shall be able to throw
any new light on the subject, nor do I
profess to do so, and should I fall to
come up to your expectations T hope
you will bear with me or do with me
as the old Scotch blacksmith did with
the iron he tried to forge into the shape
of a horseshoe, and It mtiv not be out
of place for me here to relate the story.
The blacksmith thought by adding
horseshoeing to his business It would
materially add to the profit side of his
balance sheet at the end of the year,
and so he had hand bills printed and
posted up throughout the neighborhood
stating that he was prepared to shoe
horses.and soon afterwards a man came
to him to have a shoe put on his horse's
foot. He at once cut off as much Iron
as ho thought would make a shoe.put it
into the lire and then hammered some
time on the anvil and then again put
the Iron Into the fire, and after making
a few unsuccessful attempts to make a
horse shoe, ho pushed the heated iron
into the water trough, saying: "If
you'll no mak u shue you'll piak a
blzz!" So if I do not succeed in making
a speech, I at least will make u noise.
What I piopose and attempt to do Is
simply and briefly to speak of the char
acter of Hums In Its broader features,
but still I trust of a sufllclently marked
and distinct character to show at least
under which banner my sympathies aro
enlisted. This, I consider, 1 shall best
do by examining what Hums gives to
the following questions, viz,: flist,
What Is the proper attitude of man to
his Creator? Second, What Is the pro
per attltudo or man to creation? Third,
What Is the proper attitude of man to
man? No man can read the "Cottar's
Saturday Night," his "Prayers under
great distress und In the prospects of
death;" his "Advice to u young friend"
and several other of IiIh poems and let
ters without being satisfied that Hums
considered the proper attitude of man
to his Creator was that of humble rev
erence and praise, implicit trust and
confidence In ills love, wisdom, good
ness and mercy, and that amid all his
doubts nnd difficulties with lespect to
the ptesent or the future
"The great Creator to icvere,
Must suie become the creatine"
THK SECOND QUESTION.
His answer to the second question Is
that the proper attitude of mun to the
animate and Inanimate creation is to
place himself In complete sympathy
and harmony with It; that by doing so
he will find nothing too humble or com
monplace to be beneath his notice, und
nothing too great and exalted to be
above it. and that guided by thouuht
fit! Intelligence he has pnly to-cast his
eyes abroad over thf face of creation
to llnd like Shakespeare,
"Tongues In tiees,
Hooks In running brooks,
Sermons !n stones,
And good In everything.
This Hums Illustrates very beauti
fully In his "Ode to the Humble Moun
tain Daisy" and In ills "Ode to tin?
Field Mouse," In which ho deplores thu
rupture by man of nature's social
union, and further Inculcntes the lesson
that cam and foresight, notwithstand
ing "The best laid schemes o' men and mice
Gang aft ngley,"
In the case of the wounded hare the
philosophy of Hums was certainly not
that of a siKirtsmun who maintained
that the hare had as much pleasure In
being chased as the dog had In chas
ing It, and by Inference of course ns
much pleasure In being killed, as tho
dog had In killing or the sportman In
shooting It; but aB the views of Hums
on this subject as well us my own are
not likely to be acceptable or convinc
ing to this sporting generation 1 shall
simply content myself with lodging my
protest and pass on.
The sympathies of Hums ranged from
the humble sonsrster of the wood and
led up to heaven illumined man, and he
even found room In his large heart for a
merciful compassion of the great arch
enemy of man himself. In his last
stanza of his "Address to the Dell," he
says:
"Hut fare ye weel Auld Nlckle Hen,
O wad ye tak a thocht all men,
Ye albllns mlcht I dlnna ken,
Still hue a stake,
lm wae tae think upon. your den,
H'eii for your sake!"
Had Satan retained'the least spark of
his original nature he ought to have
crept to the farthest and darkest cor
ner of his sulphurous deu and cov
ered his face with Ills hands for very
shame whenever that stanza was
fe yn i f ft I ;1 -niii i
IN THK BANQUET HALL.
penned and surely the man who had the
large heart to conceive and express such
a sentiment was a man worthy not
only of our highest esteem and admir
ation, but also of the whole cltillzed
world.
PROPER ATTITUDE OF MAN.
Lastly Hums shows the proper atti
tude of man to man to be humanity and
brotherhood; he was too shrewd an ob
server of human nature not to be aware
of the fact that wealth and not merit
was the true passport to soeiul distinc
tion, rank and power, and that merit
like honesty must to a considerable ex
tent In the present condition of things
be content to be its own rewind, and
further he saw that "Man when dressed
In a little brief authority played such
pi anks before high heaven us made
even the very angels weep and he asks
somewhat Indignantly:
if I'm designed yon lordllng's Slave
lly nature's law designed,
Why was an Independent wish
K'r planted In my mind."
Now you will observe that the ques
tion Is here hypothetlcally put, and on
the assumption that it was so designed,
lie can find no better answer than that
"Man was made to mourn;" however
this answer satisfied neither his rea
son nor his sense of divine justice und
he casts abroad for some other expla
nation and finds It In fact that "Man's
inhumanity to man made countless
thousands mourn." It would be easy
to furnish more extracts In elucidation
of the Idea of Burns, but enough has
been said to show the healthy tendency
and scope of his teaching, and he would
be a bold man who would say that the
world has not been the better and the
wiser for his teaching. Such was the
Ideal of Burns. Such was the man. Such
was the poet and Scotland shull ever
hold her proud head high among the
nations of the earth so long as her sons
and daughters remember this teaching,
avoid his faults, cultivate his virtues,
practice the noble and manly spirit of
self Independence and wholesome scorn
of hypocrisy and cant which were his,
und with their hearts attuned to praise
evince their love to God, to man and to
the world In singing by turns the
Psnlms of David and the songs of
Hums.
Then Miss Grace Wlnchel recited
"Tarn O'Shanter" in a most pleasant
way, after which ex-Chief James H.
Skeoch responded to the toast, "Scot
land the Land of Our Birth:"
MR. SKEOCII'S RESPONSE.
Honored Chief, Chieftains and Clans
men, Ladies and Gentlemen:
In rising to speak of the land of my
birth and my boyhood, I hardly know
whether I ought to feel Mattered over
the honor which the banquet commit
tee has forced upon me or not.
Our toastmaster has said a few flat
tering things nbout "auld Scotia and
her bard," but how on earth could he
do anything else. You might as well
expect the leopard to change his spots
as the Scotsman to cease to consider
Ills native land as God's own chosen
spot among the nations of the earth.
Scotland Is a little more than a dot
on the face of the earth, in point of
territory. It's aiea Is less than one
thlid of Pennsylvania, while Its resi
dent population barely exceeds the
four million mark, yet, at the same
time, they tell us that if ever the north
pole is discovered, a Scotsman will be
found sitting on the top of It. Now.
why should a Scotsman be singled out
for this distinction? Guess, and you
won't guess right, probably. To begin
with, the Scotch are citizens of the
world; wherever they go they Identify
themselves witli the land of their adop
tion, and when I tell you the quality
that makes them such you piay feel a
trllle hiirpiised. It Is "thoroughness."
Let me repeat It and add, thoroughness
of character, thoroughness of system,
und thoroughness of purpose. What
ever a Scotsman undertakes at home,
he must either do It well or get out of
the business, It is different here. In
America we find born citizens Svho are
ready to undertake any one o'f a half
a dozen trades, claiming proficiency In
each and all.
In Scotland one trade Is enough for
any man. Now, how does he learn that
trade? Hy n long apprenticeship of
live, six or seven years training, during
which time he Is bound to his employ
er, who in turn teaches him all he,
knows, and does it because he Is suro
that he has the lad for a term of years
and the sooner he can break rUie ap
prentice Into the trade, the better It s
for himself.
THEY ARE THOROUGH.
Because of this thoroughness In busi
ness training, we find Scotsmen are
foremen and managers the world over.
Go Into your American foundries, ship
yards and factories, ask for the fore
man or superintendent, and In seven
cases out of every ten you'll llnd they
are Scotch by birth or the sous of
Scotsmen, You doubt me, perhaps,
Don't take my word for If, there is no
reason why you should, We'll consult
a neutral authority. Take Mux O'ltell,
for Instance; he goes a little further
than 1 dare do, by claiming that nil the
'foremen In tile-big foundries nnd shops
ate Scotsmen, and he hud no occasion
to lie about It.
Hut i am talking of Scotsmen In
America. Now let US go buck In fancy
to the land of our birth and note for a
moment the Important position she
holds anion:: the nations of the world.
I might spin yarns to you about the
valor of her people, telling you that
as a nation she has never been con
quered, and point you to such crack
military regiments as the "Uluck
Watch," the Scots Grays, the Canicr
onlan Highlanders nnd others, to show
that the old fighting qualities of the
pooplo have not died out, nor will It die
oiit till Scotsmen cease to exist for they
are awful "dour," and that like the
a .nrrri
Jews, they preserve their Individuality
under all conditions. We are living In
times of peace, however, und today
Scotland's real greatness lies In her
commercial importance.
Go where you will her products stare
you In tlie face. The ships she builds
dot the oceans the world over. Her lo
comotives run wherever rail and tie are
found; the products of her looms go ev
erywhere, and embrace many special
ties for which she has no equal. In a
word, Scotland Is the greatest indus
trial bee-hive on the face of the earth,
and there is not one of her innumerable
pioducls that do uot stand high In the
commercial world.
If time permitted I might say some
thing of her statesmen, including Glad
stone and Lord Rosebery and others as
living examples. I might also speak of
her eminent painters, sculptors, Jurists,
physicians, divines, journalists? etc.,
etc., for In all of them her sons have
excelled and won world wide fame.
INFLUENCE IN LITERATURE.
Before sitting down I fear that I
would be doing Scotland an injustice If
I fulled to note her Influence on the lit
erary world. Tonight we are met to
commemorate the birth of Robert
In
The sale of the Wright stock is proving the feature of
the year in Jewelry selling, Happy crowds throng the
aisles with bright eyes seeking the best of the abundance
of bargains, The wisest of Scranton's buying folk are
here. Are you Qfettinsr your share? This crisp, cold
weather is just the sort for shopping,
and come down today. Can you
like these?
Fruit Knives
Silvef plated Fruit Knives.
Pluting will wear a year for
every cent they cost. And
only 10 cents stands between
you and them. It's having
little table biihteners like
these that makes you g;id
when company comes. 144
go on sale this morning at 10c
each.
Wright Price, 40c.
P. S, Not more than oto 1 customer
So few of them, that's why.
There'd be too many disap
pointed if we didn't put a lim
it on them. Be enough as it
is. Then, too, it keeps the
hotelkeepers from coming in
and gobbling them all.
Lady's Watch
- Do for the little ladies too.
(pet them one for school use.
It'll teach them to be punctu
al. Make them careful, too.
These are blue enameled.
Have gold hands. Wind and
set by the stem and sell read
ily at 55. co, but 15 go on sale
'today at $2.90.
harms and Lockets
There is quite a little pile of
them if they are dumped in a
lieap. Suppose some of them
REXFORD'S, 303
Hums, one of the brightest lights the
Creator ever phice'd among men, but Is
Hums the only sweet singer orllten'ry
genius Scotland has produced? t think
not, Just-'nt, "present civilized people
the world ovr are crazr over Scotch
dialect stoiles which Ian McLaren
(Watson) Is manufacturing to order
nt fancy Unities. These, however, will
lmve their little day and pass Into ob
livion, but It ,1s different with Scott,
with Carlyle, with Hogg and many oth
ers. These men will live, and While tho
English tongue is- spoken, they will
never grow old. Why? Hecnuse they
have loft the Indelible stamp of genius
on their work and have made the world
better by their lives.
Hut I must close here even 1C 1 have
only touched on tho edges of the subject
alloted to me. It Is one that Is ever
dear to the Scottish heart. 1 would nsk
you' all to Join with me In tho wish Hint
thu hind of Wallace, Knox and Hums
may long continue to hold the hon
ored place which she now does among
the nations and that her Inlluence for
good which bun been so marked In the
past may never wane.
Clansman Andrew Swanston sang
"The Hattlo of Stirling" In u way which
evoked the heartiest applause. Attor
ney John M. Ilnrrls was given u warm
ovation as ho was Introduced to respond
to the toast, "Scottish Literature," and
was frequently Interrupted with ap
plause as he ptocceded. lie said In
substance:
SCOTTISH LITERATURE.
Few nations can show a longer
nnd
more even line of development In their
verse than Scotland. "Every Scotch
man," wiote Sir Walter Scott, In his
fragment of autobiography, "has a
pedlgiee." It Is a nutlonal prerogative
us Inalienable ns his pride and his
povert. Tf we can catch the spirit of
these lines nnd transfer it to Scotch
literalllic, we shall see that It can
boast of a kingly descent.
Scotch poetry began with a king by
birth, and reached a point of sturdy
excellence and sublimity In the writ
ings of a man who was a king by rea
son of his mighty genius, Robert Burns.
1 James I. wns a royal poet In more than
one sense, and the first of a long line
which bus made the land of the moun
tain and the Hood famous as u land of
poetry. The Inlluence he exerted upon
Scottish poetry was strong and last
ing, and he Is the father of Scottish
melody, though Scottish music wns
little known until tho days of Allan
Runisay, dear to the heart of every
Scot as the author of the "Shepheid's
Callendur."
But between King James and Ram
say there are milestones In the road
leading to Hums and Scott that make
It delightful traveling. llenryson.
Dunbar. Lliisuy, ' Montgomery, are
names which come very close to the
hearts of every lover of true poetry.
Those who have reud the "Thistle and
the Rose" (Dunbar), and "The Dream"
(Llnsay), can not have failed to see
that thev are passages of wonderful
excellence, where Intensity of the emo
tion, und the penetrating Insight touch
ing nature at her very depths, show
tlutt the words of these sons of Scotia
expressed "the language of the heart,
the feeling of the soul." Between the
reigns of James VI. and Queen Anne,
there was no poetry of note wilt ten In
Lowland Scotch.
THE SONG WRITERS.
Hut with the return swing of Time's
pendulum came genuine enthusiasm
for song writers, In which the whole
population participated. From the
bold, blaclc-eyed, lucky Isabel Pagan,
who kept an ale house In Ayreshlre, to
the accomplished Lady Anne Llnsay.
one and all were ambitious of trying
their hands at rhyme. We can easily
account for this phenomenon, when we
recollect that there has never been nu
mber nation In which, through all Its
raukf, rending and writing was a com
mon attainment.
Whatever be the cause, Immediately
after the union of the kingdoms, there
came a revival of Scottish poetry. The
leader of this movement was Allan
Ramsay. He was a man of noble hit th,
keen, witty and convivial. After ills
admission to the "Easy Club" lie be
came so popular that lie was elected
are worth $1 or S1.2;, none of
them worth less than 50 or 75
cents. We haven't tfme to
pick them over. Have you ?
You can for 39c. Any one of
them. If you're an early com
er you'll no doubt get the best.
Whisk Brooms
Silver mounted whisk
brooms, such as usually sell
for $1. These are things of
real beauty and would coax
the money from a miser. Only
about two dozen in tlie lot.
Probably enough to last till
noon. Sorry there isn't more,
but we can't get more at the
price.
39c. for one of these today.
Collar Buttons
Fall in, gentlemen. Stock
up for a year to come. Three
today for the price of one.
Pearl backs and celluloid back's
Patent lever and "come off"
tops. Big ones, little ones,
long ones and short ones.
4C. each today. Worth a shilling,
Lady's Watch
Solid gold case, of good
weight, hand engraved. In
: his we put a first-class Amer
ican work's, 7 jeweled and sell
it for 'I2. How do we do it ?
"C 1 1
poet-liitireato, and was by formal min
ute adjudged "a gentlemun." Re
nowned Allan was encouraged nnd
stimulated by his connection with bis
Jr.eoblte friends In the "Kasv Club,"
nnd the" result was his title to fame,
"The Gentle Shepherd." For 2,000
yearn, or since the days or Theocritus,
no such pastoral production had up
peated, and lis success was Instantane
ous and complete. Its merits are not
so much nlolig lyric lines ns In Its
"nvch, sly, pawky fun," In this it Is
inimitable. To Its Inlluence we can
ttaco some of the moru pathetic humor
of Hums.
Between Ramsay and Hums, Scot
land gave to the world Lady Ann Barn
ard, author of the most tender and af
fecting of modern Scottish ballads,
"Auld Robin Gray;" and above all,
John Skinner, author of "Tullochgor
um," which Hums pronounced the best
song Scotland ever saw, and declared
It to bo delightful. Then welcome to
tho musters of Scotch songs, Burns
and Scott. These nre the names to
conjure with. Had Scotland done noth
ing but give these two to the world, It
would have owed her a debt of grati
tude too large to pay.
THEIR HISTORY KNOWN.
'The history of the first of these two
men Is as well known to Scotchmen as
the shorter catechism. During his life
time he was regarded us a phenomenon.
And when he has been more than a cen
tury In his grave, ho Is a phenomenon
still. He came fiom Ayreshlre with all
the sense and shrewdness of the peas
antry, tho passion of Its lovers, the wild
merits of Its nicotics and hallmvo'ens,
and of all the great men of the Lowland
country he was incomparably the jol
llest one. What fun ho 'had! What mel
ancholy! What passion! What home
ly sagacity! What sensitiveness! Not
only did he purify existing Scottish
songs, but be added to It most thati Is
best and rarest.
It remains for us to inquire freely
Into the causes which have tended to
make bonnle Scotland a land of poetry.
It Is almost a universal gift there uot
to be a great puet, but to have thoughts
and feelings which Walter Bogart
would call "literates que," and a re
markable proof of this is seen in tin
fact that but recently thirteen volumes
of modern Scotch poetry have been col
lected, and among them are some gems
haul to match In nny age or literature.
No branch of song or poetry Is want
ing In Scotland's contribution to the
world's store of great verse. Blielly.
then, the true causes of this are the
Scotch scenerv and the Scotch mind.
In the bleak hills, In moore und glen,
In battle Held and ruined stronghold,
every bird that sings, the brakes of
goise, Impress themselves on the mind
of the Scot and become the haunts of
the muse. As the misty mountain
blows on the Scottish bards, they be
come the loving oracles of nature. "To
the last," as Steadniun says, "Man will
be awed by the mountains und sad
dened by tlie wnnlng moon and will
llnd the sun-kissed waves sparkling
with his joy and the stars of night
looking down upon his loneliness."
And few lnuds have such sweetly
saddening, grandly Inspiring scenery
as blue heathered Scotland. It Is a
well known fuct that the Scottish mind
has a'tendeiicy to develop Its overflow
ing tenderness and earnest passion In
lyric strains of simple beauty which
lio literature und no age has sur
passed. 11 has a qualntness and a
grace, and elegant simplicity and an
affectionate tenderness which are all
its own. It is this feeling which cries
to us In nil Its wondrous witchery In tlie
lines,
"lC'n then a wish T mind its power,
A wish that to Its latest hour
Shall strongly heave my breast,
That I for poor auld Scotland' sake
Some useful piece or hook could make.
Or sing a song at least."
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