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JANUARY 26,
That was up in the bleak North; coption but as a youth of 18 I became Whether dweller in bonnie Dumfries, where does not may the in-pression of cur national poet there is another
thers intensity from local colour; character, in which and recollection.
Warded Off
with musical honours, maldi Sir Walter Scott ones laid down three | golden rules for, a Chairman of such a gathering as this." The first was that he must not speak too much, Hongkong Hotel,
the second that he must pass the
makes way for glorious" abandon Oatching a chill-it's, may bit There was a most enjoyable bottle freely to promote good fellow Mr. Maconachie referred to the and coldness disappears in the warm dangerous. Once inflammation dinner at the Hongkong Hotel ship, and the third that he must not memorable tribute paid to the dead glow of romance to confirm my starts in your throat or lungs Fast night uncer the aus- himself get drunk. (Laughter), poet in Dumfries when Burns bier words, I need go no further than there's no limiting the deadly pio of the local SL AnThese are three rules very easily was carried from the Courthouse to this table. These serious taspans, perils that menace you drew's Society when Hongkong carried out: I propose to try and St Michael's Kirkyard, the band of soneysugar-boilers, case-haunted Take popyir time: Extermin Scotsmen gathered to celebrate do so. We are met together to the Cinque Porta Cavalry preced doctors, case hardened engineers, ste these virulent diese germ the Anniversary of the birthday celebrate the birthday of our im- ing with the Dead March of they're men of sentiment every before they have chance to S of Robert Burns, the greatest mortal bard and 1.think we cannot Handel's here; the men of that, one, and you need but sing them Bathe the sore inflamed braski poet their land has produced. do better than begin with a song
regiment and the Angusalire que of Robin's love, lilts to sending passages with the soothing the proceedings throughout were rom Mr. Mef.eod, "There was a lad Feasibles lining the streets, and them back to the days when they given off by peps tablets as they germicidal air-like” medloins marked by that fine enthusisem born in Kyle." that all Scots have for their
The song was well sung and en- the poet's fellow members of the used to go linking with their joes by dissolve in the mouth. national, bard. The Hotel band
Volunteer Corps bearing the coffia the banks of Doon, the brays' o'
Peps are spendily effective husiastically encored. rendered = capital programme of
and following behind. He recalled, Halguiddor, the palm gardens of They not only provide a powerful ( music during the evening.
The Immortal Memory. not with any view to invidious com, Greenock or the pavements of direct means of checking colde The
Nota and chills, but they safeguard the axcellent speech, proposed
Rev. J. Kirk Maconachle, in an parison, that three years earlier his Kelvingrove. (Applause).
great musical contemporary, W. A. man of them will deny my soft chest and lungs against : more. toast of the evening, "The Immortal Mozart, was buried at a similar age, impeachment All will agree that serious disease, Nothing" geta of Robert Burns." He also after a life of ill-rewarded the ingenium perfervidum which is to the weak, spot" like, breathe struggle, and uplendid Vienas sent said to possess our race finds other able Feps, in case of bronchitis, rold on the chest and asthma) "On the day after St. George's but two followers to the unknown expressions than the thrifty, the Druggy mixtures swallowed inte
very big gathering included all the to this day. prominent people in the Colony and a number of Scots. Not having myself been maple
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fact, and that aspect of its mani- festation was incarnata in Robert Burns."
Misunderstood Intensity.
sass your breathing, or banish your obstinate cough. You must have pepa which are unique, in of Burns was of the. people and
that they sortain the concentrat- The Chieftain (Hon. Mr. A. G.that prominent company, even as from frst to last the people loved-
This ardour, the speaker went ed chest healing virtues of the Stephen) presided and was sup- a Scot. I experienced naturally him. His first published volumie
short, you have in peps,the of profound humiliation. was rapidly and eagerly bought upon. accounted for much in Burna'amed Swiss pine forests. In ported at the top tuble by the lion, sense Mr. Czud Severn, C.M.G., Mr. A. O. Indeed, had this evening followed by all classes of the community, writing that had puzzled, and even pine-air cure brought into your
the lesa enthusiastic very home. Lafig. Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, Mr. close upon that other, I should have including ploughmen and maidser offended
natures. He had the artist's power Pepa, the greatest remedy ever R. M. Dyer, Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar, feit fain to address this distinguish-vants, who, it was wid, would even
10 project himself into varied discovered for hrokt' and lungs, short of much needed new Mr. F. B. Marshall, Dr. C. Forsyth,
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as 'fellow obscurities, had I hadgarments to possess themselves of situations, and in them he was wont the courage to address it
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was often misunderstood, and for Re. 1-4 from 'I he pops Co., 9,% twice as much as Mikor ever got elapsed to enable me to recover a modicum of that self esteem which fur "Paradise Lost," and few first which, it had to be admitted, often Dalhousie Square, Calcutta. is supposed, erroneously, to be in-volumes by an unknown poet had bore him beyond bonads.
But
Dr. G. D. R. Black, Rev. H. G. Korison, Mr. W. Nicholson, Mr. 3. Iteid. Mr. Wylte, M. D. R. Blair, Mr. A. K. Benderson, Mr. 1. Harvey and Mr. McArthur.
The following is a list of the others present:
herent in our race. So, Sir, when ever paid the costs of publication, happily of recent years he had com's
to be better understood in that you, for they were vegetarians and Mr. W. Adamson, Dr. Allan, Mr. your commands, courteously cama-More to purpose, the J. N. R. Allan, Mr. W. Armstrong, flouged as a request, were laid upon suficient to keep the young writer respect and in many others. It was Mn & Allison, Mr. Anderson, Mr., 1 plucked up heart as a loyal from Bring in despair to the West putting it mildly to say J. H. Barr, Mr. J. Bartholomew, clansman, however humble, to obey: Indies as he had planned, which post was unfortunate in many of Mr. W. Baxter, Mr. E. D. Black, heartened by bethinking me that
an expert at
Sum
Was
Kelime his
that the
Mr. 3. C. Brown, Mr. Wilson Brown, the toast I have the honour to sub-would have been a calamity indeest. his early biographers, who were too "It has been claimed," Mr. busy drawing saber-sided warning Mr. Broady, Mr, 11. Buie, Mr. R. mit is to the memory of one who Maconathic continued, "that it was from his career to sift with auf Bruce, Mr. W. 4. Carrie, Mr. W. J. was something of Clerk, Mr. Cantlie Comm, Mr. W. pulling down the mighty from their reserved for William Pitt, an Eng. cient caro the accumulated gossio which came to their ears, much of it unfriendly in spirit and unfound. Crichton, Mr. G. Davidson, Mr. seats, and. who did more than any lishiher of the English, to recog G. Duncan, Snr. Mr. 3. Dickson, other of his century to impress the nine during Burns' Mr. G. Durcan, Jur., Mr. G. M. trenchant and far-reaching truth place as a great poet, and that the ed in lact. For instance, how often that Scottish critics stopped hailing him had it been repeated that Burns Dalgety, Mr. W. Deans, Mr. A. that a man's a man for at Davidson, Mr. N. Drummond Many another wretch, destitute of as a rustic prodigy. Let the great al no ear for music, and could (Piper), Mr. C. S. Forsyth, Mr. J. siller or of social importance, bas statesman be given his honour due, careely teil one tune from another 1 I was impossible to believe that Fleming, Mr. J. Fisher, Mr. J. C. drawn an iron tonic for his soul but the article in the Lounger the man who set some of the love. Fletcher,
Mr. S. Gray, Mr. W. from that inspiring aphorism. 1 which Henry Mackenzie introduced
liest lyrics in existence to words films. Gerrard, Mr. K. Greig, Mr. H. G. am content to be of their nugaber, § liurns to the literary world, shewathom which they could never be camers, papers, and pictures of Groundwater, Mr. J. Gillespie, Mr. and though excluded from the that litt's perception was
A. Gourlay, 31r. Ges. Grimble, Mr. haughty legion of the dragon unique. Mackenzie is said to have parted could be what the
called "timmer." C. E. Henderson, Mr. J. Hyde, Mr. slayers, to be burolled with you in been for long the Nestor of literary J. B. Hamilton, Mr. E. Hosie, Mr. the homely order of the thistle. Edinburgh, and he wrote there ofurprise when it was later learne T. W. Hill, Lt. Cmdr. Douglas (theers and laughter Hamilton, Mr. J. 11. Kynoch, Mr.
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HOW. DO YOU DO • MR. SANDSTONE! AMI LATE?
STONE
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HOW DO YOU DO MRS. DUFF!
NO YOUR RIGHT
* ON TIME. COME IN PLEASE -
D. Keith, Mr. J. A. Lyon, Mr. D.
laughte
Our Debt to Adversity,
Fall eight score years have run
not
Muir, Mr. G. McLeod, Mr. C. Dtheir course since the lad was born rank. He goes un to disclat ex
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Scots
So it was no
that he had a fine ear for melody, and could pick a tune out on the
tick Ele
ter). But knowledge was acquired. they knew not chopsticks. (Laugh- ... Burns detested scholastle pre- tentiousness, as he did every kind of pretentiousnesa. He often chafed under the patronising air of men whom he knew to be his intellec tual inferiors. As usual, he over- expressed himself on the subject: A set of dull conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college:
classes,
They gang in stirks and come out
asses,
Plain truth to speak; And then they think to climb
Parnasses
By dint o' Greek.
Gie moze spark o' Nature's fr That's a' the learnin' I desire.
His Religious Quarrel.
1
As a fact, that was not all the learning he desired, nor indeed by a long way possessed. But he is "Oh wert thou in the cauld blast writing in a mood and carried away On yonder lea, on yonder lea,
on his Pegasus' back, as a poet' My plaidie to the angry airts,
ought to be. For true learning," I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter the Burns had all due respect, and Goathe pronounced Borns the firs.wished he had more of it. The
Burns: I am not greatly de. ceived, I think I tay safely pro. nounce him a genius no ordinary plicitly the idea of commending the puet chiefly on the ground of his J: W. McPhail, 31r. I. verge of far Cathay. The Januar lowly circumstances, and afirms McEwan, Mr. H. M. McTavish, Mr..nt gave bim but a rough hanset, that his work on its own merits is
had never been revetsed. Had and having said that, I will not: R. Matheson, Mr. A. W. McGowan. It blew in one gable of the two fully entitled to command our feet of lyrics, and bis weighty judgment same is to be said as to religion;
which Williamngs and to obtain our applause."
Burns left us notiring else, his place enlarge on the well-worn theme of Mr. J. Murray, Mr. G. Moncrieff, roomed biggin
The article, which is a really valu-sinong the immortals would have Burns fierce quarrel with the Dr. John Morrison, Mr. 1. A. D.Burns had reared with his
been assured by the copious flow of unco-orthodox of his day.' It is a Morrison, Mr. Thomas Mitchell, hands to shelter wife and bairns, fable and discriminating prece Mr. McEwen, Sar. Piper),
Mo the babe and his mother had criticism, concludes with the
to be moved for safety to the house fident hope that Scotland wil perfect song sashrining every emo pity the quarrel was so fierce, for Ewen, Jar. (Piper); Mr. A. La
of a neighbour. Many another bit-stretch out her hand to cherish and tiun known to the human heart, it left much if blood behind, which from the pawky humour of "Duncan has not even yet wholly disappear- Miller, Mr. Donald Maerue, Mr. Memaughton, Mr. T. Nicholl, Mr.ter blast fell on the life which was retain this native poet, and not 85 Cudy" to the gentle pathos of ed. Burns knew and admitted that: Jolin Anderson my Jo,” to the he went too far, and no one denies. 1. 31. Neilson, Mr. D. Neilson, thus begun, ere its short
heart wrung lament addressed to that he had provocation. But the Mr. T. Oliphant, Mr. Peter Oliver, was finished. Mr. C. Pryce, Mr. W. M. Pitten.to regret that his lot was not more in that expectation Mackenzie prov. -Mary in Heaven”—and while men publican thanking God that he is drigh, Mr. James Pittendrigh, Mr. smooth, but the divinity which night. Seatland not only stretchel and women had learned to sing, not as this Pharisee is not an. 1. S. Pearson, Mr. T. Petrie, Mr. shapes our ends may be believed to out her hand to her illustrious 400, they would always, not only sing edifying sight, and while Burns
her heart and there Burns, but they would love hum.
words may sometimes make him T. G. Patterson, Mr. P. W. Ramsay, know its own business best, and it but took him
Burns been has cherished him with ever grow.
appear to present it, the thing Itself Mr. J. Ramsay, Mr. J. Roger, Mr.is not likely, had
ing warmth.
An Educated Man,
is far from his spirit. (Applause) A. Ritchie, Mr. J. Smyth, Mr. Cradled in ease and bred in rom. have fort, that he would ever
"I see,” said Mr. Maconachie, Social pretentiousness again was Stewart. Mr. W. Smith, Mr.
Conventional Conceptions. "that some-one has just published a at least as obnoxious to Buras as Simpson, Mr. A. Smith, Mr. A. spoken as he did and does to the
"We Scots," proceeded Mi.
book to prove that Burns was an the scholastic or religious. His Simpson, Mr. J. T Shand, Dr. heart of Scottish folk and of man-
Maconachie, "and in Burns a pre-educated man. There may be scorn of the merely titled, rich or Strahan, Mr. G. M. Shaw. Mr. kind.
My memory covers something not sentient of ourselves in aspects same need for such a document, but powerful is unmitigated, and only R. K. M. Simpson, Mr. George
wo know are authentic it can only be among those who explicable in light of the fact that Stark, Mr. D. Steel, Mr. A. Steven- so much less than half the con-which son, Mr. M. A. J. Searle, M. W. siderable period since Robert ceased though greatly differing from the have accepted upon hearsay the in those days the great held the conceptions which notion that he WAS untaught all very much in their power; and Tillery, Mr. J. H. Taggart, Mr. D. to rhyme, but I don't recall a time conventional
No ignor power such as that is bound to be Templeton, Mr. T. Tallon, Mr. when I could not sing 'Scots wha have been adopted concerning country yokel.
we are never ant man could have written kuch much abused. Taylor, Mr. P. W. Wilson, Mr. W. hae.' I remember I used to think What these are
Vices and Remorse. Wotherspoon, Mr. S. T. Williamson, the last line of the verse was all allowed long to forget. The most a style as his, or used with auch
As to Burns' vices, of which 30 Mr. W. Johnstone, Dr. Urquhart, one word and wondered what it recent reminder I happen to have precision such a vocabulary. It is.
'Canny, true that he was born into a home much is said, it is fair at least to Mr. Mair, Mr. C. C. Stark.
mnant-Or-to-victory,' which just seen is from Dean Inge: Duty of a Chairman. goes to show that, even before they thrifty, fond of metaphysics and where knowledge has-to be acquir say that as in other things his verses The Chairman, having submitted can read Scottish bairns learn to shw to understand a joke.' Such,(ed with a book in one hand and a on that subject make the worst of the loyal toast; which was received tako Burns' words upon their lips. says the Dean is the current con- spoon in the other,—a spoon markj
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NOT COME HOME TO DINNER OR IF HE DOES COME HOME HE PROMPTLY LEAVES AGAIN RIGHT AFTER DINNER-HE'S DEEN DOING THAT FOR
SOME TIME
J.
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JUST HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON, ¿
MRS DUFF?
WELL.IT'S BEEN FULLY THREE WEEKS - HE SAYS THAT HE HAS ERRANDS TO DO AND THINGS TO ATTEND TO AND THAT'S ALL THE EXCUSE HE EVER GIVES ME IF I ASK HIM WHERE HE'S GOING,
HE ANSWERS,*OUT*
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ANOTHER THING "WHEN I ASK HIM IF HE WOULD LIKE ME TO
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