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from the Ellisland farm to the three rooms perienced an Eden of labor and love, ons sums are constantly offered. But the 1how, in his short period of accomplishment. in the "WeeoVennel." n Dumfries, a period despite their final enforced departure. It venality and thrift of the place are loathe- what a stupqndous and majestic legacy, ab- of but four and one-half years, more per- was also the period of Burns' best and some. It is a groggery to-day, precisely as solutely untainted by venal diplomacy and 1THE SHRINE OF BURNS sonal hope and disappointment, joy and greatest poetical fecundity. But more it was when it stole away the life of Burns; reward, he left to all mankind. For one, I CLARKE, CONRAD & CURTI" suffering, anguish from impulsive wrong- children came to them. These must be and one's presence is quickly made a mat- cometo this shrine with no halting apolo- doing and heaven of the purest domestic supported. The crops failed and inevitable ter of supererogation, if liquor is not pur- gies for his character or memory. And as Wholesale and Retail Dealers in bliss, temptation and victory, agonized des- r•an was approaching. It was then, with chased or gratuities bestowed. The little this night falls upon the place where he ki Immortal Presence There, the pair and triumph, had been crowded into nowhere else on earth to turn, with no one wench that looks after you in this respect 1lies, I would count it an all suffioient fame the poet's experienees, than fall to the lot of on earth to defend him from the wretched reminds one of "Annie wi' the gowden Ihad I the power to at one stroke blot out Heavy, Shelf and Builders' Lustrous Soul of a Peas- most great men in their entire lives. In influences of such environment, that to locks," the Helen Ann Park of Burns' all the lessening interpretations of the past Serf. this brief time, first he was disowned, and save his wife and children from actual passionate verse. The Globe's bar-maid of 100 years, and make this his memory and ant deserted by Jean Armour, through the bit- want and starvation, he was forced to ac- o-day is a "syren-servant" as of old, and monument in every human heart. ter and ever unreasoning opposition of her cept the government position of exciseman another soft-hearted bard would be likely His known and secret struggles were his father. He was then betrothed to "High- at the beggarty pittance of 60 per year! to meet the same ill-fortune at her hands. own and his Maker's sacredly. Infinitely *-H-ARDW7lRB land Mary" Campbell, the heroine of his And I say that that person who will become One is fascinated by the place and its well was it for the world that he lived and 'l ,Sad Story of the Violasitudes immortal ode "To Mary In Heaven," who critic of this poor stril i soul, from this memories but leaving is as grateful a thing Iloved and bequeathed to mankind. of His Life, Love and shortly died of malignuant fever at (reenock, pitiful period, takes to himself share of the as reaching it. A curse on the curse that THE GRAVE OF BURNS. and over whose AT 32 and 34 Main Street, Helena. Death. grave in the kirkyard of the endless obloquy of the derelicts of that day cursed him!-every true heart will pray; Slow fell the velvet curtains of the dusk Old or West church, in that city, a monu- and time who infamously deserted a God- particularly if one follows his old way Around St. Michael's kirk-yard weird and dim: ment was placed bearing the inscription, sent genius in the hour of his sor- through the "close" to the cottage, and While lithsdalo's flow'rybr es breathed sum- Eroctsed est plight and highest efforts to a no- paused by the stables where poor Burns, be- m•'s musk Iron, Steel, Horse and Mule Shoes, Horse Nails, over the grave of ble manhood. The flveemaining years of wildered and brain-beclouded that bitter From Lowther hill to Criffel's hoary rim. Olebe TaveranjWith Its Inscrlbed Win- The drowsy clatter of old Dumfriei' streets; Steel Nails, lIntHLANDn lmAnY, his life, after the po his Jean and their January night of 1796, upon the straw and old; Mill Supplies, Blacksmith's Goods, Sd.'WPam-es-The Burns Cottage 18 . three children, Robert~- ewis Wallace and refuse, lust at the edge of 8aakrespearestreet, The plants of rooks within the steeple My Mary. dear shade, The swallowse' croon; the blackbirds' tuneful Hose, Belting, Tinner's Stock, Carpenter'sTools, -At the Grave. departrd William Nicol, removed to the humble loda- and, insensible until the morn, received the sweets; r ~aereis t typls.c of b.isiful rest? ings, their first home in Dumfries, check- chill of death that never left him, though he Blent soft in tender murmurs manifold. Force and Lift Pumps, Gas Pipe and Fitl- About 100 of his characteristic poems ered, sad, pathetic beyond comprehension, lingered, conscious of his fate, until the 21st The night was come. I lingered still alone{ were already written and the now priceless are known to all. The literary ghoul may of July following. Impassioned pilgrim by insensate stone. Oseim sspaondeace at Tas INDEPENDSNT.1 first edition of the same had been issued come here and shovel from the dust of a The old home of Burns, that is the struc- "If thou art here. departed shads!" I cried, Scetland.fiesecas, July 10.-Border from the rural press of Kilmarnock, in the pitiful epoch the dross of sad doings and tural habitation, in what is now known as "By pure ambition s holiest faith and prayer, Sole Agents for the Celebrated Superior, and Famous Acorn Let me come closer to thy kindly side. and border minstrelsy have given the county of Dumbarton. Twin children had hours. Whoever comes with reason, heart Burns street, is precisely as it was when the of sympathy and charity will poet's life ended within it, and his loyal Call meone step upon thy rezal stair! south of Scotland a heritage of un- been born to him out of wedlock by Jean and the least Gro.ins and footsore in the path of song, Armour, one of whom, Robert, in after still find glowing here the lingering battle- Jean 88 years later breathed her last in the I fain would consecrate my lay Wstersst and enthrallment. Coming years a man of rare character and worth, fires between temptation inexpressible and now historic dwellna; save that it has been To humblest strivers in the countless thrnng, COOKING & HEATING STOVES e with eyes looking out of the depths survived the poetf8 years, his decease oo- effort incredible; between weakness and freshened up a bit with paint, and the roof, That, guideless, failteron the world's highway. istekr and sentiment, every object in currring at Dumfries in 1857, and his body discouragements indescribable and love some little time since, was given a new O spirit incarnate of Poesy. is the property of a Speak, speak thy secret to this devotee!" And W. G. Fisher's Cincinnati Hotel and Family Wrought Iron Ranges. hMarbalsa host of armored spectres being interred in the Burns vault. Mary and loyalty ineffable. For myself, I prefer sheathing of tiles. It Campbell died and was buried at Greenock. to stand at the shrine of Barns and look local school board, and was granted to it on What seercan tell the mysteries of prayer? mathe eowded cloister of a romantic Burns' local fame having attracted the at- down along the burning shaft of light that condition of slight annuities to the poet's Priceless its answer in this vaulted tomb: Sthrilling past. But there is another tention of the literarycoterie at Edinburgh, linkd his genius and his world-girdling hu- descendants, and also in consideration of For faith'. reward comes ofttimes unaware. Centennial Refrigerators, Ice Chests, Water Coolers, Ice Cream he man love and magnanimity to the fadeless projperly caring for the sepulture of the bard Swift flashing through the mausoleum'. gloom O an immortal presence here. As the was invited to that city where he was A radiance lit the epic-graven atone. Freezers, Wood and Willow-ware, Gloss and Queenesware, English ndxy of peace heals the soars of "affiliated" at the famous lodge of Free immortality of his memory and name. and his wife and children in the St. IMich- Transfigured shone the form of Poesy; ael's kirk-yard mansoleum, quite near at and American Cutlery, 1-ody battle, as the very flowers of the SMasons (which still meets in the veritable One of the places in Dumfries most in- Her mante, closer drawn, held Celia'e own French and American Mirrors, Plumbers' room then used) and subsequently "inaug- teresting from its assooiation with Burns is hand. It is permanently occupied by the To her far breast. These sacred words spoke Goods and Supplies, House Furnishing Goods, Eto. Everybody felA in preious compensation thickest urated" as its poet laureate, the latter event the old Globe tavern. It is still called master of the National Board Bagged she: wwhere carnage and fury leave their being the subject of a celebrated paint- "the howf" (hoif, hof, hufe, houff), Soot- school, a Mr. McIntosh. who is not only dis- "Ifthou wouldst gain his all-immortal art. respectfully invited to inspect the Largest and mo3t Complete stains, there came to this wraith- ing: while he was made the literary lionof tish for hall, house of retreat, or haunt. It tinguished by his residence in the Burns Sing sweet and true unto th human heart!" EDGARL. the day, as new and enlargededitions of his is certainly the most noted of all the cottage, but as having, through his disci- WAKEMAN. reion a lustrous soul so simple and pline and training the most remarkable ged, sweet and poems appeared. He then made a tour of "howfs." or haunts, made famous by the STOCK OF HARDWARE IN THE NORTHWES grand, tender and majes- the border counties of England and Boot- frequent presence and loiterings of Coila's ho of truantschool lads in all Scot- CENSUS TAKINGt IN INDIA. weak and mighty, that, throughout the land, and, untarnished by fame, returnedto unfortunate bard. Thq structure stands on land. he cottage itself is almost a proto- ~bld, wild land in which it blossomed, na- Mauchline, the old home-spot inAyr, drawn High street, but it s entered now as in type of the celebrated Poe cottage at Ford- A Device to Bring the Natives Out of the tre seems to pause in endless shine and there by his true love for his Jean, who re- Burns' day, from a dark and narrow ham, New York city, where Edgar Poe, Brush. Orders from the Country Received and PROMPTLY Shipped loom. Out of the stain and soar, out of pented her renunciation, and with whom "olose," or alley, which extends past the harrassed by poverty and fighting his hero- In one of the wilder distriocts of Bengal, tolt anee and bigotry, out of ignorance the former intimacy was renewed. Thetour old stone stables of tide inn into Shake- ic battle against desperation and strong during the census otdt881, a curious rumor Eespeot3I u y-, dserfdom, out of helotry and hindship, of the speare e, , which, iturn, leads to the drink, passed the last few dreadful years of north was then made; Burns returned got abodt among the Dirnidian one rustic serf whose humble plough- togreater Edinburg literary triumphs; he right into, the present Burns, formerly his life; and more than one startling simi- tribes that re turned beneath the furrow of his was introduced to Mrs. Naclehcs r the Mills, stet, to the Binas cottage; and it larity between the later experiences of the numbering of the pbople was merely CLARKE, CONRAD & CURTI brief toil all the hded. superstition, in- "Clarinda" of his famous oorrespondqnce; was through this litl "close" Burns al- these two meteors of genius will the preliminary to the wholesale deporta- tolerance of a thousand warring years. and again returning to his beloved Jea, ways made his way hos from his too fre- occur among the saddening reflections to tion of the men to serve as camp followers One Scottish southland peasant voice not took her secretly to Tarbottom mill for con- nuentbouts with "John Barleycorn" at the which a visit here will give rise. The first in Afghanistan and of the women to work ouly fused into illimitable tenderness all tinemnentthere in disgrace, when twins, lobe tavern. The venerable inn iscrowded story of the cottsgeeomprises a "but and a as leaf pickers in the tea gardens of Assam. Scotia's stern and granite soul, but gave both of which died, were again born to on market days with farmers, and the old ben, that is, a kitchen and a sitting-room. This silly fable, embellished with character- BACH, CORY The second, or attic, story has a tiny dress- istic but highly indelicate details, created & CO., imperishable songs to the universal human them. Being now independent of scandal- stables are packed with horses, traps and heart. onusopposition, Burns publicly and proudly cart• , precisely as it was 100 years ago. ing-room over the front door, a sort of a general panic. Many thousands desert- To all the people of Scotland so dear has "acknowledged" Jean Armour as his wife, solemn Scotch dame recalling Mrs. slo• double dormitory at the north end, where ed their villages and hid themselves in a the memory of this man become, that three then as sacred and binding a marriage in the landlady of Burn's time, named Smith, the children slept, and at the south end the range of forest-clad hills, where they hoped of the southwestern shires of the kingdom Scot of the property, which, while enamber to which, precisely as at the Poe to escape the official enumerators. The WHOLESALE land is the owner :-: as any other, and in this GROCER instance, -am Ayrshire in which the peasant-poet necessary only because debarred formal mar- she still rigorously presides over the propri- cottage and as with Poe, Burns would re- number of the fugitives was large enough was born, Kirkoudbrightshiro, where he riage at all times by the wife's parents, who eties of the place,she rents to her son-in-law treat when poetic inspiration of surpassing to vitiate the census statisties for that area, wandeaed and sang, and Damfriesahiroe, thus were solely responsible for the cloud at 82 per year, Entering the shadowy old intensity possessed him. It bu from this and the day fixed for nal enumemera- The Only Exclusively Jobbing Grocery House in Montan here he lived, loved, sang and died-are upon the poet's marital record. Burns also "howf' you paes through a tiny public room that Burns passed out, the wreck of tion was perilously near. Some- mnwn only as "Burns' Land." However "satisfied" the church, which in those days room where now as then a dozen or more his former self, in the spring of 1296 for the thing had to be done, but any winsome hoped-for help at the waters of Brow-Well. attempt to compel the tribes to come in WA•EHOUSE J OFF"W jeslds theare Doon, the memoriesin Ayr; of his early life was not so difficult of "satisfaction." liH gawk eyed rustic.s are drinking while dis- however stamped was also in a position to "satisn" Jean's oussing eountryside gossip. From this room He knew the hand Of death was upon him, would only have increased the panic The On N. P.aud Montana Central Tracks. I Main Street on with district official used his personal acquaint- and,Sith AhaaVs yih.the like wondrous some conae of his genius, parents; for on settlement with Creech, his a door, so low you will need minding your and said to his Jean, departing magic alchemy trans- }diuburgh publisher, the then astounding head-gear in passing, leads to the little par- that precious and well-worn pocket Bible ance with some of the tribal headmen or aormedll things Burns tonched, as "his chief luggage:" "Don't fear, wife. elders to induce them to meet him and or named, sum of $2,5U0 was found to be at his dis- la, which was the real haunts of Burns in MarrmArLAr 1STI, * r ka to , the braes and burns of posal. Dumfres. Of the morethhan 100 songs com They will honor my name m a hundred talk matters over. By explainng to them Smay be; to my fancy fair 'ilhen came the brief, bright da•a. Mag- posed by Burns in Dumfries-which, had years, more then now?" And it was to this in simple language the real object of the was the imperial palace of nanimously generous always, much of this they comprised the limit of his production room they brought hin hack, a trembling census, and laying stress on the necessity JAS. McMILLA_• &. CO., blawel-wide realm; and this gray old sum, the firt and last good fortune Barns would still have given him rank as Soot- shadow that blendid into the eternal sun- of knowing, for the purpose of relieving tmfss itself his very throne. ever knew, went to Jean's parents, and to land's greatest lyric bard-by far the larger shine on that balmy July day, a little later famine, the exact population of a district Sls the wimpling lith, from its assist his brother Gilbert Barns in averting number were produced in this little parlor, which had within living memory sffered see the Lead and Lowther hills, disaster in the latter's farm-lifeeforts. His or in the chamber above. Next the re- It may be altogether weak and unmanly. ffrom two severe famines, he succeeded in XINNEAPOLIS SHEEPSKIN TANNER g4Oan the little farm of Ellisland, lucky meetin with the ingenuous and kind- place of the former was "Burns' Corner." but Ioan scarcely read these inaoriptionM , iinducing them to exert their inlmence to mainasm sa hee his faithful wife Jean he ly Patrick Miller, of ialswinton Hall, had The veritable chair in which he sat, pr• whererecord of birth and death, in the get the people back. So efective was their w > 1 brief and happiest danu of occurred. It had been settled that the poet, served from the attacks of relic hunters by stately mausoleum of St. Michael's kirk. 'action and so readily were their orders and Seneca R- hi Bess ill stands the house on whohatedthe eity wity a royal hiatred, cupboard, lock and key, is still here. Sev- yard, for the tears thtcugh whioh the blaek Cobeyed that within three days the viales Hides, Sheep Pelts, Wool, Tallow, (3nseni ak eitformerly the "Wee Vennel," should return to the plough. The ebllity eral other chairs, a table, and even many lettering is so blerred sa. dim. Oh, the 'were again occupied, and whatever may Sheep Pelts and Furs a Specialty, theeW. • rooms of which were of tho day never quite forgave this plebean faded pictures upon the low walls, are just ity and alory of it asW-abs the hear t a have been the defects of the ce s in that *Ws •dhne.a The old tavern longing and love, the source of his and- as he knew them. The window panes are the vision of his brief years, bitter for- part of the country they certainly did not he eub ad m n,is just ashe et inspirations. The beautiful frm of l- covered with verses he scratched upoe them tones and his supreme aohiseante ab.. lie onthe side of omission. 101 106 106lpsBS@4 St. Naith. Mmtespcl .eSrhl habitatione w seth lisland, five miles from D friss. was with his diamond. Of these p ps the overwhelmingly into the @. AfLain- The mine thing was done, Qltina more eeim qa.nmw find alon- taken at a rental of 10 pr year. Bens, following three are the me t famoes. spired aculptor has esl.a asebohis tomb humorous fashion, by a distrit er in h Ban•e street, unaided, besan his farm labo•a the lrst tha is ofhis s atio to the tthe entral province Some of kb trs Whit •.aday.in 1188. He muss-Poesy daesaadi Hoo s took fright and ran away and he iwadms Monday after Uee and theirt toiled manfully ntil the .uhUmof that ".r' _nowsct1'C... Lo Ma diaeovering the rustic rsat.athispleu - headmen to istento eqlsnpauka. year, meantime s amay a luatyloIu Thattull so hIr. loo ut.- The ma never sets M as mal- sly•ig on the fact that waMges of to lis absent dews woi'apb o to tbh blob. Tajn, tarnts to his memor . eta he solmnl sarmd thma that thme edhovel he fnd. sad i•• ks' pee .hor, b't al or bee. dagaeemss . We ar s, cottae Englsad sad the emperor of , ia the waekmeds wihk stands sthem smee to this, the as d die b-," ':at. c .- ''' S bemtte M md .L laidaa big betn US THE. : BEROOK: STORI ma tbat anebr latable asstiiust, p 1st the sthrine of Jean spa bhiam, ba at be tain in as the 5evwN Benbera saa prisat,hhe a his *11. orS-- ailing I 6 a a oadol. ta:%Pl"i"~ h ae hsud tes , tha ,