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tB7VMOMLLU T . RBMOt KUPHAL & SCHUMACHER,. * Finding that theirtarade has increased to-such an extent, and that their patrons were residing in all portions of the city, and'thata more central location was necessary, secured the building opposite the Gold and Power blooks, (one door south of Sixth avenue) and have removed their ELEGANT STOCK OF GROCERIES from their old stand near the head of Main street. They will continue to carry the BEST line of FANCY, STAPLE 0AND IMPORTED GROCERIE: in Helena, and will meet all prices made by competitors. Our goods are all fresh. We do not overstock our- selves, but make frequent and regular shipments. We carry everything usually kept in a first-class grocery house. We sturly the wants of our trade and cater to their tastes. Anything ye u want in our li-.o we can fur- nish you; if we can't, not another house in Montana can. .+.BUDlWEISER BEER. We are agents for this cele'brated Bde, which we can furnish in any quantity. Our stock of Wines for family trade is of the very best. KUPHAL & SCHUMACHER, 137 North Main Street, r .--- Helena, Montana 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.

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