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Show cosmopolitan scot I Igjjhn Maclr.ien. Authoi of "Beside tht Bonnie Buer Bush," Etc. Wjt two 1 a 1 1 : In ,.- char- ' see m io be HHrmblnaiffin has niadi He Si ISWdliit' ii of the w 01 I.I One Is ,ii. ii, .. ..I urn to count I Hi his v, . 1 , . 1 .. n. - ! the flBfhf-i'i-o 1 ho travels tin Scol "h I 1111. an. I he,,,,. ;il is to Inc. A even io ln. rhildi en's chll- -Wjd. Iliilal.'. S. ... - 0 . In- 'Wor Burtiif loyalty to the a Ilk, and. jlllioogh In- may have ir.n 1 Ion. his ri-Mpret tor the bcotlaud Is hut a mull coun- , graph-. . Iiil like 1 ; : ... 11 ami fhas made 1 Influence felt In rOf the 1 a . K. .... ntc ll ha.M 0jt hu.-- bi n tin easlei ot Its peop id I" ause. It a haul land pool Hern climate, ami a !&Bm 11 i. 1 I . 11 - 1 : oiig. t mstre, luojs. A seerc mother Jias been 1 I ilthful nui e of jJ0 land .e 1.1:1 ., 01 . di f.t l war exiles p. . , , r t hi r. ai e K In a eli they gather on St iiy to cm tha i- 1, . ui.e, at dishes ' jjBe Iialloi.il io 11 ami fff- theii nil:., laid, and 10 Ho Cl")atri..iH m-ii, . io ', t, their CPiw iii in-. if any man writes r Scothtnd tin ...i- , , . to aHthc earth will buy his hooks. AV Mian II, ir l.haal , ,,ri . II In the , i ll, .a .... . ,, . Vi , Is nam. A Lovnl Exile, Jen hi., .wlit iie, ,1,1 , . -in. n 3lJ i-hril g. II,.,: il,., ... lir-lpr, rlr. in. 1 : il be . r dltable foi Hn a large rand). - .. TBscrfditahle for one 111. 1 IHnatlon to lend r lininl to hi-fflMey hi-fflMey both fight tv, mr( battl. eWBcolsini ii d.. tail a e r- V' " l-'-el w h. 1, ; . . !.-., , , ftle tnope;. .,s 11 also t.; nD" lh' ' ' "IT'' '"'.IM tl" ersanded il,;, 1 ,v . Yj?'1'1 : 'tui ns ii, . .. flOJStots io. h. r Ha K,a -. . " 11 the mirllii asl . n.m .i,e nnerald of the heallul- In an-he an-he Klnn ..i 1: - ,,,, ii,, in,. -From the Utunds of ., 1. rhsor, remembered th- land In lltollH Hot In. .,1 il I, 1 II rote: 1 bants which Cod decreed l"tre he Dir. children of lh heather I Willi) fn dviH'' h"r' ' fr,r jjjizxiL'; M :u - ,feflw Jusll infe, red thai ., m in '' ' Pat 1 loll ,id l:'r " n"'A-' '" 'i llAP h,n S' "I has 1, 01 an.., s lly pupiilar i,,,, ,,) ,,,,, t,la1 n Im-S . 1 iie, H ,,.nK a,,. I sHr- proac-hli)(r to dislike. Dr. Johnstone was not a blliul and enthusiastic admirer of the BCOtS. and even Charles Lamb in his essay "Imperfect Byinpathleii," declared that be Could not get mi with the BCOtS. Certainly then- is some reason for charge 1 iik the" Scot with being self-satlstled, otiitiloiiat-d. bigoted, and Ihnliv to a fault. Ami et 11 is a historical faol that the Sent has not Only been leaving his country coun-try hi long procession for centuries hut he has been a miit successful and. on the whole welcome emigrant wherever he has gone. Having learm-d tllO principle I loyalty to his own land he aoplles the wime pi llu lple Io the land of his adoption adop-tion While the members of gome other nations hesitate to nn.tura.lfge ihemsclveg In a new coiiiitrj and keep th. ni.seh e.s aloof from the uationul life, the Scot nl-most nl-most Invariably becomes a citizen, and throws himself Into the public life The Passport of Scottish Biith. In a ediort time, be will be Identified with social causes and with political parties par-ties and be on his way to be a leading philanthropist or the Governor of a State, The criticism to which Scotsmen have been subjected has been partly due to their pronounced nationalism lu speech and manner, bill BiSO to their undeniable SUCCesS In life and public affairs Perhaps Per-haps Englishmen Of the eighteenth century cen-tury might be excused their jealous) of the Scot wlio'i one remembers that in London the Earl of Bute was the rullm? power ill polities, that In medicine Plt-cairn Plt-cairn had 0110 of the largest practices, that In business Andrew I'rummonil of the House of Strathallan had mWo 1 huge fortune in banking and that in lit-eraturc lit-eraturc Smollett had taken the town by storm with "Rhoderlch Random." Besides, Be-sides, does not John Bull complain by the mouth of his oracle Ir Johnstone, and bj other people, thai tho Scot always brought some friend with him, ami every Bcol stood h ins Countryman so that their settlement seemed otic huge on-.spir on-.spir 1. v for spoiling .1 fal southern land and defrauding simple-minded Englishmen English-men pf their lights In Short, the Bl Ol bore transplanting better almost than nnv other people the Jew being his rival In tbl matter and having struck hi roots deep In nlv native soil hOS I"' 11 able to I drive them down into the soil of every country where he lands. Scots to the Fore. it was not yesterday that the Scot t forth to win his fort 1 Abroad lu t,r fourteenth century. Duns Bcottis. ih.- fltst of a series of learned Scotsmen went abroad, :Mid carried the continental universities uni-versities l storm, dlsl liipiil-hlug I sail llr.st at the I nlvertsltv of Paris, when according to IIHI Hurton h.- demolished two hundred of the kimtlleat s v I lot; 1 s m of ids adversaries "resolving lliem." as .1 bystander said, ' as aaall' as Bampaon unloosed the bamlh of Ueitlab." ami then In went on to found the I nlvrsltv of 1 logpc He was called Ibe ' Pubtle I(o. lor.' and also the "Resolute Doctor.' and so one recognizes In this ancient si holer the sign-mark of his people. DklgnJd lnl-getty lnl-getty was the lpe of many more distinguished distin-guished men, who served in the armies ol Prance and Germany, and in the uavj ol Kussia. Gusta-YUS AdoiohuK had thirteen regiments of Bcdts Infantry, and nj pf his other regiments had Scots officers; 'Phe nanus of Munro and Leslie, and Keith, and Grelg were known over the I, h ngth ami breadth of Europe In the old lighting tlavs, while In a Still earlier day Scotsmt n formed the bodyguard of the l"n nch King. 11 was Inevitable that when James VI ol v. otland came to the English throne he should open a way for Scotsmen to follow htm to a rlchei land and In the "Fortunes I Nlgi-l one sees In George lleilot, tilt .imgling ijeordle ol )opular speech, and In many a hungrier and less successful Scot, thl forerunners of a continuous emigration. emigra-tion. Till now. England has become, on annex of the smaller northern Country if ....I enteis the House of Commons he 1 In lis ihe Prime Minister a Scotsman, tho Icadel of the opposition a Scotsman, ihe Attorney-GeneraJ a Scotsman, bt-sldt- I other Allnlslers and ex-Miulstei s on tho two front benches if ho goes Into the city he will discover thai a huge proportion propor-tion of tin- leading banki is are Scotsmen, as w, 11 a.s partners of the powerful com-11 com-11 a rclal houses. The engineer of the I Bteamer thai taHes him abroad is most 1 likely a. Scotsman, and the man who takes barge of his garden will give the Latin I antes of the flowers with 1 strong Bcots accent. The American Scot. There are occasional signs that English nu n nr.- not so thankful to iJio idem a.s tin ought to be for the assistance that Scotsmen hsive given to their neighbors In managing their political ami business affairs, af-fairs, but the Soil has made a genial . uliqui si of Ann rh a II has ,,,,t hoe 1 1 his acc nt. nor his address, perhaps not even his Integrity and capaeltv which have commended him ami ins countrv io the bright iieople Of the lntel States. He has had no Irresistible introduction In tho great Sir Walter, who has cast ., glamour over Scot laud and Scotsmeh together. It Is the lio.ist of every American, who can I I make ii ipiui the faintest gruumls that I I he has Scots blood in his veins and ihe dealre of the ns of right-thinking Ami r-kcons r-kcons is to be at iat adopted into the Scots limage Apurl from Sir Walter, I,. w ver, Si otsnit D have made their mark in the history of America ami It cannot be erased When tht (lisi Declaration of I I dep. oil. in . ws b submitted to the Con-. Con-. tin . in. ti Congress, iuni that body healtat-I healtat-I ed. it was a Scots Minister who gave the deciding voice de. hiring, 'though 1 live gray hairs must soon descend io tho sep-Ulchre, sep-Ulchre, 1 would infinitely rather that they ih i. nd thllln r hv lh" hand of the cxecu- 1 ii ner than deser at this crisis tin- mora 1 1 use of m ountry." Ahnu the middle of the eighteenth century, Dr. John With- is, .0011 was a leader in tin gcOtS church. 1 and lu I77t ho became principal of Prince- 1 town college N'- w Jersey, and it was t hinj thai Horace WalpOle alluded when he said in the English Parliament, "Con- j sin America has run off with a Presbyte-: Presbyte-: rlan parson." if the North of Ireland lien le im hub d with the Siots. and that would i" m-'-t reasonable, then no natlou i has done more to guide American affairs 1 1 than Seedsmen and tln ir descendants. An Italian Scot. One, docs not need however to study liK-inry liK-inry in order to appreciate the world-wide Scot one has only to travel abroad and to keep his- ears open to Identify this pel severing, determined, narrow, accommodating accommo-dating Inflojtlblc citisen of the world- You tlnd yourself Olio ruing 011 lln- deck of an Italian steamer dodging about among the Greek Islands The captain, who al at ihe head of the taiii.- it iin. morning neal was an Italian, and the crew appear ap-pear to be nil of the Mine blood You hove must. 1 il all the It. ill. 111 on know, (mil are doing your best to discover from , 01 1 the seamen why the steamer's ; bows show .dgns of rci nt repair and to satisfy yourself that she is in safe con- 1 .dltlon. It Is a somewhat fragmentary 'conversation, and although both sides are doing their best it Is not quite as ltnid and informing as could he desired The mate of the Steamer has joined you, ami Is listening unnoticed to this effort at national na-tional reciprocity ilien suddenly he brinks in with a powerful accent which could only have been reared In one country coun-try U Inter heaven "Ye'ic Italian is not so bad. bul I'm Judghi' you wouldua Object to gel the information in-formation ye're after In vlr own tongue " it was my own tongu.- with a vengeance ven-geance and 1 regarded the speaker with silent amazement for ho was first ofin el In an Italian Bteamer, and he had also all the appearance of an Italian, it carm 0 it that his father had been a Sots captain In the service of this line ami hod married mar-ried an Italian woman so that my good friend was practically an Italian, ;ir,d had only one.- been hi Scotland, but ills father had brought him up with a sound accent, ac-cent, ami after we grew friendly he asked some searching questions about the condition con-dition "i the Si ots Kirk and produced with much satisfaction a copy of the ' 1 lundee Advc rtis- r A Renovation. Two steamers ore tied up together in the Suez canal and the chief cnglmiis. the one of a P and . boat, and the other of a Mcssageric, como up to air theni-BSlves theni-BSlves from the terrible heat below. The one recognizes his fellow officer by the broad band on his cap, and they draw near to have professional intercourse, it Is always pleasant for a student of human hu-man ruvture to see the meeting of different differ-ent peoples, nnd when that frenchman and our Scots Engineer approached one another you remembered the am h ot alll-inn alll-inn 1 of the two nations, and were to n had with a feeling of romance. Which would speak first and what would be said It was the Frenchman who, after a pause and steady examination of our pronounced pro-nounced S-'d opened the conversation and these were his llrst words. '. Dosh preserve us body and soul, is that you Sandy Robertson. Man I heard about ye but I've never clappit eyes on yo since we wore working together at Dumbarton Dum-barton ' After giving some directions In French to a subordinate thai in- might api be Interrupted this exiled Scot, compelled com-pelled to llvo land 00 doubt earning a good living) among frivolous frenchmen, demanded and received the latest information infor-mation on the Robertson Smith heresy lase. tin- prospeiitv of Kirkcaldy what tin- Scotsman had h en saying lately and what was the present condition of engine building on the Clyde. Then ho departed below much refreshed B ol who had put his accent and Ids theology In a thorough state of repair and. having had a breath of his native air amid the heal of tlw Suez canal, would go through the worst heat of the Urd Sea with Indifference, Indiffer-ence, llko a giant refreshed All Rights Reserved, |