| Show Burns Scots Observe Anniversary o m o m e o 0 o LYl Lyric is ic King Born horn Years Ago Today O o O m o 0 c 0 f Banks anks and Braes 0 o Doon Doom Recalled By Harvey Hancock L I v 1 ne h hundred and sixty six sixty years i J ago gO tO today Y Robert Burns Durns was born If in a tenant farmers farmer's cottage at Alloway AlI Alloway Al- Al I loway lowa Scotland To Scotsmen It needs reminder for r every year men of ot tho Hie lands t 1 V tho the world over o celebrate the anniX anni- anni h X b of the birth of the king of f VV lY lyrists In Salt Lako the arise held night at the anee was Friday f Y r l 1 Metho Methodist ll t church Second J. J South and Second East streets Bobble t rl To Toa a fretting world Burns Burns always carries a message His universal In their appeal ap- ap T. T songs are xe peal and arid many a time has a a. a heart it v conie lighter ter O on singing i Ye b banks banks' and braes o 0 bonie Doon f J How bloom fresh and can can fall fall- ye e sae sac i How can ye ya chant ye little birds oiras DIras And I sao sac a weary veary fu fut o 0 care I Like many of the immortals of poetry Robert Burns was born in humble circumstances on on- January 25 1759 Strange It Is that he shook off his attachment to the soil and became a composer of lyrics unusual unusual unusual un un- usual that a plowman and excise excIse- man surmounted tho difficulties that surrounded him and arose to share the lyric crown with the Im Immortal immortal immortal im- im mortal Shelly It is creditable to I Ithe the man that he became the national national national na na- na- na bard of Scotland and Is re remembered remembered remembered re- re internationally years after his birth UNHAPPY IN LOVE I London or to be more exact the British museum possesses the tho fa famous famous famous fa- fa 1 biographical sketch which the poet penned to Mr Moore 1 From I it has been drawn almost all the I material devoted to Burns' Burns character charac charac- ter and writings His early struggles struggled on the farm which his father leased his education cramped by circumstances the very books he read are here set down From the Spectator he got sot his Ideas of m modern dern manners of literature and of criticism lIe He read Popes Pope's works some plays of Shakespeare Locke Essay on the tho Human Undertaking Undertaking Un Un- Stackhouse's History of the Bible Allan Ramsays Ramsay's poems Harveys Harvey's Meditations and a collection of original songs I The collection of songs he says was my vade v-ade mecum I pored over them driving my cart or walking wanting walking walk want ing to labor song by song verse by verse carefully noting t tle e true affect affectation tender or sublime or-sublime sublime from and fustian I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic s craft such as it Is Burns first tried working at Ir Irvine Irvine Irvine Ir- Ir vine Scotland in 1781 In tho the business business business busi busi- ness of flax dressing On the death of his father he ho attempted farming at Mossgiel with his brother Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert Gil Gil- bert but was unsuccessful Unsuccessful Unsuccessful Un Un- I successful in tilling the soil and dun dun- unhappy unhappy un un- happy In love with Jean Armour i he decided to emigrate to Jamaica i To pay for his passage he sold o a collection of his poems Fortunately they achieved success and his book book I brought him 2500 2500 Ho changed his i mind about going to Jamaica bought a farm at Ellis land near Dumfries and married Jean Jea Armour Armour Armour Ar Ar- mour the J Jean an of his poems In 1788 RIDES PONY IRONY PONY TO EDINBURGH At the time he made his de decision decision do- do to remain In Scotland he ho w was s living at about fifty miles mUes from the tho Scottish capital so he borrowed a pony for the Journey which occupied two days His first resting place at night was the farmhouse farmhouse farmhouse farm farm- house of Covington Mans In Lan Here all the farmers of the parish came out to greet him and a white flag hoisted on top ofa of ofa ofa a a cornstalk in the tho barnyard signalized signalized signalized signal signal- the arrival of tho the peasant whose poems poem had already touched a ai i responsive chord In Yn the tho hearts of his I coin compatriots Patriots Describing scribing the event years afterward aft aft- I I aft I erward In a It letter lettel to Christopher I North an eyewitness said A AI I glorious evening or or rather night I which borrowed something from the thet t morning followed and the conversation conver- conver j of the poet confirmed and In Increased increased increased in- in creased the admiration created by his writings On the following I morning he breakfasted with a aI large I party a at the next farmhouse I took lunch with a ia lage ge i f party at nt the bank In and andI I rode Iode into Edinburgh that eY evening on onI I the I The role of led to the downfall of Burns Always nn an imbiber im im- imbiber t biber of strong liquor he became I more persistent in his Indulgence of the flowing bowl after he began arresting arresting ar- ar resting those for fol violation of the law It was his habits his extreme carefree temperament that lied led Him to an early death Like I Byron he burned himself out in his thirties Ho He died In the age I 1 of 37 SCOTCH MENU SERVED I Burns had the supreme gift of oJ ex eX- eX He lIe could paint a landscape landscape landscape land land- t tell ll a story run the gamu gamut of the emotions in one line His I penetration was was' no less accurate than It wits was acute and his felicity of phrase was of the greatest charms of his phrase Like Sir James M. M Barrie a compatriot of a much later day he ho is in the opinion of many at his best in rather than in classic English anc and it will be by his poems In the vernacular that he will be The local celebration partook of the Scottish atmosphere The menu Included cocktail grosset juice Salt Lake celery roasted coo roasted soo grated apple sauce Glesca Green peas tattles Dunoon salad rolls Muirkirk butter Dundee marmalade marmalade marmalade mar mar- malade Grannys Granny's black tea Eccle- Eccle curran bun and Gleniffer The address commemorating I ing Robert Burns was given by Da David David Da- Da vid O. O McKay I Da-I |
