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Show TIIE GUNNISON GAZETTE. By MX1U .0 II I 1.1ULL Ill'll NS LAND OF TRIP THROUGH THE COUNTRY DEAR TO ALL SCOTCHMEN, UTAH. CUNNIaOf), !) It new like adding Insult to Injury uLiu tLo utbi.m bind Is kla LEL Relics ef the Famous Poet Preserved at Many Places Which Ho Immcr-ta-l sed in His Verse At the Auld Brig o Doon. A COZY RETREAT FOR MY LADY The surrouii lleg of the cottage have Imprott J bluce our pres lull visit, rnd the many articles appertaining to limns are ck arty, si uu m the museum adjoining. We look In at old Ai'nwa.v C'-l-- , fo vlvUl'y portrayed in "Tam o F! unit r," w!.re a. d. mu .t 0 ,n rail-fuln-u- V. uul t sn-r- f.u-- t tl iii.it furl- t noiiiH, g t he A r ... 1 f ' I I out-luokl- u d Hi g ' j 1,, n," jn-r- l,ii t s -- r . ( I . stop ut Dumfri s, mu vui'i h- i tiy the rio: t sacred haunt of the hi. Bum-frieno-- ' i ? - 11 I ; - - and luii'e ,.ir I' ' I . 1 - KuV fuiU.t i cm Vi t c to th N.i ticin! ru u I...1. s'tua'i d on l! e la"l.tf f tin- - Ihnn, .'l a i s 1, iul spot t ;'-- w- Th tro'a a riva k foa oa In each end of the isUiiil cf Ji.jtl, mid tin) golden nu-ai-i c.iu't lo found at alL t t A G?per!ul IVrti ;n r.'knce ) One of l.'.o in t mi-.trips to t fK'iilr! nna Is tin iii'i tin- - I.o.d of Hums. I'or tl at pi.ro Kit l.uii- c lit' fl! 11 I.' I. 1 r fit According to Iiua "coi Action, art aik-r.Our cji.s Lading it ao thank you. , !! a . tt'V Ilf i n 1 A young woman la Cauilrlds bat discovert.-- J a r.i-.;ar. If It l.a ring like id Saturn the doubtless U Lappy. call at t'.o T.im o S.ianti r lun to mthe pool f.irtl i r ri lir.g o' Ayr. which, wo woio pi:.. One atirjirklng thing about wood alcohol la that It Las cot lien so thorough! aJultcratod as lo be harmless. U l'"iti r'p.tirol. to the momiin.nl op tho grn a Irji-iugtrain to Venders erage may harmless, grain" cf I.-- town faging Alisa Cra g and Arran, (hr-va("Paddy's was at ono timo a wolhknown vviavlng vllicg. but tho old ha to give way to the now, and not many looms are loft. We nil on Maggie weaver. In lla.us. a witty Ayr-lur- e Wrrk street, whore the old hom and spinning Jenny are rtill to ho Hon working, though they are 01 or It" years old. Ono of the inter, stlrg spot we Mlle-nmi- ' Oae of the most effective excuse for long summer vacations will be lost forever If the new cure for hay fever proves to be all that Is claimed for It. A Nevada young woman won several thousand dollars at faro, but quit when she found she had lost all of It. Women are proverbial for cold feet. A Nebraska boy wants to marry his stepmother. This should serve as a pointer to stepmothers. Let them be kind. They never can tell what may happen. Prof. Jeem8 Corbett la 6ald to have written a play. Probably a red bead ed, freckled faced villain Is knocked out in the third act by a blow In the aolar plexus. If that sea eagle that has Just been presented to John D. Rockefeller looks too much like a bald eagle the oil king will probably regard the gift as a personal Insult. Another cure for dyspepsia is an nounced. All you have to do Is to eat chalk. Thus there still Is hope for those unfortunates who have tried the sand cure in vain. If Princess Louise hadnt eloped be the Quern of Saxony now. This should be a warning to women who are thinking of running away with their French tutors. shed We shall one day be able to do out sleep, a scientist says. We need to If we are to exercise eternal vigilance which appears ally to be the price of liberty. with shall that liter- It has become the fashion for novelists to go to Europe for the purpese of recuperating after each book. Considering the blood they have to shed it Is no wonder they require rest. lis'ted Nave of Me rose Abbey. buildings and narrow I without a 'fit's or a tram, and we were surprised to find thcr- - were no eectrlc cars between Dumfries and Mixwell town, which are div led by the Ithir NIth, cro'-m- l y a fine suspcr-lo- n bridge, the old Iri 'go. and the now ono. Aftor viewing -- onu of tho public buildings we wend our way to Burns street, a stnaegiing. narrow- thorough- fare, where the po- -t lived and died. Wo were received by Burns Jean Armour Brown, a pleasant, huom lady, with fine dark eyes and a striking resemblance to the poet. There are many mementoes in the house, and Jean, with a certain I - ' j I Akrf 1 m1r case for the criminal rather than the civil court. Titled foreigners are in the habit of visiting this country under assumed names, but whether it is for the purpose of dodging designing mamma or the police court records has not been made clear. Since that little hitch In the christening of the battleship Connecticut, the young lady sponsors now are smashing the bottles with an apparent determination to scatter the fizi and escape a fizzle. It has now been fully demonstrated that a woman can dress comfortably n an a'lowance of $2,500 a year. Husbands who are working on a salary oi loss than this amount, will do well to ask lor a raise immediately. Some of the members of the Italian .congress contemplate resigning by way of protest against the governments policies. This is a method which the knockers cf this enlightened country never gave a moment's thought. Prof. Metchnikoffs new microbe which prolongs life indefinitely is found in abundance in the Balkan 6tates. It was always suspected that some day those Balkan states would be discovered to have 6ome good reason for existing. ; ' Tlffi i ifllfe - 1 ll any be 0 may lav,, W n m::.-- ; d. 1 til ll.ll.v,- - d p.i-I tho window. If tin coin- r Is room or !",r::r It o dd h ive rouv, 1 t.ik"i from a sii'injp . lo - wl h cr.-t- i a In I the woojAork me vai. ift li:o d r-- live. AND THE NERVES. Direct Connection Between tho Two Has Been Proved, Grant Dexter in his hook on Weather Influences rays that "Inhabitants of lint climates are usually listless, uninventive, apatl otic and Improvident. An equable h gh temperature, espet 'ally if moist, weakens body am) No long mind. established lowland tropical peo- pie la a conquering rare In the broad- est sense of the word. For the Inhabitants of the higher altitudes, even under the tropical sun, this may he true; for ns we ascend the temperature lessens about 1 degree ever 270 feet on an average, and even at the equator we may have a temperate climate. The most favorable temperature for health, which 'arrles with it an aggressive energy whlih leads and which has led tfce wor(-- l march of civilization, is about 45 de grees, on an average, and tills found In the temperate zones. From there have roinejBie brawn and brain of martial and Intellectiia' attainment. The dominant people are shown between the latitudes or 2." degrees and 53 degices. Drii"g the I ondon fogs and on days when the weather Is particular ly depressing, in the Bank of Eng land certain sets of hooks an er. oi in wTlth would he cumulative am' produce disastrous results further or, are IorkeJ up and tie dorks set to tasks less intricate and Important In character. Experience has taught tho--in charge that the percentage oi error increares many fold during such climatic conditions, and that It B money in pocket to yield to them. Tin same necessity for cessation of cer tain lines of work during had spell1-oweather is recognized by the larg er hanking institutions in New York and the other eastern cities. It las been the universal expert ence of the superintendents of prison1' and asylums for the insane tl at the persons in the'r charge varied sr markedly with the meteorological conditions that no man could doubt that the relation Between the weathered emotional Ftafes was any other than that of cause and effect. Whe poivpvp. wh-- t definite rondi tions of tbe weather tended to be the mod productive of emotional ahnor malities. no satisfactory answer could be made. Closing Him Up Completely. Li old-tim- t-. , at iiirt.ilu ini in iti drap rts. Toil-..re wr 1'! s on a rha"!, or :ii a ot.y If t!o- fu.ur jots are I an wlito CLIMATE Q In fir t.c curtair c. su .It But William A. Pinkerton tells of an confidence man who used to do bus'ness in Chicago. He was anxlotr 4 to work unmolested arourd a depo where- a special officer was engaged to the unwary. The crook one day walked up behind the officer ' Vs. ' i. whom he knew pretty well, and sud denly reached around and put his hards over the officers eyes. Balmoral Castla. "Can you see anything now? asked one Croson hot in Ccsc?.ck land, yet the mistress the con man. (the churchyard, and bies) the pedigree can be traced frdm cr the house! old has less trouble to Not a thirg, said the other, as he 1G74 to the present day. At the top keep milk and other foods sweet there raised his hands. .The crook removed fn of High street is Burns statue, showthan England, for every house his hands, and a twenty dollar gold ing his favorite dog resting its head above the rank of cottage has its piece fell Into each of the officers on hi3 foot a striking monument; which is refilled during the lathands. hut vve think it would look to better ter part of the winter with huge The crook walked away laughing, a few yards. blocks of ice brought, perhaps, many but Ce officer fr llowed. "Say, he advantage if raised Leaving Dumfries, our next stop miles across tho frozen steppe from if you'd put one of thee into was Kilmarnoc, where a fine monu- some distant lake or river, in the bul- my mouth I could not even speak." ment of Burns is to be seen on an lock carts. New York Times. eminence in Kay park; in fact, we think it is one of the best statues of Cver the Phone. Why No Birth Certificate. the features of the poet. So it should I ast week a woman brought her Derew was not long ago Chauncey "Auld in Killie not the was it for be, For little daughter to one of the South irom the Waldorf. first edition of his poems was printed? telephoning to Brooklyn schools to gain admhsion. found difficult it some reason he Behind the statue is an interesting make Central understand who ho The regular questions were put to the Burnsiana museum. was. mother, hut imagine the feelings of Ayr was our next place of interest, the head of the department in charge I am called he Depew! so Chauncey which were of the surroundings tones of dopp indigna-- t when, after asking to see the child's closely connected with Robbies life. In stentorian on. Cant you hear. Chauncey De- birth certificate, she was informed by A pleasant walk from the station of the woman: us pew! Dppew! to Chaurcey the two miles about brought Sure, she aint got no birth certiworld-knowthe poet Oh, carr the voice of the girl cottage where brought up In an inwas born. We suppose it is the same sweetly. "I be Tour pardon. Well, I ficate. She was York New Times. cubator! looks m exterior the the Tsarina of very Russia! New but cottage, old of rx the some ? to Herald. prints. different Jb l.i? i.Kig in !!"! d. w.th wlito inn l.n Or k 1 I t dai: ly 1 t ill e V'r r r 1 I... If W - p II.i n con-vue- i It bh. 1 bas-relie- 11 r this neighborhood waiKlik-Oswald- , the birthplace of the poet's mother, with its old churchyard, dating hack several centuries, win re Tam o' Shank r un Snstir Johnnie are hurled. Sutter Johnnie's wife is buried on the opposite side of the t Inin Ityar I. hut whither In can- - they would "fill out, history Is silent. We came arro-- s an intellg. nt Scotch dame at May hole, who informed us she was IcH years o'd. She had walked three miles, carrying eggs and honey in a basket, and was going to ndurn the same day. Though sllgatly amount of pride, turned over tho leaves of a large volume which contained the Inscriptions attached to the wreaths sent by admirers from all parts of the world at the centenary of the poets death. Continuing our Journey, we find, along a narrow passage In High street, the Globe inn ("Burns Howff), where Burns was the center of many merry parties. Mrs. Smith, the genial proprietress. brought forth from a recess the poet's chair, In which we sat, and in rooms above were window panes on which he wrote two verses to "Lovey Pollie Stewart and "Gin a Body Meet a Body, a punch bowl and Jug with toddy ladle, another chair of the poet's, his wifes chair, Highland Marys chair, etc. Higher up the same street we came across The Hole In th Wa' inn, which, we are informed, dates from 1C20. Hero we were pleasantly received by the proprietor, Mr. John Thomson, a great collector of Burnsiana, who has many mementoes, interesting including Burns svvordstick, which he presented to his friend John Richmond; an excise return fer Maxvvelltown, signed and examined by Burns; a part of the Masons apion of the poet, etc. We next visit St. Michaels churchyard, where lie the remains of Burns, his wife, and five sons in a mausoeum, f In which is a representing Burns at the plow, looking at a vision of Highland Mary. Many ancient monuments are to he found in the t . f ri, and nitre, hri;l. (ho-- coir.- In Charles Wagner, author of The Simple Life, says he is charmed by And yet the 'Washington society. country has supposed that Washington was the head center of the double life. A Chicago woman is suing for divorce because in eleven years her husband allowed her only four hats. To most women this will appear as a If for a li'i1;. to a iliw-v- ! hand-wealin- In the New York city hall there Is who says he gets too mucft pay. Was, rather; he's probably la a traitjacket by now. Princess Chlmay announces that aha la going on the Blast-- . Let us bops he will appear clothed In something of greater length than her name. n 1 a man are properly endorsed. wo ln- -i it p, and t.ii,. o! country of wood alcohol as a bevinsist, of course, that It Is as it comes from the the wood. And now a doctor ass rts that drafts are good things for people with colds. They are good for everybody. If they . Yi-v.- No. Bright's contagious or Ink ctloux, but Iiigh living Is. It frequently amount to the same thing ultimately. o - -- . i v a nnd rn, w .11 ly nt-tr- TIRED OF FORTUNE'S FLINGS. LIVES ON SPIDER WEBS. Choleric Colonel Finally Went the Limit In His Resentment. Tho late Col. Prentiss Ingraham, whose hiiiilunt life ended sadly in a soidieis' home In the south, served for a time in the Austrian army, and the other day a New Orleans man said 01 hltn; "While Col. Ingraham was living hrro I often heard him tell stories of his foreign service, and of a choleric Ausliian colonel with wtiom be bad much to do. Accordlrg to one of thee utories, tho Austrian colonel was spending a certain evening In a Buda Pesth club, watching a match game of backgammon between a friend of his and an English btranger. "Luck, as a rule, enters Into backgammon hut little. In this match game, however what Buck there was went entirely against tho colonel's riend. Tho poor j fellow played ikougl tfully and well,' but throughout lie evening tho Englishman got the Man Trains Them to Spin Webs on Wine Bottles. In this age of el ams, however, even rpideis Webs n av he fraudulently etter of him. , The colonel stood behind bis Tlcnd's chair, looking on. He fussed mil fumed ns iuck went against the Vustrian player time after time, and e continually expressed surprise that his friend could take his had fortune vith such resignation. "Finally he became quite himself. His friend made a move that was unfortunate. "Can you stand that? he asked. Yes. Why not? tho other answered composedly. Well, If you can, I cant, tried the colonel, and, reaching over, he seized he backgammon hoard from the laps of the astounded players and threw it in the fire." y Pestilence in the East. The English Church Missionary Society calls attention to the fearful ravages of pestilence in several countries in which its agents are at work. In Uganda the sleeping sickness has Busoga and the northern shores of the Victoria lake, and is fast deThe populating the Sese Islands. dague in the Punjab has been claim-nas many as 20,000 victims in a nonth, while cholera, which lias laid housands low in Palestine, is now raging in Persia. des-date- d g d to vino lotliis, fur there an Gran-t.air- c elderly Front Lilian named Pl-rrwho luukos a comfort able by supplying unscrupulous wino dealers wiih specially bred spiders, at a fixed rule of $2.50 per 100, which tray ho relied upon, if turned loose amongst wine bottles, to at once proceed to spin ahundunt wchs upon them. Tho reason of this Is tint Pierre Grantaire keeps a large establishment at Philadelphia which lie devotes to breeding spiders. They are kept in dark, cool rooms, which are rendered flyproof by mears of double fulding doors, between which a mosquito curtain is stretched, nnd the spiders nro allowed to roam at their will alioTrf" shelves, on which nre placed numerous port bottles. If a spider spins on the wall or In a corner of a shell, its web is promptly destroyed by tie owner; hut if one of these creaturrs spins on a bottle, It is promt (ly rewarded with a fly. Spiders that refuse to spin on bottles are kept without food, and from time to time, to encourage them to makes their webs on bottles, Gratitairo sticks live flies on the glass with spirit quin, and in the course of time the spiders become trained to only spin on hotties. When their education Is thus completed, they are placed in separate compartments in light wooden boxes and dispatched to tho fraudulent wine merchants, who make use of them to give their hotties the appearance of twenty years storiee in cellars cool. Should the of these splnrers he Europe, they are previously frozen, and are p Iuced in the refrigerating chamber dining the voyage. In tl is event the extra cost is naturally borne by their purchasers. Stray Stories. com-pcten- Bury War Material. The people of the Caucasus are said to he concealing imported arms by burying them in coffins, with the usual funeral ceremonies, the iolicenot noticing Hat the death rate is rather higher than usual. t Pedeems Pieces. The Treasurer of the United States on May G, 1T0G, redeemed two haif-con- t pieces. This is the first time in tho history of the cf untry that any such coins have been presented for redemption. Half-Cen- Japs Break Strike. Union bartenders, waiters and brewery hands recently went on strike in Bakersfield, Cal. The public hunger nd thirst were only partly assuaged by the employment of Japanese strike breakers. rr-te- et Kail New Sweet Cider! l'our the libation on the altar of What more eloquent of tbe .1 uitmg time of the year than the ieg-jnNew disi I aye-- on every side Sweet Cider? In the draught comes a tingling thrill as if th1 life blood of the apple sent an inspiration through the veins. No bitterness mars the flavor, there is no hint of coming decay; this is not the fall of the year, it is the climax of the glad experiences of a lifetime. If water is the ale of Father Adam, sweet cider is the liquor of Father Time. An exhilaration steals through the brain. M- mory unfolds visions tf awakening to life in rosy dawn fanned by tie m.lde-- t March winds, of the promise of the Eastertide crowned with blossoms difiusing an incnse on tie altar of nature, of moonlit June nights when young apples blurhed under sheltering leaves ard the sweet sap throbbed In the heart of the ripening pulp. October. d - Then came long harvest days that smiled serene until the fruit, gcli.cn or rid, hung like Jewels upon the branches. Still other recollections haunt the orchard ways. Gladly tail the homely memories. There we carried indk fir the cves, there the young turkeys peeped, and the autocrat of the fleck gobbled defiance at our intrus.on, and the honey bers hummed above the apple trees. In the early autumn the cnne shifts to the cider mill at the foot of the Mil. Our nostrils drew in the of crushed apples no nectar of the gods could be sweeter than the cider that was sucked through a stiaw slyly inserted in a chink in the logs till it met the overbrimming vat. All hail to Ceres and the fruits ot autumn. Lit Bacchus dance with ihe graae; our Elation shall flow frurn the veins of the apple tree in new sweet c'der. Chicago Post e |