| Show I 1 g MF nd N d ki TH IQ SCOTCH it F I 1 I 1 caledonians CALEDONIA NS REVIVE THE MEMORIES OF SCOTIA I 1 I 1 excellent program of Music Speeches Speech c r and an original poem in I 1 dialect I 1 I 1 hundred local caledonians Caledonia ns gathered gather J in the congress hall last night to do honor to the memory of tho the famous bard and revive memories of the fatherland dear to the tile hearts of all true scot the occasion was successful socially and otherwise and patriotism ran high as friend greeted friend in the rich brogue that ruadlh proclaimed the native an excellent program of iii music speeches and dances prelude I the dance lance which was kept up until a late bour A feature of the evening was iho the highland fling and sword dancing of miss craig a small tot dressed in native costume to the weird strains of a bagpipe she pert performed ormed the difficult movements of the dancea without a break and with a dash and swing that won the approval instantly y of her audience A As speaker of the evening frank franl J cannon delivered a timely and comprehensive address on robert burns bums he spoke of him as a patriot a soulful man with great love for his fellow men a poet one of the sweetest sl singers ng of any age and a man of convictions with the courage to tread on the superstitions and bigotry of his age openly and alone for the event dr A S condon composed the following poem ROBERT BURNS wild heather bells and robert burns burnsl the mooreland flower and pea peasant how at their mention memory turns her pages old and pleasant whittier come cronies a lets live ngali auld Sc otias heydays over lets hear the crickets I 1 the grain the bees the clover 0 plowman I 1 the wakeless sleep the constant world still lingers wl longing heart beart to hear thee sweep thy harp 1 wl I magic fingers I 1 whore where joy jov abounds wi wl wings outspread or lovers hearts be broken in every avery land where thought arc are said thy name Is gently spoken then slug sing to night the songs he sang haply their burden fairy of bonny doon the braes and 0 sweet highland mary alary the mists still hide the crangle hills bills wrapped in III the twilights gloaming and dreamily purl the wimpling rills where fallow deer are roaming the linnets linneas lin nets cloi on heather spray pour floods of o pastoral op splendor lendor above where ti ym eslow wastes away their fellow inin minstrel tender 1 e I 1 and anti still across the azure sli sky V the lark is heavenward winging warbling such airs of ec ecstasy tasy that heaven with bong song Is li ringing th the star serene hose lea lessening ray gave morn its varly greeting still pales as when that fateful day beheld the fare farewell tell meeting the birch and hawthorn hoir hoar where conscious birds birdi were singing and wanton winds abang the shore their incense sweet were bringing time cannot dim nor distance rob the soul its blithesome pleasures nor dull the pulses joyful throb where swell thy harps wild measures I 1 and listening a the clouds of grief are fringed with sunshine golden and awl scenes forgot forgat turn leaf by leaf to vistas sweetland swee tand and olden they smoothen the wrinkled brow of toll I 1 and biddens turn to bowers bower the is ane who digs the soil and wreathes his plow with flowers thy runic songs 0 tuneful ayr still tell of Scot lands glory thy banka batiks and braes are still as fair but recite the story the world applauds while scott a names the lesson and the teacher or from her olivet proclaims the sermon and the preacher I 1 and it if at times the riot thought to baser self appealing betrays the tile evil things that ought to die without revealing remember finite man Is dust this side the crowning portal and to be fa fislid slid wl fleshly lust just Is proof hes lies only mortal it Is not where his homo home Is ji at in palace hall or hovel for a mans a man toy for a that if hes lis on the square and civil A S condon I 1 the following was the th program of the evening j L remarks He marls chairman 2 song there was a lad born in kyle burns mr matthow Matt liew gait galt 3 song my balms burnt aless lulu Al matchell itchell Ml 4 highland fling in costume with accompaniment miss craig 5 song conlin the rye I 1 burns I 1 tillie 11 hancock ancock G 0 piano selection jessies jessie dream descriptive of relief of lucknow mibs miss Winni frea 7 song laddie mrs bessie dean allison allason All lson 8 poem 1113 burns dr A 8 condon written especially for tho the occasion miss bertha 13 eccles 9 oration on burns i hon F J cannon 10 song I love ave me and the world is mine robert adams 11 sword dance with bagpipe accompaniment craig 12 9 sofig 11 my IN nanalea Nann 61 lea ilea aa aia B burn u rno I 1 alin mra J H H S Spar p argo fio committee on lirange arrangements ments geo I 1 I 1 0 c ad jr james janies macbeth Mac Ala Belh cBeth 1 S 1 i I 1 I 1 Con committee mAtee on oil floor aft aa law nj N W 1 S 11 L shorts orchestra the brogi pro groin ain wa gone as a arranged with tho the P that i lilun ber of the vie ar aruta artists wro w ro recalled and gave additional numbers aa As an ait on an encore miss lulu 1 ulu who had previously sung my aly annia on a recall mg mary ot of arele argyll miss tillie hancock ancock II sang conr coln iab ing throngs tilt ro one of burns rooms ani ana being recalled aang thit that lovely hymn all the night mrs beisle dean allison alfr her first dumbier gave last night kight then canio the oration on oil arns by former senator frank J cannon as follows one hundred and forty eight years ago today heaven gave to earth a man mart and as tn fondly predicted to the tile perfect companion of his gul osul when his all tod brief ariff career of mortal time was closing lla its saddened day ho Is moro respected now than he lie wa was then robert burns loved woman hia lils critics say all too well robert burns bums loved men an aal in III that lovo love and its expression in III the songs ho he sang to comfort thorn them in the epics he lie chanted to fire them to higher things in the war he made against injustice upon them thein he gained a place in grate grateful fur hearts from which no slander can dislodge him hini and which no other poet or philosopher can call ever usurp it is not with the poet that I 1 would deal for the measures which he wrought havo have had the loving applause of countless millions and as the poet of humanity ho is BO so enshrine ed that praise is nee needless aless the severest critic of verse has been compelled to bow before the worlds wide judgment and the poet burns stands now in undisputed height above any other singer of the english tongue dut but the man ann the man in him appeals to us in this great graat hour when men alen are needed as never before in the peoples life his songs ot of love touch chords of love but his songs for man and ano mans nans enfranchisement ment touch the string that sounds of a battle for redemption demp tion and we hear its vibrant noto note calling us to the tile holy fray whether ho he fought against the lujus tice of eviction from scanty farm or stood amidst thronging ilu duchesses chesses whether he lie clinked hia his glass with an unco ton fon companion at the village inn or struggled with a publisher to win wn reluctant guineas which he had thrice earner whether for himself or for his people he spoke or fought burns was always the man alan and a always the uncommon man alan whose splendor of personal qualities shines upon the whole human race above all other manly war fares of his manly life stands glowing in the reverence of his big people and all nations Rind kindreds reds and tongues are his people his conflict against bigotries bigo tries of those hirkman who were so tea tenacious of good that they would not allow any goodness to others they were of the olan alati who want a monopoly of holiness who think that if salvation Is to be too widely expended in the hereafter they will lose something of the singularity singular it I 1 and the preeminence pre eminence of their cere atla glory and therefore while white they deplore in words the aln sin and error of their fellow men in this world they tal take le unto themselves the unctuous jo y of knowing 1 that they are not of these t the I 1 ie J evil ovil ones ant and that they will infest a heaven leaven which to their great groat sati satisfaction faction will not he be overcrowded overcrowd there wore were mich in III th day of barns tagre tylre are such now who think thai that heaven I 1 would be altogether er too commod commo if nal salvation vaton were to be widely exten extended led and the joy jy of their self croaked expectation ot dwelling in gods presence prence is that they will not have lo 10 touch elbows there with too giai others of god gods children but chanka to burns the man and to other men uch itch as he those selfish bigots are fewer fi li now liow ow than they were in n tho the adny when whon holy willies prayer stripped naked the vainglory vain glor ious fous of the kirk such stich as they were then ben such as they are now their confident esteem of self and creed settles to a finality all the problems of man mail r relation la uon to the almighty father and sets definite bounds upon the expression of mans piety and such as they were then and such as they are now their millions of aggregated souls piled together and multiplied by them themselves selve and by their atomic generations ire re less substantial bial than the shadowy of a mighty man like burns upon the history of mankind no man can ari arise se above the true glon for it comprehends all heig heights lits but many professors profess irs of creed creel tall fall far below real religion in lit their devotion to forni farni and burns burn the tile M man a n broke and shattered pred by the sheer force of his tremendous individuality the shell of creed the good which ho he conferred Is io as wide as the domain wherein christianity has reared its tim temples ples for from burns every man altin may know the right of thought the right of speech the right of protest against the rule of bigotry and every teacher bearing the name divine must justly learn a terror of standing with invading foot between an earthly man and the liba heavenly venly creator creditor who made distinct inviolate and self re mans eternal part if the songs of burns comfort us his example inspires u when tho the I 1 unco gads in III their small satisfaction of creed content tell us its as it if they were the tle custodians of god gods purposes what he the tile omniscient wills we shall do lo and leave undone in lit borni ni of worship we turn to the over living words of burns to know how a man alan can speak a mans answer to the uey ugly cre creedin creep epin ln blasted won tiers thorp is no malice malici on earth equal to tha he shown by an tin over ly self goodman good man good pod in hla his narrow selfish worship of hla his own little narrow form of creed tolk toward IId the sinner whose offense of thought or act is far too big for the small one to share the ravening joy with which he lie fealty upon lipon the misdeeds hiedee dk of another clif acquire its 18 most piquant sauce from the tilt consciousness that he himself iff freed from temptation never knowing that omo some natures a are 0 o petty that a great temptation cannot enter their delight of labor is to fashion the tho small and poisoned darts with which they stab a soul in III vene ganco because it IB Is enfranchised boyo hoyord Tirl their comprehension and when the baru barly draws its drop ot 01 blood they dance batice in III holy joy and ask the great god to look loor down upon the tile punishment which they have perpetrated in his name and when the tiny wound bettl pet fester from rom their veno meI shaft the aloud to heaven to 8 slower upon aliew its choicest gifts girts alie they havo have taken into choir alic wilting bunda gods own right of juddine naj and anti have wrought TIN wll will upon 1119 ha creaturo creature in their thell Nv willing illIng and pogo neof hasto and ank in ill tho 9 joy of df the 90 ditth worms t of fec bu cution aro alo 0 oven an doubtful lh k ad 1 fa s tp p make tJi Bown and perform hia own work 0 of judgment t in ill tho the hora horar I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 aftel and tj them ih punish ie le the wicked wicked man liall aall t oreally ilio the conscience of or lit tot ic into tho the souls of such usurpers usurp ers of the omniscient has never entered ohp mightiest of all truths that mans ians thought his word aud and his deed are inescapable of half that what he thinks and unit says and doab become a part ot his immortal self self rewarding its joy or self olf avenging with its ita misery let the objects ot of their hato hate may not bp be into hell heli ao 40 to gnash their gums and anti weep and wall in burning jakeo where damned devils roar and yell chained to that st alees alces tho the spit self elected executors of gods good pleasure choose to hero here inflict upon their fellow men the will which they to gods design hereafter in lit the day of robert burns tho the bigot of a creed could swing his christian chriatian knout across the shoulders of the heretic and town and village would cry erv well done one believing that suffering inflicted by man upon man in the name of mans creator thrilled the infinite alth joy and when burns stood in single majesty a n thinker who dared a man too vast for the small waistcoat of a creed observance ho he wag was wa g at once the tile manof man of fullest stature and the true prophet for his act of freedom showed the way tor for millions to dare the brand of heretic in order to be free in any christian land where men ian of thought make struggle to win beyond the limitations of a narrow creed burns the man and the prophet has robbed the word heretic I 1 of all its terrors in the long shining at array ray of heroes lierow who have made the freedom of mankind no name nanto more moro glorious than his appears others may have spent their blood upon tho the field of liberty others may have given their names to documents of independence others may have stood in revolutionary parliament but no one of all has opened for so many men the door of thought and mighty purpose to be free in all the great essentials that make a man too brave to lie even in his own defense too grand too sublime of loving purpose for the race rice to abide within the tile confines of a narrow w creed he broke his bonds and breaking them ho he sang a song of manhood and of prophecy that 6 sets ets the millions free to think and nd do the men who struck at him with poisoned darts of outraged creed arc are dead and dust and from their tombs corner comes now no voice of vengeance or of prayer to fright tho the world or to supplicate late for themselves a judgment merciful but burns who suffered wounds because he would be true and free can never die no dust is he but living ever in the mighty work he wrought where intelligence abides creeds now are made for men not men mert for creeds the aspiring human tout foul finds no iron rule to stay its reach toward the infinite and heresy except for tot the evil memory that it invokes is almost an unknown sound I 1 none but a man alan could hae haic loved men as burns loved and none lione but a man could have won the loveon woman such as he lie won for standing clear in the supernal light surrounding their twin virtuous virtu out souls into which light no invading shadow ot of another woman comes ia is the tho figure of jean armour who thrice gave to him herself and of whom he gently bontly paid she had the kindest heart in lit all the country it is burns who lovid his fel lowman lo that I 1 ask our thought when people praise his wondrous gift of song and quickly add with sanctified leer but rne meaning anIng then to lick their chops with a ecu il al of his frailties my hand goes up in admonition that they stop I 1 |
