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Show WROTE ANiME LAURIE A WOMAN TO WHOM THE WORLD WA3 INDGUTEU. Tha Woman Who OftfiMtil lli llo.la Del Slmtinnl tha Word, Vl.o a nlrn I of Ilia 1'oor anil Infirm of liar Hallta Ilaalh. V IJaeh bsrt reeall'd a different nam Ilut alt sang Annie Laurie Had the mm words tieen set to other notes, or had Mint othtr lova ballad bMii adapted to the aweet mi ale of "Annie taurle," would the aub-tin aub-tin chirm of suggestion have been the Mint? When a dear old song !! utm our hearts ! It the wortl. or tha tntitle which exerts the moat Influence? Whom do we hold beat beloved, the composer of verse or Hie composer of notea? In the eaae of thla perhaps the greatest lore song of the Kngllsh language; lan-guage; ah who wrote the mtialo practically wrote the words certainly certain-ly the version aa sung for the laat halt century. A tin I Laurie really lived She wae born "In the purple," bo to Kpeftk, more than J90 sears ago In Dumfrleshlre 8cotlnnd A young fel-low fel-low of the name of Douglas In a nenr-by nenr-by Hiamlet loved fair Annie, and he wrote the original version of tho well-known well-known poem The veree lived their lltllo day nnd died Their author. In due court of time, laid him down nnd died, too, but not for bonnlo Annlo Laurie, for ahe would have none of him, nnd Inttend of becoming Mra Douglas, hn elected to tnke tho nime of Kcrguaon In thla manner ahe got tho husband of her choice, but no tamo. In the courao of little moro than rt century there wna born In llngland tho woman who wna to breathe Into the dead pntm tho breath of Ufa and tho foul of mtielc. She rcactied from oblivion obli-vion tho nnmo of Annlo Laurie, nnd wrought n world-wide bond of aympa-thy aympa-thy for the hnplcea Douglaa Kvcn the namo of Mr Perguaon emerged from tho gloom of the tomb and went clattering down the rorrldora of Tlrao na tho lucky huibnnd of Annie Laurie. Lau-rie. It waa n aort of a general resurrection. resur-rection. So to Lady John Scott Spottlawood, who has Just died the world la Indebted Indebt-ed for tho words and music of tho song that It sines today Horn In 1899 aho waa married In 1635 to Lord John Douglaa Montague Scott She succeeded suc-ceeded to her brother's property In 3870 and resumed the family surname of Spottlawood She was nn accomplished accom-plished musician and an efficient player play-er on several Instruments Many jcars ago aho Issued a volume of popular pop-ular songs with music It waa much more than halt a century ngo that aho modified the original words of "Annlo Laurie" nnd composed tho music that will keep allvo tho verses for aye Wh'cn In 1831 Dnglnnd wna fighting In thi) Crimea It waa our own lliyard Taylor who wrote tho "Song of the Camp" containing the lines-"They lines-"They sang of lovo and not of fame, I'orgot, waa Ilrltaln's glory; Uach heart reeall'd a different name, And all rang Annlo I.iurlc " nnd thus linked tho ttong to the other and jounger branch of tho English-epenklng English-epenklng world The poor and Infirm In tho parish of Westrtithcr have lost n real benefactor bene-factor btho death of Lady John, who waa wont to say of her charities "My father waa kind to the poor, and why al.ould not I bo" Of pronounced antiquarian an-tiquarian tastea Lady Scott Spottlawood Spottla-wood secured every Important find In tfio district, nnd during her long Ufo gathered n Itrge collection of objects of archaeological Interest. Bho permitted per-mitted no Interference on her estate with any featuro that served to kiep allvo tho memory of tho past, and old-plaeo old-plaeo names woro strictly adhered to Instead of placing the direction, 'Shut tho gate," on gules she wished kept closed In her demesne, tho request nppeared In her crnaculnr, 'Stock the J&tt," 8ho had no box-scat on her tarrlagc, her coachman having to ride na postillion, and her clinging to bygone by-gone customs was manifested In every relation of Ufo CIraw ti I-aw An Idaho soldier has had flvo Inches added to hit height by law It Is the first caso of the kind In the history of congress, aa)s tho Washington Tost It aecma that W W PcJlcy went into tho war with Spain us a prlvnto In the 1st Idaho Infantry According to tho records of the war department, his height at tha time of his enlistment waa S feet 894 Inches, when as an actual fact, his height was fi feet 10. Inches The missing five Inches made a lot of trouble for Pefloy Hit captain cap-tain wrote a letter to the major, tho major to the colonel, and the colouel wrote to Benator Bhoup, whllo the surgeon sur-geon prepared a solemn affidavit Senator Sen-ator Bhoup framed a bill and Introduced Intro-duced lt the committee on pensions considered It, and reported It favorably, favora-bly, nnd the senate passed It. So now, bo far as the ncnato Is concerned, Mr l'cllcy has his five Inches added unto him by duo process of law |
