Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-26

Galle rhiyering through the wintry air;
Hop aud pity and love were there.
Wit with harem- scarem grace,
Who smiled at Laughter dimpled face.
Labor who came with sturdy tread
BY high souled Independence led.
While Wealth stood up outside the door
Then Cola raised her hollied brow,
And said, w no will this child eHdOwE'
Said Love, Il II teach him all my lore,
A. it was never taught before;
To gift him with a gentle heart
Said Independence, stout and strong
Said Wit, lie shall have mirth and laughter
Though all the ills of life come after
warbling her native wood notes wild.
Fancy bat stopped and kissed the child
While through her locks Of golden hair
Hope looked down with a smile on Care.
Said Labor, Il will give him bread
And a stone when he is dead,
Said Wealth, while Shame hung down her head.
He II need no monument said Fame;
Il u give him an immortal name;
When Obelisks in ruin fall,
Proud shall it stand above them all;
The daisy on the mountain side
Shall ever spread IL far and wide;
Even the road side thistledOwn
Shall blow abroad his high renOwn.
Said Time: That name while I remain
Shall still increasing honor gain.
Till the sun sinks to rise no more,
Of that still. dark, and unsailed sea,
Which opens ON Eternity
These words by ThOs. Milar but speak in pathetic
rhapsody If what will be the fate of the are
met 10 honor to night The Grafton 10 Burns on his
centennial birthday the greatest honor ever paid
C. poet. When in Is44 his returned from India
by festival the banks Of BOnny Doom. Chris
topher North then said Burns Is among the highest
by the expression Of noble sentiments and glori
Gus thoughts. This estimate is not overdrawn, Has
den If care aided to reconcile poverty to it, lot al
yanced the dignity Of labor, placed a crown on thu
proclaimed him ing of men for a that"
Mr. John Il. Parsons sang, with fine effect
Within mile of Edinboro Town. elicit
ing an encOre,) and Mr.. Samuel V. Moves
followed with like applause with ''SimOn the
Cellarer." The president then read the follow
ing letter from the Hon. VIM. p. Frye:
WASHINGTON, January IL, 1875.
". X. Smith. esq. President Of the BKraS Cub
Ny Dear SiT:-l accepted, with pleasure and with
Club at their annual meeting, but unex pectedIy md
that cannot fulfil the engagement, it having been
Der, 10 go to Louisiana at To simply say that
regret this l. cold expression Of my feelings for
land. Of Wallace, Of Bruce and OF Burns, who has
made for them all glorious immortality.
And YET our mission south, IL 70 me, would
duty. Since that sweetest songster that ever sang
that, great struggle has been waged throughout
the world sometimes silently, sometimes terribly to
ance Our own country has been the theater Of one
Of ercest conflicts the issue Of which Is not even
The honest man though I poor
l. king q men for a that"
May Heaven bless old Scotland. her mountains and
valleys her Doom and her Clyde, her Yarow and her
Tweed. Long may her hardy sons Of rustic toll be
We bless thy memory too, Robert Burns. who 50
loved Old Scotia her Mon and women, even her
cattle.' aye. who loved all things both great and
small and c.uldn't hate even 'auld Nickie ben.'
The Hon. James Monroe. of Ohio. was then
introduced. and made felicitOus and scho!
aTly address, in which he compared the yari-
Gus British poets. placing Burns as pext To
Shakespeare in his power OF touching the uni
versal heart. There were no Milton clubs no
Byron clubs, not even a TennySOn club:
whie Burns clubs existed all over the world
wherever the English language was SpOkpn
and they would continue to exist for all time
quaTtette was admirably sung by
MeSSTs. Lloyd, Ball and Others; after which
President Smith introduced Hon. ). s. Cox,
saying:
Ladies and Gentlemen: have now the pleasure 10
introduce t. YOU the American BiOgrapher of his
Satanic MAJESTY IN literature as Buckeye abroad
III search Of winter sUnbeanIs, he no doubt made
some further acquaintance with his majesty and can
perhaps en.lghten Us on the dOings Of Aud H0r-
me- satan Nick or CloOue. Our poet treated Satan
kindly and was vac to think upon yon place, even
ioI Ms sake 50 does his American bi0graph
Mr.. Cox commenced in his most animated
vein, and went on to say:
Your president introduces me somewhat vaguely
A. one II the bogTapher- Of satan / hal supposed
NY humble article was long since forgotten IL i.
SAID IA Scripture that the devil and all his works
devil Hself have not Ferished But really, he Is
Mt - tack after all He has many winning ways
He l. much entitled TO biographrr as a witch 10
a cat can see that my friend. the president takes
a laInl{ and national pride IN him. When the
ho~ssT Haso-tHs, and intended to glorify "OH
h nick IN literature. How omitted Burns Aud
Horne OF 'tlOote / can scarcely tell. | wa.
quite young then hal not mixed much Ia society or
HoHtic>, hsI not come 10 Congress; and; Therefore
The longer / livc-tha more see Of it-aDd psrhan.
The more We hve-the more We tolerate the evil
Indeed the Scotch devil a. organized bv the geuiu,
OF Burns; ,. substitute 10 his better qualities Ii
trgThe 20 the Prince, who lei the cmhattled Sera-
Ehim against Heaven; but hs is better Satan than
the warrior Of Milton. He takes no delight in tia
sguealiDg sinner. Old Clo0tie has a nice send of
for IA, noted name. Burns makes him rage, 10 be
produces the wildness of the lonely glen and
ruined castle amidst the windy winner nights He
water kelpies Of the ford and the spunkies Of the
iuss a. his associate until he bring hi> Satan rHic
. >hog and then make him play practical jokes on
Job until be fairly boiled 70 pardon him by the be-
Il Ia wae t. think upon yond den
" hich, out Of the PafOis, means-I don't want a hell
even to put the devil in
But this remarkable good natured devil Of Burn.
has peculiaries Of character and conduct
hich remind one of the comic devil of the sacred
drama 81 the middle ages He is not the devil repre-
Burns than Robert lie Diable. H. has as little Of
lus- But j. BE- not comprehended in the universal
genius Of GOethe2 MephiStopheles takes any shane
lie - the standing DiabOlDs Of the Greek the adVer
aiy Of job the serpent OF Eden, the dragon of the
keNelatiOn, and always Jolly. not sure but that
the infinite variety of the article which Washington
and lts lObbies furnish anticipated GOe he if
not by Burns. Where did not MephistSpheles iurk5
here do not find that spirit of evil Not the OH
theological animal with horn and hOOf such a. ths
communicated from Kirk were possessed OF AMI
such as old wives tell Of but the sly devil which
dances IN the eye OF beauty, gambols in the noIk,
and german and on the faro table puts ON the claw
hammer Of the COurter and the frOck the preacher
pores the mssals Of the scholar and The ave-.
and noes Of Congress. He Is 10 be found in the i'm
perial palace the poorest howell You may see this
universal spirit IN the bOurses of speculation and he
cOnCeals under the big ulster OyercOat the fOrkal
ighnings OF his unscrupulOus intellect The Burns
devil Is however, something kinder and more human
than this general genius. In one poem Burns makes
him an eXciSemaR. and though not strictly defined
u may BE- said Of him, said of Ra phaels
devil in the SIstine chapel If he is not the devil IL
- some id thing OF other. y
he would not have the devil here for a time al
In0ugh ne would not object to q devil of a time -
me truth l., We zach carry our devil around with
us a. part OF our personality. WHY should not
Burns idea Of incarnate evil be a. ioIIv a. hinssf
" no was an eXcisemanY And what Measure Could
the eNCiseman take in the unnatural Destruction or
unjust distribution Of Scotch whisky can vel
ina CINE how, in the regions Of northern Scotland
where an Englishman tShaksp >areD located blast
Ell heath, you know, and peOpled its air with heiDgs
Of metaphysical entity, that a grand and terrific
ideal Of the spirit Of evil should rise, like Heat M
the witches Of Martsfh from the dreary miss of the
Highlands. But Burns devil while he once r h. m
the blasts with Tam q -Shanter had a moro s,,.i,i
Wsy-as a government official Laughter n
a cunSeFyafoF of fruits and 6oxers like -,