Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-26
SCOTIA,s BARD.
Celebration of the 129th Anniversary of
Robert Burns.
- It's good to be merry and wise,
It's good to be honest and true,


- It's good to be merry and wise
II S good to be honest and true,
It's good 10 support Caledonia's cause
And bide by the buff and the blue"
The Sacramento Caledonian Club, as is
their annual custom, last evening celebrated
IN becoming manner the 10th anniver-
sary of the immortal bard, Bobbie Burns.
Armory Hall was tastefully and artistically
decorated for the occasion. Long before
the hour advertised for the commencement
of the programme the gallery was crowded
with spectators, as were also row of cir
Gus seats extending around the main hall,
while the floor was crowded by those who
were to participate in the exercises and the
dances. The music was furnished by
Jones, Fisch & Watson's orchestra. The
members of the Club and many visiting
Scotchmen were dressed in highland cos
tune. The programme was as follows
Grand Highland Reel, by the Lads and
Lassies; Scots, Wha Hae," J. r. Ogelvie !;
The Maid O. Dundee, Miss NJ. Mcintosh;
duet, J. K. Ogelyie and Miss NJ Mcintosh /;
Caller Herring,in character, Mrs. S. Katzen-
stein; Scotland Yet" j. Linklater sword
dance, Miss Sadie Robertson; The Aud
Scotch Songs" Miss Carrie Evans; Mary
OF Argyle" j. r. Ogelvie "Star of Glen
garry" Miss NJ. Mcintosh; Draw the
Sword, Scotland" ]. Linklater; highland
Hing, by the Lads and Lassies; Aud
Lang Syne," by the audience Piano &C.
companist, Mrs. L. Auerbach.
The officers of the club are Chief, A.
Logan First Chieftain, J. Carlaw: Second
Chieftain, j. Stewart; Third Chieftain, w
Mardlaw; Fourth Chieftain, VIM. Wood
The committees in charge of the reception
were: Reception-J. Carlaw, Jas. McCaw,
w. A. Gett, Tom Scott, A Carlaw, w. Bar.
Thomas Cunningham, H. McWilliams,
Jas. Stewart. Arrangements-A. Logan
?. Durno, S. Mcdonald, Alex. Syme, d. D.
McRae, W. Wardlaw. Floor Director
ID. d. McRae. Floor Managers. Car
law, W. Wood, Alex Syme, DR.. McCullum.
r. NJ. Meller. Club Pipers-Norman Bea-
ton and r. A. Renwick.
Robert Burns, the great lyric poet of
Scotland. was born January %, 1859, in a
small cottage near Ayr. His father, then
nursery gardener and afterwards the oc-
cupant OF small farm, had to struggle all
his life with poverty and misfortune, but
made every exertion to give his children
good education and the young poet en-
Joyed an amount Of instruction and mis-
cellaneous reading which, to those unac-
quainted with the habits of the Scottish
peasantry, would seem incompatible with
the straitened circumstances and early toll
which were his lot. In his sixteenth year
he began composing verses in the Scottish
dialect, which attracted notice in the
vicinity and soon made him fam
GUS throughout Scotland The poetry
OF Burns is purely the outpouring of the
moment-the response Of the feelings to
the immediate circumstances of life. Its
charm and power lies in the business of the
feelings expressed, and in the truthfulness
and freshness which it derives direct from
life. Seldom has such manliness. tender
ness and passion been united as in the
songs of Burns. They formed the first
awakening of the spirit of true poetry in
Britain after long slumber. The popu-
larity that Burns instantly acquired has
continued undated, not only in his native
Scotland, but wherever English is spoken.
His poems have been translated into al
most every European tongue. In 1859 the
centenary of Burns birth was celebrated
with unparalleled enthusiasm, not only in
every city and almost every village in Scot
land, but in the chief cities of England,
America and the British Colonies. He died
in Dumfries July 81, 1896