The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-10

are we to finally find a Tennysonic shrine
at dear old Somersby, in Lincolnshire, at
Aldworth, or at Farrlngford House, Isle of
| Wight2 Edward Arnold fits between
London editorial sanctum and an oriental
pagoda. Ruskin, dimmed and voiceless be-
hind the veil of q mental sleep from which
the wakeless sleep must be entered, looks,
ghOstlike from the windows of ConistOn
Hall, upon fair Coniston Water, and, in all
he has done and written. how many have
discovered his Lancashire environment?
Even the shrine of Shakespeare is in mea-
only bis ashes ssNn and 'nA' the An eT..
tuities they bring. Burns and Scott of all
the luminous host of tho great and good in
prose and verse, living and dead had their
actual every day being in, and gave the pal
pable and imperishable life-throb of their
personalities to, an environment of place
and people, which thus became mausoleum
infinitely greater and grander than the loft
lest column or cenotaph that ever pierced
the clouds.
But come with me in and ont of old
Dnmfries, and up and down the songful
NTH. or if your legs are not Draw and
weel eneuch." climb with me to the ancient
observatory. over here in Maxweltown. the
Maxwelton whose "braes are bonnie where
early fa's the dew" and we can from this
one place see and feel the tenderness of the
Identification. From this point the eye
may range. to the east, over and beyond
to the west, to the noble hills skirtinR
Ayr; to the north, up the dream.
land Nithsdale to the far grim
turrets of the DrumlanriR castle;
and, to the south, to the vast expanse Of
Solway Firth, where, to the right of Niths-
mouth, looms gray-browed Crlhel, and, to
the left is caught CLEAN Of the sands by
Rroxv Wall OF MI M Rnrna kSDO 1ako
struggled to save his life. Thus at glance
not only does the bewitching cyclorama give
the beholder the entire field of the every
day scenes of the poets life during his last
eight memorable years, but at the same m
slant. a comprehension of the three most i'm
pressive epochs in his career of which We
can have memory-the home heaven of Ell
lisland farnl-life, the wretched tight against
poverty in the gray old border town be-
meath us. and that last unavailinR struggle
at Brow Well, by Solway's shifting sands
all made inexpressibly more impressive by
over there in that shadowy kirkyArd, LOOM
ing before US wherever We may look for the
recognition of his old time presence within
the fair region roundabout.
In Dumfrles itself one cannot look upon
a single olden structure. or follow with the
eye any close, wynd. vennel! or street. with,
ont knowing that at some time 1t was more
familiar to Burns than any portion of the
old city is to any one of it's inhabitants to-
day. In the ancient Bank street house
where he first lived in Dumfries In the
three tiny apartments, more than 0ne-third
of the 100 poems he produced in Dnmfries
were composed. Then in the Mill, now
Burns, street home, which was his last, the
remainder were given birth i an among thess
winsome Wee thing, "sThe Soldiers Re
turn. Willie Wastle, "Contented wi lit.
me ever. jamie" eye banks and braes o
bonnie Doom" my love is like red, rec
rose,o my heart il sair, daurna tell.
80 vert thou in the cauld blast" "Duncar
Gray" Flow gently, sweet Afton. ane
that grand martial ode, "Bruoe,s Address
The old, though still spruce Kings ARM
saults of time and tourists had not Burns
in a forgivably irreverent and delicioul
| mood. scratched upon its window-pane,
''Ye men of Wit and wealth, why al this sneer
'Gainst poor e.cisemen? Civ. The cause . hear
What sIs your landlords rsnt-rollsa Taxing
What premls.s. vhat7 even monarchs' might
gaugers.
Nay what are priests. thoss seeming Cody wis
What are they. pray. but spiritual excisemsn?"
Set squarely in the middle Of High stree
is ono of the oldest old structures to b
found in all Scotland. II il now called thu
Mid, Steeple. when built, 200 years ago, j
was known - the Iron Steeple. At tina
time. on the sale at auction Of the nratorn
and excise Of Scotland. tbs Countries tow
council took large share In the plundsF
N tnrn sold it TO . fellow buEghsF. ON
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