Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10

'Willie Westle, ~ 'Contenleu WI lit
tie, and cantie VII mair, Thou hast
left me ever, Jamie, - eye banks and
braes o. bonnie Door, ''My love is
like red, red rose, "My heart Is
sair, daurna tell, - go vert thou IN
the cauld BLAST "Duncan Gray,
'FIow gently sweet Alton. and that
grand martial ode. 'Bruee's Address.
The old, though still spruce, Kings
Arms Inn could never have SO long stood
the assaults of time and tourists had not
Burns, in forgivably irrevereut and
delicious mood, scratched upon its VIM
dow pane,
Ye, men Of Wit and wealth, why all this sneer-
'Gainst poor e1cisemens Give the cause
What are your landlords rent rolIs9 Taxing
What pTemiers, what: even nOnarchs' mighty
Nay, what are priests, those seeming goodly
wise men4
What are they, pray. but spiritual eScisement
Set squarely in the middle of High
street is one of the oldest ole structures
to be found In all Scotland. 1t is
now called the Mid-steeple. When built,
go years ago, 1t was known as the Iron
steeple. At that time, on the sale at
auction of the customs and excise OF
Scotland, the Dumfries town council
took large share in the plumber; IN
turn sold it to a fellow-burgher, one
Sharpe, SO by name and fine IN dealing.
The citizens reyolted; and, Oh COM
promise, Burgher Sharpe was per-
mitted to retain his ''tack on pay
ment of 20, 900 merks, Scots, with
which the outlandish structure was
erected. In its upper uucouthness 1t
IL rT
bells, and u complaining weather-cook
surmounts the splre. Middle splre,
clock and bells and all, is an unreliable
old
hTONGUE OF THE TOWN.
to this day. But the ridiculous relic or
an ancient canny deal would have been
RACED to the ground 100 years ago, were
it not the treasure house OF stacks of
rusty war-pikes ready for valiant SER
vice, when the exciSeman-poet reused
everyb body in Great Britain with,
Does naughty Gaul invasion threat.
Then let the looms beware. sir;
There's wooden walls upon our seas,
And volunteers on shore sir.
The Min shall run TO Corslncon,
The Crffel sink in Solway,
Ere we permit . fcreign Foe
On British ground to raiyl"
The 'auld brig - built by the devout
Devorgilla over 700 years ago, when Lon
don IS population did not exceed 80 900
souls, and which still spans the Nth be-
low the New Bridge, the latter COM
pleted before Burns death, does not
possess 1.-THE the interest because OF Its
having sustained knighty cavalcades
and been fought over by countless border
legions, that it does for having innu-
merable times been the haunt of this one
man, and because, ''in his suit or PLAIN
dark clothes with his sword-cane in
| hand'' and his children by his side, he
loved to loiter upon it, or wander about
near it, upon the white sands, or near
ITS western approach along Maxwelton 9
sunny braes. Not u stones throw from
its last red old arch Is the spot where
Burns, on his first appearance in
| Dumfries, clad in the familiar blue
| coat and yellow vest which Nasmyth
| bas made US unconsciously associate
with his sturdy figure, just after the
| publication of the second edition of his
| poems, was made an honorary burgess;
| the burgess ticket to the already illus
| trious ploughmau reading: ''The SAID
| day, 4th June, 1887, Mr.. Robert Burns,
| AYRSHIRE, was admitted burgess of this
| burgh, with liberty to exercise and enjoy
| the whole immunities and privileges
| thereof rs freely as another does, may
or can enjoy; who, being present, ac-
| cepted the same, and gave his oath OF
| burgesship to his majesty and burgh IN
| common form.'' But for Burns Dunn
| fries would lot TO this day be so well
known Us Kalamazoo. Still the mar
| velous condecensiOn OF these pompous
old nobodies made Burns eeman
| He had been but a hind until this men,
orable "4th June, 1877. - At the foot OF
| George Inn Close, Irish street, is little
| academy. 1t was here at county ball
the gentry were gathered on an autumn
evening of 1894, when the now poverty
stricken poet passed and was given the
"universal rejection or cut direct by
all save the noble David McColloch oil
Ardwell, which made those concerned
as well as their descendants, infamous tc
this day. Near this was the hall Of st.
Andrews Masons' Lodge TO which Burn!
belonged and which he made famous
Its record for April 18th, 1876, "Burn:
present, ia the last minute containing
the poets name. At the corner o.
Shakespeare street and Queens Place
still stand
THE LITTLE OLD THEATRE ROYAL,
which was opened in 1870, Burns beinE
present, and of whose first weeks ca,
reer he wrote so enthusiastically to hi
friend Nlchol: ether (the perform
ers') merit and character are indeed
very great, both on the stage and il
private life, not worthless creature
among them, Their
haye been repeated instance
OF sending away six ant
eight and ten pounds night for want o
ROOM
Then aside from countless lesser fact
and places of association there is the oil