The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-03

perienced an Eden of labor and love,
despite their final enforced departure. 1t
was also the period of Burns best and
e ssiStsss p9es Ca S . But must Re
supported. The crops failed and inevitable
ruin was approaching. It was then, with
nowhere else on earth to turn. with no one
on earth to defend him from the wretched
influences of such environment, that to
save his wife and children from actual
cept the government position of exciseman
at the beggarly pittance of ESQ per year!
And say that that person who will become
critic of this poor striving soul, from this
pitiful period, takes to himself share of tho
endless obloquy Of the derelicts Of that day
sent genius in the hour of his sor-
est plight and highest efforts to a no
BILE manhood. The five remaining years of
his life. after the poet, his jean and their
three children, Robert. Lewis Wallace and
William Nicol, removed to the humble lodeg-
ings, their first home in Dumfries, check
cred, sad, pathetic beyond comprehension,
are known to all. The literary ghoul may
come here and shovel from the dust of
pitiful epoch the dross of sad doings and
and the least of sympathy and charity will
still find glowing here the lingering battle
fires between temptation inexpressible and
effort incredible; between weakness and
discouraGements Understandable and love
and loyalty ineffable. For myself, prefer
down along the burning shaft of light that
links his genius and his world girdling hu-
man love and magnanlmity to the fadeless
immortality of his memory and name.
One of the places in Dumfries most in
teresting from its association with Burns is
the old Globe tavern. It is still called
''the howl (hoif, hod, hufe, houf). Scot
| fish for hall, house of retreat, or haunt. It
is certainly the most noted of all the
| "howfs," or haunts, made famous by the
frequent presence and loiterings of Coila's
unfortunate bard. The structure stands on
High street, but it is entered now as in
Burns day, from a dark and narrow
"close," or alley, which extends past the
old stone stables of the inn into Shake
speare street which, il turn. leads to the
Mills, street, to the Burns cottage; aud il
WAS through this little ''close'' Burns al
ways made his way home from his too FIRE.
quenA bouts with John Barleycorn" at the
Globe tavern. The venerable inn is crowded
ON market days with farmers, and the old
carts, precisely rs it was 100 years ago. A
solemn Scotch dame recalling Mrs. Hyslop
the landlady of Burns time, named Smith
is the owner of the property, which. while
she still vigorously presides over the proprl
cites of the place, she rents to her SON. in-lav
| at E32 per year. Entering the shadowy ole
''howf'' you pass through a tiny publ.
room where now AZ then dozen or NOR,
gawk eyed rustics are drinking while dis
cussinR countrywide gossip. From this room
door, go low yoo will need minding your
head-gear in passing, leads to the little par
| lar, which was the real haunts of Burns il
Dumfries. OF the more than 100 songs com
posed by Burns in Dumfries-which, hat
they comprised the limit of his production
would still have given him rank as Scot
, lands greatest lyric bard-by far the larger
number were produced in this little parlor
or in the chamber above. Next the fire
place of the former was Burns Corner
The veritable chair in which he sat, pre-
, served from the attacks of relic hunters b
, | cupboard, lock and key, is still here. Sew
, faded pictures upon the low walls, are jus
as he knew them. Tho window panes ar
covered with verses he scratched upon theI
9 | with his diamond. OF these perhaps tn
. | following three are the most famous:
% lovely Polly Stewart,
y charming Polly stewart,
There's not flower that blooms in May
FL That's half 50 fair - thou art"
I Burns' spostrophe to the Globe Tavern,
"Whate'er you choose bat ale or beer
a Whatever 6t your mob,
At moderate fare you may have here,
!. The = that's in the Globs."-
g and that more dsbatable sentiment,
i Gin q body m ct body
Il COMM ihroaSh the grain
a Gin body kiss body.
n The thin's = bodys AIM"
4 Every one of these inscribed window
a panes il worth 900 in gold. The old in
a n quite q museum of relics, and better tia
y ] all. they are genuine ones far which faht