Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-06


ey nearly smashing the hs&a Of me
dram; bat, as he MAS about minute
late. the effect wss lsreslslsfhy Iauas.
Tae curtain flnstly fails, as = always
should, VITA every oooy fecoEAeiiea 2aa
happy. aud the crowd Ssnt lsoaae Win
It's feIsla. scottish PATRIOTISM glowing az
uhafe heat. Ii - III o'clock; ssul wno
coa4a believe Il. the ar il 80 luminous
with tue SCOTCH tNlhghl The play
blil N my hand is almost a. easily read
ss when uacsr the glare of the cas-
light. The
Witchssy Of the SieAnalas
completely charms us aud We resolve 10
walk home. There seeass 10 be no CEN
tral point from which the light raclstes,
but the Whole sky . Ike = FURNISHED
shield OF silver, studded with r. lnIly
cleaning stars Astronomers seli us
that there are starr 80 remote froiA
earth that when their light ~ gone out,
We shall continue 10 see them for ages
to come. l can iken tins woDdroas
twilight 10 nothing but TO some such
phenomenon. Ii ls IS il the sun had
been suddenly slaiehed cut Of tie
heavens, leaving the glory ~ has rsdi
ance ~ filter slowly downward through
walk At midnight through the streets of
tins grand old Athens Of the North.
What mighty men of old once walked
these very streets. thinking themselves
immortal ia the memory Of mar.
whose names hare been forgot
ten thousand years. The
castle rock looms grim and gray
400 feet above ns. How often la the
long gone centuries have brave men
siormed up that slope 10 be dIisen
back by piercing arrows. showers OF hot
stones and melted lead poured from
the ramparts above. one csnzot help
wondering,f the restless. striving sp.rsts
ever come back 10 engage IN nolseiess.
bloodiess struggle on this old historic
ground. That little window al the
summit Of the beetilng cGag looks out
from the room where Janlcs VI CT
Scotland. afterwards James / OF Io-
giandl, was born. From that window
the little red faced rasc ai Was lowered
ia a basket by some contentious mobiles
and hurried away 10 Stirling towers 10
be baptised III the Protestant FAITH
against his mothers wishes. la ihss
unpretentlous house with the mural
tablet lived that world famous opsnia
eater Thomas DeQalncey. Here the
feet Of Robbie Burns have trod many
time as he went rolling along with a
crowd of jolly companions.
statue. of Great Men.
In the Princes Gardens arc many
statues OF great men. Allea
Ramsay, the poet who lived 80
many years ago IN that little
house on the slope of Castle rock,
John Wilson. who wrote Noctes AM
brasianae; David Livingston. the great
African explorer, and many others
look down from enduring bronze upon
the passerby. Aud mere III this grand
archway under beautifully chiseled
gothic spire. 200 feet high. sits IN marble
msjesty Sir Walter Scott. Close beside
him hitting her beautiful head for a
carers lies his favorite greyhound.
MAZDA. The kind old face beams with
lofty Indulgence and gentle grace. 80
that TIN howy marble seems warm and
lifelikc<tven in the chilly night. Ia
the heart OF tins beautiful old city. the
center of learning, the hot-bed OF
genius, he SITS a king honored and
revored; for the hand and the brain OF
this grand old minstrel have kindled
flame of patriotism in the hearts of his
countrymen that twenty centuries can
not chill. q. Il. {.