St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-15
EVENTS OF ST. PAUL.
DR.. ChriStie'S Pleasant Talk
for the Benefit Of the
Curling Club.
The Loyal Legion Spec DIS Gen.
Ruger and Recalls Gen.
Sherman.
An Attorneys Effort to Get
His Fee for Saving a
Neck.
Congressman w. L. Wilson to
Talk Tariff Reform in
st. Paul.

The members of the st. Paul Curling
club having been reminded that spring.
gentle spring, is with US, and the gen
tie game xvi broom and stane" must be
postponed until the ice king once more
reigns supreme in these ATTITUDES, closed
their winter season in 4 most suspicious
manner last evening by assembling in
full force at the House of Hope church
lecture room TO listen to an address by
Rev, Robert Christie, ID. D., the pastor.
DR.. Christie is one Of the most ardent
lovers of the Scottish national game,
and has spent many an hour during the
past winter c0ntesting for supremacy
with such giants as William Rodger.
John Hinkle, w. W. Lorimer, Judge
Cory and Alex McCulloch. The knights
of the ice therefore felt that they could
not close their season in more worthy
manner than to assemble in a body with
their families and listen to the worthy
divine describe the life OF the poet who
is dear to the heart of every Scotchman,
Robert Burns. W. f. Myron presided.
and in a few words introduced DR..
Christie, who spoke as follows:
MI. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Club: L would count myself some
what of an migrate did | not find pleas
IRE III doing something in aid of your
organization. During the long winter
months you have given me the oppor-
tunity Of taking the most delightful and
beneficial recreation. In climate like
ours it must always be matter of the
greatest Importance to have healthful
winter amuSementS. Numbers of men
are unable for months at time to fol-
low their regular v0cationS, whilst null
tltudeS more are shut up in warm rooms
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exercise. The game you have intro
duced meets the need Of both classes.
Bot in addition to its healthfuI outdoor
| exercise it has several commendable
| features worthy of mention. 1t is COM
from the talnt of gambling:
! it ignores class distin elton: it
requires on the ice gentlemanly deport-
| ment in speech and act, and whilst
| there is enough to stimulate laudabe
rivalry, there is nothing to interfere
with those kindly social relations which
the game is intended to produce and
| foster. Hence,as one deeply interested
i'll the physical, social and moral well
fare of our people, L cannot but rejoice
at the growth of your club, and the
| completion of rink second to none in
the country. If you will allow parody
on the Latin poet l would say EASY is
the descent to the Mississippi, but to
! gain the bridge again. that is labor, that
| is toll" But for me the terrOrS of that
| stiff climb are all taken away by the
eXhilarating effects of a Well-c0nteSted
| game. And my warmeSt wish is that
! the club may have long and prosper
| Gus existence. And with each return
ing year
When wintry storms begin to blow
! And wrap the hills in glistening snow,
And zero paves the floods below
For finest play,
May each with broom and cheeks aglow,
Contest the day.
DR.. Christie then proceeded TO trace
the career of Robert Burns, the plOw-
man, who. despite his lowly and in
artistic surroundings, would creep to
his wretched hovel at night, and with
heaven-born genius give to the world
the songs and SOnnetS which are ia
nous the whole world through. Burns
| endeared himself to the hearts of the
masses, for he wrote of their trials and
prlvationS, and knew from bitter eX-
perience what they had to contend with.
To-day in Scotland one could go to
any Of the big factories and hear
above the roar of the machinery
and the clang of the hammer, the
voices of the wOrkmen singing the sim
pie verses written by the Ayrshire poet.
| He had by his impetus revived the dia-
lect of Scotland, which was fast dying
out, and kept it alive for all time.
Burns was to be pitied for his short
comings, for he lived in an age when
| drinking was rampant in all classes,
! and who knows but that the man who
died at the age of forty might not have
been saved from himself if the tender
love of his youth, ''Highland Mary"
had been spared to become his partner
,. in the journey of life. The s0-called
friends OF Burns, who had made the last
years of his life unhappy by stunning
him, had at his death relented. but
though they had given him magnif-
ment-his glorious works-would live
for all time.