Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-31

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land, one of the best mothers and one of |
the sturdiest of fathers, are dear friends |
of mine at Dumfries, Scotland. The las |
sic is Jean Armour Burns Brown. Her |
mother Is the daughter of the oldest and |
best beloved of Robert Burns sons, Rob
ert Burns, jr., who was himself true
| poet and a man of profound intellectual
attainment. His mother aud daughter are
| the immortal bsrd's nearest living rels-
| tives. The home is modest and plain, but
rich in love, sentiment and the most price
i less of human sympsthies; and I have
I long since come to love this truly lovable
1 Scottish home for the manhood, woman
hood and purity that dwell within 1t.
They are not rich people these; not even
i folk of moderate means; but there Is q
4 true nobility in their ever fine and lofty
Independence which honors the memory
of the bard whose fame bestowed no little
honor upon them Some one conceived
the idea of constructing duplicate of the
Burns cottage" at Aver, in which the
poet wss born, for exhibition at the
| Worlds Fair. This was all well enough
| Then some fertile mind devoid of sensi-
tiveness' or sentiment further conceived
This little family must be corslled, las
'sooed and herded in the "Burns cottsge"
to be cstalogued, labeled and gazed at, nke
a Kafir band, a twe-headed calf or the
wild Australian children, by millions of
Worlds Fair visitors. A United States
consul in Scotland has just broke the hils-
rious news of what was expected OF them
| to these reputable defendants of Robert
Burns in Dumfries; snd the gentle but
dignified reply he has received VIII IN
| doubtedly be omitted frt,m hie torthcom.
ing consulate memoirs TO os entitled
= | trRifts in the Mists of Aud Reekie."
> While en- the subject of Burns and his
descendants it Is also an interesting fact
, that the Ellislsnd farm-home of Rober'
, | Burns has Just been thrown open to the
/ | public. This house, on the banks OF the
| songful NTH, about six miles north ol
, Dumfries, is standing as sturdily to-day a.
= when its strong walls were completed bJ
z Robert Burns' own hands. If there Is tC
: be a "Burns cottage" at the Worlds Fair
this is the one which should be copied, ol
d at least those having the matter In charg'
. should recognizs the truth that its repre-
3 ssntstion would infinitely more smphsn
9 cslly memorize "fair Coils's bard" than
Q prototype of the Aver cottage wherein h'
was born.
t myriad sacred memories of Burns ID
b 1 built it while singing many Iusty SOM
8 TO his absent love and wife. When dom
/ | IL Was TO his honest eyes fsirer than an,
;. | palace in Britain To 1t he brought hi
a adored Jean preceded by peasant-gir
It carrying the family Bible and oowI
n sslt.n The most of his children were bon
within it's walls. 1t WAS the one Eden o
g labor, love and song that the poet and ni
|s wife ever knew. AZ,
|. There are hundreds of visible relics sh
n at the EIlisland cottage of the poets owl
n handiwork, He was the great, the I'm
n mortaI Burns, more for his life within tni
n humble home than for all else OF esrthl
accomplishment; for here were produced
~ ecststSo achievement, "1am o shsnter,
written In q day and denominated BY A
NJ exsnder Smith "aince Bruce fought Bsl
on uockburn, the best single day'e WORK dor
n "a Scotland, ;" his magnificent battle -piec
y. "The Song of Death,n his wonderful 9
- s;re. uThe Kinks Alarm" his matchle
~ embodiment of connubial affection, "Joi
ppJ AndeFson my Jo," 10 blaw ye weetl
he winds.n hiu Address to the Ntth," "t
,rs SEEING q Wounded Hsrs," that grsl
"s "Address 10 the Shade of Thomson" I"
srs q, the ARTS the winds can elaw," and Il
'f1 diylnsst OF all his odes, 'To Ny Mary
sh> Hasvea.h EneAs H. WAA1aAA