The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-09-28

host oil prlestllngs. Prosecutions |
and trials for witchcraft then be-
came general. The great struggle
on behalf of the Solemn League and
Covenant was conspicuous feature
of those times. The Covenanters
were very interesting, but could any
body ask him to sympathize with
them? They suffered themselves to
be killed and they died interesting
ly, but nobody should allow them
selves to be killed simply because
they could not kill Others.
Mr.. Stevenson found difficulty in
arriving at the real facts of the sue
ceeding period-for they could not
believe contemporary history, but
where there was so much smoke
there must have been some fire, Just
enough to light cigarette. Coming
then to the '45, they tried to start
another government and failed, but
they sacrificed themselves with some
degree of dignity. The speaker re-
ferred to the hiding of Prince Char
lie when anybody by betraying him
might have made small fortune.
This exhibition of unsel6sh devo-
ton showed that there was some
little good in Scotsmen after all.
There Scottish history ceases.
A little further on there came
very interesting patriot-he selected
one type-a judge of the High
Court of Justiciary. He was very
celebrated lawyer but unconsciona-
bly, cruel. "Hang!" was his one
word. The speaker did not recollect
his name at the moment, although
it was at the tip of his tongue. Pro-
badly Lord Braxfield, whose favorite
maxim was, Hang thief when he's
young, and he II no steal when he's
auld." The most apt sample of
this gentleman's wit was given dur
ing the trial of Muir and Palmer for
showing sympathy with the French
Revolution. One of the prisoners
displayed great deal of eloquence
in his own behalf, while my lord"
sat listening. The criminal came to
a point where he said that all great
men had been charged with being
criminals, not excepting even Jesus.
And think he was hanged!" was
the cold observation from the bench.
A story was told of his lordship's
butler giving him notice" his rea-
son being that he could not get
along with "her leddyship." The
master calculated, God, an if ye
were married to her." Laughter.)
So he had ran his eye over long
part of Scottish history and found
nothing but what was desperately
cruel and brutal. Yet there was
something good. This was in the
beautiful songs and ballads of Scot
land. There was Patrick Walker.
grim enough, but whose songs were
filled with human sympathy. He
would come to one, however, who
summed them all up, that was Wal
ter Scott. (Applause) Scott was
an incarnation of kindness and good
nature. This brought the speaker
to the close of his talk, and he con
cluded in the following eloquent
PASSAGE:
| would recommend everybody to
read, not only the Waverley novels,
but the life of Walter Scott by his
son-in-law. Lockhart's Life Of Wal
ter Scott is in places crushingly
pathetic. When you rise from its
perusal you are melted, consoled,
benefited. Another thing l feel
very strongly. | received book the
other day called "The Stikkit Min
: ister," with a dedication to myself
which affected me strangely, SO that
l could not read it without gulp.
1t was addressed to me in the third
person and bade me remember those
places
"Where about the graves of the martyrs
the whaups are crying,
His heart remembers how"
Now, when think upon my latter
end, as | do sometimes, especially OF
late years when it seems less immi.
nent, | feel that when l shall come
to die out here among these beauti.
full islands, shall have lost some.
thing that had been my due-my
, native, predestinate and forfeited
! grave among honest Scots sods
!, And feel that l shall never quite
attain to what Patrick Walker calls
in one of those pathetic touches o.
which l have already spoken, my
: "resting grave" unless it were to be
Oh oHe Vi our PuTPle nlllslues, undel
one of our old, quaint and half
obliterated table -tombstones slant
D ing down the brae, and "where abou
y the graves of the martyrs tn,
S whaups are crying, my heart re
n members how"
At the conclusion of the speaker
I remarks, a hearty vote of thanks by
l acclamation was conveyed to MI
e Stevenson for his eloquent speech.
u Mr.. w. f. Reynolds, one of th'
= guests, sang a song to his own accom-
o paniment at the piano. When Chic
u Lindsay then called on the musician
= to play for " our usual doxology," h,
e caused an amusing contretempt b,
J. starting the orthodox version
9 "Auld Lang Syne" was meant, whicl
s was sung with will, Mr.. Stevenson
. joining the circle of members il
: front, as they crossed hands at tn
: stanza, "Now here's a hand, m
u trusty friend"