Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-02-04
.Wakema3's Wa7deri39s.
ODD INCIDENTS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL AND
OBSERVATION.

limbs or oiscrs, set before the door 10
| brc ak the hurt Of the savage mountain
blasts. "the ould man OF the branches, "
the peasants call II; but one sometimes
feels that this insensate typihed ptotec-
| tor OF the Irish cabin was the only object
| In guise OF human that ever got thus
near the rian-neglected, Cod.lO saken
pcasanify Of this pitiiully conditioned
land. rs NNf
To my mind scene in early morning
on Grand Canal In Venice, is fare more
interesting than One IN the early
evening, when the iaded aristocraey Of
the city are moving about with apparent
lis,lessncss in their private black
gondolas, decorated with their owners
| coats oi-arms, propelled by private
gondolleis M ridiculous liyeries, or ut
night when the canal in general is Who'll.
| ~ and Extensively a show object 10 open.
mou,hed strangers. In the very early
morning, while the gray is yet upon the
water, and the gurging OF the tides is
| like the chuckling Of night imps IN the
dark retreats oi the lowest arches
and angles, then II Is that,he oldest and
most fascinating professions pass and
fepass away down there in the shadows
beneath your window.
Scores OF little, long bargcs loaded
with vegetables from the Hat outlying
islands are on their way to the market
at the Rialto. The sails are red. with
blue tips and yellow center pieces, and
mos, groicsque figures OF Madonnas are
painted somewhere on their gaudily.
| colored sterns. These barges are pro-
PEELED by poles In the hands Of men In
| purple, pink, blue and orange garments,
and very often bareheaded peasant
woman Is piled In with the vegetables.
Here and there a sandalo, lighter and
more graceful bark than the gondola,
darts by II is rowed By two men, with
tassled caps, like the Biscayan fisher.
men. A half dozen goats ATE tied head
and tail to the gunwale, and women and
children are milking these on their way
10 the next customer
Barcas with soldiers speeding TO or
from guard.changing, Gil the shadowy
way with din OF chattering profanity.
| Here are four nuns with bowed heads
being:rowed on some GRAND Of mercy.
Again whole families OF the lowlier
classes, especially pious through some
common bereavement, are setting out 10
be present at some very cheap and early
mass. Here come a crowd Of boats
with villagers, vegetables, fowls, llagons
OF milk bestowed In dewy wisps OF grass,
rolls Of butter in las, years sweet. white
\ corn-huSks, and numberless and name
less s,uils for the mercato. They are
/ from the mainland hamlets, and must
have been astir at midnight. Follow.
| ing these Is curious procession OF
gondolas piled higher than the CONDO.
Hers heads with household goods; and
the people owning them who are thus
moving, follow in their own gondolas,
suggesting funeral OF household goods
cut short In its cortege.
There are iriars with huge baskets in
their gondolas setting ont to the markets
| TO buy and beg for their brethren and
| the poor; tired fishermen with boat.
loads OF cleaning fruit OF the sea; sailors
subdued and sullen after an all-night's
registering on their way back TO their
dogs life and the ships; messengers
with the nights collection Of kilograms,
bakers in white linen caps and shirts,
with boatloads Of black, brown and
white bread: water-carriers with huge
casks and ilagons Of drinking water;
butchers, icemen, grocerymen, nll in
boats making their hrst morning rounds;
and all of them down there upon the
water in the shadows seeming like some
weird and silent maskers in dream.
Scotland has never been more thrilled
In expectancy or disappointed in out
come than in the career, so far, OF her at
one time most promising Of poets,
/ Alexander Anderson. There is penny
home paper called the Peoples FJieRd,
published at Dundee. Ii encourages
contributions from country home folk
and the lowly strivers in towns. About
| twelve years ago some tender heart
rhymes, rugged and rough but with
masteriul pathos in them, among which
were "Cuddle Doom" and Jennie WI
The Aim (crooked) Teeth" were motto
cd in this sheet over the name Of Alex
ander Anderson, widely copied and
commented on.
Then came poem which electrified
the Land o. Cakes, and which will ever
remain as much heart.song of the
entire Scottish people as any verse ever
penned by Robert burns. Ii was called
Castles l. The Air. and there Is the
first stanza, as recall 1t from memory:
The bonnie. bonnie BARN wha sits pokn
a the ace (iShes).
Glowcrin' the fire wi his wee round face,
laughin at the puiiin.lowe blame -dartsl
What sees he there
lila, the young dreamer's biggin castles /
the airl
The Rev. George Gilfillan, pastor of
the u. Il. Church at Dundee, one of the
many editors of Burns, hunted UP the
unknown genius and first brought his
personality to public notice. He found
the poet to be what we call in America
section hand" that is, one of a gang
keeping railway tracks in repair; "sur.
iacemep" they are called in Britain; and
this strappng young fellow who had
given Scotland its finest lireside poem
Tor a half century was earning but three
shillings, sixpence per day.
The discovery caused immense eN-
element in Scottish literary circles, and
Sir Noel Patton, Her Majesty's Limner
for Scotland, painter OF "Oberon and
ritania," Light OF the World" Chris,
In The Garden" ETC., at once took the
surfaeeman bard under his powerful
patronage. II resulted in securing for
the poet the appointment of librarian in
the Edinburgh University library. That
seemed to end the mans genuine poeti.
cal career. His rhyme, appearing at
long intervals, Is stilIed and scholastic.
This is held IN the deepest resentment
by those still fondly grooming "Cuddle
Doom" and Castles L The Ar" tell
my Scottish literary friends they must
let the man sup at learnlng's fount for
the terrible "drooth" that was on him,
that then he will nod and doze and
hibernate, and that by and by he will
eint, liz. IA nrienpaI hirJ 900. -.