Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-16
tcoTrlsn CHARACTER.
htznor Is It's Principal Trait, says
I'm AIaclagSne
ShS Scotch Are Noted Also for aAeLr
SAntsors and Eatcrprise-.Tsleir
Devotion to- thc House
of Stuart.

Ecv. John Watson CLAN Maclarcn~y
recently deliver ii lecture in Ed
burgh en- Certain Traits in Sco;tisll
Che. acter."
Mr.. Watson said the first trait in the
Scottish character & cs the sense Of hui
s;Sr- \ Scotsman. he said, would have
touched the very highest reaches OF
eEarity when he was able finally and
Without grHdge to forgive that Eng
ESh humor'St who said that n surg On I
operation was necessary to get humor
INTO the head of 4 Scotsman. And Il is
q curious thing how n single phrase
should continue from generation so
'cration and lie perpetrally flung nj
1%eir faces. 1t was mentioned as if t.
were new. which was intolcrable: but
what VAS far more iutolcrable. il was
regularly mentioned rs if il were true.
They must rot judge Of the sense c f hu-
i>or in people by their manner. II
there was people who took their hu-
nor qucflye slowiy--pcrbaps he ought
10 add sadIy-such. il appeared TO him.
Nerc TIE Scottish people. Whom n Jest
Vas presented II man Of Scottish
nature. he WAS not going immediately
70 accept 1T, and pass it OF as Jest by
laughter. With the analytic character
OF his nature. ccgotten by long study
Of POLITICAL and religious questions. he
proceeded to examine IL. II might be
reXt day before he WAS entirely salts
fed. ard then if he was satisfied he
paid II honor. a more important thing
20 remember was that humor in differ
eEt countries was different, and that II
IT were the case that their religion and
heir social ideas were very largely in
buenced by climate, so surely would il
be with their humor. American humor
depended very largely upon the great
ness OF the country. Jests iH America
were SO large. In The strict sense of
Wit, he imagined they would agree that:
The Fr"Hch bad the most delicate irish
ard flavor for their humor in Europe.
Aguin, the Scots had no claim IN that
brilliant sword-play of repartee which
was SO characteristic, not of the High
land Celt, but of the IRISH CcIt. Ills
impression was that though English
wit had not esther the subtIety or the
briiliancy of French and Celtic humur:
II had an element which was most adj
tairable-the element of down right
run IL they in Scotland had had in
the past more of that simple element
that they call fun, his impression vas
that they had been q sweeter a nd a liam,
pier people,
Perhaps the next characteristics of
the Scots was what in their enfeebled
English language might be called eau
ton, but which, in the admirable dia-
iTct OF Scotland, was call;I ~canpi-
hess The Scots were not an impul-
sive nation. They were not n nntion
carried away by emotion, nor enthusins-
nc until once aroused; and after that
the Scottish nation burned like an an
rhracltc coal furnace. The cnnniness
NJ the nation came out in the aflluence
of thei@ vocabulary in expressing them
selves. In the ScotSmnn's reserve. horn
OF the hardness OF the soil, there Law
great strength, for it was not the
strong but the weak people that carried
their heart upon their sleeve. an6
opened all their affairs for everybodv's
consideration. The undoubted note of
nusterity in the Scottish character was
an explanation of many pecullaritics i'm
Scottish. history. They could never
drive Il Scotsman, and if people tried to
slrive them in political and religious
affairs has reading of history was that
u Always ended in catastrophe for the
peope who tried TO drive, und not for
She Scotsman. On the other hand. they
coud take Scotsman on the right side.
md tho he a. no. a..
Another wonderful characteristic OF
the Scottisb people was their enterprise
which, he supposed, was more char
acteristic of the nation than of any
other nation of the size on the face of
the earth. Ii was in climate like
that of Scotland that men were made:
and then IL followed that, being made.
the very climate which was their most
faithful and hardy mother sent them
out to get their living. They had On
enormous advantage in their habits of
Eardihood, though he was not gHite
sure whether this advantage was going
10 continue long.
In conclusion, the lecturer noted, as
Characteristic Of the Scottish nation
which was sometimes denied, the senti-
ment OF the Scottish folk. Was there
ever a more romantic episode in history
Than the devotion of the Scottish peo-
pie 10 the house of Stuart? Let them
look also at the ballads of the Scot
fish people to meet the sentiment of
which he was speaking. If, however,
they wished to know that sentiment at
its fullest, they must sec the Scot when
he was away from hone.--Detroit Free
Press.
Selecting q Jury.
This 10 from, N 70 ro;ol