The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-01-28
YAKIMA SCOTS VIVA HAE.
The CaledonianS Make Their First
Burns Celebration.
A RARE NIGHT OF IT WITH The POET
Eighty Wen SIT Down TO a scotch
Bill Of Fare and Linger to Toasts
and some Original Verses. songs
Galore From Good singers.


the clans together and celebrate the
birthday of the immortal bard Of Scot
land, (for immort atty is a memory that
never dims) and 30 they had one or two
meetings in Sinclair's harness shop, and
VIM. ker and Sam Cameron and Keith
Dunlop and Colin Carmichael aud few
others got their enthusiasm up. They
sent out to the hills and valleys and told
the other Scotchmen, and, presently all
agreed that it must be done. And when
fifty or sixty Scotchmen can agree you
must know there is strong unanmity
of sentiment, and there always is when
it comes to Burns. That is why his
memory is immortal.
The place selected was the dining room
OF the Bartholet hotel, and the time half
past seven p. m, on the birthday. 1t
was really private affair, and the orgi.
nal intention was to confine it pretty
much to native sons of Scotland. That
the general public should bother itself at
all about the matter never once occurred
to the Scotchmen who had found them
selves so much interested that they were
already permanently organized into The
Caledonian Society. But few invita-
tons slipped out, and then few more
and when it came to the night O it, be-
hold there were eighty able bodied men
in line, ready for another Bannockburn,
and doubtless as many more whom
every body there would have been glad to
have at his elbow with the haggis and the
whiskey. But there is limit to earthly
space and dining rooms. In fact il all
had attended who had cards OF invita-
ton there would have been embarass-
ment for not a chair was empty as it was.
The hall was decorated by some warm
hearted mothers and sisters from the
land of the heather and the thistle, with
fine displays of tartan and evergreen
and over the chairman hung fine pic,
ture OF Burns, furnished by Scotsman
Todd of the Mckee. The tables were set
al! round the big dining room with one
down the middle-snd this is why the
stove was out and it would have been
cold but for the bottles.
Chairman Ker was in fine form-fairly
electric with enthusiastic interest 10 the
affair-and that is half the battle. He
welcomed the roomfull, after the march
led by the pipes, and the seating of ev-
erybody, with little burst of verse that
sounded the keynote of the occasion and
made everybody feel as one man. Here
it is:
Scots in Yakima wha bide,
Scots wha ne'er your birth belied,
Come and round this table wide
Drink Rabs memory.
Friends tae Burns the friend O. man,
Welcome tae, and hand in han
Here, to night at least wen stan
In leal fraternity.
Now's the day when Scotia's lads
Fling ava distractin fads,
Meet as lang syne did their dads,
I In mirthfu iolity.
Tae sing the sangs they loe sac weel,
To hear the gallant war pipes sQGeal,
And featly fit the foursome reel,
Sac blyth an free.
Wha wad be a feckless noddy,
Wha wad be traitor body,
And refuse tae tax his toddy
Let him turn and fee
Wha O. Scots traditions hoary
Poets lay and martial glory
Loes tae tell the deathless story
He's the man for me.
i Come then, keep your wits from freezin',
Halsome frolic neer was treason
Gainst the majesty O. reason,
Tonight fun sail be free
After this there was grace by the Rev.
Bartlett then all "fell to- on John Bar
tholet's attempt at Scotch dinner. The
ladies who decorated the room had
swept out the stove, and this was little
hard on the dinner, but nobody seemed
to mind it, though few quietly slipped
on their overcosts. The bill of fare itself
would take Scotty back across the
Atlantic in his imagination. Read it:
vIBERIs AND GEsTICKs.
Quhik ar, a auchenhly auld farrard an
aHaneriie guild Scottis Asshets.
Tive Grace IS said It's ma. lang. BUNS
A pree o. something tasty to
max a body hungrisum.
Sautl sautl Saul Beef an mustart!
KALI BREE
Sleeps Held Broth Cookie Leckie
A wee drap o. the vale o. weel.set ruby juice"
to synd the broth doom.
GUID CALLER FIsHIR
Finnan Haddies, forbye new
tatties an quecummer,
Crumbie, braidet, caller waiter Loeb Fyne,
Herrin Bath Ordenar an dewitt,
"Aiblins A wadna be the'wsHI o a dram to gar
the fish SOON"
BITES L THK BYdAUs
Mealie Puddins Bluidy Prddins
! A wee bebble o. mountain dew
ASTIENT AN ACCEPT AssHETs
forbye Chsmpet Tstties
whase hide was singet never feyed
GREAT cHIEFTAs AssHEr
THE HAGGIs"
Highland Honours, "Pibroch o. Donnuil Dhu"
Quo the Guidman Interval for Nips"
BARNARD BOOSTERS
Braidit Houtowdies forbye gusty York Ham.
Braidet Dukelius an Raupit Tatties
BRAIDET MEAT
| Braidit Backsey O. Aberdeen Beef
Fore spaul O. Lammermuir Hogrels,
Mint Gravy an Green Peas
j EFFREAEs
Wine Jelles sna Ba' Dumplin sowsns
weel-hained Kebbuck
k1tnW, nasUn aalf aLa