The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-08-02
EDINBURGH SCOTLAND, June 81, 'O2
To the Columbia Herald;
A LAND OF sABBATH.KEEPERs.

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To the Columbia Herald;
A LAND OF sABBATH-KEEPERs.
For at least one virtue Scotland is /
The Sunday law is
enforced. Or, to put it more truth
fully, the Sunday law is obeyed.
Indeed it is not Sunday in Scotland
but the Sabbath. You know the
difference? Sunday is a day OF excur-
sions and picnics and beer-gardens, OF
big dinners and long maps in the
afternoon and base ball games. The
Sabbath suggests rest and peace, the
sound of bells from the church-steeple,
the sermon from the pulpit and
quiet walk with the children ic the
garden. In Scotland everybody keeps
the Sabbath. II was thief and
murderer who tempted Scotch
lassie to elope with him. She knew
all his evil deeds of blood and dis
honesty but yet forgaye. Leaving
her fathers house with him early one
Sunday morning she heard him send
for a bottle Of whisky. "What was
that?n she asked. He told her. 81
dinna marry man who breaks the
Sabbath" was her response. And
she didn't.
No trains run in Scotland on Sun
day, save here and there through
mail train. The shops are closed
There are more stores open on Sunday
in a Missoui townof 5000 people thar
in Glasgow where there are over mil
lion souls. Saloons close "tight. Ever
restaurants are open but two OF
three hours in the middle of the day
Omnibuses and street cars stop run
ming or at least run only at lone
intervals.
And the most prosperous people II
all the world, considering the re
sources of their country, are the cannl
Scotch.
SIX CITIZENS OF DIFFERENT KINDS.
Scotland Is proud, in ditferen
degrees, and various ways, Of roun'
half dozen distinguished individuals
This pride extends to others but 1t !
specially manifest regarding them
The names Of the immortals are job
Knox, Mary Queen OF Scots, Rober
Bruce, William Wallace, Rober
Burns and Sir Walter Scott. Their
is theology, poetry, romance, love an
literature, Mars and Cupid, mixed /
most delightful way. Edinburgh
history is interviewer with that {
Knox and ''the mischievous Mary,
the Spaniard's blood. Around Ayr
r the Burns country. Abbotsford
r Scott's particular possessions, Will
from beyond Bannockburn to th
! border are memorials and reminder
: of Wallace and of Bruce
The Scot is clannlsh yet but in r
: unpleasant way. He is proud of h
q land and its heroes. He prefers h
4 own. With it all he is hospitab
: and courteous, in a grave, gentl
g kindly fashion, which is so evident
b sincere that it wins the traveller
/, heart. Discourtsy has not yet bee
!, learned 10 Scotland even Ia the slan
Of it's great cities. The people ha'
0 not forgotten how to cherish nation
ideals. They worship principles al
do not blndly follow men.
IN THE COUNTRY OF BOBBY BURNS
AYR will ever be famous as Il
: place where Robert Burns was bo
! and lived and wrote A plowb
himself his poems plead for I
common people.
What though on homey fare we dine,
Wear holden gray and a. that,
e Give fools their silk and knaves their vim
II mans man for a that. +"
\ The birthplace Of Burns, a til
3 thatched cottage, with but two root
y and stable for third room,
nearly two miles from Ayr by 1
side Of a country road 1t win
7, reproduced in every detail at the S
n Louis Worlds Fair. Near b, is 1
y old graveyard with the ruins
S. galloway Kirk" aud the tombs
ID the father and mother Of Burr
as A few yards distant is tho siriki
Burns memorial Or monument a