Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-01-24

| In 1857 his second edition OF pOemf
came out, for which he got e4O0. Next
year he took a new farm lost all his
yioney, and wrote AUD Lang Syne
and Tam o. Shanter." and obtained
a situation as an excise officer at Csc
a year Burns soon became to feel
prematurely old and In, April. 1896 he
wrote: Il fear 1t will be sometime
before | tune my Tyre again" On July
2lst he died
Burns great characteristic was his
sincerity; a love for the lower forms
Of life his besetting sin.
His genius flows over all living and
llifeless things with a sympathy thai
finds nothing mean or insignificant. His
boems are bound up with Scottish life
and character, and although gone from
us. he speaks to every Scotchman
everywhere, anywhere and at all timer
Robert Anderson responded mos
oloquently to the toast, THE Land
Burns" in part. as follows
| The Land o. Burns" when consid-
cred from different points of view, is a:
once a very large and a very small
subject for a toast. To Scotsman re-
siding in Scotland. rThe Land
Burns" Is the particular district In
which Burns lived. This only com.
prises small portions Of the counties OF
Ayr and Dumfries-a mere corner o.
Scotland.
When the Scot wanders abroad. las
he usually does). the Land o. Burns
tegins to have a wider meaning and
includes the whole Of Scotland. And.
when we understand the term in This
latter sense and as meaning Scotland
"frae Maidenkirk to John o. Groats,
well-nigh forgotten ballads which had
It is when we consider the Land
Burns" in the wide historical sense that
the subject expands to bewilderins
degree and one can but name three or
four of Scotlands illustrious sons who
nave fashioned her glorious history anu
enriched her literature, King Robert
the Bruce. Sir william Wallace, John
Knox, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson-these are men
OF who many nation might be proud
and is not tho Star o. Robbie Burns
the brightest.in that glorious constella-
,In,o who, ho ala FOR Scotland mona
can ever tell. He collected a vast num-
her of oral traditions and fugitive ana
well-nigh forgotten ballads which had
never been either written or printed
probably except in the chap books OF
the pedlar or the ballads OF the street
singer. He found them course and un-
lshapely pebbles of the street and he re-
moulded them with the fire Of his gen.
ius until they shone and sparkled-
gems of purest ray serene"
He in great MEASURE mode Scotland
IN, lana q, song she 70 He drew IN,
nationaI cbaracteristics with n maste,
hand uo bold nm for our venoratior
Itna cottar of tho SATURDAY MIGHT" a,
whom, according IN tho noe,,s hro,ba,
cubert BURNS, father was tho proto
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his "Dr Uornhook " n somewhat no.
ldantic and ouackisb scbooimaster was
after the nubIication of this exouisite
niece Of satire. laughed from the dis.
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