Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-20

beauty and barrenness had Joined hands
ana proclaimed that the privilege of admir-
ing the beauty must be bought by the sub
lection or the barreuness through the hor
or the hands and the sweat of the brow,
Then. what suppose we must call a per
fectly natural thing happened These rude
Loieiathers conceived for their grabbed auld
nithef Scotland. that would give them
nothing without toll, love passing the love
Oh woman. How much they loved her
most OF you can tell by looking into your
own hearts. As have had occasion to re-
mark before in this presence time does NOT
conserve what time has not gone TO the
making OF. and the passionate love Of the
scotsman for his native land ranks among
the great passions which possess the hearts
or men. because generation after genera
ton has owned its power and the man
ceases to be Scottish who would willingly
lei II die. There was a basis of truth for
Dr. Johnson's gibe that the noblest pros
pect which a Scotsman ever sees is the high
road that leads to England" and England
Is the greater and stronger for the longer
procession OF the men of the north who
have sought their fortunes In the south.
IEere Is at least as much ground for the
saying that Scotsman is never much at
home as when he is away from home and
though the path of the exile has not always
been straight nor his efforts always blessed
L know OF no country or cline where the
things that Scotsmen have done are not
chiefly remembered because of the essen
tial nobility that in them; l know of
none where Scottish lineage, were 1t but on
the mithers side. is not cherished as 4
proud possession-a distinction to be hand
ed down to latest posterity. But. go where
he will live where he will, the love which
the Scotsman has for his native country
abides with him; is well of sweetness for
him In the desert and cup refreshing amid
the din, the dirt and the struggle of the
cities In other lands His Is the feeling of
the Hebrew captive by the rivers OF Baby
Ion: IF / forget thee, Jerusalem. let my
right hand forget her cunning. If / do not
rem ember thee, let my tongue cleave to the
n " / 10 iaFT "a
lem above my chief joys" Or to express
the sentiment in his own tongue:
Where the caller breezes sweep
Where the caller breezes sweep
Is the land that love best.
But there is neither complaint nor repin-
ing In all this; no disposition to dlsparage
the land he lives in to the exaltation OF the
land he has left. He Is very apt to think
the place he is in rather the better for his
presence and TO be properly conscious or
the fact that If it were not a fairly good
place he would not be there. He Is not
greatly susceptible to inconsistencies. being
usually content to bide his time for "a
chance to gaze on the broom and the
heather again. and to watch the lark rising
till it becomes a sightless song In his ma
tive Scottish air. But think the object OF
his desire Is always the tangible thing
called Scotland. / do not believe that ne
reasons as the German does in answer 10
the question. What is the German father
land?' by saying that wherever the Ter
man tongue is heard and German song as
cends to heaven, that is the German faith
erland. So might German argue
celebrating as we do tonight. that he has
racreated the fatherland and placed sec
ton of it right here in Delmonlco's. TO us.
this is merely a way of keeping green the
memory of the motherland' OF FeylVins our
Io,pine TO bury our noses In the thyme
with which she clothes her rugged bosom.
and of playing on the heart strings tnat
thrill to every touch of the greatest OF her
singers and the most passionate OF het
adorerS.