The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-01-29

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And shall with human hearts hold
| sway,
Till time shall be no more!
Their dove notes mild can soothe a
| child,
Or play lovers part
In court or cottage-love-beguil'd-
| They WOO and win the heart;
His songs of Truth all creeds uphold
"A mans man for a. that"
An honest mans as good as gold,
An name can yet misca' that!
He had his faults and so have we,
His virtues let US cherish;
His songs are sung from sea to sea,
Burns name shall never perish!
Robert Burns prophecy has come
to pass; the prophet that had little or
no honor during life, in his own coun-
try, is now the idolized poet of Scot
land, and the best understood singer
since the days of David-the world
has ever seen! On his death bed, with
feeble, trembling voice, he uttered
these prophetic words to his dear wife
bonnie Jean. "Jean, the warld ill
think mair O. me an my sangs a hun
dred years frae noo!" And his faith
full "bonnie Jean," never BONNER and
better loved by him than now, as his
last few fading hours slipped past,
said, as she smoothed his tear wet pill
low, and cooled his fevered brow with
loving hands; "Oh, yes, Robin, the
warld ill no forget ye when ye're
deed; but, dinna We fash boot the
warld noo!' Thus died the gifted
bard of Bonnie Doom, who wrote, and
chequered life that great truth, that
"Man was made to mourn!'
ious parlor of the Hetherton home and
shortly after eight o'clock there gath
cred over seventy-fve of Minot citi-
zens of Scottish origin to do homage
to the memory of Robert Burns. There
were present, Governor L. B. Hanna,
Hon. Judge Bruce Of the Supreme
Court Of North Dakota; the Rev. w.
C. Hunter, the Hon. w. G. Glib, Coun-
ty Auditor of Mountrail County; DR..
A. ]. MCDANIEL, DR.. Archie D. Nc
Camel, Col. Alex. Scarlett, A. D. c.,
and Norman B. Black, General Man
ager of the Times Herald Publishing
Co., Grand Forks, N D., also the fol-
lowing members of the Burns Club,
under the presidency Of Mr.. VIM.
Hetherton, Sr.:
Mr.. C. B. Bach and wife, Mr.. w.
Campbell, Mr.. John Campbell and
wife, Mr.. D. A. Dinnie and wife, Mr..
VIM. Glib and wife, Major and Mrs.
E. S. Person, Mr.. Dudley Nash and
wife, Mr.. w. G. Grinnell and wife,
Mr.. j. Gardiner and wife, Mr.. F L.
Wetch and wife, Mr. Tom Jackson and
wife, Mrs. Lockman, Mr.. A. F. McLane
and wife, Mr.. w. L. Miller and wife,
Burlington; Judge Murray, Mrs. Wm.s
Murray and Miss L. Murray, Mr.. tAd--
am Robb, Miss Robb, Mr.. &C. F. Truax
and wife, Mr.. j. M, Wilson and wife,
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Fleet, Miss Ross,
Mr.. Chas: .Wistrom and wife, Burling-
ton; Mr.. w. j. Norbeck and wife, Mr..
Oscar P. Stewart and wife, Norwich;
Miss Marie Stewart, Mr.. B. E. Stew
art, Mr.. r. w. DuVall and wife,
Mrs. Alex. Scarlet, Mr.. H. A. Mac
adie and wife, Miss C. B. Mcfarland,
Miss S. Mcfarland, Mr.. j. Lowe and
wife, Mr. Douglas Glib and wife, Mr..
J. C. Smallwood and wife, Mr.. E. B.
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ickson, Mr.. and Mrs. John Wallace,
Mr. H. E. Wheeler and wife, Earl Wal
lace and wife, Rev. Mr.. Richmond,
Mrs. VIM. Hetherton, Sr.
The President opened the proceed
ings by giving the toast Of "The I'm
mortal Memory" after which was
sung "There was a lad was born in
Kyle"
In proposing the toast Of ''The I'm
mortal Memory" Mr.. Hetherton said:
Burns was man of supreme gen
ius, Scotsman, and by the chance Of
fate, ploughman.
"Burns was highly educated.
parents in those days were deter
mined on educating their children, and
children willingly accepted the boon
provided.
"How came it that Burns had such
a hold on the Scottish people? Why
was this? Because Burns was the
real Scotsman.
1--WE loved and respected Sir Walter
Scott, but he was not the captor OF
their hearts like Burns. Sir Walter
expressed the Scottish spirit; Burns
breathed it. Looking over the history
of the World, there was but one poet
who caught the hearts Of his country
men as Burns had caught theirs and
that was King David.
"There were many points in which
these two poets resembled each other.
Both were country men-farmers'
sons; both were Of strenuous tenn
permanent; both were involved in tur-
bulent matrimonial or extra matri-
monial adventures; both were shining,
erring mortals, shining wilfully; and
both were sincerely penitent and re-
morseful. Both were genuinely relig-
ious, but genuinely human.
"Both won the hearts of their coun-
ltrymen from their poetry alone. David
was the sweet psalmist Of Israel; and
in the course Of the civilized worlds
history, l believe that the after King
David, the poet best known and quot
ed by all classes was Burns.
Burns represented all parts of the
national life that made up Scotland.
Even his failings do not condemn him