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North Ontario Observer (Port Perry), 28 Feb 1907, p. 4

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" me wab Bs of that day wowid | 4 Sa Tf oar He was Beggar at day--{cheers Tho 2 ke could be under because the avo- A beeper was not very con- for want of practices, had 3 poaved 0. in Edinburgh. "Chuckie 0 allot Edinburgh. Sy. old Guckle was going it be was ask. |- a'gertain 1 and a Keren interest, | Was very desirable to save the Auld Brig. He regarded that as absolutely | ; otherwise, suppose they A to find the sum, have the d Brig purchased by some, greit American multi-million- who would have all the stones bered and have them again built Saget: in his back yard at Chicago. Stone of Destiny. | The real feeling he had at heart in this matter was to avert that stain from Scotland, and from the Scottish eacntcheon, which he thought would | be absolutely indelible. They had not | many monuments in Beotland. Their | risetral stone monument was th "oronation Chair in England. (Laugh- 'ter.) The Stone of Destiny was a stone gesociated no doubt with many tragic 'and interesting traditions, but he was | frat) go sure that the Stone of Destiny feed was so interesting as this Auld} pre of Ayr--(cheers)}--and if they al- jowed that brig to be destro ait | they allowed it to be replaced by a | 'structure, however valuable and how- evér interesting, and however com- odious that new structure might be, : did not think that they should be able to hold up their heads again. | What Burns Did. | Did they ever realize what Burns did for Scotland? Did they realize how completely he transformed our national life and our national char- acter? It was perfectly true that the t rival magician, Sir Walter Bceott, ga a sense more for Scotland than urns did, because he enveloped bids whole country in a haze of ro- magoe which could not die away; but | t had never dwelt in the hearts of | the Scottish people as Burns had done. His birthday at this moment | was celebrated in few centres, where- as the natal anniversary of Burne was | a subject of festival wherever the sun 9 1d. (Cheers.) There was no birth- of any dead man, perhaps there | ™ er no birthday of any living man-- | the Ki included--which was so 'versally sommenorated as the day of Burns; and w 1 was that? he was a man. (Cheers.) He , besides, a genius, flesh of our blood of our blood, and bone of | me. (Cheers). He spoke the ao- | of Soottioh manho He spoke | rarely in the classical phraseology of | land, but in the language and eet of Bcotland, and therefore to | them he was a Scottish representative , 'man. (Cheers.) Picture of Burns. through in the train to PR e made tHe couplet-- O'er Burns Scotland wept with an- nual pang, But would not save the sacred stones he sang. Buppose by some magic pdwer they TL rit: Burns there that day. Buppose that by the door through .which he and the others came to 'reaéh the platform, Burne was to come clumping in in his peasant shoes, in his worsted stockings, and {with his broad, pleasant face, out of which looked those globes of ize cons taining a world of poetry and though --those eyes whieh Bir Walter Bcott never saw matched, though he saw the great men of a gigantic era. Sup- that ant could walk in with is somewhat uncouth form and speak t them as he spoke, and as few men had ever spoken, because all who knew him in saying that his conversation was more wonderful than' 'his poems. Suppose he came in there snd asked them to save the Auld Brig for his Saks, why they would have broken down the reporters' barrier, | they would have sprung upon the (%t- | fom, and they would have produced ir shillings, emptied their purses, | in fact, laid down their watches an ns "and rings and every personal t, and laid them at the feet of Robert Burns. (Loud cheers.) Want $50,000, Why, sir, great millionaires of the world would spend their substance in SHS boone for manuseripts of ve hundreds | 'or for the sound of his e of his hand veice, yet we | canziot. raise Zu. now that he is! to save the object on which his (Cheers) shone throughout the whole civilized ' t Asd'mast of thest consimiptives 'might be living now if they had not neglected the warning cough. Ee You know how quickly Scort's cough or cold. . Emulsion enables you to throw off a ALL DRUGGISTS; 80c. AND $1.00. ms' inne hundréds of years old for. the lodging of travelers to famous im mental Ta mn the chimney stands on Hi ER of a pilgrims' Sha A magnifice mediaeval house, New Inn at Gloucester, In London, the only remaining galleried inn is the George, in the Borough, High street, a still thriving house, rich in old-time flavor. On 4 desolate hilliop in Yorkshire, near Brough, is the Tan Hill Inn, the highest in England. This house is 1,787 fee} sbove sea level. Dick Turpin was the Bon of the landlord of the Orown at Hamps Essex, a al existent hostelry. Mr. | Harper gives his real history, and con- founds Harrison Ainsworth with this disconcerting epitaph: '""The sorriest, the most sordid and absolutely com- | monplace scoundrel that waf ever raised to so undeserved a pedestal.' The Green Man, which stands on the orest of Putney Hill, sheltered many desperate and despicable char- acters, and the house still keeps a stout, bolt-studded door as a relic of its "good old timep.* Historic Hostelry. Among the houses with historic as- sociations are the Crown and Treaty at Uxbridge, where the Commission- ers of King and Parliament vainly sought for peace in 1645; the Baracen's Head Bouthwell, where Byron hob- nobbed at the bar, and where Charles I dined with the 8Bcotch Commission- ers and gave himself into thet hands; the Red Lion et High Wycombe, where Disraeli made his first politi- cal speech; the Greyhound, at Thame, where John Hampden came mortally wounded, prone upon his horses neck; the Red Lion, Hillingdon; where the Merry Monarch lay the i first night of his distracted wander throngh England---and many more which Mr. Harper specifies. Dickens' Inns. The very Odyssey of inns, says Mr. Harper, is "Pickwick." In that work alone Dickens mentions fifty-five houses of retreshment. lovers know the Pickwickian shrine at 'Cobham, where Mr, Pickwick dis- covered his disconsolate friend. Londatie Plokwick hostelries have been remodelled out of all knowledges, the Golden Cross at Charing Cross, ' for example, where the genial old boy began his travels, and the Bell Ba- vage on Ludgate Hill, whenoe the eastern counties coaches set forth, of | the Bull at Rochester this delicious | story is told; "Bo this 15. where Mr Pickwick is supposed to have slept?" remarked a visitor, when viewing bedroom No. 17 | by favor of a former landlord. That | stranger 'meant no offense, with a courtyard nese. jugglers eloquent of coaching days and a rare don musia h hey might | show of Jacobean carved oak, is the | them expeditiously and mysteriously, but the | 4ion degired is transfe: to landlord 'was greatly ruffled. "Suppos- | od to have slept? sir." An engrossing chapter deals with Dickensian inns: Jack SBtraw's Castle, Hampstead Heath, where the novelist He did sleep here, "LONDON IS AMAZED. When "strong m for one's i they were forthcoming by the score. When Chi- fpcaine a craze in Lon- managers produced like rabbits from a conjurer's hat. It was the same with "strong women," with "living statuary," and now it happens with the so-called "'though$ transmission exponents." We have three shows of this kind at different houses of entertainment in London, writes a correspondent > the world's metropolis, and so mar- vellously clever and mystifying are they that all London is talking about ' them and hardly an evening party | oan be got through without some ama- | teurs with a system trying their to show powers of thought fransmis- sion. The Zancigs Mystify "Londak Mr. and Mrs, Zancig, pa ore honored recently hy a bo appear before the King and Q and Queen a! Bandringham, mystify the audi- ences at the Alhambra to such a de- gree that investigation of their meth- ods by the psychical research society and by Bir Oliver Lodge and other eminent scientists has been for, and enthusiastic admirers have attributed to the performers powers more marvellous than any to which they lay claim. Now recently have appeared a Shef- fleld working mechanic named Retsil and his 15-year-old daughter Myra, who give a replica of the Zancigs' per~ formance. is is all the more as: tonishing as Retsil is an uneducated "workingman. His daughter, a polish- er in a brass foundry, saw the Zan- cigs performing for the first time last Baturday night, yet they were able to give a display of the same sort by the middle of this week. The girl is blindfolded on the tag the fath- a) er am the qn. Yo mathter how ap; NF difficult or soinplicated may the question, the girl answers onoe and never makes a mistake. Real Svengall and Jones. But more staggering' formances is that at the lppoaeeme by a man and woman, 0 have dopiod the names a the late George Du Maurier's characters Trilby and Svengali. Their performance bas achieved a bewildering success by the manner in which the woman, peated at a plano- forte upon the stage, plays or sings any piece of music immediately its name is whispered or written down in the presence of her silent colleague as he moves about the auditorium. Whatever means by which the | knowledge of the parti gomposi- e pian- ist and vocalist, it is evident that her musical repertoire must be astonish- | ingly comprehensive--indeed, it is said to include no fewer than eight thous- and numbers. No words pass and Bvengali has invited bis friends to "a red-hot chop his back to the stage all the time, for dinner and a glass of good wine"; the King's Head, Chigwell, the May- pole of "Barnaby Rudge"; the Coach and Horses. with Bill Bykes and Oliver Twist; the George at Amesbury, where the land- lord ghowe you old Martin Chuzzle- wit's oom; and dozens of others. The Visits of Mr. Pickwick. 'Ostrich linger 'about the ° at Coln- { the woman watches him closely, but it is impossible to detect any gesture or movement that: suggests & code. Isleworth, associated yi otters not what you write down on paper, nothing comes amiss. Im- mediately Svengali treads the name Trilby, far away on the stage, breaks off what she may be singing, | out the name fs the new piece, whe- Very terrible are the memories that ther it bé gran: ijoriers. the latest mus- ical comedy brook--the villsge which was once a song, no a what the 'language coaching town full of inns, and mark- ed the end of the first stage between ' Londond and Bath ruined ' by the railways. But the Os * remains to claim the rever " sion of 4 e horrible story attaching te a pi the per, and his wife, who con- he koe ingenious murder-trap in peipal bedroom. sAnd the "Os- lights in the old tale--which ul crimes. or--the story of Jarman, | may be, and starts over. again. It is indeed the weirdest and most Oolnbrook was mystitying exhibition of ite kind ever seen. Happy Decembers and Mays. The marriage of May and Deters bat has passed into a verb n point of Jas}, these unequal unions have innkeeper knows the value of tia ai 1 tions," and such is the naturg that none of mature. years. est forgotten |, A Great Engin Bir Alexander Kenned the foremost figures in ing world. It was i Alsxander devised ed the hoe system stations, numb PvE uty d to system of 2 Enns lights Alexander's schemes. don, elecirie tramways, & ¢rlod amd City Electric other enterprises for th which this distinguished § {n the main responsiple. Bir Alexander's greatest ¢ a Ho gratitude was his titude boiler trials at sea. He the necessity of separatin trials from those of the although his ideas were great opposition, he eve ed permission to carry outils Probably. Dupont--I think your oy if he ve 1 Durand--In what way? Dupont--Why, for his Arsixe CLover Seep sin the market for Alsike Clover Seed in # or which he will pay ths est market price, aud fa mers may obtak per | brated Clipper", § has the world-w ingfthe most petfe vented, So that Alsike Sed to dispel their own interests B it Mr, Pucly's Stor N° returning thanki patronage extend ils wn ani, 88 nsual, now re: OF DOUBLE AND which. Tam determi in the matter of IS THE THIEFOR er iv 11 1 take great pleasure in announcing that my New Mills are now completed and in full oper- ation and that [ am betler than ever prepared to meel the requirements of my [friemds and the general public in every line pertaining lo my already extensive and rapidly increasing busi- | ness. Correct business principles, prompitude and courieons treatment may bo relied on, JAMES CARNEGIE Port Perry, Dec., rgoz, HACICIACICRIPCICISICIOIIES sone 73a 7 fo { Procrastination is also the robber that steals [rom many a buss- ness man the ofporiunily. to become. wealihy ee hire Led SK gor Livery = PORT PLRRY. I Jy thanking the public or the liberal patronage received dt dhe waby Hoda Fave ¥e t a Livery Ei men ve much Seiabliah, soma 4 T have removed MY LIVERY | to my former place of 'business WwW ater Street which Tam abont to largely extend in- creaso facilities so that the public may be better acoommodated with safe and desir- © "able RIGS AT MODERATE CHARGES R. VANSICKLER. ] Port Perry, June 21, 1900, Located in Our New. Primes §.1.CawkeraSon 7ISH TO ANNOUNCE that that they are pow comfort ably ensconscd in their new pre mises in the Purdy Block where the Public will always fiod an ample supply of © i to'p Bade most § het All orders 'will receive prompt attention. 'S. T. CAWKER & SON March 5, 1goz. Sealed Tenders f- (EALED TENDERS. will be | received by the undersigned for the purchase of all or any of: the | Parcels--Farm Properties -- belong ing.to Mr. John Adams, advertised | y auction on the 23r¢ |] to. be sold Nimes and Withdrawn at the sale, 1. WHITEY doy, Sagat ey mpd Herm | ata GS SETI aR fo hy a PORT PRRAY--Clork, J Ji 8 November 1, i 1: 4 UXBRIDGE Dl, 5 0, Novem 3: an. RE oe i oo MLa on dT foe By order, tom J. B. PAREWELL, Dated a4 Whilby, Nov, 15th, 1908. 3 ih | (General Blecknifing The undersigned having opened" business in the " Sp ety cago by Ms a Just west'of Drs. Archer & on is pre ared to do all' of General chsmithjng at anahie CHarges. general use than any other ork: of its kind in the span LL.D, D.N., of Ostond + versity, Eagiand, Los recom sail ex indndecdin ar 1 |

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