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ARTICLE LXVI.
of
SCOTLAND.
From Edinburgh, via Firth
Forth Bridge and Dunfermline,
to Stirling and Suchlyere by
Bannockburn to Aberfoylc,
Through the Grampian llills
and Rob Roy’s Land, by Ben
Venue and Loch A c h r a y,
Through the Trossachs, Across
Loch Katrine to Stronachlacher,
Across Loch Lomond to Inver-
snaid, and on to Glasgow, Ayr
(by Dairy), and Dumfries.
feed upon no less than the mature;
quite unlike the chaff and stuff and
rip-raff and impurity put out in the
average present-day novel as simp
ly bidding for popularity through
its glaring conjunctions and excit
ing situations. What are the
layety of readers whetting their
appetites on nowadays? The story
with purity of thought and high
ness of morale, or the question
able and deep-dyed plot that keeps
one’s sensibilities wrought up to
Time forbids more than the bare cause shall '.Humph in despite of
i mention of some of the most in Satan.” ... "1 am compelled to
teresting sights of Edinburgh, I thunder out the threatenings of
over which we drove for hours on God against all rebels; in doing
a Saturday, rested and worshipped whereof I am some times wound-
Sabbath most delightlully and ed, knowing mysell criminal and
profitably, and leaving at an early guilty in many, yea, in all things
1 hour on Monday. We saw the that in others I reprehend. Judge
| U n i v e rsit y and Theological not, mother, that I write these
I School, the Old Castle (the pres- things debasing myself otherwise
lent fortress, on a precipitous rock than I am. No! 1 am worse than
300 feet above the valley and my tongue can express." To John
reachable only trum the east side ; Knox more than to any other man
and by drawbridge across a I Scotland owes a greater debt of
moat; an infantry barrack for 1200 gratitude lor what she is today;
1 men and an armory of 30,000 stand j Scotland is Knox’s monument in-
of arms; also the Crown Room ot deed!
old Scotch Regalia, Queen Mary’s The Church of Dr. Chalmers,
Room where James VI was born, historic St. Andiew; Calton Dili
the Prison, and Old Palace Yard, (with its notable monuments—the
etc.); Holyrood Palace and Abbey j unfinished Parthenon, Nelson’s
(founded by King David I—the j statue, Duguld Sttwarl monument,
Holy Rood which he purposed de-; the National Monument to Scot-
positing here being supposedly a tish soldiers tailing in the 1’cnin-
fragment ot the True Cross; but j sular and Waterloo campaignsjuml
burned once and again by the Old Observatory; with fine view
English and Cromwell's soldiers; of distant Leith and the Filth of
and noted as containing the apart-j Forth Bridge); a circular monu
ments of enigmatic, Mary Queen ment to Robert Burns' memory
of Scots, her husband Lord Darn
ley, and where Rizzio was assassi
nated; to the south is the Queen’s
Park, while just behind is King
an unreasonable pitch and tinges Arthur’s Seat—822 feet high; and
the afterthought with the shadow near the park-keeper’s lodge at
of evil however strenuous the at- St. Leonard's Hill stands the cot-
tempt to banish it to distant tage ot "Jeannie Deans’’ whose
realms? Are the people reading | plea for Elfie in "the Heart of
for amusement rather than im Midlothian"—when the Queen
provement, to kill time or to im asked her why should she grant
prove time, simply to pass time or this pardon--is so well compressed
to utilize time to profit ot charac- in the words: “When the hour of
on the south; the Royal High
School (an adaptation of the Tem
ple of Theseus at Athens) at the
hill’s base; VVellington’s eques
trian staiue mi Princes Sheet, the
I’ostofifice and the Registry Office,
the Edinburgh Museum ot Science
and Art, inc Men Public Library
(due principally to the liberality
of Mr. Andiew Carnegie), the
Grassinarket and monumental
cross to martyrs, Old Greyftiars’
Church and Churchyard with its
ter? What say you? How do you? trouble comes to the mind or the striking memoiials, the Bank of
We have hardly stepped out up
on Princes Street (said to be. the
prettiest in the world) ere our
eyes are arrested by the exquisite
ly graceful Gothic spire of red
sandstone—upwards of 200 feet
high—of the monument which
Edinburgh has erected to the lit
erary genius and true nobility of
character of "the Great Enchan
ter (wizart ) of the North," Sir
Walter Scott; elegant and light of
construction, with arches and tur
rets and retreating pinnacles, over
a marble statue of Scott and a
tavorite dog, and with figures in
its chief niches representing char
acters from his writings.
Who can tail to honor this no
ble man, however differing on
many subjects, who knows aught
of him or his work, whatever his
predilection for kings and courts.
His publishers tailing with enor
mous liabilities when Scott was
fifty-five years old, his own oblige
tions amounted to #600,000; yet
he did not settle matters like
many insolvent merchants otten
do, but devoted the rest of his life
to honestly paying his creditors to
the last farthing due. By the in
cessant activity of his great brain
in six years he earned and paid off
this immense sum, giving his very
life to save his honor, so that in
1832, a short while before he died,
he wrote: “I think I shall never
walk again; but I must not com
plain, tor my plan of settling my |
debts has been, thank God, com
pletely successful, and I have paid i But WB hae meat an’ we can eat,
one hundred and twenty thousand j lot tlie boi,t be tliankit '
pounds, without owing any one a; Not on *y the natural beauty ot
ha’penny" the P lace but history and legend
His beauty of character and unitf) their cbarms to make Edin ’
purity of intention was strikingly bur £> b one tbe loveliest cities of
illustrated in these words shortly J Euro P e - Tts strikin K Hkeness to
before his death: “lam drawing i Athens no less than its & reat
near to the close of my career. 11 brain P ower ' led t0 lts acc f u,red
am fast shuffling off the stage. I name of “ the Athens of the
have been, perhaps, the n^t North,,’or “Modern Athens, and
voluminous author of the day; and i un fin ishe ^ ParthenM-^pied
it is a comfort to me to think that
As we passed through middle
and eastern England, we felt the
force of Mrs. Browning’s verse—
God's finger touched,but did not press,
In oinking England.”
On our passage through Scot
land, it seemed as though it were
exactly the reverse of this. In
England is beautiful, undulating,
green country, finely adapted to
farming, but really devoted largely
to cattle-raising (as more lucra
tive), and no lofty mountains; in
Scotland are here and there lovely
spots and plains under cultivation,
but ever and anon bleak and bar
ren moors, rugged and rocky high
lands, with the pinkish purple
heather on every side, acres of
bracken, great patches of moss
like sponges filled with moisture
from the clouds always sweeping
o’er these mountains, a land truly
for the lads and the lassies, grim
yet withal interesting of visage,
from its very contrasts challenging
to labor and to battle. The coast
is ragged and storm-swept, but the
roads of Great Britain are of the
finest in the world for walking or
driving as you will.
Scott’s words were never truer
than when we crossed the border
ot Scotland—
•Stranger, wlmt dost thou require?
Rest and guide, and food and Are.”
And scarcely can one sit down
to the morning meal ere, from the
round of the yellow Scotch earth
enware bowl containing oatmeal
porridge, come the lines of Robert
Burns
‘Some hae meat that canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
body—and when the hour of death Scotland, and County Hall near
comes—that comes to high and site ol the old Talbooth, called
low—then it is not what we have “the Heart of Midlothian," the
done for ourselves, but that wejTron Church, Canongate (the
have done for others—that we | name given to High Street from
think on most pleasantly".) We John Knox’s House to Holyrood
saw the “Old City" and "New j Palace), etc., etc.
City" anil their buildings, noting Fine weather favored us during
that the pa»ts once inhabited by () ur visit. On Sabbath at 9 a. in.
the better classes and great fam-; we attended a military service in
ilies by their removal have become y| d st. Giles Cathedral Church
tenanted by the poorer and more J conducted by t | ic chaplain of the
degraded people, the slums of crack Scotch Highlanders (or
Edinburgh thus coming more to 1<oya i H| U ck Watch), the minister
the front than in any othei city in 0 f the church, anil heard fine
the world, so far as we know.chiel- lllU sjc and a fair sermon on 1 Cor.
ly through the curse of strong 12:3. At 11 a. m. we heard the
drink. cultured and interesting Rev.
We visited that greatest of 1 Hugh Black, assistant of Rev.
Scotchmin, John Knox’s house, | Alex Whyte, D. D., on 1 Cor.
(where he lived, 1559-72, and 12:14 at St, George’s United Free
died), on the outside of which is Church, At 2:30 p. m. we were
the inscription, “Lofe.God. aboue. at Nicolson St. United Free
al. and. your, nichtbovr. as. yi, Church, hearing a capital sermon
self" Also his Church, that of j from Rev. R, J. Drummond of
St. Giles, and, in the pavement of Lothian Road on Lk. 10:27. And
Parliament Square to the south, j it was truly climatic to a blessed
his grave is seen marked by a Sabbath day in the evening when
stone inscribed “J K. 1572.” It at 7 o’clock we were privileged to
was when John Knox was laid in he.ir the Rpv. John Kelnian, at
the grave that the Earl of Morton, New North United Free Church
though often the object of his of Scotland, deliver an incompar-
censure, did justice to his charac- able Gospel message on J no. 14:6
ter in those words: “There lies anti Col. 3:4—“Christ Our Life."
he who never feared the face of In the new college of Edinburgh
man; who hath often been threat- is that distinguished exegete and
ened with pistol and dagger, but professor, Dr. Marcus Dodd. We
yet hath ended his clays in peace like the way Scotchmen keep the
and honour; for Providence watch- Sabbath day, and prepare on Sat
ed over him in a special manner, urday evening for its coming,their
when his very life was in danger." use of Bibles in the pews anil pul
Of him his faithful servant Rich- pit, while we greatly deplore t he
ard Bannatyne said: “In this man- trend ot Biblical criticism towam
ner (signifying his unshaken faith radicalism, and the great expendi*
in th'* Divine promises) departed ture in the drink traffic on the
this man of God, the light of Scot- part of the population. The brain
land, the comfort of the church, power and the thrift, the heroic
within the same the mirror of and the romantic vein, of the
godliness, the pattern and example Scotch people are proverbial hut
of all true ministers, in purity of intemperance is the cancer of
life, soundness of doctrine, and
I have tried to unsettle no man’s
faith, to corrupt no man’s princi
ples, and that I have written noth
ing which, on my death-bed, I
should wish blotted out."
Novelistic works trom a person
of this stamp are worthy material
for young and growing minds to
after the Athenian model—re
minds us ot Greece. It is situated
in North Midlothian, within a few
miles of the Firth of Forth. “Edin
burgh” is derived from the found
ing of his “burgh” by King “Ed
win" opposite the slanting ridge
of rock known as Arthur’s Seat
(near which King Arthur defeated
the Saxons).
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boldness in reproving of wicked
ness; one that cared not for the
favour of men, how great soever
they were, but faithfully reproved
all their abuses and sins.’’
What wonder this man was so
great, when he could write such
thoughts as these: “Satan, I con
fess, rageth, but potent is He that
promiseth to be with us in all such
enterprises as we take in hand at
his commandment tor the glory of
His name, and forthe maintenance
Store to be
Enlarged
Tin 1 Railroad Wreck Sale is over. It was the greatest sale
in the history of this store, and convinced ns that there is
plenty of room for the growth and development of our
business. So we have determined to enlarge and improve
onr store. The work will lie done next month; and before
the carpenters, plasterers and painters move in to do this
work we want to move out as much of onr stock as possi
ble. We want to get the goods out. of the way to make
room for the workmen. In order to sell the stock down
ns low ns possible, we have decided to price everything for
the next few weeks sit most attractively low prices. Any
thing and everything in the store will be sold at less (Inin
usual prices, to move the goods.
('onio and see the stock and get what yon want at
prices that mean a-great saving of money to every pur
chaser.
Remnants of the
Wreck Sale
Broken lots of the big wreck sale stock remain. They
in list. go. Yon can get these goods at any reasonable price
oll'ered. Here’s the place mid the time to pick up bar
gains.
New York Bargain
Store.
The Importance of Life
Insurance.
IIY ItUV. It, K. It VAN.
widespread wretchedness in Scot
land.
From Edinburgh on Monday
morning at 7:30 o’clock we took
the train at VVaverly Station and
went via the massive Firth of
Forth Bridge tone of the greatest
feats of mechanical construction
in the world) and Dunfern.line
(the birthplace of our own Mr.
Andrew Carnegie and holding the
sacred ground in which lies the
body of King Robert Bruce), to
Stirling (with its famous Castle
of His true religion. And, there- and Grayfriars Church, splendid
fore, the less fear we any contrary Uruce Monument, arid fine outlook
power; yea, in the boldness of our on the Vale ot Mentcith; Ben
God, we altogether condemn them, Lomond, Ben Venue, Ben A’an,
be they kings, emperors, men, Ben Ledi; with the Ochil Hills on
angels, or devils. For they shall, the northeast; Cornbuskeneth
never be able to prevail against Abbey, Abbey Crain, and. the
the simple truth of God which we picturesque Wallace Monument,
openly profess. By the permis- and the Bridge of Allan to the
sion of God, they may seem to north; and the Campsie Hills to
prevail against our bodies, but our the south; and in the vicinity of
I am no insurance agent; but I do
not hesitate to say that modern in-
siirnnoc comes nearer to giving some
thing for nothing, and making that
something sure and certain than any
other known institution of onv times.
Indeed, so sure, cheap and certain
lias ii become that no man, however
poor, is without excuse who does not
tuke advantage of the inducements
offered him to lay up a little money
to bury him when dead and provide
support for his aillieted and stricken
loved ones when lie is enlled away.
It is short of unpardonable erima
when a fattier and husband, with a
wife nnd children <lu|>elldillg upon,
him for support, neglects this sacred
obligation; uses up each week his
wages, and in a movement of time is
stricken Iiy death; compels IJh
friends to bury linn; leaves his f'am-
ilv di-mute and objects of pity and
elm
I should live a thousand
vnr could forget the picture
1 11 scene as tins I saw in
OHinetery a few days ago—
nut inspired the sermon. I
whs called upon to preach the fune
ral sermon of a man who was a clerk
in one of the great railroad oflloes.
He had a beautiful little home, a
lovely wife and child. He lived a
life of simple, happy ease. In vain
did insurance agents importune him
to carry just a little insurance. He
lived each week to the limit of his
small salary, saving nothing. He
refused to take insurance on account
of tho expense.
One day lie was sitting at his desk
writing and whistling when sudden
ly his whistling censed, Ids writing
stopped, iiis head dropped forward
on IiIh hook, and his heart, ever light
and gay, ceased to throb.
Whoa his accounts were footed up
lie had nothing. The boys in the of
fice had to buy Ids oofllii and defray
all funeral expenses, and they were
just ns poor as lie. One dollar a
week invested in life insuranoo
would have avoided all tills.
The saddest sight. I think I ever
witnessed in my life wus his frail,
delicate little wife, standing beside
that open grave witli the oold winds
whistling through the barren trues,
sobbing as if her poor heart would
break, with not enough money in
tier pocket honk to liny her a lunch
and pay her way hack to her cheer
less homo.
After she returned to her homo,
what then? No bread in the pantry,
no money in the purse, no coal in tho
hunker, and ttio next month's rent
due.
I have no sorrow for thatdend hus
band. My sympathy is all for the
poor, destitute and unfortunate wife.
It is a pity that such men cannot suf
fer the jsinalty of their own folly;
hut, unfortunately, the suffering is
endured by their luckless wives and
innocent children.
For the right kind of Insurance see F. M. BRYANT, District Man
ager of the /Etna Life Insurance Company.
Bannockburn, where rising from
prayer Robert Bruce with 30,000
Scots defeated Edward the II and
100,000 Englishmen,to ihe restora
tion of Scotland’s independence;
and riot far away is Linlithgow
Palace, once a favorite seat of
Scottish rulers;. At Stirling we
changed, and again at Buchlyere,
thence proceeding right on to
Abcrfyle, where we took a four-
horse coach with a party through
the Grampian Hills and “Rob
Roy’s Land” by majestic Ben
Venue and Loch Achray, through
the Trossachs country by the
Trossachs Hotel, in s!earner sail
ing across beautiful Loch Katrine
I (eight miles; by its “Silver Strand"
and “Ellen's Isle" to Stronach
lacher, where at the Hotel of same
name we had luncheon. The situa
tion here is charming, however
moist the atmosphere hereabouts.
Across Loch Lomond (25 miles)
by steamer we went to Inversnaid,
thence on to Glasgow by rail. The
day was a largo part cloudy or
misty or drizzly, and somewhat
cold; but steamers, coaches, and
trains were jammed with people
on holiday. This is not only Scot
land’s heart, but pre-eminently
Scott’s Land (see his Waverley
novels like “Marmion” and “the
Lady of the Lake," etc). “The
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