HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-09-01, Page 3THURSDAY, SEPTEIVIBIER 1, 1932
THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
PAGE THREE.
.� Land of Burns
THE LAND OF SIR WALTER
SCOTT.
IEi dion Hull - ITeviotdale- Oheviot
(Hills-iJedlburghHaiwick Bel
kirk Galashiels.- Kelslo St.
Bioslwell's and Dryburgh Abbey
dA Magn!ilficent ,Lantl'scape - Et
Jtri lc Shaw's and Yarrow B'raes -i
'The ';Bush Alboon Traquair'f
1Thte FlloIwers of the Forst
1Danniide Tower -'"Charity Hole"
&c. &c.
We now left Melrose Ab!bey,'slowly,
and sadly,with s•plemnt step, as if re-
turning from a funeral where we had
seen the 'great and' mighty of the
earth laid under the clods of the val-
ley. We will never forget our visit to,
this ancient ruin • and the city of the
;dead by which it is surrounded., We
retraced our steps through the rever-
ed and historical; town and too'k.- the
path which 'leads to. the Eildon Hill,
/tipsder which Meirdse stand's. We
limbed fences and scrambled through" n'd sam
t ii l .ni ul'et
woods, crossing ng a beautiful v
} the way, Dr. A'i'kin's leading, your
'humble servant follotwlintg and our
Yankee friend, Dr. Wylie,with the
young 'S'cotsman forrnfng the rear
guard. We soon reached the base of
the Hill and began iihe astcent, and,
were not long In finding out that 1ihe
young man from "Au!i!d Reekie" was
best at this kind of wink, and the
rest of us without 'distinction ,of 'na-
tionality had the honor of ''bringing
up the rear, No wonder that ,Scots-
men often rise in the world when
they go to other lands, they could not
!help it; they: are used to getting up in
the world from their child'haod. Many
of ahem like to get elevated, too, and
'certainly it 'mus't seern like! second
nature to them. We hail" not much
time nor breath either for talking, we
required all for climbing, for it was
no easy 'natter I can assure you. 'The
hill or hills, for there are three point-
ed peaks rising from .one base, are
.1,330 feet in height and the legend is
that originally there w'a's only one
p'e'ak, but the wizard, Michael Scott,
rather the familiar spirits who an-
swered his call, cleft them in three
one night and erected a stone bridge
across the Tweed. Scott, in the "Lay
of the Last Minstrel, puts the fol-
lowing words, descriptive of that
night's work:--
"In these far climes it was my lot
To meet the tvondrousllichael,
Scott,
IA wizard of such dreaded fame
That when' in 'Salamanca's cave,
!Ellin listed his magic wand to
wave'
The bells would ring in Notrie
Dame!
Some of his skill he taught to me,
And, warrior, I could say to thee
The words that cleeft 'Eildon hills
in three.
And 'brid'led the Tweed with a ...
curb of stone.'
tilt would be no use to dispute about
this act of "Auld t'bitltael;" it is best
to swa'lloty it at once,,, for the weight
of authority would be against us,
The hills would be against us too,
for there stands the three peaks up
against the sky as' an : everlasting
memorial. The .Eildons were known
to the Romans by the name, Trim'on-
tium, and the high" eminence; the one
we visited, was selected by them as a
military -station. We found the air at
Ithes top clear, dry and cold, too cold
. 'to be comfortable. We had a fine
view 'of the country in every direction;
aided by a glass with which the
Scotsman was provided. We looked
dolwn' upon lovely T eviotdlale, tile. riv-
er "Teviot`. glittering and sparkling
like gold in the rays of the sun. A -
.way to the South we observed " the
blue outline of the',Cheviot Hilts,'
forming" the ancient boundary, , be-
tween the two countries The ''s'itua-
tion of Jeciburgh on the river was
pointed out, also that o'f Hamrick, Sel-
kirk, -Ga'lashiels and Kelso, add near-
er still 'St. Boswells and Dryburgi
Alblbey (tote last resting place' of Sir
Walter 'Scott, hiss wife, his son and
his son-in-law) ,to ',which place a 10 -
cal poet refers, when he says: -
'There fifty monks have sung the
fro God, 'the King of all;
There Scott and Lockhart: sleep
and wait
The last great judgment call."
We can trace the windings of the
Ettrick, the Yarrow and the silver
I`I'1weed with', the beautiful' vales
through which these rivers fldw. Our
oIbligiing Slc'otch friend pointed out the
"Jarrow Braes" and the "Bush aboon
)Tnatquair," 'broth famous cat song, alsb
"",Alblbloltslford," the residence of the
'Wizard of the North The scenes
of many a fierce and btlb!odty battle
during the border warfare are in
,siglllt with the strong Border I{eeps.
,dotting the landscape ' to remind us
df those turbulent times happily Tong
gone by. We are perhaps 'standing
on the most warlike and at the same
time the Most classic' ground in all
1Sldoltland. We arein the ltdr of the ,
lownwomms
Dougiasses, a tower Of strength' 'i
their day, and the land of James
Hogg and Walter Scott, Who have
rendered' emery to!wit and village,
wlood and glen immortal by their
songs, "Newark, Ettriok,'Yarrow, St.
,Mary's Loch, the bold" monument to
Sir William W'allacc' erected by the
(Duke of Btuccleuoh, and the Temple
of Thromlpsbn, the poet of the Seas-
ons, all' are near, while the'Ettrick
ISE'epherd Also lives in a massive
nton'umenit of stone on `the: hanks of
the Lochof the Lowe's, as he -lives
'in the -hearts oof, .the people o'f Ettrick
ISihalws and Yarrow B'raes,' aBeautiful
mansions stand all around am'onigr't,
which we obtserve. Melon Hall, the
residence of Sir Henry Scott, a'n!d,
Alleriy, the residenlce of Sir David
Brewster. The' landscape is 'exte•n-
sive, beautiful, ' peoti'cal, historical,'
thrilling, every spot the eye rests up-
on has beeln the ,scene\ of a battle, the
birth place of a famous roan or the
Subject of the poett's song. This is
the land in 'which Mum'go Park, Rob-
ert Cha'nabers, John Leyden, James
Hogg, Thos. Pringle, the lhouglasses
and other celebrated 'men were born,.
this the country where the battles of
Otterburn, Ancrum .floor, Melrose,"
2'biiiiphaugh and Floddeii • were
fought, the last viv'idly d'escri'bed by
the master (hand Of Sir Walker S'cott,
in his 'celebrated poen;:"M'armi'on,"
where he tells us that
"Tradition, legend, tune and song,
Shall many an age the wail pro -
lo
Still 'fr•omthe she the son shall
hear
• Of the stern 'strifeand courage
drear,' '
OfFiodden's 'fatal ;field;
Where shivered was fair Sco't-
land's spear
And broken was her shield."
IWe are standing on the spot where
ttije Roman eagles waved twenty cen-
turies ago, when our rude forefathers
were well developedsavages without
the, benefits of education or the 'tiles-
Rings of christianity but still with
that natural Ibravery ;and native 'ride-
pendence which made them even
(then a terror to the conquerors of
the world, and forced th,e'm to en-
camp upon mountain 'tops,' like the
one upon which I now am standing
a sturdy independence and' fearless
courage, which- has coarse down
through -the centuries and made Bri-
tain and her people shat they are to-
day, the hope of the oppressed, the
harbinger of civilization, the , crown,
the glary of the world. But the air
is keen and the eye is, wearied, we
fain ,, would retrace our steps- down
the mountain side. We take the glass
once more, we view for the last time
one of the most glorious landscapes
which this earth affords, we follow
the windings of the silver .Teviot and
raise our eyes to the heavenly blare
of the 'Cheviot -mountains. O'h, 'what
a magnificent, sight to be'h'old. - We
cannot help reciting to our compan-
ions `•The' Emigrants Farewell," by
Pringle, with an ardor, an . intense
feeling which we never felt before:
"Our native land, our native vale,
A long and last adieu,
F'arewel'l to lbonny 'Teviotdale
And Cheviot mountains blue.
Farewell, ye hills of glorious
deeds,
,Farewell, ye' braes and blossom'd
meads,.
Our hearts- have lov'd so long,
'.Farewell, the tblythesome !broonny
lenowes,
(Where thyme,' and hair bells
grow,
"Farewell, the hoary, haunted
towers.
'O?erhung the birlf .and sloe.
The mossy cave and' mouldering'
tower
That Skirt our native dell
The martyr's 'grave sand love'r's
bower
IWe b'ill-asad tfare'well,.'
H'o'me sof our towel our 'fath'er's
h,omelt ,
ILand of the Ibrave and, freer
;The'sail is flapping on the foam
That bears us 'far 'from the•el
We,seek a wild ;and distant shore
;Beyond the western main,
We leave thee to return no more
Nor view thy cliffs a'gainl
But may dishonor 'blight our 'hornet,
And quench our household
fires,
If we ,or rforgett thy, name
Green Island Of our 'sires.
Our 'native laird 'our native vale,
A long and' last adieu!
'Farewell to 'bonnyTev o'tdale
And Scotland's mountains
'bluer"
As we retrace our steps down the
rather steep sides of the Eildon Hill
we repe:ate'dly stopped to collect
some of the 'he'adi'er by 'W'hi'ch the
tm!ountairt'ds c'oyercd, to take .home to
Oanatdta a:s' an emblem 'Of the county
we had been biisiting, .anid , of the
people amongst 'whom we had ,sipen!t
so many pleas'antt days. 'T'he heather
was '!dolt a'very good 'sample, being
e
somelwhat wtthered, tlt e sweet little
1 owet !plat constitutes its principal
attraction being. "Like angel visits,
few and far ,between.. ,Is co•tning
down the,motin!tain side we observ-
ed' several stone enclosures and we
asked the young Scotsm'an what they
were erected for. I-I'e told' us they
were for the purpose .of driving the
ewes into when they were .going to
milk them or when , they were re-
quired to 'be gathered' for any other
purpose. We had not gone far when
we met threebo:un'cling Scotch lasses
with tin pails corning tripping up a-
mongst the heather on the hill side,
which cincum'statice verified what
our'Slc'atch friend had 'just been tell -
Mg us. Our Yankee frie'n'd, who is .a
;blit of a wag, accosted them, saying,
"Gan you give us a drink of Scotch
whiskey -beg " yo r pardon -milk I
mean?" The girl laughed' hearbiiy
land pushed on towards their ewes.
The Scotsman, turning' to me,' said,.
"You are full of Scotch poetry, no*
you see the sheep on the hill side and
the bbblom•inig l'a'sses, with their. palls,
hurrying up to milk them.Of what
does that remtind you in Scottish
song?" I said it reminded nue of the
song called the "Flowers of the Rar-
est," connposed by Mists Jane Elliott,
on the balttle.of Plodder, and I turn-
ed round and recited it to the sheep,
the girls and the hearth covered"
mountains -
"I've heard the 'li'lting at . our,
yotwe milkintg,
Lasses a -Elting 'b,efone the dawn
o'dtay.
But now they are moaning, on,..
ilka :green !loaning.
The flowers of the 'F'oirest are
a'evede away,
A't buch'ts, ,in the morning, nae
b'lythte lads are scorning,
The lasses are lonely, and
dowie, a'n'd wae. -
Nae 'dafiin', nae gabbin,' hut sigh-
'tng and gabbing..
2lkade hafts her leglin and hies
her away.
In hairsit, at the shearing, nae
youth now are jeering,
(The' band'sters are lyart, and
runkled and grey;
At ,fair, or at preaching, nae woo-
ing, nae fleeching
:The' Flowers of the iFiorest are
a'wede away.
At e'en in the gloaming, nae
swan'kies are roaming,
Bout s'ta'cks 'wi' the lasses ' at
bogie to play;
;But ,ilk ane sits drearie, lamenting
her dearie,
, The Flowers of the !Forest a'
• wede away. '
Dule and wae to the order, sent
our lads to the border,
The English, for ante, by 'guile
wan the day;
The 'flowers of the 'Forest, that
fou'ch't aye the foremost,
'iThe prince o' our land lie cau'1d
in the clay.
We hear nae mair 'lilting' at our
yowe-milking, .'
(Women and bairns` are heart-
less and wae;
'Sighing and moaning on ilka
green loaning -
'The 'Flowers of the Forest are
a' swede away."
The name of "The Forest" was
given to Selkir'kshire with 'a portion
of Pelfbleshire and Clydeshire ,;and
'it was noted in those days for its fine
t t almost to a
nt�ln
;tiersTIese vete
slain at the, •ha.ttlle of �Plodder, which
was fought in She year 1'5113. We now
took the toad for •Arbbotsford by way
of the, village , of Darnick where the
,battle of Melrose wait 'fought and ex-
amined Darn,ick 'Tower, said to be the
hest specimen of the ancient Border
Keeps now in existence. It is within
a mile of Melrose sand has been in
the possession of the I-Ieiton'fa'mily
for upwards. of four hundred.' 'years.
It has been renlova.ted, and furnished
by the proprietor in a highly credit-
able manner. The owner tnusit be
both an archi'te'ct and an antiquar-
ian. Amongst the cus-iosities kept on
exhibition in this Tower are halberds
and helmets used in bonder war-
fare. We conversed with several of
the -people of this. vuAlage, who tell
Many anecdotes of Sir Waiter Scott,
wh'o
was familiarly called the "Duke
of D'arniek," . and who fre!que'nttly
walked in this direction attended by
his favorite ding. We lurk/led .here;
es the clear, cold air o'f the Eild'o'n
Hill had sharpened our appetites, and
afterwards walked to Atblbots'ford, 'tlhe
failed residence Of "T,he Great Un-
kn'o'wn;' as Sir Walter was once
Called. The walk from Dart -lick vil-
lage to Abbotsford, along the, high.
(blanks of the beautiful Tweed, is' a,
rdnnantti,c one indeed, and we were
no't astonished that Sir - Waiter Scott,
!when a boy, journeying this way with
his father, was enamoured with the
tseen.e and afterwards decided to pur-
chase • the farm then ca'l'led "Oliarty.
Hole," and transform it into bhe orn-
ate grou.ndts. • which we see to -day,
and build' thereon that wonderful
"rcnsance in stone and litre," known
as "Abbotsford."
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EVERY 40 MINUTES
LAST YEAR
1N AUGUST
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(A'ccordi'ng ;to the rercords .of the
(Motor . Ve'hicl'es < Branch of the On-
-fario Department of .H'igh'ways, mo-
tor' vehicle accidents during the
month of August, 193,1, averaged
more than .33 per day.` Included in
thi sntrnnber there were 77 fatalities
and 1025 persons injured. This rec-
ord, be it . 'understood, is for the
province of Oni'tario alone, and not
for the whole country as one might
imagine from the size of the figure.
The causes of the; accidents record-
ed, were various, ,but it is note-
worthy that .more \than one fourth.
of the motorists involved came to
grief while driving on the wrong
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SOCIETY DICTATOR HAD
LOST MILLIONS.,
11is, Edith IRodkefeller McCormick
died in 'Chicago on lAugust 24. She
succumbed in a •room lwhioh had been
turned into a bower of yellow roses.
The rich and ,brilliant 'bloss'onis syn;-
liollizled her spectacular-_ career as
one, of the ;wealthiest women in the
world, the daughter of John D,'Rock-
efelller, the' undisputed. 'social leader
of Chicago, and the woman ,whose
family has caused ;perhaps as much
international interest as any :other
one wife and mother. ,Cancer, it was
aueiounlced, was the cause of death,.
'An Operation Was 'b'elieved to have
cured her: two years'ago bait the Mal-
ady recurred just as She was losing
millions of dollars lin unfortunate -
and almost'charitable - real 'estate
transactions, 'Her 'fath•er, Jahn lD.
Rockfeller, with whom she had been
reported estranged because of her -in-
sistence ,on investing vast ,suture in
Chicago sub'divisi'ons, Was notified,
His advanced age prevented his Com-
ing to 'the' 'death bed, Her brother,
John D. Rockefeller, his wife and
Vhetir song returned ito New York a
fens days before :She died. Ro'cke'fel-
ler then believed that :his sister 'had
so far recovered that this presen'ce no
longer was ste,ces!5'ary.
Her •youngest daughter, 'Mathilde,
arrived frohn (Europe Only a few dayls
l,eifore her :death. It was allmos't the
Ifirst .time that :3/Irs. M!Gormick had.
seen tMa'thilde . since she married O's-
er, the ridlAig 'master more Than twice
her age. Her other daughter,' -Muriel,.
who 'married IE•liiha Dyer: tHublb'ard,
had been 'with. her several weeks. Sb
had her von (Fb'wler, who married
Tiff Stillman,t'divorced :wifeOf, Janies
A. Stillman, The elder ulhcOormi'ck,
head of the International Harvester
Works, hurried 'to Chicago !froth Lots
'Angeles. After Mrs: IMdCormick di-
vorced him in 19121, he Married' 'and
divorced 'Gann Walaska.'
Although' she was reared ' in thte
'same" frugal -manner as her brother
John ID. (Rockefeller Jr., she flared.
out'immediately after her' wedding,
as a striking personality. Hier creed
,was individualism, She passed her
emphatic and original personality an
to her Children, each of !whom fol-
lowed her precepts of being indivivd-
uals, most strikingly shown by their
unusual marriages. When she lived
in Switzerland her house was divided
info apartments. Mach child had, his
awn quarters, his own servants and
his own, autonidbiles and stables.
(Each 'child led his life entirely re-
moved from family !restrictions,
,Mrs, McCormick dressed Striking -
4Y, 'clad
triking-'ly,'clad her house servants in plum -
colored livery, and never was with-
out 'her !beloved yellow roses. She
'Was born in 'Cleveland in 1872 whtent,
'her father was reaching the height
of his fame with the Standard 'Oil
Company. She was 23 years old 'when
she married Mc'Cormi'ck• Their wed-
ding, uniting as it did two such proni-
inent families, was comparable in
splendor and importance to 'the mar-
riage of tn-o royal European families.
:Society was ruled by tite brilliant:
and beautiful Mrs. 'Potter 'Palmer
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:when Mrs, MieGormick first came to
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rlawgh'ter of ijohet 'D.Rockefeller used
her enormous fortune, her amazing
talents and shriking position to '#Ise
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'tired as Soo -lad dictator, Her' pantiles
and jewels were 'the talk of the town, •
Alt one• affair in the Coaagres's Hotel
she had the walls covered with $105,-
000 worth of 'American lBeauty roses.
She served' her dinners on a set of
,gold plate originally ordered by
lN!apb'leon 'B!pnaparte for his sister,
the (Queen of Naples.
'The !realty ,firm (became her ,greatt--'
est in'teres't. She ,purchased 'large sub-
urban tracts and apparently was
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Ailsa Graig Septa 22, 23 1
Arthur .- .,..... Sept. 27, 28
!Atwood Sept. 16, 0,7
,Bayifiel,d 'Sept. 28, 29
(Blyth ;Sept. 30, Oct. 1.
(Brussels ..., Sept. 29, '30
Drumbo Sept, 97, 28
'Dungannon . , ......... Oct. 12
IEmbro Oct. 6
Exeter Sept, 20, 21
Forest Sept. 27, 28
Fordwich Sept. 30, Oct. 1
'Goderich Sept. '20, 21
Harriston Sept. 29, 30
IIldento•n . Sept. 28
Kincardine . Sept. 1,15, 16
Kirkton Oct, 4, 5
Listowel Sept. 211, 22 '
Lucknow !Sept. 29, 30
Mildmay
Sept. 20, 21
Milverton Sept. 15, S6
Mitchell
'Sept. 27, 28
tvfount Bridges .. .i... Oct, 4
2itew Hamburg .. , , Sept. 16, 117
!Parkhill Oct. 4, 5
Port Elgin Oct. 7, 8
'Ripley Sept. 27, 28
St. Marys Oct, 7, 8
Sarnia. , Sept. 19, 21
Seaforth ,Sept. 22, 23
;Stratford Sept. 11.9, ` 21
IS'trathroy Sept. 29, 30
Tavistock Sept. 9, 10
Teeswater Oct. 4, 5
Winghani Oct. 7, S
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