The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1905, Page 42

42 THE FRANCISCO. CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1905. THE SAN FRANGISCO CALL ..Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS..... 00000, sseossesececascccs ADDRESE ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT.. D T st - THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO DECEMBER 17, 1003 "BLICATION OFFICE. CHRISTMAS CHEER. SUNDAY....... HE coming great holiday finds our country favored with the Tia.rgest crops and the most cash in hand in all its history. This high material condition is enjoyed side by side with other condi- tions that become a high spirited and self-governing people. What i have are meekly worn, and what evils are among us are fought. The expurgating power of public opinion is abroad ith the spirit of reform, and everywhere is the bright promise of the perpetuity of our civil institutions. Wealth and luxury are the insidious enemies of human society snd government. The ancient empires were infected by them and 1t they were trained to ethics different from ours, and existed sregard of the rights of the masses and the needs of the es we poor. be translated by the alphabet of ancient history. Our rich are less a menace than the ancient rich because they recognize the obligations of moral stewardship and are moved by the spirit of wealth. As long as there is abroad a hearty con- an or dishonest rich man, and a firm determination tempt for the n to hold him able to statutory and moral Jaw, the wealth of the 1 -onsistent with the endurance of its institutions. It is general assent to the legal immunity of the rich that presence in a country becomes a fatal disease. In this land, where the law is made by all and is administered 1 be respected and obeyed by all, the gifts of nature h constitute potential weaith may be fear- the certainty that all will get a fair share of the and that dishonest gains will not always stay in the dishonest at win them. 1 f wi mic would have been appalling prosperity in we justly fix our confidence in our safety upon the effect of ( y, real Chri y, upon our civil institutions, of s th ing grace. This Christmas holiday is suggestive the salt that has savore 1e earth since the old empires were en- riched to rottenness, there was no pervasive moral principle firmites. could heal the The Call sends its annual greeting to-day that its most distant ve reached in season. It is an expression of good will on to the great State that gives its people the kindest ine, and the softest skies that are upon the holiday season any- where on the planet. THE MILAN EXPOSITION. decided to celebrate the opening of the great Simplon an international exposition of industries, products, ecorative art, and of fisheries, zoology and forestry. at Milan, and will extend from April to November, In this country 1 be hel s exposition is a novelty in its occasion. the republic, the discovery of America, the acquisition of 2 the exploration of the Northwest by Lewis and se were celebrations of events long crystallized in his- ly proposes to celebrate a current event, something that the opening of the tunnel and of the exposition irrent. idea is fetching. It gains piquancy from the fact that s pick and choice of anniversaries of ancient events. - Rome nds on the hills where it was planted 2659 years ago. Italy lebrate that foundation, or the crossing of the Rubicon, It But that old land prefers to celebrate an up-to-date event, a triumph of modern engineering, a greater event than ing the Cloaca Maxima, the Appian way, or the palace of the which is a great focus of tourist travel and a business city of It is in the valley of the Po, a region of surpassing to ‘Californians, for its object lesson in irrigation. This te has received many desirable accessions to its population and enterprise from that part of Italy. The business energy of our Italian citizens is shown in their maintenance of an Italian Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco. They are eager that the products of this State shall share the attractions of the Milan exposition. It is expected that our Federal Government will officially rec- ognize the event and that this country will be well represented T California especially has reasons for 7taking space and spreading her phylactery at Milan. and Italy is of significant sum and tapable of increase by enlarging our acquaintance with the old land. The time given to the ex- st class. position is ample to secure a good display of our characteristic | products. We should not be timorous in showing the products which compete with Italy. Our wines, olive oil, fruits and cereals need suffer nothing by comparison. ‘Millions of travelers pdss through Milan. They will visit the Simplon exposition, and it will be well to show them that there is in climate and products a younger Italy, in California. The Call is sure that our producers and exporters will take up the matter of representation with energy and effect. chd. It was believed that our lack of powder and preparation served to equalize the power of the combatants, while on paper the Spanish navy outranked us. Our soldiers had to go to service in the pestiferous tropical climate and meet foes in the form of disease more dangerous than the embattled enemy. The service had but few allurements, and those who volunteered for it were moved by no motive except patriotism. It is remembered with pride that California patriotism over- subscribed the demand of the Government. Our volunteers who sailed away through the Golden Gate into history were envied by their waiting comrades who stood long under arms and ready for 2 further call. We saw those who sailed to the front go with ranks full. We saw their commands return with gaps made by wounds and fever. No matter what may be thought of war, it is the last resort, and when it comes pitiful is the nation that does not command the patriotism of ‘its people. It is the desire of California to encourage the love of country by perpetuating the memory of heroic. men who offer their lives in defense of national honor and the flag. To this end a proper monument is about to be erected in this city in honor of the California volunteers. It is the work of Douglas Tilden, the native son and sculptor whose art has been before invoked to beau- tify the city. This monument is ready for emplacement and seeks site suitable to its dignity and purpose. It is to be hoped that the committee in charge and the proper public authorit'y will soon reach an agreement upon the location and that in due time we may have the unveiling and dedication of this memorial to our patriotic volunteers. TBritain and Germany. The prudent precautions of Great Brit- ain in making the Japanese alliance and in blocking the sea wa to Eastern Asia by 2 station in the Straits Settlement as a base fo{ the British and Japanese navies have attracted attention. The Kaiser Jooks and talks war. He is augmenting his navy. British states- men nag their Government about the condition of the army. The Anglo-French alliance is made for business. Close upon all these signs comes the Spanish marriagc. The house of Hohenzollern tried once for the Spanish throne. It is equipped for marriages right and" left. It has a Catholic branch and a Protestant branch, and is ready to furnish Princes and Prin- THE SOLbIERS’ MONUMENT. HEN we began the Spanish war no man could foresee the ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS. HERE is in Europe a well-defined fear of war between Great The signs of these times are so different that they | \m\ e 3 i | I D 3 b cpuct % ROOSEVELT AND THE BOY. | NE boy—one of many—who had the | honor bf meeting the President, | now acts as it Mr. Roosevelt's eves | | —e admitted this, and sald afterward that “if Thackeray were alive and played baseball instead of cricket, he would have had the same difficulty.” The Presi- | were constantly on him. This lad was| | not a small boy when he was presented; | | he was big enough to play baseball with | | skill and energy, and on ordinary occa- | sions he was a haughty sophomore. This boy wanted to see the President, but his outward calmness was disturbed by the intimation from his sisters that he would | have to make three bows as he ap- | proached the President and say, “Your Excellency.” The courage that had stood six hours’ exposure in a heavy sea on the | keel of an upturned boat weakened be- fore this prospect. A benevolent friend | corrected the alarming suggestions of the sisters by telling him that he would sim- | ply be exvected to say, “Mr. President,” | to stand until everybody was seated, and |to go when the President should rise. | This seemed easy: still, it was evident | that the fearless athlete was reverently | practicing “Mr. President” with his lips as he approached the White House. All uneasiness disappeared, however, when the President, catching sight of the boy, stepped forward and called him by his surname. "'Sit down!” he said, and then he began to talk about a subject dear -to | forgot his fear of the dent showed him a very scientific jiu- jitsu grip. And this was followed by an interchange of lore on this interesting Japanese solence of physical culture, with illustrations, in which the boy entirely “‘court presenta- tion” and talked and acted with entire re- spect, but entire freedom. The boy seemed to think that American muscle was a match for Oriental skill, but ' he was plainly convinced that the President had both. Questions of boxing and riding came up, and the President spoke as an expert, and the boy listened and talked as one who understood but felt his limi- tations. Young Theodore, who has this year entered Harvard, was then at school; but every now and then his father culled a bit from his son’s experience in out-of-door sport. It was plain that, through sympathy, in these matters he had the same point of view as his sons. During all this interview the President was ‘as enthusiastic on the various sub- Jects discussed as the boy, and he seemed to enjoy it as much as his boy visitor did. . The talk drew out of the. President his knowledge of the games that boys love. “When it comes to boxing or riding,” her of a myriad of events that make up the charms of | The trade between this port | he sald, with conviction. *I think that my boys and I can hold our ewn.” And several times the “we’’ was repeated in a way which showed that Mr, Roosevelt and his sons were to be considered a the lad’s heart—the recent races at Poughkeepsle. Btiquette was forgotten; the boy held fast to ‘“‘Mr. President,” when he thought of it, in the delight of 'talklng with somebody who ‘‘really | knew” all about the ins and outs of in- | happy family of boys thoroughly in ac- | tercollegiate races, but sometimes he for-| cord.® It is not convenient to take his | large “boy family” on his Western and Southern bear-hunts, but the Presfdent does the next best thing. Every summer he goes “into camp’ with his boys a few miles from his summer home at Oyster Bay.—St. Nicholas. got and merely said “‘you.” | The boy was pained for a moment to | | aiscover that the President could not play | Dbaheball. To a near-sighted man who must | wear glasses a baseball flying at large | is much worse than a bullet. The lad -_ cesses for thrones of either religion. No doubt it has hoped to do this for Spain. King Alfonso is half Hapsburg, half Spanish. But King Edward is believed to have outwitted the other matchmakers by captivating Alfonso -with an English Princess. In the time of Louis XIV the Spanish marriage brought on a devastating war. It may do so again. But, oddly enough, the ex- pectation of an Anglo-German war is based on a matter of royal eti- quette. The Kaiser is of the opinion that he was snubbed by his uncle, King Edward, because Great Britain was not adequately rep- resented at the marriage of his son, and because his own wedding anniversary was not sufficiently honored by the Court of St. James. ! Outsiders will consider these to be light reasons for embroiling two countries in war, loading their people with debt and causing the death of thousands and the distress of millions, who don’t care a bawbee whether the two royal families are on speaking and visiting terms or not. | It would seem that the Kaiser could get even by snubbing the next royal anniversary or function in the court of his uncle, without sending his army and navy out to try to play havoc with the army and navy of Great Britain. The warlike prospect is not pleasing to the English people, who have appointed a sort of placating committee to cultivate friendly relations with the Germans. They even propose to ask President Roosevelt to try his hand at appeasing the Kaiser. This is a good idea. If the President could persuade the King and the Kaiser to visit this country, meet in the White House and shake hands, what a fine bit of history it would make! THE PRESS OF THE NATION. ' 0 As we understand it, by asking the President to take the tariff off hides Governor Douglas merely succeeded in getting the hide taken off Mr. Whit- ney.—Charleston News and Courier. — e Those corns on the ears from which the Philadelphia telephone girls are suffering are bad enough. But they are not so bad as Watts on the Mind.—Boston Herald. —— . If the President keeps on, the people who go into politics will be de- voted to the good of the country, sure enough. There won't be anything else in it.—Washington Times. ——eee. John D. Rockefeller has not yet been subpenaed, but Henry H. Rogers will doubtless be able to give enough misinformation for both of them.— Kansas City Star. —_— Before outlining national political platforms for the next Presidential campaign .we might wait to see what Congress.does to the railroads.— Chicago News. ———————e President Roosevelt’s country home in'Virginiu is called Plain Dealing. That wouldn’t be a bad name for his Washington home.—PhilaJeIphia North American. ] —_— Speaker Cannon is having his picture painted by an artist who is using different colors from those in the hands of the tariff revisionists.—Wash- ington Post. —_——— The report of McCurdy’s resignation seems to have been based on a belief that $75,000 a year would be beneath his dignity.—Detroit Free Press. —_— i 4 Speaker Cannon is a brave man. He is having his picture painted and taking chances on its being turned ‘to the wall.—Philadelphia Ledger. —_— : * Tom Lawson is convinced that the proverbial birth rate of one sucker per minute should be one per second.—Milwaukee Sentinel THE MODERN MONTE CRISTO:*“TWO!” —CHICAGO TRIBUNB. ey — Pickings From Puck IMPOSSIBLE. Manager—Your play is wholesome, full of action, well constructed and even bril- Hant in places. Playwright—Then you'll produce it? How good of you! Manager—No, I can’t afford to. It is nefther immoral nor suggestive, so we should be forced to pay for the adver- tising. SHAW VERSION. “Oh, would some power th' giftle gie them To see my plays as I can see them!” SINGING. The high soprano sings of love, As sings the nightingale; The tenor sings of stars above, The barytone of ale. The coryphes with golden hatr Is singing of champagne; The cabman walting for a fare Is singing in the rain. THE HANDSOME THING. ‘“Yes; we elected Mrs. Milyons president of the club, thinking she would give us something handsome—"" “And—"" ":veu, she gave us this portrait of her- Belf.” A BUDDING HUMORIST. Mamma Fish—What shall I sing for you, darling? Baby Fish—Any old thing, mamm: ’cept “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. GAMEY. Cholly (giving venison dinner)—I shot three guides, b’ Jove, before I bagged this deer. Unfeeling Guest—Are you quite sure you're serving the right animal now? J'his tastes strong enough to be a guide, THE BALLOT. “A weapon that comes down as stui As snowflakes fall on the sod, But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God.” “Sublime!” I murmur, when I stop To cast one in a barber shop! FOR THE CAUSE. “There,” exclaimed John Hancock, as he laid down the pen after signing the Declaration of Independence, “I guess that will come pretty near getting the ink trust on our side, anyhow.” EVIDENCE. Mr. Isaacs.—Vell, may be der young man vos really in lofe mit you. I sup- pose you ought to know. Miss Isaacs—Vell, fadder, I know he is jealous of ennabody vot vants to know how much money you haf. FLOATS. A man may try to drown his woes In drink; but, brother, please make note: It won’t be long before he knows That woes, llke corks, will always float. * A BTRAIGHT TIP. Teacher (to class iIn geography)— What does a strait separate, Bobby Taylor? Bobby Taylor (absently)—-It sepa- rates his pile frum a feller, if the odder guy's got a flush! It is not on record that Diogenes, in his search for an honest maam, ever thought of looking in & mirror. The ohild, being father to the man, Instinctively starts in early to try to boss the nominal parent. * Many & man feels that he could be quite oomportable if his comnscience would meet him half-way. There would be at least several truth- ful people in this world if it only took cherry lips and a hatchet face to make a George Washington. To a good many people success mgans getting some other kind of a job. As to which of the sexes is the more courageous, it 1= after all, hard to de- -| clde, for as often as a man marries, a woman marries likewise. The wakening of the people is an ex- cellent thing, provided, of course, they do not roll over and go to sleep again. If the wages of all the McCurdy tribe are reduced In proportion they will have to revise their Christmas shopping lst. A change back to the bigger bullet 1s recommended by General Chaffee—a view which coincides with that of many of our most thoughtful and conserva- tive deer hunters. The 3S8-caliber is not so “shocking” as the 45, as any stag or Filipino can tell you. LRV R SRR g Time to ship Townsend’s California Fruits by express. 767 Market street. Townsend's famous Broken Candy, 2 Ibe, 25c. Madesfrom pure cane sugar. 767 Mkt. o —_———— Glace . Candy Canes and Baskets at To 167 Market street, s o ———— Townsend’s California glace fruits and choicest candies in artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. * Special hl;ztnmuon supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Cali- Fornia stroct Telenhone Matn 2045 P NE or two of our great noblemen still keep their private orchestras, and Mr. Carnegie and the Marquis of Bute have their private pipers, O no wealthy man has thought of main- taining his own choir of singers, says Pearson’s Weekly. Of all the negro singers who have come to this country from the United States. in their rendering of the plantation songs and the old slave hymns once the | yogue-among the colored people of the | Southern States, it is probable that Hy- am Fosdyke's Jubllee Band of ‘seventy men, women and children was the great- est, though the public’ had little oppor- | tunity of judging of its merits, as the man for whose private delectation the band was brought into being was chary of allowing others to listen to the sing- ing of which he himself was so fona. Curtis Donnythorpe, while he lived, ‘was an_ardent lover of dancing in every form. He was an invalld, and therefore unable to dance himself, but at the time he took the Kelby troupe of internation- al dancers off the ‘‘boards’” of the variety houses and induced them to enter his private employ the troupe was reputed to be the finest of its kind in existen: Mr: Donnythorpe had a dancing plat- form erected at Wellington House, and | there was not in all Kensington a hap- pler man than he as he lay back in his chair and watched the antics of his fa- mous troupe. The Kelbys were strong on jigs and reels and the old English | dances, and it was while shrieking with | delight at the capers cut in one of (hese | latter that Mr. Donnythorpe was seized | with the heart attack from which he) dfed. | Thousands of pounds are sunk in ap- paratus by the proprietors of some of the cinematograph displays which en- liven the music halls, but it 15 said that the finest outfit in existence is the prop- erty of an American milltonafre who spends much time tn this country. When in the mood the owner will sit| But even this man does not give quite | the devotion to his flying plotures as was glven by Theodore Botley to the science and joy of eating. It was said that when not lingering WEALTHY MEN FIND STRANGE" WAYS OF KILLING TIME. | ' Mr. Botley died” of starvation, be- cause the doctors said, he had lost the power of assimilation of neurishing |food. In this respect his case bore |some resemblance to that of Charles but it is a curious fact that of late Ye&TS | p Cashel, of whom it was sald that besides belng one of the richest stock brokers of his day, he was gifted with powers of smell approximating those of many dogs. To this abnormal sense of smell the doctors attributed his end, for he ran- dacked the markets of the world for perfumes, the names of which would be unintelligible to the ordinary facul- ty at least by his fondness for a dis- tillation of Brallian flowers. These destroyed his sense of smell, and left him unable to detect a leak of gas one night fbefore he retired to rest. He was taken from his bed next morning in a state of insensibility, from which he never rallied. M. Plerre Lorraine, a French million- alre, lay in bed all night and day and, like the Bastern monarchs in the “Ara- bian Nights,” listened to tralned story tellers, with whom he surrounded him- self during his waking hours. Even he, however, was scarcely as lazy as the Russian Count Ivanovitep who made the rafters ring with shouts when, by way of a pract joke, some of his noble friends | mated thelr irtention of making him get up and dress himself. The count was worth eighteen mil- lions of rubles, and was reputed to be the lazlest man of his time. From the day of his attaining his majority to that of his death he never stirred out of bed, never read, never spoke, never opened his eyes if he could help it Liquid nourishment was ladled to him by retainers, and he died at last of fright because the Emperor Nicholas {announced that he was coming to pay Ivanovitch a visit and would chain him to a wheelbarrow and make him work |in the Polish salt mines ¥ he did not | get out of bed to receive him. Much more sensible were the self- the livelong day in a darkened room and | indulgences of Eills Wrotham, a weal- watch the unwinding of his films. | thy Northumbrian, who was of the “self-made™ variety. He realized his lack of education, but declared vehemently that nothing | would ever induce him to be worried | with “lessons” In anything. However, over the delicacies in his table, for which |as a®ort of compromise and being de- his agents had ransacked the world, Mr. | termined to have only “the best of Botley was sleeping or deliberately | everything” he did not mind paying the | heads of various professions eénormous working to excite a fresh appetite. direction of & physiclan, whose duty 1s was to administer them. and a| favorite plan of his was to read and talk | about the pleasures of the table. Every book on “diners and dining.” every historical work, every novel con- | taining passages descriptive of the/ preparation and enjoyment of feasts | and banquets, was laid under éontrib tion by Mr. Botley. He Invited fellow epicures to his house when his and thelr sole occupation consisted of feeding and talking about the pleasure of it. CUPID’ SAID to Cupid: Your business When winds are col S there any inspiration to-day like that which prophets of old kney when they spake like angels, though with the tongues of men? One cannot help wondering sometimes, observing how writers, who lack the rod of Moses wherewith to touch the rock of hard ex- p -ence into a living spring, are content to import their inspiration bottled, as city folk buy mineral wafer. This man draws his thousand words an hour out of the teapot or the coffee urn; that one spoons it out of the bromo-selt- zer bottle. And a third, like Burns, re- sorts to the stimulation of b8ld John Barleycorn. Only one in a thousand thinks of going up to the heights where the ozone is, where the heart beats quick- er and the spirit is lighter, and the mind is free to compass distance and Infinity. ‘With what devices do we woo inspira- | tior. as if she were a fickle goddess? This post thinks to, please her by stabling her Pegasus in a glittering studio and feeding it high on oats. That one regards a quill pen as feathered ready for poetic flight. Only once In an Irish mile do we find an intellectual article, with rich red blood in hig arteries, who hardens his mental muscle on good food, fresh air and sun- shine, 0, a miracle of nature, breathes out oxygen as other humans breathe it in. Methods of work or sources of ma- terial are not, however, wholly deter- minative. The output of this author STUMP PULLER—E. 8., Lidel], Cal. As this department does not advertise any private business or firm it cannot glve you the information you desire about a stump puller, for the reason that the an- swer wduld amount to an advertisement of the business. FOREIGN BORN—Subscriber, City. The latest official figures as to -the number of forelgn born people residing in San Francisco are those of the cen- sus of 1900. These show that the number was 116,885, of which Germany was represented by 35,194 or 30.1 per cent and Ireland by 15,963 of 13.6 per cent. ARE CITIZENS—Subscriber, City. If an alien who has lived in the United States twenty-seven years, but has Lnever declared his intention to become a citizen, has two children born in this country, those children are native born and citizens of the United States. and, it they are boys, will, on attaining ma- jority, be entitled to vote unless by some overt act on attaining majority they announce that they will adopt the citizenshlp of their father. STRAIGHT—H. W. F. If there wa such a thing In cards as “a four straigh 5, 6, 7, 9 would not be a straight. as it is not a sequence. All works on cards give, the definition of “straight’” as “five cards regular order of in denomination need not be of the same suit.” Stimulating drugs he took under the|fees for enlightenment sols | point which came into his mind. ANSWERS TO VARIOUS QUERIES which | suit, as Annie La marr: In erib- hmu&u::’mu on any little Most extraordinary of all was the Ittle luxury of A. B. Skidmore, who accumulated wealth in the provisions trade. He engaged two valets, one to tlokle the crown of his head and the other the soles of his feet. He said he lkgs e | sensation immensely, and when rb | strated with by his doctor declare: to be “ever so much better than mas | sage.” The case was recorded in the | medical journals of the time as an ex- |ample of a strange development. S AID. “Winter time slackens up a bit, fe Does it not, Master Cupid?” He, All smiling, answered: “Not a whit! “My arrows I do not employ So much as in the summer, but d and people, too, And every door and window’s shut, “T tell you many a youngster who Had never dreamed him of a bride Begins to think how nice and warm A cozy cottage is inside.” —Nsw Orieans Times-Demoorat. " WOOING INSPIRATION. | BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. may be the product of a luxurious leis- | ure; the career of that one may result | from the fact that necessity is prickling | him forward with the goad of a gadfly. One poet may found his life work upon the fabled wealth of Ormus and of Ind. Another may distinguish himself by writing a sonnet on the heart of an onion which brings tears to the eyes. The fact is, art and life are cut out of the same piece, as one realizes at the cirous, beholding the performing elephants in their flesh colored trunks. One who writes constantly comes aft- er a while to feel as if inspiration were a kaleidoscopic quality of the mind. There are just so many words in the language, and in these words is all the thought of the world contained. ou turn your mind this way, and - the words fall into certaln combinations” which represent ideas; you turn it that way, and yon get an entirely different effect from the same words in a new relation. And when you have learned the trick of manipulation, you feel at first as i{f you could summon Inspira- tion at any moment by a olap of your hands, as if it were an Arab jinn. Nonsense! It is inspiration’s poor re- lation which you have taken to board with you. You are betting—not on a stake horse, but on a star plater. When you begin to strut around n:d “My mind to me a kingdom 1s,” be &y that the 's a peacock pattern on coronation cloak, with a hoodoo In every brilliant eye of it. bage four cards make a sequence, provid- g such follow in regular order of de- nomination. Five, six, seven, eight would be a sequence, but in 5, 6, 7, 9 there is only a sequence of three, namely, the first three. DEEPEST SHAFT—Subscriber, Oak- land, Cal. E. C. B. of Belvedere writes to this department that there is a deeper mining shaft than the ome in Belgium. The writer says: “The New Chum Rafl- way gold mine at Bendigo, Australia, on October 14, 1905, was 3939 feet deep in straight shaft and making good progress the center winze in the same mine had reached a depth of 422§ feet, which makes it a deeper mine than the ome im Bel- gium.” ANNIE LAURIE—G. B, Oakland, Cal. The popular ballad “Annie Lau- rie”” was written by William Douglas of Fingland in homor of Anna, third daughter of Sir Robert Laurie, first baronet of Maxwellton. Douglas was in the stewardry of Kirkcudbright, hero of the song “Willie Was a Wan- ton Way,” and Sir Robert Laurie | created a Baronet in 1685. From # ’s facts it Is supposed that the d i was composed about the end of tHe seventeenth century. It is recordea at sinking. On September 1§ preceding 1 5 -