A correspondent writes "Mise Jessie Lewors nursed Burns his leat illness and he died about week after the poem given below toan written. Jessie became a Mrs. Thomson and emigrated to. New Zealand. Her descendants recently produced this poem. Why it was not published Before no one riving can tell. Tt appeared recently in the "Stornoway Gazette," whioh makes a hobby of this sort of thing, Bure so far as I know it has not Been published in Asia and it should Mis white with Your hand 'Oh let the curtains bide, Jessie 'And lift my head a wee, 'Anfet the' bonny setting sun "lint in on you_and The world fooky bright and fair, Jessie Near loving hearts like. you But puritith's blast simmer ove "And makes cal fsleudihip few. ioo throbbing. sleepless ids give" my Batenies bread.
(Oh did the oer not, help the poor With humble gift and kindly. word ach in. eel almpe way Goa"pity them, 1 aay, For many' man who clasped my hand With pledges o'er the bow! when ie wing Halo passed away Proved: but a niggnrd 300); OW blessed hope midst our distress "That in the: day. the rough wind, blows There is a promise made The east. wind shall be stayed. A fave more sears and those 1 fave Will come again. tome.
Tole bright realm without a sun "That tand without a Sea, Oh wilt thou sans o" nights Jessie, Sag" ayeetiy. in your linnet. voice vest fiend on ear thow bust been to me
Sen ame a Upon thy loving' breasts Oh, what is fame? Ite wealth of lave will 4 of corn Or round the household ring?
'Yet, would 1 praise the bubble fame wat, bat myrtle lye lore thy sweet docts ahd eyingness 'For future time to praise, 'True' soul, blesg the Post ski 'Which von friend like' thee Whose Tave "twit thoughts of home and Are with me constantly, In a manifesto, Dr. Sun Yat-sen expresses regret that people should have so hastily condemned the Provisional Constitution for its alleged imperfections and should be elamouring for the drafting of a permanent constitution.
The disease of the the too rapid pace of China's progress towards the goal of constitutional government. China has passed, he thinks, through two- stages" of military experimental rule. " Henceforward, Dr. Sun advises his followers, a revolution must not only aim at intensive destruction of what is bad, but it should also endeavour to construct strongly what is good; and the most important point to remember is to proceed in regular order. A guide for the revolutionaries called the "Principles of National Consolidation," containing 26 articles has been promulgated.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.