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Show BfAKEMAKraDERIXGS ; I SARLVU'S CHLLSEA HOME AND ( ' (lOUNDADOUT. I ftn Ancient ramlon Saburli Ileplcle Willi I l.morleri(lnc,rourllrr,fttatraniFn, Korellits. fort, ami ralalrrs-A flw I ant Union Where Worthies' Wrellln f r Unbidden Itlie-Charinlnf .Memories Its- cullril. ICoprrliht, UK, br Eilf I Wakeman Loiikjs, Xov, II A Kood, awrel Iwok totilel be written about llio oik who Imro loreel Anil known oMChelstn, whom wo lire known And loved for what tlitr did For the world. Many yeare ago I haw ono of these folk oun London bus and hail A KCd lionr'l itudr of him asn curious character with out knowing who La wan. Jte flnt attracted at-tracted mjr Attention lijr bit Kcncraltjrill-, Kcncraltjrill-, therelcd ami thrown together appearance. ) When bo entered the but be beld a copy of llio Iiondon Timet In ono band ami ' dragged n very oM blttfn traveling run lulhoother. Ho flapped tbe latter over bis knws nt bo eat down, irlarrd At tbo passengers pavARely, Atid immediately f' closed his eresand lie gall a jacullar rnf Ition Of bla mouth tbat termed Ilka a Dcrv ou chewing ot bit nether lip. lie wat a acruBKf ancl It then accmed tn mo an 111 kempt man, out of aorta with all tbo world. 1 mentally endeavored to place bint. l'orhaps be It aomo ono of thme tecdy old tlerka ao wondroutly pictured by Dickrns,.thoiigbl I. Ho may bo n miserly old bachelor who dally tilmblrtout of bla lulRlngs nnd Into hit work nnd then hack k Again, never knowing change, alee ping In Me clothing, mummied to everything on earth but bla ledgers and hla desk. If be hate, a wife And family, be cuff the children, chil-dren, warns the conk, abuses tho house-mnld house-mnld and "blows tip" bla wlfo beforo lear- 1 lug hit habltallon, nnd this particular morning bo bat made them understand who Is master with greater vehemence than usual. . Pretty eonn be teemed to nwake with a start, ulared again at hit fellow passcn-gengers. passcn-gengers. And giving bit bony knees n vicious vi-cious twist nwny from proximity to an elderly fat woman who sat beside btin, plungiil Into bit paper nt though bo had an far overlooked his duty of dlscovi ring, capturing nnd punishing aomo aort of sedition sedi-tion within, bure enough It was there. llesoanned the editorial page n inomeut, smashed tho paper together with bis knuckly bauds, dropped ltuon tho but floor, and pawing it back bcniath bla feet ' for aometlme gave Itnnervoua kind of pounding which plainly told Msscnttincnta for tho balderdash ho hnd discovered. Then be fell to chewing again, with bit eyet quite closed, and shortly nwokowlth a start, to lunge toward the door nud I soundly berate tbe conductor for carrying hlni past Ms destination. I could not hear all of this scolding, but tt Lrought traQlo on the Strand to a standstill, and then tbo scraggy, hairy, tumbled up, loose Jointed old man disappeared among tbo calieand busses, a tangible, Irascible Altercation with a Scotch dialect, prompting from drivers as he passt-d the choicest blackguard black-guard quips and quirks that roll from London Lon-don drivers' ready tongues. The incident left a smile on nearly every face In tho omnibus. A pleasant faced man '. sitting beside me, noticing my look of In- , qulry, and rightly Judging my nationality, t kindly aolwsl the mystery. "My dear sir," i he said with almost uu air of pride, "he's a L- brave literary man.tbAt. lie wasn't born K In Kngland, but be'a tho biggest man In It. H When yu& get back to America you can Mr tell tbo Yankees you've seen old 1 homos I ' Cnrljlcl" , I nsvrr saw hlni again. Hut tho London 't Incident of long ago made men student of t Carlyle one of tbo most dlDlcult tnska of my life, and from much rendlug after tho $ sturdy old barrator In philosophy and re- llglou, maoy pilgrimages to bis birth and K burial placo up there In drtnry Krcle- fechan, and to other llrltlsh localities which i, bis strange iieraonallty and genius inado ,' aointthlng llko shrines, I have come to X love hit memory, anil especially to have au yjk Affection for the place where for half a life- (& time ho struggled, contendeil, railed, as- i ft. aaulted, defended, sutlernl nud relienteil ' In his bumble and Imperial, niggardly and is Doble career B That placo la Chelsea. It It London now, You cannot find a break In all the great I & manses of solid structure from tbe densest i J'.-JJ psrt of tho borough out to old Chelsea nud for many mllea beyond. Yit tho Chelsea, I J? region Is still most charmingly distinct. if' You know Insensibly when )ou come to It. ,n i You feel, without Ulng told, that )ou ' iJf have crossed Its boundaries on leaving it. l Without partlcliallng lu Its memories, f, knowing none of Its history. It you ere 1 aet down within It, Its lovely, leafy, torn- , , uolent nlr has the very spirit and bush of I;, : IlnKirluKnobleprescocca. ill ' In the very heart of this plrosantcst of j : all IinJon outer illstrlcts 'Ibomas nud S, JanoWelsliCarlylollterullybaltle.! along , together from the 10th dayof October, 1S3I, irt ll until Mrs. Cnrlyle'a aail and strange death , i In her brougham In Hyde Park In April, j V IMA Tbo lonely old soul that was lift ro- lf. malned, rathtr than llvtd, In the aamo S f house to the end, In 1881. And I somehow f belle e that the forty seven J ears' staying fir of thesauoof Kcclefechati In 2o A Uriat it I Chryuo How has thrown moroof nHjetlo tt KlamouroteroldCbclseathanalltheotber ill f famous and great who lime come und tar ried and gone. Materially Elr Thomas Mora originally mode Chelsea. Carlylo rounds out Its fame. Vast flilds of history and ronmnco Ho lw-tween. lw-tween. lhU"poro houso lu Cbelchllli," as the ancient records speak of the homo of bir Thoinat More, was not so humble n habitation after all. It bad u great kiuIi, many lino wludona, dozmt cf gablis, a putty tower, splendid gardens for the time, and besides housing lliu happUst family lit lug In Lnglnud lu the Sixteenth century was so attractlteu place, though then far ntray from lxudon, that (juim Mary was"uiortd to puichasa It," the garrulous gar-rulous l.ratmua found It a hotpltublo ru. i triat. nnd King Ilcnry VIII eften came up tbeTlmincs lu bis ruyal barge to debark und stroll to this first old Chtlua mansion, with bis arm lot Ingly Around the neck of More, which hlsbiiulman'aax seven-done July morning n little later on. L)iug along the northern bank of the Thames, to the west of the city, Chelsea proper may be said to begin on tho east at the famous Chelsea Hospital for llrltlsh 'wnti- lausloners. Tbe magnificent Thames em nagRU bunkment forms the shore edgo here, and Oh H ninr the llotaulc gardens becuuuaChcyno S BF Walk, which eonlluuet n mliu or tutu Hat. jt ' tcrsca llrldge. Inlbistnoor three mlU-s ',' distance, about tbe center of which Is the J! ,w Carlyle neighborhood, and extending back It " 7: fromthcritcrtothodcpthofniulleormori', HI theronrewoudrouslyqualutoldstructuris, Uj Apf clumps of ancient cutties eoteredwlth I, A lnes and Imbedded lu greenery, 1 Ilia tfnj Iwthan mansleUH bythu score, with mnu. I '3i stroui chlumej s and gra) old gable-s, wind- Kiyfi ng lanes leadluij from the Thames, where i $24 lnctt wlrti 'ln0 wntvr ttalrs and ptcttm 3Tfitlx ,M1U0 nlicr huts, bits of tenerablepark arilY I lc tnoldy gardeus overshadowed by prim a!9cl ttoilern rows, whero thu nrlstficrncy have 1'JbV' irowdud In upon the older haunta if lit- iFsvf; iraturo and art, aud cobwebbed Inns in- f&V sumerable. ki. Chelsea Hospital llselt It A world of fh V uemorlcs,iiotunlut llrltlsh history alleld, i;!v 1. hut of the timed Cbaruall.of old Klug i, 11 lames' College, of Blr btephen l'ox, and 1'j 'jl s( wayward though kind luiurteA cll UwjnLP, Ami mtotlie jiensloners them wItm, Cl.ri.-Yrt irouM Jiardly 1 wltliniii tliftn StrnKgUng Along lu nhmly linr-l(iQhfNtt linr-l(iQhfNtt fitting brnt and otlrnt on tmtijr Ivnclie, lcafilna agnlnt Mlmplloic fotin titlns or vs nnd tttieaa rvttlrtff n com (MM-dtf A4liou(t owners on lep and In rr1lbulci",oritiii).iIn Rrnvtlj-Alonu with DrdcM to till or that MTYnnt, ailf Ion liftltlt liittl glrrn tlirni tuiptIiory right orrrtho tlllj nffftlrsof rrllnt, thejr lr rrslHltlr BUKKiMt h Im ot cnrnklng cocL mom turned lonj la ptrk ami gnnlcn, (ich nno nuerulouIjr Unrylug upon Kutnn tnnclnl Rricrnnrc or delight At tliawe.uerniOi.oof tho hwpltnl ntll! ktiidi Sir Hobcrt WaIpoIo'h honno, nlmiMt precisely m It otooil n hen ho nil hut ruled rnelnnd Ihroiuh llio two Gcortceii. I'lrst ml Scfonde It It !of a (tort Ion u( the hoi pltnl Inflrmnrj It waa tothfx old ml hrlck ntAnslonthntWalrNjIe'trlTAlJltillntihrokf, cAmitlodlnnndliAirchoktdforhl9choler; whero Hwlf t nnd Ohf rnmo to get mat-rUI for witlrc.ornl where lppcanirnltliAii-ilal lppcanirnltliAii-ilal of lilt part nmourn Atid probah'x tn beft furftMlfttnnro lu others Not far from O.oHotpltnl.orrrln the nortbtnitt cornrr of IhfUcn, t n llttlo Rirtn oval llkon prettr rtncrnld Iorrno, n round which crowd omn very nticlfttt two utory hrlck Iioiihm. Thcwlnilownnrt little, tliriHtifnroHti!p,tLf nlfii,Rcrnrn nnd knockf r. are little, hut nhvnj-A hrltiht and clean, und It ftrem that every faco you kcoat tlmlloy pnw f little nnd miappy and old. llko nil r!n In thin veorrahle Hans IMacc. At ono of t hio Llta of ImMUtloni, pretlocly llko All tho rut, nan lrn tho xx t cm K I 1m Itut twodonrn Aray, hi Another hox of n hou-u. nlin went to ftchfiul. Her rchonlfillou wcro the I.AJ.t Indian writer, Mil llolrtttf, and Iidy Carolina leArnb. Vcnrn after her wrro aI-kj rdu CAtwI other fAmot.n womtn IjJy Ilulwcr, Min Mltfonl and that lunt And trndcrvt of all writer upon IrelAtid, .Mr. 3. C. Hall. Tho on time famous Cremorno ftArdem at the wtfttrrn tJtfo of Chelsea IiatdfptcIaI Interest to American, A crnnddauKhter nt William IVnn, nnmM l'lilladelphhi from the city of her birth, became the kcc-otidwlfoof kcc-otidwlfoof VI con nt Crcniorne. Outliving Outliv-ing her hubnnd, ho InLerltctl tho Itcniitl ftilKroiindsoncoknuwiiaa' Chelsea Farm." Orunvlllo Tenn, onto lonl of the Btnke IViitea Manor, where (Iray lhed and wrote tlio'TIrcy." MI heir to the property nttd RohllttothuCremornodanleri'icorrMirntlon. Wlckcil enough It urn win lime. l)ccorou nmoclatloni retrlivcd It, and nn Innocent nursery garden nowclI lu unhallowed tltv and mtmorlei. At lcakt tUrre Ancient tavernt In tho neighborhood have peculiar old time Inter-itt. Inter-itt. Two, one nt tho western nnd one at tho cAitcrn edgo of the parlih, aro directly Aftuclatetl with Nell O wynne. That to the wett wa hullt by CharleA II nn n homo for hit favorite. It wan from tho window of this horn, now n retort of CheUca ten-toner, ten-toner, that N'ell'a ryea loikcl In upon the then lino ineadowa of Klotf Jnmna colIrp, In her dream when ihe nw thobcAutlful palactt rlw with Ita thousand cbnmUn out of which "divers ninny old nnd worrit out aoldler men" rnmo and cried, ' (ml UtM Kina Chnrlckl" which led to tho merclfulfulinlliiicoftheiipkndldllopltal. lie other nuoclnled with tho fame of the pretty orAngo girl 1 a KilAto old nxtk-cry nxtk-cry nt the wektern aide of Chelsea. It Is called the "Nell Uwynne Tavern," and ninny a rare tradition vt CharUV comiian ion linger about tho mellow old place. Another curious tnvirn still In ex lit nice U tho lrlnco of Wales, nt thu comer of Ijiwrtiioe street Aiid Justice Walk, but n Mitiarr'M distance from tho oil Carlyle btune In flreat Choyne Uow. Chelsea a once made known through tho nrlUtlo world for Ita famous china, l'or thu forty ytani from 1743 Ua chlnn work, which tool on tho site of thu 1'rlnco of Wnles, turned out n product equal tu that of bevrea. In therellara of the Innyotirnu iee the remain of tho ovens and taking rtKims Just aa they were nhaudoned. l)r. ham tie (Johnson was suddenly poHKtftnl of thu Idtn that hu could m easily mako china as a dlctlontry, nnd tho doughty old scholar, butunkkllled natlvu workman, for n lonjc tlmo oamo hero dally to apoll (foul material, hi faithful buimektt.ru. r trudyliiR after him with n huge buskct coutalnluff hi dally foil In (Ircat Cheyuo Itow Smollett lived, lotiK liefuru Carlyle came, and hero ho w ntte "rerdlnand Count iathom" and flnUhed Hume's "History of .:igUnd," while (Jcorgo Hllot dUtl In a houo near Carlyle' In tho miiio modest little thoroughfarr. ChcWa Old Church, ono of the amctcst old plntM in Ixtudon, overlooks tho Thanus but n few rods distant. Hero ou wilt (hid the black memorial slab of fir Thorn -u More, la-uly Dncre, Iady Juno Cho)ne nnd tho Duchewof NorthuinUrland, three of Chelsea's former grand ladlea, lie Ih.-neath Ih.-neath monument wlthlnthe churth, while Charles, Ocorpw and Henry IHngsley onco lived In It rectory with their father, who bad rectlvtd the "living" frum Lord Cado-uan. lu Chryne Walk nlontt tho rlvcr side Uved Turner, the paloUr. Hobettl IUvd nud aaug hero anions hi blnls and flow. u. Ulgli Hunt's Ulpvllku homo, of which Carlyle ha left Inimitable duxcrlp-tlou, duxcrlp-tlou, was just around the corner from (Jrent Cheyne How. Queen Kllzalrcth used to vMt tho Karl of Hhruwsbury nt Shrew a bury IIouw. Just back of Cheyno Walk. Ihe poet (leorge Hcrliert dntlt In th same neighborhood, and nt a llttlo barber shop, rollro homo nnd iiuAliit inuwum called "Don SnltcroV by tho wit f tho tlmo In honor of It grave nobody proprietor, proprie-tor, one Salt, who "brumd dlvlnu colTto nml hAvel with equal terror," Itlcbard Cromwell, Steele and Addlaonnnd Iknji mlii Trinklin, whownrkttl In n tmlntlng shop In llartholomew CIoho ruitr by, camu togetahavd mid to loiter over thdrenf. fee, mh hero the IJteratl then sat lu couu-cll couu-cll " leong niitt pleasant la ono' loitering hero. If ) on Lome many days or but one, it i rid leu host of wraith f uorthks start up unhidden In ) uur wandering. If ouco nr mniiytlinis)oti dipntt you will cir In iHilhlylu drawn at parting tu the gray old habltAtloutof drcat Che) no Itow. Jho window of all otrIook tho turbulent ilwr, dnrkinlrttf Ilattenten nt Ita farther ithorv, and tl ej leosant ltlab'ea upou the hill of Surrey Uyoiid. At n window of oneIt matters uot who llviathero now uurfam) cannot but Menhhaj.Murdy, toward face. Its niay, defiant but wi-roful wi-roful tye ure llfteil arrows the turbuUnt rlur, and rest beyoud tho bllUupun tht lufiuriul nud ailrituul light that some whero vcr brlDg the bleu.! morning time. Kpgaii . .ULUA, |