| Show Ufa ema s Ufa derltl s II 4 I ODD INCIDENTS OK KOKISION TKAVISL AND OUSliKVATION 41 rcctnFKCHANScotuNr > 9ept 14 i9J jl borne Kngllth tramp were alnglng fur their breakfatu before the doors of the grave Scottish villagers ol Bicle Khan when I tramped Into the hamlet behind them There were five of them I great hulking fellow and their hoarse nnd aggrtuUa bellowing was the only sound Indicative of human life in the Ullage even at that late hour 1 if f Ihe morning They stood beside a melodious S ious burn which dashed from under i a covered way And courted on through I the vlllnge street At one tide of the stream was an an I dent wull I On lire other were straggling straggl-ing house and Ihe one Mure which the agabonds lifted up their harrowing voices was one of lire plainest mid quaintest In Lctlcfechin From I its appearance ap-pearance It might I have been an olden table an abandoned lodge at the entrance en-trance to some genllcmani establish input formerly located behind I ll or the ancient jail of the village now smartly whitewashed and transformed Into a lowly habitation It was a mite of a thing within archway through It occupying occu-pying onethird of the lower story At each side was a narrow oaken I door and nearer each end a tiny window win-dow In the second story another littjn window atiove each lower one looked Into the street and over the centre of the archway were two still more dimlnu tine windows tide by side It was a to double house ol the dwarf variety and I u the one at the north end where the w wong lunged l sorner song was the I t birth place ol Thomas C early len le-n fire bellowing had brought mulch oped guldttlvcs to various In < local lo-cal alley entrances at safe distance anuyiereu near enough to hear Ilieiu dis 1 tot tare maltn song ol the lump as I cuss J > the house and Its former I well kill occupan i needna fash trouble thrlrsels ac k lo They here croaked one old dme tae sing t tie iwaylng of her head be with a gen > mint ceatalve In ol I remark tokening a lk micht I roar tliclrsf i black r Theyre IlkAre they eer wrung bluld I t1 I the ace aftt turnip t file that IlCOlclollnd a still older old Oh ate wcel Ielll nee pair btwl woman III or loon Iho rec deu d eo iversawrml 1 rl Carlyles lIow I CArlylt sllle i hosts or adorcli oul1 ed 10 bear limb old IIroancd have lIel hbuRv 0 nl One tithe eJ 01 their I rl13e wlh t rley Ihochl Ihelrnl nle I Anol cr of Ih cirsllulft r IherllI eer setle their memo on a i whim t J Z Another I of miserllnet I day piny > will 1 riolher their banca lo nae ± i ollhclr I austerity with olherl s ° tic rna Ruid < > 110 neeborwl And annthei ant aid bud summed up the r oi line I cling I ol many of tne testy 11lattr Nhh then iVJ1 epitome Kiev were ill I to hart 3r tholel JB Iwl b If wn il lo yet toting xidcn Carlyles And Ills bis i tnrlc that others besides these dim old Mills 1 Home whollr l In the Mine houses hous-es with them lound l It just that way The Uamni got nothing for their offer lory nnit niter a few ltomus kick nt the door departed jiving rne oppor lunlty lo reach the Tioute a just na the hue form and red veinous face of Mrs John Oourley caretaker appeared at the door Sinking a fine bludgeon after the vanishing vagrants the relieved her Indignation I with hoot Its a wear Y il t day for auld Scotland s ban Iherea floe body I fend a house like lU file Hut low ling bh beggar and then In mill Omit rspccUncy of low English MI pence bade me enter I doubt If there ever Hied a writer about whom more has been written by link and great writers thin has been pruned In crltclsni or raise of Thomas 1r Y le And Ii I nm Just I as much llll In douht whether any ono or all of these from pasting essayist to stately biographer bio-grapher tver really visited the birthplace ur lhmrre andvroyialt lleompant Inure ol r IhU rare and ro > ally rampant genius I Yet tint should have been eveiy serious biographer first duty Interesting Interest-ing as may be every little detail In the maturer career of the man of genius when we have learned each one by heart and have given tandard by which to find his place measure his per onallty sort weigh hit influence we are Ae Ji I still unwtKlied lr What made I this I man what he waif What were the potent forces which sent him on trio way or which were overcome In hit upbuilding I Uut of what manner of mold did He comet What was the adutl environ menu of the babe the churl the youthF We wish to be shown the ulllniile iienpectivc It li not tube lound In any blograi hy of Carlyle And I K > I think there Is I an unusual fascination In coming to tills hard little liamlct and teeing with your own eye pretty nearly the tame tort of folk I and precisely 1 tine tame laK + as those I the boy Carlyle knew lurd at It II I lo believe from hit I biographer he ever was a boyi unit In jmrnilliy and feeling celling fir as rxntlble into the lame framing and netting ni three through I which iris eyes had their earliest I outlook upon the cluu nnttrlil and spiritual hoilion about him No truer hint of all 1 ttm could lie given than In that morning Jllulh I Incident 1 of like 1 anion 11tI dame and their tongue wagging about the alnilng beggar 1 and the house briar whklL they sung h iuJaUtti tlU ant 0JfrtSfcryiri r famllv I lime I olmmt I Iclt lie I Carlyle folk were glowerm ahlnt III door It Is bin twin rare icon I than one hundred tlnco fhonus Carlyle was born In that little dune cottage There Is no place In llriUIn where ks < change hoe com w In that petlod than In Hern and tiny Ucleleclun Indent the chanKelemneMof all these ancient border towns and mantels Is une of their most ini reaslve cluNCterlitlos Prom Yelholm lo Dumfile along the Scottish border and tram llerwlik to Carlyle along line InglUh border It Is just the tame Thy are all as they were only a little more asleep ThaI Th-aI are about all the I itruc tare In tliim that I have large window or smell of paint They remain chlelly at they stood when the border raids were ended They are gray battle scarred anlent They were built In fightlrg time and they have their records re-cords In their hard ofuraces To wander wan-der among them is like being whisked back 10 or three centuries and eel than 1 face to face with the grlmneM and cruellle of fedual times and I sometimes some-times think that the nature of the lowly folk beaten savage hardness In those torrr times Is I in this borderland l of both kingdoms a long time taking on the gentler touch I ol our lime Scot laniflt 1 richest In these weird old 1 border I relics of a aorry age The Scotch crowded close to the border built more ant I stronger places of sally even the tiniest 1 II ol Harriett hiving litencts I In sturdiness and strength to the larger town and then being the llvelieit on their leg harried the English I In welt a brisk and occupying way that they hail hllle time on their hands niter chasing chas-ing I the raider home for building Important Im-portant border loans The quaint hamlet stands In n little hollow of the champaign I land ol southeastern south-eastern Annandale I The name old I post road which leads north from Lngland through Carlisle and grewsome iiretna lelh Clr Green pain through it forming its principal and almost lit only Street ollir From I the t south this hlglm iy lead through a pleasant l country well watered and wooded and charmingly I broken by chimp of ancient trees or newer plantation and null well tilled fields Ileyond the hamlet the road winds upward far a mile or more to as bleak suggestively dreary and hopeless a horiaon at you will ofien come upon In Normandy ores are teen in the peasant picture tie i Ilrltlany I by the master hand of Millet To the northeast llirre are dim outline of the llartfell and other mountain ranges Away to the southwest south-west are the misty vales of lovely Annandale and to the northwe but four mile distant the legendhaunted hill of lltunsuark where the boy Carlisle Car-lisle often wanderctl I lifts lit Roman capped head Into the fleecy vagrant clouds lcclefechan has great age but little history aside from having produced Ihi one ramous man At about tin centre of the village where n highway I hearse I the old Carlisle and Glasgow pott road to wander through the valley of Annan lo the Solwa > side town 1 P tint nanny a little crlss airect formed 1 by this road runt n few rods with It and l stops short by on ancient grave yard In this He Connie ins lather and mother and oilier member of the family It Ins also hundred of minimal for half thousand years before Hit Lar yle line had crooml Ui border Inio Holland Iroin Carlisle Oitlrtrc oilhrrinUlof returning Ky Iovid lm > Jii e lift of w three vrSefinl m church tilled Ittit J L VfS I or the 1 Chuiih 1 ol M eilwn I t 4 II was an Irish ill > ol of the seventh century from taros who WM canomanl his I day being I the 1 will ol ff f J ininry Iltncc the curious name ol f crlefechan II inter war brought the ancient church lo 1 Him The 11111 or the covenanters turn mated what remained Hut the hurcharil of a thousand 1 > Tarr ago 1 s liccief clans grave ant of i today ast tC he Hem docendanlt I of lhuee mho swore 10 ende our the exllrialioii ol I popery prelacy stiptritltum heresy schism prijliMenr etcwhohivedc parted life 1 In hllle i cclcfechin 1 me lying el lerf lure in contecrated ground In Cap bytes bo > hood tune llicru were many hand loom wearers here There stone cottages stoat I atone the highway I Inter immersed ls with a few stops and Inns The collage remain housing folk of the amev > clal order r nf ruble laborers among the surround farms At least three of the inns are mull atandmp Two Humble have I been 11 transformed Into humble habitation On he lush llotela Illtlc long low rambling structure Jolting Jolt-Ing I oui Into the highway Invitingly and hh lt k J I i lan liretldeil over hy I n brisk bonnle landlady land-lady Mlslroa Kilgoiir who is I not afraid lo tell you that nine ha no love for 1 Yankee pilgrims and their eneening way contain most of the life of the tleepy I hamlet mid with ministering to cycler rll on llu r northern lour 1 modern anltocceionasl coaching = iarlic < and occatjonal pllcrlnn I to Carl ies birthplace I and grate It i almost al-most as bree y and butllln us In Ihe tlmet of the packers and carters when the olden post coarhe changed their teaming horses after the dash from Gretna before Its hospitable I door So this was the spot and these the nh t a leal surroundings of Thomas Carlyle < Car-lyle l I te from his birth in t 1795 unlll 1 hit Honemason fattier lames Carlyle who hammered r on s l rcilefechan making In his belt year f loo remuved to the bleak farmstead of Maintain near Cock orbit about len mile nuith of hit native hamlet and till alongtidethe o d Catllile and Clasgow pant road This comprised the first fouiteen jcntof his life During I this time all the boyhood boyhood home and home surroundings he ever knew were 1of for he had al ready felt the terror of schoolboy life I t lire 11 ryI iXr Itj ry at Annan and I just after the family re moral toMalnhill I he wno rent away to ndlnbureh to the numlty walking I the whole ititunce through Molfat In company with a temor student In the University named Tom Small Theta are none living here or here ibout now who knew Thomas Carl > le alA al-A boy butI I found very many old old loll minus s puenlt were his youthful companion or hit parents ncebor and who on account nf Carlle online iuent borne left dear testimony with their children from Ihelr land > oint of view on hit home turroundlng and I lx > hood llle It it all a grim gray I picture Set In forbidding shallow with but one bright clear I ray dreaming through Ita brave loyal mothers mil less care and love ol a home so little and main that no room In It errmtted the family meals to in I cairn by all its 1I YAr Iilkl bl r memlftn nt core which foued > oung Car yle lo carry forth his loud of breadcrumb bread-crumb boiled In milk lo be calm on tine coping lire will while the lad gtaed at line ihnnl mountain of a father Irascible nt honest unreaionable se Sturdy miserly aa pious in the di old steely way ol n mother with alHflr great virtue Kalllence of f cunt 1 r II1Ati irc sJ wor < l against all Intellectnal rfnloUleg I not l In accord with tier ux 1 vlimol env agelv exacting creed wJof i ardxi bind Hidla a Hal cnvlromnm in ubieh G tc were miIIeJanroly hopr < orrlo ness petty caMling downright hrc1 1 and fur lea 1 hrlghtutt and cr nmuent tlian about the olden camphri of the American Chliipewa nf Moux t Ills plain that the Cnrlylct were not only not beloved but that they were db liked with that brutal sort of rancor common In Ignorant neighborhood The lather wa the beat workman of In communlt lad I he not poutued H lurious temiier and 1 a lianl list he would have beat driven from the Ittiulet He was feared rather than liked orru peeled 1 The mother was held by her gu dwlfa neighbor lobo oertainllv nod I usr aspcranl or pompous In manner and language as well as muokl auld mou d or Mgaclou and really In I discourse dis-course rlinlniperious olutliut I fl the father so mirkcd n chancterittic of the Kin rither than just nrldeln Intelligence IZI IJIJ lr hI el for Us own sake determined him on making the boy a si holir and this again widened the brearh between line lone mason family and the Larning > Illagcrn The latter inl In awe ot his Hits but lung the brave wIfea tplilt wolully with their crafty gossip and rl raillery i The hurt was double upon the boys defense let head The parents In their prayer lJ ts ro illustrated to the lad what n debt ol gratitude I was being piled up Against rhell1l ITeI him r 1r htm by the Almighty tint ho wit per milted to live and by themselves tint they hid suttimedcontumely I anil sicrl Inca to give him those mighty idvant age wile through hit pla fellows on account of the disposition ol their parent he was trade the victim of every conceivable species of savagery and contempt Front I these old tale It It easy to learn that as a babe I Thomas Carlyle drew in the very milk of unhappiness and rancor ran-cor from hit mother breaL lie was n weazened thin uncanny bairn intflte milling In I Infancy t mournful r moaning I and hauderlng through limo cully gvar period not Into kilt before he had h un 1 ol learned the unspeakable terror of an Inlanthood where every other child l about him thawed only the lace of har ratting ogre In childhood 1 a lamentable bilrn set upon nnd scourged by bulging brats and J iiI his youth tide I tine quarry of every Illnalured Hllle huniin beast of the ccleleclnn I cutters or bfltne cabins Why ll teems to me that light IIftI f N here Is I found the true key to hbs 1 1 whole aflertlme nature The royal protests the often almost Imbecile caviling Ihe Titanic outburst that rumble and grumble and thunder throughout lus I might I work were after all largely an entiles if I unconi loos cry ol the mans heart against the baibaritletof his own childhood In the hllle stone cottage where they lived there Is but one room below stain In the upper slcry there 10 i A room the lime ue as that on Hit first Hour This It retained III a tort of show room and I well enough filled to be Intrusting In-trusting with Carlyle relics Including Ms hmoui coffee pot In which he mess wont to brew Ills own cillVe and hit equally famuli tubaccru cutterhand maid of the Cheyne Kow ChI Inspbation Ch-I and ll InC arable companions ol his Irascibility anil dtiptpili Oft this little chui iber and silijiK ruom III which I theni is set nqul1otl fire place It a LtUrlung I I 1 Uslrsom over the arch NsS al i i I Itvthi rhomu Carlyle was b4ldtnmlether the Intact I Is unlnvll meAgsr n unto ausuvr l jl tosaia claiiiig I I mu in in Thomas Carlyle Car-lyle In I un tin heroism ol his tohy work IOU ritinol cone to one spurt made wann t ider and glowing furs having ba 1 n a p I irt of It Hen line dreary old L I ii < yiinl where he lies but u few steps Ir in where lie was born intentine the U I hn that something of thu human n humane 1 WM licking I or wat di iik I hi as su I hits Chem I doe nut cim to be one soul In all the region alters he wan bum and reared woo recall the I family name with loving kindness and respect To be known at a pilfiim to tin Carlyle home and tomb Is I to be i 1 g inled with suspicion and corers 1 he very gravestone is parniimmHMi and 1 Lba ihi enclosure unkempt weeds I iind brambles crowd the spot closely limo hum I Hint unlocks the Kl snickers hcllla l mint and as you Hand for a llulo lime bailing I upon Ihe Iron railmu In conicmplalion of time homely Iig kcnesl fl r1 grave of due rare old Ia warrior hi 1 the field of letters moo cannot but wonder slur all If any true rialneM can ever raise so far above the head and hearts ol the lowly that they are not reached l aided and anconn ntsell by It I IKIAK I UAkHMAM |
