| Show I Ua emaps Ua deriiJ s I ODD INC1DUNTS OK KOH1S1ON TKAVI5L AND OBSUKVATION I 11 rcciEFKCIiANScoiLwnSept t1418 < 3 borne IniJIsli Iranip were rinrfnf for their lirwIcfMls before the door of the grave Scottish villager ol ale fechan whin I tumped Into Ike hamlet behind them There were five of Ihtni I great hullclnir fellow and Ilielr hoirM nod aftrtMlvti bellowing < < u as the only tuunil Indicative of hunitn life In the vl Ujr evm at HIM Into hour III f the morning Tliey ilood balden tnclod Iou burn which laahed l front umler a covereil way And courted on throuh I the village sired At one llile of the stream wa An nn clent wall On the other were alrul l lag bouses anil the one before which the agaboruls lifted up their harrowing volcei was one ol the plalnnt And quaintest In LcclefKhin 1 IromlUap pant it might have been an olden Btablc an abandoned lodge at the entrance en-trance to tome gentleman t establish mtnt formtily located twhlnd It or the ancient Jail of the Ullage now uniailty whitewashed anti transformed Into a lowly habitation It wai a mite of thing with an archway through It occupying t occu-pying oncthlril of the lower itory At each tide was a narrow oaken door and nearer each end a tiny window win-dow In the second atoty another Illtfa window nliove each lower one looked Into Ihe street and over the centre of the archway were two tllll more ilimlmi f the wlndowi ile by aide It 1 aR lot double home ol the iluntf variety and T t the one at the not 111 end where the VM irong lunged ornen ntng wa the t birth place Tbomas Carl > lei I le-i Tlie bellowing had brought mulch rpcd guldwUeJ to various wlndoot caV alley entrance at nfo distance anbyxered near enough to hear Ihciit dis I 1 loi Ithe matinsong ol the irani > 5 ns cuu II the house and Its former I I w1t a occunsn i neeilna fa h trouble thrlrKh 1 hey Viere criwkcd one old dune tae ilngtMIe swaying of her head be ulih a genVmlnlscental vein ol remark tokening a i mccht roar thelrtdi black Theyre IlkVe they etrwrang bluld I the face afo turnip1 tnrlc that otlxri besld these dim old mils some who In cd In In name lious with them found It Just that WAY The tramps Rot nothing for their otTer lory and alter a few vlt orous kick at the door departed riving me oppor tunlly to trach Ihe TIOUIC juit na Ihe huje rom and red velnou face of Mrs John Gourley mretiker appeared at Iliu door Shaking a Tine bluiltcon after I Ihe vanishing vagrant Ih relieved I her Indlt nation with llootl It I a aweary day lor auld KOllan i I ban heres nie body t fend A boos like IbIs frae tin low I ng lih beggars and then In rmll nnt isptcuncy of low English MJ > penca bade me enter I doubt If there ever lived a writer about whom more luf been written by link ami great 1 wilier than has been pruned In crltclim or hnlie of Thonill Carl > le > And 11 I am just J ai much tm In douM whither any one or all of time from MulnR wssylst to autely bio graphcr ever really visited I the birthplace I birth-place 01 r thli rue and ro > ally rampant genius Yet thatthould line bwi every aerlou biographer tin duly InterestIng Interest-Ing as may be every little detail In the nuturer career 01 the man of genlu when we have learned t each one by lieart and have been given itindardsby which lo liml his place measure his personality per-sonality and weigh his Influence e are > ma unsatisfied What made tins nun what he was WhAt wtre the potent forci which lent him on his way or which H ere overcome In I hi I upbuildmtt Out of what minner of mold did he ciMiief What WAS the nrtnO environment environ-ment of the iMhr I the child the youth Wo with to be shown the ulllmite iwr i > ecllve It Is not to be lound In any blograi by nf Cjrlyle And 10 I think there Is I an umiiinl fascination In coming to tills hard little i liamlet nnd teeing with your own cye prttty nearly the same noil of lolk I and 1 precisely the Mine scenes ai those the boy Carlyle knew lurd as It I to believe from his blugrapheri he ever was n toy nnd In lynipuhy and leelmg I getting as far as poolhle into the name i Iramlni and r setting ns Hi I ie throuch I which hl > cyea had their eaiHeit outlook upon the clo e nulethl and iplritiul hoilion about him No truer hint of all thin rould I 1 be given than In that morning Incident 1 of the grim I hlt tUmrs and their 1 tongue wagging about thu I ilnimg 1 Ixggan and the house before ohlch Ihoy u g J It Ii > JIj l lIIrt iI 1 W trVC family a lime 1 I I felt the Catl > le lolk were glowerln ahlnt th door It is but tun t > i m Ins I I than one hundred lince Ihonus Garble wai born in that l 1T mone coll me I There Is I no place In llntaln where leas I change ha comn In Hut pcilodthanin alem and tiny l > clclftlnn Indeed 1 the changeleinneMof all these ancient border townsand lianileti Is I une of their moil lm reuUo characteristic Prom Wlliolm to DumrHei along the hcolllih bolder anil from llerttkk to Catlle along the nglish I border It Is juit the Mine Hiey are all as they were only a little more asleep The railway nations are about all the itruc turcl In them that have largo window or iniell of paint They remain chlelly r as they stood when the border raid were ended ienhefh are gray batile cured < ancient They Here built Infighting In-fighting time and they have their records re-cords In their t hard ol I l c > i To wander wan-der among them Is i like being whisked back to or thiee centuries and ret da n lace lo face with the grlmneas and cruelties of fedual times and I sometime some-time think that Ihe nature of the lowly folk beaten to Mvage hardneM In those ygt1Iarrdrl lorry times Is In this borderland of both kingdom a long time taking on the gentler touch of our lime Scotland 1 fiI hlh lrIri J land rlcheit In these weird old border rclioi of a lorry age The Scotch crowded close to the border built mare and itrongcr place of Mlly even the tiniest 1 ol Hamlet having likeneai In turdineM and itrenjth to Ihe larger towns anil then being the liveliest on their leg I harried Ihe I nglith In inch n brisk and occupying withat they had irl I lea time on their I hands niter dialing dial-ing the raiders home for building Important Im-portant border lo ni The quaint hamlet Mand Inn little holjjvof the clnrapjlin Undol south j nd r raso rn Annandale I The same old post road which leads north from tugland through Carlisle ami erewsome > retn Or mi passes through it forming III principal I ra and almost Its only Mreel 1 I rom the south tills liljhway lead 1 through n pleaiunt country well watered nnd ln lerebro wooded and cliaimlngly I broken by clump of anciuit tree or newer plantatlofM and mall well tilled Hells lleyond Ihe hamlet tlte road wlndi upward for a mile or more In as bleak luggestively dreary and hopeless a horuon as you will ofien come upon In Normandy or as are Men in the peasant pictures of Ilrlllany by Ihe mailer hand of Millet To Ihe noilheHst 111 re are i dim outline of the llnrlfell and other mountain range Away to the south well are the mlity vales of lovely Annandale and to the northwe t but four mile distint the legend haunted hill of llrumwaik where the boy Car bile often wandered lifts Its I oman capped head Into the fleecy vagrant cloud I cclefechan ha4 great age but little history aside rom having produced one famous man At about the centre of the villa go hero n hallway Itavw 1 the old Carlisle and Glasgow 1 road to wander through the valley of Annan P to the Solwa sWe I nv of tint I rn r a hllle cross street formed by tbU road mat n few rods with It and Hops short by nn ancient grave > ard Inlhslies CarK le hla lather and mother anil other members of Ia the i family I lherl has alsA hundrudi of unnanud grnes nr lulf a thousand yujrs before Ilia i nr yle line had croMml llj border Into soiUnd Irom CnlUlei ih h < iidlm nujof relurnmg Km 4vll 7hi 4ifcew5f J n rJf Tcunt church idled cliitt L yl > or HwChuitholSt eban r was an Irish ili > ui of tho K enth century from loan who w eanoniii l Ms 1 day being Ihe will of Jimnry Hence the curious Hume of 1 crleftihan II irder brought the nncientchurch lo I iiiiu Iheripiiitof the lotenaiilers tiriR tinier I what remained Hut Ihv churrliyard of a thousand > ear > ago H Iitlefhanl gravetaidol toda > and all the item deKendanli I of thoaewho iwoie to endeavour the eilliMlum of pojvcry preUc mperititlun heieny Khisin profaneness elt who I hive departed de-parted life In little I cclcfechin mel > lng here In 1 consecrated 1 ground In tar lylcH bothood time Iliero were many hand loom weavers here There ilone cottage Hood along the highway inter I iperied w Ith n few shops and Inns The 11 cottage remain housing folk of the i rliblo laborers time social orJtr < nlI anionc surrounding farms At least three of the Inns are Mill landing 1 wo hate I been Ie jl transformed Into humble habitations O if Ihe i Bush Hotela little long low wml ling structure juttIng jutt-Ing f out Into the buh iy Invitingly and i ln presided over h I yn brisk bonnfe I mil lady Mistress Kiln > ur who Is I not afraid lo tell IOU that ahe has no love for Yankee pilgrims and their sneering wayscontains most of the hie < if the teeny hamlet and with innitlerlng to crete on their northern tours modern coaching patties and ouaatonal pilgrims lo Carltle birthplace and grave Is almost al-most as breety and bustling l M In the limes of the packers and carter when the olden pust cuaihes changed their leamng horses alter the dish from Gretnil > efore In l hospitable I I door So Ihlt wi the ipot and these the physical surroundings of Thomas Car lyle from his bitlh in 179 until his stonemason fuller lame Catlylc who hammereil on at cilcfechan I nuking In his l > est year f II > removed to the Meak farmstead o l Malnhlll near Lock rbi > about ten miles north of his native hamlet and still alongside n d CarJIsle and Glasgow pott road This comprised fust fourteen earn of his life During this lime nil Ihe boyhood boyhood home and home surroundings he etcr knew were his for he had nl reidy felt the terrors of schoolboy life X = cdtj fr rr at Annan and just alter the family removal re-moval lo Malnhlll I he w is sent away lo Bdlnburgh to the Lnucislty walking the whole distance through Molfat In company with a senior student In the University named Turn Small Thtre are none living lure or hereabout here-about now who knew Thomas Carl 10 asa as-a boy but I found cry many old old lolk whoso pirenls were his jouthful companion or his pirenls necbon and who on account of Carlyle subsequent subse-quent lame lelt clear testimony with intlr children from their siandioint ul view on bis home surroundings and bohood lile It Is i all a grim fray picture set In foiblddliiK shadows with but one bright clrir l ray streaming throtnh It a brate luyal mother mf I MS care and love ot a hume so Hide ml main that no room In It 1 permitted thefujilty meals totccaKil I by all Its memlftn nt once whuli foued onng Carl la to carry forth his 1 loud 1 of breadcrumb bread-crumb lioiled I In milk 1 lo tie tatcn I lo on lito coping ol the will while Hie lad Kied at Ihe diMint muuntalns of a lather Irascible us hours unrcaionable as sturdy I miserly as pious In the dir lh old steely wi > ol n mother with KSfftt great itlucn iKstllenci of IX i word I against r nil Inlellcctnal I XnloldlBg not In accord with h r ouivWmosl sav agely acilng creed rtfJof r social nnil bi He I ual environing ln tlch II r w ere molSW1 oly hope i net > us neos l > elty caviling downright ha red and far leas 1 brlglniKM mid < nunient than absut the olden campAns of the American Clii > xr is of Sioux iel Is plain I that the Carlyles were not only not belated but that they were disliked dis-liked with that brutal sort of rancor common In Ignorant neighborhoods Hie lather was Ihe best workman of th cummunll lad I he not powKOsed A furious temper and a hard I list he would have bcuidrhenfrom the liainlcL lie was Iwred rather than liked or res peeled l The mother was held by her gu dwlfe neighbors to be eruintlt anJ o aspirant or K > mpous In manner and language as cllnimucU auld inoud orMgiciuus and cralty in I dis cuursc The Imperious I olisthui I oltlie I father so nnrked n chanclerislic of the son rnllier than just pi Mo In Intelligence = Jtl i Ifn jgl rn lor Us t own sake tleltrinlned him on m Ing the boy n liolir and this again Ined Ihe breach between the stonemason stone-mason family and the carping i Illagi r The j latter stooil Innweof his tl but itung Ihe brave wifes inliltwolully i 111 rll Ihefr crafty gossip and raillery me 1 jblo upon the boys defense jrI oTI el jaMhead Tlie parents In their prayers Illuilrited to the lad wliat a debt ol gratitude I was being piled up against f inll Ir eu logo him by the Almighty lint he wai per ogo to live and by themselves that they hid sustained contumely and sacrl I lice to give him those mighty advnnt age while through his pli fellow on account of the disposition ol their parents he wis made the victim of every conceivable species of tavageiy and contempt Fro these ol < l tale It Is I easy to learn that ns a babe riiom is Carlyle drew In the very milk of unlnpplneil nnd rancor ran-cor from his mother a breast He was a wearened Ihln uncanny bmrn sniffle IOAllllngln Infincy mournful moaning and I haudeilng through tho cutty g ar period not Into liiu before lie had r learned the unspeaktble terror of an Infanthood where every other child about him showed < l only the face of I liar isaing ogre In childhood a lamentable bairn let upon and scourged by bullying brail and iin his 1 1 oiith tide I tkouarry f II of every 111 natured little human beast of the I cclelcchin Jullrs or bvline cabin Why It Menu to me that right II Nllo II here Is found the true key to hi whole allcillme nature The ro > al protests iloC IIrr the often almost Imbeciie caviling the Titanic outbursts Hut rumble and grumble and thunder throughout lus I mighty I I work were after all largely an enuleu if unconscious cry ol Hie mans beau agalnit the bubaritiesof hit own childhood In the little Hone cottage where they lived there Is I but one room below lairs In the upper itcry there Is n room tho sime sue as that on the fint Hour fills Is retained u a tort of how room and Is I well smuugh tilled to ba In U retting with Clrlyle relics Including his hmou colteu pot In which he was I wont to brew lit own cuftYe and hit y moin l tohaccucutter hindI or hind-I ho Chcyne j Kow CheUsu Inspiration and lnsc I rnble companion j lll ol his Inttcltiility and dys > tpju Off this little clitii iber and tWtiftooni in which then ii set aqu JmSldTIre plac Is a I Ilk I lonc 1 jKslWom over the aniV i ils Hionus Larlvle l wai bn u ether the pi ice is I unlnvl JTji meaner n ird austrri iiisisMMiaimg mu nun ThonlA Car lylefi n tin heroism of his lofty w oil > im 11111 cone to one spot made Mann t nder and glowing for nil having teen p I irt of It I ten the dreary old 111 I i K > u < I where lie Ho but a few Heps I un whira he w u born Intonilnei ft I lin Hint something of OIL human aill IIMJI wiulickinkorwaidcnii I In w I ic line I llwre doei not swm to be oni soul In til the region where he was burn and reared who recalls Iht I family name with loving klndntti and tcspect To be know AlII pilgrim to Ihi Lnrlyle borne and lomb li to be re gar lid with Miipklon And ure The I very gravestone Is I pantmoinoui and ill ibb lira enclosure unkempt weed IIn1 I biatnble irowd the spot cJoelYi th lail that uihuks KOle snickers do lion and 1 us you Hand for a IhtlV Him Uaiilng IIon the Iron railing Inc In-c ntcniplalion of the loneltielrct d grave of this rare old warrior In 1 Ilii Held of k tiers > oii cannot but wonder attrr all lltiiu true riKlneM can evir nut lofirabovi the hell and heal tsol Ihe lowl that they ate not reached I aided andinroni avsed I by it I UOAK I UAkKHAN |
