Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1893, Page 17

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Corner 16th & Douglas Omaha, Neb. blues, with fashionable Worth 500 Ladies’ Twelve Dollar and a Half JACKETS Tomorrow $4 85 Tomorro These are all the newest and latest styles, in blacks, greens and dark tans, in clegant ;111 wool cheviots, cuffs, with empire capes, edges with black coney fur, regular twelve dollar and a half garment. morrow at WORTH $12.50 This is one of the elegant twelve dollar and a half gar- ments we sell tomerrow N, W, Enr. 16th and [luuglas. $4. $18 LADIES’ CAPES and JACKETS, $25 LADIES’ CAPES and JACKETS, $30 LADIES’ CAPES and JACKETS, $35 LADIES’ CAPES and JACKETS, $20 FINE SEAL PLUSH CLOAKS, 0STON STORE, Your choi 89 s $9.856 $13.50 $156.00 $17°° .85 M W, Cor, 16th and Douglas REPELLANTS HERE CARLYLE WAS BORN and WATERPROOFS. Just the thing for this Quaint Ecclefechan, the Native Village of the Great English Historlan, UNCHANGED BY TIME AND PROGRESS Chlldhood Linys of the Philosopher Beset with Ignorance, Cant, Ki Lositive Suvagery—Glimpses of Ilis Life. or and [Copyrighted, 1893.1 Ecorprcnay, Scotland, Sept. 14.—[Corre- spondence of Tur Bee]—Some B wamps were singing for the before the doors of the grave Scottish vil- lagers of Ecclefechan when I tramped into the hamlet behind them. There were five of thom, great, hulling fellows, and their hoarse and aggressive beliowing was the ounly sound indicative of human life in the village, even at that late hour of the morn- ing. They stood beside a melodious burn which dashed from under a covered way and coursed on through the village street, Atone side of the stream was an ancient wall. On the other were straggling houscs, und tho one before which tho vagabonds lifted up vheir harrowing voices was one of the plainest and quaintest in Beclefechan. From its uppearance it might have been un olden stable, an apandoned lod t the en- trance to somo gentleman’s establishment formerly I d behind it, or the ancient Juil of the vi , now smartly whitewashed and transformed into a lowly habitation, It was 8 mite of a thing, with an archway through it occupying one-third of the lower stor) Al cach side was a narrow oaken door, and, nearer each end, a tiny window, In the second story another little window aboye each lower one looked into tho str and over the center of the archway w still more diminutive windouw It was a double house of the dwarf variety, and the one at the north end, whe strong-lunged sorners saug, wus the birth place of Thomas 1 The bellowing had brought mutch-capped guidwives to various windows alley en trances at safe aistances, 1 loiterea near enough to hear them discuss the matin song of the trumps as well as the house and its former occupants, Thoy uneedna fash (trouble) theirsels tae slug there,” crouked the old dume with o gentlo swaying of her head, betokening a reminiscental v of remark, “Tho; liko mecht roar theirsels black i the face afor ©wrang bluld frae that neep s, sid crooned & still older Kent nae pui or soon, Lh siller ™ How Carlyle's hosts of adorers would have groaned to hear these, his old neighbors, go on! Oune hinted at their pride with, * Fhoy thocht theirsels nae sheepshanks ! Anothe of their thrift with, “Thoy ne'cr sel'd their hen's on a rainy day.” A or of old woman, e body iver s yne vecht side o' the Carlyles miseriiness with, “They gac their s 1o nae dogs.” Another of their austerity with, YThey warna guid to ueebor wih And another bont up old body sumuied up Lbe feeling of many of the testy villagers with the crisp epitome, *They were il 1o thole " That is it was hard to get along with the Carlyles. Aud it is historis that others be- Baes Lhoso dim old souls, sowe who lived in the same houses with them, found it just that way. "o tramps got nothing for their offertory, vigorous kicks at the door, me_opportunit, ch the huge form and red, Jonn Gourley, care- r, appeared at the door. Shakiug a fine the vanishing vagrants she tion h: “Hoots! auld Scotiand whan body 1 o hoos this trae the low English be. ud then, in radiant expect ancy of Inglish *'sax- pences,” bude me enter, giving veinous Ky “low Criticised and Pratsed, T doubt if there c {a writer about whom more b written by littlo and 1ters than has u penned in eriti- praise of Thomas jle. And I much in doubt . whether any one or all of these, from pussing essayist to biographer, ever visited tha birth- this rare and royally rampant Yet that should have been every orious biographer's lirst duty. Iateresting muturer nius, when we haye art, and have been given standards by which to find his place, measure his personality and weigh his in- fluence, we are still unsatisfied. Whav wude this man what he was! What were the potent forces which sent hiui on his way, or which were overcome, in_his_upbuilding? Out of what manner of mold did he como? What was the actual environment of the babe, the child, the youth? We wish to bo shown the ultimate pe Ivis not to be found in any bioz rlyle, And 0 I think there is an unusual fascin tion in coming to this hard litile hamlet and seeing with your own nretuy neard sume sort of foll aud ” precisely the scencs as those the boy Carlyle kuo a8 it s to believe from his ever was & boy ing, getting as far as possible iato the s framing snd setting us those through whi his eyes had their carliest outlooic upon the close material and spiritual horzon about him. No truer hint of all this could be given than in that morning incident of the grim old dames and vheir tongue-wagging ubout the singing beg and the house before which they su vas in itsalf simply a bit out of Carl ily's time, 1 almost felt the Carlyle folk were “glowerin’ ahint th' door.” 1t is but two years less than 100 since Thomas Carlyle wis bora w that little stone cott Uheve is no place in Britain wnge hus come in t ern and tiny I Where Thne H Not Wori “Indeed the changelessness cient border towns and ha their most 551V Yetholm to Dum der, and from I Euglish borde cism or rmed each one by h is oneof characteri From wick to Cavlisle along the itis Just the sume, Thoy are ailas they were; ouly a a littls moro asleep, "Pho railway stations are about all the strug. tuves in them that lurge windows or wiell of paint. They remain chiefly as they ood when the border raiwds were ended. hey ar v, battle scarved, ancient, ‘Puey were built'in fighting times and have their records in their hard old faces, To wander among them 15 like being whisked back Lwo op three centuries and set down fuce to fuce with tho grimuess and cruelties of feudal times: and | sometimes think that the nature of the lowly folk, beaten to sav- #ze hardness in those sorry times, is in this borderlaud of both kingdows u long time tuking on the geutler touch of our time. Scotland is richest i these weird old border relics of a sorey awe. The Scoteh crowded close to the border; built more and stronger places of sally, even the tiniest of hamlots huviag likeness In sturdiness and strenzth to the lurger towns, and then, boing the live- licst on their lezs, “harried” the Euglish in such a brisk and’ oocupying way thay they had little time on their hands after chasing the raiders home for building impartant bor- der towas. The quaiut hamlet stands in a little hol- low of the champaigu land of southeastern Anuaudale. Thosawe old post road which leads north from England through Carli and grewsome Gretna Green passes -throug it, forming its principal and*almost only streef rom the south this hizhway leads through u pleasant country, well watered and wood and charmingl, broken by clumps of ancient trees or newer plantations all, v tilled fields, Beyond the hawmlet the road winds upward for a mile or 2 Lo 4s bleak, suggestively dreary aund less horizon as you will often come upon Norman Ly, or as are seen in the peasunt pictures of Brittany by the master hand of Millet. To the northeast there are dim out- lines of the Havtfell and otHeFMmountuin ranges. Away to the southwest are the misty vales of lovely Annandale, and to the northwest, but four miles distant, the le- gend haunted hill of Brunswark, where the boy Carlyle often wandered, 1€ its Roman camped head into the fleecy, vazrant clouds, 014 but Not Historical, Ecclefechan has great age but -little his tory, uside from having produced this one famous man. At about the center of the village, where a highway leaves the old C: aud Gluszow post road to wander ough the valley of Annan to the Solway ide town of thut name, a little eross street, formed by this road, runs a fow rods with i and stops short by n ancient grave yard. In this lies Carlyle, his father and mother It also Bas hunds es ¢ for half a thousand years boforo the. Carlyle linb had ed the border into Scotland from Car- lislo with the adherents of returmng King David IL. it was the site of a then ancient church called Feclesis S. Fechani, or the Chureh of St. Fechan. Fechan was an ivish abbot of the soventh century from lona, who was canonized, his day being the 20th of Hence the curious name of Ie- clefechian, Border war brought the ancient church to ruin. The spiritof the covenanters' time Maced what remuined. But church- ard of 1,000 y ago is Kcclefechan's ravoyard of today, and all the stern de- ndants of those Who swore to xtirpation of popery, prela tion, heresy, schism, profancuess, have departed li hero in lyle's boyhood time there were many wd-loom weavers here, Their stone cot- s 8tood along the highway interspe with a fow shops and inn Tae co! remain, housing folk of the sime social ordor comtortablo labarers mmong the surrol furms. At le still staud Lo hive baon teansformal into humble hubitations. One, the Bush hotel— a little, long, low, rambling steucture jutting out into the highway invitinzly, and presiged by u brisk, bonnie landlidy, Mistress Kilgour, who is not afraid to tell’ you that $ no love for onkee” pilgrims and SneCIng Wiys —contains most of the the sleepy humlet, ana, with minister- clers on their northérn tours, mod- g partics and occasional pilgrims 1¢'s birthplace and grave, is almost y und bustling as in the times of the i and ¢ the olden post coaches ehange iing horses, afte the dash from Gretna, before its hospituble door. Had & Brave and Loyal Mothor, the spot and these the g5 of ‘I'ho.nus Carlyle from his bnlh in until uis stonemason fathe James Carlyle, who “hammered on at making in his best year £100, re "to the bleak farmsiead of Maiubill, near Lockerbie, about ten miles north of his ative hamlet, aud still alongside the old ad Glasgow pazt roaa. Tais com tho first fourteen yearsof his life. ring this time all the boyhood ie und home surroundings he ever his; for be had already feit the terrors of schoolboy life ut Aunan; and just after the family removal to Mainhill he wus seut away to Edinburg to the university, walking the whole distance, through Moftat, in cou, pany with a senior student b the university nauwed ‘Lom Swail. ‘There are none living her or hercabouts now who kuew Thomas Carlyle as o boy, but cal surroundi I found very many old, old folks whose par- ents were his youthful. companions, or_his parents’ “neebors,” and who, on account of Carlyle's subsequent fame, 'left clear tos mony with their children, from their stand- poiut of view, of his home surroundings and boyhood life. Tt is nll & grim, gray picture set in forbidding shadows, with but one hy, clear ray streaming through it—a loyal mother's endless care and love; of & home 5o little and mean that no room in it permitted the family meals to bo caten by members at once, which forced young Carlyle 10 ¢ forth his food of bread ccumbs boiled 1 milk to be eaten on the *coping of the wall,” while the lnd_gazed at the di of u father as honest, unreasonable as swury, m pious in the dim old steely v with all her great virtue, a pestilence of fire and sword against all intellectual unfolding not in accord with her own almost savagely ; and of soci and inteilec environment in which there were more mel- ancholy, hopeless serionsness, petty caviling, dowuright hatred and far less brightne and sentiment than about the olden camp- fires of the American Ghipoewas or Sioux. Disliked by dealous Nelghbors. It is plain that the Carlyles were not only not beloved, but that they were disliked with that brutal sort of neor common in gnoraut neigborhoods, The father was the best workman of the community. ed a furious temper Tho moth guidwife ncighbors to ‘o'er-asperans,” or pompous in manner and language, as well as “muckle auld-mou'd,’ or ‘lous und crafty in discourse. The imperious obstinacy of the father, so marked a churacteristic of the son, rather than just pride 1 intelligence for 1ts own sake, deter: mined him on making the boy a scholar, this again widened the breach betw, the stonemason’s family and the carping vil- lagers. The latter stood in awe of his flsts but stung the brave wife's s with their crafty gossip and r hurt was doublo upon the boy's defensel bead. The parents, in their pray trated to the lad what a debt of gratitud wus being piled up agaiost him by the Alinighty that he was permitied (o liv by themsel tumely and sacrifice to give him thoso mighty advantages; while through his pl feliows, on'accouny of the disposition of their parents, ho wus made the vietim of every conceivablo $pevies of savagery and npt From these old tales it is e: lear that as a babe Thomas Carly win the very milk of unhappiness and rancor from his'mother's breast. He was a weazened, thin, uncanny bairn, snifile-snafiling in ins fancy; mournful, moaning and huddering theough the eubty-gear beriod; not into kilts befoce he had learned the unspeakable torrors of an infanthoo where every othor child about him showed oaly face of barrassing ogre; In cnildhood & lamentsiie bairn set upon und scourged by bullying brats; and all his youth-tide the quarry of every ill-natured “little human beast of the lefechan — gutters or by-lane cabin, ‘Why, 1t seews to me that right here s found the tru y to his whole aftertime natur I'he royal pro tests, the often almost imbecile cavilings, the Titanic outbursts, thut rumble and grumble uud thunder throughout his mighty work were, after all, largely an endless if uncouscious ery of the mun's hearv against the barbarities of his own childhood ! Carlyle's Home an Unlaviting Place. In the iittle stone cottage where they lived there is but one room below stairs. In the upper story there is a room the same Size us that on the first floor. This is re- tained as sort of show-room, and is well cuough filled to be interesting with Carlyte relics, incluing his ous coffeepot, in which Le was woat to brew bis owa coffee, aud his equally famous tobacco cutter— handmaids of the Cheyne Row, Chelses. in- spiration and inseparable companions of his irascivility aud dyspepsia. Off this little her and held by be o'ersaintly amber and sitting room, in which there is aquainy old fireplace, is a little, o :d room over the archway; and in th homas Carlyle born. Altogreth place is uninviting, meager, hard Disussociating the man Thomas \' from the heroism of his lofty wors, you not come to one spot made warm, ténder and glowing for his haviug been a part of it, Eveu the dreary old kirk-yard where he lies, but a few steps from where he was born, iutensifies the fecling that somethiug of the human and humane was denied, his whole line. There seem to be one soul in @ he was born does 1 1l the region whe and reave who I s th family name with loving kindness and re spect. To be known as a pil m to the Car- Iyle home and tomb 1s to be regarded with suspicion end sneers. The very gravestone is parsimonions and shabby: the euclosure unkempt; weeds and brambles crowd th he lad that unlocks the gate behind you, and you stand for a little time leaning upon the' iron railiug in contemplation of the lonely, neglected grave are old warrior in the field of let- cannot but wonder, after all, if any atness can ever exist so far abovo the heads und hearts of the lowly that they 0 not reached, aided and encompassed by GAR L, WAKEMAN. A bl CHATTER OF THE YOUNUST. S, Detroit I'ree Charlic’s mother had boen troab) / who persisted in enticing Charles out to play him in the alley, and us she could never get near enough to him to tell him to stay away, sho sent word by her hopeful. ' she suid when he returned, you tell him what I said?? “Yes'm,” responded Charli Jid you tell him i plan English so he ilLknow just what I meant?” Haid “What did you sny to him?" “Isaid: *Look h hump, my mom- mer says if she gets heve flinpers guto you once she'll yank you into the middle of next weels; and she don’t want you to be monkyin' around this alley or she'll ‘make you sick in forty-seven places. Do you cateliou? Git. That's what I told him thin' the matter with that being plain enough, is theve?” and the poor mother burst into tears, A small boy fromi ‘the siums had been brought into the mission school, and for a couple of Sundays he had been instrueted in the rudiments. ~ On the third Sunday hoe brought with him his brother Willinw, To test his memory the teacher began 10 go over th vious lesson Who made you?'! s ked “Giod,” he replied prompily sAnd what else did God malke? The youngsier studied a moment and looked around hopelessly, till he noticed his brother; then his face orightencd, “He made Bill, too, I guess and Witliam said *You bet.” “Your sister was not st homelast evening, Johnier" *You just bet she was ! 1 didn't see any ligt in the parlor,” “Ob, yes, the ;ause 1 heard say there was o spark there,” \" he answe pap Reporting Progress: Visitor—So brother is taking lessons on the he muking progresst he's got 50 u tuning or playing. your violin, Is Little Girl—Y(s'm; e can tell whether he is Bobby—Pa, do bredking wa Pa—\Why, pshaw! Bobby, tl anything Bobby—Yes, th of poetry that waves dashed high. ———— The No. 9 Wheeler & Witson with its rol tary movement, is the lightest runuing machine in the market, aud 18 uncqualled for speed, durability and quality of work Sold by W. Lancaster & Co., 614 South Six tecnth street 35t much?t don't cost o, pa. gius: Here's a plece “The breaking feomprise BABYHOOD, Tames Wi tcomb Riley, byhood! Tell me idle home n, for Ileigh-ho! where you we have gone rhand of mine and lead me by Buck to ths lotus lands of the far away. Turn back the le glory Let’s find th il the written pages 1d Time, ves of life; don't read the pletures and fancy all the with a brighter the story teller. at Lis bes Turn to tho brook, whe tpy Oer 1is breezo, And tho ‘bée and humming bird in ecstasy sipping in the ¥ flagons of the blooming locust recs, the honeysuckle use of perfume spills it on the Prc Turn tot tottor,” Printing little mould; Luughing at the wator Wh |||I‘r1ml|h s dlmple round the butter- cups of gold lane where we used to “tector- foot-palms fn the mcl uttle wading in th Where the dusky turtle lies baskl gravel Of the Aud the g on the 1y sandhar in the middloetido, ghostly deagon-fly pauscs in travel o rost like died. Helgh-i you lingor, Lot toddle home aguin, for we have gone his & blossom where the water lily Babyhood! Tell me vhere i Tuke '|MT azer hand of wine and lead me by the fingor Baclc 1o thy lotus lands of the f e RELIIOUS, raway. The California cted and ordained a woman as ¢ Ulatto: Monszaro, a native African ugelist, beon doing Baitime contends that both Salomon aud David were black. The P Meothodist conference rian synod of Pennsylvania churches, with a membership of 180,002, Additions last year to th munion rolls 1 com- Muny Chinese temoles are provided with a boll at the o, und when the worshipe enters ho gives opo & pull and rings th bell in order that the Deity may be notitied of his coming, uud bo oo nand to atiend to bis bustness. A colporteur was rec Galuta dis Purkoey, for sclling the Epistlo to the Galatians, on the ground tnat it wis o seditious document. ‘The L'urkis authorities called for a certificate of the hor's death Lo assure themselves that the document was not of recent origin A very caretul religious census has just been taken of Scotlund, under the supe vision of Rev. Robert Howie of Glasgow. ‘I'he result is remarkable, disclo: g us it doos the interesting fact that out of a total | pobulation of 4,025,047 the various denomi f 2,003,186 in_church communion, or cont per 1,000 0f the popuiation nis loft 1,0 or 264 per cent per 1,000 wurchless,” The chus divid 16 s folloyw tevian), 114 ntly arrested in the 233,010} oman ( ereentage per 1.000 ublished (Presby United Preshy other Protest! ants, by.1; 57.6, hill country of India and Thibet the its pray by means of machines, A strip of paper or parchment, containing a Ayer muny times repeated, is wound round lic church, of population terian, 284.7; terian, 1131 Catholie, In the Rowan | the schools linder about the size of a boy's wop. A \llm,' is fastencd 1o this, and attached to | the other end is a stick by which the cylin der is whiric Every turn s supposed to indicate the repetition of the prayer as many times as it 1s writien on the paper, lu some OLLAR Just as good BARGAINS s these in every other devart- Ladies’ §|2% and roll CO”(US full sleeves and A ce to- This is one of the elegant twelve dollar and a half gar- ments which we sell tomorrow S8 s $12.50 of the temples the prayer cylinders are of enormous size, and a feo is paid for bel permitted to run them. In va nu\mr pln:t’: witter and wind are usad as tho propelling bower, and the supp! in and pays ing credit'in and hoing notifiod whiah f been offered, ho conference of Catholic archbishops held in Chie; ‘lpn ou the 14th decided to raise a fund for lI furnishing and maine o fnr M Satoli, apos- cre are $60,034 teachers in the Unil S B nited Tho oldest German university is that of Heidelberg, founded in 5. 4 Austria, 1n 1880, had 35,718 schoo 1s, 99,200 teachers and 4,903,000 pupils, Italy has twenty-one universities, with 600 ors and 9,000 students, had, in chers and { This country b w schools, with 345 teachers and 3,900 stude euts, Germany has twenty-one universities, with 1,920 professor 00 students, ain, 1885, had 51,850 schools, 86,000 and 1,813,000 attendance, ited States has 115 medical schools, c and homeopathie, in 1887, had 70,5)7 schools, 171,000 attendance 3ritain had, in 1888, 80 s and 4 in th with 10,554 professors otal incom srhflols 186,800 86,400 22 schools, 000 puvils, world universities 1 184,400 students, from all sources of the* in 1801 was $10,801,4 858 Lind 701,425 sch lentary instruction, with pupils. In 1891 the sum of $6,840,208 was donated to the colleges of this country for various purpose; The most anc aro those of Bologr Paris and Salamanca, . nfederation is the best ucation amonz the South Amer vublies. v has 8,227 schools and t universitios in Europe , Oxlord, Cambridge, viu, Switze it of the ont the United States, wnd and spulntion France iormany able to ar 430 unis X fossors students and 4,542,003 libraries. wnd has the I cent of th nany 14 sia'has the least, 214 to the lat United States has 18,812, school age, of whom 13,010, and tho avera, volumes in thei Swi west school attends vopulation; France » United States 13; statistics the persons of » curolied in attendance 155 The ny nd colleges of this couns try ha 135,455 worth of scicntific aps paratus applisnces; their grounds and buildings ave £250,19. und they 415 in productive funds, abody gift of 2,100,000 for the pur- pose of promoting education in the south was made in 1866, and in 1509 the donation was increased Lo #,500,000. Mr., Peabody's previous donutions to the cause of education amounted Lo 1,250,000, -— - Littie pills for great il's: DeWitt's Littls Early Rise — B In Hungary the father of the bride takes off her shoe and hauds it w her husband, ally turning over all is authority rooin. - Phosphorescent fishes light up the du‘ dopilis of the ocean,