The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-24
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pile, and the care and perfection with which
it was built are attested in the immense
walls still traceable, and in the fact that
though its masonry has been exposed to the
elements for GOO years, one will to-day as
often break the stone itself as separate by
strokes of sedge hammers the stone and
mortar with which the walls were construct
ed. 1t seems unfortunate that so noble a
ruin could not have been given bet
ter care and preservation. One-half
of the structures of Lochmaben burgh
have been built from the ma
terial in the majestic stone pile. Cow
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from which their material was ravaged by
protruding moulding splendid ashlar work
or grinning gargoyles; it is said that citi-
zen of LOchmaben burgh warns his shins
at the identical pair Of jambs which once
rested on the paternal hearth of Bruce; and
pile, in which had been nurtured the
proudest line of Scottish patriot kings, on
being discovered half-century since by
the leaden-headed kinds of the district,
was regarded az such an antiquarian prize,
as it weighed several pounds, that it was at
once turned over to the Lochmaben black
smith for conversion into pair of utili-
tarian turf-spades!
The prim and ancient town of AMMAN, at
VIC 6AN0 VI subway WACAC VIC <AI1IuA WduoK
flows into that estuary, is a burRh of quaint
old granite homes. inhabited by quaint
old granite Scotch folk, rich, contented, in
dolent. Great. square houses, great, square
doors, great, square windows with great.
square faces in them, tell the story of olden
thrift, and older border prowess, with now
and then quiet era of as profitable SNUG
Cling, whose headquarters were in the shell
tering port. Somehow the broad, cool,
shaded, silent streets and deserted wharf
sides recall Salem town, ON our New Eng
land coast, and its flavor of romance when
the old shippers sailed home with their
wondrous riches and curiosities, not always
and the Annanites will match Salem's Gal
lows Hill with its old castle site and its dark
deeds of valor and blood; in place of Sa-
lem's custom house and the desk where the
gentle Hawthorne toiled, they will bring
you to the old academy, now stately resi-
where he was afterwards its master in math-
ematlcs: and for Salem's memories of
Mather they will recall for you the wonder
1ul career of that inspired and holy man,
Edward Irving, whom, for living too closely
to his divine model, the stern old presbytery
degraded from holy orders; and then they
Will take YOU to the little house in Butt
street, Fish Cross, where he was born, and
over t whose door the simple inscription,
AT this house Edward Irving was born
August. 1892. He left neither an Enemy
nor Wrong Behind him." will remain
through time Frightening epitome of end
less fame, while those who broke his sanity
life and heart will moulder in forgotten
graves.
Leading from Amman to the English side
OF the solway is vast railway viaduct one
and one-half miles in length. One cannot
resist the temptation to cross this into rock
grit Cumberland; for at its southern APP
proach is one of the oldest little villages
along the whole English border. This is
Bowness. 1t consists of one long compact
ly-bullt street, perched up there above the
wild Solway tides like an eagles nest &C.
curely hung upon some crag edge, OUTPUT
ting above sea-wept preclplce. What
brave old houses have these Bowness folk;
every one solid as castle. Like the Loeb
maben people who transformed the mighty
castle of the Bruces into matter of fact hab.
itations and impregnable cow-sheds, the
inhabitants of BOWness secuted the further
utility of ancient Roman walls, and as the
most stupendous one in Britain ends here
1t was in good time transformed into hugs
walled houses, with here and there in theil
hard facades weird old Roman altar, BY
way of unconscious history and grim, as
These people of the Cumberland border ar,
fishermen and statesmen" The latte
| term applies. in the two northwest counties
of England. Westmoriand and Cumberland
| to those who farm their own land, II 1t doe
| not exceed half-acre in area, and land
have descended for centuries in the sam,
families. Some are both ''stateamen" AMI
centuries-Old lins Of men Who could equal,
| we'll turn their hands to the plough, I.
= smuRg1ing. TO the temporary bloody trad
ct moo1-trooper1, or to the meta And il "a