Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-26
EAKEMAN'S WANDERINGS
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE IN ENG.
LANo-i.

srpooi-scnnt Consular Records-DIs. /
eovery Of Hawthorne's Forgotten OF
aoos--charming iisminisecnce.
Copyright. 1871. by Edgar l.. wakeman.I
LONDON. Sept 5.--"'rhank heaven, am |
q sovereign again. and no longer q serv |
antr'
50 wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne in this |
city. under date Of Jan. q, 1855. after having |
called At the American embassy to arrange
for bis passport to ltaly
chanced upon these cSultant words Of !
Hawthorne tho other day In n twenty.year |
old volume owned by an clshtyyc old !
man. In bis hundred. yearold home. be
Meath the shadows Of a four.hundred.yoar |
old church. In the thousand -yoar.old town
OF ormskirk, Lancashire.
while the moldy burgh IA Interesting
enough on it, own account. the old man In
the old home BY the old church became
positively loyable TO me, because he loved
with = sort Of idolatry the romancist
whose mcmory we nil treasure 20 precious.
Iy The old church looming above the rcd
tiles Of HI. cottage root Is curlously sur.
mounted by detached tower and sterple
the pile 90 gray. mellow aud ivy masscd a.
TO involuntarily suggest gigantic tree
Topped on In IL lower trunk. whore the
huge baitomcnlod tower stops. out Of
whose edge, whoru the steeplc rises has
sproutcd a second slender trco The trad.
ilou goes that two eaprleious maiden sls.
ter, dcairous Of raising some sacred memo.
rial, agreed upon erecting upon ormskirk
atower aud steeple, yet, disngrecing a. 10
uniting and connecting their work. they
finally expended all their wealth aud enor-
gics upon both. each independent Of the
other
had come 10 ormskltk attracted by tho
antiquity Of tho town and tho unique
character Of this most venerable church.
aud. eurlously enough. while wandering
about the antique pile encountered the
same man whsm Hawthorne had sneoun.
tered nearly forty years before.
The old man had IN former times been
simply walter In the little Orinskirk tny-
efn where Hawthorne had once suppcd. Il
was fair day. be remembered, when he
came. The latter could readily understand
scarcely word Of tho broad Lancashire
dialect Of the 'portly aud ruddy women"
sud "ycomon With small clothes and broad
brinmed hats," and could secure nobody's
attention on account Of the crowds lie
was about 20 leave Ormsklrk In sort Of
despair ~ the iruitlcss outcome Of long
foot Journey, when the attendant, who had
felt drawn TO him from hl. kindly and su'
perior personality. contriycd 10 escape hi,
duties long enough To secure Hawthorne
admission TO tho ancient church. aud TO
show him other antiquities In the quaint
old town.
On departing. the novelist hal Crate.
fully given bis guide a half sovereign. aud
had also said 70 him In hi. kind, quiet
way, Save your earnings. my good mAu.
aud become independent for your old
days" The old man still treasures that
gold piece with toudcr delight. lie has all
~ liawthornes works They aro as moldy
and mussy A. the old town itself but tho
man who wrote them. the books them
selves, the tiny biz u gold, which ia one Of
the moit priced things Ia England. and
the hours oompanionship. which | could
not but envy him. had made this one hum.
bic EngllsLman conscious Of now world
about him IN which to live. A halo Of
glory always IL up that old church when
he looked upon H.
The magic Of Il all came 10 mo some
thing a. II had come TO this old man. Ny
purpose was at once changed. felt q
glowing desire to follow In his footsteps.
TO loiter Ia tho places he had known. TO
hunt Tor his hnunu here, aud TO recover
what might still bo gathered. " mcager
that should he. Of the Incident, locale, ia.
yOr aud personality Dom those years ho
passed In Official LIE In England. 10 little
81 which bad ever been revealed. and 10
nuch OF which wa, rapidly aud irrcyoca.
bly, passing Into the sealed sllenecs OF for.
getiulness
so | took the road over which Haw-
thorne had come from Southport Four.
teen miles he walked. but tho pleasure Of
u made the distance seom but an hours
tramp To mo There was ilrst the pleas.
ant billy country. and then the low lying
lands by the sen; ancient scanshrlck Hall,
with IT, inc gateway and lodge. the old
bridge where no loungrd on tho parapot,
the aged stone houses, "bullt merely for
respectable occupants;" tho canal with
" lazy boats, the little girls. now ~ then,
ttlll watching the cows lest they should
10 astray, tho Maypole Inn At the littlo
village where Hawthorne asked for some
cold meat mud ale aud got instead u royal
dinner with home bfewed ale. mot very
mighty, but good to queuch thirst" TO
wash lt down with; aud, all the way.
The haryestors gathering their crops. were
aAHh N NV 'lf1 NV h''AA ANiilt uAAli Ihnlt
Of tho gay watering place showed above
tho sand dunes and verdure OF merry
Southport
by diut Of patient hunting among tho
old, old folk, kindly receptions which came
20 nanght. suspicious rebuifa comprising
strong lntim.tluns Of the power, Of the con
stabulary, aud c0axngs together Of va
grant waits Of Others memory, this one,
that one and another one had many pleas.
mt little things To say worth treasunngi
OF brunswick Terrace. whorc tho llaw.
thornes lived from September ls'0, to
April, 1857. still standing near tho
glorious Southport forcshore, prlm.
pretentlons and faded. and stlll tho
resort Of respectable "lodgers" desperate
enough 10 love any place away from Liver.
pnoli Of the perky but faithful maid,
Fanny always a sort Of back door out VI
every domestic dlfeulty 10 the llaw.
taornes In England, OF tho pale but CHEEKY
wife and mother who seemed 10 dlituse u
tender sunshine wherever she went; Of the
three lovely children, Una, tho boy Julian
nov the novelist and lacking but seven
years OF Ills fathers then age) aud baby
Rosa, upon whom all smiled u greeting ~
they passed. aud tlnally, Of tho plain, dark,
quiet man who came from the Liverpool
station 20 promptly each afternoon, aud
walked straight 10 brunswick Terrace,
speaking To NO QUE, turning not % the
right or the left, looking almost sad In
hls nhsorution, but who suddenly reap.