Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-08
NORTH OF ENGLAND VILLAGE.

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NORTH OF ENGLAND VILLAGE.
prcpounded the routine inquiries rs to when
you came over, on what steamer. whether you
had any Interior motives in coming and how
soon you expect to return and ct length begins
On your travels Yet no matter how faithfully
Won have followed the book. visited all the
views marked with the asterlsk of recon-
nsen<3asion. there b always something Won have
overlooked. something You should not have
MESSED. something that, in your informant 3
ESTIMATION Was all there was to be seen worth
seeing. And 80 he gently chides You until YOU
have a sneaking feeling that your tour thus far
has been hat failure, and you had best go
back ~ the beginning and commence over if
you expect TO have any standing ss a tourist
among tourists.
HBToR1c srfHISe.
Stiriine with its historic castled rock over
looking the city, is quite similar in appearance
70 il big sasser. Edinburgh, thirty-five miles
10 the southeast We noticed At Stirling--and
We ehould like particularly 90 have the atten-
ton Of LADIES' possessing those useful articles,
sons-inIaw-thst m0tbers-in-law. if we mas be
pernitsed TO sgitate an old subject. are there,
1t lesss. appreciated IN q suitable manner; that
u. dead ones are In the cemetery is a head
sfone bearing the name of the person who
srecssd IT, William Reid. Randolph6eld. fol-
lowed by the inscription. Here n inferred his
mother-in-iaw, Jane Stewart, with the date of
her death.
Four miles south of Stirling is the field of
Bznnockburn. where Bruce and his brave fol-
lowers defeated the more numerous but less
crafty English under King Edward III. The
Scotch standard was planted on eIninence.
and the bare stone into which IL WAS thrust is
now protected By an iron grating else 1t had
long since disappeared in the rapscIous NAV of
the relic hunter. Beyond Is Falkirk. where
Gilian Wallace was defeated m battle by his
Enghsh antagonists
VISIT TO ABBorTsYoRD.
Edinburgh and the quaint old multi-stried
buildings, and the house OF John Knox, in the
cid iowa nearest the castle, We soon left behind
and found our way to "Abbottsford. ~ the home
Of Scott. Paying a shilling apiece at the door
- delivered ourselves 10 the attendant. an
elde1y Seoscfman, who. for probably the ten
tbousundth time, more or less, went over the
rooms open to visstors and recited his set re-
0xrks 1poa the furniture, etcetera. for our ed
ihcation- OF one corner of the study where
Scou bept has books of reference and other
books most used in his work is a small box like
apartment with oak panslings, where, no doubt,
he was wont to retire and without danger of
distraction OF mind hatch up some of the de-
hghtful stories he has ieft TO the world
To enable him % reach the uJrpermost
shelves Of the study q small gallery was built
about the room and on the railing. At intervals,
are small lodges. where books might be laid for
Q morEent whiie some other volume was Pc
russd- From the gallery, just above the little
thinking den already mentioned. door leads
70 his bed room, from whlch he emerged at
early hours Of the ming 10 toll, while the
rest OF the household slept
scott boueht ''Abbottsford' in 1911. 1t was
then a poor little farm known by the unseIect
name OF CLARITY Hole. At large expense the
presen. mAnslOn was built. and the beginning
made which. with improvements added BY ms
descendants. Who have occupied IL since his
dsLaise in 1892 has made ''Abbottsford' such
beautiful retreat Is one might hope to have,
bat never by any possibility acquire with money
alone. From the drawing ROOM one of the
few apartment open 10 the public. one looks
down toward the river Tweed over grassy
wooded slope now hsndsomely terraced a
change since SCOTS time. when there was
saaaply the natural slope without the ARTIFICIAL
hiss OF the landscape gardener.
MsLRosE ABREY.
In she neighboring town of Melrose is the old
abbey. regarded as the finest ruin in Scotland,
and WHICH Scott frequently came to coutem-
plate fren q convenient tombstone in the old
cenessry adjoining This is a sixpence sight.
and Is well worth the money. The abbey was
DESTROY ed and rebuilt several times before it
fell 10 Ia present interesting state and became
sogrcs OF revenue 20 the dakes of Baccieuch
% whose estate il belongs. On the occasion of
one o. Tie Numerous expeditions OF England
IT. u.
returning home had actually passed the abbey by
when the abbott. with iil-coRceived zeal caused
the abbey bells 10 be rURg expression of
Joy AZ the departure of the enemy and the
escape OF the abbey from pluader. The sound
OF NE bells changing out upon the air reached
the knglisa. who regarded the rejoicing as
quite too tsntalizing to bY permitted TO go un-
noticed They accordingly returned in a body
70 enliven the merry-making by sacking and
tooung the establishment.
10 nraFxprix
visss view by the moon : pale light: but we
were oeAged - fcrego that pleasure and bend
car steps toward Jeiburgh with its wealth of
border "Reminiscences and its ''Jeddsrt slaves
% ne Old days 'Jediart justice OF the "a me
Perfoi ws~ ot the sort that Furnishes the pris-
ouer frst and conducts his trial later In this
way NO gusity pervon escaped. and in tins re-
speet The system had its advantages
ovSR THE chEyIor HILLS
In entering England from Scotland the bicr
saasI unless he goes by a Coast road. must climb
over she Chevios hiIss. We decided to climb
and climb we dsd, losing both Of our most inn
portsus and responsible suspeades buttons in
The act Our lsboriug through Irish mud and
against Irish wiads, 70 say nothing OF spriuting
among the Scottish ''braes and doons had re.
duced our fair. round proportions TO such an
extent that until We could repair the damage
wrought we found IL difkcuit-and II is embar.
Passing 10 refer to ito keep our brooches
We'll We can explain exactly. but the ute
mind Of the reader will grasp the situation
-Four miles rode-tiseo retically; actually
We " slksd up one continuous ascent. winding
about among the hills up 10 the clold-crowned
summit With only nov and then an isolatec
tree AID at rsre intervals a eiamp oil low
brarching hrs the hills present bare. desolat.
appearance, without ruggeduess TO give them ;
romantic tone. The grass and heather have
rssty, brewnash tinge. against which the dingy
unvashed. legged cheviot woods, herded her,
~ tao0s<ndz, are almost invisible at distance
or TEE DIvDISs LINE
IL v@ O'Clock when we stood on the sum
nss. with one foot in bonay Scotland, tn
other IN merry England, and completed GU
one hundred and ninetieth mile by wheel i,
Scotland and our six hundred and forty-eightl
% TIC so1- II wss time we thoaght Of stop
psng place for the night A Consultation Of on
nap showed What appeared to be promisinl
sovn e about the proper distance ahead; Cor
esessds q v~s, In lsrge typo, and afser th
fashion OF the map, prenxsd BY dots to repre-
sens the town. lea Corsssside was tn
place at which 70 stop, and We &c
out for Corsenssds, an iaspiring hssd Wind
our old companion, fAnning osr brows and Dc
tssxang ~ from making RAPID progress. Ala
fer esr intention TO spsnd shs night ct Corssu
adol Had vs persisted in that intsntio