Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1891-07-11

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hospitals, and burghs Of Scotland. The
Scandinavians made descents upon it,
but it was built for such visits, and
they did but little harm The English
acquired claim upon il in the time of
William the Lion, stormed it during
the reign of Alexander H., and in
thralled it during the dispute for the
succession of the crown. 1t thence
forth became an object of continual
jealousy between the English and the
Scotch, being valuable for its great
wealth, Its mighty Notifications, and its
extensive command of the border dis
tricts, and it often suffered the horrors
of siege and capture. Berwick ancient
mighty ramparts, against which the
first cannon fired by the English In
warfare were pointed. have been trans
formed into beautiful promenade A
railway station stands on the site of its
once almost royal castle. But stretch
ing across the Tweed, the Old Bridge,
built nearly 300 years ago, still remains,
monument to the spirit of those
troublesome times, and is simply a
chain of tremendous battlemented forts
on piers. missing up its messy old
spans, wandering about the lofty bell
tower where the alarms were -rung in
TINE OF oLDRN WAR
or foray, looking from Halidon Hill,
where the eye sweeps from far sea
horizon to the very peaks of the mist
swathed Cheviots, or listening to the
soft notes of the curfew bell at even
tide, a wondrous and stirring past is
blended with the brightness of to-day
in this one old border town. What a
host of mighty men and women have
played some act of their historic lives
in Berwick The early Morse kings,
the Saxon Thames and Eldornen, the
Norman Conqueror, Ruins, the Ed
wards, Henry VI, and Margaret of
Anjou; followed by Warwick, Surrey,
Somerset, Norfolk, Russell, Dacres,
Eolingbroke and Northumberland; with
Queen Mary England's first James,
Charles |. and L :, relentless Cromwell,
grim John Knox, and the dauntless
Scottish kings. David, Gregory, Donald.
Alexander and iron hearted Bruce; all
and countless more, are wrought into
the brilliant perspective of its history,
and spring into wraithful being with
every football upon its grim old streets.
Taking ones way along the Scottish
border to the southwest, every hill,
haugh, brae burn or acre of ground has
its glorious or bloody memory Some
portions of the Cheviots, Lammermoors,
Eildons or Kyle Hills are ever in sight
Wherever one turns, it seems that there
must be heard through the screech of
the pibroch,
march, march. Ettrick and Teviotdaar
Why, my lads, dlnna We march forward in order
March! march! Eskdale and Liddesdale,
All the blue bonnets are over the border.
Here at Coldstream you can Rok over
upon Flodden Fieldss where James ".
brought his army and himself to slaugh-
ter. They passed its ford, as have
scores of Scottish and English armies
before and since. 1t was Monk head
quarters before he marched to sLondon
to restore Charles III. and it was in this
lovely old town upon the Tweed in
which he raised the regiment, existing
to this day, and known the world over
as the
FAMOUS CoLDsTREAM GUARDS.
A wonderful old priory for Cistercian
nuns once existed here, but all that is
left is tons of human bones, for the
Scottish heroes of Flodden were borne
back here for burial. The dreamful |
old place once enjoyed nearly as high |
repute as Gretna Green for the celebrity |
with which Scotch marriages" were
performed by the priests of Hy men,
III the runaway couples of northwestern |
England securing safety and consum-
nation here, the ford of the Tweed |
once being crossed.
A little farther on is ancient Kelso,
where the Teviot stream forms con
iuence with the Tweed What tourist
ever came here? Yet it is one of the
luaintest and most beautiful places in
Britain. Built around huge
market square, its fine old struc-
lures, shady wynds and closes,
give you an almost exact repro
luction of the oldest burghs of Hol-
and. Its abbey ruins, of which few
outside of its own shire know, or ever
ooked upon, are among the finest to be
ound in Europe. The abbey was built
Early in the 18th century, and received
is confirmation from Pope Innocent H.
A few miles to the south is Yetholm,
,radled in the Cheviots, and the head
quarters of the Scottish Gipsies. 1t
vas in Kelso that the boy, Walter
Scott, afterwards Sir Walter, passed his
irst school years at public school, which
lad been fitted up within the old abbey
walls, and formed the acquaintance of
he brothers Ballentyne, the printers of
he Kelso Nail who afterwards became
he great novelist's publishers. 1t is
tut three miles, for | have tramped it.
rom kelso to the former home of
Thompson, author of 1.-THE Seasons.
And over there on that emerald haugh
opposite the city, where the Teviot and
weed unite, once stood the royal castle
f Roxburgh, perhaps the first of Scot
ands stupendous border castles, now
he site of famous
ANNUAL BORDER FAIR
A little farther to the westward are
he ''.ylvan Jed of Thompson and its
ovely vale, and the old shire town of
soxburghshire, waspish, uncomprom-
ling but beautiful Jedburgh. No
ourists ever come to it, but here is
known antiquity of over 900 years;
nd an abbey nearly 500 years old
interesting in the mixed
haracter of its arches and interlaced I
rcade; the schoolboy home of Thomp- ,
On; and the place in whose ancient [
astle, celebrated in song and in story.
he spectral mask appeared at the mar {
age festivities of Alexander III. In
he hard old burgh, the scene of count
IS grim and CORY clashings In border ,
arfare, in ancient times scores of male
Iipsies were hanged, and dozens of
,male Gipsies were drowned in Teviot's
nging waters. Indeed here originated
ne term Scotch Justice" or Jethart
,stiee. implying the practice of first
angling and subsequently judging a