Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-12

cont inua jealousy between the English and
the Scotch, being valuable for its great
wealth, its mighty Notifications and its eX
tenSive command Of the border districts;
and it often suffered the horrors of siege
and capture. Berwicks ancient mighty
ramparts against which the first cannon
fired by the English in warfare We're
pointed, have been transferred into
d beautiful promenade. \ railway
railway station stands ON the site of its
once almost royal castle. But stretching
across the Tweed. the old bridge built
nearly 300 wears ago still remains mOnu-
ment to the spirit of those troublous times,
and is simply q chain of tremendous battle
mented forts on piers. MuSlng upon It's
messy Old spans, wandering about the lofty
bell-tower where the alarms were rung in
time of olden 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 eyeutide. a
wondrouS and stirring past Is blended with
the brightness of to-day in this old border
town. What host of mighty men and
women have played some act of their his
tOric lives in Berwick The early Morse
kings. the Saxon Thames and E,ldOrmen.
the Norman conquerer. Rufus. the Edwards,
Henry VI. and Margaret of AujOu; followed
by Warwick. Surrey Somerset Norfolk.
Russell. DacreS BO!ingbroie and NOrthum-
bertrand. with Queen Mary, England's first
James. Charles l. and ii. relentless Crom-
well, grim .lohn Knox, and the dauntleSS
Scottish kings. David, Gregory, Donald.
Alexander and iron-hearted Bruce. all and
countless more are wrought into the brill
liant perspective of its history and spring
into wraithful being with every football
upon
IFS GRIM OLD STREETS.
Taking ones way along the Scottish
lo,a Ifl
brae. burn or acre OF ground has its glorious
or bloody memory. Some portion of the
CheViotS LammermoOrs Eildons or kyolo
hills are ever in sight Wherever one turns,
II seems that there must be heard through
the screech of the pibroch.
March march, Ettricl and Teviotdale.
Why. my lads. dinua We march forward in OrderP
March, march. Eskdale and I.iddesdale
All the blue bonnetS are over the border.
Here at Coldstream you can look over
upon Flodden Field, where James "
brought his army and himself to slaughter
They passed its ford. as have scores Of
Scottish and English armies before and
since. II Was Monks headquarters before
he marched to London TO restore Charles II.
and II was in this lovely old town upon the
Tweed IN which he raised the regiment. ex-
listing TO this day, and known the world
over Us the famous Codstream Guards \
wonderful old priory for Cistercian nuns
UhIe CAi>ttu here. Dul III THAT IS lell Is tons
OF human bones, for the Scottish heroes of
tlodden 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. all the runaway couples of North
western England securing safety and con-
summation here, the ford of the Tweed
once being crossed.
A little further on is ancient kelso, where
the Teviot stream forms a confluence with
the Tweed. What tourist ever came here?
Yet ii is one OF the quaintest and most beau
tiful places in Britain. Built around a huge
market square, its fine old structures, shady
wynds and closes. give you an almost exact
reproduction of the oldest burghs of HoI-
land. Its abbey ruins, of which few outside
of its own shire know, or ever looked upon.
are among the finest TO be found in Europe.
The abbey was built early in the twelfth
century. and received its confirmation from
Pope Innocent IL a few miles 10 the south
Is Netholm. Graded in the Cheviots and
headquarters of the Scottish Gipsies. 1t
wa. in kelso that the boy. Walter Scott.