Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-12-09
KAKEMAN'S WANDERINCS
;ARlYlE's CHELSEA HOME AND
ROUNDABOUT.

ant Region Where WORTHLESS Wraiths
UnbIddcn Risc-Charming Memories RE-
called.
copyright. is7e. by Edgar l.. wakcman.l
LONDON, Nov. A.--A good. sweet hook
could be written about the folk who have
loved and known old Chelsea. whom we
have known aud loved for what they did
Tor the world.
Many years ago saw one OF these folk
on London bus and had n good hours
study Of him as curious character with.
out knowing who he was. lie first at
tracted my attention 10y his generally di-
shevelcd and thrown together appearance.
When he entered the bus he held copy
OF tho London Times In one hand and
dragged very old bit Of n travelling rug
In the other. He slapped the latter over
his knees as he sat down. glarod at the
passengers savagely, and Immediately
closed his eyes and began peculiar mo-
ton OF his mouth that seemed like a merry
Gus chewing Of his neither lip.
lie was scraggy aud 1t then seemed TO
me an III kempt man, out Of sorts with all
the world. mentally endeavorcd 10 place
him. Perhaps he is some one OF those
seedy old clerks so wondrously pictured by
Dickens. thought l. He may be miscrly
old bachelor who daily tumbles out OF his
lodgings and into his work and then back
again, never knowing change, sleeping In
his clothing, mummicd to everything on
earth but his ledRers and his desk. II he
have wife and family, he cuffs the chill
dren, warns the cook, abuses the house
maid and elbows up" his wifo before lcav-
Ing his habitatlon. and this particular
morning he has made them understand
who IL master with greater vehemence
than usual.
Pretty soon he seemed TO awake with
start, glarcd again at his fellow passcn-
gengcrs, and giving his bony knees n vi.
clous twist away from proximity to nm
elderly fat woman who rat beside him,
plunged into his paper as though ho had
~ far overlooked his duty Of discovering.
capturing and furnishing some sort Of sedi-
tion within. Sure enough II was there.
He scanned the editorial page n moment,
smashed the paper together with his
knuckly hands, dropped II upon the bus
hoor, and paving II back beneath his feet
for some time gave II nervous kind Of
pounding which plainly told hissentimcnts
for the balderdash he had discovered.
Then he fell TO chewing again. with his
eyes quite closed, and shortly awoko with
q start, to lunge toward the door and
soundiy oerate the conductor ior carrying
him past his destination. l could not hear
all OF this scolding, but It brought traffic
on the Strand to a standstill. and then the
scraggy. hairy. tumbled up. loose jointcd
old man disappeared among the cabs and
buses, a tangible, irasclble Alteration
with Scotch dialect, prompting from
drivers as he passed the choicest black.
guard quips and quirks that roll from Lon
don drivers ready tongues.
Inc incident let smile on nearly every
taee IN the omnibus. n pleasant faced man
sitting beside me- noticing my look OF In
curry, ana rightiy Judging my nationality.
xinuiy soiSsa ,he mystery MY dear SIR
ne saiu win almost an nif OF pridc. mes
brave literary man. that, lie wasn't born
~ Eng'shu' pu. mes ,hc biggest man In IT,
"nen yss gee paek 10 america you can
teii the Yankees you've seen old Thomas
SatyieT
ineVer saw MIN again. But the London
incident OF long ago made me "A student OF
Cariyie-one oil the most difficult tasks OF
my NE, and from much reading after the
STURDY OLD barrator IN philosophy and 10.
ngion, many piigrimages TO his birth and
burial place up there In dreary Eccle'
ieehan, anu 10 other British localities which
ms strange personality and genius made
something like shrlnes, l have come TO
love nus memory. and especially TO have an
hnection Tor the place where for half life
time be struggled. commended, rallied, as.
sauIted, defended. suffered aud repented
In MS humble and imperial. niggardly and
noble career.
ihat place u CHELSEA. IL is London now.
aou cannot Ind break In all the great
masses OF solid structures from the donsest
part OF the borough out To old Chelsea and
Tor many miles beyond. Yet the Chelsea
region Is stu most charmingly distinct.
You know insensibly when YOU come to II.
You feel, without being told. that you
nave crossed It's boundaries on leaving 1t.
without participating IN Its memories,
knowing none OF Its history, " you were
set down within II, Its lovely, leafy, som
nolent air has the very spirit and hush OF
lingering noble presences.
In the very heart OF this pleasantest Of
al London outer districts Thomas and
Jane welsh Carlyle literally battled along
together from the 10th day OF October, 1884,
until Mrs. Carlyle's sad aud strange death
IN her hrougham in Hyde Park In April
1900, The lonely old soul that was left re
manned, rather than lived. In the sam,
house to the end, In 1881. Aud somehow
beileve that the forty-seven years staying
OF the sage OF Ecelefechan In No GrcaI
Cheyne Row has thrown more OF poeti'
glamour over old Chelsea than all the othel
famous ana great who have come and tar
ried and gone.
Materially sir Thomas More original,