Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-24
|rfT WAEEMAN'S WANDERINGS,
.s,ht. 1sea. By Edgar !. wake.

-,ered that, contrasted with the age
/ srlization in Southern Europe, the
!, are comparatively new corners in
Arctlc land. There are what might
4 ,rued three zones of buildings and
~ each giving an almost universally
srnt example of structural style Of
IA. In the remote and desolate
\ a an ancient structures are of stone.
I Srnbern Norway oak and beech have
4 utilized. In the Central districts
,,hing has been. and Ii still, built Of
4 h one has grown to believe that oak
3rsents all that is enduring and al
y everlasting among the nObler woods
izisable to man, his ideas must be
tel when he has come TO know the
I'M pne-built structures OF Central
rsy. One gazcs with admiration
nonder when the strong, perfect
H., in the old Sir Walter Raleigh
4 at Youghal, ireland, in the ancient
+ ss Of the gentry In other portions OF
. country, and Ia almost awed admir-
] upOn Oalen stalls, screens and tim
n Of English cathedrllS, and pardc'
In those ia the very ancient parish
n ,,hes Ike those Of Stoke Pogcs, where
4 ~ wrote his "Elegy,' Of Grasncre,
4 o. Crossthwaite, at keswick. These
4 4, stood slaunch and true for two
( X, four and perhaps five hundred
IN. II Is no uncommon thing in Nor.
b. to find eagle-nest farm buildings,
y gafeAOuses, bonders or large far
afIs al
7lfous Old pier-houses besides the tiords,
dIli uhiy Of pine, still well preserved,
'flid Nv quite ns old while the strange,
Rs ol churches Of Central Norway
/ y titrely constructed of pine, possess
irdslng number of the original tim
innced where they stand today long
W The venerable Minister Of York
" mellOwed cathedral Of Salisbury
Hd anything like their present
visiting an eagle nest farm above
toleds beside the gloomy Naero FiOri
Nod that the Oldest norton of the
.-Ts home-a long rambling structure
IA seemed to have had built upon
new annex for each generation or
.1-g-wls by far the stoutest. stur-
p and best. / questioned tho farmer
\ . It's age. The family legendary
|1is and finally the family records
|rtl that it must have been built some
n 10 the sixteenth century. or perhaps
hundred aud fifty years ago. In
Iheemarken district are many
e, old wooden mills which | found to
4 IN 100 TO $50 years old. In a bond
y home / visited in the Trondhjem
|uB, the low, wide living room,
~ witch ihiu peen nuIe, o -.
ii Io'erh uPIL eI M t 'tiiu 80
|;.,ns, was over ~ ScHlS V'u' ~ ~, ~
~ rom decay ~ any Of ~ uuloeis
|-sey II was pullI, anu WIN T,ii ILions
nsNIs OF hunlsual uli'' NuuDi ~ ~
\ 1890 i'uu ,.;.is, ~
" tAlohs OF lne s9eter hiIl5 wy
IA ' IonI i,,i+ go, iEo n 5jii
4 - - e" 'N'' ''O'A NV
,on ,S bo,o, 90 ,oti,a That ~ tho oldest
gsin ~ ilo''t . rii,'S ~ w US not
II, - '4i n,iii o. na ,u,iisJii H. age
WIS sun ,'-Ni',i,5, a7,i
4 l'soIy tns ues 49, 5,,rh nortian
..o vH,,JHs " Ji;ro Si conltrnction
e..'iuls u I'm nv Guy ,i,nl,nrs In
" 1ppearYht' i ny ~ ,r ..at an
'. lil. portioHs VI ~ o,,d in
lly W. III r "a ~ paV,iH N O iniJ
~ .s.ia'Ion oa M'4, m ~ a,cient meth.
~ iytlAun ANY, ~ i 49, - trbst
ouluIllE' lllullS III !, ny, 49, - raies1
'VlsV c'll lelsNulA A. D, ~ H. l,is No.
EYE Slo0u-up M S9! u I H. 'I ea,,,st
nethou ~ puilulhS ~ - - ,be "a.
astounding uhi.lui'y Va Nnrn,av
II Wooden churones " NJ.
~ portion Is eonstr .i,..,,d I'm anu bis.
a pine, go enduring pel my 'Ny ,,ifb-
NV known ouk llat y n' s+nrn,s
n Me lures or NorWegitn S S'gi pts
\ nsols OIL almost Ale.io oil,ost
lam the searching Aeat VI ", rnns-
~ summers. through pcr'o .',i', -. i''Ns
lem hye to elgnt aluildIeu e'i,i
III appearance oil poth lhese SuiIg III
lMches and the oider Sias9 u 1, l,s
Morehouse5 would lhdlcale al tii'if,.
.A origin. i have been ISpeaIc!ui!
|,Aed with the quite slarlllns SIN
~ coming suddenly oNgl SUI
mountain pain upon a, q Sull lN,i.s,i
III Where, as IN the IneleluutA,ell
niafdanger districts, niue Innovation '......Il
.glhd It's way, the various sr9ull9
.tnhouses and onuoundings, qarh
\ Neather-beaten, or mere ana lhere
|g stained with g KIND oil red tar
used upon buildings IN N2rWsaly,
suongly suggested oriental alnhi i,n
,-r ana architectural ,slyie' ny
Prominent object in al these hud-
'uuciQres IS always the iarm sloI'
81 winch rises story above Story
upper story projecting beyonu tle
sene9th it, Ike a huge pagoda turned
'Arclle upward and stood upon US
continuous hanging balconies often
y entirely around each story. Car-
.galslde stairs ascend TO each, me
.aat of carving Of demons heads
'sypents often ornament every avail
psrnon, OF outer space; and fan
yaryed wooden horns project IRON
psnens Of the caves, or seem ready
w srom the peaks of the roof. In
's siTSne e,sIy places watermill9 Of
a IN curious and almost barbaric de-
~ ss5y ,sncient; but the flattened arches
~ Aseors, the peculiar natural and
I thst I rf Of the Chinese pagoda,
|s,e rss Prof usion Of grotesqne carvings
H.NAlauc, IN wood and stone, in all