Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-22
FOREIGN TRAVEL
And Odd Incidents Connected
Herewith.
WAKEMAN'S WANDERINes,
Ona Way Thomas Carlyle TOOK Exercise The
ostraeised casOis Of Inc Pyrsnsos- Weird
Pagan Monuments Of Carnae "A Ra.
dainty Peaceful Picture
Copyright, 1893, by Edasr L. Wake
mnul

Paris. Jan. Z. 1893.
BRITISH pensioners ia old Chelsea hos
| Nt'u. London, when desiring to be- par.
ucularly sarcastic regarding the quality
on their food, say that Every sheer
Killed Tor Chelsea hss nine breasticsv
that rs, somehow the officers messcs ~
| cure all the legs Of mutton. while the
pensioner priyates get only the ribs and
orlskets. However this may be. the rec.
ord Is for long life TO The pensioncr after
ne enters this noble monument To the
generosity of pretty Nell Gwynne. There
~ one old fellow, William Merrill, late OF
| the Ihirty-irst foot. who has seen over
tOrty years actual service In the British
army, aud who has been a pensioner ut
Chelses for nearly quarter of cen-
| fury. lie Is now ia his Ord year.
| ana rs not only as spry AZ many youths
OF 20 but he also enjoys peculiar
distinction.
He has been chased. 30 Chtlseans re-
late more miles by irate Thomas Carlyle
than by any foe aiield These gay old
pensioners haunt the shadoNy lanes and
avenues OF Chelsea for new larking.
grounds nc public houses. or for grateful
gosMplngs with glib-tongucd housemaids,
and ancient Uncle William" formed n
| decided fonduess for q red-cheeked serv-
ing woman employed az -, formerly 8.
| Great Cheyne row, the home Of the
| great philosopher and scold Uncle
| William" took up his station unabashed
at Cnrlyle's house ara-railing until tho
| gfZzled author of SnrtOr Rcsartus could
| stand IL no longer. lie went down To
him aud expdstulated. The British son
of Mars answered In no humble spirit
Beside himself with rage Carlyle grab
Ded ms walking-stick and chased Uncle
William TO the very hospital bounds
The next day serene and calm the pen
soner was found in his accustomed place
Carlyle sailed forth ngain. Thereafter
until the houscmaid was given her wages
and Character daily rctrrats
and pursuits were offered M insDirat-
ing scenes to Cheseans I'VE could nj
most set our clocks by thcm.' related one
good old lady. "nnd ! often thought IL
was hne exercise both for Uncle William
and Carlyle, dear souls!'
in my various wnnderings In southern
France and northern Spain I have come
among n folk who. according TO the SUI
peustitious belief Of other peasanhy of
the regions, are regarded Us out-lawed
souls, debarred from mingling with other
humankind, because OF some old, long
ago physical curse or faint placed by
deyil-leagued sprites upon their ances-
tors. They live among the pyrenees.
aud Aquitaninn mountains aud valley
countries both sides Of them, especially
Serbia and Corona, w the French Heu-
ties Pyronees. Gascony, Guicnne. Potion,
and sparsely In Brittany The strange
folk are called CagOts.
The name Is derived from CAMS Goth
Gus, or Gothic dog. For long time
these people were COMPOUNDED with the
Cretins, those goitercd. fickety and lrp-
rous dwaTfs of northern Spain aud
southern France But the Cagots are
another folk entirely. They have large
bony muscular forms, wcll-shaped skulls
almost Grecian nOaes. fine blonde hair
blue eyes and fair. pinky complications
with large but expressive mouths aud
regular, perfect teeth. II Is believed
that the Gagots descended from the
Aryian Goths. Wherever they live
away from the Pyreuees in France or
Spain, these marked and summed people
are voriously called Callibprts, Caquins.
Cacoas and Cahets. For thousand
years they were Wuperstitiouly avoided
by all other inhabitants near them
They were dcspiscd persecutel. NAL
treated, regarded socially aud legally rs
Outcasts and the superstition of darker
times attributed 10 them all manner of
foulness. They We're believed 10 be-
witches, nuvieros. or rasers OF the storms
and tempcsts, the Spnnish peaRntr
called them Every dark deed possible
was within their power. They exhaled
noXious odOrs. They bred pcstilences
md epidemcs. They were companions
of cats and owls, and could see Ia the
night like them They were completely
and absolutely ostraclsed, and compelled
TO live alone, or IN quarters by them
selves, aud In towns and cities whenever
they made their appearance. they were
obliged 10 wenr q scarlet cloth. that all |
others might avoid them. Down until |
the seventh century Il was not con |
ali "a fsrll4 la 4 a Ia. 90
Tended.
Perhaps Il is the wizard witchery of |
Scott, as poet and novelist, perhaps the |
radiant romance Of all Scottish border
land, but You never tire of tender
Tweeddale and sWeetly flowing strenms.
You are not the first 10 feel this Tho
old monks loved the valley and dotted
the Tweedsde with splendid mOnasteries.
Their grazing lands were the richest;
their cattle the finest; their grain Of the
Dlnmpest kernel, their fruit the sweetest
n all Britain. Tradition has il that the
fine old apple orchards still standing
folk, That must have been
hundreds of years ago. But these rare
Did trees are big gnarlcd and gray en-
)ugh for that. Little hamlets have grown
lp within and nhont these ancient orch
irds, Ncayers' Villages they once were.
1 ne flNfh vi inc NNnN1 lNNlu ~ now Nlllis !
Jut they are quaint old nests housing
luaint old folk. who have ripened and
IN these sunny places along I
he Tweed, until they ht into their orch
lrd environment as the orchards them
elves blend with the rpstful lnndscape.
III You have wandered Mp and down the
Tweed perhaps of an these brae-side
tests You have found GattOnsidc by Mol |
Ose. the dreamiest and qualntest Ilcny-
ng the glorious abbey 10 yOm right Won
auuter along a shad0wy road overarched
With Scotch frs and hreches cool mud
fragrant On the one side is ancient 81
'uthberts and nlOs~grown mill and
lam. Tiny fields with tidily stocked
rain rise IN patches Of yellow, gray and
'reen on the other AZ tie end of tho !
,ista now and then flashes the bluc " Z
be Tweed. Then an old suspension bridge /
1 crossed. Above and below. anglers /
tand waist deep IN the river, and a few +
arts are taking gravel from is shining !
ed O
A little further on groups Of old peas 4
mt women, pausing now aud then 10 \
less the covenantcrs or boil new bee Z
rom an old sandal. are cutting thisfles I
nd weeds with sickles at The watcrside \
'hesc brambles win be- dried 20 help niece J,
nt the meager fuel 81 the near winter =
avs. Al the village edge the road ends h
p rather blends into a score Of century Il
eaten paths; FOR fiattonside has no \
traet. Each of is thatched houses, as y
( with u touch 81 Scotch obstinacy seta !.
4 face towards itz cAgn liking: but oil =
,efn: and every one has ~ orchard en- =
osed with o yellow or white sinn0us %
all. Huge as oaks are these knUfed
IA annie trees hut their well uruned