Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-22


gaze cannot find them. 10 is shoploss
save where IN ono little window Sweet
les Of ancient make and Flowers are eN.
posed. IL is kirkless. aud nnngbt bui
the sound of the old abbey bell from Q
mile away at MelrOse distuths the won.
drous quiet Of the place. Az doors are
l open 20 all In scotland and you peer
into this cottage and that The incaFna-
ton Of sweetness and cleanliness. but
no human. is hehcld Here is an old
school house. deserted and silent An
orchard was It's playground. but a few
sheep are grazing among its tender
| grasses now.
Unoonsiously You have begun 20 tin.
toe through the hamlet, for Il seems as
though even a football might break the
spell Of silence aud rcpose; and you pass
| on to reach the rough. red road that leads
60 the primeval forest beyond. But no,
here Is such a quaint old cottage that you
halt again. Something like an nrched
front from which rises huge chimney
arrests your attention. On cithcr side Of
the chimney Is n tiny pane Of glass. You
! peep into one end str the eldest inalp-
1 nook IN all Scotland. A huge arvh sus-
/ tanning the bowed wall of the cottage and
/ the chimney above encloses covcrnOua
fireplace. AZ each side of this q settle Of
stone l. built In the bow beneath thu
| arch. The panes OF rlase are little out.
looks FROM this pleasant fordlnce OF
snuggery.
Opposite to the one into which you are
| pcering an old, old woman Is sleeping
| She has been knitting aud looking and
| dreaming out through the applp-b0nghs
across the silent valley Her wbih Oh
/ race ~ as white as her white old
| "muteh' cap. She has knit 60 the MIDI
| die OF her needle. ard then fallen asleep.
But her THU old hnnds hold the needles
| upright ana clcnchcd, as though duty
lasted beyond consciousness: aud her cat
has come 10 the opposite settle 90 stare at
tue silent face, as " doubtful Of the
| meaning when the clicking needles sion
| ped, This IL the only soul Won hive
found IN GattOnside among the applo
Tweed
Savans die the peck away Tor rom.
nants of the cast-on shells of lost reces
ana ages IN oil the lands fringng the
Meuiierrunean. Yet az Carnap, la tho
very Brittany Of Brittany and nt tho
very threshold of Europe, IRE imprrisL.
able remains Of the activities of peonle
ana time NO remote that archnealo-
glsts are dumb Ia the presence OF what no
learning has yet been able 70 interpet
ana reveal. | think the study of rude
stone monuments and these sileut. awe
inspiring reminders Of the mist grows
faciaation.
On entering Brittany. one Is mn impo.
uehce 10 first see the vast fields OF pilior
stones the ancient Cells have hero rnisnd
II, some inexplicable way, for some ine,.
pli'1ple PURPOSE. and have CONSEQUENCES,
historic races that have left such mighty
monuments TO pagan mysdcsms upon AL
most every square rood OF these western
most European lands
Inc plains Of Curnac would he lndns.
cnpHbly dreaiy were these thousands of
stone monuments not standing upon them.
hut underneath wiutry skies. whlpped
ana beaten by storms Of wiud nnd sleot
uhu Ghostly as a vast graveyard with
lhese monumental stones, the belief tbat
pagan races sought the saddest and drror.
rest places nature provided for the burinI
here. ''"'''
a vast tumulus, or mound of stones
3noe pagan burial place. about 100 |
- ~, ~ ne,sht ana now surnnunted 10y a |
cnapel ana calvary dedicated 60 81. Mi
chael' 10 which pilgrimagcs are made.
slhuds almost in the center of the desc. |
me cNpAnse. This IL called MINT NJ |
MiclmeL From lis top the entire mains |
OF CArnac may be seen. with their count. |
less pillar-slones, peulyens, or menhrs. |
anu many grimmer and yaster cromlechs |
Az Is well known the former nre ho.
neNed TO be stone monumentn to unrnp |
Iead. Ihey vary from ok TO ciEhteen
feet In height above the soil. Bun,irnJs |
upon hundreds have fallen and are uartly !
covered with furze and brambles. Count. |
ivss thousands were destroyed BY the cf- 1
Iorts oil Charlemange aud, later. under a |
canon OF the council " Nantes, especially /
enacted 10 effect the destruction of popau |
monuments. Old chrouiclers asgert tbnf
over 10000 stood on these fields before
lhat ume IT, as some assert. each mon
hlr or stone served az memorial az
inc death of numbers by Druidlc sncr. |
nee. what AN uwfm olden slnughter-pen
one stands upon at Carnac
Hore and there within sight M Mont
NJ Michael are many huge and sin
more Weirdly suggestive dolmcns. the
eSnct prototypes of tSi | have Derso-
nuly Inspected OF the 226 cron,lAcbs
known TO exist In Ireland. Tlrso con.
ssl oil upright stones, held In tllpir ver-
ucal position by horizontal slnbg Of m
nenSe proportions. Al Carnac some are
rom zen To hiteen feet ia height with
capMng, stones of from twelve 10 twenty
ieet IN length, and from two 10 foni feet
III llhckhess. But two miles from Chr.
nae, near the village of pOnlhnrDeI erc
'eFerhl dOlmens, one, covered Bv threo
.I,inehdous stones, nearly fifty feet long
, H'N' uolnens are Thought 10 have been
me raised places where Druidic sacrifices
ook place before assembled thousands
ma the chambers Within the burial plnros
81 the victims. II IS certain they were
lngan burial places for there have been
'ecoNered from every one half-bufned
zones OF human beings cinnerary urns
zone weapons gold torques and other
'ude ornaments.
Inc pllar-stones still standing upon
'urnac held, are seen principally cius. |
ersu "a lhree distinct ranges or avenues.
,,hu w are 10 the north and northeast of
~ NhaEe' Inc most eastern grouping
known as kerlescant The central
md smallest grouping is called Kermaria
hd me western aud largest field M
named the Stonos Of Carpoc
" first each of these seems "A corfne,i
lahs, but az the eye becomes familiar
lng and sinuOus avenues nre 9isfinesig
raced and the curious fact win impress
ne Keen observer that In all three III
nose vast collections of pillar-sfonee a.
mes ana avenues, from eight 10 elcVnu
ehch slill being easily followed. con.
efBe rapidly as their eastern tprniini
re approached; the theory. as held H.
llne afcnaeologists. being that Tho tliree
rear series stu visible, and p.rlnns Z
undreds Of others edaced within no q
wv or NDO years since they ygcr,, J
'rcted all once led 10 the most sacrod }
nd eastern point at I.0rnnrikor sotne I
~ 'ch miles dlsiupi, where there ~ diil
DC seen fallen aud broken. btf frn. d
endous, mnnolith. which. az tie loftjesf
epber on Tong stone OF The sun slooj !
hove che graye Of the greatest Collie i