The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, April 13, 1906 Page: 7 of 8
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Castle t>f Chillon Immortalized by the Glorious
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The poet described the prisoner'*
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Below the” surface of ^he lake
The jlartt v stilt lie# wherein We lay,
\V’e heard It ripple night and day.
By far the* best-known btfildtng 1ft
Switzerland Ifl'-the Castle pf .Chillon.
Byron’s poem on Its famous prisoner
, bus given It an undying celebrity,
which otherwise It would hot have
hai^, for it Is no more interesting lu
itself -than many other buildings of
the- middle ages surviving In tho
Swiss republic, ItUhoogh perhupa the nPl below the' level vf
- '-beat: apmh.cn Intact. - . filkht.ly tfhftV*. it, and is
So «u)(sd is the place held by thd
■Castle of Chillon In the ijilnds bl read-
- «.i-« of-ftyron and lovers' of travel, that
thousands visit' it yearly, and look'
upon It as a sacred monument to the
/ poet /and to Borinlvard, the patriot,
who, but for.the ohance detention of
Byron at an Inn at Ouelry, a village
on Lake Leman, not tar from' Chillon,
would ldhgv since have been forgotten.
jfyron ' .improved his ‘time while
stprm'bound for two days by. writing
"The Prisoner of Chillon,” from a story
he had heard in the course of a tour-
’ This again Is an-example of tto
poet’s Ueerfse, ,as the'“dark v*ult“,‘lir'
not below the' level pf the lake, Ind
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at-aSl. hut a rather k{8m4d4w apartment
Of crypt-like architecture, with <no
rows of pillars, but having windows to
ward the water, from which, on fln» anarchists or
days, the sun Is reflected to the ptone
-celling of the° rpom. In one of the pll
tars a# Iron ring Is sjffwn, and near'
It the floor 1h worn, doubtless by a
prisoner, who may have been Bonn!
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Member* of English Colony in, Cotswold HiHs FoUow |
»Jie Russian Philosopher.
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Up tha the highest point of the
Cotswold bills in'(llouceBtershlre Is a
'little 'colony of practical followers-of
aThe fact Is Higi ’ the colonists arc
•marly all tffom a mucj
lion In ijfe and better
nch higher gta.
r educated than
Aunt Tolstoi,- people wiio believe, that I their neighbtfrw. One Is the son of
It. is wrong to UVe In qny way by .fjie
labor of others, finable to carry their
faith Into practise in . the outside
world, they have settled In this re
mote" -cornel* of Englund 'to extract
baronet who sacrificed - hh? material
prpspects. in dlfe for the sake of JIV.
lug In accordance with the principle:-
In whtoh. h»-betteved‘.
Another was the manager ot a pros
their living froth an lnhpspUable soil bank 1„ Scotland, and a thin'
by the labor of- their own haflus. djl.was a large farmer in the south o.
In Beautiful Situation.
Chillon stands at the last end of the
lake - of Leman, the city of Geneva
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Castle of Chillon.
lst’S” visit to the castle. At the time
he thought the story a myth, and he
did not even know the name of the
prisoner whose sufferings he made
the subject of his glorious verse.
After the publication of the poem the
author learned of the name and char-
acter of Bonnivard, ahfl added a pre-
liminary sonnet to the poem. In which
Bonnivard’s name is used.
Both sonnet and poem are too well
Wwnww t« need extended quotation
here, except-so far as the lines relate
to the castle. In the sonnet the con-
cluding lines are:
Chillon! Thy prison is a holy plnce.
And thy sad floor an altar, for ’twa«
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l’nfli his very steps have left a trace,
Worn, as If thy cold pavement were a
sod,
By Bonnivard!—May none those marks
efface!
Fop they apeal from tyranny to God.
The marks on the stone floor of the
cell supposed to have been occupied
by Bonnivard, a depression worn by
his feet, are still carofoU-y preserved
and religiously shown.
Poem Not True to Facts.
In the poem the prisoner Is rep-
resented as having two of his seven
brothers to share his,fate, and seeing
them die in chalhs. As matter of
fact he was alone, and had consider
Hide freedom of action after the first
half of his imprisonment. The verses
run:
There are seven pillars of Gothic mold.
In Chlllon’a dungeons deep and cold;
There are seven column", messy and
ray.
Dim with a dull Jtnprlson'd ray.
And In each pillar there Is. a ring.
And In each ring there Is i< chain;
They chain'd us each to a column stone.
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being at -the west end. forty miles
away. On the south rise the sheer
precipices and snow'y peaks of the
Alps, beyond which Is Italy. Through
a gorge the railroad comes down from
the mountains back of Chillon, after
Its ascent from the south.
Along the lake and are varlou/f de-
lightful summer resorts, which derive
much business from their proximity to
Chillon.
Beyond the castle Is a "hotel Byron,”
,Ilu uul in Byrons tiny.
The Inn at which the poet wrote hU
famous lines on Chillon Is a dozen
miles away, nrd has been modernized
and spoiled as a souvenir of the poet
Chillon is a very ancient castle. Its
origin Is obsepre, but as early as 1238
It was mentioned as a stronghold of
the dukes of Savoy. Its architecture
remains at It was In the thirteenth
century. Judicious restoration Is
going on In Its various rooms under
government direction, and It is being
flfled as a national museum. Some
of Its ancient devices for torture are
still preserved, and show tho sinister
spirit of the times In which It wag used
as u state prison.
Identity of the Prisoner. ,
It was one of the line of fighting
dukes of Savoy who was Imprisoned
here in 1530. the prior of a religious
order at Geneva called Francois de
Boimtvarrt, who, by his political ac-
tivity and by bearing aims against
Savoy, then a powerful dukedom, hall
made himself objectionable to tin- rul-
ers thereof. Bontiivnrd remained In
the castle of Chillon untH 1536. when
tho place was taken by an urrny ot
Swiss patriots, who liberated him and
the other prisoners.
Some of the best lines in Byron's
poem describe the prisoner's sensa-
tions on being liberated as follows:
My very chains and I grew friends.
Hn much n long communion tends
To mnkn us what we are: -even I
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History shows that Bonnivard re-
gained his freedom with a. strong de-
sire for action. He repaired at once
lo Geneva, where he espoused the
Protestant faith, married within a few
years four times, founded a library,
which exists to this day, and wrote a
history of Geneva.
One must noj. suppose, however, England.
BtSjIHP-wa.-A cotoflv of Wild eyed
dangerous enemies of
government. It is true that they ob-
jected at first to paying'taxes tp a
government which they declared gave
them nothing in return, and one <*r
two men actually carried their pas-
sive resistance to the extent of going
to jail for their principles, hut even
the country people- round .about to-
day are forced to admit that they are
-gaud neighbors, pay their .debts an-l
twither po one-—this in spite of the
active opposition of squire and par-
son, who regard them as' dangerous
enemies of church ami state.
The little colony, which Ms known
as Whifeway, is situated about the
center of a triangle the angles of
which are formed by the towns of
Gloucester, Clreneeste^. pts-j Stroud.
It Is approached by moiifftntBous
roa^s and lie,s about seven miles from
Stroud, which is the nearest railway
station. , ■ •
The land owned by the colony
stretches along the side of a hill and
comprises about sixteen aeres. The
tract was leKTo a set of trustees
headed by Aylmer Maude, the well
known English disciple of Tolstoi, by
a farmer of the neighborhood who had
become a> convert--to the theories of
the Russian philosopher.
There Is m sprinkling of
city folk, .clerks and the llker and
ihere Is a retired sailor, Whose ailiT
The land, of course, so far as Its
legal aspect Is concerned, is held ab-
solutely, by the trustees, but any one
who Is willing to work on It and live
In harmony with the colonists Is wel-
come to settle on an acre an(flculti-
vate it. He may do so free of all
charge, but he must not attempt to
acquire any title to It, and as soon as
he ceases to cultivate It with his own
hands all his Interest In It ceases. ■*
There are at present about a dozen
'amtlles in the colony and there are
a couple of acre plots vacant, hut H
Is expected that they will soon be
taken up. They were rendered vacant
by the efforts of the persons who had
ownership In them.
Apart, from their peculiar vtewR as
to ownership In land- and the Immo-
rality of living by the labor of others,
the colqntsls are perfectly normal
people. Living, as they do, an open
air life, they have adopted some re-
forms in dress, but these are not the
result of any fixed belief; raiher they
are the result of nn effort to find the
clothing most suitable to the condi-
tions under which they live.
' The women as a rule wear nn outer
garment of the flowing Grecian type,
and the men knickerbockers and soft
cotton’ or wool shirts, open at the
neck. In th'e height of summer they
sometimes dispense with the shirt
while working In the fields.
Both men and women go barefooted,
partly from preference and partly-' be-
cause shoes are an expensive luxury
to persons living from the.produot of
an acre of rather unproductive soil.
Old Tower on Estate.
with foolB all kinds has stood the
colony In good stead. Most of the
cottages -are monuments to his ski!
as an architect and builder, and Wer.
comfortable cottages they are, too. >
One of the women, a.widow, wltl
.two children, lq. a trained nurse, win
often gives her services to the vll
lagers round about; another was ,
school teacher and a third a musl;
teacher. With the exception- tif~twi
or three, all the colonists are of Eng
llsh birth .and breeding.
Done With Spirit and Animation.
As
time. It is of great historical lmport-
wiwi nnH m a work of art It Ik not
without Its'merits. Although there Is
Have Their Own Amusements.
It must not be Imagined that the
life at Whitoway ts a mere round w| g’c"”“ f”om "the llte
sordid toll In the fields. The colony
possesses' some excellent muqlrla'nB
and a couple of first- class elocution
lets, and there are almost nightly
concerts and readings in one or othet
■Of the cottages.
Then, In the seasons when work In
the fields is slack, there are expedl
tlons on foot to some of the many
points of Interest In the neighbor
hood. That part of Gloucestershire U
rich In historic and antiquarian in
terest.
A mile from Whiteway Is the vll
lage of Mlserden, which was a Ro-
man stronghold In Its day, and In i
field outside the vlllkge are grea1
mounds, which the villagers declan
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Was Looking to the Future.
A gambler borrowed a sum of money
■from a money lender, and, the note
falling due. he called upon the banker
and told hint he could not pay at that
time. The mopoy lender became
greatly exettod. “I want, the money.
It Is due. You must pay It.” The
gambler pulled his pistol out, pointed
it at tho head of the money lender and
■-! salrt- -KRt that note or I will blow the
top of your head off.”
The money lender looked at the ids
tel, then at the note and decided ihat
It would be wise to cat the pole, which
he did, A few days nfler the gambler
called and paid the value of the note,
much to the delight of the money lend-
er, who said: “My friend, you are a
good man and when you need any
more money come In and I will let
you have It."
Some tlmelater the gambler applied
for another loan, which the money
the broaden', poetic license j lender was very willing to advance.
The gambler snl down to write out a
note, when the money lender culled
mb : “Wait a minute, my friend Would
\oii mind writing out that note on *
soda cracker'! - Argonaut.
Vaults in Castle.
And we were three jet. en.-h nlnne
The situation of the ensile Is ihns
described:
A thousand leci in lif-p,n iimow
I,Hk< Leman lies by Chillon'* walls:
Its masgy wnlers meet and flew .
Thus mile!) thg fathom.line was sent
From Chilton's snow-white hattlomaoe.
, This Is
for tho water beside the castle is slial
low, and only at some distance from
the slroi'c ts a depth of ROD feci -at.
tnfncd The greatest depth tn stir
part of the lake Is Ytu-t i.uji feet.
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Largest Farm Building.
For the same reason most of the colo-
nists are practically vegetarians, and
practically all the cultivation Is done
by hand.
The only animal In the colony Is a
cow. wtilqh gives milk for fhe chil-
dren. who, by the way, arc as healthy
and happy specimens of Engltah
childhood hh can lie found In the king
dom. Most of the children who are
old enough contribute to the family
support by caring for fowls.
Known as "Queer People."
The Queer People is the name by
which the colonists are known to the
Inhabitants of (he surrounding vil-
lages. but there Is nothing Invidious
Iri this title. Ask any one of the vil-
lagers about them and he will tell you
I lint the Queer People sre good poo
[de. and It Is not dt all unlikely, that
lie will tell you how some of the
Queer People came Into his cottage
when Ids wife or pfrUjl was III and
gave the advantage of skilled egre
out of pure netghhortlness and how-
are the graves of the Roman soldiers
A mile or two away Is a perfectly
preserved Roman military road, anc
on foggy nights the country people de
clare that ghostly legions may be seer
marching along It, fighting over again
their battles with the ancient- Brit
ons.
Gloucester haR a fine cathedral, and
that at Cirencester, while smaller. If
said by expertn to be one.oif the most
beautiful in England.
No Changes.
"This is the new year,” said Mrs
Brown as she' and Brown sat down tc
dinner, "and perhaps we ought tc
make some little changes for* 1906."
"I am willing,” he replied, “Yes, l
have been thinking that I would make
a few changes.”
“That is nice of you. You know
that, you swear anjl that I don’t like It
•at all. - It will be so sweet and kind
and considerate to give It up for my
sake."
"Give up swearing! Not On yom
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"What. then, did you mean by
changes?"
• Why. I have been allowing you $t
per week as pin money and I knov
-that you simply fool most of it away
One of the changes contemplated wat
to cut the sum in half.”
“Samuel Brown!’’ exclaimed th<
wife, as she knocked on her plate wltl
her fork to emphasize, jibr words
“don’t make any mistake" on your wtfi
Mary. You will continue to swear a*
hard as you wish and as often as yoi
wish, and my $5 pin money comes t<
me every Saturday night or then,
won't bd any glass left In the fron
windows to last over Sunday'"—Baltl
more American.
L»rvi" MMen’a Report.
The Hon. ijtrkin 1). Mason or Tam-
worth. N. JL. was Judge of probatr
for his county, and a very prominent
man in politic* in his day. His son
came home on furlough from the army
during the civil war, and brought the
army Itch, and the whole family took
It.
Mr: Mason called In a doctor from
the neighboring town ot Meredith,
who left some medicine to he taken ac
cording to directions. The doctor told
Mr. Mason that he wanted- -to hear
from him In ft few days.
Mr. Mason reported as follows “We
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It was one of those rarely beautiful \ extremities that human flesh was pub-
days In garf}- j|ub®, wHfen the big j Rely sold In tlje market pISce. To rsy‘
ocean liner steatned into the harbor pulse the eijemy, the city was burped,
of Cherbourg, Jepoqgjng a nifmberV-of | hut w^s *tjfaln rebuilt, and phw we snr
passengers who 4r**r*v beflt ou reach- • it a prosperous .commercial town wl^ii
iiyt Uafla by the most direct route 'a population of, more th,iu» 16,00/).
This (hey accomplished In nipfkw.Teti Marty of its lovjfbie old houses have
special train ,.f»)l»n into such a "State -of decay that'
They are being gradually replaced by- <
modern building*, -hut there are still
hours by taklnif tho
which was awaiting them , on the
docks, and beln& • whirled with nnro-
mantic haste through- one of the most about sixty left, which ariJ sufficient
picturesque portions o^ France, While j to repay ond for a visit there:
tOW Bohemians chose to tarry lopg
enough to- Investigate the quaint Old
Leaving Llriaul.siaiiy mo.ulr.g,
a drive" of fifty miles ovdr a fine road
_ . „ drive j pr9„Kht „„ to jjt.rnay “ahnnl dusk, ,.
through Normandy Cohsumlng several J.por lunch we stopped at Qrvtc. J
weeks.
lunch we stopped at
. ... , small village with# a small Inn, clean
After strolling through (the town, a|J^ picturesque, where a mo*t dell-,
aftincr Mm mnumitn onlluulr-il otfl
visiting the museum, cathedral, etc.,
we went to the shipyards, lo which
foreigners are admitted only by spe-
cial permit from the Minister of Ma-
rine. These are well worth a visit,
and the arsenal there Is most Inter-
esting, containing abdrtt 50,000 weap-
ons arranged In geometrical patterns,
mid In artistic designs representing
porticos, palm trees, baskets, etc.
. -After leaving Cherbourg, our way |
lay through fertile agricultural lands,
well stocked with fine cattle, and rich
In fruit trees, for this is the great
elder district, and indescribably love- i
Ty’were the numerous apple orchards
•which at, this season .were In full j
bloom.
Our first stop was at Bayeux, thh
"most picturesque little Norman -town
containing many quaint old houses 1
with steep gabled roofs, fairly teem-1,
lng with historic Interest. Several
canals running through the town pro- |
f.uce quite a Venetian effect. Here |
one sees the laundresses busily! en- j
gaged In washing the linen ’ in tht
stream, and beating It on tpe stones ;
with large wooden paddles. It seemed !
to he a most back-bfesktfig process,
and I wondered if it were altogether
good for the linen.
We spent one delightful morning In
the public library, where, carefully
preserved under glass, one may see
the famous ‘Bayeux tapestry," which
is really not a tapestry at all, but a
seamless band of linen, now brown
with age, 230 feet long, and 18 Inches
wide, embroidered with woolen
thread In eight colors, representing
of William the
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Cathedral at Evereux.
Thf
clous meal was served. T
was through the kitchen
eral fowls were turning on
fore the*open fire; the cei
low—so low as barely to a!
entrance 1
here sev- I
spit be- t
.gs were |
rd head
room, and a liny winding ut:lr led U S -
with spirit ana Animation. ,ht' <llnlnK ri*»“ a,*'ve- *
a chronicle ofTITe evAttls of thill ' —
Breakfast Amid Beauty. H
At Hcraav we itosns'd ?oH. !!;* sirit!
at the Hotel of the Golden Lion,
no perspective and no shading, and which was built around a pretty court.
the characters are angular and gro-
tesque in the extreme, there Is never-
the walls of which were covered with
wisteria, and on one side was a mar
theless great spirit and animation in ble fountain wltly blooming plants ar I
all the scenes, whjch are explained ranged artistically about It, and half J
by Latin inscriptions also stitched in
wool. The English may be easily dis-
tinguished. as they are uniformly rep-
resented atlfh mustaches, and The Nor-
mans wlthotiL
There are sejetity-two scenes, some
of them depicting'battles.on land and
on sea. The htlman .figures employed
number 623, besides which there are
202 horses and mules, fifty-five dogs
and 505 oltqy animals. The scenes
end with the battle of Hastings, the
death of Harold, and the flight of the
English. ..
A' pleasaftf excursion from Bayeux
concealed by oleander trees wefe
small tables where breakfast was
served.
Finding Iltfle. of Interest In tha
town, vie hurried on to Evereux,
wherd the cathedral is the principal
attraction, being one ot the most
beautiful churches In France, and con-
taining some wonderful wood carv--
tngs, and fine stained glass.
Stopping for several'days In Ver-
sailles at a hotel conveniently near
the Palace, where we could spend the
greater part of our time among thrt
galleries and parks, proved a much
ts thatito the beautiful chateau of the i more satisfactory arrangement than
Manfuls de Balkiroy, twelve miles dls- . taking It as an excursion froai Paris,
tsnt. It Is a perfect example of Louis as we had always done before, when
XIII archltPttor^ situated tn the heart | wo tried to see everything In a few
of a splendid deer park, and the well-
kept gardens contain some of the fin-
est roses in France.
Trudging along In wooden shoes
weary houra.
In this way there was leisure to
'horoughly enjoy the paintings and
palaces: and the parks, were a perpet-
the men have often pTtrn them vfltu- i hive used the medicine Internally and
able advice about the variation, of
Umir crops and the best markets for
them. j
externally, the disease still rages fn
femnllv. and It looks to me as though
It w»eM~l**t eternally.-
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A Llsieux Cottage.
snil a short red skirt was an old peas
ant. woman leading a donkey laden
ual delight, revealing new beauties at
every turn, our favorite haunt being
with tour *1»wilu» t»r»*« mitit cans, ana the little hamlet 'W>f Majrlv As
seated between them were two aristo-
cratic little children who seemed tm
mensely pleased when we asked them
to halt while we took a snapshot of
the charming group.
Dates Back Many Centuries.
Leaving Bayeux with all Its pretty
nookf and corners, we found Llsieux
no leas attractive, with Its narrow,,
crooked streets and ancient houses
Its history, too, ts Interesting, dating
back before the days of Julius Caesar
It was mentioned" by him several
tim-T, hut was afierward destroyed by
barbaricp-<, and *e'-nUt. In tbe ■■1 \ 1 '•
century.. In 1 !•!;*> was besieged by
Godfrey Plautsgenet, during which
tiro* the garrison was r*d«cc<! to such
tolnelte and the court ladies played at
peasant life.
Regretfully we left this historic spot
with all of Its associations, with It*
art treasures aud its rural charms, for
the whirl and bustle and ronfustow
of “gay Pa roe.”
She'd Soon Cure Him.
si*tlla- So >im ar<*. really golo^ to
marry old Mlllyims? I had no Idea
you were so mercenary!
Maude 1 am not- I am going to
marry him to reform him
Stella Reform him! I didn't know
he had any bad habits.
Mamie Yes, lx* ha* one mi
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