New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-18
boy from Galteetown, were the leading spirits of


number thnty-eght and in accordance with the
new rules, three parts of that sum have been re-
n,uoeh TO Dublin. Two new members have been
cn: All whist curse your interpolated Charles
1m Lilo pushing forward from his recess. who
cares I9r your rules mark them read and come
on Hnd let us see that gun you to bring up
- Now, charley Clifford, be easy said Roche
I Ianng the pipe out of his mouth and shaking his
.,an t at the young man in warming; don't inter-
fup RI iet business pnrceed orderly
70 ne gun IS mere, it Puck isn't said man. rising
snen 5i oi H. IT, | want to know now. / am after
up sne and "9t part Of the day upon it, dug
- lie advanced to the table and laid the gun upon
IL. IL was an Enfield rifle. The stock had been cut
n I been artistically done, and the ring covered
w yHe Jnb perfectly It was Ieekng with grease
ops D the gun i Roche strstehs%
tlmIdlv, when young Clifford stepped out, rudeIy
Postiing nm aside. and snatched it up Every eye
stooned room t"ar was TUNED upon him at e
ssooPcu toward the lamp, ami the hit fell on his
race, showing very handsome boyish counte-
sn1h; his cheeks and lips pale under the
in them. ''0' A"" "ii'' Suioh iooA
Is Puck comingr asked someone behind.
don't know. Fentcn,' replied the secretary m n
iond voice. | heard to-day from Blanev that
ulings the fsh from Waterford that mes of up by
fuck was the aom de guerre of a man who was
hnowh 10 nave shot landlord in Cork and was
stspocted, with some good reason. of having fred
az ahooher not quite so etfectually about "A wear
AFTER the first offence. He was n good aim too and
r. Th was Thought he was max king profession of it,
for such INFORMATION as would lead to his o arTest
- ne money had been accommodating for five years up
20 ehe present date. and there was every likelihood
ol lts remaining unclaimed for an indefinite period
10 come. HIS wife and family lived at Galteetown
frear ,mg oehlhd the courthouse he visited them
s snt9"entiy In broad daylight sometimes, it is
sahi out 1t must be allowed that he came and went
thnt 6 Hne place to another Invariably foot and
oltcnes ana the untrequented field paths in prefer
ence TO the high ways
- Inc secretary exchanged q look with Bruff and
m1cne On bearing the question put by Fenton,
whom whom" they knew to be a spy. He must be put on a
Roche. "'0N -''"' A'' iii'"'
.. The rules will be adhered to- replied the secre-
Put IN Tom Hefernan's name he'll be home
next Week and wont Ike to be left out of the Job
ground
AT least twenty absent members were at once
suggested The secretary set himself to write out
became general.
Is this true what heard to-day p asked q voice
Nun an American twang III 1t be the same token,
that he is to revaue the whole estate against next
b.enk the entail ' "
know what that means-revalue for selling
said Roche. getting up. DO ye mind how it was
hiteen or sixteen years ago with the Gortscreen
property. before he sold that, the lord had it all
faiSedf He told the tenants it meant. nothing;
Court III Dublin to that Englishman the very same
autumn and raised those rents were then in ear
nest. oh, bedad, boys, he must be stopped at that
game " ~
Bruh.' said the secretary, will you give me
some pOrterT
In a minute replied the landlord, who was
busy serving the other customers.
Hetcrnan's son il coming back. ye say next
"an get no work i'll England al all The wife Is at
service down at Captain CIawfords They are
noticed, and so couple more of the mountain
people. How the divil can they pay =
PayF echoed the secretary; those mountain
people are all IN debt Coolan below in the town
is to take DEGREES ont against twelve OF them next
sessions; up tn eighty pounds they owe him and
they most Of them owe us for seed potatoes and
oats too What can We dor Sure they haven't the
money. and where are they 10 get iti
You bet, and man IL to he put ont if he gets
behind given no time nor chance but heaved oui.
remarked the Notwithstanding voice. Its owner
advanced Ia the front now he was young fellow
of twenty-elght or 80, called Cassidy.
Cassidy had been in America. and was a leading
spirit among the young men-a Jacobn 20 the core
and as he said of himself very advanced lie had
all the cant Of the advanced school never spoke of
poor people save by the term 'proletarate'
Capital and labor. solidarity and monopoly. were
words forever IN his mouth. He osteutatously kept
away from mass and inveighed against the black
Brigade prestly influence, aud sacerdotalism,' so
he might have been mistaken for Connaught
Souper. The young fellows listened to him as if
he spoke with the tongue of angel They did
not remark, rs more than one OF the Older men did,
that th sir apostle had remarkably soft, white pair
OF hands The real secret of his influence with
them was that over and above ms command of
language, he was strictly sober; he never tasted
whskey; wine nc did not deSplso when Ii was To be
had for nothing Cassidy was ambitious he had
taught himself shorthand, and meant To be Jour
nalIst. He concOcted and sent paragraphs to the
Press Association; and he knew that he could not
afford destroy his brain with the fiery stuff which
the young farmers consumed III such quantities.
lie had that sort of readiness of speech which un-
thinking people believe TO be in IA way the birth
right of the Celt IL Is great mistake. The talent
for ex panations as someone has defined oratory is
rare enough among the Irish they feel and
know, both perhaps. passiOnately, but these thick
tongued, slow-mInded creatures are always carried
VIII win La linz,
with them. possesses III addition the gift of putting
their common Thought into artIculatcd form.
Cassidy could not only do this but he had store OF
quotations well. lie had read, not without
profit the national poets and could introduce with
effect sundry telling lines from Clarence Mangan,
from Moore Davis in n way that reminded the
older men of the hedge-schOols of their youth and
ished Of which they had once upon q time
glimpse. Cassidy had influence which was
daily growing His sobrirty was to some proof of
his Observation-Disclosures. while to Others 1t in itself
suspicious. tectotaller ~, in the farming mind,
sort of monster. 1t critical time, and
Cassidy saw the advantage IT gave him, and was
Money was not 10 he got without huge interest.
Everyone had n grievance, and liked to hear il put
into form and talked Of The secretary of the
meeting was, has been said, a shopman in the
town, and his master lent money to the country
people. lie held |. q. US to an enormous amount,
and of course his clients were forced TO deal AT his
bors at something like 40 per cent. As Cassidy had
told them ut previous meeting, their necks were
all in the collar together. How affairs were to he
improved by numbering Lord Galteemores agent
they never stopped To ask. II their time
honor vi method of protesting against injustice,
taking revenge and gratifying the instinct of
nationality nj the same time, n method at once
barbarous and brutal, the outcome OF the mental
condition which, in modern times produces Lynch
law and Franc tireurs and by which the archetypal
murderer may have been influenced.