Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-24

A Young Officers Description Of Man
Hunt ard HIS Expression OF Dlstaste.

IkI\ uu II,AuI'~ Iuuk EKIAD.
DrBlI>. Sept H. In riding along
IA the train from Queenstown to
Dublin one l. struck. ~ enc looks
out IF the WihdnN of the car upon
th,. new old cnuniry. by w. Things
the fields are exceedingly small and
th,c!oW- are very Numerous. Tn"
land has been cut up by >ton" walls
and H"Ig ,'1 to that extent that 1t has
the appearance" Of being div ldrd into
II ~,li,.9 OF little patches of ground.
ANY ON, Of which might be cultivated
unr might think III less than half
day. Th,o" patches "r plot, of
ground | cabinet call them fields
generally have in ITEM tw" men
and "nr Woman "r four men and Nv"
women: the Proportion appears t.
hr always th. slime. These people
ar., working with the most forsakrn
looking hoes amy nian ever SAW.
Alongside Of these the hoes which
used t. hr employed III the large
pl.. ntaliune in the South before til"
war heavy md cumlrous as tn y
were. were miracles OF invention and
prrgleoe The Irish hoe appears to
consist of Il handle in which there Is
timber "nOrrh to insure strength. at
any rate. aaL Il blade about four
inches wide. heavy and rumbrouS to
the last degree. and fixed to the han
die III the san q way that Il pIckaAc L.
put On. by sliding it down until the
bulge at the end If the handle pr"
vents it gong further With such Il
tool, hociny in the ordinary scls" be-
comes an iupu-,iblity. and all that
one can do i, tn chop chop. chop al
the land A. though he We're endray
uring 10 slowly hammer IT into Il
stat in which the sowing of oo,'d
would b. possible |; was enough
to make one feel tired to ate these
men and women swinging these mlscr
able took, up i'll ,hr air and bringing
| them down against the surface of the
ground which was being cultivated.
The re 'ult in proportion f. the labor
was 81 pitably small. ST. miscrahly in
adequate. that one felt ;t- though the
work must produce in the minds of
the workers that feeling of almost
despair which always comes from
labor that amounts to nothing. Yet.
hour after hour and day after day
the peasantry of Ireland ierp up thi>
everlasting chopping iii order to
make the soil yield food and rent.
THE CHILDREN.
Little things of seven are Juggling
their baby brother. and sisters
around i'll their arms. the babies
being 50 n"arl Y the SIZE Of their
nurses that the sight would lie ludi
crous were it not 81 pitiable. Some
tim es You see them playing together.
and their play is that they are being
evictcd Babies marcE up and
order other babies to quit the corner
of tn" yard which they have made
the house: and these IN turn rr~i,.
and fight good humorrdly But
the children who are playing are all
very young. for when they are old
enough. say hlne or ten, they must
begin their apprenticeship at the
chop. chop. chop. which is to fill up
50 large Il portion of their lives The
train stops near one of these cabins.
and tn" children cease their play and
begin to beg. A copper. Sor, for
the love O tn blissed virgin :" Rag
such As never | saw represent Their
clothing. They are dirty, they wear
no shoes. their hair is nnkept, they
have pinchcd look as though they
We're hungry Yet III many cases
they are very pretty. The deep blue
eyes and the white teeth are beauties
which even squalor and misery eau
not hide. Walking along street in
Queenstown the other morning |
landed in company with two Amer
cans. We met about six o clock labor
CT going to his work. He was a
somewhat tall man, but bent by la.
Dor. His clothes We're of the coarsest
kind and seemed to consist chiefly
of patches Over his shoulder he
carried one of these forsaken hoes
and i'll his left hand bundle done
up in handkerchief Although we
We're talking and laughing loudly
this man did not loci, up even curl
osity was dead within him. We
called to him, and when he stopped
asked him what he had in his bundle
1t turned out to he his dinner. and
he was walking awalk by the way,
of four miles, We offered him two
shillings for the dinner and the
handkerchief and he. with a wisdom
| only appreciated after the hand
kerchiefwas opened. closed with our
offer at once. Carrying the hand
kerchief to convenient stone wall -
there is always a stone wall handy
IN this country-we opened and OK
amined the contents.
COLD BOILED POTATOES
With the skins ON and a piece of
bread about the size of mans two
c!lnched fists was the dinner upon
which that laborer was to work until
evening. The potatoes, when cut
open. seemed to be very good. and.
provided one is fond of cold potatoes.
could certainly not be objected to.
But the bread. A dirty. black color.
i'll baked and SO hard that while it
could be whitfield it could not be cut
Placing it upon stone we pounded
it with another,but hammering India
rubber would have given as large a
return. What kind of jaws and teeth
a man must have to cat such stuff is
a question | leave to some specula-
tive dentist One OF two stations be
You'd that. which in my note book is
called the Cabin,"I saw from the
window of the car a gentleman's
place. The house was certainly not
handsome, being large and white
and square. without any shadows to
break What Ruskin calls the dismal
regularity of right angles" But the
grounds We're beautiful. Clumps of
trees standing just where ones sense
OF the picturesque would ask for