Connecticut western news., 1882-03-01

The Collins family carried water some distance up hill from 8 spring. This part of the country was supplied from springs. They had excellent roads, ap- parently Macadamized, and free from tolls. When I spoke in Cork of the great cost of such roads, was told that they were made after the famine, when the Government gave laborers employ ment. The roads, however, seemed de- serted. Once saw man on horse- back, and occasionally market carts were seen, but of plain carriages, like those of the farmers of eastern Penn sylvania, remember none,
 The people were honest. The servant girl at Collins's said to me: ''Nothing do ever be taken" wished to know whether it was safe to leave my towels to dry on furze bushes near the road. Atterward, in a gentleman's house-a gentleman who lived in O disturbed section, and whose tenants were not paying rent-I was told that they would not be afraid to have plate in the house, the people there were so honest.
 Collins and his wife were trying to better their condition by going to a market town, and buying butter, which she brought home, and reworked and packed into frkins to sell in Cork. This consumed so much of their time that it was hard for me to see much profit in it. They might have got $5 each week more than the butter cost them. Mrs. Collins was pleased in telling me of one firkin or tub that brought the highest market price.
 The boys were left alone at the farm work. did not observe the great pres sure of labor seen among our Pennsyl- vania German farmers. This may be in part owing to open winters in Ireland, which enable the farmer to work the year round, in part to the fact that the patient, ox-like labor of the German is not trait of the Irishman, and partly to national disregard of time, produc ing such proverb as "Hours were made for slaves"
 When apologized for having talked so long to poor man and his wife, she answered, "Sure, many a year we'll rest in the grave" Calling on my friend Collins and his wife, before I left the county, I found they had gone with their horse to the funeral of a much re- spected neighbor, and as they were so long absent, had doubtless accompanied the funeral to the place of interment, twenty miles. A manufacturer in the County Cork said that the Irish girls in the mills are not greedy enough. They would rather have less wages and more play. They were not indolent, but bit of fun would call them off. A Quaker lady in Cork said to me, "None of the irish are thrifty. They do not value their time." And afterward: "They are a thrifty people in the north. They make use of their tlme." She herself was born in Ireland, but when she spoke of the Irish she did not mean to include herself. When any one called the Irish lazy, I replied that they did not show il in America. They left their temperate climate, came to our country and con. structed railroads under our broiline suns. heard in Ireland that girls who go to America say, If we had worked as hard in Ireland as we do in Americs we would have been we'll off there."
 Ispoke of MT. and Mrs. Oollins's drink ing tea at supper. Once when they were absent Mary, the servant, came into my room to hide the teapot, lest the boys should want sugar and bread. What do you give them ?" asked.
 "Stirabout and new milk" she re
 piled.
 "Potatoes ?" I suggested.
 "They do not care about potatoes, she said.
 Our corn meal, among its many othe Irish uses, seems likely to supersede tn , national dish. What change sine 1s47, tho year of the potato famine This family used Indian meal because l was cheaper than oatmeal, but they di' ' not like it SO well. AS for the inferio l, animals, they occasionally gave horse corn meal, but generally feed them il ? winter on oats, turnips, bran and hay t Indian meal and bran are fed to COW
 with young calves. To pigs corn mes \. is given the year round, occasionall t adding few boiled potatoes, the short s ings. They are fattened on meal an @ sour milk when it can be spared. Pou @ try abounds here, and Ireland export n large quantities of eggs. never sa d corn meal at home stand so constantl d in the chicken trough as at Oollins's. e I have said that the domestic cam l. into my room to hide the teapot. I'll 1T cup which cheers but not inebriates { '- in immense demand here. The old au1
 wanted tea. The children worried tt Is girl for tea. The beggar woman il
 sisted on tea. When the three-year-ol v Norah had pain she cried for tea. might be very happy thing for Irelar le if the people would confine themselv m to such cups as these, but. while g 'f other manufactures are languishing 7, County Cork, the malt liquor and whi n ky distilleries are dourishing. Soc es land, 8 Quaker told me, excelled Irelar 7. in regular whisky drinking. As to wh It constitutes moderate drinking, w
 amused by the remarks of girl in Cor th Speaking of young men, she sa l that she did not object to a bottle 7- porter at dinner and one in the evenin 10 but seven or eight bottles day sl Y. 1 khounl,k rrlnkkonu and a nsn, Pnrkc