Smyrna times., 1884-01-09

patient pathos of Winter skies
Spread out Ger the withered plainl
Under your hush a secret lies
Which is not all pain.
know the leaves from the trees arc stro,vr
That the birds have taken wing
They will only find that the trees ara cr,,,,,,
When they come back in Spring
For the Smyrna Times
More Corroborated Facts.
MR.. EDIToR.-The Record thinks 7
have got down to an ATTEMPT to he
funny" Well, if facts are g funny y
that is just what I have been trying to
give, and as he has got a few more
than he can digest, they no doubt have
commenced to turn on his stomach.
and he feels so sick that all he can do
Is to stand at distance and feeblv ex-
claim poor, poorer, poorest" To ex-
press the true merits of such an argu-
ment we would have to manufacture
another degree of comparison, but as I
am not much of grammarian l will
nave to leave that to some one better
versed i'll adjectives. But it is too
lunny for anything to hear the Record
especially on my nationality. First he
had me not a true Irishman, next n
Scotchman and now he has me an
Englishman." l wonder what 7 will
be next? Perhaps he thinks l am like
the man whose father was Irish his
mother Scotch, who was born on board
an English ship on French waters.
under the German flag" If such had
oeen my case my nationality could not
be more questionable with the Record
but 1or the information of the Record 7
VIII say that my father and mother
were Irish, was born on Irish soil
ana II l sign myself IAN Irishman y
cannot help it, and although in the
eyes OF some it is disgrace to be Irish
yet am not ashamed of my nativity.
But ! want to give some quotations
on Ulster from the pen of another
freshman, man who was also ma
hghed few years ago by the Fenian
press, especially the defunct Irish Re-
public as being no "true Irishman y
and sneered at because of his Scotch.
Irish descent by men who were not
worthy to unloose his shoes" a
man under whose ministry have often
sat In my boyhood's days and whose
eioquence has often kept my rap
tured soul spell-bound for hours.
Himself the son of an Ulster tenant
farmer and now occupying the pulpit
OF the most fashionable congregation
IN the United States. A man whose
name has been freely used in these
artlcles-Rev. John Hall, d. d.. of
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
New York. In writing from the land
OF his birth in September 1882, to the
New York Ledger he says, ireland is
thought to be a scene of universal dis
order; and it must be confessed that
portions of it are in a most unhappv
condition, the insecurity of life driving
OIL many of the proprietors who had
remained until now. But it would be
mlschievous mistake to suppose all
the country in this condition: and TO
relieve the minds of some-to whom
Ulster is dear-and perhaps to suggest
IDEAS to others, simple matter-of. fact
description is here given of specimen
district in the county of Armagh, bor-
derlng on Down on the one hand on
Monaghan on the other" Then
speaking of some of the general fea-
lures OF the country and the present
agitation he says: mot that the rents
are relatively oxhorbitant, amounting
on an average to about five or six
dollars an acre but the importation of
farm produce on so large a scale from
America has lowered the price of their
products and made rent paying more
difficult. y
Then are the people starvineP p,
On two Sundays have had opportu-
nifty to see the people turn out to the
places of worship that represent the
life of the population. Presbv-
'erian, Roman Catholic and Ep;sco-
oalian. In dress, and in look of refine a
nent and intelligence, they are not be-
lind the people of New York. New
Jersey, or Pennsylvania. But thew >
i've in cabins?' No: most of the far {
ners have two-story, slated houses. .
more or less surrounded by trees with Il
'ood office-houses' and a great look =
IT comfort. AS these houses are white 7"
washed annually as rule they make u
cheerful element in a landscape
lever dull or mon otOnOusly fiat.
." But they live in the poorest wav.' O.
10: books, engravings, carpets and q
inbred comforts will be found in most n
# the farmers houses; and a more n
omtortable tea-table than will be set p
or you no one need desire. A son of Sc
many family is getting college edu- u
alton at his fathers sole expense, for OF
ne of the professions, and the other Of
hildren attend the National School, Ut
'hich the government supports, and "
1hich interferes with no ones relig- pl
'us convictions. Here and there too q
daughter will get year at board VI
lg school and will bring a certain 81
mount of city manners and ways into 81
ne neighborhood and exercise a posi-. DC
We refining influence in her own FAM ne
Y. W
But the cottier class below the ID
Lrmers is miserable? p No: employ DC
lent for laborers is ample, not indeed m
high, but at living wages; and at &c
NO manufacturing centres within III
Tree miles on either side, the Young Tn