The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19

water castle" The road lay over the
mountains and brought 10 me the hills
Blue, of Pennsylvania. The country re-
minds one Of the hills around Norristown,
or off towards Harrisburg. As We
mouHted the top OF one Of the hills
we could see the Castle in the distance.
Perhaps il was from such an emineuce
that Moses stood as he gazed upon the
promised land of Israe!- Perhaps Glad
stone, SO rapidly aging yet 50 sympathetic
with the Irish, now from a statesman's
mountain gazes Oh into the future and sees
great good for Ireland. Is this scene a pro-
phetic vision OF Hhat ireland viii be? Do
these quiet hills reflect tie quiet that is to
come to It's inlabitantsa Are these riches
stored here under the command and key of
the few 10 be unearthed from ilie bills and
mountains > Are the Irish to rise again
even As they rose once, not as rulers but as
teachers? @, that the clouds would speed
lily pass and prosperity dawn upon This
peculiar. witty, Ingenious race. As the
horses breathed he fresh mountain air,
this lovely, beautiful. picturesque seene
filled us with sympathy and admiration.
Down hill aud mp hill, passing villages aud
wayside inns, farm hands and travellers
until We at length drove up before an inn
where we stopped. Wishing to see the in
terror Of one of these houses, we aligited
and went within. The house on the ont
side was white and clean bat the interior
was more like one OF our green grocery
stores. The principal smell was whiskey.
All. | thought, perhaps this is the cause Of
the want Of prosperity to this people. In
the cradle lay a baby. The cradle was a
neat little thing and the baby a perfect pic
ture, round features and as far as ! could
see, a well.silaped head. Childhood: what
possibilities are wrapped up in a child ?
Perhaps sleeping here in this cradle is
another 0Connel. one destined to teach
and lead the Irish in a better way. Pass
ing from one room into another we saw the
Irish inn. and we learned from the
driver that II was more a dwelling than
an inn.
The Castle was now within a mile Of Ms.
Tie driver told AS the CIV ner spent his time
IN London and the continent and had not
been 81 esi for more Than eight years. Truly
the rents Of several hundred acres and in
Vulnerable cottages and farms went TO
London and Europe. | am NOT writing
this to stir up any feeling or sympathy for
fhie ,,aa.Ia I,,r thfa Is not- mt.at aau
and heard and | understand that it is one
of the complaints Of the Irish people, viz:
they toll, improve the land, pay their rent,
and the money wealth perhaps going ont
Of the country and their landlords spending
nothing with them. The Castle is APP
preached by a beautiful drive. 1t is built
an a similar plan to most Of the Castles of
Scotland, but Is well preserved and shows
little sign Of age so that We imagined it was
built in modern times. / will not give a
description Of this Castle and will only say
the grounds are well laid out with q bean
tiful lake sheltered in the woods. We
drove through the woods and around the
lake until We came in full view Of tile Cas-
ttttiSt dtthHd satA t0-ttlt &dSilf, 10
the garden, where, before the gardener
could prevent, We we're in the midst of his
and with keen appetite and expert
picking and eating his straw ber-
ries and gooseherries. The gardener soon
protected his property and after paying for
the berries we had eaten, we met the driver
and started on u journey towards the
ship.
Allow me to correct any erronon inn
pressions about the cleanliness OF the Irish
peasantry and their mode of living. As
drove along with evident curiosity |
into all the houses and the glimpse
| canglf made me see that every house
looked not only clean and neat on the out
side but also within, and indeed after I had
TO Larne and in the afternoon
walking into enc Of the houses and speak
ing 10 the inmates, I noticed the houses
snug, comfortable, tidy and clean.
The people Saturday afterneon) were
dressed more neat than in either Scotland
or England.