Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-27

Scene in CoIors-Entrancing Innis-
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 K1ILARNEY, Ireland, April 10. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 There is curious similitude between the outlook Of great minds and one peculiarity in the outlook from the peaks of high noun tains. The great mind elevates all lesser minds, facts and objects to the noble heights of it's own generous comprehensiveness and abnegation; while the higher one ascends a mountain, in proportion, more lofty to lesser surrounding peaks, and the more in- significant does your own gained ascent ap- pear. The reverse of this, in descent, is as true of mountains as with mind and men.
 I had no just conception of the grim and mighty cliffs of Carrantuobill when with the sky I was above them; but in the long de- scent to the valley of Coom-a .dhuy, which brought me on the Killarney side of the MacgilIicuddy Reeks, for the first time a sense of awe possessed me. Their base skirts the western shore of the Upper Lake. Anywhere along this the towering mass rises almost perpendicularly thirty-four hundred feet overshadowing the island dotted lake. The black orags here and there push through the white commingled clouds and snow, giE- ing at times an appalling sense of apprehen- sion lest the next glance you give they may topple down upon yo1; and this grewsome feeling is intensified as now and then giimps- es are caught of Carrantuohill's accompany ing peaks which appear and disappear through the changing mists above. Oppo- site, o the east, the scene is almost dupliea- ted across the lake. Mangarton mountain, upwards of twenty seven hundred feet, and Tore mountain, over seventeen hundred feet high, neither capped by snow, by the peaks of each similarly wreathed in feecy clouds, loom and glover from their heights, or show dark and forbidding escarpments above bill lowy swells of forests, reaching from the valleys below. Exactly between these two noble groups lies Upper Lake Killarney, like a sapphire SC. round with emerald whose edges are peaked with reliefs of cameo in black and white. After a wide deteur l crossed the little Owepreach river, bolster ous singing vsgrant here, and climbed across hill and heather, finally reaching the great highway called the "Princs of Wales Route," leading from Glengarif to Killarney, where
 
 tain side, giving the tourist by long-car or legs, the first view of the surpassing pano- rama which at one sweep comprehends the great mountains on either side and the witch ing lakes between. This is certainly the most entraneing view at Killarney; it is by all odds the most enchanting prospect in Ireland; and do not believe @ more beauti- full sight can be found in the whole world. 4ott lalr >e Il, ! the highway, resting in the sweet April day | and dreamfully contemplating the scene be- ! fore me, was pleasantly disturbed to after 1 wards first know by actual experience the ! substantial rewards of a vagrants life in a tourist land. The long car, filled with tour ists and 8 small mountain of hampers piled ! above the sswell" between the hanging side ! seats, numbered up the southern ascent from Kenmare, and cane to it's customary halt to ' enable tourists to enjoy the unusual pros pect. Among the passengers were a couple of Etonisn undergraduates and an English | milford and milady with their children and \ servants, all of whom were in an aggressive | defensive attitude of silent scorn towards an | innocent pair from our own loved land. I The latter were little bald, nut headed gen. ! tleman with a bent, poddy body, suggesting | a polished pebble set in the end of banana and his good honest American wife, twice his height and four times his girth. The ! | and enthusiasm; the woman, of adipose and | repose; and both, having duly paid theil "booking," were plaoidly oblivious of the l ethical injuries they had inflicted all the way from Cork upon their fellow travellers.
 Everybody slighted but the calm Aneri. can woman. In serene composure she l watched her side of the long-car settle near I ly to the ground; but she kept her seat.
 "Come down, Nav, do;" urged the little man, bringing into instant use pair of field l glasses, each tube of which was as large as l the clone Fisherman's' stage telescope "Maw, this is wonderful, wonderful, won. derful!"
 At the sound of these last three words mi. lord winced, milady elevated her eyebrows the Etonians readjusted their eye glasses l and the servants looked digni6ed and grave
 "No; guess I'll let well enough alone murmured the little mans large wife.
 'Maw, this is wonderful, wonderful, won derfull" repeated the American, sweeping the scene with his glasses, filling the Eng. fish delegation with another series of shud l derings. and backing into me as he spoke.
 s'You'il step on that man there, Paw, ii you don't use your eyes," cautioned the wife from the long-car.
 wonderful! Peasantry right here in tht mountings. See here. Pat," he continued addressing me, 'syou good for nothing dyna' mite Irishmen don't deserve this wonderful l kentry, darned if you dol"
 "Thrue for yez, yer honor;" I replied humbly.
 s'See that, Mawa" with q wink to his wife
 Thinks I'm one O them high rollers. We'll
 well, welll Pat, here's a-a-guess it's half crown, or something r other. There now, brace up. Go to my country. Get clean shirt. Be a-a--well, git there'l'
 "God bliss yer honorI" I responded
 thanking him heartily. ':May the top O ye
 head never folly yer hairl"
 "Maw!-ssy, Mawa Did you hear that
 Irish wit, by Gollys Well, we'll, we'll
 Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Liv'
 long round here, Pat9"
 ssIAdade did I. For ages."
 | 'tWonderful!-"
 The English contingent winced; thu