The Columbus journal., 1889-08-14


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RnAAND.
Cestiasasisa ftsa Last Weeks Jeuraal sl
Mr. J. II. Reed'a Lecture.
The next morning Was grand. Our
company was IN the highest spirits .
No climbed into the high scots Of the
car. The driver let his fresh team take
M ut fnll gallop through tho beautiful
grounds, bocdeeed By those gorgeous
fuchia hedges. But . mile or two away
We passed through tho village Of stone
huts where the peasants live Who, for q
nero pittance, do al tho work on the
grounds We had Just LETT The hall
clad children ran along side the car beg
ging for pennies and We soon appreciat-
ed We were in real Ireland again.
Most Of the way between Glengarih
and Killarney IL through ono OF the
poorest portions Of Ireland. Some
places the hills were too steep and rocky
for cultivation; on these are 60cks OF
sheep and goats and occasionally . few
Of the little black Kerry cattle are seen.
But wherever there IL little soil that
can be reached, however small . spot it
may be, it IL surrounded by stone wall
and cultivated. Sometimes little
patch of less than one fourth OF an acre
IL separated from other cultivated
grounds by long stretches OF barron hill
side. Sometimes several in cluster. /
counted forty eight OF these little irreg-
ular enclosures in one collection, cover
ing not over ten or twelve acres. These
little fields are cultivated entirely by
hand. Though many OF them are OF
such Door land it would not be taken as
q gift in this country. The peasants
cultivating them are expected to pay
from 6s to 12s (81.5O to $500 rent per
acre. There are very few houses near
the road, and in some sections there
does not appear to be any at first. but by
looking carefully you can distinguish
little, low stone huts built next to the
stone enclosures, looking moro like en-
largements of the stone walls themselves,
than habitations for man. In the more
fertile Valleys are moro comfortable
stone houses of two or three rooms.
These are covered with slate rudely
split by the peasants themselves from
coarse variety Of slate rock chopped out
of the hills. I was told that the region
We went through is Q fair sample OF this
part of Ireland The poverty is very ap-
parent and begging much more frequent
than saw it any where else in Ireland
Often we would see in advance of us,
companies of children hurrying from
distant cabins, to be at the road side
when the stage came along, to beg for
pennies. Some would bring neat bunch
es of heather blossoms and hand up to
the passengers. Frequently these chill
dren would run along side the car for
long distances; some of our company en-
joyed throwing pennies into the rough
bushes by the side of the road to see the
little ones in their bare feet, hunt them.
We stopped at Kenmare for dinner.
I walked down the queer street full OF
country people. it being their monthly
market day. The farmers are mostly
we'll formed, intelligent, manly looking
men, fairly we'll dressed. But many had
a sorry, depressed look. 1t seems pitt
full to see as able bodied, good looking,
intelligent men, as We see
owners Of good farms and stores in
leading q little donkey cart
along the street.
The car was not ready to start when
got back, and I had long talk with q
member OF the Constablery, one of the
English police stationed everywhere,
country and town Ohere are
IL. 900 of these cOnstables scattered over
Ireland, besides ], 200 special in Dublin
He gave information pleasantly, but
sort Of whispered it in my ear, all the
time keeping q keen eye on the people
standing around as If he expected to see
some Irishman in mischief. He said
they had great deal of trouble on the
island of late. Farmers did not want to
pay their rents, etc. While telling me
about q row." as he called it, the day
before q few miles away, when some
farmers were turned out because they
would not pay their rents--the driver
came up with his fresh team and We
were soon OF again. We passed many
people coming from the market clusters
Of men and women, some without any
thing, some driving q pig or COW, or two
or three sheep, they had bought, most of
them walking, occasionally q donkey
cart. Nearly all the women barefoot.
These read here like very trifling items,
lage, and the returning peasants from
The market, remains sad picture on my
mind. never saw q more quiet and
orderly people in any country than on
The crowded streets of that Irish hamlet.
[ saw more drunkenness and roughness
in the town of Ayr in staid old Scotland
On q public day than in any town in
Ireland. There are many rough and
desperate characters coming from Ire
and to-America, bringing Disgrace upon
heir native country, as we'll as this. I
have no word Of apology for them, but
claim that they have given to many, q
wrong impression of the large majority
,f Irishmen. Many OF the secret so
,ieties in this country, ostensibly in the
of home rents, and greater lib
,rty in Ireland, are the very worst enc
mics Of the cause The development be-
ing brought out in the DR.. CrOnin case
n Chicago will be cited as showing the
bad character Of the Irish agitators.
They will be gloated over in the conserv-
.tive English papers. But OF against
these misleading incidents, is the great
tact, that for nearly five months last
winter, the great Parnell commission
ittlng in London, searched Great Brit
ian, Ireland and America, for evidence
10 convict the leaders of the home rule
party with the agrarian outrages and
in Ireland. They brought to
bear all the power and influence Of the
dominant party, the highest loyal talent
IN the kingdom, the powerful London
Times and the English parliament itself,
10 accomplish their object and failed.
Most ingloriously failed.
An Official connected with the house
II parliament for more than Q score of
vears said no scene within his recOllec-
ion equaled that OF the evening after
he downfall Of the case against Mr..
Parnell, before the commission, by the
acknowledgement Of the forging Of the
Times letter, by the witness, Pigott.
When Mr.. Parnell entered the house