Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-15

Their Dream of Home Rule-Par-
 nelI's over Enthusiastic Reception
 At shanbalIy-The Late Douglass
 Pyne's odd Mode of Avoiding Arr
 rest-Taking Ills Seat In Parliament
 After Working a Clever Ruse On the
 SOldierY.
 DoNERAILE, Ireland, June 3. To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 There is 30 much misery in Ireland that sometimes think the few notes of mirth and merriment which escape through the minor chords have always an added charm and de- light The pig-headedness of the governing classes furnish many ridiculous contretemps; while the intsnsity of the loyalty of the Irish people to their dream of home rule, and their extraordinary alertness to prove by me morial, contribution, deputation and public demonstration, their attachment to their leaders, are often at the bottom of slips, haps and errors which in their outcome are mirth- provoking beyond adequate express sion. While lettering about the northern part of county Cork, in the vicinity of the poet Spenser's old castle-home, I learned of delicious instance of an extraordinary re- ception to Parnell, at Shanballymore, which never gained publicity, and which the great Irish leader no doubt ever recalls with awe and wonder, if never with complaceuce and pride.
 Shanbally was loyal to the Irish cause to the backbone. Every peasant soul. within, and in the vicinity of, the little hamlet, save the landlords and agents roundabout, had declared for Parnell and the League. They were all "aching their hearts sore" to put their loyalty on record, "wid yell thatd make Parlaymiut, swate bad luck to 1t, trim bls like an ould corrsg." Shanbally was also the home of Ned Hobson, steward of the New York Cuban steamship Niagara" one of the most rollicking practical jokers of men. Every summer Hobson came back here to Shanbally for bit of vacation among the old folks. His parents were land owners, and therefore unoompromising to- ries. But he cared little whether tenants paid rent to his father or "the campaign fund.-" was an out-and-out good fellow; and was fairly worshipped among "the byes" for his well known apostasy from Balfourisms and especially for the free hand with which | he dispensed his American-esrned money, not always without a touch of tenderness | among the poor and suffering, but always | with such lack of partiality that half the parish were constantly in an uproar from practical joking and poteen. But neither | Ned Hobson nor Mir. Parnell have looked ! upon the fine faces of the Shanbally yeo manry since 1886.
 1 One June morning of that year as Hobsor rode down into the village from his father barracky old mansion he noticed a genera air of suppressed importance prevailing th little place. Never since Father Matthew in ShaRbally, which was hospitably uproar
 ously applauded at the time, but condemned
 in the privacy of the house, as caloula
 ted to 'spile the sperrit of the byes," hal
 the village shown such general agitation
 From the humblest village shaughran up t
 Father Grady, who, ''attinded their sowl | and kept pig" there was kindling ant
 awakening in the manner of all.
 dismounting at "Foxy Driseoll's" shebeen
 the only place of public resort in all Shan Isbally "What's the excitement about thi
 morninga Half the towns gosthering at tn
 street-corners, and suppose the other hal
 would be out, too, if they wern't in jail, c ! dOdg1ng SummOnsos. what nave you pee up to now, boys-potting another landlord
 a friendly turn with the constabulary; c ducking few more English tourists?"
 "Glory be to God," replied Foxy Drisco
 solemnly, "Shanbaliy wer niver behindhsn
 in sthanding out bouldly for her right
 whether in thrilling disagrayments wid tt ! spolis,' or friendly shot at @ landlord; bt tes somethin' more important than aythe
 Surely you must have heard the great new ! Pairnell's eomin' a Thursday next, to make spache on the wrongs av us all; an it's u foine sthyle we must recayve him in. , Ballyheen last Chewsday, whin he wor ther
 they had a barrel of whiskey, free to all, 8
 four pipers playin' God save Irelandlall tt : time he worn't spakin'; an, tare an oun Misther Ned, Shanbally can niver be takin' tibaok sate to durty patch of cabins tes ' more for all their pIaste's house an wathe ] ! milD like Ballyheen; an sure, Misther Ne wid your grand experience av the nobili ! an' deppytatons an the loike, yez can p1 us in the way of rowlin' their pride in u t dusti"
 II Robson, ready for anything that promise undue hilarity, 'From proper pride in u
 town that has known me from chilhood," = said, but with g portentious twinkle in b f merry eyes, which remark was greeted vii