The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-09-26
LETTER FROM OLD IRELAND,
The Cause OF lFeland'a Material De-
cline.

Tho Rent Question Diaeusaed''Why tho
IriAh Come 10 Amerloa-The Future
Of fIrelAnd-'Holy Gross Abbey
Especial Correspondence Rews'pemeeratl
QURERaTOwN, Ireland, Sept, 4,
"What is the usual cause Of eviction +
| asked, having heard extreme views
on both sides expressed, One OF these
WAS that the Irish would not pay thelf
rent when they could afford w. The
other was that the landlord preferred
deer parkaand gamepIeseryeh 70 people
"fhe cause 10 this" he SAID "lhe
faImtra an rentera, believing they
were paying too much rent, succeeded
In securing u commission OF adlndlGa
ton, 80 now, when man IL paying
three pounds, or more, an acre, Wleil
no should be getting his land Tor hali
the amount, no Joins The "oomDine'
Instead, then, OF paying the nigh rent
TO the landlord, he places tho amount
he thinks right IN the hands OF the
commission, The landlord 10 usually
| furious and eYlGtA hia tenant without
compromises but IN the end he gives ~,
ana takes him back NJ reduced rent,
ltis not always the eylcted tenant II
80 fortunate, Some OF them are 0eeu,
pying houses erected by the Land
League, and great numbers 90 eHeh
year 10 America, In OCOnntllH Time
Ireland had eight milli0na OF peoples
twenty Ave years ago she had hlx nil
lion, and now she has but four milliohh
aud u half,
There seems 10 be no one 10 take old
Ireland by the hand aud show her how
% make the be6t OF her most adorable
land. Everywhere the crops arc grow
Ing, tbs weeds ana the daisies and the
yellow fur2b are reyellng In their OLD
wild way,
oIta my opinion, said An Irish garden
or, when / WAS plying the poverty
stricken people oil around, what lhty
have much 70 do with making their
own troubles. They'll llat be putin
the orapa IN the ground and layein' 'em
there"
Aud really II seemed that this was
the sum and substance Of much Of the
Irish farming, AS for hay, " grows IN
luxuIance but much OF u ID mildewing
In the fields, unAtacked. When IN.
quIred the cause was Informed that
there was such heavy crop last year
that II was not all used ana II did not
appear 10 occur 10 anyone that the new
hay was preferable 70 tho old,
HOLY GROSS ABBEY,
Holy Cross Abbey, ! found 10 bo a
Ane old ruin, partially Ivy grown and
theinteriOr still rich IN carved marbles,
now rough with the erosion OF ages,
Cashel 10 another ghagtly village, like
Thurles, NJ the foot OF Castle Rock,
On the summit Ia the old castle OF the
kings OF Munster and Cormac'a chapel,
each dating back thousand years.
In tho court Ia u column OF
stone, standing on an IN
inverted Druids altar On one side
may Btill DO seen q rude carving OF
Christ on the CrosB, and on the other ~,
Patrick, holding the cr02lor IN one hand,
This IN said 10 date back to the NTH
century and celebrates the arrival ofSt,
Patrick from Tara, where the chief
king had lust embraced Christianity;
also the formal acceptance Of the king
of Munster aud his retalners,
AftOr u night nj Cashel and q morn
Ing walk through the poor old town,
pt0pled with its yellow sp0oks Of want
and woe, In the public places, In the
shape OF old women selling green apples
aud frightened by the rOsy.chetkOd
farmer girls, with black water proofs
over their heads, selling milk from their
donkey carts and | was soon of In the
jauntlng cur, between more green
hedges, for the Killarney railioad,
KATE KEARNEY or FILLARNER,
"An did ever you hear Of Kate Kear'
neyy
Who lives on the banks of Eillar.
neyY"
II you have you will want TO see, like
every ono who goes there, the little
stone shanty IL which she lived. Bat |
am quito sure II will take the poetry
out OF you when the hideous old woman,
who claims TO be grand niece Of the
poets darling, hobbies up and asks you
TO buy her photograph.
The lakes Of Killarney are rs beauti'
ful as they are described, but there, as
everywhere In Southern Ireland the
charm is broken by the gauge Of pes
tferous beggars that everywhere beset
you. Thee is no such thing as Bhak
Ing them oil. If you go out for a walk
they pursue you In droveS. They run
after your car, or coach, for miles and
miles, and will not be shaken of
"Penny, Miss Penny, Missl Penny,
MissW and so they run of IN u sort Of
tune or Groom, keeping ever ut your
side.
IL you say al have no penny, 80 90
back aud do not follow me any more"
then, with their quick Irish wit, they
will begin"
"Glve us something TO divide up
among usl Give us something TO divide
up among III" and 30 on,
In the same tune, or Groom.
In England or Scotland, II you hand q
fee TO your driver or porter, he will
bow gravely and accept IL, even IL
smaller than he had hoped for, without
demurring. In Ireland, even If you
give q good fee, you will be invariably
met with the expostulation, "That is
not enough; give me o sixpence more"
THE ROYAL IRISH coNsTADULARY.
The most thriving institution at
Cashel, as in other places Of like char.
acter, was the American Booking
Onlce. Upon inquiry / learned that
there was scarcely family in the com.
munity but had Its representatives IN
America. Commenting on the fact
that the Royal Irish COnstnbulary,
twenty thousand strong, were the most
comfortable specimens Of humanity
saw in Ireland, | remarked TO the car
driver thatI supposed the young Irish
man wnuld he anXioug To enlist in this