The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-31
NAEHMAN'S TRAEELS.
tCoDyrfOht. 1911
Robin Hoods Land.

identification.
Over there in Ireland what can b
more fascinating than a silent rambl
about sIumberous old Youghal and u
drowsy Kilcolman way? There Raleig
aud Spencer lived, loved and wrought
Ttampiug from Killarney to Cahe'si
veen, one fingers lovingly at @ rhal
Bridge; for beside it, the great o'Con
Ge!l was born. Who but bigot car
climb the Rock OF Cashel without sub
dued and reverential feeling from thu
historic and sacred surroundings; o
who, but an insensate, shudders not a
Boyne and Aughrim, where the life OF (
uaiion broke in its last wild throb upor
river and poraes2 Then, at Slane, VIII,
can fail OF awe in the presence OF pre-
aisto.ie monuments riValipg the pyra
mids themselves? To stand upon Tara
Hill, in Meath, and in fancy see st. Pat
rick, unmindiul OF the treaChery plan
ming his death, with his eight devoted
ollowers, coming up the royal Hill
chanting his prayer, "Mav the word o.
God render me eloquent" to forever
dim the fires OF Belltaine with the ga
cred fame OF Christianity through the
conversion OF King Lseghaire, and the
,vtrthrow Of paganism in Ireland, is &c
some with startling tenderness close tc
an inspired career ri one who lived bu'
bless, nearly 1,50D years ago. Vagu.
and far it was to you before. But you
feel and know the story now.
90, too, how lllimitable seem human
cycles, yet how compact and little, when
you are stumbling among the remains
Of that tremendous pagan stronghold,
Dun Angus, on the remotest preCipict
of Aranmore, the most desolate of alt
Ireland's islands. The great archeol
ogiEt, DR.. Petrie, termed 1t "the most
magnificent barbariC monument in
Europe" The legend is, that Dun IEu.
gus and the five other great forts, or
dlnS, Of the Aran Islands were built
rom 1000 TO 1,5C0 years before the
Christian ers, by the flying and fated
Flrbolgs. No matter about the legend.
There they stand to-day, more weird,
suggestive and awe.inspiring in their
dread secrets OF the people that were,
han ever could lie in the silence of the
Lybian Sphinx. And then, away in the
North, over beyond old Derry, what a
thrill flashes through one when stand.
ing alone upon the walls OF the mighty
Grianan of Aileach, whose existence
can be definitely traced to the period
1858 before Christi Grianan, the
mighty Dun, OF which We read IN the
DinnScnchds:
aileaCh Firm, plat Of the kInSra,h royal Of the
Dun, 10 which led horssroRds, though i've
mighty ramparts.
So they did. You can trace them to
this day as clearly as the paths in your
own garden. On the crests Of those
ciIcIing mountains burned the signal
fires in the dim days, tinra OF flame to
wake the helots and their herds. Thither
TO the Gfianan they streamed, those
skin clad hordes. Within those very
ramparls huddled the adrighted women
and the flocks. Within those very walls
kings watched over battles. There were
the ieasts OF victory; the wailings and
lamentations; the weird, wild rites; all
a thousand years before barbarous man
looked beyond the god OF day to the one
il finite God. But you did not sense
Ehis until your own feet had pressed the
sane earth theirs had trod, and your
eyes had looked upon lone Errigal, like
cone Of steel in tbeWest, and, through
the grim, dark passss, TO the purple
nists above Armsgh and Tyrone.
In all that can be read Of the "L9nd
o. Cakes" how the true feeling Ia lacking,
until one weds presence and actually
with the toneless tales OF words. To
know the wierd stratus aud glens Of the
North, to breathe their air, drink in their
wild and gorgeous Colorings, TO listen TO
the roar Of their glorious waterfalls, 10
sail over their silent lochB, tremhie In
their mighty storms, Is to come very close
in thought and sympathy to that grand
and noble race which all the Roman le-
giops could not conquer. Its desperate,
Hateful loyalty to the House Of Stuart can
never be fully understood until you have
tramped from the Western Ocean to the
German, md wandered on Culloden
Moor. Macbeth, King Duncan and Nal.
colin Oanmore, are mere creatures Of
Shakespeare's fancy, until you find
in the musty records Of old Inverness
that they once walked Its streets
with all Of your own passion,
hope, ambition; and until you have
stood on TOmnahaurich, by the
Ness.side, you have never really known
Hugh Miller, stone.mason, great'heart
and cage. Despite DR.. JOhnson's match
less apostrophe to Iona, the story O
Columb's sanity isle, OF the Christian
enlightenment emanating from it TO the
whole British Isles and the greater par
of Europe, when nearly all the scenel
lighted by the first tres OF apostolic sac
rihce hsa partially Felapsed into super
slitious barbRrism, Is as dreamiIl as the
leGends OF the Holy Grail, until yot
have stood among the majestic ruins o
Iona and wandered along It's "Straid.nS
Marbh," where lie countless chiefs
lriars, abbOLS and kiEEs, After yon Law
passed an hour in tho ancient church
yard OF Grey iriars, In Edinburgh, yoI
will begin to realize who wese the Gov
enantefs OF Scotland, and what the.
endured Tor their conscienCes sake
When you have come 10 the ruins Q
Lochmaben, Robert the Bruce, patrio
king and Warrior. 6rst leaves the nists Q
legend and tradition, and welcomes yoI
ss a man OF flesh and blood to his oil
home by the sedgy lake. Melrose, Dry
| burph and 81 the grand monastic struC
ture Of the sunny, mGrngEous Twee
are poets phAutRsms until you Wahde
among their ruined cloisters and tOpC
WITH your own hands the brave oil
stones OF their majestic arches. Scot
the "Ettrick Shepherd Carlyle, eve
Burns himself, are half ideal, until 20
hays stood by the Etttick and YarroV
sadly lett the priHcely Abbotsford, shuC
! dered at the dolorots deaIth end meal
. ness Of Carlisles boyhood home at u
clelechan, and heard with your ow
hearing the melodiOus songs OF the Nit
and the doom.
: II this Is true OF Ireland and spotlsnt
how infinitely more impressive is tn
. Identification to the average America
d pilgrim In England, the motheE.lRnd
our own race and tongue. A might
) volume, and sweet and tender OF
wilhal, could be made RELOCATING nppa