The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-29

| polnt Oh StarVatlOn themselves they Will ALLOW
no visitor to so away until he has had all thu
refreshments he can hold with safety.
Burns and gave the good brother who at
tended us half sovereign for the house ano
a crown for himself and every five minutes
from that time until we were out of sight he
insisted that we should eat something, 81
it's only mutton chop, a loaf, and pot o.
beer" The monks work and pray inces
sanity; but don't think they hunt heaven
under the most comfortable conditions physi
call y, because their sleeping apartments are
both cold and damp, and all the apartments
are ingeniOusly inconvenient and frigidly
| plain. Their church is quite pretty; but the
whole establishment beyond this is more re.
markable for size than for interior beauty OF
architectural attractions
When the good father told me they lived
| altogether on vegetables and slept only five
hours at night, l asked him how much they
slept in daytime. He called up the ghost OF
| long forgotten smile and shook his head,
| while Mr. Burns kindly explained that I was
! "dommed Yankee oudmahoun, with nc
| more reverence for holy places than Norfolk
| OYSTER
Then we got to our little one-horse phae-
ton, and asked the driver if he could find
his way back td-Cappoquin. evidently
touched that driver upon a tender spot The
air Of I'M ured innocence and damaged rcputa-
ton with which he glared at me ought to have
made me apologize. If he had been Wash
| ingtOn cabman he would have relieved his
mind with great fuency of objurgation, but
being only an uncorrupted Irishman who
could not swear with United States trim
mings, he only remarked:
'Oh, yes, sir; always bring MY memory
and my manners out with me- Does your
honor happen to recollect where you want to
go?"
"Morrisey's Hotel, - answered, and scored
one TO the credit of cabby.
After supper Burns and / went down to the
river and sat on the parapet of Cappoquin's
beautiful bridge and reviewed the people of
the town as they passed in procession. Every
body, young and old, rich and poor, male and
female, appeared to be out for an evening
stroll, and to exchange gossip. This is one of
the duties Of the day with the average Cappo-
quinian. l saw that evening some of the
most beautiful girls that / met with in Ire
land. They were not only attractive in form
and features, but they were thoroughly pleas
ing in manner and conversation. Burns
without the slightest hesitation, spoke to
every young or old woman that happened to
look at us, and the result was that made
more lady acquaintance in Cappoquin than 1
did in all the rest of Ireland. They were all
eager to know all that could be told them
about America and Americans, and if had
sat on that bridge and talked America until
daylight l should have had the prettiest all
night audience man ever lectured TO- their
paramount interest evidently being in work.
wages, and the chances of meeting "a fore
handed lad" During the talk Mr. Burns
incidentally mentioned that when he kept a
restaurant in Pittsburg he paid his cook four
pounds month, and got her dirt cheap.
Merciful Father exclaimed one of the
girls, in an awe-struck tone, "that's more
than get for whole year"
1t was not difficult to understand why
these girls were interested in work, wages
and the forehanded lad''
The next morning we were up early and took
the train for Lismore. The railway follows
the general line Of the public road along the
left bank of the Blackwater. The scenic
panorama OF this ride from Cappoquin to
Lismore Is singularly attractive. 1t is q
region OF gentlemen 8 country seats surrounded
by fine parks, bright plantations, beautiful
shrubbery, and ornate landscape gardening
that renders them small paradises We have
Ao GULL pLnASo III ouT ttIttUptS HI
immortal surroundings are little more than
advertisements of the wealth of their owners
They lack the age that gives dignity, and the
constant minute care that keeps such places
in Ireland forever beautiful The plantations
are cultivated and cared for down to the
waters edge, and clear back until the wood
lands end in inaccessible mountain precipices
Flowers bloom beside every stone fence and
dark-green hedge, but no weed shows its
head, no dead leaf or fallen twig lies upon
the velvet sward beneath the trees; and yet
there is no Obtrusive evidence of the care that
is constant and which is the livelihood of
many dependents upon their places which
are beautiful to the eye and vastly exhausting
to the pocket, while the comfort of living in
a good many of them might be considerably
improved by American conyeniences and
American improved sanitation. Norman
castellated mansion, with 81 bedrooms and no
bathroom does not meet the American idea of
comfortable living.
Lismore has history dating from the
fourth century, when it was known rs Dun
Squinne, from an old fertilization On the east
side Of the town, the relics of which are
called Round Hill To this fortress St.
Carthage fed for shelter when chased out of
Rathenin by Blathmar in 831. / did not
know these ancient gentlemen, but Mr.. Burns
appeared to have been acquainted with them
and their whole family history. AS soon as
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