Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-16
As Seen by a Famous Amerl-
can Litterateur.
IRISH A POETIC PEOPLE.
They Love the Land Of Their Fathers
With a Childlike Love.
BOUND UP IN SWEET MEMORIES
Are the Hearts of the Irish-Thc
Tcndriia of Affection Hold Them
gnst-The Noted Landlords.

Ireland has the same number of
square miles as the state OF Indianai
It also has more kindness to the acre
than any country on earth.
ireland has five million inhabitants;
once 1t had eight. Three million have
gone away, and, when one thinks OF
landlordlsm. he wonders why the Ave
million did not go, too, But the irish
are u poetic people, and love the land
of their fathers with childlike love,
and their hearts are all bound up In
sweet memories, rooted by song and
legend into hooks and corners, so the
tendrlls of affection hold them fast.
ireland Is very beautiful Its pasture
lands and meadow lands. tlower-decked
ana water-fed crossed and recrossed |
by neverending hedgerows. that stretch
away and lose themselves in misty |
fairyland. are fair as poets dream. |
Birds carol In the white hawthorn and |
yellow turzc all day long. and the va |
grant summer winds that blow la2lly |
across the fields are laden with the per- |
fume OF fnirest flowers.
II Is like crossing the dark river |
called Dcath TO many to think Of leay- |
Ing Ireland, Besides that. even II they |
| wanted to 60, they haven't money
enough TO buy Rteerage ticket. From
across the dark river called Death, |
como no rcmittances, but from America
many dollars are sent back to Ireland.
! This often supplies the ubolus that &C.
cures the necessary bit Of Cunard pass
! port.
Whenever nm Irishman cmbarks Mt
! Queenstown part Of the Eve million in
| h0hitants 90 down TO the watrr-gide
! to see him of. Not long ago | stood
| with the crowd and watched two fine
| lads go up the gnng-plRuk, each car
| iSing a rcd handkerchief containing
| his worldly goods. Az the e cd ship
moved away we lifted wild wall OF
! woe that drowned tho sohblng of the
waves. Everybody cried--I wept too
! and the great black ship became but
n speclS on the western horizon we
embraced each other in frenzicd grief
There Is beauty In Ireland--physica
| beauty Of SO rare aud radiant type
that IL makes the heart OF an artist
ache TO think that II cannot endure.
| on country roads at fair time the tray
| eler win see barefoot girls who are
women and Just suspectlng 1t, who
have cheeks like ripe plpplns, laughing
eyes, with long. dark, wicked lashes,
teeth like ivory, nocls of perfect poise
and waist that, never having known
corset, are pure Greek.
| or course, these girls are aware that
we admire them-how could they help
| II
shnpely arm, bundles balanced on their
heads. ana we, suddenly grown tired,
sit on the bank-sidc Us they pass by
and feign indifference TO their charms.
Once safely past, we admirlnBly eNHm-
inc their tracks in the soft mud dor
there has been a shower during the
nlEhO and we vow that such footprints
woro never before left upon the sands
Of time,
The typical young woman in ireland
, ls Juno before she was married. the
old woman is SycoraX after CRltban
was wenned. Wrlnkled, toothloss. yell
low old hays are seen sitting by the
r road rocking back and forth grooming
5 Il song that Is mate to the chant OF
i the witches in Macbeth when they
brew the hell-broth.
I'm the name OF God charity kind
gentlemen, charity and the old Groom
stretches forth a long, bony claw
= should YOU PASS on she calls down
curses on your head. II you are wise
and OF nervo-bilious temperament, you
Y 40 back and fling her a copper to stor
u the cold streaks that are shooting w
A your spine And these old women
e were the most trying sights l saw In
d, Ireland,
g "Pshaww said friend OF mine wher
told him this, these old creatures are
e actors, and II you would sit down ant
/ talk to them, as l have done. they vii
If laugh and joke and tell you of sons
N In America who are policemen, ant
4, then they will MI black dhudecns out Of
y your tobacco and ask you II you know
Mike Mcclure who lives in She-ka-gy.'
l. The last trace OF comellness has Ions
y left the faces OF these ropulslve beg
" gurs but there IL type OF feminine
le beauty that comes with years. II Il
m found only where intellect and aifec
nc ton keep step with spiritual desire
and In ireland, whore II is often
C. crime to think, whore superstition
ly stalks, and uvarice rules, and hunBe
ys crouchos. It Is very, very rare
o. But met one woman in the Emeral
en- Isle whose hair was snow-white, an
hs whose face seemed to beam a bene
m dlction. 1t was a counteuance refine
&C. by sorrow, purified by aspiration, mad
To- peaceful by right intellectual employ
er ment. strong through self-reliance an
~ seen. II proved the possible
ito When the nntons are disarmed Ire
lal land win take first place, for In fistian
nd she Is supreme
ny Gentle Ralph waldo Emerson ono
on said that where the code duello exist
no men lift their hats TO Indies and sa
Id excuse me-" and III you please" An
ell. VI Emerson was 80 bold as to say
of good word for the gentlemen who hol
rus themselves personally responsible"
II may venture the remark that men WI
or can strike from the shoulder are almoi
en- universally polite to strangers.
are woman can do ireland afoot and alor
with perfect safety. Everywhere OF
Igh finds courtesy. kindness and bubblin
the good cheer. Niueteen-twentieths
Ing all lawlossness In ireland during Il
es- past two hundred years has been d
ans rccted against the landlords agen
This is a very Irish proceeding
a punish the agent for the sins OF Il
one principal when the landlord himse
lly, comes from England he affects
for Tatherly interest I'm the people, l
uor gives out presents and cheap favo
HIS and the people treat him with humb
OF Difference.
ecd When the landlords agent goes
America he gets place as first ma
on Mississippi river steamboat. al
before the war he was In demand
the the South as ovorseer. He il ia wi
his has taught the 'byesr the villalny In
they execute. II sometimes goes ha
it's for they better the instruction.
up But there " one other character IN
II tho boys look after occasionally IN Ii
land and that Is the "Squlre.h lie
merry wight IN tight breechas, r
coat. and number six hat He hur
par to 'ounds, riding over the wheat nel
Of honest men. The genuine landid
I 1t lives IN London. the squire would I!
10, but cannot quite afford It,