Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-04

reasonable. The conditions to-day, ow-
ing to the changes in the land laws in
recent years, are far better for the ten
ant farmers than formerly, but still
there is much they complain of, and agi,
tatiOn for further reform is vigorous
and persistent, and no doubt will pre-
vail, no matter what party comes into
power.
This lazy-lOOking old city has many
attractions, and not least among them
is the old church of Shandon with it's re-
puted understanding bells. 1 believe
no service is held in the church at pres
ent, and the bells are rung but once a
year, a great disappointment to me, as
the song had made me long to hear
them. Some six miles from the city is
the famous Blarney Castle, which I
think nearly every
AMERICAN WHO COMES TO CORK
makes point of seeing. Notwithstand-
ing it has been built over four hundred
years, the ruins are in a good state of
preservation. The circular stone stair
| case that leads to the top of the square
| tower and lets one out onto the battle
ments. although well worn, may last
another hundred gears. But | doubt If
/ the walls of the castle itself will stand
that long unless the stone mason is re-
I Questioned to repair the increasing
I flaws. Indeed. / observed that this i'm
I pOrtant parsonage had in times past
| been patching here and there on the
/ keep. or dOnjOn, which is the only part
that has not been permitted to crumble
and decay. This stronghold of Old
with its deep dungeons and mysterious
| subterranean passages. must have been
| the scene of many a sanguinary conflict,
and Oh what a tale Of cruelty and suf-
fering could they impart As probably
everyone knows who reads the Register,
the alleged Barney stone is located in
the battlements which project from and
above the top of the wall Of the castle.
In order TO kiss the stone, which seems
TO be the aim of nine-tenths of the visi-
tors one must lie down on his stomach
and extend his head some two feet be-
VOnd the edge of the wall before he can
! bring his lips in contact with it. In
order TO do this some friend must Sc
curely hold his legs or there is great
/ danger Of losing his balance and tumb-
ling headlOng some hundred feet. and
L lhlN lur nIucu utlOW. lie uIlNtl VI inc
jaunting car good naturally informed
our party that a visitor recently in his
EFFORT TO KISS THE STONE
I lost his balance and never stopped until
he was picked up unhurt in the copse
Immediately underneath. And do you
| know how he came to have such a
miraculous escape he asked? With
| bated breath came the answer No
/ AT this moment we were entering the
hamlet of Barney, from which the
/ castle takes its name The driver
pointed his whip in the direction of a
/ little tavern with an inscription "Blar-
ney Dew over the entrance. do you
/ see that tavern he says? eve do"
said all simultaneously. well, before
/ ne started TO kiss the Blarney stone
| ne went in there and took wee drop o.
/ Barney Dew, and that is the reason
he wasn't hurt at all when he fell from
the great height This was enough.
Someone said if we couldn't take that
hint we had better get down and walk.
However. the jehu was told to pull up
at the tavern and call for what he
wanted.