The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-17
n CALIFORNIAN
ABROAD.
By Thomas Fitch
DUBLIN
DUBLIN

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At Cork 1 purchased tickets for Lon
don, second class. did this because
second class ticket costs only two
pounds. fifteen shinings, while a first
class ticket costs four pounds, and 1
was assured in California by a party
who said that he was Lord Sholto
Douglas though he didn't look it. that
there is really no difference between
first and second class except in price,
and that-to quote a hackneyed phrase
only princes. Americans and fools
travel first class" If there is anything
despise it IS vulgar display Of
wealth, especially when you have not
got the wealth. and so 1 bought second
class tickets. I shall not do it again.
though you howl Poor Richards econo-
mic drivel in my ears from the rising
OF the sun to the going down thereof.
The second class coupes are un-
lcarpeted, dirty. and uncomfortable.
The seats are without springs. and the
backs without stufing, and the people
who travel therein are not so entirely
devoted to personal cleanliness as they
might be. OF course. as a patriotic
American, I believe that all. men are
equal. but 1 am compelled to concede
that they are not equally welI-washed.
and verify an Irish second class car is
very second class indeed.
rroS. IN ere q oo.-e.<~,,v,..,z - ~ 1a,---5
sweep OF Western American landscapes,
Ireland looks like a vast checkerDoard
of green, with its emerald and yellow
rows Of hedges and fences dividing the
land into acre and hve-acre fields. The
farms are certainly well kept, and
there is no appearance OF want, much
less Of famine In gliding through the
country by rail, the cattle and sheep
have a sleek and contented air. the
houses look thrifty, and even the ruins
seem TO be-as they doubtless are
carefully preserved. Each crumbled
ivy-mantled pile has its own tale of
superstitious horror. or bright love
passage folded away among the dust
and mould and decay. One was the
home and haunt of the f1re-worshippers-
Another was builded from piece bit
ten by His Satanic Ma5esty's tooth
from a mountain opposite, and third
is tenanted by a ghostly knight, who
rides a ghostly horse and leads a skeie-
ton regiment to the fray.
AAA
II made me think Of the ghost walk
of the nine waIIapai Indians, who were
Ioafng about Prescott. Arizona, when
the Yayapai Dramatic Thespian So
the auction block. The last performance /
given by the society was Damon and
Pythias. when AIurat Masterson, who
played Damon. in his excitement threw
LuculIus into the orchestra, and smash
ed in the head Of the big bass drum
with him, and Lucullus went home and
secured his gun, and came back and
drove Damon from the scafold in the /
last act and the curtain went down on
a rough and tumble fight. The next
day the stage wardrobes were sold out,
and somebody bought the outfit and
it among the admiring +
Wallapais. Shacknasty jim secured the
scarlet robe of Richelieu, Jimmy behind
the-Stove was clad in complete tin arm
Dr.. and Billy-the-OwI was radiant in the i
white robes OF a vestal virgin.
Sentiment and solvency are not al
Ways G4bStlI dAll, dl1Q lily pEdCi8Adl
turn of mind has always led me TO re-
gard eschiva1ry'' and its belongings with
secret contempt The flannel spangled
circus performances, which even to this
lay obtain in Virginia, under the title
IF tournaments always excited my
ierision- have looked upon Ivanhoe
himself as a rough who in these latter
lays would have been a powerful and
aggressive ward heller, and upon
7oderick Dhu as a hot-tempered ac-
Iuisitionist of other peoples cattle, who.
Z he lived at this time, would pass !
most of his days in the penitentiary. !
But I can understand now how Wal
er Scott could almost lead a people
,aptive. merely by clothing their
egends in radiant rhetoric. Tasre is
. glamour Of romance in the very at
nosphere of these ancient works of man.
Zach crumbIing pile disti1s subtle ,
plates with which TO drug incredulity :
o sleep, and am ready to believe any I
tory about mailed knights and booted q
uuires I, too, would almost like 20 7
lothe myself in cast-iron stove plates, r
nd bind my noble brow with an in :
erted preserve kettle, and bestride my / =
aIIant steed in search of distressed !,
aaidens. So saturated was 1 with :
aediaeval ideas, that at the next sta Z
ion where huge sign declared ten n
minutes for refreshments, / ordered 7
enison pasty and stoup OF rnalvoisee.
hey were out of these articles, and I :.
ompronised on sandwiches and beer. =
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About fifty miles east of Dublin. we +,
Zach and cross the Curragh OF kildare, a
4 unfenced. uncuItivated rolling prai- r
e. reserved for grazing. racing and : :.
eeple-chasing- 3
There are two kinds of steepIe-chas- =
g: one Tor the purpose OF oreahlas n
Their your own neck or that of your
,rse, and the other designed 20 break
,th In the regular steeple-chase. you =
your eye on goal, sufficiently prom =
ent TO be seen three or four miles q
vay-if there be no steeple. then a tail h
p N a Ifl1arfv mole viii ANSWER lonlY OF