Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-26

and about four inches square. A sharp
| spade will slice 1t just as knife would
| cut cheese or butter. After the cubes have
! lain on the ground a while they are
, stacked up on end in little piles to dry.
Then, when they have been exposed TO
the weather for three or four weeks.
| they are stacked in larger piles. from
| which they are carted away and sold or
used as they are needed.
! Four tons in peat are equal in caloric
! energy to one ton of coal l notice in the
! papers today that a bill is pending before
the house of commons TO grant a charter
| to a company to erect a station in bog
! near Robertson. Kings County. twenty
| five miles from Dublin. for generating
| electricity from peat. the power to be
transmitted to Dublin and the suburban
| towns for lighting. transportation and
| manufacturing purposes. Several other
projects of y similar sort have been sug-
gested for utilizing the peat at the bog
instead of carting it into town. From
| appearances there is peat enough in this
locality TO supply power for all the world
Kylemore Castle.
We spent the night at Leenane, a little
fishing Village at the head of a ford that
comes up nine miles from the Atlantic
into the mountains. There is a plain but
good hotel. much patroniZed by fishermen.
In the morning we continued our journey
over the mountains through some very
rugged country. We drove through the
famous Pass of Kylemore. one of the
most beautiful pieces of scenery in lie
land. and called THE Gem of Come
mara" 1t was particularly interesting to
us because kylemore Castle is the home
of an American girl. Lady Manchester,
who was formerly Miss Helena thinner
man OF Cincinnati and is now the wife
of the Duke of Manchester. The castle
t. g 1T sr,,r
Ireland. 1t is situated on the banks of
lovely little lake at the base of noun
tain. covered with the most beautiful
foliage. and called Doughraugh. which
rises 1736 feet behind it as background.
The castle is In the center of the pass.
between two lofty mountains. and the
roadway for miles passes through for
est and between fields that are inclosed
with fuchsia hedges
kyemore Castle was built by Mr..
Richard Henry of London about hun
dred years ago and cost him then more
than $4,000 for the house alone The
chapel. which cost more than hundred
thousand dollars. was built by his son,
place to the Duke of Manchester. AS the
latter was not able to pay for it, his
father-in-law. Mr.. Zimmerman of Gin
cinnati. president of the Cincinnati. Ham,
ilton and Dayton Railroad Company.
took ii off his hands for G69.0CO. about
five years ago. and presented it to his
daughter. who spends most of her time
there. because the climate is very agree
able throughout the entire year. and she
loves the seclusion. There isn't neigh
Dor for several miles. except the people
employed on the place. There are $4,000
acres of shooting. several small lakes
and about 200 acres in garden. and Lady
Manchester. who seems to De of a retir
ing disposition. is much happier there
with her mothers sister. Miss Evans.
and her three children. one boy and two
girls. than in London or elsewhere. The
youngest child was born only a few
months ago. Mr.. Zimmerman seems to ne
fond of kylemore also. and is there a
good deal. but neither he nor his daugh-
ter appear to be fond of entertaining and
they have very little company
This dukes financial affairs are I'm a
very unsatisfactory situation and, accord
Ing to common report. his father-in-law
either owns or has mortgage on every.
thing the duke can part with lawfully.
Kingdom of Grace O'Malley.
This is the Kingdom of Grace O'Malley
the famous Amazon. daughter of Owen
O'Malley, King of Connaught. She lived
and reigned here in the time of Queen
Elizabeth. and her castle is now used as
a police barracks. While some of the
legends of Grace O'Malley are doubtless
fiction many of them are founded upon
fact. She was a real woman and a real
queen with pride and power and all the
other qualities that are attached to roy
atty. Queen Elizabeth, to whom she once
paid visit, offered to make her a count
ess. but Grace declined on the ground
that the Queen of Connaught was the
equal of the Queen of England and could
accept no favors. Her first husband was
an O'Flaherty. and her second was Sir
Richard Burke. The second was a trial
marriage and it was agreed after the
end of one year the union could be dis
solved by either husband or wife saying
Il dismiss you" to the other, and Grace
said 1t first
st. Patrick's Curse.
We pass around the base of the noun
tain Croagh Patrick, which rises with
great abruptness to height of 2.51O feet,
almost directly from the Atlantic ocean.
and has a small fiat plain about half a
mile square upon its summit. There are
the remains of an ancient chapel and a
large Celtic cross stands boldly in the
foreground where it can be seen from all
the country round. This is one of the
most sacred spots i'm Ireland, because, ac-
cording to Monk Jocelyn. who wrote a
life of ST Patrick in the twelfth century.
and other historians. that most venerated
saint brought together here all the de-
mons. toads, serpentS. creeping things and
imprisoned them in a deep ravine on the
sea front of the mountain. known as
Lugnademon (the pen of the deoons), as
fast as they came in answer to his sum-
MONS and kept them safely there until
he was ready to destroy them. Then.
standing upon the summit of the Croagh
Patrick. with bell I'm hand he
cursed them. and expelled them from Ire
land forever. And. every time he rang
the bell thousands of toads, adders
snakes, reptiles and other noisome things
the other and were swallowed up forever
in the sea- A less reverent writer says:
Twas the top Of this high hill
St Patrick preached his sarmints;
He drove the frogs from all the boys
And banished all the yarmints.
1t is we'll known phenomenon I'm nat
ural history that there are no snakes,
toads. moles or venomous reptiles in Ire
land. and the fact has always been ac-
counted for in this way. ST. Patrick s
miracle, performed at the summit of the
Croagh in County Mayo. in the. year 40
is accepted with as perfect faith as the
story of the Creation and on the ami
versary, during the month of July, thou
sands of pilgrims climb to the ruined
chapel on the summit. some of them on
their knees. to pray to the patron saint
of Ireland.
ABANDONS PUZZLE READING.