The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-01
macy a naked iunatic armed with q

razor ana enSCOnced In u loIt stO WHICH
access could be had only through a
trap door in the floor. When he died
they said there was always IA beggar
to be seen praying at his grave.
In the first and happiest Lord Lieu
tenancy of the fifth Earl Spencer. 1858
to 1874, Mr.. lyman gave demonstration
of the qualities Of his class:
My father would tell how he found
couple of horsemen endeavorins to knock
the paddock OF a gate. In the field were
a score or two OF sheep and II was the
iambing season. He hurled himself upon
the horsemen in a towering passion. .
He had the gift Of language.
1.-THE tall gentleman with the red beard.
he said, never spoke word. but the young
one asked me II | knew that II was tho
Lord Lieutenant was speaking to. ] SAID
that I didn't care II It was the King: he
mould not cross my land In the lambinE
season with a pack Of dashed hounds yeip'hs
and screaming among the sheep and a lot
Of idiers and wastrels following them"
Then the Red Earl. as he was pic
turesquely called for his beard, IN
vaded the debate, expressing regret Tor
the thoughtlessness Of his intended act.
II have only to assure you. SIR he said
in the somewhat magniloquent report
Of his adversary. shat I would not have
done so II had been aware OF the harm
to your flock that might ensue." Cour-
tesy conquered, as II Is conventionally
supposed to do, and the squire not only
opened another way through bis land,
but was at pains to point out to the
sporting gentlemen q short cut by which
they might come up with the pack.
Only a few years later. In Land League
days. Earl Spencer was Foxy Jack" in
Dublin and rode the streets under armed
escort.
on one Of these rides In the nervous
sos Miss Anna Parnell. sister Of the
great leader and the fieriest spirit In
the Ladies' Land League--in which,
says Miss lyman, there were no furies"
and tea and cakes took the place Of the
incendlary apparatus OF modern mill
tantism in the ladies' "cause" Of to-day
ran out into the street In front OF
the horses and stopped the Eafl What
do you mean. Lord Spencer" she asked.
by interfering with the houses am
building for evicted tenants?" He
stared. raised his hat. muttered. The
intrepid woman held his horse by the
headstall until sure her repeated re-
monstrance was heard. Miss Parnell
was made Of hero stun. Her brother,
using the Land League as the one tool
handy to his purposes, detested the ''la-
dies auxiliary" His sister was "as
much like him as a woman can be like
D man." and In the clash Of Wills he tri-
umphed by means of his control OF the
purse strings. and "froze the ladies'
organization out Of existence by re-
fusng further supplies" Miss lyman
Goes not pretend to the writing OF a his
tory of the time or movement, she was
in the society's friendship and affec-
tons. but not in Its councils"
The Dublin Of the reminiscent's
youth. before the introduction OF the
trans. was "a sleepy place" recalled
with sense of a rather surprising
Dutch" quality. Turf was brought in
rom the country on horse drawn canal
boats: a little earlier there had been
passenger traffic also on the canals.
The canal banks were verdant; near
hem the buildings were low and quaint.
elsewhere were fine houses behind high
walls. On grounds beside the canal was
4 spring in little park. the property
~ Henry Grattan. The water trickled
from a pipe In the rocks and a white
aproned custodian dispersed the salu-
orious nuid at penny the glass. The
spa" went out Of existence as COM
merc!al enterprise, and the little park
was cut UP into squares OF RED brick
houses. once a busful OF people was
upset into a canal lock on a foggy
night, and some one in panic, or per-
maps hoping to float the vehicle. opened
the lock gates and let in the food, from
which none OF the passengers escaped
The girl was sent to n convent school
at Drogheda. The nuns taught the COM
mon subjects from old fashioned books
one. "A most capable teacher, If slightly
behind the times in respect OF worldly
information, said the source of the Nile
had never been discovered. Youth
full omn!science corrected: "'Dr. Liv-
ingstone discovered it, in Lake Victoria
Nyanza.' And. pray, who is DIR. Liv-
ingstone" Mother Alphonsus asked,
shaking her veil. and in contemptuous
Indignation moving on to something
else" The little girls took naughty
delight in teasing the good nuns with
queries as to the nature of the lacuna,
in their expurgated reading: paper was
pasted over the condemned passages
Come where my love lies dreaming"
was sung Come where my child" &C.
Some literary readjustments must have
been in order on leaving the school,
The little community was disturbed
whenever "a plain British worklngman"
came to set the convent clocks. He
was preceded down the corridors BY a
lay sister, well yelled. who rang
warning bell as she went. The girls
delighted In "the shamefaced humor
OF the excellent mans expression" Just
outside the school oratory stood a
wheezy little old organ. profanely or.
namented in its original state with n
representation OF Pan piping. A care
ful nun had put a scarlet mantle upon
old Goat Foot and changed the heather
pipes to harp. The garb was the garb
OF King David. but the cloven hoof was
traitor. and Pans pagan eye twinkled
as II In appreciation Of "these innocen.
cies"
England In 1884 was a happy land
for the young Irish woman lust begin
ming to write commercially and eager
to meet writing folks Of established
reputation. To her the superficial
follies Of the aesthetic movement +"
seemed to be scaling Off and England
really beginning to emerge from "its
Victorian hideOusness" Rut tina orv,,