The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-05-07

earthly tells in his book how he just
began newspaper reporters life and |
was sent out into the farm districts in
southern Ireland to describe the situa-
ton; and the story he tells is simply
dreadful, and recalls those stories
which chilled my blood when a little
lad. Mccarthy says: Il saw enough
to cast gloom over my memory,
which even at this present moment
cannot be recalled without a thrill of
pain. 1t was common sight to see
men and women. during that CHASTITY
winter, lie down in the streets of the
country towns, and die of actual star
vauon. The parochiaal and charitable
institutions proved wholly inadequate
to grapple with this invasion of hun
ger, and the burial-grounds themsel-
YES IN some places were unable to
hnd space Tor the collins of the newly
dead. In some parts of the south and
west OF Ireland, the collins had to do
double and treble duty. A coffin was
made with one of its sides so adjusted
as to be capable of easy removal The
dead body thus confined was lowered
INTO the grave, the coffin was then
lifted up so that the corpse fell from
ITS wooden shroud into the cold, soft
bosom OF mother earth, and the cof-
nm was removed altogether and made
to do duty for successive inanimate
occupants. tie says the winter that
year proved to be uncommonly cold
with deep SHOWS. He describes some
OF the scenes he saw in the miserable
novels called homes. and adds: at
must be owned that this was a irving
time tor boy of sixteen to begin his
work OF reporting. Again
and again have | seen the CORPSE of
some man, woman, or child, the vic
tim OF hunger and cold, with a face
OF greensh pallor, lying across the
threshold OF a cabin or on the path
way OF some village street. y
II is only right to say that nothing
was wanting which public or private
benehclence could do to check the
raVageS, OF that terrible occasion. |
can we'll remember the mingled SEN
satlons created by the sounding Of
10y bells from many steeples in the
city OF Cork, when the news went
abroad that an American frigate had
come INTO the harbor heavily laden
with food supplies wherewithal to re-
SYST the work of the famine" He tells
OF the extreme bitterness that grew
up towards England because her eco
nomic laws were largely responsible
tor that starvation. And | can well
recall how bitterly those Irish emf.
grants felt towards the British gov.
ernment Mccarthy knew Father
Matthew the great temperance reform
eT OF Ire land; and I recall that the
chief hinderancc of those early emf.
grants was their habit of whisky
drinking; and some of the wild orgies
| saw on Sundays when those railroad
laborerS had time to drink are a night
mare IN my memory The grand
children. and greatgrand children OF
some OF those rugged Irishmen are
now among the most prosperous and
worthy OF those eastern New Eng
land towns. And l have seen another
evolution, some of the Irish emiprants
who had suffered for generations from
poverty, living in novels fit for cattle,
and never fed well, had produced fea-
lures anything but winsome. But
among the third and fourth generation
OF some of those hideous human tvpes
OF lace that came to America are to
DC found rare types of female beauty.
mccarthy says the Irishman loves