The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
Dublin Men Are Furtipe
 And Gather in Whispering
 Groups Since the Rebellion

London, July 29.-I have Ireland on the brain this week, therefore, if devote my letter to matters concerning that dis -thressful country" it is chiefly because l happen to have spent a few days in Dublin recently, and have come away feeling under the spell of the extraor- dinary interest and fascination that seems to be particularly apparent at the present time.
 l have read description and heard ac- counts of the horrors of the recent re- bellion in Dublin, but it is very difficult to visualize that sort of thing mentally unless you can also see it through the normal vision, and certainly after two months of comparative calm, the condi- tior of Dublin is as remarkable now as 1t must have been after those days of terror which commenced late in April. Most of the buildings in the central part of the city are still flat; mass of waste and shattered bricks and clouds of dust hemmed in by a few very ineffect- i've boardings showing what remains of many great business houses and gov ernment offices on Sackville street. By the way, since the rebellion, the people of Dublin refuse to call this great cen tral thoroughfare by it's English name, "Sackville street." They call it "O'Con- nell street." and if you ask a tram con- ductor for a ticket to Sackville street, he will pretend not to hear you and pass along to the next passenger. He will return in few minutes and in- quire, lis it O'Connell street you was meanin'?" and if you know your ropes well enough you will say "yes,' other wise you will be pretty sure to be taken beyond the point at which you desire to alight.
 EXTRAORDINARY QUALITY
 Another extraordinary quality about Dublin at the present time is the groups of furtive looking men and women that are to be noticed in side streets and thor oughfares during the afternoon and evening hours. It is one of the rules (and Dublin is still supposed to be under partial martial law, that groups shall not congregate at street corners or stand talking in the embrasures of buildings Strictly speaking only two people are permitted to loiter beyond a very short period in any public street. Law and order, however exist rather more in the minds of Dublin's guardians than they do in her population for, in certain quarters of the city, you will see eight or ten youths standing either all talking volubly and excitedly in an undertone, or else to spokesman, who, with his face thrust into the close ring formed by his listeners will speak quickly and ear nestly for several minutes. Then if 8 member of the consta abulary or a military policeman comes to a halt close to the gathering, all talk will cease, and bright eyes with that strange fanatical light in them will gaze gloomily into space. Most of these men are Sim Feiners and you can tell them, not because they have Gily particularly obstructive signs about them, but rather because of this strange furtiveness of manner and the curious fashion in which their eyes glint and gaze and always seem to be look ing for something that does not happen to be within their line of vision. There are women, too, hundreds of them mostly young, and all of them rather sensa tional in appearance. With the men of the same class they represent what they are pleased to call "the young spirit of Ireland" They remind me very much of the class of people that one sees in parts of Montmartre, in Paris, and that inhabit certain quarters of Chelsea, in London. They call themselves artists, . and are generally rather unkempt as to their heads and very unconventional in the color and style of their costumes. In fact, from what I could see in Dublin the majority of the members of the Sim Fein might come to London and walk Into the Cafe Royal, for instance, and people sitting about would say, those are futurists, what interesting people!''
 Among these may be specially noted