The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-01-08

NJ NDulu uOts VI CUuISe, Ut
scribe the Kerry roads as
good" There still exist mo-
florists who visit Il district not
for the sake of rushing through it as
fast as possible-they do not welcome
positively bad roads, but, given roads
which can be driven, over, they are less
keen on the goodness of the roads than
the goodness of the views seen there
from. Such, at all events, was the
temperament of our party, says q
writer in Country Life. Some one had
said: IF You don't do the coast
route from killOrglin through Cahirci-
veen and Waterville to Parknasilla
I you will miss the finest thing in ire
land-perhans in the British Isles" so
we turned aside at this tempting pros
! pect. And we did not regret our de-
tour.
Soon after leaving killOrglin, where
the Curagh lake lies. still and black
in its opening in the hills, we began to
have some foretaste of the glories be-
fore US. The road mounted into barren
wildernesses. and on our right sud-
denly the vast blue expanse of Dingle
bay was outspread. a dream in the sun
shine. Grander and gander grew the
vistas across that splendid inlet Of the
Atlantic. wilder and wilder the ranges
on our left. At Mountain Stage, where
there is q little railway station Though
heaven alone knows what the traffic
can be1. the scenery was as noble as
anything | have witnessed in Great
Britain.
A railway accompanies the road at
intervals during this part of the jour
ney; but it Is q very unobtrusive rail-
way, and appears to boast about a
couple Of trains per diem in each
direction. Its final objective. of course
is the ferry for Valencia island. And
II is for Valencia that another of ouI
companions was bound--the telegraph
line. For Valencia is one of the cable
stations; and those ordinary looking
wires, nine of them only, which pass
from pole to pole along the hedge side
are throbbing, maybe, with message:
for New York. A curious thought. il
this solitude! But Kerry is sophisti
Gated, in spots as it were. 1t contain!
three cable Stations-the Valencia is
land one, the one at Ballinskelligs, ant
the one at Waterville The result il
that you suddenly come on queer
cases of civilization: neat rows of vii
las, spick and span gardens, ant
= evidences-I will not say of wealth, bu
q at any rate of more comfort than i
diScernible in the thatch-roofed ant
= generally poverty stricken farms.
cable terminal you learn with SUI
prise, employs hundred or more pei
.e sons-skilled persons, too; the kin
n of persons who have to be paid sa
II airy which sounds like untold wealt
in this neighbOrhood
r Happy Valencia Island.
ii, 1t was interesting to come TO tn
q Valencia island ferry and look acros
81 at a little town as neat as some mic
lr French coast resort. But Valencia i.
mr. land, rs we found, is by way of bein
'e both rich and happy; and even if ii
= cable station did not bring unusu1
IS comforts. the Knight of Kerry is on
i of those landlords who see to it tha
TX their property, and the tenants there
- on, are seemly to behold. Valenci
Oh we all liked; it was, to be candi,
: rather q contrast to the nearby Cahi
I'd civeen-of which q small pupil ha
- Written Gin one Of the schools whic
n we visited in her essay: "Cahircivee
y is Il town with great many house
mt and most of them are public houses
e. For all that, Cahirciveen is vel
&c characteristic and picturesque. B
yond it the road was. alas. pref
rough: army lorries, we were told, he
ploaghed i up, and there had been I
time, as yet. to put it under prop,
repair. An easy pace was not undesl
able, allthe same, for there was plen
to look at. On either hand the hedge
we saw with delight We're fuchsia
testimony to the climates softnes
Everywhere we went in this part
Kerry we We're astonished at the veg
tation. Fuchsias grew astonishing
On Valencia island there is one colo
sal tree of fuchsa, and here also '
saw glorious pink geraniums positive
Snothering a cottage wall. Arum ILL
iiourished like weeds in the poore
gardens: Along the bog sides, and rig
down to the seashofe. there were oft
acres Of fellow irises.
IL II Dove, fA Arn~.1