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ERIN'S IRON-BOUND COASTS ,
AFostor Spot of Raoo and Bellgloua
Projudico.
MAGNIFICENT GERROW POINT.
A Pleasant Legend Bna a Pleasant
Fact A Bail up the Coast ana
Under the Clitth Bnautlcft
\l \ of Irish Scenery.
Afoot In Ireland.
CopurlgMcd 1888.
OFF TIIK SKKKUIKS , Ireland , Oct. 15
[ Special Correspondence of TIIK BEK. ]
Trudging over the Liaburn road into
Belfast , some trifling impulse of inter
est impelled mo to a stroll upon Queen's
bridge. Standing above its broad arches
and peering down the river Lagan
across the crowded shipping to where
the noble Belfast Lough , or Carrlck-
forgusbuy , beyond , shone blue andbrll-
llaut between rigging , masts and lazily-
flapping sails , I descried several little
craft , no larger Ihun ordinary llshing-
smueks. My curiosity led mo down
along the wharves to those. I found
among them some tiny coasters from far
Donogalaway over on the western Irish
shore ; and within a half an hour I had
niado the acquaintance of the two-man
crow of one ; struck a bargain with them
for a trip to their homo port ; und was
sailing out to the Irish sea ; as dusty
and grimy a pilgrim as over , in the
twiugliug of an eye , exchanged adventure -
turo by land for a sailor's luulc at sea.
And so "as we sail an1 wo sail , " for
those Irish coasters are as slow as a
woll-provon pension claim at Washing
ton , I will endeavor to picture what can
bo seen by the eye and mind in a cruise
around that most dread and drear of all
Erin's iron-bound coasts , tho' wild ,
vroird north.
To the right and loft as wo descend
Belfast Lough , ore wlnsomo scones and
bold. Countless glens , villas , castles ,
luxuriant farms , ruins and picturesque
headlands crowd the lovely shores.
Contemplating those strikingly beauti
ful scenes of opulence in nature and
artiflce alone , ono could scarcely recall
or imagine the slavery and poverty of
Ireland. But wraiths of the last cen
tury's slaves of Belfast's looms peer
from behind this magical brightuobs
while its hideous antithesis is found in
Belfast's by-strcata and slums. That is
the story briefly. But over there to the
loft only a few miles from the novor-
ellont Bplndles and looms , is ancient
unsavory Carrickforguswith its mightj
castle , its thousand or so Scotcl
Usher-folk , and its altogether uglj
memories. A queer old hive is1 this
and wo are long enough in passing it U
note some of its odd features. Had i
the same great mass of rook behind it
ono would involuntarily imagine t
diminutive Quebec had been sot dowi
hero at the water's edge. Though lack
lug that , it is mill a cracked und cruin
bling prototype of Quebec's choked and
crowded lower town. The old , old can
trul , once-walled city , for it iq so old
. that its origin is well.enough lost ii
tradition , is a suffocating mass of an
gles , arches , decaying 'walls , grim lo
goads and filth. But in a souse it i
lowed. . I la , neutral ground. ' Tire
Scotch quarter sots ever against
ho eastern walls. The Irish
quarter straggles alongshore to
ho west. They are thus apart. But
, ho ferocious denizens of these two
odorous quarters , craning their savage
nocks ever the seat of the law , sound
) ibrochs of defiance , or shriek Gaelio
nvitation to war. And thus
t ever will bo , worlds without end , in
, his foster spot of race and religious
viciousnoss. And what a blessing it
would bo if a few of these old huto-
jrceding , hell-feeding dons in all lands
: ould bo wafted into impalpable fertil
izers by the dextrous touch of divine
dynamite. After all , the antiquity , as
sociations , memories and history of Car-
rickforgus arc so revoltingly written in
Inhumanity and blood , that oven ono of
noblest digestion can scarcely reach en
thusiasm ever its really picturesque old
castle , for which it is most famous. Its
vorv remote origin is clearly traceable
to John do Courcoy ; and it is said to bo
the only existing edifice in the king
dom exhibiting a specimen of the old
Norman military stronghold. Perched
upon a narrow , rocky peninsula , and
washed on three sides by the bay ,
whether approached from the sea , seen
from the heights of Antrim , observed
from the opulent fields of Down , or
looked upon from the bosom of the calm
and shining Lough , it certainly grows
upon the thought and sense us a picture
of unusual , ono might almost say mel
ancholy , magnificence and grand
eur. To-day instead of being
the proud abode of Irish
kings ; instead of owing secret league
with the Scottish lord of ttio isles , and
preserving the witching baidic min
strelsies of the Hebrides ; instead of
ringing the shouts and pipes of giant-
framed Scottish auxiliaries ; instead of
housing the lively followers of the Mc
Carthy and the O'Neil.tho stubborn sol
diery of William , or the light-hoarted
adventurers of Tuurot : the great hall
of its massive keep is a barrack for red
coats and rats. One gets dry-rot from
even a snltl of , and a look at , the mo-
diicval tatterdomalian , and turns his
face to the seaward highland , with in-
otTublo longing and relief.
Rounding White Head and Black
Head , on the north shore , which have
their corresponding twin headlands op
posite on the lovely shores of Down , wo
loft Belfast Lough , the Vindorius of
Ptolemy , und were soon in the Irish sea ,
hugging Island Magee , when , scarcely
separated from the mainland at the
southwest , for a breadth of two miles
and a length of nine sweeps gracefully
around in a new-moon form to the north ,
and behind which smiles the blue
waters of the Lough Larne , where many
odd fisher-folk live and talk the year
round , as did their fathers for centuries
before them , the plaice , or flat-fish , and
the mullet. Ono longs to wander in Is
land Magoo. It is magical with natural
beauty ; its inhabitants would lurnish
marvelous studios for the artist and nov
elist ; it is the legendary abode of the
wildest fantasies of sorcery ; on its ex
tremities are numberless ruths and
cromlechs ; while the entire coast-lino
is rife with natural wonders , historic
fascinations , and marvels of legend and
tradition. Midway between its north
ern and southern promontories uro the
grim old Gobbins , basaltic cliffs rising
upward of 00 feet perpendicularly out
of the Ecastern and mural in character ,
and with numberless caves at high-
water mark , the resort of olden
Hobridoan pirates , but now put. to
the milder use of fishermen's boathouses -
houses ; for along this entire shore are
noted fisheries of' herrings , blockcns
and turbot. It was hero that , in 1042 ,
one ot those tenderhearted Covenan
tors , lircommaiid of old Currtckforgus
Castle , out of revenge for some fancied
slight to becoming reverence , came ono
Ino morning in January with his sol-
Hory and massacred nearly the en tire
nhabitunts by driving them like swine
'rom the heights of the Gibbons into
the sea beneath. As wo sailed past the
growsomo spot , my coaster's skipper
pointed out myriads of slender and
irrucoful hawks nestling in , and wheel
ing about , the lofty crags. Those are
the "Gobbin-huwks" of lowly folk-lore
if to-day. But long ago they were the
Irish goss-hawks , famous in history and
song as objects of chase with ancient
nobles of the kingdom.
We sailed between the Maidens , or
the live Hulin Rocks , the two largest
with their lofty striped light-houses
like some giant's Balmoral hose hung
from invisible lines in the clouds to'
dry , and the mainland , catching
charming glimpses of Lnrno city at the
sea mouth of Larno Lough ; and then
stood away to the northwest for Bon-
more or Fuirhoad , the most northeast
ern point in Ireland. To Glenarm
river and bay was a noble sight all the
way. The far outlines of Scotland are
here and there traced through the
misty horizon ha/e , while shoreward ,
all the witchery of the co.ists of wild
Wales cannot excel the fascinating
scones which often partake of positive
grandeur. Extraordinary variety of
picture adds greatly to the wondrous
charm. The entire coast formation is
seemingly broken into parallel ridges
which , descending from cloud-cleaving
mountain heights , reach the sea in suc
cessions of majestic cliffs , or dreamful
valleys whoso very edges are laved by
gentlest swells of the sea , while at
either side the thunders of ocean-bat
tles among the cavernous cliffs arc
deafening and frightful beyond descrip
tion. In all these valleys nestle most
diminutive and picturesque hamlets.
Par up their green sides is set a white
chapel or manor house. Perched in
the mountain peaks behind , or on crags
half a thousand feet above the sea , and
whoso tops seem to pierce the
very clouds , hang castles old and now
as time is measured bore , and gray
ruins , all like half-hid nests of the
rooks , magpies and sea-fowl that wheel ,
caw and shriek around them. And then
as wo pass sweet Glonurm town , nest
ling behind the bay , the radiant village
at ono end of the great arched bridge ,
and at the other , the grotesque , though
imposing castle , what loving militaries
the fancy paints within these lofty hill-
screened glens , far in the murmurous
coverts Glonarm , Gloncorp. Glonariff ,
Glon-Bullyemen , Glenanne und Glen-
dun ; where , in the shadows , these ton-
dorest of all forgivably superstitious
creations , the good Irish fairies , flit and
dance and hold high carnival , and never
ccaso their happy orgies.
Prom Glenarm to Fair Head the tide-
sweeps are most powerful , and our little
craft was of necessity kept further at sea.
But that grandest of all Irish east coast
giants , magnificent Gorron Point , was
near , enough to bo scon in all its
stately grandeur. Rising to a mighty
height almost straight out of the
waves , three lofty and symmetric
pinnuclos , united by wall-like ranges of
basalt , crown it above the nearly por-
Sondicular escarpments , like trorcon-
ous and perfect-wrought ramparts.
Near to it lowers the undent fort of
Dunmaul , like a grim outpost at its feet ;
while close at hand are the picturesque
habitations of the coast-guard and the
little fishing station. To the north lies
Rod bay , a huge curvaiuro in the sea ,
with its caves and ruined castle ; and wo
are soon ubraast the Cushontlall , on the
great coastroad of Antrim , bosiilo the
river Dull , and at the bottom of the ro
mantic glen of Ballytnona. . Behind are
the lofty hills'of Lurgoidan , green from
its summit'to its blauohed chalkbasot
the splendid Tiovebuolli , soaring to the
the clouds , and beyond , the majestic
Trostah , from whoso peak lone Krrigal
on the western coast can bo dimly dos-
corned. Cushomlall is noted for two
things ; one , a pleasant legend , and the
other a pleasant fact. On a fair meadow
which reaches to the edge of its little
bay. Dull , a mythical Scottish
or Danish giant-king intruder , was cut
down by the sickles of the meadow-reap
ers , or dispatched by the valorous hand
of the poet Ossian himself ; and the fam
ous Cuahondall ponies have been from
time immemorial bred in all the region
roundabout. They are u branch of the
Shetland Islands family ; but fur Btockier
and hardier than the former. They run
wild in the mountains among the whiteheads -
heads and heather ; or are herded by
boys and dogs , us are the sheep in all
the north counties. The annual "round
ups , " as with our strange and almost
unknown wild "banker" ponies of the
Carolina Banks , form most interesting
and exciting episodes in these remote
northeastern districts. Once in the
hands of their captors the animals ,
which when wild in the heather uro
most vicious , like the Sable Island po
nies whoso progenitors were the same
as these , immediately became demure
und tractable to a ludicrous degree of
servility. Buyers come from all parts
of the United Kingdom to the fairs
where they are exposed for sale ; and
you will see them harnessed to carts of
modi-rate burthen in the principal En
glish and Irish towns , iu commonly as
the donkey itself ; which is very common
indeed ,
Rounding Fair Head , we were swept
along at an alarming speed by the great
force of the tide between Ballvcastlo
Bay and Rathland Island , which the
legends bay is the remains of a great
series of stopping-stations for the devil
and the olden giants between Scotland
and Ireland. Bo that as it may , it is a
sad region in which to linger in a frail
craft upon opposing tides ; and I felt
far lighter-hearted when wo came
slowly and safely around great Bengoro
Head and hailed lazily us upon u moun
tain walled hike past the far-famed
Giant's Causeway and the htatoly re
mains of the once mighty Dunluco cart-
"
tie , within u rUJo-shot "of the whole
long panoramaof pillars , until the
weird and romantic Skerries were
reached. And in the interests of truth
may the shades of magu/.ino writers for
give me for a bit-lot healthy iconoclasm
concerning this 'spot , which has been
written , illustrated and "illuminated"
into one of the world's wonders. It is
not ouo. Only in a geologic sense can
it bo thus cluBricd.j From ono end to
another of tlie entire pillared coast
there is not a lofty height the Plea-
skin alone excepted , and that ribos but
370 feet nor ! a single grand scenic
formation. Front ! the Hca it has the up-
l > oaranco of a dingy honoy-comb , set
flat against the water , its waxy , dreary
level top an abrupt inbultto a throbbing
Irish sky. I hiiyp stumbled for days
about thq crumbling buses of the Little ,
Middle und Grand Causeways ; loitered
about the Giant's Gateway and Loom ;
tried to imagine with the fertile-
brained guide-book makers the musical
Giants seated at the Giant's Organ ;
wandered up and down the Shepherd's
Path ; lingered with fond hope of awed
inspiration in the Giant's Ampltlieatei- ;
endeavored to realize the appropriate
ness of nppelation iu the Giant's Chim
ney Tops ; wandered in tortuous ways
about the really line ( and that is all )
Plcuskin. ; skirmished with importunate
guides ; Xravorsod. the mures of diplo
macy with curio-peddlars ; quieted in
the jingling old way the wailing of
beggars ; humbly paid awful penance for
an..instant'sglimpse within .hotels ;
rouli/ed the inevitable at tho- hands of
instantaneous photographers who
caught mo in the very vortut of the ba
saltic jaws ; and at last , leisurely and
earnestly studied the entire rock-pali
saded shore , under the best possible
conditions , at sea ; and I have no hesi
tancy in saying that there is not a five-
mile reach of Irish coast from Malln
Head to Bantry Bay , and from Capo
Clear to Bongore Head , that docs not
somewhere infinitely surpass it in every
essence und feature which , in
scenic marvel , charms the eye , thrills
the heart , and exalts und exults the
soul. The Giant's Causowuy _ is simply
and only a geologic curiosity ; present
ing , occasionally , interesting effects to
the eye , but never in a single instance
inapirlntr the mind of one wholly in his
right mind with awe and wonder ; any
more than should many crystals of sand ,
many blades of gross , or many cubes of
coal. Without its mirth-provoking
legends of Fin Mac Coul and the rest of
the giants , it would be to all , save these
who profit by it with more savage per
tinacity than like bandit at Niagara , a
weary and dreary place Indeed.
Homo German Traditions.
Written for The lite.
The Germans , as a class , are the most
enlightened people living. Notwith
standing this fact , however , there are
many who still hold to many of the old
traditions und signs of the su | > crstitious
days of the early German empire.
My father , who owns a largo farm in
the west , has for many years been in the
habit of employing Germans to work
his land. Thev prove themselves to be
good , industrious and reliable men ,
working for the interest of their em
ployer. It was from ono of these "hired
men" that I learned of many of the old
Gorman fables and traditions.
Ono day there came to our town a
French conjuror , well versed in many
loight-of-haud performances and in the
art of jugglery. As it promised to bo
a fairly good show , I thought I would
attend. The next day I expressed a
wish that I could see how it was possi
ble for a man to accomplish such won
derful tricks before a largo , intelligent
audience and not be detected.
After a while the "hired man" said :
"My brother once told mo how I could
clearly see through all of those tricks ,
but I dare not toll it to anyone
older than myself or the charm
would bo broken. " I thanked my
lucky stars that I was younger than
ho and I asked him to bo kind enough
to divulcro to mo the bcorot by which
the conjurer's tricks would all appear as
plain as day.'Well , if you will prom
ise never to toll it to anyone older than
yourfaolf , I will. " Of course I promised ,
and ho continued : "In the first place ,
you must catch a but ; just a common
rod but , and bo very careful not to in
jure it in any way until you are ready
to kill it : then strangle it. No ottier
mode of killing will answer. After life
is extinct , carefully disect it and pro
cured its heart.
The heart must be thoroughly dried
before u iiro of seasoned hickory wood.
After it is perfectly dried and cleaned ,
you must string it upon u silken cord of
reddish hue. The cord must bo long
enough to wear around the neck and
reach to the vest pocket. When the
conjurer coroes upon the stage bofpro
you , take from jour pocket the heart ,
and , hold it in the palm of your right
hand and repeat the words , 'Quoba
moim ecta poka , ' whop everything will
appear to you as plainly as it docs to the
conjurer. " '
Not lohg-aftcc this he told mo about
a wonderful book. This book was an
old heirloom which had boon handed
down from many generations. Concern
ing it , ho buld : "i have , a book , glvou
mo by my father , which will keep mo
from all danger , been or unseen.
In order that the charm
may work , you must have pious
faith in its power , when it will
positively keep you from all danger. At
the beginning of the revolutionary war
this book was in the possession of my
grandfather , who lived in Vermont.
One day , when the excitement of war
was at its height , there came to my
grandfather's house four young men of
his acquaintance. They were going to
the war and hud come to bid my grand
father good-bye ; ho being a cripple
could not go. As they started to go ho
told them about this book which ho had
Ho offered to write it out for them i
they wished it. Two of them hooted at
the idea , Buying' that it was all a piece
of foolishness and that thov would have
nothing to do with it. The other two
wished him to write it out for them
promising him that they would believe
in it with pious faith.
He wrote it out for each of them and
thev went their ways.
Time passed and the war came to an
end ; the two men who hud accepted the
book , came homo , hale and hearty. But
with the others it was different , one
was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill
and the other at the battle of Now Or
leans.
In this book there is a passage for the
prevention or rather for the cure of
tooth ache. The way in which the cure
may bo alTcctcd is simply this ; write out
the passage intended for this particu
lar pain , fold it neatly and sus
pend it by a silken thread
around the neck , with the paper hang
ing down the back. At intervals of
about fifteen minutes the string is to bo
raised to the mouth and moistened
with saliva. In the course of eight or
ten hours the silken string will part
where it has been constantly moistened.
At the same time that the siring parts
the toothache will cease. "
"No harm can come to the house be
neath whoso roof that book is placed. "
"How did it happen that it did not
keep you from dungor lust winter , when
that tramp attempted to murder you ? "
"At that time I did not have the book
in my possession. I only received it
last winter.
"Whoro can a person send to got a
copy of tills wonderful book ? " I uskcd.
"It is not u public book and wus never
printed in any but the Gorman language
and it is long since out of print. "
"How did this book have its origin ? "
"It first came before the people way
back in the early days of the Christian
'
ora. There was' a good man and ono
who believed in God , condemned to dio.
The night before the execution wus to
take nlaco ho was sitting in his prison
cell thinking ever past events and also
of the execution which wus set for the
morrow. Suddenly the cell was filled
with n strange bright light and out of
the light proceeded a voice which
said , 'You are unjustly con
demned to dio. If you will
write , and devoutly believe , that which
I will tell you , there will no harm como
to you.1 There wan paper and pen on
the stand , placed there for the prison
er's use in writing to his friends. Seat
ing himself at the stand ho proceeded
to write us. the voice dictated to him.
What ho wrote is the book now in my
possession. The execution was set for
9 o'clock the following morning. Nine
o'clock came and the prisoner advanced
into the yard where the execution waste
to take place ; his head was placed upon
the block , and yet ho had faith that all
would yet be well with him. The ex
ecutioner's uxe was raised , but an un
seen power prevented it from , descend
ing. And so it has been with all who
possessed this charm , uud who piously
behoved iult. " ' . . . . . . .
A SONG OF DAYS.
Julie M Jjii > i > mann.
'Twas Spring , when hope-days dawned , iny
sweet ,
My gyusy heart at your dear feet
Did pitch a tent.
Nor nil the Spring
Did my wild heart go truanting : H
It wus content. /
'
In Summer , when the Joy-days came
They found my vagrant heart grown tame
To your swoct spell ;
Forgetful quite i
Of all Its former fret for flight , *
It rested woll.
And yet when Autumn days dreamed deep
Of some dread portent , and asleep ,
Did sigh apace ,
My heart gleaned not
Strange fears and fled. It loved the
spotWhere
Where you had place.
So when the Winter-days awake
To Und a ravished world , and make
Sad moan , sod moan ,
My heart will sine ,
For where you are Is always Spring
And Spring alone.
CONNUIIIALITIES.
Three of the daughters of Charles Carrel
of Maryland bccamu respective marchioness
of Wcllcslcy , duchess of Leeds , and Lady
Stafford.
A Now York girl dropped dead the other
day , two hours after having become en
gaged to bo married. It is supposed her
death was caused by an attack of heart
disease , brought on by Joy ,
The Uov. F. L. H. Pott , a young Episco
palian clergyman , of Groenwhich , Conn. ,
who went out to China about a year ago. bos
married Miss S. N. Wong , whoso father was
the first Chinese convert to Christianity.
In Cuba a woman never loses her maldou
name. When married her husband's name is
added to her own , but she Is always called
by her Christian and maiden names. Children
take the name of both parents , but place the
mother's name after the father's.
If marriage is a failure , thoru Is nn'sbort *
ago In the oust of young women willing to
take the risks. Ono of them , a Miss Bandoll ,
lately Journeyed alone 2,000 miles to the Turtle -
tlo mountains of Dakota to share wedded Ufa
with a man she had only scon by photograph.
Miss Marie Howell , daughter of Admiral
Howell , Is engaged to Mr. Chester , an Eng
lish solicitor. The groom-elect offered hU
hand and fortune two years ago to Miss
Howell , but was refused. Chester continued
to charge upon the citadel of her heart , however -
over , and how well ho finally succeeded Is
told in this paragraph.
Johnson Newton Camden , Jr. , son of ox-
United States Senator Camden of West Vir
ginia , and Suslo I'rcston Hurt , "tho most
beautiful.woman In the south , " were marrlod
at Versailles , ICy. , recently. It was a very
brilliant aftalr , many distinguished people
being present. The couple have comfortable
nest eggs of $150,000 each to boglu house
keeping on.
Eligible women are at u premium In Dutch
India. They are so scarce in that country
that young men who wish to get married
write to their friends In Holland to find thorn
wives. The f rtcnd selects a willing lady and
forwards her photograph. If all is satisfac
tory the would-bo husband souda back a
soiled loft hanu glove With power of attor
ney. The friend then marries ths young
lady as a sort of logul proxy , and the mar
riage Is ns binding as though the groom him *
soli were present.
Although young Antoum Hctz was only on
umbulunco driver ut Ht Catherine's hospital ,
Williamshurg , N. Y. , ho so fasuinatod Hl tor
Mary , u mm on duty In the Institution , that
she went with htm to a priest's house , and
that clerical functionary was naked to marry
the couple. Ho declined , so Bister Mary and
her sweetheart sought olsowheru for sacer
dotal sanction to their union. Hoforo she
boounid a nun Sister Mary had boon Unqwn
as MUs Julia Hotly. Jiotz U employed In
How York ttvsur rcllnory. .
A free umlouHy expectoration Is pro
duced by a tow doses of lr , J. 1,1. Mo-
Lean's Tar Wino Lung Baliri , In 'all
cusus of hourronoti * , sere throat or dif-
Uculty of breathing , il/i uouts * bottlo.