THE HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
STATE HEWS
CF 6ENERAUNTE1EST
Two hundred thousand pounds ol
/ool were sold with sealed bids at the
/ool sale held in Condon last week,
/rices ranged from 31% cents a pound
22% cents.
Brief Resume of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
Klamath county’s share of Oregon
ind California grant land tax refund
was received by the county treasurer
in the form of a- United States treas
ury warrant for $111,855.03.
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California-Oregon Power company
development work in southern Oregon
under construction or ordered, will en-
iail an expenditure of $5,000,000. This
Fire insurance agents of Eugene Joes not Include a proposed further
have effected a temporary organiza development that will meat) an addi
tion and will organize permanently at tional expenditure of at least another
million.
the next meeting.
Eigh t Salem canneries will start op
erations June 1 on gooseberries. The
strawberry crop will follow.
The state board of control has
awarded contracts for a new dining
room and ice plant at the state home
for the feeble-minded.
L a Grande has no fear of a water
shortage this summer. The two new
wells and the Beaver creek supply are
furnishing 3,842,400 gallons daily.
W ith 80.87 Inches of rain In Astoria
since the rainfall year started Septem
ber 1, that city already has 3.88 inches
af precipitation over the normal rain
fall for the entire year. The normal
annual rainfall in Astoria, based on
records extending back more 'than 70
years, is 76.99 inches.
Portland has been named conven
tion city for the meeting of the Na
tional Tuberculosis association next
year, according to word received from
Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunfcar, executive sec
retary of the Oregon Tuberculosis as
T. M. Gerow, Eugene architect, Is sociation, who is ' attending the con
designing plans for a new school gym vention in Indianapolis, Ind.
nasium and auditorium at Marshfield.
Value of eggs bandied by the Cen
Bonds amounting to $70,000 will be tral Oregon Poultry Co-operative in
issued to finance the building.
the first year of Its existence amount
A site has been purchased aud work
will start soon on a new armory at
Baker, to cost from $20,000 to $30,000,
the money to be raised by popular sub
scription.
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By ELM O S C O T T W A T 8 0 N
I.-AG Day, which la observed
on June 14 throughout the
United States, has a spe
cial significance this year
because It Is the sesqul
centennlal of the adoption
of our national emblem.
For It was on June 14,
1777, Just ISO years ago,
that the Second Contin
ental congress In Phila
delphia adopted the reso
lution, proposed by John Adams, which
said:
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1 Resolved, That the Flag of the thir
teen United States be thirteen strlnes.
alternate red and white, that the union
be thirteen stars, white In a blue Held,
representing a new conatellatlon.
Thus did the flag come Into being.
Its Inception Is one of our favorite
traditions In which the names of
George Washington and Betsy Ross
ore lnsepnr'ably linked. According to
this tradition, the first flag, combining
the stars and stripes, was made by
Mrs. Elizabeth Ross at her home, 280
Arch street, Philadelphia, under the
personal supervision of George W ash
ington some time between Muy 28 and
June 7, 1777. The flag, as designed
by Washington, had six-pointed stars
and It was at Mrs. Ross’ suggestion
that five-pointed stars were substi
tuted.
Her design was presented to con
gress by a committee composed of her
husband, Ool. George Ross, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence from Pennsylvania; Robert
Morris and Washington, who In pre
senting It said, "W e take the star from
heaven, the red from our mother coun
try, separating It by white stripes and
the white stripes shall go down to
posterity representing liberty."
Such Is the tradition which Is com
monly accepted, even though there Is
DO documentary proof to back up its
authenticity. Later Detsy Ross Is said
to have received from the government
a contract for making flags and she
and her daughter carried on this busl-
uees until 18S7. Today there are de
scendants of Detsy Ross, such as the
young woman pictured above, Miss
Jane Ross of New York, who carry on
the family tradition of flag-makers.
According to another story, this first
flag was designed by Francis Hopkin-
son of New Jersey (also a signer of
the Declaration of Independence) nnd
the Itemised statement which he pre
sented to the government In 1780 for
his' services in designing this flag, ns
well as the seal of the Department of
Admiralty nnd of other governmental
departments, Is on file In the Con
gressional library.
But whether Detsy Ross or Francis
Hopktnson was the designer, as well as
s number o f other details connected
with the origin of the flag over which
there Is dispute, is ever settled con
clusively, the fact remains that June
14, 1777, was the date upon which the
Amerlcnn flag officially came Into ex
istence, and that la the reason for the
observance of Flag day. It has spe
cial significance this year, too, be
cause the United States Flag associa
tion, of which President Coolidge Is
honorary president, has launched a
campaign for a million members
through the formation of "sesqulcen
tennlal living flags" throughout the na
tion. The United States Flag associa
tion came Into being through the efforts
of Col. Jam es A. Moss, U. S. A. (re
tired), who served through three wars
under the Htars and Stripes and who
Is director general of the association.
The founders of It are thirteen In num
ber, typifying the thirteen stripes In
the flag, and Include prominent men
and women representing all races.
Helped Him Out
After dinner the other evening In a
Paris cafe a Turk who was an en
thusiastic partisan of the new ways of
life In Ills own country was explaining
that. In his opinion, marriage as prac
ticed In Christian lands was the only
method of mating which furnished a
solid basis for society.
"Yes," he concluded. “ I am a Arm
believer In mono------, mono------ " And
at this point, although he spoke
Mail Hasrfaa MofertseW
O f the 54.818 rural mall routes In the
United States ttfl per cent have been
motorised, according to the annual re
port to congress of Postm.^ter Gen
eral New. The combined lengths of
the routes is 1.249.V78 miles and the
total mileage traversed during the last
flscsl year was 877,045,708.
A machine has been developed ca
pable of signing from (L500 to 7,500
checks In one hour.
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Dedication of the Lane county cot
tage at the W . C . T. U. Children’s
Farm Home at Corvallis will occur
Ju n e 19. The building has been com
pleted and will soon be furnished.
Albert W. McDermid, 42, of Seattle,
a steeplejack, was killed at Baker
when he fell from a smokestack on
the Oregon Lumber company mill 75
feet to the roof of the engine room.
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The organization of a Reedsport
Merchant’s Protective association Is
definitely under way. Heavy losses
have been sustained by the merchants
through improper placement of credit.
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creeds and political affiliation In the
United States. The national council
consists of the governors of the 48
states In the Union, typifying the 48
stars In the flag. The association,
founded for the promotion of rever
ence for the flag nnd the Ideals and
Institutions for which It stands, hopes
to bring about In this sesqulcentennlal
year a “ patriotic revival” through the
formation of "sesqulcentennlal living
flags” on Flag duy.
During the 150 years of its history
the American Flag bus attracted -to It
various symbolical names—Old Glory,
Stars and Stripes, Red, White and
Blue, the Nutlonal Standard, the
Starry Flug, the Flag of the Free, the
Rainbow of Hope, the Colors, the En
sign, and the Star Spangled Bunner.
The last Is perhaps the favorite one
since It Is also the name of our na
tional anthem. That name for It was
first used in 1814 uud associated with
It are the names of Fort Mclleury,
Md., and Francis Scott Key.
That, too, Is one of the familiar
traditions of American history but
there Is no dispute about the facts
connected with naming the flag “ the
Star Spangled Danner" as there Is In
the case of the origin of the banner.
During the VYnr oi 1872 » British ex
pedition set out to “ cut the nation In
two” by moving up the Chesapeake
hay, capturing Washington and Balti
more nnd from this strategic position
operating north nnd south. Washing
ton was captured and the capItol
burned. But wheu the British fleet
moved against Baltimore It found a
stout defender of that city In the form
of Fort McHenry.
During the bombardment of the fort
Francis Scott Key, a young Maryland
lawyer, was detained on board one of
the British ships to which he had gone
seeking the release of a friend who
had been taken prisoner by the Brit
ish. All during the night Key watched
the bombardment. A t dawn he peered
through the mist and smoke to see
If the fort still held out or If Its guns
had been silenced and It had been
forced to surrender. To his delight he
saw that “our flag was still there."
So he sat down and wrote the words of
the Immortal song on the back of an
old envelope.
French with facility, he could not
think of the word he wnnted. Where
upon his Freuch host cams to his res
cue.
“ Monotony." said the latter.
TAia M ay Ba Trua
Elisa was a hired girl. She lived tn
Kansas, nnd she had never aeen the
ocean. Finally, though, her mistress
took her to Ocean park.
On their arrival at Ocean park they
went down to the sunlit beech and the
Guncotton From Garbage
Possibly some day nothing whatever
will be wasted. The last word In
salvaging scraps comes from Berlin.
Germany, where an engineer. Kurt
(lerson, has recently erected a large
plant to convert the garbage of the
city Into guncotton, artificial silk and
o th e r useful products.
By this proc
ess. reports Popular Science Monthly,
all cellulose matter la sifted from the
garbage end subjected to special treat-
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The original “ Star Spangled Ban
ner," the flag which flew over Fort Mc
Henry that memorable night Is still
preserved In the National museum In
Washington. It was made by Mrs.
Mnry Plckersglll of Baltimore, whose
grandmother, Rebecca Young, Is said
to have mude “ the first flag of the
Revolution under General Washing
ton’s direction," although her de
scendants who have preserved the
story do not specify which flag this
“ first” one was. In Its present state
of preservation the Stnr Spangled Ban-
ne is 32 by 20 feet. It has 15 stripes
nnd un equal number of s^ rs. It was
one of the famous “ 15 Stars and
Stripes” Hugs authorized by congress
In 1704, since there were then only 15
states In the Union. It was one of
these "15 Stars and Stripes" flags
which flew from the mast of the U.
S. S. Constitution»“ Old Ironsides," and
under which Oliver Hazard Perry
fought In his famous naval battle on
Lake Erie.
Nor has the memory of Key been
forgotten. He died In Baltimore In
1843 and he lies burled In Frederick,
Md., the town made famous by the
tradition of Barbara Frletchle and her
defiance of "Shoot If you must this
old gray head, but spare your coun
try’s flag.” In 1914 congress made an
appropriation for a monument at Fort
McHenry to stand as a memorial to
Key and the American soldiers and
sailors who beat off the British at
tack. This monument was dedicated
on Flag day In 1922 with President
Harding delivering the principal ad
dress.
The Slxty-elghth congress In 1925
appropriated the sum of $50,(100 for
the restoration of Fort McHenry un
der the direction of the secretary of
war and "Its permanent preservation
as a national park and perpetual na
tional memorial shrine as the birth
place of the Immortal ’Star Spangled
Banner.’ " This work Is now going
on, with the fort Itself being restored
and the buildings around It being torn
down to make place for a beautiful
park. In the picture above, showing
Fort McHenry as It Is today, the flag
staff Is said to be the same one which
the flag, that Inspired Francis Scott
Key, flew and from It a "Star Span
gled Banner still waves."
There will -be a new Church of
Christ building erected at Sweet Home
in the near future. The officers al
ready have had the blue print made.
This will be quite an Improvement
to the town.
Grain operations on Tule lake are
seriously curtailed by high water in
the 96,000-acre basin, and as a result
the annual crop will be below that of
last year, Klamath County Agent C
A . Henderson reported.
The Interstate commerce commis
sion designated Portland as one of
three western cities In which hearings
on western livestock rates will be
held within the next two months by
the commission’s examiners.
Between 700,000 and 800,000 baby
chicks were shipped by Salem baby
chick hatcheries during the last year,
according to figures prepared in Salem
recently. This year's shipments will
exceed 1,000,000 baby chicks, it was
said.
The city of Ashland has filed with
the state engineer an application for
permission to construct the Reeder
gulch reservoir for the storage of 800
acre-feet of water In Jackson county.
The estimated cost of the project was
$350,000.
Portland Is suffering from an epi
demic of measles, according to figures
contained In the weekly report of the
state board of health for May 21. This
shows Portland had 196 cases of meas
les. In the remainder of the state
were 122 cases of measles.
Assurance that a station of the Pa
cific Co-Operative Poultry Producers’
association will be established In Eu
gene was made coincident with the an
nouncement that Lane farmers con
trolling more than 100,000 hens have
signed up with the organization.
ed to over $25,000, It was anuounced
at the annual meeting of the co-opera
tive In Redmond. Verne Livesay of
Plainview hag been re-elected presi
dent of the Mid-state Association of
Poultrymen.
One-half of the $12,000 needed by
the McMinnville chamber of com
merce for the purchase of the Hunt
cannery building and plant was ob
tained last week by a solicitation com
mittee headed by W . L . Osborn, coun
ty assessor. After the purchase ol
the cannery it will be used as the re
ceiving plant for fruit during the com
ing season.
Following the receipt of the su
preme court decision holding that the
law passed by the recent legislature
authorizing the removal of the county
seat to Medford from Jacksonville was
constitutional, at an informal confer
ence ot Medford city officials, It was
decided to go ahead with preparations
for construction of the new city hall
courthouse building at once.
Residents of Oregon must watch
their steps a little more closely from
now on, if they would escape an argu
ment with the courts. Last Saturday,
370 new laws enacted by the last leg
islature became effective, the 90 days
since the close of the session elapsing
at midnight Friday. These 370 new
laws die in addition to 81 emergency
measures passed at the last session,
already effective.
Douglas county will enjoy a reduc
tion in general taxes of more than 25
per cent as a result of the payment
by the government* of the Oregon &
California tax refund, It is estimated
Douglas county’s share of the initial
payment was the largest to be re
ceived by any county of the state, as
it has more of the revested lands than
any of the other 18 counties concern
ed. Douglas county's check amounted
to $1,471,640.66.
Oregon cherry growers have been
Invited by the United States tariff
commission to send representatives tc
Washington, D. C ., to attend the hear
ing June 28 in connection with the
cost Investigation of cherry produc
tion now being conducted under the
commission’s direction. Pacific coast
growers had requested an increase In
the present tariff rate of two cents a
pound on cherries. In order that they
might better meet foreign competition.
Peach growers of the Brogan vicin
ity report that prospects for a bumper
crop are very good. Fear was felt
earlier in the season that all the
peaches were killed by the heavy
frosts In April, but orchardlsts now
say that only a small percentage was
Injured and, barring further loss, the
yield will be up to normal. Thera is
more water In the Willow creek reser
voir than there has been at any time
in the past three years, so no loss
from drought Is expected.
A bullet accidentally fired from a
gun in the pocket of Jam es F . Toney,
Redmond city marshal and Deschutes
county deputy sheriff, killed his 4-
Construction of ten miles of logging year-old son, Jam es, In Redmond last
railroad at an estimated cost of $100,- week. It was believed that a knife
000. will be undertaken Immediately In the pocket pressed against the
by the Shaw Bertram Lumber com pistol trigger. Toney was seated in
pany of Klamath Falls, It was an
chair in his home, his two small
nounced. The logging road will tap sons, Bobby and Jam es, playing on
timber holdings of the concern in the the floor, near their mother.
The
Squaw Flat district, 40 miles east ol bullet passed between two of Toney’s
Klamath Falls.
fingers and pierced the boy’s heart.
Within two or three weeks motor
Coinciding with the June $8 special
mistress said, waving her hand out to
wards the great, windy spread o f roll ists may again pass entirely around state election, a special county and
Mount Hood on the Mount Hood loop. city election will be held in L a Grande.
ing wnters and white sails and wheel
Ing gu lls:
That was the news H. B. Van Duser Petitions already are being circulated
"There, Elisa, there’s the sea. What ot the Oregon state highway commis to place a measure on the ballot pro
do you think of It?"
sion received from the commission’s posing to reassign $398,000 In un
“Gosh." said Ellas. “ It smells Ilka snow removal crew.
spent road bonds for construction at
oysters, don't It?"
Improvement ot the Chilolquln- new county highways. Including a I I -
Klamath agency road became a car mile road from Union to Medleal
Got Along W ithout Zara
tainty
with the receipt of word from Springs, and a Summervllle-Elgln
The Greeks and Romans did not
have a zero In their numerals Our J. H. Scott, state market road engi connection with the Toll Gate road
present system with the zero was de neer, that the state highway commis over the Blue mountains to connect
rived from that of the Arabs.
sion had designated the thoroughfarv with the Um atilla county road via Sor
aa a market road.
est service highway.
An after-dinner speech has to he
ment Moreover, by distilling such
In thia day o? fcmlnfns bandits,
tactful. It never refers In the slight
matter as potato parings and pieces
there’s no bettor protection than a
est way to the high coat of food.
o f wood, Oerson declares he can pro
duce tar, charcoal and acetic acid.
The beet way to determine whether
a lightning flesh Is spiral or Jagged to
Biblical M a t ary
to take one home and examine IL
The total numbest of Is ra e lit« sa
gaged In the war with the Mldlanltss
Tee co at believe h alf yoe hear, or
was 12,0(10—1,000 for every «ribs
half yoe reed In p rin t The deaf and
blind ere enjoying e
Grading of the athletic field at the
Rainier Union high school was begun
last week by John L . Brooks of St.
Helens. The work of putting the field
Into shape will be completed by Aug
ust 1. It is claimed for the field that
It will be one of the best tn Columbia
county.
Actual construction work on the
new nurses’ home at the Oregon state
hospital will get under way within
the next two weeks, according to an
nouncement made in Salem by Dr. R.
E. Lee Steiner, superintendent of the
institution. It will cost approximately
$150,000.
Misai H al* Himaolt
Heaven ne’er helps the man whs
will not a c t—Sophocles
The new radio lew will «ot he sat
isfactory nnleee It
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On a Tipperary Road, Ireland.
(P rep a red b y th e N a tio n a l G eograp hic
. S o cie ty , W a sh in g to n . D. C.)
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R E L A N D , which holds such a se
cure place In many hearts, is not
a large country. The longest line
of land which can be drawn Is
three hundred miles— from Fair Head,
In the northeast, to Mlzen Head, In the
southwest Taklug the country as a
rough lozenge, the short diagonal from
northwest to southeast is about two
hundred miles.
The terrain Itself may be roughly
divided Into three parts: a mountain
ous region In the north, an equally
mountainous region In the south, and
a great central plain.
The mountains In the north of Ire
land are a geological continuation of
those of Scotland, and those of the
south a like continuation of the Welsh
mountains. The Irish Centrul .plain
Is opposite what in England Is called
by soldiers the Chester gap and so,
naturally, the Irish Central plain Is
England’s logical and only military
outlet to the northwest.
The rich and fertile province of
Meath was the possession of whatever
tribe In Ireland could take and hold
IL In earliest dtlys Dublin and Its
Llffey was not the principal site of the
Irish kings, but Tara, tn Meath, and.
Boyne, with its lush meadow grass
and its infinity o f salmon. In the
southwest Limerick was hardly less
Important Limerick was protected on
the west by the Atlantic and on the
east by the wide and dangerous Shan
non. The Shannon Is Considered the
real military frontier of Ireland In the
w est The greatest of English sol
diers, the Lord Protector Cromwell, did
not dare to Invade Connacht (Con
naught).
- What you will see as a visitor In
Ireland depends on your own mind.
Names, little crannies In cities, will
work their white eery magic on you.
The walls of Derry (Londonderry)
will make your heart beat faster, for
no gallantry In Froissart rivaled that
of the thirteen apprentice boys who
locked the gates against Jam es of the
Fleeing and held the city for eight long
months, not only against King Jam es,
but against famine and pestilence.
Things ta See and Think About
On Lough Erne you will find that
Saint Patrick’s purgatory which en
thralled the m lnd.of medieval Europe
and which Is still a place of devout
pilgrimage.
A t Ballyshannon you may be for-
thnate enough to see the salmon, lying
packed like sardines, awaiting the op
portune moment to spring up the Falls
of Assaroe, springing sixteen feet In the
air against the foaming roaring water.
A t Muckross the fantastic cliffs will
hold you. In that one named the Mar
ket House you will see a blood brother
of the rock out of which the African
sculptor hewed the fearsome Sphinx.
In Donegal you will see the desolate
Rosses, a tangle of small lakes and
great granite boulders, and he who
loses his way in that desert by night
Is the most luckless of beings. The
great mountain of Donegal Is Errlgal,
and Its white cap Is not snow but
white quartz. From Its top, on a fair
day, you can see the Scottish Heb
rides, Islay and Ju ra, floating on the
water like young brown gulls.
From Horn Head, sometimes out of
mist will emerge the rocky battle
ments o f Tory Island, like something
evoked by an enchanter’s wand. The
roar of the Atlantic crashing Into that
cavern known as MacSwlne’s Gun will
shake the stoutest heart
Belfast la about as Irish a city as
Paisley Is. It is of no antiquity and,
except for commerce, of no Impor
tance; but within easy reach of It are
the blue Mourne mountains, the great
Dun of Downpatrick, where the coun
try folk say that S t Patrick, S t
Brlglt, and S t ColnmklUe are all three
buried.
Near Castle Upton are some rained
buildings o f the Knights Templars, of
Interest aa a minor establishment
founded by the Knights who escaped
to Harris.
At Antrim Is the greatest round
tower of Ireland, nearly one hundred
feet high. Neer the town Is Longb
Neagh, the largest lake In the British
Isles, bordered with orchards.
Gentle Hint?
The movie sets often afford
unexpected humor. The other day
Reaves Eason shouted through his
megaphone: "New, Boot, speak that
t it le ’
I t was a love scene b stwssn Hoot
Olbaea sad Barbara W orth, and Hoot,
obeying Instructions, burbled the dra-
“I f yea know what I waa
ta
ted to
A t Balllnderry Jeremy Taylor wrote
his most Important works, and near It,
at Whlteabbey, Anthony Trollope
wrote his autobiography. Near Car-
rlckfergus, at Kilroot, Dean Sw ift had
a living for a small time.
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Nine Glens of Antrim.
North of Belfast, at Larne, begin
the Nine Glens of A ntrim : Glenarm,
Glencloy, Glenarlff, Glen Ballyemon,
Glenaun, Glencorp, Qlendun, Glen-
shesk, and Glentow. Near Cushendall
is Ossian’s grave. Thackeray called
Glenarlff a miniature Switzerland.
North of Antrim Is Rathlln island,
or Raghery, as the Gaels call It. T h e
stormy sea between Ireland and Rag
hery Is called Sloch-na-mara, or Gullet
of the Ocean, and can only be sailed
over in the finest of weather. H ere
is Bruce's refuge. It Is a gallant little
Island, with an Immensity of birds. It
is mentioned not only by Charles
Kingsley, but by Ptolemy.
Near Ballycastle is the famous C ar-
rlck-a-Itede, a ropewalk over a chasm
sixty feet wide and ninety deep, a
couple of planks lashed together by
rope.
The handrail, also a rope,
swings away from you as you cross.
The Giant’s Causeway, near by, 1»
more curious than beautiful. The best
time to see It Is In a gale, when the
tessellated terraces are assaulted by
a cavalry of foam. Parts of It are
called by fantastic names: the Honey
comb, Lord Antrim’s Parlor, the Or
gan, the Giant’s Loom, the Gateway,
and the Lady’s Fan.
Howth Is northward, with the small
islands of Ireland's Eye and Lam bay.
Through Swords and Malahlde one
travels to Drogheda, whose walls still
show the effect of the lord protector’»
cannon, and whose river, the Boyne,
shows so little effect of Ireland’»
greatest battle.
Westward of Drogheda Is New-
grange, famous for its Druid burial
mound, with a passage of great stone»
forty-eight feet long leading into a
stone-roofed chamber. It Is the oldest
Celtic monument In Europe.
The
Norsemen are supposed to have rifled
It, so that no man knows what >' con
tained.
Tallaght, near Dublin, is the great
burial place of the legendary legion»
o f Parthelon. who died of the plague.
Kingstown Is so modern as to be vul
gar. Bray and Dalkey are pretty little-
coast towns.
Wicklow and Val« of Avoca.
Going In Wicklow, you enter a world
of glens, like Glen of the Downs, the-
Devil's glen, and mountain lakes like
Tay and Lough Dan. Glendalough, or
the “ Glen of Two Lakes,” as the
Gaelic name means, is a deep, solitary
glen In a wild region, the upper lake
of which has something terribly sin
ister about IL Here are the ruins o f
seven churches, which have stood fo r
upward of twelve hundred years, and
a round tower. It Is the site of the
hermitage of S L Kevin.
The Vale of Avoca and the Meeting
of the Waters are the prettiest spot»
In Leinster. The scenery of Leinster
seems to have a feminine, soft quality.
The road from Dublin to K lllam ey
passes through Maryborough and
Thurles, In which latter city Silken
Thomas, the Earl o f Kildare, burned
the great cathedral In 1495 because he
thought the archbishop was inside.
Moeroun castle, on the Kerry road.
Is the birthplace of Admiral Sir W il
liam Penn, the father of the founder
of Pennsylvania. Gougane Barra is a
place of the most dark and beautiful
aspect Steep mountains and a lake
like black marble, and trembling sliver
rivers shining Into the dark water.
The English poet, William Words
worth, writing about Klllarney, s a y s :
“ In point of scenery this Is the finest
portion of the British Isles,” which
is treason to his own lake country.
The name Klllarney means “ Church
of the sloa hushes.” The lakes are
three: the Upper or M cCarthy Moore*»
lake; the Middle or Tore lake; the
Lower la called In the Gaelic Lough
Leane.
In the Gap of Dunloe, the brawling
Loe river expands Into little lakes o f
water remarkable for tbelr blackness.
The Golden MacGIUlcuddy’s reek»
and the Purple mountains stand
around thia district like sentinels.
Quick as a flash Miss Worth re
torted : "And I f yon knew whst I*as
thinking, you'd he a little boulder."—
Los Angeles Times.
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