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) The Abbeville Press andJBannerJj BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C;; WEDNESDAY.! NOVEMBER 3, 1886; VOLUME XXXI. NO. 18.' IN SOUTHERN IRELAND. A LOOK AT CORK AND ITS IRISH CHARACTERISTICS. t*n<l<ly aa He In at Honie?Thfc Sbftis tlic Saloons and the Feasants' House*. ? IIIr Estates and Toor PcopIc?Jauntlng V Cars, Beggars, Ete.> Kte. HL- {Special Corrcspoftdo'fttp.J ^ Dublin, Sept. 4.?Landing at Queenstown, I came at once to Cork, the third city of Ireland, and the capital of tho south. It is % beautifully situated on the hanks of the Leo, tond it is surrounded by a country rich and rolling. My guide book proudly says it has increased 4,000 in the last ten years, and it lias now a population of 104,000 people. Tho Btreets of Cork are as irregular as those of Uoston, but they are wider and better paved. Y iSfc. Patrick's street, which is tho chief one, nas sonil? JIIH" SW?I l-J, U1IU\ IVUIIUU v.iuuj, IV seems to be prosperous. The city 5s a great shipping port, and all tbo cattle, sheep and agricultural products of south Ireland are sent from here to England. Ireland raises tho best meat in tho world* though sho Is too poor to cat it, and I saw sheep, cows and liorses by the hundreds driven through tho streets in front of ray hotel, on their way to the boats. Cork uutter is advertised all tliroogh Engiand and in tho other Irish cities, and tho tweed mills at Blarney, near Cork, make some of the best cloth made in the kingdom. This tweed outwears the JScotch make, and it is very /cheap here. A good suit of clothes, made to order, can bo got for from ?12 to $1">, and I have seen ad^ vertisemenfcs in the tailors' windows offering good goods as low as $10 per suit There is little brick used here in building, and tin? Cork business blocks lack the architectural beauties of an American street of tho same sized city. Stono and stucco seem to prevail in building materials, and everything is massive and somber. The smaller houses of the city, or the dwellings of the laboriug classes, are low one or two-story houses, containing from one to four rooms, and having no ornamentation whatever. These are built in long blocks, and the better ones of thorn are coated with whitewash. The houses stand clost to the sti-eet, without gardens, and in i the snhnrlis the chickens and geese and such | oHier animal; as the owner.may he fortunate i enough to own share the lints. The outside of these houses are rarely clean. They have | iff r.o yards and the floors are oftener of dirt than of atone or wood. AS IRIsn CADIX. There aro many good stoi cs in Cork, but. few like the American ones yon would find in a city of 1U0,(XK). Their- storerooms are, as a rale, small, and their stock of goods meager. The smaller stores jumble their goods into the windows, with no attempt ut tasteful arrangement, ami the sign of a small grocer}* store L? a window filled with greasy hams and vegetables. The meat markets, or butcher sho]?, all have one wide window opening on to the sidewalk, and the ledge of this window is the meat counter, on which the cuts are carved n?d weighed. In the bettor class of butcher shojis this counter is a marble slab; ia the poorer it is of wood. Saloons in Cork aro well patronized, and you will find both women and men drinking at- theiu. They aro known here ns "spirit and vine stores," and have signs of this kind. Another curious store hero is ' The Potato Store," where potatoes alone are sold. The ]>otato is the staple food of the lower classes, | and you will see these stores everywliere. Potatoes are worth now a1>out the same as in { America. Thojo I havo eaten aro very fine, .and from the general health of the people I see there can be uo better diet in the world. OUTSIDE JAfXTIXO CAR. Tho street svencs of Cork are like those nf no city iu Europe. The vehicles are all two wlicelcd, from the jaunting car, which dashes Along at a four minute pace with its load of pretty Irish girls or English tourists, to tho j heavy cart-, which drags on its two wheels a I Lwul of stone; from the mail wagon, with its gaudy colored paint, to the littlo donkey cart, whose animal is not half the size of its driver and would not weigh much moro than a Newfoundland dog. The jaunting car i.s the hackney cab of Ireland You find it everywhere and nil classcs use it. There are three kinds, outside, inside mid covered cars, and I give you hero pictures of each. The most used, however, is tho ; open one, or the outside jaunting car. Tho j .seats of this arc cushioned ciul tho frame | work is painted in bright colors. The seats j tire fully live feet from tho grouml and ! the passengers face the sidewalk as they j * >1 INSIDE .TAVXTIXO CAR. riilc. Thoy look much as though they were in a pair of jmniers sitting back to back, as they go jolting along on the springs, and tlio raw Irishman who sits just behind drives like Jehu and generally has u good horse. In case ho has a full car of four passengers be sits i:i the center, but if only one or two he must take one of the side scats or the car would be unbalanced and go over at the first turn of a comer. One of the drivers in Cork says: "The outside car is the best. It's mighty convenient, for if ye have a lady wid ye sbe is all to yourself to spako to and to fell in love wid, and lor that raison the ladies prefer them." Tlie.-o jaunting car drivers are good fellows, as a rule, and the promise of a foe of a few pence makes them very frieudly and loqua-1 .cioui One of them drove myself and anotiie/ , V American nttfmt tort miles for $1.7"), nnd when I paid him instead of tho price agreed tipon, he seemed hardly able to express his gratitude. Car fares arc very cheap in Ireland. In the larger citics twelve cents is the fixed tariff of a ride from one point to another for one or two persons, and two persons can get a car for nn hour, with tho driver, for thirty-seven cents inside tho city and fifty cents outside. A jaunting car costs from $H)(> to $150, and a very good one can bo gotten for $ 125. You can hire them to take you all over tho country, nnd they make tho best of sight-seeing conveyances. Tho drivers tell me that they arc not at all hard on tho horses, and I note that the hoi-sis used in them are, as a rule, better than tho cab horses I have seen elsewhere in Europe and in America. COVERED JAUNTING CAlU Tho inside jaunting car has seats turned inward, and tho covered car has a top, which mokes it look much like an oilskin tent on wheels. Neither of these are much used, however, and the open vehiclo is tho favorite. It was in one of these jaunting cars that I rode out to Blarney castle. It lies about five miles from Cork, and it, about 470 years ago, formed tho residence of somo of the Irish kmgs. Both Cromwell and King "William III besieged it, and the latter, after tho battle of the Boyne, in the time of our several times great-grandfathers, took it and demolished all but the donjon tower. This remains today in good preservation, and promises to defy for years the assaults of Timo and the ivy. Grass and vines grow in its crevices, and over its top, 120 feet high, the height of a good long church spire, the green leaves have twined themselves. This tower is many feet square, nnd has numerous dark rooms. It is built of granite, and there is a winding stairway which loads to the top. The tower is wonderfully wtll constructed, and the architect of to-dny would find it hard to duplicate it The Blarney stono is about twenty fleet from the top and though tho guido books say otherwise, it is impossible to kiss it nnd live. Some travelers are shown other stones and go away imagining that in kissing these that they carry with them the mysterious power giveu by kissing tho Blarney stone us doKri iluvl iii tln> frish lines. For Mire a magnet its influenco such is. Attraction it pves all it touches. If vou kiss it they say. from that Messed day, \'ou may kiss "whom you please wid your blarney. BLARNEY CASTLE. Blarney eastlu is now owned by th* young Lord of Blarney, who has inherited a great estato surrounding it. He lias had much d. 11 .'1.1. l.;,. fi,A iruuijii' wuu iil> tcuaiiidiiiiu duiiic ui tuv? nuiwc arc lying idle. One of Lis tenants not long since refused to pay the rent demanded of him and ho was evicted. Tbo young "lord's agent tried to get another tenant, hut when a tenant Is turned out on such grounds it would not lie safe for another nun to take the property. The lands of this tenant were left idle for a year or two, and u short time ago he was reinstated upon hu? own terms. As we drove from Cork to Blarney other empty houses were pointed out to us, and one driver told us that these were idle on account of such evictions. The country drives through Ireland arc very beautiful, and about Cork they are like driving through continuous gardens. The roads are piked and they arc as smooth as a floor. The green fields are separated from them by walls of stone and hedge and great trees, the tranks of which arc covered with ivy, hang over them. Now niul then j-ou pass the entrance to the mansion of some great lord, who has his porter's lodge beside it, and who owns his acres often by the tens of thousands. Along these roads about Cork, and here and 11 11-.. .1 ?UA A?.A lUVI U M'UttUIVil VI iuc HUHAOvcaj/v, uiu numerous one-story cabins, of stone or of stucco, washed w ith a coat of glaring whitewash. They are usually of one low story and an attic, ami their roofs are of thatched straws. This thatch, in many instances, is old and broken. The grass grows in it, and the moss springs up all over it. The edgo of the roof is often no higher thnn a man's head, and many of these huts have but one room. Few have more than two. They l>clong to small tenants, men who have from ouo to thirty or forty acres of land, at a rent of from $5 to $10 per acre for it. Think of paying $400 a year rent for forty acres of land, with a cabin hardly tit for a hogpen on it, and you liavo the condition of these people. Nearly tho whole of Ireland is rented out by landlords who live in England, and who spend their money there. Many of them never come to Ireland at all. Others have never seen their estates, and there are many who get from $50,000 to $200,000 a year in rents. These rents are collected by agents, and land in Ireland rents from $3 to #30 per acre. A good average would jwrhaps tie $5 or $0 per acre. Some rent as high as $46 per acre. Speaking of large estates, tlireo men own estates in Ireland of more than 100,000 acres each, and fourteen own estates of from 50,000 to 100,000 acres each. The whole of Ireland is not as large as Ohio, anil it is owned by a very few ipen. The workers of the country in the fewest instances own the land they till. The products of the country are shipped out of it, and tho money earned by it is spent abroad. A member of parliament, whom I met at Belfast daring the riots, tells mo that from $.)0,000,>XX) to $00,000,000 is seat to England in payment of Irish rents yearly. 1 have heard it estimated elsewhere at ?&>,000,000 a year. Cut the $50,000,000 is striking enough. What state in the Union could stand such a draw year alter year? It is no wonder that the laboring classes of Ireland are the poorest in Europe and that their condition of living is the worst. The country of Ireland resembles in its natural character many of the United States. It is made up of gently rolling hills in the south and those along the coast rise into low rocky mountains. About Cork it is a garden, and as far us you can ice ricb crop* I fill your eyes and tlio fattest or cattle ijnd I sheep dot the landscape. The fields loo!: like 1 I those of a model farm. They aro generally : rectangular in shape and aro, as a rule, small, 1 I seldom lx>ing over five or ten acres in extent 1 ! and often only ono or two. These fields are t j separated by stone walls about two to fouf 1 ! feet wide at the bottom and banked up with 1 earth, so that in many cases tbo stones aro ( not seen and the fields seem to bo separated < by walls of green grass, which are often 03 ? high as four feet. On many of tho walls J hedges are planted and in some of them small 1 trees grow. There are no wooden fences on 3 the farms of southern Ireland, and the only 1 wire I have seen is here and thero a strand or i two nn stakes about a foot hitrh. runninn 1 along tho tops of tho walls which line the railways. These fences add greatly to tho beauty of the landscape and make it look totally different from an American one. They take up, however, a great deal of valuable land, ami in most cases have as much space allotted to them as the woven rail fences. Often there is a deep ditch running around the fields inside tho walls, and in such cases the fence and ditch wastes a strip of land from ten to fifteen feet wide all around it. It is in this waste of land in fences that somo people find all the troubles of Ireland. It is certainly a great waste, but I imagine Ireland's chief troubles rome from other causes. Before I left America a leading editor^ who makes it his rulo to spend 100 days every year abroad, asked me why I wanted to go to Ireland, as "there were 110 antiquities there." This is a mistake. Ireland is rich in J-uins, and you find old on sties everywhere. Blnrney is only one of hundreds, and old mjnasteries, and there is a greater number of ruined abbeys here than in England ROCK OF CASIIEL. Tbo round towers of Ireland nro romarka- J bio ruins, tho use of which is not known, though it is supposed that they were tho watcb-towera of tbo i*oplo against tho Danes, away back when England and Ireland wcro s almost savage countries. Between Killaniey 1 anil Dublin there is one of these towel's in al- J most perfect preservation. It is known as t the ilock of Cashel, is made of sandstone, and u is as high as an eight-story house, or ninety 1 feet. There was an abbny built near this ? during the middle ages, but it is in ruins, * while tho tower, much older than it, stands a out n proud monument of early Celtic urcbi- r tccturo. ^ I took a day's drive in an open stage over t be mountainous hills of southern Ireland, # going through what is called its most pietures>,ue scenery .-.nd stopping at the Lakes oi c Killarney. Leaving Cork by rail, we rode 6 about two bouts through Cork county to a I little town named Bantry, owned by Lord n Bantry, one of tbo nabobs of the county, ani i from hero drove about three liours to the Bay s of GlengarilT. Tho drive all this way was v largely through this lord's lands, ami rich f lields. fat sheep and cattle, and paupers were a the chief features of the landscape. Bantry ' is named ofter the noble family which owns 1 it, and this owning of a town is not uncoui- r nion here. All the* houses or money of the -s little Irish town are owned by one man whose u ngent rents them out to tenants. In other eases the tenant rents t!ie land on a long C lease and builds stores and houses upon them. * These in turn he re-rents, and by paying s a ground rent of from $5 upwards for a little > block of ground, builds a property upon it t which will rent for a tair interest on his, in- <] vestment. s These little towns scattered over southern I Ireland are much like the Cork suburb*. They have no ganjens, have no architectural ' beauties, and the poorer parts of thein ore s not fit for such hermits as Dickens' Tom Tiddler, much less for families of ten aiid twelve 1 children, added to the father and mother. * The roads of Ireland are fine everywhere, s and the improvements in the vay of bridges s> are of the most substantial character. Iu ? this day's ride through the mountains we were e oh a pike nil the way, and in some cases the road was cut through solid rock. Wo drove through n great part of Cork and Kerry counties, the latter of which bos over 1,000,0(H) acres, and Cork, the largest county in Ireland, more than 1,800,000 acres. BEGGING PENNIES. t Beggars followed us everywhere, and they f were of all classes nnd ages. At every turn > 1 of tlio road and from every rock, bare- 1 headed, bare-logged, ragged girls and boys , ? j from 4 years old to HJ sprang forth and made 1 for our stage,'holding out their hands as they 1 ran, and saying, "Penny if you plazo, stir. Penny if you plaze." This refrain they would ' keep up for miles, running all the time as : fast as the horses and keeping even with the J ' stage. If a penny was thrown to them, they j would scramble and light among themselves ' for it and then dart on to beg for more. .Some 1 of the little girls wero almost naked, and t none of them had hats, shoes or good clothes. * i One 1 remember, a strapping, good looking j ! girl of l.j, had upon her rags which left her in , I a state of semi-nudity, and which looked as $ i though the breaking of a thread would leava < j her dad a la Mudam Eve before tho full. Sbd . I jot about five pennies in atfibee-mile run and ivas prpfuse in ber God blesg yous. OiwJ of the best beggars of tbo whole lot ivas a little red-beaded boy of about 10 years ivho foHowed us five miles at least. Ho was ill rags, but quite pretty, and bis bare] feet :opt bim up with the stage though 'his face ivas flushed with tbo exertion. He ran along md sang Irish songs for us, and then asked is if wo would give bim a penny if ho would itand on his head. \Vithdiit waiting ifor a cply be dashed ahead of the trotting four* ioi-so team and after he had gotten about .S00 rards in advance lie stood on bis bead and jalanced his bare legs in tbo air, and so renamed with red face while the stage passed, lis almost bursting eyeballs looking into faces ind inquiring as to the result of his cliicf legging trick. He did this a half dozen imcs, until I promised him ft penny if he irould follow us no longer. Ho promised I brew him tho penny, and ho turned to run wick when an Australian wag on tho front eat held np another copper, and he broke his vord and put after us again. At Kenmare un able-bodied Irishmnn of 10 stood in tho street and sung songs, while lie stago stopped, for the few pennies which vero given him. Ho had a sbillalch hi his lands and danced an Irish dance at tho end >f each verse. It was a humiliating and degrading scene and I pitied the man more ban I laicised at his antics. At th^ * Afces of Killarney the beggars are egion. They seizo hold of you and will hardy let you go. They meet you at evsry turn md by laughing or crying, by importunity ind check, coax the coppers out of j-our x>cket at every turn. They try to force you o buy, and swarm about you to such an exent that tho scenery is hardly worth the itrucjgle in getting past them. TBo same lagging I found at Dublin, and so everywhere in tho south of Ireland where :ourists go. There was loss of it in tho north>m counties, and off of the lines of travel icarcely any. Mr. Robert P. Porter, who raveled over the western counties, tells me ;bnt away from tho railroads ho found the xoplo miserably poor but no beggars. Western and southern Ireland aiu the joorest parts. Milk, potatoes and Indian neal mush, which they call stira'lxiut, is the itaple diet, and meat is seldom se?n except on lolydavs and Christmas. Northern Protcstuit Ireland is better off, but the huts are lerc of iihc samo character and there is mucb wverty. A change must take place In this ountry soon, l>ut when and how I leave it 'or the politicians to say. FRANK GEORGE Carpenter. NEW YORK NOTES. !*rol>nblllty That 5Ir*. Potter Will Adopt the Tlicutrical Profession. [Spcclal Corrcjpondenee.J New York, Sept. 20.?From tlio many tories afloat, nil of them singularly con urrenfc, it oppeai-s entirely probable that Mrs. James Brown Totter will soon adopt be stage as a profession. She bos carried imateur acting to such extremes that there \ 11 bo very little difference between that ind entering the theatre regularly. She ins been as conspicuous through advertising is she is over likely to liecome, perhaps much noro so. Any and all pretense of her privacy is palpably absurd under existing condiions. She is as much talked and written ibout, commented 011 and pointed out as any ictress in the city. She knows it, too, and njoys it; for vanity, however it may lx> disguised, is one of her leading traits. The irowns and Potters, two of the most conservative families in town, can hardly relish the ilea; but the chango when it comes will carcely bo perceptible, and the lady herself rill be far more consistent as a complete proessional than as a professional amateur while issuming to be strictly in private life. Mrs. 'otter is pretty and clever. As Cora Urguiart, u uativo 1 telle of New Orleans, she was nuch fluttered and bad her own way; and he seems to have it still in the ."ace of any miouiit of orthodox and social opposition. Very few pci-sons who remember the .'hun-h of the Puritans in Union square, in vhich the Rev. George B. Cheever preached o eloquently and passionately against slavery 11 the days beforo the war, have any idea bat it remains in the same form in another [uartcr of the town. Tiffany's jewelry and ilvcrwaro establishment occupies its site, t was a familiar and pictorial structure with ts granite walls and clustering ivy, and was emarkablo for having one liower much horter than the other. The story is that, vhile tho building was contentplatevi^cne of ho members of the Congregational society, vhile traveling in Europe, was particularly truck with a church in England. Having omo skill in drawing, and some idea of irehiteeture, he made a copy of the English dilicu on [wiper, brought it home, and it so leased the building committee that thcysubtantially adopted tho design. Long after hey learned that the reason of the short ower on the other side was that the British ongregution had not sufficient money to Ilium 11. 1 uis greatly anniseu ur. k. nccvcr s ongregation, but clid not alter their opinon of tlio pieturcsqueness of tho abircviatcd tower. Tlio Church of the Purians was sold, the stones marked and put into lie Mt. Olivet (colored) Baptist church, in fifty-third street near Seventh avenue, an ixact reproduction of the ivy-covered pile of i quarter of a century ago in Union square, tiinus the ivy., But in the street through vhich the elevated railway runs it naturally Iocs not look half so imposing as it did in the unious square. Hardly any olil New Yorker ecogniZ'.-s it, I suspect, when he posses it. Dr. Ciicovcr is also extant, though generilly sup]K)scd to lie dead. He retired from he pulpit during the civil war on account of Iclicatc- health, and has been living most of he time in one of tho flew Jersey suburbs, le has 1-ad an active career. Born in Maine, i graduate of Bowdoin and Andover, lie was jastor of a Congregational cliurch ct .Salem, Uass. Then, as ever afterward, an anient ulvoeate of temperance, bo published at IS a reputed dream, " Deacon Gile's Distillery," in which tho liquors wero I escribed as containing demons, and oonstiuting an infernal pit. The article hail wide jopulnrity in tlio form of a temjieraucc tract; | X'acon Gilo was thought to bo a wealthy itizen. who was quite pojuilar with a lertain lass. Consequently, Chcever's skit excited vruth against him iimong the coniiiion peo>le, wlio attacked him, and handled him ouglily in the street. Ho was also tried /or ibel and committed to jail for thirty days. :le bos always token profound pride in that mprisonnient as the penalty for freedom of 'XpreSSlOll. r or fcue i.wruijr } viii d iii una ; aken 110 part In public affairs, passing his ime among his hooks, and with some of his ! ?l<i friends. He has himself been a prolific j mthor, but lias written nothing for a long i vhilo. lie is now 79, and wholly unknown ! o tho rising generation. Junius Henri Browne. Tho chief priest nt ranadinc to Edwin j \rnold: Life will condense, by means of j leath, into its essence. Your wise men are lot wise to speak even here of live senses, ["here is a sixth sense?the chitta, tho mind. ! It is that which truly sees, hears, smells, 1 .astes and touches; not the organs. When >ye and ear and nostrils and tonguoand limbs ire laid aside, the master sense becomes all be 11101*3 freo and opened. It is in this as with the chemical elements. To-day thej , seem to i?o many making up tlie world?here- I li ter it will appear that all can be coiiccu* j iruted into one which Ukca many forms.' WILSOI BARRETT. HIS CHILDHOOD OF HARD WORK xAND YOUTHFUL STRUGGLES. Ells Six "Week# ol Schooling?HI* Flmt Drama, jiiirt tli? Way In Which It Wim Presented?KaMy I*rcinonltlon of Success? Working: Up from tli?i Foot. [Sppclal CoBrcsppnilenci'.l New Yojik, Sept* tJO.?Mr. Wilson Barrett, lessee and manager of the Royal Princess' theatre, London, will soon arrive in America, and will appear in his favorite r6les in all our lending cities as far west as Chicago. A friend of the celebrated actor has furnished me many fresh details of his early life which will he read with interest at this time, when Mr. Barrett is abo&t to land oil bur shores. "Wilson Bairett was a precocious hoy. Between 12 and 13 he learned every word of Hamlet and the Merchant of Venice, while hard at work in the office of a wholesale corn merchant who paid the lad six shillings a week. Out of this sum bis parents allowed him two shillings nnd sixpence, with which hi was expected to clotho and feed himself. He had only a bed and supper at home. His Lours of labor wcro from 7 in the morning until 10 or 11 at night, with n half hour's rest for breakfast and another half hour for lunch?tho larger portion of which time he employed in reading whatever ho could lay hands upon, especially anything about plays or tho stage. Every cent that ho coidd spare from liis tiny weekly stipend or could gain in nny extra way ho spent on lK>)ks. His duties at the corn merchant's were numerous and varied. He would carry money to the hank on foot and convey grain to a purchaser with a horse anil cart, and more than once, when about 14, ho actually lugged sacks of corn or flour for certain distances, the sacks often weighing two and a half hundred weight. About this time, when he used to have to go to tho wharves for flour, tho men, seeing him do men's work, put hindrances in his way, drove their teams into him nnd jeered at him. But he did not mind them. He kept on at bis toil In nil weathers, although sometimes so thinly clad thut ho bad his hands frozen. WILSON* AS CHATTMmiLt. | When young Barrett was 14 lie begged his mnstor to let him leave work nt 8 o'clock for otio evening in each week in order that he might attend evening school nt a charge of twopence. This request the merchant granted to him for about six weeks, but at the end of ; t.bnt time, lhiding that the boy was too much i missed, ho withdrew the permission. And t his was the extent of the schooling of Wilson Barrett. But his mind was developing rapidly without the aid of teachers. Ho had been trying his hand at little dramas, and on his way homo from the store at night ho frequently used to slip into the theatre and see the last part of whatever play was on. Then he would "shin up" tho water pipe and into | his low lied room and undress as quietly as | jxissible so as not to awaken his parents, who, | lie knew, would not approve his conduct. But this growing love for the stage became stronger and stronger, in him. One night he J saw Henry Neville, then the lending actor at | the Olympic, in "Camilla's Husband." It' was a very warm evening. Young Barrett at in tho galleries and thon ran all the way heme after the play. He took a chill whicli I resulted in inflammation of the lungs and pleurisy, and for a long time tho poor child wavered between life and death. During this sickness, the sum of sixteen shillings, which ho had been saving up penny by penny ns a starting fund for entering tho dramatic profession, and which ho had always kept in liw pocket by day and in a littlo canvas bag under his pillow at night, was discovered and paid over to the doctor. Very recently, when Mr. Neville told Mr. Barrett that English actors looked to him as the head of their profession, the latter said: "That's good to hear from you, as you nearly killed mo at tho beginning!" After his convalesccnce young Barrett wont back to tho corn dealer's, and shortly afterward to a large bank note printing oflico. Hero he rose rapidly, receiving at the start fifteen shillings a week, and ns the botirs of work were not so confining as with bis former employers lio found timo to write LLs first completed drama, "Robin Hood." Ho was now 15 years old, and with some other lads of about the same age accomplished an extraordinary thing. He arranged an old shed in the buck of a garden as a theatre, with stage and scenery, and in lieu of gas or footlights devised a scheme of oil lamps, whose wicks could be turned up or down all at tho same time by pulling a wire. For the boxes a board was painted and cut out in the shape of curtains, so that a niav .standing outsido looked from tho stago as if seated in a regular theatre box. There were i?:c members in young Barrett's company, and, after several rehearsals, tickets were issued to fifty or sixty friends and relatives of the actoi's. The play was a great success, and the amateur theatre was nightly crowded. The actoi's did tho scene shifting, ami Mr. Wilson Barrett's brother George, the now well-known comedian of the Princess' theatre, had for his inspiring portion of the work to sir. on a narrow board up over their heads in the Hies, the ladder by which he had mounted being taken down in order to make sure of his staying there till the end of the play. Tt was very hot on his perch, and ho some times got very tired, and had to be poked with ? long st ick in order to be kept up to business They purchased calico and fitained and cut and stitched their own costumes, young Wilson doing all the devising, designing and literary work. Their orchestra consisted of a violin. English concertina and flute. They wanted a drum; but, the orchestra being too small to accommodate tho real article, the plan was liit on or covering a srann si|iiurn i box with thick brown paper, kept taut by o ) spirit lamp. This was a fair drum if not hit ! too hard. About this time a very large robbery of bank notes occurred and detect iyes were following every ]>crson connected with tho printer's firm where young Barrett was cm ployed. One night, being a little late, the boy ran nil tho way from the office to his theatre, which awakened the suspicions of a detective, who dogged him and iuar\vl"d to see him slip in among a score or I wo of jvople In a back yard.' Following in himself iie 6tayod through the play, joined hi tho ap* plause, pronounced it capita} ,*fun and went away convinced that Wilson Barrett was not the thief he was in quest of. ; u f. ' Three years before all this, when a lad oi 12, he stood one night in a pouring raid storm, wrapped in an old sack from the corn dealer's and with his broken boots full of water, in front of tho Princess' theatre, then in its best days under Keen's auspices, and quietly determined that ho would manage tliat play houso before he died. And he lived to do so. Then, too, it was that ho would pay half a crown to the master carpenter to bo as to win for blin the personal regard ana artistic appreciation of the theatre going public. Mr. Barrett is not only a line actor and an able manager, but also a good citizen and a perfect gentleman. His generosity, both in purse and sympathy, to the members of his own profession and to the needy in other walks of life has been too great and constant not to bo well known, ultbough bo himself has always been silent about it. "When he realized his boyhood's ambition and bceome master of the Prim-ess' theatre, that house was at Its lowest point- But in less than five years he knew how to bring it up in every department to the highest dogreo yet reached in any stage management. Theodore Stanton. ANGLOMANIA IN NEW YORK. now Gen. Radcan'if Work lias Inaugurated a Cure. [Special Correspondence.] New York, Sept. 20.?A healthful social symptom visible hero is the beginning of a reaction against tbo anglomania, from which certain circles have so long suffered. Scrvilo and ridiculous as it has always been in the eyes of the community in general, tney seem to nave naci no suspicion of it until recently. Nor would thoy Lave harl any but for the flagrant violations of common courtesy >and common decency 0:1 the part, of many Englishmen whom they have entertained lavishly and deferred to beyond all reason. They have discovered that most of their British guests accept their bos-, pitalities ns matters of course, as tributes from inferiors to superiors, and that they never dream of aught liko reciprocating when their American "friends" happen to be on British soil. In tmth, these are apt to be snubbed in any advances they may make, and treated very shabbily by the persons they havo placed, 011 this side of the sea under great social obligation. Moreover, the insolence, the downright insults tlint have been offered to different New York families by their transatlantic cousins havo had their effect A writer commenting on thus disease says: "One shameful example of this was the presence of the Duke of Sutherland with his mistress at a wedding breakfast on the occasion of his daughter's marriage, given by our fnrmw minister to t.hf> court of St. Cloud. This studied atEront seems incredible; but there apijears to l>e no doubt of it. The duko ought to have been publicly horsewhipped for the brutal hit of blackguardism, and it is a pity that he was not. ' It would have served as a salutary precedent for the proper treatmentof noble lords under such circuuitances. Similar instances, though none quite so atrocious, are not uncommon, and even New York anglomaniacs are getting cured of their distemper. The worm has been trodden upon until it has turned. Hcnceforth visiting Englishmen will bo likely to find a change in somo of the persons here who have been polite to them to a point of fawning, and who have hitherto so overdone the duties of hospitality. The average Briton is a good deal of a bully, and the best cure of his bul ying is to bully him in turn. Ho will entertain a sincere esteem for America and Americans when they resent, as they should, any infraction of his of the laws of good breeding." The articles on aristocracy in England by Gen. Adam Badeau, recently published by a syndicate of newspapers, have doubtless done much toward effecting a cure. Nothing ever written about the English has been so timely and salutary as thesy articles. They have dono more to destroy anglomania than all other means combined, because they give an impartial and thorough presentation of aris? " *>-.1 V J., ??.1 locrucy. \jnjii, ntiucuu a oi-jic mj iu omij/iv forceful as Goldsmith's. The author has had opportunities of studying his subject on its native heath not often presented to Americans. Perhaps tho very greatest service rendered by (Jen. Dadeau's book is tho truthful showing he gives of tho enslaved condition of tho upper class Englishwomen. IIo say3 in plain words: "A woman is a nobody in Englishmen's eyes." This fact has been known to tboso untainted with Anglomania for a long time, and in estimating the civilization of the mother country it is well to bear it in mind. Gen. Dadcau says: "I knew a dowager whose husband had been called the wealthiest commoner in England, who was left a year, though In- willed away minions. A woman is a ? <-' <v?y in Englishmen'^ e>'-'s. The husband Ind vvn fond of his wife. lv t it u:i net occur to him to provide her with tho stftto to which she hud been aecustomcl f*ra lifetime. "The daugntPiJ cf great houses prepare for their fate from tLe Kginning. i'hey never reign unless they mm ry. If they cannot secure a husband tiny club together when tho father dies, und keep up a little establishment in an obscure way; or tho queen gives somo of them, out of charity, rooms at Kensington palace or Hampton court, or some other asylum for decayed aristocrats. You will find tiiero women of oldest lineage pinched for their dinners and their gloves, whose early lives were spent in tho most sumptuous structures and splendid stylo that this world knows.'' The author is as impartial as nn is severe. He shows the pleasing side of the aristocracy, and the examples of real nobility that he found among them. He describes tin Irish and Ens""'' peer, whom ho calls "a nobleman iiv'-^d," n a manner that wins one's l;igli?'.t ndmirat?",iT. Cut ho says of him, "I insiit "-r*' '-?I wish lmi>htcallhim friend ?wouK li?"e boon jiiit as imich of a nobleman if hf .. ..a been born an American and a Jomociul Ho was oao of nature's noblotiJen." G. Cr. admitted to the flies, much to the perplexity of the same master carpenter, who wondere* why tho queer boy didn't save the six pence and sit in the pit and bear tho play. But Wilson Barrett early felt that great success in any profession depended upon a thorough moofamr f\9 aworo Kranoli nf fhnf. nrnfpccinn In. order to study tho play free of charge, he lea: tied the violin and got an engagement in tbo orchestra; and in order to got on the stage he took lessons in dancing whenever ho could pay for it; and it was as a danccr that be made bis first public appearance. He performed so well between acts that the comedian whose benefit ho enlivened took a fancy fcl bim and taught him broadsword combat, which Barrett practised in his own room on Sunday mornings, thinking it might be of some use to him sometime. That same comodian nnd bis 6on are now members of Mr. Barrett's traveling company Young Barrett had now derided irt bis o*rrt mind to abandon all other employments and make his living by acting. But a formidable obstacle lay in bis way?his parents were opposed to tho measure. His fat her felt terribly and prophesied utter failure, while the heads of the printing (irm did their utmost to dissuadohim. But Wilson Barrett stuck to his purpose and succeeded at once. In ten weeks' time he had passed from the smallest parts to playing tho leading young man parts. His success has l>een steady from that day to this, and has always been attended by such conduct CARDS AND LIQUOR. ; TWO VICES THAT HAVE RUINED MANY A BRIGHT MAN. Caso of (jnB Wlio "Might Ilavo : Infutnatcd with 'Jllie ,Icnla Fataoa oj" "Good Lack"?A PIcturo of Diatreas. | Drunk Again. (> % 'f : Jq j Not long ago we went into Ifesrnttfe's togoi * a German dinner. "Wliilo eating noSfflo sOtt| I and lebenvurst we saw at a side tablo a mar.' witli a massive face, penetrating Pyes, and d brood forehead. In the reign of Jamca - v?3 Buchanan ho was a very prominent poli ticion. As a stump speaker he had few equals. Hi has written leading articles for many dailj newspapers, and ho is a thorough polities! economist. Time had evidently treated him harshly* Ho looked like an old burdock bun irore to seed. His shabby coat was buttoned tight; to his throat, but not tight enough tfl aide tho dirty flannel undershirt beneath it, for he woro neither collar nor muslin garment. His shoes wcro crackcd, and his soft - -/.---"HI felt hat was much tho worse for wear. Thert was not tho slightest trace of dissipation about him. He seemed downcast and lost ia thought At a loss to account for tho chango in hi] appearance, wo invited him to dine. Ho too!: a potato salad and some beer, but was moody and reserved. He would not talk about himself, and ho cared hot to talk hboiit uh.) body, el^e. It was evident that ho Was Very needy.' Ws t\~hen a $5 note was pressed Into liis hand his eyes filled with tears. UI did not ask you for this," ho said, in a voice broken with emotion. "No, indeed, you did not," wo agreed. "But we know you need it. Take it, and get clean underclothes and a shirt. We know that you have no appetite for liquor, or wo would not _ offer it to you. If you are ever again in good circumstances you can repay it" Ho roso and grasped us convulsively by tho hand. "I'll never forget this as long as. J live," he said impressively, and walked hurriedly from the restaurant % >- r THE EX-CONG RESSJIAX'S FATAL SECRET, * * |lf Capt W.f a well-known gambler, sat twenty leet uwujr* jiiiu uau nuui luau uaxuijr reached tho sidewalk before tho captain Was at onr side. "I saw you talking with tbo COn? gressman just now," ho said, "and I think 1 saw you givo him some money. Did ho ask - \ you for any f* "No," was tbo answer. "Ho looked poor >''|S and seedy, and I gave him enough to fix him-i self up. That was all. Ho has gone out to. buy a shirt and collar and clean underclothing-" > Tho captain had a sarcastic smile on hia face. "Come with me," ho said, "and see how he fixes himself up. It will interest men like ' .^38 you." After paying tho reckoning, wo followed ';-l3 tho captain. IIo escorted us around the corner. Up a narrow stairway wo stumbled into i ScS a littlo entry on tho second floor. There a bell was rung. A small panel in tho center of the door was shd, and a black face appeared at the opening. Tho captain was recog-* ^'.7 nized, and we were admitted without hesitation. Tho room was carpeted and furnished vrith an attractive sideboard. After moisten-. Ing our iips wo went into an adjoining apart:; inent It contained a faro bank Half u dozen players sat around tho table. Tlia ^3 silence was only brok<^i by tho mellow clicking of ivory chips. One glance was enough. Tho "congressman" was there, (ho most interested player of tho lot. Ho r a< so intent upon the gamo that ho took no heed of his surroundings. His fingers lovingly played with the chips. Every card was watched as though life or doath depended upon it. Beads of sweat stood on tho broad,.. whito brow. His eyes glowed with fcvcristt*impulses. Ho lost the last cent of his 65 noto > "calling tho turn." After vainly trying to beg or borrow a fresh chip ho drew a long? breath and nroso from the table. As ho saw ' us his faco colored, and ho nervously clutched his coat at Iho throat. "It's worse than a taste for liquor," he said, apologetically. "I * '* couldn't help it. But I was on tho verge of ^ good luck. If you'2 only loan mo ?5 more Til S pay you baeli ia five minutes." His couatenanco fell at tho shako of tho. Sw haul, and ho went down stairs. Tho secret o?. his downfall was out. "Night, noon and morning," observed tho captain, "has ho b<*u nt the faro tablo for ten years, and night, noon and morning will he remain there until ho dire." Ten days ago ho stood before us again in tho editorial rooms of a great morning nows- . paper. Ho was still beating tho copses and i dingk'3 of life in liio efforts to foed his passion for gambling. ' a:.* unquenchable attetite. Tlicso efforts however, contrast unfavorably? with those of a man with an unquenchablo 5 appetite for liquor. lie was formerly a night ^ editor of unsurpassed ability. One Saturday afternoon lie stood on tho curb a picturc 6iulncu3 and distress. A brother journalist,.who had just drawnawook's salajy4 pissed,, him. Touched by his mournful cowitcnruie<V< he turned back, saying, "John, what's the matter with 3'ou? You look troubled." Tho poor fellow's chest heaved, and therey _ seemed to be a choking sensation hi his throat.' ' Finally ho said: "ily wife is sick, awl I havo t been oat of work some time. I haven't a s cent, and I owo six weeks' rent I expect to". find tho whole family out on tho sidewalk when i go 110x1c u>-mgui." ^ Tho fri.-nd gave him ?10, anil pressed on to report ?i meeting in Wall street. An hour afterward, while returning to tho ofiiee, ho reached the saloon. Tho unfortunate night j editor stood at tho door and took liim by tho lapel of tho coat "I want you to comc in and ; take a drink with me," ho said in a xuaudliu | His friend appreciated tho situation tit j instant. The invitation was accepted. After I the drink:-. Lad disappeared anil wero j)aid for;, j the frioiul inquired: "Why, John,'whero did i you get your money?" | "Struck a fresh sucker an hour ago for $10,* was the prompt reply. I The city is filled with men who have drop1 ped from the ladder of fame and who draw . 1 sustenance for their passion from the indus' trioua members of tho generation who have ; succeeded them. You find them in rcstau| rants, at horso races, onjtlio streets and elsc; where, but you too often find them whera.i they are the least welcome?at your desk.? J Kcw York Letter. ! . rort rn.lt of (ho President'* TV If?. fl _ Thero have already been several applica tions from artists who want to j>aint the pori trait of the president's bride. It Las been tho ; custom to adorn the walls of tlio White IIoiiso . > wilh portraits of presidents and their, wives, and there arc a full set of the former, but tho . j Indies' faces arc very few. Mrs. Polk, Mrs. . ! Tyler, Mrs. Madison, Mrs. Washington, Mrs. ! Hayes and Mrs. Grant aro tho only ones tlwt ' arc- represented, but Mrs. Cleveland will not; leave without having her beautiful face and j figure left upon the walls.?Washington Letter. I5nt Ono Huh Iie?*u Canonized. i Of all tho men and women who b&vo j labored for the lloman Catholic church in. America- but one has been canonized, St., Iloso, of Lima, fckmth America.?luWcOct an. ... 1 1r?is '