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Author of The Collegians." etc.
CHAPTER I.
Truly to speak, sir, and with uo addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground.
Hamlet.
It is a very usual remark among those
who pretend to be acquainted with the
conditions ox Irish society, that it is a
land more favorable to the stranger than
to the native—that the foreign adventur
er finds the various avenues to good for
tune which it presents less encumbered
and blocked up with difficulties and dis
appointments, than the indigenous
children of the soil and this observa
tion appears to be equally confirmed by
experience, whether it is applied to the
humble artizan who confines his hopes
and prospects to the acquisition of the
ordinary comforts of domestic life, or to
the armed aggressor who comes to con
quer and lay waste for conquest's sake
alone. To endeavor, even by conjecture,
to account snfcisafctorily for this— one of
the very slightest among the anomalies
of the country's polity—would lead to
a disquisition on national dispositions
and habits, and an inquiry into histori
cal influences, into which we are not at
present disposed to enter. The most
obvious and usual cause assigned, how
ever-, is the superior industry and per
severance of the naturalized inhabitant.
One class of persons in particular
have verified the observation to its ut
most extent. TV allude to the deceiid
antfi of those emigrants from the Pala
tinate of Germany, who were invited
over into these countries by the liberal
policy of the Whig ministry in 1708, a
measure which afterward gave such dis
pleasure in England, and drew down so
weighty a censure from the succeeding
cabinet of 1710. History informs its,
that afc this period the indigence and
misery which prevailed among the dis
appointed aliens was such, as to occas
ion a not ill-founded apprehension of a
contagious distemper—no less than
ninety oi' them being accustomed to
take up their abode beneath a single
roof, in some of the lowest neighbor
hoods of the British metropolis.
In U« sister isle, nevertheless, the ex-
ertions of the same race heve been at
tended with incomparably better suc
cess. Umningled. and uuiuteresfied as
the adventurers were with the politics
\nd the factious prejudices of the peo
ple, and having uo internal or external
cause to divest, them from the even
course of steady aud preserving indus
try, wilier, their habits and inclinations
suggested to them as the most likely to
attain success, they were in every way
prepared to take advantage of the en
couragements held out. to them by the
lauded proprietor. These were, as they
still continue to be. very considerable—
and this circiinwtauce, together with the
difference of religion, of disposition, and
of civil habits, laid the foundation of a
deep and routed hatred and jealousy,
which the moral and political changes
that have, since the first introduction of
the aliens, taken place in the relations of
the country, have contributed rather to
increase and confirm than to alleviate.
The Palatines, or Palentins as they are
more usually termed among their rustic
neighbors,
still continue to b? favorites
with the lords of the soil. The facility
with which they obtained long leases, at
a time when a great proportion of the
peasantry of the company were mere
cottiers to farmers, enabled them to turn
their knowledge of husbandry to great
account and although their hopper- which we shall take up at random
plough which answered the double pur- "An' so you tell me Segur
pone of plowing and sowing) has, I be
lieve, generally gone out of use, their
custom of producing crops in drills is
still almost universally adopted. They
are improving and industrious tenants—
punctual, whether for the preservation
of their independence, or the satisfac
tion of their consciences, in all their en
gagements—attentive, even to a degree
of puritanical exactness, to their relig
ious obligations—presenting, in the un
remitting exertion which they employ
in the acquisition of mouey, and the
caution which they manifest in its dis
tribution, a striking contrast co the peo
ple among whom they have become nat
uralized—( a contrast which, perhaps, as
much as auy other circumstances, tends
to foster the contempt with which they
are regarded by the
latter)—precise
in
all that regards their domestic economy
—addicted to neatness and to the ap
pearance as well as the feeling of com
fort in their houses, and imbued in heart
and soul with a tincture of religious
bigotry and national prejudice which
enables them to rfeturn, with ample in
terest, the evil feelings and wishes of
low Catholic population of the country.
Assuming the above to be the general
characteristics of the class we are des
cribing, it may perhaps be added that
there are many individual exceptions
but even wheie members of the caste
are
found to derogate from its usually
respectable character, it is seldom, per
haps never, observed that they fall into
"what are looked upon as the peculiar or
ruling vices of the more ancient inhabi
tants, and there remains at wide a dis
tinction between the bad Palatine and
the bad Irishman, as may be traced be
tween the estimable and amiable
of both classes. Like the scat
tered sons of Israel, the former
are careful to prevent any amal
gamation of interests or affections with
their neighbors, and the circumstance
of an intermarriage is, to 6ay the least
of it, an exceedingly rare occurrence.
People may be found to adduce this
fact as one pause of the continued pros
petity and iiappiness of the provident
aliens—but- a more satisfactory one may
be found in the superior inducements
held out, and consequent success at
tending, their exertious. The Palatines,
in short, are amongst those who "feed
fat" upon the birth-right of their elder
brethren, who are, by the peculiar
policy of their governors, debarred
the customary means of existence, and
punished for endeavoring to devise new
expedients for themselves.
Time, the great alembic by which all
incongruities are reconciled and all dis
tinctions amalgamated, has not yet ex
ercised its customary influence on the
hereditary habits and external peculi
arities of the people we are describing.
They still retain, even in their manners
and language, as well as in their char
acter aud disposition, indications which
it would be impossible to misconceive,
of their German origin. They are, for
the most part, scattered thinly over the
southern and western districts oi the
island—buf. instances are not wanted in
which they form the almost exclusive
population of hamlets and small villages
and where this happens to be the case,
the traces of their extraction are evident
and decided to a very remarkable de
gree.
At the time when the events which we
have selected as the material for the fol
lowing tale took place—in the eigh
teenth century—the points of distinc
tion were, as may be supposed, a great
deal more striking and the comparative
novelty of their introduction into the
country, rendered them more liable than
at present to the resentment of the in
dignant peasantry of the island, al
though the dislike of the latter was not
more deeply rooted than at present.
There was, however, a distinction. It
was then the hatred of injured and ex
cited feelings which was cherished
against the usurpers it is now the ha-
of aml of R„ almost s.
cusable—a1 least, a very accountable
envy.
We have, ourselves, found a little
generalising explanation so useful aud
agreeable as a preparation for the intro
duction of characters and events in a
work of this kind, that we are induced
to calculate with confidence on the in
dulgence of our readers in devoting this
short chapter to tiie same purpose.
CHAPTER II.
John Nobody, quoth T, news? thou soon
note and tell,
what manner man thou mean that are so mad
He said these gay gallants that will construe
the gospel,
As Solomon the sage with semblance full sad:
To discuss divinity they nought adrearl—
More meat were for them to milk kyeata
tleyke.
Thou liest, quoth I, thou losel, like ft leud lad.
He said he was little John Nobody, that durst
not speake. —Little John Nobody.
A number of peasants were occupied
in trenching a field of potatoes, in a fiue
soft sxtmmer evening, in the earlier por
tion of the last century, on the borders
of one of the southwestern counties of
Ireland. Their work proceeded merrily
all being engaged, as is customary in
Ireland, in relieving the tediousness of
their monotonous labor by wild tales,
and light and jocular conversation,
is off,
Mick?" said one to a young peasant who
worked beside him.
"He never '11 see daylight again,"
was the reply.
"An' how coom that?"
"Simple enough—be killen of'm."
"Who kilt him?"
"Oh then that's more than I'll tell
you this time—one o' the gang aistwards
they say.
"An' why aid they kill him?"
"Sarrow one o: me knows—bekays he
was alive, may be."
"It's little i\urt it was done, an' little
matter who dote it," said a dark-looking
man on another ridge, and biting his
lip hard, while he struck his spade with
great violence against a large sod, he
added—"an' the stme loock to the rest
of his race, an' that before long—the
left-handed thieves—them Palentins!"
•'You might as well be cursing,
Davy.'
"D'ye hear the minister?"
"Oh, it isn't from the heart that
coom, any way and them curses doesn't
be heard that falls from a body's lip
when they do be in a passion, and don't
main what they say."
"It's done a fi'penny bit with you,
now, we have a fable from Jerry on the
head of it," was uttered half aside, a few
paces from the last speaker—a faii-faced
youth, who almost immediately verified
the anticipation.
'Til tell ye a story, then, about that
very thing, if ye like to hjear it," said
the young fellow.
After a few jibes ou the propensity of
the story-telling genius, his companions
proceeded with their work in silence,
while Jerry cleared his voice and com
menced as follows:
"I wonder eutirely," says a most
learned doctor, that used to be .there in
old times—"I wonder entirely," said he,
and he going along the road—"what is
the reason that the devil doesn't come
upou the earth in some borrowed shape
or another, and so tempt people- to sin
it would be so much easier to talk them
into it than t» draw them by means of
their own thoughts. If the d'ivil would
hearkgn to me, I think I could put him
in a way of getting a deal that's voted to
him, and that he knows nothing of."
And sayiug this he turned off to take a
short cut across the fields, the road hav
inga great round in that place.
Passing by a little fort that was in his
way, he was met by a man who came out
frcm among the trees and bid him a
good morning. He was as handsome a
mau as mid be—only the doctor re
marked him for the smallest brogues,
and of the queerest shape that could be
imagined.
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'Heaveu and Saiufc Patrick be with
you!" says the doctor.
"Hum!" says the strange mau.
"And who are yon now that say
'Hum!' when I bid Heaven be with
you?" says the doctor, looking down to
wards his heels, where he saw, just peep
ing out under the great riding coat.,
something like the end of a hurly. curl
ing, only very hairy.
"I am the devil," says the strange
mau. (Lord between us and harm!)
lI was beginning to have a notion
.of the kind myself," says the doctor
again, eyeing the tail now very hard but
not at all put out of his way, beiug used
to all sorts of wickedness himself from a
creature up, having been once in his
time a tithe proctor. "I thought uo
less and it proves an old saymg very
true, for 1 was talking of you to myself
just as you started up before me.'
"No good, I'll be bail."
"Believe it, then. No good in the
world, only liarm, I was wishing that
you would uploy me in collecting your
dues—wbat's yours by right only, and
let us go halves iu the profits."
"It's a match—give me the hand,"
said the devil. "Let us go along the road
together, and whatever you make out to
be mine, I'll have it surely."
Away they went, the holy pair, and
they soon got out upon the high road
again. As they were passing along by
a cabin door, they saw au old woman
standing with some oats in her apron,
and she trying to entice some of her
geese aud goslings in to her, from the
middle of a pond where they were
swimming about, only the" rogue of a
gander wouldn't let them do her bid
ding.
"Why then,'' says the old woman,
"the Diconce take you for one gander
there's no ho at all with you."
"There!" my
a the doctor, nudging his
neighbor (Lord save us
THE MiH STANDARD: SATPBDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1886.
ll,did
you hear
that?"
"Ah! my honest friend," says the
devil, "that gander is a fat bird to be
sure—-but 'tis none o' mine still. That
curse didn't come from the heart, though
it was sinful enough, to give me power
over the woman.'''
In a little time after, the blessed
couple were met by a countryman with a
little slip of a pig that he was driving to
the fair, to make up ttie deflerence o' the
atandiug gale. He had a sugan (hay
rope)
tied about one of the hind legs,
and a good blackthorn switch iu his
hand, and he doing his best endeavors
to entice him on, but he couldn't. The
pig, as young pigs will do, darted now
at this side, now at that, and would run
every way but the right one—until at
last, he made a start right between the
legs of his driver, tumbled him clean in
the mud from which he rose painted all
sorts of colors—and saw the pig skelp
ing along the road home, in the height
of good humor.
"Why then, the Diconce take, fetch,
and carry every bone in your carcase,
crubes and all
shaking himself, and turning into a
meadow to roll himself in the grass, be
fore he'd folly the creature home again.
-Have I all my morning's work to do
over ognin—bad 'cess to it for a story!''
"There! there!" cries the doctor.
"Not so fast," cries the devil—"that
was but a slip of the tongue after all.
The raft" that curst is mine, but not the
thing he curst, for the heart was not
concerned in it."
Well! away they went and, in passing
by a potato-field, they saw a tithe proc
tor valuing a pit o' the cups, and a man
standing upon it, with a hammer in his
hand, going to cant it off to some Palen
tins for the rent. There was a poor man
standing at the road side, with his arms
leaning on the ditch, looking at the sale
of his little property.
"There's ten barrels, all going for an
old song, that 1 raised by the labor of
these hands. May the Diconce fetch all
the tithe-proctors in the land, and Heav
en bless them that sent 'em to UP, to
take the little means he gave us out of
our hands—"
"Weill" said the doctor, "now you
have a proctor at
any
™"m*M
At this, the devil put both his hands
to his sides and burst out in a fit of
laughing.
,4SendyousenseI
you foolish
man," said he, "if the devil had nothing
to do but to carry away all the tithe
proctors that's voted to him in a sum
mer's-day, he'd be soon compelled to
look out for a new corner to take up in,
for they'd have all hell to themselves in
less than no time."
"Whew!" says the doctor, "if this be
the way wjith you, I'm likely to make a
great deal by my bargain. Ge I out of
my way, you laxy gaffer,'* said he
(growing cross) to a little boy that was
sitting on a style where he wanted to
pass.
'I'm no lazy gaffer, you great natur
al," said the lad, "and I'll not stir out
of this, for you have no right to trespass
on my mother's ground."
The doctor made no answer, only
looked at him for a moment, aud then
riz his stick, and then laid him on the
ground quite easy.
"Oh, murder alive! you Turk, you
killed my boy," cried the mother, who
was sitting combing her wool at the
cabin door. "Why then," said she,
Jailing an her knees, and lifting up her
two hands, "the mother's curse upon
your head and may the Dicouce carry
you this night, for drawing the blood of
my child!"
"Oome, my good man, come!'' said
tbe devil, seizing the doctor by the col
lar, "the favor of your company down
below. The mother's curse is on you."
"Oh! nonsense, nonsense! easy, easy,
man," said the doctor, "but
Before he could well know what he
was about, his friend whisked him up
and about into the air, and warm was
the corner he had for him before that
night, I'll be your bail."
''Well, Jerry, you bate cockfighten
for them ould fables but aisy, an teil
me who are those over the hill?"
The speaker pointed to three horse
men who had just turned from beneath
the projection of a small hillock, through
which the wild and broken highway had
been cut, and who were pushing on
with as much rapidity as- their ill-con
ditioned horses could be prevailed upon
to use. The better mounted and better
looking of the two foremost wayfarers
belonged to that numerous class of
itinerant preachers, one of whom may at
this day be always discerned in fine har
vest weather, hovering about the Pala
tine villages, aud may be recognized at
the distance of half a mile, jogging it
softly down hill on a well-fed, fat
nammed, rough-coated pony, an um
brella tightly folded and placed in rest
upon the thigh, while the smooth and
glazed oil cover of Ms hai flashes
"back again the western blaze,
In lines of dazzling light—"
at the same time throwing his perhaps
too jovial rotundity of countenance inoo
a becoming and devotional shade. The
specimen of the order here presented dif
fered but little from the generality of
his brethren. He was a person of im
mense proportions, particularly as re
garded the paunch, which was a region
of unparalleled richness and extent, and
showed to particular advantage as he sat
on horseback, his position there causing
it to project considerably farther in ad
vance than was it natural wont when on
foot. His pony was a sturdy little
animal, but of statue so diminutive, that
the feet of the rider might have ma
terially assisted his progress along the
road, were it not that the sack-like
formation of the members caused them
to describe au equilateral triangle, in
order to afford space to the fat little
beast between—an arrangement which
made a clear course of nearly half the
king's highway.
The horseman who rode beside him,
aud who, from his brick-red complexion,
sloping forehead, and small eyes, sup
plied very sufficient evidence of his Pa
latinate extraction, had the appearance
of a wealthy farmer, considerably ad
vanced in years, though not sufficiently
so to abate or qualify, in the slightest
degree, the expression of a countenance
which was marked by the strongest and
hardest lines which an habitual violence
says the poor man, of character could produce, or to soften
the fire of a small and piercing eye,
which glanced from beneath its grizzled,
sandy brow, with a spirit of strong in
quiry aud resolution.
rate—that was a
hearthy curse, I'm sure."
The third traveler, who rode at a little
distance behind, as if rather iu the
quality of servant than companion to
the other two, we shall suffer to be de
scribed by the group of peasantry, who,
in the indulgence of that idle curiosity
which forms a shade on that dark side
of the national character, left off their
work as the strangers approached, and
leaned forward on their spades, to be
stow a gibe on the passing Palatines:
"Mark the nose," said one, "was
there ever the aiq'l of it soon? It starts
cut betune the two eyes fair enough,
only then it do be growen hether and
thether, and every way as if it didn't
know the way to the mouth, down."
"Like the gintlemin's boreens," said
a second, "that they doesn't care how
many turnens they'll make, so as they
coom out upon the high road at last."
"Taken a ramble about the counten
ance for sport, this fine even."
(To be continued.)
The court directs the sheriff to close
96 Sioux City saloons.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Chinaman has been has been natur
alized at Des MoineB.
Indian territory Indians are taking
very kindly to agriculture.
Lyndon, on the Wisconsin river, will
be made a summer resort.
The steamship Normantore foundered
off Japan and 60 lives were lost.
San Francisco is trying to secure the
building of a government cruiser.
The visible supply of wheat is 58,100,
264, au increase of 564,200 bushels.
The national veterinarian and sanitary
boards are in session at Chicago.
"Rev." Win. Smith, a clerical negro
fraud, has been imprisoned at Philadel
phia.
Army officers commend the state of
Main 3 militia for its marvelous skirmish
firing.
N. J. Baker, accidentally killed in
Oregon, left considerable property
awaiting the heirs.
A hand car was "pied'' near Early,
Iowa, the other day. Several men were
severely hurt.
American manufactures are invited to
an industrial exposition at Toulouse,
France, Dec. 1.
Moore, a Chatham, N. 0.., man traded
wives and got $1.50 to boot. He was
sent to the chain gang.
The supreme court decides the Choc
taw nation is entitled to over $3,000,000
from the United States.
The United States revenue collector
seized 1,000 pounds of oleomargarine at
Davenport, Iowa, lately.
The trial of the French spoliation
claims cases begun in the court of claims
at Washington last week.
Edgar Lombard, a member of one of
the largest shipping firms in Boston,
committed suicide last week.
Commodore Schley, chief of the bu
reau of equipment, will make Boston
navy yard his headquarters.
About 600 Bell telephone subscribers
at Rochester, N. Y., have formed an as
sociation to fight the monopoly.
The Democrats have 13 majority on
joint ballot the California legislature
and Senator Hearst will be returned.
The cattle association have decided to
combine into the Consolidated Cattle
Growers' Association of America.
Mr. McCarthy, endeavoring to form a
society for the protection of children,
says Washington is wickeder than Chi
cago.
A committee ou federal aid to common
schools, appointed by the National
Teachers' Association has been in ses
sion in Boston.
Thousands of claims have been staked
out in the territory below Caldwell,
Kan., where silver is believed to exist
in large quantities.
Seven people in a New York boarding
house had a desperate fight because one
of them appropriated the only chicken
on the table.
The joint committee on base ball
rules is in session in Chicago to devise a
satisfactory set of rules for the National
and American associations.
A soldier who, after having served for
two years or more in the army, deserted
some months after the close of the war,
but who subsequently received an hon
orable discharge, is entitled to a bounty.
Police Lieutenant Arnold is on trial
at Washington on a charge of giving
currency to a false report connecting
Maj. Walker, superintendent of police,
with a proposed espionage and black
mail of congressmen.
Dr. Jagell on Hydrophobia.
A Polish physician, Dr. Prince
[gnace Jagell, who has studied the
nature and treatment of hydrophobia
since 1858, attempts to prove that
Pasteur's method is based on a false
principle. Dr. Jagell does not believe
that virus from a rabbit, an animal
which is not naturally subject to hydro
phobia, can ever be a preventive
against the disease. He is further*
more of opinion that there is a differ*
ence between the bite of a mad wolf or
dog directly inflicted on the human
body and a bite which reaches the
body after passing through clothing, it
being demonstrated, according to Dr.
Jagell, that the wounds in the latter
case are harmless. All of Pasteur's
patients who died of hydrophobia had
received direct bites. The Prince
states that in the course of his practice
he has successfully treated with an in
fusion of the bark of spircea Jilipendula
eighty-eight persons bitten by mad
wolves and dogs.—Vilemki Veslnik.
—An Atlantic City boatman says
that life-saving at the sea-side is a hard
business to make a living at Not one
man in ten gives his rescuer a dollar.
Usually the rescued man is so exhaust*
ed when taken from the water that he
can't even say "thank you," and by
the time he gets into his clothes he has
evidently forgotten all about the man
who has saved his
life.—N.Y. Tribtme,
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Mr LIST 0F"W!
Block of tenement houses on Twelfth
avenue north, corner of Ninth street,
only $14,000. $5,000 down, balance to
suit, with interest at 7 per cent.
House and lot on Western avenue,
near Hennepin, only $15,000, one-third
cash, balance at 6 per cent, for 10 years.
House and lot on Eighth street north,
$3,500, one-half cash, balance to suit,
with 7 per cent, interest.
Vacant lot on Second avenue south,
50 feet front, only $2,000 §500 cash,
balance thr years.
Three 1 ts OP Aldiich avenue, corner
Thirty-second street, $3,000 one-third
cash, balance to suit.
Five lots on Aldrich avenue, near
Forty-first street., $500 each, one-fourth
down.
Five lots on Lyndale avenue, near
Forty-first, street, "east front, splendid
view of Lakes and city, orilv $600 each
one-third down, balance to suit.
Stone building in Center block, 2(£
feet front, back to alley, for only $32,
000 only $12,500 to be cash, balance
per cent.
41x132 feet, corner Third street and
First avenue north, with brick build
ing, two-story and basement, only $33,
000 $13,000 cash, balance to suit.
42x82 feet on Third street, for $425 a
front foot.
About three acres land on the East
Side, near Corno avenue, joining rail
road, good for manufacturing rposes.
$22,000.
A piece of ground fronting Central
Park, good for a block of tenement
houses, for $20,000.
Two lot& on Fourth avenue south..
only.$3,000, one-third cash.
Two lots on Lindley avenue, only
$2,400.
120 feet ou First avenue south for
$8,000. Th is a snap. Only $2,500
down.
50 feet on Clin on avenue: only $5,000.
Several desirable bargain#
•in Suth 3f*h tttapolis^
Mousey for rent or will sell
on monthly pt ume» *s.
This is but part of
the bargains ujt for sale with
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