Show I c QUEER THINGS IN KERRY ami antl the till I tion tion 1 0 TUG Strange Island Even eu In Killarney you Oll cannot get gel l wholly awa away from flom the land question tion cites Sidney Brooks In Harpers Harper's Weekly The fhe gr great ai landed proprietor of the neighborhood i is i. l Lord ord Kennar Ken Ken- mare nar who urns owns an fin estate of or sonic some lf OOOO acres Negotiations have her been going on between be he- tw tween en himself him lt it amI ml his tenants the the tenants negotiating through four foUl with priests H Jests a view to the sale Fale and of oC the estate estale under the Wyndham yn ham act Both sides are arc anxious to o make the deal and the difference nce between them In ht point poni pf mone money is li very ver small But mone money Is not the only thing that counts in these matters There are iro four or five 11 evicted tenants on 01 the estate an and their theli lr lIo position hu huto has hasto hasto to be settled before a sale ale can take tuc place The ca case e of one of or them is worth woith looking into lie rented u a town arid farn at an annual rental of something Ic less than 1010 I u f year fell Cell behind In his rent lent and I was war finally evicted In Kerry Keiry and probably throughout nil all Ireland Irelan a farm from flom which a tenant has ha been I evicted must mUfit be worked d by tho landlord landlord land land- land land-I lord or OJ not at all No o one else will look 1001 at It and a u. man who had th the hardihood to lo tal take lake e it il would be he shot shotor or of boycotted within a week Lord Lol hits has offered to reinstate re- re instate this and the other evicted l tenants ten ten- tenants ants on his hiM estate otate on receipt of af one ono years year's rent In discharge of oC all arrears I The Tho Estates I commissioners have c found themselves le legally unable to ratify the I I I i arrangement an and the transaction la therefore still ha hangs hal his tire the Lord I Kenmare If rIi thu tho head bend of one one- of or the tho ol oldest cst Catholic families R In Ireland Ire Ire- land lie He is al also o Lord Lor Lieutenant of or the thu count county an and as aM such has the privilege privilege ege of ot n advising tho the Lord Chancellor in regard to appointments to lo the tho magisterial magisterial magis magis- bench I heard heart It ald taid al more than once In inthe the Iho district that If he lie would on only I nominate so and so o to the bench the Iho thet t sale alo would quickly go through I al alto also o found It a n matter o oi common Jo gossip that the Iho evicted tenant I have alluded to to a mastor master of tho the first t water In Inh Intends intends In- In h tends n 9 when reinstated to sell ell his farm faim at t once There i is Ig no doubt he will twill net not a handsome profit In the Kenmare river there are arc two islands that must mut be unique In these latitudes One of at them thom Is 19 ow owned net b by Lord Dunraven an and th the other b by a local Justice of the tho peace I have havo gone over 01 both of ot them In n a 3 crescendo of wonderment asking myself repeatedly repeated repeated- ly whether I In AI was sorry Kerry or Algeria For thanks s to the Gulf Gult Stream Steam these two Islands Island on which thirty or tort forty years CarR ago not n a single singh tree waRto was waR to be hc found Cound an and which were mainly bog and moor have have been turned Into I semitropical paradises I Tree fre ferns Cern grow there In the open air palms bamboo bambou and eucalyptus Nourish flourish there thereas as though on their native soil o an and man many plants and antl shrubs from Crom Australla Aus- Aus and antl Nci Neu Zealand do better I Iam Iam Iam am told In these islands than In their own home homer To fo pass paM from tho the bleak blenk mainland I Into this growth 0 of hothouse fJ e vegetation vegetation eta eta- tion lion is to travel miles duo south I In ton ten or fifteen minutes Lord Lor Land Lana downe who owns an nn estate nearby ha has I am told made mallo even un more of It j than Lord Dunraven i n an and his neighbor J Ii have hate ma made c of their islands but that thatIs I Is something I find V very IY difficult to believe In un any case cos I 1 have Ime seen enough to rob the talk tall of Jr growing I tobacco and planting tea In K Kerry Ir of or orall all Us its seeming wll wildness s. Jn |