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Show 1 FAMOUS IRISH CITY 5 Correspondent Wrltos of Cork rTg y If ' 1 flfc I fiS H l ! iiiinmi i i mm , Lj VgJ D h (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE) flB Approaching Ireland from tho south ono Is guided Into tho harbor of Queenetown, bo named In honor of Queon Victoria's visit In 1848, provl- ously called Tho Covo. Tho ship rounds Rocho's point. This Is tho I point nt which tho steamship Chicago of tho Inman lino was wrecked In 1802. Tho promontory which attracts nt ontranco to tho harbor Is known as J Klnsall Head. It was upon this capo that tho ronownod Irish cenoral Hurch O'Neill met his defeat by England under un-der tho governor general Carow, in tho seventeenth century; and following follow-ing tho successes of a hundred battles. Let It bo recalled that this defeat heroin recounted followed as - result of Spanish treachery. Tho nlllnnco provlously entered into by O'Neill and O'Donnell with Spain was betrayed by ! Spanish ofllclals, and tho English forces wcro upon O'Neill beforo ho could summon his forces to victory. This conquest by England was tho real beginning of "England In Ireland." Ire-land." So potent had O'Nolll becomo that Essex had advised Queen Elizabeth Eliza-beth to como to terms with him. The queen died In 1C03. King James followed. fol-lowed. Ho waB obdurato, refused all . concession. Thii3 a hapless Ireland, V full of trouble. --' """ On tho headlands Jutting over tho channel entering Queenstown tho forts of Camdon and Carllslo mottled with cannon confronts each other In grim morosoncss. Around tho forraor . tho Spanish armada slipped and be came lost in its own convolutions; tho night was dark and wrapped In mist. Drako with the English squadron followed fol-lowed and by freak of sudden changed winds was blown around tho other i headland ns a train turned by a ton- '" - guo switch to a diverging track. Both fleets concluded tho other had escap ed and each went Its way; both to moot six months following la a victory for Drake which six months before at Queenstown would have been re-J re-J versed, had tho fleets Known each was - " In an nrm's throw of each other, and tho map of Europe changed for all .. ' mankind. "Drake's Pool" Is tho chris tening given tho place to commomo- rate Drake's visit and confusion while the world's fate was entangled in the net of Irish mists. 4 -PSSHPK From Queenstown tho seaport of ,5. C-5" --"jjOoiinly ... Cork ono Ih rtlHhod Into M Cork' City. Tho city Is near 100,000 H people, grown 2U.000 In twenty yoars. K It is Iroland's Venice built on spits B , of land and silts of water. Tho river Leo winds through tho town and ' against its banks there hover vessels B whoso noses hnvo sniffed tho seas of every port and cargo Is unladon from W, , overy sea of earth. Cork has waken-M waken-M ed up. It has appropriated Mnssachu-B Mnssachu-B sotts shoo factory patents and shoo B- factories spell their signs In gold to B tho eye of tho visitor. It was Just B below Cork whero William Penn was B born at Dloman Castlo 1482 ton D years beforo Columbus discovered ffj Ainorica, and two years beforo Luther. B Penn sailed from Cork harbor to dls-Bj dls-Bj cover Pennsylvania. Below this spot up from which tho Quaker statesman em- if barked there sleeps Bishop Wolfo, tho 1? Protestant priest, who wroto tho elegy E to Sir John Mooro, beginning: "Not a w a drum was heard; not a funeral I - note." "Black Rock" Is the gloomy , nnmo of tho monument planted In tho 1 seas to mark tho resting placo of tho & poet priest. B On tho suburbs oi C"rk Is Blarney, w w whero Is Blarney Castle" tho key-stono key-stono of whoso crest arch Is tho world-renowned world-renowned Blarnoy Btone, long since consecrated as tho lnsplror of lovo's phrases and flatterers' arts. Tho castlo Is squaro in dimensions, of Spanish architecture though constructed con-structed by Danish workmen for Lord Mncarthy, who built It Tho Blarney Stono is hooked to tho top odgo of tho castlo roof by bands of iron whoso -rr-r -. HHHHBSEwnt S SGBHBBBLLKi jt :JHHf Bl. t , VS"ifdBBBBBBBBBBBBVr -E9HHHmtt"rr St. Floun Barr's Cathedral. arms hug tho Btono of shnpo of a carrlago curbstone with curved arms to prevent tho rock from falling. Tho castlo is fast succumbing to tho inroads in-roads of tlmo. Tho stono bears tho legend that "ho who kisses nover missc3 being oloquont" Tho writer declined to visit his kisses on so stony hearted a mistress. Ono must bo lot down head downward hold by tho feet, and when tho head Is far enough down to reach tho stono tho suspended enthusiast must turn his ' head up as docs a chicken hold by tho foot, and nwinglng forward KIbb Uio under portion 6f tho rock, now worn smooth by tho million "Hpplngs" that aro forever lost to envious lovo. Roturnlng to Cork ono is reminded as ho approaches tho miraculous spot of Sunday's Well; that It was hero that Thackeray says, as an evldonco of tho education of Cork boys In tho past, that ho overheard two nows-boys nows-boys In a wranglo as to who was tho greater man, Thcmlstoclos or Pericles. Peri-cles. Speaking of Thackeray ho It was who said that beholding a Cork young man playing the violin ho approached ap-proached and said: "Young man, do you play by note?" "No, sor." said ho. "Well, do you play by ear?" "No, sor," ho again responded. "Woll," 1 l& toil v- JF AshJL iHlffiL W, Covered Jaunting Car. said Thackoray, "how do you playT" "By main force, sor," ho answered. Tho King of England closod his visit to Ireland at Cork. Ho was In tho "enemy's country," yet ho was given a cordial and slncoro welcome Tho Irish greeted him as their guest. Ireland can bo disloyal to rulers, but Inhospltnblo to guosts novor! Sho can oppo3o a king bocauso a king op- f j ,, , posog her, hut whoOf i tn i,,r ho,, ho Is uBtnoguosTTn the all's w-i. portaklng of sulfc 0h z. hi,,, wolcomo to his qJirrflnv an.1 n s,,( . Ing to his partingyiecausf. Kim- i.(1 ward camo as a' visitor aua Irishmen know how to rccelvo |