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Show A Famous Irish Shrlno 1 Away up In tbo north of Ireland, In County Donegal, Is Lough Derg which contain, by far the oldest and most famous shrlno ot all tho land of Krln Kor centuries untold It baa been tho resort of pilgrims, nnd every year, from Juno 1 to Auguit IS, It Is thronged with penitents. Tho lough, or lake, Is six miles In length and four In breadth It contains several small Islands, two of which aro known respectively as Ralnts Island Is-land and Station Island. The scenery for mauy miles around Is neither beautiful beau-tiful nor Is It forbidding. It Is simply dreary Inexpressibly dreary. Thire aro no trees, no broken or graceful hills, but only slopes of desolate, un-relieved un-relieved moorland. Thla unpromising spot attracted the attention of the Hrltlsh world In tho middle- ot the twelfth century, when one Henry a Uenedlctlno monk of tbo Abbey of Saltrcy, In Huntingdonshire, wroto a marvelous book drscrclblng the penitence and punishment of a sr- jH tain knight of King Stephen of U'og-i H land. This knight, Sir Owaln (tha IBH name Is spelled In ranny waya), seems H to have been one of the most appall' Hl Ingly wicked men tbat ever lived. Act HIk! cording to the story of Henry, he en- fiaDy tercd a cavo In the tiny Island of SQ tough, and there passed through tho- H9 experiences of purgatory. The crltlel BBh ot folkloro may deem lho experiences JBlTOLl ot Sir Owaln as being only the work of. aJptWl a vivid Imagination or a vision ot 'SkS fever, which wrought n deep Impres- mvHP? alon upon his soul The clrcumitan- SSHk tlal nature of the descriptions, how- itfESXt ever, Impressed tho religious worldj flflnr profoundly, and tho narrative ot the, iSsruil knight's vision ot purgatory piutaed IsKSv Into other lands. One hundred and, iflwj twelvo years after tho appearance of jfla&E Henry's narrative Danto waa born. la tBat 'i'i "Inferno" his descriptions of pur- jHS gnbJry are much tho samo aa Henry's' jjBH In Ia. It Is tmposslblo to believe that) flH tho great Italian poem waa not In- IH spired largely by the strange, unearth-l ItLI ly narrative of the monk of Bnltrcy, 'H Tho great work which mado l.oii,l f Derg familiar to the literary wotldj H howeier, was not the poem of Dante, . but the drama of the Bpanlih posh ' Calderon. entitled "Paint Patrick's H I'urgatnry" This was written In 16SSJ H when the author was 31 yeara of agsi H 0rs , AVoui.n l'r.pond.nila la Norway. S In consequence of emigration thero. H la a greater preponderance ot women H In Norway than In almost any othorj IH country In Europe The census o3 1891 showed that thero was an exctf H of women over men ot almost 70,000 H while In 187C this excess only aaount-i H ed to 43,000. H 1 fl |