ere - PAGE FO URTEEN LLL 2 17D CETLAL eH RE an ¥ cet dens "a0 the Called I i literdt truth a loug, long way to Tipperary, but it.is most etaphaii cally "worthy while" And it is read ily undersiandzhle hat a pet son with an appreciation for the beautiful Las visited th once i cnatiag raid Tale Gils heart "right there' entimen tirfhuted in or thi woulil ever ho even i theron were no tal consideration as It the popular mare hing Oil} allies which, hecane of vin and go, has become (Be vorue on [we continents, wapy of and whistlers and 0 imentalists care not-a-whit for the maoriial sig- nificance of the song Old ° Tipperary, rioh in historical assoclations and prodigal of natural beauty, -needed no modern catchy song ta bring it fame. Indéed, it is only faire confess that there are many loyal Irish in Ireland and in America who do not a hit fancy thi ditty of the doy They even de- npunce it as "rag time" and hint that its purpose is to induce the fighting Irish to make common cause in fight 10g England's present battle: In the case of Tipperary, a in that of Dublin aud almost ull the eontres of population in Ifeland, the name stands for a town and for a county as well. Tipperary is unique! among Erin's thirty-two counties in that'it is (he only large county that does pot border the sea. But a short journey by rail through 'the neighboring county of Cork will bring one from any part of Tipper- ary to Queenstown, the great port of embarkation for the United States, and thousands of Tipperaty's sons | and daughters have sought fortune | in the "ether Ireland," as they are | wont to term America. How many | of these exiles there are in the re- public is eloquently attested by the number and strength ot the Tipper- associations in our large cities. | Torment agricultural in _eharactar, 'Is thie goodly slice of the province of Munster. - To be sure, | moat of tha counties of Ireland are | glvén ovar tp one form or another of ! rural industry hut this i= particular- | Iy true In the case of Tipperary. And | such farm Innd. Almost any one of | her million acres wonld gladden the heart of any man or woman who hat! a love for growing things. Along the banks of 'the Suir are gems of | 'pastoral beauty that would tempt | any artist that ever manipulated pen- | cil or brush or camera. ~ Withal | these placid stretches of green have, | in many instances, the mountains | for a background, for Tipperary pos- | seégses the Silvermine Mountains and! no mean store' of mineral wealth as ueh who Ate Ne ae LEE, States when 23 Wr RT bogs that Vi tible suppl which the} secmingly inrxhau + peat "turf 01 Tipperary. The town of Tipperary is loc ated almost inthe centre of "the Taf fam ed Golden Vale, a level sivetch whicl cen at rvest time gloriou ! Hica Hs ihe and which for probably not exeeeded, qualled, by auy te area 'anywhere ladeed it is 100 wuch that for all that there of indneteinl vipperary, the prosperity oo garden in the wot aire 3 enterprizes in owes mach of it faet that it {s (he market timt is the trading aire, for that expanse of rich loan #oil 'which is in itself an adeguate ex- planation of why Ireland is called the Emerald 1sle, If you walk threugh the Golden Vale on a summer day you may meet | rather fewer people than you would expect: to encounter in a domain up- | om which Dame Nature has sfuiled so ndulgently, And, perhaps, if you agk a native for an explanation he | may reply mournfally that: "The people are all gone: to America. | There is no persem here any more | but those of us who are too oll to %0."" That is, of course, somewhal of an exaggeration, but there.is more thin a.grain of truth fn it. It is grazing which nowadays engroeses the attention of a large share oi tho people in rural Tipperary rather than | general farming, such 4s in days gone] by caused the fields to be alivy with | toilars, Cattle are mere profitable, say the | landowners who Ive wn eye for something more than the pictures- | que, and gny layman ean appreciate that this 18 prime. country for dairy-.| ing--~Tipperary's new voeation. How | matters are working out may be sur- | niised 'when it is stated that upward | of three-fourths of the entireirea of | the country is now given over te pas- | ture and dairies are very numerous, | many of them being conducted on ihe inher (a the town" ZEN a a The Lom Lord --= Wary lo 7700, PUIG o-operat ng urged ive plan such .as is be upon An ican farmer now The Population Slips Away. After you v journeyed ty miles from north nit through Tipperary or have trthed the county along the fo ¥ Leloh between Limerick and ny, yo nol need in Ly roadsia tell Re populition, particularly (he young Hood both sexes surely and steadily slipping-away to the land of promise beyond the Atlantic The vacant cottages atiest the desertion no less than the silent -¢ ipanses of greens-ward and finaly the papula- tion statistics detail ihe tragedy in cold figures. In 1875 the @ounty of Tipperary had 175.000 people. Ten years later the pumber had fall- en to 160,000 and' another ten years fhowed a drop to 152,000 or one-se- venth less than had been there two decades before, Likewise in this score of years did the number of oe- | cupied houses in the county drop | from 35,000 to 32,000; No wonder | there are many absewtees who night { rightfully cay that their hearts are | back. in Tipperary. Tobacco In Tipperary, Too. | Americans. may be interested. to | learn that the Tipperary of song and story ik just now the scone of aj notable effort to revive the Irish to i hateco industry. Several years ALO | the Irish Development Commission- | ers set aside the sum of $210,000 to | be used in experiments in tohaceo | culture --an activity that had thrived | in the iglavd Tong years ago but was stilled by adverse legislation. The | experiments have proven 'that Irish' tobacco growers ¢an "count upon a profit of §75 per acre, and it is in- | teresting to note that one of the first | successful tohaico plantations has by te { wid ti to rihat Poy dagRAL keeping Bod Are built on y, Brain and 'Nerves nourished, vigor The True Seeker | For by-.st ara puoasy dndigestibic facasmant-seteets footamd-Arink tor 'ous and strong. Keen Brains---Strong Nerves---Healthy Bodies i ¥ Health | { | ¥ - }atructed, J ary to | Puyinge been e County far distant, as the erow flies, from the coast town of Youghal, where Sir Walter; Raleigh, when mayor of that {town 1A"1588, introduced from Am. erica tobacco and that other Americ- an emigrant, the potato, which was to obtain in Irelund, a place of hon- or it never enjoyed on its native sail But jt. would be a grievous mis- | take to convey tha idea that because | 50. muEh 60 Tipperary is conspien- ously rural her-towns apd cities Nave naught to offer the tourist, no mats | { ter whether hedie in guest of histor ic monuments or evidences of pres- ent-day progress. Quite the contrary is true-----so much so that in Tipper- ary town we find, merging into one, an old town and a new town, so-eall- ed, that 'offer conirasts in arehitec- ture if in nothing, else. Here, too, are 'churches ta delight those globe trotters, who, in quest of eulturd and j education, consider love's labor lost | If they visit a city and do not find a cathedral or at least an art gallery. A great military barracks is a fea- ture of the town that takes county; name, so that it is more than likely | that a good many soldiers who have been singing as they march along on the continent that Tipperary tune have been stationed at one time or another in the town at the end of the "long, long, way." American Interests In Tipperary, - - EY BF 87 people in the | United Stdtes have reason. to feel an | especial interest fn the fown of Tip; perary because they contributed who: ney' to. build what. is known as the "new town". 'It was during the ex- | citing days of | ihe "Jand war™ in" 1887, 'when landlords, who were 'raating their tenants with especial injustice; were boycotted, Tipper- | ary 'was the scene of a particularly lively controversy, and when many. | tenants were evicted, because they conld net or would 'not. pay rent, a movement was stavied in America to raise funds for the con ction of a wew town", where «the evicted ten Ants 'might enjoy romiortable living quarfers st 4 reasonable rent. About $250,000 wis 'raised and . several blocks of model houses were con: It was soon "after this that the heavy exofus from Tipper America began in earnest AIWAYS Deen a sweady py han There had ablished ' at - Cordangan, in| "Wearing of the Green" ipperary, which is not xo | {to a height of 300 feet the Rock of is declared to have been penned in Tipperary by Henry Grattan Currap, so that. this town of 6,000 people seems to he en- titled to some measure of musical fame whether you think that the "Long, Long Way" adds to it or not, Towns Of County Tipperary. -Whea one thinks of Tipperary thare. comes to mind not merely the metvopolic'sf the Golden Vale but the GLIEF (owas of the county, each of' Wiiich has some elaim to distinction. Phere ds Thurles, where a famous hor<e fait is held once each month to hich come buyers from all parts of England and the continent. There is Templemore with ap ancient cas- te of ghe Knights Templar, and there is Caker, a delightful "Quaker town" on the banks of the Suir. ° Carrick. on-Suir iw a lively manufacturing town, and at Roscrea viditors to County Tipperary may see one of the famous Round Towers of Treland. In point of ancient historic inter- est, however, everything else in Tip- perary county--and indeed, pretty near all else in Ireland---pales. in comparison to Cashel or Cashel of the Kings; as it is usually designated, from the fact that it wag once the re- sidence of the kings of Munster. Out of a rich and extensive plain rises with great boldness and abruptness Cashel oh top of which is a great RRA EE ret Co 50 oe ary oe ound anywhere in the world---éhap- els, tombs and fortifications many portions of which date from the tenth century or earlier. Not the Jeast interesting circnmstance in connec- tion with the ruins which surround the remains of the noble cathedral atop of the rock of Cashel is that Saint Patrick spent much time at this retreat, which was once the ed- ucatioval center as well as the eceles- iastical capital of Ireland. : After all, however, without nnder- estimating the importance of Tipper- ary's relics and monuments it must be confessed that, for most present day visitors the chief attraction of this portion of the "sanny side of Ireland" will be found in the people themselves. Indeed, speak- ing generally, it is the magnetism of the natives--their wit and sentiment and charming, instinctive hospitality, {hat renders travel-in-- this iste of of fog. = ' Trial proves this pleasant fact. Look for the little hook, **The Road fo Wellville,"" on packages. | Ce i Grape-Nats food Canada and sold .% 7 <The natural food elements for A230 Alfedling of reserve forée and cdsy Ning. thorou. hiv % concentrated," : just these purposes are combined in Grape- ; Sy AN partially predigested so that the + « Strongest athlete can digest them and he | Part of the bedy grows strong. : poise all over can he earned by right f od is ted, erisp, economical, api old by Grocers everywhere. | ig epkest: invalid ov the nourished: Thus every \ f south of Ireland, but after the land stream of young men and women turning westward from Tipperary as from dlmost every other town in the War it appeared az though literally everybody who could get away sei out for the land of liberty. 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