The Irish standard., 1891-01-24
banks of which we have chosen the site
for our principal m,ssion.''

the following December rude cnape
had been built there and services begur
to be regularly held therein for the Ia
dians. The success which the mission
aries met with was almost miraculous
and BY the end of the year Father DE
Smet was able to report to his superiors
at st Louis the conversion of the en-.
tire Fiathead tribe and the baptism OF
hundreds of Blackfset, Nez Perces,
Cenrs d'Alenes and other nations. In
l843 the mission Of ST. Mary felr obliged
to appeal to st. Louis for more priests.
and two more clergymen, Fathers Peter
De VOs and Adrian Hoecken, together
with q number of lay brothers, were
sent out to Father De Smet and his
companions. The founder OF the mls
sion was himself ordered that year to
| repair TO Europe In search OF new coad
tutors, the st. Louis house feeling that
it conld not spare any more priests, and
the superior being unwilling to have
the Indian mission srffer from lack of
assistance. Obedient to this order,
Father DE- Smet crossed tbs Atlantic,
and his mission was singuIarly success
full. AS soon as be had secured the aid
he wanted, he haste0ed back to Amer
lea. so eager was he to recommence bis
Indian work; but in those days trans
atlantic voyage was no trife, and
Father De Smet, in the hope OF sooner
reaching the scene Of his Iabors, took
passage In the MorGing Star at Brest
Tor Oregon. having rs companions
number of Sisters Of Nntre Dame. who
came from France that year, at the in
vitat1on of Archbishop Btanchst. to
Willamette. The missionary band
reached Oregon August is. l845, and
among tho priests who then accom-
panied him were Fathers Antonio Ra
Will, Michael Accolti, Alovsius Ver-
crumpse aud Giovanni Nobili, these
clerggnen beicg subsequently, distrib.
uted among the seve1a al Indian missions
which had then been estab!isbed in the
Rocky mountain region, and being
y,lned ia 1847 hy another re- enforce
raent from Europe. among whom was
Fathers BAx, D5 Theux, GAZE )u AMI,
Gaets, with several more.
10 the performance Of his missionary
duties Father De- Snet Was not unob-
servant Of other things about him In
the uneXplored regions he evangelical.
and to him the United States govern
ment was indebted for the earliest to
Biography Of the Rocky mountain dis
tricts. Els letters to St. Louis, too,
were by no means mere raclEaIs OF his
spiritual conquescs and tolls; they con-
tanned valuable information about the
localities he visited, and one writer has
said of them that 1.-The hauuts of the
grizzly bear and wolf; ths marks and
seasons of the rock antelope. and tall.
peak loving wild sheep; the dam Of the
beaver; the lurking place Of the MINK;
the spot where the otter oftenest
plunaes into the pool; che line where
the rabbit begins to gro y white, aud
chat from which the wire ermine leaps.
almost invisible, over SHOWS no more
spotless. save the black tail tip. than
himself: all these. and the veins Of the
minerals, are most silently taken note
of by this APOSTLE. Read one letter,
and you would say this mao has dole
little but hunt; from g second, you
would fancy hiu a naturalist; from a
third, a mere painter or poet reveling
in the beautp ana grandeur which he
SURVEYS, were it not that il all you see
the presence Of God; the ceaseless Zeal
for His greater glory." The great
apostle found t1mes too, among hi,
other occupations, to write soma charm
ing descriptive books. In lS43 there
his ''Letters and Sketches"
in 1847 hia "Oregon Mtssions,'' q work
OF over 400 pages, reDlese with geo
graphical, scientific aud religious mat,
ters, was printed in Nsw York. and he
has left, besides, number of books aud
letters ip French and italian. descrip
tive of the regions he travelled through
and the objects he beheld there. He is
described as baving been, even after he
had passed his go n birthday, ''robust.
tall, straight as a pine, bronz ID, silent
and quick; earnest and straightforward.
a foe to no man living. and friend
whom all YOUR prosperity could attach
no more closely to. whom all your ad
versity could not separate from. your
side. The RAbub.ic
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thought ycu were at police headquar-
ters.
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here is my card; don't think l have
the honor Of your acquaintance.
First-Oa, see; hope You'll excuse
me. old fellow. for not noticing you
were disguised.
Eiitor-Mr. Hnnker, YOU have been
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vet you sign Yourself '.Old Subscriber"
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