The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-23
NANCY LEE ON
CURRENT GOSSIP.

~ DO not expect that as the navigating
| II officers ali went down with the Mohe-
| Ii gan We shall ever hear how IL was
| that the British steamer got so FAR away
| from her safe course on the Atlantic that
| she went 10 pieces on rock. IL was
about IN the evening, when the passen-
| gers were At dinner that the crash came
| which meant death 10 SO many. The life
| boats were hard 10 get away ard harder
slill to launch. which made the disaster
| more terrible. 4 correct lis. % the passen-
| gers seems difficult TO obtain. The None
| gan was originally intended 10 sail OcIo-
| Der and tho Manitoba October Is. but ne
| company fer some reason SUBSTITUTED me
Mohegan for the Manitoba and transferred
| many % the passengers.
| Capt. Griciths and all Of the crew acted
with the utmost courage and unseilsh-
, ness The officers and the sailors stood
| aside and gave their places 10 the passen-
I gers. and II 10 even known that one Of The
! lifeboats was los; because only four sailors
manned 1t. leaving the room for women
and children. The wreck Of the Mohegan
was direct contrast in its disaster 10 that
/ OF La RourGogne, which occurred d couple
| OF months ago The captain and the crew
! OF the Michigan were Brssish-or. al any
/ tain ana the crew Of La Bourgogne were
| French. cannot say. and do no, want
! 10 believe. that because the dreadful exam
/ Pies Of cowardice on La Bourgogne were
! French they acted Ike Frenchmen. I've
/ seen some gentlemen OF France and I'm
| sure our booksheives and our picture gall
| leries bear witness that la politesse and
/ ia noblesse' are found in other places
.han the French dictionary If we can iaks
our photogrd views OF a nation from
Its writers and its portrayers. do not
want TO think that la belle France is only
nj for fashions. men milliners and red
borreted rebels. | would prefer 20 believe
that Joan OF Arc would necessarily leave
trail OF heroic endeavor TO be followed
as long as tradition should live. and that
| varre would be the birthplace OF many .
OArtagnan.
Those French sailors on La Bourgogne.
however. were the most disgusting exam
pie Of my time OF how beastiy men ca
become when death stares them In the
face, and honor. gentleness and every good
quality Of mankind are sacrificed 10 mo-
ment of abject fear. When we read o.
the revolution of 1891 and see so many tum-
bril- carts carrying to the guillotine those
French martyrs and superb examples or
faith. those examples of devotion. those
sacrifices TO bowling mob OF Nth and
nation the Tine OF good and bad In men and
women is very sharply defined.
The blood of the martyr is the seed OF
the church" and 1t seems that every now
and then when we hear OF the Kindness
and gentleness. the bravery and the endur-
ance. that are shown to us coming out Of
such a disaster this OF the wreck of the
Mohegan, those brave men have not died
in vain. Each telegram from St Keverine
tells OF more heroism more endurance
do not want to be a Phar.see but I'm
mighty glad that / know enough that
when I shall be ready to take what almost
every woman looks forward to-a trip 10
Paris-I shall get on ship which floats
the Stars and Stripes or the Union Jack,
and take my chances with the kind OF
sailors that will go down to death helping
the women and the children. forgetting
themselves and only remembering their
| day, Miss Lucy Hill, daughter Of Gen. A.
| p. Hill. claimed as her right OF succession
| acy" When this claim was advanced
| there arose genuine rebel yell OF denial
| from Virginia to Florida. The South with
! or dead, is the Daughter Of the Confed-
| eracy. and with her dies the name. The
| South is loyal 10 her dead, and with her II
| Gen John r. Gordon said THE South for
| four years had one president; h IS dead.
The, South has had one daughter; she is
dead. The title dies with Winnie Davis,
| the only Daughter OF the Confederacy.'"
|
The Gustavus Adolphus Association is
ence for more than half century in Ger
gressive and comoat!ve leaders Of the
| Lutheran and Protestant movement In
| propagation of Professionalism and. above
all. war TO the knife on Catholicism by
| tavus Adophus the hero Of the Thirty
| Years war, namely. by means OF combat.
| This association IL more than active just
now, doing what II can to destroy Cathoi-
| icism In Germany. That young aut0crat.
| the Emperor william. seems to forget in
| his zeal that fully one-third. II not more.
! OF his people are Roman Catholics. and he
| is now doing all he can TO aid and encour-
axe this Gnstavus Adolphus Association BY
| forcihie letter wishing them ali success In
| their proposed religious pilgrimage 10
| Jerusalem. and has also gone himself. The
Emperor William has also written letters
| to the heads Of all Protestant churches in
| every European country. as we'll as 70 all
| Of the representatives Of Professionalism in
| the United States inviting these religious
! delegates to come as his guests 20 Jerusa-
| !ern. which IS TO be the Mecca OF this Prot
| pope does not like this attitude of EN-
peror William at all. ana he has so said
and written
| II does seem q pity that the Emperor
| William Is so restless he can't let well
enough alone. II he Is religious he must
| have read IN the book OF Genesis that after
| the world was created our Master rested
| from His labors. bat rest the Emperor VIII
| lam never wants to take. lie seems afrat'i
! to sit stii lest something should e}ude his
| eternal vigilance. He seems 70 think that
| X he Is ever on the watch ne and that
force which he calls The kulturkampf can
| control the world. I'm very sorry that his
| mighty unrest must show Itself just now
| In a religious movement. because I would
| RI .htr he amused himself In any other way
| Of a pilgrimage - JefUSale Ard sun
pose the emperor should be murdered
! while on thus pilgrimage Will II aeip Prot
| estantism?
| Though the pen is raiChtier than the
! sword beneath the rula of men entirely
| great" it appears that the knife is mighter
| than the pistol, N the hand OF those en-
| tirey bad Since the stabhtng g. the en-
| press Of Austria a few weeks ago one can't
! help thinking OF all Of the po;ent3teS " no
! have felt the thrust Of deadly knife.
/ President carnot % France was Killed WIN
/ dagger. beng almost diseru b0&eie4 by
I the knife OF cesA-io. The emperor OF AUS
! TIA retains on his left shoulder the scars
/ OF the terrible knife wound which ne re-
I ceived some .forty-seVeD years ago while
/ old Queen Isabella ~ Spain bears likewise
! horrible scar caused oy tAe savage thrust
! OF The pnlnard with which the priest Ma
| tho eadea.0re1 70 MURDER her in 80
/ King HQmbert would 7 ave been siabb-d
/ 10 The heart a: Naples BY f'assansGte ten
/ years ago had not his prime minister Cal
I roit thrown h nseIf IN front e MS sove-
| reign and received the knife IL BIS own
! bo1y, delugfng both the King and the
/ queen with mis- blood King Mi}aus r-c-