The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-23

Maud Come, the Mtlesian AgitatOr,
Going to Help the BOers.


NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-The Worlds Paris
correspondent says: MAUD Come, the Irish
heroine, is going to the Transvaal. Eng
land, of which the girl is the tireless foe.
and France, where she resides, and where
she is universally beloved are just now dis
cussing the announcement. In the United
States, too, she has friends without num-
ber, who will watch with profound interest
the effect produced by the appearance of
The Tall Goddess of blonde flesh and au-
burn hair upon the Beers, whose cause she
is going to espouse and inspire
In Italy last year, at the time of the riots
of Milan, she once addressed. in English,
a crowd of Italian laborers. The audience
grew deliriously enthusiastic. They carried
her in triumph through the streets and from
that moment did blindly all that she desired
them to do.
Just now Maud Come is in Ireland. She
is saying to her people: The hated race
whose main function on the earth is to
spoliate, has once more placed its hand
at the throat of a weak antagonist. The
English are trying to strangle another
ton. Brothers, the cause of the Transvaal
is our cause. All Of you who are not kept
here by absolute obligations must come
with me and fight with the Beers. The
time for our own final struggle has not
come. The hour is not propitious, but there
you can help the cause of right against
might. Remember that every blow struck
at England is for the good of Ireland
"All of which the audience applauds with
frenzy. Nor is the enthusiasm quite pla-
tonic. Good information estimates at 1900
the number of Irishmen who have already
left for South Africa are on their way
there. Maud Come intends to leave short
ly herself to fight at the head of this con-
tngent. Meanwhile, one Of her trusted lieu
tenants, Mcbride, a well-known agitator. is
organizing and drilling the Irish forces as
they reach Pretoria
1t would be difficult to discover a more
picturesquely romantic figure than Maud
Come. the Joan of Arc of Ireland. A COM
manding female Viking. beautiful, strong,
impressive in her repose and inspiring i'm
her every movement, she was predestined
to do battle. To the burning faith of the
apostle and the serene mysticism of the
martyr she allies all the shrewdness of the
Celt, all the determined stubborn aggres-
siveness Of, perhaps some ignored Anglo
Saxon forefather whom she would angrily
disown. But withal she has a great heart.
With all the refined instincts that make her
house in Paris such luxurious comfortable
haven. with an education that makes her
delight in rich clothes, reyel i'm gorgeous
display and enjoy the company OF subtle
Partisan poets and artists, she does her life
work amid the squalor of the earth.
Once Prince Henry of Hesse and Prince
Edward of SAKE Weimar, who were then
two shining lights at the vice-regal court
of Dublin, heard that Maud Come was to
speak in the theater that night. The girl
had been the reigning belle of the vice-regal
court some years previously, before her
sensational renunciation of society and 10y
alism TO England.
Prince Henry proposed that the two
should go incognito and hear the Joan of
Arc of Ireland. They affected TO laugh at
the name and to laugh at the girl. But
they went, heard and saw her. She attacked
England and English rule, the vice regsr
court in general and the two princes. whom
she branded as insuferable, constituencies
snobs, in particular. Before she left Dub
lin she had 10 reject the hand OF both
princes. Each was willing TO incur loyal
disgrace If Maud Come were willing TO
become his wife.
She Is tho daughter of an officer In the
engineer corps. a wealthy man of Irish
blood. but absolutely loyal to England. More
than ten years ago she abandoned the court,
renounced her friends. defied paternal an
ger. and cast her lot with the peasants
Maud Come became one of the greatest
powers in politics. She elected or defeated
candidates at viii. The leaders OF the Irish
representatives In Parliament often had