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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-09
Coureurs De Bots.

How their paddles used 10 dance
In the bright streams Of New France,
How the broadening Wabash rang
With the wild sweet songs they sang,
They were spirits such as live
Ever far and fugitive.
Built for rough work and TO roam,
With rude camp fires for a home.
They brGved lakes and streams and fens
From Quebec 10 old Vincennes.
And the Mississippi. too.
Well their fragile navies knew.
In their eyes the streams were made
To he kinsmen Of the blade.
And their rugged hearts kept time
To the rivers bubbling rhyme.
Like a dream OF old romance
Is the thought that sons or France
Once along these waters came
in the liiied banners name,
Verify. strange destInies
Parcel earth and mark the seas:
Carelessly oblivion filings
Hiding dust on crowns and kings.
Now the courier knows
Not for whom the river flows,
Yet by portages sad streams
IL may be his spirit dreams.
And across the brooding years
Speech Of France again he hears,
or the elder Latin tongue
Ever old and ever young
OF the priests he knew OF old
In sonorous chant Is rolled
PAX vobiscum," In the grass
Winds repeat the requiem mass.
eredith Nicholson. IN the yincennes ouartel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-09

Baltimore American.

BaItlmOre AmefICdN.
woman in Buffalo has lost her mind
through worry over the trial OF a Christian
science healer for manslaughter, and "A man
in Poughkeepsie has sacrificed his reason
to broodng over the abduction case of Baby
Clarke. Nervous tension is so high nova
days that when people have not troubles
enough of their own TO drive them insane,
anybody else's old trouble will do. IL they
cannot contract the worry at first hand,
They hasten TO look for IL in newspaper coll
hard. honest manual labor would bring the
average mind down from its excessively
delicate poise to a safe and healthy ball
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-09

ItUEtT hUUlIIIy.
AS general thing. we do not get many
flowers from the pansy after hot weather
comes. and those we do get are inferior In
all respects. The pansy is essentially cool
weather flower and il should get treat
ment which will enable II TO do Its work
To secure full fall crop of flowers from
plants which have bloomed through the
spring months. II Is well TO cut the plants
back very sharply in July. Cut ayax the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-09
Atchison Globe.

Atchls0n GIoDe.
Ii woman has any style to her she is
always dressed in such q way that she
can't eat with comfort
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-09
RAILROAD TIME CARD.

p NJ time is in BLACK fgures.-Trains marked
thus: s-Daily, S-Sleeper, P-Parlor Car, O.
Chair Car. D-Dining Car. f-Except Sunday.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18

MS cruel disappointment a second
time, after a night alone in a mere shell
| on an unknown sea. when he was near
enough to hear voices on the deck Of
the Vigilant, it is needless to dwell
Rowing YEARLY back TO shore he made
his lonely way again to Johnson's.
where after four days he was cheered
by the arrival of Mcguire and his
friend, who had come again to see him
through. This time Mcguire brought
brief letter from Father McCabe ask
ing q Reilly to remember him. He had
arranged with Captain Clifford of the
bark Gazelle of New Bedford, which
was to sail next day, to take O'Reilly
on board. In order to insure the fulfill
ment of this agreement, the good Faith
er had paid the Captain e10 to carry
his friend as far as Java.
Soon after daybreak the next Mon
day the men went down to the beach.
BY noon they saw the two whaleboats
under full Roadway. Towards evening
they were hailed by the vessel. and a
voice shouted O'Reilly's name and
cried out: Come on bOardr They
pulled alongside and O'Reily was
helped on board. He was warmly well
coined by Captain Clifford, and as the
boat pushed off from the ship Mcguire
stood up and cried: God bless youl
don't forget us. and don't mentions our
names till you know it's all over" This
is. in brief. the history of O'Reiffv's
escape so braveiy planned
and executed By Father McCabe. This
noble priest, after his part in the es-
cape became known, was obliged to
leave Australia, and he came to Amer
Ca, where ever since, until his death
asst week, he has pursued the ministra-
ions of his priestly calling in the little
parish near Waseca, MINI.
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JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY'S ESCAPE
RECALLED BY THE RECENT
DEATH OF FATHER M'CABE.
"Reminiscences of o'Reilly's Thrilling
Escape From Australian Penal
Coloney-The Priests Assistance.


The death Of Father NTcCabe at
Waseca. Mimi, recalls the thrilling
escape of John Boyle, OfReiIly from the
Australian penal colony, which was
brought about with the aid of this de-
voted priest Father .McCabe was the
chaplain who, in 1869. assisted John
Boyle O'Reilly to escape from the Aus
tralian prison. But for this humble
priest. the light of that brilliant intel
>lect might have gone out in the depths
of the Australian bush, amid the
poison flower of civilizations corrup-
tion," his fellow convicts and the pages
of literature be minus of some of it's
tenderest, sweetest songs. AS poet and
man he charged against the iron pre-
JUDGES of Puritan Boston and in a
short space of time he, the Irishman,
the Catholic, the escaped convict, be-
came the idol of Boston's most cultured
men of letters, and the bright particular
star of all their assemblages.
Father McCabe, at the time of
O'Reilly's Incarceration, had charge of
a parish" which extended over hun
dreds of miles of wild bush country,
and whose only parishioners were
convicts and ticket-of-leave men, This
scholarly, accomplished man had at
that time passed fifteen wears in min
victs. He was kind to all men. what
ever their creed, and sincere Chris
tan worker. OReilly himself said of
Father McCabe: He was the best
influence; indeed. in my time he was
the only good influence on. the convicts
in the whole district of Bunbury."
To the priest O'Reilly managed to
,ontide his plans for escape. The father
discouraged O'Reillys plan and advised
him to wait. promising him that he
himself would try and devise a plan for
lim, saying: Don't do that You'll
near from me before lang Weeks and |
months passed and O'Reilly never heard |
rom him. 1t was weary waiting. but |
he convict, though tortured by the |
Uncertainty which kept him from work
ng his own plan, still had confidence
n his absent and silent friend.
One day as he was crossing a plain
allied the Race Course" he heard
coo-ee," or bush cry. Looking in the
Erection of the. sound, he saw a stall
Vart man coming toward him with an
X on his shoulder. There was a pleas
Mt smile on his face as he approached
Reilly and said: my name is Ma
ulre; | am a friend of Father Macs
nd he's been speaking about yeu.'
eelng OsReilly hesitate the Stranger
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the head of the army. He had not as
lar as l know, seen any active service
previously, and was by no means quail
fed to command a force. 1t is presumed
that he, in his contempt for the Beers
saw an opportunity to be raised to the
peerage by marching into the Trans
vaal and simply wiping the malcontent
Beers off the face of the earth. How
ever this may be. it is certain that he
assumed command of the small British
army then in Natal and marched for.
the Transvaal, but found himself
stopped by the Beers at Laing's Mex.
ms Mex is on British territory, and
is the only available pass in the Drak-
range by which the TransvaaI
may be entered from the Natal side.
Inc Beers were laagered on the Trans
vaal side of the range, where the conn
try is level; Colley pitched his camp in
4 !, !, valley lley at che foot of Laings Mex, on
me Natai side, The subsequent events
OF the war, after the forming of fbe
British camp. showed such gross in
conn e-eney on the part of the English
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TOOK card from his wallet on which
was message to O'Reilly in the writ
! ing of Father McCabe This set at
rest all doubts and fears. O'ReilIy
eagerly listened to all he had to say.
Tor ne had come to carry out the good
priests plan of escape. He said he was
clearing the Race Course" and would
De at work there for. month. In Feb
| ruary-1t was then December-Amer-
lcan whalers would touch at Bunbury
Tor water, and he would arrange with
! one OF them to secrete O'Reilly on board
and take him out of danger
one night in February O'ReiIly found
Mcguire waiting for him at the Race
course Are you ready?'' were the
faithful fellows first words. He then
sald that one of the whalers, the bark
Vlgllant of New Bedford, was to sail in
four days and that Captain Baker had
agreed to take OReilly on board if he
1eil IN with him outside of Australian
waters, and had even promised to
cruise two or three days and keep
lookout for him. Mcguire had arranged
all the details of the escape.
on the evening of the day arranged
Reilly left his hut and started off
though the bush to meet his friends
The plan worked evenly and the same
night they reached the sea and had
L..
rise the boat had got almost ont of
slght of land. The course " as a straieh
line of forty miles across Georgranhe
Bay. 1t had been arranged to lie i'm
wait Tor the Vigilant on the further
shore and row toward her as she
passed the northern end of the bav
through some oversight neither food
4I. drink mad been provided and soon
f fne t occupants of the boat began to sus-
Ie[ the pangs of hunger and thirst. FL |
ldlly the BOAT was put ashore ard they |
wandered for hours through the dried |
sWamps in search of water.
fortunately there was a man living a /
lew miles away whom the Maguires /
thought we'll of: and it was decided /
that the other three men should 90 to /
ms house for food and drink. leaving
y Kelly in the bush for safety. one to
return with sustenance for the fugitive
a; soon as he could come unob5erved.
MS was done, and the next day the
party started again for the beach
When they soon espied the Vigilant
Losing no time, they pulled cheerily to-
ward the vessel which seemed to be
steering straight toward them when
it changed it's course and
passed on, leaving the little boat to its
tate.
The intense bitterness of O'Reillv,s
was NOW increased by
ne sense of DANCED. AT any moment
discovery was liable However his
good friends did not desert him. They
owed ashore again and it was decided
nat O'Reilly should be left in the
)uSh. as before, while the others went
o Johnsons 1t was necessary to trust
ne Englishman with the secret and let
lin know the hiding place CT the fugi
i've. for his friends were obliged to go
'ack and arrange for his ecape by one
1, the other whale ships nj the mean
ime O'Reilly. Sick with despair, found
n old boat of Johnsons and put to sea
ioH ls tnes pare ehsnSe ct being. able
p dttractsthe notice Of the, yigilant. OF /
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18

L repeat that the inccnsiderate con-
Duct of the English officials at Pre-
torla towards the Beers FASTENED the
events of 1851, though 1 am not at
all sure that the revolt of the Beers
would not, in time, have taken place
anyhow. Let us look for a moment at
the circumstances in the case. England
had paid the TransvaaRs debts. she had
renewed them from immediate alarm
OF native invasion: she had given
commercial prosperity to the country
Under these new and prosperous con
ditions, many Beers from the surround
ing countries Joined their Transvaal
brethren English traders erected
stores in different parts of the country.
and the Beers could now get good
value for his wool and other rnercan-
tile commodities. For the first time in
many long, weary months. he heard
the cheerful jingle of gold in his pocket.
1t was English gold, it is true, but
still it was gold, good, glorious, glitter
ing gold, and ne reveled in unaccus
toned luxury.
secretly, however. the Beers held !
meetings and as secretly resolved to |
revolt against the intolerable English |
yoke. Without warning they armed
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an edifce on his purchased lot, such
edifices to be of stated minimum
valuation. In some of these villages,
or ''dorps." a church was built, and in
short time the dorp assumed ont
wardly quite a thriving appearance.
Only outwardly. though, as most of
the houses We're unoccupied, excepting
at "Naachtmaal' seasons. AS the pop
ulation increased a Volksraad. or con
gress, was formed. This was and is
the most crudely primitive assemblage
of lawmakers ever imagined-that is
nineteenth century white peo-
pie. There is no political excitement
at election times; in fact. there is no
worth calling by that
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
Geogbegdn Hnswers Gdtnunds.
"ekoWn and Brilliant Salt Lak Holly Boma the English Position
ing Controversy Over the MSunderstandingS

! Mr.. Geoghegan said he never saw any
of it practised by the Beers during his
residence in South Africa. TT was COM
mon there, remarked Mr.. Geoghe-
gan for an Englishman to say to a
niger on the sidewalk. 'foOtsack.'
which is equivalent to saying get out
of here, you dog Where there are a
thousand niggers to one white man
there would be no show to get along
if the blackman were not made to feel
/ his inferioritv.
Patriotism and Education.
If pride of country" Mr.. GeOghegan
asserts, amounts to anything, q Boer
is an Afrfkander. and glad to be known
as such. which term to him is esteemed
the same as American is to us. Yet if
the name of Afrikapder is applied to an
EngliShman there he feels insulted, for
the reason that he has no patriotic
pride in that country. With the Eng
lishman it is only case of temporary
residence. where he hopes to achieve
fortune to take back to England to
spend.
Il lived among the Beers nearly four
years and found them gentle, hospit-
able people, but bitter against the Brit
ish because of the wrongs suffered at
their hands. To the people of every
other nation they hold out the hand of
welcome.
1.-The Beers are not opposed to the !
advance of civilization. Those who /
have means send their children to uni !
versities in England, Germany and Hol- |
land to be educated. Their republic has /
a permanent fund for the maintenance |
of common schools, seminaries and col
leges, and there are about eighty of
these government institutions.
Citizenship Dangers.
"The great influx of Englishmen."
continued Mr.. Geoghegan, came to the
Transvaal on account of the fabulous
gold fields They did not go there for
the purpose of becoming citizens of the
These immigrants, or Out
anders as they are called, refused to
renounce their citizenship to Great ,
Britain, and consequently if given the
light to vote their first effort would be
% depose the government at Pretoria
and annex the state to Cape Colony
md the British crowns Why, therefore +.
should not the Beers, who have suf-
cred so much at the hands of Great )
Britain while establishing govern
nent and a country, hedge them
elves with safeguards of this kind?
But as a matter of fact during the r
ecent negotiations President Kruger S
id consent to grant the elective fran Z
hise to British subjects after seven b
ears residence on condition that Eng a
and would agree to declare absolutely /
hat it would withdraw all claim of E
uzerainty over the Boer country The a
ecessity for such a condition is obvi- n
us, because if a dual citizenship ex-
tied the British subjects could simply ii
ay they violated no oath of allegiance Il
} the Transvaal in voting to annex the h
Ountry to Great Britain, inasmuch as s,
ley had not renowned their citizen G.
nip as Englishmen d
THE duplicity of Mr.. Chamberlain in 81
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refusing to accept this proposition and
telling President Kruger he was pre-
pairing a proposition to submit and on
force, is most astounding. | would like
to know what else would be expected
of the Beers than to fight for their ex-
| istence, as they are doing.
Taxation Propositions.
Suppose you have hundred Door
farmers eking out a nisera BILE exist
ence from their holdings and near IN
them a man who owns a mine. out of
which he realizes a million dollars q
month. Would it be fair to ask each
unit of the hundred poor farmers IN
! pay a9 much taxes as the mine
| owner? That is the taxation propo-
sition of the British, as / see it. I win
I further state that in the TransvaaI tbs
treatment of foreigners by the Roey
government is far more liberal than orr
fellow citizens are receiving from tho
British taxing power in the KIondfke
region.
This war is the result of personal
matter between Mr.. Chamberlain and
Cecil Rhodes. Chamberlain thought his
bluff of sending $4,000 soldiers would
cover the Beers and bring great
measure of glory to him, making him
the recognized leader of political
thought in the kingdom The war vas
land, but Lord Salisbury's ministry
gave Chamberlain a free hand until
retreat was impossible.
RevuIsion of Feeling Predicted.
Unless some signal successes come
to the British arms soon there will be
such d revulsiOn of feeling in England
as to wipe the present ministry out of
power and make Chamberlain the most
execrated man in Great Britain. Two
hundred million people are arrayed
against less than a quarter of a million.
The importation of ammunition can no
longer be done by the Beers. and with
in the next fifteen months or two Years.
the end of the war must come
If the Beers see that they are sSIre
to be wiped out they will destroy the
mines and Improvements around johann
nesburg until it will take million Of
pounds sterling to get the mines on d
paying basis again, and this fact may
have an influence in bringing about
some settlement and the retirement of
Chamberlain who is the war party in
he British cabinet.
England Paying Dearly.
England is fighting not for greater
privileges for the OutIanders. but for
and she is paying a big
rice for it. Soon the hot season will
'e on and the English soldiers will die
If quicker than if hit by Boer- bullets.
the 100000 Cape COlonists flock to the
'oers the railroads would be torn up
nd the English forces could not be
moved to the front.
i notice that the aristocracy is fit
ing up fine hospital ship for the
British forces. Many American women
ave helped the scheme for purpose of
Oclal distinction that they otherwise
0uld not achieve. Why have they not
one something like that for our own
oldler boys in the Philippines"
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however, to respond humanely to the
Beers appeal, and sent a few troops,
who entered the Transvaal without OPP
/ position and formally took it under the
protection of the British Gag in the
early part of 1877. l do not remember
/ hearing a single dissentient opinion
among my Dutch acquaintance in
South Africa at the time of this an
neXat1on. The Beers living in the Cape
Colony, Orange Free States and Natal
were aware of the deplorable condition
their Transvaal friends were in and
considered England's act a necessary
one.
Cause of Revolt.
The question, then, is: why did the
Beers subsequently revolt, when the
annexation took place at their express
WISH As near as l can arrive at the
1acts, 1t was due partly to the treach-
erous lngratitude of the semi-civilized
boeIs, and partly to the action of the
Englsh officials sent to govern them.
These officials despised the Beers and
TOOK no pains to hide their contempt
FOR my part, l heartily sympathize |
with the Boer in the position he then !
found himself The Boer has an intense |
leSlFe Tor freedom. He longs to feel |
as untettered as the springboks which !
road over his untitled acres. The uues1
non as TO whether the Boer is qualified
or such freedom, considering his pres
INT surroundings, is quite another mat
er. Inc fact remains that he loves lib
,fty-by this l mean his own personal,
liberty-he is not inter
Sted IN the liberty of anyone else. The
,urShers. therefore, who signed the pc
ltlon asking England to annex them.
must have felt a gnawing at their heart
trlngs at the thought OF again being
nder British authority, which. to them,
leant degradation. Nothing but the
ense of the extreme urgency of their {
ase could have impelled them to this f
tep- Now, it seems to me, that this /
act should to some extent have been I
onsldered by the officials sent by Eng l
md to rule the Beers, and that their s
D. 1a1oA 49, he PnnrS -rLn,.1ll -
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tribes living adjacent to the Trans
Yaal, becoming aware of the impover-
lshed condition of the Beers, were
threatening to inundate the country.
This was inimical TO British interests.
for the natives once in possession Of the
Transvaal republic and flushed with
victory over the usurping white man
would probably have attempted to over
run Natal and the Cape Colony In this
extremity number Of the influential
beers signed petition to the British
government asking for protection.
Nothing can more elnphatically den1on-
strate the hopeless condition the Beers
We're in than this appeal of theirs to
tne generosity of their hated enemy.
di IN lar from saving that England is
always actuated by purely unseIfisb
MOVIES MOVIES and even in this instance her
L;..la was not unadulterated !
49, si.n ner interests were at stake; still |
she could easily have left the Roers e., /
shelr rate and defended her own hor-
lefs from native raids. She DECIDED
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HE LIVED WITH THE BOERS
POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS AND
WARPED JUDGMENTS.
REPUTATION of Claims That South
Africans Are Brutal, Exclusive
and Designing-Mr. Geoghegan
Arraigns the English-Predicts
Revulsion of Feeling.

! There is another broad-minded, patri-
otto citizen, a resident of Salt Lake,
who takes strong exception to the ut
terances of newspapers and people in
this state who affect to believe that
Great Britain is not waging a war Of
| conquest against the Beers. This per-
son is Joseph Geoghegan, the widely
known merchandise broker and there
is probably not another man in Utah
better qualified to pass an, intelligent
opinion upon this question than is he,
since he formerly resided in the South
African republic and was close OBJ
server Of all conditions and incidents
in the land where now the clash of
arms is attracting the attention of the
world.
Chatting under the challenge of a
morning paper that no Salt Laker who
ever lived in South Africa would af-
hrm that the Beers are not what the
nrejudiced British picture them, Mr.
Geoghegan yesterday unfolded to The
HefaiG startling array of historical
facts and undisputed figures in support
of the proposition that England is en-
gagged in a war of conquest. Mr.. Geog-
hogan quotes freely English historians
and British reports to show that there
is a current misconception if not a Woe
ful Warplng of judgment on what are
the real causes of the war in the Trans
wall. Such high authority as the New
Y ork Sun. corroborateS every utterance I
of Mr.. Geoghegan.
Slavery Not An Issue
AS to the claim that the Beers, who, /
by the way, are descendants of the I
Dutch and the French Huguenots, the
best blood of old Europe, are sorely |
veXed because the British abolished
slavery in the South African states, Mr..
feoghegan shows that the English i'm
ported all the slaves, that the Bush
men, kaffirs, Hottentots and other ma
ives, never were slaves and that the
iriginal Dutch laws forbade slavery.
There never was any demand from
cape Colony for the abolition of slave
Y, because condition of servitude
vas forbidden even before the English
anne into the country. When the
-reat trek or migration took place |
orthward, there to flee from the OPP
ression of the British, confiseation of {
Soer property was the order, but no I
laves were taken with the movers. $
Speaking of the charge of brutality,