The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03
Some Who Have Become Famous
in Gathering News.
GREAT DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED
Adventures of the Most Daring
in Modern Times.

One day more than thirty years ago,
when the German and French armies
were drawn up for battle and the nearer
troops were popping away, a young
man strolled between the firing lines
and stood there gazing through his field
glass as calmly as though he were sit
ting in ail opera box He did this sort
of thing regularly.
When Paris was in the hands of the
Commune he was there minglng with
the excitement. One day, hearing fir
ing, he hurried forward. Suddenly he
found himself inside a most extraord-
nary triangle of barricades The Off
Ger noticed the young Englisl1man and
commanded him to pick up the musllet
of man who had just been killed. He
replied that he was a foreigner and
neutral and would not do it. The Off
GER gave him the alternative OF taking
the gun or being shot. The young man
laughed. But firing party was told
off, and he was stood up against
church wall, and they were cheerfully
proceeding to end his life when the
forces from another barricade rushed
upon them. He was condemned to be
shot by his new captors, and again he
laughed and again he escaped.
A couple of years later he was in the
midst of the fever and famine OF India,
and after that he was in the Carlist War
in Spain, first with one army and then
with another In few months he was
in Servia, and in the battles of that war
he was conspicuous observer. Then,
attached to the Russian army, he
crossed the Danube, followed the cam
paign, saw the fighting at Shipka Pass,
and was at Plevna.
He realized the Russians could hold
their position, and his next thought was
the telegraph office. The nearest one
was one hundred and eighty miles away,
at Bucharest One bite of black bread
was all he ate in twenty-four hours. He
wore out horse after horse. This ride
ended in the greatest newspaper special
known in the history of journalism.
The great White Gar of Russia after
ward sent for him, and said: II have
had reported to me the example which
you showed with our forces on the day
before Plevna by succoring wounded
men under heavy fire. AS the head of
the State, I desire to testify how Russia
honors your conduct, offering you the
Order of the Stanislaus with the
crossed swords'-a decoration never
conferred except for personal bravery"
In all parts of the world where there
was war or promise of war this placid,
cheerful and gifted young man was gen.
orally found. He went with the British
force to Jelalabad, and under close
and heavy fire he saved a wounded SOL
dier's life and the official dispatches
gave him special mention for his ser
vices. In Zululand he was the first to
see the certain result of the battle Of
Ulundi, and although it was dark he
started through the trackless forest and
made his way through one hundred and
twenty miles of that unmarked wilder
ness to telegraph wire at Lands
mann's Drift, and from there he wired
to the world the result of the fight days
ahead of the official intelligence, his dis
patches being read in both Houses OF
Parliament amidst enthusiastic accla-
nation. This was Archibald Forbes,
the war correspondent, says the Satur-
day Evening Post.
DR.. William Howard Russell, the
great correspondent of the London
Times, went through a half-dozen wars,
and fought in the first rank of the
party that drove out the Sepoys from
the front at Lucknow. His pictures OF
the Crimea carried Florence Nightin-
gale and her heroines to that place.
A few years ago the State of Ohio,
by vote of its Legislature, brought the
remains of ]. B. MacGalan from their
foreign resting place to his native soil.
He became correspondent while COM
pleting his collegiate studies in Europe.
His ride of six hundred miles, pursued
by band of Cossacks, across Russia,
was one of the most noted incidents OF
the century. He reached Khiva and
told the story of Russia's first step to-
ward India. His accounts of the atro-
cities in Bulgaria upset Disraeli's min