Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
DIED LIKE HEROES.

Theatergoers who have aeen tAs
plays, '"The Christian" 'The Sign o4
the Gross and "Quo Vadas," and wins
remember how UrsuD mightily moved
them when he resigned himself to hi
fate, and how, in THE Sign of the
Cross" they gritted their teeth as they
naw the Stole step into the arena tx
be fed to the lboos because he was !
Christian; those who like that sort O,
. sensation or who belitle the risins
IN China ought to get a COZ of the
letters which Bishop Glenncn has "a
ceived from China A Catholic insti.
tuition, similar to the Forefgn Missions
Society, has its centH+al organization
In Lyons, France. That central or.
ganization has just sent out copies OF
the reports OF its missionaries in
China. Nothing In Language could ba
more strong than the tale these men
beGl. Priests, i'm hand and time Of
terror when they wrote their reportA
no wonder the communications are
brief. Nothing is lent for local color.
Ing. 1t wouGdl be one thing TO witness
such a scene from a seat in a theater,
but think of this for an actu Atty:
"That same day." wrote Father
Monnier, from Northern Manchuria,
'the 'AasterS broke into the residence;
aid hope was lost The father cried in
a Loud voice: LET all the Christians
proceed to the chapel. 1 am going
there to give them absolution.'
Scarcely had he entered when the
cabechist who accompanied him saw
that his strength had failed. The
priest had BEEN pierced by bal
which had been sent through a win
dow. A large number of Christians
died with the priest. The church wai
soon in flames"
Father Chou1et's report from South
ern Manchuria, Er its fifth line, reads:
"Bishop GuilIon was burned alive;
Father John LII was burned alive; Sis
ter Albertina and Sister of the Holy
Gross with nearly 100 Christians were
burned alive in the church of Monk
dem"
The death of the Bishop was mag
n5ficent. AS Father Chou1et tells it.:
"When he saw the Chinese soldiers
ieveling CANNON against the cathedral,
he ordered the Christians TO assemble
In the church, On which the guns were
TRAINED. Thereupon he put on hia
pontifical vestments and oourageousiy
awaited DEATH
Nothing was too bad for the hounds
who burned this cathedral and its de.
voted people. Having died on june
"a Of typhoid fever" writes Father
Choulet, 'they dfsinIterred the bones Of
Father Moulin and, after outraging
his body, fed IT to the flames.
"bn like manner, on the firm OF st.
Joseph, they disinterred Sister Helen,
who died fifteen years ago. TO burn
her bones and what was left of her
clothing. In the same district Father
Hia was taken prisoner, led, to Monk.
dem and decapitated."
Here come the little children.
Fathers Viaud sad Bayart of Saao
hebcham and Father Agnuis tool
refuge with their orphan children IN
Chetze-tuen. They hid in under.
brush and for two days all were with.
out food. Brigands came upon Z n
there and under the hypocritfcal dis.
guiee OF giving them food, seized their
horses. The priests had STARTED on
their way TO icfn me. Hearing moth,
ing from them I sent a courier and
through him received news that the
three priests were shot amrf thrown
into the river, that rhefr four compan.
eons we're not shot, but were bound
and thrown UNTO the river. Young
women and children lay about with
their throats cut"
But some OF these priests sold their
lives dearly. Before he bent his knees
end said his last Ava Maria, Father
Bourgeois near Inghse, with Pa Their
lie Geuval. seized an old tower, and IN
there herded his little flock 'Tha
aggresSorst" reads Father Chaulet's
report, had recourse to cannon. Hav-
Ing exhausted their little bullets. the
priests melted the money they had and
used that in their gums. When, the
powder failed. Father Bourgeois
burned their paper money. broke their
firearms, BENT in prayer and awaited
his death. All were decap'tated. The
heads of the two priests as we'll az
Those of Sister Marie and Sister Then
esn Mou, of the orphan asylum in
Leenchau, were semi to Ning-yunn-
chau."
Father Andnauer, In Southeastern
Chihil, died like Archbishop GuilTon
OF his end Father Schene:chal writes:
"AtA 3 o'clock in the afternoon thu
0oorkeeper informed the flther, whV
was keeping n lookout from side
door, that the Boxers were ait the
porte cochere. The priests attempted
DO defend the entrance but the BoNeru
gained admission. The ewo priests
then retired to the chapel am = arrayed
themselves in their robes On Blended
knees they awaited their eXecutioners.
Afterwards they were found side BY
side, pierced to DEATH"
That report was not i'm until the
cables brought news from the SAND
district of the murders of Fathers
Dcnn and Mamgin.
ITO the Oauhldron" was a newspaper
head which made the people shudder
months ago when first lit WIS learned
the German ambassador heli heen ~
uassfnated. The unhappy Bishop Fan.
Oosati and Brother Joseph, who
travelled with him, met as cruel 9
death. Learning OF the rising, the
bishop and Brother Joseph. like thu
heroes that they were. hurried to the
scene. They went by boat part Of
their Journey. Before handing they
addressed themselves to the chile
offScial OF the district asked for pro
lection, were assured they would have
q, but before they could leave their
boat ga large crowd collected on thu