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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-11-22
BLAKE AND HIS MEN.
They Have Arrived Home From thu
Boer War.

Through committee, the Gamma
Gael, on Nov. 10, gave reception, in
the Vanderbilt Hotel, New York, for
the ten men Of Blake's Irish Brigade,
who arrived on the st. Louis from
South Africa.
The Clan-na Gael q few weeks be-
for received information that the men
who fought until the end of the war
did not have money enough to pay
their way to the United States, Of
which many of them are citizens, and
funds to pay their passages were
promptly sent to the United States
consul in Johannesburg, who made
arrangements whereby the party was
sent home by way of Southampton.
The local committee will obtain en-
ploymcnt for those who desire to re-
main i'll New York: and those who
wish to so to other states will receive
the necessary funds.
One of them, a native of Kansas,
carries bullet in his breast, and will
have to undergo an operation before
he leaves new York for home.
Colonel John Fillmore Blake, the
Texas plainsman and leader Of the
Irish Brigade throughout the Boer
war, left England on Nov. Z, along
withhis companiOns-the remnant Of
the 300 Irish who had been fighting
the British in South Africa for the
past three years. Four of this num-
ber-Jerry O'Leary, Patrick Maloy,
Daniel McHugh and Michael Davey-
are Chicagoans, members of the Am
bulance Corps sent out by the United
Irish Societies. Out of Colonel Blake's
original command, fourteen were kill
ed, forty wounded, and the remainder,
with the exception of seven Ameri-
cans and fifteen Irishmen, are still
prisoners Of war in Ceylon and St.
Helena.
Colonel Blake says of his men:' mo
Drawer or truer soldiers ever shoulder
ed rifles than my Irish boys, who were
among the first to die at Elandslaagt
and the last to surrender at Vereenig-
ing. They were to be found wherever
deeds of daring were done. General
Botha told me that If he had had
10000 like them the "verkleur" would
still be waving over South African
battlefields.
1--WE came to be known as the cham
pion railway wreckers. The game
proved SO successful in our hands
that we made it a speciality. think
we had hand in the smashing of
most Of the bridges, viaducts and
tracks between the seaboard and Pre-
toria, and were chiefly responsible for
the regularity with which the British
lines Of communication were destroy.
ed. Upon one occasion, when Lord
Kitchener was having one of his junk.
cts about the field. my lads came near
bagging His Lordship. We learned
afterward that the COMMANDMENT.
Chief only managed to escape by
beating a hasty retreat in his py.
jamas."
Colonel Blake, who has partly lost
the use Of his right arm, as the result
of a wound received at Nicholson's
Mex, says that Chamberlain's real OBJ
ject in visiting South Africa is to
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-11-22

" an enormous city did survive
And they were enemies. They met
beside
The dying embers of an altar place
Where had been heaped mass Of
holy things
For an unholy usage They raked up
And, shivering, scraped with their
cold, skeleton hands
The feeble ashes and they made a
flame
Which was a mockery. Then they
lifted up
Their eyes as it grew lighter and be-
held
Each others aspects; saw, and shrek.
ed and died.
With these condition coming some.
time almost as certain as
o-morrow's sun, the question arises
whether or not these storehouses OF
Nature upon which the future of the
ace largely depends can justly be-
ONE private property to be destroyed
It the caprice Of the holder. and an
'ther follows close upon it, the
Justice Of one generation wantonly
destroying that which Nature or 9
lind Providence has provided for thu
'ommon good Of all.
So far have been trying to pro
vide you with hot air. I will now tr,
a little thin air. Those Of you wht
escape the absence of one may b,
overtaken by the other. 1t is Away,
wise to devote ourselves to duties
close at hand, but when it comes t,
troubles keep them as far off as pos
sible
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

more and more toward open idleness;
his orders were met with an uncertain
defiance. For months, with the help
of young assistant. the manager OF
Senior Da Costa's coffee and sugar
estates had hardly held the turbulence
of the slaves in check.
But the fates fought against him at
the last. Chisholm, unseasoned as he
was, went down under a swinging at
tack of malaria, and the endless bust
ness of'the plantation-plowing, drain
ing and forest-clearing- wholly up
on Grdon's shoulders. Hard at this
toll all day and scarcely daring to
close his eyes at night, he broke down
at last and awoke to find himself a
prisoner.
Suddenly a sound of approaching
voices reached them. Gordon put his
head down between his knees and
rubbed his forehead against them
YEARLY. Then he sat up and thrust
away the thoughts of the person" at
home and stiffened himself for the
coming ordeal.
Who'd be manager to a greasy
Portugee coffee planter-a fellow who
rakes in all the money and lives in
Parish" he asked. It's a deadly,
deadly trade!"
Yes. it's a murderous business"
agreed Chisholm. 81 haven't been free
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

In a foreground a dozen torches lit
UP a clearing crouched on the edge of
the tropical forest. Up and down the
slippery brown track that wound out
of the trees through the cluster of
niger huts, with their steaming wat
ale roofs, a crowd of gesticulating
figures jabbered and jostled together
in a squat of feverish excitement.
Beneath them the swamp, haunted
by its night noises. fell away into
hollow, but quickly merged into forest
again. Above all, the moon hung sill
yer pale, beating in almost visible
waves of light through the white eX-
halations of the march.
Inside walless hovel, and chained
ran acros the center of the place, were
two men. the only whites within 30
miles. One of them, gaunt, big-boned,
had propped his shoulder against the
ant-eaten corner joist and surveyed
the scene before him with dreamy re-
moteness. He seemed impervious to
the hideous gibes flung at him by the
moving semicircle of blacks. His
eyelids were bulged with fever and
his shoulder bones struck up sharply
through his gray norfolk jacket. 1t
was the malaria which had placed
him in his present predicament. For
days he had seen that something was
wrong with the negroes on the estate,
and the fear of treachery had kept him
fiercely awake until nature gave way
under the strain and he was taken
sleeping.
Presently a horn sounded some
where out of sight, the negroes trooped
away and in the comparative silence
Gordon's companion spoke from the
shadow at the other side of the hut.
Now they've got us they'll murder
us at leisure!" he said, in a hoarse,
fever cracked voice.
I'VE haven't a chance of escaping or
of being rescued" Gordon shifted his
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

aching shoulders against the wood.
walters and O'Brien went down the
river last week. No. we haven't the
remotest ghost of a chance. It's no
use blinking the matter"
THE brutes! What's wrong with
them?"
II suppose they couldn't resist the
temptation; the odds enticed them.
These things do happen periodically
on these back-of-be plantations"
They had no grievances?"
mo agreed Gordon, they hadn't.
But they naturally prefer idleness to
work. and that crop down by the river
meant for them a full month of toll.
There are thousands of arrobas there,
If one
"But what have you done to them?
We've shaved as hard as any of them
Beside. their emancipation would not
be out to-day if it hadn't been for your
efforts argued Chisholm YEARLY.
I'm sorry for you, Chisholm; it's
hard on you, after being here only a
year. said Gordon, after a pause.
You can put most of the trouble down
to Emio-Senhor EMO. He hates both
of us It's the touch of the tar brush
in his own hide that the man resents.
Honestly. he'd kill us with torture
merely because we happen to have been
WI II pure MnllS-
with torture?" repeated Chisholm,
with a shudder. I'm not coward at
an ordinary time, Gordon, but this
swamp fever has played the deuce with
my nerves."
That's about the worst of it; it all
ways does" said Gordon. well, it's
no use meeting sorrow halfway, but
personally wouldn't be disposed to put
much on our chance of being alive in
the morning. And now, old chap. if
don't mind. Wen drop conversation.
There's a-ah-person away at home I'd
like to think about as long as l can be
sure of having any machinery left to
think with
The moon worked its way through
the mists of the marsh and threw
painted shadows on the age-stained
walls of the Enghenio. The shouting
Of the blacks came to them in long
drawn cadences which OVERRIDE the
voices of the marsh Mammals skunk
out of the rice swamp that fringed the
river, the worst sorts of Brazilian fe-
yer took visible form and shape, curl
ing UP in little spirits of vapor from
the uneven, green-scummed surface CT
the swamp. Fire-f1ies danced and
trembled in the mouth Of the forest be-
yond. Gordon had closed his eyes upon
the scene. Chisholm lay at full length
on the slime, his head sunk in his
arms; the night wore older laggingly.
For four years past Gordon had held
the post OF manager on a remote PLAN
tation which lay far back behind the
sierras and morasses, along the banks
Of a mighty tributary of the Amazon.
During that time the vexed question Of
slave emancipa tion-which for the last
thirty years has progressed by slow
stages In Brszil-was becoming more
L..
toxicatsd with their new freedom. and
dangerous spirit was spreading and
gaining every day. OF late Gordon
had grown aware that the smoldering
discomfort might az any moment break
INTO flame and malignering tended
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27
II.

Men face to face with death are
rarely laxative; they have too much
to think about. No other word pass
ed between the Englishmen. Gordon
mopped his bleeding cheek as best he
could on his knee and shoulder, while
Chisholm. leaning up on one elbow,
found himself vaguely counting the
buttons on his leggings. Yet both were
keenly alive, alive with the alertness
of every sense which only at such time
comes to men. The minor sounds near
by, the chittering of bats in the roof,
the furtive rustlings in the thicket be-
hind, seemed to pierce through the ba-
bel of the swamp. but all were drown
ed in the bowls and shrieks with which
the stream of blacks rushed down up
on them to hale them before the judg-
ment seat of EMO.
Gordon they drove ahead. but CHS
holm, who was literally too weak to
walk. they dragged and showed through
the huts and along the camp path to-
ward the front of the Enghenio. where
a great fire lit up the scene, a score
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

Leon Bourgeois. the new president
of the French Chamber of Deputies.
represented France at the peace CON
gress at The Hague, and gained there
reputation as a diplomat. He has
been minister of public instruction. He
is an orator and possesses all the arts
of the trained parliamentary speaker.
To NJ. Deschanel whom he had beaten
in his new Office, he said: 81 succeed
YOU: I shall never replace you" That
was delicate way of softening defeat
which is not habitual at the Palais
Bourbon.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

Gordon with screaming ferocity. He
was within an ace of killing the man,
when some thought caught and check
ed him.
"A good trick, you cunning beastH'
he cried. still painting with passion;
but to kill you now would be a mer-
cy-how great a mercy you have no
notion of yet. But just to keep
you civil. take that-and that"
He dug his knife twice into Gordon's
check; then. as if afraid to trust his
self-control longer, he rushed down the
track.
He means business. If he had knitted
us. I wonder how much pain 1t would
have saved?"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

Secret ut.-Smith-"Brown is GER
tainly a good man. He always speaks
we'll of his neighbors." Jones-"That
isn't due to his goodness. He is
anxious to sell his house and lot"
Chicago Daily News.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27
III.

AT last he was alone. The negroes
had trooped away silently. For a time
Gordon's breath came in gasps that
sounded thunderous in his own ears.
The mans thoughts were terribly con-
centrated on the danger. The falling
river still gulped in the far darkness.
the moon had left the upper heavens
dark and star-spangled. A crash
sounded now and again from the depths
OF the forest. for in the forest II is
never still The minutes dragged ou'
their unnatural length.
Lashed upright and motionless 10 g.
stake under the great tree, Gordon's
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09

one cause that it does not help decency
in many other causes"
White briefly pays a tribute to a man
who had much to do with the fight in the
last session, when he says:
There lin the house, a sharp, vicious
struggle occurred. and the president own
by a decent majority A new national
leader was developed in the house in the
person of Long of Kansas, who. with the
presidents confidence and approval led
the fight for reciprocity in the house"
All the way through his piece White
puts the moral side of this great question
to the front, as it of course should be.
That this country will be the gamer by
reciprocity with Cuba; that America win
gain a spleidid market is of course a sat
isfactory feature but the satisfaction
comes in knowing that always in doing
right a country or an individual is COM
pensated sooner or later. White closes
thus aptly:
Naturally one party in America views
this situation As one involving duty and
q high moral obligation. And also ii is
entirely consistent for the opposing party
to regard Americas relations TO Cuba as
a commercial proposition. The priest and
the Levite had some such ideas two thou
sand years ago" r. II. FAXON.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09

a western county he had 90 state &C.
oualntaree lie wanted 60 develop ems
right away. lie went 20 Copeland direct.
re reached there on Wednesday. Ho was
dusty and dirty and tircd from travel lie
registered and asked for the best room in
the house The CLERK gave him parier
80. with "a bath When SHOVE O. h.s
room he spied the bath tub the hrss
thing
Gosh. that looks tempting. said he
II can hardly wait tu Saturday night
II g. a mistake to thins that All Cope
land county statoamsn hsve no other Voc
cation except politics Some of them have
legitimate husincsses This class play
politics for the FUN Of n II is their r.
creation. Strange 10 say. some 81 them
are very relieious-at home Quite fire.
qUentiy some % the relisiogsiv inclined
81 home have been known o. &c az az
Copeland county until or o'clock san
oay morning iu order - catch train 20
that they might be- home in timo 70 at
tcud church services 4 good stofy r.
told on "a certain oif member who recent
ly became an EEK becasae hs lost con-
trol Of his county. he was one ~ those
relieiousiy Inclined ruembera-as home.
lie sat up an one asturday might % catch
an early train home - attend church
During the church services 81 cozsd on %
sleep. AZ the contribution box got near
him some one dropped in a dollar. The
jingle ~ the eoiH partially aroused him.
In his dazcd coalition D. remarked
That's good d"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09
AN OLD WAR.
Pretty Near lime to Stop.

wouldn't il make your friend mad to
tell her she was in reality a drunkard.
but many women are drunkards uncon-
scioUsiy from the use Of coffee. wni-1
wrecks their nervous systems. and they
seem unable 10 reform.
\ lady in Phnadelphia. Pa. was very
badly affected by coffee causing her 70
have nervous prostration. and she finally
woke Up 20 the fact that she Was in real
ity q coffee drunkard Her doctor had
told her that she must give Up coffee.
but she seemed unable 70 DO 81
One day she read an advertisement
about Postum Food Coffee and thought
she woGsd give II trial she says
Coffee had such a strong hold on ne,
that at FIRST ! did rot make Il al Postum.
bat added a Tablespoonful II coffee-
After q while quit putting coffee IN 81
All and soon found I f4st much better
Continued use stopped ny headaches and
bliousness and soon no1ics5 that ny
Nervousness had evidently eft ne Tor
good New ! would Aot Use anything
else. and The smell q e0res makes me
sick.
Z ar using you- Grape-Nuts also and
think i q wonde-fai food LATELY cr-ss
an attack q irdise-tion ~ eating reth-
ing but Grzps-Nets and drinking Possrm
for two weeks and n0w I can eat salia
fooe ard 1eei nc distress Name giEsa
By Postum Co. Battle c-.ek. AieA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09
WILL BE MOVED AWAY
Schwartz Bros. VIII Have a New
Lumber Ward.

The Schwartz Lumber and Coal COM
pany are removing the old frame building
at the southwest corner Of Douglas and
Wichita street for the purpose of build
ing new brick Office for their business.
1t will be of pressed brick, 25x140 feet,
and only one story. The company now
occupies the northeast corner of Doug
las avenue and Wichita street with their
coal and lumber yards, with l13 feet on
Douglas. The coal and lumber yards
will be moved south of Douglas and the
present location will all be cleaned or
to make room for brick buildings.
If there are good buildings erected on
this ground. which is in front of the
new Missouri Pacific depot, they will add
d good deal to that section of the city
because good brick buildings look better
than a coal and lumber yard.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09
WAS PAINFULLY INJURED
Mrs. Mason Cannot Attend Butler
County Reunion.

Helena strade Mason had invitation
and was on program TO deliver an ad-
dress 10 the comrades and sisters at the
Butler county reunion on Relief Corps
Wednesday. but on Sunday morning she
accidentally fell and sustained severe and
painful injuries. receiving a badly
foot and ankle that has rendered her IN
able TO walk except with the aid Of
crutches. and in consequence Of the in
juries she has had to cancel her date AZ
e. Dorado. Her many friends hope for
her speedy recovery and that she may
be enabled 10 resume her duties during
the coming state reunion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09

Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS
by MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for thsi-
CHILDREN WHILE TEETHINc. win
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Be sure and ask Cor Mrs. winsiozs
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Twenty-Five cent? a bottle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09

form. At its worst, it is a dangerous death
breeder that should be crushed like a venom
9us reptile that lies in our path.
There is a bright side to every picture
There IS hope for every sufferer. Nature
never permitted an ailment without providing
an antidote. Constipation can be cured. The
remedy is summed up In three words, Be
Clean Insidei" The greatest bowel cleaner
Is Pr. TEACHERS Liver and Blood Syrup.
II is Natures rem ed Y for constipation.
acting in a natural manner on the stomach,
bowels and liver. Why suffer longer when
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q little common sense in treating disease.
Take the only remedy that is guaranteed to
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that has been In use for over SO years and has
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Read what Luther Goodwin says:
DuIan, Texas. ,
TEACHER MEDICINE COMPANY,
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Yours very truly,
LUTHER GOODWIN.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09
CHOLERA Is FEARFUL
Ninety Persons Die Daily From the
Disease.

DfSfuSt.
San Francisco. Sept. S-A bountiful
downpour Of rain is the only remedy
which viii check the cholera epidemic -
the Philippines according to the state
ment. Of Captain K. II. SouthaH sur
geon in the United States army who has
arrived here on the transport Buford.
Captain Southsn was for q time in
charge of the cholera hospital in Manila.
In speaking of the epidemic Captain
Southau said: The Americans in the
Philippines seem unable TO cope with
the plague Despite the rigorous meth
DDS used to suppress it. tas>fisease Just
seems to spread and iac When I
left Manila the death rfwas 20 q day.
An equal number is szFcken with the
disease daily. OF course there were =
number Of Puehlos in the interior from
which We never heard. and in these places
the death rate was said 30 be enormous
l. is very difficult 10 set correct figures
q the mortality due 70 the cholera be-
cause of the fact that the natives hide
the dead snd Try 70 keep knowledge Of
the presence % the disease from the au-
thorities
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09
a FRIENDLY
WARNING
Danger al the First
Milestone
Cronic COnsfipa-
tion a Curse.
The only sure cure
is Dr.. hackers
Liver and Blood
Syrup
+" The Road to Good Health "

Constipation is the first milestone on the
road to Disease. 7 he grave yards are
full of victims whose troubles began with
Constipation and ended with Death. If you
value your life and that OF your dear ones. do
not triAe with this dread disorder. Check con-
stipation before IL clogs your system, poisons
your blood deranges your liver and brings
you TO the shadow Of the grave. What is there
in life for anyone suffering from habitual con-
stipatiOn; Dependent and melancholy. the
poor victim drags out the weary round OF the
hours. Pleasures and enjoyments are not for
him. His days are full Of suffering and bis
nights are sleeplesS. Morning brings no relief.
With pale face, haggard looks. and dull.
heavily ringed eyes. the sufferer goes about
his daily tasks with tired limbs, exhausted
energies. nerveleSs and without interest or