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could be found to challenge any prop
erty in the town."
Priests were the special object of
Puritanical fury, and Carlyle describes
with much glee how his murderous
hero had ''friars knocked on the head
in DOZENS" The soldiers of prey ragged
through the town, killing man, wo-
man and child, occasionally amusing
themselves by tossing babies from
spear point to spear point along their
lines. Two hundred women took ref
uge around the great cross in the
market place, but they We're slain with
as little conjunction as if they had
been wild beasts. 1.-THE hand of the
law was mighty in this" wrote Col.
Thorpe, one of the murderers, "for we
killed many in the town, and as they
fled out of the town on the west side
we made great slaughter"
When the orgy of murder was con-
cluded the streets We're piled so high
with corpses as to be almost impas-
sable. OF this exploit Cromwell wrote
to Parliament as follows: sit was set
upon some of our hearts that great
thing should be done. not by our
power or might, but by the spirit of
God. That which caused your men to
storm so courageously, it was the
,t,it Of In i,.iI of
God who gave your men courage, and
Herewith success, and, therefore, it is
good that God alone should have all
the glory"
Most of the adult inhabitants of the
city had been slain and their property
plundered by Cromwell's pious muir
derers, but barbarity had not vet
reached it's full course. The little
children-boys and girls of tender
years-were seized and sold as slaves
to West Indian planters, and it was
Tot an uncommon sight at that period
to see Il group of children, chained to-
gether, being driven along the road
toward some seaport by a company OF
Cromwelrs troops. In four years no
less than five thousand youths and
maidens We're eXiled in this fashion to
the Barbados.
Cromwell did not live long enough
to enjoy the fruits of this bHrbarity.
No man ever betrayed his own coun-
try Or prosecuted others with as small
reward. He set aside whole Irish
county for himself, but neither he nor
any Of his family ever possessed so
much of it as to set his foot on. He
waded through slaughter, but never
reached a throne. After few miser
able years of pretended royalty, he
died of pure terror; and but little time
passed when his body was eXhumed
and treated with every possible species
Of indignity.
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spunky daughter, Columbia, who was
engaged in war with one of the weak
est nations on the earth. The Lon
don press spread the report that had it
not been for England's navy the other
European powers would have COM
bined to crush the United States; and
every Anglo-American daily paper in
this country echoed and re-echoed the
lying report, despite the fact that the
representatives of France, Germany
and Russia ut Washington had given
it their most emphatic denial.
1t was only when Prince Henry of
Germany was coming to the United
States that the American people first
knew they were imposed upon by Eng
lands protestation of friendship. In
stead of trying to keep the European
powers from interfering in the Span
ish-American war, England proposed
to them to do SO and her overtures
were rejected. Her hypocrisy was eX-
posed by Germany in self-defense.
and another instance Of English per-
tidy was given to the world.
One would suppose that England
would be slow to pose again as the
friend of the United States, but to-
day she is more ardent than ever in
her friendship for this country.
Though in alliance with Germany in
the Venezuelan affair she tries to
make the American people believe
through the Anglo-SaXon press that
Germany cannot be trusted. The ly-
ing Associated Press sent out an in
terview the other day with one Colonel
Scruggs of Georgia in which that in
dividual is reported as saying that ~
think Britain is sincere in her desire
simply to collect a debt but there is
every evidence that Germany has
other important objects in view" OF
course, England has no design on
South American territory. She is no
landgrubber as is Germany.
The fact is, that Germany has no
disposition to cause any annoyance to
the United States. 1t was Emperor
William who suggested President
Roosevelt as the arbitrator of the diff
iiculties between Venezuela and the
European powers. Had the emperor
been bent on the acquisition of terri
tory in defiance of the Monroe Doc
trine he would not have asked Pres
ident Roosevelt to act in that capacity.
AS between Germany and England in
regard to frcndlineSs to the United
States, the former is more sincere than
the latter. We have no reason to
doubt the honesty and sincerity of
Germany in her dealings with the
United States, but as for England she
must not be trusted either now or here
after.
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The other day in New York wom-
an who was begging in the garb of
n Sister of Charity was arrested
through the shrewdness of little
Irish girl named Sadie Murty. When
the impostor called at the home of
little Sadie she represented herself as
being connected with st. Gabriel's
church. ''No, you are not" said
Sadie. II know all the Sisters there,
and they keep their faces and hands
clean" A policeman was called and
the woman was taken to the lookup
where she gave her name as Emma
Meyer.
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nothing, that they may bring their
scanty earnings to the loved ones at
home. OF such fiber is the Irish
peasantry in the agricultural slums
created by England's cruel system. 1t
is idle to say that such people would
not do any better if they We're given
q fair chance. l was told by an Eng
lishman in London that these migra-
tory laborers We're lazy lot, after all !;
that on returning from their trips to
England or Scotland they did nothing
but sit around and smoke Probably
this Englishman had never visited the
'congested region. did visit it, and l
saw the men and women working
hard, doing all that could possibly be
done to get something out Of their
miserable little patches of mountain
bog"
And these are the people that
Horace Plunkett wants no aid for
You must not give anything to an
Irishman; you must not do anything
for an Irishman." The man who
speaks thus is Il wolf in sleeps cloth
ing. He came to this country to injure
the mission of Davitt, Dillon and
Devlin, the real Representatives OF the
Irish victims of landlord rapacity. He
is another Froude in his ISLANDERS Of
the Irish peasantry who are to-day, as
in O'Connell's time, the finest peas
antry in Europe. Every friend of Ire
land in America should turn the cold
shoulder to Horace Plunkett.
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AS a political designation the word
Congress-. There will be no Populist
members of the next Senate and no
member of the next House who is
either Il member of the Populist party
or who was elected by Populist votes
in opposition to the candidate or candi-
dates of the regular parties. The
Silver Republicans, too, have ceased
as such to exist.
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When the late Thomas 3. Reed was
offered $1,000 for an article on i'm
said: II feel too deeply on the subject
to take money for expressing my opin-
ion about it," When Speaker of the
House he said: I'VE are buying
1O,OOO,GOO Malays at So n head, I'M
picked, and nobody knows what it
will cost to pick them" He should
have followed Senator Hoar and other
statesmen in protesting against the
Philippine policy of his party.
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The Wexford Massacre.

The apologists of Oliver Cromwell
on the grounds that they struck such
terror into the Irish people that they
at once abandoned resistance and thus
IL great amount of bloodshed was real
ly avoided
The explanation would he more sat
isfactory if it's assumptions were true.
AS Il matter of fact, instead Of the
irish abandoning resistance, they re-
sisted Cromwelrs presence, as is mani
tested by the stoutest resistance just
prior to his withdrawal from Ireland,
when Hugh O'Neill hurled him back
from tile walls of Clonmel and slew
TWO thousand Of his followers.
Flushed with his victory at Droghe-
d. says the Irish World, Cromwell
.urned his attention to Wexford, and
arriving before the town, demanded
its immediate unconditional surrender.
Col. David Sinnott, who commanded
the forces of the town, replied to
Cromwell that, Il am resolved to die
honorably or make such conditions
as may secure my honor and life in
the eyes Of my own countrymen." and
sent commissioners to treat with
Cromwell.
While the negotiations We're going
on, Cromwell, with that breach of
faith which stands out prominent in
his career, sent force to take Ross
lare Castle, which was situated at the
harbor mouth, and was a point Of
great strategic Importance. Unfortu-
nately, it was garrisoned by only a
few men, so that it was taken without
much difficulty. Cromwell next turn
ed his attention to the Castle, which
stood near the walls of the town.
His batteries opened fire, but after
silenced i'll few hours by the Irish
sunners. Cromwell now thought it
prudent to propose another conference.
and four agents We're again dispatched
from the town to treat with him. Un-
(, fortunately, one of the agents, Captain
james Stafford, the governor of the
Castle, instead Of safeguarding the in
tcrests of the town, made an agree
ment with Cromwell to hand over the
Castle to him.
That night, when the garrison We're
off their guard, Cromwell's soldiers en-
tered the Castle by secret passage
which Stafford had opened for them,
and in short time they had complete
possession of the place. They then
had little difficulty in scaling the walls
of the town, into which they poured in
thousands, while hasty call as
sembled the Irish troops. There could
be but one ending to such a conflict.
Surprised and outnumbered by three
to one, the Irish made Il desperate re-
sistance, but their yalor was in vain.
Out of the whole garrison of three
thousand, scarcely five hundred es-
capped The unfortunate inhabitants
as they fled by every available passage
from the town, were butchered in
thousands. So sweeping was the
sanguinary determination that "of the
former inhabitants not one in twenty
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HORACE pLUNKETT IN AMERICA.

In speech before the Society for
Political Education" in New York on
Dec. Is, Horace Plunkett, eX-member
OF the British parliament, and the
Tory candidate for Galway who was
defeated by Col. Arthur Lynch, who is
to be tried OH charge of high treason
on January 20, told his audience that
you must not give anything to an
for an Irishman." The reason why
he spoke thus is that if anything were
done for or given to an IrishnEin it
would spoil lis own work. He be-
lieves that what an IriShman wants
more than anything else is self-reli-
ance after he has been deprived OF
everything by alien rule. I'VE have
taken from the Irishman everything
that makes life worth living, but we
must not interfere or you will spoil o,ll
work." What work is he engaged in:
1t is needless to say that Horace
Plunkett is not in favor of the scheme
of giving the land Of Ireland to the
cultivators thereof He is not in favor
of self government for the land OF his
birth, and that is why the voters of
Galway repudiatch him. He is q
Saluricl officer Of the British govern
ment and ut present is the head OF
| ,i,y
function Of which is not to show the
Irish farmers how to make two blades
of grass grow where only one was
previously produced. He Is credited
with doing some good, but we cannot
for the life of us find out what it Is.
He has actually convinced some Irish
Americans that what Ireland needs
more than anything else is scientific
farming and Il revival of her indus
tries. But SO long as landlordism eX-
lists and while laws are made III Lon
don and not in Dublin for the develop
ment of Irish industries, agricultural
and otherwise Horace Plunkett's work
will not amount to much. He knows
that Ireland is ovcrtnXcd, and that
the more Industrious the easantry
are the more their rents will be i'll
creased. His sole oh Get. it appears to
us. is to divert the attention of the
farmers from Home Rule and the
ownership of the land, the two main
things the Irish Nationalist party is
lahoring to obtain.
In his address in New York he in,
siluiated that the Irish pcasnntry arc
ignorant and thriftless. Granting that
they are. who is responsible for it:
Had lie gone into Mayo and Ros.
common and seen things there as de-
scrbcd by Walter Wellman and Guy
Cramer. the Chicago correspondents,
he would know that the infamous sys,
TEN of land tenure in vogue is re-
sponsible for the ignorance and thrift.
lessness that prevail in the congested
districts of Connaught. Let us hear
Mr. Wellman. In his letter to the
Chicago Record Herald of Dec. 10 he
says:
thousands of families in this region
would starve but for the remittances
which come regularly from relatives in
the United States. Many thousands
more would starve but for the heroic
efforts. the splendid self-denial and re
sistance to temptation, which the
young men and women show in theil
yearly trips to England or Scotland
; working hard, living upon almost
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Says the Commoner: An item orig
mating at Toronto, Canada, has been
going the rounds of the newspapers to
the effect that Mr.. Bryan was connect
ed with the purchase of three million
dollar tract of Canadian land which
was to be thrown open to colonization.
statement. Mr.. Bryan has no inter-
est in Canadian lands and is not con-
nected With any colonization scheme
there or anywhere else.
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The first volume of "a History of
Ireland" price ten shillings, by Rev.
e. A. Dalton, of Belcarra, Castlebar,
Ireland, is being published by Messrs.
Sealy, Buyers n Walker, of Dublin. 1t
contains more than 500 pages and be-
gins with the earliest Inhabitants of
Ireland and ends with the Reforma-
ton in that country.
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And now Alaska comes to the front
with anthracite coal deposits. Keep
your eye on Alaska if you are inter-
ested in the growth of new countries.
says, the Minneapolis Journal. Yes.
and keep your eye on John Hay or he
will give the coal fields to his dear
Mother Country" if she claims they
belong to her.
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Stories Of John Mackay.

"Once 1 went to Mackay," said Sam
Davis, of Carson City, "and said, John,
old LATE Peters died last night, and his
widoY hasn't got a d-n cent left
allow much had we better do for
her. Mackay asked.
"'I guess we can stand $780, said.
"'All right. How'll we divide it up?
Even between us?'
"'No,' 1 said. Let's divide it in pro-
portion to our incomes. You write
check for the $500 and Ill furnish the
postage stamp to mail it with
":All right, said Mackay, as he sat
down to write the check, but don't you
ever let that woman know where this
money came from. I'll make out the
check to you, and you send her your
check
john answered, that wouldn't
fool sheep. Old Lady Peters Knows
mighty we'll l ain't throwing tive-huI-
dred-dollar checks around as if they
were paror Matches
"'Well, I'll tell you what I'll do said
Mackay, with chuckle, I II pretend
that old Crooks sent the money, and
when the blankety blank old skinflint
gets the letter of thanks the womanll
write him he'll drop dead with sur
PRISE
Crooks was one of Mackay's part
ners, and was even more noted for
his stinginess than Mackay for his
generosity.
Anyway, l took Mackay's check and
sent it to old lady Peters. And l told
her that the money came from John
Mackay. The next morning I was
walking down the street in Carson City
when 1 saw old John standing on the
sidewalk in front of his office. He was
holding sheet of paper in his hand
and tears were running down his
| cheeks.
Here, Sam,' he called to ME, you
blankety blank old blabber, you went
and blabbed to old lady Peters, gol
blame you. And she's written me 1,
letter that makes me cry, gol hang it,
and l don't like to cry. Here, you
stufiing the letter into my hand-'read
this letter and cry yourself
II read the letter, and then 1 cried.
John NIackay grabbed it away from me
and went into his office.
"A man Mackay had known slightly
went wrong. He was charged with
embezzling $3.50. Mackay saw the
news in the morning papers, and rush
ed straight up to the mans house.
| Only the embezzler's wife was at home,
and she was in Mysteries.
CHOW, here, Mrs. Jenkins said
Mackay, don't you believe a blamed
word you see in these newspapers;
don't you take bit of stock in it. 1
know your husband mighty we'll, and
Ill take an oath he never stole a cent.
Amt that kind of man, But he is
the most ornery, careless cuss l ever
knew in my life. If there's $1,000 miss
ing, why, I'll bet that miserable, care.
less husband of yours has left the
money sticking around in the pocket of
some of his old clothes. Go upstairs
and look, Mrs. Jenkins. I'm betting
| yOu'll find the caSh somewhpre'
"The poor woman went upstairs and
made search through her husbands
old clothes. OF course, she didn't fine
anything. Downstairs she came, where
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The Duluth News Tribune is full of
enterprise under the present manage
ment. The Sunday edition is now sent
by special train to the towns along the
iron range, and the people in the
mining regions no longer wait till
Monday for the news Of the world.
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DR.. Lorenz, the bloodless surgeon
of Vienna, says that the American
women are the loveliest in the world,
but that the American men are in
significant looking. He did not visit
the Northwest where he would see
splendid specimens of manhood.
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Says Lord Charles Beresford, the
British vice-admiral: "As a British
subject l do not want to see an acre
more added to the British Empire, as
our imperial responsibilities are enor-
mously in excess of our organization
for defence"
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Gabriel in the Belfry.


Tie Rev. George y. Cox, revivalist
OF some note in northern Indiana and
southern Michigan, resorted to an un-
usual eXpedient last week to turn sim
ners from their evil ways, SAYS the
Minneapolis Times.
He had been preaching night after
night to village congregation, but had
utterly failed to awaken interest. The
usual special prayers for the CONVEX
sion of sinners had been offered and
meetings ''for women only had been
held, but nothing seemed able to bring
the sinners to the anxious seat
One night he secreted IL negro boy in
the belfry Of the little church. The lad
was provided With Il large horn, and at
certain juncture in the minister's
closing prayer he was to blow it With
all his might.
The sermon that evening was from
the text, MANY are called, but few
are chusen,' and MI. Cox eloquently
dwelt upon the delights of the saved
ANA the sut1erings of the lost. Then
lie llnelt in prayer and begged the Lord
to hasten the Gay Of his coming and to
turn the hearts of the wicked toward
Him before it was forever too late.
Gabriel, come blow thy trumpet"
mighty warming Of approaching woe to
a stift-necked people,
in the belfry, and he sounded blast
after blast in answer to the minister's
prayer.
| There was Il commotion in the con-
gregation. Many pious men and wom-
ell fell ON their knees and began to
pray. Sinners sat with blanched
faces and trembling forms expecting
every moment the world to come to
an end.
"Ah, brethren" exclaimed the minis
ter, ''our petitions are at last answered.
Down upon your knees, brethren, that
you may receive the Lord in contrite-
ness of heart and humility of spirit, for
| this is surely the day of the resurrec-
tiOn.''
So well had the program been car
ried out that saints and sinners alike
dropped on their knees, and a hundred
voices were raised in supplication for
forgiveness, many of the Oldest and
most hardened sinners in the village
praying Justify for mercy. a call for
penitents was followed by rush to
the mourners' bench, and by hallelu-
iahs from members who saw their
SONS aud daughters taking the first
steps toward better life.
After quiet had been restored, and
while the congregation sat in breath
less silence for something supernatural
to happen, Mr.. Cox called the negro
down from the belfry, and the lad
came down. horn in hand, and broad
grin upon his face. AS he came down
through the little scuttle hole in the
ceiling and dropped to the floor, Mr..
Cox pointed him out as the suppose.
Gabriel, and then began to shame til.
sinners for the cowardice they had dis
played.
IF thus you are frightened at the
horn of Gabriel said the minister.
what will you do when YOU come to
stand before the judgment seat of the
God whose mercies you have tramplel
upon, and whose grace you have so
long abused? Shame upon you. Come
to God, confess the evil of your lives.
and ask forgiveness before Gabriel's
trumpet shall sound in reality for
YOU"
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Reynolds's Newspaper calls England
a nation of gamblers and quotes Null
hall, the eminent statistician, to the
effect that during the last hundred
years no less sum than $4,000 100000
has been won and lost on the turf and
at the card tables.
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1t is said that Venezuela has had
lO4 civil wars in seventy years. 1t
is about time for the Latin people to
discontinue quarreling among them
selves and unite against the invaders
from Europe.
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Says The Chicago Rccord-IIcrald:
Uncle Sam has millions for the up
holding of the Monroe doctrine, but
not one cent for paying other peoples
debts.
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The Mad Nlullah of SOmaliland is
said to have been aSs;lsslmted while
he WAS praying lie should have
watched as we'll as prayed while the
English. were around.
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Without tnkering with either the
tariff or the trusts, Congress adjourned
last Saturday until Monday, Jan s,
1903.
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Maryland is represented in Stntualy
Hall at the National Capitol by Il
statue of Charles Carroll, of Carroll
ton, the last surviving signer of the
Declaration of Independence
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Rudyard Kipling, the poet Of i'm
perialism, is again heard from. His
muse is indignant at the alliance be
tween Germany and England, and his
latest poetical effort will rot be appre-
ciated at Berlin.
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born in Italy and is the offspring of an
Italian father and an Irish mother. If
of hyphenated pedigree at all, he is
Celto-Italian.
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The London Times says that the late
DR.. Joseph Parker, the noted English
divine, was IL money grabber all his
life. 1t may say the same of Bal
lington Booth when he passes away.
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In Boston the birth rate among peo-
pie Of foreign parentagc is 80 per 1000;
among people Of native parentage it Is
only 8 per 1000. In New York the
corresponding figures are 42.5 and IL.
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Henri Watterson does not think
much of the Monroe Doctrine and
wants it abandoned or modified to
meet altered conditions. And yet
Henri calls himself Democrat.
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The Minneapolis Times, which is
edited by self-conceited Anglo-Saxon
calls Marconi of wireless telegraphy"
fame an Anglo-Italian. Where does
TIE "Anglo" come in? Marconi was