The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-13
DEAD LEAVES on THE OAK.

Has Ceased to gladly greet the morn;
The skies are overcast and dark.
The bloomless garden looks foriorn-
No doves are cooling on the shed.
No blossoms grace the orcnaro rees siea
The joys that summer brought are lieu
No swallows build beneath the caves,
Bn Mo o lambs OBJ y ans gas Ssk the
Still firmly to their branches cnng-
The storms NAV roar. the days be chill,
The distant slopes be white with snow,
Bun yonder leaves will hang there stii'
NJ Unwilling to let Loose 3;n and 70 s Won oak
While wintry clouds are thick o'erhead
Remind me much of certain Ioik
s. b. Kiser. in Chicago Record-Herald.
saws He Rescued Guerin.
The true story of the rescue Of Ed
ward csuerin from Devils island. the
French penal colony, which lies nine
miles off The coast of French Guiana,
on the northern coast Of South Amer
lea. whose dreariness and isolation
were brought wildly to public notice
when the Dreyfus case occupied the at
tention of the world, Is told by Eugene
Teats- who was the first 9-year-old lad
who ever came to Denver, he having
arrived in 1860.
Mr.. Teats. during the past l6 years.
has made nine trips to South America,
where he and DR.. w. H. Bradley, form
erlv of colorado. are working big placer
nronerties. they holding concessions on
more than 100000 acres in Dutch and
French Guiana.
Guerin was an American, native OF
Chicago whose wealthy relatives still
reside there. Guerin's reputation was
none of the best, though It was nelo py
Americans that he was not guilty OF
the safe cracking In Paris, OF Whlcn .ns
French court found him guilty. ana
sentenced him to life Imprisonment on
Devils island.
Hrhat was all moonshine about Pat
Sheedy having put up $4,000 or sSoVoo
for the rescue of Guerin," said Mr..
Keats. 81 first learned OF the anxiety
of Guerin's people to have him brought
off the island and back to America
through Bob Pinkerton, now dead, who
was an old friend of mine. He and
Sheedy got me interested in the matter
and promised to see that all expense
was covered if I would manage the
rescue of Guerin, and this undertook
to do.
even If he was sport, never put up a
cent for the Guerin rescue, and don
think he ever claimed to have done so.
It was on my second trip after went
into the enterprise that I managed
through the aid of friends, to arrange
for Guerin's escape.
"After having learned the lay of the
land,' as the saying is. and found out
lust how Guerin was situated, We laid
our plans. When Guerin was sent over
from France he at once began to make
himself useful to NJ. Luchere, the COM
nandant and his family, pitching in
theoretically and cheerfully. assisting
- In fn0 a nh
gradually becoming almost indispensa-
BILE. This was WISE as it made it less
difficult for us to get hip<away from
the French authorities-
s'As the commandant and his family
wanted to take a vacation. we suggest
ed to hinl-and a very good fellow he
was. too-that he ought to make his
temporary residence at st. Laurent, a
pretty town about 100 miles up 1.-The
Marowyne river. which flows into the
Atlantic about 40 miles west of Devils
island. This he did, and he brought
Guerin with him in the capacity of
faithful servant. He was indeed a
'trusty,' and was allowed to go outside
the picket lines without question.
"One day Guerin made his way down
the river about four miles and was
there met by two Indians in my en-
ploy, Alphonse and Lucie. man and
wife, and they had a canoe and food
and a change of clothing for Guerin.
Before starting they raised a mound OF
earth and erected a cross so that, l.
would appear that Guerin had died and
been buried there. The Indians got
him across the river into Dutch Guiana
and bush country to Paramaribo,
where our headquarters were, and
kept him with me for two weeks, wait
ing for the sailing of a steamer, which
would be neither Dutch nor French.
During this time Guerin, who is a pro-
hcient scholar, had translated for me
the French laws into English.
Afterward, on passports we furnish
ed him, Guerin got to Georgetown, the
capital of British Guiana. AMI there he
took passage on one Of the Quebec
Steamship company's boats and finally
reached New York. The entire expense
incurred in carrying out the undertake
ing was considerably less than $780,
Denver Post.