Show DEFYING WRATH Pere Marye the Faithful Priest of no h Rog i Celebrates Mass in Midst of Danger New New w York Tork Evening Post This is It the story s ory of ot a man who stood I by his guns He was a man of peace the cure of ot a parish just under Pelee volcano In the place as a source of wor worry ry Iy to him In his ministerial capacity there had lad been the Immorality ot of St StPierre StPierre Pierre Pl rr Do you know he said to us u that out ot of every twelve births Jn In n St StPierre StPierre Pierre only onty two were ere legitimate And besides b lil e as we va progressed with the din dinner dinner ner ncr which In the seminary refectory ret we were hungry for after atter a twelve tWel e hours horseback ride he told us U of or the satanists and the th socialists the one worshipers of the devil arid and the Others blasphemers bY of or God The satanists had hada a regular ceremonial of ot devil worship and alas the head of ot It was an artist from Paris named who had frescoed rather well wen the cures church at Morne Marne Rouge To offset umes teachings and nd the Influence of ot the bIas blas blasphemous paper of ot St Pierre this priest had to hold bold missions on oil the boundary of Qt St Sf Pierre and organize sue parades and he was preparing a series of or sermons ft to show showY the fallacy of ot socialism when the crater burst and destroyed d St Pierre Its immoral peo people people pie Its Us satanists and its socialists When the crater of ot Pelee burst the priest Driest Pere Marye was celebrating mass mans He had he recalls thirty per persona perSons Sons sona at communion that morning As Ashe Ashe Aslie he lie left thi th church he hC h observed an ar ardent ardent ardent dent boiling from the mountain A Alight Alight light licht a shaped as a cornu coma cornucopia cornucopia copia at that moment occurred As It rose TOile It formed a D cloud above aboe Sudden Suddenly n ly 11 through this cloud shot lateral from the center ceTter to i the circumference from the circumference ence to the center making sounds SOUI s like i z and then Bombs might have been exploding i titanic ones Then this cloud quickly directed Itself down toward St Pierre Why It remains for the scientists to j i agree upon The fire and smoke came out like a torrent like e a geyser It did not roll at tt first but meeting ob obstructions b it did to roll roIl over and andover andover andover over a black stream str am It continued to explode as it rushed rush d down upon the city that lay at v Sits its foot by the sea enclosed on all sides by b hills or bluffs yet with a close cloge cloven cloen ravine through witch which a draught could be b had The cloud was like a kind of artificial 1 fire fireworks fireworks works olk in form f rm It was like an inverted chemists retort the outlet curving downward but expanded not confined There were Vere explosions whenever the cloud struck an obstacle and when It touched to cled the shore front and the th sea sen The present state zt te of ot the houses house I at St Pierre It may be remarked is j that of ot houses h that had been exploded their walls aUs are thrown outward Into int the street and an their tile roofs roots are fallen tall n nIn in th Some days das ago a o I was as again at St 81 StPierre StPierre c Pierre and with opportunity for a 11 five I t hours observation found thirteen streets piled six feet high with the stones and mortar of demolished d build buildings buildings ings and probably of the bones bon s of or dead citizens aa n a not a quarter of ot the cadavers have been found Stones and bones bonca are cemented now since the tor torrential tOrr r rains with the dust and sand of ot several eruptions emotions The treasure trove that a Scotch minister was u sure would be found band by early visitors is all buried or recovered mostly burled and abd only now and then is a D china aft cup seen complete or a ten ted franc piece of gold oid discerned on the surface by a group of or bonea bones Jn In the thet t ruins of Jf f the house hous hou of the th president of r the he Banque Anglais there was an Eng i t lish Uh book for tor children adventure by sea and land and tortes tories of ot fairies minCe and In another mansion in the cham chamber her bar of or the daughter of at the house evi evidently evidently dently there were a melted perfume bottle with a womans hairpin en entangled entAngled entangled tangled in its stem a purse with a few melted coins and in the kitchen debris the th signs of ot Ute the th petit with the skeleton sJ elton ton of the cook in the ruin of the th range In one mansion there I were four skeletons close dose together Just justl l by b a 0 door through which they were I rushing to escape One was wan the figure of a young woman not all aU the integuments 1 ments yet stripped from the bones Her I beautiful small hands were wholly pre preserved preserved preserved served and on the third finger of or the I right hand band there was a ring She was somebody sweetheart I like to think 1 that the token will witt be burled buried with her he I herBut But to return to Pere Pore Marye One i gets to his parish of Morne Rouge by ponies poor starveling ponies over oel mountain roads filled with cinders and dust aust or washed away awa and obstructed by b trees blown down downa a wearisome ride of oC nearly a day da We heard church bells when two miles mUes away awa Our mounts barely able to walk alk the blood running from where the guides long spurs had cut c t cruelly we entered the village about I 6 0 in the afternoon There was no hotel no planter that we knew but i we confidently rode Into the priests I yard ard and put our ponies onles in ia his ht stable 1 I We had been told that to expect ex t boa hos hospitality from the priests of ot Martinique I was never ne r to be disappointed We i walked into his open door There was Wu 1 his library a single book case There i was his table enough h to s seat at a 8 i dozen persons There wag his bin side sideboard I boardwine board wine and ana fruit upon It In tn plain Invitation I We went through the library to the hureh hurch portico Appearing exceedingly 4 close rose the high jagged monstrous cone of the new crater of at Pelee send lug ing up a huge pillar of or white and dripping Dale pale hot mud down Its fur furrowed furro furrowed rowed ro d jowl In the churchyard the dust from the first two eruptions was Wu drifted fully a foot deep It had had T to be shoveled away way a from the doors as a New England villager mager in winter winte clears his doorstep d of or snow Morne orne Rouge Rougo lies lios lIe almost as near to the crater as St Pierre but only a D few lev of ot Its Us people had been en scorched and no house had been damaged dama ed The church I Flood Intact its it bells were pealing sot eol I Up tip tho the road came a procession It itI I turned in by the church gate some I black blade girls marched In front wearing I Ia a ribbon and a 0 silver cross some sore black nuns followed then some white wo women women I men Inca and after them the cure plump and ruddy eyes to the ground in golden vestments 1 walking under a Q scarlet and gold canopy upheld by six els stalwart negroes Behind the canopy 1 I walked the t e men of or the parish white J r and black two by b two As the cure I stepped into the church there was an nn I explosion then another r It was start ling hag with that volcano smoking vio yb 10 in the background But we e saw BaW that it ft was waa merely part of 01 the cere ceremony mony the Corpus Christi Christ ChrI U procession processions a s man had an old rifle and an old shotgun and had fired nt d the salute front from them He tIe repeated repeat d the salute when hen the cure reached ached r the foot toot of ot the altar to the Virgin There Them he said ald the rosary and presently the people ople filed out from their seats A servant senant led ted us into the tha refectory of 0 1 the house The priest came in heard appeals a als and reports from several I of or his bbs flock then came over to us and shoOk sho k our out hands bands We were welcome Jm We must b be weary A servant s brought In a halt half bottle sealed heavily coy cov covered co cored trod red with dust which he carefully left undisturbed when he drew the cork comic and decanted it jt We must drink this claret which was for his friends and eat some fruit He had a delightful na anner ner a most pleasant frank gray gra C 0 eye ire He took us out into his little garden ard n buried b rIed In volcanic ol dust every plant searched but sending forth new ne shoots Then he be gave us the the tion o 0 first eruption which i this letter ILter ter began beg n It important as being what a cultivated man had ob observed served serre 4 and disproved the theory of oC les Ies and others that the side of ot Pelee pelie had opened op ned and shot hot the fire thus upon St Pierre The tire fire re had r come conic from the th summit had h d risen per haps h s sixty meters high then ing in all the way w had suddenly slanted down and consumed that city of which h Morne Rouge was almost almos a suburb the fashionable summer retreats retreat AH AU the fields were blue bl a and desolate yearly Nearly all aU the dwellings were closed the village was nearly deserted Where may we find lodgings we asked after hearing the tha th now nov old story Pere P re Marye laughed Come it Is Isnow Isnow Isnow now the time for the Angelus he said You will like to go to your room and andrest andrest andrest rest during the Angelus Angelu Then Th n we will willdine willdine willdine dine He had bad an Old did Jd black woman show us to rooms in a 8 houseS house y the church We Ve asked her to fetch some water it tt is ready she answered d when v n I saw sav you arrive I knew w mon pere would hav ha have e you stay so I prepared the rooms These are the zooms rooms of ot the Seminar to rooms in a house h use by the church b There were Clean lean sweet SW et beds bare walls walts and doors a crucifix cr in each a candle a few religious prints and a book on Living a Good Life The Angelus commenced to ring causing a pause in tn the village ge geYe We Ye had a simple dinner of ot soup black bread beef claret coffee and a ousse cafe cate made of rum and ai l syrup rap the drink of ot the country And Arid besides b sl es esthe the kind old man hunt hunted d through t a closet and brought out one ne cigarette which some traveler had bad left there It was the best he had gave as us Two nights ago he said smiling I 1 entertained two tw other Americans or I dont know We had but Just taken soup e volcan vol boom a new and the Americans fled fied got right up and ami amiran ran back to They left Jet r everything threw away a their cameras i abandoned their horses in the stable stabler We W had heard about the tbd flight The Th Themen Themen men hastened afoot With several seve l guides back thirty miles mUes to Fort de tie deFrance deFrAnce France In tear fear of the storied ferde Jerne i lance ance serpent one kept astick in tn front of ot him to clear the way The i cure was highly amused But why do you stay in iii so perilous I a ft place 2 we asked Nearly Nearl everyone every ond has gone goneA HA A hundred and fifty remain They Th I are my people I stay to minister to t them feed teed them and to say to them be benot benot benot not afraid Do you believe that St Pierre was destroyed fot foi Its wickedness Then he told us ua of or the extraordinary I immorality there of the growth of ot the worship of or the devil of the public p lilic bIas blas blasphemy phemy of ot the Increase of ot socialism And would you say MY the U people were w re I destroyed for all that th t we wd pursued p d d dHe I He shook his head and answered red briefly punit God punishes Tell lell us usI Is it true that th t the only per person person person son in St 81 Pierre to escape ca e alive aUve was wasa W s sD I a D prisoner in jail Yes It Jt Is Js true He Be H has eaten at ri at t this table since This is how it was wits A Aman Aman Aman I man named Leon Cypress 3 b illa lack bad cut another with his machete mEl hete at a Lair fair In Pr CheUr a little Way down d I the coast beyond St Pierre While labor laboring ing ng on the road ro d with other prisoners in St Pierre one oge day be he ran away ran n away to Pr cheur Yes Yea Y s the quarrel had h d been over oer a woman Perhaps he be heran heran beran ran back to her ter But they the caught caUgh him bun and Oil Ott 0 the day St Pierre perished he had one more day to serve sene Because Bec U Uhe he had run away the jailers had put him in a solitary ry underground nd cell which had at the top a very yel small win window wIndow window dow He heard the explosions e he felt the great heat was burned a little and the gases s came into the little but not enough to suffocate te him bim He could not imagine what wh t had happened 1 Rain came and washed into his cell This gave him drink but for four tour days he lie hid had nothing to eat On the fourth day he heard voices yol outside ou sid and called loudly Leon Angeles D and md Theo Ibeo Hilaire were outside looking through the ruins runs Yes Yea they may have hae been b n looking for tor property I dont know They heard the cries it was so very vet still every evet everywhere ever I where They The dug and pried until they the made an opening and he crawled out There lay St Pierre scarcely one stone on another no living person except those who had lad saved S ed him He won wondered won wondered wondered dered and asked what w at had happened and was as frightened and wanted to gp go goto to They told him not a soul was left at They told him to come coine to me to Pere Marye and he did He is now no In our hospital Last Thursday concluded rome fere Mayre with satisfaction he came to t his lis first communion The rho people pc he stays to watch over er had the night we were tere ere there Jie Jt le 1 only food rood enough for Cor eight dryg drys But where Is the tho th food tood the Ameri Amen Americans Americans cans landed sa 8 plentifully on May 21 He Be his shoulders The politicians I know He had asked for supplies he had written a letter to the American consul Mr Ayme at Port Fort de do deFrance France but he had had po no response The fact Is that the party pa ty la In power in a way was as sending the supplies lU not to the needy ne dy districts but to the districts where the largesse would woul bring to the politicians a direct return turn In votes vote and power One odd re result wit suIt of ot the effacement of ot St Pierre is that the white party of or the island was there practically wiped out SL PI e contained the majority of the white i voters oter That T at catastrophe has given the black party an immense ad advantage advantage I vantage which it is 15 using in a l 1 way I singularly y repulsive even for political chicanery Today we hear that the city of Port Fort ort 1 de France Frante has haa at last Jast placed some food I for Morne Mome Rouge Houge in Ia a ruined house hous at I St S1 Pierre where the people I Ican can go and get it H HAtter After Atter dinner the priest lighted us to our rooms across the church yard Pe I lee was throwing th up lip a crimson glow from its fires against the starlit sky In IJ the th morning he remarked d as he be left us you will find coffee in fir the th refectory 1 i shall haUb be at t mass and nd sift aft afterwards fter er ads I X Is shall aU be b busy about the par pariah p r riSh iSh iah Good night Do you Y know what pere Pete Marye is said Id my Comrade as we e turned in Hes HOs a 3 brick v vWe We thought longer of ot o him staying there theme witha lot tot of blacks and a few Cew destitute white than we did of ot the volcano whO whose b red rea e glare lare painted the sky 1 so impressively Impre ll f J I IThe The church chu ch woke us at 6 and nd when his hi early p arY service tirl was over we waited for him to come to coffee |