The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 1, Ed. 1, Monday, January 1, 1906 Page: 23 of 32
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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE
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Kate Kearney
"As old as Kate Kearney" is a common Irish adage. But
let it not be supposed that it alludes to the celebrated Kate
Kearney who dwelt on the banks of Killarney" whose
charms were so great that all susceptihle souls were warned
"From the glance of her eye
Shun danger and fly
yor fatnl's the glance of Kate Kearney."
No. beauties though they may live to attain old age are
never handed down to remembrance as old; they are only
remembered as in their bloom; their latter-day faces do not
go down to prosperity in proverb or song. But though Kate
Kearney the charmer of Killarney is known to us only by
report of her youthful beauty the Kate Kearney whose longe-
vity has passed into a proverb was a native of Wexford and
is orought to be an historical personage.
In the year 1649 Cromwell reeking from the slaughter
committed at the storming of Tredah appeared before Wex-
ford and commenced the siege. The garrison made some
slight defenct but shortly held a parley to treat for terms
of capitulation. During the parley the garrison neglected
their guards as some writejor.as others aver the guards were
drawn off by the treachery of Stafford the governor. Crom-
well's troops rushed into the town and following the com-
mand of their stern general to give no quarter commenced
a furious and indiscriminate butchery. The young the old
the woman the infant the armed the defenceless all fell
victims in the carnago.
Cromwell rode slowly and triumphantly up the principal
street; unmoved by the screams and the rivers of blood and
mangled carcasses that met his ears and eyes. As he advan-
ced he came to an isolated group of dead. There lay an
old man weltering in his blood and the corpses of several
young men heaped around him. A girl respectably dressed
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