Few Men Are Able To Boast Of A More

romantic caroer than Mr. John ii. O'Keillv, the poet editor of the Boston "Pllot," lio In iiow lecturlng upon the 'Pacific Slnpe.' He was bom In Ircland 40 yeara :igo, aml lias from early youth been a warm Iriend of, as well as a bold agitator tót llberty. His restleas dlspositiou caused him to k-ave home carly. He went to England wliere he bec.ime a printer and reporter on papen in the tnanofacturiDg district?, and there lie acquiied that sympathy lor the workman Wblch characterizes him. Whon 19 years of a;e, lie enl'stfd In the JJrltish army, drilliiiij and plolth)j for tliree years, not however, for Kngland's cause, but for tliat of lila native Ireland. At last he was Buspected, tried and condemned to life-lohg Imprlgonment, The sentence was afterwunU ent down to twenty yearí. England's prisou being l'ull at that time; he was transponed to Australia, the land, as Mr. O"R'illy puta it poetically, "Blessed by God and blighted by man." Here he planned escape and was cuught on several attempts. Finally he succeeded in getting to sea in an open boat, and at'ter days of privation was picked up by an American whaler and devoted liiinself heartily to whale catching lor a period of six months. He had made such warm friends of eyeryone on board, that the captain in order to furthcr bis plans, transt'erred him to a snip bound for Liverpool, giving him papers of a shipwrecked sailor and tnenty-one guineas pocket money. Finding the political atrnospbere ot Liverpool unbecoming hls constitution, he carne to America, wrote a few magazine articles and drifted to Boston, as a perfect stranger in the New England States. His papers were eagerly purchased by tlie magazines, soen bringing him friends and making him faruous. At that time he was but 20 yenrs of ng". Then he secured a position on thu 'Pllot,' of which he now owns a quarter interest, besides being its solé editor. A3 president of the Papyrus aml Press clubs of Boston, he has beconie the nuc!eus of a fralaxy of brilliant young wrltera of the ime, whose favorite resoit is bis home in Cbarlestown, which is being m!ltle model of comfort by bis accomplished nd caring wife. Mr. O'Keilly'a manllies3 is supreme, he being physically, mentally and morally a inan loving liis ellow-men and dcüshting above ererybing In tliose very qualities in wliioh lic ïnconsciously excels. He lias, by some, been called 'a man with the beurt of a woman, the soul of a poet and the brain and Btrong rigbt-arm of au IrUbman." Jeskles liis work on newspapers, he has niblished several volumes of poems, and i novel entitled "Moondyne," which is a trange dramatic and forcetul piece of vork. His books of poems go under the Ules, "Ötatues in the Black," "Songs rom the Southern Seas," and "In Botemla."