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The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07

The asceIldency OF the parochial
schools is becoming more apparent, and
Ethe recently enlightened press is begin
| Ing To show the inutlllty of the public
issehool system. The New X rk Sun
the illumination OF the metropolis re-
GENTLY gave a practical illustration of
title use essness of Z. SO called public
school edaeation,'' The majority of
| 0ul children under the existing sys-
tenn are compelled to leave school he
fore they attain the knowledge to fit.
them for an ordinary business career.
| In 800 many cases-but more especially.
| i'll the East--a child is cranmed with
| physiology, hygiene botany etc, be-
| fore he can plainly fecite the rules OF a
lcomnon arithmetic OF speak the En-
g.isii language correctly Teaching the
ichilli how to earn his daily bread
| namely by being enabled TO write and
punctuate his own composition, and
tell the result OF minus or plus 81
| has become nonotonous, hence to re-
Iliave this physical exercises and
how to make Your escape in case OF
| fire. have been introduced, and are
placticed i've or. six times a Gay.
Spontaneous combustion seems to be
! the cause OF numerous fires, and there
isnluch aombustibie material made from
these nonsensical essays Not only
does complaint come from New York.
z Bosting in the person OF PRESIDENT
Eliot OF Harvard Uniyerslty-Gaises
It's voice against the system. This lat
ter gentleman. referring to the fact thai
Catholic schools are springing ap ali
around us and drawing large numbers
Of pupils from the public schools said.
The great problem is that of CON-
bining religious with secular education.
This was no problem sixty or seventy
years ago, for then our people were
homogeneous. Now the population IS
heterogeneous. Religious teaching can
best be combined with secular teaching
in the way followed IN contries OF het-#
erogeneous population like Germany
Austria. France and Belgium, where
the government pays for the instruc-
tior and the religious teachers belong
jng to different denominations are ad-
nitted to the public schools at nxed
times. That is the only way out OF the
difficulty, and it is the way IN which
American governments have treated
American churches. ! see growing up
on every side parochiai schoois--tnat IS,
Catholic schoois-Whieh take large NUM- |
b6as of children out OF the public
schools Of the city That is a great
misfortune and the remedy is to admit
religious instructors to teach these
children in the public schools. This IS
what is done in Europe. And ali those
who are strongly interested III the sue
cessful maintenance OF cur public
school system will urge the adopt OF
the method {. have described for rellg-
ions education,
The significance Of this utterance is
plainly seen, and it is important as the
latest words Of AN admitted authority,
as they We're fss.-nsae'5'
+ 40 ,1,I }sfic ~ 3lss.gf '.e
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07
Expanaiiveness Of the Irish Question.

EDITOR N oRTH WESTERN STANDARD:
The present agitation Of proposed
reforms hi the laws and politics now
constituting governmental rule III Ire
land, is mainly pertinent, as a remedial
M assure, TO tlle dWellersin that aatict-
edcoantry tits true; thatit has no wider
scope nor bearing than upon n single
nationally, Is too narrow q view to take
of the momenfions question which SO
extensively occupy the mind of the gem
eral public to-day. The improvement
and elevation OF any nation from prac-
tical penurg and serfdom, to the
position OF liberty and prosper
lty, which is the natural right
of all. is properly the property
ofthe civilized world. The restoration Of
Ireland, whose children, wandering
from the mother soil, have taken up
their abode throughout the earth = wide
expanse, inseparabiy atfiliating and in
terweaving themselves with the affairs
and fates Of ali people, is especially
universal in interest and demand for
attention. Aside from the right which
general philanthropy gives TO the people
OF other countries than ireland, to par
ticipate in the discussion Of ameliora-
tive measures proposed III her case,
there is a special fitness III the citizens
Of the United States interesting them
selves effectively in her behalf. There
is also a special fitness in criticlslng the
politics Of SO universally meddlesome
q. government as England has ever
proven herself to be. The lecture bur
eau. so to speak, which England main-
tanned through her journals and ora
tors, for the benefit Of this country, on
the subject Of slavery in the South, is
not to be soon forgotten. 1t was some
thing pharasaical TO be Seeding at US
so necessarily for maintaining an instr
tuition which bad as it was, could not
match in hardships imposed and degra-
dation. penury and starvation engen-
dered. the outcome of her own malad-
ministTation OF Irish affairs, ever since
she unnecessarily an fundamentally I'M
dertook the task. This nation was
young. 1t had yet TO grow out OF its
childhood to the strength of mature
years, before all that was Objectionable
in its institutions could be eliminated.
But it set itself about the task; slavery
III the United States went with the
things that We're; and slavery of tenan-
try III Ireland remained TO be the sub
ject of discussion ard denunciation to
the present day It is right that we
should in turn become the critic of a
consistency which, while with loud
mouthed aspersions, it condemned the
North for not putting slavery down, fit |
ted and furnished to the South, priya-
teers and muniments of war for its
This Irish land question and appur-
tenant issues, bear some relation to the
outside world lnop a,ao1'
When thrn'
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07
THE GAOL REACHED.
tn Els 6aoerdos in Etsrnum Seoan1un Or
dineln Meloilisedecl.

Thursday morning this sacrament of
Holy Orders was conferred upon five
leyites at the Seminary Of st. Thomas,
Merriam Park. The solemn ceremony,
being the first ordination witnessed at
the new Seminary, drew thither a large
number OF the reverend clergy Of the
diocese and immediate relatives and
friends Of the young aspirants for the
holy priesthood. Old SOL had scarcely
risen ere the residents Of Merriam
Park began wondering why the road
leading to the Seminary presented so
animated an appearance. The little
chapel could not hold all who desired
to witness the occasion, and the worthy
rector, Rev. Father P. German, ex-
pressed regrets at the disappointment
SO caused.
Could the founder Of that institution
the first Bishop of Sc. Paul, Right
Rev. Joseph Cretin have witnessed
that joyous gathering, his heart would
have been filled with rapture at the
suspicious commencement of the work.
OF his chosen sons-Right Rev. John
Ireland and Father O'Gornaaf1. II, the.
year 1858, taking these two from the
Cathedral school before the altar of the
Blessed Virgin, lie bade them .kneei,
and then and there blessed and conse-
Grated the work of the Seminary. Later
they were committed to the care of
Father Ragoux, whose venerable feat
ures glaced the event Of Thursday, and
by him taken TO the home of their stud l
les III France. What a happy termiila-
ton OF events One of them training.
with the zeal OF a true father of the
Church, young souls destined for the
holy office; the other to be the first to
raise to the dignity Of the priesthood
the first fruit OF his labors The Sem /
mary Of st. Thomas hos 2 ariIzfsl
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07

The result of the elections on last
Tuesday brings JOY intermingled with
sorrow in the both Democratic and Re
publican camps--the former. however.
getting the lions share of gladness.
New York was the center of attraction.
and to a disinterested observer il was
interesting to note the loud mouthed
Dragging OF the mugwumps before, and
iaughable to see them crawl into their
holes after election. That this ele ent
was a strong faction in 'S4, evidence
has clearly proven, but the Democracy
having got the upper hand many of
them must have been conyerted-for
what re sons we viii not venture to say
and failed to join the prodigal horde
in So. New York a doubtful State ~
We think not. 1t has shown itself to
be thoroughly Democratic.
Vlrginiaand Maryland also held their
own in the Democracy, while Massa-
chusetts and Iowa gave rousers to Rob
inson and Larrabee. New Jersey still
carries Republican legislature.
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07
OuR Statutory

orr entry into the journalistic 1ield
needs ltUle or no comment; but, III
jnsbice to those who have already en-
dorsed our project, a public dellnitien
of ON policy becomes necessary,
The need Of such m organ-mofe
especially at The present time, On the
eve Of Farnell's glorious connuest--is
and has beer, q long admitted fact. 10
qrge the Jrishmen Of MINNEAPOLIS ana
the Northwest ingenoral TO upheld that
patriots hands III hjs dgh5 with Brit
1sll tyranny, that the &oubt may
vet become a certainty, is oar main Oh
5eot. All things elso are secondary
AGAIN, the interests OF our people
have been ignored and oFJentimoS have
$50
Jney peer h1SalSeo, pS q HA''loP'''7''''
p1eiudiced ard 5igoted press-with due
Difference 10 GAe few ezcep'i0ASS's 'l',''
1l our hnn10Ie 'I'ns17' "0 '-'''''' 90
fend them.
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The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07

sible. lAAts Il irae has the sitnationG oS
Ilssissi d FAIRS presented SO striking al N n
illustration, OF ,this originality Of menheds.
of this readiness Of resource. of this
Reliability Of adaptation than the pres
ent. If in the yaal 1856 d person had
written a forcaste of the political events
in England FOR the last five years
ii would have been regarded as
more wildly improbable than the
battle Of Dorking. Ii any one in
1880 had been bold enough to
predict that within FIVE years the
Parnell movement would result. nos
only ia the alterations in the system Of
land tenure then existing in Engla2a
Ireland and Scotland that have been
made, but also III the defeat OF the
liberal party III Parliament, N{lth the
most popular and powerful statesman
OF England at its head, and should,
after making the ascendaney Of the
Tory party possible, reduce the issue
upon Irish affairs down 10 the
simple question whether entire indie
pelioence shoaAu Dc granted % ireland
or nome rilie uhnefSt LOCAL iflsh pstIlia-
ment only, he would have been regarded
as a dreamer, without knowledge OF the
suh)ee5 upon Wilca he spoke; ana yet,
tins Is pul an outline OF Ia" OF the
apparent Representatives, that nave been
accomplished.
Tits a proud reflection for the Irish
race that these results have been at.
tanned solely through their sagaciuy and
endurance. In the methods that have
been employed. and hg the results that
havefoiloved-s disproportionate tofne
means at hand-the Irish people have
won the admiration and applause even
of their enemies. The Land League.
though not having for It's ayoWed object
the obtaining Of home ru,e, must be
largely. If not entirely G. edited with it's
attainment, It was through the League
that the peou!e Of IRELAND formed tho
perfect organization nv which tlle ey-
preston Of their opinion became potent.
and in which the power Of that opinion
made itself manifest 1t solved IN an
other way also that last and most pow
emul objection to Irish home rule
namely, thai the people Of ireland were
not capable Of self government. This
was al objection which was most fire.
QuentIy made by English DolitI-
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07

Many false reports have been circu-
lated in this country having their origin
In reports transmitted from London
through the cable dispatches, to the
effect that Mr.. Parnell has been and
now is, in league with the Tories in the
recent defeat of the Gladstone ministry.
but the subsequent acts Of Mr.. Parnell
have branded these reports as mali
cious, false and utterly without founda-
ton. Mr.. I'arnell and his followers
have no interest in either the Wings or
the Tories, or the success or defeat Of
either, only SO far as the interest of the
cause for which they are 80 patriotically
struggling is concerned. Heretofore,
Parnell and his followers, III the hil3t
of thoi,
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07

Great enthusiasm was manifested al
the meeting held at Holy Rosary Tenn
.peranee hall, Nineteenth avenue south
and sixth street, for the purpose of.
raising money for the Parliamentary
Fund. Good speakers were insattel,d-
ance, and large sum Of money was
subscribed toward the fund
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07

Or. Carry's appointment is analogous
TO the devil set preaching He is ap-
pointed, rabid anti-Cathoiic though he
be. to q Catholic court and country. Ii
seems singular that Mr.. Kelley was so
offensive in reality, while DR.. Curry re-
mains a martyril sentiment.
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07

Arrangements are being made for a
large neeeting under the aaspicies OF
the Irish National League Of this city,
to raise funds to beapplied to the Parlia-
mentsry Fund. Good speakers will be
in attendance and address the meeting.
and among them will be Hon. Ignatius
.Donnelly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

arc not needed any more, Once inside:
the widest of the baud are caught and
Mains fastened to their legs. Men walk
among them and treat them kindly. and
they soonl learn that there is nothing to
be feared. They are turned loose in
any ordinary pasture, and when they
are wanted they are driven to the cor
raj and roped. If two men can gather
a bunch of ten or a dozen horses in a
week they of course make a good sum
CT money out of the transaction, as the
animals will sell at from $50 to $50
each; but misfortune sometimes over
takes them when i'll pursuit.
The present movement of the stock
raisers threatens to put a stop to this
business. Mounted upon their grain
fed horses the. hunters will pursue the
wild bands when they are somewhat
weakened by the rigors of winter. Rid.
ing as close as possible the men will
shoot the stations from time to time.
1t is hoped that by spring nearly all
the stations will have been killed, and
that the capture of the mares by the
wholesale will then be made possible.
Cheyenne Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
Ne.
DECEMB Der.
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HOME N r

1t is better to make an acre of land
worth 500 that was previously worth
only $50, than it would be to buy 800
worth of land at $40 an acre.-Irou
Times.
Corn Meal Pancakes: Two eggs,
three cups of buttermilk, and one and a
half teaspoons of saleratus, hall pint OF
meal, Or more, if not thick enough to
bake well.-Ihe Household.
A chicken raiser says that sweet oil
is a good remedy for Group. Apply it
to the heads well all over, and half
teaspoonful give inwardly; repeat every
day until a u is effected.
Draining uplands, siougi1s and
swamps by open bitches tends to hasten
the passage Of surplus water to the
streams and is to this extent one cause
of freshets.-Studemt's Farm Journal.
Beef Cakes: Chop pieces Of roast
beef very fine, mix with grated bread
crumbs. chopped onions, and parsley,
season with pepper and salt, moisten
with a little of the dripping or ketchup;
cold tongue or ham may be added to
improve it,; make into broad, fiat cakes
and spread a layer Of mashed potato on
the top and bottom of each. Lay a
piece of butter on each cake and set
them in the oven to brown.-Ioledo
Blade.
The practice of keeping cattle till
three or four years old before fattening
is much less common now than form
erly. The improved breeds of beef
cattle mature early. Two year-cld
steers Of the Short-horn breed are as
mature and average larger than three
year-olds of native stock. More good
beef can be made between one and two
years old at less cost with Short-horn
cattle than by keeping them longer
N. Y. Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
CIGAR .sHoP INDIANS.
Interesting Talk with a ,,culptor'' in Wood
Iron ~..frirgers'' Bad for His Trade.

Interesting Talk With n SCULPTOR in Wood
Iron "trisgers'' Bad for His Trade.
In a little o reached by going
through a long passage-way and as
cending two flights off rickety STAIRS
just off Harry Howard square, one day
last week a reporter found two men
working away with mallets and chisels,
while under their well-directed blows
pine logs grew to noble red men,
clowns, Indian princesses and other
familiar shapes that adorn the fronts OF
tobacco shops all over the country,
SLOWS business?" asked the re-
porter.
Well" replied one of the "sculp.
tors" ''there amt much danger OF
overlooking the market, There's not
more'n a dozen and a half manufact-
urers of wooden tiggers in the country,
and of this number ten are in this city.
But times Amt as good as they might
be-" and he deity Clipped away at
o clowns neck Until it was short
ly encircled by an Elizabethian
ruff. '.Before rents got so high
that all the ship-building and repairing
was driven down east, around Ports
mouth and Maine, there was a good
deal of ship carving-fggerheads and
the like, which pay better than cigar
store tiggers-to be done about here.
Now it all gone and we have to fall
we get a wooden coat of arms to make,
like that lion and unicorn you see
against the wall, forIsome rich man.
They pay pretty well. Wooden tiggers
don't pay SO well. This Indian chief
will cost the owner $50; that s%ultana,
S45; the little Indian squaw to the
right of you, S25, and SO on. They
have begun to make cast-iron figgers
at some of the iron-works, and that
cuts in Oh us. We get ,ou designs
from every source. We go to the the
ater and pick out a fgger among the
actors and study him, then go to the
shop and chisel him out. Most of the
clowns are cutfrom photographs of Fox,
the original Humpty Dumpty. Some
times we take the pictures Oh the inside
of the cigar boxes for models. Last
week l cut out a figger Of Sir Walter
Raleigh for a tobacco store down on
South street. l have an order to make
a black with patches on his knees and
a plug of 'n~iggerhead,' the sailors de-
light, in his hand. Barnum and Fore
paugh also buy a good many figgers
for their band-wagons and vans. They
will put one live man on a wagon to
dance and half a dozen wooden ones to
keep him company, and half the peo-
pie who watch the procession will never
know but what they are ali alive"
'Where does the wood come from?''
"Sometimes we take the seasoned
masts and spars of a wreck, but gener-
ally it is white pine logs from Maine.
Pine chips easy, you soe."
care there any apprentices in the
trade?"
"Oh, yes, but not many, of course.
A good workman a make five dollars
aday at this business. IN. Y. Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
A Valuable Discovery.

A graduate of Yale College, DR.. Samuel
K. Cox, d. D., Practical and Analytical
Chemist, Washington, D. c., makes the
following official statement: To the
thousands whose systems ~instinctively
shrink from the use of Morphia and Opium,
and especially to mothers, who justly dread
the evil, and at times, fatal effects of these
dangerous drugs, the Red Star Cough Cure
must prove a boon. 1t is not only entirely
free from all opiates, poisons, and emetics
"a thing which not one cough preparation
n ten can boast), but it is altogether an
original and most happy combination of
the best remedial agents, and is as harm
less IS it is effective. base this assertion
OF careful analyses and numerous practical
tests-the latter in every case resulting in
q speedy cure.
The Charles A vogeler Company, Balti-
more, Maryland, are the Sole Owners and
Manufacturers of this valuable remedy.
The Head of the Baltimore Health Depart
ment, DR.. James A. Steuart, one of the
most eminent physicians in America, says:
SIT supplants the Objectionable and harm
full features of other cough mixtures"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
THE BOOK.
Some Good Advice to Old and Young Fcopls
on the Subject of Reading.

Some Good Advice to Old ana Young EOOplo
on the Subject of Reading.
There is, perhaps, no greater wonder
than a book. By the help of little fig
ures or marks placed upon reeds or
skins or some other available material
men have been able to transmit their
thoughts through thousands of years.
The James and shapes Of things, the
deeds and sorrows that have occurred
as far back as the time of Adam have
been made known to us. Even. those
abstract and invisible thoughts which
have no shape or substance, but which
nevertheless inspired the writer and
have since inspired others, are all put
down in little letters or figures and
made eternal. The songs of David; the
sublime grievings of Job; the specula-
lions of Plato; the visions of Homer,
have by these means been handed down
faithfully for many centuries and dis
tributcd among mankind. If there were
no books our knowledge would be al
most confined to the limit Of sight and
hearing. All that we could not see or
hear, in action, would be to us
like the inhabitants (f there be any of
the planet Saturn-a mere matter of
idle conjecture. To read, mark, learn,
and inwardly digest all the thoughts
and learning of others is evidently inn
possible. 1t is beyond the compass of
any intellect. But we may gather a
portion of this knowledge, and the OBJ
ject is to know how to begin this hum
bier task and how to proceed for the
purpose. We mustnotread to waste. We
must be moderate if we wish to gain
much. The bee does not overload HIM
self with the nectar of flowers, but
takes what he can carry away. We
must select also and see that the quality
ofwhatwe take be good. Weshouldread
not merely that We may make money,
not to sharpen our intellect, but to en-
large it. We should read in order to
know what is good and what is evil,
and to do what is good and useful.
Are we ambitious? let us learn hui
mility. Are we avariciousp let ~uslearn
content. When a man can truly say
to himself: ''My mind to me a king
dom is" a kingdom of which he is the
absolute ruler, there is no king beyond
him.-Barry CornwaN, IN Temple Bar.