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posely made a noise. The lion rose,
looked in our direction with a saw
age snarl and dragged his prey farther
IN under the tree, where We could no
longer see him. Forty-ive minutes by
my repeater had elapsed since Halls
had left Us. The majors heavy breath
ing showed that he had fallen asleep. /
reached over and took him by
the shoulder 10 awaken him. The
as he did 50 began to slide from
his perch. Mortified at what seemed
ebout 10 happen, both Cassidy and
seized him; but the major was a very
heavy man and we soon found that we
must either all go down together or let
the major go alone. And go he did with
a slide and rush and yell that must
have reused the countryside for q mile
around. There was heavy thud as he
struck the ground and a yell louder
than before, followed by an indescrib-
able snarling roar, in which fright, as
constituent and Indignation seemed to
be equally blended, the rush OF heavy
body breaking its way through the
thicket, and all was still.
.'Great Scottr' cried Cassidy. 1.-The
major has fallen on top the lion
He hastily descended the tree as he
spoke. and, after looking to my hunting
knife, followed him. :
Its all right" said Cassidy. 1.-THE
major has licked o lion singlehanded
without using a weapon: he has broken
his ribs, il not his back. and given him
q fright he will not forget in a hurry.
Considerable shuck up, amt We,
major?'
Cad, me boys, did you see how that
bloody lion made for the bush? He was
badly frightened, don't you know?" ex-
claimed the major; and his red face be-
came purple with laughter.
At that moment the kaffir appeared
with the missing cartridges He had
witnessed the whole scene from the
branches of a neighboring tree, and
nothing could have persuaded him
that the major was not great hero.
Indeed, when the major himself fully
realized what he had done, he thorough
~ believed that he had achieved an al
most unprecedented act of heroism,
and took credit to himself for having
placed the lion hors de combat and so
saved the life of the kaffir.
This instance IS only one Of many
that confirms me in the belief that the
courage of the lion is very much over
rated. The conduct of . Bengal tiger
would have been, am persuaded, very
different under the circumstances, and
the major would scarcely have escaped
so easily. AS a test Of bravery the
experiment has been tried of putting
large firecrackers, the fuses of which
were lighted, into the respective cages
of a tiger and lion. AS soon as they
began to burn the lion withdrew as far
as possible into the corner of his cage.
and watched the suffering fuse with
nnmistakable uneasiness and alarm,
while the tiger, rushing forward, clapped
his paw upon it, rolled it about the floor
of his cage, and did not finch when the
explosion took place, but continued his
Investigations in quite cool and scien-
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sifc spirit until he was satisfied. The
lion, on the contrary. roared with fear
when the cracker exploded, and refused
FOR a long while to come from the corner
where he had sought refuge.
Apropos of lions, relate the follow
ing pathetic story of lions devotion:
When Stewart. the lion tanner in Paris,
died in 1ss5 an old and faithful pet lion,
which had lived in the same room with
the Snowman. was found stretched life
less across the dead body OF his master,
and as, up To that date. the lion had APP
rarently enjoyed the best of health. It
Is supposed that the beast died Of grief.
The late Cen Stone once told me that.
while in the Egyptian service. he owned
couple Of young lions; and his chill
dren played with them as they would
with pet CANNES until the beasts had
grown to the size Of Newfoundland
dogs. Even then the great cats con-
tinucd TO romp with the children; but
for fear That they might injure some
stray native and bring about complex
diplomatic problems the general had
the lions sent away. much to the grief
of the young folks
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Professor Lee. who is the leader Of the
Labrador exploring expedition, is n sing
ulsrly youthful-,ooking man for one who
has been professor OF biology Tor nearly
twenty years For long time his chief
grievance at Bowdoin College was that
the students and townsmsn took him for
boy. lie had face smoothei. exceps
for a slight musssche. head Of light
euriy hair and = slender Axnr~ He
locks much ths same ret. but has drei xed
for queer fish in the Pacific and Atlsatic
and won a bsz reputation among se.en-
fists. His father is a professor, and -a
arr bic two younger brothers and ons
lister. e runs in the taEally.
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CONTRARY until Cassidy. with look Of
disgust on his not entirely classic fea-
lures. silently handed the major his gun
to examine for himself.
by George. Most 'strornary circum-
stance ever heard of. don't you know.
Told that beastly black fellow to load
them up"
well. "'said Cassidy quietly, you in
sisted on bringing the whole lot of car
tridges for all of US. just give us q
fstful apiece. Next time / allow wen
bring our own shooting irons and am
munition."
by George, " said the major. thickly.
as he thrust his hand in the capacious
pocket of his shooting jacket, and
brought out flask Of liquor, had
lem aIlwhen we started. Black fellow
must have filched EN-, don't ye know"
Iiais had been watching Us intently
aud intelligently. 'Inkose knows" he
said. quietly. ''Red-nose man leave 'em
in kraal Inkose get en-"
Before we could intcrposc. or even be-
fore we could fairly realize what he
was about to do. Halls slipped from his
perch.
"wha' vast that bloody beggar
called me?'' cried the major. I'll"
''See here. my friend" interrupted
Cassidy, don't you think it's little un-
grateful 10 abuse q man who is pcriling
his life To obligc you? Coon or no
coon il takes real man to run the
gauntlet of the mensgerie turned loose
under this tree. and don't You forget IL. ="
Whether the Engiishman heard him
or not do not know; he seemed to
have relapsed into semi-somnolence;
1t sny aofthe made no reply.
IN DptSks 10 be heard at night in a
wild country are very singular and awe
inspiring The peculiar cries of the
various night birds. as. fitting about
the trees. they discover an intruder in
their domain. are Weird and ghostly
enough. but the howl Of the strand
wolf or hveua aud the still wilder cry
Of the isckal are sounds that send chills
creeping over you that belong 10 the
horrors Of a nightmare. At the rust
ling we made IN changing our positions
the kaffir had made no noise in
descending the trec--the large animal
we had seen, probably buffalo. had
disappeared. but The noises beneoth us
continued. and we found that our Wis
isors were bush pigs. the largest. ierc-
est and most hidcous kind Of wild pigs.
The bush pig( Phacochoerus sethiopieusl
lives entirely in The bush. and Is about
rs watchfnl and cumming ~ any animal
that inhabits Africa. Its powers Of
hearing and scent arr both very acute
IL knows the dangers that threaten IL.
aud IL possesses sharp tuslss TIA. will
rip ND dog or man a. II razor were
used
ali at once. without apparent cause.
SEVERAL Of these pigs gave sharp grint
and ran sff into the bush. | imagined
they had scented Us Almost inmesii-
ateiv aftertxarst however. we heard a
great carnuaotson araoug the leaves and
branches. sudden rush. sound a. ~
struggling. = sharp sslueax or two and
al vas silent Ne strained eur eYes
a. Distinguish The fevsu- ~ The victim
AMI the slaver n the two fsy partly
~ons.eaIed amid Tie thick ssldsrt'rssis.
aaa ~ lenefA iussle avt the form ~ .
far gr0Sa La lysnx nrsn TIE PIG.
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tons JUICE 81 California hss, combined
with the medicinal virtues ~ plHnts
known l., be TIE most tzneffcsal "a The
human system. acts gsntiy. % TIE sd
news. liver aud tovsis, sHeetnally
cleansing the systef1, al-r~isiflg cssisi'
ahd headaches. aud eeFlng habitnsl
cnnla. latIVn.
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xSowx. AK druggist Tor oop's PHosruopfxs
n he offers some worthless medicine in place
OF this. leave bis dishpneststore. tnciose price
IN letter. and we vii send nv return mail.
Price. one package. 81 six. -. uae viii please,
vesore 2sfamrs. Address The Wood che m
zeal c.. igi Wood ward ave. u froit. Nfch.
soid In Graad Rapids hy L. r. wilson.
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The great eat bad ponnesd upon II ex-
actiy as pussy catches . mouse AID
broken is Geek With . single effort u
his powerful jaws.
What ~ do ne knew not. The kafylr
might DC back at any moDent Puz-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

A HOUSTON. Texas, dispatch says:
every railroad was represented at a
meeting in this CITY yesterday, (Aprii "a
to devise a plan to comply with the
state law. which goes into effect the
18th of June, compelling all colored
passengers to bs provided with separate
coaches. The plan Of w. IF. Sidons,
masters mechanic of the International
& Great Northern, was adopted. His
is portable partition. and each coach
may be divided into two compartments.
one for colored passengers and made as
large as the number Of negroes In the
car requires" This is a very bad law.
1t will tend to draw the color line more
distinctly than ever. We do not be-
lieye that such a law would "hold
water if tested IN the supreme court.
The black man has just as many rights
under the constitution as the white
man and such a law as the above is q
disgrace to Texas.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1891.
THE COMBINE" BEATEN.

The Parkhuret combine was com.
pIetely knocked out last Tuesday after
noon when Judge Lochren decided that
the district court had no jurisdiction In
the case, The combine" endeavored
to prevent the council from giving the
contract for curb and gutter on several
streets, to Messrs. Ring & Tobin, but it
was no go. Attorney E. A. Campbell
presented the case of Ring and Tobin SO
clearly to the court, that Judge Lochren
scarcely hesitated a moment in deciding
the case for the defendants. The "com-
bine" was defeated and the contractors
Ring & Tobin, will put in natural stone
instead of artificial. The Combine"
will learn after while that the city
council will run the curb and gutter
business of the city as it sees fit. The
city council represents the people, and
when any half dozen men get up and as
sumo the councils prerogatives, then q
halt must be called. We congratulate
the city council and Ring g. Tobln on
their successful engagement.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

THE city council did we'll at it's last
meeting when it ordered the street rail-
wav company to pave it's tracks, on
Fourth street Southeast, with cedar
blocks instead of cobble stones. That
was good thing. These cobble stones
should be condemned. They are an
OBSTACLE instead OF a benefit to the com
munitn and should not be allowed On
the streets at all. 1t is impossible to
keep the street in good condition where
they are. After while they sink
down, and water lies there until it
evaporates. The street railway com
pany should be compelled to pave the
street between their tracks with the
same paving material as in the street.
But where the streets are not paved,
the company should be compelled to
pave with either granite block or cedar
at ali street intersections. BY and bV
the company will be persuaded to do
q little for the public good in the mat
ter of partially maintaining tho streets
they use every day and for which priv
elege they never paid a cent.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

THERE was a rather novel disclosure
at White Lake. South Dakota, last
week which opened the eyes Of the legal
fraternity. Senator Preston of Mitch
ell, went there and tried to dispose OF
building that belonged to him. Failing
to find purchaser, he proceeded to
tear the building down preparatory to
removing it. AS White Lake Is bond
ed, the lawyers of that place claimed
that Preston could not move the
building outside the city that being a
state law. South Dakota has got some
very funny laws including it's divorce
laws. If a man or woman desires a
divorce ali that is necessary is to re-
move to South Dakota and stay three
months, when proceedings for a legal
separation can be begun. 1t Is time
that South Dakota paid more attention
to this kind OF business and prohibit
people from getting divorces so easily.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

and dle Of his party as we'll, II not bet
ter, than some Of his pred cessors.
Then, too. the courtesy of renOmina-
ton, SO we'll established and so seldom
overlooked, is certainly In Mr.. Harri-
sons favor. To nominate Blaine in the
face of these facts would be the means
of alternating large per centage OF the
Republican vote from his support and
his defeat at the polls would be as crush
ing and Overwhelming as that which
befell the lot of Horace Greeley in 1917.
By all means let Blaine be made the
Republican nominee. Any particle OF
doubt that may now exist as to the sue
cess of the Democratic party will then
have vanished and victory for the
party Of Jefferson and Of jackson will
follow as sure as night folio VS. day.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02
WHY THE ENEMY SUCCEED.

There is much uneas1ness among the
English Liberals now, and all because
of recent elections that went against
them. During the past month there
were two vacancies filled, and all that
the Liberals got was the privilege OF
voting-the voting, by the way. counted
for very little; many precincts showed
large Tory gains. This was very unex-
pected, and was as much of surprise
to the Tories as the Liberals, except
perhaps, that 1t was more agreeable to
the former than the latter None of the
Libera leaders, not even Mr.. Gladstone,
has attempted any explanation for this
sudden and decidedly unpleasant change
Ia affairs political. The Liberal press,
however, is at work assigning the causes
Tor these recent defeats. All, without
exception, blame Parnell for this sudden
Dhange in English sentiment. This is
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

THE columns of The IRISH STAN
DARD are always open to the publica-
ton of correspondence of q timely and
interesting nature upon the various
matters and subjects that interest the
general reader. We would make the
field as broad as possible in this respect
but again we would advise c0rrespon-
dents to be more brief and concise.
Many matter of interest is crowded
out of both the daily and weekly paper,
so far as correspondence goes, because
of it's great length and not from it's lack
Of merit. Space is often lacking. A
two column article can often be crowd
ed down to one without leaving out any
of the points intended to be conveyed.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

A. SPECIAL from Black River Falls
says that the east branch OF Black river,
Morrison creek and Popple river are
all clear of logs. such thing never
being known before so early in the
season. The river is crowded with logs
from Phalasko boom to Gales ferry, q
distances of about IS miles. 1t is esti
mated that about 10000, 600 feet have
gone down. and it is thought the main
river will all be clear Of logs by June.
This is something unheard Of at this
season of the year. Wisconsin, like her
neighboring state, Minnesota Is going
to cut more lumber this year than for
many years past. This Of course means
that more laborers will be employed.
and consequently more money will be
in circulation.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

TIE peddlers gained 9 victory last
week over their opponents. Assisted
by Mayor Winston. they will pay the
same amount this year as last. and no
more. They mayor vetoed the ordi-
nance increasing their licenses, and the
council sustained the veto. The ped
dlers are Of course we'll pleased, and
like little men. they marched up yester
day and deposited their respective sums
with the city treasurer. What will be
done to regulate other lines of
business that evidently require atten
lion, cannot be prognosticated at pres.
nnf
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

UNCLE SANS men took the law into
their own hands last week aG Walla
Waila, Washington. and lynched the
slayer of Private Miller. D. j. Hunt.
There was desperate effort made to
keep the soldiers back, but the sheriff
was forced to give wav. and turn the
unfortunate man over to the soldiers
who strung him up and then riddled
his body with bullets.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

perhaps going little to far and OF
course we cannot accept their theories as
the correct ones. While the course that
Mr.. Parnell has taken, has to certain
extent, affected the home rule cause,
still we cannot see how electors in an
English burrough could be Influenced
by man who was not in the county.
No, we rather think that the defeat of
the Liberals was due to overconfidence
on their part more than anything else.
We know IN this country what apathy
means. It invariably means defeat for
the party afflicted that way. The Eng
lish Tories are for the most part. men of
means. having at their command almost
unlimited amounts of money, and they
used this commodity to good advantage
during the late elections. Times are
very hard in England now and little
money went good ways there. Glad
stone was considerably under the
weather, so to speak, and this, too, had
it's depressing effect on the Liberals, so
we can see that there we're other causes
than Parnell's pres ence in the United
Kingdom to which We are forced to at
tribute the defeat of the Liberals. The
Liberals have evidently learned good
lesson. Here is what John Morley said
one dag last week, when asked what he
thought of the successes that crowned
the Tories in their recent contests: ''To
give an intelligent opinion on this
question would necessitate reviewing the
past. I would rather, therefore, look to
the future for lucid explanation Of the
causes chat led to our candidates defeat.
To save the country from Tory rule, the
Liberals must not blame anyone but
themselves; they must make up their
minds that the Tories are preparing for
q general election, and If they are sue.
oessful III carrying Balfour's Irish land
bill through parliament. thew will then,
in all probability dissolve parliament
and appeal to the country. This OF
course would be strong card to open
the game with. Salisbury and BaLfour
are two very clever politicians and they
will not dissolve parliament unless un~
der the most fattering auspices. The
Liberals must come together and bury
their misunderstanding; they must or"
ganize aud put themselves in readiness
for the fight, otherwise they will be de-
feated at the coming general election.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02

The Minneapolis park board is
going to put on some fine airs now. and
each member will have desk of his
own very soon. The board had very
interesting meeting last Saturday. the
principal topic of discussion being the
proposed change of grade on Hennepin
avenue. The alderman from the Fourth
ward, who holds down seat In the
park commission. was in favor of the
board expanding few thousand dollars
in making the grade conform to that Of
L7ndale. but others did not care to
spend any more park funds on road
way that had been given up to the street
railway company. thereby destroying
it's usefulness as a park way. Among
those to censure the boards action for
giving no this road way to the street rail
way company was Mavor Winston.
He very sensiblv showed the board
that for chem to expend any more mon
ey on that street was nothing more or
less than throwing it away, aud he
moved an indefinite postponement of
the whole matter. That settled it
The mayors motion was carried with
out any opposition and the street rail-
way compauy.if there is any grading to
be done there, will have to do it. The
idea of asking the park board to foot
such bills is simply pre- posterous.
When that parkway was opened I'D and
given over to the street railway COM
PAW to operate line on, the board
practically lost all control of it. If the
board has got surplus of money, it
can put it to better use BY: putting
down new trees on the different streets
where trees planted some time ago are
dead now. There are thousands OF
places where the boards funds can be
expended to better advantage than in
lowering the grade in Hennepin avenue.
re Alderman Love wants the Hennepln
grade lowered let him do scout OF the
Fourth ward funds. !.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-02
THAT OOMmITTEE REPORT.

The report of the state prison investi-
eating committee, which was so ably
ohampioned by Representative Reyes of
Winona, we believe to have been mis-
leading and not in accordance with the
real facts of the case. 1t is q we'll
known fact that the Winona statesman
was close friend of the late Warden
Randall, who was also Winona man.
and not liking the way the late warden
was treated, took rather an unenvlable
way of showing up" the prison mango
1nenI. No one who knew ex-Warden
Randall could say that he was anything
but kind hearted man--too kind in
fact to be at the head of such an institu~
tion as our state prison. During his
term of Office he always countenanced
moderation in She treatment of CT ,ninals.
His deputies always did as he dictated,
and no one was ever heard TO say
harsh word against Deputy Warden
Lemon, who was made the subject of
MIR. Reyes most bitter invectlve. The
same can be said OF ST.. Glennan, one
of the officials who came in for share
of the abuse, for no other reason, as we
suppose, than that he used extreme
measures in assisting to capture three
conyicts who attempted to escape. 1t is
absurd to suppose that Lemon and
others who worked so long under the
kindly influences of Warden Randall.
could be such heartless men as Reyes
would have the people of this state be-
lieve. Representative Reyes would
have added laurels to his record had he
kept himself within the bounds of rea-
son when he began to formulate that re-
port that afterwards fell so fiat. Indeed
we are at loss to know what Mr.. Reyes
hoped to accomplish by that report IN
the face of such contradictory evidence
that has since come to light.