The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-10-15
PASSED in RE VIEW

Since Bishoa Cotter removed the smir-
acu1ous window" from Canton to Winona
nnthing has been heard Of the persons
alleged to have been cured of chronic
ailments Rev. Dr. Hebron, of st. Paul,
il authority for the statement that no
case of miraculous cure worthy OF the
least credence had happened before the
window was removed. Father jones,
pastor of the Canton Church, says the
picture was not supernatural, and that
such manifestations are not uncommon
to ordinary window glass.
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Ireland's new Lord Lieutenant is the
son of a poet, who wrote one song which
will live as long as any of Moore's tnder
melodies Among the old piano music
in thousands of English homes is the
song ''The beating of my own heart was
the only sound heard" by Richard
Monckton Mines, who in 1868 was
created Baron Houghton. He was for
many years president of the Newspaper
Press Fund, and Mr.. Gladstones Irish
Viceroy is his only son and successor
as second baron.
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"Is it paying business to be an Irish
leader when you lead the Irish wrong?'
asks the Irish Wocld. 1t is paying
business for the Irish World to have the
Republican party circulate it in thous-
ands during this campaign to influence
the Irish-American voters to cast their
ballots for the 60. p. The despicable tac
tics adopted by the Irish World in ap-
pealiug to the religious and race preju-
dices of the Irish people in this country
stamps it as false leader, but it is q
paying business, though it is leading the
Irish wrong.
''What has the Governor of Minnesota
got to do with the TARIFF asked Knnte
Nelson in recent speech. AS Governor,
Knute Nelson would net have much to
do with the tariff, but when in Congress
he had a great deal 10 do with it, and
favored it's reduction. What the people
want to know is why Knute favored low
tariff in Washington by voting for the
Mills bill, and is now speaking for high
tariff in Minnesota and landing the Nc
Kinley bill. Ii the Governor of Mime
sofa has got nothing to do With the tariff,
why is Knute Nelson continually talking
about 1t in all parts Of the state? But
Knute Nelson is not yet Governor OF
Minnesota, and has presentiment that
be n YER will.
! Lady Wilde gives the following inter
esting account of how she became an
Irish Nationalist: Till my eighteenth
|year never wrote anything. Then, one
day,a volume Of Irelands Library, issued
! from the Nation office by Mr.. Duffy,
happened to come in my way. I read 1t
eagerly and my patriotism was Handled.
My family was Protest mt and Conserva-
tive, and there was no social inteycourse
between them and the Catholics and
Nationalist. Once I had caught the
Nationalist spirit, all the literature Of
Irish wrongs and sufferings had An en-
thraling interest for me. Then it was
that discovered that [ could write poe
, try. In sending my verses to tie editor
; of the Nation I dared not have nj: s}A'ae
published, SO I signed them ''Spesag1za."
and my letters "Johp Fenshaw Ellis in
, stead of Jane Francesca Elgee. But at.
IA r. ~, f~,r
at the office, and again "Mc Ellis had
to excuse himself from doing SO. One
da, my uncle came into my room q nd
found the Nation on my table. Then he
accused me- of contributing to it, declar-
ing the while that such a sedtious paper
was fit only for the fire. The secret be-
ing out in my own family there was no
longer much motive for concealment,
and J. gave my editor permission 10 call
upon me. Even then, as Sir Charles
Duffy has since told me, he scarcely
knew who "SperaDza'' might be, and
great was his surprise, therefore, when
stepped out from an inner room.
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, Charles A. Dana, Of the New York
, Sun, has given an estimate of Gladstone
in which he says: Mr., Gladstone is
: man Of extraordinary ability, Of genuine
talents, of many requirements, q varied
knowledge, of large experience, and OF
serious thought and purposes; he is an
; earnest, artistic and effective speaker;
he is an attractive writer at times and
upon some subjects; he is a man of many
personal virtues who is happily married;
he is an orthodox member Of the estab
lished church of England, who, if his
father had not left his native country,
would probably have been an orthodox
member of the established church Of
Scotland. He properly ranks high as q
politician, and that, too,isin a country