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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-18
THE FArALIsTlc TURK.
How He Braves Death at the Holy Cit.
Of His Faith.

aaw He Braves Death at the Holy City
Of His Faith.
The accounts given by the pilgrims
of the way in which cholera attacked
them are terrible in their grim fatal
ism, says the London Spectator. June
"a, two days before the Courban
Bairam, upward of one hundred thou
sand Mussulmans. Arabs, Turks and
Indians had gathered on the sacred
mount to hear the solemn address
which is delivered to those who wish
to become hadji= Many of these peo-
pie were in the most wretched con-
dition, and some had not even loaf of
bread.
1t was here that the disease appears
to have struck them, like the blast Of
a poisoned wind. When next day the
Onward movement to the holy city be-
gan it was found that the ground was
strewn like a battlefield with the dead
and dying. and so terribly virulent was
the type of Infection thus engendered
that it was, says the account, impos-
sible for any living creature to ap-
proach the place.
The authorities seem, however, to
have realized that something must be
done, and that the bodies could not be
left to rot. Accordingly. Turkish
regiment was sent to perform the work
of burial and to remove any of the pill
grims who still lived. Never did troops
in the heat of battle receive a COM
mand more fraught with peril. The
risk, as it proved, was literally greater
than that of facing machine guns, and
the moral effect was far more terrible.
There are ten men who will face
death to one who will face death
by cholera. Yet these Turkish sol
diers, with the fatalistic courage Of
their race. obeyed as they obeyed at
Plevna.
mount, was seven hundred strong
After the work had been done two
hundred men only remained to go back
to the coast. Five hundred of the SOL
diers had died of cholera. That is,
nearly three-quarters of the regiment
persisted in the work of burial. No
doubt English troops would have been
upheld by many considerations-by re-
ligious feeling and by the instinct of
mercy, and they would, moreover.
have been we'll fed.
The Turkish troops probably felt the
sense of pity very little, and their off,
GERS were almost certainly men with
anything but high sense of conduct.
They acted merely from the most
paLad coOso If tho f1utv nf not finch
ing at command. 1t was an order
given from afar and from above, and
that and faith are to them all one.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-18
DAHOMEY WIVES.
They Are Obtained by Purchase Of tn
King.

They Are Obtained by Purchase of the
King.
All the female population of Da-
honey belongs to the king, who sells a
few, once year, to any subject who
may be in want of a wife. or some
times, if man has performed an act
of bravery or pleased the king in any
way, wife is bestowed upon him free
as special mark of favor. The price
for a wife is fixed, but there is no choice
allowed.
The candidate, says Waverley Maya
zine, lays the sum of money at the
kings feet and he may receive in ex~
change a young girl of eighteen or a
toothless old hag of sixty. But he
dare not grumble or complain and can
only leave the palace with his bargain.
If any wife quarrels with her hus-
band and wishes to leave him, accord
ing to an old custom, she has a right to
return to the kings palace. The pres
ent monarch is said to possess only u
few hundred wives, but there have
been kings of Dahomey who possessed
three Thousand consorts.
All Vic OluClSLAS WIG tCuAo NACA
they enter the kings presence, lie fat
on the ground and strike their fore
heads on the floor. as a sign that they
humble themselves to the dust. Even
Themigau, the chief minister, is COM
PEELED to crawl toward his sovereign's
feet when he has a communication to
make.
The women of Dahomey, after their
marriage. lead miserable life. They
are never allowed to eat with their
husbands and receive any instruction
he may wish to give them on their
knees. No wife would dare to stand
in her husbands presence without his
special permission.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-18
LOVING BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
There Are Undoubtedly Many Noted Ones
in Our History.

There Are Undoubtedly Many Noted Ones
In Our History.
One of the saddest declarations ever
made was that of a man who had lived
q stormy domestic life on account of
the claims Of property, says the Youths
Companion. .... ....
Don't talk to me about the love Of
brothers and sisters!'' he said, bitterly.
"At heart they always hate each
other
The evidence Of history gives the lie
to this saddening conclusion. Among
the most beautiful souls we know there
has been the strongest and most last
ing fraternal attachment.
The beautiful Margaret of Navarro.
was devoted to her brother, Francis l.
When she was apparently dying at
Madrid she found her way to him
through privation and danger and sue
ceeded in effecting his dc]ivcrance.
When he was i'll at a distance from
her she went every day and sat down
on stone in the middle of the road to
catch the FIRST glimpse of messenger.
afa= off. And she said:
''Ah! whoever shall come to announce
the recovery of the king. my brother,,
though he be tired, jaded. soiled. dis
hevelcd, will kiss him and embrace
him as though he were the finest
gentleman in the Kingdom"
When he died she seemed literally
heart~broken and she did not long sur
vive him.
Sir William and Caroline Ilerschel
seemed to have but a single thought in.
their common occupation of studying
the stars. One swept the heavens with
the telescope and the other patiently
noted down the results. Together they
reached old age, always Interested:
in the same pursuit and always de-
votedly attached to each other. =.
Goethe was always the loving friend
and partisan of his sister Cornelia.
II was again drawn toward home,'''
he writes concerning one of his fire.,
.guent excursions, land that by (, mag:
net which attracts NC strongly at all.
times. 1t WAS my sister.
To approach our own time and
tongue more nearly is to find Dorothy
Wordsworth, who lived in her brothers
ambitions and desires Byron found
his good angel in his sister Augusta.
Charles Lamb and Mary were friends
true and tried. and the poet Whittier
lived. loved and worked in the delight
full co,npanionship Of his sister, Of
whom he said after her death that
1.-THE sad measure of his love for hert
was the vacancy left by her departure 80
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-18
INDIANS or YucATAN.
Strange Customs with Infants and Win
Brides In Early Days.

Strange Customs with lntont0 AHo WUn
Brides in EARLY Days.
= In an old book called The Buc-
cancers of America" recently re-
printed, is given curious account OF
the customs in vogue among the Yucca
tan Indians two hundred years ago.
1t runs substantially as follows:
AS soon as a child is born it is car
ried to the temple where a circle or
hole is made and filed with ashes. On
this heap of ashes the naked child is
placed and left there a whole night
alone, not without great danger, no
one daring to come near it.. The
temple is open on all sides. so that all
sorts of beasts may freely go in and
out The next day the father and rela-
tives return to see if the tracks or step
of any animal appears printed in the
ashes. If no track is found the poor
baby is left there until some beast has
left behind it the marks of it's feet
To this animal the new born babe is
consecrated. as unto it's God; and this
beast he is bound to worship and serve
all his ife-it being his patron and
protector. When grown to intelli-
gence the parents instruct. him in re-
gard to his patron beast. and teach
him to serve and honor it as his own
proper God. He goes to the temple
and makes offerings to the beast. In
the course of his life, when injured or
harmed in any way, he makes his
complaints to this beast, whence"
adds the narrator, innocently, many
times it comes that those who have
done the injury of which he complains
are found to be bitten, killed or other
wise hurt by such animals. After this
superstitious and idolatrous mann er, :"
he contin ues, do live those miserable
and ignora Mt Indians that inhabit all
the islands of the gulf of Honduras, as
also many of them that dwell upon the
continent of Yucatan."
A man desiring to marry applies
first to the damsel's father or nearest
relative He is carefully examined
concerning the manner of cultivating
their plantations, and other matters.
He is then given bow and arrow
With these tokens he repairs to the
young maid, and presents her with a
garland of green leaves interwlned
with fragrant flowers. The wreath she
is obliged to put on her head, and lay
aside her virgins garland which she
has hitherto worn. All the relatives
and friends now assemble to consult
as to the propriety of the marriage of
this couple. Having agreed as to
their approval, they meet at the house
of the damsels father, where they
drink of a certain liquor made of maize,
or Indian wheat" and here, in the
presence of this company, the father
gives his daughter in marriage The
next day the newly-married bride
comes to her mother, pulls off the
garland and tears it in pieces, with
cries and bitter lamentations, accord
ing to the custom of the country"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-18
POISON At DRUG STORES.
The Most Deadly Substances May Be o.
taIned In the Original Package.

The Most Deadly Substances May Be Oh
taIned In the Original Package.
If there is one thing just a little more
absurd than another it is the way
poisons are sold in New York. A ply
sician taken with too1hache in part
of the, town out of his usual beat went
into a drug store TO get. a little bella
donna, says the Recorder. The clerk
would not sell it to him. He referred
to the directory, and produced his Wis
iting cards to show who he was. The
clerk was adamant-he would sell a
small dose of belladonna to no one he
did not know The doctor offered to
write a prescription for himself, but
doctor said he would take bottle of
elixir of opium, and though the clerk
was ''riled" there was nothing for him
to do but sell it. OF course there WAS
enough of it to kill dozen people. A
day or two after that a woman who is
now in an insane asylum, and who
even then had the light Of madness in
her eyes, went into another apothc
cary shop and with no difficulty at all
OF course she went home and tried to
kill herself. After she had taken the
morphine she was taken to a
hospital and dozen people made
a night of it whipping her. walk
ing her, electrizing her and final
~ saving her life Anything in the
original package can be got any
where. Small doses there is lot of
fuss about. A woman who is con-
firmed victim of opium buys an elixir
as her regular standby. and her family
are helpless, because anyone will sell
it to her. Another gets an arsenical
pill in boxes rs it comes from the
maker. A man. not being subject to
the searches usually practiced on the
feminine victim by her family, con-
stantly gets his morphine in the orig
inal ounce bottles and says he has
never had his right to do SO questioned.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-18
Greatly Encouraged.

The men who prosper in this world
are the men who mind their own bust
ness and keep on minding it. An ex-
change furnishes an example:
..'Tatoes" cried colored peddler in
Richmond.
Hush dat racket You distracts de
whole neighborl,ood.' responded col
ore1 woman from doorway. d
You kin hear me, kin you? ''
Hear you? / kin hear you mile. .
81 s. i !. 'anksl Use hollerin' to be heardl
sTatoesl' II.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31
Our MOther.TOng que.

If we reverence it as we ought we
will be on our guard not to insult it
by violating it's rules. We will not
say, "You hadn't ought to do this.
or "He amt a-goin' to do that" We
will avoid that last and worst error
of the vulgar, the double negative,
says Harper's Bazaar. We will be
above misplaciDg moods and lenses.
and putting the nominative case
where the objective belongs by right.
Many people who ordinarily speak
their mother-tongue correctly are at
fault when they have to do with DO
nouns. Pronouns are stumbling.
blocks beyond all other parts Of
speech. "A person does not know
what to do with their hands," they
say, or, "One does not give their @ It.
things away for nothing" If spca
Ing Of two persons, you will hear that
"Ruby has invited John and | TO
supper" or, Lawrence is going to
Chicago with Mildred and l." The
placing of another name before the
conjunction blinds them to the awk-
wardness of setting in the objective
case.
The word mice" is frequently mis-
used and taken from it's significance
of neat, delicate, dainty, to st n for
agreeable, charming, or viltuous.
Thus a girl was talking to another
of that decidedly Objectionable men,
Ter of society, a burglar, and alluding
to one in particular, man undergo
ing sentence of Imprisonment, said
with emphasis. Il don't think he was
nice young man." A "nice" girl by
the way, often does duty in describing
young woman who, whatever else
she may be, is more than nice if she
is gentle, good, winsome, and we'll
bred, and whose niceness ought to be
taken for granted.
Lovely, in the same way, is APP
piled equally to favorite pudding or
a beloved relative. "Flrst-rate"
serves as a qualifying adjective when
scenery, fine clothes, a pleasant time,
or, oh. worst and saddest of msnom-
ers, the natural" appearance OF a
corpse are the topics which the speak
er has in mind.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

man, she said with fascinating >.rac.
ity: "Ob. sir, what an admirer I am
of Werther!" "''
Goethe, always sensitive to woman,u
praise. bowed profoundly.
Il never" she continued, saw ,nv.
thing so laughable in my life. What
capital farce it is?"
THE Sorrows of Werther' a farce
MADAME" exclaimed the poet, coldly
annoyed that the most sentimental
of his books should e thus spoken of.
ooh, yes" added Catalani, laughing
loudly, never was there anything SO
ridiculous.
She was referring to a burlesaue of
the story, which she had seen acted.
Goethe did not recover himself for
the whole evening.
Catalani's husband, a handsome
Frenchman, was even more uninte,-
lectual than his wife-he was stupid.
Once, having found the pitch of the
piano too high. she said after the re-
hearsal to her husband: "The piano
is too high; will you see that it is
made lower. before the concerto"
When the evening came Catalani
was annoyed to find that the piano
had not been altered. Her husband
sent for the carpenter. who decla; ell
that he had sawed off two inches
from each leg, as he had been ordered
to do. "Su ely it can't be too high
now, my dear!" said the stupid hus-
band, 'soothingly.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

THE air is alive with reports of
commercial failures, but the condi-
ton of the whole country is such as
to prevent any general depression Of
values. 1t is au age of speculation,
and II these recent failures serve to
prevent the farmer from speculation
it will be we'll. We do not mean
gambling on Change, but the slower,
yet not less risky plan, of putting in
crops and raising stock without def
mite plan. Some men have des-
ultory hope that, by chance, grain
and live stock will improve them
selves. Fortunes were once made in
the far West when cattle could be
cheaply raised by reason of free
pasturage and less competition in
meat substitutes. Poor horses brought
good prices, but steam and electricity
have curtailed the market for all but
the better grades. Crops, such as
not so commonly raised should be the
ambition OF the progressive farmer,
who also never forgets that the best
Of stock carefully handled rarely fails
to bring excellent returns. Trite
facts, these, yet slow to be needed by
the generality of our farmers.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

AT last the good old county of
POsey has been indicated. 1t has
been called the land of pumpkins
and hoop-poles, and in spirit OF de-
rision, too, despite the fact that
pumpkins are good food and hoop.
poles are held in high respect wher-
ever flour is made. But POsey is not
the original land of the pumpkin, as
witnesseth this indenture from the
Boston Journal: That reliable news
paper says that a century ago the
BostOnian was not known as "bean-
eater" but as a "pompkin;" and finds
the word defined in the classical
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue"
published in 1889 as "a man or
woman OF Boston in America: from
the number of pompkins raised and
eaten by the people of that country.
Pompkinshire: Boston, and it's de-
Tendencies. Posey County is in
good company, at any rate.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

NOTICE is served in the Christian
Union of the impending trial of an
eleemosynary experiment which has
long been discussed and is of unusual
interest The Peoples Bank Asso-
citation hopes to open soon the first
of several model pawn-offices for the
poor. The legal rate at pawn-shops
is per cent. a month for the first
six months, and per cent. a month
for succeeding months; but most
pawnbrokers supplement these rates
by charges for care of the articles
pawned, so that as much as 500 per
cent. per annum is sometimes paid to
them for the use of money. The
Peoples Bank Association proposes
to begin by charge of per cent a
month, and expects to start with
800, 900 capital, which is to earn T.
percent. dividends for it's owners.
The success of such a movement
seems to depend simply on the
shrewdness of the money-lender en-
plOyed.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

KENT COUNTY Jail, Rhode Island,
boasts woman jailer. She is Miss
Evelyn Smith, and the position was
given her because it had been held in
direct line in her family since before
the Revolution. When her prede-
cessor died she was the only one left
In the succession, and after slight
opposition, she was appointed to her
post. She is of commanding figure
and well-deyeloped muscle, and is
we'll fitted to cope with a refractory
prisoner. She is also said to exercise
an admirable moral influence over
her charges.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

THE average sum spent during the
four years Of college course in some
of the great Eastern universities
amounts to modest fortune and is
one of the most striking evidences OF
growing national extravaganza. The
average amount spent by this years
class at Yale is given out by the Class
statistician as exceeding $4,000, or
nearly 81, 100 year each for the 1S5
members. The largest sum spent by
any member in any one year was
81, 700, and the smallest amount 5000.
Twelve Of the members of the class,
however, paid all their expenses
through college. Such facts show a
lamentable tendency to make educa-
ton an excuse for extravaganza which
in the end threatens to drive away
many of the most promising students
to more modest institutions This
will become truer as other UNIVERSE
ties improve.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31
An Ignorant Singer.

Catalani, gifted songstress and a
lovely woman, was the idol of society
and the favorite of fortune. But she
had neither knowledge nor culture,
and her ignorance sometimes made
her stumble into ludicrous mistakes
One of her greatest triumphs in Lon
don was the singing of God Save the
King" The town went mad over her
rendering of the national anthem.
Two hundred guineas We're paid her
for singing it once. But she always
sang it God shave the King"
AT the court OF SAKE Weimar, she
noticed the marked attention paid to
a gentleman Of majestic appearance.
Who is that?" she asked.
That. madam, is the celebrated
Goethe" was the reply.
@Goethe--Goethe?" asked the puz-
zled singer. to whom music was the
only profession that brought celeb
rity. "On what instrument does he
play?"
HE is the renowned author OF the
Sorrows Of Werther,' madam
ooh, yes, remember"
Then abruptly addressing the great
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

WHEN bicycles were novelties in
Scotland, the question of regulating
their speed was brought up before
the local authorities of southern
town. A learned officer of the town
gravely informed the court that the
new mode of rapid transit came un-
der the traction-engine law, and that
every bicycle, unless he showed con-
sideration, could be compelled to
send man on ahead, on foot, with a
red flag. to warn pedestrians.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

THE operations of the great beef
and pork packers, such as Armour
and Swift, are more mammoth than
are usually supposed. Not content
with practically controlling the meat
trade Of the country, they are reach
ing out to swallow the hide and
leather interests. The new tanneries
about to be erected on the 1900
acres OF land owned by them at Toll
lesion, Ind, will have a capacity OF
handling more than 90 per cent. of
our domestic hides Representatives
Of these packers are also buying up
heml0ck and pine lands in Wisconsin
and Michigan, In order that their
Dpoply OF hsRlock bark for tanning
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

In Chicago the other night two
persons were killed outright, and a
third one injured, perhaps fatally, by
falling out OF windows. At the same
time a half million people were
crOwding the streets, street cars and
railways and boats and not one of
them was so much as injured. These
facts suggest that people are not
always killed in expected places. One
OF the three persons who fell out of
windows on that one night was Daniel
Lord, Jr., a wealthy New York man
who was the guest of prominent
Chicago family. His room was on the
fourth floor Of the palatlal residence.
He was a somnambulist. He arose
during the night and walked, accord
ing to all suggestions, directly from
his bed to the open window. A
screen was not able to hold him back.
He literally walked through and fell
to the ground below. He lived only
few hours and all that he could
utter was @the window" The second
person of the Chicago trio was Minnie
Berg, also a sOmnambulist. She fell
out Of the second story window and
struck a hard pavement. The third
person went to sleep sitting in a wiz
dow and fell out, resulting in imme.
date death. 1t must be accepted as
true that men and women in Chicago
are safer on the streets and In the
cars and boats than they are In their
own hOmeA
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31

MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago,
showed good deal of tact in the Sc
lection of souvenir for the Spanish
Princess. 1t would not have been
good form to offer her jewelry or any
of the thousand jimcracks that
ladies admire, because she is sup.
posed to have everything she wants.
So the gallant Mayor gave her a copy
OF his book of travels around the
world, which possessed the double
advantage Of having very little money
value and of being strictly personal
Offering
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31
WIN. CULLEN BRYANT.

VIM CULLEN BRYANT. lily. Since his
death the bust has occupied niche
in the Metropolitan Museum Of Art.
1t is now proposed to mount the bust
upon handsome monument in Cen
trail Park, New York. The monu-
ment and pedestal have been designed
by Architect Ernest Flagg, of New
York, and will be erected from the
purest Italian marble. The cost of
the monument and pedestal will be
$50, 900. On the monument will be
inscribed the titles of the poets
greatest works. The name of the
poet will be carved on the pedestal,
and underneath it will be the word
"Thanatopsis, tie title Of his great.
est poem.
The life of Mr.. Bryant was exceed
ingly sweet and pure. He was true
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-07-31
DIES MONIES REGISTER: There

DIES MONIES REGISTER: There are
thousands OF men who still believe
that few pounds of chemicals can
change the course of the weather.
II there is anything in these rain
making theories the time will G. H.
when one farmer will punish anothc.
by invoking rainstorm on his seas
oned hay. II men can make rain at
their will. we are going to have a
wet time Of it in some parts of the
world. 1t may really subject people
to more inconvenience than leaving
1t entirely to the Almighty.