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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
:riHE PASSING OF BRECKENRIDGE.

THE PASSING OF BRECKENRIDGE.
ssanhet defeat of Col. Breckenridge in the
.sk Ashland district in Kentucky in his race
.for a re nomination is an event for all
good men to rejoice over. 1t will stand
as warning to all mon that no matter
how brilliant man may be, no matter
what the position of his family, he can
not disregard the laws of decency.
There was 8 time when aristocracy
could disregard the rights Of the poor
white woman or the slave woman.
Wealth and family position would cover
all, but that time has passed. Breckln-
ridge has lived too long, he belongs to
the age that has passed in this country,
and which is fast passing in Europe.
Never since the time of Aaron Burr has
q public man of national repute SO pa
raded his immortality before Disguised
public. Leaving the trial, the result OF
which would be sufficiently Illuminating
70 any man with the least spark of de.
cency left, but which he regarded with
the utmost indifference, he went back to
the old Ashland district which two years
ago elected him by practically unan-
imous vote and asked that he be sus-
tanned. At first hisspeeches were brazen
and fearless, then hypocritically he pro
fessed repentance but the blue grass dis
trict. the seat of the ohivalry, culture and
pauantry of Kentucky, rebelled. The
churches and all the best people of the
district united against him. Some may
wonder that he was able to make such q
close contest but it must be remembered
that Col. Breckenridge is an orator Of the
very highest powers, that he possesses q
thorough knowledge of practical politics,
that he has the support Of all federal
office holders az well as the organization
3of his party and that he belongs to one Of
the greatest families in the South. All
& l,is however did notsave him, and today
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22

speech in Glasgow Ia November, and ~
view Of this the conference OF the Liberal
associations, which vss to be convened
in Edinburgh in October, has been post
poned. A section Of the church party,
which has admitted the necessity ct first
changing the house Of lords by extract
ing their fangs before the question OF
Home Rule Is again submitted, have been
convinced OF their error and practically
side tracked"
Both OF these movements are very i'm
portant and mean much for the pro
motors if they can be carried through
Joseph Chamberlain, it seems, was the
one to propose the amalgsmation OF the
anti Home Rulers, and in this departure
he is being ably assisted by the Duke OF
Devonshire. They propose to revise
Chamberlain's Irish local government
scheme to the extent OF creating unity
councils with central legislature in
Dublin. The Duke of Devonshire is
said to have convinced Lord Salisbury
of the immediate necessity of change
in the house of lords by decreasing the
hereditary element and increasing the
representative element. This scheme OF
Chamberlain's if successfully carried out
would undoubtedly make the Conserva
tive platform very attractive at the next
election. But the voters OF the British
Isles must not forget that the Conserva.
tiyes do not always, and scarcely ever,
carry out their promises after election
Toey see strong antipathy to the house
of lords on all sides now, and they be-
lieve that the question of curtailing the
veto powers of that hereditary body is OF
more Importance to the people OF Great
Britain than Home Rule. In this they
are correct. England is not suffering
any the more because the lords killed the
late Home Rule, but a large majority
of her voters are very much Disguised
with the house of lords, and feel that q
G 1rtailing of that body's power is the
most important question of the hour
The Conservatives will do all IN their
power to make the people believe that
they are right and tie Liberals wrong,
and the people of Great Britain must
take care that they get what they bar
gain for. 10 the midst of all their strug-
giles for supremacy the Irish parliament.
airy party must not forget it's duty to lro.
land. Why not follow the example OF
the Unionists and Conservatives by join
ing hands against the common enemy?
Ireland's representatives could do more
in move of this kind than I'LL the news
papers of the country can accomplish in
ten years.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
ID Iris Is 81 IlAl lJ||Il

M O'Brien of Y ankton could have the
lob Il there was any money to pay him
for his trouble. Il seems there was no
money appropriated to pay special
agent in this case, and there the matter
rests. To obyiate the necessity OF post
ponino the distribution OF the money
until congress meets again. an army
officer will probably be appointed to
look after the matter.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22

DoNNE1LY and Owen held political
love feast few days since and Donnelly
announces that all is we'll. It can hardly
be expected, however, that the Populists
will be able to agree until the campaign
is over. The party is composed OF too
many clashing elements and it is more
than probable that the leaders have al
ready destroyed whatever chance of sue
cess they had.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22

The Democratic conventions in Ohio
are busy just now condemning Senator
Brice for his action on the tariff bill
There is trouble ahead for those men
who thought their lease of political life
sufficiently secure to enable them to dis
regard the principles upon which they
we're elected.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22

Now that the different political parties
have held their conventions it will be in
order for the committees to get out their
speakers, and tell the people how good
they are and how bad the other fellows
are. We hope to see good clean cam
psipn. There is nothing in throwing
mud but manifestations of bad feeling
and poor judgemnt.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22

The people of Minneapolis subscribed
some $25, 1000, besides several Car loads
of clothing, etc., for the benefit OF the
fire sufferers at Hinckley, Pine City and
neighboring towns. A detailed state
ment of subscriptions to the fire relief
fund has been published and it shows up
we'll for the people of this city.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22

IT is passing strange how the city
council manages to arrange so that all
the city paving goes to single man. 1t
is not strange, however, that certain con.
tractors took such an interest in the sue
cess of certain aldermen at the Repub'
ican primaries.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22

THERE was big wheat blockade in
Chicago during the week. All the yards
were crowded with cars full of wheat
and the different companies we're at a
loss to know what to do. All the ware
houses and elevators were full and for a
time matters looked quite serious.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22

In the northern district of Wisconsin
the A. P. A. leaders have gained control
of the Republican party. The result is
that the old leaders of the party refuse
10 support the: A. P. A. candidate for
Congress aud are supporting the Demo.
cratic nominee.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22

TIE question Of who shall disburse
the money due the Yankton Sioux IDdi-
ans is causing the secretary Of the in
terror no end Of trouble just nov. p.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
ASST b j Ev !

The photograph Il being applied Is 4
new aud practical purpose il Londonat
the office Of the Pail Mall Magazine. The
author Of an article Of speech delivers his
thoughts or the thoughts Of somebody
else to the machine, which Is handed to
the printer as it were copy" The prin-
ter attaches two india rubber tubes to.
his ears and proceeds to set as it were
from dictation. It the words come too
quickly he has only to turn handle.to
arrest their progress. There is direct
saving Of wages Of copy holders and, let
us hope, considerable diminution in
.strong language" ordinarily provoked
by the vile handwriting with which they
have too often to struggle.
***
The eight unmarried ladies who hold
Office as Victories maids Of honor have
some privileges. They are given the pre-
fix of honorable" and, on marrying, re-
ceive from the Queen the gift Of 81, 00.
One OF two maids Of honor reside for
fortnight at time at Windsor or o.
borne, but her Majesty seldom takes
more than one to Scotland. The dis-
tinctive badge of maids of honor is bow
of scarlet ribbon on the shoulder, while
the ladies' in. waiting wear white bow
with the Queens cameo portrait. The
dowry of maid of honor has been given
for at least $50 years, but is according to
her Majesty's pleasure, and in 1868 it
was refused to one lady who engaged
herself in marriage without the consent
of her royal mistress.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
CHINESE TRAMps.
The Most Miserable and Disgusting
Wretches in the World.

hi Most Miserable and Disgusting
Wretches in the World.
The Chinese who has no habitation
and who is simply a vagrant has no
standing in any court, and his main
endearor Is to keep out of the clutches
of the law. What he suffers would ap-
pail the American tramp, who thinks
he is hardly used when he fails to get
three square meal; q day. The diet of
one of these Chinese val rants islarge-
" composed of lentil or millet soup,
frequently eked out by grasses or mus.
tard, which he has gathered along the
highway. Even rice is a luxury which
he gets only at long intervals, and
meat is something which he enjoys
only in his dreams, when his imagina-
ton is made lively by the cravings of
his empty stomsch. Ragged, dirty
and unshaven, he presents u horrible
appearance, even though his ugliness
be not aggravated by deformity or dis
ease. Half these beggars, however,
have ophthalma, their red eyes running
with rheum, while it is q common
sight to geo fellows with ulcers tho
size of saucers or with other skin dis
eases, which make them hideous carl
catures of human beings. Dore, in
some OF his gtast lest plates of human
misery during Biblical plaques, never
conceived anything more grewsome
than the everyday sights which may
be seen in this endless procession of
unfortun ties along Chinese roads.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17

by two big swapping turtles which
we're engaged in a desperate fight.
They rushed at one another, and
came together with a shock that
made them rebound a yard or more
and threw the water about in show
ers. As they darted around each
other-these animals being exceed
ingly agile and quick in the water,
although SO clumsy and slow on land
they made savage lunges with
their heads at one another's legs, the
evident effort Of each being to seize
the other at a vulnerable point. The
collisions and fierce maneuvers lasted
several minutes without either turtle
obtaining any advantage, when sud-
denly one Of them dashed through
the water toward his antagonist,
who waited the onslaught, his yellow
eyes Rlaring and his massive head
thrust forward to seize his assallant
II possible.
When the latter was within a foot
OF SO Of the waiting turtle he dived
like q fash and came up under his
waiting foe, and, before the latter
could ward of the unexpected at
tack, closed his jaws on one of his
forelegs, near the shell. The strug-
giles OF the turtle thus caught foul to
tee itself were SO desperate that the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
The Dcclino Of Charcoal.

The charcoal business has been on
the decline for thirty years. It's first
great start downward cane with the
Introduction of kindling wood, a bust.
ness that has grown to large proper.
tons. Kinaling wood has almost en-.
tirely taken the place of charcoal in
its ordinary domestic uses. Nowadays
charcoal is hardly used anywhere ex-
cept in hotels and by plumbers, tin
roofcrs and coppersmiths. Hotels use
1t for broiling. Charcoal has other
uses, however. Placed in retorts or
kilns. it is subjected to fire in such q
way as to get the gas out Of It and
make it as near carbon as POSSIBLE. 1t
is then ground in different grades of
tineness and sod to distillers for recti.
.ying high wines. Granulated char.
C al Is sold to ice manufacturers ,or
use in filtering water. The use of ice
machines /, increasing in the North as
we'll as the South, and New York gran.
ulated charcoal is shipped to all parts
Of the country. That trade is increas.
ing.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Turtles Fight.

1t is no uncommon thing for snap
ping turtles to be brought into any
Of the towns of Pennsylvania. On
the contrary, snapper" fishing or
hunting is a sport peculiar to the
region, hundreds of the big turtles
being captured in various ways every
week of the season. Bnt it is UNI
common for swapping turtles to be
brought in just the way that two
we're brought into Fishers Eddy a
few days ago. The two turtles were
very large ones, and one had its jaws
tightly closed on the left foreleg Of
the other, and in that position they
we're captured by John and James
Sicily, uuder the following circunl-
stances:
The two Sicily boys were fishing
in the eddy from a flat-bottomed boat
when they saw a great commotion in
the water a few rods distant. They
padded toward the spot and saw
that the commotion was being made
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
queer OUT M

Beethoven, the great music composer,
was surly, ill-bred and so peculiar In
his habits that nobody liked to live in
the house with him. He was fond Of
bathing. and would splash about his
room until the floor was soaked and
the water ran through the ceiling into
the apartments beneath. When he
was writing down the compositions he
had prepared he vas accustomed to
groan and howl in the most dismal
way. varying the performance by an oc-
casional ear-splittlng yell that fright
ened every n in the block. During
the summer season he spent much Of
his time in the open air, going out di-
rectly after breakfast and remaining
until noon, then dining, and in the at
tenn on writing down his work of the
morning. When walking in the fields
and woods he sometimes went very
fast, then would suddenly stop, wave
his arms about and shout. He was
considered by the country people a
harmless lunatic. When he died his
whole property amounted to less than
s5,tOO, and his immense collection of
musical manuscripts of his W works
brought only 1893 forms, or about
$500.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
.tusslan Fireinen.

In q Russian village there is not
even such an organization as we pos
sess in this country in the small volun-
teer fire companies. In their stead Is
: log st.ble With thatehed roof con.
and three casks mounted on wheels.
These are kept filed with water, and
each is drawn by a single horse. The
hor es are the property of the COM
mune, and they are kept tethered OUT
side the cabin, ready for duty at a mo.
ment's notice. A place is also set apart
in the hut for the mu;ik who serves as
Waterman, an Office that Is held, turn
by turn, by the inhabitants Of the town
ship. The location selected for this
cabin IL as near as possible to the resi-
dence of the pristav, or the district
captain of police. and upon an alarm Of
fire he drives to the scene in his telega
at the head Of the procession Of carts
and peasants.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Tea Ffends.

Tea-drinking among mon has all q
once excited discussion. But it does
not appear to be known, says q contoms
porary, that nearly ali men of literary
habits who exhaust nerve force takS
to tea-drinking. Edwin Booth used -
have q pot OF tea simmering in he
stage dressing-room. Preachers, ORE
tors and lawyers find q cup of strong
tea the gentlest and most harmless q
b~rain-bracers, and 1t has no reaction,
The reason why young men affect q
despise tea,drinking is that they asss
women. But the truth is that tea, 4
of q pure kind and properly drawn
is about as innocuous and pleasant .
stimulant as q young man car resort q
after q long worry or drain Of emo9
tional or Intellectual force. II IL coul6
be made to take the place Of chame
payne and absinthe, the coming race
would DO better cd. Some Americas
restaurants have taken to furnishin6
the extra tea that is served q Ia RussS
that is, without milk, but with Tho
addition OF q slice Of lemon.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
TAKING CARE OF H-R FoResTs
Practical Measures Taken ~ Fr.pce ia
Prevent D%enudatson.

Practical MeAeures Taken BY France to
Fr~vent Denudat'on.
There is no country in Europe where
the science Of fo.estry receive. so
much attention from tn. government
Q, in France, and q tribute to the p. Q.
emiuence OF that nation in this lnr.
ticular b.aach OF culture was affo. del
By the Anglo-1ndian Governments,
which for many years maintained d
branch Of its crown colleg. of forestry
1t Nancy. 1t may, Therefore be Of in.
terest to state that tbs ministry, after
having had under cons Iteration vari.
GUS schemes for prevention Of .he fires
which Annually destroy hundred. OF
thousands Of trees, has now decided to
3naugurate o series of isolation zones.
These spaces are to be tra cd out 20 as
to 60 thu ough the moi.test ground, ami
at every p al there will be q tower
reservoir, with fire engines ard long
hose. AS an illustration Of the
attention which the government
pays to these matters, a writer
In the New York Tribune mem
tions that the once bare heath, or
slandes," OF Gascony, cover ing an area
Of l,50O,OW acres, is now covered by o
dense forest Of pine and cork trees
planted by tho state. Another meas.
ure in this direction announced by the
government is tho proclamation that .
premium OF ten confines will be paid
to each person who brings q kilogram
OF cockchafers, which do somuch dam
age to the ttce. Notices to this e. ect
have been printed and posted in every
commune and village throughout the
country. The humor of the announce
ment lies in the fact that the average
rrynha, NJ ooolyoho Tow, En- n 1,3lo~.n-f e.
l,l12, which enables one to appreciate
tae government and the value of cock
chater-hunting, at the rate of one cent
Tor every 60U insects, as q mean Of
livelihood.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
THE ERse LANGUAGE.
A M~el,inuous Tongue still Spoken BY OPP
ward Of 100000.

!. A8N SVeAA 1kO@SA4 ~ w
ward Of 100000.
We are glad to notice as an event Of
literary Importance, says the New
Providence, r. l.. of q Celtic society,
the object of which is to revive in.
terest In the melliHuous and influential
tongue of Ireland.
No other language, having itself no
great masterpiece of literature, has
had such effect on modern literature
as the Celtic. To 1t we owe many of
the fairy tales Of our childho d: some
of Shakspeare's plays, some of the in
cidents detailed in the Arthurian
poems, ever some of those in the De-
vine Comedy, r drawn from Celtic
sources. 1t was said of Washington:
Mature made him childless that nc
might be the father of his country:"
so 1t might almost be said of the Celtic
language, Mature left it childless
that it might be the mother Of other
litsratures."
The Celtic language is not a dead
language. One-sixth of the popula-
ton of the Emerald Isle lin round
numbers, 100000 p%ersons) understand
Erse; $1,000 persons there know no
other language than it: one-third of
the territory of Ireland is still Celtic,
30 far as the ability to understand the
language is concerned, and upward of
2,OJt.OU0 in this country and Canada
are familiar with the tongue. The
path of the new society and of its pre-
decessors is uphill, but the ascent has
an end. A century ago the Welsh Ian
guage was really in worse case than
the Erse Is now, but by the exertions
OF scholars and the local clergy OF
Wales it was rescued, and today is
vigorous both in Wales and America.
That similar success may await the
Celtic societies of this country in their
patriotic labors We sincerely nope.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17

water was dashed into foam ana In q
short time besame co'ored with blood.
A swapping turtle neve. releases
its hold on anything 1t may close its
Jaws on until that object is dead, aud
the effort of this turtle to release
itself were not only unavailing but
tended to place him at still greater
disadvantage by wearing out his
strength. When the spectators Of
this novel battle saw that there could
be no question as to the result they
set about capturing both duelists.
They paddled close to where the
turtles were struggling, and, watch
ing their opportunity. each man
seized q turtle by its tail and lifted
both into the boat before the turtles
knew what was going on.
The fishermen were by no means
pleased with what they had done,
however, for the fight went right on,
and the boys were compelled to take
a hand in 1t to maintain places for
themselves in the t0at. With tie
boat baddle and one of the seats they
pounded the turtles on their heads
until both were stretched on the bot
tom Of the boat. The jaws Of the
one were still tightly close on the ley
Of the other, and remained so for ten
hours after the head was cut of.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
NarctsSua,

&shA
"Here, chick, chick!!" called Harry.
opening the gate of his po%ultry-yard.
He had just traded off a small COL
ony Of rabbits for half a dozen fowls,
and he raj very proud Of them, for
they were beautiful birds, especially
Narcissus, the handsome rooster.
He really shone in the sunlight as
he same hopping out, with his scar
let comb, green tail and navy-blue
wings and breast. But I think his
pretty head must hold a very small
brain.
AS soon as Harry let him out for
exercise he stalked straight to the
cellar window and gave it a savage
peck. Then he stopped to crow, and
then rushed at it again, flercer than
ever.
You see, he thought that his own
reflection in the glass was another
bird, and he wanted to fight with it.
And SO he could not take a stroll
in the green grass, nor scratch in the
flower-beds, nor even pick at the
grasshoppers and beetles that the hens
made such a fuss about. He only
fought his own shadow till it was
time for him to be shut up again.
l think his brain must be very
small indeed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
A GALLON of alcohol can be made
from q bushel of sweet potatoes.
Hot Springs Excursions.

Arrangements are being made for a
City. Friday, August 10th at 2:30 p. M.
reaching Hot Springs. s. D., the following
morning ut Q o'clock.
There will be a one fare rate for this oc-
casion from Sioux City. special through
sleepers will be provided. making it most
famous springs during the summer.
y For rates., sleeping car accommodations
or other information, address
II. G. CHENEY,
General Agent.
Sioux City. Iowa.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
I'm and Out of SCHOOL.

Scene in schoolroom: Small boy.
as the rattan falls gently on his hand
Wow, WOW, o.o-ough! I'm killed.
Boo-hoo!. Me hands are tender, teach,
err! Boo-oo-ooh!
Scene on ball ground: Same small
boy. same day-Soak der ball in
harder. Chimmy! Why doncher but
some speed inter it? Let her 20! 1t
lon't hurt me hands a bit!
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Eat Their

An Australian confectioner has Ind
upon the idea of printing the news
of the day upon a thin paste of
dough, using chocolate instead of ink.
He delivers these cakes to his GUS
TONERS, who first read them and then
eat them with their coffee.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Didn't Know.

sNow, Johnny" said the teacher,
"you may tell us this: Suppose your
mother had told you to come home
at five O'Clock. and you did not 20;
what would you be doirg?:"
II don't know whether it would
he swimming or playing base-ball.s