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The Irish standard., 1894-04-21
Plant In Your Memory

That The North Western Line offers the
Best Train Service from Minneanol;s and
st. Paul to Sioux City, Omaha, Kansas
City, Duluth and Superior, and is the
only line running Pullman Sleepers 70
all these cities, besides afFordinQ first
class day train service. Try this line
also to Ashland. 4. n 81 !
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ER1N's FLAG.

Unrol Eria's flag! ding its folds to the breeze
Let 1t float DER the land let 1t fash DER the
seas!
Lift it out of the dust-let 1t wave as OF yore,
When the chiefs with their clans stood around
it and swore
That never! no! never. while God gave them
life
And they had an arm and sword for the strife.
That never! no. never! that banner should
yield
AS long as the heart of Celt was its shield;
While the hand of q Celt had weapon to
WELD,
Aud his last drop of blood was unshed on the
field.
Lift up! wave it high! it's bright as Of old!
. Not STAN on it's green, not blot on its gold,
Tho the woes and the wrongs of three hun.
o.. dred long years
Have drenched Erin's sunburst with blood and
with tears!
Though the clouds of oppression enshroud it in
gloom,
And around it the thunder of Tyranny boom.
Look aloft! look aloft, 10! the clouds drifting
by,
There's gleam through the gloom. there's
light in the sky;
IT'S the sunburst resplendent--far flashing on
high!
Erin's dark night is waning, her day-dawn is
nigh.
Liitit up! lift it up! the old Banner of Green?
The blood of its sons has just brigh tened its
sheen;
What though the tyrant has trampled it down,
Are the folds not mblazoned with deeds OF re-
nown?
What though for ages it droops in the dust
Shall it droop thus forever? No! no! God is
Take 1T up take it up! from the tyrant's foul
tread,
Let him tear the Green Flag-we will snatch Its
last shred,
And beneath it Well bleed as Our forefathers
bled,
And we'll vow by the wrecks which through
Erin he spread,
And We'll swear by the thousands who. fam"
ished unfed,
Died down in the bitches, wild howling for
bread
Aud we'll vow by our heroes, whose spirits
have fed,
And We'll swear by the bones In each cotinless
bed.
That well battle the Briton through danger
and dread;
That Well cling to the cause which we glory to
wed, :!
Till the gleam of our steel and the shock of
our lead
Shall prove to our foe that we meant what we
said ,....f
That wen lift up the green and we'll tear down
the led
Lift up the Green Flag! oh! it wants to go home
Full long has it's lot been to wander and roam.
It has followed the fate of it's sons DER the
world,
But its folds like their hopes, are not faded nor
furled:
Like weary winged bird, to the East an the
West,
1t has lifted and 1ed--but it never shall rest
TILL, plunaing its pinions. 1t sweeps DER the
main,
And speeds to the shores of its old home again.
Where its fetterless folds Ger each mountain
and plain
Shall wave with glory that never shall wane.
Take it UP! take it up! bear 1t back from afar!
That banner must blaze mid the lightnings of
war;
Law your hands on its folds, lift your gaze to
the sky,
Aud swear that you'll bear 1t triumphant or die,
And shout to the clans scattered far DER the
earth
To ioin in the march to the land of their birth
And wherever the Exiles meath heavens
broad dome,
Have been fated to suffer, to sorrow aud roam,
They'll bound ,on the sea, and away DER the
foam,
They Il sail TO The music of "Home. Sweet
Home!' FATHER RYAN
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Grasp This and Hold It.

The North Western Limited to Chica-
go via The North Western Line is the
Finest Equipped Train out of Minneap-
oils and st. Paul. It has Pullman and
Wagner Private Compartment and 16
Section Sleepers and Buffet Smoking
Library Coaches and leaves Minneapolis,
Daily 7:8o p. m; st. Paul, $40 p. NJ; ar
irving Milwaukee 7:50 q. M; Chicago
$50 q. 10.
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M. IGOE,
GROCER,
529 Cedar Avenue.
529 Cedar Avenue.

A fresh stock of staple and fancy gro.
ceres, teas, coffees, table luxuries, etc.
at prices as low as you can getthem any,
where Give as trial order.
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DERRY /!

James Bar. about 80 years Of age, died
at Loughan, near Coleraina, on Sunday,
March II, under painful circumstances.
Deceased was in his usual health, and
after dinner he went for walk. On re-
turning he complained of illness. His
wife ran to fetch q neighbor, and on
their going back to the house Mrs. Barr
was Mortified to. find her husband dead.
The jury found that the deceased had
died from etrychnine poisoning admins
tered by himself.
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r.. w. HANLE!Y,

THE ARTIST TAILOR.
Located at s31 Hennepin Avenue, Room ..
am prepared to do FIRST CLASS TALL
ORING at LOWEST CASH PRICES. COM
plete line of SPRING and SUMNER sam
Piles; Foreign and Domestic to select from.
GARMENTS cut, trimmed and made in the
latest style; fit aud workmanship guaran>
teed.
NIB. Altering, repairing, cleaning, dye
ing and pressing, done with neatness ana
dispatch.
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The case of the Crown against John
Coyle, on charge Of stealing whiskey
from q goods train at the Wocdenbridge
Station, IN December last, was called at
the last Ovoca petty sessions. Doyle was
recently arrested in Wexford on the
charge and remanded on bail. On the
case being called, there was no appear
lance for the defendant, but no applica-
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four were 40 h., 80, 80 ID. and 80 ID. In
this district other fish have been taken
Of AZ ID (the heaviest taken in the king
dom up to date), SO h., SO h.. SO h., and
80 lb.- splendid record of big fish in one
week. p
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WEXFORD.

A shocking accident occurred on March
18th, near Clonroche. A young and
wealthy farmer, named John Williams
and a servant man named Stedmond
were loading fowling piece, when it &C.
cidentally went off, and Williams sister,
aged "a, received the charge in her hip,
causing fearful injuries, from the effects
of which her life is in danger. She was
coming from the psrlor into the kitchen
and was within five feet of the gun when
it went off. DR.. Denis Murphy, of Kill
Ian, and DR.. Heating were quickly at the
house, and between them stopped the
flow of blood which was very great.
WTHKT nW
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DONEGAL.

On March 23d Jus ice johnson opened
the commission at Lifford. In charging
the grand jury he said the criminal bust
ness to go before them was the smallest
he had ever met since he was promoted
to the bench. Three unimportant cases
having been disposed Of the business OF
the assizes was concluded.
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SUMMONS.

MCHALE a. ABELL,
Attorneys for said Mortgagee.
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Mr.. Francis McPartlan, Finnybeg,
Drurnkeeran, died on March 10th, at the
age of SO years. Deceased, through his
long and happy life, by his kind, genial
and friendly manner to all who had the
pleasure of his acquaintance, had en-
deared to himself many friends, and an
immense multitude in solemn proc, ssion
followed his remains to the family burial
place at Achalach.
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KILKENNY,
LEII,RIM.

Mrs. Taggart, of Ballyfree, died on
March 18th. Deceased who was very
much loved and respected in the district
was niece to Alderman Collery, N. p.
The funeral, testified by it's proportions
to the regret of a large circle of friends
and acquaintance, over so vehicles fol-
lowed the coffin to the family burial
place at Kilmacown
LIMERICK.
Angling has recently been fairly good
in Ireland, and, some fine takes have
been made. The Blackwater and most
of the other Irish fisheries have been in
food. The Shannon tells different
tale, and If the captures are not very nu-
merous the weights are almost phenome-
nal. At Castleconnel some dozen heavy
fish have been landed. Mr.. Henderson
had one Of 40 h., the. Hermitage boat
mon one Of 50 h., and Mr.. Monk another
Of 80 lb. Above Limerick Mr.. Cofey
had six, and the respective weights Of
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Fleet Of Foot .t seveaty.

Ola Cacle Johnnie Irish. of Schley
county. Gals perhaps.the aeetest-foot-
ed man IN the state Of his age, and he is
now seventy years old He walked. or
rather ran from his home to Buena
Vista twelve miles, for the purpose of
getting the contract Of carving the
mail from Buena Vista to OEle,horpe
on foot The mail on this route goes
three times week. and the distance is
thirty-Six miles, which would make
that many miles to be covered on foo.
every day except Sunday, but Uncle
Johnnie thinks he can make il. He
lives fourteen miles from EIlaville. and
says he has often made the trip in two
hours He seldom walks when he is
IN the road- but trots, and makes six
or seven miles an hour easily. His ad.
vantsge over horse travel IS that his
gait IS steady. aud travels hills and
sand just as he does On level roads. He
says he can cover FIVE miles in half an
kc1r
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members Of the party. dreadful blows,
entirely dzp-iring them Of their senses
Ee was b01ni and locked in Farmer
L1esyss corn crib Some kind Of dis
position will be ulsie Of him later.
Hampton zai JsleF were conveyed
20 their homes II very critical condi.
ti0a- The wild nan grabbed Hsmp-
ton By the wrist before striking him.
bzdly lsce-ztinz his arm Il IS feared
blood poisoning viii set in The wild
nza was carefully watched during the
return O: the party, and at times
seemed very angry and almost uncou-
trollable- When placed in Farmer
L1eky's corn crib he climbed to the
top Of the crib and pranced around
like : wild animal The crib was
closely guarded all night He was
discovered -nzwir- the wooden Stats
Of the crib with the intention of free
ing himself from his confinement
In the morning . plate was pushed
through the Stats bearing his break
fast. which he devoured without mas
tiearilg-
The feeling Is very intense against
him throughout that locality. and
many people who regard him as but a
beast advocate that he should be
killed lest he should molest the COM
uu1ity to . greater extent than previ-
ously- The searching party describe
hin as being fully six feet three inches
in height the only sign of clothing be-
ing sheepslin b-eechclout, in which
was found rusty case knife, which.
with the eiub, was his only weapon of
defense S1Pposition Is that he found
this on the banks of al island of big
marsh He has = large. muscular build
and long. flowing hair, bu, his whisk-
srs are mere briStles- being about two
inches in length
He Is atzileted with disease very
much resembling mango on his face.
His small black eyes sparkling
through his hair hanging over his face
give hin IN ugly appearance His
hands and feet much more resemble
the paws OF feline rather than those
Of = human. his hands having but four
phelznges-szch having a claw nearly an
inch in length The claws Of his feet
are smaller than those of the hands
He will probably De conveyed TO some
fesola-e spot and left 20 die.
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SHARP SENSE
Qrs<az-ss - s1<u - -szsh Americas
acss Frva-aer Hs-sex

Q,ra<xz-ss ss sn<Ez - .sxsh ADerSea8
aczs Froa-a~r Hs-s<x
Moss animals have at least one sharp
s<z<e- A dog and cat according TO
the fable lay II 4 dark ruorn- --Hzrk.
1 h%zrd feather drop SAID the dog.
--OA- NO. said the cat. lit was =
needle szu IL Whatever nay be
srze OF izEzs11zztssssssi horses. the wild
horse Of tse South American pzmpas
possesses most acute and tAr-rezch-
ing sense Of smell
Mr. Huds01- says Youths Cor7pan-
ion- speaks of II As a common occur
renee for the horses of district, in
seasons Of drought to migrate sudden
ly to some distant plzee-ffty miles
away perhzps-where rain has fallen
A slight breeze from that quarter is
enough to set them of
A still more striking phenomenon is,
he says. familiar to every frontiers
man
The gaacho horse has the greatest
terror of an Indian invasion and long
before the mzrz7ders reach the settle
ment-Often when they are still full
days journey from it-all the horses
take the alarm and come fyinx wildly
IN The horned cattle quickly feel
the contagion- and general stampede
eusues-
The gzrchoz declare that the horses
smell the Indians. AID Mr. Hudson be
lieves they are right When passing a
distant Indian camp IRON which the
wind blew. all the horses driven BE-
fore him have taken fright and run
azzv
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BDiTRBONS WILD NAN.
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-s-v ass.sre-e-5 hF one OF the party
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-Sl5 k.zzs1- tzt Ep91 exzrzanzsloa
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trz.s< ware -r.z.ae-i, a11 ed 10 the cage
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shs izEa-al Ikry zdFanr=d cautiously
syzsri tie tzs- zEi found ther prey
kns5s..5 = gze oO-zz- fast asleep he
z;.s azzkeczd- zz1 started with NJ
ter assO-Sskzze11 az the szgas OF MS
p--s--s. Hs sssz5-ly WAS unable
10 z.ee- ; wa<d- bat merely suggested
ru5z whsn his wrists were oelns
En=-f bra rzzL He had eo1eeal led
/. Ia-z sse1. with shieh be dealt
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II see By the paper" said Ar~.
Hbs<s. --thz: yoa can buy sezlski1 .
iron the Es9zimzux for two iron hoops
and teap-aay nail -'Nery true.
returned Hicks --Ba, can't spare the
time 70 take the hoops and the nail tc
the Es4uimzux. and uy bank wOuldn's
honor check for t~o hoops and ten
penny nail. SO doa't see how we are
benefited by that state Ct aEzir>-
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RATS BT THE MILLION.
Wss1z-1oa Es=ts q Ps-d Pspee
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G-ees<F E-st<srs fzz<s1 Ne onsT rAs
EA2-e H<znsts E-1 Er.r7 u~SsrzHen-
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E5ns- Jzzs-a-a as Ezss-y lgT-s ssJZ-
En1y : RE - e0Ct1-zEz 20 TIA
lsssa-s q. tEse Izzs5 - l1syz that .laae ro-
Sezs pests IzTzs5e th@ white hs1z-sst IS
P.s=s-EEEz-sEzszE - shsT iEEa.-e Tia lel@
q tie poorest u or Ppo- TeeE Esar
Ess- the zrzsk gs the rssea and liz E-ea-
L tAs P5-p z-1 the PRIZE o. thszr
z1rs1E estate TLeI rsEsl L Ealzz'=s
hss-S 1hs1 theT <zr- - th-y eat z1 tAs
crumbs u . EsgC4Tze=s z1z- Tier are
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CURRENT NOTES.

The things that go without saving
must have escaped feminine attention.
WE put Oar business into q pigeon
hole ana declare that procrastination
is the thief of tiEne--5alveston News.
Il HEAR Bilker lost his job. Wonder
II he's struck anything sineeg' ..Er-
yes. all Il his friends and two-thirts
Of his acquaintance Buffalo Courier
'.BoT. SHAT is a peninsulaz7 "A point
OF Land sNiss,Ging into the water. =
Good What's s;rzits- Ace. king.
queen Jack AID ton-spo.- Louis
Pest
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He Had IL roo

-.ke AID = gzlder met on mar
row paths and neither would give WAY
See here. now exclaimed the gan
a=- :. ks ~Esl out lis crop and
rEt,ed his feathers. but do yo1 know
that am directly descended from the
ostrich faniIy7
Il never heard of IT, replied ths
6r.ke ~hzt let z< give yo1 pointer.
NJ greasgrzn9fzther wzs al eagle
snd high 1ier
Hu1ph. Ny Eres.~zrsndfather
coald fzre eaten hin ~ one no1thful,
II Is . great piece of prssuuptSon on
yozr part 10 block the road
WHAT i an ostrich bat = greAt. over
grown rooster On s.iltsg-
And what L an eagle but an old
ben too lazy 70 sapply the MARKET With
ezgsy
Th@y were hssing it bot and heavy
-hel the farmer came aloag and
stopped 20 inquire the cause OF the
row When he had heard the pzrsieu-
lars he replied
1T mag all be true about your a1ces-
tors. but Judging yoa As drake zad .
cancer dnd yoa of 50 little benefit that
shall eat yoa both to commemorate
the discovery that am descended fro =
. xing--N u Recorder.
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,r.rriz of s.lHrr.

Guest ifaeetiouslyl -Ther- are two
spoons in my teaeup- What l. that q
ign of
Hostess, Little That's 4 sign
that somebody else hasn't got aay
spoon-Good News
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New sP-is<

Dick Hicts-What kind Of bird Is a
Iined2
Hicks-NeTer heard Of .he species
Why2
Die1 HsszrIAe grocer has q whole
b1x full dfliEnei egEs-N. I. Word.
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And is a handmade, wine-stiff-
ened hat, made and finished the
same as our $500 hats, and
WARRANTED to wear as
we'll as ANY HAT MADE.
It is the best hat we ever offered
for the money.
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FROM COLORADO.
Hon. Ignatius DOnnelly's Letter
Continued.

The trip from our state to Colo
RADIO, is very pleasant one. After
leaving St. Paul the train, (the
Omaha passes through the beauti-
full valley of the Minnesota river
one of the most charming and idyllic
regions in the world;-a land of hill
and vale, bluff and prairie, meadow
and Stream-all embowered in trees.
1t passes the quiet, Nesting, little
b.rghs, Shakopee, Jordan, Belle
Plaine, LIE Sueur, St. Peter, Kasota,
Henderson;-all charming spots
for contented, peaceful homes; past
the bustling, sylvan. handsome city
of Mankato, the umbilicus of southern
Minnesota, containing hosts of
bright and capable spirits. Then on
sweeps the train through beautiful
Lake Crystal, Madelia, St. James,
Window and Worthington, gems in
the breast of the prairie fertility Of
the garden of our state. But the iron
horse pauses not to admire scenery;
it inhales the electrical air of the
great plains of Nebraska, and rushes
on until it's cyclopean red eye looks
out over the turbid waters and vast
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woods, valleys, streams, prairies,
>pldins, the brown mammoth of a riv-
er. Villages, towns, cities and the
great ridge of rocks, where the huge
brute of continent bumped up it's
back, out Of the primeval mud, ring
streaked and speckled with immeas-
urable wealth. Like a good many
homely men these mountains make up
for their ugly looks by their intrinsic
value. 1t is curious to think that a
prehistoric superstition, based on
the belief that the sun and moon
were gods, and that gold was the
sacred metal of the one and silver Of
the other should, ten thousand years
after the supers stition was exploded,
effect the destiny of millions of men
and control the fate of whole regions
of country. But then we are all fools
together, and if we cannot invent
new nonsense, of our own, we spend
our lives carefully preserving the fol
lies of our remote ancestors. There
are probably superstitions in our
blood that came from the monkeys.
/. d.
To be continued next week.
If you have not paid your insurance
assessment nav If now X
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expanse of the big Muddy" the
Missouri; rolling down from the clay
deposits and chad lands of Montana
and North Dakota, and bearing it's
never-ending burden, to help form
future grain fields under the waters
of the Gulf of Mexico. And then we
pass over, past Council Bluffs, (the
meaneSt town on the continent,
ready to bluff any man out of his
money that trusts it), into royal,
progressive, big-hearted OMAHA
Omaha of the prairies-Omaha of
the = new rld,-Omaha with it's
heart for it's friends, it's face to the
future and it's brain open for new
ideas. And then away you go, on the
Union Pacific, over the great
whiteish-yellow-clay fields, fat and
fertile, for five hundred miles, sweep
ing up, up, up, gradually until,
nesting at the foot Of the Rockies,
the backbone of the continent, a
mile high in mid air, like mirage, a
dream of the desert, expands before
your astonished eyes the wide, bright
streets and the palatial edifices of
Denver. A charming city full of
bright, energetic able people; who
seldom sleep; and who when they do
sleep dream that they are hanging
John Sherman, Grover Cleveland and
the Rothschilds, pendant clustering
fruit of beauty, on a sour-apple-
tree; or that they are riding, after
Gov. Waite, like death on the pale
hore, bridle-deep in the gore of the
men who demonetiZed silver.
1t is seldom that in SO short dis
tance so great variety of scenery,
climate and conditions can be found;
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-14
Usury In The Cities. A Dreadful
Exhibit.

Commissioner Powers, of the State
Labor Bureau. has, under direction
of the Associated Charities of Min
neapolis, been looking into the ques-
tion of usurious loans in the twin
cities. 1t is terrible exposition of
"mans inhumanity to man."
The report shows that of chattel
MORTGAGES given to secure payment
of borrowed money, there are two
classes. those at eXtOrtiOnate or uSur-
ious interest, and those at legal inter
est. Of the instruments on file in the
CITY clerks office in 1893 there were
of those which can be said to be eX-
tortionate, 2,2l1. The amount of the
face of the instruments of this char
acter was $S9. .31OO2. The estimated
amount of money secured on this Sc
curity was approximately $4,000.
This statements based upon answers
to all the money borrowers of this
class who were found. In nearly
every case it was found that the mort
gage was for 10 per cent greater sum
than the money borrowers received
of the money lenders. The average
amount of each mortgage was $40. 40,
and hence the average loan secured
was a trifie over $36.
OF the 2,211 known uSurlOus loans,
LAS, or two thirds, were secured on
house ehold goods: 100 on musical lnstru-
ments: 395 on live stock, wagons, etc;
6 on merchandise and 253 on miscel-
laneous articles difficult to classify.
OF these instruments, 913 state no
rate of interest, 2 give per cent,
$40 give 10 per cent The esatisfactlOns
were 1863 in number and the renewals
were "a. These rates stated in the
instruments are not the actual rates
collected. To get the actual rate the
agents of the bureau looked up the
addresses of large number of mort,
gagors in the city directory. Personal
calls were then made upon the par
ties, and all the information possible
relating to the subject was secured;
One agent for this purpose made l9o
calls, finding 25 away from home, "a
moved since the directory was issued, !,
and answers were received from 66.
By personal visits answers were re-
ceived from "a persons, and we're