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The Irish standard., 1895-01-12
He Had Quit Betting.

A game of billiards was attracting con-
siderable interest in the barroom Of a
Western hotel. Grouped about we're a
number of spectators watching the pro-
gress of the game.
"Tll bet you flyer that Christmas
WINS" remarked an old-timer to q new
conner.
'sNo, I guess not" was the answer.
stTll bet you $40 to 81 that the game is
his"
"No, I guess not" repeated thesnew-
conner, dissenting.
"I'll bet you $50 to 81, then," was the
emphatic retort. "Will you take that?''
"Can't do it, replied the stranger. Il
never bt."
missionary or parson, perhaps?" sug-
gested the old-timer with grunt.
ooh, no. was the answer; II have
simply sworn off. I bet $40 about a
month ago that / could get billiard ball
In my mouth"
'sLost your bet, Of course; any fool
would"
.Oh, no. won't bet; but it cost me
$15 to have my front teeth extracted TO
get the ball out. Since then ! have quit
betting"
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12

Division No. ], Belle Plaine-President,
Or. G.. r. Maloney; vice president, NJ. =.
Pendy; recording secretary, b. B. Con
Ion; financial secretary, J. F. Kildnf;;
treasurer, Daniel Callahan; insurance
secretary, VIM. Fitzgerald; sentinel, JAS.
Lennon; sergeantat arms, John Trainor:
marshal, John Corcoran; county presi-
dem, F. j. Leonard, j 'rdan.
D vision No /, Bcalnerd-County prasi-
dent, Wan. Barron; president. James .Cul-
len; wee president; James New: insur-
ance and financial secretary, Thos. b.
Murphy; recording Secretary. Daniel
Doran; treasurer, Felix Graham; mar.
shall, VIM. Fl. Meekins; sergeant at arms.
Michael Moran; sntinel, Gorge Bettes;
medical examiner, DR.. w Hemstead.
Division No. l, Rochester-Oounty
president, P. j. Seaman; president, John
E. McGovern; vice president, F. I. Ken
nedy; recording secretary, d. s Sian
ford; insurance secretary, G On. Kennedy;
financial secretary, Ed. Kennedy; treas
urer, John Cudmore; eergea ut alarms,
Joseph Dev|in; inside seminal, j. P.:Mc-
Way; outside guard, John 0 R burke.
Division No. 2, Currie, Murray county
President, John German; vice pzesi-
dent, IT, McEyoy; treasurer, Dan Calvin;
financial secretory, M. Keary; rec riding
secretary, james Ksary; Insurance. score.
tacy, E Walshe; sergeant-at-arms, Thos.
Cummisky.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12
Views of Ambition.

I There is more than one way Of looking
upon ambition, as upon other things.
According to one view it is wholesome
stimulus to jealous work; according to
the other it is baneful cause Of dissatis
faction and unrest. It may. in fact be-
either. Ambition is always seconded by
other qualities and modified by them
Contradictory as it may seem to be,
man may be contented yet ambitious,
and such man does his work faithfully
in the position in which he finds himself
while preparing to advance to higher
place. Where, however, ambition is
linked to vicious nature and possesses
the eoul of dissatisfied man of mean
abilities it is capable of working much
mischief. He is disconnected, neglects
the work of to-day while scheming to adj
vance himself to higher place, becomes
,envious Of others and frequently engages
in unworthy schemes to advance himself
TO places he is untitled to ELL. In his
case at least ambition is baneful. VOL
sey, whose famous speech denouncing
ambition Is familiar to every one, had but
q moment before making it instructed
Cromwell to seek the service Of the king
and obtain advancement fsom him. The
two speeches, delivered almost in d breath,
though apparently adictory, are en-
tirely natural apd exhibit nicely two
views of ambition. He expected Orom-
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12
Lincoln's Tender Heart.

The martyr Presidents tender heart is
clearly visible in the following pathetic
narrative One day in May, 1868, while
the great war was raging in America be.
tween the North and South, President
Lincoln paid visit to one of the military
hospitals. He had spoken many cheer
ing words Of sympathy to the wounded
as he proceeded through the various
wards, and now he WAS at the bedside.of
Vermont boy of shout Is years of age,
who lay there mortally wounded. ''>7s.
Taking the boys thin white hand in
his own, the President said in tender
tone: "Well, my good boy, what can I do
for your" The little fellow looked up
into the Presidents face and asked:
"Won't you VIZ to to my mother for me?
"That I WILL" answered Mr.. Lincoln;
and calling for pen, ink and paper, be
seated himself by the side Of the bed and
wrote from the boys dictation. Il WAS
a long letter, but the President betrayed
no signs of WEAKNESS. When it was flu
lshed he rose Il will post this as soon
as get back to my Office. Now, is there
anything else can do for your" The boy
looked appealingly to the President.
"Won't you stay with me?" he asked. Il
do so want to hold your hand" The
kind-hearted President at once perceived
the boys meaning. The appeal was too
strong for him to resist, so he sat down
by his side and took hold Of his hand.
F. r two hours the President sat there
patiently, as though he had been the
boys father. When the end came he
bent over and folded the thin hands over
his breast. AS he did so he burst into
tears, and when soon atterward he lett
the hospital they were still streaming
down his checks.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12
The Aim of Life,

Every enc ought consciously to have
an aim in life. Whether he is conscious
of it or not; every one has a ruling tend
ency; but every one should have con-
trolling and persistent purpose in life. No
one has q right to live aimlessly, for no
one has right to abandon reason and
self control, and consent to be mere
wait, drifting hither and thither like some
playthin of the winds We are endow-
ed with powers that make us capable OF
good and often great achievement. We
are gifted with reason and conscience
and will in order that we may both be-
come and do that which is noble and
benehcent,
''For what are men better than sheep or goats,
That nourish blind life within the brain,'
if they live without any purpose that is
essentially higher than the instincts
which prompt them to eat and sleep and
propagate their kind? In the mythology
of the Greeks, Phaeton, an earthly son OF
Helios, aspired to drive the flaming
chariot of the sun. The task was beyond
his human powers, and his disastrous
rashness was expiated by his death by a
bolt hurled from the hands of Zeus; but
the Maids wrote in his epitaph:
'.He could not rule his fathers care or fire;
Yet was it much so nobly to aspire"
HeIs not worthy to live who only vege-
tates; he does not truly live who drifts
aimlessly through the years from youth
to age Indeed, be whose aim is even
lower than the highest, less than the
is robler than he who has no
purpose in life.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12
The Question Of Wifely Obedience.

The Question of Wifely Obedience.
The Liverpool Catholic Times has rs
Gently brought to light curious bit OF
information which seems to have escaped
the attention of the people.
Few people are aware that the prom"
ises Of wifely obedience contained III the
Anglican marriage service to which the
':new woman has Of late taken such in
dignant exceptions, are Of purely Pro-
testant origin, and have. no counterpart
in the Catholic marriage service as i'll has
existed for centuries. The mutual prom
ises and obligesions undertaken by
Catholic husband and wife are identical
both in words and in nature.
The point is an interesting one, as ex-
employing g fact which is habitually
oyerlQ looked by the enemies Of the faith
who profess to trace the subsection Of
women to the teachings Of the sCathblc
Church. The very reverse il the truth;
it was the Church in The early ages that
frstlgave 70 women her RICH tfnl position
il I the social order by placing TIE Blessed
Virgin on tho throne q syerence, to
lwhieh ~ true nhood may il,ire.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12
ARCHBISHOP 1RELAND's ANECDoTE.

How He Met the Widow of the late Fred
eric Ozanam.
The recent announcement of the death
of the widow of Frederic Ozanam, in
Paris, has brought out the following in
teresting anecdote: During Archbishop
Ireland's sojourn in Paris a few years
400 he was called on to deliver several
public addresses before different literary
and scientific bodies in the French CAPT
tai. These addresses, it may be remem-
bered, were received with the greatest
enthusiasm by press and public. 1t was
on one of these occasions when called on
to address large assemblage OF stu
dents. The archbishop held up as an
example and an inspiration to the Catho-
lie youth of France the career and char
acter of Frederic Ozanam, the "ideal
Catholic layman," paying at the same
time Just tribute to the illustrious SER
vices of the founder of the Society of ST.
Vincent de Paul.
The next day, the eve Of his departure
from Paris, while in his room at the no.
ttel busily preparing for his journey, 8
message was brought to the Arch bishop
that q lady waited below in the parlor
Who wished to pay her respects to him.
on entering the reception room, be saw.
81 venerable lady, stopped with age and
Il. siinfirmity, pp,roaoh, and reyerently kiss
ssinR hiss ring, said, with visible ernotion::s
81 (onsienor, u called g offer you my
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12
Antiquity. of Gaelic,

DR. Plunket, the Protestant Archbishop
OF Dublin, presiding at a meeting in that
city, recently. in the course of his obeer
vations referred to the antiquity OF the
Irish language and literature, in the fol-
lowing terms:
Twas much interested, this morning,
in reading letter published in morn
ing paper, from Professor OF Early
Church History IN the Catholic Uniyer
sity OF Washington; and, as the editor
very truly says, it must .bea classic and
soul-stirring document, calculated to
awaken deep interest among those who
have had Celtic ancestry, and who are
interested in the cultivation Of q Ian
guage and literature so valuable to all
persons of culture. This letter com.
municates to us the fact that there is
about to be established, in this American
University, chair for the perpetual
teaching Of the language and literature
of the Gaelic race. We must all take an
interest IN any such patriotic effort as
this. In this letter we find the follow
ing eloquent reference to the different
aspects in which the Irish tongue pre-
sents itself to our minds:
"For nearly fourteen hundred years
it's sweet, consoling tones we're heard in
the confessional, and its grave, sublime
poetry was chanted from ten thousand
affairs. It echoed along the roads of Eu-
rope, and in her impenetrable forests,
from the mouths of a Thousand mission
aries; and it mingled it's lyric strength
with the maj estic Latin, at the tombs Of
the Apostles, long before the modern ma
tons of Europe had emerged from bar
barlsm. 1t has been channel for sacer-
dot | iabors for fourteen centuries. 1t
was the tongue Of Patrick, Brigdid and
COLUMBIA; and it has been sancti6ed by
long use in the mouths of the most en-
ipent saints d the. most learned doc
tors"
There is great deal in that (said Dr..
Plunket,) with which we, all of us, must
sympathize. There is no doubt that this
Irish tongue did make itself known in
days when civilization was not to be
found in many parts Of the habitable
globe.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12

Thus far all divisions throughout the
state haye not rep ,rted, but SO far as re-
ceived officers have been elected in the
various divisions as follows:
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12

homage and my gratitude for the beauti-
full tribute you yesterday paid to- my
dear dead husband, Frederic Ozanam-' y
The Archbishop IN narrating this inter
esting incident remarked that he was
never in his life moro deeply touched
than by his unexpected meeting With
the widow of the renowned French Cath
olic. whose career and character he had
long held in admiration. He was not
before the interview aware that Ozanam's
widow was still living.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12

we'll to advance By hls own merits, his
zeal and general wort iness, and advised
him not to neglect the king, whose good
offices would be OF advantage to him. a
moment later, thinking OF his own fall
and OF all the scheming and plotting by
which he had reached almost the summit
of his ambition, he turns and says:
Cromwell, charge thee fling away ambition;
By that sin fell the angels. How can man then
Tie image of his Maker. hope to win by it s''
But see what follows: Wolsey is now
to show Cromwell way ont Of his wreck
to rise ina sure and safe one, though
thy master missed it." and this is the
way:
Glove myself last: cherish those hearts that
hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace
To silence envious tongues. Be just and fear
not.
Let all the ends thou aim st be thy cou tr3 s.
Thy Gods and truths; then IT thou fall St. 0
Cromwell,
IlOu f6ll st q DleSSeQ martyr.
He holds out to Cromwell the hope OF
advancement through merit, but warns
him against unworthy ambition or ambi-
ton unworthily pursued, and nothing
more wise than this has been written on
the subject. Men and women ought to
be ambitious, hopeful OF risipgof better
ing their condition, bnt they should not
allow ambition to control them or to in
terfere with the Jealous performance Of
present duties. Whether it is wise to
disturb those who are contented with
their lot by MEETING them to efforts at
elf.improvement is disputed question
which would probably get different an
swers from close consideration of differ
ent individual cases. For example, we
should find one man, heretofore faith
full and contented worker, rendered I'M
happy by his nnsatisfied desire for bet
tarment, and another whose condition
had bAen greatly improved through the
exertions which ambition had inspired
him to make. The general effect upon
community of rousing the ambition OF
its Individual members is improvement,
but it is an improvement that results not
from mere scheming, but from Jealous
and Intelligent work. Only.in SO far az
ambition may lead us to study, to zeal
GUS work, to deserving, can it help us to
Improvement; when it is simply an ele
ment of dissatisfaction with our present
lot, an inspirer of envy and an inst,gator
to plots and trickery, it is to be flung
away as the sin by which the angels fell.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12
A. O. H. Elections.

Thus far all divisions throughout tn
state haye not rep ,rted, but SO far as re
ceived officers have been elected in thu
various divisions as follows:
MINNEAPOLIS.
Division No. President, j. J. Fitz
gerald; vice president, Carrot Nolan; re-
cordiug secretary, VIM. Tillisch; financial
secretary, ia. Lane; insurance secretary
VIM. Archer; treasurer, Hugh Butler
marshal, p 7. Quinn; sereeant-at. arms
Daniel Murphy; sentinel, Ed Fitzgerald
Division No. 2-President, P. Kenny
vice president, James Allen; recording
secretary, Felix McNamee; financial sec
Rotary, P. J. Kinnane; treasurer, NJ. J
Gill; insurance secretary, John O'Grady;
sergeant farms, P. O'Brien; marshal, J.
P. Wall.
Division No. President, N. c. O'Con
nor; vice president, j. F. Walsh; record
ing secretary, 3. Minogue; financial sec
retary,.R. J. Hays; treasurer, T. J. Ryan
insurance secretary, J. j. DAILY; marshal,
F. e. Kealy; sergeant-at-arms, [. Brett
Division No. 4-President, j. G. Cub.
bins; vics president, John Gleason; re-
cording secretary, @. 3. Hoy; financial
secretary, NJ. NJ Somers; insurance sec
rotary, Peter Mitchell; treasurer, P. Flah
erty; sergeant-at-arms, William Hickey
marshal, John Blake; doorkeeper, Jas
Hickey
Division No. 5, Edna, Hennepin coun
ty-President, D. J. Regan; vice presi
dent, T. NJ. Kyle; recording secretary, T
M. O'Meara; financial secretary, NJ. Glee
son; treasurer, J. T. Delaney; insurance
secretary, T. j. Moriarty; sergeant at
arms, John Carey; doorkeeper, NJ. T
Murphy; marshal, T. J. Moriarty; exam.
ming physician, DR.. r. 2. O'Brien, Min
neapolis.
d Division No. president, J. B. Muir
ply; vice president, z. w. Hickey; re-.
oording secretary, J. 2. Boylan; financial
secretary, p. 81. Mart Tin; insurance sec.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12

Mrs. Swetlan and daughter Of Cottage
Grove, aunt and cousin Of Mr.. w. IL.
Boardman, have been visiting Mr.. and
Mira. W. NJ. Boardman during the. past
week. .'.. .3s. B 81. q &
The Irish standard., 1895-01-12
Donahoe's for January.

In s,lid thought, as we'll as in the
entertaining character Of it's lighter
features, mono Of the other great msRa-
zines excels Donahoe's Tor January. 1t
touches contemporary life Oh many sides
and on many vital questions of the day
has something vigorous, suggestive, aud
original to offer. It's leading article on
the causes and lessons Of the recent
Democratic defeat, by GAmaliel Brad
ford, one of the leading students OF
political questions, is sure to provoke
discussion. Rev. John Talbot Snaith
contributes another in the Eminent
Prelate" series, dealing this time With
Cardinal Gibbons and throwing upon his
interesting character new light. Ed
mund Noble, who is probably better
a :quainted with Russia and Russian OF
fairs than any one else in America. writes
on the late Tsar and his empire. Mr..
Noble has great faith in the futnre OF
the Slavs, in spite of the wrongs which
exist in Russia, to-day and which he &c
graphically depicts. The Magazine this
month is particularly strong in original
fiction, while the illustrations are as
artistic and attractive as usual. It il
very evident that Donahoe's is strength
ening it's hold upon Catholic readers and
at the same time winning in still greater
.ieQree the admiration and respect OF
non Catholics.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-30
The Value or Combining Feed.

C. p. Goodrich. of this county. a few
years since made some very exhaustive
experiments in feeding skim milk to
pigs. He found that when fed to shoats
of 100 pounds weight that 100 pounds
Of sweet skim milk would make five
pounds of pork or growth. One bushel
of shelled corn, ground, would make
ten pounds of gain. The two when fed
apart were equivalent to fifteen
pounds of gain. by combining
the two. he produced eighteen
pounds of gain. With pork at
four dollars hundred live weight he
realized twelve cents for the slight
trouble of combining the two feeds.
Dairymen having large amount Of
skim milk to feed should consider this
fact in their practice. II for every 100
pounds of skim milk and fifty-six
pounds of corn we feed we can make
an increase of three pounds of gain by
feeding them together, it is a fact
worth knowing. 1t should be remem-
bered. however, that this result was
attained with young pigs. The lighter
the pigs the greater the gain is almost
an universal prirciple.-Hoard's Dairy
man.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-30
THE PlsO COMPANY.

Tho above il the style Of the firm which
manufactures PisO's Cure for Consumption
and Piso's Remedy for Catarrh, at Warren,
Pa. The company was recently tncorpOr-
ated, succeeding Z. T. Hazeltine, under
whose name the business has been con-
ness was established in 1864, when SOS was
paid for the first barrel Of sugar bought,
that was 50 cents o pound other things Were
propOrtionately high, as much Of the PisO
Cure is now sold for . cents as was then for
S1.OO.
advertiser in newspapers, its aggregate out
lay annually has been comparatively small,
so that the steady and rapid increase in
sales to their present large proportions GER
tainly indicates that PisO's Cure for Con-
sumption possesses high merit as remedy
for coughs, colds and throat and lung
troubles generally. Tho pleasant taste OF
ally to its popularity.
Growth in business has necessitated the
invention Of numerous labor-saving ma
chimes. Notable among these are apparatus
for washing, filling, corking and scaling
bottles with which three men easily turn
out :, 0OO bottles an hour. In the advertis-
ing department improved machines In the
macs in a day with only twenty operators.
Another labor saver is the box machine on
which one man puts together q thousand
cartons daily which are filled with dozen
Piso's Cure for Consumption by another
mau in the same space Of time.
The Piso Company gives steady employ
ment to q small army Of workers, of both
sexes, and its uniform liberal treatment Of
employees is topic Of much favorable COM
ment among the citizens Of Warren. Alto
gether the prosperity Of the company ap-
pears to be peculiarly deserved.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-30
POPULAR SCIENCE.
MILITARY ruRRETs.

Destined to P1ay . Great Part In Future
Wsrs - Description OF Germany's Pro-
tected Gun Carriages or Trench Armor-
ings-They Arc Moved from Place e
Place with Perfect Ease.
We have many times already pointed
out to our readers the Importance Of
the role of protected turrets in the
work of the defense Of strong places.
It seems advisable now to make known
to them anapplication Of the proper
ties Of these metallic apparatus in the
operations OF the field Of battle. We
intend to speak of the movable pro-
tected gun carriage" or ''trench armor-
ing" constructed mt the Gruson works
in Germany under the instructions of
Maj. Schumann. 1t Is said that an
analogous system is perhaps to be
studied in France also, and we are
able to give q description of the appar-
atus such as they are now conceived.
The idea, however, is certainly not
new. Campaign turrets moved about
on carts We're in use in Persia in the re-
hottest antiquity. Those that Cyrus had
ut the battle of Thymbra were about
fifteen feet IN length. Placed upon a
platform drawn by eight yoke of oxen,
each Of them, says Xcnophon (Cyro-
pndia. Lib. My. was occupied by de-
tachment of twenty picked archers.
The ancients also made use of cam
paign turrets mounted upcp the backs
of elephants. These wooden works,
fixed to the pack saddles of the great
pachydermatous motors, were bordered
with parapets covered with the hides of
recently skinned oxen. But passing
rapidly to modern times, let us see
what there is in the economy of the
Grusonwerk products. The Schnmann
campaign turret consists of an iron
plate cylinder about four feet in in
ternal diameter provided with a door.
T, and closed ut its base by q metallic