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When Polly PLAYED For Dancing,

When Polly played for dancing, her slen-
der fingers few
Across the flashing ivory keys as if they
winked at you. ..
The music bubbled under the magic of
her hand
Az Ii the very notes were mad to join the
festive band.
When Polly struck the measure of two
=. step or Of waltz, t..t.
The Oldest there grew young again and
laughted at Times assaults;
While lovely Sweet and Twenty, and hap
n7 py Sweet Sixteen
Went floating light as thistle down the
merry slaves between.
When. Polly played the lancers, you
sse should have seen us bow,
And weave and figure ont and In Would
we were dancing now,
With Polly playing bravely, and all that
old set there,
Till who'd believe twas midnight by the
~ clock upon the stair?
Then Polly played as gayly as the young
est heart can feel,
And, lad and lass, we danced again the
biithe Virginia reel.
was true,
When Polly played for dancing, and the
hours fairly flew.
Margaret e. Sangster In Harper's
Weekly. -.. "a
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Her Face.

Scsut beauty nature gave her: in disguise
Rugged and harsh she bade her go about
with face unlovely. save the dark. sad
eyes,
From which her fearless soul looked
hravely cut.
But life took mp the chise!, used her face
Roughly with many blows. as sculptors
use q block.
It wrought a little while. and 10! q grace
Fell as a sunbeam falls upon q, rock.
Across her soul a heavy sorrow swept.
!, AS tidal waves sweep sometimes DER the
land.
Leaving her face, when back it ebbed and
,1" crept,
Tranquil and purified, like tide-washed
:.,.i.. sand. ...tl ...-.
And of her face her gentleness grew part,
Y And all her holy thoughts left there
! their trace, So 49,
A great love found it's way within l'er
heart, .-.-.......
It's root was there, it's blossom in her
EE face '1~> s-' .-
So when death came to set the sweet soul
free,
From the poor body that was never fair,
We watched her face and marveled much
to see
How life had carved for death an angel
there.
. Bessie Chandler in the Advance.
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MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.
Default has been made In the conditions

Z MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.
Default has been made In the conditions Of
a certain mortgage executed by August
Larson and Azora Larson, his wife, to
Pauline 3. Lee and dated on the 18th day
Of March, 1880 and recorded in the office
Of the Register Of Deeds3in Hennepin coun-
ty, stateSc Of Minnesota, on the 17rh day of
March, $780, in Book 295 of Mortgages on
page 325 The, premises described in said
mortgage are as follows, viz: The south
half of Lot number Seven % in Block num-
Der Ten qO), in Westfall's Addition to Min
neapolis, according to a map or plat thereof
on file and of record in the office of the Reg
lister of Deedssin Henrepin county afore-
said. There is due at the date hereof son
said mortgage the sum OF Five Hundred
and Seventy five and 60-100 Dollars and mo
action at law or: otherwise has been insti-
tnted to collect said sum or any part there
of - S;s - s ..s s. s3 IL. ,
Therefore. noticeyis hereby given, that by
virtue Of the power of sale in said mort
gage contained, and of the statute in such
case made and provided, said mortgage will
be- foreciosed and the premises therein de-
scribed will be sold at public auction for
cash to the highest bidder. al the front dopl.
OF the Court House on Fourth street In
minneapolis, Hennepin county aforesaid a. On
Monday. the 2Sth day OF December II sgg6; at
mortgage debt Eand twenty five dollars at
fees and alleMsd
l'ss|sS
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was to become in their minds the center
of ''civic. purity and the organ Of an
aroused public conscience. i::t 9 2,
| They had already got outside of their
own ward to secure eminent representa-
tives of the noble party Of the great people.
| Generally these eminent representatives
had something more than, a political pull
in their own districts. They had influence.
Here was Dennis opportunity to enlarge
the horizon of his hopes. To become a
trusted adviser, or perhaps more, in the
| Cleveland Reform Club of the Seventh
ward, was now his sole aim.
I One serious obstacle INTERVIEWED. Dennis
acquaintance with his stepmother's tongue
was abundantiy equal to the exigencies of
the Famous First, but it was not en-
! tirely adapted to the verbal requirements
OF the @'kid-glove Seventh" However,
! Dennis was resourceful, and finally sue
ceeded The members of the Cleveland
reformers were not altogether without
curiosity as to what Dennis'---0r rather,
since his election, the Hon. Mr. NJ cCarthy' 8
maiden speech would he, They felt,
however, that somehow he would fill the
! bill. He did, speaking as follows:
"Misther President and Gint]emen:-I
thank viz, for this great honurr, an l
| LElUK IL 'Ilc TDGSl 10 SApUSt 11S 81 atIAi~
tude by comm down to 7bizness. which OF
do know, somethin' NV, an droppin' off
fine worruds, MIR. President, Oh noticed We
were discussin' the. question av havin' s.
torch Lighted percession, an that the ex-
pinse of it fured yez.. Now. Mr.. Prisidint.
| as. ye all Know Orm strong on torcnlight
percessions an On expinse. OF was 'tould
by wan av yez that yez had been palayerin'
about it, an'5'so. Mr.. Prisidint,.1 remove
yez, sorr, that we have that procession,
In the furrest place, we moight boy thin
Guild Blaine and Logan torches OF the last
campain,. chape: but. gjntlemen, who Of
yez wants to march undher thin things?
Ohm aginst it, sorr. In the second place,
OF can git cheaper vans: for, sorr,. as Oh
was comm down the main avanoo. OF saw
the followin' advertisement: Blanks
Bronchie Torches, twinty-foive cints the
box (App,ause.) Now, sorr, Or don't
know what kind of lie Brinkle is (cheers)
but OF do know that Oiisaw the advertise
ment in a dhrug sthore5 av !; the furrest
water, am mo doubt thin torches ssgood
OF remove yez, Mr.. Prisidint, that;we boy
twilyes dozens av thim.' t..i.. ~
Twelve years have since passed, but
Dennis never has a sore throat that he is
not reminded of the healing virtues Of
Blanks Bronchial. Troches at 25 cents the
box. -. :,
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PRoPR;:1l.E'T:'o'Rs
sIDN BROS. PROP
| Thinked' on it Now.

gIE,N BROS. PRoPRIEToRs
T'hinked' on it Now. 81
..rhinkIn On IT now, by jung! 5tf's
Seems the olishest sort of thing.
sssSIeSWith nDthln' laid away, .sas-sss Mo
4 IoTeis Jobs turkey" you might say.
Her NVita jes' the clothes she wore; 81
h sWofndn't let her take NO more.
Seems the foolishest thing, say;
\ But II happened 3jes' that way.
seems so foolish now, I say.
Squire, though, wuz mean, the way
lie used her; wuz mad, you see,
Il cause she owned to likin' me.
& linn, SEE he, a common lad,
Workin'- out fer what he had" &
& A1ld she might a-married jim; i v,s
& Squire Wuz bound up IN him.
RecoIlec 1t now ez plain
s Night She met me In the lane, 4.
S Cryin'-told me all the rest,
How she allus liked me best.
$SSee her now. a standin' there,
Ribbons in her dress an hair.
+ Ade with jes' my Old clothes on,
Kissed her tell the tears Wuz gone!
Th;nl1in' on 1t. now, you see,
Makes it palmer like to me:
Ruther. like 1t, though, somehow.
Ez she sets here by me now. ~
An the youngsters playin' round,
Crops a-growin' In the ground;
$INhif1kin, jes' a-thinlxin, way
\ Back there when we run away.
-Daamor r. Drake.
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I1yder. Ali in Chicago Dispatch.
I.cnnnev" Is Back.

's.5 Chicago, Nov Is. "Cooney the Fox, = Of
%Grehin murder fame. is back in town.
LIT HIT returned to Chicago OF his own free
will. Cooney reached the city Saturday
night. Il Ills first public appearance was
sunday night, when he visited North side
resorts which used to be frequented by
4 the leaders of the antf-Cronin faction IN
'Mtile Clan-Ila-Ga He refused to tell
anything about his. journeyings or hts
4 movements during the last half dozen
years. Cooreysis stopping at g house on
s;fda north SIDE near his former haunts
II fiSE friends say he4is; here to stay. HE
g8stUos nee do not want him, and. there Is ne
u ea sbiS why he should longer avoid Chi
1ass sssas xedding idns,
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LIMERICK,

The movement to present Mr.. John
Daily with testimonial was inaugurated
at a large AMI representative meeting "A
Limerick on October 80. The mayor (Afr.
Michalel Cusack. 7. CD presided, and re-
ferred in eulogistic terms to Mr.. Days
services in the cause Of amnesty. Since
he has been at liberty. he had worked
steadily III behalf of his less fortunate
fellow pr isoners. The mayor handed ID
his own subscrip on of f5 to the testI-
Enlonial Nh. aaIolony, j. secretar5t reail
Elett apology fgr' not lhei ng present
4 M
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"Any novelties at the chrysanthemum
show?'' .E..s.
mo; fifty new kinds, and not one of
them has got sense enough to part its
hair Chica go Record.
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back.

3 "a rattlesnalse gives warnin' when he's
f5s m goins ter jump yer game,
ySsrher panther snar]s afore it leaps, ther
sa5e Z. wildcat does t1er same.
= sr.llel' hon rpars afore ct goes ter usin of
IS cts claws,
NTher bulldog gives a warnin' fsrowl fore
sfFa.38ss3ss.ff op' ring OF cts jaws.
u But q nleasly, human bein' win smile and
.g4. Ri then, alack. 4.ss 4..
When you've turned to greet another he
*. fssa will
III HI AKA. yer tf
Al the
81 back.
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KERRY.

Il. Thanks to the interchangeable efforts of
Canon Brosnan, work has, after lapse of
three years. been resumed on the @ Con-
nell Memorial church at Caherciveen. It
is hoped that under the new contract the
splendid structure will be completed
without another hitch, and handed over
to pastor and people. .s,,s
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PassiOf1 Play

Ascension the sayur
Justly
who's
together
Elm thu
be
Mail subscriptions at TO
THE IRISH STANDARD, Minneapolis Mimi.
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The rIeanest Man

You can alters face a. man thet stands an
sasses 70 yer face,
A teller thet defends the law but da1nns
5'T Their human race
"A teller tibet stands up an splits an swears
&c., you aren't right,
Thet what you saw by daytime green was
yaller seen et night
But the meanest man Their Lord let's live
,s, and hove.rs round life's track
Is, ther chap thet's pleasant to yer face,
then ..
~ talks
- . o:,.I
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WICKLOW.

I Mr.. Ernest Edwin Merrick, LID. Dub
lin University, has been enrolled a solicitor
of the thigh courts of justice in Ireland,
and is practicing with his father. Thomas
.Merrick, at No. Is Fleet street, Dublin.
( The death is announced, on October 81,
Of Capt James H. Patriotism. al his resi-
|dence, No. 9 Duncairn terrace, Bray. Good
ssnatured and hospitable, the deceased gen
.tleman endeared himself to all classes by
his unfailing kindness and useful life. He
was identified with every committee having
for itsi object the welfare and advancement
10 Bray, and for many years occupied the
position Of elected representative Of the
people on the Rathdown union board.
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talks
back.

You'll find them everywhar yer go, an,
!iff treat 'ern as yer may
You'll hear strange echoes o their talk
Sf %4 when they have moved away:
You'll hear OF things you never did. o
words you never said,
o. acts that if you're guilty Of youth wish
-42 tibet you were dead:
But when you sift the runors down you'll
find tibet truth they lack.
And tibet you've met some friends that
q" talks
.,.- 60 ~.,.-.5.,. behind
Yer
p4L back.
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Eff you'd do some men {. favor--ef you'd
,ss keep EN- out o. jail ~
They would get you into prison eft you'd
let 'em tell Their tale:
Ell you're married thet same kind O man
will go an tell yer wife,
Tibet you've got another sweetheart. ter
promote domestic strife;
Yet he'll smile whene'er he meets you,
an some cunnin Joke he'll crack,
Fully meanin' when he leaves yer fer to
4{a rip .,,-
5as. yer
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CLARE.

AngAmnesty meeting was held on Octo~
her g. in Kilrush and was attended by
Mr.. John DAILY, Mr.. w. @O'Brien, Major
Jameson, M. P, and Mr.. P: O'Brien, VI. F..
Mr.. William OBrien said that England
was greatly incensed against the Sultan
for the Armenian atrocities; but what
were they compared with the malignity of
England toward Gallagher and White
head, which made both men lunatics? 1t
would be less brutal to plunge a knife
into the hearts of political prisoners than
compel them to endure IL years inhu-
man torture. - ..s-.
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itably be entailed. 1t must be plain TO
any one that takes in the present critical
situation chat the Irish party cannot pos
sibly hold together, without the financial
support Of the Irish people, at home aud
abroad"
In the project Of erecting a memorial to
the late patriotic bishop Of Clonfert, the
people Of Loughrea have taken the lead.
At the parochial meeting. held on Oct
18th, over ESQ was subscribedtin Lough-
rea for the purpose of the memorial.
Hitherto it, has been the universal GUS
som for the Connemara tenant always to
have half years rent due on his hold
ing, or what is generally known as a
hanging gale" Mr.. Joseph M'DonneA, of
Letterfrac, the newly appointed agent on
Mr.. Moreton Frewen's Connenlara prop
erty, is going to change all that, and make
the tenants plank down. At the last
Clifden quarter sessions, before Mr..
Thomas Rice Hem, recorder of Galway,
Mr.. M;Donnell obtained DEGREES against a
number of tenants for rent due for the
half year ending the 1st of May last, the
processes for which had been issued for
the past couple OF months. This is a new
departure in Connemara rent-collecting,
and If a similar course be pursued by
other landlords the effect OH the poor ten
ants will be disastrous. III
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NJ ,As2 't7s& DERRY. ~
On October e., the Derry Corporation
..:considered the letter OF the Rev. DR..
MoIIugh, president Of the st. Columbs
College, asking, that. in the event Of the
corporation completing the purchase of
the ground known as the Bishops Gar
den, lately in the occupation Of the Pro-
testant Primate, Dr. Alexander, and now
in the control of the church representa-
tive body, they (the corporation) would
fallOt two acres of the five to st. Columb's
college, for recreation grounds, at q price
;proportionate to the sum payable for the
whole. Dr. McHugh's proposal had been
submitted more than week previously,
but the corporation adjourned its consid-
Grafton until after the local government
board inquiry held by Mr.. Cotton. Final
|ly the corporation refused the effer Of
the college authorities, and the extraor-
binary state of facts now is that the COR
poration has acquired FIVE acres of fancy
ground at a cost. of f5, $50, ostensibly to
provide a horse mark while the corpor-
ate income from tolls on horses shown
for tsalais only E26 annually, and the fair
|is notably decreasing. The corporation,
| 1T may be stated, goes out Of existence
within the next month when the cleo
tions under the new franc As, Mise will take
sasS
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FERMANAUGH.

FERAIANAUGH
(. At the last Enniskilen petty sessions,
Anne M'Govern, a charwoman, was
charged with stealing diamond ring,
value f10, the property of Mrs. Mary
North, Kinarla, Enniskil.en, wife of the
manager of Messrs.. Tyler's boot estab-
lishment, Enniskillen, in whose house the
defendant had been employed. The de-
PENDANT had offered the ring for sale in
several jewelers. shops, and finally sold it
for five shillings. The prisoner pleaded
guilty, and the magistrate sentenced her
TO one calender months Imprisonment.
The herald., 1896-08-21
AN UNGRATEFUL PERSIAN.
He Didn't Get Back the Fee He Had Paid
to His Doctor.


Surgeons and physicians in the United
States are now and then sued for malprac-
tice by dissatisfied patients. Not infre-
quently tho suit is an atempt either to cx-
tort money from the practitioner or to fine
him for not curing an incurable. In Per-
STA patients arc still more unscrupulous,
and try to get back the doctors fee even
when he has cured them. Dr. Wills, an
English physician, tells in his Gland of
the Lion and Sun" his experience with a
Persian patient, we'll to do baker of Is
pahan.
The baker had been successfully operat-
ed upon for cataract, and the doctor had
been paid "a, but the baker, though seeing
with both eyes, regretted the e4. One
day, while the doctor was prescribing in
the dispensary to u crowd of sick folks, a
melancholy procession entered. The
baker, with a rag of different color over
each eye and large white bandage round
his head, was supported into the room.
The relatives informed the doctor that,
through his treatment, the baker had lost
his sight, and had come to get back his
"a, together with any compensation which
he. the doctor, might be pleased to make.
"Ah, sahib, dear sahib, am now stone
Sdlu UIlc Duker.
The crowd shook their heads. With
much difficulty tho doctor compelled the
removal Of the bandages, and on looking at
his eyes saw that the mans vision was
good. Though angry, he was COOL The
point was to make the crowd see that the
man could see.
Taking large leather box, in which
was an amputating knife, he placed it on
the table, Then, seating himself, with the
man on the other side of the table, he said:
"Of course, If 1 have deprived you of
your sight, it is only fair that should re-
turn the money you have paid and also
remunerate you. How much do you
want?''
A beatific smile spread over the bakers
face as he answered:
"Oh, sahib, doctor sahib, know you are
great and generous. If you would pay
back the e4 and give $40 for my eyes,
l should pray for you-yes, and my fam
lily, we should all pray for you"
eyes, yes; he has spoken well, chimed
in the spectators.
''Yes,' replied the doctor, "this is what
ought to be done in the case you describe.
But''-and the doctor shouted-"what
ought to be done to the man who comes
here with a lie in his mouth? Know you,
bystanders, that this man sees perfectly"
"Ah," continued the doctor, "you dog,
I'll open your eyes" And suddenly pro-
ducing the amputating knife he flashed it
before the mans face. The baker fled
down stairs, pursued by the more active Of
the crowd.
"Stop thief!' they shouted.
Every idler in the bazaar took up the
cry; every hand and stick was turned on
the flying man. He was seized and his
turban torn off.
"Can you see now?'' asked the doctor
from an open window.
"Oh, sahib, sahib, through your kind
ness see, indeed dop'
The herald., 1896-08-21
SAYS THEY ARE FALSE
Charges Against tho Whittier School Attnches
by Former Inmate

Dy FORMER inmate
The following Associated Press dis
patch was received from Fresno last
evening:
1.-THE Evening Expositor publishes a
long article condemnatory of the man.
agement of the Whittier reform school,
based on the confession of former in
mate named Robinson, now under ar
rest for the alleged commission of an
infamous crime. Robinson states that
boys and girls go to the school wayward,
but often innocent of vicious practices,
but are speedily corrupted by other and
more criminal inmates. The subordi-
nate attaches of the school are charged
with aiding and even participating in
immoral practices with the inmates.
The Expositor says the atmosphere Of
the so-called reformatOry seems devoid
of moral constituents, their room being
usurped by satanic characteristics
where vice thrives."
THE YOUTHS RECORD.
Superintendent Coffin of the Whittier
school was communicated with by tele-
phone last evening, and stated to Her.
aid representative that the youth in
question was released on parole several
months ago, on the representation that
MS mother was in a dying condition,
ana That his help was badly needed at
nome. He stated that when the youth
hrst came to the school he caused con-
siderable trouble on account of the prac-
tees for which he Is now in trouble in
FRESNO. During the latter part of the
time he was in the institution his record
was good. Mr.. Coffin says that his
charges against the attaches are abso-
1utely without foundation, and he is sur
prised that they should be made on the
unsupported testimony of a youth of ths
character of Robinson.
The herald., 1896-08-21
USE OF THE SENSES.
Habit and Experience Play Part In See-
ing and Hearing.


If we ask ourselves just how it is that
we see, hear and receive impressions from
the senses, we shall soon discover two
things. The first is that the explanations
1--WE see with our eyes, 1--WE hear with
our ears" etc., Is not quite satisfactory.
1t is easy enough to explain how certain
rays of light impinge on the retina of the
eye and certain waves Of air on the drum
of the ear, but how these purely physical
things are converted into purely psychical
things of sight and hearing no one can ex-
plain.
Our second discovery will be that 1t is
not by the eye alone that we see or by the
ear alone that we hear. Memory, or rather
experience or habit, plays great part in
all sensations, though we do not often
notice it unless our attention is drawn to
the fact by some circumstance that puts
experience at fault and thus produces q
sense illusion.
Have you ever noticed, for instance, how
experience helps you to recognize the posi-
ton of sounds? If one made a noise at q
little distance from you, you could instant
ly tell from what direction it came, because
experience has taught you to judge Of this
matter through the very slight difference
in the intensity of sound in your two ears.
An experiment will readily prove this.
Stop up the left ear firmly with cotton
wool and go into dark room with some
one else who carries bell Let the other
person strike the bell in different parts Of
the room, yourself remaining still. No
matter where the bell is, it will always
seem to you to sound on your right side,
oven though it may actually be near the
left ear. Persons deaf in one ear can never
tell whence sound comes. 1t takes two
ears to do this
How far experience is our helper in
vision may be appreciated when it is re-
membered that the image of anything we
see Is received by the eye upside down, yet
our constant experience has SO habituated
us to the fact that we never know it.
1t Is sort Of experience illusion which
makes the telegraph posts during rail-
way journey appear to move backward, as
though they, too, were In motion. We are
not accustomed to move SO fast. 1t is