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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-04-25

ST. CLOUD, STEARNS COUNTY.
County President--P. F.. Kennedy.
Division No. l. St. Cloud-Prestdene.
T. Kennedy. .
Vice Pres.-P. Z. Stafford.
Rec and Fin. Sec.--M. Flaherty.
ms. Secs. T. Doyle.
Treasurer-Frank Gillespie.
Meetings third Tuesday Of month a
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-04-25

Division No. president. M. Doyle.
yice-president, Joseph E. Murphy.
Recording Secretary, j. J. Prendargast.
Financial Secretary, James Slavin. q
Treasurer, John Nagle. as -
Insurance Secretary, j. ). Griffin.
Meets on second and fourth Fridays at
St. Michaels Hall, West st. Paul.
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Henry Clax's Escape.

Fatalities resulting from "blowing out the gas" are generally considered as due to rusticity and ignorance, but the Philadelphia Record is responsible for the statement that Henry Clay was once in danger of his life from the same cause.
 Mayer Swift of Philadelphia and Henry Clay were very intimate friends, and several times during the mayors administration the eminent Kentuekian came to visit him. On one of these oc- easions MT. Clay nearly lost his life.
 During the first night of MT. Clay's visit the mayor noticed an unusual odor of gas in tae house, and on investiga- tion it was found that MT. Clay had re- tired without having turned off the gas.
 The new Illuminating agent had been lately introduced, and it is not improba- bles that MT. Clay blew out the light in ignorance of the proper method of extin- gushing it. Certain it is that had Mayor Swift not made his timely discovery, Mir. Clay's brilliant career would have been prematurely cut off.
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Restitution by an Esrthaunks.

"It's an i'll wind that blows nobody good" is a we'll known axiom which was verified once in somewhat peculiar manner in the Philippine islands.
 About IA years ago the first class iron vessel Rhoodie, of 1,60O tons register, was scuttled in Manila bay, having caught fire when on the point of sailing with full and valuable cargo of hemp, pearl, shell, gum 7copal, bar copper and other merchandise. ..
 During the earthquake >many months later she was thrown up bya tidal wave from where she lay in 12 fathoms of water to close inshore in two or three fathoms and was then purchased by an enterprising diving and salvage company just started in Singapore for the trifling sum of 914, when it transpired that her cargo had not suffered from her long submersion and was valued at about 96O, O,O0O.-Pearson' 8 Weekly.
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of happiness. It is the height of folly to suffer when cure is easy, sure and speedy by using Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. Use this great and wonderful remedy and the nervous, irritable, weak and trembling feelings will disappear your sleep will be natural, calm, restful, and you will wake mornings feeling strong and vigorous instead of tired and exhausted, all gloomy depress- ion and sense of anxiety will fade from 1 the mind your nerves will become strong and steady as steel, your strength, energy and ambition will be restored. and perfect health take the place of weakness and de- bility.
 This emarkable discovery, Dr. Grepne'e Nervura blood and nerve remedy, should not be classed with ordinary patent med icines. It is the prescription of the most successful specialist in nervous and chron- ic diseases, Dr, Greene, of B West 14th Street, New York City, and he can be consulted by all without charge, person. ally or bV letter
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The word of an illustrous actor, like that of a great general or statesman, commands the attention of the world.
 Alexander Salvini, son of the greatest actor that ever lived, is rapidly taking his fathers place in the minds and hearts of the people. Every word of his, there- fore, like the utterances of Jefferson or Irving, whom everybody honors and re- vers, will be read with deepest interest and profoundest attention by all.
 MT. Salvini writes to the people:-
 ''Travelling as do, cannot fail to no- tice the great use of Dr. Greene's Nervu- ra blood and nerve remedy, and especially among my friends and acquaintances.
 "From my own experience, can strongly recommend it as most excellent and reliable family medicine, especially for rheumatism and neuralgia, nervous ness and all nervous affections, which ill- nesses in our profession, we are most lia- ble to contract"
 Weak nerves, poor blood, low vitality, rheumatism and neuralgia, are the bane of life, the thief of comfort, the destroyer
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ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.

General Harrison Advocates Town Meet.
 lngs Once or Twice a Year.
 Ex-President Harrison, in a series of articles on "This Country of Ours" in The Ladies' Home Journal, writes wig orously of the great necessity of the peo- pie insisting upon the strict enforcement of the laws. Directly upon this point he says: I've need general assemblies of the people in the smaller civil subdivi- sions, to be held regularly once or twice a year, town meetings in which two questions only shall be considered: : First, are the public officers faithfully and honestly transacting the public busi- ness? Second, are the laws-nOt this law nor that, but all laws-enfOrced and obeyed? All questions of law reform should be excluded, left to parties or so- cieties organized to promote them. The enforcement of the law, whether we op- posed or aided the making of it; the strict accountability of public officers, whether we opposed or aided their cleo tion, should be the objects and the Him. it's of these meetings There should be no distinction of persons.
 "Our law and order movements are too apt to be confined to what we, not too accurately, call influential people. Every man and woman ought to have chance to choose his side, without re- gard to station or wealth or race or col or. There will be none too many. In some such movements it has seemed to me that many have been assigned to the wrong side who would have chosen the right There is danger that such may accept the place they would not have chosen. Can any working plan be de- vised to maintain from day to day an effective watchful interest among the body of our citizens in the enforcement of the laws, and ill clean, honest ad ministration of public affairs-smal and great? Or are we to accept the hu- initiating conclusion that bad things cannot be made good, or even better, until they come to be consistently and utterly bad; or still worse, that when the river of popular indignation has cleaned the stable it is only to leave us without supply of water for daily sani- tatiOn?"
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REHEARsED JULIET IN A CEMETERY.
Mary Anderson's Sacrifices and Hard WOrL
 For a Stage Career.

Mary Anderson's Sacrifices and Hard Work
 For 8 Stage Career.
 Returning to Louisville from New York city, study was begun on a new plan. I had learned from MT. Vanden- hof [who gave her few lessons in elo- cution and acting] to turn my den into a stage. Imagining one of the walls the auditorium, it needed but step farther to crowd the house with an enthusiastic public, and small audience was never seen in that theater. Chairs were made to represent the different characters, and a bust of Shakespeare-theC Chandos, to my mind the finest of all, though unfor- tunately not as authentic as the Strat- ford-was placed at proper height and converted into the Heading juvenile. 1" Clifford, Claude, Colonna, were the parts assigned to it, but as Romeo I imagined it looked least stony. Six months of solitary work was now be- gun. Dancing and music, of which was passionately fond, were renounced and my girlhood friends and companions given up. The exaggeration of youth led me to believe that complete cOncen- tration on the one subject alone would lead to success. The labor was particu- larly hard, working as I did in the dark, having no one to consult and no experience to guide me. longed for help, which never came, except from my mother. who was as ignorant as of the rules of dramatic art. Still we worked on necessarily, producing eff fects, she critioising them to the best of her ability.
 Often in the middle of the night I would awaken her to show some new point. Indeed owe more to her con- stant and loving interest and encourage ment than l can ever hope to repay. To get the hollow tones of Juliet's voice in the tomb and better realize my heroine's feelings on awakening in her ''nest of death, contagion and unnatural sleep" frequently walked to Cave Hill, Louis ville's beautiful cemetery, there to speak her lines through the grilled door of a vault. Had thorough schooling in the art been possible, instead of these ran- dom and unguided efforts, my work would have been halved and it's results doubled. Mary Anderson De Navarro in Ladies Home Journal.
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The Ticking of the Clock.

'The ticking of a clock" says MT. Bugleby, lis a sound so familiar that we take no thought of it till it ceases. Here are two or three of us sitting to gether talking. Suddenly we become dimly conscious that there is something missing; a moment later some one says, The clock has stopped. Then we all listen. What roomful of silence! Then we wind the clock and set it going. How pleasant it is to hear it again, and how loud and plain it sounds at first, but soon it sinks to it's accustomed note, and with normal conditions thus restored we resume our conversation. "-New York Sun.
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YOU.

The chief want fin life is somebody who shal make us do the bestwe can.-Emerson. A nashi You came into my life,
 And, To, Adown the years, Rainbows of promise stretched across The sky grown gray with tears: By day you were my sun of gold, By night, my silver moon, could not from the Fathers hands Have asked greater boon. Life's turbid stream grew calm and clear The cold winds sank to rest, Hand clasped with you, no bitter pain Found dwelling in my breast; did not dread life's care and toll. Your love dispelled all gloom, And now on graves of buried hopes The sweetest violets bloom. My every breath and every thought Were pure because of you, had not dreamed that heaven could be So close to mortal view; My hands and feet were swift to do The good that near them lay, And in my heart throughout the year The joy bird sang each day. A Aashi You passed out of my life No, mol Your spirit still Is sun and moon and guiding star
 Through every cloud and i'll: As down the rainbowed years go You still are at my side, And some day shall stand with you Among the Rlorif1ed. Clarence Urmey in Youths Companion
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ThE COLISEUM.
Rounens Vast @alipse and the Many Chang
 ing Moods It Has Seen.


 It seems strange that not until the middle of last century did it occur to any of the successors of Peter to rescue from the dissertation of indifference spot saturated, one may say without hyperbole, with the blood of the mar tyrs. Everybody knows that earthquake, fire and inundation competed with each other for its destruction. Guis- cards troopers stalled themselves there, and the Frangipani transformed it into a fortress. When less turbulent times supervened, it became by tacit consent the common quarry of the more power ful Roman houses. When for time friendly enough with each other, they held tilt and tourney within it, and then mystery plays restored for time it's theatrical character. Sixtus V had scheme for turning it into a woolen manufactory, and another prince of peace thought it would serve capitally as a powder magazine. Meanwhile it remained a convenient market place for the sale of vegetables. But in 176O l an earnest Ligurian monk, Leonardo da Porto Maurizio, came to Rome, craved | audience of Benedict XIV, and obtain ing papal sanction for the new form of devotion known as the Via Crucis, in duced the sovereign pOntiff to cOnsecrate the Coliseum to celebrate mass there and to erect large wooden cross i'll the very center of the pagan arena.
 Ever since the stations of the cross, commemorating the journey to Calvary, have encircl9d the vast ellipse, and the newcomers whose rising voices disturbed my reverie are wandering hither behind l & tall, barefOoted, bareheaded Francis can friar, to make the dOlOrOus pilgrim | age. All the fine ladies of Rome are there, and, needless of delicate fiounce and furbelow, they kneel on the un- swept ground at every halt made by the rosary girdled monk and bow their heads in audible lamentatiOn. Then, when the long, sad service is completed, | he rebukes them for their transgressiOns and invites them to a hOlier life. That much can make out from where sit, :! in sympathetic contemplation of the scene, though no small part of his ex- hortation reaches me, but in fitful vowel sounds, musical, but somewhat vague in meaning. Before they have come to a close a blare of trumpets tells me that 8 body of French zouaves is coming along the Via San Gregorio, between the Pala- tine and Calian hills, on their way back to barracks from the exercising ground that lies beyond the tomb of Caius Cestus and Shelley's burial place. The insolence of alien drum,
 Vexing the bright blue air,
 To smite peoples anguish dumb 1 Or speed rash despair,
 That once had Wrung
 That prophet tongue
 To challenge force and cheer the slave, Rolls unrebuked around his grave.
 -Fortnightly Review.
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QUEER JAMAICA WAYS,
How Ono Woman Failed In Rome EO
 &RNA Rnun~na nn

How Ono Woman Failed In Rome EO Do
 as the Romans Do.
 ''When in Rome, do as the Romans do, says the old distich, but in these days of universal travel it is somewhat necessary to know beforehand the man. ners and customs of the native inhabit- ants of the countries that are visited.
 "I have eaten with chopsticks with a mandarin s wife and daughter in China and sat cross legged with the Persian ladies in Teheran and smoked mar giles" said an American woman who was nothing if not cosmopolitan, "but never failed to adapt myself success fully to the customs Of the country un til reached Jamaica, in the West In dies. l had letters to one of the mag mates there, and upon delivering them received prompt invitation to break fast and to spend the day. The hour was not mentioned, but as the people were French l supposed of course it was 12 o'clock, a la fOurchette, at which time presented myself, only to find that l had been expected at s. However, my entertainers were most hOspitable, and their usual frugal luncheon of cake, wine and fruit was evidently supple mented by more substantial viands for my benefit. After luncheon I was asked if would like to take a nap. As had just arrived l assured my hosts that 1 never slept ill the daytime and proceed ed to make myself as agreeable as possi- ble. My entertainers endeavored to be cheerful, but there was something in the atmosphere that made me aware that l had committed solecism, and that had guessed rightly was very ap- parent in the relieved looks of the fam fly when said that thought did feel tired and would be glad to repose my self a little was immediately con- ducted to an apartment which had evil dently been arranged with the expecta- tion that l would go regularly to bed, and wishing me good rest the lady and gentleman of the house left me for the whole afternoon.
 About 5 one of the daughters came to fetch me in fresh toilet, looking very nice and making me feel very tumbled and untidy in consequence So after had been shown the gardens, which were really lovely, began to make mes adieux. But you must stop to dinner, they urged; we quite expect ed you. But I thought they had had enough of me and persisted in my refus- al. l thought they parted from me rath- or stitt1y, and in driving over the long avenue which led up to the house I met a number of smartly dressed people, who, I afterward learned, had been in vited especially to meet me. So I miss ed it all around and gave no end of trouble and offense, all because did not just know Jamaica habits. "-New York Tribune
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ITEMS FROM THE STAFFORD
 NEWS LETTER.
July 10, 1858.

lit is our intention to print under this head, from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter
 RoBBING BEE HlvEs.-Two men, one night last week, between II and 12 o'clock, made an attack upon the hives of MT. Horatio Holmes, West Stafford, for the purpose of abstra citing the honey. Mir. II. waited upon them i7t pers07ea, gave chase, and in their flight one of them lost his hat in tumbling over precipice. Col. Dimmick of Fox Village has lost two hives within a month. The latter out rage seems to have been committed more through malicious intent than any object of gain, as the hives were found in the river
 ACCIDENT On Wednesday morning the down train from Palmer for New London ran over and killed a COW near BabrOck's crossing, Stafford Springs. No detention of the train or other dam age. She belonged to Mir. Daniel Smith.
 The Stafford Bank has declared divi- dend of 3 per cent. from the earnings of the past six months.
 ACCIDENT AND MARROW ESCAPE OF LIFE. On Monday morning last, Widow Nancy Orcutt of Fox Village, while walk ing on the railroad near the mill of the Mineral Springs Co.,, was struck by d freight car, detached from the regular train, which she supposed had passed her, as she stepped aside for that pur- pose. She was thrown down the embank- ment with violence, receiving several se- were bruises, but no other injury as yet discernable. When taken up she was un- conscious, but Dr. Newton, who was soon in attendance with the proper restora- tlves, administered to her relief, and she is now convaIescent.
 HAIL, COLCMBIA "A cOlored preacher has been sent to the Maryland peniten- tiary for ten years, for having in his pos session a copy of "Uncle Toms Cabin."
 BORN Staffordville, 2d. son to Nathan Walbridge.
 MARRIED. Wilmington, June 28th, by Rev. c. w. Riddle, Mir. l.. s. Main of Bolton to Miss Susan L, Royce of Will lingtOn.
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The Little Thing That Amused.

A noted man passed up Chestnut street, and everybody smiled when they glanced at him and made laughing re- marks to each other.
 The reason for their mirth lay in the fact that he carried in full view of ev- erybody-stuck in he front pocket of his overcoat-a legal document bearing the word Mortgage" ill large and con- spicuous letters. .-Philadelphia Call.
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He Knew the Plana.

The man with his coat collar turned up aud his hat pulled down over his eyes, who was slouching along in the shadow of the buildings, suddenly beck Oned to the man on the other side of the street.
 ''Here's graft, Bill, he said when the other had crossed over.
 'Wot is?'' asked Bill gruf1y.
 ''This here house," replied the first speaker. "It's just like fndin things all fixed for you. Some bloomin idiot has gone away an left his latchkey in the door. :"
 Bill took long look at the house and then shook his head.
 "You kin have it, he said. "I don t want nuthin to do with the game.
 "Wot's the matter?"
 ,"The feller wot lives here ain't to be trusted. He's low down, mean, tricky cuss. He ain't got no feelins at all. "
 Dye know him?"
 "No, but was here onct before, an I'm on to his game. He left the key just like that before, an I thought it was dead easy. Iwent up an tried to turn it, an thought Twas bein electrocuted sure.
 "Was he watchin for youP''
 "Watchin nuthini He's one of these here electrical guys, an he just sticks the key in there to catch suckers, turns million volt battery on an goes to bed. I Iwouldn't touch that key if it would let me into the Bank of England. ''--Ghi- cagO Post.
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A Painful Dilemma.

Senior Partner-What are you look ing so glum overf
 Junior Partner-Got note from my wife that the pug is lost Now, if l don't sympathize for her a whole lot, she will say am cold bloodcd brute, and if I do sympathize she will suspect that hired some one 10 steal the dog and am just condoling with her for. a bluff. f.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
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HOw's This

HOw's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
 F. J. CHENEY CO.,, Props, Toledo, o. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for the last 16 years, and believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. -. WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
 g1sts, Toledo, O..
 Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testi- monials free.
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The temperature of the earth advances one degree for every 51 feet of descent It is supposed that at distance of 30 miles below the surface metals and rocks are at white heat.
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Might Have Known

Young Wlfe-Hubby, dear, do you love me better than your pipe?
 Young Hnspand-What a foolish question to ask, dear!
 Young Wife (sadly)-Yes. I might have known without asking. Detroit Free Press.
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 Possession.

It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the worth while we enjoy it. but, being lacked and lost, why, then, we rack the value. Then we find the virtue that possession would not show us while it was ours. Shakes peare,
 The exposure to all sorts and cOndi- tiOns of weather that lumberman is call ed upon to endure in the camps often produces severe colds, which, if not promptly checked. result in congestion or pneumonia. Mir. J. o. Davenport, Px- manager of the Fort Bragg Redwood Co.,, an immense institution at Fort Bragg, Cal, says they sell large quantities of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at the company's store, and that he has himself used this remedy for @ severe cold and obtained immediate relief. This medi- cine prevents any tendency of a cold to- ward pneumonia, and insureS a prompt recovery. For sale by w. w. LathrOp, Stafford Springs; c, l.. Phillips, South Coventry.
 To he a good talkeI is a common at tribute; to be a good listener is much rarer quality.
 In recent editorial, the Salem, Ore- gOn, Independent says: Time and again have we seen Chamberlain's Cough Remedy tried, and never without the most satisfactory results. Whenever we see a person afflicted with hoarseness, with a cough or cold, we invariably ad- wise them to get Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and when they do, they never regret it. It always does the work, and does it well. For sale by w. w. La thrOp, Stafford Springs; c. l.. Phillips, South Coventry.
 No man makes so much work in doing j anything as lazy man.
 J. w. Pierce, Republic, la, says ''I have used One Minute Cough Cure in my ! family and for myself, with results so en- tirely satisfactory that 1 can hardly find words to express myself as to it's merit. 1 will never fail to recommend it to Oth- CTS, on every occasion that presents it. self. w. D. Heald, Stafford Springs G. L. Phillips, South Coventry.
 Enjoy what you have; hope for what you lack
 A ACCOMPLISHMENTS FROM Los ANGELES -632 Castelar, St., Los Angeles, Cal.- After having suffered for long time from acute rheumatism without obtaining re- lief, I used Chamberlain's Pain Balm, anC was almost immediately relieved. highly recommend this as the best medi cine known.-D. NJ. Hamilton. For sale by w. w. LathrOp, Stafford Springs G i l.. PhilliDS South Coventry
 DreadiDg a task will never help us tC do it.
 Soothing. healing, cleansing, De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve is the enemy to sores wounds and piles, which it never fails to cure. Stops itching and burning. Cures chapped lips and cold-sores in two ol three hours. w. D. Heald, Stafford Springs; G. L. Phillips, South Coventry
 There's no fool like an old fool.
 Quick in effect, heals and leaves nc scar. Burning, scaly skin eruptions quickly cured by De Witt's Witch Haze Salve. Applied to burns, scalds, ole sores, it is magical in effect. Always cures piles. W.D. Heald, ,StaffordSprings G. l.. Phillips, South Coventry.
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A small daughter was taken to visit the Museum of Natural History the other day. "Oh, mamma" she said, upon her return, "I've been to dead cjrO17U ''