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The Skylight kicker., 1897-12-02

Near Homer, Mich Il man started a duck farm last spring with two ducks. The eggs laid numbered 190, and he raised to the marketable age 116 ducks.
The Skylight kicker., 1897-12-02
THURSDAY. DECEMBER ?. 1897.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Sweet apple cider at Cotlin's.

Sweet apple cider at Cofiin's.
 Blankets and Quilts at tho Cash Store.
 Henry Ashurst of Williams was here the first of the week.
 The new Catholic school building is about ready for occupancy.
 Take your watch and jewellery re- pairs to J. A. Maurer at the postofflce.
 William Travis and family left Monday for Camp Verde to spend the winter.
 A sanitarium should be established here. It is certainly an ideal place for one.
 Edgar Whipple the king of under takers paid Williams business visit Monday.
 Go to G. H. Coiiin's for fresh oys- ters, celery, cranberries and fine cream candies.
 In less than twelve months the mines at the Grand Canyon will as- sume Klondike rush.
 S. S. Ackers, heavy weight dem- ocrat of Camp Verde was mixing with our business men Monday.
 FOR SALE--A fine toned square Piano in excellent condition. Apply to
 J. M. SIMPSON. Charles O'Neal of Raton, New Mexico, arrived here Monday and will remain for an indefinite time.
 The railroad magnates and mining kings will be here the last of next week and they mean business.
 Frank J. Stem has accepted posi- tion as salesman in the grocery de- partment of Babbitt Bros. store.
 One of the largest stocks of Furni- ture ecer shipped to the Territory has just been received Ut the Cash Store. Give some persous small position and they are ready to criticias evSf thing ia sight and .s monarch oi all they survey.
 From the new subscriptions we are receiving we infer that the SKYLIGHT KICKER is popular, and that the people want it to kick.
 James Loy has the walls of his new brick office building up, and has already leased Dr. w. s, Robinson an office in the same.
 Molenpah & Mudersbach have the cleanest, incest, most convenient meat market in town. Their meats are all fresh and of the finest.
 Dr. J. A. Miller, dentist, returned Sunday from visit to Navajo county. where he had been nending and ex- tracing troublesome teeth.
 If you wish to see au assortment of trunks, and valises of modern build at low prices. drop in to the Cash Store. Telescopes 75c up. trunks $5 to $S0.
 Dr. Dryden of Winslow was on No. ? passenger Tuesday, in charge of the conductor and fireman who were wounded in the wreck near AcClsl- lsn station. Clarence Spellmire came in today from Kansas City, Mo. and will tahe charge of the Rabbit Brothers com missary. His many friends are glad to have him back among them.
 A telegram was received here yes terday for DeNoy Hodge from his father at Berryville, Ark, announcing the death of his little sister, which occurred at that place on Tuesday.
 
 Our county hotel continues to keeI full of boarders which is evidence tha the criminal element knows goo' thing when they see it, and are no changing boarding places every lew days.
 T. K. Pulliam is having his resi- dence on Aspen Avenue remodelet and repapered. He expects Mrs Pulliam and children to return thi' week from an extended visit to Arkan sas, aud he wants the house in orde1 to receive them.
 Three or four dead engines on th' y.,ds bere the first of the week show
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 cordially invited to these services.
 c. P. WILSON, Pastor. The surveying party who are sur veying route from the Grand Can yon to this place for the Sante Fe ( Grand Canyon railroad will arrive here the latter part of next week Those who claim to be on the insid, say the road will be built from here and that dirt will fly in less thar thirty days. We hope they are no talking through their hats.
 c. s. Denton and family who cam, here three or four months ago for tn, benefit of lns wifes' health left yester day for their home at Berryville, Ar kansas. Mrs. Denton's health i'm proved very much while here, an, we expect the family will return t our mountain city next spring to eDjo' this health giving climate and mak, this their home.
 A colored gentleman, who gave shi uame as Charles Ramon, was arreste. here last week by deputy sheriff Rubel Drum, on a charge of rape committel in Los Angeles, Cal, but was release' on last Monday week. He passe, through here on No. 2 passenger Fri day in charge of an officer who wa taking him to Nashville, Tenn, [ answer for murder committed i that city several years ago.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23

England has, at last, taken notice of
the horrors of the famine that has, for
some time, been raging in India. 1t was
not, however, until the threatened dan
gers Of an uprising that would be seri-
GUS menace to continuation of her gov
eminent there was manifest that any
steps were taken to relieve the unfortu-
nate people Of her most important ORR
entail possession. The usual Mansion
House Relief Fund" was inaugurated by
Mr.. George Faudel-Phillips, lord mayor
of London, and now amounts to G35, 900.
The largest subscription to the fund was
that Of Mr.. William Waldorf Astor, who
gave $4,000. Queen Victoria only gave
one-fourth as much as the former New
Yorker. He was not, however, obliged to
clip off three-fourths of his donation, to
keep within the standard Of Her Maj
esty"s bounty, as was the case with the
sultan at the time of the great Irish fam
inc. The stories that the queens mind
is affected are not true, judging from this
evidence Of how she retains her grip on
the fat purse she has accumulated during
her long reign.
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Clara. did he apologize for kissing
you? Maude-Oh, yes; several times.

II call upon you" said the counsellor,
ttto state distinctly upon what authority
you are prepared to swear the mares
age?" upon what authority?" said the
ostler, interrogatively. "You are to re-
ply, and not repeat the question put to
you" II don't consider a mans bound
to answer a question afore he has had
time to turn 1t in his mind" Nothing
can be more simple, sir, than the ques-
ton put. 7 again repeat it. Upon what
authority do you swear to the animals
age?" sThe best authority" responded
the witness grufiy. Than why such
evasion? Why do you not state it at
once?" Well, then, if must have it. p
Must! must and will have it," vo-
ciferated the exited counsellor, interrupt
ing the witness. Well, than, il you
must and will have It, ''rejoined the 9th
;er, with imperturable gravity, well,
then I had it from the mares own
mouth y = stimuli aneous burst 4. Of
laughter rang tthroue the coart.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23

A fact OF much significance is the posi-
ton taken by DR. Emil G. Hirsch, of Chi
cago, leading rabbi of the West, in
reference to the Jewish Sabbath. He
says that there is no further need of it,
and, furthermore maintains that the sew
enth-day tradition of the race is swal-
lowed UP in the necessity Of adapting the
religion to the customs of the country in
which it may be transplanted. "The
men cannot do he says. "as the men
did centuries ago in Judea. 1t is Amer
lea, and Judca must be American"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23
BLAKE FOR LEADER.

The Canadian freeman In discussing
recently the need of new leader for
Ireland says, ,&-~ - - ~
The pilot" is justly valued, wherever
Irish hearts beat, as the trusted exponent
Of Erin's inalienable right to self-gov-
eminent. We are therefore pleased to
find, in the sterling columns of our es-
teemed contemporary, : the view Of ''the
Freeman" endorsed, that Ireland needs
now, more than ever, a leader with the
craftsmanship of Burke, the eloquence
of a Grattan, the genius Of an O'Connell,
the firmness and resolution of a Parnell
"a leader under whom Irish patriots OF
every class, creed, condition and shade OF
opinion, may coalesce and combine.
Every Irish Canadian will endorse the
.'Pilot's''' clear exposition Of Ireland g
need
"What the people of ireland at present
need is a leader Of character@and con-
trolling power, under whom all parties
could unite, and in whom they could re-
pose entire confidence; a wise and ener-
getic and incorruptible statesman and
true man Since the death Ut Parnell
there has been no recognized funcrowned
king. We can but hopein all sincerity
that such a leader of commanding genius
may arise and fill his place, too long va
cant for the welfare of this country"
A country that has given the British
empire it's greatest military leaders, the
English speaking races their grandest
orators, and the world it's profoundest
thinker, Edmund Burke, must soon have
the leader desired by its people. The
man for the occasion is now in ireland
man for the occasion is now in Ireland.
Canada gave him to old Erin. and by all
true lovers of Home Rule and Ireland
on this side of the water it is sincerely
hoped that the day is at hand when all
Irishmen. be they what they may-Un-
ionists, Liberals, Parnellites, or anti-Par-
nellites-will stand behind the Hon.
Edward Blake as the one man qualified
to lead Ireland from subserviency to
freedoms equality. Meantime, the Lon
don Advertiser fully and justly expires
es the views ofseanad1an home rulers:
Mr.. Blakess counsel OF unity Of action
and determination to secure home rule
lis necessary for the welfare Of Ireland. .
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would % eblag To- xslk The a 4 q
a. labor was bidden e stand aside while
the great man Of figures should expatiate
grandiloq uently upon the beneacence Of
the single gold standard. It Is for this
breach Of duty, this uncalled-for par
tisanship, and this lordly assumption
that the labor element Of the state asks
that the manner in which the duties of
Mr.. Powers are being conducted shall
be Investigated, Notwithstanding his rep
5t1tation for statistics.
Powers may escape the castigation he
deserves, but If so 1t will be because he
has partisan majority in the leglsla-
ture behind him..
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said, If yo,t td u. ireland. III
mon, stand sand act ~ the spir:
It OF the fine, w1tias OF Lord eastletown
tot Upper Ossotys die went to Boston fol
IA precedent: peahapsayou would rathe,
look at home. IHsyou do, you. Irish gent,
~ of this time, look to Charlemont and
the volunteersDf 1882. Look to Gratta1
and the Irishsgentry in your own Irish
Parliament, and they will show you the
way to get 7justfetef for Ireland" This Ii
very plain speaking Of the Irish gentry
I it will be conceded; but in such crisis
as the present, .rlain speaking is best
II would presume his lordship went on
ito say to the Conservative gentlemen
/ that they are now again, by a great
@chance, it may be by the Providence of
God, in their true position at the head Of
the people of Ireland. They have put
their hand to the plow; there Is long
work before them. Let them not look
back; let them beI,trle to ireland and
true to themselves, and they will deserve
we'll Of their country, and will have done
their part to consolidate their union with
their fellow countrymen, and to redress
one of the greatest grievances, one of the
grossest injustices, that has ever been
revealed in the maladministration of this
unfortunate country" That is an appeal
which we sincerely trust will sink into
the hearts and minds of the Irish gentry,
for, Notwithstanding what has taken
place during the last twenty years, the
people of Ireland would welcome them
: back into the body polite of the nation
with heart and a half.
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The judgments of Women.

In a conversation we once held with
an eminent clergyman he made this fine
observation: 1--WE will say nothing of
the manner in which that sex usually
conduct an argument; but the intuitive
judgments of women are often more to
be relied upon than the conclusions
which we reach by an elaborate process
of reasoning. No man who has an intel
ligent wife, or is accustomed to the socie-
ty of educated women, will dispute this.
Times without number you must have
known them to decide questions on the
instant, and with unerring accuracy,
which you had been porting over for
hours, perhaps, with no other result
than to find yourself getting deeper and
deeper into the tangled maze of difficult
ties. It were hardly generous to allege
that they achieve these facts less by rea-
soning than sort of sagacity which APP
proximates to the sure instincts of the
animal races, and yet there seems to be
some good ground for the remark of a
French writer, that when man has
toiled, step by step, up a flight of stairs,
he will be sure to find a woman at the
top, but she will not be able to tell how
she got there. How she got there, how
ever, is of little moment. If the conclu-
sions a woman has reached are sound,
that is all that concerns us. And that
they are very apt to be sound on the
practical matters of domestic and secu-
lar life, nothing but prejudices or self
conceit can prevent us from acknowledge
ing. The inference, therefore, is unavoid-
able that the man who thinks it beneath
his dignity to take counsel with an intel
ligent wife stands in his own light, and
betrays that lack of judgment which he
tacitIy attributes to her."
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early and late he Is working ri(s
Says that's his natural style; s' {. q 81
He wasn't cut out right for sinking, 81;
And they say he is making his pile "
Married, Of course" suggested, Il
With babies to climb on his khee?"
mo; too many dollars invested
He's never had leisure, you see. Il
tNo hand for sports-isn't active; t 4S
And ask him to 60 to the play,
And he'll say It's mighty attractive:
He'd be glad ton some other day.
teAnd suppose you suggest he's losing
The joys that make living worth
while;
He declares your ideas are amusing
And asks: Amt l making my pile7
No wife to dispute my dominion,
No children to go to the bad;
Give me cash in my humble opinion,
: The best friend a man ever had
IF you speak of the pleasures Of giving,
He puts on cynical smile,
And remarks that you'll learn more by
living
Poor fool!-but he's making his pile"
Frank Putnam.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23

1t may or may not be looking far into
the future to suggest, as is frequently
done, that some day the popular choice
for president and .vice-president may be
defeated by the electoral college.
The men who met recently in the several
states and elected William Mckinley and
Garret A. Hobart to those offices, had a
perfect constitutional right to elect Will
liam. j. Bryan and Thomas E. Watson,
or any two men on whom they might
have agreed. It is something to the
credit of the much deprecated system of
American politics that no such action
has ever been seriously apprehended;
but it's possibility exists; and if the cor
ruption of machine politics goes much
further, it may become an alarming one.
Meanwhile, however, the behavior of the
electoral college, dealing, as it does, with
the highest prizes in the game of pol
itics, and with nothing to restrain it but
honor, will afford a pretty good test Of
the country's political morality. So long
as the electoral college is not only in
corruptible, but above suspicion, ma
tional politics cannot be hopelessly bad.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23

AS a mathematician, Ben Johnson, Of
the Western baseball league, is a howl
ing success. In publishing the official
averages of the different clubs in the
league for 1896 he finds that Mime
apolis showed up very poor both at bat
and in the field. and the general aver
age of the home club, in cold print, APP
pears to be about on a par with that
secured BY the tail-end ers perhaps a
t1ifa better. aiinneap polls wen the pen.
nalt but how the victory was achieved
Us II,,per Mr. John
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THE IRISH MOVEMENT.

81 will venture to add this" said the
Most Rev. DR.. O'Dwyer, in the splendid
speech he made at the great gathering at
Limerick recently, that if any man in
Ireland is so foolish as to imagine that
the spirit which these meetings will; e.
woke in Ireland can be allayed at pleas
ure by any man, he will find himself wo-
fully mistaken. Either: of two things
will happen-either the English parlia-
ment, by great and signal act Of justice
will redress this grievance, or you will
find that you are laying the foundations
during these days, of the broadcast, the
soundest, and the truest national govern
lnent you have had in Ireland for hun
dred years. No man of sense or judg-
ment can now question the truth of these
words, says United Ireland. England is
at last on the horns of dilemma in
Ireland. Her policy of Divide and Con-
quer has suddenly boomeranged, back up
on herself, and for the first time since
1882 she stands face to face with unit
ed Irish nation sternly demanding JUS
tice. Who can doubt this who has wit,
messed, or even read the reports of, the
meetings which took place in Dublin and
Limerick this week? Never during the
present century have such meetings been
held in these cities Prelates and Peers,
sneers an English journal, have united
with peasants and publicans in a foolish
agitation which must end in failure. We
do not mind the prophecy, for the agita-
ton shall not end in failure; but we
thank God that the day has come when
Englishmen are forced to acknowledge
that Peer and Prelae, Publican and
Peasant, have joined hands in the sacred
name of Patriotism. -. ~. ,:...
Joy! joy! the dayxhas Gene atslast,
the day of hope and PRIDE
DR.. O'Dwyer is right. The great and
inspiring significance Of the new move
ment is the foundation of fellowship
which it is laying in the hearts-of the
Irish people of every class ndslcreed.
We have heard a deal Of talk lately. about
majority rule. Why, here is q majority
rule for you-the Irish nation, Indiffer-
ent to the WORKOUT feuds Of the parties
and sects, moving onssteaailys to the is
sue with England. We have often asked
in Ireland during the last fifty years,
''Who fears to speak of 1892" 1t is to the
point to ask just now, who, fears to
speak of '82? for if the spirit of 80 is not
again rising in the hearts efsthe- men of
Ireland we sadly mistake, the tokens OF
the times. Wemust go back to that year
as Mr.. Maunsell, the courageous and pa
triotic owner Of the Express told the
Mansion House Meeting, TO find the
time when Ireland rose to her feet with
similar object, to show that the CONNER
cial restrictions placed on this country
were bringing her to the verge Of bank
ruptcy. Z Who fears to speak Of 80?
Not Or. o'Dwyer, 81 | Limerick, either:
s*tIff you ant e set satisfa he
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23

The announcement is made that the
long continued service rendered in the
cause of Irish historical and antiquarian
knowledge by DR.. John T. Gilbert has
been recognized by the comforting of the
honor of knighthood. DR.. Gilbert is the
author of several literary works on Irish
historical subjects, and is at present edit
ing the ancient records of the City of
Dublin, which are being published by the
municipal council. Lady Gilbert is
widely known under her old name Of
Miss Rosa Mulholand, which, like that
of her distinguished husband, holds a
high place in the annals of literature.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23

The Catholic Gazette says: "The keen
interest that the Holy Father takes in
the progress of the Church in England
is we'll known, and we understand that
it is in accordance with his special de-
sire that his Eminence the Cardinal has
collected statistics from the various do
ceses as to the number of recent con-
verts. The reports show that during the
past fifteen months nearly $4,000 con-
verts have been received into the church.
There have been upward of 1000 IN the
diocese of Westminster alone.'
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Il
his boyhood and young manhood wer
spent in preparation for the priesthood
a calling Of which he early made choice
Through the wealth and high social posi-
ton Of his parents, he had every ad
vantage that the training schools of hi
own land and of European countries
could furnish. He had the favorable at
tention of Pope Gregory in his youth, a.
of Plus TX. and Leo XIII. in his later
years and later Roman sojourns.
| He was ordained to the priesthood il
1850, and through his devotion to dut,
and his marked gift as a pulpit orator
his promotion was rapid.
His public lectures for young men, ii
Montreal effected remarkable mora
improvement, especially among the med
ical students.
In 1873, he was consecrated Coadjuto,
with the right of succession, to the ven.
cradle Bishop Bourget, after whose death
in 1879, he entered earnestly on the gov.
eminent of his diocese.
1t was raised to the dignity of an Arch:
bishopric in 1886.
Montreal is the seat of a great Sulpi-
clan Seminary, of Theological Semina.
ry of the Jesuits, and Of several houses
of other religious orders.
This accounts for the fact that in the
course of his twenty years episcopats
Archbishop Fabre ordained over thou.
sand priests. g;
Among the priests ordained by him
six became bishops and one an Arch
bishop. These are: The Rt. Rev. AL
bert Pascal, D. D., Bishop Of Saskatche-
wan; the Rt. Rev. T. d. Beayen,sD. ID.
Bishop of Springfield, Mass; Bishops
Cardot and Despierre, Vicars-Apostolic
in Cochin China; Archbishop Langevin
of st. Boniface, and the Rt. Rev. E. J.
O'Dea, D. D., Bishop of Nesqually, Wash
DR.. Fabre also consecrated Bishop 10.
rain, Vicar-Apostolic of Pontiac; Arch:
bishop o 'Brien, of Halifax; Bishop Low
age, of Dacca, Africa; Bishop Decelles
of Druzipara, Coadjutor of St. Hyacinthe
Archbishop Langevin of st. Boniface;
and he oficiated at the blessing of Dom
Antoine, the Mitred Abbot of Okla.
DR.. Fabre had special interest in the
education of deaf mutes, and before his
promotion to the episcopate, made pro
longed visit to Belgium to study the best
methods for the training of this afflicted
class.
The result was that magnificent insti-
tuition in Montreal, under the charge OF
the Sisters of Charity of Providence
where 327 deaf mutes are now receiving
an excellent religious and secular educa.
ton. s.a.,-.--.
The venerable mother of Archbishop
Fabre survives him. His brother Louis
is we'll known as journalist and author
and for a number of years represented
La Sale in the senate of the Dominion
The late Sir George. Cartier was his
brother-in-law.