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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-11-26
A. o. II. Life Insurance Fund.

Secretary O'Shaughnessy, under date
of Oct. S, has sent a report to all divis-
ions of the A. o. II. in Minnesota of the
condition of the life insurance fund for
three months. beginning July | and end
ing Oct. 1. 1t will be remembered that
the new plan of assessment amounting to
65c per month from each insured men,
Der, went into effect July |. Since that
time to Oct. 5. nine deaths have been
reported to the state secretary, of which
number six were paid. Proofs of death
had not been received on the last three.
From the following financial summary
it will be seen that it has required all
the money collected at the present rate
of assessment to meet the death claims
since July I, thus leaving the amount in
the beneficiary fund practically the
same as on July l..
FINANCIAL SUMMARY.
Amt on hand July 1.....$ 9,599. 90
Amt collected on July, August
and September dues ........ $500 Is
Amt collected on delinquent
assessments .... .......... 1870
Amt. collected on initiation fees 1916
Total ...... ......... $l5,74G.7O
CLAIMS PAID.
15O-.John c. Sherin, Hen
pin 3.......... .....$l 900
151-Michael DOlan, RAM
scy-G $50. ............ 900
152-J. Il. McGuiness, I.c
Sueur--2 ...... ...... 1000
l53--M Joseph Greer,
Crow Wing ........ 900
l54--Pat McCann Hen
nepin-4 ...... ........ 900
l55-Thos. Mitchell Ram
sey--4 ........ ........ 1000 Sc, 900. 90
Balance in beneficiary fund. 80, TAG. 20
Deaths have been reported from Div. I
St. Louis county; Div. 3, Hennepin
county, and Div. i, Scott county. Death
%,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-11-26

Matchmaker: "Your watch is deficient in
motive power. 1t needs stronger spring.
New York Politician: "Dyouse mean to
hint that I've not got pull cnough?'-The
jewelers. Weekly.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-11-26

Balance in beneficiary fund. $9,74G.70
Deaths have been reported from Div. 1,
st. Louis county; Div. 3, iennepin
county, and Div. /, Scott county. Death
proofs not received.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16
Hints for the Campaign.

Unshavei faces and newly grown
boards Will he regarded as evidences of
patriotic Intentions. and the man who
suddenly becomes negative Ia tonsorial
attractions will be looked upon as son
Of Mars. if the advice of an army officer
in Key West is generally followed.
This veteran of half Il dozen Indian
campaigns. whose body still bears cal
loused "reminiscences Of l1va-bed mat
trcSSeS and sage-bush sleeping cots. adj
Vses every national guar1Smau who de-
signs to earn chevronS and shoulder
straps on Cuban soil to begin at once to
let his beard grow.
The boys will have all they can do to
carry 100 rounds of ammunition, shelter
tents, blankets and mess things without
adding extra weight in the form of ra-
soap" he said The coming Cuban
campaign will be short and sweet. live
" and variegated. requiring swift feet to
move forward rapidly, and every ounce
Of dead weight Will weigh a ton at the
end of the days march. Start your
beard now. by the time You get 10 Cuba
the propagation viii be beyond the itch
ing. untidy-feeling stage. and YOU Will
begin to look like a veteran.
Then came a half-hour of advisory
chat. from which the following was
culed:
Volunteers should provide themselves
with good. strong walking shoes. water
proof if possible with medium thick
soles, having the invisible thin cork in
SoleS. The Hat-lrOn last is recommended.
In buying campaign shoes it will be well
to bear in mind that a shoe too small
cannot be worn, ana a shoe too large
raises biSters
Wooden socks. although rather uncom-
Portable at first, will prove to be the
most comfortable in the end for they
Will absorb moisture and prevent chaff-
ing. They should fit well, for wrink-
led sock or stocking is the cause of
more sore feet than is generally sup
posed. In bnNiDo shoes and stnpyiDOS
the campaign allowance in size must be
the steady tramp, tramp tramp" over
A footsore army is an army half-de-
feated and European nations are said to
be paying more attention to the feet than
the heads of their soldiers.
Shoes furnished from quartermasters
stores are not suited to the untried feet
of the boys wh5 will so to the ranks
from stores, banks, offices and shops
They are too clumsy and stiff But after
the walking machinery of the recruit has
got down to its bearings" to quote an
engineers phrase, then the regulation
army shoe can be worn. and will be
found surprising comfortable.
The foot soldier whose undcrpinning
gives way is as useless as wounded
man. To quote a grand army veteran
In the COS water in the south killed
more of the boys than whiskey did in
the north. and corns carried off more
men than bullets did" This explains
why the army officer paid so much at
tention to the subject of shoes and
stockings.
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Thai Word Was .,War!.''


This is how Oliver Wendell Holmes
recorded the outbreak of the Civil War:
ON Friday, the twelfth day of the
month of<April. in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and sixty eat half
past four of the clock in the morning, a
cannon was aimed andSfred by the au-
thority of South Carolina at the wall of
a fortress belonging to the United
States. Its ball carried with it the hat
reds, the RACES of thirty years, shaped
and cooled in the mould of malignant
deliberation. Its Wad was the char
ter of our national existence. Its muZ-
zle was pointed at the stone which bore
the symbol of our national sovereignty.
AS the echoes of its thunder died away,
the telegraph clicked enc word through
every office of the land. That word
was War;"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

general ill-health, by looking in her mirror.
The sallow or blotched complexion, heavy
eyes and dark circles under them the little
wrinkles that gradually creep around the
corners of her eyes and mouth and the
general look of listlessness and despond-
ency will tell the story. Special troubles
of this kind are too frequently neglected
because the natural and proper modesty of
women keeps them from consulting the
average run of physicians. These men,
because they are without inherent delicacy
themselves, imagine that women are the
same. They insist upon obnoxious exam
nations and local treatment from which
any sensitive woman shrirks. DR. Pierce's
Favoritc Prescription will do more for
woman who suffers in this way than all the
doctors of this description together. Dur
ing the past thirty years it has been used
by over ninety thousand women with mar
vclous results. 1t is an unfailing cure for
all weakness and disease peculiar to worn-
en-. All good medicine dealers sell it.
For number of years suffered with COM
rlication Of female troubles writes Mrs T. b.
ferguson of Edgmoor Chester Co. 5. {. II
tried various remedies from physicians. but
nothing seemed to do me any good. 1t seemed
that nv back would kill me. l had sruothering
spells at night 50 bad could not rest. Also had
constipation ] took DR.. Pierce S Favorite Pre-
scription and Pleasant Pellets and en-
tircly cured"
Send for DR.. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser. Paper bound, 81 one
cent stamps, cloth bound, ten cents more.
Address DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, n. Y.
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Transatlantic News.

Reuters kilograms, the Direct. and Macke!
Cables supply the reading and commercial pubic
this side of the Atlantic with faithful news
They almost invariably coincide in accuracy
and speed of arrival, and the special cable
grams in the papers differ little from those seu1
out by the Associated Press Ocean commuhi-
cation with the other side has also received ihi.
mense impetus through the improvement OIL
steam vessels, and the increase of their size
and motive power. Passengers across the Az
lantic are In spite of splendid accommodations
and the lessened vibration by improvement III
the hull of steam vessels always liable to sea
sickness. The nausea which this complaint pro
duces is invariably curable with Hostetter
Stomach Bitters. which quiets and inyigofatVs
the stomach. and relieves biliousuess ana u"
irregular state of the bowels. Malaria and uc
disorders caused by changes of climate exposure
in Indictment weather and unusual diet are an"
remetiied by this useful companion of the ua''
eier and tourist.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

-Four weeks from today will occur the
first state election of the '9S campaign.
1t will give an opportunity to watch
the result of the war issue" in state
election. On June 6, oregon will elect
a governor and full board Of state OIL
Gals, two congressman and a Legisla-
ture, which will choose a United States
senator. 1t will be remembered that
the last Legislature broke up in a row
without electing a senator, and tenn
porary appointment was made by the
governor. While the unfortunate split
in the Republican party on the financial
issue has not been entirely healed, all
Republicans are united in hearty sup
port of the Mckinley administration in
it's prosecution of the war with Spain.
This, it is hoped, will bring such
strength to the sound money wing Of
the party that it will win easily over
the combination of free silver Demo-
Gratis. Populists, Socialists and anar-
chists, who still cling to the Bryan de-
fusion of 1896. The result ought to be
another reliable sound money Republi-
can in the United States Senate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

1t is worth While to remember that
the South furnishes the first sacrifice
Of this war. Ensign Bagley was a ma
tive of North Carolina. With his blood
he has sealed the union in arms of the
North and South. A people who once
fought against the Stars and Stripes
send one of their sons as the first sac
rifice for the honor and glory of that
flag. There is no North and no South
after that. We are all Worth Bagley's
countrymen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

1t appears that the Spanish loss at
Cardenas numbered several scores
killed and wounded, one gunpoat was
burned and two torpedo boats sunk,
the signal station destroyed the bat
tarieS silenced, and the town partly
burned, but all this does not make us
mourn the less for brave Ensign Bag
ley and his men. The Winslow will be
repaired at Key West and very soo1 be
in active service again.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

The young duke Of Manchester. who
caused considerable perturbation on
this side of the Atlantic some months
ago, is reported to have engaged HIM
self for matrimonial alliance to a
sadly mixed UP in the Prince of Wales
baccarat party of unhappy memory.
The news is cheering to Americans. for
the young scion Of nobility had firmly
announced his intention of marrying
an American girl with money and did
not hesitate to admit that it was the
money only that he was after,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Nothing more picturesque has oc-
Cured during the war to date than
the presentation by Boston Hebrew
children to the Irish Ninth of the
American colors, with the prcsenta
ton speech by their rabbi and the ac-
ceptance by a Roman Catholic priest
This striking example of fraternity
in the nations cause speaks well 70,
the Boston spirit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

A writer in Gunton's magazine thus
sums up the Populistic fallacy of
Bryan and his cohorts: "Proba bly,
there has been on movement in modern
times which on the whole is based upon
so much delusion and social i'll feeling,
and contains the possibility of so little
good to the class in whose interest it is
organized, as Populism. 1t is unscen-
tific, uneconomic, inconsistent, with no
basis in wholesome experience or broad
craftsmanship. Its practical effect
would be simply to disrupt the most
helpful movements toward industrial
development from which alone the
agricultural population can ever obtain
any permanent advantage"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
The Way to Peace.
(Chicago Journal.l

This is no time for the display of
weeping emotions and non-combatant
tenderness. The nation is at war and
the people are patriots they will take
a stern satisfaction in seeing war
prosecuted to the end. If they are not
patriots they had better wind up their
national existence and go into the
hands Of a European receiver The
time Of peace is gone. We may hope
for it's return, but the only way to
hasten its return is to fight and fight
hard
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16
To Maria Christina.

Lady. who euardest for a tender child
\ doomed and wrath-heleaguered heri-
tage.
For thee, for him. tho million hearts en-
gage
Their troth. yet to defeat he recopctled,
Let pass the brave inheritance detiicd
With blood still unavenged from age to
age;
Free the fair isle, whose wrongs nought
can assuage
Save Freedom-hy no promises beguiled.
Whoe'er may strike thy manumitting
hand.
Dare thou the deed, O queen Free the
fair Isle!
Somewhere. for thee and for thy helpless
charge.
The wooing Peace with silvery Dough
While far in realms beyond the sunsets
The grateful waters lap an island marge
II.
But. if thou be unsceptered and dis
Such royalty forever shall inhere
In this thine act, the world shall seek
Among S its sovereigns nor thy peer be
Are not all women by one fealty bound
To war against War (be it far or neaD?
Constant the dreaming and the waking
That now weighs womanhood, the world
around,
Free the fair Isle, and threefold be the
balm:-
From Pyrenees to Calpe. tears shall
cease
To wives ana mothers of thine own de-
meSne;
And. underneath the Antillean palm.
The dark-eyed mourners shall be filled
with peace;
And women of my race shall bless thee,
Queen,
Edith NJ. Thomas in All Women.
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The Toronto Globe" prints cartoon
representing Columbia thus addressing
Europe: Madam, I'm fiattered by
your respectful interest in my opera
tions, but may | call your attention to
the unspeakable Turk at your side? l
am ending the chapter of tyranny on
this continent-go thou and do like
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16
Good Patriotism, but Mixed Metaphors.
(ohio Statn LnnrnalN

IFNIU SIatr JOUTn1I.)
The present war With Spain has been
a powerful factor i'll Matchmaking thu
country. showing 10 the world that We
stand immoyable as the rock of ages.
and every man marching one way
when threatened by foreign foe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16
Reflections OF a Bachelor.

Only a small proportion of civiliza-
ton is civil
Whatever the average woman doesn't
like she says is just like a man."
A man who doesn't carry matches is
about as rare as a girl who can't find
a pin somewhere.
There is only one thing more uni
versal in man than religion, and that
is the longing to spit over when he is
up on some high place.
When two women get together to
sympathize about each others all
ments, they always end up by talking
over their husbands.-New York Press.
Paul Cyr of Rumford Falls, has
forty-tWo English rabbits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

The American volunteer is wondering
whether he Will pass the summer at
Chcamauga, Tampa, Havana. Manila
or San Juan. In any case it is likely to
be hot business for him and he won't
need any extra overc0ats or blankets.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16
machine.

The Charleston, with ammunition and
stores aboard, is speeding across the
Pacific to the aid of Dewey This crui-
ser will add much to the strength of
Dewey's squadron, and she will be fol-
lowed at once by ships loaded with
troops and supplies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Workmen while digging for the water
pipe on Front street, Belfast, recently.
were obliged to dig through several
feet of chips a long distance. The
chips were the remains of the old ship
yards and although in the ground sew
eral years they were in good condi-
fiOp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

We cannot afford to bclittle the enc
strength. Besides, it is more credit to
defeat foeman in some degree worthy
of our steel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

1t will be worth all the war is likely
the necessity of a Nicaraguan canal,
owned and controlled by the United
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Naughty little Belgium is said to
have violated the neutrality laws by
selling Spain a steamer loaded with
ammunition, and Uncle Sam is loking
up the case. 1t will be a good chance
to use that new patented spanking
machine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

The Winslows dead included natives
of North Carolina, Syria, Ireland, Ohio
and Virginia. but they were all Ameri-
can citizens and all died for one flag,
which they all loved.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

1t is difficult to see how such an en-
terprising newspaper man as Walter
Wellman can be planning an expedition
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Each New England state sends one
infantry regiment to Chickamauga.
There will be no Drawer or sturdier sol
diers on that historic camping ground.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Formerly Manila was spelled
Manila" Instead of giving it 'I' as
has been generally supposed Dewey
seems to have knocked "l' out of it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

The Spanish admit 800 killed and 600
wounded at Manila, and it is safe to
say that the truth would show their
loss much greater.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

1t gives US renewed interest in Cuba S
cause to know that Gen. Gomez's wife
is an American woman formerly Miss
Martin of Tennessee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Nearly one hundred cases of measles
have occurred in MONMOUTH in the
past two months. In some cases whole
families were down with them at
once
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

No doubt the phantom fleets of
Spain will still trouble the dreams of
those along the northern coast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Spain is greatly in need of good
cabinet maker He must also furnish
the material.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Speaking of "far-flung battle lines,
that of Uncle Sam now extends half
way around the world.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

The Yale has brought in a prize
steamer. Now where is the Harvard?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Now is the chance for the man with
the bullet proof cloth to take some
large orders.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Just three months since the Maine
was blown up in Havana harbor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

New more than ever should the
prayer of the "Recessional' be ever in
our hearts:
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest We forget, lest We forget
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

The Sundays in this war are red let
ter days.
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Our hearts are with the fleet.
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Piscataquis Observer: TO people who
are familiar with the history of Maine
during the past 81 years nothing can
show more strongly the advantage
President Mckinley has over President
Lincoln than the tone Of the State
press and the same condition holds in
all the other states. During the dark
days of the Rebellion Augusta had
Democratic paper the Standard that
could not do or say enough TO iniure
the administration. In short the edi-
tor should have been hung for treason.
Today a strong Democratic paper Is
published in the same city. the New
in this crisis. During the same time
Marcellus Emery published the Demo-
crat in Bangor and he was so bitter
against Mr.. Lincoln's administration
that an indignant public finally broke
up his office and he in person narrowly
escaped his just deserts. Today the
Democrats successor, the CONNER
cal, Is one Of the strongest supporters
Mr.. Mckinley has in the war with
Spain. doing grand work in staying up
his hands. In the fable the old mans
sons could not break the bundle of
sticks as whole. The United States
today is like that bundle Of sticks-it
can't be broken.
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No notice whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held respOn-
sible for the preservation or return of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publishers. Au-
gusta, Maine.
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venient manner Knives, ancient pis-
tolls, bullets and other relics and weap-
ons of destruction have been found in
this locality, while the almost obllter-
ated inscription death to All-Quarter
ito None"-was deciphered from the
marks cut into a rock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

up wedding which hadn't taken place
thus very neatly explains matters:
cerned. We don't often get caught in
this way but this time we We're told so
confidently by honest folks that the
wedding was fact that we took the
bait and wrote the item We some
times feel like the venerable Scotchman
who, as he read King Davids words.
viz. 1 said i'll my haste all men are
liars. biurted out Eth mon if We had
lived in DOR day We might have taken
yer time ABBOTT it,
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A paper is being passed around
among the Lewiston cigar stores, lunch
counters, Hebrew stores. and fruit
confectionery stores, asking for sigma
lures ana a contribution Of $40 from
each store. They propose, they say, 10
hire 4 constable and pay him s. day
To make it hot for Lewiston liquor sell
lers. on week days. and for those
places of business which remain open
during Sunday. They will arrest peo-
pie for fast driving, for selling cigars,
for selling newspapers for running cars
and public carriages and for all man
ucr Of work on Sunday. Ninety dollars
had been subscribed up TO noon. 1t
looks like another local war" and is
intended as q sort of double back ac-
ton boomerang for what they claim to
he policy discrimination, II they do all
they say there1l be music in the Lew
iston back alleys on Sunday mornings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16

Hanging May baskets in Corinth is
getting to be a sort of Cuban demon
were out on that business on Wednes-
day evening. the 4th, and in attempting
to hang a May basket on the door of a
residence were fred upon by some con-
cealed party. 1t is perhaps needless
to say that the volley of musketry most
effectively scattered the young besieg-
ers Much feeling is being expressed
throughout the town regarding the in
humanity of such action toward the
young people. who yearly endeavor to
derive some harmless pleasure in keep
ing up the old custom of hanging May
baskets.
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Oh, Lord Almighty, Thou whose hands
Despair and victory give;
In whom, though tyrants tread their
lands,
The souls of nations live: