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The Irish standard., 1899-01-14
NEWS FROM IRELAND
The Fighting Race.

The Fighting Race.
(This popular poem is again published
by request.)
Read out the names!" and Burke sat
back.
And Kelly dropped his head,
While Shea-they call him Scholar
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and the yawl.
The bearded man and the lad in his
teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers-all.
Then knocking the ashes from out his
pipe,
Said Burke in an off-hand way:
"We're all in the dead mans list, by
GRIPPE!
Kelly and Burke and Shea
well, here's to the Maine, and I'm sorry
for SPAIN"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
Wherever there's Kellys there's trou-
ble," said Burke,
Wherever fghting's the game,
Or spice of danger in grown mans
work.
Said Kelly, you'll find my name"
"And do we fall Short" said Burke,
getting mad,
when it's touch and go for life?"
Said Shea: cts thirty odd years, bedad,
Since I charged to drum and fife
Up Marye's Heights, and my old canteen
Stopped a rebel ball on its way.
There were blossoms of blood on our
sprigs of green
Kelly and Burke and Shea
And the dead didn't brag." "Well,
here's to the fag!"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
II wish twas in Ireland, for there's the
place."
Said Burke, that we'd die by right,
In the cradle of our soldier race,
After one good stand-up fight.
My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill.
And fighting was not his trade;
But his rusty pixies in the cabin still,
With Hessian blood on the blade"
"Aye, ave." said Kelly, "the pixies were
great
When the word was clear the way!'
We were thick on the roll in ninety
eight
Kelly and Burke and Shea"
"Well, here's to the pike and the sword
and the like!"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
And Shea the scholar, with rising Joy,
Said: eve were at Families.
We left out bones at Fontenoy,
And up in the Pyranees.
Before Dunkirk on Landen's plain,
Cremona, Lille and Client.
We're all over Austria, France and
Spain,
Wherever they pitched a. tent. =
We've died for England from Water.
loo
To Egypt and Dargai;
And still there's enough for a corps OF
crew,
Kelly and Burke and Shea"
"Well, here is to good, honest fighting
blood"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
ooh, the fighting races don't die out,
If they seldom die in bed,
For love is first in their hearts. NJ
doubt
Said Burke; then Kelly said:
when Michael, the Irish Archangel
stands,
The angel with the sword,
And the battle-dead from a hundred
lands
Are ranged in one big horde,
Our line, that for Gabrfel's trumpe
waits,
Will stretch three deep that day,
From Jehosaphat to the Golden Gates
Kelly and Burke and Shea"
"Well, here's thank God for the race ant
the sod"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
Joseph l. G. Clarke, in N. Y. Sun
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CALL UP MEAGHER & co.
If you want good dry pine wood. Every
load warranted. Tel. 1861.
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CurR tive,

Homc-lifc will cure the wounds you get
In your worldly occupation
If not as soothing balm direct.
Why. then by countcr-irritation
Detroit Journal
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ANTRIM.

AIN 1HlM.
In the court house in Belfast, on Dec.
IA, sensational attack was made upon
Chief Justice Sir Peter O'Brien, while
presiding at the Ulster assizes. A rough
looking man named Robert Gordon, on
being sentenced to twelve months i'm
prisonment for breaking into Antrim
workhouse, sprang to the front Of the
dock and threw a stone at the judges
head; but the stone missing its mark,
crashed against a screen at Sir Peters
back. The prisoner then made des-
was overpowered by the police and war
ders.
ARMAGH,
In Armagh, on Dec. 10, at convention
held for the purpose of selecting six
Catholic candidates to stand for st. Pat
rick's ward at the next municipal cleo
tions the following gentlemen were Sc
lected: Messrs James Mcmahon, P. l..
G., Michael Donnelly, Bernard O'Neill,
George Sherry, Peter Trodden and Pat
rick Kelly.
CAVAN.
A public meeting of the Nationalist
voters of the parish of Drumgoon was
held at Dernakesh, near Cootehill, on
Dec. IS. There was very large attend
ance. Very Rev. P. o. O'Connell, P. P,
presided Mr. Joseph Boyle, solicitor,
Cootehill, addressed the meeting at
length, and explained the changes in To-
cal government effected by the new
county council act A notable incident of
the meeting was the presence and speech
of the high sheriff of the county, Capt.
Edward P. Smith, of Bellamont Forest
Cootehill, who was formerly Catholic
Unionist, like Lord Emily, and who now
declared himself unequivocally in favor
of home rule.
CLARE.
At the Munster assizes at Cork, on
Dec. II, John Hanrahan, James Redden,
John and James Culligan. were sentence
ed to four years penal servitude for
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Application Blanks ncw form) per hundred so
Due Cards, per hundred 90
Notice of Aear Blanks, per hundred so
Report Blanks, per hundred
Division Quarterly Reports, per hundred oo
Cards. per hundred so
Heads design hundred
Envelopes handsomely printed with return address,
Each additional hundred rs
Financial Secretays Register, "a hrstcass book) 90
Recording ST. and
Secrctarys Book (bcst in the u S. 50
Sccrctarys Order NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rs
Treasurers Receipt rs
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ime as he still lessened the distance be-

time as he still lessened the distance be-
tween us.
81 think I could have easily outstrip-
ped him if lit had been level, but the
machine kept up a rattle, rattle over
the Inequalities i'm the road, and once
or twice 7 was almost thrown off. L
did not dare to look back; indeed, there
was no need as the growl plainly told
me that he was almost on me, but at
last / reached the crest and flew down
the opposite slope. / then suddenly
remembered that there was an open
culvert across the road some 200 yards
ahead. but there was no time to dis
mount. SO I rode into it, and the shock
flung me high out of the saddle, but
fell back on tit without being knocked
off. Fortunately the side of the drain
next the hill was high, and the Opposite
side low, so that the machine was not
stuck in the culvert, and though the
front fork was twisted and the front
wheel grated against it, it was not quite
TANNED. and I was able to ride on.
When r reached the smooth part of the
road near my first plantation was able
to get up a good rate of speed, but
no longer heard the growl in the rear"
Central Africa Gazette.
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A Through Freight Train Wrecked
Near GIenbroOk.
The Engine and Five Cars Plunge Over a
High Emhankment.
Engineer James McCauley, Who
Brave1y Stayed at His Post,
Sca1ded to Death, and Two
Tramps Killed-Fireman James
Merriam Badly Injured.

ROSEBURG orr, May 13.-Through
freight No. ODD on the Southern Pac1hcs
which left here this morning, was
wrecked near Glenbrook. four miles
south of Riddle Station. Engineer
James McCauley and two tramps were
killed, and Fireman James Merriman
Of Portland badly injured.
The engine and five loaded cars left
the track and plunged over a perpen-
dicular bank twenty-five feet high. The
engine turned over twice. and a carload
of flour piled on top of it. The tank
was bottom side up, with Fireman Mer-
Ram beneath.
When Conductor Everton rushed
through the smoke and steam he found
Engineer McCauley standing erect with
one hand on the lever and the other
%on his mouth. When carried out he
looked at his scalded hands and ex-
claimed: My God. this is awful He
lived only a few minutes.
Fireman Merriman was unconscious
when released, and on regaining con-
seriousness said the engineer told him
not to jump. He was badly cut about
the head and body but is not consid-
cred in any danger. The names of the
tramps are not known.
The cause of the wreck is not known.
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AT this distance and with the slight
exploratory work which has been car
ried on in the Philippine Islands, the
minerals that can be profitably export
ed are best known. Mr. George F..
Becker, in his recent investigation. has
given very clear view of the present
mineral exploration in the PHILIPPINES.
and has shown that gold is found in a
great number of localities in the archi-
pelago, from northern Luzon to CEN
tral Mindanao. In most cases the cold
is detrital, and is found either in ex
lsung water courses or in deposits now
deserted by the current. 1t is said that
in Mindanao some of the gravels are in
an elevated position and ADAPTED to
hydraulic mining. There are no data
at hand which Indicate decisively the
value of any of the placers. but the
fact that they are washed largely with
cocoanut shells for pans by the natives
is an indication of either rich deposits
or quite coarse gold. In the province
of Abra, at the northern end of In
ION, there are placers. and the river
Abra itself yields auriferous gravel. In
LIE Planto there are gold quartz veins
as We'll as gravels, and here also is the
best developed deposit of copper ores.
although these are also reported from
a great number of localities on the
islands of Luzon, Mindoro, CapuI. Mas.
bate, Panay and Mindanao. This last
island is practically unexplored and
full of pcsSibilities.-Dr. David T. Day,
in the Engineering Magazine.
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Summer Schools.

The d1scontinuance during the last
year or two of certain summer schools
that We're once well patronized may
have led to the inference that the
summer school movement in this
country is on the decline. While If
may possibly be true that the total
number of summer schools holding
sessions in 1899 will be somewhat less
than the number of such institutions,
say, three or four years ago. it should
not be inferred from this that the ac-
tual amount of scholastic work done
during the summer months in this
country has suffered a decrease. On
the contrary, it is probably true that a
larger number of teachers and stu
dents will be occupied in such work
during the coming summer than at any
previous time in our. history. The fact
is that summer work has been more
effectively organized all along the line.
Colleges and universities which a. few
years ago were practically closed for
nearly all or quite three months of the
year are now throwing open a consid-
cradle part of their equipment for the
use of summer students. There. is a
marked tendency, East and West. to
dignity this summer work of the uni,
vers1tles and colleges, if not altogether
to follow the example of the University
OF Chicago in making the summer quar-
ter equivalent with any other three
months of the calendar year in courses
Offered. Meanwhile the long-estab-
lished summer schools for the special
training of teachers and the assem-
blies'' for Biblical study have added to
their facilities, and are now stronger
than ever before in point of teaching
faculties and bodies of Students
American Monthly Review of Reviews
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Coffey has rendered a decision declar-
ing Mary p. Waldron to be the legal
widow Of Daniel G. Waldron, de-
ceased journalist of San Francisco and
theatrical manager of some promi-
hence. This virtually disposes of the
claims Of Sarah A. Waldron of New
Hampshire, first wife. from whom he
was divorced.
The. estate he left, valued at about
$4,000, will be divided between Mary
P. Waldron and the son of the first
marriage, the widow receiving the ex-
elusive benefit of certain insurance
policies and special allowances.
Mrs. Mary B. Waldron, better known
as Marie Packard, has been a singer
of note, travelling for fifteen years as
prima donna of the, Alleganians, OF
which Waldron was manager, and at
one time leading the choir in the old
South Church of Boston. She is a resi-
dent of San Francisco.
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ODD FELLOWS.
The Grand Lodge Closes Its Ses-
sions at San Francisco.

= AO 0I&1AO AOuSt OAOScS AtS SCS-
sions at San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 13.-The
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows closed it's
session tonight.
During the day the mileage fax was
fixed at 16 cents per capita, the tax
for the maintenance of the home 70
cents, payable in two installments, and
for the general fund 80 cents. The mile
age for the session amounts to 81, 692. 50
and the estimated expenses for the cur
rent year will be $4,000.
The new Grand Master, w. A.
Bonygne, was installed by the retiring
Grand Master, and then the Grand
Master installed the others elected and
the following appointed officers: Rev.
E. r. Ollie of Oakland Chaplain;
George Kirk of Oakland, Marshall
James Booth of Los Angeles, Conduc-
tor; A. A Furgeson Of Dutch Flat,
Guardian, and M. P. Forbes, Herald
The Assembly oil California Rebekahs
voted $500 to the Orphans Home Hes
pital.
The President, Mrs Helen M. Carpen-
ter, then announced the following ap-
pointments: Mrs. Ada Madison of San
Diego, Marshal; Mrs Sarah Wolff of
Sacramento Conductor; Mrs. M. Har-
vey of Chico, Chaplain; Mrs. Kettle
Hatton of Santa Barbara, Inside Guard,
and Miss Gussie Hooper of San Fran
cisco, Outside Guard
These and the officers who were elect
ed at a previous session were installed,
and the Assembly finally adjourned.
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What Liquid Air Can Be Used For

1t would seem that certain uses may
be found for liquid air in which con-
siderations of cost are not so Important
as is the ability to obtain the effects in
view. In warfare, for example, the
possession of highly concentrated ener-
gy-stores under control is very impor-
tant. Liquid air can be converted into
compressed air at six tons per square
inch This would probably be useful
in the projection of high explosives.
Compressed air is now used for pro-
polling mobile torpedoes, or fish-torpe-
does, as they are called. Dirigible tor
pedoes either depend for power upon
compressed air or the electric energy
of a storage battery. Compressed air
requires high pressures and very strong
and heavy containing vessels. Liquid
air can be stored without pressure or at
low pressures, and can be evaporated
at any desired pressure, while. it's bulk
represents that of air under 800 at
moSpheres. A storage battery would
probably be from five to ten times as
heavy as liquified air in a receptacle,
for equal energy. But no storage bat
terry could be discharged at an equiva-
lent rate.
Submarine boats and flying machines
may yet find use for liquid air. In the
submarine boat it could be evaporated
by the heat of the surrounding water,
and after furnishing power it would
ventilate the boat. Before the final
discharge it could be burned with oil in a
fuel engine for further power. We may
find use for it in the flying machine.
For emergency work it could in evapo-
rating cool the cylinders of a fuel en-
CINE and yield power as result. More
over, control of the submergence of a
boat could be effected by the use of liq-
uid air, so easily gasified, to add to the
displacement.
The great feature of the application
of such power as liquid air would be
its emergency value. By this is meant
the ability to obtain at will a sudden
output far beyond the normal Animal
power notably possesses this emergency
value, and the success of electric troll
ley systems largely depends upon the
fact that, when needed, the station can
be called upon for temporary delivery
to any single ear of the rated output
of the motofs.-Professo Elihu Thorn
son, in the Engineering Magazine.
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WOMAN SOLD AT AUCTION.
She Bids Herself in for the Small
Sum of SIS a Month.

| An unfortunate old woman, poor, her
usefulness gone, her friends driven
from her by her peculiarities incident
to old age, has just been sold at auc-
ton to the lowest bidder by the Over
seer of the Poor of LackaWanna Town
ship, Pike County.
| Despite her age however, her mind
is active, and She startled the auction
GERS by bidding in herself
! The woman who was put on The
block is Mrs Elmira Quick She is n
years old, and has resided nearly the
whole of her life in Lackawaxen Town
ship.
Her sale at auction was in pursuance
of custom which has long prevailed
in that township.
| It has been customary with the vari-
Gus poormasters to sell the poor of the
| township each year to the lowest bid
der in preference to being annoyed
with the care themselves, and about
the beginning of the year a large sign
with the glaring headline "A Woman
for Sale" can be seen posted about the
township for it seldom befalls a man
to become dependent upon the district.
The successful bidders, in addition to
from the poor authorities for the main
tenance of the INDECENT, manage to
have much work done about the house
by the unfortunate.
Mrs. Quick, it is asserted, has long
been subjected to such drudgery, and
her mind has long been at work to
devise some scheme whereby she might
thwart the plans Of the poorma ster
tx
last she has been successful.
When the bidders assembled at War
rem K. Rutan's Hotel, at Rowland Sta
ton, the Overseer of the Poor, Mr.
Rosencrance, a former Pike County
Commissioner, and Warren Rutan, who
also acted as auctioneer took the floor
and announced that woman was to
be sold to the lowest bidder for keep
for the year.
The room was crowded, and many
outside clamored for admission to the
little hosiery
|. The bidding started at 81 a week and
was very spirited. ss@AT
The auctioneers We're about to knock
down the woman to a backwoodsrnan
I fer $50 a week for board, clothing.
medical attendance, etc, when Mrs
quick, who had been a silent listener
to the proceedings, arose from her
| chair and in quiet tones said:
I will bid So a month I will have
no trouble to maintain myself on that
amount
This turn in the proceedings was
| wholly unanticipated, and created
general surprise. How was the aged
woman to live on 16 cents a day?
No one seemed willing to go below
Mrs. Quick's bid, and the auctioneers
saw no alternative but to sell the
woman to herself, and the papers were
accordingly drawn up.
Mrs. Quick is a widow and has three
sons and a daughter, but none. seem
willing to care or provide for her. and
she drifts about as a pauper on the
| township.
The annual sale of the poor each
year at public auction has no sanction
In law in Pennsylvania and it is only
in Lackawaxen Township that the
practice is adhered to.-Milford (Penn)
correspondence of the Syracuse Post
Standard.
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WHEELING FOR LIFE.
A Cyc1ist Was Chased by a Lion in
Central Africa and Escapad.

D. c. Robertson, Gala Estate, Mama
ri, about midway between Blantyre and
cobra. sends the following note:
L rode out on my bicycle from Blan-
tyre on Monday afternoon, August 22d,
and reached Mr.. Stoud'S before the sun
went down, and after waiting for a few
minutes, started again, just after sun
set. By the time I got to the Namazi
crossing 1t had got quite dark, except
for little light the new moon was
giving. The road leading to the Gala,
Estate from the main road has only
just recently been made, and dis quite
soft and lumpy, besides being very
steep for at least half it's length. The
rest of it is fairly level, but none of
it is in a condition for cycling yet. ex-
cept the portion which extends from
my first plantation to my house. which
was made some time ago, and is now
nice and hard
when I left the main road I dis
mounted. and started pushing my bicy-
Gle up the hill, but before 1 had gone
far l heard a heavy body pushing its
way through the bush ON my left. I
thought it was some big game, posi-
bly, an Gland or buffalo, but as 1 felt
a certain amount of uneasiness L went
to the other side Of the road and pushed
away as quickly as I could. When I.
had gone short distance up the slope
I looked round and almost had a fit
when I saw a full-grown lion standing
across the road, broadside on with his
head toward me- and. as 1 looked, he
started in pursuit.
Il attempted to mount my machine,
but owing to the slope and my excite
ment / failed twice. The third time I
succeeded in getting away, and I did
pedal for all / was worth, but the ma
chine kept wobbldng across the road,
and I saw that the lion had lessehed
the distance between US by about half,
though I was still fifty yards from the
top of the slope. He kept up a low
growing all the time, and l could hear
him more and more distinctly every
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-14
FIRE AT FRESNO.
Storage Depot of Standard Oil
Company Burned.

FRESNO. May 13-The storage de-
pot of the Standard Oil Works was de-
suoyed by fire tonight and about
i,ooo,O00 gallons of coal oil and gaso-
line were consumed, together with about
800 gallons of case goods.
The fire broke out at 1920 o'clock. A
dense cloud of smoke arose and drifted
toward the city, completely enveloping
IL. Inc hames arose in two spiral col
umns, circling against each other.
Inc nre was very spectacular one,
and was viewed by hundreds of people
at safe distance. There were num-
Der OF explosions, and in two of them
the ends of the 10000 gallon tanks We're
hurled in the air, alighting, red hot,
over block away.
A barn was also reduced to ashes.
two horses, two wagons. a quantity of
hay being burned.
The total loss is estimated from SIS
600 to $4,000. There was no insurance.
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AN UNUSUAL SIGHT.
Thousands of Cubic Yards Of Earth
Dislodged by an Explosion.

JAMESTOWN, May 13-Something
quite new in railroad construction was
1naugurated to-day by the Sierra Rail-
road Company at the cutoff on the road
near Chinese Camp, where the company
Is using the largest steam shovel in
the West.
The occasion was the simultaneous
discharge of 10000 pounds of giant and
Judson powder in nest of blasts. The
explosion was perfect success, dislodg-
ing in the neighborhood of 5000 cubic
yards of rock and earth
A special train brought visitors from
Oakdale and other points of the road to
witness the unusual sight. Huge rocks
were blown into the air, and some of
them fell half a mile from the explo-
sion. Tonight the visitors are being
rendered a reception at the Hotel New
ills here.
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INSANE FROM SICKNESS.
Emerson Rowe11, Who Jumped
From a Union Pacific Train.

OMAHA, May 13.--The man who
jumped from train at Chappelle, Neb.,
Thursday, is Emerson Rowell, an Eng
lishman, whom sickness made crazy. He
is confined at the Omaha City Jail under
treatment. His wife and two children,
who have been his travelling companions
from Colfax, Cal. on the way back to
England, are making their home tempo
rarily in the matrons rooms.
Near Chappelle, little town on the
Union Pacific, a few miles from the
Wyoming line, Rowell's dernentia be-
came acute. and he leaped through a car
window while the train was moving at
the rate of forty miles an hour He was
not injured.
The Rowells are in destitute circum-
stances, having purchased transporta-
ton only as far as Orion, Mich.
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MURDOCH NOTE CASE.
Attorney Lusk Argues in Behalf of
the Defense.

WILLOWS, May 13.-Attorney F. c..
Lusk spoke for the defense in the Muir
dock case to-day. He reviewed the his
tory of the Murdoch family TO the d.
arrangement of the plaintiff and her hus-
band. Nearly all of the other witnesses
Tor the plaintiff were also severely
scored.
The events of September ), 1877, were
taken up. the attorney saying that it
was not proven that Mrs Murdoch was
away from Aliens Springs that day He
said it was ridiculous to think that two
men, William and Samuel Murdoch,
would send for her to write the note
that William Murdoch was capable of
writing it himself, and that Samuel had
complete confidence in him.
His argument was not concluded when
court adjourned.
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He Saw a Light.

Mr. BulMon-How much does this
opera gown cost, my dear?
Mrs. Bullion-Fifteen hundred dollars
Mr.. Bullion with a low whistle)-My
dear, 1 withdraw my structures on the
proportions of the gown. I am glad
there isn't any more of it.-Chicago
Tribune.