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Still Ply Their Z rade. Il
China S cas- 81.

The present unsettled state Of affairs
In China has given a fresh impetus to
the ancient Chinese diversion OF pir-.
acy, and only the other day an Ameri-
can vessel was attacked by pirates in
the Yang g-tse-Kiang river. 5s Piracy has
never been fully suppressed in the Chi
Rese seas. The hofbeds Of this species
of crime are at Annoy and Macao Here
the pirates lie in wait until their many
spies, who are scattered about all the
principal ports, bring them word Of
4 the sailing sof a richly laden boat. I'm
mediately they sail out to sea in their
shallow draught junks with the inten-
Gon Of :fntercepting the vessel near
same shoal water. over which it would
be impossible For the sailing schooner
to follow them in case Of detection. A
fayorite device is to ship several of
their fellow cutthroats i'm the guise of
seamgn. These gentry pose as harm
less, hard working coolies, until their
comrades junks are in sight. Then
all in "a moment, they SHOW themselves
Up in their true colors. -All opposition
speedily is stunned or knitted, and the
few remaining Europeans or loyal ma
5tfVes are only too glad 10 hold up their
hands in token Of surrender rather
than incur the fate of their slaughter
ed bretheren 81. 3ss* ~
Within Sight of = Gunboat. <
= To pvifi fic1 1oY !,
captured by pirates in the Chek-Hu-
eng-S Shan district, almost within sight
OF a British gunboat. The gunboat- -
the Sandpipe er-had stuck on a bar and
3 the pirates saw their oportunity. They
sWarmed aboard the launch, killed the
pilot, made a prisoner of the super
cargo, siad looted both the launch and
the lighter which she had in tow. Then
they took to their junks and disap-
peared. This sort of thing frequently
has taken place almost within pistol
shot of British gunboats in the, Hong
Kong dock yards. "a we11-known case
of the capture of merchant steamer
by Chinese pirates was that of the Ma
moa. which occurred Il - November,
$50 sFshis vessel was q agood-stzed
liner and carried five European and
250 Chinese passengers. Among the
latter were several rich merchants who
were returning to their homes
from the Straits Settlements with their
carefully boarded savings. This fact
becoming known to the pirates, fifty of
them took passage in the vessel She
= had barely been five hoaus at sea, and
i the majority Of her peaeeably disposed
inmates were comfortably settled at
their evening meal, when fifty yelling
savages, armed with revolwers and cut
& lasses, suddenly appeared on deck.
Carefully covering the officers quar-
4 tiers, the VILLAINS started to fire upon
d the passengers below. In SO doing they
killed the captain; wounded the first
officer and made the second officer a
prisoner. Then they looted every pos
s1ble article of value in the ship. They
shut the surviving Europeans in tiny
cabin and navigated the vessel back
i to Pinghoi. Here they were met by a
& fleet of pirate je1nks, into which they
speedily transferred their plunder.
They abandoned the vessel after dam
4 aging every bit of her machinery
which they could readily reach. Even
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-18

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Gas-Ptpe Lines to Distrfhnte Power. Z.
The attention OF electrical engineers
has been attracted to the prospective
use OF the gas engine On a vast scale
for the generation and transmission Of.
power. Mr.. George Westinghouse be-
heves that a great saving OF expense
as compared with present methods
would result from the distribution of
gas generated at central points and;
conveyed in pipes along the lines of-
railways for the operation OF gas en-.
gines and electric generators. He
suggests the installation of such xys
TEN in connection with the electracaIs
equipment OF railways, especially mex
ropolitan and suburban lines; 8 ans
also the use OF fuel gas, and gas engines,
to; supply light and power for the
whole of Manhattan island.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-18
Found His Way Home.

A hound was bought in Missouri and
shipped in a closed express car to a
ranch in Kansas. In a day or two it
was missing. Investigation proved that
it, had gone back to it's Missouri home,
over. distance Of 500 miles, on a road
entirely unknown to the dog. x.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-18
NC ~ B|
RoG ERES

Meeting wire. When connected With
wires in the ordinary way, a carriage
that is free to move from side to side sIdiee
of the road drags its trolley after it.
and in consequence. the connection Isl
frequently broken.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18
The Irish Language.

1t was stated during the Irish Ian
guage debate in the House OF Commons
last week the Irish tongue was little
cultivated in America. This was not
always the case, remarks the Dublin
Freeman, nor, we may add, is it now the
case. The Right Hon. Luke Gardener,
who fell fighting on the English side
at the battle OF Vinegar Hill, in 1893,
thus spoke in the Irish House of Com
mons on April 2, 1884:
"N'llen the unhappy differences (be-
tween Great Britain and the North
American colonies) took place am as
sured, from the best authority, the ma
je.r portion of the American army was
composed of Irish, and that the Irish
language was as commonly spoken in
the American ranks as the English. l
ami also informed that it was their valoT
determined the contest, SO that England
not only lost principal protection in
the woolen trade, but also had America
detached from her by the force Of irish
cmigrants."
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18
M,Ktnley,s Cousin for Bryan.

Preston H. Mckinley, who declares
he is cousin of President Mckinley,
and wealthy stock raiser of Freeport,
Harper county, Kansas, has rejected
the Republican ticket and will vote for
Bryan and Stevenson.
He says he would rather have the
Prince of Wales president of the United
States than his cousin. He said:
"In 1896 I was willing to back my
cousin to the extent OF $4,000, and did
so, winning. I thought he would make
better president than he has, but I
find he caters too much to European
style, which I and every other true
American do not like. I believe the
Prince of Wales knows better how to
conduct this republic than does my
cousin. I should rather vote for him
anyhow.
Mckinley and imperialism will de-
feat the Republican party at the polls
this fall, and I am willing to bet good
money on it. will vote for Bryan and
Stevenson in order to help save the re-
public"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18
THE BRITISH ARMY N AFRICA.

According to the correspondent of the
London Daily News in South Africa
the British soldiers under Lord Roberts
are absolutely starving. They are in,
sufficiently fed, many are worn to shad-
ows and can hardly stagger along in
the march. This is especially the case
with the men under General Rumble
There are plenty OF provisions, but no,
within reach. The rations are said to
be rottng on the wtarves at Cape Town
and other ports, and not sent forward
where needed.
That is a lamentable state of affairs
for her majesty's troops. 1t was pre-
dicted by Russian strategist a year
ago that Roberts would ultimately be
defeated for want of supplies, and that
the further he penetrated into the in
terror the greater would be his peril II
the result Of the war depended on the
number engaged on either side the
Beers would have long since surren-
dered to the invaders. 1t now looks as
if they would finally be the victors in
spite of their numerical weakness.
The British soldier cannot fight we'll
on an empty stomach, particularly the
Englishman who was accustomed to
feast on roast beef at home. The fol-
lowing is the bill of fare for him in
South Africa, according to the news
paper correspondent: =
Zone pound of raw flour, which the
soldiers have to cook after hard days
march, is served out to each man every
alternate day. The following day he
eats one pound of biscuits. In this
country there is no fuel excepting a
little OK dung dried by the sun. If a
soldier is lucky enough to pick up a
little he can go to the nearest water,
of which there is plenty, mix his cake
without yeast or baking powder, and
make some sort of wretched mouth
full. He gets one pound OF raw fresh
meat daily, which nine times out of ten
he cannot cook, and there his supplies
end"
No soldier can live and march and
fight on such daily rations. AS much
as we despise the British soldiers and
detest the work in which they are en-
gagged, we cannot help plying their con-
dition. Who is responsible for it?
Evidently there are Algers at the head
of military affairs in England, else
things would be different. The govern
ment buys enough food for the African
campaign, but it is not properly dis
tributed An investigation is in order.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18
REPLIES While You wait.

An eccentric fiat man" who was on
exhibition became so tired of answering
questions that he had the following re-
plies printed and pasted on a boa1S at
his side: =
1 weigh 345 pounds.
I am fat.
I know am fat
I am growing fatter every day.
I am growing larger every day.
cannot tell you how much larger I
am going to get.
l expect to grow until either die
or collapse.
Yes, have good appetite.
No,.I do not eat all the time
Yes, am going to stop eating.
No, I was not always as large as
am now
I do not remember when l was as
thin as you.
Yes, my father was large man.
cannot tell you how long it will take
you to get as fat as I am.
Yes, my mother was large woman.
do not know if you will ever be as
fat as am.
like to be told that am fat.
like to have people stop in the street
and laugh at me.
l like people who give me advice
about reducing my weight.
Yes, I have tried dieting.
1t did not do me any good.
If there-is any other question you can
think of that I've not answered, don't
be bashful. Just ask it and III try and
answer it. Are you going? Well,
good by.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18
ROBERTS, CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS,

The news from South Africa this
week gives an inklng OF the inhun1anity
practiccd by the British on the burghers
OF the Transvaal. 1t is briefly stated in
a dispatch from Pretoria that because
the Beers sniped train containing
British soldiers and killed two of them
all the farm houses within a radius OF
ten miles were burned to the ground
by order of General Roberts. If that
is true it is an indelible stain on the
character OF the commander in chief Of
the British forces.
The British papers are slow to credit
the dispatch and declare it is entirely
unjustifablc to destroy the homes OF
noncombatants because couple OF
Beers fire at military train. which,
they had a right to do according to
the laws OF war. For the sake OF his
reputation we hope the story is untrue,
but coming as it does from Pretoria,
which, is occupied by the British. and
appearing in the London Standard, we
are afraid he has committed the das-
tardly deed.
Ii General Kitchener. the butcher
OF Omdurman." was reported to have
issued the order we would unhesitating-
ly believe him capable OF doing so, but
Roberts has the name OF forbidding
his men to perform any acts unworthy
OF soldier. That the British soldiers
| have committed deeds of atrocity in
South Africa and have gone unpun-
ished there is no doubt, but we have
always supposed that they were CONF
mitted without the knowledge OF the
hero OF Kandihar. Michael Davitt re-
latcs some terrible stories OF British
soldiers who committed unspcakable
crimes on the wives and daughters OF
the Boer patriots in the field. but the
burning OF their homes by order OF the
British commander, as alleged in the
dispatch, is something objectionable in
the sight OF civilized nations. A day OF
reckoning may come for the British be-
fore the South African war is over.
Perhaps Roberts may pay the penalty if
he falls into the hands OF the Beers. Ii
guilty Of the crime attributed to him
he ought to be hanged.
! The Irish people, above all others,
understand the inhumanity of the Brit
ish generals. For seven hundred years
they know what they are. In the time
of Elizabeth the soldiery of England
burned their homes and destroyed their
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18
Sculptor Flanagan.

In his Paris letter to the Saturday
evening Post of Philadelphia Vance
Thompson says:
John Flanagan, the sculptor who
modelled the eagles on the United States
pavilion here and did the Madison me-
dallion for Wing hall at Princeton, and
whose art career-as he will tell you
with great deal of proper pride-be-
gan in his fathers stone yard in New
ark, N. J., had little experience the
other evening at the exposition. call
it a little experience, because so far as
he was concerned it did not amount to
much; but you should think of the
other fellow!
Like most scu1ptors-was it not Mi
chael Angelo who set the example?-.
Mr.. Flanagan goes in for anatomy.
For years he has attended the classes
of the School of Surgery. OF Late he
has been studying the hand. Thursday
afternoon he secured very fine hand
from Subject that had been exposed
that day in the dissecting room. He
wrapped it up and put it in his coat
pocket intending to make study of
the muscles when he got back to his
studio.
But it was pleasant afternoon Gust
after the rain) and he took STROLL In
the street OF Algiers there was crowd,
and wherever there is crowd you may
be sure there are some of those expert
English pickpockets of whom Dickens
wrote so we'll. Mr.. Flanagan felt adroit
fingers fumbling at his pockets. It.took
but second to ascertain that his purse
and watch were safe. In another Sec
ond he discovered that what he had lost
was the package in his coat pocket.
And now think OF the other fellow!
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18

Judge Cough, OF the Catholic Sen
tinel, Chippewa Falls, Wis, explains to
Protestant minister why he lisa "Ro-
manist." In the course of an interest
ing article he says: Coming to the
Methodists we find they owe their ORR
gin to the labors of John Wesley, as
sisted by some young Oxford students,
and that their church is one year young
er than our own grandfather. They
could therefore have no lineal connec-
ton with the church Christ founded
upon St. Peter"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18

Hon. C. o. Baldwin, OF Duluth, has
announced his candidacy for the Demo
cratic nomination for congress from the
Sixth district. He is a very popular
man and capable of defeating Page
Morris, who, against the wishes Of hi:
constituents and in direct opposition te
Senators Davis and Nelson, voted in the
interest of the trusts for the Porto ri
can tariff 1t is at the urgent solicita'
ton of his many friends that Mr.. Bald
win has become candidate.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18
A FICTITIOUS INTERVIEW.

The Republican papers Of the country
are resorting to disreputable methods
to deceive the public Last week a
bogus interview with Admiral Dewey
appeared in the Mckinley organs under
large headlines, in which he was made
to say: II regard the news from the
Philippines as particularly encouraging.
Aguinaldo's icutenants are surrender
ing one after another. Whatever show
OF resistance to our authority there is
at the present time in the Philippines
will be kept up until after our election
in November The insurrection is kept
alive by the leaders, who hold out to
the soldiers the hope OF Bryan's cleo
ton"
The day after the publication OF the
alleged interview in the Brooklyn Eagle
Admiral Dcwcy's attention was drawn
to it by newspaper man in Washing
ton. and he cmphatically declared that
the statement attributed to him was alb
solutely incorrect.
One would suppose that the Repub-
lican organs OF imperialism which pub
lished the Eagle INTERVIEW would also
publish the contradiction OF the Manila
hero, but they did not. Though he de-
MED the accuracy OF the statement
ascribcd to him on Friday OF last week
the Minneapolis Tribune published a
portion OF the original Interview" in
its editorial columns on Tuesday with
the remark that "as he is wholly out Of
politics, the admirals opinion is en-,
titled to exceptional weight" Whe1
such a reputable paper as our loca
contemporary is guilty Of sucl, methods
what can be expected from the unprin
cipled campaign sheets controlled by
Mark Hanna in every state OF the
Union, whose motto is Anything tc
beat Bryan"
The interview with Dewey is on {
par with the dispatches coming from
the Orient in relation to Bryan ane
the Filipino junta. 1t is also on pal
with the dispatch from Pretoria saying
that Dom Paul is going to contribute ;
lot of money to the Democratic cam
paign for the election OF Bryan. l
such reports continue every man of com
mon sense will see that the leaders o
the Republican party are driven to des
peration.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. Thu
Anglo-Saxon press at home and abroad
is VIGOROUSLY unreliable. In barefacet
mendacity it takes the cake. The peo
pie, however, have begun to lose con
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18
LORD CHARLES RUSSELL.


Baron Russell. OF Kilowen, lord chief
justice of England, and the first Irish
man and Catholic to hold that exalted
Office, to which he was appointed by
William Ewart Gladstone, passed away
in London on Aug. 10 from the effects
OF a painful operation for chronic gas
trio trouble. He was 6zycars old and
for many years was the acknowledged
head OF the bar OF Great Britain. At
the great peace conference at The
Hague he represented the British gov
eminent and was considered one OF the
ablest diplomats i'll that international
assemblage. He was patriotic Irish
man who gave his transcendent talents
to the cause of his native land and ad-
vocated home rule for his country in
the British parliament
The St. Paul Globe in its issue of last
Saturday devoted leading article to
the distinguished Irishman, in the
course of which it says he was one of
the most notable men that have ap-
peared in England during the present
generation. Being the best thing we
have seen of the celebrated lawyer we
give the following passages therefrom:
The career of Lord Russell makes it
quite plain that the highest advance
ment in civil life still remains open in
England to the possessor of great intel
lectual power. The young Irishman
who appeared at the London bar forty
years ago had no influential friends and
no prospects before him. A few years
of close application to the hard work
of his calling, and a reasonable oppor-
tunity to show the high order of pro-
fessional ability which he represented
brought him into notice as one of the
most promising OF the younger men OF
the bar. The steady and unvarying
pursuit OF his profession to the exclu-
sion OF all outside forms. of activity Sc
cured to him before he had passed
middle life an assured position as the
leader of the English bar.
Outside of England Baron Russell
had not succeeded in directing any pub
lie attention to himself until his ap-
pearance on behalf of the late Charles
Stewart Parnell before the Parnell com.
mission. The exciting and tragic
events which followed each other will,
such startling rapidity, resulting in the
suicide of one OF the witnesses while
yet under the pitiless cross-examination
OF this master OF the forensic art. and
the utter discontinue OF the prosecut-
ing forces, which had been really acting
under the direction and with the ap-
proval Of the then existing government,
threw light on his abilities which re-
vealed him to the entire world as one
of the most remarkable men OF his
time and one of the greatest lawyers
that ever pleaded at any bar.
1t is doubtful whether in the past
among all his predecessors in the office
a more remarkable exemplar can be
found of complete intellectual and moral
fitness for the most exacting duties
which iall to a great lawyer than the
deceased jurist
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18

The Chicago Chronicle accuses Sen
ator c. K. Davis of using bad gram
mar as we'll as bad logic in the following
sentences: "The United States is the
great armed neutral of the world. 1t
will have peace, not as the boon of a
suppliant noncombatant, but as the
right of peace-loving, armored, puis-
SAINT nation whose rights are secured
by its manifest ability to cause other
nations to respect them" The name
OF this country is noun in. the plural
number and must have verb in the
plural, as every schoolboy knows. The
constitution speaks OF the United States
as they and Them" and not as ct. :"
A United States senator of international
renown ought to respect the constitu-
ton of his country and observe the first
rule in syntax.
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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-18

DR.. Tanner, the Irish member OF par
Lament, is convert to Catholicity. Ills
ardent love of Ireland led him into the
true church. He is fine specimen Of
physical manhood and is good speak
er. He entertains the supremest con-
tempt for everything English, and when
recently put out OF the House OF Com
mons he told the British members in
plain language what he thought OF
them. OF him it may be said that he
has pride in his port and defiance in
his eye" for the prosecutors of Ireland.
Long live DR.. Tanner!