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The Irish standard., 1902-02-15

Matthew Arnold, Henry Morley and
Stopford Brooke were quoted to show
the influence which the Celtic had up.
on English literature. The magic
which Matthew Arnold finds largely
developed in Shakespeare is the con-
tribution of the Celt to the great mas
ter of English; but magic was the
poetic and religious principle which
moved for good, that saw with the
untainted eyes of children. It was
pure, spiritual sense which moved
for good, and, after all, this is the
source of true poetry. The influence
of the Celtic is found in the transla-
tions into English and in the Celtic
thought expressed in English by the
descendants of the Celt.
The difficulties under which the Cath
olic Celt labored during the centuries
Of English dominion made it difficult
for Catholics to have done much in the
interest of education; but with the
spirit Of liberation in Ireland in the
early days Of this century, the Irish
Catholics have risen out Of the dust
into which they had been ground, to
renew again the love Of their ancestors
for education, and to take their place
among the best in the educational
world. This progress was traced at
length, and it's strength manifested in
the literary propaganda Of the polit-
ical movements of the present century.
The third feature of the influence of
the Irish is found in this love for
liberty. Prosecuted by the kings and
mobiles, he became an intense lover of
democratic institutions. AS Celt
he was clan man, and the clan sys-
TEN developed spirit of independ-
ence and freedom. With the English
came the feudal system, and in the
clash of systems the feudal prevailed.
The English king to him personified
tyranny, and he hated him for what
he personified. He loves equality;
he has respect for law and order,
when law and order mean Justice and
right.
Oppression sanctified his ideas of
freedom, and rather than be slave
he abandoned the land Of his love.
He has an undying love for mother
land, and yet motherland was to him
but the soul Of his ancestors, their
hopes and sorrows. for he had no state
in which it was exemplifed. Hence
it was in his heart and mind, and
everywhere he went he carried it en-
Enthusiastically with him. He loved
the new land in which he found a
home, but he also loved the old land
whence he came. His country to
him was idealized. 1t was his Tir
Nan Og-a land Of perpetual youth,
in which are enshrined the highest
ideals Of holiness, beauty and justice.
The Irish easily assimilate, but no.
where more than in America, because
here the ideals of the country are
nearer to their hearts ideals. The
vastness of country satisfies his wan
dering nature; the business Of law
satisfies his oppressed heart; the glory
of the people, it's possibilities fill his
poetic and romantic soul, and its
equality before the law thoroughly
realize his ideal Of liberty. He brings
to America the Drawn and sinew of
physical endurance, the morality of
The Irish standard., 1902-02-15
English Rule is Ruin.

The Northern Star, Of Belfast, Ire
land, shows that English rule is
curse and not blessing to every
country under the sway Of the Union
The Irish standard., 1902-02-15
A. o. H. Life Insurance Fund.

The quarterly report Of State Sec
retary John Mahoney Of the A. O. Fl.
Life Insurance Fund of Minnesota for
the months of October, November and
December has just been issued. The
report shows gratifying increase in
the business done by the fund for the
last quarter Of the year. The num-
ber Of death claims paid during the
quarter was seven, and the amount
$1,000. The amount collected on the
October assessment was $2,771.10,
November, $2,7sG.21; December, ST.
1851. The directors and state officers
made further investment Of $1,000
in United States bonds. The total
funds on hand Jan. LIST was 24,061. 40,
of which amount there was $1,8685.26
in the expense fund. All death claims
have been paid in full. The state Sec
retary also submits a report of the
number and names Of those who
passed away during the year ending
Dec. 81, 1901. The total number Of
deaths during the year was twenty.
six, and the amount paid to the ben
eficiaries, $4,000.
The Irish standard., 1902-02-15
of Minneapolis Tribune.

Jack. 1t shows how the following
countries fare ut the hands of Eng
land:
In Malta-Public meetings sup
/ pressed and constitutional government
at an end ....
In India-TwO hundred and fifty
million Of people without voice In
their own affairs. Newspapers sup
pressed and censorship as bad (o1
worse) than that in Russia Thirty
million of the population missing in a
period Of ten years. Most Of these
dead through famine and fever. An
Indian peasant has to subsist on f.
los. per year, and England robs India
Of about l25,COO,O0O yearly.
In Ircland-Membcrs of Parliament
in Jail, and the nations representa-
tives in Parliament voted down on all
Irish matters by English members.
Famine, poverty, a dwindling popula-
tion. England robs Ireland of about
l2,500,000 year. (See report of Par
liamentary Commission.)
In Cape Colony-Martial law, hang
ings and shootings; the neighbors of
the victims compelled to attend.
In the Transvaal and Free State
Some 10000 infants murdered in con-
centration camps. The countries laid
waste, houses burned down, crops de-
stroyed. The whole nation Except
the men in arms being in prison.
In Jamaica-The elected representa-
tivcs Of the people resigned in a body.
In West Africa-Plunder and spolia-
ton. Natives robbed, slavery ram
pant under the British flag.
But why go on?
In Canada-The halfbreeds and ma
tives in a state of chronic rebellion
against infamous wrongs.
In Observation-Disclosures, Maorls, etc.,
almost extinguished.
And then we are told that British
rule is blessing to the earth! II
so, what would curse be? God
help all the people at the mercy OF
powerful bandits who, in the name OF
progress" are doing SO much to
make this earth hell!
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

THE CUBAN RAISES TOBACCO IN HIS FRONT
will carry forward the work of reform
and regeneration already inaugurated
by the Americans.
Since the I'll ed States occupied Gu
ba much has Ieen done for the moral
and material advancement of its peo-
pie. Schools have come into being
where they Were never known before
and are doing Il really wonderful work
of civilization. Sanitation has been
taught in Il practical way. Industry,
SO much needed in the development OF
the island has been stimulated. IN
fact, the American occupation has done
more for the island and its people in a
few Yeas by practical demonstration
than centuries had accomplished under
Spanish domination.
But now Americans are asking: Will
active under native rule? Will the for
ward movement continue or will there
be a return to previous conditions?
The practical answer to these ques-
tions will be Il measure of the effec-
tiveness of American political mission
ary enterprise. If we have really
changed the moral status of Cuba as
we have surely and beneticently at
fected it's material and sanitary inter
ests, will that change be nullified by
any retrogression? Can people liv-
ing in the tropics rule themselves ade-
quateiy. and can they prosecute great
enterprises without alien urging, su-
peryision and monetary stimulus?
One of the answers to doubt can he
given by the 10000 Cubans who are
living in the United States. Many OF
them fled to this country to escape
from the seventies Of Spanish rule,
and some had to get away from the
island because they had been in rebel
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

People who have the least to say
invariably talk the most.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

grain Of silt They are warm heart
cd Iospi;able people, and if they have
in some respects made themselves so
cjalv inaccessible to Americans they
nave had excellent reasons for doing
so. and other Indications of tHfriendii-
ness are due more to ignorance than
any other caU+e. The support gwen
Palma. WHO r. intensely American. and
fbp election 10 Office Of the best posted
and r!C:t enlightened men oi Tic island
e,IaraIitpe fair dealing Oh tho part OF
,',lita in her intercourse WITH TIC Unl!-
ed States.
That Il period Of retroGress.on will
ansue if the Americans leave Cuba
seems not unlikely. The officers or the
American army have administered ar
fairs with an efficiency and honesty
This island never knew before, and
they nave fixed a standard which Il
people with ideas and habits formed
under Il totally different scheme OF gov
ernment Will naturally have difficulty
in maintailjhg.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

WRAPPING TOBACCO FOR EXPORT
uenS and grass crown streets. One al
ways suspects typhoid or yellow fever
behind the shabby walls.
Ignorance everywhere prevails. Go
ing through the country. it is a com
mon sight TO see a crowd of people
surrounding some one who is reading
the newspapers to them. Two-thirds
OF the population of the island cannot
read, They consequently get their in
formation wrong. as rule. and arrive
at false conclusions.
Many of the tourists from the United
States have been indiscreet in their &C.
tions While on the island. Because
they are among strangers they seemed
to feel that they might do as they
pleased This is great mistake for
the reason that they are watched and
all Americans judged accordingly.
The stories about the ingratitude of
the Cubans need to be taken With q
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08
CA ST To1IA,
Bear. tho n 1ne Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature ss L&xHz2zz<z1

Too many men regulate their con-
duct by other peoples opinions.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08
T,,e Heat Of Australia.

Australia is the hottest country on
record. have ridden for miles astride
the equator. but | have never found
heat to compare with this. Out i'll the
country in the dry times there appears
to be little more than Il sheet of brown
paper between YOU and the lower re-
gions, ard the people facetiously say
that they nave to feed their hens on
cracked ice to keep them from laying
boiled cggs.-Sydney Telegraph.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

pIc and advice to their brothers if theJ
carry out their promise to return to
the island.
But will they go back? 1t is da'ii''
ful. The cd racial solidarity that "+
used to ina "ine existed when we heard
so much of Cuban insurrections las
been affected by migration as also pT
the setticlacnt in the island of thou
SANDS Of Spaniards. Germans and YAH
Eecs and tie national sentiment has
u1questionably been divided by tbe
prospect Of an opportunity to join FOR
tunes ,sith inis country, which wou'd
Re OF ali rn,;l,trioc lie best nrctectot
ana ..,v ..,:.i s,u,er Cuba must th,a
her freedom. but nobody would be su-.
prised if RS.of her earliest uses of II
was to n lon fgr membership in ous
communifK, Of states.
That Cuba will need advice and help
for some time is certain The poor,
sodden. i'll fed. half clothed people Of
the interior can have no conception OF
the duties and possibilities of free
government and of the duties owed to
it's representatives.
Cuba's first congress. winch meets
in the spring, will be composed ptlnci-
pally Of mon Of wealth. That is why
the outloo,; for the future is considered
hopeful hv those in position to jldge.
Heretofore The best people would have
nothing to DO With politics. and things
were always in bad way as Il conse-
quence Now that the people who, con-
troll the substantial interests OF the
island are to take charge of it's affairs
the argument is offered that the best
interests CT the country are sure to be
maintained.
The best posted Cubans believe that
the only hope tor the future of their
country, politically, commercially and
in every way, lies in maintaining close
and friendly relations with the United
States. A member Of the new con-
grcss said recently: Il am graduate
of a Pennsylvania college. l was for
years in the United States. feel as
much at home there as | am here. |
like the people there equally as we'll as
l do my own. would fight for the
stars and stripes as readily as did for
the flag Of Cuba. a majority of the
men Who will compose the new con-
gress are like me. We love the United
States as we'll as we DO Cuba. for tho
reason taat we are as much a part Of
the one as we are of the other"
The American influence is already
apparent if not in the views of the res
idents. then surely in their appear
ance and some of their practices. They
are cleaner. for one thing. The chill
dren who attend school in the towns
are the equals of American children
for cleanliness and are bright and at
tractivelv dressed - remarkable when
you think that not a few of them did
not think it necessary to dress at all
four years ago.
Cuba is a beautiful country. most of
it. Gardens of palms. as green. as soft.
as peaceful as the garden of Eden. in
vite occupation by the settler. One
thinks with delight of a clean. COM
Portable. thrifty village amid such sur
roundings. The village that is toe
often found is a settlement Of tumble
down shacks with broken thatch roofs,
grimy outside and ineXpressibly dirty
within. with depressed look ing domes-
tic animals sleeping Oh the doorstepS
If there are any. or in the weedy gar
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08
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on TIE :
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OF 81 "a
independence
sS,ysy s v yrv'rv vryvvvv WV vvvv'Si n

The prospect that the United States
government will withdraw from CubG
and turn over the control of the island
to its own people has revived interest
in Cuban affairs. The result of such
movement by this government is
the much discussed question of the
ability of the Cubans to establish d
stable government, a government that
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08
COnSiderate.

Young Eusband-Don't you think,
darling that it would spoil the curtains
il should smoke?
Young Wife-You are the best and
most considerate husband that ever
lived, dear OF course it would.
Young Husband-Wel then, you'd
better take them down
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08
Painful COmulaint.

Hicks-Wha makes Bjenkins look sa
blue!
Wicks-Ch, he heard that woman
said about him yesterday. "Wllat a
aretty man he is!-Somerville Jour
nal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

SCGAH MILL ON TOLEDO ESTATE
lion against the authorities They have
formed quiet and reasonably moral
element in various American commu-
mites, and they have taken some part
in our political affairs. They have
learned the possibilities of self gov
ernment and have been to school in
the best and biggest of all self govern.
ing institutions They viii give exam.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

Many a man who talks like a war
hero makes his wife interview the
janitor every time he finds it neces
sary to register a kick.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08
oAsTo1IA.
Bears the II The Kind You Havs Always Bouphl
Signature :; lHzzZzzz1

Incidence is a sluggish stream, yet
it eventually undermines the last vir-
tue a man has.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

He that gathereth in the summer
is wise SON. if he doesn't scatter in
winter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

Who knows most says least" and
the same applies to him who talks
most
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

Advertising should be continuous
Gus Levenson, Sacramento.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08

A word to the wise is often suf-
fcient to get fool into trouble.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-08
"a sT RT
Bears ths The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature "a LxX2Zztzn1

Originality usually consists of re-
peating bright remarks to people who
never heard them before.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-23

| towns of Tut, Moghrar and Djemen
bou Resg, where all trains stop. Six
| more stations will be established
along the route.
The road is to push some hundreds
Of miles southwest to the oasis of
Tuat, which is now in the possession
of the French. Several post offices
have already been established in the
oasis on the way to Tuat Until
within a few years only a few Euro
pean travellers had penetrated to this
isolated Mohammedan community
The natives raise good crops of wheat,
barley, cotton and other articles which
they require, including an abundant
supply of vegetables. France is thus
using the new rairC I'D to establish its
influence i'll part of the northern Sa-
hara to which five years ago. scarce
ly any European influence had pene-
trated.-New York Sun.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-23
SUCCESSFUL AS cARTooNIsT.
Czarina of Russia Makes Some Excel
lent Pencil Drawings.

If the czarina of Russia is ever re-
duced to the necessity of earning her
own living she can doubtless secure
employment on some of the American
newspapers as a cartoonist, for she is
sal to be exceedingly clever with
the pencil and crayon. She has in
herited talent for drawing which
made her mother, the Princess Alice,
the envy Of all her younger brothers
and sisters.
Instead Of depicting -4nimals, as her
mother did, the czarina exceIs in
caricature. When she was a child she
used her talent to such an extent
against her teachers and members of
the household that her father laugh
ingly dubbed it ''AliX's weapon"
But" said the young princess, If
1t is my weapon l certainly paid for
it, as all the serious punishments ,
remember of receiving were, with
few exceptions, due to it. Papa OBJ
jected to my drawing court digni-
taries, but the temptation often
proved too great, they were such good
subjects"
When the young princess became
empress of Russia she did not aban-
don her pet amusement and her carl
catures Of statesmen often afforded
her husband great amusement.
So much does the car appreciate
her sketches that he insists upon
their being kept, and they form an
interesting collection, bound together
in a handsome style The frontis-
piece represents the car.
Considerable persuasion was needed
to make the czarina depict her hus.
band, but she at last consented, and
then rapidly sketched him clad in
robes of state, but with the face of a
child, destitute of beard and seated
upon a footstoOI. Round him are a
group of grand dukes and duchesses
CARRIED in strange attire, each with a
cup and spoon and an ingratiating air,
offering the czar some dainty trifle,
but the little fellow desires none of
their offerings and, pouting, pushes
them away.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-23
NOT ES.

Stockholm will soon have it's tenth
theater. FOlkets' Hus is being re-
modelled into a theater which will seat
about 1000 persons.
Ibsens Peer Gynt was performed at
the theater de POeuvre, Paris, Dec.
1920, but with what success it mas
not been announced.
Word has been received in Come
borg, Sweden, that Frederick Toy 0x
that city has been condemned and
shot as a rebel by the British at Coles
nurg, south Africa.
The Norwegian stOrthing is discuss
ing a law for the restriction of debate.
The members are not very enthus
iastic over the measure, as unrestrict-
ed debate suits them.
The exports from the custom dis
trict of Chrisuania, Norway, to the
United States for the year 1901 ag-
gregated $506,OOO the principal items
being wood pulp and cod liver oil.
Colonel Hans A. G. A. Panther
helm, superintendent of the Swedish
military academy is dead at the age
of 46 years He was recognized as
one of the abIest military men in the
country.
The grand prize of $4,000 kroner in
the Northern museum was won by a
farmers son. who lives near NOTberg
in Vestmannland He says that he
will buy an estate with his fortune.
A massive granite block over twelve
feet high will be raised on the grave
of Arthur Hazelius, founder of Skan-
sen, the most wonderful outdoor mu-
scum in the world and the Northern
museum.
Miss Beata Frunck, StockhOlm's
oldest inhabitant, died recently at the
age of 1O1 years. Mrs. Sofia Selander
born Nov 8, 1902, succeeds to the
honor which venerable Miss Frunck
has relinquished.
Princess Karadja, the leader of the
spiritualistic cult in Sweden, has been
sued by her father, l.. o. Smith, the
well-known wholesale merchant of
! Stockholm, to recover 1920 kroner,
! which he has loaned her.
! Robert FOrsberg, a wealthy mer-
chant of Stockholm, has left liberal
sums to various charities, including
| 10000 kroner to the home for old ser
wants, 10000 kroner to the clerks
association, and 10000 kroner to the
commercial travellers association.
There is a great demand in America
for forest tree seed, especially pine
and spruce. Repeated trials have
shown the seed to be unusually hardy
and productive, and the seed houses
of the United States are willing to
take all they can get, although the
prices are higher for first class seed
than in America.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-23
The Suns Heat.

Sir Robert Ball has calculated the
heat which the sun has yielded in con.
tracing to its present form. 1t
amounts to as much as 3,4OO globes
of coal, each as heavy as the sun
would give out. Now, as the sun IS
about $4,000 miles in diameter, 3,40O
such globes would stretch from where
the sun now is 1892, 100000 of miles
into space, which would be far out
side the orbit of Saturn. But that is
not all, for there is still enough heat
in the sun to warm the earth for
millions of years. Thus big as the
sun is, it is an economical warming
apparatus 1t only needs to shrink 16
inches per day to give out all the
heat we need, not to mention thous-
ands of times as much scattered in
space.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-23

with some tail feathers, which rank
third in value. But the glossy black
| body plumage, which to the lnexperi-
enced eye looks SO fine in contrast to
the moth-eaten appearance of the legs
that are almost bare of feathers, has
no market value.
Aided by the high import duty in
this country upon the feathers, and
the export duty of $500 upon the birds
Of south African porte, the realization
from each bird averages from $50 to
$50 at a plucking, depending upon the
quality and size of the plumes.
The chicks are brought up and
cared for much as is other poultry,
being furnished with shelter during
their tender age. After maturity the
birds are put in the breeding pens or
turned out in the open in drOVes and
need no shelter in this mild climate,
which more nearly resembles that Of
their native home than any other.
That the foreign birds will stand the
climate is shown by the presence of
one monarch Of the flock from south
Africa, whose age is estimated at
forty years, and who is yet as vigorous
as ever and produces as fine plumage
as his younger and native-born
brothers. Although they may be sub
ject to the minor ills Of other fowls,
the ostriches rarely sicken, but thrive
on a steady diet Of alfalfa, to which
is added a little grain at times. For
this purpose a portion Of the section
Of land occupied by the farm is titled
and grain crops are raised each sea
son.
Across from the breeding farm is
quarter-section of land, upon which
the Ostriches are turned out to pasture
just as a herd Of cattle would be-
Here are about 400 of the birds, the
majority of them native born and in
cubatOr-hatched and showing the good
care they receive. Care is taken not
to brighten them into a stampede,
which might prove disastrous to the
weaker ones.
So far no attempt has been publicly
made to establish market for fresh
ostrich eggs. From their size it
might be imagined that one would
make a meal for a good sized family.
The spoiled eggs and those not used
for Matching are blown, and the shells,
either plain or decorated, fetch good
prices as souvenirs of the Ortrich farm
of Arizona.