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The Irish standard., 1904-12-17
and men, and his judgment in finan-
cial matters was very keen.
Our pecl1hlrg Years =

Old age creeps on unawares. 1t
comes as the autumn days. We find
they are upon us because the boughs
of the trees are growing thin, says an
exchange.
The Christian grows old peacefully,
calmly. In growing old, he becomes
more noble, more tender. Because of
his comforting hope in God, his life is
still sweet and sunny, full of song
birds and joy. Growing old with him
is growing ripe. Fruits in autumn
ripen beautifully. They grow ruddy
with sunshine and dew, and then drop
into the basket of the fruit-gatherer.
AS fruits in autumn ripen so does the
Christian grow old. AS his eyes grow
dim to earthly sights, he sees in clear.
er vision the things that are to come.
AS his ears grow deaf to human voices
he hears more distinctly the whispers
that come out Of the invisible. In fin
ishing his life he goes down into the
shallow grave without fear. With him
there is no shrinking as he watches the
sunset, because he sees bright stars
rise and he knows that he is going
out into larger, fairer world under
those stars
How inspiring are Gods promises to
old age! 'rhey shall bring forth fruit
in old age. They shall be fat and
flourishing to show that the Lord is
upright He is their rock and their
salvation" "Even down to old age
am with thee and to hoary hairs will
I carry thee" "And thine age shall be
clearer than the monday. Thou shalt
shine forth: thou shalt be as the morn
ing" ''Thou shalt come to thy grave
in full age like as a shock of corn
comes in his season."
What pictures of old age do we have
in the Bible! They show how the
eventide Of life may overflow with
light. There is aged Jacob He
breathes the serenity Of God. He is
filled with the joy Of Cod There is
a dignity about the old patriarch like
that of the mountain pine, that, stand
ing upon it's watch tower, o'erlooks
the years as they come and go. Heaven
seems to him nearer and dearcr as t!,s
life fades into dream, for he realizes
this life is as a dream and that the
immortal life is the sublime reality
There is Simeon. So many are his
years that he tOtters as he walks into
the temple. There is about his old age
a richness as Of the autumn forests
Clothed, he is, with sanctity like
that of some hoary cathedral He
knows that the shores of the other life
are not afar off. He can hear the
music of the waves as they beat upon
the strand He already tastes immor-
tality, and in the triumphs of his splen-
did faith, says: "Lord, lettest now
Thy servant depart in peace; for mine
eyes have seen Thy salvation" There
in his mellow and sweet-tempered age
is John, the beloved disciple. Beauti-
full as the sunset is his old age. AS he
receives the Apocalypse he looks right
into the glories Of the New Jerusalem.
He takes the splendors Of the heavenly
The Irish standard., 1904-12-17
St Cloud Auxiliary,
Nor be afraid"

ST. Cloud, Mimi, Dec. 14.-Division
No. !, Ladies' Auxiliary, A. o. H..
held its annual election Of officers with
the following result: County president
Mrs. Mary NJ. Dunn; division president.
Miss Anna Kennedy; vice president
Mrs. Margaret Zimmerman; recording
secretary, Miss Catherine Marooncy:
financial and insurance secretary, Miss
Mary Kennedy; treasurer, Miss Kath-
erin Cronin; sergeant at arms, Miss
Anna Gallagher; sentinel, Miss Mary
keaveny; physician, DR.. ]. y. Dunn
This division has been in existence
four years and has not lost an insured
member by death. We are in good
financial circumstances and during the
coming year intend to have a social
meeting each month. Many of the
r embers intend to increase their in
surance to $1,000 January ].
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world as they flash before the dazzled
vision Of his seership and writes them

world as they flash before the dazzled
vision Of his seership and writes them
down in book that will ever come
and thrill and comfort the Christian
world. With John, growing old IS IS
victory, exqltation, n song of triumph,
a harvest home. There is Paul, the
aged Apostle. He knows that the
faith upon which he has built his life
is a surer foundation than the granite
of the mountains. He grows old with
as much sunshine and sweetness as
can be gathered out of the fact that he
may wake up in heaven any morning
When the summons comes he answers
with shout Of victory and leaves this
world like the sun when, sinking be-
hind the hills, and the mountains he
dies like a royal king upon his couch
of gold.
Old age should he sweet and fair mad
sercne-as quiet process as the sun
set. The ideal death is that which
comes to old age. We go to the harbor
to bid adicu to our friend who is gonig
on journey to Europe. We are glad
our friend is going to have the pleas
ure and the privilege of such jour
ney. and we bid him goodbye without
heartbreak or heartache. Even So,
when one has reached ripe old age
and his work is done, and the time
has come for him to get into the
mystic boat that moves out into the
invisible, we can go down to the
shores and see him push off with no
more of heartbreak or hcartache than
we have when ut the harbor we say
Goodbye" to our friend starting on
his European journey. We know that
for him it is unspcakably better far
thcr on. The best is yet to be- Brown
ing says:
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life for which the first was
made;
Our times are in his hand
Who sayeth: "A whole l planned:
Youth shows but half; trust God. see
all,
Nor be afraid!
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the people to vote for the boss. That
name has always stuck to me. Take
Tweed, Shepherd, Platt, Croker and
all the others-they are all counter
feits, every one of them. They are not
bosses. am the only genuine boss"
One of his distinguishing character
istics was very retentive memory,
and he was accustomed in recalling
the past to give his "reminiscences
philosophical turn.
"What day is to-day?" he asked on
April II Of last year. He was in
formed that the date was April II.
"Well! well!" he said, "Forty three
years ago yesterday was just such a
day as this, only little warmer.
planted verbenas in my mothers gar
den. Forty-three years ago to-day 1
was going down the bay in little ship
and hugging the stove as it had
turned chilly over night. 1 was on my
way to Charleston to the Democratic
National convention of 1860. What do
you suppose was worrying about?
Why about those verbenas I had
planted the day before.
"Close to great question, such as
the country then faced, a man sees
only small part of it. Not until long
afterward can we see and comprehend
its magnitude. 1 was worried almost
to death for fear those vcrbenas would
get frostbitten. When 1 got down to
Charleston 1 found everything in an
uproar. Douglas was candidate for
president and somebody told me that
if they nominated Douglas that would
mean war. 1 voted against him, but
my vote did not count for much"
1t was Mr.. McLaughln's custom in
recent years to spend every winter on
the Indian river, in Florida, and every
summer at South Jamcsport, Long Is
land. He was very fond of fishing
and simple out of doors SPORTS His
affection for his family and especially
for his little grandchildren was strik-
ing.
Mr.. Mclaughlin took up his quar-
ters in the auction rooms of his old
friend Thomas Kerrigan more years
ago than many men Of Brooklyn can
now remember.
1t was Mr.. McLaughlin's custom to
appear at the auction room every
morning punctually at ten o'clock.
IIe would remain until one o'clock,
when he would go to his home in Rem
sen street for dinner usually accom-
panied by his friend and lieutenant.
James Shevlin. He would return
around two o'clock and remain until
six.
1t was always Mr.. McLaughln's
theory that political leader should
have hours as regular and headquar-
ters as permanent as business man,
and he acted upon this theory, with
the result that when he was in town
any man who had business with him
knew where to find him.
While he was not director in any
Of the enterprises in which he was
large stockholder, his advice was
sought by the management of nearly
all, and many financiers were in al
most daily consultation with him. His
long political experience had given
him searchlight insight into affairs
The Irish standard., 1904-12-17

Choice stock of New Prayer Books
in best bindings, at the Standard Cath
olic Book Store, 81 Fourth street S.
Second floor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
WARM WEATHER COMING.
The Mountain Weather Will Come to
an End.

There is a promise of somewhat higher
Temperatures and a change from the de-
lightfully cool weather enjoyed by the
Topeka stay-at-homes for the past few
DAYS The forecast issued today is:
Partly cloudy tonight with local show
ers warmer Tuesday and north portion
tonight"
nounceS the following: Cloudy ana
cooler weather prevailed over much of
Kansas this morning and partly cloudy
over western Missouri Showers have
occurred in the western half of this state
and it was still raining at Macksville.''
The maximum and minimum tempera-
lures recorded for the. past "A hours end
ing with o'clock this morning were as
follows: Baker, 1852; Concordia, 72-5o:
Dodge City, $3.50; Fort Scott, $3.50; ;Macks-
ville S4-5S: Mcpherson, S4-64; Manhattan,
9O-56: Usage City, S6-58; Russell, 80-56: Sc
dan, 1854: Topeka, $3.50; Toronto, SS-5S;
Wichita 1864.
The wind at noon was southeast, blow
ing at a rate of nine miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
WILD BULLETS.
James Love the Target for I'm
known Marksman.

James Love. proprietor of livery
barn on West Sixth avenue, was struck
on the arm by a spent bullet early Sun
day morning.
The shot was fired by an unknown
person who has not been located by the
police. Mr.. Love was but slightly in
jured, as the bullet had passed through
two plate glass windows before it
reached him. Mr.. Love was sitting in
front of his barn at 1870 O'Clock when
he heard a shot and felt blow on his
arm. The bullet did not break the skin.
Upon investigation it was discovered
tnat the shot had been fired through
the two windows in Gunther's phar-
macy, on the corner of Sixth and Jack
son streets. The shot was fired from
the Jackson street side, and passed
through the two windows.
Proceeding south along the west side
of Jackson street the roisterer fired
second shot through the back door of
the drug store, tearing a hole on the
prescription case, the bullet lodging in
a bottle of medicine, where it was found
in the morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
TRAIN ARRIVES BEARING DEAD.
Major Whitman of Kansas Among the
Victims.

N1cIln1S.
Pueblo, Colo, Aug. S-Another
train has arrived here from the scene
of the wreck near Pinion. It has
aboard the bodies of some of the vic
tins.
Eighteen bodies had been taken
from the wreck when the train left
Eden. They were so covered with mud
that only a few could be identified.
The following have been positively
identified:
MAI. F. H WHITMAN. from some
point in Kansas. He was identified by
was chatting with him just before the
disaster.
]. F. REES, express messenger.
CHARLES HINDMAN, engineer.
J. H. SMITH, conductor.
VIVA SIBLEY, ,stenogra pher for Con-
gresham H. M. Hogg, of the Second
district.
The following are known to have been
on the, wrecked train, and are believed
to be dead.
Miss Mineola Davis, Is years old, Pu-
eblo.
Mrs. George F. West, wife of former
Miss Tillie Thompson. Old Franklin,
Mo.
DR.. Mum, Pueblo, dentist.
Miss Irene Wright, Pueblo.
Miss Emma Wood, Pueblo.
Joseph Turner, brakeman.
Miss Ida Leonard and two relatives
from Chicago and LazalIe. Ill.
Miss Sallie Pine, of the Colorado Tel
ephone company
Mrs. James Mckee and child and Mrs.
sr.
Infant daughter and sister-in-law of
Harry Johnson, prominent Pueblo mer-
chant.
The work of rescue is progressing
well. A score of physicians and sur
geons are relieving the sufferings of
the injured and the hundreds of work
ers are struggling to recover the bodies
of the dead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

worked up over the fact that conceal
ed weapons are continually being found
on the strike breakers, and that all the
shooting being done is by these men.
They say that it will be impossible to
keep the strikers quiet if these men
are continually allowed to carry guns
and not punished whenever one IS
found with a gun in his possession
The committee having in charge the
strikers commiSSary decided Saturday
morning not to distribute any provis-
ions on Sunday, as had been intended,
and so the commissary was closed all
day yesterday. 1t is expected to open
up for general distribution according to
the rules of the committee today. The
stock of provisions was increased con-
siderably yesterday by donations from
a number of wholesale houses and by
meats from some of the independent
slaughter houses.
The Packing Trades council met in
labor hall yesterday afternoon ana
transacted routine business. The exec
utive board will meet at 10 O'Clock this
morning and make plans for the cam
paign for this week.
Strikers Leave for Europe.
Chicago, Aug. S.-Fifty foreigners,
nearly all former employees of the
stock yards packing house. left early
today for their old homes abroad.
They were discouraged, they said,
with the predicament that faced them,
with no settlement of the strike in
sight, living expenses high and their
savings dwiNdling away just before the
advent of cold weather. The majority
of them spoke no English, though
they had been in the country for
years. They were Bohemians, Poles
and Italians in the number. and all
were of thrifty class who had saved
the greater part of the money they
had earned in the yards.
Makes for Socialism.
Chicago, Aug. S--President Donnel-
ly of the National Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen's union said today:
1.-The packing house strike is the
greatest educator of socialism the
west has ever experienced. From be-
ing unconscious socialists the work.
ers are realizing that they are in
reality a part of the great socialist
movement. The harsh treatment
meted out to the strikers by the pack
erS and the inhuman conditions under
which they are willing to have men
END women live and work in their
houses, has brought organ
lied labor to the conclusion that the
propertied class has no hesitation in
consigning the masses to a fate worse
than that of slaves. Mr.. Edward TIL
denis advocacy of child labor in the
yards has also added fuel to the
flames of socialism.
From this class distinction and
recognition will arise the great So
cialist third party to achieve reforms
by the ballot instead of the strike"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

horrible picture. Relatives and friends
were anxiously seeking friends and
loved ones supposed to be among the
blackened, dirty and almost unrecog-
nizable bodies, piled in rows in diff
ferent. rooms of the undertaking es-
adjustments.
The work apparently was being con-
Quoted with as much system as was
possible, bodies being carded as fast
as recognized and many OF them being
taken away Immediately and several
sent to their homes in other cities.
The streets of this city present a
picture such as probably never was
witnessed before. Women and men
are to be seen rushing frantically
from one place to another wringing
theti> hands in anguish and imploring
those supposed to be in possession of
information to tell them the fate of
their relatives and friends and every
few moments a wall can be heard as
they have found what they sought for
yet hoped not to find, the horrible real
ity that their fears were confirmed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
INDORSE STRIKE.
All the Labor Unions in Chicago
Take Action.
Pledge Moral and Financial Sup
port to Butchers.
INCLUDE 100000 MEN
Each Member Will Be Assessed
Small Amount.
To Be Paid Weekly to Help
Along the Fight.

Chicago, Aug. S.-All the labor un-
ions in Chicago have indorsed the
stock yards strike. After listening to
the strikers side of the controversy,
which was presented to them by
Michael j. Donnelly, president of the
striking butchers union, the Chicago
Federation of Labor, which is COM
posed of every labor organization in
Chicago and has a membership of
nearly 100000. adopted resolutions
pledging the moral and financial sup
port of the federated body as long as
the strike continues. Each member
of the central body will be assessed
a small sum per week, and the whole
amount will be turned over to the
striking unions to help in the support
of the strikers and their families dur
ing the struggle with the packers.
The exact amount each member is to
be assessed was left in the hands of
committee, with orders to report re-
suits today. While the officials of the
Federation of Labor were unable to
give an exact estimate of the amount
of money the strikers would secure
from this source, it was stated that the
total would be well up in the thous-
andS each week.
A settlement of the strike seems to
be as remote as at any time since the
weeks ago. The packers, while claim
ing that they will soon have their af-
fairs in normal condition again so sue
cessful have they been in securing
non-union men, still admit that so far
they have been able to get but $50
of their old employees back and that
the majority of their men are un-
skilled workers. In the last statement
given out by the packers, it was said
that nearly half as many men were at
work now as before the strike began.
These men have been brought to Chi
cago from all parts of the country, the
majority of them having never seen
meat packing plant before coming
here. With these men, the packers
have succeeded in accomplishing a
great deal of work, but, according to
the strikers. every animal that has
been slaughtered since the strike was
called has been at a financial loss to
the packers. as in the majority of
cases a lack of skilled workmen has
made it impossible to operate the by
products departments and this source
of revenue, which. under normal con-
dittons, is clear profit to the packers,
has been allowed to go to waste.
According to Michael J. Donnelly,
president of the Butchers union, the
organization which precipitated the
strike, the strikers are in a better po-
sition than they were on July IL, the
day the original strike was called.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
SHOT AT THE CROWD.
One of Swift's Watchmen Fires on
the Strikers.

Kansas City, Aug. S.-There was a
mixup of union and non-union men at
Swift's packing house in Armourdale
last night about 7:15 o'clock, when
two carloads of strike breakers were
being taken into the plant through the
cattle chute, which ended in a watch
man firing one shot at a crowd of
strikers who were yelling at the nom
union men. F7he bullet did not strike
anyone but narrowly missed the head
of Mrs. w. H. BidweH of 100 Pawnee
avenue. Armourdale, who was driving
by Swifts at the time in a carriage,
accompanied by her husband and chill
dren. The bullet struck the pavement
on the opposite side of the carriage
from the plant and gave the occupants
a good fright.
Union men who saw the shooting
say that the watchman had no provo
cation for such an act. A large num-
Der of union men were standing under
the chute and calling to the strike
breakers to quit work, but say they
were not throwing rocks.
The police department tried to Sc
cure the arrest of the watchman who
did the shooting, but failed. The
manager of the Swift plant, however,
promised to ascertain the name of the
watchman and turn him over to the
police. The crowd hung around the
plant for almost an hour, and for
time trouble was feared. Finally,
however, the officers persuaded the
union men to go to their homes.
The Armourdale packing plants at
tempted to import a number of strike
breakers from points in Kansas and
Missouri yesterday. Two carloads OF
men from northern Kansas were in
tercepted at the union depot by Strik-
ers, who got into the cars and per-
suaded about fifty of the strike break
ers to desert and refuse to go to work
Of the two carloads it was said that
not over ten men went into the plants.
These went to Swifts and Cudahy's.
Those who refused to go to work told
the strikers at labor Headquarters that
thew had been hired without any
the city, and that when they found it
out, they were ready to join the
strikers.
The pickets appointed by the unions
to be on duty at the various packing
houses were around the gates all day
yesterday watching for nonunion men
to come out of the plants and when
they did, the strikers talked to them
and tried to get them not to go back
in.
Jerry Peavy, a negro living at 202
Delaware street, left the Swift plant
chased by a number of union men. He
ran to his home and secured a gun and
coming back near the crowd, hourished
the weapon, warning the strikers to
stand back. He was arrested by Officer
Krause and locked up at police station
No. g. Peavy told the police that he
had been chased a number of times
and that strikers had thrown rocks ut
him on one occasion. He said he feared
for his life. J. K. Smith, a white man
been employed at the Cudahy plant,
was arrested on a charge of carrying a
''black jack weapon.
The labor leaders are very much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
County Board Decides on Rate
of l 1-2 Mills.
of a Mill Less
Than Last Year.
WILL TAKE UP BONDS.
Commissioners Will Reduce In
dsbtedness $55, 200.
F'Strictest Economy" Will Be
the Motto.

The tax levy for 1904 was announced
by the county commissioners this morn
ing, and shows that the county assess
ment proper is seven-tenths of a mill
less than for 1908, while the whole as
sessment is 1.53 mills more. In 1903 the
total county levy was .15 1-5 mills. and
with the city and city schools included,
it amounted to 81 1-5 mills. For 1904 the
total county levy amounts to 1415, and
with the city and city schools included.
aggregates 521a mills in the city of To-
peka-
This shows the county levy lower and
the city levy higher. The latter in
creased two mills over last year, indi-
eating increased indebiture. A reduc-
tion by the state board of equalization
decreased the state tax from 56-100
mills to s6-1OO mills. That was d.
rectly responsible for the county's de-
creased levy.
Specifying the different levies for 1909
and 1894 they read as follows: For 1908,
general revenue, mills; poor fund, 1
mill; K. N. and d. L Ito mills; G. X.
and N, 1 mill; Shawnee fund, 14-100
mill; Kansas avenue bridge, y mill;
Shawnee county court house, 40-1O0
mill; bridge scrip, 112 mill; state tax,
56-100 mills.
For 1904: General revenue, mills;
poor fund, mill; general bond, interest
and sinking fund. 14-100 mills; state
tax, $4,000 mills.
This gives a, total county levy of Is is
mills for 1908 and total of 141k mills
for 1904
The levy for city schools in 1903 was
16 mills. This year it is the same. But
for the city proper, the levy in 1908
was 20 mills, while this year it is %
mills.
The total levy for the county with the
city and school levies included,amounts
to 81 1-5 mills for 1908 and 523k mills for
1904. This shows an entire increase of
11a mills in the levy over 1903.
For the townships, the leyies for the
general revenue funds for 1903 and this
year, are herewith compared: