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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-06-18
OVER THE OCEAN
Brighter Days for the Servant
Boy and Girl in Ireland.
Boss Croker a Conspicuous
Figure on a Cork Racecourse.

The usual half-yearly hiring markets
have just been held, and the boys with
their little belongings done up in red
handkerchiefs and the girls with their
little bundles also, tramped their ten
and twenty and thirty miles and more,
to the hiring markets, and bargained
there with the farmer and his wife,
selling their services for the summer
and autumn, says Seumas McManus in
the New York Sun.
In November they will return to
their homes in the mountains, bring
ing back with them their half years
wage; and after very few days at
home will bind up their little bundles
and set their faces for the hiring mar
ket once more, and engage with the
big farmer in the rich valley or the
rich plain for the winter half year.
These boys and girls going into the
hiring market present to me always a
pathetic spectacle. They practically
sell themselves to the farmer for the
half year term, knowing no Relation
from o'clock in the morning to 8
O'Clock at night, day in, day out, until
their term is expired.
Then they enjoy little or none of
their wages-all of that goes to help
their father and mother their brothers
and sisters, to exc out living on the
mountain patch, where their cabin
stands. The Irish servant boys and
servant girls are heroes and heroines.
The lives of the servant boy and
servant girl in Ireland are now bright
er than they used to be. They are bet
ter fed ut their masters table, they
are better bedded, and. still more, the
wage is nowadays far higher than ever
before. at least one and half times
what it was a dozen years ago.
An able-bodied servant boy is getting
these days 60 or f1O Il half year in adj
tition to bed and board; the servant
girl gets e and fS Il half year with
bed and board, and the bit of Il boy
receives EGG or e. AS the boy eXpends
only a few pence Il week on tobacco
very little upon clothes. and nothing
on any other commodity. and the girl
eXpends no money except what pays
for her clothes. the wages brought
home by three or four members of the
same family very soon lift their poor
parents into comfort. if not independ-
ence.
But, unfortunately, the spirit of I'M
rest seizes the young people after a
time and drives them over the ocean.
In years gone by there was much eX-
c,lse for our young people leaving the
country, but today with employment
plentiful and well-paid all excuse for
emigration has vanished.
The laborer with us nowadays is
much more Independent man than the
small farmer, and can live with much
greater ease and content. Even day
laborer may now command daily
wage of IS, when in times not long
past he could barely get Is. Owing to
| the increase of work and decrease of
hands through emigration, the demand
is now exceeding the supply in the la
Dor market.
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He Settled It.

"We'll go to the seashore this sum-
mer," said Meekley. For a long time
we couldn't decide between the noun
tains and the seashore.
who finally decided the matter?"
Il did. l said: Well go to the noun
tains,' and Immediately my wife closed
her jaws and went out to select mate
rails for bathing-suit "-Philadelphia
Press.
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Theory and Practice,

knicker-Who is the lecturer who
made such an eloquent plea for the sim
pier life?
Bocker-That's Jones; he's trying to
make enough money to get an automo-
bile.-N. Y. Sun.
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And Sam McAllister-may his men,
Dry never perish-was truly worthy
follower of a worthy chief, and his
life was ended in manner as glorious
and as heroic as any in all history.
When Michael Dwyer and his little
handful Of followers were at length
one night, in a cabin in the Wicklow
hills, surprised and completely sur
rounded by British soldiers, and when
they had made what seemed the last
gallant stand, and their pursuers had at
length succeeded in setting fire to the
house and Dwyer and his comrades
had ammunition left for only one other
volley. Sam McAllister, who had just
been mortally wounded by the enemy's
fire and lay dying, begged that his
comrades would prop him up just in
side the cabin door, then throw open
the door, and when thus he had drawn
the fire Of the enemy they might make
bold dash for liberty.
McAllister pleaded and begged that
make one effort to save their lives.
They consented, Sam IcAllister was
propped up and the door thrown wide.
Almost instantly the body Of Meal
lister was riddled with hundred bull
let's. Michael Dryer and his few fol-
lowers bounded out, emptied their mus
kets in the face Of the enemy; stag
gered them, broke their line, dashed
through them. and on to safety.
Sam McAllister died to live-to live
as long as the fame of noble heroes is
cherished.
In those troublesome days in Ireland
a hundred years ago and more, the
man who loved Ireland as one should
love his country. had his choice of
ending his days by the rnpier or the
| rope, and he did we'll to choose the
former. If he was taken alive and
brought before Lord Norbury, "The
Hanging Judge" certain fate and a
short shrift We're his. Norbury, it is
we'll known, reveled in sending men to
| the gallows. and he the evidence what
it might, there was no chance of es-
| cape for any poor creature that was
placed in the dock before him.
Curran, the counsellor and celebrat-
ed wit. was at Il dinner once at which
Norbury too was present. Norbury re-
fused some picked tongue. He said:
Il hate picked tongue, but if it We're
| hung would try it."
If your lordship only tries it." said
Curran instantly, at will be hung for
certainty"
one day he was rhyming off the SEN
tence which came then so familiarly
and so mechanically from his lips, and
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The Delightful Shower

Has anybody ever given shower of
any kind for you?"
"No, but I've been soaked for about
everybody else that I've ever been intro
duced to."-Chicago Record Herald.
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THE IRISH STANDARD,
MINNEAPOLIS. o MINNESOTA.

was winding it up with the usual
"may the Lord have mercy on your
soul,'' when the man in the dock in
terrupted with:
Il beg your pardon, my lord. but you
might spare the prayer
why might 1 spare the prayer,
sir?" asked the judge.
BECAUSE" said the prisoner, 81
heard you pray that prayer on many a
man, and never knew any of them to
thrive after it,
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Heartless.

The Pupil-Now, want you to be
perfectly candid with me. Do you think
my technique is getting better?
The Professor-Perhaps; but it's far
from conyalescent as yet.--Punch.
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Nothing Serious.

Tie wife of prominent Indiana pol
it!g.an explained over the telephone to
an inluir.ng friend that her husband
V IS not seriously ill-he had merely
"oyerhet" himself.
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Similar But Different.

"a widow" remarked the very young
man, always has words of praise for her
late husband"
YES" rejoincd the man with the alb
seut hair, but it's different with the
sleepy wife when her liege lord
ne Il Gers in about two a. III. "-Cincin-
i. Ii Enquirer
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Boss Croker is beginning to draw
attention and remark in his native
place-the final and surest sign Of
fame. The Dublin Freeman tells us
that he, with his wife and daughter,
was a conspicuous figure on the Cork
race course recently. "Short, stout and
closely clipped beard, Irish figure and
bluff manner-such is the famous
boss" quoth the reporter.
Mr.. Croker told his friends that he
had almost completed the purchase Of
the late Judge Murphy's residence,
near Stillorgan, County Dublin, and
that he will end his days Dublin man.
The residence referred to is in a very
charming place indeed, with fine
view of beautiful Wicklow, showing,
too. the picturesque Scalp.
Like all truly great American demo
Gratis, Mr.. Croker is strong upon pedi-
gree. He claims that the House of
/ Croker of Ballynagrade, in the County
Of Limerick, is responsible for him.
This house is of the ancient Devon
! family, famous in the couplet:
! Croker. Crews and Coplestone
When the Conqucror came were at
I If they were not ut home they would
I make themselves so-if they had il
them any of the blood which has beer
transmitted to Richard.
At Baltinglass. County Wicklow, q
monument has just been unveiled tc
/ the memory of the bold AIichae
| Dwyer, the 1898 insurgent, and brave
sam McAllister.
In the rebellion of 179S there was
no more heroic figure, no man more
audacious. more clever. more admirable
than Michael Dwyer. When the rising
was everywhere else stamped out
Michael Dwyer. With his little ban(
of followers. continued for Il long time
to hold his own. and bid defiance t.
The British among the businesses of thu
Wicklow mountains.
Many daring deed he did in thost
days. and many thrilling escape liz
had. and in many a clever way did III
outwit and audaciously harry and con
found the army that was in pursuit o
him. His story is one of the most in
spring that the Irish youth can reat
today.
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When he closed his eyes and sighed:
My days coming, after while;
My Tomorrow" Then he died.
Surely his Tomorrow" dawned
Somewhere in the great beyond.
w. d. N, in Chicago Daily Tribune.
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The Gaelic League continues it's tri-
umphal progress. The Catholic man.
ayers of the schools of the County
Wexford, representing four-fifths of
the schools of the county, have decided
by 53 votes to 3 that from the LIST of
January next no schoolmaster will be
appointed by them who is not qualified
to teach Irish. And Wexford is the
most English speaking county in Ire
land.
The Dublin Corporation, the Cork
County Council, the Mayo County
Council and other bodies have decided
to appoint in future no public officers
who are unacquainted with the Irish
language; and their examples is spread
ing fast.
We are by leaps and bounds ad-
vancing toward inevitable Gaelic speak,
ing Ireland. \ handsome subscription
of $1,000 tworda the funds Of the league
has just been thankfully received from
the Ancient Order of Hibernians in
America.
The people of America have done
many things to earn the gratitude of
our people at home, but this. the latest
mark of their sympathy. materially in
creases the gratitude of our people to
them. May their shadow never grow
less.
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An Irish Folk Song Society has been
formed, which is to be hoped will do
much to rescue from oblivion and pre-
serve the hundreds of charming old
Irish folk songs. that with the progress
of civilization We're being stamped out
and forgotten. Ireland has always
been the home of the folk song, and it
would be Il great pity We're we, with
our progress, to disdain and lose this
simple and charming body Of liter
allure.
More valuable. of course. than the
words are the lovely and very old
airs to which they are welded. The
lady who has founded the society is
one who, travelling through the remote
parts of Ireland during a holiday and
interviewing our old men and women,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-12-07
tbDul tie Cotton Slnmp.

Coiurhn, Drccmb,r The STUMP
IN llIc cotton n,hIhct was The suh"ct
al much discussion here to-day At
the Clubs and cScW here thrIr was
speculation as to what the m;.i kct
would do.
Among those who discussed he sit
uaiiOn were two close observers, whose
business carries them all over the
South, and who travel extensively in
Texas, Alabama and Mississippi, as
well as the other cotton producing
States. Early III the season one OF
these gentlemen went on record that
the crop would be ll,3jO.OOO, and the
other looked for IN equally large
crop.
One of the two observers insisted
tha, the naI hct would remain down
for while at least lic figured that
there would be nhDut il million bales
Of cotton sold at the low price, pos
sih!y lower than al present, and that
after tins lot III cotton WAS sold 10y
those who were being crowded, and
those who were schry, he market
would have 10 20 up again because
there would br no cotton offering. He
s;ti.i that lIc had closely observed !hr
condition Os HE ialnicIS, and that thcy
have never been ~ independent as
they now are, and that they viii not,
as class, sell Their cotton at present
prices. and wOmld hold il for ten cents.
He said that he cotton mills cOuiu not
IlIn on the knowledge that there was
cotton in the hands of tho farmers.
and that they had 10 have tie actual
cotton on which 10 work. He thought
that 5000, OW bales Ui cotton had already
been inHikctrd ont oi the present crop,
and that this had given the South
ample money with which to hold its
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Prospect News.

The health of our community is very
good 1T this writing.
B T.. Creamcr has his new residence
about completed.
E.V. Mccoy has bought the Riley
place, between Prospect and Hunters
Spring school house.
There was an nll-dny singing Mt AS
bury church last Sunday The Ntten-
dance was very small. Prof. w. w,
Hale and Is. T.. IIarbin conducted the
singing.
Misses Eula and Iva Tate had n mu
steal entertainment at their uncle's, NJ.
l.. Campbell, last Wednesday even
ing.
Mrs. N. j Campbell is having her a
new residence built.
Bob Yeargn and Miss Euia Tate at
tended the singing ut Asbury church.
Mrs. Abe Bolt is visiting her daugh
ter. Mrs. Martha Milford.
Bud Bolt wears broad smile. 1t is
boy.
The farmers are about through pick
ing cotton and sowing wheat.
u. w. McClain il building n new
residence near Hunters Spring school
house.
w. =. Harbin will soon move to his
new home that he has bought from j.
). Fowler, on Centerville road.
IOl. w. w udlc Will lHoSo slOIlly
to Henry CoX's plantation, near 5. N.
Browne.
Willie Massey has bought the Skel-
ton plantation, four miles west OF An
dersOn.
Is. G.. Creamer and family visited
John A. Bolt last Sunday.
Mr.. Claude McC0y and Miss Leo
Goodwin were married November 90, h
by Rev. a. a. Merritt at his resi-
dence.
Joe Major has sold his plantation
near JOlley's Springs.
Tho sweet potatoes are 1Ottcning
through this section very badly.
December >. 1904. B l.. g.
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Corner Creek Comments.

1t would Mt he any news to comment
on the weather, only to say that few
are really glad to see Il large amount
ni ialnlhil, on account OF wells gong
dry. The amount of rainfall here IN
the past TWO years has been exceed
nEly light comp,rrd to heretofore;
Our Farmers finished SOWING wheat
and oats before thr ram and some bad
begun pirpltIuS iOl another crop
pIowng 'hri, land mp viii! two horse
plows. The old ways of farming are
ias, passing away with Il great many
farmers, anu IT Is true better signs Of
prosperity seem to be dawning upon
uI. Success awaits the energetic far
nitI oi The present century.
on, the downfall! Of cotton, Aud
most all OF rs are still holding. And
why! Don't ask us, if You please, but.
however. there is hope for the living.
the pllcc of cotton Just now for ours
wouldn't he beneficial to any at tins
time.
R"v. X. w Burts. who has served
the HHrkei's Creek Church most faith
fully this year. preached his farewell
sermon to us las Sunday. While he
IL growing nld ana feeble, yet his SER
mons are good.
NJ iss Eugcna Robertson. one of Able
VIM . ioNhDlC GIltl WIIsoIIlC SOuuR W.
men, spent a few days very pleasantly
in our midst the guest of her cousin,
N isB .M0dcna Bigby.
BeltOn ThOmusOn, of Cedar Falls,
Grccnvillc County. spent II few hours
hero Sunday with young folks. He
was warmlygrccted by his many friends
here.
Thomas Jones. of Laurens County,
was over on our side Sunday minglinK
with tho fairer sex.
Mr. +. &. pruitt. formerly of this
county, but for the past six years OF
Mcltae, Ga. visited his sister. Mrs Is
+. Gassaway. the latter part of last
week. He WAS accompanied by hi'
son in law, Edmund Carter
j. Brown Gassaway spent Saturday
night Viii: relatives nrnr Ntva
The McAuams school is getting n
nicely unt.tr the gtll;lut control oi
Miss l.unie Wright. This is her second
term III teacher of our school and the
patrons are highly pleased with the
service she renders
With tho exception of colds we ar,
nll we'll Tyro
Dee. ,, 1904.
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The people III and around Anderson
have long fell the need OF al exclusive,
up-tO-date optcian who will be per
mancntiy Location among them. D..
Reese, being aware or tins fact. has open
cd his office over Atkinson's Drug Store,
corner of Depot and Main streets, and
will hereafter have his permanent office
with us here in Anderson. Those who
have and are now having trouble with
their eyes, can At any tiu:o find his office
open. and Il welcome if they should de-
sire 10 consult him. DR.. Rec SO is we'll
known among us, and has many pa
tients in and around Anderson that will
testify 70 bis ability to correct the most
obstinate case Of refrhction of the eyes.
lie comes among us endorsed by the
leading professions, has all the leading
mcth' rs # examination. and il is worth
your tiine to visi, lis Othce and find out
the trnn CONDITION nf your eyes by the
most improved system 'Or rciractiug he
eye IN he South. Dr. Rrts- IL q member
OF tie Optical Association of South Caro-
iira ard las his diploma from u rccug-
mss! college OF optics.
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A Sudden Death.

One of tho most sudden. ns we'll as
one of the snddest, deaths that
nave occurred here in a long time was
shat of Mrs. D. T.. Williams. who ex
-,ired at II o'clock Wednesday night
from hemorrhage of the lungs. A
few moments before her demise she
called to her husband, declaring that
she was dying and her statement
Soroved only too true, for before MIR.
Williams could got II lamp lighted, she
was dead.
The deceased was devnted wife
aud mother, and leav Is q husband and
i've children, the youngest only two
ri onths Old-tO mourn for her.
She was consistent member of the
Baptist Church and had n host of
friends, who are grieved over her uI-
tiEl ely death.
The funeral services were conducted
from her late residence Thursday
evening by Rev. w. Il. Tate after
(Which the remains were inferred in
,..h Q town cemetery.-Belton Times.
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Marriage Of a Popular Couple.

Miss Gretchen Rhohy and Mr.. Frank
-. Robertson, OF Ilonca Path, were
married on Wednesday evening, Nov.
.Vth, ut 80 at Midway Presbyterian
Church by Rev. j. Il. McLin.
The Church, gracefully decorated in
Evergreen and ivy, WAS filled by the
.ipl ointcd hour by the many friends
and relatives of the popular young
couple. Promptly on time to the sweet
march, played by Miss I.cta Poore, of
i,elton, on the organ and Messrs. j..
W. and Webb Won llusseln on the viU
.ins, the bridal party entered the
church and took their places in q semi
..&i,.lc around the bride and groom,
a'hg stood just beneath q pure white
seeding bell.
Those composing tho wedding party
'.'.: '>h''s. Mr.. Logan Robbins and
~, N"'llnA higiy, of Honca pnlh,
Mr. Wade Watson with Miss Ella,
FINLEY; .Hr. Arthur RhOdy with Miss
Sadie iiaynir. of l'elton; Mr. Frank
yhv,ly with Miss Ruby Hammond,
Mr.. Robertson entered with Mr.. Mar
7hali BIghy, while down the opposite
Aisle came the lovely bride in her beau
1iful toilette of white point dosprit,
an train with II long veil. ON the arm of
-iCl S!sitl AhlS "a ~ i vi t'iIC, w III
.ningha,n, Ala. Mrs. Fortune wore Il
pretty brown silk, trimmed with lace,
and carried chrysanthemumS.
At > o'clock on "Wednesday after
noon Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Rhody. pa
cents of the bride, entertained about
- friends ut II handsome course din
ger.
Mr.. and Mrs Robertson left Thurs
lay for lIonca i'ath, their future
home
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kidnapped Young Girl.

lewis II. Redmond, u name sake and
4 nephew OF tho famous North Caro-
lima outlaw, was arrested by Patrol
,.lan Corn near tho West End dispen
sary yesterday morning.
Redman is wanted in Anderson
county on the charge of kidnapping IL
14-yenr old girl. The sheriff of Ander-
son county arrived in tho city yester-
sAaY and took charge of the prisoner
S,lrrying him back yesterday after
e,uou.
When arrested Redmond had dOu-
BILE barreled shot gun and quart Of
SEhiskey. He laughed heartily when
arrested and made no resistance what
ever.
Redmond has good face. and gen
orally wears a broad smile. which Chief
Reck nell says ia s. characteristic of his
noted uncle. He took his arrest IA a
.lnatter OF course and asked for his
,gIarG of whiskev when he left with the
Anderson sheriff.
The girl, whom it is charged he kid
mapped, was not with him at the time
.of his arrest, but it ia said that at one
zine she was at one of the mill villages.
--Greenville Herald, 30th inst.
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In MemOriam.

Mrs. Eva Hem6ree. nee r'oster. de-
parted this life ut her home in Pied
mont, Nov. Goth, in the 22nd year of
her age. Only little over one year
ago she was married to MIR. Way mond
her death.
Her life WAS one OF beauty. She
was an earnest Christian and devoted
to her Sunday School and Church.
On the following day funeral services
were conducted by her pastor, Rev. K.
that Of her little infant in the same
casket, wete laid away in the town
cemetery. Many we're tho faces bath
cd in tears as thew stood around the
open casket aud beheld for the last
time on earth the face Of one they
loved.
Besides the husband there is left q
mother and many other relatives to
cherish her memory. A Friend.
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Farmers Cooperative Union.

The regular meeting Of the ialmrin
Cu-opclnIIlr mon VIII bc held Wed
ucsduy, the ith inst, ~ lO;D Il. IN,
when the report Oi the President VIII
submitted, amt other mattrlS of vital
interest to every member Will be con
sidcIcd. and every member is earnest
~ requested to br present. At O'Clock
there VIII be n IHasS meeting, ana
every man in Anderson County who
has produced bale of cotton during
tllc year l9Ot. or who proposes to grow
one the succeeding year is cordially in
vited 10 bc present.
G.. q. Burriss, Sec.
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Death of Mrs. Leila NJ. QUITS.


Mrs. Leila NJ. QUITS, wife of w. p.
QUITS, died at her homo in Center
Township "Wednesday, November 10th,
after an illness of several months.
She was born and reared in Ander-
son county, where she lived until
three years ago, when she moved to
OcOnee.
She joined the Methodist church at
an early age and lived a consistent
member till her death.
She leaves three brothers, w, p.
Suelgrove, of Anderson, James and X.
H. Snelgrove, of Oconee; and three
sisters and large circle of friends to
mourn her loss. While her death was
not unexpected, it caused great sad
ness to all who knew her. She was
buried on the following day at Smiths
Chapel. Anderson county. A good wO-
man has gone to her reward.-kcowee
Courier.