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The Irish standard., 1905-05-13
PROBATE NOTICE.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Hennepin. Probate Court.
Iii the Matter of the Estate Of Thomas r.
Hurley, Deceased.
On receiving and filing the final account
of the Executrix of the last will and testa-
ment of said deceased, and her petition
praying for the allowance Of said account
and for decree assigning the residue Of
said estate to the persons by law entitled
to the same,
1t is Ordered That said petition be heard
ut a special term of said Court, to be held
at the Court House in the City Of Mime
aoplis in said County, on Monday, the 22d
day Of May, 1905, at 10 o'clock in the fore.
noon; and that notice of such hearing be
given to all persons interested by publish
ing this order once in each week for three
Successive weeks prior to said day of hear
ing, in the Irish Standard, newspaper
printed and published in said County.
Dated at Minneapolis this 9th day of
April, 1905.
By the Court,
F. C. HARVEY,
Judge of Probate,
The Irish standard., 1905-05-13
TO LAND AGENTS!

This to call your advance notice to
the fact that the Minneapolis & St.
Louis R. R. will sell daily during the
summer months round trip tickets at
northern Minnesota and Dakota points,
limit for return October 81. Low round
trip tickets also on sale daily to St.
Paul and Minneapolis after June l.,
For particulars call on agents, or ad-
dress A. B. QUITS.
G. P. & I. A., Minneapolis, MINI.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-13
HOMESEEKERS' RATES

Via the Minneapolis E. St. Louis r.
R. On first and third Tuesdays of
each month, to Nebraska, Kansas, Mis-.
souri,, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indian
Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Colo:
RADIO and other states. Stopovers A.
lowed. For rates, times of trains, etc.,
call on agents, or address.
A. B. QUITS,
q. p. 4 T. A.. Minneapolis, MINI.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-13
TIE WN0NA SEMINARY
WinOna. MINI.

A boarding school for young ladies,
conducted by the Sisters Of st. Francia
Delightfully."- situated in one of the most
healthful and picturesque cities on the
beautiful upper Mississippi. Direct
railroad connection with Chicago, MI.
waukee. Green Bay, Minneapolis, st
Paul and western pointS.
Elementary department.; academic
department with classical, scientific
literary and commercial courses; con-
servatory Of muAc; elocuton and
physical culture; art; domestic econ.
omy; elective courses for special stv.
dents.
Private rooms. Spacious grounds
Excellent gymnasium. For catalogue
address
THB DIRBCTRHSS,
The WlnonA Seminary,
Wlnona, MINI
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
The Track Walker.

II you have nothing else to do,
some day when you are passing
through the vast network OF tracks
of, for example. the great railway
running northward out of New York,
give a thought to the man who walks
them for you. the man on whom your
safety in this particular place so
much depends.
He Is peculiar individual. His
work is so very exceptional, so very
different from your own. While YOU
are sitting in your seat placidly won.
dering whether you are gonig to have
pleasant evening at the theatre, or
whether the business to which you
are about to attend will be as profit
able as you desire, he is out on the
long track over which you are speed
ing, calmly examining the bolts that
hold the shining metals together.
Neither rain nor sleet can deter him,
The presence Of intense heat or In.
tense cold has no effect on his labors.
Day after day, at all hours, and in all
sorts of weather, he may be seen
placidly plodding these iron high.
ways, his wrench and sledge crossed
over his shoulders, his eyes riveted
on the rails. carefully watching to
see whether any bolts are loose or
any spikes sprung. Upward OF two
hundred cannon-ball flyers rush by
him on what might be called a four.
track bowling alley each day, and yet
he lodges them all for perhaps as
little as any laborer is paid. II he
were not watchful, II he did not per-
form his work carefully and we'll, II
he had touch of malice or feeling
of vengefulness, he could wreck your
train. mangle your body, and send
you praying and screaming to your
Maker. There would be no sure way
of detecting him.-Tom Watson's
Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
Fastest Rune in Railroad History.


Among the first Of our historic forest
fires was that of Mlramlchi, New
Brunswick. in 1926. This started ear
ly one October afternoon and by mid
night had entirely devastated strip
of country eighty miles long and TWEEN
ty-five miles wide--a space as large as
the State of Delaware in which every
living thing was killed, including the
fish In the streams. The loss of life in
the Peshtigo, Wisconsin, fire of 1871
was the worst this country has expert
enced. In burned area 1t was little
larger than the Miramichi, but at least
l,2OO persons persisted, and In connec-
ton with simultaneous and contiguous
fires In Michigan the total was 1900.
Ten years later great forest fires swept
Michigan, with an aggregate burned
area of almost 1000 square miles. de-
stroying more than 100000 worth
Of property exclusive of the timber IT.
self, rendering 5000 persons homeless
and destitute and killing no less than
400. The great Hinckley fire, which
ragged in Minnesota In 1894 was not so
large In area burned, but 1t resulted in
a loss Of 500 lives and $25, 900 600 In
property. In 1902 eighteen lives and
$12 100000 were lost in fires in Oregon
and Washington, and the next year
the East had severe visitation, from
Maine to Virginia, which had Its worst
example In the Adirondack regions of
New York, where there was loss of
no less than $4,OOOOOO over burned
area aggregating 1000 square miles,
The Chautauuuan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
At the Athenaeum Club.

Englishmen almost invariably go
from a dining-room to a smoking
room for coffee and cigar. They do
not smoke where others are still din
ing, as We do. And. to note another
radical difference between English
and American clubs, they pay their
reckoning as they would at restau-
rant, for they have no check system,
with Its monthly bills.
At the Athenaeum the cost of the
average meal is less than so cents,
the members dining more cheaply as
well as more comfortably here than
at restaurants or hotels.
There was a time when the feeling
Of one member that mo gentleman
smoked" was In practice true of the
club In the use of the clubhouse.
There was at first no smoking-room;
later, partly at Thackeray's instiga-
ton, small apartment was put aside
at the top of the house. There are
now three smoking-rooms in the
house.
In the crypt, or biiliard.room, Sir
Francis Palgrave used to come with
various doubtful verses for his
Golden Treasury and discuss them at
length with his friends. and here
Abraham Hayward and Anthony
Trollope and others played whist.
On the right OF the hallway are the
morning-room, where Browning reau
the weeklies of Saturday afternoon,
and the writing-room, from which
Dickens wrote his last letter to one
OF his sons, who was not to receive 1t
until after his father was dead
Bookman.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
The Ruling Passion.

THAT story about Ed Butcher, the
noted old Iowa race horse man, re-
minds me of tale the boys used to
tell of Butcher" said Morris Lynch re-
Gently to the Des Moines Register and
Leader. Butcher was good fellow,
as the men who follow the races go.
His family was religious. One time
Butcher got sick, very sick, in fact.
His wife, fearing the end, sent for a
minister. Butcher talked to the MIN.
lister, who urged him that he should
not stay away from his God. The
road to salvation was not very plain
to Butcher. He questioned the minis
ter closely about what he thought
would happen If he should reform lust
prior to his death. The minister told
him he would be saved.
"'Will have wings Just like the
picture angels?' asked Butcher.
"'You most certainly wlll,' replied
the minister.
"'Well, then, just bet you SIS can
beat you flying when you meet me in
heaven retorted Butcher, his eye
lighting up with the accustomed flash,
1.-THE minister left in despair and
Butcher recovered and followed the
races for many years afterward."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
FIVE HUNDRED WHALES DIE
Go Ashore In an Inlet in the Straits o,
Magellan and Perish,

Aukcllau una Perish.
II saw 500 whales ashore at one
time on a beach In the Straits of Mn.
gellan," said Captain James Hewlett
of the British navy, at the Union de-
pot. Some years ago my ship lay
off Pearl Inlet, a small creek a mile
and a half long, opening into Port Sal
vador. which in turn opens into the
South Atlantic by very narrow
opening. One morning whlrlwind
appeared to be approaching over the
water in the Bay of San Salvador
and soon this was made out to be
an enormous school of whales, so
thick that they seemed to be jostling
each other. Nothing was seen but
fins and tails and the water In foam
all around.
This was in flowing tide, and
they came into the inlet itself describ-
ing sort Of cycloidal curves until the
inshore part of the squadron took on
kelp reef. Then sudden pause
seemed to seize them all, and the I'M
fortunate animals went up the inlet
full speed, with the sea boiling In
upon them and great wave coming
after them, and they piled up In hun
dreds on the beach. Then. as there
was rising tide. they got off again,
but only to charge the opposite beach,
and this continued till the following
tide and loss Of strength left them
high and dry all round the dreary
bay.
Very few, old or young, lived more
than n quarter Of an hour after their
final stranding. Some died quietly,
others beat the sand and water with
their tails. dyeing the water with
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
LITTLE "YELLow.BAcK.

Little bunny "Yellow-Back" came
from the City of Mexico. He lived in
large, square cage; not little wire
one with wheel, but roomy one.
where he could trot about to his
hearts content.
In one corner he had his little nest.
made of fine dried grass. Every
morning a clean handful was given
him, and Yellow-Back made his own
bed, putting the grass to pieces and
placing it to suit his fancy.
Such funny bunny! Next to the
skin, for about a quarter of an inch.
the hair was bright yellow, the un-
der part of the tail being yellow and
The upper side brown, and as 1t way-
ed in the air or curled over his back
maze one think of two plumes.
Every morning he was let out of
the cage. and preparations had to be
made for a frolic, so his mistress al
ways put on gloves and tied hand
kerchief about her neck to protect
the skin from his sharp little claws.
Then bunny would scamper over her
from head to foot, jumping and
springing in wild delight. Perhaps it
was because his was such a comfort
able home that Yellow-Back never at
tempted to run away, and so he was
given more and more freedom each
day.
Once, however, little Yellow-Back
was lost, and the entire household
mourned. The nuts which he ate
pecans and almonds-were kept In .
box, which. at the time of his dis.
appearance, was uncovered. The Sec
ond morning when his mistress open
ed the bureau drawer, she heard a
| queer noise, and there, In one of her
stockings, was Mr.. Bunny with about
teacupful of nuts.
When taken out, he curled himself
all up into round ball, appearing as
ashamed as could be for all the trou-
BILE he had caused; but the reason
bunny had stolen the nuts and hidden
away was because his mistress had
for some reason forgotten to give him
his breakfast.-Clarita Stetson In
Youths Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
STORIES ABOUT EAGLES
A Battle With a stas-knocklns .
Sheep Over a Precipice.

d
Sheep Over Precipice.
Some years ago Sir Charles Nor
daunt witnessed in Scotland strange
battle between an eagle and a stag,
which completely dispels any theory
that the ornithologists may put for.
ward as to eagles not attacking large
animals. The bird singled out from
a herd one particular buck, which it
succeeded in driving from the rest.
1t struck the animal repeatedly with
its powerful wings, knocked it down
and finally killed 1t. Baron Schroe-
der witnessed still more remarkable
spectacle. An eagle attacked a fawn
which was one OF herd In the high
lands. The cries of the little one were
answered by its dam, which sprang
upon the eagle and struck 1t repeated
ly with It's forefeet. Fawn. deer and
eagle rolled headlong down a decliv-
ity, and the bird was dislodged from
its hold and the fawn rescued. But
Sir Kenneth Mackenzie knows more
thrilling story than either OF these,
for, according to report. an eagle was
rent in twain during battle in his
forest in Gairlock. Fixing his talons
in the quarters of roe, the bird was
dashed against tree, to branch OF
which it endeavored to hold to stay
the flight of its captive. The bird
was halved In an instant.
MANY difiOpc ayfopf 20
eagles having carried off and devour-
ed children. In the north of England
the legend is perpetuated by the name
of many an inn, the sign THE Eagle
and the Child" being common. The
most recent case bearing close scrut-
my appears to be one which occurred
in South Africa. A Boer farmer, liv-
ing on the veldt Just beyond Barber
ton. whose stock had been harried by
eagles. lay in ambush for the aerial
robbers, and saw one of them de-
scend and carry of the fve-year-old
child of one Of his Kaffir servants.
He shot the bird. which, with the
child still clutched in Its grip. fell
into thorn bush. The bird was dead
when picked up. but the babe was
little hurt. The eagle measured nine
feet from tip to tip Of the wings.
Other stories are told to similar
end, but appear less credible than
this one.
Two eagles will stalk a covert in
concert. While one conceals itself
the other beats about the bushes
with a great screaming. driving out
Its quarry for the hidden eagle to
sweep down and make an end of it.
An even more insiduous method has
been observed. when an eagle. detect
ing sheep on the edge OF Il prcci-
pice, flew at 1t screaming shrilly, and
with forceful beat of wing hurled 1t
into the valley below, where 1t could
devour 1t at Its leisure. There is
good reason for believing. after all,
the ancient legend as to the manner
in which Aeschylus, the Greek poet,
met his death. 1t is said that an
eagle dropped turtle on his bald
head. Algerian travellers are famil-
lar with the sight Of eagles carrying
turtles and tortoises to height and
dropping them upon rocks to break
the creatures shells and render the
flesh accessible.-The Scotsman.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

miles of the run. At only few Of
these places will the trains take or
passengers, most Of the stops beln.
made merely for the purpose of chang
ing engines or taking water.
While trains frequently attain q
| speed rate OF 100 miles an hour 70,
short distances. train that runs 1,OO(
miles In eighteen hours regularly has
no rival in any other country in the
world. While the American roads
hold the most important records fol
long distance runs and for regular long
distance trains, they likewise hold
them for the fastest record runs for
short distances.
World Famous Runs.
In May, 1893, the Empire State ex.
press on the New York Central ran
one mile in 80 seconds which Ia AT
the rate Of 112 miles IN hour. In Au-
| gust, 1895, the Pennsylvania road raj,
train 81 miles n minutes, which
Is at the rate of 102 miles per hour.
The Plant System In March, 1901,
made the fastest run ever made. GOV.
ering five miles In minutes and 20
seconds. This is at the rate OF 12O
miles an hour, or two miles a minute.
In January, 1890, Burlington train
ran "a miles in l minute and 20 sec
onds, or at the rate of 1OS miles nor
hour.
The New York Central Road made
another record IN January, 1903, when
IT run train 100 miles In 4 minutes
fiat The speed attained was at the
rate of 1O9.35 miles per hour.
In April Of last year a Michigan
Central train ran 373 miles in 2 min
utes. or at the rate of lilo miles per
hour. Last July Philadelphia and
Reading train Travelled 4.S miles III
minutes and 80 seconds, or at a
speed OF 1862 miles per hour.
One Of the fastest short distance
regular trains In America Is a New
York Central train which makes the
run of 143 miles from New York to All.
bany In 160 minutes. Several trains
on the Baltimore and Ohio Road cover
the distance Of forty miles between
Washington and Baltimore in As min.
utes. The Congressional limited. on
the Pennsylvania road, makes the run
from Jersey City to Washington in
2S6 minutes. The distance is 227
miles.
The Pennsylvania road in 1897 made
now famous long distance run from
Jersey city to Denver, 1887 miles. in
forty eight hours, nn average speed of
4O.3 miles per hour. In 1901 the Cana
dian Pacific ran train 2,SO2 miles In
II hours and 0 minutes, which gives
an average speed of 1892 miles per
hour. ~
Another long distance run which
created sensation at the time was the
trip of the Jarrett & Palmer special
theatrical train, which made the run
from Jersey City to Oakland. Cal.
1911 miles, in SO hours and As minutes.
an average speed of 1888 miles per
hour
In January, 1904, the Clark special
train ran from Albuquerque. N. NJ, to
Chicago. 1,47S miles, in thirty hours
maintaining speed of $50 miles per
hour.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
PRIZES AWARDED AND OFFERED
Encouragement for Invention and
Useful Study.


The prizes having the largest
money value Of which the world has
any knowledge are those provided by
the will Of Nobel, the inventor of
dynamite. Three are for scientific
research and invention and two for
other kinds of achievement. All are
bestowed annually, and each amounts
to trile less than $4,000. 1t is an
interesting question how much good
they do, for they are not given with
any idea of stimulating competition.
In fact, a man who wants to get one
hurts his chances by seeking it. On
the other hand, the world undoubted-
ly derives great benefit from the
award of much smaller sums of
money, which are offered by special
societies with the distinct under
standing that they are to be com
peted for. Industrial and other
guilds in Europe have often adopted
these means to secure such discov-
cries as the best method of making
matches without phosphorus. There
are a few prizes of that class.
German papers report that the
Lombardy Institute of Science, Liter
ature and Arts has distributed the
scientific prizes for 1904. and has
announced new themes for 1905. A
gold medal for industries, which 10
only given once in three years, was
awarded to Vermot & Reyna for
wagon springs and wagon axles. The
Cagnola prizes for essays with refer
ence to the velocity of cathode rays,
for steering apparatus for airships,
and for an investigation to prevent
counterfeiting or forgeries, had to re-
main undistributed as well as various
other prizes. An award was made to
DR.. Cent for cure for the corn
disease (pellagra). For an essay on
mlasms and infection the noted ply
siologist Negri received the full prize
and gold medal.
The Brambilla industrial prizes
were strongly competed for, and
three first and four second prizes
were awarded. These Brambilla
prizes are only given to further and
encourage the industries of Lom-
hardy. A prize was also given for an
essay on the division of the mental
activity OF the brain.
Among the themes for the next
year are researches into the following
subjects: Certain rock formations of
the ApennineS: modern psychiatry.
phenomena Of catalysis; modern
knowledge of neurology: centres Of
vision Of the higher animals.
Unawarded for a long time, and
therefore still on the list is the spec
ial prize by Commend for the discov-
erer of hydrophobia poison. DR..
Henri de Rothschild has given two
prizes to the Scientific Society for
Nutrition Hygiene Of Paris. $1,000
and 5000. respectively, for the best
treatises on the most rational nutri.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

their blood. BY evening, after the
tide had ebbcd. there We're only five
whales afoat out of the more than
500 that had come into the inlet SO
majestically that morning.
Next day only three were to be
seen. They swan around for while
and then. as II disdaining to live
when oil their companions were dead,
they made straight for the beach, and
in few minutes had passed out Of
existence. The whales were from four
to thirty feet long. the four-foot
whales being just born. Milwaukee
Free Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
TWO DOGS.


do not like my neighbours dog,
Were l to size him up.
One brief phase would express 1t all:
"A most ill-mannered pup"
Hes vicious. and he has no sense,
He even barks at me;
And yet my neighbor seems to think
There's no such dog as ne.
Now. my dog, on the other hand
I'm very fond of him,
He's really gentle as n lamb,
Although he looks so grim,
And yet my neighbor fails to see
His keen intelligence,
Your dog he says. lis vicious, and
He hasn't any sense
-Somerville, Mass, Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
Asked ana Answered,

They had been trotting In matrimo-
NAL harness for six months, and the
pace was beginning to tell.
What" she asked, after the man.
ner Of a woman, "ever made you fall
in love with me?"
Love-" he answered, with the blunt
ness of his sex, as blind, you know"
Detroit Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
DARING FEAT OF A Merry WOMAN.

LOOPS THE GAP IN AN AUTO UPSIDE
An American act
chat daredevil
thrills
audience n known ma Mile
De - - NS
Her act Is
explains the act better than words The
The
through the air upsdedown swshe
incredible speed down the ground shrugs
her shoulders and smiles when young
woman cares little for extended existence
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
THE ROAD TO ANIMAL LAND.

Long years ago there lived in
China a very wise and very strange
old man. Very wise he was, because
fle knew all that the birds and ami
mails said to each other, and had
many wonder-tale for the little Chi
nese children. Very strange was the
wrinlsled old man, because he would
not live in house, no, not even a
very plain little house. All day he sat
beneath the trees, wrapped IN his gor-
geous silken robe, talking to the
birds whose nest were in the
branches above, and to the four-foot-
cd folk of the woods. who came to
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

Marshal Van Morley has gone into
a new business. viz. the shipping Of
cats out Of Titusville.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

tion of man. The essays. written In
French. must be handed in before
December 80, 1905. The award of the
prizes will take place next year.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

How people who can't keep one lot
looking well In town, love to ride in
the country and speak disparaginply
of the weeds on farm!
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
LIGHT.

The night has a thousand eyes.
And the day but one:
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of whole life dies
When Love is done.
Francis w. Bourdillon.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

For every mean man who dies at
least two more are born.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-14
Tin Roofing,
GutteriDQ, Etc.

Promptly and at a low price. All
kinds of tin or galvanized iron work
done. In fact, we do anything in this
line our customers desire. Call on us
and we will convince you,
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-14
PLUMBING.

When your pipes freeze up this win
ter remember we carry full line of
Plumbing Goods, Pipes, etc.. and can
do your repairing promptly. We will
fix your bath rooms and kitchen sinks
SO they positively will not freeze. Call
and get particulars. We mean what
we say.