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Mem and Things

On the 14th day of February capt.
John T. Chancey will complete the
fifty second year of his continuous
service as an employee of the house OF
representatives. For two years more
than half a century this veteran
employee has had the freedom of the
floors of the house and senate ard he
has had a more intimate acquaintance
with the public men of America than
any other man now living.
Without doubt he is the most inter-
esting character serving in PUBIC
capacity under the federal government.
He was born in 1880 in Maryland and
has lived in the city of Washington
since he was years old Ever since
he can remember he has been visiting
the haunts of public men and brushing
elbows with the great and shining
lights of American history.
He has a very vivid recollection of
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay and
for hours he sat in the senate chamber
and drank in their oratory.
webster" said he, was very fond
of dress. He would invariably appear
in the senate chamber in full dress with
big metal buttons on his coat. Clay
was not given to fine clothes like Web
ster.
~ was sitting in the chamber one
day talking to Alexander H. Stephens"
said he, when William p. Frye, now
senator from Maine. passed by on his
way to his seat.
There's the rising man of this
house. 1 said to Stephens.
ono he replied, you are mistaken
Over there is the rising man.
HE pointed to James A. Garfield.
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OF 1925 men who contemplated death
as a relief from their ills, "a per cent
attributed their desperate state of mind
to hopeless poverty or financial en-
barrassment from which they saw no
escape; II per cent to drink or drugs
or disease; 9 per cent to melanchollar
caused by loneliness in most cases; 5
per cent to crimes such as forgery and
embezzlement, which they had COM
mitted, and 81 per ent to general
causes like accidents. sickness and un-
expected misfortunes.
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WOn7en'S Work

Meta Warrick OF Philadelphia is a
negro girl VIII is already ranked by
art critics among the leading women
sculptors of the United States. Her
work has won the concentrations OF
the great French master, Augusta
Rodin! One of her best sculptural
groups was made for the jamestown
Vercentennial, and represents the al :
vancement of the negro since his land
irg at jamestown in 1919. others Or
her works have been exhibited In the
Paris salon.
Bernhard, in her memoirs, sets down
these opinions concerning some of her
contemporaries:
Henry Irving was an admirable
srtist, but not a comedian.
Coquelin is an admirable comedian,
but not an artist.
Mounet- Sully has genius which he
sometimes plsce at the service of the
artist, sometimes at the service Of the
comedian
Reiane is the most comedian of COM
edians, and an artist when she wishes
to be.
Novelli is a comedian of the old
school, which did not trouble much
about the artistic side. He is perfect
in laughter and tears.
Beatrice Patrick Campbell is especial
ly an artist, and her talent is that Of
charm and thought. She execrates
beaten paths.
One of the most notable women of
our times is Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd.
wife of Prof. Todd, who holds the chair
of astronomy at Amherst She is on a
trip to the highest point in the Andes
mountains for the purpose of TAXI Z
photographs of the planet Mars, which
ia only about thirty-five million miles
from the earth. point nearer than it
has been for fifteen years. Mrs. Todd
Is the daughter and granddaughter OF
astronomers and mathematician. an1
she herself is author of a book on
colipses of the sun.
"a
Mrs. Thomas p. Gore, wife OF the
blind senator from Oklahoma. accom-
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chosen from some of the religious or
ders FRANCISCAN, Dominican, etc) wear
the dress and the color of their order
instead of the usual red cassock.
The pope alone can create a cardinal,
anL thu pope c-,one can degrade one.
Sometimes he does degrade cardinal
from his dignity. During the middle
ages particularly some Of the men
chosen as cardinals did not come up
to the ideal, either in conduct or abil-
ity; yet, considering everything, 1T
would be difficult to find body of
men so distingui he'd Tor great scholar
ship, for executive capacity and for
virtue as the Roman cardinals were
and are. This is especially true since
the council of Trent in the sixteenth
century undertook the task of reform
ing those abuses in the church, some
of which w re the pretext for Luther's
revolt Al fEording to the council of
Trent the candidates for the cardinal
ate shoult be illustrious for their learn
ing, virtue and prudence, 'lectissimos
ct praecellentes oport,re."
From the most recent ones, whom we
all knew or know, it is only necessary
to name Cardinals Wiseman, Newman
and Manning, in England; Cullen and
Logue, in Ireland Richard, in France,
and Satolli, Marti clli, McCloskey and
Gibbons in the United States, to see
how careful and excellent have been re-
cent selections. The italian cardinals
especially are very able men. The ap-
pointment of cardinal in America
would lend emphasis to the fact that
the Roman Catholics by their zeal as
well as for other reasons are a very
potent factor in the United States. The
pointment of a cardinal in any county
is alwaysa compliment either to the
nation or to the See, as much as to the
person erected.
HENRY A. BRANN, D. D.
Rector Of st. Agnes Church, New York
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CARDINAL GIBBONS

panies her husband to each session or
The senate and watches every gesture
of the man to whose election she con-
tributed more than anyone else. The
senator himself calls her his eyes and
right hand" and says she knows more
about parliamentary law and politics
than any other woman in the country.
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Mrs. Bellamy Storer will in the near
future receive q decoration from tho
emperor of Japan for her excellent
work in Japanese bronze, specimen IF
which was sent to the mikado by one
of his subjects.
Bellamy Storer, it will be remem-
tered, was removed by President
Roosevelt as ambassador to Austria.
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The attractive young queen, Victoria
Eugene of Spain, who as Princess Emf
tf Battenberg enjoyed such a simpla
and quiet life, now finds that her least
act must be in accord with the time
honored customs of the Spanish court
She has no privacy-not even at night.
for mobiles guard her sleeping room. In
recent trips to the treater incognito
are not permitted, and the young queen,
who once had as much freedom as any
American girl, finds that to be alone
is a luxury Sne rdItly Call nave.
Despite all this ancient pomp and re-
striction the queen is happy with her
young husband. King Alfonso, and their
infant, the Prince of Asturias.
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Many royal ladies are efficient work
women. The Archduchess Frederick of
Austria, for instance, makes scented
wax candles. The duchess of Guise is
a skillful milliner and can also turn
cut excellent artificial flowers. The
Duchess Philip of Wurtemberg makes
not only ordinary surgical bandages
hut elastic stockings. Princess Hermiae
of Reuss has exhibited the work she
does in her capacity of matchmaker on
various occasions. Princess Arnulf of
bavaria makes a good deal of beautiful
lace. Princess Carl of Sweden is noted
for her ingenuity as toymaker. All the
gollywogs anc other dolls as well as
the dolls houses and furniture which
All the nursery of her children. the
Processes Marguerite, Martha and
Astrid. are her work.
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Tramps tramp to the workhouse in
Norway AT abie-bodied loafer is
warned by the police against his man
ner of life and told where to apply for
work. If person refuses TO do the
work assigned or leaves it without
reason, or is dismissed through bad
conduct and within year comes upon
the poor law for relief in consequence
of his return to his indolent ways.
then the authorities can send him to
The workhouse for eighteen months or
COR three years in case of a second Of
-ense. The chief features of the work.
nouse are tina liberty is forfeited. beg
cling impossible and work, hunger or
uunishr1ent a necessity The work is
varied and largely for the state.
street begging is suppressed, the Of
lender beinC liable to Imprisonment
from two to ten days. A person will
fully inebriated in public thorough
fare is liable to heavy penalty. Three
such offenses iE three years mean the
possibility of being sent to prison
without the option of fine: If a per-
son, through inebriate Incidence, neg
iects to maintain his wife and de-
pendents, so that they become COM
mon charge, he also can be sent to
prison without the option of fine.
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Pete, a tame wild gander, makes the
killing of wild fowl easy for his mas
ter, Forman e. Clayton Of Silverton.
wear Montclair. N. ]. When Mr.. Clay
ton says ''get ready. Pete, for some
sport" the bird squawks and, flap
ping its wings. waddles down the pain
to the sneak box and prepares to de-
coy his fellows to slaughter.
Pete gets out among the wooden de-
coys and as soon as he hears or sees
a flock of birds he begins to call. The
duped fowl will drop around him.
Then Pete begins to fight with the
strangers and gradually leads them
toward the blind. Then he dashes
away tc escape the shower of shot
from his masters gun. Pete is not far
from being 25 years of age. according
to Mr. Clayton.
Henry Hellenwig, farmer of Clln-
ton. N. j., recently gave his daughter
a either She played the instrument
4 bout the house continuously, master
tny, s.Old Black joe and Home. Sweet
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Things Quaint and Curious

Home" Yesterday afternoon HELEN
wig, stretched on a lounge. looked up
to the nantel where an old clock had
lain tickless and backless for years. A
big mouse sat within, drumming out
chords with his fore-feet upon the
loose col, of wire on which the ham,
mer used to the strike the hours. Three
smaller mice appeared, and, each
stunning on separate wire of the
coil, played Home, Sweet Home" and
"Old Black Jce." Hellenwig was lured
back into slunber, from which he did
not again awake until his family re-
turned home, after dark.
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Forty-three years ago David H. Sum-
ney, Washington county man, while
a soldier at the front in the civil war
wrote a letter to his brother. Daniel
Sumnev of Washington. The letter,
which had been travelling ever since.
arrived this week, only to be received
by the writer. His brother died three
years ago. The letter complained prin-
cipally of a pair of new stout boots"
which the writer had lost while going
through swamp. He wrote:
Il have given up hope of getting an
other pair now that are as good as the
old ones, for 1t seems that every pair
of boots Is stclen.'
forth through the country and had
even been in the local postoffice once.
che envelope was almost worn
through.
After all, those old Puritans had the
right idea of making the church pleas
ant. Now. in Brunswick. Maine, the
first church had powder magazine
IN the garnet, the stocks in front, the
whipping-post behind, the graveyard
to the north and beyond that the
pound. What more could one desire
Vet the town had to be fined in 1910
for having gone without competent
pastor sof more than six months. And
rot IA away from there twenty-one
poor Maineites were sent to Jail for not
paying their church taxes.
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All the stations In Berlin are NOW
provided with automatic machines,
which for so cents furnish an umbrella.
with a stamped ticket. II the latter is
delivered with the umbrella to the
company owning the machines within
two days 40 cents is refunded.
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NEW CARDINAL WILL BE
APPOINTED FOR AMERICA
DURING PRESENT YEAR

Announcement Made by Papal Secretary of State
Pope Alone Can Elevate and Degrade Cardinals and
Office Is Most Important One in Gift of the Church
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REVIEW OF ACHIEVEMENTS OF MEN AND WOMEN
SENATOR HAS ABNORMAL
APPETITE FOR APPLE PIE.

Massachusetts Man Knows How to Be Polite if
Even at Cost of Digestion-A Bunch of Personal
Anecdotes Mostly About Men of National Prominence
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That most OF the gold imported dur
ing our financial crisis came from
London is we'll known; the final report
IF the department of commerce for
November is, however the first to show
exactly what we got from other quar-
ters. Out of our $63.574,00O gold i'm
ports o. that month s53,901 200 came
from England, $4,S36,000 from Canada,
81, 414,00o direct from France and ST.
2r0 900 from Germany.
No other nation sent as much as a
rillion and one striking fact is that
whereas $3,779,000 came from South
America and $1,459,000 from Australia
in the IS me month of 1905. these mar
kets delivered. respectively, only
$4,000 and 100000 last November.
Probably a good deal more was ordered
from these quarters in November and
received later on.
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CCORDING to a statement

4 CCORDING to a statement
recently made by Cardinal
IA Merry del Val, papal sec
retary of state, another cardinal
for the United States will be ap-
nointed before the close of anoth-
er year, and possibly at the next
consistory, shortly before Easter.
In view of this statement, the
following article by the Rev. DR.:
Brann, rector of St. Agnes
church, and an authority in such
matters, is of timely interest:
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h ZEN Senator Crane?" said a
man to senate restaurant
waiter I other day.
DE senator done just gone
out, sah," replied the negro.
ct done rrOf him a vuadQQ of
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Henry Hellenwig, farmer of Clln-
ton, N. j., recently gave ms daughter
q zither. Shz played the instrument
! bout the house continuously, master
tnr .Old Black joe and Home. Sweet
The Irish standard., 1908-08-22

will make strong appeal to his own
nationality and there isn't any doubt
that in certain districts of the state
he will get very large vote. Against
such candidate only a man who can
make a stronger appeal could have
any chance Of election.
We believe that Governor Johnson's
nomination insures his election. not
by the overwhelming majority Of two
years ago. but by substantial and
sure majority. His nomination unites
the Democrats In the state Of Mime
sofa to a degree not experienced since
Cleveland's time. We look for more
Democratic votes all along the line
more votes for the national ticket
more votes for other candidates upon
the state ticket. and more Democrats
elected to county and municipal Of
fees The voters Of the state Of Min
nesota are becoming accustomed to
Democratic officials and they will con.
tinue to grow in number if party prin-
ciples are but strictly adhered to ard
faithful performance of duty prove .hs
watchword.
The Irish standard., 1908-08-22

than he was when he took up the du-
ties of the Office. This is as high a
recommendation as can be given. A
man who can serve in the capacity OF
Mayor of the city Of Minneapolis and
survive politically. must possess I'M
usual elements of strength. The peo-
pie of the city Of Minneapolis during
the last two years have had law and
order without distasteful preachins
and prating in the newspapers. There
has been no assumption on the part
Of the administration that its contin-
uance in office is necessary for the
safeguarding Of the morals of the
people of Minneapolis. The Haynes
administration has been satisfied in
combining its efforts to carrying out
the duties prescribed by the charter
and the laws of the state of Minnesota,
and the people have been entrusted for
two years with the task of looking af :.
ter their own morals. The general
verdict seems to be that the admins
tration has performed in creditable
manner the duties imposed upon it by
law and that the morals of the people
have been quite as safe in the hands
Of the people as when they were under
guardianship
The Irish standard., 1908-08-22
JOHNSON NOMINATED.

Following demonstration OF unpar.
alleled enthusiasm in the annals OF
state conventions in Minnesota the
Democrats on Wednesday placed In
nomination for governor. for the third
time. John A. Johnson Of ST. Peter.
The manifestations Of approval which
came from every nook and corner of
the great auditorium when Mayor
Lawler placed the governor in nomin-
alton gave vent to scenes Of widest
excitement and for more than an hour
over 1000 delegates participated in
the festivities. Hardly a man living
could refuse the call Of duty in such
an emergency and Governor Johnson
has responded to that call by accepting
the situation gracefully. That he will
be reelected there can be but little
doubt.
Disinterested people know that the
nomination Of Governor johnson was
the only one which could assure VIC
tory at the polls The Republican,
nominee Is not weak candidate. In
order to defeat him a candidate of un.
usual popularity was needed. There
isn't any doubt that Jacobson can and
The Irish standard., 1908-08-22
THE IRON RANGE.

Eveleth, MINI. Aug. 1s-Matt Prett-
ner. we'll known business man of Cole
raine. was visiting his family here re.
Gently. He reports great improve.
rnents in that town. Much building is
being done. the streets are being mao.
adamized, ready for paving, and ce-
ment sidewalks meet the eye on every
hand. Mr.. Pre.tner is of the opinion
that Colerains will soon be the model
town of the range.
Twenty-Five houses are going to be
built on the Adams location back OF
Number shaft by the Oliver Mining
company The work will commence in
about a week. Sidewalks are BEING
laid at the new houses on this location
and will connect to the walks lead
ing to the city. This will make life
worth living on the locations next win
ter.
The Irish standard., 1908-08-22

Are you a lover Of tomato catsup?
Perhaps, but your appetite for it will
weaken after reading this from W. p
Hapgood. who recently delivered an
address before the National Food Con-
vention. He said: cover so per cent
of the tomato catsup on the market is
r,ade from skins and cores and rotten
tomatoes. taken from the peeling ia
bles Of canning houses. I know of not
one single packer Of tomato catsup
who is fighting for the use OF chemi-
calls in his product. who is not using
more or less of this waste material.
Cannery waste may possibly make a
catsup Of low grade. but cannery
waste shoveled up from floors reek-
ing with dirt and vegetable Nth into
barrels to be shipped about the couf1-
try and used as wanted is at least of
doubtful wholesomeness. and you may
put it down as safe to say that no to-
mato pulp handled in this way or in
any other way. If barreled and ship
ped. is ever held in condition for use
without the addition OF much more
than one-tenth Of per cent Of an an
ti-ferment."
The Irish standard., 1908-08-22
MOB VIOLENCE IN THE NORTH,

The spirit Of race hatred is not con-
fined to any section or to any class Of
people. The horrors Of mob violenc,
nave visited Springfield. Illinois. the
nome city of Lincoln. the emancipator
OF the blacks. In criminal wickedness
the Springfield mob was never sur
passed by any in the South.
1t is time for Northern whites to
lcok to themselves instead OF discuss
Ing the treatment of the negro in the
South. 1t Is time for cowardlv North
ern politicians to meet the question
with the same frankness, if not from
the same point OF view. with which
Tillman and Vardaman meet it in the
South. The South Carolina senator is
called brutal in the North, while his
negro servants and neighbors respect
and admire him. Ex-Governor varda
man Of Mississippi was the object Of
attack for newspaper writer's in the
North. but when race riot occurred
curing his administration he. in per-
son. lead companies Of militia on a
SPECIAL train to the point Of attack, and
the riot was quelled within a day. In
the case referred to. Vardaman paid
the expenses of transportation of troops
out of his own pocket This occurred
IN the state Of Mississippi. where the
blacks outnumber the whites.
Contrast the action Of this south.rn
state and Southern Official with the
action of the great state Of Illinois AMI
ITS reform governor. and where do we
md the more security for the negro.
~ Illinois. the home state Of the man
In whose administration the negro was
freed. or in Mississippi. the home
state Of the President of the confed-
racyo
For week citizens Of the city from
which Abraham Lincoln started on
his journey TO take up the war which
was to free the black men. have been
engaged in killing innocent negroes,
and driving others from the CITY. The
resro question was all right in the
North so long as it operated a tho
The Irish standard., 1908-08-22

Baptist was crowded to the doors and
hundreds of the mourners were unable
to obtain admission. The solemn
Mass of Requiem was celebrated by
Rev. Eugene Murphy. rector of the
church. assisted by Rev. F. P. Fitz-
maurice. of Frankford as deacon, Rev.
Patrick j. Gallagher as sub deacon
and Rev. Henry Donnelly. Of Holy
Name Church. as master Of ceremo-
MES. Father Murphy also gave the
final dissolution and preached the flu
neral sermon.
Maurice F. Wilhere was born in Car
regart. County Donegal. but came to
hIanayunk in 1889 with his mother and
family. being then four years Of age.
For forty-nine years he lived continu
ously in Manayunk and was considered
to be the most widely known and gen
orally esteemed man living in the
Twenty-f1rst ward, of which the great
popular demonstration at his funeral
was striking proof For many years
he was active in Democratic politics.
having been city chairman for several
years. was elected Magistrate and was
superintendent of the stamp delivery
in the Philadelphia post once. At one
time he was engaged in the textile
manufacturing business. but in latter
years he devoted himself to the affairs
of the American Brewing Company. Of
which he was secretary and treasurer.
From his early youth he was most act
i've in the affairs of his parish Church
of st. John the Baptist. was the leader
in every movement for the advance
ment Of the religious interests of the
people and was liberal even beyond his
means in his contributions to religious
and charitable objects. He never lost
his love for his native land and was
foremost in every movement to aid the
Irish people in their struggle for lib
erty. He was a firm believer in the
necessity of organizing the Irish and
Catholic people for their general ad-
vancement. He was for eight years
national president of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians. and to his prudence.
foresight and courage during critical
period of the history of the order, more
that to any other cause. it's present
hourishing condition is due Judge
Wilhere was man Of strong physique,
of will and commanding presence. Of
genial and pleasant address. He pos
sessed the oratorical temperament to a
marked degree and had wide reputa-
ton as public speaker. He is sur
vived by his wife. Mrs. Nellie j. Will
here.