The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-02-27
IN PASSING


Club will 80 out of existence with the
retirement from oflce Of the great AT.
rican Nimrod.
President-elect Taft was made q
mason ION sight in his homo city the
ether day. It must have been an inn
posing sight to see him; ride tho goat.
In the National IIibernian Of Feb.
is is an interesting article from John
T. Heating OF Chicago. entitled WAS
Miles standish Catholic? ?" The writer
thinks that he was.
Says Miss Mary .. McFAdden in the
Duluth ws-Tribune: The sympathy
of the medical profession and Of his
hundreds Of friends all over the state
will go out to DR.. Harry ]. O'Brien, Of
st. Paul, who is bereaved Of his wife.
Mrs. O'Brien was born in st. Paul and
lived there all her life. She was the
daughter Of former sheriff Of Ram
sey county and belonged to q we'll
known family. DR.. o'Brien is q brother
of c. D., Thomas: D. and. John D.
OBrien, the attorneys.
| The Michigan Catholic says: The
spectacle Of England seeking Congo
reform is amusing. Why, the old
mother territory -robber Of the world
needs to reform herself. She is hated
In India, ,despised in ireland and only
loved in America by class that would;
it 1t had it's way, deliver over to
Britain what the Colonists fought for
and won. Yes, indeed. Congo reform
by the influence Of England IL serio-
comic.
William H. Taft delivered hne adj
dress on Washington at the University
Of Pennsylvania on Feb. 90, In which
he said: "His pure. disinterested pa
triotism, his freedom from small jeal-
ousies. his marvellous common sense.
his indomitable perseverance and pa
thence. and his serenity and calm under
the most trying circumstances, gave
him the victory-a victory which could
be traced not to brilliant genius or pro-
fessional training, but to that which,
o. all things Is the most to be pursued
and desired-to his high character as
q man."
Last Sunday In fashionable Prot.
estant church in Chicago, the Rev. DR..
Percy 8. Grant. while eulog1zing Pres.
ident Roosevelt was called to order
and rebuked by William Evans Rog.
ersp lawyer. engineer and civil wa
4 veteran. and a zbrotherin-law Of stly-
vesant Fish, DR.. Grant, rector Of the
Church of the Ascension, took : up
what he termed -four great American
democrats Washington. Jefferson,
Lincoln and Roosevelt. No sooner was
the last name uttered than the inter
ruption came and Rogers was greeted
with cries of "sit down. and "shut
UNI" He did SO, amid misses from
different parts of the church.
King Edward opened parliament last
week after his return from Germany.
He was accompanied to Westminster
by Queen Alexandra, the Prince and
princess Of Wales and other members
of the royal family The house. Of
lords, when their majesties appeared.
was filled with peers and peeresses,
diplomats and other Representatives Of
the official and social life Of London.
The kings speech was cut-and-
dried AFFAIR. prepared by Premier
Asquith. There was no mention made
OF Irish Home rule, though it is be-
:lieved that Edward favors a measure
of self government for. ireland ON the
plan Of Gladstone's bill. I. 2.,... SO
1 The Kerry Sentinel says that in. the
absence OF parish registers and other
statistical authority. many Of the benz
have established their claim to have
u passed their 10th year, by giving their
I personal experience Of the night Of the
Big Wind. That was in 1882, just 70
years ago, and those who have reached
that scriptural age are entitled to pen-
sions in Ireland. They heard their: pa
rents say that they were born on or
before the year Of the Big Wind. and
that Is sufficient proof to obtain their
pensions. TT is an Ill wind that does
not blow good to some body" and 1t is
verified in the cases Of these old Irish
people Of the ancient Kingdom Of
Kerry. "
j Robert G. Dunn, Of the Princeton
Union. a loyal Republican Of the Linz
Il L..