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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-02-06

NATIONAL DIRECTORS.
John E. Healey, Delaware.
Inomas J. Mathews, Rhode Island
"a. Il. Hayes. New Jersey.
James Clancy. Michigan,
Myles F. Mcfarland. New York
STATE oFFIcERs-M,NNEsorA,
St. Paul. Nsot' o'os.'
na Vice President-J. P. Kennedy. Far,-
state Secretary--P. J. O'Donnell. $500
Longfellow Ave, Minneapolis. WV
Ireasurer-John Sheehy, MONTGOMERY.
state Chaplain-Rev. p. J. Fox. James.
Doyle, st. Paul. d
g. Secretary Of Insurance-Thomas WEIGH.
g, State Treasurer Insurance - John
State Medical Director-Dr. J. v. o'Con-
nor, st. Paul.
Director Of Insurance Fund - John
Moran. Minneapolis; e. J. McManus. St.
Paul: p. L. Cummings. Minneapolis: ].
=: Corcoran. st. Paul; Thomas WEIGH,
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NATIONAL oFFicERs-L. A. A. o. H.
National President - Mrs. Ellen Ryan
jolly, Pawtucket, r. I.
National Vice President-Miss B. A.
Mahoney, Calumet, Mich.
National Secretary-Mrs Adelia Chris.
ty, Cleveland. Ohio.
National Treasurer - Mrs Mary C,
Connolly. Syracuse, N. Y.
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RAMSEY COUNTY.

Division No. 4. st. Paul-Pres, John
John ". Ryan. 300 Blair St.; Rec. Sec,
Thos. Donahue, 470 Charles ST.; Fin. Sec,
R. J: Connolly. 1Ss w. 7th St.: ms. Sec,
J: p; corcoran, 60 Union Block: Treas.
Martin J. Lee. los Summit Ave-; Med.
Examiner. DR.. c. g. Perry, SIG Lowry
Bldg. Meetings are held on second and
fourth Mondays Of month in Hibernian
Hall, at D. m,
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DIVISION OFFICERS A. o. H,-rImE
AND PLACE OF MEETING.
ANOKA COT1NTv

County President, John P. Coleman,
Division No. l, Anoka-Pres., William
l. H. Ward; Vice Pres, John L. Green;
zee Zee Sec, Charles E. Green; Fin. Sec,
Ardle; Treas, John Ward; Med. Exam
1ners, J. II. Frank and A. +, Caine.
month in Woodman Hall at p m.
BIG STONE COUNTY.
County President. NJ J. Mcdonnell,
Graceville, MINI.
Division No. !, Graceville-Pres., An
Rec Sec, jeremiah Scanlon; Fin. Sec
=: p. Ginnaty: ms. Sec, G. P. Ginnaty::
treas. John W. Ginnaty; Med. Examii,,.
er. Or: B. NJ. Randall. Meetings held
On nrst Sunday and third Thursday al
Fraternity Hail. a.
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ings, MINI. AAos'-
Division No. /, Hastings-Div, Pres
= 81 J. Barrett, Hastings, Mimi: Vice
Pees': e. patr1ek Carolan, Hastings. MINI. !;
lee. Sec, Thos. s. Ryan, Hastings, MINI. !:
Fin. Sec, NJ o'Brien, Hastings, MINI:
ms. Sec, M. O'Brien Hastings MINI. !:
Treas, John Kane. Medical Examiners
Drs; deck and Brady; Meetings held on
In A. o. u. w. Hall 0AA''t
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w1NoNA COUNTY.
WAsECA COUNTY.

SEGA. - r Coughlin, Wa
Mi D1hv,sion No. l. Waseca Presidan+
Hamiii k kamo see. Vice Pres. John +:
Lilly. ooae; ireas., B. J.
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mote, ex-secretary, N. T. Organiza-
ton to supper recently at the LOTUS
Memorial Hall, and presented him
with substantial cheque as token
OF esteem and mark of appreciation
OF his services to education. Very
Rev. Canon Quinn, P. P, presided,
and an address to Mr.. Doyle was read
by Mr.. ]. McGrath, B. A.
Among the recent deaths in the
county are the following: Rev. M. j.
Burke, G. C.. Tubbercurry. brother of
the late John Burke and of the late
Patrick F. Burke, J. p, of Tubber-
curry.-At Ellsmere, Clonliffe road.
Dublin. Middleton hall. the Rolls
Chambers, Four Courts, eldest son of
John Hall, Coolaney.-At Carrowcul-
len. Skreen, Anne Begley, late of Bal
laghderrin. AT her residence, 60
Bishop street, Derry, Bridget, wife of
Edward Harkin and fourth daughter
of the late John McGloin, Cloghveen.
Ballintrillick.
Tipperary.
John Dillon. M. p. in reply to a
resolution Of the Tipperary Board of
Guardians asking Mr.. Redmond and
and the Irish Party to bring in a COM
pulsory Land Purchase Bill in the
coming session of Parliament, writes
stating that Bill on the lines of uni
versal compulsory sale had been in
troduced in 1913 by Mr.. Birrell, but
1t had bene blocked and killed by the
landlords Of Ireland. He feared it
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STEVENS COUNTY.
STEELE COUNTY.

o County President. George c. Toher.
D K1iaes w. ~ l. owatGnna-pres.. John
Rec R; nf see; Yies Pres Pres, James 2. Quinn;
M4 nho ms. Sec. ]. E. Malone; Treaa'
Jonn Hogan; Med. Exam, q. a. More
mouse: Meetings are held on first Wed
- 81 OF month in K. p. Hall at $50
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
CARE FOR ALFALFA
DURING FALL SEASON
Growth Of From Four to Six
Inches Necessary to Hold
Snow and Protect Plants.
(By A. c. Army, University Farm, st
Paul, Mimi

(By A. c. Army, University Farm, st
Paul, Mimi
A growth of from four to six inches
is necessary to hold the snow and to
protect the crowns of alfalfa plants.
A higher growth is not often neces-
sary. If alfalfa sown early in the
spring has become sixteen or twenty
inches high it may be cut for hay not
later than the first week of Septem.
Der. This will allow time for a new
growth before freezing weather. Fields
a year old or more may in ordinary
seasons be cut as late as September
Is.
New seedlings Of alfalfa should not
be %pastured. The ground in these
fields is not firm and considerable
damage is done by the trampling Of the
plants, especially during wet weather.
Fields established a year or more may
be pastured lightly in the fall, but
should never be eaten down close. ,
II the growth Of alfalfa is not very
strong the field may be top-dressed
any time during the fall, preferably
just after the third cutting has been
removed. New seedlings may be top
dressed at any time except during wet
weather when the ground is soft.
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DRENCHING DROVE OF HOGS
Best Way Is to Drive Animals Into
Pen Where They Will Have But
Little Room to Move In.

The quickest and easiest way t.
drench a drove of hogs is to drive
them into a small pen where they will
have but little to move about.
To hold the animal while drenching
It a moose of sash cord or quarter
inch rope can be placed around the
upper Jaw, well back toward the
angles of the lips, and the medicine
thrown into the back part OF the
mouth with a dose syringe. AS there
is danger of a hog breaking a syringe
It is best to use a metal one. Some
times when the french is bulky and
the hog hard to hold, it is necessary
to elevate the head and raise the fore
feet off the ground. For this purpose
a pulley and rope wire stretcher Is
recommended. 1t should be hung in
the most convenient part of the pen
and the animal secured in the usual
way by placing a noos around the
Jaw. The end of the rope is thrown
over the hook in the lower pulley and
the hog drawn up until it is almost
off the floor. It is best to walt till
the hog has become quiet, well under
control, before giving 1t the drench,
as there is some danger Of the medi
cine getting into the air passages N
doing harm.
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gust "a, 1912, which appropriated for
the post-road department $5OO,OOO, to
be expended in an experiment to test
out the value of improved rural-carrier
routes. The federal government pays
one-third and the state or county ben
Gifted must defray two-thirds OF the
cost. The entire sum Of 100000 OF
federal funds and 100000 of local
funds will be expended under the SUI
pervision and checking of federal
highway engineers.
The following work on post.road i'm
provement has been undertaken, ac'
cording to a bulletin dealing with the
construction and maintenance Of roads
and bridges, issued by the depart
ment:
Lauderdale county, Alabama, 80
miles of earth road.
Boone and Story counties, Iowa, 81
miles of earth road.
Dubuque county, Iowa, 20 miles OF
gravel road.
Bath and Montgomery counties,
Kentucky, II miles Of macadam road.
Montgomery county, Maryland, 5.4
miles of macadam road.
Cumberland county, Maine, 81 miles
of bituminous macadam road
Lefore county, Mississippi, "a miles
of gravel road.
Mcdowell county, North Carolina, 16
miles of earth road.
Davie, Forsyth and lredel countess
North Carolina, As miles of sand-clay
and top-soil road.
Licking and Muskingum counties,
Ohio, "a miles of concrete road.
jackson county, Oregon, 51.4 miles
of earth road.
Aiken county, South Carolina, 27.3
miles of sand-clay and top-soil road.
Loudon county, Tennessee, GA miles
of macadam road.
Montgomery county, Tennessee, 10
miles of macadam road.
Bexar, Comal, Aravis, Hays and
Guadalupe counties, Texas, TIC miles
of gravel road.
Fairfax county, Virginia, 1913 miles
of gravel "a
Spotsylvania, Caroline and Hanover
counties, Virginia, 3S.2 miles of sand
clay and top-soil road.
As rapidly as these roads are con
structed the department is endeavor
ing to interest the local authorities
in inaugurating systematic main
tenance to keep them in condition
The county engineer has undertaken
the maintenance of the Virginia post
road in Spotsylvania county. and an
other will supervise the upkeep o.
the completed part Of the Ohio post
road. 1t is believed that this loca
maintenance system will be EXTENDED
to the post-roads to be built in Maine
Tennessee, Texas and Alabama.
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New Definition.

"The study of e%tymology," says the
Philadelphia Record, causes no n
OF trouble among that class of school
children whose knowledge of English
is limited to words which figure in the
ordinary street conversation. n
many curious results have followed.
The custom usually observed by the
teachers is to require such a definition
of the word, then its derivation, and
finally a sentence in which the word
is properly used. The word "ligament'
fell to the lot Of a rather diflident boy
recently. He defined it properly as "a
band" but followed up the correct
derivation with this remarkable sen.
tence: 81 was Weakened up last night
by hearing a brass ligament going
down the street"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04

freezing. Welldried corn will stand
any freeze it is likely to get in Mis-
souri, but the danger from too rapid
fire-drying is only less than that from
freezing.
The corr is not safe for storage or
exposure to cold weather quite as soon
as the appearance of the kernels
might indicate because there is so
much more moisture in the cob and
the cob is so much slower in drying
than the kernels. Be sure not to store
while there is still moisture enough in
the cob to cause heat or molding.
Each ear should be so placed in wire
or Stat racks, or so hung that no two
ears will hang together so as to hold
moisture and molding. The
storage place should be airy and well
ventilated. 1t should not be closed
until drying is completed, unless cold
weather necessitates closing. A little
fire may be used to hasten drying.
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SET ADRIFT BY ILLUSIONS
Younu Mortal Allows Himself to Be
Swayed by Conditions That Sur.
round Him.

There is no chance and no anarchy
in the universe. Every god Is there
sitting in his sphere. The young NOR.
tai enters the hall Of the armament;
there he is alone with them alone;
they pouring on him benedictions m
gifts, and reckoning up to their
thrones. On the instant, and inces-
sanity, fall snowstorms Of illusions.
He fancies himself in a vast crowd,
which sways this way and that, and
whose movements and doings he must
obey; he fancies himself poor, or.
phaned, insignificant. The mad crowd
drives him hither and thither, now H.
riously commanding this thing to be
done, now that. What is he that he
should resist their will and think on
himself? Every moment new changes
and new showers Of receptions to BAT.
te and distract him. And when, by
and by. for an instant, the air clears
and the cloud lifts a little, there are
the gods still sitting around him on
their thrones-they alone with him
alone.-Emerson.
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GULL OUT POULTRY
FLOCK IN The FALL
Successful Farmers Dispose OF
o-Year-0 lds and Poor
LAYERS Before Winter.

The more successful farmers Gull
their poultry flock in the fall. All
two-year-olds, lazy and poor layers
are disposed of before winter to give
room for the layers. Hens that make
a late mott are sold, as they seldom
lay enough eggs through the winter
to pay for the feed they eat. To
place the fowls on the market the
day after culling is a mistake, as h
fowls are seldom in prime condition.
SAYS a writer in American Agricultur-
list.
Although this applies more particu-
larly to range locks, small pens also
need special care previous to mar
keting. An old hen is nice and
tender, if fattened properly. A hen
in poor condition weighing three or
four pounds can be made to double
her weight in two or three weeks IL
given a ~fattening ration.
have used both crates and pens
for fattening fowls. The method to
follow depends on the condition OF
he.fowls, whether they have been on
free range or yarded. If the latter,
l think the crates are best. But by
| experience with range fowls, as they
are naturally used to so much exer'
| else, / find they fret a little in close
confinement. The crate l use has
a Slated bottom. 1t is fastened
against a tree a few feet from the
ground and so insures plenty of shade
The Slated bottom allows the drop
pings to fall through, keeping the
crate clean. Being above the ground
it is not damp. A a for water II
fastened SO as to be easily cleaned
but not easily upset by the hens.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04

tBy w. NJ. hLbbiD
Selecting seed corn from the stalk
in the field is the only way ! know
of to have seed that possesses h
characteristics we desire represented
in the seed ear.
It is possible to select from the
wagon at husking time as large and
perfect ears as from the fields, but II
ia clear that If we are to understand
the type and character of the leaf n
stalk, and early or later maturity, we
must study the ear and the stalk be-
fore the ear is removed from the
parent plant.
For a number of years I have prac-
ticed the various ways of selecting
and storing seed corn from the
wagons at husking time when unload
ing at the crib, from the stalk when
husking and from the field soon after
the corn is matured, and the most
thoroughly ripened ears have dry
husks.
Early seed selection from the field
is the ideal time for us to take advan'
tage of the great law of like producing
like, so far as it holds good. BY care,
fully studying the whole plant it is
possible to select ears that embody
the most desirable features we WISH
to breed in our corn.
It is not only important that we
have good ears of uniform size, form
and color and SO on, but we wan
a vigorous stalk for them to grow on
We want to know whether it is shor'
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
UNLOADING CHUTE FOR STOCK
Device Patented by Illinois Man Is Es-
peeialIy Good for Hoss-May Be
Moved Easily.

Handling of live stock, especially
hogs that are ready for market, is Oft
times cruel and a cause of real fnan-
cial loss to the shipper because OF
lack of unloading facilities at the local
stock yards. An Illinois farmer has
patented the unloading chute shown
here. 1t is strong and yet light enough
to be moved freely about so that hogs
may be unloaded from the wagon on to
the level ground. Cleats prevent Slip
ping of an animal that is coming Town
the chute, thus reducing the possibil'"
ties of broken legs and bruises. The
chute may be folded up and carried on
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
sELEcT SEED CORN FROM STALK IN FIELD

or long between Joints. whether the
ear is located too high or too low, and
whether 1t is vigorous or spindling
and has a good leaf development.
In other words it is Of paramount
importance that the ear have plenty
of feed, light and range upon which
to draw for its supply of plant food.
When we find a stalk that, under av-
erage conditions, bears an ear OF ex-
ceptional quality above the average
in the field, we snap it and carry it
to the corn house and hang it up to
dry so thoroughly that the first hard
freeze will not infure its terminating
qualities.
Practical experience, as we'll as the
testimony of many of the best corn
growers, shows that an ear taken
from the stalk as soon as it is glazed
or even before, shows a great vigor
after planting, as do the ears that are
left on the stalk until the entire crop
is fit to husk.
Such experiments and testimony
seem to justify us in taking advantage
of the early maturing ears and those
that are less mature, if they possess
many of the more desirable character
istics.
Some authorities seem to favor
marking the desirable ears and leav-
ing them on the stalk Which is right
l am not able. to affirm, although ]
have never noted any i'll effects from
selecting my seed corn from the field
early in the season.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
AS LIQUOR SELLER SEES 1T,

Being interviewed by a newspaper
reporter on the subject of prohibition
one which is on everybody's, tongue
Barney Grogan, a %well-known Chica.
go liquor dealer, had this to say:
"If they voted the wet-dry question
in Chicago some Sunday morning the
whole city would go dry. It's the men
and women who are wet personally
who will finally decide the issue. They
are Topping about and will try 1t as
an experiment. Maybe they will go
back-maybe not. They don't know
exactly where they are a~t-especially
the morning after pay day. But the
prohibition wave is getting bigger
every day."
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that nobody wants, not even them
selves.
In the fields a big team makes haste
by the width of the furrow or swath
they cut.
There is pleasure and inspiration in
the business of breeding and handling
high-class horses.
Bear in mind in breeding horses that
it is Just as essential to breed good
feet on to them as to get weight and
blood in them.
The %purebred mare is a good invest
ment to the small farmer, and II he
will allow her to share the work OF
the place she will do nearly as much
work as a gelding, and raise a good
colt besides.
A well.bred mare bred to a stallion
Of best type will bring a colt worth as
much at weaving time as a grade colt
would bring at maturity. sometimes a
lot more.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
DRYING SEED CORN
IS OF IMPORTANCE
Freezing With Moisture in Kernel
Endangers Next Years Crop
Few Pointers.
(By ]. c. HACKLEMAN, Missouri Col
lepa of pricultur

(By J. c. HACKLEMAN, Missouri Col
lege of Agriculture.)
Drying seed corn is even more i'm
portant than selection this fall. II
frozen with as much moisture as 1t
seems likely to contain when the first
freezing comes, it may be almost
worthless as seed next spring. 10
avoid danger from early frost, select
the most mature ears in the field
and dry thoroughly at once. If a
neighbor's corn of seed variety ripens
earlier arrange to pick in his. field,
Seed grown in the locality in which
1t is to be planted is always to be
chosen in preference to that shipped
in from a distance.
Air-dryirg in the sunshine is SLOW
err but safer unless fire-drying is abso-
lutely necessary to secure safety from
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
Tobacco In Cartridge Form.

Caleb C. Dula of Yonkers, N. Y, has
secured three patents. The first and
second being for tobacco packing In
elongated cartridge form to provide
sections for smoking or chewing, the
stick or roll having a filler and a bind
er, and the third patent being for a
pipe especially adapted for smoking
prepared cartridges and formed to pre-
vent accidental dislodgment of the car
tridges when pressed into and expand
ed within the bowl of the pipe.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
AUTOMATIC DEVICE
DESTROYS INSECTS
Hogs Soon Learn to Rub Portions
Of Body Affected by Lice
AGAINST Oil Surface.

Automatic devices which allow pigs
to rub against an oiled surface have
been placed on the market. The pigs
soon learn to rub the portions Of the
body affected by lice against the oil
which will kill the insects. This plan
requires no time after installation ex-
cept to keep the reservoir filled with
oil.
The medicated hog wallow has been
recommended by some stockmen. This
consists of pouring crude oil on the
surface Of the hog wallow.
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conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
LIQUOR TRAFFIC A PERIL.

LIQUOR TRAFFIC A PERIL.
Prohibition is inevitable in this
country, says the Boston Advertiser.
With practically the whole world con-
ceding that alcohol is a bad handicap
to any nation, and that the abolition
Of its use means a healthy-not an
acknowledgements in the efficiency Of
the average producer, public senti-
ment in this country is going to wipe
out the saloon, just as it has wiped
out such nuisances as the polluted
public or private water supply. or the
manufacture of poisoned foods OF en-
balmed meatstuffs. They were abol'
ished because they were a danger to
national safety ana efficiency. And
the saloon is certain to be abolished
in precisely the same way and for
precisely the same reason.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
POINT WELL TAKEN.

Last year the Illinois legislature
voted to found a colony for e%pileptics.
In a number of states these are al
ready we'll established institutions. A
home for these unfortunates is neces-
sary, but why did we not likewise ten
years ago establish a hospital for those
wounded and manned in the insane
celebration of the Fosrth Of July? In
stead, we instituted the sane Fourth
and almost completely did away in a
decade with any need of medical care
whatever for our celebrants. Alcohol
as a drink must go. 1t is an economic
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS F. Read, M. d., ILL
nois Medical Journal.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
w PLAGU ES.

TWO PLAQUES.
The great white plague, tuberculo-
sis, kills 100000 persons a year; 49,
900, 900 wal spent last year to destroy
1t and prevent its further spread. All
are working to destroy it. Plague
two, the liquor traffic, kills yearly
from 100000 to 100000. Suppose that
200, 900 doctors, 100000 nurses, So.
900 grave diggers, 10000 casket and
coffin makers, should petition con-
gress, petition legislatures, demand of
politicians that tuberculosis must not
be stamped out. Their trades, pro
fessions, prosperity demand that the
plague be left at liberty, just licensed
and regulated. A worldwide cry OF
horror would arise. But that is what
we do with the worse plague of the
liquor traffic.-Exchange.
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PATRIOTIC DUTY.

General Joffre, communicating his
decree Of prohibition for the French
army to the newspapers at Nancy,
said: ut is the duty Of all patriots
to fight alcoholism in all its forms.
Everyone must understand that any
thing capable of diminishing the moral
and material strength Of our army
constitutes a real crime against ma
tional defense in face of the enemy"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
CHAMPION OF ABSTINENCE.

The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholae-
witch, commanding the entire Russian
army, stands six feet seven inches
high, drinks no wine and is accredited
with the abolition Of vodka in the
army. "A drunken soldier cannot shoot
straight" he said when mobilization
for the present war came up.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-04
rest NaIue of Percherons,

Farmers, breeders, and city users OF
drafters have had nearly a century to
test the value OF the Percherons. They
have tested them in every conceivable
way and found them equal to every
emergency. The high esteem In which
the breed is held is shown BY
the fact that in horse producing
sections two-thirds Of pure draft sires
are Percherons.