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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08

miss OF seven who can do all this, and
who also made tho whole Of blue calico
dress for herself, and pieced large bed
quilt. She was not an over-taxed child,
either, but a merry, romping, INDUCED,
only daughter. But she was ''smart,' .
and she did not die young either, indeed
we have seldom known children ''too
smart to live" Very few ever die Of
that complaint whatever their grand
mothers may think. So never be bit
afraid Of OVERRIDING the business. Help
all you can and study over the business
daily. Once get into the habit of look
ing over your things, and you will like it
wonderfully. You will have the indc-
pendent feeling that you need not wait
for anyone's convenience in repairing and
making, but that you can be beforehand
with all such matters. The relief to your
weary mother will be more than you can
ever estimate. w
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08
Why the Light Went Out.

Next time you 20 out on the Michi-
gan and Central Road take a seat on the
right-hand side of the car, so that you
may notice, about ten miles down the
road, little old red farmhouse. The
curtains will be down, the doors shut,
and rank weeds and tall grasses will
meet the flying glance in the front yard.
A month ago old Nan Rogers lived
there; to-day the place is in the keep
ing of the rats and mice and desolation.
The old woman was widow and child
less. If she had q relative anywhere in
this great world, those who buried her
were not aware of the fact. She lived
all alone, having only bit of land and
being aided by kind neighbors to raise
enough to supply her wants. Seven or
eight years ago, when her last child left
home to meet violent death on this
same road, the men of the rails became
interested IN that quaint old farm house.
One night they saw a bright light in
one OF the windows. Its rays streamed
out over the flowers and fell upon the
rails along which the wheels Numbered,
and the engineer wondered over the sig
nal. The lamp was there the next night,
and the next, and it was never missed for
single night until one evening a month
ago. Old Nan, deprived of husband and
children, made friends with the rushing
trains and their burdens. The train-men
soon found that the lamp was for them,
and they watched for it. During the early
evening hours they saw old Nanny's face
behind the light or at the door, and a
thousand times conductors, engineers and
brakemen have called cheerily through
the darkness:
"Good-night, old Nanny-God bless
your $500.
Winter and summer the light was
there. Winter and summer the train
men looked for it. and the more thought
full ones often left bit of money with
the station men beyond, to help the old
woman keep the bright rays shining.
The lamp was not there for one train, but
for all, and all the men understood the
sentiment and appreciated it.
One dark night not long ago, when
the wind howled aud the raln-drops beat
fiercely against headlight and cab, the
engineers missed the signal-hght. They
looked for it again and again, as one sud-
denly misses an old landmark iu CITY,
and when they failed to find it, the hand
instinctiyely went up to the throttle, as
If danger lurked on the curve below.
Each train abroad that night looked for
the signal, became anxious at its absence,
and made inquiries at the stations above
and below. Next day men went down
to the little old house, fearing old Nanny
might be ill. There sat the lamp on the
window sill, dut the oil was exhausted.
In her bed, seeming to have fallen asleep
was the poor old woman, cold and dead.
Lite and lamp had gone out together, and
men of rough look and hardened heart
replied, as they heard the news: So
''Poor old woman! May her spirit
rest in Heaven!'' .. ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08

in an instant's pause of his work. "Come,
Luke" reared one Of the band-cutters,
"wed sooner hev them bundles than
your dancin'. You can save that for that
gal of yours" The men near them
laughed and Lucas fell to work in shame
faced silence. l often pity these people
when they are assalled by others with
rough jests. They might cover their re-
treat with few light words if it only &C.
Cured to them to do so, but the majority
suffer in awkward silence, though now
and then q few bold spirits have courage
enough to say, ooh, you go long!' ]
stood little longer, then turned to go up
the hill, just as the four horses drew near
with the water-cart, ''dripping with cool
ness" -
g Hhad the four men to take care of that
night and the next morning.
l don't know when / have been 60
grateful as I was when Mr.. LeBar told
me that they would not he here for din
ner. l mentally resolved that H. should
cat bread and milk, and wandered down
again to see the machine from my stand
under the pcach-tree. There was some
thing fascinating to me about it. The
measured. roaring beat of the thresher,
the smooth, swiftly gliding belt, and the
silent power of the engine, controlling
and guiding all as the eeaseless flow q
bundles poured upon it. A little tremu.
lous motion like the rise and tall of the
breath that gives US life, seemed tc
culver through it a. it did its work
swiftly, for the men were in q hurry tc
leave for the "next job" On it went
until one sharp ''toot" told the men tt
stop feeding, and it was curious to SET
the silent, busy gang, alert and active
the instant before, drop On the GROUND
or leaned heavily on their forks as they
wiped their dripping foreheads and be-
gan to talk to each other. The little
shoemaker on the stack leaned forward
and said, "Gim me that there water.
bucket" One of the men elevated it or
his pitchfork to the poor old man, who
was choked with dust" .,..rt~ y..
As the threshers hurried their prepare,
ton for departure the hired hands slowly
disappeared, each one passing me, and
though greeted them pleasantly enough
| was filed with the inh' spitable thought
Chow thankful I am you are not going
up that hill after your dinner" The fire
was raked OUT while the separator
started first. Then the water-cart, an6
lastly the engine slowly disappeared
around the hill, leaving a long broad lin,
Of wilted grass where the Kissing steam
came rushing out of the boiler.
f"Five hundred bushels" said the land
lord; ""e'll double that next year
"AlasW came voice from under tn,
peach tree, 'let some one else board tn.
men,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08
THE FACTORY FOREMAN.

It was just such an American village
as you see in pictures. A background OF
supelb bold mountain, all clothed in
blue-green ceda1s, with q torrent thun-
dering down deep gorge and falling in
pillows of foam; river rejecting the
azure of he sky, and knot of houses,
with church spire at one end and a
thicket of factory chimneys at the other,
whose black smoke wrote ever-changine
hleroglyphics against the brilliancy Of
the sky. This was Dapplevale. And in
the rosy sunset of this blossomy June
day the girls were all pouring out Of the
broad doorway, while Gerald Blake, the
foreman, sat behind his desk, pen be-
hind his car and his small, beadv-black
eyes drawn back, as it were, in the shell
ter Of a precipice of shaggy eyebrows.
One by one the girls stopped and re-
ceived their pay for one weeks work, for
this was Saturday night. One by one
they filed out, with frettul, disconnected
faces, until the last one passed in from:
of the high-railed desk.
She was slight and tall, with large,
velvety blue eyes, a complexion as deli.
cately grained and transparent as rose
colored wax, and an abundance of glossy
hair of so dark brown that the casual
observer would have pronounced it black,
and there was something in the way the
blue ribbon at her threat was tied and
the manner in which the simple details
of her dress were arranged that bespoke
her of foreign birth.
SWELL Mile. Annette" said Mr..
Blake, land how do you like factory
lfe2"
ut is not disagreeable,'' she answered,
= slight accent clinging to her tones like
fragrance to flower, as she extended her
hand tor the money the foreman was
counting out. 3
"You have given me but four dollars, u
she said. ut was to be eight dollars BY
the contract.
Mr.. Blake shrugged his shoulders disa.
greeably. -.. 80. BIZ f.
"Humphp he grunted; "you amt
much accustomed to our way of doing
things, are you, madamoiselle9 Eight
OF course; but we deduct two for q
foe" ,~' .ta.ss .a:.. ,-a
"A fee! For what2" Annette demand.
ed, with flushed cheeks and sparkling
eyes. r go Q
"For getting you the situation. madam
teiselle, to be sure" said Mr.. Blake, in q
superior sort Of way. "Such places don't
grow on every bush. And folks natural.
~ expect to pay something for the privil.
ege:" .<s,.'[-- =
~ did not!" flashed out Annette Du.
velle. ...... .... ......,s =. .....
".Oh-well- light. Because, YOU
know you amt obliged to stay unless
you choose" a...... .......''. .-
"Do you mean," hesitated Annette
"that if do not pay you this money
"You can't expect to stay in the works, ,
SAID hr. Blake, hitching up his collar.
"But the other$22" -#
"Oh," said Mr.. Blake, "That's the per
centage the girls all pay" ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08

Mixed Pickles.-Take one pound of
ginger root and one half-pound of garlic
(both previously sailed and driedl: two
gallons vinegar, one-half ounce turmeric,
and one-quarter pound long pepper. d..
gest together two or three days near the
tire in the stone jar; or gently simmer
them in . pipkin or enameled saucepan.
Then put in almost any vegetable. excent
red cabbage and walnuts, all previously
sailed and dried.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08
At a Holy Well in ireland.

For several miles our road was bound.
ed by bog on one side and rocks on the
other. There were no evidence of hu
man habltation, yet here and there we
passed 4 peasant-sOme crippled, all
plunged in profound misery. Inquired
the errand of these poor creatures, and
was informed that it was St. Somebody s
Day, and they were going to her we'll to
be healed,
"1t's there beyond said a trembling
old woman, pointing her skinny finger
to a clump Of trees and stone wall A
few hundred yards distant. I allghted
and walked down the valley to small
Enclosure which surrounded we'll and a
withered tree. Near by was rude stone
altar, upon which were numerous offer
ings of toys, bits of broken ware, and
shreds of many colored rags tied to sticks,
and kneeling beside it, was group OF
crlpples; some moved slowly round the
circle on their knees, muttering PRAYERS,
some were telling their beads, others par
took of the water, while a priest stood by
the tree reading. This, then, was one Of
the holy wells 50 numerous in Ireland, to
which visits are still frequently made, In
some cases as works of penance, either
voluntary or enjoined, but generally for
obtaining health, under the auspices Of
the saint, by drinking the waters of the
we'll. OF course the day of the patron
saint of each well is the one chosen fol
these visits; and some years ago, and
even now in many parts Of the country,
crowds are attracted, not only for relig-
ious motives, but for love of gossip
and meeting of distant friends. These
wells have kept their reputation for cen
turtles, the fame OF some being coeval
with Christianity, while that Of others
probably proceeded it, the early christian
teachers having merely changed tho OBJ
ject Of worship, leaving the affairs ofidol-
atrv undisturbed.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08
Read This Girls

Learn to darn stockings neatly and
then see that your own are in order.
Do not let button be off your shoes a
minute longer than needful. It takes
just about q minute to sew one on, and
oh, how much neater a foot looks in q
trimly-buttoned boot than it does in
lop-sided affair with halt the buttons
oil. Every girl should make the simple
articles Of clothing. We know = little
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08
zj. W.; THE CIDER MILL.
Under the blue New England skies,
Flooded with sunshine, a valley lies.


Flooded with sunshine, a valley lies.
The mountains clasp it, warm and sweet,
Like sunny child to their rocky feet.
Three pearly lakes and hundred streams
Lie on its quiet heart of dreams. aEo} a..@
It's meadows are greenest ever seen; ..lt
Its harvest fields have the brightest sheen;
Through its trees the softest sunlight shakes
And the Whitest lilies gem the lakes. ->
Hove, oh! better than words can tell,
Its every rock and grove and dell; r.. - -
But most love the gorge where the rill 81
Comes down by the old brown cider mill II
Above the clear springs gurgle out
And the upper meadows wind about;
Then join, and under willows flow
Round knobs where blue-beach whip stock
grow, It'd: .@a'. III '-...'
To rest in a shaded pool that keeps
The oak trees clasped in its crystal deeps.
Sheer twenty feet the water falls
Down from the old dams broken walls
Spatters the knobby powders gray,
And, laughing, dies in the shade away.
Under great rocks, through trout pools still,
With many tumble down the mill.
All the way down the nut trees grow,
And the squirrels hide above and below
Acorns, beechnuts, chestnuts, there
Iron oil the fall fhrOyl oh the haZv air.
And burrs roll down with curled up leaves
In the mellow light of harvest ewes.
Forever there the still, old trees
Drink wine that has no lees.
BY the roadside stands the cider-min,
Where q lowland slumber waits the rill;
A great brown building, two stories high,
On the western hill-face warm and dry;
And odorous pile of apples there
Fill with incense the golden air;
And heaps of pumice mixed with straw.
To their amber sweets the late flies draw
The cart backs up to the upper door,
And spill their treasures in on the floor;
Down through the toothed wheel they 20
To the wide, deep cider press below.
And the screws are turned by slow degrees
Down on the straw-laid cider cheese;
And with each turn fuller stream
Bursts from beneath the grooming beam.
An amber stream the gods might sip,
And fear no morrow's parched lips;
But wherefore gods? Those idle toys
Were soulless to real New England boys.
What classic goblet ever felt
Such thrilling touches through it melt,
AS throb electric along straw,
When boyish lips the cider draw?
The years are heavy with weary sounds,
And their 'discOrds life's sweet music browns
But yet hear, oh! sweet, oh! sweet,
The rill that bathed my bare, brown feet:
And yet the cider .drips and falls
On my inward ear at intervals;
And lead at times sad, sweet dream,
10 the 'babbling of that little stream;
And l sit in visioned autumn still,
In the sunny door of the cider-mill
John G.. White,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08

quiring, ''Then you eat well?'' eyes,
."You drink well9 eyes 'sYou sleep
wella' "Certainly." .sWondcrful!" said
the doctor, as he prepared to write
prescription. clam going to give you
something that will put a stop to all
that"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08

preacher gravely replied, as he continued
to toll:
'rhe church is dead. l am ringing
Its knell.
The next Sabbath congregation as
sembled, and the funeral Of the dead
church was never held.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08

There is no worse occupation for an
earnest physician than to listen to the
complaints Of people who pretend to be
i'll. A well-known doctor, who was
called upon by one Of his patients for
nothing about once week, ended by in
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08

Eighty.one Chicago tailors have recent.
J formed base ball nine.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05
Marriage.

Marriage is to woman Mt once
Ifie happi-st and snddest event oi
her life, il is the promise of future
bliss raised on the death of all
present. epj 'yment. She quits her
some. her companions, her occn-
palions, her amnsements--eyrr
hing on which she has hitherto
depended for comfort, for affection,
for kindness, for pleasure. The
parents hy whose advice she has
i,een guided; the sisters to whom
she has dared to inIpart every en-
bryo thought and feeling; the
brother who has played with her,
by turns the counselor and th,.
counseled. and the younger chill
,Iren 10 whom she has hitherto been
he mother nId iiie pIaymate-aIl
are to he forsakeu ut one fell
stroke. Every former lie is loos.
rped, he spring of every hope aud
action is to be changed, and yet
she fees viii, Joy into the untrod.
den path before. She bids "A fond
and grateful adien to the life that
is past, aud turns with excited
hopes aud joyous aniicipations to
happiness to come. Then woe to
the man that can blight such fair
hopes, who can, coward-like, break
the illusion that has Won her, aud
destroy the confidence which love
has Inspired.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05
Excellent Prospects.
IN. o. Picayune,l

In an editorial published in the
Picayune on Monday last headed
Cheering Prospects," reference
was made to the marked improve
mpnt in all branches of business"
in New York and other great CEN
tres of trade, North, East and
West, showing that we are Mt the
beginning of an era of restored
confidence and reviving prosperi-
~" In correction with these
Encouraging facts, New Orleans,
in v; W OF the approaching com
pletion of an all-rail route to
Houston, Texss, was numbered in
the list of the cities with promis-
ing prospects in the near future,
aud that TO meet the requirements
of our inc,ersed trade the Morgan
Company had contracted for the
bhiIding of one of the largest
steamships to run in connection
with their semi weekly line be-
tween this city and New York.
For the purpose of ascrrtaining
the full particulars of this new EN-
terplise, IL reporter of the Plea
vuue called. yesterday atte,no
at the Office of Charles A. Whit
uey G. Co.
Mr.. Whitney stated that Mr..
HurchiDson left this city a few
lays ago for the purpose OF COM
pleting tire final details for tile
construction of this steamship, the
plans and specifications of which
are all completed and the frames
all prepared.
Reportcr-Whst are her dimen-
Jon and carrying capacity?
Mr.. Whitney SHE will be $50
e+t in length. by IL feet beam,
built with three decks and provid
I'd with powerful compound ell
zines. She wi have carrying CT.
pacity OF 5000 bales OF cotton and
will be one of the largest steam
ships that has ever come to this
port.
Rppo. ter- Where is she being
bniIt, and shat is her estimated
speed and cost?
Mr.. Whitney--T.re vessel, en-
gines aud all her machinery arr
being constructed at the works "i
Harlan d HollingSworth, Wi
mirgton, Del. l. is estimated
that she Will make the passage
from che city TO the other in six
days. This steamship has been
ordered to complete the six re-
qnired for IL sem weekly li3e be-
tween New Orleans and New York,
and in an icipatinn of the f,lcreaS.
ed lnniness that viii result in the
completion Of ,hs. railroad betwe, u
this city and Honston. The esli-
GATED cost is 100000.
R-porter--What will bo the
name of the new steamship?
Mr.. Whirney-We have not yet
decided what her name will be.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05

The New York Sun tells a story
Of Michael Hoffman, which is ap-
propriate to the present times, when
there are movements to cut down
legislative expenses. He was
member of the New York Assembly
in 1912 from Herlliner. There were
then only ten employees OF the
House whose salaries amounted to
$1,000. Among these was door.
keeper and also an assistant door.
keeper. Early in the session a mo-
tion was made TO appoint another
assistant. Hoffman opposed it. 1t
was said in reply that there were
three doors TO the Assembly Cham
ber, and three doorkeepers were
therefore necessary. ThereupOn
Hoffman moved to amend by di-
recting that a pound OF nails be
purchased and the third doOrnailed
up. The amendment was carried.
and that was the end OF attempts
at that session to add names to the
pay roL
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05
Provide Schools at Home.
Voice of the 'People.1

The community which has the
intelligence and other necessary
means for building and sustaining
first class schools has the oppor-
tunity of securing to itself untold
advantages. Advantages in every
thing which includes wealth, intel
ligeuce. social position and iutiu-
ence. Bryan is not, perhaps never
will be great commefcial center,
but from the beginning her people
have made the building Of schools
and churches matters of the first
consideration. The town has never
been without good schools, and,
though less than u dozen years
old, has II society, it is believed,
second to none in the State. Aud
through the intelligence and enter
prise of her citizens is now ore of
the educational centers OF the
State. Besides the los of home
influences on our children, the cost
of education away from home is
verv great. SEMI ten Of our boys
and girls off to other schools. say
at cost of $500 each for the year
aud Won send ont Of our commune
ty $5000-mnre than half enough
to pay the tuition, on the graded
system, of the entire five hundred
scholars in the town. And in the
latter case the money would be re-
taiDed at home with which to erect
school buildings, seaport our peo-
pie and pay onr debts. 1t is alike
The duty snd interest of every COM
munity to provide. as far as possl-
bic, schools to meet its own wants.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05

The women are walking this
year; they will leap the next.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05

That is a good old story--given
in the Gaplic-about the aged lady
on her deatbbed, who was in peni-
tential mood. She said: ~ have
been great sinner more than eighty
years, and didn't know it, An old
col0red woman, who had lived with
her a long time, exclaimed: "Lord!
[ knowed it all the timer
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05
Dr.. Bnrnas Sears, the general
agent of the Peabody educational

Dr.. Bnrnns Sears, the general
agent of the Peabody educational
fund, 10 . recent address, snys:
Unfortunately, normal schools,
which ought to come first, come
last in II State system of education.
"Tbey ought to be in operation
two or three years before the pub
ic schools are opened. Then we
ShouId be saved the modification
of starting schools that are hardly
respectable, aud of stalking their
reputation on an unfair exper-
mrnt III al these Southern States
We labor under this great disad-
vantage. This dead weight will
hang on us, and create . popular
pr' iadice, till onr tenchers nre pro-
iessionnlly educated. The longer
We delay, the greater will he the
sacrifice both in treasure and re-
pnt"tion. The money paid poor
teachers is more than half wasted.
Onr motto should lie: Good teach
ers, or none; good schools, or
none.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05
NIx'S FERRY
AND STORE.

One mile above Lake Charles on the
Caleasieu River.
The undersigned wishes to inform
thetraveling public and Stock Droyers
that he has put his Ferry and beef pens
in good repair, and is ready to accom-
MEDIATE all who may wish to cross with
him, with everything that is generally
required by stock men and travellers
He has a large safe Flat, suitable for
crossing any kind of stock: also two
chain booms forswimming. Pastura9e
on each side of the river. free of charge.
Keeps constantly on hand full sup
ply of Groceries, Provisions and For
age. at the very lowest prices!
my9-tt ID ID. NIX
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05

An intellectual member of the
Arkansas legislature has introdu-
eel bill nbDreyiating the season
of Lent to twenty days. He ex-
plains that everything else has
come down so per cent since the
war, aud there sllould be no dis
criDiinntions ID favor Of Lent.