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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-06
A Lady IIorsewRIRs A brute.
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The other evening the wife Of one of
the most pro minsnt men on, Slater, Is.
land saw d man .Nho had overloaded
his cart With .lumbes, beating bis horse
In most unmetciful manner over its
head, for not draseins it, load quickly
enough. The ,lady, xatchea, fbe cow.
ardly creature for sOeouSls or seconds,
and then tied hsfpony to Z Nee. Then.
win IS Hard. she rHuushed AZ the fellow
I and ~ sfashed Tin over o. 'the face Till he
Sr cried, for, on rnsrsyI q Afte,aa : q vhileI her
breath fxilineher sbsssfd. I'd BiI
o',Now YOU have received. 1ouI jlo mi Imiser.
able coward iusi1rana a. many .blovs ~ Won
gave that 4pccrh horse.~t}h. how I wish
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-06

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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
Wives That We're appreciated.

Il tell you what it u.s." said one of the
the small coterie of wealthy men who
had met in the Office of one of their num-
Der, "they may say what they please
about the uselessness OF modern women,
but my wife has done her share toward
securing our success in life. Everybody
knows that her family was aristocratic
and very exclusive, and all that, and
when I married her she had never done
days work in her life; but when W. &
Co., failed, and I had to commence at
the foot of the hill again, she discharged
the servants and chose a neat little cot
tage, and did her own housekeeping un-
til l was better off again."
"And my wife," said second, was IA
only daughter, petted and caressed to
death, and everybody said, well, If he
will marry doll like that, he'll make
the greatest mistake of his life;' but when
I came home the first year of our mar.
riage sick with the fever she nursed me
back to health, and never knew her to
murmur because we could not afford any
better style, or more luxuries.''
"Well, gentlemen" chimed in third,
81 married smart, healthy, pretty girl,
but she was regular blue -stocking-she
adored Tennyson, doated ON Byron, read
Emerson, and named the first baby Ralph
Waldo, and the second Maud; but l tell
you what it is" and the speakers eyes
grew suspicious.y moist, "when we laid
little Maud in her last bed, at Auburn,
my wife had no remembrance of neglect,
or stinted motherly care, and the little
dresses that still lie in the locked draw
er, were all made by her own hands,"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05

protected trust is the strongest one which
can be thrown in their way. 'Hez" is
wise to distribute his tens of thousands
himself, and to do it without the delay Of
day.
About ten years ego a man. of vast
wealth was showing to friend his COL
lection Of historical pamphlets, which was
the finest in the country.
II am gong to give them to the Penn
sy!vania historical society,"" he said, s.and
this branch of my library to the Frank
lin library. have no family. as Won
know. ana intend to give away all that
/ have before die, leaving myself only
a comfortable annuity. lhave no faith
in Posthumous charity"
"When do you intend to do it," asked
his friend.
He hesitated. "Next mon \ shall not
put it off. As soon as ] return from St.
LOUIS
He started that evening for ST. Louis.
The next day his friend took up a news
paper and read that the boat was burned.
with most of the passengers. He was
dead, and his money went to the State.
he had put it of a day TOO long.-Youtb's
Companion.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
The Mysterious ''Hez."

Philadelphia possesses mystery in the
shape of an invisible benefcent fairy,
who writes cramped hand, works by
means of the postotfice instead of wands,
magic lamps, ETC., and sends It's gifts in
cheap yellow envelopes to the needy poor,
orphan-asylums and hospitals, with no
sign of its identity inside beyond the sin
gle word "Hez."
These gifts of "Hez' are magnificent
in proportion, and bestowed with great
wisdom and the keenest insight into the
necessities of each case. "Hez" is sup
posed to be some eccentric aud charita-
bic millionaire, who means to put his
money to good uses while he is alive, and
not to leave it for trustees and executors to
quarrel over when he is dead.
If there is an eccentricity in giving
money while the giver is alive. and not
by legacy, rich men will do we'll to imi-
tate it. Many posthumous requests in
this country have failed utterly to reach
the class for whom they were intended.
Edwin Forrest bequeathed his immense
property to support home for aged act
ors, and but one old man has ever enjoyed
the stately mansion and its Injuries.
There is scarcely a town or CITY in the
country which has not its testimony to
give of a charitable legacy which has
failed to answer the purpose Of its tesla
tor. ST.,
Trustees and executors are open to
temptation, and the care of large, IN
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
Lake DWellerS.

From Nature.
The remains of another lake village
have just been brought to light at Lorcas
by the shrinkage of the waters Of the
Lake of Bienne. This appears to be one
of the most Interesting discoveries of the
sort we have had for some time, rich as
has been the last few weeks in notable
lacustrine finds. The station at Lorcas,
assigned by experts to the age of stone, is
situated al short distance from the lake
shore, not far from another and similar
station which was explored in 1878. An
exploration conducted by DR.. Gross. of
Neuveville, has resulted in the gathering
OF many novel and interesting objects,
pierced stone hatchets. similar to those
found in Denmark, large flint lance
heads, jade hatchets, with stag horn and
wooden hats, fastened with pitch; YES
sells in wood, among others colander,
and vase in good state Of preservation.
Near these were found several arms and
instruments of pure copper, a circum-
stance which points to the probability
that intermediate between the age of
bronze and the age of stone was period
when prehistoric man had not discovered
the artof ALLOWING copper with tin. This
was the age of copper. Still more remark
able is find of human skulls which bear
unmistakable marks of having been tre-
panned. Ronnd pieces have been cut out.
doubtless after death, as is supposed, for
use as amulets. In some instances pieces
were cut from the eraniums of living in
fants in order, as NJ. Broca conjectures,
to let out the spirit by whose malignant
influence they we're afflicted with fits, con-
vulsions and other maladies. These bits
of infants skulls were sometimes used in
away of which an example has been found
at Lorcas; they were put inside the heads
to protect them from the wi,es and as
saults of evil beings in the world of
snirits
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
A Look into Vesuyius.

Mrs. General Coils, who has been
travelling in Europe for the last seven
months, and whose graphic letters have
been read with general interest, writing
from Italy, describes her visit to the
erupting crater of Vesuvius as follows;
81 pushed to the very mouth of the crater
yes. and looked down right into the
yawning abyss. Unlike Sir Charles Cold
stream, / did see something in it, and
heard it, too. Never shall forget those
awful. moments. From deep down in the
very heart of the mountain-how far be-
meath me cannot say-came rumbling
of distant thunder, followed by more
rapid and sharp decorating sounds, like
the explosion of firearms, then a flash, a
peal of thunder, and presently it belched
forth dense clouds of smoke, ascending
to an incredible height, followed by
discharge of fery-red powders, small
stones, streams of molten lava and scarlet
flame. The interior Of the crater seemed
lined with layers Of pure sulphur of
beautiful yellow tint, made more intense
by contrast with TIE immense body of
black lava by which I was surrounded.
Deep down into the crater seemed sea
VI Su1oAucAAuS uIt. IL Is EXTRAORDINARY
how little we realize the danger Of an ad-
venture like this until it is over. Had I
learned before I started of the sad fate
which six years ago befell asimilar party
OF explorers, I hight have hesitated. 1t
was in 1872 that d party of twenty stu
dents from Naples assembled the mountain
during an eruption. They stood upon
the brink of the crater, when suddenly
they were enveloped in cloud OF sui
phurous smoke and falling projectiles.
Eight of them (some say alD persisted,
and I believe only two of their bodies
were ever recovered. The descent
was pleasant enough; in fact the sensa-
ton was more agreeable than otherwise,
for at every step our safety was assured
by the sinking of our feet into the deep
ashes and scorie. We arrived at Naples
at about 7 p. M, delighted at Our most
profitable work, and regretting only that
our glories and adventures were not
shared by those absent ones whose society
would have made the Joy of the day ab-
solutely complete"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
Reform in Mourning.

From tho Home Journal. ....r..
Rev. Mr.. Macleod of Philadelphia con-
tends that there is neither health, sense,
nor religion in full mourning. He tells
his congregation that bit of black rib.
bon, worn in some way, will indicate be-
reavement Just as we'll as q complete
mourning suit. A bit of Grape on the
bell-pull gives the hint to those who pass
by, and it is not considered necessary to
cover the whole front with black drapery.
Why, then, will not a bit of ribbon on
cloak or coat answer the purpose, and q
weight of useless expense, and costume
that is always gloomy and, in warm
weather, very uncomfortable, be taken
from bereaved mourners? Christians. he
is convinced, ought not to take a gloomy
view of death. There are glorious hopes
linked with the sorrows, and the hopes of
those who are gone before should be SYM
bolized rather than the SORROWS of those
who are left behind. He would have
cheerful garments worn by mourners in
token of the triumph of the glorjfied ones,
and bit Of ribbon or Grape as a simple
memorial of their own sense of bereave-
ment. The rest Of the full mourning he
would send to the heather, who, in their
sorrow at the grave, have no hope. The
Rev. DR.. Bartol. of Boston, referred re-
Gently to the same subject in his Sunday
sermon. He said our funerals are too
sad. With unceasing trust we should
disuse the black apparel and the Grape at
the door, for those whose temperance
we figure with psalm and hymns, add
harps and white robes. Our gloom accuses
our faith; we shall ceases to close the
shutters and blinds, and exclude the sun,
as if there could be condition in Gods
providence when the sun is unwelcome,
when We come to feel death as good as
life and as natural as birth. Our machinery
of the event will be no longer deed Of
darkness from which the children of the
house must be kept away, in a terror Of
imagination, exceeding all that presence
would bring. They cannot construe the
secret and mystery which we make in
our parlor as respect; but we shall have
cheerful and expectant parting with the
one taken, whom the young may miss az
much as the old.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
Strength OF Insects.

The following are striking illustrations
OF the superhuman strength with which
the commonest insects are endowed. The
common flea, as every one knows, will,
without much apparent effort, jump two
hundred times it's own length, and sever
al grasshoppers and locuts are said to be
able to perform leaps quite as wonderful.
In the case of the insect they scarcely ex-
cite our notice; but if man were coolly
to take standing leap of three hundred
and eighty odd yards, which would be an
equivalent exertion of muscular power,
perhaps our admirers of athletic sports
might be rather startled at such per-
torrance.
Again, for man to run ten miles with
in the tour would be admitted to be
tolerahly good display of pedestrianism !;
but what are we to say to the little fly OBJ
served by Mr.. Delisle, $50 minute as al
most to be invisible" which ran nearly
six inches in a second, and in the space
was calculated to have made one thousand
and eighty steps9 This, according to cal.
culation, is as if man whose steps meas
ured only two feet, should run at a in
credible rate of twenty miles in minute
Equally surprising are the instances of in
sect strength given by Mr.. Newport
The great stag beetle, which tears off the,
bark from the roots and the branches of
trees, has been known to gnaw a hole, an
inch in diameter, through the side of an
iron canister in which he was confined,
and on which the marks of its jaws were
distinctly visible, as proven by Mr. Steph-
ems, who exhibited the canister at one of
the meetings of the chronological
SOcietv
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
Flint Once was Sponge.

A writer in s.. Nicholas saws: "You
never would think it, would you2 but
I'm told that flint is nothing more nor
less than sponge turned to stone. Once
the sponge grew at the bottom of the sea,
as other sponges grow now; but that
was ages and ages ago, and since then
sponge turned to flint, and has lain cover
ed by rock and earth Of many kinds
piled thick above it. Seen with a micros
cope flint shows the make of sponge in its
fibres; and sometimes you can see bedded
in it, the shells of tile tiny creatures on
which the sponge had fed. Now and
then, inside flint, will be found bits Of
the sponges yet unchanged. That last
proof settles it; but I must say it is hard
to believe-hard as the flint, almost.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
How a Woman Hurries.

Have you ever waited for woman to
'get ready" to 60 somewhere? Of course
you have, and will be interested in what
follows, written by Kate Thorn. The
hour is half-past three. Maria is not
ready. At tour she twill be down in lust
one moment" but even at this hour if
you could look into Marie's chamber YOU
would be in despair. Her ':crimps" are
not taken down, her boots unbuttoned,
her pull backs elastic cords are out of
gear, and the maid IS fixing them? she
can't find her bracelets, one cuff pin is
missing; she puts her arnica on ker
handkerchief by mistake, think
ing it jockey club. There is a but
ton off her basque from hurried button
ing; and oh, dear! dear! where are her
lemon kids, and her lace scarf, and that
coral neck chain, and shawl, and a
white lace vail, and dozen other neces-
sary articles? She has hurried so that
her face is all in blaze, and she is sure
| she looks like a washerwoman, and she
SEXES the powder puff and dabs little
chalk on her forehead, and hopes it won't
be seen, as she is going out to ride with
man and not with woman. All un
conscious of the trials which beset your
charming Marie, you are striving to do
the agreeable to Mrs. B., with the sound
of your horses paving up that sidewalk
in your ears, and you know the old gen
tleman is particular about his grounds,
and directly you hear something snap,
and rush out to find that one Of your
spirited nags has broken off fence pick
ct, and is trying his best on another by
way OF desert. Will she ever get readyl
You consult your watch. Five o'clock !!
You feel inclined to swear little, but
plety forbids, and you try to possess your
soul IN patience. The door opens. She
comes, radiant and smiling, in the lowell
est OF new costumes, pinned back I
tight that she ereeps toward you like q
snail and you mentally wonder how she
is ever going to step high enough to get
into the carriage; and her hat is 80 be-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
Grandma Grey's Sideboard.

The warmth and growth of fifty years
reflects from its polished surface and
fingers in the depths of its rich carving.
No flip-happing feather. duster has ever
profaned the sheen of that beautiful ma
hogany. Grandma always dusts it her.
self,-in fact she prefers to do all the
busting about the house; lit is less
trouble than to teach other people, and
nobody seems to know how to dust now
a-davs," she says. when I was little
girl" and Grandma Grey settles her dain-
ty lace rufles, polishes her gold trimmed
spectacles and resumes her rocking and
knitting, with an aureole of sunshine
resting on her silvery locks, and smile
Of calm contcntment beamine from her
cheerful face; "when I was little girl.
the acme of Encouragement to me, Law in
the tedious and monotonous task of learn
ing to dust. The infnitesimal atoms
that escaped my Sinking fingers and
superficial glances, stared boldly enough
and tantalizingly blinked me out of
countenance, when the battery of nv
mothers eyes were brought to bear on
treacherous lodges and ambushed corners.
TIE wisdom of paying more careful at
tention to allotted tasks made itself man
ifest, when thoughtless, neglect, or giddy
carelessness, brought down on my de-
voted head the merited punishment,
which was a careful repetition of the dis
tasteful work, occasionally at the sacri-
fee of promised recreation. Though
routine of SHINING and repenting, thanks
to devoted mothers patient persever-
ance and judicious discipline, I learned
how to dust, and that is why the side
board shines so. It was one of nv we'd
ding presents" ana Grandma's eyes grow
shadowy with far away look, as though
she We're reering into cloud-land in
search Of the dear ones whose faces had
frightened the days Of auld lang syne.
Wherever the blame may rest, one
must acknowledge that good busting is
fast becoming one of the lost arts, and
the dusting-cloth relic of the last. the
girl Of the period considers it saving of
time and trouble to brandish feather
buster round the room, and careless
housekeepers fail to realize that whisk-
ing dust from from place to another rem
ders an apartment no sWeeter or cleaner,
but only fills the air with impurities that
would be less detrimental to health if
left unmolested.
Persons who have been trained to
scrupulous neatness can but look on this
superficial mode of busting as little shor,
of actual slovenliness. They have been
taught to wipe the dust carefully from
the various pieces of furniture, and shake
the cloth frequently in the outer air. The
most casual observer could scarcely fai
to note the difference in the appearance
of furniture that has been subjected t.
the ''slicking up" system and that which
has been we'll cared for during simila
length Of time. ...@.
Health, cleanliness and economy di
tate, that in order to keep our dwelling
sweet and wholesome and our furnitur
new and fresh looking, careful and
thorough busting should be an every d.
duty. An old silk handkerchief for fin
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
About Languages.

The following interesting extracts arc
from sermon preached by Rev. Joseph
Wild IN Brooklyn, and published in the
New York Champion:
a BRITISH poet has presented in poetry
the special features of several of the
European languages, which we give:
"Greek's harp we love to hear;
Latin is trumpet clear;
Spanish like an organ swells:
Italian rings its bridal bells; .-e-.Ea
france, with many frolic mien.
Tunes her sprightly violin;
Loud the German rolls his drum
When kussia's clashing cymbals come:
But Britains sons may we'll rejoice,
For English is the human voice.n
There are eight languages in the
bounds of Christian civilization that NAV
be accounted powerful. because thew are
the tongues of vigorous people; they are
tue English, Russian, German, French,
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Scandi.
navlan. But of these all are indigenous.
except the English, so that they die if
transplanted. Look at this country and
behold what cemetery it is for lam
guages. Once the French had strong
hold and promised to abide here; but It
is now nearly gone, even from the State
OF Louisiana and Canada, the last places
of retreat.
If we take note of the population ac-
cord1ng to these several languages, we
shall see the prophetic future of the Eng
llsh. It is spoken by about ninety mil
lions, Russian seventy-fve, German fiftv-
six, French forty, Spanish thirty-e1ght,
Italian twenty-nine, Portuguese tour
teen and Scandinavian nine. Within the
control OF the. governments of these
languages we find England to have
rule over 255,00O,OO0 people, who
90 not, as yet, speak English,
and we find that the other seven have
only seventy five millions outside of them
selves; here is an important difference.
1t we look at them by territorial limits,
leaving out Russia, we find the English
language to own 1882, 686 square miles,
Germany 49, 1854, French 571.57S, Span
ish 1854, 81, Italian 114.466, Portuguese
4,O2S,311. and Scandinavian 1,3O8,e3U.
The aggregate number of square miles
possessed oy these six languages, is H.
l67, 1920. which altogether, you see, own
1915, 066 miles square less than the Eng
fish. This balance itself is more than
Germany, France and Spain put together.
The English language is divided only in
to twenty six. In one hundred
years from now the English language
will be spoken by thousand million
people. Thus we need no stretch of
fancy to see that what the prophet speaks
of in the text will be accomplished in due
time
This language will soon be universal:
by common consent it will become the
language of the world. All changes
going on among nations forecast its ubiq--
uity. China, iby an imperial decree, has
just added to her language 700 English
words. Her sons by the thousand are
with us, and by the thousand they are
learning our mother tongue. The Japa-
nese, till few years ago, carried on their
foreign correspondence through the
Dutch, but now they have changed to the
English. Besides. in the 5000 schools
in Japan English is being taught.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-03-05
A Kind Of a Paragon.
From the London Athenaeum.

From the London Athenaeum.
When French woman is lady she
is, Notwithstanding the materialism at
the bottom of her nature, the most per-
feet thing of her kind that the world has
yet produced. If she has not the fine
unconrciousness of an English lady, her
self-consclousness is necessary CHARM,
a component element of her incompar-
able grace. 1t is the self-consclous witch
cry Of Titania, who knows that in the
end Oberon must yield. From her child
hood she has educated herself--soul and
bouy-toward the fine issue" uf coquet-
ry; and if her lips are not the lips of the
English rosebud garden of girls" the
accents that come from them are brighter
than the accents of silver bells; there is
no gesture of hers that is not perfect
grace; there is no movment in which she
does not seem to shed soft-tinted lights
as she goes.
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The Author Of Political Trouble.
From the Burlington Hawkeye.

From the Burlington Hawkeye.
0"Cadmus," casually remarked Stanley
Matthews private secretary, "Cadmus in
vented or rather introduced letters-''
''Show him to me" shouted the Senator.
Let me at him! Where is he2 That's
the man have been looking for Show
to me, say! Where is he?''
He is dead" stammered the aston
ished and frightened secretary. HE died
before the last election"
ooh, baffled of my revenge!' stormed
the great Senator ''Who was the villian2
Who was this vile wretch who. invented
letters? Ohio man?"
"N-no,' s,ammered the poor secretary,
II believe not. He died in Illyrium."
"Ah-h-h!" said the Senator, with a
terrible snarl, ''Iowa man; Fayette coun-
ty. see, by heaven; see; the Hasckeye
did it. Revenge, revenge"
Sends verbal message to the President
who recklessly puts it down in his note
book.
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furniture, soft cambria cloths for more
common articles, paint brush for carv-
ings and corners, and feather buster for
gas-fxtures, picture-cerds, ETC., are the
necessary articles for proper perform
ance Of the work. Systematic patience
and perseverance are the qualities that
will exact their scrupulous cleanliness
and daily use, and personal attention, the
sole condition on which one can found a
hope that the duty will be faithfully full
filled.