The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21
4 SPANISH HEROINE.
4 Girl Of ThIrtesa Captures Hall . Dosen
Robbery. 1yg 81

A whole band of robbers was very
neatly trapped in La Carolina, Spain,
by the bravery of girl of ID, who has
become the heroine of her neighbor-
hood. She is the daughter of farmer
named Fueras, and is called Caramita.
The family consists of the husband and
wife and daughter. The farmer sold
some cattle for 1900, and had the
money in the house. A band of rob-
bers knew of the sale and the money
and laid their plans to rob the house.
After the farmer had gone out with his
workpeople, q couple Of strangers ap-
preached the house man travel
stained, supporting q woman who
seemed unable to walk any further.
The man told the farmers wife that he
was going to q distant village with his
wife, and she, being i'll, had broken
down on the way. He asked permission
for the sick woman to enter the house
and rest while he went to find con-
veyance to enable them to con-
time their journey. Permission was
granted, the woman taken in and the
man left. The sick woman partook Of
some refreshments, and the mother and
daughter went on with their work.
Very soon Caramita discovered that
their guest had on pair Of pantaloons
under the gown. She communicated
the fact to her mother, unobserved by
the visitor, and the two managed quick
" to slip into another room, close and
lock the door. The visitor, left alone
and knowing that his character had been
discovered, threw off his disguise and
ordered the women to open the door or
die: The door was not opened, and the
robber began to cut through il, with q
knife. At length he hacked q hole big
enough for his body, and he began to
crawl through it. The woman tainted
and fell on the floor. The brave Girl
seized her fathers gun, which was in
the room heavily charged with buck
shot, placed the muzzle against the side
Of the man, now half way through the
hole, and unable quickly to get either
backward or forward, and pulled the
trigger. There was an instantly dead
man and 9 loud report. The other
robber, lurking in the neighborhood,
heard the shot and returned to the
house to find his comrades body plug
ging the hole in the door and hanging
there. Before he could remove the
body, which was held in the opening by
the girl, and enter the room where the
mother and daughter were, the father
came with force sufficient to capture
the other robber. Then they sent for
some police to take charge of the living
robber and the corpse. On the person
of the dead robber the police found
two pistols, poniard and q whistle.
The whistle was treasure now, as there
were doubtless more robbers within it's
call. The police sounded the whistle
and concealed themselves in the house
to await results. The shril call brought
four more men into the house, where
they were Gagged and ironed, and all five
were marched to jail in good order, and
the dead robber was buried. Little
black-eyed Oaramita saved her own and
her mothers life and her fathers
money, made six robbers fewer in Spain
and herself the heroine of La Carolina.
~ = Extraordinary Memory.
A story of q wonderful memory
comes from Sydney, Australia. A
prisoner set up in his defense an a]ibi,
claiming that, at the time of the robbery,
he was at home listening to the recital
of novel, "The Old Baron" by man
named Lane, who had committed it,
with other works, to memory. Lanes
recitation, he said, took two hours and
q half. The Attorney General holding
this to be incredible, Lane began: In
the time of King Henry, when the good
Duke Humphrey returned from the
wars in the Holy Land, where he had
been sojourning for number of years,
there lived" After the witness had
recited several pages, the Attorney Gen
eral told him to stop, as he was satisfied.
But the defense insisted that, as the
veracity of the witness had been qnes-
toned, he should be allowed to go on.
Finally compromise was effected,
Lane gave chapter from the middle of
the story and it's conclusion, and the &C.
cused was found not guilty.
The Worlds Gold.
The Ural mountains, Australia and
the United States are the most pro
ductive sources Of gold supply, the frs
yielding $2O,OOO000 annually, the sec
ond $37 ,00O, 900, and the third $35, Oo0..
600. Prior to the discovery of the rich
mines of the United States the tota
production was only $68, 00O, 900 per an
mum. The fever for gold-hunting,
which was excited by the finding of the
great mines Of the Pacific coast, rapidly
increased the yearly production, until
in 1850 it reached over 1920, 0O0, 900
and five or six years later gold bullion
was mined to the extent of the enor-
NOUS sum of nearly $185, 100000. This
was the largest yield Of any one year,
and since production has gradually
fallen away, and seems to have finally
reached an equilibrium Of 500, O00,-
600, per annum, nearly all of which is
found in the three regions named
Pittsburgh Dispatch, 80 ~. ' ....
Toll and Be Happy. -. -.
t. The Christian at Work thinks
Ruskin never said q truer thing than
this: IF you want knowledge, you
must toll for it.; if food, you must toll
| for it.: and If pleasure Won must toll