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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-10-14
SNOOkS' PROPOSAL:
How He Got Out OF 1t.

NJ" 40 Wv oNs VI ="
.sIf you will take my adv1ce,'' said Nj.
Wilding, making last noble but futile
effort to balance the ivory paper knife on
the tip of his first finger, "you won't go
to the Brownrigs' ball.'
"And why not2' asked hi s compan-
ion, lrritably.
sWell, really wouldn't, you know"
said Mr.Wilding, giving up his struggle
with the impossible, and laying the re-
fractory paper knife upon the table--"for
variety Of reasons. Girls play the very
mischief with you, and you know what
trouble it gave me to get you out of your
last scrape. There are tour Browning
girls, aren't there9 And they are all
pretty2''
II don't see what that's got to do with
t'said Shocks, sulkily "There's safety
in a multitude. T can't marry 'em all,
can Ig'
"Happily, no! Though if the laws OF
your land did not forbid it, I am inclin-
ed to think you might try to accomplish
even that. shll, be advised, Shocks, and
be..conspicuous by your absence at the
Brownrigs' small and early Papa
Browning, when incensed, is not nice,
and you know you are decidedly esprit
with Miss Kate"
"No, I am not,' said Shocks, with de-
cision, "not bit of it. Though I allow
she is a handsome girl, and has lovely
eyes. Hasn't abe, now2"
~ don't know. AS rule never look
into woman's eyes. Iconsider it rude
ness" said Wilding, earnestly, telling
his lie without blush: "Never mind
her eyes. IT." warningly, "you musti 60
to this ball at least try to forget she has
any eyes at all. If you don't you will
propose to her, to moral.''
zone would think was a raw school
boy" said youngJ Shocks, wrathfully.
''Do you think 7 can't look at a woman
without committing myself? Do I look
like fools''
Whatever Mr.. Wilding thought at
that moment, he kept it to himself. Be-
fore he spoke next, he and his conscience
had agreed to dissemble.
my dear fellow, do not let US even
hint at such thing,'' he said, amiably.
II only meant you were slightly-very
slightly susceptible, and that Miss Kate
had certain amount of pleasing power,
and that positively would give up
this ball if l."
care you goings" broke in Shocks,
impatiently.
"Well, yes, dare say shall look in
about twelve.''
''Then will look in with you," said
Shocks, defantly.
''Fact Is, the fellow wants to spoon her
himself, and he don't see the force of be-
ing cut out" said he to himself, compla-
Gently, as he ran down the steps Of Wild.
ing's stairs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Ro.tenns.. Coming Ont.

The suicide of Benjamin Meyer, q Sing Sing
convict, a few days ago, created a considerable
Of a sensation in New York City. Meyer was q
member of. the dissolved firm Of Hirsch d
Meyer, dealers in wooden goods at No. Is White
street, who failed for $1S1, 900 in April, 1876.
The firm bought wooden goods on credit in large
quantities, and sold them rapidly, but when
they failed their assets were found to be very
trifiing. The partners, Sampson Hirsch and
Benjamin Meyer, were indicted for obtaining
goods under false pretenses, and after three
years Meyer was tried and sentenced, by Judge
Barrett, on February 9Th, to two years and six
months imprisonment and to pay a fine of
$500. In Hirsch's case the jury could not
agree after his trial in April, and b. was re-
leased on heavy bail. His case was on the cal
endar for trial the day Meyer committed sui
eide, in the Court of General Sessions, but was
postponed. Meyer was to have been a witness.
Meyers counsel, John F. Barrett, was conf
dent that Meyer would be pardoned by Gov
ernor Cornell. Meyer made q statement re-
Gently to a committee of creditors, which he
supposed would lead to his pardon. 1t is said
that it mentions about thirty New York firms
in whose interest he stated the firm of Hirsch &
Meyer was started, to buy goods on false repre-
sensations and sell them to those firms at a
figure allowing them to make a handsome profit.
The statement also contains an allegation that
the thirty irms agreed to help the firm through
bankruptcy, but that the audacity of the fraud
excited such popular indignation that they did
not fulfill their promises.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Death or so~,erpor w,u,.m.. q. ,,s,.,.

Death OF Governor Williams, OF indiana
Governor James D. Williams of Indiana.
died at noon on the 20th inst, Of Inflammation
OF the bladder. He was taken sick on the day
of the Presidential election, but was not con-
sidered dangerous until a few days before his
death. However, he had been afflicted with this
disease, in q greater or less degree, for the
past fifteen years. The public career OF Gov
ernor Williams has been o long one, and
with the exception Of his term in Con-
gress, has been exclusively identified with
State affairs. In 1888 he was elected to the Of
fee Of Justice Of the Peace by his neighbors.
In 1S4S he was first elected to the State Legisla-
ture, and he has served seven years in the House
and twelve years a member of the Senate. In
1856 he was elected q member of the State
Board of Agriculture, being a member for six
teen years, and for four years as President,
which he filed with great acceptability. In
1874 he was elected q Representative in Con-
gress from the Second Congressional District, to
succeed Hon. VIM. E. Niblack, and before his
term expired, was nominated by the Democratic
party as its candidate for Governor, as a COM
promise between Franklin Landers and ". s.
Holman, between whom the Convention was
nearly divided. The contest between Mr..
Williams and General Harrison resulted in the
election Of Governor Williams by q plurality
Of over 5000 votes, and in January, 1877, he
was ~inaugurated in the Grand Opera-house,
Governor Williams was also the caucus nomi-
nee of his party to succeed Senator Morton, in
the extra session Of the Legislature in Decem-
her. 1879.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Crop ReDOrt.


The following statement of the condition of
the corn, tobacco and potato crops has been
issued by the Department of Agriculture:
CoRN.-The crop of corn shows no increase
over that of last year, but rather a slight de-
cline for he whole country. The Atlantic
States all show an increase, particularly the
States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and Virginia. The Gulf States suffered from
drought in the spring. and too much rain in
the summer, except the State of Texas, which
almost doubles her product. In the States
north of the Ohio River, Ohio and Michigan in
crease their yield, while Indiana Emo Illinois
decreased. West of the Mississippi River,
Iowa alone increased her yield. On the Pacific
Slope, California shows an increase.
ToBAcco.-There was less land planted in
tobacco this year than last. The decrease
was principally in the States Of Maryland and
virginia. In Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wiscon-
sin there was a decided increase. Early in the
season the weather was not propitious, but in
August and September it was very favorable.
The average yield per acre, as reported Novem-
Der l, is TAO pounds, against 975 last year.
PoTNroEs.-The area planted in potatoes was
this year about equal to that planted in 1879.
but In the total crop there is quite a decline.
The yield per acre is reported this year at an
average of 81 bushels, against So in 1879 and
So in 1878. Only three States, Texas, Arkansas
and California, report an increase in the yield;
all others report a decline more or less. Insect
injuries are not of general complaint, but
drought is almost universally mentioned.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Presence of Mind.

John Wilkes, a y an English paper,
was not q great general, but he might
have been one had his tastes led him into
military life. His presence of mind
never deserted him. He held many
places of trust and responsibility. He
was Alderman, Chamberlain of London,
and Member of Parliament, and no man
was mole outspoken and daring in his
criticisms upon the Government. Once
upon a time, when Wilkes had been more
severe than usual, and had reflected
keenly upon the King and his chief min
listers, in the Worth Briton, awarrant was
issued from the Court of Kings Bench
for his apprehension, and for the appre:
hension also of the poet Churchill fChar-
les), Wilkes bosom friend and supporter.
The chief culprit knew that the warrant
was out, and that his friends name was
in it, but he had not thought to speak of
it. The Kings messenger, with the
warrant in hand, found Wilkes in his
chamber, Churchill being at the time
with him.
"Ah, Mr. Wilkes, I must arrest you
in the Kings name!"
"You have q ~warrant?"
eyes; here it is"
"And you've got Charles Churchills
name down also?"
eyes"
Thompson my dear fellow" said
Wilkes, turning to his companion, "do
you run round to Churchill's rooms and
tell him what's coming. Tell him to be
off for a few days and I'll have it all right
for him."
Churchill nodded to his friend and at
nice hurried out, the officer of the law
little dreaming how the fish was slipping
from his net before his very eyes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Stealing Another,s Comfort.

Any n who has stopped w night
at a large hotel has been disturbed in the
small hours by persons walking in the
halls as heavily and carelessly as if it
were midday. Guests who are up late
seem thoughtless of the quiet Of those
wrapped In slumber. Such conduct is sell
fshness of which any sensible person
ought to bea shamed.
A grave gentleman ut the Fifth Avenue
Hotel once complained of it to the genial
clerk. az am surprised" he said, "that
you harbor thieves in this house."
"Thieves, sir? Harbor thieves?
What do you mean, sir? Explain, if
az mean that I had something stolen
from me last. night by one Of your
guests"
"We are all exposed to sneak thieves,
SIR"
"Bnt this was not a sneak thief. 1t
was a guest in the house, sir, and quar-
tered as comfortably as I was"
"This is very extraordinary, sir.
What "a stolen from you, sir, and at
what hour?"
The gentleman answered with great
earnestness. "At 2 o'clock this morn
ing some most precious sleep was stolen
from me by n of your guests, and with
a pair of boots"
Was not this guest one of the meanesi
of sneak thieves?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
A Liberal Editor.

We were grieved to read the other day
of the death of one of Michigan's %jolliest
pioneer editors-almost the last man of a
band who published weeklies in the State
when o coon-skin whould pay for a col
m "ad," and three bushels of corr
dumped ON the office floor stood for a
years subscription. Never q publisher
was more liberal with his space. It was
hard work for him to charge for anything
except the tax list and mortgage sales.
and he measured short even on them
One day in the years gone by his paper
copied an attack on q county official, and
old Mark was doing at his. desk when
the injured party stalked in and began:
"You are q coward, sir-a-coward!"
"Mebbe I am was the editors COM
placent reply.
"And I can lick you, sir-lick you out
of your wrinkled old boots -
81 guess you could" answered Mark
as he busted the wrapper off his only
exchange. mag3 s.fs4.rE ielIooft5ya
"Im going to write an article calling
you a fool, liar, coward, cnr, slanderer
and body-snatcher, and go over to Ioria
and pay five cents a line to have it pub
lished |"
"Hey?" queried the old man as he
wheeled around.
eyes, I'll pay five cents a line to have
it publishedl"
essay, let me tell you something" re-
piled Mark. GIVE got 200 more circu.
lation than the Banner, and I'll publish
your attack ON me for two cents n line
and take it out in mill fe I'd or corn stalks!
Don't trot over to Ionia when you car
help build up your own town."
Mark would have published it wore
for word, just rs he said, and thrown il
a cut of a horse or a stump-puller free
gratis, but the official cooled off.-Detroi
| Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Lord Macaulay.

His was a memory of ~stupendous feats,
and also an intelligent instrument and
servant. He could not only remember
what was useful, what he wanted to re-
member, but what wa utterly worthless,
what entered his mind by accident, what
was read by the eyes only, scarcely en-
sion, he repeated to himself the whole of
Paradise Lost" while crossing the
Irish Channel, on another, waiting in a
Cambridge coffee-house for a post-chaise,
he picked up a country newspaper con-
tanning two poetical pieces-one ere
Elections of an Exile" and the other "a
Parody on a Welsh Ballad"-looked
them once through, never gave them q
further thought for forty years, and then
repeated them without the change of a
single word. The readers of his Life"
will remember that his memory retained
pages of trashy novels read once in his
youth. In fact, in a way of speaking, he
forgot nothing. AS has been well said,
"his mind, like a dredging net at the
bottom of the sea, took up all that it en-
countered, both bad and good, nor ever
seemed to feel the burden in this diff
fering from Bolingbroke. We have
spoken of disproportionate memories.
His we cannot but think a case in point.
He would have been a fairer historian if
he could have forgotten some things-if
his early impressions had so faded that
they could have given place to, or at least
been modified by, new ones. In their
vivid strength they stood in the way of
Judgment .-BLacktpood' MAGAZINE.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Home for the Drunkard.

If inebriety is durable, as the Boston
Traveller asserts that it is, by the follow
ing method, then is there hope for the
victim of this base passion-drink. That
journal makes the following assertion:
'tAn incorporate person can easily supply
himself with the remedies used at all the
inebriate asylums, and be his own physi-
clan, at his own home, without the neces-
sary expense and publicity of visiting
the Washingtonian Home or any other
public institution. His laboratory need
only contain a small quantity of cayenne
pepper, q pot of concentrated extract OF
beet, and a few grains of bromide of
potassium. When the desire for alco-
holic drink recurs, make a tea from the
cayenne pepper as strong as can be taken
with any degree of comfort; sweeten it
with milk and sugar and drink. This
tea will supply the place that a glass OF
injurious effect behind. Repeated
daily as often IS the APPETITE returns, 1t
will be but a few days before the sufferer
will have become disguised with the
taste of the pepper, and with the appear
ance Of this disgust disappears the love
Of liquor.
'sThe fact is proved every day. The
extract of beef is to be made into beef
tea, according to the direction on the pot.
in such quantities as may be needed TO,
the time being, and furnishes a cheap,
easily digested, and healthy nutrimen'
it being made to stay on the stomach
when heavier articles of food would be
rejected. The bromide of potassium il
to be used carefully, and only in case o.
extreme nervousness, the dose heine
from fifteen to twenty grains, dissolved
in water. This is a public exhibit of the
method of treatment adopted at the in
ebriate asylums. In addition thereto thu
drinking man should surround himsel
with influences which tend to make hin
forget the degrading associations of thu
bar-room and lift him upward 81
should endeaver, SO far as his business
avocations will permit, to sleep, battle
and eat regularly, and obey the laws O
health. By the adoption OF this ceurs'
theoretically and sincerely, no man VIII
has the will to reform can fail to do SO
Hundreds and thousand can attest tn
truth of these statements.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Use Of the Sunflower.

The familiar objects seen in childhood
days remain objects of interest and affec-
ton through life. There is hardly n
person in the State, but that has an af-
lection for the great homely sunfower,
and all from the association of childhood
days; but while it has generally been
planted for ornamental purposes, its cul-
tiyation is now strongly recommended by
many because the flowers are believed
by many to afford the best material for
wax and honey: the petals of the flowers
to yield a valuable dye; the seed yields
fifty per cent. of oil, excellent for cook
ing and illuminating purposes, while
they are also a superior food for poultry
and cows, increasing the flow of milk; the
bottom of the calyx may be used for food
in the same way as the artichoke, which
it closely resembles; the wood will yield
one per cent. of potash. while common
hard wood only yields one-tenth as much,
the beans may be used for food for ami
mails; while the bark, properly prepared;
affords material for the manufacture of
paper, and sowing an mere or two broad
cast around the pioneers cabin on the
prairie, makes an excellent wind-break
in the winter, and affords a warm retreat
for poultry from December to April
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Avml Calamity.

The State Hospital for the Insane, located at
st. Peter, Minnesota, has been partially de-
stroyed by fire, and in its flames between fifteen
and twenty inmates persisted. The trouble at
tending the rescue Of the inmates was very
great. Says Q correspondent: ''While the
flames were slowly progressing, the matrons. of
the female department made all haste to get
their inmates out, and many of them ran
shrieking in their night clothes in the snow
drifts, even burying themselves in the snow,
and had to be dragged in barns and sheds,
while those near by wrapped blankets and
shawls around them, hence intense suffering
could not be avoided, as they had to be taken
about fifteen or twenty rods through the snow
to the nearest shelter, which was on a hill
Immediately in the rear of the south wing. Yet
when We turned to the male apartments, our
blood runs cold as we gaze into those burning
walls and realize what was the doom of more
than me demented man. Tonight those who
were croWded into the long corridors of the
south wing, stood around there, mourning and
shivering like poor dumb brutes. The actual
number burned cannot be gotten at in any way
at the present time, as many are known to have
wandered away in the intense excitement that
prevailed throughout the whole premises.
Several bodies were taken out of some of the
rooms and halls. Several persons were gotten
out into the halls, when they would seem
determined to return to the flames. There were
six hundred inmates in the building. The loss
ispiaced nt $500 900, upon which there was no
tnEuyAncf,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Foreiyinr . Terr,ble Iriuv.

In February last, David s. Mauck, a farmer
and lime-burner of Washington Township,
Harrison County, Ind, returned to his home
from his lime-kiln about 2 o'clock in the morn
jug. His wife, Mary J.. Mauck, and servant
girl, Sarah Vaughn, we're asleep in separate beds
in the same room. Mauck entered the house
quietly, armed with an ak and bludgeon, and
Immediately commenced a murderous attack
on the sleeping wife, sinking the ak into her
forehead, and cutting out one Of her eyes. He
then beat her over the head with the club. The
noise awoke Sarah Vaughn, who sprang from
her bed, but only to receive q dozen or SO blows
from Mauck's bludgeon. Leaving both women
for dead, Mauck fled, and nothing has been
heard as to his whereabouts since. Last week
Mrs. Mauck started for Lincoln, Neb., where
her brothcr-in-law resides. 1t is believed, how
ever, that David s.. Mauck is in that vicinity,
and that the woman he SO brutally attempted
to murder has gone to join him. Previous to
the attempted murder they had lived happily
together, and she believes he was temporarily
insane when he tried to take her life, and has
often said she freely forgaye him. A detective
who desired Mauck's arrest, has very likely fol-
owed the devoted wife on her trip in the far
West.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Diving for Fresh Water.

They have no fresh water on the shore
of the Persian Gulf at Bahrin, but copi-
GUS springs close by at the bottom of the
sea. The fresh water is got by diving.
The diver, sitting in his boat, winds a
big goat-skin bag around his left arm, the
hand grasping its mouth, then takes in
his right hand a heavy stone, to which is
attached a strongline, and thus equipped,
he plunges in and quickly reaches the
bottom. Instantly opening the bag over
the strong jet of fresh water, he springs
time closing the bag, and is helped aboard.
The stone is then hauled up, and the
diver, after taking breath, plunges again;
and the queerest thing about it allis that
the sources of the copious submarine
springs is thought to be in the green hills
Of Osman, some five o. six hundred
miles distant,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Ancient Form of Dress.

How did we come to possess our pres
emit form of dress? This is one Of the
many questions answered by a reviewer
in the Nature. Clothing at first was al
most entirely ornamental. The excep-
tions were such articles as belts from
which instruments of various kinds could
be suspended SO as to be ready for use
while the hands were left free. A savage
does not enjoy the luxury of a pocket.
Even at the present day a Japanese has
to sling his tobacco pipe and pouch from
his belt, and the only pockets he has are
in his sleeves. The simple cincture was
the germ, SO to speak, of the clothing we
wear. After some time a bunch of pan
danus slips was added in front, and this
was gradually extended until it made O
complete fringe around the body. When
the arts became 80 far advanced that
man could make paper cloth or some
woven material these latter were substi-
tuted for the primitive fringe, and the
kilt was thus developed. Curiously
enough, the dress of the Scottish High
landers embodies these two stages of
progress in the kilt and the sporran. As
man advanced there were inconvenience
attending the use of the kilt, which were
abated by fastening that garment at one
point between the legs, and the human
mind was then fairly set upon the path
to arrive at the attainment of a pair of
trousers. When the back and shoulders
needed protection the savage used the
skin of some animal, and it is from this
sort of covering for the upper part of the
body that we have derived our coats,
vests, shirts, &c. But the ancient cloak
form ia avan vet retained NOT onIv nv
such people as Zulu chiefs, but in all
robes of ceremonyb by dignitaries of Court
and college of the most highly civilized
nations on the face of the earth. The
elaborate and varied head coverings of
the present day all sprang from a very
simple original type.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
An Egyptian Insane ASYLUM.

Ancient Egypt had a high civilization,
and it exhibited itself in the wisdom with
which the insane were treated. At each
extremity of Egypt was built a temple
to Saturn, where lunatics of various de-
grees were brought by their friends.
The temples were surrounded by beauti-
full shady grounds, and patients were
provided with every form of amusement
and recreation that could occupy the
mind and ~invigorate the body. Here,
also, the finest works of art were brought.
Music, wine, employment, fixing the at
tention and exercising the memory, were
the principle remedies used, and none
but the most violent maniacs were put
under any personal restraint.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-25
Where the Smash Was.

Reporter-"I wish to ascertain some
of the the particulars about the recent
accident on your road" {.
Observation-Disclosures road?"
Rep.-'sWhy, your road?"
Supt.-"I own no road"
Rep.-"AreF you not the SuperinteL
dent of the Go-to-Blazes-Smash-and-
Crash Railroad?"
Supt-"I am. Why didn't you ask
that before?"
Rep.-"Well, now, about this acct
dent"
Supt.-"What accident?"
Rep.-"Why, the recent accident.
Supt-"There has been no recent ac-
cident."
Rep.-"Why, didn't a train run of
the track yesterday, smash half o dozen
cars to kindling wood and kill five or six
people?"
Supt.-"Where?"
Rep.-"At GimIet Falls Station"
Supt.-"Where is Gimlet Falls?"
Rep.-"Where? Don't you know?"
Supply am not called upon to
know. Prove to me where Gimlet Falls
is"
Rep.-"Well, this is cheek"
Supt.-"No, it amt; it's business
Mem York GTHDhic-