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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-31
WHY AND WHAT

should tell you why and why
why Adam did not kill the Snake.
tOr why the very heavens are high)
:, AND Why,-yes, why we cannot make
some leaves ourselves when dead ones fall
would this, in very truth be all?
If should tell you why the things
mat are SO mean were ever made
The 1e, little girls, the thorns, the stings
The bees haVe-then I am afraid y
You'd want to know there! SO YOU do
why can't the birds make honey too?
Why do the butterflies not sing
When they have wings themselves? and
Can not ghost well then thing
mat is no ghost-come back and try
70 live in this same world again?-
It's the best world there is! What then?
Why cannot all the crows be white
And ell the lilies black, YOU say?
Why does the sun not shine all night?
Nobody wants it in the day.
Why does the world not end, so we
Can know what nothing is? (Ah mel!
Ny boy, I'll tell you all (know!)
before the moon goes down, you
: VIII tell me one thing. Whisper low
One little thing-but whisper true,
Because that little thing will be
The sweetest thing there is, you see.
What does the baby think about?-
The baby just one-half year old,
Llght-headed, dream-eyed, without doubt
The loveliest baby one can hold
This side OF All, you will not try
To tell what's hard? Neither will I.
Feb,uarV Wide Awake
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-31
How TO CHEcK CoueHs-Dr Rrovn

How TO CHECK CoUaHs.-Dr. Brown
Sequard says that there are many facts
which show that morbid phenomena of
respiration can always be stopped by
the influence Of arrest. Coughing, for
instance, can be stopped by pressing on
the nerves of the lip in the neighbor-
hood of the nose. A pressure there
may prevent q cough when it is begin
ming. Sneezing may be stopped by the
same mechanism. Pressing in the
neighborhood of the ear, right in front
OF the ear, may stop coughing. It is
also preventive of hiccough,1 but
much less SO than of sneezing or cough
ing. Pressing very hard on the top Of
the mouth inside is also q means Of
stopping coughing. And he adds that
the will has immense power there.
There was French nurse who used to
say: The first patient who coughs
here will be deprived Of food to-day .
It was exceedingly rare that patient
coughed then.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-31
A Tale Of Stomachic Emotion.

Probably no man ever went to the
alter with fonder hopes or more pleasu-
rable expectations than filed the breast
OF young man who went to one of
the CLARK street places of amusement
on Sunday evening. It is possible that
others have been more bitterly tlisap-
pointed, but it is dollars to doughnuts
that no man ever had more righteous
cause to be disappointed nay, even dis,
custodian this particular and most
unfortunate individual. He had evi-
IDENTIFY prepared himself for the occa-
sion with becoming care; had made ev-
cry provision and secured every accom-
paniment that the ingenuity of man
could invent Or the limited purse of
moderate afauence provide for such an
occasion. 1t he was not arrayed in his
best clothes, he certainly has ward
robe such as few young men can boast,
and II he was not accompanied by the
prettiest girl in his neighborhood, then
he must live in highly-favored local
ity. The seats set apart for their ex-
elusive use on this occasion were among
the most desirable in the house-the
end pair near the center of the par
quet. Under other circumstances with
the prospect of pleasant entertain
ment, and perhaps of a couple of oys.
ter stews, and who knows what not.
latter the opera was over" can it be
wondered at that their hearts beat high
with expectation? How doubly sad,
under such circumstances, the result?
The play had proceeded to the close
of the first act, up towhich point all had
gone happy as marriage bell" But,
just as the curtain went down, a young
man, occupying the end seat immedi-
ately across the aisle, arose in evident
distress and anxious to reach the door.
His efforts to get on his pins betrayed to
everyone the cause of his uneasiness,
He had been drinking. Worse than
this, he had apparently kept drinking
until his capacity had been put to the
test far beyond the point of safety, and,
when he turned to so, nature refused
longer to benz the strain. He had only
turned half around, so that he faced
directly toward the pleasant party across
the aisle, when the crisis came. If the
bottom had been knocked out of beer
key things could have been no worse.
In fact the worst that could have hap
pened had taken place. There was a
momentary swaying to and fro, indicat-
ing pent-up force within that would
not be controlled, lurch forward, and
then an eruption such as might reason
ably be expected from some old volcano
filed for the occasion with stale beer
and such miscellaneous material as usr,-
ally go to make up free lunch. Two
suits of good clothes were worse than
spoiled, for that which spoiled still chung
to them, or ran in Shiny and reeking
abundance over, through, and above
them in every direction. The two hith-
erto expectant amusement-seekers, now
so thoroughly i'll at ease, hurriedly made
their way to the exit, while the perpe-
traitor of the disgusting outrage, un-
Kicked, unclubbed, and unhung, made
good his escape.-Chicag0 Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-31

HE Shanghai Courier says that mar
r1ages in China between persons of the
same surname are not only null and
void, but render the contracting parties.
IS well as the go-between who arranged
the match, liable to q punishment of
sixty blows. The marriage presents
are, moreover, forfeited to the state.
Mr.. Brown, in fact, may not marry Miss
Brown, nor Miss Jones be led to the
altar by Mr.. Jones.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-31
Long Words.

"Rob," said Tom, (which is the most
dangerous worl in all the English
language to pronounce?
Don't know" said Rob, unless it is
swearing word"
"Pooh!" said Tom; ut is stumbled,
because you are sure to get "a tumble
between the first and the last letter"
"Ha, hal said Rob, nowI have one
for you. I found it one day in reading
the paper. Which is the longest word
in all the English language?"
Observation-Disclosures" said Tom,
promptly.
aNo, sir; it's smiles, because there's
a whole mile between the first and last
letter"
aHo, hol" cried Tom, .that's moth
ing; know q word that has over three
miles between its beginning and end
ing"
"Now, what's that2" asked Rob,
family. 49,
@Beleagured," exclaimed Tom, tri-
umphantly. :.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-31
Common Savings.

Many of our common sayings, SO
trite and pithy, are used without the
least idea from whose mouth or pen
they first originated. Probably the
works of Shakespeare furnish us with
more of these familiar maxims than any
other writer, for to him we owe, Gall is
not gold that glitters," Make virtue
Of necessity" Screw your courage to
the sticking place" (not point, "They
laugh that win" "This is the short and
long of it," Comparisons are odious,"
AS merry as the day is long," "A
Daniel come to Judgment" "Frailty,
thy name is woman" and host OF
others.
From the same we Gull, make assur-
ance doubly sure" @Christmas comes
but once year, ~" Oounttheir chickens
ere they are hatched," and "Look be-
fore you leap"
Washington Irving gives us "The
almighty dollar" Thomas Morton
queried long ago What will Mrs.
Grundy say?" while Goldsmith an
swers ask me no questions and I'll
tell you no fbs." Charles @. Pinckney
gives millions for defense, but not [
cent for tribute" "First in war, first in
peace, and first in the hearts of his fell
low-citizens" (not countrymen), APP
peared in the resolutions presented to
the House of Representatives in De-
cember. 1870, prepared by Gen. Henry
Lee. ~.
Thomas Tasser, writer of the six
teenth century, gives us cts an ILL.,
will turns no good" Better late than
never" *Look ere thou leap" and ".Erhe
stone that is rolling can gather no moss %
Cali cry and no wool" is found in But
ler's "Hudibras."
Dryden says: "None but the brave
deserve the fair" "Men are but chill
dren Of q larger growth" and Through
thick and thin" ''No pent-up Utica
contracts our power" declared Jonathan
Sewell.
When Greeks join Greeks then
comes the tug of war;" Nathaniel Lee
1892.
"Of two evils have chosen the
least" and The end must Justify the
MEANS" are from Matthew Pryor. We
are indebted to Cooley Cibber for the
agreeable intelligence that Richard is
himself again." Johnson tells us in "A
good hater of Macintosh, in 1871, the
phrase often attributed to John Ran
dolph: !" Wise and mastery inactivity"
Variety's the very spice of life," and
Not much the worse of wear Cowper.
Men proposes, but God disposes"-
Thomas Kempis.
Christopher MARROW gave forth the in
vitation so often repeated by his broth
ers in less public way: Love me lit
tie, love me long" Edward Coke was
of the opinion that "A mans house is
his castle" To Milton we owe "The
paradise of FOOLS" "A wilderness of
sweets" and "Moping melancholy and
moonstruck madness" @@
Edward Young tells us Death loves
a shining mark, " A fool at 40 is fool
indeed" but, alas for his knowledge of
human nature when he tells us Man
wants but little, nor that little dong"
From Bacon comes knowledge is
power" and Thomas Southerne reminds
us that PHYS akin to love-" Dean
Swift thought that Bread is the staff
of life" Campbell found that Com
ing events cast their shadows BEFORE"
and IT'S distance lends enchantment
to the view" "A thing of beauty is a
Joy forever" is from Keats. Franklin
said, God helps them who help them
selves" and Lawrence Sterne comforts
us with the thought, God tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-31
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.

She stands In the dewy twilight,
Her blue eyes brimming with tears;
Her beautiful brow, pure and white.
Bespeaking her youthful years.
Her sweet, smiling face IL clouded
With look OF anxious care;
A shadow of grief has shrouded
Tho being, lovely and fair.
sne jeweled hand presses lightly
The arm OF dark haired youth,
HIS soft, dark eyes beaming brightly
With love, emotion and truth,
As they stand meath the tall old trees
With their branches waving high,
On carpet Of brighthued leaves,
Under clear autumn sky.
They form . grand picture, ween.
An artist would love to trace
Ihe youth OF manly, graceful mien,
But why are pearly tears stealing
Adown that pink velvet cheek?
"a! why is that young heart feeling
more than the rosy lips speak?
She stands in the twilight dreaming.
"A beautiful, far-off DREAM"
Her brain with memories teeming,
That through the dark present CLEAN
lis the old homestead she's nearing,
The home of her childhood years,
And through the dim twilight peering
In silence. IN sadness and tears.
She sees the familiar faces,
Listens, their voices to hear;
but strangers have filed the places
OF the forus to her SO dear.
!ar out from across the threshold
Her loved ones have long since fed.
bome are sleeping, silent and cold,
The last, long sleep Of the dead.
Others are wandering to and fro;
Their footsteps restlessly roam,
AID only shadows como and 20
Silently in tho old home;
jhadows OF tho past fitting by,
And echoes of by-gone years;
Forms that have vanished now draw nigh,
MOck1ng her sorrow and tears.
The snowy-white hands are folded,
The lips move in silent prayer;
The merry child has been nodded
Into woman of care.
Alone, alonel o, heaveni" she cries,
SAone with my sacred dead;
Alone with shadowy forms that rise;
Alone in the old homestead
The smiles miles an. and forms Of other years,
1see again, through falling tears,
In the homestead all Alone"
A warm hand gently clasps her own,
And soft voice whispers near:
my darling, you are not alone;
You forget that I an here"
A radiant light breaks over
The beautiful face once more;
Smiling on her handsome lover
She stands by the homestead door;
For new love springs to her heart,
And the future CLEANS more bright,
Az two young hearts vow ne'er to part,
By the pale, shadowy twilight.
tCQlO Led0er.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-31

The fall Of Adam was not not so hui
miiating as it might have been. There
was nobody around to say, Come here.
sonny, and I'll pick you up.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-05
Western Wheat Crops.

The latest reports on the condition of
the wheat crop in the Western and North
western States differ materially from those
made four or FIVE weeks ago. At that
time the prospect was that the winter
wheat yield the coming season would be
enormous; but since then the whole stu
alton has been changed, and it is now be-
lieved that the crop, so far from being
abundant, will fall short of even the gem
eral average. 1t is asserted, in fact, that
more than one-half of the crop has failed
in all the Western States In Kansas, for
instance, the wheat over large portion
of the State has been almost entirely de-
stroyed. Iowa reports that the winter
planting is an utter failure, and the spring
outlook is far from good. The reports
from Illinois are fair in Minnesota near
ly one-half the spring wheat has been
sown, but the acreage has not increased
Missouri shows better condition of af-
fairs than last spring in regard to winter
wheat and exhibits an acreage increase of
nearly thirty per cent: Nebraska has
planted twenty per cent more spring
wheat this season than it did last year,
and Dakota makes an equally favorable
report The next few weeks will proba-
bly, change these estimates, so far, at
least, as the spring planting is concerned.
According to the best information on the
subject, however, there is reason to fear
that the winter crop will be a short one.
NeaO York Herald.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-05
Frightening British Crop Prospects.

A new and brighter era seems to be
dawnlng on British agriculturists. The
official weather records for the five weeks
ending March Goth, present sharp and
favorable contrasts with those for the
same period in the disastrous spring of
1879. AT Greenwich the number of hours
of bright sunshine" recorded in March.
1880, was al, against 81 recorded in
March, 1879, while for the entire past
winter it was 234.8 hours, against 1877. 5
only for the entire winter of 1879. 1t
will be thus seen that the hours of bright
sunshine during the last month alone ex-
ceeded the total for the whole sunshine
period of the winter of 1879.
This exhibit gives highly encouraging
prospects for the future grain Weld over
the British Islands. AS the cold easterlv
winds, which are most fatal to British
agriculture, must first pass over Northern
and Western Europe, the altered aspects
OF the weather in England augurs like
favorable crop prospects for the Continent.
The present spring in the Crimea and
Southern Russia, it is true, has been re-
ported severe, the temperature at Sebas-
topol falling on the 10Th of March to
eighteen degrees below zero. But the
unusually bright skies and brave west
wind" which have marked the British
season undoubtedly indicate, if they do
not demonstrate, that the cold-determin-
ing conditions in Eastern Europe are fee
BILE and rapidly giving place to unwonted
spring weather, of an Atlantic rather
than an Arctic type, which in all proba-
bllty will usher in a season of agricultu-
raj relief. If this genial British weather
runs on In the present rut, as old meteo-
rologists say all weather after decided
change is apt to do, next autumn is big
with promise of joyful harvest Ne10
York Herald
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-05
THE BEST PREPARATION FOR
THE HAIR NOW KNOWMI

1t gradually restores gray hair to its natural
color. producing. a rapid and luxurious growth
eradicates Schurf and Dandruf cures all diseases
of the Scalp and relieves neuralgia in the head
and headache, and prevents the hair from falling
out. Try it.
From Rev. W. W. Bennett, D. D., President OF
Randolph Macon College:
tried the Xanthine, and found it to be all
it claims in restoring the hair to its natural color
and removing dandruff. w. w. BENNETT"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-05

phosphoric acid and clover have reno
waited worn-out lands. In Peru they
have been used from time immemoriai,
and still Peru is very fertile country.
No other manures have been used there,
and if the above opinion was true the
country in this time would be utterly ex-
hausted. T. p.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-05
1,22s.6OO.OOO
341.474OOO

III The whole country produced l ,545 OOO,-
OOO bushels Of corn, Of which eleven States
produced l,228,600,O00, while twenty
seven States and eight Territories pro
duoed 3l6,400000. OF wheat the whole
country produced 449,0OO,O0O bushels
al 100000 IN eleven States, and 107, 800
IN all the-other States and territories
The eleven States enumerated above pro-
duced 78 per centum Of the entire wheat
crop, and 70 per centum Of the corn crop.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-05
A REMARKABLE REMEDY-,on,so,,s,r,.

KIDNEY
INDlGEoIloN AND CoSTIVENESS ENTIRELY RELIEVED
Morhonf and
Augusta
took four doses Nor Pills for kidney
Richmond, mber '''uoDDiN'
My daughter relieved
Au3
that these Pills
Der
These Pills accompanying them Pros
SET they VIII be mailed heprce
S.
Eat Main Street, richmond W
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-05
Grain Produotion at the weat

The Columbus Ohio State Journal
publishes the following interesting ex-
mblt OF the production of corn and wheat
IN the United States for the year 1879.
prepared by DR.. James Williams;
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-05

A PILGRIMAGE of British Romanists
headed by Cardinal Manning, is to leave
England for the shrine Of Our Lady of
Lourdes, on May 31st.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-05
WATT & CALL,
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-21
Garfeld's N omination,

The Republican pr ess, are very much
Ielighted-that is the antI-Grant wing, q.
what th ey term the victory for the ''peo
ple"-in the selection of Garfield. His
nomination is hailed as the overthrow of
the bosses and as demonstrating that the
voice of the people prevailed. These as
sertions are made on the assumption that
the people are easily duped--that they do
not read. The facts are that Garfield is
the nominee of the disappointed factions
opposing Grant; that unable to nominate
Blaine. the leaders of the latter faction.
seeing their men deserving them, rallied
to Garfield not because he was their real
choice-not that the people" demanded
it, or that they 1.-THE leaders) desired to
comply with the peoples wishes, but to
crafty their malice against Grant. Gem
eral Garfield was nominated to beat the
Grant mentor spite-reyenge-noth
more or less. To attempt to heroize
Blaine or Sherman is mere twaddle, and
to say that Garfield was nominated because
the people demanded it, is q direct mis-
statement Of facts.
The present nominee Of the Republican
party is such because he happened to be
the only man that could be centred on at
tne time the break occurred.
Ihe anti.Grant papers were very free in
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-21

their denunciation of Logan at Springfield
and Cameron and ConkIing. ct Harrisburg
and Utica, for what they termed. bulldoz-
ing. They held up their hands in horror
at what they classed as the over
throw of the people, but when the
convention met at Chicago. the anti-Grant
men, did precisely what Conkling and
Logan had done, but there was no con-
domination of their acts, What was a
crime in the interest of Grant, was a
virtue In the interest of Blaine. The
state convention of Illinois had no right.to
bear the Blaine men tell it, to choose a
solid delegation and issue instructions, but
according to the doctrine OF the Self
righteous Blaine men. the national con-
vention at Chicago had q perfect right to
onst delegates regularly chosen, and SUBJ
stitute others. if by SO doing Grant could
be weakened and Blaine glori6ed. To
prate of the wishes of the people being
regarded when Garfield was nominated, is
either, but the statement is made
adyisedly, and hence is less excusable.
Garfield is Just as much a machine candi-
date as any of them, for had it not been
for the desire on the part of Blaine's
supporters among whom were such trick
sters as Hale and Frye TO beat Grant, Mr..
Garfield would not have been mentioned.
He was used as the instrument to kill off
Grant; to crafty revenges and spites by
the maddened soheners of Blaine and
Sherman, who could not nominate their
own men and were ready to sacrifice the
party even, rather than Grant should be
the nominee. Give us a rest on the
voice of the people" business. 1t is too
thin-it is bypocriticaI-it is untrue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-21
WOMEN:

Leucorrhoea. Excessive Flowing, Painfu.
Monthly Periods, Suppressions when from I'M
natural causes Irregularities, Weak Back. Prolap.
sus or Falling of the Uterus AnterversiOn anC
Retroverson. Bearing down Sensations, Interna
Heat, Nervous Depression. Debility, Dependency
Threatened Miscarriage, Chronic Congestion, linda
nation and liberation of the Uterus, Impo
tency, Barrenness, or Sterility, and Female, Weak
ness.
Added to these are the pangs, the troubles, the
wearing strain of maternity, and which often dc
more toward breaking her constitution and weak
ening her for other efforts than all else of her labor
and duties 3sdsse. 1t s in this direction that
one often discovers that which it most pitiful in
the life of such woman. She labors on through
the period of ges alton to the last possible mOment
often over exerting herself, and often doing hel
and her offspring irreparabe injury The result OF
all this is that the mother at that period OF life
when she SIP Culd pess tho threshold of vigorous
and cheerful old age. is often broken down and
after year or two of inteerable suffering is hur-
ried of 10 the nearest churchyard
bottle or two of Sh0reY'e Investigator taken
during the year, will not only make woman g
life light and happy, but will cure permanently
most of her complaints. Sold by all druggists al
one dollar per large package. Sold in Dee Moines
wholesale and retail by
c. II. WARD 8 CO, aud Ey druggists generally
FULLER & FULLER,
Wholesale Agents, Chicago.
Depot, IS Cedar St, New YORK. 6-26swf&w
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-21
Haunted ne.

Debt, poverty and suffering haunted me
for years, caused by sick family and
large bills for doctorinR, which did no
good, / was completely discouraged.
until one year year ago. by the advice of
my pastor. | procured Hop Bitters and
commenced their use, and in one month
we were all we'll. and none of US have
been sick day since; and l want to say to
all poor men, you can keep your families
we'll year with Hop Bitters for less than
one doctors visit will COSTA Working
man.