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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27

Even the name given 10 this beautiful country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27

You would hardly be able to guess where
some Of the cows are kept that furnish the
milk Of the eity-nos all Of them. but q few.
Nowhers else than on the tops Of suburban
houses! As the roofs are perfectly fat the
common people utilize them for all manner Of
forposes-notabiy for henneries, pigstys, dog
ksnneis, gardens where flowers and vegetables
grow IN ooxes), laundries and even barn yards.
cssa Lima COW spends all her days on the
IOoi OF her owners residence, having been
tAxen up when calf and brought down at the
emo OF her life as fresh beef. In the meantime
siops from the kitchen. Chifk.n coops are still
more common on the roofs Of dwellings,, and in
tne tniekiy populated portions of the town
your neighbors cocks waken you at daylight
with reminders Of ST. PETE
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The Exact Truth,

Some of the papers criticise Bob
Dunn's contest for a seat in the
Legislature on the supposition that
he is making it because the can
wasting board declared against him
by only one vote. This is decid-
edly unjust. Mr.. Dunn is a man
who would willing give his oppon-
ent the seat by one vote without
the slightest objection, provided
the opponent was entitled to that
one majority honestly. Mr.. Dunn,
however, claims that fraud per-
meated the entire canvass in Nor
rison county and that a fair and
honest count of that county would
have given him fifty more votes
than the one which was made and
it is because he believes he was de-
frauded in the count of votes to
which he was entitled, votes which
we're actually cast for him, that he
makes the contest. Those who
know Mr.. Dunn know that he
would scorn to make contest for
a seat on a technicality if he did
not thoroughly believe that an
honest vote would give him an alb
solute election.-St. Paul Daily
NeqUs.
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THE PARSONS CORNER.
A PARSON EDITOR.


XMAS. Christmas comes again
to stir our noblest impulses to
prompt us to do the most generous
things, and to think the kindest
thoughts.
There is something in the very
air of Christmas time that almost
compels the miser to be generous,
the hard heart to feel kindly, the
carelessly selfish to become
thoughtful and considerate for those
about them.
The air seems to bring some
thing of the angels music to us and
''peace on earth, and good will to
men," floats to us on the Christ
mas breeze. Let us see how much
of this Christmas ''good wilP' we
can keep through the year.
A BABY ORGAN.-Not the kind
that makes music" in season and
out of season, but a Mason &
Hamlin was delivered at the Con-
gregational parsonage last Tuesday
morning, for the use of the pastor
and his people in conducting
meetings in school houses, lumber
camps, or anywhere that open
doors are found, and for use at
socials, picnics, &c.
READ IT AGAIN.-Those words
by the editor in last weeks UNION,
''Never mind making costly pres
ents to your well-to-do friends, see
that the destitute and friendless
are remembered" Try to make
at least one heart glad this year
with a present to one who will not
give you one in return.
INFIDELITY NO HYMN Book
While we are singing our Christ
mas songs and hearts are full of
Joy and praise, how different the
lot of those who shut all Christ
Joy out of their life as H. L. Has
tings tells, as follows: ''Infdelity
has no song, for it has nothing to
sing about. No Hymns of Joy
rise from the hearts of those who
walk in the murky shadows of sin
and unbelief. One day, after hav-
ing alluded to this fact in public
assembly,, skeptic came and
promised to produce IAN infdel
hymn-book" in the afternoon. He
brought it a book compiled by an
apostate minister, having nothing
infdel is its title, and a very little
in its composition.
1t was made up of such ''infdeP'
@ hymns as Hail Columbia, The
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GREENHOUSE cLEANINce
GREENHOUSE, Dec. % 100,

GREENBusH, Dec, %, 1889.
A merry Christmas and a bannv
New Year to all. -
Beautiful weather for this season
of the year but a foot or more of
snow would please the lumbermen.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Browns
little daughter Lucia, is sick With
the measles, but was better when
last heard from.
William Jesmer, who has been
working for j. T. D. Sadley on
the railroad during the summer.
has returned home on a visit.
A basket sociable will be held in
the school house, district No. 10,
Friday evening, Dec. Goth, for the
purpose of raising funds to paw
the preacher Rev. j. S. Bouck.
Come everybody and have a pleas
ant time, and help in a good cause.
ANNIE LAURIE.
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Old Oaken Bucket, and various
other secular songs, with now and
then parody upon some we'll
known hymn-a word left out
here, and another added there
giving the compiler about as much
right to the authorship of the
hymn as borrowing a pair of boots
and cutting the straps off would
give him to be considered a shoe
maker. And this was the boosted
""infdel hymn-book'' which was
to confute the assertions we have
made. We exhibited the book,
and reiterated our statements.
Infdelity is songless, because it is
joyless, lifeless, hopeless"
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SPENCER BROOK ITEMS.
SPENCER BROOK, Dec. %, 1890

SPENCER BROOK, Dec. %, 1890.
There has lately been quite a
number of men from below to buy
cattle and sheep.
Walker Bros. are buying quite a
large lot of corn lately for which
they pay cash or trade.
DR.. Tarbox was called to-day to
consult with DR.. Whiting on the
case of James Mckenzie.
The old lady Clough, who has
been confined to her bed for over
three months, is not as we'll as
usual.
James Mckenzie is quite ill with
some throat disease. The doctors
are puzzled to diagnose the true
character of the ailment.
Miss Anna Whiting and Miss
Nellie Ellingwood have just closed
their respective terms of school
and are at home preparing for
Christmas.
Friend Dunn, I acknowledge the
receipt of a nice present from you,
Donnelly's work entitled caesars
Column; or a Story of the Twenti-
eth Century, I am greatly inter-
ested in it.
On New Years eve there will be
a dance, at Smiths Hall, under the
management of Dave Walker and
Lem Turner. Good music will be
furnished, and supper for those
that want it.
D
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STATE OF MINNESOTA,)

STATE OF MINNESOTA,)
County of Mile Laos.
District Court, Seven tn judicial District.
Isaac Ptrr, Plaintiff, J
against
Mary Ptrr, Defendant.
The State of Minnesota, to the above named de-
PENDANT:
You are hereby summoned and required to an
swer the complaint of the plaintiff in the above
entitled action, which is filed in the office of the
clerk of the district court of the 18th judicial dis
trict, in and for the county of Mile Laos and
State of Minnesota, and to serve q copy of your
answer to the said complaint on the subscriber,
his Office in the village of Princeton in
said county, within thirty days after
the service of this summons upon you exclusive Of
the day of such service; and if you fail to answer
the said complaint within the time aforesaid the
plaintiff in this action will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in the complaint.
Dated Princeton, Minnesota, November IS, $780,
CHAs. KEITH, Plaintiffs Attorney.
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BY EDMUND BOISGILBERT, NJ. D.


remains the same and the moral
nanne Francisco
mover ne presents profound
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The UNION and Caesars Col
umn," Hon. Ignatius Donnelly's
greatest literary effort, $1.75 to
home subscribers.
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
THE UNION FROM NOW UNTIL JAN.
1st, 1892, FOR $3.50.

Subscribe Now for the Best Local Paper
in this Section Of the State.
In order to extend the circulation of
the UNION, we will send it to any ad-
dress from now until Jan. 1st, 1892, for
S150. We will club with no other pub
LEGATION this year. Our terms are
strictly cash in advance. This offer
holds good for few weeks only.
Oct. 1st, 1890.
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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.

Notice is hereby given that Henry w. Towle
and Eliza j. Towe, his wife, as mortgagors. ex-
ecuted and delivered to E. o. Parker, mortgage,
mortgage of real estate situated in the county of
Mile Laos and State Of Minnesota, and described
in said mortgage as follows, to-wit: 1.-The south
one-half of the southeast quarter of section four
teen, >14), in township thirty-six, 1867, range
twenty-seven, (2D;' that said mortgage bears date
the Sixteenth day of February, A.. D. 1888, and
was recorded on the nineteenth day Of February,
1885, at ten o'clock A. NJ, in the office of the regis
ter Of deeds of said county, in book ''C'' of mort
cages, on pages Al and Az; that said mortgage,
by an instrument in writing bearing date the
twelfth day of December, A. D. 1885, and recorded
in said office on the day last aforesaid, at ten
O'Clock A. NJ, in book ''E" of mortgages, on page
319, duly assigned said mortgage and the note
therein described, and the money due and to be-
come due thereon, to George F. Wetsel, as assignee,
who is the owner thereof; that default has been
made in the payment of the money secured by
said mortgage, whereby the power of sale con-
tanned in and recorded with said mortgage as
has become operative; and that the
amount claimed to be due on said mortgage at the
date of this notice is two hundred and five dollars
and twenty six cents; and that by virtue of said
power of sale, and the statute in such case made
and provided, the aforesaid mortgage will be
foreclosed by sale of the above described mort
gagged premises, at public vendue, to the highest
bidder, at the front door of the court house, in the
village of Princeton, in said county, on the sew
enteenth day of January, A. d. 1891, at O'Clock
in the afternoon.
Dated December 18th, 1890.
GEORGE r. WETsEL,
Assignee of said Mortgage.
j. A. Ross,
Assignee's Attorney, Princeton, MINI.
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Wanted.

Cattle, sheep, hogs, hay, corn and
oats, for which I will pay the highest
market price. Call and see me.
G. H. STEVENS.
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& STRAYED. "A very light red colored
heifer strayed from my premises some
time last June. Any information
thankfully received.
&. BERRY, Baldwin, MINI.
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BATHING HABITS OF BIRDS.
Interesting Things Which a Watchful scru
tiny Win Reveal

Interesting Things Which a Watchful scru-
tiny Win Reveal.
The spectator.1
We never seen hawks or falcons bathing
when wild. Trained birds, in good health,
bathe almost daily, and the bath of pere-
grine falcon is very careful performance
But NO nymph could be more jealous of
witness than these shy birds, and it
is not until after many careful
gIances in every direction that the
falcon descends from her block and
wades into the shallow bath. Then,
after more suspicious glances, she thrusts
her broad head under the water and filings it
on to her back, at the same time raising the
feathers and letting the drops thoroughly
soak them. After bathing head and back,
she spreads her wings and tail fan-like on
the water, and rapidly opens and shuts
them, after which she stoops down and
splashes the drops in every direction. The
bath over, she flies once more to the block,
and turning her back to the sun spreads
every feather of the wing and tail, raises
those on the body, and assists the process OF
driving by tremulous motion impaired to
every quill, looking more like an old cor
morant on a buoy than peregrine.
IL
the animals than the great lesson that clean
illness means health, the study oftheir habits
would be- we'll repaid, and it is not the least
reproach to be brought against our own
Geological Gardens, that these fine hawks
and falcons, while deprived of liberty, are
denied the only means Of that cleanliness
which would make captivity endurable.
tThe peregrine falcons at the Zoo are kept
in cage sanded like canary birds with
no bath at all, and no room to spread their
wings.) Sparrows chafinches, robins, and,
in the very early morning, rocks and wood
pigeons battle often. One robin we knew
always took his bath in the falcons bath af-
ter the hawk had finished. The unfortunate
London sparrow has few shallow places In
which he can bathe, and pie dish on the
leads delights him. If the dish be white,
his grimy little body soon leaves evidence
. that his ablutions have been genuine.
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cording to their several deserts, come a host
of young writers. One OF these is Margaret
Ellen O'Brien, daughter of Frank P.
O'Brien, editor of the Birmingham Age
Herald She is 20 years OF age, and has
written poetry which not only has its own
excellences, but prophesies greater things
tor her future. Her grandfather was Michael
Andrew O'Brien, editor of the Dublin Ma
tion, and it is from him, no doubt, that she
inherits her literary instinct. She was edu-
Gated in a convent at Loretto, KY, She
draws and paints creditably. talent trans
mitted to her by her father, who has strong
artistic tendencies. Her first poem was pub
lished but little more than year ago. Since
then she has gone on in her chosen work,
writing not always we'll, but never poorly,
and with a vigor and strength which will, if
allowed to move her without check, bring
her rapidly to the front.
49,
By-the-by, do you know how the Chinese
lily is made? By chance I dropped in a
local Chinese shop the other day, says
writer in the st. Louis Post Dispatch. just
when the owner was busy in the mysteries
of making the famous lily. The way saw
was this: He took the bulb of one of those
lilies and with pen-knife and two sharp
quarters, yet without separating it. He
then took the knife, scraping some of the
soft interior from the quarter, so that the
lily when grown will come out with curved
and curled leaves instead of straight ones.
1t was then placed in a large Japanese
bowl which was filled with water and earth
or sand. The lily will there sprout and in
form will closely resemble hyacinth. The
Chinese sacred lily, however, is different.
1t is rightly called the narcissus tazetta. It
is easily grown and seems to need little
more than proper supply of fresh water
for its development when placed in bowl
and in a suitable position. An e1-
perimenter SAYS: "We took an old
blue and white Chinese bowl, upon
the bottom of which we placed a
layer OF dry, not dyed moss, on which we
laid the bulb and imbedded it in moss. The
bowl was then nearly filled with water and
the arrangement was complete. The plant
was exposed to light and air and sunshine
at a window with southeast exposure, aud
lett to itself, except that water was added as
needed and the bowl occasionally turned
around. Although a fire was not made
every day in the room, the bulb threw out
seven stems, six OF which bore flowers, the
main stem with its flowers rising to the
height Of % inches in all. Perhaps the most
curious part of it was the stems of their own
accord formed line through the greatest
length of oval-quite an unlocked for event.
The graceful and fragrant flowers lasted for
long time and, with the long leaves from
the bulb, formed one of the prettiest groups
imaginable.
-.
The two illustrations which follow are
facsimiles of some particularly costly and
handsome gowns forming part of the winter
outfit of fortunate woman. One is ol
terra Gotta habit cloth, with a black
velvet waist, ornamented with gold
filigre buttons and black velvet
sleeves, bordered with astrakhan. The
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OF REMARKABLE MEMORIES.
Curious Examples of What This Faculty of
Man Hath accomplished.

Curious Examples of What This Faculty of
Man Hath accomplished.
From Spare Moments.l
There was a Corsican boy who could re-
hearse &C, 1000 words, whether sense or non
sense, as they were dictated, and then
repeat them in the reversed order without
making a single mistake. A physician,
about go years ago, could repeat the whole
OF paradise Lost" without making a mis-
take, although he had not read it for 20
years. Euler, the great mathematician,
when he became blind. could repeat the
whole of Virgil's "Eneid" and could
remember the first line and the last line of
every page of the particular edition which
he had been accustomed to read before he
became blind.
One kind of retentive memory may be
considered as the result of sheer work, de-
termination toward one particular achieve
ment without reference either to cultivation
or to memory on other subjects. This is
frequently shown by persons in human life
in regard to the Bible. An old beggarman
at Stirling, known 80 years ago as Blind
Alick," afforded an instance of this He
knew the whole of the Bible by heart, inso-
much that if sentence was read to him be
could name the book, chapter and verse; or
if the book, chapter and verse were named,
he could give the exact words.
A gentleman, to test him, repeated a
verse, purposely making one verbal in
accuracy. Alick hesitated, named the
place where the passage was to be found,
but at the same time pointed out the verbal
error. The same gentleman asked him to
repeat She ninetieth verse of the seventh
chapter of the Book of Numbers. Alick
almost instantly replied, ''There is no such
a verse. That chapter has only SO verses. %
Gassendi has acquired by heart 5000 Latin
ercise he was in the habit daily of reciting
900 verses from different languages.
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FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.

Hiss Kate DrexePs Plans for Helping the
Negro and the Indian-Odds and Ends
of Fashion-Fads and Foibles of the
Sex-Personsl Gossip.
1t is probable that Miss Kate Drexel,
daughter of the late Francis Dre1el, of
Philadelphia, will be a resident of Wash
ington during the greater part of next year.
1t will be remembered that Miss Drexel,
who inherited from her father a fortune o.
about $4,000, 000 took the veil in March,
1889, to become a nun. Her two years
novitiate will expire the coming March, and
it is then that she is expected to 60 to Wash
ington. Miss Drexel, or Sister Kathrina, is
the head of the Order of the Blessed Sacra-
ment, which she founded. She has pur-
chased 65 acres of ground at Andalusia,
near Philadelphia, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and there will erect the nome
the order, at a cost of $4,000 to S5O,O00
The building will be begun next spring
and cannot be completed before the fall
Miss DreIel proposes 10 live in Washing
ton while the work of construction is going
on. The special field to which she is direct
Ing her efforts is missionary work among
the Indians and negroes. One advantage
she will gain by her proposed temporary
residence in Washington is the opportunity
to inform herself thoroughly of the work of
the Catholic church among the above men,
toned races, through the Catholic Indian
Bureau located at Washington. The build
Ing which Miss Drexel will erect at
Andalusia will be an institution for
the education of missionaries for work
among the Indians and negroes, Miss
Drexel and her sister. Mrs MorrelI, con-
tributed the bulk of the money for the Catho-
lie Seminary at Baltimore for the same pur-
pose Miss Drexel has already spent at
least 5000. 600 for the work among the In.
dians Hereafter the larger part OF her con-
tributions Will probably be for the mission
Rry work among the negroes. Some time
ago Father J. A. Stephan, director of the
Catholic Indian Bureau, purchased 220
acres of land at Arundel station, &c miles
from Washington, saws the Post of that city,
and on this property Miss Drexel will build
q school for colored children. The building
will be put up next year. AT first, only
plain building for day school will be
erected. Afterward, the school may be en-
larged, and a more comprehensive plan
q iopted.
~
Here is the very latest thing to be seen on
the London streets, according to Pail Mall
Budget. Not much can be said for its
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beauty perhaps, but it has the much greater
merit of comic That goes for good deal
with the modern English maiden.
-
A very practical and much needed enter
prise has been recently started in Washing
ton by two ladies. 1t is a nursery where
mothers of every nation and rank are taught
how to feed and bathe their babies scien-
tifcally as well as sensibly, and how to put
their troublesome charges to sleep.
~
Upon one occasion when Mrs. Allen G.
Thurman's daughter, Miss Mary Thurman,
was a prominent figure in Washington So
ciety, says the St. Louis Post Dispatch,
where they were spending the winter, there
was some grand social function at the
Presidential Mansion at which the young
lady was eager to be present. She coaxed
and coaxed her mother in vain to accompany
her, and finding her obdurate ordered the
carriage, and taking some lady friend along
started of. She had not more than LETT the
house when Mrs Thurman repented her de-
cision, and ordered in great haste carriage
from a livery. None were to be had for
love or money suitable for her use. This
did not disconcert her, for she ordered any,
thing they had, and soon a sorry rattle trap
with coachmsn to match stood before her
door, which she entered and drove off to the
White House as we'll content as if seated
in her own elegant equlpage. So far all
went well. She arrived in safety, had
her coterie of friends about her and glimpsed
occasionally at her daughter, who won
dy red greatly at her mothers appearance
upon the scene. After a time everyone was
leaving, the portico was filled with guests,
Miss Mary Thurman among them, awaiting
the superb turnouts which stood in line out
side. ''Senator Thurman's carriage, %
shouted factotum at his post, and before
the family coachman could wheel in line,
the rattle-trap which had borne Mrs. Thur
man to the festive scene lurched forward,
and Mrs. Thurman, nothing daunted,
stepped in. The superannuated coachman,
proud of the honorable position which he at
that moment occupied, cracked his whip
with gusto; the horses sprang forward, and
10, the string which tied the old harness to-
gether in many places, burst asunder, and
there they were stranded, blocking the way
until the damage could be repaired. Miss
Mary was mortified beyond endurance. Mrs.
Thurman thought her discontinue a capital
joke, which she loved to tell in her own in
imitable style to her friends.
sTx
When Judge Thurman was nominated for
Vice President Mrs. Thurman was very
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much opposed to it. "Why can't they let
him alone and let him die in peace? He is
too old for any such nonsense" she ex-
claimed. When the race was over and he
was defeated she explained: "Oh, I've
changed my mind. wanted him to be
elected Vice President. and am very much
disappointed that he was not"
~
Henry Grady's "New South" meant to the
great orator far more than new industries
and rejuvenated commerce. 1t may never
come to pass that all his hopes are realized,
but that the South shall build up litera-
ture of its own is now no longer hope, but
truth. In this respect it is not necessary
to take into consideration the older writer's
Lafcadio Hern. master, if there ever was
, une; George W. Cable, Amelie Rives, who,
with all her faults, has singular and unde-
nable genius; Miss Murfree, Miss Seswell,
Thomas Nelson Page, the chronicler of the
negro, and Madison Cawein, the poet. Here
IRE seven writer's, each of whom has said
omething new in a new way; and in what
,ther manner is distinct literature made?
Following these, as vet less widely
known, but destined for celebrity, ac-