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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-03-26

boots, and shen accosted the Squire.
who was on the point Of starting.
esquire BroadlawEi'
"Eh!'
II am going to ride with you, to-
day"
tonished.
ooh, yes: Isuppose you know me,
don't your"
you're Tongs, amt your"
Nicholas, Tongs, Esquire. Yes, I
want to ask your advice about the
best kind OF stocks for me to invest
| in" ..
"You invest in stocks, Nick Tongs?
| Well, come, that's agood one! Stocks?
Why, should say laughing-stocks, by
! all MEANS" -... ~.
And the Squire drove off alone,
| needless OF the cry of Nicholas, to
stop, for he VAS going to ride with
! him."
~ shall have to ride with you, Mrs.
| Helpfort," now said Nicholas, turning
to the old woman. =
''No, you sha'n't Mister Nick. My
old CART would break down with SIGH
a load of conceit; and I'd as soon ride
| with old Nick as any of his sons"
And away rambled her aged nag,
leaving Nicholas Tongs to walk home
by himself. -. ,-...-
eff these people only knew what was
coming to me in less than a month";"
thought he. "But they shan't. I'll
keep it to myself, and let them show
themselves what they are. They'll
sing small enough, when they find am
what l am"
During the interval, the mysterious
actions OF the presumptiveh heir excited
curiosity to the highest pitch. He
went about asking the prices of great
estates, factories, houses, lands, YES
sells, and richest varieties of goods for
his personal use; and whether he re-
fused some as not being good enough,
or declared his intention soon to buy,
astonlshment was equal, and he was
thought in joke or demented; for none
imagined the real cause, or that he
was about to become millionaire.
"What an unreasonable world this
is!' unused he. ''The world don't like
pride, when they are under it's foot;
but they are proud enough, them
selves, when they can tread upon
humanity. I mean to keep up my
dignity. [ am proud; and l mean to
keep so, now-proud and dignified as
Lucifer, for the rest of my days..
But alas! for Nicholas longs. It'd
ings came to him, before the month
was out, that he was not the heir.
There had been a great mistake The
immense inheritance had been left to
somebody else; and now hefound that
he had been strutting about, and los
ing friends and jobs for nothing.
Not the heir, after all his prepara-
tions! Hew too full to speak about
it. His sudden downfall was as sud-
den as his pride. He Immediately
put on his old clothes, and STOPPING
gait again, lost all his dignity, declar-
ed that he had been out of his mind,
borrowed some lime and whitewash-
brushes, and went about restoring
walls and goodwill, while cursing the
dignity which had nearly starved him.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-03-26
A BURGLAR THE CLOCK,
How a Quick-Witted Woman Cap
tured an UnWelcome Visitor

HOW a Oulck-Wltted Woman Cap
tured an Unwelcome Visitor.
An amusing story is told Of an en-
counter which recently took place be-
tween Mrs. George Bittlemorgan of
Liberty, Va, and a burglar. Her hus-
band had been called away during
the evening and she WAS left in the
house alone with her two little chill
dren. Some errand called her upstairs
for few minutes, and while there she
fancied she heard slight noise in the
hall below, but, it ceasing in moment,
nothing more was thought of it. When
she returned to hersitting-room, how
ever, she soon noticed that the clock
had stopped running.
1t was an old-fashioned eighty-day
piece, nearly nine feet high and very
massive. Mrs. Bittlemorgan, think
ing it had run down and needed wind
ing, started toward it with the inten-
ton OF getting it going again, and had
nearly reached it when she saw q man
about to dart out of it, As he made
the movement, however, he brought
the clock down on it's face and upon
himself as well. In trying to get out
OF the way he tripped and fell over a
rug. .'. .
Before he could scramble from under
it's very considerable weight the quick
witted lady seated herself on the
clock, calling at the same time to the
children to run out of the house and
scream for help. This speedily came
and the man, who confessed to having
secreted himself in the clock for the
purpose of burglarizing the house, was
carried to jail aud Mrs. Bittlemorgan
much complimented on her bravery
and presence of mind ~
The advocate., 1891-12-09
WHO WANTS TO 60 TO THE CONVEN-
NION on RRRRnARY % 1922

TION OF FEBRUARY %, 1892
This convention will be held at st.
Louis, Mo. In all former gatherings
of this kind there has been more or
less difficulty about railroad rates.
This, we do not believe, is altogether
the fault Of the railroad companies.
Application for rates has been made
at too late a date, and those having
the matter in charge have been unable
to give the railroad companies any
accurate information as to the proba-
BILE number that desired to attend.
If application is made in time and
this information is given, we have no
doubt that arrangements can be made
that will be in every way satisfactory.
In order to be able to secure
rates we ask every man and
woman in Kansas who desires to go
toSt. Louis on the 22d of February to
send name and post Office address to
the Office of The ADVOCATE at Topeka,
Kansas. Members Of the reform press
who desire to go, are also asked to
send application to this Office in order
that the best possible arrangements
may be made for their transportation.
Let every one attend to this matter
Immediately and we apprehend no
trouble. Don't delay. Kansas re-
form papers please copy.
The advocate., 1891-12-09
LOOK BEFORE YOU CREDIT.

In the Topeka ADVOCATE we find headed
"Mixed AS Usual, the following: 1.-THE Alliance
at Indianapolis failed to endorse the reform
press. One step In the right direction" and
credits It to the Salina Union.
Now we don't want to accuse THE ADVOCATE
Of being "mixed as usual, for we always found
1t to be straight goods. But 1t certainly was q
little mixed In crediting the above to us, as it
was the Sallna Herald Demo.PeOple'S party
paper, that 1t appeared In, and not the Union.
Brother McLalln owes an apology or pistols
SGlinG UniOn
No pistols, please. How will you
have the apology served?
The advocate., 1891-12-09

If the next Congress does not pass an un'
limited free coinage Of silver bill, the money
question win be the top issue in next years
campaign. n.-AlmG NGlUs.
1t matters not whether free coinage
be adopted or not. The money ques-
tion will be the chief issue in any
event. In reality the question of free
coinage is about the least important
of the Peoples party demands. It's
adoption would not materially in
crease our currency, and this is the
all important question before the
people to day.
The advocate., 1891-12-09

HAVE the poor oppressed, debt-ridden farm
erS noticed that at the national convention at
Indianapolis the salary of Alliance President
Polk was raised from 5000 to $4,000? Have
they?-LyOnS Republican.
No, we think not. Nor has any
body else noticed it. We have noticed
that such vensl sheets as the Lyons
Republican are willing to lie about
this matter as they are about any
thing else pertaining to the Alliance
or the Peoples party. "The poor,
oppressed, debt-ridden farmers"
have discovered this fact also, and
that is what is the matter with the
pin headed editors of those papers.
The advocate., 1891-12-09
CORRECT FOR ONCE.

Speaking of the fact that the Peoples party
has established permanent headquarters in
Topeka, the Salina Republican says the expense
viii be kept up by the usual assessment on the
dOwn-trodden slaves OF agriculture.
This is undoubtedly correct On
the other hand, the Anglo-Americsn
money power, the trusts and the
combines, the corporations and
whiskey syndicstes, plutocrsts and
government officials, will furnish the
Doodle for Demo-Republican party.
Those in whose interests the parties
are working are expected to foot the
bills.
The advocate., 1891-12-09
WASHINGTON EDITORIAL CORRESPOND
VNnR


Thirty-seven years ago, at the opening
Of "the short session" of the thirty-thlrd
Congress, l was in the National House
of Representatives, and in the Senate,
when each Of these branches organized
on the first Monday of December, 1854.
That was an eventful day in the history
of my life, and it was q considerable of a
political gray mark, in that 1t presaged
the beginning Of the ending Of the reign
of slavery propaganda, and hence In a
marked degree, the dawning of period
when political dough-faces "would be at
discount, and when commercial dough
souls would be alike desplsed by those
whose interests they had been seeking to
serve in the eternization of human bon
dage and In the suppression Of free speech
and of free thought concerning what the
devout John Wesley denominated as the
sum OF all villainles."
The country in 1858, had given to it
as political legacy at the hands Of the
Thirty-third Congress, under the nation
al administration of Acting President
Millsrd Fillmore, the last Of the Whig
Mohicans, the famous compromise
measures of that memorable seml-cen-
tenial year.
In 1852, Franklin Pierce and Winfield
Scott were the respective standard bear
ers of two pro-slsvery political orgsniza-
tions known among men as the Demo
cratic and Whig parties of the United
States. In their party platforms, they
had resolved that the compromise meas
ures Of 1850 were finallty on all ques-
tions relating to the patrisrchsl lnstitu-
tion in our common country, they
pledged ready allegiance to them all,
especially to the fugative slave act Of
September Is, 1850, which they politely
designated as the rs-enactmento of the act
of Congress, of 1893, and they most
solemnly agreed tofrown upon ell slavery
agitation, whenever, wherever and how
ever made.
Chattel slavery was then the peculiar
institution of our Federal Republic and
1t had the completest sanction Of the two
The advocate., 1891-12-09

WHENEVER q man is found who be-
longs to the Alliance and who still
worships at the old party shines, he
is patted on the back and pointed out
as a level headed man. Let him
cease his ldolatry and he at once be-
comes a crank or an anarchist.
The advocate., 1891-12-09

The o-Republican press has
been recently publishing the report
Of Consul General Crawford of the
good effects of the sub-treasury plan
as adopted and carried out in Russia,
and yet they say it could only result
in disaster in this country. The poor
innocent souls don't seem to realize
that we have the sub treasury now in
actual operation in this country ALSO
The only trouble with it is that it is
limited to one commodity-silver. II
it is good thing in Russia, and a
good thing in the case Of silver in
this country, why not make the ex-
The advocate., 1891-12-09

THE absolute wealth Of the United States is
put at GS2,S 100000, or about $1,000 per capita,
as against $50 per capita in lsSO.-LeaUenCOrth
Times.
Aye, but who has it?
The advocate., 1891-12-09

vania, then In his vigorous prime was
the chief clerk, and his call Of the House
roll demonstrated his fitness as to power
and strength Of voice to magnify the
position that he held.
The Kansas Nebraska bill which was
approved by President Pierce on May 81,
1854, had given o finishing to the Wing
party Of the nation, and while at that
time the Wings had 80 per cent. of the
House and 81 per cent. Of the whole
Congress. They were never known in
Congressional politics after the termina-
tion Of the Thirty-third Congress.
Now, in this Fifty-second Congress,
the Republicans have 25 per cent. Of the
House and S2 per cent. Of the whole Con-
gress; while in the Fifty-tlrst Congress,
by dint of the Reed rulings, they so sue
ceeded In contested cases as to have
about So per cent Of the House.
The Republican strength In the House
in the Fifty. second Congress Is so dis
tributed that there are 18 from Pennsyl-
vania, though there may be some less
after certain contest cases are decided
eleven from New York, seven from Ohio,
six from Illinois, five from each of the
states Of Iowa and Massachusetts,, four
each from California, Maine and Mlchi-
gan, two each from Indiana, Kansas,
New Jersey, South Dakota, Tennessee
and Vermont, and one each from Colora-
do, Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky, Min
nesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Caro-
lima, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin
and Wyoming.
Leaving the solid sonth altogether out
OF the covnt In this House of Repres-
entatives, the Republicans have in the
other % states to be named as the North"
in contradistinctlon TO the solid south-4
out OF 211 Representatives or about 40
per cent. OF the number. At no time in
the history Of the Republican party Of
the nation, has 1t had anything like such
scanty showing In the popular branch
Of the National Legislature, as like that
which IL reveals In this Fifty-second
Congress. The members are so few In
this body Of 132, that they really almost
seem not TO be ain It" at all.
When the Republicans were defeated
on their candidates for Speaker of the
House in 1876, 1877, 1879, 1888, 1885 and
1887, they were at those times "a very
respectable minority" in the House, but
In all good conscience, are they not but
the meagerest kind Of a meager element
In this Fifty-second Congress?
In the Thirty third Congress, the United
States Senators, who were out of the
pole Of the Democratic and Wing parties,
were Salmon P. Chase Of Ohio, Charles
Sumner Of Massachusetts; the Represen-
tatlveS were Alexander De Witt OF
Massachusetts, Joshua r. GlddlDgs and
Edward Wade Of Ohio, and Garritt
Smith Of New York-six Congressman
in all.
In this Fifty-second Congress are
eleven Congressman who are neither
Democrats nor Republicans, and the
United States Senators of this class are
MessrS. Kyle Of South Dakota, and
PETER Of Kansas.
The nine Representatives of this class
The advocate., 1891-12-09

Church and state had then most
fully Joined hand In hand In an agree
ment most sacred and solemn-ln the
language Of Lord Brougham, to that wild
and guilty phantasy that man could hold
property In man.
There was in 1859, In the great Ameri-
can union, 31-states, having in the sggre-
gate, 296 electoral votes.
There was then ON the Golden gate OF
the Pacific the new state of California
with four electoral votes, and there was
as the western most states In the valley
of the Mississippi, Wisconsin, with five
presidential electors, Iowa with four,
Missouri, with nine; Arkansas and Texas,
each with four; Ohio then had its present
number, 90, but Indiana had 13; Illinois
II and Michigan six. The lower states
in the valley Of the Mississippi Ken
tuckey and Tennessee, each had 12;
Alabama, nine; Mississippi seven; Lou
lsana, six. '"
The fourteen states then In the Missls-
slppi valley, had 1876 electors; forty years
later the 10 states in this valley will have
22S electors, which will be more than the
united strength Of the 25 states in the
Atlantic and Pacific group II In the
former and eight In the latter named
group.
In the Presidential election Of 1852,
General Pierce carried 81 states with 254
electors, General Scott had four states
wlth42 electors. Pierce lacked 14,99S votes
of having a majority Of the popular vote
in Ohio; 26S in Connecticut and 81 in
Delaware.
Scott lacked 19,OO9 votes of having a
majority Of the popular vote in Massachu-
sets; he had 508 majority in Vermont;
1880 In Tennessee and 2,997 in Kentucky.
And yet the Whig party had in the
Thirty-thlrd Congress in the House OF
Representatives, larger per cent. Of the
members, who were elected In the Presi-
dental year of 1862, than the Republl-
cans have In this Flfty-second Congress.
Nevertheless one of the Republican
quid nuncs at the National hotel in this
city yesterday in giving his political
horoscope for 1892, coOlly remarked, "the
Democrats have no possible show In the
Presidential election of 1892, should they
fail to carry New York, while the Repub-
llcans can succeed next year, aotthoH the
state Of NeuO York."
But to return to the opening Of the
short session of the Thirty third Congress
in December, 1854. / had left Lawrence
Dlstrlct-now county In South Carolina,
where Senator Irby was born In that
year, the successor to the renowned
Wade Hampton, who takes his seat on
Monday next, and at Klngsville, South
on their way to take their seats
in Congress. l remember meeting Felix
K. Zollicofer, Of Tennessee, Theodore
Hunt and John Perkins, of Louisiana;
Otto R. Singleton, of Mississippi; Will
hanson r. W. Cobb and George 8. HouS-
ton, Alabama; Alfred H. Colquitt, Of
Georgia; Senator Andrew Plckens Butler
Of South Carolina; Burton Craige, Of
North Carolina, and when reaching into
The state Of Virginia, Senator Robert M.
T. Hunter and Representatives John s. |
Caskie, Fayette McMullen and others
The advocate., 1891-12-09

pertinent OF the extension Of it's priv
iliges TO other commodities Of greater
value than silver? If it don't work
well, we can very easily abandon il.
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practical kitchen processes.
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Porse Department.
THE MORGAN REGISTER,

A Register intended to include all stations of
merit that trace in direct male line to Justin
Morgan and having mt least one sixty fourth
OF his blood. All such stations toaled i'm or
before 1880 are admitted free. A fee of one
dollar is charged tor registering each stallion
Joaled since 1850, and tor each mare whenever
foaled.
Any animal in either of the following two
classes is eligible to registry in the Morgan
Register:
|. Any meritorious stallion or mare that
traces in direct male line to the original JUS
tin Morgan Horse, and has ut least one sixty
fourth OF his blood.
2. The produce of IA sire and dam both
registered in the Morgan Register
The first volume, the final sheets of which
are now being revised TOR the press,
will contain about four thousand pedigrees,
carefully compiled from original sources, a
sketch OF the origin and history of the great
Morgan family, and much other new and orig
inal matter. The book will be illustrated with
portraits of Morgan horses, and handsomely
and substantially bound. The price is not yet
fixed, put will be rs low as can be afforded, so
That the work may be widely distributed
Ine work has been done throughout on the
plan of first eXhausting all practicable means
OF getting ana verifying Information, discrim-
mating rigtdly between what is known and
what is unknown, and setting down nothing
as ascertained which is in doubt. Sources of
Information will be given in each pedigree so
Inat every reader can verify the work for
himself. Full descriptions OF the animals reg
1stered will be given, and tables showing the
merits or the Morgans, rs compared with 9th
er families, tor both speed and endurance on
the track, will be appended. Entries will be
received tor II short time further, and blanks
furnished on application. Address
JOSEPH BATTELL,
Middlpburv VI
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than the numerous schools
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tration Of this old saying
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nowadays devoted to
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These schools have been
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of which is SO generally
condemned. This want has
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MERIT WINS.

We desire to say to our citizens that
for years we have been selling DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption. DR..
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have
never handled remedies that sell as well,
or that have given such universal salts
faction. We do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time, and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price, if satisfactory
results do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popularity
purely on their merits. w. II. Sheldon,
druggist.
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EARLY TENNESSEE TURF HISTORY.
BY ALBION IN THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.

Imported Medley, the sire of Grey
Medley, was bred by Mr.. Medley of
Yorkshire, England. He was foaled in
l776, and was by Gimcrack, out of Ar
minda, by Snap; second dam Miss Cleve-
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alert to find a reasonable
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Progress and
Cookery.
THE World M owes"

There is no better illus
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15

q right to all that a lover would
give, to the consideration of brother and
certain amount Of paternal care. I am not in
clined to excuse women, for think that while
men may commit all the sins of the Decalogue,
woman can nag man into q fury that could
not be surpassed by raging lion. l think,
too, if women were more wives and less moth
ers marriage wouldn't so often be failure.
Now, don't mistake me about this, for am
devout believer in babies, and don't think
that married woman has any right to shirk
either the Joys or pains of motherhood; but
too often the interest of the babies are thought
of first; the husband is neglected, Or at most,
counted as a necessary evil. Women are un-
doubtedly creatures of habit, and once they
drift into that dangerous sea of thoughtlessness
they are very apt to let the little bark marked
husband drift away, and very often it cannot
be lured back"
sYes,'' said the man, ga long time ago
clever somebody-a Frenchwoman-said that
when passion and habit lie in company too
long habit wakens up to find that its compan-
ion has fed. Personally think that the aver
age woman sees too much of her husband; next
that she doesn't have sufficient number of
outside things to interest him. She can't under
stand this, for she knows that he found her in
teresting before she was married, and she don't
realize that being away from the people he is
among, reading books and seeing plays, he
doesn't see will give her no end of bright topics,
and will make her talk well and Interestingly to
him. For my own part, as a man, l believe
that i agree with Disraeli, who said that the
perfect friendship between man and woman
consisted in their going in different sets, meet
ing at 12 O'Clock over a bit of supper, and
discussing all they had seen as a solution of the
secret of marriage"
WHY SOME MEN DON'T MARRY.
"One reason why men don't marry especially
in large cities, is because a bachelor with a
moderate income can enjoy the theatres, the
races, the little suppers and dinners, his clubs,
his purple and fine linen, and the society OF
women. Married, that income would have to
be divided by two, and within six months mar
riage would be a failure" That was another
mans opinion. For myself, just gasped
They all knew 60 much. thought little about
love; 1 thought little about Verona and
Romeo and Juliet, and then it dawned on me
that If the ardent Romeo had welded his be-
loved one, perhaps their marriage might have
been a success, because house rents were not
high in the old Italian town; people didn't wear
the same expensive lingerie that they do nova
days. Romeo probably didn't require the best
| brandy, and Juliet wouldn't have wanted
! Worth to have made her frocks. We like tc
read, write, and talk about the ennobling In
huence Of poverty. 1t may be ennobling when
you go around with basket begging, or when
you sell lead-pencils on the street; but defy
anybody to prove that genteel poverty is desir
| able.
WIDOWS
! But to return to matrimony-Which a great