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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-10

Congressman Springer is making very
active campaign for speaker, but that is
about all that can be said about him in con-
nectIon with the speakership. He hasn't a
ghost Of a chance of being speaker. A
well-known member of congress says that
Springer, Bynum, Hatch and MoMillin are
candidates for speaker for advertising pur-
poses As it now looks the contest is wholly
between Crisp and Mills, with Crisp much
in the lead. Mills friends are claiming
everything for him, but that is to be ex>
pected. 1t would not be at all surprising if
Crisp should be nominated on the first bal
lot. The whole south is for him, and he has
many supporters in the west and east. II
Mills had cooler head in moments Of ex-
element, he would stand better chance.
But all the old members know that Crisp
would make much the safer speaker.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-10

Why will you suffer from indigestion and
dyspepsiaa simmons Liver Regulator is
pleasant and cures.-Ad.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-10

1t looks as if nearly all OF the palmettos
planted in the squares last june would live.
II they do the squares will present a very
handsome appearance within few years,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-10
ITS ACCOUNTS ALL RIGHT.

The Maverick had very large business,
its outward mali averaging from 600 TO 800
letters per day, but everything is found
thus far to have been systematically con-
Quoted, and all the accounts balance upon
the books. The only difference thus far
announced, is inadequate collateral behind
loans to directors. There was no blanket
Endorsement on file as has been stated All
the notes of Endorsements were properly
and regularly made within the letter of the
law. The controller promises a prompt
and satisfactory dividend. The receiver
has authority under the banking law to re-
turn all special deposits, which Is presumed
to include deposits of securities within the
safe for safe keeping by parties not indebted
to failed institutions
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-10
MAVERICK BANK LOSSES.
Insufneieat Collateral for Loans t
~ Directors.

BosToN, Nov. 9.-Receiver Beal has is
Maverick National Bank Oh Oct. 81. Its
resources were $9,6S7, 846, including time
loans, S3,749, $50; demand loans, SO, 416,617
bond accounts, S722, TAI. Its liabilities were
the same as its resources, including capital,
$500, 600; surplus fund. $500, 900; profit and
loss, $ll0,7 deposits, s2,951, 992; due
banks and ankers. 5000, 706. To-day's
statement is gratifying in that it shows
less than So 100000 of individual deposits
at the time of thefailure.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-10

Publisher Munro thinks his boat, Minerva.
is the fastest steam craft in the world. On
Saturday she ran mile with the tide in
2:12H, and against the tide 10 1895 She
broke the spring on her safety valve, how
ever. She couldn't carry 200 pounds Of
steam very long. She is a plsything OF a
rich man rather than a serviceable vessel.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-10

The man who started the rumor in Wash
ington, Saturday, that the United States
cruiser Baltimore had been sunk in the har-
Dor at Valparaiso by Chilean torpedo was
evidently anxious to create sensation.
Fortunately it had no foundation. There
ought, however. to be some way to punish
those who start such rumors. Rumors of
that sort are the basis Of talk WHICH tends to
strengthen the ill-feeling between this coun .
try and Chile. Neither this country nor
Chile wants war. A war between the two
countries would cause great loss of life
and property and would do neither country
any good. Chile must make reparation for
the outrage on the Baltimore's sailors and
the insult to the American flag. and that
she will undoubtedly do without resort to
hostilities.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-10

A London correspondent of the Sun says
that the shadow of scandal which has rested
on the Austrian throne ever since the sui
eide of Crown Prince Rudolph grows
deeper. The empress has become the victim
Of chronic melancholia, and the specter Of
insanity hovers over the beautiful palace
which she hos built for herself in the lonely
corner of the Greek island Of Corfu, and she
ohstinately refuses to return to Vienna
Emperor FRANCIS Joseph performs his daily
work and is seen at times by the world, but
he is one of the loneliest men In Europe. A
crown does not bring happiness. Neither
does wealth nor fame. A man who has
enough Of this worlds goods to keep him
out Of the poor house, and also cantented
mind. is more to be envied than the owner
of millions of money or the ruler of great
nation.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
A Few Hints About Oil Lamps.

The tank or reservoir, for holding
the oil should be of m fetal rather than
china or glass Wicks sh ould be drv,
be just long enough to reach to the
bottom of the reservoir, and be softly
woven. They should be just wide
enough to easily fill the wickholder.
without being pulled or squeezed in.
1t is necessary, too, that they be
soaked with oil just before using the
lamp. When the lamp is lit the wick
should be at first turned down and
then slowly raised, as it burns One
great essential to avoid all odors from
lamp is to have it thoroughly clean
and all charred wick and dust removed
before lighting. In putting out a
lamp. where it has no extinguishing
appliances, the wick should be turned
down and sharp puff blown across
the top of the chimney, but not down
on it. A little systematic care in the
use OF lamp will bring. instead of
discomfort, a warm, cheering atmos-
phere to the home. New York Led ger.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
The CitY Horse.

A horse has great deal to learn
before he becomes a good and valuable
citizen OF New York, says the Sun.
He has more to learn now than ever
before. During the war he had to
learn to hearken quietly to martial
music, and he had to get used to lines
OF shouting fremen and rafting
engines. He mustn't mind the engines
now; but the drums and flies and red
coated laddiess are no longer within his
ken. Instead OF these, however, he
has first to get accustomed to the stone
pavenents and to the noise; then he
must learn about the street cars, and
and the elevated railroads, and the
electric lights which swing above his
head and flash out, turning pitch
darkness into almost daylight; he
must learn not to mind the electric
cars and the cable cars that creep up
without any visible means of propul-
sion; and above, yet below all, he
mustn't mind walking up TO ind
through huge columns of white steam,
rising everywhere about the city
streets. When one thinks that the
horse Is naturally timorous, the value
OF city horses training becomes ap-
parent
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08

satlsfy their appetite for curiosities.
NOT merely do dealers hold considera-
pie stocks of these notes. but nearly
every private individual has one or
more OF them just for fun.
AS for the gain of the government
on Its notes of larger denomin ations
through their loss or destruction, the
treasury is only able to make guess,
estimating it at considerably less than
one per cent. While the discounting
OF paper currency by paying proper
tlonately fractions of bills was legal
the treasury cleared $350.000 through
the industry. A good deal OF money
IN paper is boarded every year by per-
sons who die without revealing it's
whereabouts, and much of it is never
found. Sums in this shape are often
dug up on the persons of corpses ex-
humed for other purposes. Only the
other day the body OF a murdered man
was discovered near an Ohio town,
with a pocket-book filled with green
BACKS The latter were sent to the
treasury here for redemption.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
The Zulu Javelin.

The Javelin used by the Zulus, CAT
frs, and almost all the tribes of equa-
torial Africa, as we'll as by the aborig-
ines of Australia, New Zealand, and
the Malay peninsula, is made of a
shaft or handle OF some light reed Or
bamboo, five to seven feet long. with a
head of iron, into the socket OF which
the shaft fits. The pointed head is.
either triangular, hollow grooved, or
fiat, those of the Africon natives being
somewhat after the pattern of the
lances used by our whalemen. The
Persian and Indian javelins are some
what longer than the African. as are:
also those in use by Australian war
riors. They are extremely light and
those of African make which l have
handled were not weighted at the but
for balancing purposes. A war; :
can carry as large d supply of javelins
us Of arrows, while the rapidity with
which they can be used exceeds the,
bow and arrow just by the amount IF
time it takes to fit the arrow to the
bow-string, and moreover the javeiin,
can be thrown while the body is in.
full motion of running speed, while
the archer must stop to take his aim,
and fire.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
What the Cow-Catcher Is For.

She was one of those innocently
Ignorant young women who seem to,
have just emerged from a celestial
chrysalis and who possess no knowl-
edge of the names and uses of the
commonest objects of this workaday
world. Accompanied by patient and
evidently admlring young gentleman,
she was coming to the city on one of
the many of suburban trains that run
between the city proper and its outly-
ing portions. She seemed to be a
stranger to the city. the railways, TO-
everything, in fact, except the young
man at her side, whom she piled with
questions at an Industrious rate. The
car in which she was seated stopped
opposite train from which hundreds
OF large cans were being taken. OF
course she had never seen anything of
the kind and must learn all about it.
A milk train was something new to
her. just then her car reached point
opposite the locomotive of the milk
train. "And what is that part of the
engine called that projects farthest
forward?'' she asked. On being in
formed that it is the COW catcher a
great light seemed to dawn upon her
MIND. 'Oh! Now I understand it all
very clearly" said She give always.
wondered why they called it the cow
catcher, but I see now that it catches
the COWS and from them the men on,
the milk train get all those cans o.
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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
An Adventurous Bush.

There was noticed one summer in
Concord, N. H.. an odd appearance in
the topmost branches of a tree be-
lieved to be one hundred and TWENTY
five years old, and the observers could
hardly believe their eyes. But when
an adventurous marine climbed up the
old giant he found that the sight had
not been deceived. A currant bush
was growing contentedly up there, and
clusters OF ripe fruit were hanging
from the stems as # it were the ma
tural thing for currant bushes to grow
in the tops Of century-old trees. It's
supposed that earth collected. by the
winds OF years, In the little clefts, and
that the seeds of the currant had been
brought by birds, to find their home
in the gathered soil. Wide Awake.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

1t has been suggested that a way of
living so as to change the color of the
hair may be discovered by a study of
the influence Of food and habit among
people of different nationalities.
A number of doctors have been sent
by the Russian government to Asia
Minor to test the treatment of cholera
by 'feruba sambul" an herb of Turk
estan, which possesses anti-spasmodic
properties.
DIR. G. M. Cresson claims to have
found typhoid bacilli in celery grown
near Philadelphia; and Mr.. G. A. Alb
bolt has recorded observations on
bacteria found in the interior of large
hailstones that fell on April 26, 1890.
A medical student of Havana has
experimental with various forms of
phosphorus for patients suffering from
fracture. He finds that it's use makes
union quicker and firmer, the best re-
suits having been noticed in patients
who took from an eighth to a quarter
OF grain OF phosphlde OF zinc daily.
Slight variations in the latitude of
places have been observed and a cause
has been pointed out by M. R. Radau,
to the Paris Academy of Sciences. The
movements of the sea, as we'll as
certain meteorological phenomena,
may produce small deviation of the
earth's axis, calculation showing that
a mass of water 500 cubic miles in
size could produce an effect large
enough TO be observed.
Compressed carbonic acid gas is
now used on shipboard for freezing
meat, brine being cooled by the ex-
banding gas and circulated in pipes.
On a steamer which carried $4,000
carcasses of mutton to Liverpool from
South America, the meat was kept in
excellent condition, with a saving of
four-fifths of the former coal con-
sumption for working refrigerating
machiner
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
"BAB'S" IDEA.
The sect There" Determination Of Some Lmeri-
r. can Women.

The sect There Determination of Some Amerf-
can Women.
For my own part, I don't consider
the American woman the creature Of
the future. l regard her as the in.
dividual of the present She is healthy.
wealthy and wise-enough. We don't
want her to know too much, the
nation objects to it. We like her just
as she is, without one plea in favor of
dress reform or physical culture, and
we grow extravagantly proud Of her
when we see her contrasted with other
women. She may be a bit like the
lily OF the field, toiling not nor spin
ming, but when she is, it is because
the American man considers it his
greatest pleasure to have lily in his,
establishment and admire it. And,
when She does toll she does it in about
half the time that it would take a.
Frenchwoman, and if it is a question
OF money making, can do more in one,
day than the average Englishwoman.
could in year. l don't believe in her
having to make money. 1 belong to
the association that believes in the
cuddling-up-clo to- an-apd-being~
taken-care-of, but my heart does beat
bit quicker when I think how an
American woman can do it if she
wants to. She has a lovely determin-
alton to ''get there" and she arrives
on time. It is simply and absolutely
blissfully beautiful. That sounds ex-
aggerated to man, and I don't know
whether those are adjectives or ad-
verbs, but they express what mean,
and therefore do their duty in life
'Bab' in Terre Haute Express.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
AN AMERICAN PRIN
The Wife Of Croesus Who Delights in Works
of Mercy and Love.


Modesty in persons Of great station
(Which in this country, means persons
OF great wealthy is a pretty sure indi-
cation that they were born in the
purple. The French raoblesse oblige is
a superior and splendid rule of life,
and the practice of it pre-supposes
higher nobility than kings can create.
Somebody who seems to speak by the
card tells us that Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller (wife of the Standard Oil
king, whose fortune exceeds humid
red million dollars, and who will
probably soon be the wealthiest man
IN America) is a modest, quiet, unas-
Stunning woman, devoted to her family
and home. We are likewise told that
she has no taste for the society pace.
The Rockefellers live in New York
City, opposite large hospital, and
the inmates OF that place, where so
much pain, misery and sorrow are
daily seen, know Mrs. Rockefeller
better than the habitues OF Fifth
avenue. Two or three times week
she visits the hospital. carries flowers
and delicacies there for the poor and
sick, and in other ways tries to bring
sunshine into the lives Of the unfor-
Inmates. She gives away great deal
OF money and is always trying to do
good. Her home is not very pre-
tentious. Mrs. Rockefeller's two
daughters employ the services of one
maid These daughters have been
brought up in the good old-tashioned
way ana have been taught to wait
upon themselves. There are no
powdered flunkies at the door; a
white-capped maid takes the visitors
card, and Mrs. Rockefeller, if she
cares to see the caller, very soon
appears in her reception room. She
is her own housekeeper and keeps a
set OF books, In which every cent is
accounted for. 1t is said she can turn
back ten years and tell the exact
amount of money spent in any week
OF the year. Her eldest daughter is
now the wife of Rev. Charles Strong,
son of the president of the Utica theo-
logical seminary. The three daugh-
tiers were educated at Vassar, and the
eldest one, instead of spending her
allowance for luxuriously furnished
rooms and rich gowns, paid for two
years the college bill of a pretty girl
from the country, who was working
her way through school. 1t is a model
American home; there are prayers in
the morning and In the evening, and
gather round the organ in the back
parlor and together sing a hymn or
two. Mrs. Rockefeller is perhaps As
years of age.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
The Carpenters Song.

My lot grew lighter day by day,
The children grew apace;
I built little house last May
No palace like that place.
And-'Father," said she, "sure you kno
That once we ate dry bread!
Into our own house now we gor' :
The mother-she is dead!
Her house the undertaken made,
And not the carpenter;
My grace unsaid, the pastor prayed
In loud tones over her.
The day that's spent in merriment,
Mid blossoms blue and red,
No music lent-my heart was rent!
The mother-she is dead!
We pulled together many year;
Like old bird-mates were we;
But who e'er thinks Of dying here
While both together be2
Fast barred is every window-blind-
care not what Is said;
Yes, sell the house! do not mind
The mother-she is deadl
Carmen Sylvia.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
Music, Heavenly Maid.

Mr.. Gamer (of Chicago)-"Are you
fond of Music. Miss Tremello?"
Miss Tremello (of BOSTON," Music,
Mr.. Gamer? Could any cultivated,
consciousness possessed of delicate sus.
capabilities help being devoted to sc
divine an artp MusicP Music is my
passion"
Mr.. Canner-'I am so glad. May
| have the pleasure Of your company
this evening to the minstrelsp" New
York Weekly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
her Hickory Switch Male a Man Of Him

Twenty years or more ago Mrs.
John M. Crowell, then Miss Grant,
was the teacher Of a country school
near Yellow Springs, Ohio, says the
Atchison Globe. Among her pupils
was an orphan boy whom the prin-
clral farmer OF the district had found
In Illinois and taken to raise. The
boy was capable and bright, but he
lacked application, and on that account
was never prepared in his lessons.
Miss Grant complained of the bows
shortcoming to his adopted father,
and was advised to wear a hickory
CAD out upon him.
She hesitated, for the boy was big
and strong, although good natured.
But the father insisted, and, after
warning the boy several times, she
one day used the hickory upon him in
the presence OF the entire school. II
BUNDLED the lad, and it was feared
that he would run away that night
lie was accordingly watched. But
n~tead OF running away he took !,
s.ndle and went to his room. wber.
the light was seen to burn the greater
part of the night. The next day the
boy was in his place in school as
usual, and throughout the day he was
perfect in his lessons. The reforma-
ton was complete, and the orphan
became famous in the district.
Miss Grant came West and married
Mr.. Crowell. A few years ago, while
MIR. Crowell was still in the service Of
the Post Office Department, he was
riding over the Fort Scott and Wichita
road. The conductor was new to the
business and was averse to recognizing
Mr.. Crowell's credentials. But the
president OF the road happened to be
In his car, attached to the rear of the
train. and the credentials were re.
ferred to him. Pretty soon the pres.
ident appeared in person, and led Mr..
Crowell back into his car.
Your wife, sir, made me presiden,
OF this roae," he said. III il had NOT
been for a whipping she once gave
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08
THE BOLD BLACKSNAKE.
HE is SAID TO BE A FIGHTER
IN HIS WAY.
While the Rattlesnake Is Venomous He Is
Cowardly, and when Seen Can Easily Be
AvOided-.The Blacksnake Will
Boldly Attack Foe.

Ask any of the farmers or hunters
hereabouts VIII ether they are afraid of
rattlesnakes and they will answer
promptly that they don't mind them
very much, writes a Pennsylvania
correspondent. Ask them if they fear
blacksnalSes, and they will say yes
without the slightest hesitation. This
fear of blacksnakes has come down to
most Of them from their parents with
a story that none Of them is ever tired
Of telling. They all declare that it is
true, and it is so well known and is
told with so much solemnity and evil
dent fear by the natives that it is hard
to disbelieve it. The story runs like
this:
Many years ago a well-to-do farmer
lived with his family near the barren
land verging on Pike County. His
wife was city bred and unusued to
many of the hardships that are part
OF the farming womans life. She was
strong and hardy, however, with
plenty of nerve and grit enough to
make the best of things. One day,
while her husband was working in a
clearing a good distance from the
house, she went down to the spring,
FOR pail of water. AS she stopped
over to fill the pail blacksnake. that
had been lying coiled near the spring,
jumped at her. She screamed and
jumped back, but the snake had buried
its fangs in her dress, and before she
could recover herself sufficiently to
shake him off he had wound himself
about her so tightly as to prevent her
from walking. Then he began slowly
to crawl upward. The poor woman
struck at the snake with her hands.
They were badly bitten, but she was
SO overcome with fright that she did
not mind this, and kept on striking at
him. The serpent kept crawling up
until his coils were about her breast
She tried to tear him loose, but she
was not strong enough. She became
nearly paralyzed by terror. The
snake finally coiled himself around her
neck and choked her. She started
toward the house, but she had only
gone short distance whom she fell.
In the evening she was found by her
husband lying dead. with the snake
still coiled about her neck
This story, with the well-known fact
that h blacksnake is ever ready and
willing to fight anything that lives,
makes the native afraid of him, and
the man who kills a blacksnake is
thought to have won a greater battle
than the slayer of a dozen rattle
snakes.
You can't brighten a blacksnake,"
said one old hunter, land the more you
try to the more he amt frightened.
A rattlesnake is coward, and will
run ii you give him half a chance. If
he doesn't get the chance he will rattle
in fear and then strike in desperation.
4 rattlesnake's bite is not nearly so
:ngerous as many people suppose.
III. that you have to do to render the
wound harmless is to cut it as deep as
the fangs went, and then 90 TO the
nearest brook and wash it thoroughly.
A common poultice will soon heal the
wound made by your knife. But if a
big blacksnake tackles you, and you
give him a chance to get one coil about
your body. why. then, look out, for it
is your life or his
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08

not have anything to do with these old.
squaw dances and few young girls are
ever seen in the circle. They prefer,
to be courted by the young warriors,
who stand like sentinels in the back
ground away from the offensive fumes
of the kettle
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08

mo I would De now q plodder on the
farm"
1t was Francis Herman, rich and
famous, all from the school teachers
discipline. Mr.. Herman soon after
called in his special car at Atchison
with his wife to see Mrs. Crowell. He
is now millionaire and is uilding a
railroad from Salt Lake City to Los
Angeles III