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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
TOLD BY AN ITlNERANT.
Queer Incidents IN the Life Of a Trav-
...s cling Preacher.

Queer Incidents IL the Life OF Trav-
9&s cling Preacher.
Upon one occasion the young man
with an elderly preacher was conduct
ing q revival in room of q private
house adjoining the kitchen, wherethe
busy housewife did not cease during
the services from the labor of max
ing buckwheats. During the sermon
by the old gentleman she could be
heard to exclaim, as shs turned over
nicely Drowned cake, "Glory to Cod"
But she kept on turning over the
buckwheats. When she was ready
with her meal after the sermon, she
opened the door and without cere-
mony shouted, Young man, talk to
the mourners while old Brother
eats
ION returning to the conference in
1856 to stand his examination, q
peculiar scene occurred. One of the
probationers was given the following
sentence from Milton to parse:
Satan, than whom mono higher
ever sat- The candidate was dumb.
founded, and said: The Lord has for
some time enabled me to rise above
Satan; but now, for once, he is over
and above me- He passed. Il
after many experiences, the now
full-hedged preacher was sent to Penn
sylvania, where the following incident
occurred: An old man but recently
converted carried his family and the
preacher in his carriage to church one
Sunday night. The roads were covered
with snow and very slippery. AS they
were returning, they reached the slope
Of a hill with winding road. At once
the carriage began sliding towards the
side OF the road beneath which was q
mountain current. All got out. The
horses were unhitched. The old man
entered the carriage for some purpose,
when down the hill it went with it's
occupant. Fortunately, he was not
hurt, but when he was reached BY the
preacher, he said If I hadn't got re-
ligion. how I'd cuss!' Bal gilmore
American.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
A WELCOME GUEST,

Z q
When baby comes! The earth will smile,
And with her spring-time arts, beguile
The sleepy blossoms from their rest,
And truant song birds to their nest,
To greet my guest.
When baby comes! Now fades from mind
All thoughts of SELF The world grows
kind
Old wounds are healed, old wrongs forgot,
Sorrow and pain remembered not;
Life holds no blot.
When baby comes! Methinks see
The winsome face that is to be.
And old.time doubts and haunting fears,
Are lost in dreams of happier years
Smiles follow tears.
When baby comes! God make me good,
And rich in grace of motherhood.
Make white this woman soul OF mine,
And meet for this great gift Of Thine, .,
In that glad time. ~.
Ladies' Home Journal
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
A Mountain OF Diamonds.

A very complete, and doubtless an
eye-opening diamond exhibit, will be
made at the Worlds Fair by Cape
Colony, South Africa. The exhibit
will include 10000 carats OF uncut
stones, a large quantity OF very fine cut
and polished ones, together with all
that is necessary to show the process
Of mining and washing. For this it
will be necessary to transport to
Chicago 100 tons OF pulverized blue
earth, fifty tons of unpulverized earth
and a complete washing machine,
which will be operated by natives.
The exhibit will also include unique
collection OF crocidolite, special
diamondiferous products, ostrich
feathers, feeces, etc. 1t is reported
that Bushman and Hottentot in
native dress will accompany the ex-
hibit-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
Unexpected Thanks.

A correspondent sends The Youths
Companion ''true story" of street.
car politeness, and we publish it with
much pleasure.
An electric" was passing down q
suburban thoroughfare, when it was
hailed by an old woman evidently
from the country. The car stopped,
and after much bustling and putting
the woman got in, at the same time
asking the conductor to please take
her to a certain street.
By a circuitous route the car soon
reached the street she had asked for.
and the conductor gruff1y announced
the fact. Overcome with JOY to find
herself at her destination, she squeezed
out, saying to the conductor as she
passed him, her face beaming with
gratitude:
II thankee very much, sir. I'm
very much obleeged to ye. I hope ye
didn't have to go fur out of yer way
to get me here
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
THERE WERE PREJUDlcEs.
I Nine Host Kindly counsels With a
t4ssz 95fz NEWLY Arrival G,Ioot.s

NINE host Kindly counseIs With
Newly Arrived Guest.
The young man from New York had
arrived in the western town about
4 o. clock in the afternoon and taken
experiments at the hotel, says the
Detroit Free Press. Just before
supper-pardon tho anachronism
dinner-just before dinner he came
down into the office, arrayed in the
latest, topped of with silk hat and
tapered with patent feathers.
The landlord restrained himself
with an effort when the dude appeared.
Excuse, me mister" he said,
twitching his fingers nervously, "do
you expect to wear that around
this town."
Wear what?" inquired the guest
in surprise.
''That hat" and the landlord
nodded toward it.
though / would
"And that hard-boiled shirt?',
~ thought So"
"And them clo's?''
eyes"
eyes"
The guest was gazing at the land
lord in innocent amazement, and the
landlord was trying to keep his
Adams apple from popping out and
falling on the floor.
Didn't you come out here as
hrst-class passenger" he finally got
his voice into shape for inquiring.
Certainly I did. I don't look like
l rode IN astock car or walked, do II"
The landlord struggled with him
self some more.
'Do you expect to 90 back the
same way?" ....
II certainly do"
swell, mister" the landlord bv
this time had overcome his natural
instincts, and had laid his hand
kindly on the shoulder of his guest,
'you won't do it if you wear them
clos around this town, you won't
by gum"
"And why not?" asked the bewild-
cred easterner.
Because you'll go home as freight,
and you'll be ready to be shipped on
the. fust train tomorrow. Our
people have got some prejudices that's
bound to be respected, er there'll be
shootin' shore"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
An Archblshop's swear.

What is an Archbishop's swear9
This curious piece ofinformationcame
out by accident the other night dur
ing one OF DR.. Benson's speeches in
Whitechapel. He was speaking with
out notes, and at one particular pas
sage waved Indignantly eloquent at
the idea that such work as Mr.. Bar
nett was doing was not good and use
ful work. Suddenly two words slip
ped out. The Archbishop colored
with confusion and apologised pro-
fusely for his inadvertence We hasten
to add that they were hardly what
would ordinarily pass as very wicked
words, The Archbishop's swear was
only My goodness, English Paper.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
Misarrangements.

A house was built by mason OF
brownstone. Wanted, q room by two
gentlemen 80 feet long and 20 wide.
Wanted, a young man to take care
of horses OF a religious turn Of mind.
Wanted, a woman to wash, iron, and
milk one or two cows. For sale, g.
handsome piano, the property of a
lady who is leaving Scotland in a wal
nut case with turned legs.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
A Difference.

Mamma. "Come, now, dear, it's
getting dark, and time you were in
bed. The little birds have gone"
Dorothy. "Yes'm; but the little
birds got up at daylight, and didn't"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
"Oh, it is fun" said Tommy, with a

"Oh, it's fun" said Tommy, with a,
grin.
is It? : asked Miss Sandford. tsCome
here and let me see; / enjoy fun as
well as anybody"
Tommy walked slowly up the aisle.
He did not know what Miss Sa,ndford
was going to do. He was afraid she
would punish him in some way. and
her ways ofpunishment wereso queer,
ana never agreeable to naughty boys.
Stand here beside me,'o said his
teacher, gently. "Now I am going to
see il sticking pins is really fun" and
taking g pin from her desk she pricked
Tommy hand lightly.
The boy WINGED, and drew his
hand away.
why, it is fun isn't it," said Miss
SANFORD, and she pricked again,
harder this time.
"Ow!" cried Tommy.
ooh, what fun it isp' said his teach
or, giving Tommy third prick.
"O-o-w' screamed Tommy,
Don't you like it?" asked Miss
Sandford. "You told me it was fun!"
"Well, / don't like to be hurt"
whimpered Tommy.
An, that is the trouble with this
kind OF fun, it always hurts some
body! Wallace does not like to be
hurt any better than you do, and
what was fun toyou was pain to him.
Remember, Tommy. that the fun
which hurts q person, or dog, or cat,
or bird, or any living thing, should
never be INDUCED in. Next time that
you want fun, stop and ask yourself
whether it is going to cause main ;,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
The German Imperial Train.

The German Emperor's imperial
train, which has at last been finished,
cost altogether $75O,OOO. It's con-
struction occupied three years, and is
a very elaborate example of railroad
luxury. There are twelve carriages,
all connected by corridors, which
presumably are vestibules, and they
are all magnificently upholstered.
The library car, for instance, is hung
with glowing tapestry, and the draw
ing-room is furnished entirely in white
satin. Two OF the carriages are for
the sole use Of the emperor's children
and their nurses.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
Making Acquaintance:

Marvin to strange boy. care you
the new boy who lives next door?
Strange Boy. mo; the new boys
only three months old. I'm the old
one
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
A FAMILY OF BURGLARS.

N a large town in
the north of Ireland
many burglaries
and robberies had
been committed, and
many detectives set
to work, and many
failures had been
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
Fun

What is it," asked Miss Sandford,
as Wallace Smith raised his hand.
Tommy Dunlap is sticking pins
into mel" W.
why do you do SO Tommy" said
his teacher, reprovingly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
So Rollo Thinks.

. Aunt Phoebe. 'sYour brother Tom
grows much faster than you do,
Rollo."
Rollo. "Well, he'll get old before I
do, then, auntie.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
Dangerous Tiger.

Il. e
A well-known student of the habits
OF wild animals, writing of thestealthy
and dangerous character. of the man
eating tiger, mentions case that hap
pened a few days ago in the Nagpur
district in India. A tigress had killed
so many people that a large reward
was offered for her destruction. She
had recently dragged away native,
but being disturbed had left the body
without devouring it.
The shikaris believed that she would
return to her prey during the night, if
1t was lett undisturbed upon the spot
where she had forsaken it.. There
were no trees, nor any timber suitable
Tor the construction of a mucharn.
1t was accordingly resolved that four
deep holes should be dug, forming the
corners OF a square, the body lying in
the centre.
-Four watchers, each with his match
lock, took their positions in these
holes. Nothing came, and at length
the moon went down and the night
was dark. The men were afraid to 90
home through the jungles, and so re-
manned where they were. Some of
them fell asleep. 80. 49,
When daylight broke three of the
shikaris issued from their positions,
but the fourth had disappeared; his
hole was empty. A few yards distant
his matchbox was discovered lying
upon the ground, and upon the dusty
surface the tracks of a,tiger and the
sweeping trace where some large body
had been dragged along
Upon following up the track, the re-
mains OF the unlucky shikari were dis
covered, but the tigress had disap-
peared. The cunning brute was not
killed until IL months afterward, al.
though many persons devoted them
selves to the work. .r~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
Big Fish Stories.


Perhaps the largest fish ever taken
by a rod and line was a tarpon that a
lady captured in Florida about a
year ago. This aquatic monster
measured Z feet 3 inches in length and
4 feet in girth, and his weight was 2O5
pounds. The same lady caught sever
al other fine specimens of the tarpon
weighing from It's to LAO pounds. It
seems as if the gallant fish could not
resist the bait that a lady bangles be-
fore their noses, for three other ladies
are mentioned as having landed big
fellows weighing from 100 pounds up
wards. OF all the tarpon caught with
rod and line at Fort Myers, Florida,
last season, no fewer than 118 weigh
ed upwards of 100 pounds each. One
is inclined to wonder if the angler
would not soon tire OF such heavy
sport. And what can he do with Sc
many monsters?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-29
The Opium Bill; or, the Chinese
Benefit and Supremacy Bill.

Mr.. EDITOR: The Opium bill
has, after considerable patching,
taken the form in which, if it pass
the third reading and is not vetoed
by Her Majesty, it is likely to be-
come one of our laws. Its pro-
moters claim that it will be an inn
provement upon our present pro-
hibitory law against the importation
and use of opium for vicious pur-
poses. The question to be answered
is, is that fact?
The whole burden of complaint
against the old law is that it was
not enforced. Granted for a mo-
ment that such was the case, how
about the enforcement of this new
law? The same officials who, it is
claimed, did not and would not en-
force the old law will have the
same chance not to enforce this
new one. 1t is not likely that they
will be fred with enthusiasm in
support of law the promoters of
which have been openly endeavor-
ing to brand them as opium SNUG
olers. etc. If al or even a part OF
the statements made in the Legis-
lature by Rep. Ashford be true,
then he misnamed his bill instead
of calling it a bill to regulate the
importation, use, etc., of opium, 1t
should have been called "The 70,
lice and Custom House Officials
Anti-Bribery and Tip Bill" ::
Some of the absurdities OF the
hill were struck out in the second
reading, but enough remain to sat
isfy any ordinary observer OF the
folly of making such bill a law
The bill proposes, in small way
20 reform the Chinese ideas on san
;tation. Heretofore, those OF US IN
Honolulu who are forced to pass
bv the Chinese quarters situated at
the entrances to the city nave
ha e strongly impressed with the
need of some such reform I, ker
Ashford provides in his his bill that nat .
the opium dens shall be ac ae 4
we'll ventilated and in a good SAM sam.
Wv condition! Who can douo'
but that they will? :,
One Section of this bill proVldd es
that att the keeper of the opium den
can sell, give or furnish OPIUM ln IN ;, 81 -
a Chinaman "for delivery to or h use
bvn another Chinaman, WINS
o ny Section of the bill provides :
that as soon as the Chinaman ge1hS
outside the door of the den Iie u
his purchase he can be hnea a. a.
high as $3.50 for having OPIUM H. ~
n nnsssession. But it would never a
pcenr to a Chinaman who mao
o ~alLed to Honolulu from kahuku
or from Kohala to Hlio 10 hfSe
e smoke of opium to imagine MN =;
self trotting contentediy l hom .;v's =.
ssSslf q dozen neat little TINS .
.s.sS{ owed away in his punoi'
reference
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-29
"NOf Guilfy.O :

Mr.. EDITOR: Under the head of
"Charge of Manning" last nights
paper stated that the row between
Tom Mullen and Peter Quinn &C.
Cured in the Bay Horse Saloon.
This statement is untrue, as the
trouble happened in or about the
shooting gallery on Hotel street.
P. MCINERNY,
G.. S. HoUGHTALING,
For the Bay Horse Saloon.
Honolulu, December %, 1892. !
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-29

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the
statements made, or opinions expressed by our
correspondents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-29
CORRESPONDENCE.

III. NJ. WHITNEY, Manager.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-28
LEMON DIAMONDS.
Specimens of the Popular Tint B-ins Hieh
Prices m CnI.nnissal,.s

specimens of the Popular Tint B-ins High
Prices Among Connoisseurs.
Here" said the jeweler, sis a lemon
diamond. I'll bet as much as you please
you don't know anything about lemon
diamonds
III you bet that you win," / replied,
Tor L never heard of them before"
The lemon diamond, he proceeded,
is of the exact shade of the outside
peel OF lemon. 1t isn't yellow or
orange, 1t is just lemon colored. It is
the fashlQnable stone of the day, and it
Is sold as high as $500 a carat, being a
httle more rare than the blue diamond.
Ihlrty years ago blue or lemon
diamond was rejected as off color by
diamond merchants and disposed of as
inferior stock at the rate of SIS or $40 a
carat To-day they rank as high as the
wnlte stones, though to my way of
thinking the white diamond, which is
nothing more or less than the fac-simile
OF drop of pure, sparkling water, is
the finest on earth. Put one of these
stones in glass of spring water and
yon won't be able to find it, it so CLOSELY
resembles the water.
PoPuAdI Idudcy LnaF the size
OF the diamond counts most 1t doesn't.
can sell you diamond weighing one
carat for $50, S35, $40, and at IS advance
on those prices all the way up to 500 a
carat l once owned stone weighing
q carat and quarter that bought in
London for s55O.
ne hlg stones of the common sort
are worth only the same price as the
small ones. Thus 20 carat stone of
the $50 per carat variety will be worth
only $500 But a 20 carat stone of the
KIND that isvalued at $500 for the single
cara would be sold for 500. 600.
The reason for this is that there ;s
an abundance of the poorer stones
iney come from the African mines
Wnlcn are inexhaustihle, and which
VIII supply the world with all the dia-
,nonds 1t needs for 200 years or more.
!sut the more valuable stones are not
sE'1a In such large numbers because
ONE from the East Indies where
s.4s supply is exhausted, and from Bra-
left
he popular impression of dia-
mond merchant is that he is rolling in
money, but he isn't tell you why.
a man brings me paper of diamonds
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-28
HIS REASON.
Why "Arry'' Wished He Had Ski, r,La
Negro

|
Negro.
Some people contend that the white
man is born with an antipathy for the
negro and that no amount of leg;sla-
ton, augmentation or exhortation will
ever induce him to regard his colored
brother as his social equal. used to be
OF that opinion, too, but 1 have INV
doubts about it now. This is what
caused me to doubtit;
rome few months ago the firm on
gagged new Office boy. He was a bright
llteie chap, just turned fourteen and
fresh from England. 'tArry," the clerks
call him, because that is the wav ba
t1rst pronounced his own name when
asked what it was. When he grows n
DIT bigger and acquires better knowl.
edge OF United States English he will
punch somebody's head for calling him
AIRY, and then he will be called
Harry. But that will make another
story when the time comes round.
AIRY" at once struck up a close
friendship with the little colored er-
rand boy in the office The pair often
take bites out of the same appIe and
otherwise manifest congenialitv of
tastes and temperaments. The other
morning AIRY showed up at the Office
with dirty face.
Go and wash yourself" said one of
the clerks to him, reprovingly; ..Do Won
want to be taken for nigger boy."
Aray shot an envious glance at bis
eolored ehum. and then replied v;tb the I
utmost seriousness:
wish was like i'm, then when I
didn't wash my face nobody wouldn,t
know N V. World
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-28
AMERICAN SPELLING

i'ish "riters OpJect To Our Labor vim n
improvements In Orthography.
what do British writer's mean when
they animadvert upon American spell.
lng' 80 far as have been able to dis
cover, the British journalists object to
certain minor labor-saving improve
ments OF American photography, such
as the dropping of the X from almanack.
the omission of one g from Wagon, and
the like; and they protest with double
1orce, with all the strength that in them
lies, against the substitution of a single
for double in such words as tray-
eler, against the omission of the n from
such words as honour, against the
substitution of an for G in
such words as defence, and against
the transposing of the final two
letters in such words as the theater-
Inc objection to American spellinp"i
may lie deeper than have here suo-
gested, and 1t may have a wider appli-
eation; but 1 have done my best to
sleUe it fully and fairly as l have de-
duced it from a painful perusal of
many columns of exacerbated British
writings.
Now if have succeeded in stating
honestly the extent of the Britis6
journalistic objections to American
spelling" the unprejudiced reader NAV
De moved to ask: SIS this all? Arc
these few and slight and unimportant
changes the cause of this mighty
commotion?" One may agree with
Sainte-Beuve IN thinking that 'or-
typography is the beginning of litera-
ture," without discovering In these
notifications from the Johnsonian
canon any cause for extreme disgust.
And since have quoted Sainte- Beuve
once, venture to cite him again, and
10 take from the same letter of March
10, 1857, his suggestion that 'sif we
write more correctly, let it be to ex-
press especially honest feelings and
just thoughts"
Feelings may be honest, though they
are violent, but irritation is not the
best frame of mind for just thinking.
The tenacity with which some of the
newspapers of London are wont to de-
fend the accepted British orthog-
raphy is perhaps due rather to feel
ing than to thought. Lowell
burnt nowadays with as fierce a fame
as ever once theological hatred; and any
American who chances to note the force
and the fervor and the frequency of the
objurgations against American SPELL
ing in the columns of the Saturday Re-
view, for example, and of the Athe-
mum, may fnd himself wondering as
to the date of the papal bull which de-
clared the infallibility of contemporary
British orthography, and a. TO the place
where the council of the church was
held at which it was made an article Of
faith.-Brander Matthews, in Harper's
Magazine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-28

The Partisan Vest.

The new Argentine gray is wonder.
fully-beautiful tint with a mooulioht
efect-a color most fattering to a clear
brunette with rich color. With
gowns of this fabric, which are admira-
bly, adapted for coaching dresses. il
worn the very popular Partisan vest,
which Is very much In the style of our
familiar Continental" waistcoat OF
ample proportions 1t is made of ivory
white corded silk, and is elaborately
braided Pocket flaps and fob chain
are the eteetras TO this vest A fri. of
rieh, rather wide lace set down the
front of the vest imparts touch of
temiRity 70 its otherwise rather man-
niah eaant--N. Y. pa<t