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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-09
An unfortunate A,lusion.

Now. Will" said Mrs. Angloma-
MAC, ''do be careful while we are in
America about eating so fast that
you will get indigestion. Mr.. Glad
stone, you know, always gives his
steak hundred bites. He never has
any trouble with his food"
Doesn't hep answered her hus-
band; '.that didn't prevent him from
being hit in the eye with a piece of
gingerbread. y
And Will laughed slow, sardonio
laugh.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-09
London Police signals.

At all public demonstrations in
London expected to attract large
numbers of spectators, system Of
hand signaling is adopted by the
police, so that by a code passed from
official to official men held in reserve
at any given point can be instantly
centered at 3 scene Of disturbance.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-09
She Wasn't in II.

AS the train rObber entered the
car all the male passengers promptly
held up their hands. A woman
seated near the door held hers up
too: When the bandit noticed it he
said. e.
''Pnt EN- down, Mary; we amt ad-
vertlsin' no actresses this trip -
Judge.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-09
lie Had His Suspicious

Mrs. Van Pelt-Let's go in herr,
and see what they are selling at
auction,
Van Felt Don't be deceived by
that red flag. mad lam; more than like
~ it is the hea quarters OF the an
archists = -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-09
The :Afterm ,tl,.

Husband * Come sit on my lap, my
dear, as you did in old counting DAYS.
Wife-Wcll, ] declare! I haven't.
received such an invitation TO-. an.
age.
Illus band And err bring a needle,
and thread with you, my love.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-09

$50 =;
= = 5
/ ] / !.
Y X3xSSMMl UCK had been
MA I%SsIK K - against them so
tA |xHSx-, long and Jack
tl@AXL1@$EXAh seemed to be on
NEayGEEFyMH1% the verge of losing
S&W1zsaA~DY his mind over it.
%LM Poor Jack! No
s---- body would buy
his pictures any
more. Nobody wanted to give him
orders for drawings. Lucy, too, had
felt the tide against her, she die Mt
quite know why. She certainly wrote
better stories than when she first be-
gan, stronger, clearer, more tersely
expressed. Sometimes she wondered
if it was because she had used up all
her plots and could contrive no more
Still she worked on, but her load be-
came heavier daily, for she had the
additional task of trying to keep up
her husbands courage.
Jack was a good fellow; one of the
best of fellows. But his nature was
sensitive and he was easily cast down.
And just now he seemed on the verge
of despair. Things were going pretty
badly with them; rent due, the little
household bills to be paid, the larder
pretty well cleaned out, clothes be-
To Sfr
said Lucy, trying TO look brave, lit
might be worse. One of us might be
i'll. That would be terrible. No, let
us try to keep up courage and go
bravely ahead. God will not forget us. -
She tried to do double work. She
tried new magazines and papers with
her productions, but the answers came
slowly and discouragingly.
Sometimes when Jack was not BY
she gave vent to her disappointment.
''if [ were a dressmalxer 1 might
earn more. But l never learned dress
making. Perhaps it would have been
better. There are good many poor
dressmakers, I know, still could have
made myself a good worker. And
then Jack-but Jack wouldn't have
cared for me then. Well, we'll; cour-
age again.
Jack came home rather late that
night. His eyes were bloodshot, his
face looked wild.
Give about given up" he said. He
stood looking from the window-thev
lived on the fifth floor-and muttered
dark things about one quick way out
of it.
Lucy shuddered. She drew him
away from the window
. dearest" she said "come, help me
with supper. I've been working to
this very minute. If you'll grind the
coffee for me we'll soon have some
thing hot and good to eat and drink. -
He obeyed sullenly and in silence.
Lucy tried to keep up cheerful talk
and to assume smile, though she
felt heartbrol1en.
1t was hard bearing the burden all
alone, doing all the comforting and
constructing all the hopes, unsubstan-
tial as they might be.
Two, who could comfort each other
would not be so badly off, she felt, as
one who had to do it ALL
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-09

UCK h q d b cen
against them so
long and j lex
seemed to be on
the verge of losing
his mind over it.
Poor Jack! No
body. would buy
hic pio@.,r,,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-09

Ill.
dignified exit from the stage which
he had so nobly adorned.
Half an hour later Mr.. McCul-
Tough emerged from his dressing
room refreshed and smiling. AS he
passed several of his people, who
stood with sad faces and uncovered
heads, he said cheerily:
That's the way to play Spartacus !,
l never acted SO we'll in my life.''
& He had already forgotten the
troubled scenes, of that awful nigh
A rehearsal had been called for -
o'clock the following day. Long
before that hour Mr.. MeVicker and
the tragedian's managers had agreed
that the engagement must close
summarily. It may be asked WHY
this decisive step had not been taken
before. In reply it can be said that
so sudden and lamentable culmina-
tion had not been anticipated. Mr..
Mccullough had chung to the stage
as drowning man clings to q float
ing spar. Acting was his onlv.
stimulus, and he seemed to realize
that when this was withheld he must
speedily perish. How true this was,
the event of the next few months
amply proved. Mr.. MCCULLOUGH
came to the rehearsal. AZ brother
actor. Thomas w. Keene. who had
been with him in the famous San
Francisco company, and was then
playing star engagement at another.
local theater, met him at the en-
trance of the alley. and, with his
arms clasped about him. escorted
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
San Francisco, February IL, 1898.
All sLUNG's CELEBRATION

1t Was an Innovation and Got Him
Into Trouble.
All Slung was arrested last night, being
extracted from a joss house at Fourth and
1 streets by officer Wilson for discharg-
ing his revolver inside the city limits.
Slung had complicated jag on big
enough for heavier weight, which
seemed to have been the compound re-
suit of double dose of I-street gin and
opium. He evidently thought he was re-
sponslble for large portion of the cele
bratlon of the New \ ear, and he let him
self out for all he was worth.
When arrested he was tourishing and
firing a cast-iron bulldog revolver, evil
IDENTIFY made for an elephant gun. The
formidable piece of ordinance wouldn't
go of regularly, but when it did go three
or four shots seemed to pool issues and
nearly raise the roof. Thereupon All
S!ung danced in high glee, yelling
"hoop-la!' lln his native tongue) while
he proceeded to load for another volley.
When Officer Wilson appeared on the
scene Slung protested against arrest and
only succumbed when the officer got
halt-hitch on his queue and ''yanked"
him out from among his tinsel geg-gaws
and paper gods. At the police station he
assumed an air of injured innocence.
claimed with the breath he had left.
which was strong, What there was of it.
M Q ale slame work for Washington
Hotel been Sacramento long time-wha
fob? l been shootin sky, not killen no.
body! Sacramento plollce heap dam
catchee every thine good man let high
blindah 'scape TO san tlanciscoI'
Here Slung noticed scratch on his
hand which bled about ten drops. This
he smeared all over his arm and began a
pow-wow about being "velly bad hurt
and then started to go back to the festivi-
ties.
Hold on ~ said the jailer. 81 want
you" and he marched Slung into a cell
and locked him up.
You send um doctah belly quick !" he
exclaimed. Tell um me bludder, All
Soon, come blal me out Mclean man
heap ale same Injnn"' And Slung's jag
was still hourishing as the iron door
closed and left him in its grasp.
An hour later Slung's brother and
George Rider went his bail for 500, and
he got out of the dungeon slightly sub
dued but still slxittish
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
THOSE ORANGE PESTS.
Quarantine Officer Craw Has Some
thing to Say About Them.
He Replies to George w. Harvey OF
Marysville and Corrects Some
Statements.

EDS. RECORD-UNION: My duties called
me to Sacramento on the evening of the
10th inst, and the following morning an
article appeared in your paper, headed
Infected Trees" and written by George
w. Harvey of Marysville. AS number
of his statements therein are misleading,
and not facts, and it would appear that
Sacramento was left open for all the fruit
pests of the world, brief statement will
be of interest to the fruit-growers.
In the fall of 1891, as Sacramento
County had no Board of Horticultural
Commissioners, the State Board of Hor-
ticulture instructed me TO appoint a dep
uty in order that we would be informed
of the arrival OF any imported trees or
plants. therefore visited your city and
after consultation with the Hon. Eugene
Gregory-who recommended the present
deputy because of his previous work for
the city, and as he had also served under
two of my predecessors, he was appointed.
Upon the arrival of trees he has quaran-
tined them or notified me. The trees that
Mr.. Harvey writes about had been in
spected by the deputy land not the man
employed in the tree yard and placed
under quarantine on the evening of the
9th inst, two days before Mr. Harvey
saw them. Copies of the notices were
forwarded to me and duly recorded.
He states that on nearly every tree
some specimens of the purple scale could
be found" 1 guarantee that Mr.. Harvey
cannot find over 10 per cent of those
trees infested. l remarked at the time
that they were as clean lot of orange
trees as l have seen from Florida, and
within the past eight years scores of car
loads of very seriously infected trees have
arrived and been inspected in the State,
and all have been thoroughly disinfected
since hydrocyanic-acid gas has been used
as a remedy.
His statement that the purple scale is
very hard Of determination is not borne
out by past experience, and his reference
to the cargo of $4,000 orange trees that
arrived at San Pedro from Tahiti is very
misleading, and Mr.. Harvey knew that
those trees were not destroyed because
they were infested with purple scale, but
because they were infested with the
mining SCALE" species not found in
California and one that it was impossible
to kill with gas or by dipping. The
purple scale upon those trees was the
first of the many species upon them to
succumb. However, it was found, after
five treatments. impossible to kill the
mining scale, even with double or treble
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
CALIFORNIA RFCBPTIoN-RooM.
Mrs. Frona Eunice Waits Visit to the
Capital.

MIS-. frona Eun1ce Waits Visit to the
Capital.
There is one place in the Worlds Fair
where California will lead and that is in
the woman's building. Through the I'M
aided efforts of Mrs. Frona Eunice Wait,
alternate Lady Manager of the National
Commission, this State has secured the
first choice of the three reception-roonas
on the second floor in the woman's build
ing, and she has secured contributions to
10 the amount of $4,000 with which to
decorate and furnish 27X3S room, with a
celilng seventeen feet nine inches in
h1ght; full description of which has
already appeared in these columns
III Is especially gratifying to our State
pride to learn that Caliiornia's lead has
been followed by New York and Ohio.
These two States viii be our neighbors.
put 1t Is doubtful if their decorations will
De as unique as ours. Beside this, the
idea has been taken up by European
women, particularly the committee of
Titled English women under the Presi-
qency OF the Princess Christian, who are
decorating and furnishing the hall oppo-
site the california Room" and Mime,
Cafnot and some expert French women,
who have taken the other hall in hand.
From japan comes the cheering intelli-
gence that the Empress is preparing a
characteristic decoration and furnishing
for the boudoir and retiring-rooms, so
that the second floor of the woman's
building will be a veritable palace
Mrs. Wait is in Sacramento, where she
is earnestly trying to induce the Legis-
lature to appropriate sufficient money to
defray the expense of installing the ex-
hibits in Chicago. Because the work
must all be Californian. which necessi-
tates lis being carried to Chicago finished
instead of raw material, the cost of in
surance and handling will be consider
ably increased. Mrs. Wait very rightly
feels that it is not fair to tax the com
lnercial and artistic element any further,
and thinks there should be no difficulty
IN pursuading the Assembly and Senate
that 1t is to Calilornia's interest to accent
and live up TO the high position secured
TO her by so patriotic native as Mrs.
Wait. Hers has been wholly labor of
love, as the National Commission do not
receive any remuneration for their sery-
Ices except per diem when in Chicago,
and travelling expenses, nor are they al
lowed to handle any part of the $500. 900
which was appropriated for the State
Commission.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
IN A BAD WAY.
Condition of the Woman Who Was
Maltreated In Washington.

Condition of the Woman Who Was
Maltreated In Washington.
Mrs. Fortier, or Annie Wittke, the
woman assaulted by hoodlums in Wash
ington on Tuesday night, is still at the
Receiving Hospital on this side, where
she is confined to cot and evidently
barely able to move.
She has not had the attention of ply
sician, although she says she is danger
ously injured and fears she will die.
She has been left entirely to the care of
handsome Brady, The trusty, and other
men who volunteered occasional assist
ance.
Jailer McManus said last evening that
the woman belonged in YoIo County,
and that the District ATTORNEY. who
knew of her condition, was expected to
have provided medical care or nurse for
her, but up TO last night the unfortunate
woman had been left to the care of Brady.
who is entitled to credit for his humanity
in ministering to her wants as best he can.
He and Special officer Greer have been
particularly attentive and active in adj
ministering to abandoned sufferers at
the Receiving Hospital when the unfor-
Inmates have had no other friendship
sympathy or care.
a woman in the condition in which
Mrs. Fortier was found should have had
the attention of n physician in any civil
lied community, but neither physician
nor nurse of her own sex has visited Ter.
1t is true the woman is an inebriate and
for aught that is known has herself
chiefly to blame for her sufferings, but
for all that she is human being, and a
woman, and is entitled to attention from
some quarter.
Last night, and after the above was put
In type, physician was sent over from
Golo to attend Mrs. Fortier. She will
not, however, be well enough to attend
the trial of her assailants in Washington
this morning, and the case will doubtless
be continued. r. NJ. Clarken of this city
has been engaged to prosecute the Of
tenders.
In addition to Jim Glenn, who was
arrested on Wednesday, George Fay,
Louis Powers, z. Martin, Larry Burns
and Frank Rett We're yesterday taken
into custody on charges of having been
concerned in the assault on the woman.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
THE DEVIL DRIVERS.
It Was Distressingly Quiet In China
town Circles Last Night.

It Was Distressingly Quiet in China
town Circles Last Night.
Owing to the vigilance and energy of
the police, the Chinese were prevented
from firing all their fire-crackers and
bombs yesterday, and were restricted
chiefly to making music and assaulting
the devil with their other rites.
Some of the most unmusical and dis
cordant cymbal-clashers and pande-
monium-producer of the Six Companies
were industriously entertaining Iucifer
last night at l and Third streets, and
many whites were attracted thlther
The Celestial DANES were adorned In
their best clothes, several coats OF new
paint, and had their eyebrows and hair
shellacked and were otherwise renovated
for the season, regardless OF expense
Groups of them were on dress parade IN
the front rooms of many OF the stores"
with red, white, yellow and green queues
and hair ornaments, and had their eyes
canted at more acute angle than usual,
Upon these groups the more gallant OF
the male Mongolians peered with awe ana
admiration, and then stole away ana
bought four cigars for cent and smoked
to quiet their palpitatiDg hearts.
Miss Sock Lee and the fascinating but
disdainful Lok boy were the observed of
all sophisticated observers for several
blocks, and they sat in a window for
three hours-to be looked at.
All kinds of dried pork, scrambled
fish, shrimps, snails, water-dogs and
angie-worms are spread on the festive
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
BRIEF NOTES.

The river continues to recede slowly.
Yesterday it dropped to twenty-three
feet seven inches.
Gus Braunschweiger has been released
from the County Jail by his brother paw
ing the remaining portion OF his fine.
The Police Commissioners have ap-
pointed George Bronner, son of Public
Administrator Bronner, special officer for
the beat from to l., Twelfth to Twen-
tieth streets.
The Undine Boat Club has elected
officers as follows: w. Peterson, Presi-
dent; Frank Roth, Vice-President; Fred
e. Foote, Secretary; Joseph III. Gray,
Treasurer; Harry Nottingham, First
Lieutenant; E. Pierson, Second Lieu
tenant; William NJ. Sims, Third Lieuten-
ant.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
Barwick's Weather Notes.

The Weather Bureau reports show the
highest and lowest temperatures yester-
day to have been 54o and 40, with
light and variable winds and cloudy
weather prevailing.
The barometrical readings at A. NJ.
and P. NJ. were 1892 and 1926 inches.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago on yesterday were 63' and
40, and one year ago to-day 650 and 4S0,
with trace of rain.
If the coincidence of rain this season on
the same days that it fell last season
should be repeated. then there might be
quite a storm expected; for, beginning
one year ago to-day, there was trace;
on the 18th, "a of an inch; 18th, LILO
inches; Goth, "a of an inch, and on the
list, ~ of an inch, making $50 inches for
the storm that set in one year ago to-day.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17

boards, and general feeling OF economi-
cal and judicious hospitality prevailed
Last night the stores. overlooked by the
police, still presented their callers with
Tamle cigars and firecrackers by way of
hospitality
The leading dignitaries of Chinatown
are somewhat chagrined, however, at be-
ing prevented from shooting firecrackers
and dynamite, and fear that if not per-
nlitted TO make the usual din the devil
Will neglect them and 90 into partnership
with the opposition in more favored
localities.
- one merchant has a supply of about
sl,OOO worth Of firecrackers, and he will
nave TO go into insolvency or get string
onto the Trustees and the police to permit
their being touched off-that is to say, the
hrecrackers.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17

strength of chemicals, so the court or
dered the trees destroyed.
In another communication in to-day's
RECORD UNION, in answer C. w. Reed.
he asks why the trees were not inspected
by some competent person at the point of
shipment and those found infested
thrown out. The laws relating to the treat
ment of infected trees and plants only re-
late to those found in the State, and there
fore why does Mr.. Harvey try to convey
the idea that we should inspect all trees at
thepoint of shipment? Neither can trees
be condemned when they are found, as
these are, infected with such insects as
are readily destroyed.
ALEXANDER CRAw,
Quarantine Officer, State Board of Horti-
culture.
San Francisco, February IL, 1898.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
X. of p. Election.

Sacramento Division No. Z, Uniformed
Rank, knights of Pythias, held it's reg
ular meeting last night and elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
Sir Knight Captain. f. ]. Dietrich, sec
ond term; Sir knight Lieutenant, F. II.
Clemens; Sir Knight Herald, G. w. Lyle;
Sir knight Recorder. w. B. Oldfield; Sir
Knight Treasurer, M. Hirsch, second
term; Sir Knight Guard, c. Wilkie, Sir
Knight Seminal, NJ. L. Jenkins.
After making some donations to
worthy and Needy members it adjourne ed
until Sunday next, the 18th, to celebrate
the thirtieth anniversary of the order OF
knights of Pythias, on which occasion
the Sir Knights will assemble at Pythian
Castle at P. NJ.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
JOHN KINGS LAG

He is Nearly Drowned With a Hose by
Unknown Parties.
In response to telephone call late last
evening Special Officer Greer. with the
patrol wagon, went to Fourth and @
streets and found a drunken man in a
very bad plight.
The victim, who had succumbed to his
load of liquor and fallen on the sidewalk.
had been played upon with a hose until
he was nearly drowned, but he was still
drunk.
At the City Jail he gave his name as
John king-after great effort-and that
was all the information he could be made
to yield. He was cast into a dungeon
with his wet clothes sticking very closely
to him.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
PALMER'S TRIAL,
The Prosecution StiIl Putting in Re
buttai Testimony,

buttal Testimony.
a number of witnesses testified for the
prosecution in rebuttal yesterday in the
Palmer case. Among them were John
Welsh, Jacob Jacobs, Aaron Wilson, w.
f. Palkenberg, George \. Bigelow, Mollie
Austin, Thomas B. Lovdal, p. Kelly. Ar
thur Miller, James Young, Mrs. Nancy
Chalmers, j. S. Angus, Mrs. Phleger, G.
L. Jones and DR.. Gardner.
The Judge, in accordance with his in
tention expressed the night before, opened
court at 9 o'clock a. NJ, IN order to allow
Drs. Hatch and Gardner to testify and re-
turn TO their duties as soon as possible.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17

William T. Stansbury, who entered the
service of the Baltimore San over fifty
five years ago, has been at the case in
that office ever since, and spent the even
ing of his seventh-sixth birthday there.
setting the smallest face type without the
aid of glasses.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
DIED,

DIED.
BOYD-In this city. February 18th, Susan.
beloved wife of Thomas Boyd (mother OF
George T. and A. l.. Boyd and Mrs. j. H.
Stebbins of Sacramento and Mrs J. E.
Sauze of Walla Walla. Wash. a native of
New York City, aged sc years, months
and days.
Rs- Friends and acquaintance are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral this
Friday) afternoon, at O'clock, from
her late residence, 1881 p street. Inter
ment private.
BUTLER = In this city February 18TH
Della, beloved wife OF Michael Butler. a ma,
tive of County Galway, Ireland, aged SO
years.
EJ-Friends and acquaintance are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral this Fri
day. morning, at $3.50 O'Clock, from her late
residence, 1921 NJ street; thence to the
Cathedral. Eleventh and K streets where
requiem high mass will be celebrated for
the repose of her soul, commencing at 8
o'clock
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
THREE lacks

Two of Them Discarded and the Other
Held.
John Wilson, John Hayes and John
Deviney were examined before Judge
Buckley yesterday afternoon, charged
with the robbery Of drunken man
named James Brown, near the police sta
ton, on Wednesday.
Wilson and Hayes were discharged and
Deviney held to answer to the Superior
Court, with bail fixed at 81 600
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-17
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