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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19

SWELL OF ALL THE ROT HAVE HEARD.
make out how he, with all his clever
ness, unselfshness and delightfulness
altogether, could ever have proposed
to such an utterly inane specimen as
that Eva.
How is it that all the incest men one
knows throw themselves away on girls
who are not half good enough for
them? But suppose as long as they
don't know it, it's all right.
read Langton's hand, anil think
I may say that I did not make it out a
bit better than it really was, thou yh
he and the others all said 1 fattered
him. Eva was quite jealous, though
she ought to have been pleased.
The next person to come under in
spection was girl did not know at
all. Mrs. Newton had brought her,
and all that could tell about her WAS
that she was very charming. Yet,
now come to think of it, I don't be-
licve she was a bit pretty, only one
couldn't help falling in love with her
at once.
told her character, and just as !
had fin shed noticed a most peculiar
line, one which one very seldom sees.
Tery clearly and distinctly marked and
shen l remembered having seen the
came mark in one of the other hands
] had been dong.
turned to Langton and said: "Jnst
let me look at your hand again" And
looked carefully, AMI there. sure
enough, was the self-same line, only
hardly SO distinct as that on the hand
of the girl-Vera Gray her name was
said nothing at the time, but wher
all.our friends had gone scanda1ize6
Ted by flying downstairs to the library
and coming back armed with severa
primers and other works on palm stry
my good girl" said my husband
''are you aware that it is IL o'clock
and that the servants are waiting tx
lut out the lights?''
~ can't help it," I cried in high ex
".ter,cnt. Il can't G, to bed until
hav. found out what this means.
And proceeded to tell him what ha,
roticed in the two hands. We searche,
'hrough the var Gus books, AMI wer,
just giving up when Ted exclaimed
We'll, OF all the rot l have heard
just listen: When these lines are oil
served in any two hands of opposit
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19

miles an hour was also trick that won
applause. Riding intricate figures with
the feet crossed to opposite pedals and
dispensing with saddle while doing so
was also INDUCED in.
Judging from the wonderful skill ex-
hibited by all, but more particularly by
the two principal participants, one is
inclined to hesitate before saying lit
can't be done;;" that is, if the thing re-
fers to any method Of riding a bicycle
or any portion thereof. After the con-
test between the individuals was over
a most delightful exhibition Of graceful
evolutions was gone through with Dy
Kaufman and Gouget. They rode
magniticently, and were rewarded by
tremendous applause for their grace
and skill. These men intend to make
an extensive tour as a team, and it is
not at all improbable that Chicago will
soon have an opportunity to judge of
their skill in fancy riding ....I.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19

course at an incredible speed. They
were all unanimous in their approval Of
Kaufman, declaring they had never
seen such riding before. His position
while on the wheel was gracefully
erect, and all the other champions were
especially noticeable, inasmuch as they
carried themselves in Like manner,
but without his grace, however. 1t was
quite a relief after having witnessed
the would-be amateur professional and
his outrageous stoop, and demonstrated
the possibility of assuming an upright
position while on tile wheel. No mat
ter how difficult the evolution, whether
moving forward or backward, kauf
mann still kept his erect carriage, gen
thy swaying as the bicycle wound
through the intricate movements, now
to this side ana then the other, and all
with such grace that the applause that
followed was deafening.
Up and Down Stairs on Wheel.
One particularly interesting feat was
that of going up and down a quite steep
flight of stairs, and doing it without
once losing the balance. The difficulty
of this number can be best appreciated
by an experienced Wheelman, who
knows what is required in an upward
and downward movement Of such ma
ture. Suddenly leaping in the saddle
and standing upright while the ma
chine is going at the rate of twenty
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19
A Man of Zeal.

The weather is so bad, Brother
Gibbons said one of the pillars of
the church, "that we can't expect an
audience this evening""
vangelist Gibbons, reformed prize
fighter. rose to his feet and looked
over his small but faithful congrega-
ton.
I'm not in business for the gate
money, these days, BRETHREN" he
said. taking his place in the pulpit.
There's nearly dozen of us here
and we'll pull off the sermon any
hOwn
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19
Weighing Without Scales.

Housekcepers who do not have scales
handy often desire senle means Of ac-
curately determining the weight of diff
ferent materials to he used in the
Kitchen. 1t is useful for them to know.
therefore, that one quart of wheat flour,
even with the edge of the cup, is
almost exactly one pound; that quart
OF butter is Il ounces; quart Of white
sugar is two pounds: that ten medium
eggs weigh pound; heaped table
spoonful Of salt weighs an ounce; eight
tablespoonful Of any liquid make a
gill, four tabiespoonfuls make wine
glassful. and sixteen spoonfuls make
tnmblerful. The ordinary tumbler
holds generally half a pint
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19

The annual bicycle tournament for
the fancy riding championship Of the
world took place at Crystal Palace,
Leipsic, Germany, a couple of weeks
ago. Immense crowds visited the pal
ace, the people coming from all parts
Of the continent, and America had
many representatives present. 1t was
therefore a success financially as well
as artistically, though many were dis
appointed through the defeat Of their
native champion, whom they OF course
had expected to win. However, no dis
satisfaction with the decisions of the
judges was exhibited. Every one con-
ceded that the German American eX-
pert, Kaufman, was by far the best
rider that competed. GOuget, a French
man, pressed him pretty hard and for a
lover Of the sensational was the favor
lite, as his feats were more acrobatic
and therefore witnessed by the crowd
with Open-eyed wonder and surprise
To the disappointment of the hood
lum element, the judges declared that
Kaufman was the better all-rOund
rider, and in presenting the first prize
to him he was acknowledged as 1.-The
only art master rider OF the world. -
He was more artistic in that he at
tempted feats that were in the province
OF the bicycle rider and not Of the cir
Gus performer.
N. f.. Kaufman is German-Ameri-
can, and the prize awarded to him was
gold medal valued at 500. Both
judges We're unanimous in their decis-
ions, agreeing with the umpire as point
after point was fought for and decided
so many times in favor of kaufmann
He won 2S5 points to Gouget's 900.
Auguste Gouget, the master rider OF
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19
A Disappointed Husband.

Sympathetic Friend-I hear that
your partner has skipped with $780,
90 of your money. ~ Il
Business Man-Yes; but that's not
all the ungrateful scoundrel did.
Friend-What else did he do?
Business Man = He neglected to
take my wife along with him, and he
has been flirting with her for the
last six months, the ungrateful
hound. Texas Siftings.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19

performed wonderful evolutions on the
wheel to the, delight Of the spectators
But Kaufman would follow and to
their despair SO, through the same evo-
buttons with so much more precision
and elegance as to command the un-
bounded admiration of all The lesser
lights, such as the Austrian champion,
the celebrated expert from Bavaria
one Of Germans late champions, all
famed for fine riding, did some fancy
riding which was well received as we'll
as fast riding, spinning around the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19
EXCAVATIONS ESTE,

Interesting Remains of Ancient Civ
ilization in Upper Italy.
The plain Of Lombardy, the eastern
portion Of Upper Italy and the home of
the Venetians, figured in the early iron
age as the dividing line between South
ern and Central Europe. Situated be-
tween the Apennines and the Balkan
peninsula, level, well watered and
fruitful, and in the direct highway be-
tween the Hellenic and Scythian re-
gions, it became favored spot, boast
ing 4 civilization which is traceable
backward into the remotest Graeco- Ital-
ian antiquity:not perhaps as far back
as to the neolithic mussel- eaters whose
shell-mounds are found on the Grand
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19
The Difference.

Marriage remarked the professor.
"was rite practiced by the ancients-'':
"AEd bachelorhood," interrupted Z,
maiden Of forty, lis a wrong practiced
by the moderns.''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19

France, won the second prize, a hand
two prizes each contestant was given
q very satisfactory purse, donated by
the German Wheelmens associa ton.
The Crystal Palace was thronged with
bicyclists, both without and within, and
the natty riders, as they spun around
the ring before the exhibitiin proper
had really begun, made a pleasing sight
not soon to be forgotten. When the eX-
hibition was once in swing the excite
ment was intense. Each rider had his
little coterie Of friends, who applauded
vociferously whenever he appeared. 1t
was not long, however, before Kauf-
mann attracted attention, then excited
admiration, which soon exhibited itself
in prolonged applause merely at the
sight Of him as he rode around the ring.
The people were not long in deciding
that he would be the winner, although
GOuget had a number Of friends also.
But Kaufman was more graceful and
did everything with such remarkable
ease. Then he was so unconscious, ap-
parently, of having done anything diff
cult never seeking the applause OF the
crowd, while Gouget, after every aero
batic feat, expected and looked for the
approval OF the people. There is no
doubt that Gouget is a magnificent
rider, but Kaufman excelS in artistic
grace and ease.
Clever Bicycle Tricks.
Those who witnessed the tournament
last year remembered Gouget and his
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19

One Of the richest and most famous
sites of excavations in Italy was opened
in 1876: in Este-the4 ..Ateste' of Taci-
stus, P1iny and Martial southwest OF
Padua, ina richly watered region,
pleasantly alternated with hill and
plain. The graves Of Este represent
three successive stages Of civilizations.
O An Italian stratum, including Vile
nova types: (2) a Venetian stratum,
with the characteristic types Of Este;
and 81 Gallo or Celtic stratum, with
La Fene types. It must not be in
ferred from this that these three peo-
pies successfully furnished the material;
but simply that the remains show the
influence of these three distinct types
of culture in regular series. The bronze
articles Ornamented with drawings, fig
ure /, belong exclusively to the younger
period Of the middle series, that is APP
proXimately, to the first half Of the
fifth century B. c. The old st, the Ital-
an or Villanova stratum, contains high
necked urns, of coarse material, with
impressed linear or semi-circular pat
terms, frequently filled with a white
substance in bas relief. ~ 80
The second, or specifically Venetian
stratum, yields relics showing the great
est resemblance to the finds at Hall
staff, in the Eastern Alps, and in 1stria.
The period covers the middle Of the
thousand years B. c., at which time
there was very active intercourse be-
tween the Paphlagonians, on the Adise.
and their less favorably situated tribes
men on the Save, the Brave and the
Danube. Along with urns and vessels
Of older types the excavations have
yielded conical buckets, of fine ware,
light and graceful in outline, agreeab]y
variegated in black and red, with raised
bands, dotted or finely Ornamented
with rows of little bronze nails, whose
bright heads, before they were oxidlzed,
must have produced a very fine effect
in contrast with the smooth black sur
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19
The Usual Directions.

Old Maid lis he hurt much, doctor
Doctor-Not much, but pretty
we'll shaken up.
Old Maid, eagerly Then he's
ready to be taken, amt he, doctors
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19
Never Heard OF 1t,

g Teachtr-Do you wish your son to
study political economy? 5tn54 g.., IS 4
New York Citizen (vagun:ly )--Political
economy? What is that?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19
FANCY CYCLE RIDING.
THE GREAT EVENT AT LEIPSIC
GERMANY.

Kaufman, a Germnn-American
Wins the Worlds Championship,
GOuget, the Frenchman, Awarded
Second Prize-MarvelOus Tricks
Performed. s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19

. - III z Ill y,
though I never
really studied it to any great extent,
and 1 certainly find it wonderfully in
teresting.
I cannot bring myself to believe
that the extraordinarily good shots
people make when telling the charac-
ter of their "subjects'' are all chance,
neither can I see any greater improba-
bility in the character leaving an i'm
preston on the hand; but 1 must adj
nit that until the events which I am
about to relate took place I did not
put any faith in representations of
the future.
I had asked few people in after
dinner one night, for some music, con-
versation and such like, and was
rather taken aback when that foolish
little Eva Darlington, whom 1 had
asked with her fiance, suddenly said:
ooh, Mrs. Gordon, do please tell me
my fortune by my hand; I hear you
are so clever at that sort of thing!"
1 should like to find out how she
knew I went in for palmistry. 1 am
sure never told her.
However, of course, I could only
say should be very much pleased to
tell her what I knew, and proceeded
to poke and prod her hand about,
bending back her fingers and thumbs
as far as I could>Q only hope 1 hurt
herO and all the other rites and cere-
monies that the professional pa]mist
INDUCES in.
never saw such a hand as hers
was. There were scarcely any lines
on it and it was hard and cold to a
degree; I could only tell her that she
was phlegmatic and rather I'M
sympathetic, and her horribly turned
in thumbs showed that she was also
selfish. She had an excellent pro-
fessional line, and ought to have gone
in for art or science instead of settling
down into unromantic married life.
told her various other things, but
am afraid she was not too well pleas
ed with the character gave her, but
begged me to try her fance. Langton
Gore had always been after my own
Ted-my ideal of man. He was at
that time about eight-and-twenty, 1
should think, but being grave, quiet
man, seemed older. l never could
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-19

y YOU believe in
palmistry?" -
So many people
have asked me
that question, and
/ never can make
up my mind how
to answer it. I
have gone in for
the science in a
small way for
S o m e t i m G,
though I never
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-13

eases, or drains upon the system,
eXcesses, or abuses, bad habits, or
early vices, are treated through cor
respondence at their homes, with
uniform success, by the Specialists
of the 1nvalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y. A book
of 1856 large pages, devoted to the
consideration Of the maladies above
hinted at, may be had, mailed Sc
cmeLy sealed from observation, in a
plain enVelobc, by sending 10 cents
in one-cent stamps (for postage on
Book), to the Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, at the above
mentioned Hotel. For more than
quarter of century, physicians
connected with this widely cele-
brated Institution, have made the
treatment Of the delicate diseases
above referred to, their sole study
and practice. Thousands, have con-
suited them. This vast experience
has naturally resulted i'll improved
methods and means of cure.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-13
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will bo pleased tr
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de-
stroying the foundation of tho disease, and
giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature In doing its
work. The prOprietors have so much faith In
It's curative powers that they offer Ono Hun
dred Dollars for any case that II fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O
cH Sold by Druggists. 15c.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-13
GAINING WINGS.

twig where clung two soft cocoons
broke from wayside spray.
And carried home to a quiet desk
Where, long forgot, it lay.
One morn 1 CHANGED to lift the lid,
And 10 as light as air,
moth flew up on downy wings
And settled above my chair
dainty, beautiful thing it was,
Orange and silvery gray,
And marveled how from the leafy bougl
Such fairy stole away.
Had the other flown? turned to see,
And found it striving still
10 free itself from the swathing floss
And rove the air at will.
"Poor little prisoned waif," said,
You shall not struggle more"
And tenderly cut the threads,
And watched to see it soar.
Alas feeble chrysalis
1t dropped from its silken bed;
My help had been the direst harm
.Hhe pretty moth WAS dead.
l should have left it there to gain
The strength that struggle brings;
'Tis stress and strain, with moth or man,
That free the ioldsi wings!
Edna d. Proctor, in Youths Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-13
Faith Curists.

These very conf lent people arc strangel,
self-satisflel until danger 10 lilo looms up,
as waen the chronc pains OF many years
endurance attack the heart, like rheumatism
very often does, then they turn to better
faith. This better faith-hed TO by many
thousands-is simple AMI certain. 1t Is
faith founded on experience that ST. Jacobs
Oil will cure, because it has cured all these
painful ailments permanently. II IL n faith
founded on reason. We know what can be
done by what has been done II thousand
times. Every physician knows tnat those
who have belief in treatment are the more
easily cured those who have not set UP
Resistance 10 the progress OF cure
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-13
Gentle Reproof.

Among the many anecdotes which
illustrate the lare character of Will
liam Augustus Muhlenberg is one
which is told Of him at the time he
taught in Flushing Institute.
lie was most unsparing OF his own
faults, even before his scholars,
where they were concerned IN the
circumstance. One or them. a young
man very dear to him, ten told in
after years how, after administering
severe rebuke to him one day, Mr.
Muhlenberg at night put into 8
hand a little box which contained
money, and brief note in which he
deplored that he had "loSt his tenn
per In the morning, and SPOILED his
admonition by impatient tones and
ugly looks"
The note went on to say, These
accounts are not to be settled be-
tween ourselves, but as a peace
Offering, let me give you this Charity
Box, to which 1 will add something
every time | offend in similar way.
and about the use of which | prom
ise not to inquire. BY this penance
OF love, my intirmities may at least
be the occasion of your benevOlence. "
This arrangement while it was
undoubtedly genuine expression OF
his grief and humility, may have also
been one of his loving and ingenious
ways OF inpressing upon the mind OF
his scholar The ground of the morn
ing's reproof-the fault he wished to
guard against and overcome.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-13
Fig Growing in California.

For 1891 the output of cured figs
in California was 5000 pounds.
The increase since that time has not
been as rapid as in other branches of
production, so that it is not likely
that million pounds OF merchant
able figs are yet produced in that
State. The quality of the product
has, however, greatly improved, and
the prejudice in favor of the import
ed article Is slowly giving way, SO
that all conditions are favorable to an
almost unlimited production. New
York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-13

\zI %ss %ss.aia,., S' penny aa';
---s--' had gloated over
them as only small boy,
born and bred in great city, eau
gloat over tales of the West. He had
not been discriminating, of course,
and had had natural leaning toward
the most blood-curdling recitals; but
he had chosen always something in
some way connected with army life.
The army was to him n beautiful
dream, highly vanished picture,
and to be a part of it-a major part,
of course, something like General,
or, at the very least, Colonel-had
been from the first his one ambition.
But destiny, in the shape of parents of
stern and oldfashioned mould, the
kind that thought, and accepted it as
convenient creed that, having in
ficted life upon their offspring, they
were entirely at liberty to ruin that
life-this destiny ordained that he
should have profession other than
that of arms; in short, that he should
be lawyer.
Now, Saunders was of an age to
Judge for himself, and he knew that
he was not the stuff of which lawyers
are made. Not the slightest vestige
of eloquence had he; he was blunt
and truthful to degree. He disliked
n lie for Its own sake. All this and
more he told his parents, but he was
answered by the looic which has ra
tarded the worlds progress through
SO many generations, that they were
older and therefore wiser; that he
was their son, and they knew better
what was good Tor him than he could
possibly. Saunders, more from sense
OF duty shan fear OF being disin-
herited OF his fathers goodly estates,
accepted their decision and began the
reading OF law.
About thus time he chose Tor chum
youth whose only possible recon-
mendation must have been that he
could boast OF army relatives. He
had visited in his sallow gosling days
at garrison, and was full of highly
speed tales regarding the wild daring
-"S''hS VI " ooiuioi o iilc
Saunders would drink in all these
stories' and despite his valiant efforts
to forget them and put temptation
away, they would come back to him
as he sat over the lnexpressibly stupid
tollos relating to the law.
One summer this chum of his invited
Saunders to visit him at his country
house ON the hudson. Saunders went
and spent the happlest two weeks OF
ms lie. For 1t was there that he met
Madge Kean, the bewitching little
daughter OF Colonel kean, OF the
Ienth. Saunders caught his first
glimpse OF her as he walked with
young Milton up the driveway. Madge
was armed with Flobert rifle, and
was teaching the little son of the house
no" TO ann ana pull the trigger.
Ihere was something in her very pose,
IN the TACT OF her knowing how to
shoot, that appealed to Saunders at
once. lie could not see her face, but,
nevertheless, he said to Milton that
she was mighty pretty girl" Mil
ton replied with pardonable pride
that the young lady was his cousin,
had just come from the far West, was
of the army, and mighty pretty
little flirt. Therefore, before Saun-
ders had even been introduced to the
fair Madge, he was perllously near to
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-13

People overlooked the Importance of perma-
nently beneficial effects and were satisfied
with transient action, but now that it is gener-
ally known that Syrup of Figs will permanent
ly cure habitual constipation, well-informed
people will not buy other laxatives, which act
for II time, but finally injure the system.