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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

A new bureau has been created in the
department of agriculture. It is divi-
sion, the duty of whose superintendent
and his assistants shall be to study the
climatic conditions of heat and moisture
under the ground and their relation to
crop distribution. The expectation is
that valuable information will be OBJ
tanned as to how different soils distribute
moisture to plants. Some soils hold the
water back and distribute it slowly,
while others give out all they contain
and dry up. 1t will be Of advantage to
farmers to know what crops can be
grown best on each of these different
kinds Of earth. BY understanding the
method in which different soils give out
their moisture it has already been pos
sible to increase the value of lands in
certain sections many fold, notably the
portions of Maryland which have Of re-
cent years been utilized for truck farm
ing.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
Brazil's Civil War.

Like rats deserving sinking ship,
Mello and Da Cana fed ignobly at the
last, when all was over with the insur-
gent cause in Brazil. Da Cana escaped
to a French cruiser; Mello was seen in
Montevideo, Uruguay, the day the rebel
lion collapsed in Rio Janeiro. Nearly
all there was left Of the rebellion was
two ships, Aquadaban and Repubica,
and both these were disabled. Da CANA
was on vessel in Rio harbor. When
he ran away to the French cruiser Ma
gon, he left the officers and men who had
trusted him for the victorious party to
dispose of as it saw fit. The tender mer-
cy of Latin Americans is not proverbial.
It is not quite so bad as that of Queen
Liliuokalani, who was going to cut the
heads off the Americans who founded
the provisional government in Hawaii,
but it is relentless enough.
The dispatches say that the common
sailors on board the insurgent vessels
will be pardoned, the officers shot. If
this is done, there will be more killing
after the Brazilian rebellion is ended
than there was while it was on. But
the good Offices Of all the foreigners in
Rio ought to be exercised to commend
these officers to lenient treatment. The
Brazilian government will show it's real
power by pardoning officers too. The
coward1y knaves who led them into the
scrape have saved their own skins by
fight. -.
It is to be hoped at least that the exc
cution of the officers will be delayed till
the autumn, when President Prudente
de Moraes takes his seat. He is perhaps
the best republican in Brazil, having
been consistent though not violent
and reckless one even in the time of
Dom Pedro. We may hope he will bring
to the government the moderation and
temperate judgment that characterize
more northern nations. After our civil
war was over Mr.. Jefferson Davis was
allowed to live his life out quietly in the
United States, and even the Union SOL
diers are now glad of it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

. ... - 1oA-OOO1 4nAAAs Sd.
the coveted buffalo lands, lay the Rockies,
every available pass of which was guarded
by the army. Beyond the mountains, block
ing the valleys, the stream crossings and
the gaps in the lower hills, were forts and
armed posts, all of these connected by tele-
graph. and the surrounding country was
alive with citizens Injured to frontier bat
tie, armed for it and ready to volunteer
against the red men.
The direct trail from the Clearwater to
the Missouri, over Bitter Root mountains,
through Lo Lo pass, has been known since
the earliest explorations as the worst ever
trod by man or beast By that route Joseph
struck out, taking his wounded braves, his
squaws and children and 1900 ponies. He
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
About Women's Clubs.

I
We observe that even the New York
Herald has fallen into the prevailing mis-
take ct sneering at women's clubs and
making much in a merry way of the oc-
casionai differences of opinion that OBJ
tain among the members, especially about
election time.
From somewhat extended observa-
ton of the proceedings of organizations
of both men and women, we are in
clined to take up the cudgels in defense
Of the woman's club. The baldheaded
fact in the case is that women in organ
ization do not begin to quarrel so much
as men do under the same circumstances.
At the very time The Herald talks of
women's clubs being the scene Of 'dis-
figuring fracases, at which the mascu-
line finger of scorn. is rightly pointed"
it knows, if it knows enough to get out
of bed in the morning, that some of the
largest and most influential clubs of
men in the metropolis are in a chronic
quarrel from one years end to the other.
No fight half so bitter has occurred in
any woman's club we ever heard of as
that which takes place from time to
time in the mems New York Press club,
to which members of The Herald staff
undoubtedly belong. The most malig-
nant insinuations have been circulated
as to candidates for president. Even
nj, 1o1I tc,c Poi. +~
raise money year ago there were fiery
accusations Of dishonesty in the dispo-
sition Of the funds, and feeling ran so
high that there were heartburnings which
not even the kindly hand of time can
soothe.
At the Biddeford election recently
there were scarcely more voters than be-
long to the woman's club The Herald so
unjustly attacks, yet there was an actual
fight with clubs and fists. What wom-
ans club ever got down to such depths
as that? Look at the disgraceful fight in
the house of commons last summer.
Look at the attitude of the two divisions
of the New Jersey senate during most of
the present winter. Look at the knights
of Labor, almost rent in twain because
some members do not like the chief Of
fcer. Recall the scenes that occur every
year in congress. Bring to your recol-
lection the blackballing, hair pulling,
gnashing Of teeth and fisticuffs that are
not unknown even in the most fashion
able and swell among clubs of men.
Then say onyour honor where the dds
figuring fracases" are more frequent--in
organizations of men or of women! But
perhaps The Herald wants the men to
have a monopoly of the quarreling and
fighting.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
The Stillwagens.

There is nothing like being Still
wagon. The Livingstons, the Cuttings,
Van Rensselaers and Winthrops may
pride themselves on their fine old fami-
lies, but their glory pales its Intellectual
fires before the prestige of the Stillwagen
name. It is the open sesame to prefer
ment in politics and victory in war.
Walter Stillwagen recently desired to
be postmaster of Broadford, Pa. He
brought recommendations to the depart
ment signed, as usual, by influential
members Of the party in Broadford.
They were all good men and true, loyal
Democrats and faithful workers. There
were So Of them, and the name Of every
one of these blessed Democrats was Still
wagon. How many were sons, cousins,
nephews or grandfathers Of the original
Walter is not mentioned, but they were
all relatives, and they all wanted him fo1
postmaster. He could muster around
him at need as many kinsmen as the old
fighting Scottish clans in, border war.
fare.
Happy Walter! There are enough Of
his kindred to lay out a whole township
and draw public money sufficient tt
build schoolhouse and run the public
schools, and one Of the Stillwagens could
be teacher, and the younger generation
of the name could be pupils. When il
comes to keeping things in the family
the Vanderbilts and Astors are not in i
with the Stillwagens. Well, good lucl
to the Stillwagens! May 1894 find twice
as many of them as there are today, ant
may they still hang together sufficiently
to all vote for one Of the family as post
master!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
New York has new grudge at Chi

New York has new grudge at Chi
cago. The distributing point for Indian
supplies, which time out of mind has
been New York city, has been changed
by order of Secretary Smith of the in
terror department. to Chicago. The
New York warehouse has been abol-
ished, and henceforth Indian supplies
will be annually contracted for and de
livered at Chicago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

EITHER Tell
whether a myth or
a verify it is all
one-nor Rob Roy,
d efe ding the
glens of the Alps
or the highlands;
neither S b VI,
in the Businesses of
!, Caucasia, nor yet
yMarion in his Car
Folina everglades,
made a more glo-
rious fight to win
all that men hold
worth battling
for-freedom, pos
sessions hn1ooc
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
CHIEF JOSEPH.

CdlEf JOSEfd.
off by the help of the greedy Crows Sturgis
made running fight of 100 miles north
ward in the direction of Judith gap, then
abandoned the pursuit as Gibbon and How
ard had done, from sheer exhaustion of men
and horses. ..*..
Chief Joseph had already used up forces
in marching and fighting over three times
the size of his original band. His next an
tagonist was General Miles, who started
from Tongue river about the middle of Sep
TENDER with large force of cavalry infan-
try and artillery and overlook the band en-
camped in the defiles of Bear Paw noun
tains on Oct 1. In the first charge on the
village Miles captured the Indian herd of
ponies, thus cutting off the last hope of es-
cape. A cold snowstorm set in, and Joseph
surrendered on Oct. 2 after fight which
cost him II killed and 40 wounded. ButS 81,
of his 400 warriors survived.
Throughout all that fearful and bloody
march the Nez Perces refrained from scalp
ing and other acts of savage retaliation.
Women captives they set free. .s>
..s-. .... ..,. GEORGE L. KILMER /
JOSEPH, THE NEE PIERCE.
From the northern desolation
Comes the cry Of exultation: ~
"lt1 ended. He has yielded, and the stub
born fight is womb
Let the nation in it's glory 49,.
Bow with shame before the story
OF the hero it has ruined and the evil it has
done. .. -
How he prayed whileshope remained,
Though the white mans hands were stained
With the blood that cried for vengeance Of his
murdered kin and clan, 7ss,~E.s.st
For the home the good God gave him
And the treaty sworn to save him, .. sa
For the shelter of his children, for the right to
be man. I'LL.
Then the troops began to hound him,
And he wrapped his blanket round him,
And he called his braves to follow, and he
smote them hip and thigh,
8nd t he he5i fTeM y o d hna easter
Drove him out into the mountains and beneath
an alien sky.
Through the continental ridges,
over lettering torrent bridges.
mountains boar,
Herds and wives and children bearing,
With an army trailed behind him and another
crouched before.
Thrice the sudden blow descended,
hs ana rash ar and ciaahing blended
till the hunted tribe were free.
Once he reeled, but swiftly rallied,
Forth upon the spoilers sailed,
their cannonry.
And the snowy heights revealed him.
And the false friends would not aid him and
his goal was far away: 3$--7-.-.s-.-- % -
Burdened by his weak and wounded.
Stripped and harried and surrounded
stood at bay. -s...--- -
From the freedom that he sought for,
FROM the dear land that he fought for,
de IS driven by q nation that has spurned its /
plighted word; = -
BY the Christians who have given
To the heather gracious heaven!
/ With the one hand theft and falsehood, with
the other ball and sword. rs '..s.ss n
w. II. Babcock in Harper's Magazine.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
An Epidemic of Bomb Throwing.


The pestiferous bomb throwers are
getting in their work in various quarters
Of the world. Beginning with the out
rage IN the theater at Barcelona, in Spain,
last autumn, the Messieurs Anarchists
have managed to keep good share of
public attention attracted to themselves
for the past six months. The affair at
Barcelona itself was in revenge for the
execution of the anarchist Pallas, who
threw the bomb at General Martinez
Campos. General Campos still lives and
is the general now conducting matters
for.Spain in Morocco. Valiant, in Paris,
has expiated the crime of bomb throw
ing and murder. That, however, did
not prevent Anarchist Pauwels from at
tempting to blow up the famous old
church of the Madeleine, with all it's con-
gregation of worshipers. London did
not escape the terror and alarm of threat
ened anarchistic demonstrations, but
thus far nothing of any consequence has
been blown up.
In Rome itiwas different. The cere-
monies lately at the funeral of Signor
Angel, who died from wounds received
at the explosion in the Piazza di Citorio,
were imposing enough. Baron Sonnino,
finance minister, himself walked in the
funeral procession. 1t was enough to
tempt the miscreant who threw the first
bomb to try it again. There was chance
of killing so many at once, and that is
what the dynamiters most desire to do,
according to their own profession.
In Russian cities there are constant
dynamite scares. In Brussels they are
also frequent, while Berlin occasionally
is stirred into state of alarm from the
same cause.
In the United States, except for the
case of the lamentable Haymarket affair
in Chicago and the explosion in Russell
Sage's Office about a year ago, we have
escaped serious injury and disturbance
from bomb throwing. 1t has been said
that as soon as the anarchists come to
America they get so busy trying to be-
come rich that they lose interest in kill
ing people as a recreation. Recent de-
velopments, however, look as if this say
ing were becoming an empty boast. In
West Virginia a few weeks ago a janitor
found under large hall in which hun
dred people had been dancing the night
before four bombs attached to a half
burned fuse. If the fuse had burned on
instead of dying out, the hall, with its
dancers, would have been lifted from its
foundations.
But it is in New York, where the most
foreigners are, that the outcroppings of
the bomb hurting spirit are chiefly visi-
BILE. One bomb was thrown recently
that wrecked a beer saloon, but fortu-
nately did not kill any one. A man was
arrested in Harlem the same day who
had in his possession dynamite bombs
enough to blow up whole block. He
declared when captured that the package
had been given him to carry, and he did
not know what was in it. But it made
the inhabitants of that part Of the big
city feel queer for a week.
Of course it is easy for man to say
when the explosive is found in his posses
sion that it was meant for blasting pur-
poses. But these are times when sus-
pected dynamiters will bear close watch.
ing in every part Of the Union.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

A policeman in New Y ork lately saved
a woman from being run over by acable
car, but she did not even thank him for
it. He found out afterward that she
was worth many million dollars. Some
people are so stingy that they will not
even give thanks.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

Poor old Louis Kossuth! If he had not
fretted and scolded so, if he had not
brooded over his disappointment and
failures constantly and made life a bur-
den to himself and everybody around
him, he might have made his long years
useful and pleasant both to himself and
the world. He had to live 80 years or
more anyhow. He fretted and whined
and scolded and brooded his way through
all the years after he failed to make
Hungary republic. Therefore he is now
dying slowly and painfully of dyspepsia,
bronchitis, ur@mia and fever.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

The New York Sun wants to know
why st. Louis men wear cellulcid collars
and cuffs. Do st. Louis men wear Gel
luloid collars and cuffs?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

The fact that that case hardened in
habitant of Washington, Senator Joseph
G. S. Blackburn, has been converted at
this late day shows there is still hope
even for congressman. While the lamp
holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may
return.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

The death of John T. Ford, the old
theatrical manager, in Baltimore re-
moves one of the few surviving individ-
uals closely connected with Ford's thea
ter in Washington when President Lin
coin was assassinated. If he had lived a
month longer, he would have survived
Lincoln exactly 20 years. Almost a gen.
GRAFTON has passed since the thrill of hor-
ror ran through the country that chilly
morning of April IS when people opened
their morning paper and saw in great
headlines the awful announcement that
the president had been shot and his death
was only a question Of minutes. With
all the terrors the country had been pass
ing through during those four years of
war, it had never come within range of
the imagination to conceive that an
American president could be assassinat-
ed. We are unfortunately too familiar
with the possibility now. But then ii
was all an awful mystery to us. We
knew that kings and rulers in Europe
had been murdered time and again, but
a president of the United States, no
Now none can help the thought this
very tragedy has been enacted twice; il
may be again. We can only hope ani
pray that it never will be. We cal
never feel absolutely sure it will not be
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

The Ohio legislature has passed the
resolution calling for biennial sessions.
But then these legislatures can always
hold over in adjourned sessions.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

The navigation law permitting the
American flag to float only over ships
built in the United States was passed in
1902, 1Os years ago, and has never been
Overhauled since.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

In some respects an American presi-
dent has more power than the British
sovereign. He can prepare his own mes
sages to congress out of his own head
and does it if he is sufficiently well up
in grammar and composition. And he
would die before he would let a con-
gresham move an amendment to it.
But any member Of parliament can move
an amendment to the queens speech in
the commons reply to it, advocating even
measures most hateful to her, and if q
majority favors it it stands. 1t is not
unlikely, however, that in their secret
hearts the members Of the English roya.
house are rather tickled at the blows thu
commons are dealing at the lords Some
of these are arrogant, even to the roya
family.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

There is now in circulation Of all
kinds of money in this country in round
numbers $1,7O0, 0O0, 900.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
High Jumping and Long Jumping


In the jumping records of athletes in
Great Britain and America a curious
difference exists. Athletic jumping is
divided into two classes-the long jump,
called technically the broad jump, and
the high jump. In the one case the ath-
lete leaps along the ground; in the other
he simply tries to see how high off the
ground he can jump. In the so called
broad jump the English beat the Ameri-
cans out Of sight. Seventy years ago
John Wilson, christopher North, while
professor of moral philosophy in Edin-
burgh university, made a leap of 81 feet
10 inches. But jumpers are like race
horses-the record stretches. Two young
English athletes, Fry and Reber, at pres
ent hold the worlds record as running
jumpers Of % feet 81 inches.
Young Mr.. Scoville says in The Uni
versity Magazine that there are a dozen
men in Oxford university alone who can
do over 81 feet in the assisted jump. In
all America there are not so many. In
the standing broad jump" which is the
leap straight forward without any arti
fetal assistance, Darby, an Englishman
has cleared 10 feet II inches. Our best
record for the standing broad jump is
only 10 feet 10A inches.
But our high jumping in both the as
sisted and the standing leap is much
better than any Briton can do. Sweeny
an American with an Irish name, hold!
the record Of the assisted high jump a
6 feet q inches. Schwaner holds thu
standing high jump record in America
with 5 feet 81 inches. The best Englisl
record in each Of these high jumps il
several inches shorter.
( Here is an interesting problem for rae
science to solve: Why are tho Englisl
the best broad jumpers and the Ameri
cans the best high jumpers?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
Revivalist Moody In Washington

One is cheered by the news which
comes from the Capital City to the effect
that Brother Moody is having wonder
full awakening among the sinners there.
It is not recorded that more than one
ongressman-Senator Joseph Blackburn
of Kentucky-has as yet been hopefully
converted, but the fact that this one has
been speaks volumes of hope.
Suppose even two-thirds Of the sena-
tors and representatives should suddenly
be turned from the error of their ways.
Then no congressman would ever fill
buster and delay the passage or defeat of
a bill. None would ever insinuate that
a brother was a falsifer or a coward.
None would ever lose his temper or come
upon the floor when he had been taking
too much of something in his tea. None
would ever keep a constituent in Office
or have an Office made for him when
there was no need of it just to reward a
faithful henchman. None of them would
spend 5000 of public money for wine and
cigars while going to another congress-
mans funeral. None of the cabinet Off
GERS who had been converted would have
their carriages and cooks kept at Uncle
Sans expense. None of them would
ever go junketing on vessels Of the navy.
No awful private scandals or Washing.
ton lawsuits reeking with unpleasant.
ness would offend public morality. What
an all round transformation there would
be, to be sure, if Brother Moody should
succeed in converting the government
officials, high and low, in Washington!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
AN INDIAN GENERAL.
CHIEF JosEpH's CAMPAIGN WITH HIS
NEE PIERCE BRAVES.

A Running Eight of Fifteen Hundred Miles
From Western Idaho Down and Up the
Rockies to Northern Montana-Three
Armies Beaten and a Fourth n cid at Bay.
copyright, 1894. by American Press Associa-
ton. Book rights reserved.1
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29

Divorces obtained in Oklahoma while
you wait.