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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14

ed the spur before the train, but for
some reason they. could not throw the
switch, and sometime afterWard we
clattered over it, to our immense re-
lief, and got away to a neighboring
post whence we soon brought re-
lieying force, but after the mischief
was done.
Throughout the race there was
running fight between the train guard
and the horsemen galloping along with
In twenty yards of us, but there was
too much motion for aim and very few
IN the side door Of the car returning
the fire Of the horsemen. In the midst
OF the fulisade he turned back into the
car to reload, and at once CALCULATED:
Good Lord! Major, look at that! l
turned, and on the other side Of our
pile of traps was a little fat-bullet-
headed, hook nosed cotton trader, curl
ed up on the floor, with the traps be-
tween him and the fying-bullets. My
companion; a strapping six-footer, sud
denly seized the frightened fellow,
shouting: Get up here, and keep the
bullets off me! With this he passed a
stalwart arm around his body, and,
holding the slzulker up before him,
stood in the car door, firing his revol-
yer with the other hand. The scared
cotton stealer kicked and clawed the
air wildly, and yelled like a lunatic,
but his captor held on while the rebel
horsemen laughed till they nearly fell
+ off their horses, till, as the last one
dropped behind, the fellows captor
flung him on the floor with an oath Of
disgust, and he scuttled, snarling and
shivering behind the baggage again,
though the bullets had ceased flying.
throughout, and we had many laugh
telling the story afterward.
"Ten years later was bank cashier
in a western town. A man came there
and went into business. He was a
good, honest but careless, fellow, and
soon fell behind in his business He
came to me for aid, and though I rath-
er strained authority to do so, 1 was
moved by an unaccountable impulse
to help him, though taking consider
able risk. often asked myself why I
did for this particular depositor what
l would not have done for any other,
but was never able to evolve any sat
isfactOry answer out of my inner con-
sciousness' or anywhere else.
| Zone day he came in to see me- l
was talking to another gentleman to
whom, for some reason 1 can't recall,
had just begun to ten the incident,
have just told you. I nodded to the
newcomer, and asked him to wait He
sat down indifferently, but soon be-
gan to manifest lively interest in my
story. He laid down his hat and be-
gan to draw closer. His eyes sparkled
his color came and went swiftly, and
perspiration started out all over his
face. AS the story ended with a laugh
from my other auditor at its ludicrous
features, this man grasped my shoulder
with tense, nervous fingers, and said,
almost under his breath:
! "Why Major; was that you there,
! that day.?
1T certainly was.' replied. But
how do you happen to know anything
i about it?'
Great Jerusalem!' he answered.
with something between a gasp and
a laugh, Il shot at you more'n twenty
times that day, reckon just because
you had on such blamed good clothes.
:" You We're one of Shelby's men,
then
J eyes; I was one of Joe's boys. did
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14

eies,' going for supplies My compan-
Ion and l stacked up our personal be-
longings and the money, the latter in
one Of those ridiculous little iron boxes
used by government disbursing OFF,
GERS in box car, and took possession
1t was frightfully hot, and after we
had passed out frem the cypress
swamp on to the open prairie we climb
ed out on to the top of the car for air.
"Presently as we approached a
guarded station, we discovered there
was fighting going on there, and soon
realized that General Joe Shelby and
z large force Of his rough riders had
broken in on the line Of communica-
ton captured post and were tear
Ing up the road. We had unwittingly
nearly run into their clutches. The
train was stopped, we transferred
the money to the cab of the engine,
put 1t in charge Of our clerks, and in
structing them If they saw capture
inevitable to open the boxes and throw
the half million into the furnace-their
testimony to the facts before a con-
gressional committee being probably
good, and ours certainly not worth a
cent-we climbed back into our car,
and the train began the ticklish opera
tion-on such track-of backing out
Of danger. -
"A couple of miles or more behind
as was a'spur,' or switch track, with
only one end connected with the line,
and General Joe had already sent a
considerable detachment Of his caval-
~ galoping across the prairie toward
that. If they reached II first and onen-
ed the switch we were last. A few Of
the swfftest riders rode straight for
that end. while the others-a hundred
or more-veered toward the train and
opened fire. We didn't dare to run
very fast. and they had no difficulty
IN keeping even with us for mile
and a half or more. though strung out
and soon beginning to lose.
1T was a close and thrilling race,
though. Some Of the horsemen reach
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14
The Place Was Filled,

MADAME" he said, as she held the
door open little way and asked him
what he wanted, perhaps it so hap
pened years ago that you had son
wander away from the family fire
side?"
Eyes, it did," she replied, as sho
opened the door little further.
HE went out into the cold world and
became wanderer DER the face of the
e4rth?"
Eyes, he did,"
"Days and weeks and months ran
into years, and you heard no word of
him? You knew not whether he lived
Or diedY' e..
"As you say, I knew nothing" replied
the woman, as she stood in the door
and looked fixedly at the tramp.
'Well, ma'am," he continued, II don't
want to raise any false hopes, but
but ..e q
''You are just little too late" she
finished, as he swallowed the lump in
his throat and tried to wipe away a
tear MY wandering son returned
about two hours ago and is now taking
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14
A Violent Man.


81 don't like to say anything against
my neighbours" said Miss Philenda
Fortysmith, cautiously, to Mrs. Long
necker, who had come up from South
Squann to spend the day:but it pears
to me that Deacon Trilligan is leetle
mite too hasty and violent for a pro-
fessor of religion and a pillar Of the
church."
Mercy on us!' returned the visitor,
hungrily. What has the deacon been
a-doin'?'
at amt what he's done, but what
he's said that struck me as bein' kind
er unwarranted. You see, last Friday,
jest as he was startin' off to market
with load of produce, the colts he
was drivin' got frightened at some
thing and began to cut up terribly
They overturned the wagon on top Of
the deacon and then ran in through
our gate, which happened to be opened
and tore around through the lot, crash
in through the grape-arbor and break
in up the hot-bed, and then tore out
again and out Of sight up the road,
leavin, the wreck of the wagon piled
up against the gate post. with the
deacon all tangled up in it. 'spose
likely he felt pretty badly aggravated
when he crawled out; but it seems
to me he ought to have at least stop
ped and counted one hundred before
he spoke"
Good land! What did he say?:'
''Why he threw up both hands and
said 'Goshr loud enough to be heard
clear across the lot!'-Puck.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14
A Quick RetOrt.

Max O'Rell was telling Stories "In
Sydney:-N. S. W., William Redmond,
the celebrated commoner and home rule
advocate, was at Centenary hall. There
was the widest kind of enthusiasm
when he had finished addressing the
great mass meeting. The chairman of
the meeting was very meek, mild
man, do you understand? Very meek
and very mild. Very WE'LL The chair
man rose when quiet had been restored
and said:
Gentlemen, am requested by Mr..
Redmond to say that if any one pres
ent wishes to ask him a question he
will be glad to answer it,
"A man arose from the body Of the
meeting and assembled the platform.
"'Mr. Chairman he said, but he
never got any further. He was recog-
niZed at once rs notorious Orange
man, and quick as a flash a great, big
specimen Of an Irishman sprang at him
and struck him in the temple-like that
so. The man fell like log and it
was thought he was killed by the blow.
They had to send for doctors and had
to carry the man out on a stretcher.
Imagine the excitement all this time,
continuing for a quarter of an hour
Finally the chairman-don't forget how
meek and mild he was-tapped gently
on the edge Of his desk, advanced to
the front of the platform with his eye
glasses INised on the end Of his fingers
-so-and 1t became at once as quiet as
you could imagine. Then, very de-
1iherate tho chairman Soid.
!. Gentlemen, is there any one else
who would like to ask Mr.. Redmond q
question" "-Buffalo Express.
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you ROBBED ME OF MY HONORr''

You ROBBED ME- OF MY HoNoRr'
not overpleased to find Belle there,
for had fully made up my mind to
apologize to my wife and try to es-
tablish the old affection, but just as
Preached the parlor door, without in
ne least attempting to listen,
heard my wife talking in the most
plaintive tones, as If her very heart
was broken.
go to him, Belle, and toll him that
love him! Tell him that it is all
mistake-that he alone Us the idol of
my heart, and no other could take
his place even for a minute"
turned abruptly upon my heel end
entered the study door, where could
not hear their voices, and then, with
my brain in a perfect tumult of be-
wildermeht, sat down to reason out
my wife's strange message. To whom
was the message to be earried-to
myself, her husband, or to Arthur
Hastings? If to me, why should
bearer be necessary? and if to Arthur
but could not harbor such q vile
suggestion.
At first felt angry at Amy for thus
revealing our first disagreement, but
Belle was her childhood's friend, and
women the world over will tell their
woes to one another. WAITED little
longer and then, hearing the par]or
door open and close, concluded Belle
had started to find me. rose eagerly
and opened the door, and in another
instant, almost foolishly expectant,
was standing close beside her.
Good evening"" she said sweetly,
rs she finished buttoning her glove.
II have been calling on Amy and did
not know that you were home" Then,
to my utter surprise and distress. she
walked. abruptly to the door, and
with pleasant nod, opened it and
went out. to deliver. suppose, my
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14
Tho Second. Hand Doalar.

AS the dealer in secondhand books
will buy anything, provided it be
cheap enough, so the junk dealer
after a while is mastered by an in
satiable thirst for buying. It is not
unusual to find at q junk dealers
piecesof machinery, bits OF apparatus.
or Instruments of which he knows
neither the names nor tho uses. They
come to him as scrap metal, and he
hopes to sell them to some one VINO
may recognize their value.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14
The Mote and the Beam.

In the corridor outside hotel din
ing-room the following conversation
was overheard. the speakers a woman
and man. proven bride and groom by
a hundred outward and visible signs.
She hanging back at the doorway
and whispering. )-Don't look 80 happy.
1 shan't go in with you while you
wear that rapturous expression. Ev-
erybody there will know at glance
that we are bride and groom.
He Whispering also)-My dear, take
the beam out of your own eye.-Hars
per's Bazaar
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14
The Usual Way.

"How will you 1ecoup yourself for
your losses?"
"Oh, I propose to marry a rich wont
an"
s'Must you not then deceive her"'
"Oh, no, indeed.I shall frankly tell
her she may make me good by becoln-
ing my wife, and she will marry me
with the purpose Of reforming me-"
Thanks Yes, the dark cigars were
preferable according to his taste.
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Drive Them Away.

She shrank away coyly at his ap-
proach.
care we alone?'' she faltered, In ap-
prehension.
II don't know" he answered. you
might sing a few selections and make
sure"
He rose and would have led her to
the piano but for the cold stare she
gave him.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14

LnaU SnaUOW DOre
the semblance of pale, emaciated
man, the brother of my wife's old
friend and schoolmate.
never liked Belle Hastings partic-
ularly we'll; there was something in
her dark gray eyes that looked
treacherous to me even in her girl
hood, and now. after two years So
journ in wicked New York I fancied,
as jealous men some times will, that
she was no fit companion for my gen
tie Amy.
But my wife seemed radiantly
happy when Belle and her brother
took the house next door.
said nothing, but at that instant
l felt curious sensation burning in
my heart, and knew, but would not
admit, even to myself, the fact that
was jealous of Arthur Hastings near
ness to my treasure.
For Arthur had loved her once in
the days when they were boy and girl
together, but he was poor and sickly,
while I was quite the opposite, and
although l never really doubted
Amy's love. I sometimes found myself
wondering if she had ever cared for
Arthur.
was not neglected in any manner.
Amy was always there when I ar
rived, and the house was always as
bright and cheerful as could be. but
all her plans for ourselves were so
interviewer with plans for our neigh
bors that the feeling that I was no
longer foremost in her mind drove me
nearly frantic with suppressed resent
ment. And one morning the rage in
my heart overcame my will entirely
'1ou think altogether too much of
Belle Hastings and her brother"
said, with meaning accent when
Amy had finished telling me some
plan that she had made for her neigh
bors' entertainment
My wife looked surprised and
panied at my sudden outbreak. and
replied with little show of temper:
Belle is my best FRIEND" she said,
holly, and Arthur, poor fellow, is
my best friends brpther."
And your lover once" I retorted
ferce1y. "You should have married
him if you regarded him so highly"
, And then, slamming the door, L left
her for the first time in our married
life without the usual kisses and ca
resses.
That night when 1 returned home I
heard my wife and her friend talking
softly together in the parlor. I was
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14

Patient-But, doctor, didn'. you
strictly order me to avoid all excite
ment?
Doctor-Certainly. In your state tho
least excitement Is most injurious and
may lead to the worst consequences.
Patient-Tllen why on earth did you
send in that long bill Of yours yes
tcrday ?-Once a Week.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14

Margaret-Blanche is such an i'm
questionable, sensitive creature, isn't
she?
Dorothy-Oh, tremendously so; she is
veXed with me now because l didn't
shake hands with her the other day.
But l passed her on an electric car,
and she was on the corner; so really
l couldn't you know.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14

Pat-Oi tell yez phwat, Mickey; yez
ought t. train fer a proize- foighter.
Mickey-Do yez think SO? Do yez
think Ohm built fer it?
Pat-Ruilt fer it? Oh should shmoile.
Whoy, dere amt amy av thin phwat's
got as big mout' as yures.-Judge.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14
A Good Reason.

Tommy-May have some bread and
sugar mamma?
Mamma-Why do you always want
bread and sugar, and never bread and
butter?
Tommy-Because, mamma, sugars
only worth five cents pound and but
ter's about forty.-Harper's Baza::.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14
Could Not See It,,

Daisy-Sibyl is simply furious. She
went to help Mrs Davenport receive
her young men callers on New Years
day and put sprig Of mistle.oe in her
hair ,-.ss... t.. .a5.
Marie-And didn't anybody kiss her?
Daisy-No. She forgot to take off her
hat.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14
HUMOROUS DRIFT.
HUMAN FoIBLEs MADE FUN OF ny
JOKERS.

some OF the Queer Things the HUI
mDr1st Hears nnd Sees-SOme En-
PERTAINING Reading for Both
Young and Old. .... IT.. 49,.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14

There are said to have beeen i've suicidel
In FIVE years In Divinity hall, Cambridge.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-14

II nau Deen living
since our mar
riage in a cosy
little house up
town. and for one
short, bl i S S f u
year the blessed
spirit of harmony
perv ad e q our
dainty dwelling,
but now the
seemingly newt
able shadow was
creeping slowly
between us, and
that shadow bore
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-13
VOyagcrs for Pleasure

Or business, persons on the point of TAX
ing an "outing" on land or sea, yachts
men and tourists need and should be pro-
vided with some preventive of sea sick
ness and corrective of the occasional i'll
effects of unaccustomed air, food and
water. Many nervous persons experience
qualms akin to sea sickness when travel
ing by rail. They, too, require a medi-
cinal safeguard. The best in existence is
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which
promptly relieves nausea, sick headache,
~biliousness, cramps and collie, etc. If bust
ness calls you to some locality where
chills and fever or bilious remittent is
prevalent, don't fail to provide yourself
with it. For constipation, rheumatism
and inactivity of the kidneys it ia an ex-
cellent remedy. Eminent physicians COM
mend it highly. Lay in a supply before
you start by boat, steamer or train. 1t is
a most serviceable trt Yelling companion.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-13
AlWaVs n Cattle Range.

There will always be an immense cattle
range in this country. Farms will not
prevail against it. The mountains are
much the better and bigger part of the
cattle range. There is more shelter, more
water, more n better grass in the noun
tains than on the plains. The mountains
will support more cattle, square mile by
square mile, than the plains.
In the winter when the snow covers the
grass on the plains and mountains, too,
the latter, more generous than the plains,
furnishes plenty of oak and qdaking asp
browse. There are barren stretches up
above timber line in the mountains where
grass can not grow and cattle could not
climb; but there are also tracts of coun-
try on the plains of no avail as range.
There is grass but no water there.
Wild cattle drink once in forty-e1ght
hours. They will be at the river over
night. All the next day they will stretch
out upon the plains; the fastest walkers
going a dozen miles, never further. The
second night they will sleep out on the
waterless plains, and the following day
Craze back to the river again for further
carouse on the waters. Area for area, the
mountains will support more cattle than
the plains.-Springer Stockman.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-13
INFORMATION FOR HOME HUNTERS.

At a meeting of the Western society,
heli in Chicago on Wednesday evening,
steps were taken toward the organiza-
ton of a bureau of information for the
benefit of persons who are hunting homes
in the west. The idea is an excellent one.
If it materializes in proper form, it will
confer great benefits upon thousands of
worthy families in the over-crowded east,
as we'll as upon the still sparsely settled
states and territories of the far west that
need more honest and intelligent workers
to develop their diversified resources. 1t
is a distinct recognition of the fact that
there are many discontinued people in
the eastern states, who are anxiously
looking for opportunities to better their
conditions by acquiring productive
homes of their own, and that these OPP
%portunities are presented in the west.
In fair and fruitful New Mexico, for ex-
ample, a veritable empire on the map,
are fertile lands under ditch, particularly
in Colfax, Chaves, Eddy, Grant and San
Juan counties and in the beautiful Rio
Grande valley, where hundreds of just
such locations as eastern home hunters
want can be obtained on the most
reasonable terms. Right here in the
Santa Fe valley, all Of which will soon be
under the bitches of local water con
panies, rare chances are offered for mum
erous families to render themselves in
dependent raising fruit, gardening and
cultivating small farms. The same is
true of the Espanola and Chamita val
legs. In the event that the organization
of the proposed bureau of information
for home seekers is perfected at Chicago,
no time should be lost in placing the
facts respecting the soil, climate, water
aud other advantages of New Mexico be-
fore those in charge of the bureau.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-13

America. In respect to debts, the United
States will require European govern
ments to satisfy their demands with
something less than the territory of the
nation owing the debt. In other words,
a debt due by Venezuela or other South
American governments will not serve as
a pretext for the acquisition of territory.
The Monroe doctrine is older than any
debt Venezuela owes. 1t was in exist
enoe when Venezuela's present debt was
contracted. German capitalists knew
that whatever they accepted in the way
of security was subject to the condition
that the general territory of Venezuela
could not be levied upon. The danger
the Monroe doctrine was intended to
guard the United States against would be
the same whether territory was acquired
in satisfaction of debt or by conquest.
A combination of European powers
against us should not materially affect
the definition the government will give
to the doctrine. President Monroe stated
a principle essential to our national Sc
curity if not to our national life. If this
doctrine is broken down we should have
one European nation or another at our
doors. We would have to fight them
under serious disadvantages.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-13
SOME COMPLICATIONS.

It seems to be England's policy to in
terest az many European nations as pos
sible in Venezuela. Both France and
Germany are now in a position to have
something to say about the enforcement
of the Monroe doctrine. The government
of Venezuela seems to have used German
capital freely In developing the country,
and the government of Germany thinks
il has money enough in Venezuela to
warrant the acquisition of a coaling
station off the Venezuela coast. A Wash
ineton dispatch snys the United States is
likely soon TO be called upon to say
what construction it will place on the
Monroe doctrine. II will not of course
be held that the United States stands be-
tween any European government and the
collection of it's debts by the ordinary
process of collection. 1t will not be held
that the United States will interfere to
preyent the enforcement of any demand
for reparation for an outrage committed
BY any country of South or Central
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-13
ELAT-oPENING BLANK BOOKS

Being satisfied that if you have once
used a 1at-opening book, you will al
ways use them, and in order to get
you to try one the New Mexican
Printing Co. Of Santa Fe, will sell you
HANDMADE BLANK BOOKS,
bound in full leather, with patent
FLAT-OPENING STUBS, with your
name and the number, or letter, Of the
book on the back in gilt letters, at the
following low prices:
5 Or. 600 pages) Cash Book : $3.50
3 3 r { |ssS i heases 60: s:sS
They are made with pages 1OHx16
inches, of a good ledger paper with
round cornered covers. The books
are made in our bindery and we guar
antee every n of them.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-13

The government crop report for July
makes a showing that will still further in
crease the outlook for a business boom
this fall. The percentages are: Corn,
1913; winter wheat, 65.8; spring wheat,
1922; oats, 1872; winter rye, 92.2; spring
rye, n; barley, 91.9; potatoes, 9l.52. The
acreage of potatoes compared with 1894,
1919; corn, 1913; being an increase OF
G,OOO, 900 acres over 1894. The average
condition of all wheat for the country
ia 1872.