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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-22
An Old ODD Fellow Dead

indianapolis, Oct Benjamin r.
Foster, grand secretary Of the grand
lodge, |. 0. 0. r., of Indiana since
1871, died to-day. He was rs years
of age.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-22
Judge Richardson -Dvinr

Washington, Oct. 20.-Chief Justice
William A. Richardson, of the court Of
claims. is lying at the point of death
at his home in this city. He is suffer-.
ing from a complication Of diseases.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-22

The 1000 miners employed at the
twenty-five mines at Springfield. ILL.,.
came out on strike this morning for
an advance in wages.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-22
The Nations Capital.

The president has appointed Charles
d. Steele postmaster at Minersville,
Pa, vice John Toole, removed because
Of default in accounts.
Lieut.. George H. Stafford, U. S. n,
formerly Of Atlantic, Iowa, has been
transferred from service ON the gun
boat Baltimore to take charge Of the
photographic station at Cleveland.
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A Prediction About Railways.

; The following prediction, made by
the Royal College of Physicians of Ba-
varia in 1885, is now on record in the
archives of the Nuremberg and Furth
Railway, in that country. When it was
proposed to build this line, the ply
sicians of the country met and for
mally protested against it. "Locomo-
ton, by the aid of any kind of steam
machines whatever" the Bavarian
physicians declared, Should be pro-
hibited in the interest of the public
health. The rapid movements cannot
fail to produce in the passengers the
mental ailment called delirium furios-
UNI. Even admitting" the protest went
on, chat travellers will consent to run
the risk, the state can do no less than
protect the bystanders. The sight alone
Of a locomotive passing at full speed
suffices to produce this frightful malady
Of the brain. 1t is, at any rate, indis-
pensable that a barrier at least six
feet high, should be erected on both
sides of the track"
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was able to see the outline Of the jaguaP
crouching near her. but its face was
turned from her, and 1t appeared to
be intently watching some object upon
which 1t was about to spring. Pres
emily 1t crept out Of sight, and there
followed a deep silence, broken sud-
denly by frightful yells and screams Of
pain, coupled with the fierce growls
and snarls of the puma, and the sounds
of desperate conflict.
THE puma and the jaguar are sworn
enemies, and the two great beasts were
having battle to the finish. The bat
tie lasted for some time. but near
morning the puma. soreiy wounded.
crept through the grass and crouched
down beside my daughter. purring like
a cat. The creature seemed so friend
ly that Ethel ventured to stroke his fur
with her hand, whereupon the puma
began to play and roll about like kit
ten. When We rode up the puma
crouched over her body and began to
growl. Several rifles were leveled at
the head Of the brute, but Ethel begged
us not to shoot, and from that day to
this the two have been inseparable."
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and she rides a horse with all the
grace and fearlessness of a gaucho.
Last fall we had a grand 'cerco,' or
assembly of ranchmen and hunters. to
hunt ostriches and other game. The
sport is exciting, but far from danger
Gus, and Ethel was one Of the party.
The hunters, numbering about thirty,
spread themselves round in a vast ring,
axd, advancing toward the center,
drove the animals before them.
During the excitement of the chase
which followed, while we were all en-
gagged in preventing the ostriches, deer,
ETC., from doubling back and escaping.
I noticed that my daughter had disap-
peared. Her absence did not alarm me
at the time, for I thought she had be-
come tired and gone back to the estan-
cia- I was nearly frantic when, late at
night, I reached home and found that
Ethels pony had come galloping home
early in the afternoon without its
rider. Dreading the worst I imme-
diately got together band of gauchos
and we started out to search for my
darling.
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Patent Right Swindles.

An exchange says that a smooth pat
ent right swindling scheme is being
worked in some of the states. A man
comes to a farmer with a patent wagon
tongue for which great claims are
made. He has only that one county
left and will sell the right for two
hundred and fifty dollars. A few days
later, while the farmer is thinking
over the matter. another man comes
along, who has learned that the farmer
has the right to the valuable invention,
and offers him four hundred dollars for
it, paying him ten dollars down. The
farmer at once goes and closes the deal
with the first party, giving his note or
cash for the two hundred and fifty dol
lars. In the meantime the second man
disappears and the two schemers meet
and "divy." II a note, it is discounted
at the nearest bank.
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A FRENCH BABY,

Legal .Formalities ON tho Birth Of y
Possible Soldier.
The birth of new citizen in France
at once gives rise to countless formali-
ties and an avalanche of legal scrib-
blings, which would teach him. could
he but understand. that his country is
par excellence the home of legal cere-
mony and administration, says the
Century. Within the first twenty-four
hours notice of the birth must be sent
to the mayors Office there is such an
Office in every village in France), SO
that the official physician may call and
make the necessary legal statement.
I suppose he wants to convince himself
that the declaration already made is
correct, and that the family. when it
announced the birth Of a girl, was not
trying to screen a future soldier from
his compulsory service. Then the
father, accompanied by two witnesses.
goes to fill out the birth certificate and
gives his child its legitimate, docu-
mented position. to which he or she
will be obliged to have recourse in all
the great, and frequently in the minor.
circumstances of life, from one end of
it to the other. Without it the child
could not enter a school, nor draw lots
on entering the army, nor get married,
nor be buried. The least mistake of
form would have most serious conse-
quences; the baptismal names declared
must always be placed in the same
order on all future deeds. These are
usually saints names. I recall the
amusing anger of young American
father of my acquaintance who wished
to give his son born in Paris the name
of the great sailor Duquesne, in re-
membrance of the avenue where the
baby had seen the light Of day, and,
in addition, the family name of one of
his friends, which no Frenchman
could pronounce. All this seemed so
shocking and homogeneous to the regis
trar that the certificate was made out
only after interminable discussion.
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A South American puma lion, the
fiercest animal of that half of the hem
isphere, is.the pet Of little Miss Ethel
CurEon, the 15-year-old daughter of
Captain Henry F. Curzon, late Of Her
Majestiy's service.
Damon is a fine, sleek and silken-
haired specimen of his tribe. He was
born three years ago among the PAM
pas grass region Of South America that
L. known locally as La Pampa.
Curzon for years has been in that
country as the representative Of an
English syndicate. He arrived in Phil
adelphia the other day accompanied by
his daughter. and the puma came with
them, making the long journey in a
cage that was carried in the baggage
car.
Damon is the dearest creature
next to papa-on EARTH" said Miss
Ethel to q reporter. He saved my
life, and the debt of gratitude I owe
him can never be repaid"
Damon is a puma" said the cap
tain. Here in Pennsylvania the early
settlers knew his congeners under the
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name Of panther. painter or cata-
mount. In California they call him
the cougar, or mountain lion.' Dur
ing the past decade and half of years
I have had an abundant opportunity
to become pretty intimately acquainted
with Sir Puma The longer I know
him the Better I like him.
HE has been very unfortunate in
his biographess. They give him, 1t Il
true, q high character for courage, but.
at the same time. because Of their ig-
norance Of his true nature, they impute
to him . cowardly fear Of man that
he is very far from possessing. He
will not, as q rule, defend himself
against man, and the gauchos Of the
pampas, understanding and appreciat-
ing the mysterious gentle instinct Of
this ungentle beast, call him 'amiogo
del christiano.'
Damon was full grown when We
first became acquainted with him. He
was never captured, and, except when
we are travelling. is never restrained Of
his liberty. am on my way back to
my old home in England primarily to
visit my aged parents and incidentally
to place my daughter at school, When
I return to South America shall leave
Damon behind, for it would be cruelty
to 10th to separate him from Ethel
For the past i've yearsN since the
death Of my dear wife-we have been
living q . place called Saladillo. where
] had n egtancia. Ny daughter has
6oea raised to IN active, out-dooe M
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Eventually one Of the gauchos
found Ethel in a bunch of scrub, lying

Eventually one of the gauchos
found Ethel in bunch of scrub. lying
on the ground with broken leg. Her
pony. early in the hunt, had stepped
into an 'oculto' hole and thrown its
rider. Being unable to move because
Of her fractured limb, Ethel had shout
cd for assistance, but her voice was
drowned by the yells of excited hunters
and the hope of rescue vanished. She
is q brave girl, and, knowing that a
search would be made for her as soon
as her absence was discovered, she
made herself as comfortable as possible
and awaited the arrival Of help.
"As night approached, and no one
came. she began to experience genuine
alarm, and when, about an hour before
dark, q puma-now her pet Damon
appeared and squatted down in tho
grass close beside her, she gave herself
up for lost. The beast, however, did
not seem to notice her, and her courage
revived. She remembered that the
puma rarely. ii ever. molests a human
being. and she began to hope that the
creature would go away.
after awhile the puma became rest
less, frequently going away and return
ing, and finally it stayed away 50 long
that she thought it had left her for
sood. About midnight she heard the
Aeep roar Of a jaguar. and abandoned
IN hope, for the South American tiger
= mAm's deadly foe.
SBy raising herself On her elbow. -
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Tho Spirit Of Modern Athens.

Modern Athens, which recalls in 90
many ways the Athens of ancient days,
has inherited from her the privilege of
being beautiful and enriched by her
children. The public treasury was not
always very well filled in those times
any more than in the present, but
wealthy citizens who had made for
tunes at distance liked to crown their
commercial career by some act Of lib
crafty to the mother country. They
endowed the land with superb edifices
Of general utility-theaters, gymna-
STA, temples. The modern city is like
wise full Of monuments which she owes
to such generosity. It was easy to OBJ
tain from private individuals what the
state could not give. Tie Olympic
games had burned with so bright a lus-
ter in the past Of the Greeks that they
could not but have their revival at
heart-"The Olympic Games Of 1896, 80
by Baron Pierre de Caubertin, in the
Century.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-11-26
STAGE WHISPERS.

She can do more in five seconue
with her eyes than Anthony Comxtocx
can undo in five years." says JAMES G.
Huneker Of Anna Held. the !stest sen.
sation imported from Paris.
An English comedian says the only
way to successfully spring joke on
British theater-goers Is to first an
nounce that a joke is about to be
sprung, then to spring it. and lastly to
explain that it has been sprung.
Clement Scott. the famous London
critic. has son playing in Days com
pany in New York in 1.-THE Geisha"
A son of William Winter and a grand
son Of Tom Haddaway. the famous
American comedian. are also In the
same organization.
It is probable that TON Grogan."
which Augustus Thomas aided Hopkin-
son Smith in making into q play.
may not be produced this season after
all. Considerable work has to be done
on it to get it into shape. as The first
draught was far from satisfactory.
Boston is moving in the abolition Of
obstructive hats In theaters. One man
ager sends an usher to every offending
woman. just before the rise Of the cur
tain. to ask her to remove the nuisance,
and in nearly every case she complies
without ado.
Recent London papers have givea
much commentator to q performances
by Miss Keith Wakeman. an American
actress, who was formerly In Lawrence
Barrett's company. and who went to
England some time ago with that q
Il 8. willard.
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MISSIONS.

The annual report of the Moravian
church gives $50 mission stations. 400
missionaries and $4,000 converts in
heather lands.
The native Christians in heather
lands last year gave $559, 900. more than
United States.
The last of the heather on Efate
Island are being gathered into the
church as the result of twenty-three
years faithful labor.
One hundred and fifty Chinese con-
verts were baptized during the last
twenty months by Rev. Hopkin Reea
at Tientsin, north China.
As the American Baptist Home Mis-
sion society is heavily burdened with
debt. the board Of managers Of that
society, at a meeting held Sept. II. de-
cided to make no appropriations for
missionaries salaries for the present for
q period extending beyond Dec. 81.
1896, unless the current receipts mean
time shall be very considerably in
creased.
The vast possibilities open to an in
dividual society Of Christian Endeavor
are shown in q report that comes from
Geelong, Australia The Yarra Street
Wesleyan society, which contains flve
divisions and $50 members, has organ
lied q boys club, q mems club, q birth
day league for missionary purposes and
q Sunday school home department.
During the year it held 208 cottage
prayer meetings. besides seventy-eight
open air services: 4.251 visits were paid
and Ass loaves of bread distributed
The Juniors provided an outing for one
hundred slum children, distributed $50
bouquets Of flowers and made mors
than 500 visits. The other labors Of TIA
society were on propoftionate scala
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A Good Advertising Medium.


A glance in an Atlanta book store
yesterday made this striking truth
stand forth:
Death is sometimes a big advertise
ment.
In no department of human effort do
men put forth such terrific energy as
in their attempts to catch the public
eye. Men rack their brain for ingeni-
GUS schemes to attract public attention.
The good advertiser is the rarest and
richest of successes.
But some times all the cleverness
and ingenuity of these brain workers
are beaten-aud Unexpectedly.
Du Maurier's death last week was
an advertisement for Harper Bros.
which no idea they might dig out of
their brains could excel. It has started
a great rush after last months Har-
per's, which contained the first INSTALL
ment of "The Martian," Du Maurier's
new story, and third edition of the
number is now being fast exhausted.
Those who cannot find the magazine
are investing in Peter Ibbetson," and
If there happen to be any who have not
read "Trilby" they invest in that. The
book dealers will tell you that in the
past four days there has been a won
derful demand for Du Maurier's works.
This great author who has added
thousands to the Golfers of the Har-
pers by his life, is adding thousands
to their profits by the mere fact of his
dcath.-Atlanta Constitution.
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81 AM THE PIECE THAT WAS
LOST"

lis it likely?" she said fiercely. "A
good woman! How should be good
woman? tell you, I'm the piece that
was lost, and nobody ever looked for
me. II was q good woman, do you
suppose I should be where I be-only
Is years old. well and hearty, and
every door in the world shut in my
taco? tell you the man who wrote
that story didn't know women; they
don't hunt for the piece that's lost,
they just let it 90. There's enough Of
them and don't get lost"
Poor Martha Rogers was sorely per-
picked, all the more that her way had
lain 30 smooth and plain before her
that she might have walked into it
blindly. II she was q lost piece of
oliver. 1t was not she who lost 1t; but
what II 1t were the Masters. precious
to his heart. and q careless hand
dropped 1t and left it to lie in the dust.
And what II he babe her to seek it, and
and It for him? Should she dare re-
fuse? On this very day. when she
needed so surely the help which she had
80 looked for in vain, had not this
woman been sent to her very door,
and was 1t not plain leading Of Prov
tdence? It Is q blessed thing for us
that We are usually driven to act FIRST
and theorize afterward. even though
the after-thought sometimes brings re-
pentance. The bread was ready for
the oven and the woodbox empty.
You may fetch In some wood" said
Martha Rogers, and the woman
promptly obeyed, filling the box with
one load Of her sinewy arms. and then
stood humbly waiting. Hetty came In
to the kitchen and began to clear the
table. but her mother said. 60 upstairs
and fetch q big apron and one Of our
sewing caps. and see Il you can finish
up your dress"
Away went Hetty. her light heart
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POPULARITY OF SARATOGA.

Attraction Of American Watering Place
Sung In London Papers.
Saratoga Springs will always be pop
ular. You have here the best OF Amer
lean society, less exclusive than New
pert or Lenox, less mixed than Long
Branch and Manhattan Beach and vast
ly more representative than either, says
a letter in the London Telegraph. This
is mainly due, perhaps, to the enormous
hotels, with their huge verandas or
piazzas in front and vast garden court
yards in the rear, which is the special
feature Of Saratoga. These gigantic
structures are among the biggest hos
telries in the world. Two Of the larg-
est provide something like 1000 beds
each and their lofty and spacious halls.
drawing, dining and reception rooms
are all on a scale of corresponding
magnitude. Here all classes melt and
blend. Round the inclosed garden
courts are built tiers of elegant apart
ments, each with its veranda, while
every set of rooms on the same noor
is technically a cottage. Julian Haw-
thorne says a walk round the circuit
Of these verandas takes long enough
for a young man and woman to become
acquainted, to get engaged and break
it of again. This estimate is so def
mite that I hesitate almost to repeat
the cruder statement that one OF the
courtyards measures seven acres. It Is
marvellous, however, how attractive the
Enclosures of these two great hotels are.
In the hottest afternoons the branch
ing elms and the sugar naples throw
their shadows across the green sward
and, in the cool, delicious evenings.
when the bands are playing, the foun-
tains flowing and ladies in gauzy toll
| cites promenading, the scene is charm
ing. Besides its agreeable society, let
me say that Saratoga has many natural
| attractions. From New York you APP
proach it as far as Albany by the Hud-
son-the Rhine of America. Up this
river the blue tidal waters of the At
| lantic flow as far as Poughkeepsie. On
both sides of the stream the banks
are lofty and we'll wooded, and all the
way along are dotted with villages and
country residences standing in pictur-
esque Enclosures, sloping down very Of
| ten to the waters edge. On the north
ern side of Saratoga are Lakes George
and Champlain, two of the prettiest
| of transatlantic inland waters. In
former days also the village, like Tun-
bridge-well owed its reputation to the
springs. There are any number OF
them. They come bubbling up from
great depths, charged with carbonic
acid, sodium. potassium. lithium and
calcium in varied combinations. There
was a time when people came here to
repair shattered constitutions by drink
ing at the geysers, or Washington
spring, or the Saratoga Vichy or Carls
| bad.
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bounding with the unexpected release;
and the mother turned again to the
woman, furnished her with coarse
towel, and sent her to the wash house
for thorough publication, Half an
hour afterward, with her hair hidden
In the muslin cap, her whole figure en-
veloped in the calico apron, comely
woman was silently engaged in house
hold tasks, doing her work with such
rapidity and skill that the housewife
drew a sigh of relief.
There's a handful of towels and
coarse clothes left from the ironing;
you might put the irons on, Mary, and
smooth 'em out"
The woman turned startled face
upon her, and then went quickly for
the clothes: but something-was 1t a
tear ?-rolled down her swarthy cheeks,
mingling with the bright drops she
sprinkled over them. When had she
ever heard anything but Moll? Not
since among New Hampshire hills q
pale woman had lain her hands upon
the tangled curls of her little daugh-
ter and prayed that some one would
watch over these wayward feet. lest
they should go astray. 1t made Mol
shudder to think of 1t. What did she
know about joy in heaven over one
sinner and repenteth?
Silas Rogers listened to the days
story as he sat mending a bit OF har-
ness with clumsy fingers. and among
his other thoughts he grasped the idea
that his wife had secured a valuable
and much-needed helper.
1T seems risk to rum" said Mar
tina, anxiously, land 1 don't know but
it's presumtuous; there's Hetty and
there's Reuben"
"And there's the Lord" said Silas
stopping to open his knife.
YES" said Martha, with a little
start, land 1 quite can't get rid OF
what she said about the piece that was
lost though, to be sure, the woman
that lost it ought to hunt it."
"She never does; folks are always
losing things for somebody else to
find; faint many of them can say
Those that thou hast given me have
| kept right straight along"
| But if you lose your own piece look
ing after other folks
well, there's the risks, as you say
but I'd rather take a risk for the
Lord than agin him."
Martha Rogers took the risk for the
| Lord, and he abundantly justified and
rewarded her faith. For the piece that
was lost becomes my piece" to the
heart that finds it again in the Mas
ter's hand; and locking the story ci
| the wanderer in her own breast, it was
only to the angels that she said. RE
joice with me-"
And when years afterward the WON
an herself said before the COMMITTEES
of the church, 81 am the woman over
whom there is great Joy in heaven.
there was not wanting those who
thought she was presumptuously claim
ing to be a saint.-Emily Huntington
Miller.
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Freak OF Lightning.

All the doors in John Kipp's house
at Cedar Bayou, Harris County. Texas,
were opened and a lid of the kitchen
range was blown off by a bolt Of
lightning.
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His Mistake.

Mr.. Foote (the shoemaker)-"Who
was it invented this walking through
the grass barefooted?" Mr.. Block
Il believe it was a minister" well.
he seems to have mistaken the kind of
soles he should try to save."-Ycnk-
ers Statesman.