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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
q TERRIBLE AUDIENCE.
.TiclSet-of-Leave Men See the Ticket

TicIxet-of-Leave Men See the Tick efr
Of-Lenve Man Performed
s Having had a long rest from act
ing, = a well known actor relates, 81 re
turned to Mel bourne to play short
engagement with my former partner a,
the Haymarket and then sailed to Var
clemens Land, now called Tasmania
This lovely island had formerly been
a convict station, where life-sentenced
prisoners from England had been sent
There was at the time speak Of, and
is now, a most refined society in Tass
mania, though among the lower class
there was a strong favor Of the CON
Wet element. acted the STicket-of-
B Leave-Man' for the first time in Ho.
bart Town, and there was much ex-
citement in the city when the play was-
announced.
At least 100 ticket-of-l leave men
were in the pit on the night of the pro
duction. Before the curtain rose i
looked through it at this terrible an
dience. The faces in the pit We're a
study. Men with low foreheads and
small, peering, ferret-looking eyes,
some with fiat noses and square, cruel
jaws and sinister expressions
low and cunning-al wearing a sullen.
logged look, as though they would tear
the benches from the pit and rob the
theater of it's scenery if one of their
kind was held up to public scorn upon
the stage
''The first act Of the pla:y progressed.
with but little excitement. These men
seemed to enjoy the humorous and pa
thetic side of the story with great rel
ish, but when l came upon the stage in
the second act revealing the emaciated
af11rn pf
sunken eyes and a close shaved head,
there was a painful stiffness in the
house. The whole pit seemed to lean,
forward and strain their eager eyes
upon the scene, and there were little
murmurs of recognition and shakings~
of head, as though they fully recog-
nized the local illusions they so we'll
remembered; deep-drawn signs for the
Sufferings that the hero had gone
through, and smothered laughs at some
of the old well remembered incOnye-
niences OF prison life; but their sympa-
thies We're caught by the nobleness OF
the heros character and his innocence
of crime, as though each one Of these
villains recognized how prosecuted he
had been. .- ... z.
''xAs the play progressed their enthu-
siasm increased. Whenever the hero.
was bounded by detective or i'll
treated by the old Hebrew they would
howl with indignation at the actors,
and when he came out unScathed az:
the end of the play, a monument of
prosecuted innocence, they cheered to
the very echo.
'"This performance rendered me ex-
tremely popular with the old Tags OF
Hobart Town, and I was often ae--
costed in the street by these worthless
and told some touching tale of their
early prosecutions. In fact, they quite
looked on me as an old pal
These courtesles were very f1atter-
ing, but the, inconvenience that was
caused by being poked in the ribs and
winked at now and then, as much as
to say, All right, old boy, we know
you've been there rendered my fs-
voritism among those fellows rathex.
TksOme. Boston Post. ..,..r.. -.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
Tailor Gowns.

The tailor gown, in all it's simplicity
anil beauty, is one of the favorite
spring costumes, and deservedly SO.
for there is nothing prettier OF simpler
than !: well made tailor gown.
Skirts: are to be narrower this spring.
but will be cut in very much the same
way, fitting smoothly over the hips. the
fullness all in 4 small space i'll tbs
back. The bell skirt, somewhat fulles
than it was two OF three years ago, is
to be Worn, and it is one Of the mosa,
becoming of all skirts. Dark blue is to
be d favorite color, and a great many
costumes. have already been made up,
with plain skirt and smart little jacket
trimmed with black braid. The effect
is somewhat of a military jacket, and
the braid is put on in front and around.
tn coat; sometimes frogs are used in
plac,, Of the braid. These jackets are.
always tight-ftting.
oTau and gray cloths are also made
UP in these gowns. and there is GER
tain shade Of warm chestnut hrowH
ser:,e which is also fashionable
The Elton jackets will be worn with
the spring costumes, and an unusually
pretty style has the skirt very nlucis
gored. and opening at the side of the
fron- breadth like the bicycle suits
An Elton jacket fitting tight at the bach
has revers turned back from the waist
to the shoulder, and lined with blue
satin. With this is to be worn a silk
blouse of blue and white checked silk
Odd colors are combined in these cos
tuI:cs; blues are lined and faced with
green and heliotrope; browns also have
helioirope OF yellow or red, and az
thong, there are only glimpses to be
seen, those glimpses give a touch OF:
color which makes the gown chic, or.
otherwise.
kinds are made up into skirts to be.
worn with fancy waists and black Jack,
cts, and there are some entire costumes
Of the plaid. One of dark green ana
white fine check has Innings, facings
anil bands about the skirt of darls
green satin.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19

the sincerity of her statements, and, in
fact, know her to be incapable of de-
ceiving either herself or me as to the
manifestations of the phenomenon. For
the purposes of this interview I shall
call her. with your permission, Mrs. D.
For many years this lady has had
crystal visions frequently. She can
produce hallucinations by gazing into
either the globe or the goblet Most
Of her visions are merely mosaics, as
in other instances, but some of them
have been, if nothing more, curious CO.
medicines.
Cone day, looking into the globe,
she saw woman, evidently i'll, lying
in bed. Alongside the woman was a
little child-how old. she could not de-
termine. She conceived the idea that
the woman was her sister-in-law, who
was in the West, but she could not
recognize the face. A few minutes later
she saw a vision of the graveyard in
her native town, and noted with in
terest that the gate and walls were
just as she had last seen them in early
youth Inc Interior OIL the cemetery,
however, was strange to her. She
could not find a single one Of the doz-
ems of monuments and headstones with
which she had been familiar, and that
fact led her to believe, for she is inter-
ested more or less in psychical research
and understands something Of her own
phenomenon-that the vision was a
mosaic. Bear in mind, the memory re-
tains thousands of unimportant scenes
and bits of scenes, which it jumbles to-
gether just as you shake up the pieces
of colored glass in kaleidoscope, pro-
ducing an endless variety of combina
tons.
Mrs. D. knew, hoWeve'S. that her
brother was down with typhoid feter at
the family home and that he was not
expected to live. she momentaTily ex-
pected q telegram summoning her to
his bedside, and all her baggage was
packed, in preparation for hastv start.
I The visions, following so closely the
latest letter she had received from her
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19

strips of 1a-inch stuff, 4 inches wide,
d d, and nail to the ends of the eight
pieces Of . by A.. Nail strips on the
edge Of the 2 by 4 to keep rope in
place. If a large wheel can be secured
and attached to the beam, a, it will be
unnecessary to make one. A half-inch
rope will hang any beef. Wind it sew
eral times AROUND the wheel. Fasten
two ropes, one is shown at f, to the roll
about 6 feet apart, long enough to
reach the floor. Construct a 3 inch
roll Is inches long, s, about feet from
the floor, WIN a crank attached to
wind the small rope on. Attach the
rope taut and the windlass is complete.
I can dress and hang 1,000-pound
beef alone and can take down a quar-
ter or side and leave the rest hanging.
1t is 4 simple, strong and cheap wind
lass.-E. n. Fisher. Hampden County,
Mass, in Farm and Home. -,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19

ing the knife in place a hole is cut
through slide inches wide, the edge
being even with the edge of the knife.
The knife is raised from the slide e
by a piece of hath Il inch thick and
fastened by screws. In Fig. the slide
e is worked by the lever C, being fast
ened as in Figs. and 3. Two pieces
of by Ia inch stuff inches long are
bolted loosely to the lever and slide.
An old shovel handle 4 feet long makes
a good lever and is fastened to the
cutter leg at f, which is a board the
same width as the hopper and extend
ing down to the slide against which
the knife comes at each stroke. The
slide is inserted from the front before
the stumbling board is put in position.
The board should be made adjustable
to be removed to sharpen the knife
r. Logan, Branch County, Mich, in
Farm and Home
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19

as 1850 SiudtlOuS NY gazing
INTO, glass globes or goblets Of water
It has obtained data of startling results
and is preparing to astonish the world
with mass of learned literature which
it is collecting, says New York World.
Professor H. J. Hyslop, of Columbia
College, is the most active member of
the society in New York Though he
is a scientist Of the most severely
practical type, he is convinced that the
illusions of crystal gazers are we'll
worthy Of study as having possibl
bearing upon undiscovered scientific
truths. With clear, unbiased mind, he
gathers all the statistics he can find
and turns them over to his fellow
seekers after knowledge During the
past few years he has studied carefully
several cases that have come under his
personal observation and has furnished
to the society much interesting in
formation concerning the strange
phenomenon
| 1t should be promised that the society
is not an organization with a hobby.
JAS it's name implies, it's object is to
search for all stories, histories, auto
biographies and traditions that may
possibly have anything to do with
psychical phenomena. It is absolutely
unprecedented and makes no attempt to
shape facts. All it tries to do is to
collect them. If the trend of the evil
dence it gathers leads to belief in
the supernatural, it is satisfied to ac-
cept spiritualism or any other doctrine
that may be established by the facts:
if the mass of testimony leans toward
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
Baked Bones.

"A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker, who seems to be very conf
dent and positive in his statements,
says:
II got eggs all through the cold
weather, and here in Montgomery
county, Pa, in seven winters have
never failed to fill my egg basket. /
will let the readers Of the Rural New
Yorker into the secret of my success.
The main part Of it is baked bones.
The bones are placed in the oven and
+ when sufficiently baked, are taken out
and crushed with hammer or COM
mon bone mill. feed them every day
one-half ounce to each fowl I regard
the baked bone superior to the raw,
and better egg food.
Hen houses should face the south
with enough windows to give plenty Of
light and warmth, no ventilators, have
matched board floors, with layer of
coarse straw changed every week. Con-
slant work in cold weather brought
about by scattering wheat In the straw,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
His Last Blissful Thoupht.

The old organ blower OF Pinkelbury
lay dying. The curate was visiting
him. Would you mind, sir, asking our
organist to play the Dead March over
me 2" asked the sick man
Certainly I will, Jones' said the
curate.
.Thankee, sir. None O. that ere
tWeedle-dum Beethoven, you know, sir.
Only Handlers"
7 am sure he will do it, responded
the curate.
The old man lay placidly for awhile,
then exclaimed with fervor: How
thankful be that I shan t have to blow
for him when he plays the leud part at
the end.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
Live Stock of South Amcrica.

AAtS oNOClA OF south, America.
South America has G3,41S, 900 cattle.
1929, 200 sheep and 100000 goats.
Of these the Pampas of Argentine has
100000 cattle, Brazil 10000
Chile 100000, Uruguay 100000,
Venezuela 5,0Oo,o0O. Argentine has
100000 sheep, Uruguay 23,oOO,0OO,
Bolivia 100000, Venezuela 1900, 900
and Chile 100000. Venezuela and
Argentine each have 100000 goats
and llamas. -
With such immense numbers Of cat
tile and sheep rapidly increasing, and
some of them being improved by the
importation Of pure bred bulls and
bucks from England, they will give
us stronger competition in the Eu-
lropean markets unless we grade 80
with more pure bred sires and raise d
better class of stock. They can raise
them cheaper and sell them cheaper on
their ibOundless ranches than we can
on our high priced lands, but we should
be better able to raise high class stock
than any ranch country.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19

parents worried her sadly, ana she
was Just about 20 leave for her home,
when she got a letter or telegram say
ing that the crisis Of the disease had
been passed and that her brother would
recover.
Three months later she went West
and, with great difficulty, drew from
her father and mother, both of whom
We're bitterly opposed to psychical re-
search, facts that completed the coin
cidenca. They told her that her BROTH
er, during the worst hours of his ill
ness, chung to the delusion that his
wife had presented him with another
child and that he saw it constantly "
ing on the bed beside its mother. Then,
too, at the time when he was most
dangerously i'll, his relatives were so
sure he would die that his other sister,
young girl, was already discussing
with her father the advisability of pur-
chasing plot in the new cemetery,
as the old graveyard was in such a
hopelessly dilapidated condition.
Now, those facts may be taken as
explanations of the two visions seen in
the crystal by Mrs. D. The hallucina-
ton in regard to the mother and child
may have been transferred to her by
her brother, although he was delirious,
and the conjunction of ideas in her
sisters mind in regard to the old and
new graveyards may have caused Mrs
D. to see the vision of the cemetery
with the familiar gate and wall, but
not the strange tombstones. Telepathy
may have been the process by which
those ideas were transferred from the
minds of her brother and sister to that
Of Mrs. D. and thrown by her into the
crystal visions. ~
For the gazer appears to have the
power of projecting ideas into the crys-
tai, though involuntarily, and thus
forming the visions. A thought occu-
plying the mind of the gazer may be
made external by process opposite to
that of ordinary sight When you see
anything in the ordinary way it is be-
cause rays of light travel from that OBJ
ject to the retina of the eye. Similarly,
an image formed in the brain may
travel outward along the optic nerve
and the outer eye, and be projected into
the globe or goblet. This is not specu-
lation, but a fact we'll within the
knowledge of any oculist.
Armenians Shrewd and Tricky.
~ IN
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
Old Ribbons.

Ribbons are to be extremely fash
ionable again, and already they ara
being put to new purposes in a way OF
trimming for evening and other smara
dresses, while at the same time mil
liners are once more resorting to them.
1t is principally owing to the sudden
reaction in favor Of a simpler style OF
hat for ordinary wear that ribbons are
to the fore again at the milliner's. For
the sailor-shaped silk hat and the
smooth felt Amazon hat turned up at.
the side, ribbon trimmings are requir.
ed to compose the decoration, with the
addition Of quail OF cocks plumes, on
sometimes a large bunch of flowers.
The ribbon is banded round the crown
and arranged in simple bows on one
side.-Boston Times.
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He Cot II

Ma'am,'' said Mosely Wra ggs, who
stood at the Kitchen door, dripping
with rain, sI'm not askin' We fur any
thing to eat this time, but 2
Well, what do you want?" sharply
demanded the woman Of the house
Would you mind giyin' an old wet
ter an umbrell Ter Pr Chicago Tribune.
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ST r A NG E I S i @. Ms
.HALLUcINATIONS HARD TO Ex-
PLAIN BY ExPERIMENTERS.
Crystal Gazing a Fad Psychical Re-.
search Society Trying to Find Ont why
People See Queer Things in Goblets
and Globes. s5I
CRYSTAL visions are

2YSTAL visions are
the latest fad of the
Society of Psychical
Research. That as
ISOLATION Of pro-
gressive savants
has devoted much
Of. its attention re-
Gently to the ability
Of certain persons
to produce hallu-.
ni~ s0-r Nv
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
The Way to Do 1t.

Mrs. Trivvet- Miss Elder is trying to {
make new woman of herself.
Mrs. Dicer-Is she?
Mrs. Trivvet-Yes; she has already
knocked fifteen years off her age.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
The Working Class.

Over three-fo urths of the N EN- 5ership
of the churches Of the United States are
composed Of the working classes. Rev.
T. b. Nicely.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19

Armenians Shrewd and Tricky.
F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, who
has met many Armenians in the East,
The herald., 1896-08-16
COlOred Dress Goods

Fine All Wool Cashmeres, Albatros, Henrlettas
and Serge: all evening sh AIDES, IN
these goods marked on our shelves H0yH
from soc to T5c per yard they must so ~
at EXCURSION PRICES......
French Serges; all wool, go I'd width and m
every color but blue they are excellent NDN
wearers and considered cool value at ZVPA
S5c and 4oc. EXCURSION PRICE,.
line Of fine Wool ChaIes; nice assortment Of
dark coOrs, with pretty colorei fig n
ures. regular price Is &c sryard, they n61N
81 in ches wide and go AZ HSVA
EXCURSION PRICES. ................
Storm Serges; we have too many at this
price, they are all wool, very wide and %AN
EXCURSION PRICE. ..................
Some NotionaI Prices on Notions
Dolls, imitation, Bisque, 1~
Dolls, China SC, Cloth Body Cninaheads. IL
at, ...'''-....''...-.
Dolls, fancy dressed 10c-i5c kid bodies C0c
oniy ....-......-.-.
Dress Shealds, extra good quality, SC
at.. ..........s........
Canvas Belts, good quality, 2C
Black Silk Belts all silk. nice buckle DE-
Ladies Satin Belt Hose supports 1OC
The herald., 1896-08-16
THE CANO0ZERS ON DECK
One Thousand Will Attend the
A. 6. AS Annual Meet
CANOES OF VARIOUS KINDS
The Great Regatta to Be Held This
Week
Lovely Orindstone Island In the ST. Lawrence
Will Be Transformed Into
City of TeEts

One thousand canoes of all kinds and
sizes, ranging from the $S home made
affair to the $500 racer and from the tiny
ten-foot craft as light as a summers
zephyr to the great war canoe, will make
things hum the third week in August
among the Thousand Isles of the st.
Lawrence. The particular center Of
excitement will be Grindstone Island,
one if the prettiest in the group, and one
that is peculiarly adapted for the annu-
al meet Of the American Canoe associa-
tion.
The A c. A. has managed to hold up
its head in royal shape against the pres
sure of the bicycle tidal wave, for it is
part of the doctrine of the organization:
"Once canOozer always a canoOzer."
The battle cry of the A c. \. IS: We're
no snoozers-we're canoozers, we be-
long to the a. C. A." But the bike will
play an incidental part in this the sew
enteenth annual meet of the CanooZerS.
Many of the members Will journey to
GrindstOne Island by wheel, sending
their canoes by rail, and it is quite pos
sible that before the meet is over some
genius will have invented the bicycle
canoe. Something unique always hap
pens at these meets, and to predict the
invention of q bike canoe is very mild
prophecy.
Sixteen years ago the first meet Of the
doSOSiollO4l lOOfA li4dtG al LAKE 1tOIS6,
and twenty canoes composed the fleet.
The next year there were one hundred
of the little fellows, and each succeeding
year has shown great increase. There
are some croakers who insist that the
canoe is back number but the records
of the association emphatically contra
dict this. The reason of its continued
popularity is that it is essentially poor
mans sport. Only q millionaire. or a
person closely akin to one, can own a
yacht, but a man or woman of very
humble financial means can own d canoe
and have just as much fun. But from
this it must not be judged that only
poor folks are canoozers. Many rich
men who are quite capable of owning big
yachts belong to the A. c. A., and this
class largely makes up the "canoe
f1ends." They are the ones who search
the earth for new wrinkles, who build
costly racers. and who appear at the
meets with craft of the most outlandish
kinds.
THE THREE TYPES
OF the boats there are three distinct
The herald., 1896-08-16
( POLITICAL POINTERS
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Liberty cannot long endure in any coun-
try where the tendency of legislation Is to
concentrate the wealth In the hands OF the
few.-DANIEL WEBSTER.
Glass legislation, the offspring of which
is gigantic corporations, trusts and monop-
olies generally has been the bane of this
country for the past twenty years. In
1865 Hugh McCulloch. then secretary Of
the UN ed States treasury, in his official
report said that "the people of the United
States are prosperous and happy and COM
paratively free from debt" In 1880 the
eleventh census report shows that the ma
tional, state, municipal, corporate and in
dividual Indebtedness of the United States
was over thirty-one billions of dollars! !!
and that the average interest paid on this
enormous debt was over per cent, or $2.1 TO-
600, 900 annually! This startling change took
place before the present Democratic admin
istration came into power or was even
contemplated. During this Twenty-Five
years we had a high protective tariff which
did not however, prevent the fall OF prices,
the impoverishment Of the people and the
multiplication of tramps. During this time
5000 millionares and 1000 900 paupers have
been created, not necessarily the result
of the protection policy of the Republican
party, but if that policy did not prevent
these msfortunes how is its continuation
going to cure them?
A contraction of the volume of money
would cause a fall of prices. lassitude Of
trade and national bankruptcy and disas-
ter. 1t would be an act of folly without
a parallel for evil in modern timeS.-JOEN
SHERMAN in 1867.
In 1865 the official report of the secretary
of the United States treasury shows the
total amount of money then in circulation
among the people to be s1,913. 779, 1926. At
that time the population of the United
States was 34,000,000, which gave us per
capita circulation of little over $5S, or
about the same that France now has. Sec
retary Foster. in his official report of 1892.
said there was at that time in circulation
1901. .949, 325, for 65000,0o0 of people, or $2. Al
per capita. This report has since been en-
dorsed and republished by Secretary Car
Isle. 1t is asserted on good authority
however, that there is less than one-third
of that sum available for use among the
people. With the population doubled since
1865, in order to maintain the per capita
circulation, the volume of money should
have been doubled, but even according to
the reports of Secretaries Foster and Car
Isle the money has been reduced in vol.
ume s312, ,O000 900.
If a government contracted debt with
a certain amount of money in circulation
and then contracted the volume of money
before the debt was paid, 1t Is the most
heinous crime government could COM
NIT against the people.-ABRAHAM LIN
The people of the United States owe Eng