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awaited with lively concern. This
was more particularly the case because
many disinfectants, such as sulphur
dioxide and chlorine have not been re-
lied upon with as much confidence as
formerly. since the germ theory OF dis
ease was accepted as correct. Steam
has been largely used as OF unques-
toned value, but it is not always avail all
able. When the disinfecting steamboat
james w. Wadsworth, can be brought
in play, steam is readily availab Die. ..
that steamer has a chamber specially
fitted up for such work.
But it was necessary to secure an
agent fully as efhcacious but more more
Ereadly adaptable, and it was to this end
that Drs. Doty and Lederle pushed their
series Of experiments. These expert
Iments have extended over several
months, and comprehended an e1apo-
rate series Of tests, patiently and care
fully made, in order to determine N
whether it was safe to rely upon TOT '-
'maldehyde as a substitute for steam ln
ldisinfecting operations. Different ba.
cilli OF disease, such as the organisms
Of cholera, diphtheria, Indian plague le
land anthrax, were used to test the new new
gas. The plague cultures (bacilH nou "
lished by selected food) were most
carefully selected. They were receiver
Il from Prof. Haffkine in Bombay. the
Il Pasteur Institute in Paris. and the
Hoagland Laboratory In Brook lyn. Or
l Fitzpatrick, the bacteriologist at thu
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02

posture. The infected discs were
wrapped in blankets, paper, or envel-
opes. A pint of formaldehyde was used.
Diphtheria and anthrax germs wrapped
in three sheets Of paper and envelopes,
with the seams extra gummed, were
all exterminated. Eight ounces of the
disinfectant destroyed the cultures
when they were wrapped in blankets,
in this case twelve hours of exposure
being taken. Only the cholera germs
were killed, and those Of plague, diph-
liberia and anthrax remained active
when the last test was repeated for
duration of only the half the previous
tests.
The value of the new agent for SUI
pericial disinfection is considered OF
unquestioned value by Or. D0ty, and he
will use it for general purposes, espe-
cially in disinfecting ships which are
infected with disease. But DR.. Doty
does not consider that it can be relied
upon in cases where deep penetration
is required 1t has all the penetrative
powers required for disinf mails
and ordinary articles. From expert
ments conducted with fowls, insects,
mice and guinea pigs it was proved
harmless to animal life.
DR.. Lederle's chemical analysis OF the
gas and examination Of its properties
and possibilities resulted In his flndins
that formal ehyde may be injurious i
taken Internally. to the digestive proc
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02
esses. although non-toxic to all the
higher forms of life.
FlL1GREE WORK.
An Effort Is Being Made to Create .

An Effort Is Being Made to Create
Demand for 1t.
An effort is being made to create a
demand for fligree work, in order 10
open up new field Of labor for work
ers whose deft fingers are their for
tunes, says the Philadelphia Times. At
recent fair held in a large city a
booth filled with an assortment Of jew
elry in glittering fligree work attract
ed considerable attention. AS every
| article shown at the fair was of native
manufacture, the pretty ornaments
| were adaptations of foreign work CT
great antiquity and renown. The stock
consisted or lacelike trinkets of SIM
pie design and construction, including
inexpensive bracelets, brooches, scarf
pins, pencils, buckles and other trif1es,
in which the daisy was the chief de-
sign. Artistic specimens of this work
copied from original designs from Italy
have been made and exhibited in this
country. They were usually the work
of patriotic amateurs, who found that
unframed fingers lacked the wonderful
light touch and dexterity almost an
| heirloom to the wOrkmen of Scanii-
navia, Genoa and Malta Filigree work
is an ideal and fascinating occupation
for women who like creative employ
ment and something more tangible az
a result of their labor than painted
cups or embroidered table covers A
young woman whose noisy profession
is brass hammering has added filigree
work to her course of lessons, and has
already large class of pupils To he
the charming art seems like play, and
While she talks to me her nimble fin
gers show the pliability of the silver CT
gold wire by twisting it into spirals
and any convoluted forms to de1lneate
flowers, butterflies, arabesques and
other airy devices, which all have a
surprising air of elegance: This deli
cate wire is, indeed, the only material
employed, as designated by the name
of the work-fligree, from the italian
tllgrano Clio, thread, and grano, a
grain). The wire is sold in long reels
in three different shades of gold o,
silver. 1t is cut with a tweezer into
: numberless and graduated lengths
: after the style of needles, and KEEP
loose in a cardboard tray, ready fo1
use. The rudimentary lessons in tht
craft include the shaping of little dai
sizes or insects, easily concocted by hi
amateur into brooches and clasps, re
curing no soldering or any strength
ening calling for the help of profes
sional mounter, while practice in tn
more advanced stage is only permitte
in scientifically equipped Workshop
Nevertheless, some kindergarte
teachers, too, are utilizing this charm
ing occupation, if not trade, for young
tasteful and clever workers, and fin
that it exercises a perfect fascinatio
over the children. ~..s
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quarantine station, nourished these
germs to their highest degree Of viru-
lence, inoculating with them OCCASION
ally white Rice
Twenty different tests, each employ
ing three or more varieties of germs,
were made by DR.. Doty, and have. been
minutely described by him. These ex-
periments were conducted on the
steamboat James w. Wadsworth. and
also at the laboratory in a room spe-
cially prepared, in which there was
an apparatus for spraying liquified am
monia gas about the room,E for the in
slant neutralizing of formaldehyde, if
considered necessary to do so. In con-
Quoting the first experiments from four
to eight ounces of the disinfectant
were exposed for various periods Of
time in an alright steel box, contain
ing lis cubic feet Of space, and also in
a room containing 1000 cubic feet of
| air space. In fifteen tests of all the
| cultures of various diseases, only that
of diphtheria showed subsequent
growth In the case of the latter four
ounces of solution were used, and the
exposure continued for twelve hours.
The cultures of all the diseases were
wrapped in wooden blanket.
In other tests, plague, diphtheria and
anthrax germs on a linen disc, some
wrapped in pound of newspaper, 9th
ers wrapped in a blanket, held on to
life after an exposure of twelve hours,
a quart of the solution being usuei.
Others were generally killed that were
put inside a single newspaper, or in
side sheet of paper, and an envelope
or inside towel. These tests were all
made in vacuum as Offering less re.
slstance to the penetration of the gas
The tests were repeated without the
was destroyed after four hours of OK.
ceptlons, survived, and in the case oil
some d1phtheria germs wrapped in 6
newspaper, growth was observed.
1t was found in preparing the ga:
that the use of solution of some neu
trail salt caused the gas to be given of
more satisfactorily, and machine TO
extracting it more readily was EN-
plOyed. In this case the disinfection O
the mails was accomplished in YER
satisfactory degree, as every germ @
cholera, plague, anthrax and diphtheri
were destroyed after four hours of es
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02
Operation.
that have been go

ing on for several months at the quar-
antine station of the port of New York
to determine the value of the new dis
lnfectant in quarantine work It can
well be called new, for although it was
partly discovered in 1858 by the Ger
man chemist, A. w. Hoffman, it was
not until 20 years after that the French
investigator, A. Millat, found, as the
result of his experiments, that it was
valuable in preventing or delaying de-
composition. After four years of close
study OF it's properties and effects, M.
Mlllat exhibited the results of his la
Dor on the germicidal properties of
formaldehyde to the French Academy
OF Sciences, where the subject was con-
sldered with close attention. This gas
was first revealed to Hoffman, the Ger
man chemist, in some experiments he
was conducting, and was produced by
heating platinum spiral in lamp
burning wood alcohol
The need Of new disinfectant has
been recognized by the quarantine au-
thorities for some time, and according
ly the experiments that DR.. Alvah H
Doty, health officer of the port of New
York, and DR.. E., J. Lederle, chemist
of the health department and consult
ing chemist at the quarantine station
were conducting, were watched with
| keen interest, and the results were
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02
PARAGRAPHS WITH POINTS.

Now will somebody kindly rescue
Miss Cisneros from the clutches of the
New York Journal?
A Denver bank teller disappeared
leaving his accounts all right. He evil
IDENTIFY forgot something.
Emperor Williams aversion to
wheels may be due to the fact that
he has enough in his head.
The best way for Georgia to reform
her penal convict system is to convict
the men who are responsible for it.
Emma Goldman, the New York an
| archist, is in st. Louis. She got in
before the town could be quarantined.
Col. Nellie Ely of Gov. Bob Taylor's
staff is to be married soon. The we'd
ding will doubtless be a great military
event. =
A Tammany orator, in recent
speech, exclaimed: "To hell with res
| formr' That is good machine politics
| doctrine.
Train robbery is now capital Of
Tense in Missouri. It has long been
regarded as a capital idea by some
Missouri citizens.
Miss Maude Come is by no means
the first pretty Irish girl that has come
to this country, but few of them have
had so enthusiastic reception.
Nat Goodwin says he intends to play
Sh-lock this season. This seems to
1 involve reversal of conditions The
/ Shy1ocks have been playing Nat for
years.
| Speaking Of the new Mississippi
senator, a Chicago newspaper says:
..n1cney Of Mississippi has some po1Mic-
y al strength. : And money Of every
other place has some political strength
also.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02
PICTURED POSTCARDS.
They Are Slowly Coming Into Use IL.
England. :

They Are Slowly Coming Into Use liz
England.
illustrated postcards are slowly
creeping into use in this country, but
enterprise and art have an opportun-
ity here of increasing and meeting
demand in this direction, says the Lon
don Telegraph. Postcards with repre-
sensations of interesting local scenes
have long been popular on the CONT
nent with residents, and visitors readi-
ly fall into the fashion. Ornamental
postcards and envelopes are constantly
used by correspondents, and postcard
collecting abroad is quite as common
| as stamp collecting was in this coun-
try some time ago. The cards are
fastened in an album, especially made
for the purpose, or artistically .arrang-
ed in groups on walls and tables Our
illustrated postcards will probably be
made varied as the tastes grow, and
with art and technical schools on every
i hand there is no reason why they
should not lead to the establishment
! of a new department Of industry.
There is certainly no more ready or
pleasing way by which a friend can
i give his correspondent an idea. of his
surroundings. Many of the great pub
fishers are now issuing views Of Eng
i l;sh cathedrals and other places of his
!: Etoric interest and not a few pretty
landscapes. Some hotels, too, are us
q ing cards with views calculated to in
& vite customers. But people in this
& country generally use the plainest pa
per and postcards. On the continent
the sales Of these interesting little
3 works of art are enormous. and it is
6 stated an attempt to get one better
will be made by enterprising manu-
( facturers there who contemplate re
producing works Of the old masters il
J miniature. Firms in London who ar
s connected with German publishes
say they sell a vast number Of thes
ornamental postcards abroad, and tina
: their customers greatly value them.
q
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02
Night Photography.

An automatic photograph Of a deer,
taken at midnight is one ofzthe latest
marvels of photography. This was Sc
cured by means of an automatic ar
rangements devised by Charles Hughes
of Red Bluff, Cal. BY mechanical de-
vice the deer, in touching a linen
thread while moving along a trail at
midnight put in action the movement
which opened the camera, flashed the
MAGNESIUM powder and then closed the
shutter.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02
Late Hours and Health.

A German doctor. who has been col
Letting information about the habits
of long-lived persons, finds that the
majority of those who attained old
age INDUCED in late hours. Eight out
of ten persons over eighty never went
to bed until well into the small hours.
and did not get up again until late in
the day. .s..~ y*--.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02
TALMAGE's SERMON.
COMING LESSONS LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From the Following Text; Go Thou
and Preach the Kingdom of Cod
Luke; Chapter Tx, Verse Gothic
~Regnant Gospel.

HE Gospc! is to be
regnant over all
hearts, all circles,
all governments,
and all lands. The
kingdom of God
spoken of in the
text is to be a uni
yersal kingdom,
and just as wide as
that will be the
realm sermonic,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02

Artificial Teeth for German Soldiers.
The German war office has deter
mined to furnish artificial teeth gratis
to such soldiers as may need them.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02
BARRING THE PLAGUE
THE NEW PROCESS OF DIsIN-
FECTING THE MAILS.
Its Results Described by Medical Ex-
perts-No Germs Escape the New Gas
How the Machiners Is Put Into
Operation.

HE prevalence of
yellow fever in the
Mississippi Valley
has added greatly
to the interest that
has been excited
in the ranks Of che
medical profession,
and AMONG the
public generally, by
the experiments
that have heen go
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02

Great gifts make unworthy natures
bold and finer natu5es humhse.
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pie do not go to church. Some saw it.
is because Christianity is dying out,
and because people do not believe in
the truth of Gods word, and all that.
They are false reasons. The reason 4
because our sermons are not interest
ing and practical, and sympathetic and
helpful. Some one might as we'll tell
the whole truth on this subject, and so
1 will tell it. The sermon Of the flu
ture-the Gospel sermon to come forth
and shake the nations, and lift people
out of darkness-will be popular SER
mon just for the simple reason that It
will meet the woes and the wants and
the anxieties Of the people. There are
in all our denominations ecclesiastical
mummies, sitting around to frown
upon the fresh young pulpits of Amer
lea. to try to awe them down, to cry
out, Tut, tut, tut! sensational!'' They
stand today, preaching in churches
Il that hold thousand people and there
are hundred persons present, and
If they cannot have the world saved in
their their way 1t seems as If they do not
4 want it saved at ALL I do not know
but the old way Of making ministers
Of the Gospel is better. A collegiate
8 education and an apprenticeship under
the care and home attention Of some
earnest, aged Christian minister, thu
young man getting the patriarch.
spirit and assisting him in his relig
: ious service. Young lawyers stud.
& with old lawyers, young physician
study with old physicians and / be
lieve It would be great help II ever.
young man studying for the Gospe
ministry could put himself in the hom
Arizona republican., 1897-12-03
THIS BUSY WORLD.

In some of the rural distric-s ol Holland smoking is commonly i'll dulged in in the churches.
 The wearing of orange blossoms as a bridal decoration originated in thf days of the Crusaders.
 Employes of the Hartford stree railway company have been ordered not to chew tobacco while on duty.
 Gypsies are supposed to have come originally from India and not from Egypt, as their name implies.
 An eminent French scientist says that caterpillars cannot see more than a centimeter, or two-fifths of an inch in front of them-
 At the age of 1O4 Mrs. Margaret Me Joy, of Tamaqua, is prostrAJed with paralysis, with which she was strick- em last week while out for a walk.
 An Iowa boy years old has been sent to the industrial school for steal tricycle. and for settling fire to a house.
 Sweden and Norway find the Unit ed States a good customer of cod liver oil and matches, those articles being the principal items of expont to this country.
 An old gypsy named Rafael has asked the emperor of Austria to in vest him with the dignity of king o1 the gypsies because he can prove his direct descent from Pharoah.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-03

The above clipping from the Range News has a flavor of sour grapes. In making The Republican its official agent for the dissemination of live stock news the Sanitary board ac- complished it's desire to have such news published in newspaper Of general circulation printed at the cap- iIaal of the territory. The Range News is in error in chasing this paper as a political organ. The Arizona Repub- lican is a newspaper. It prints more live news than any other journal ln the southwest outside of Los Angeles. It circulates in every town and mln- ing camp in the territory. Its sub scription list includes the names of hundreds of stockmend While The Republican has political views, and the courage to express them, politics is not permitted to color it's news rs- ports. The Republican appreciates the compliment paid it by the Live Stock Sanitary board, and will see to it that the stockmen of the territory are kept we'll informed in matters af- fecting their interests.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-03
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Towne-It's really wonderful how Nature always manages to strike a balance in all her departments.
 BTowne-For instance?
 Towne-Well, in winter snow ccmes down, while in summer ice goes up. = Brooklyn Life.
 ''So you are an accountant? H'm, don't you find so sedentary a life rather delbilitating?''
 'iSedentary? Guess I get exercise enough running up and down col umns of figures all day longv'-Ros- ton Transcript.
 She-I didn't have time to make a pie for dinner, dear, so I had to gel bakers pie.
 He--Well, let us give thanks fol that.-Yonkers Statesman.
 "Whut folks orter .do," said the olt colored man, ''ls ter try ter glib ebry body aroun' 'em some 'scuse foh be in thankful
 "Yes," replied Erastus Pinkley with emphasis; "da's whuu dey orter 'suid O buyin' new locks foh dal chicken coops.' s.'-Washington Star.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-03
OF INTEREST TO STOCKMEN.

At the recent meeting of the Live Stock Sanitary board, action was taken in several important matters. The Arizona Republican, by a vote of two to one, was made the official organ of the board. MT. Horace Har- rison, who has for some time been acting as secretary, was duly elected secretary. Numerous pending stray claims were paid, list of which will be given in our columns later. MT. Wm. H. Walker was appointed in- spector at Calabasas. The Willcox inspectorship was taken under con sideEation, but no change was made. Some important quarantine measures were adopted, which will be reported inA detail hereafter.
 As to the propriety of awarding the. contract for advertising strays to political organ, when two live stock papers of general circulation are published in the territory, we leave our readers to judge.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-03
LITERARY NOTES.

Nansen, the Arctic explorer, is pre- paring an article which will be- of umquestionalble interest, dealing as it will with his plans for another Arctic expedition and his theories regarding the possibilities this time of actually reaching the pole. The article as soon as finished will be brought out in McClure's Magazine.
 The dinner which the Lotos club of New York had planned to give ill Nansen's horror has been postponed until some time this month in order ito facilitate the explorer's numerous engagements.
 See that hump?" has been a query that has met the eye of everything human or otherwise that has acted the part of car passenger during the past few years. The persistent iii terrOgation had, as most things do an originator in the person of Charles M. Snyder, who deserted the literary exploitation of the merits of a hook i and eye for the more timely and am bilious subject of Greece, of which i he has written a Humorous His tory" The book is published by the | Lippincott's, and is said to be similar 1 to Bill Yves Comic Histories of England and the United States. ' Greece has been a target for all man. her of profund utlterances from re- porters, scholars, journalists and his torians, but none as yet has meant tc
 be funny, so MT. Snyder has a free 1 field.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-03
THE srArEHooB QUESTION.

The Troy Daily Press in it's issue of November g, 1897, has long editorial article under the heading of 'sThe Great Southwest, of which the follow ing is an excerpt and fair illus.ra- tion of the article:
 Arizona boasts a territory of 113,- 020 square miles and population of S700O. New Mexico lays claim to a population of 267, ,S39 and an area of 122, ,580 square miles. Both make claims for statehood suffrage, yet it is hoped congress for years to come will not lend willing ear to these cries from the desert lands. Popula- tilon and men of character that will do credit to state and general govern ment are requisites, not breadth and length of territory.
 This illustrates the fairness win which eastern newspapers treat the claims of Arizona to admission to the Union We readily admit that Ari zona has not the population or wealth possessed by New York and many other states, yet the fact re- mains that Arizona has as much wealth and as great population as the average of the states had at the time of their admission since the original thirteen states joined the Union. This being true, keeping us out can only be justified upon the same grounds that the highwayman commands one to hold up hands and deliver; upon the theory that might makes right Arizona today has more wealth and more population than the average ot twenty-two states that have been ad- mitted to the Union within the last seventy-five years had at the time of their admission. We hope to see congress take a broad view of the matter at it's approaching session and consider our claims to statehood upon their merits. If it does and the sense less populistic cry for home rule ceases we will be full f1edged state in less than eighteen months, but ii the agitation by populis.s and the other demagogues for home rule con timues we will get neither home rule nor statehood.