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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-09-09

IN some of the great department
stores OF Paris there is in operation
Tor the convenience of customers 6
moving staircase in the shape of ar
endless leather belt transferring them
from one story to another. 1t is called
transporting carpet. Endless belts
OF canvas have been used for some
t1me Tor conveying packages from one
part OF a store to another.
When the cowboy of Venezuela
wishes to catch a bull or COW fc.
branding he rides alongside it and with
morse and bovine on the dead run
stoops from the saddle, grasps the
creatures tail with a sharp and pecu-
liar twist and sends the animal rolling
on It's back. From the force with
which it falls the animals horns al
most invariably pin it to the ground
giving the cowboy time to dismount
and sit on it's head while a COMPANION
ties its legs.
In the kingdom of Poland there was
formerly law that a person convict
ed OF SANDER must walk on all fOurs
through the streets of the town. ac-
companled by the beadle, as a sign
ne was disgraced. At the next public
1estlVal the delinquent had to crawl on
hands and knees under the banouet
table and bark like dog. Each guest
was at liberty to give him as many
KICKS as he chose and he who had been,
slandered must at the end of the ban
quet throw picked bone at the Gull
prlt who, picking it up in mouth would
leave the room on all tours. .".! .,
Kentucky has $500 miles of turn
movement against these which devel-
pike controlled by private companies,
Several months ago there began q
oped into general uprising. In mobs
OF forty to one hundred, armed with
shotguns and axes, citizens rode from
town to town leaving a trail of broken
toll gates in their wake. Gate keen
ers were warned not to repair gates
nor to collect more toll under pena]ty
of being burned out. The gates de-
stroyed represented 1900 miles of turn
pike, valued at $4,00O,OOO. Public sen
timent largely sustained the raiders.
The cost of six-tenths of the tol]-roads
in their construction was borne by the
state or by the county through which
the road runs. Under the enabline
act, of 1890 the counties are gradually
acquiring the roads. The chief diff.
Guilty in the way is the high price at
which they are held by the companies.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-09-09
ONE HOURS CHAT.
By Helen Beekman.

wv young lllS1A
were seated upon
the wide porch Of
a seaside hotel
chatting of things
past and present,
and finally gliding
into confidential in
terchange of expe-
riences, unmindful
Of the fact that
they were within
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-09-09
TA1LMAGE'S SERMON.
a STORM AT SEA LAST sum
DAYS SUBJECT.
ana There Were Also with Him
Other Little Ships, and There Arose
a Great Storm of Wind"-rrom Mark
Nv. Verse SO. -..a

1BERIAS, Galilee,
Gennesaret three
names for the same
lake. No other gem
ever had so beau
tiful a setting. 1t
lay in a scene of
great luxuriance:
the surrounding
hills high, terraced,
sloped, groved, so
MANY ginp oar
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-09-09

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peck of chaff, a quart of chaff, pint of
chaff! I say, let them stay until the
last day; the Lord will divide the chaff
from the wheat. z.:.
Oh, that these gales from heaven
might sweep through all our churches!
oh, for such days as Richard Baxter
saw in England and Robert McCheyne
saw in Dundee! Oh, for such days as
Jonathan Edwards saw in Northamp-
toni | have often heard my father tell
OF the fact that in the early part of this
century revival broke out in Somer
vile, N. j., and some people were very
much agitated about it. They said,
oh, you are going to bring too many
people into the church at once;" and
they sent down to New Brunswick to
get John Livingston to stop the re-
vlval. Well, there was no better soul
IN all the world than John Livingston.
He went up: he looked at the revival;
they wanted him to stop it. He stood
in the pulpit on the Sabbath, and look
ed over the solemn auditory, and he
said: This, brethren, is in reality the
work Of God; beware how you try to
stop it." And he was an old man, lean
ing heavily on his staff a very old
man. And he lifted the staff, and took
hold Of the small end of the staff, and
began to let it fall very slowly through,
between the finger and the thumb. and
ne said: soh, thou impenitent, thou
art falling now-falling away from
life, falling away from peace and heav-
en-. falling as certainly as that cane is
falling through my hand-fa lling GER
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13
Discevery of PLATINUM.

Platinum was first discovered early
in the sixteenth century in q Spanish
mine of South America, from which
source it receives its name, "platina del
Pinto"-lttle silver from the River Pin
to. It Is the rarest and most peculiar
of metals In contradistinction to
aluminium, the 1ightest. it is tie
heaviest of metals. Tt is twice as heavy
as silver and nearly three times heavier
than cast iron. Platinum is almost as
soft as copper and as ductile as gold. It
can be rolled into sheets so thin that
1000 of them piled on top Of each other
would not exceed an inch in height. The
average imports Of platinum to this
country are valued at nearly So, zoo. 900
p year.-N. Y Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13
BURNT OFF HIS HAND.
1t Had Struck Friend, and Chap
man Obeyed the Biblical Text.

1t Had Struck a Friend, and Chap
man Obeyed the Biblical Text.
That wealthy and cultivated Amer
lean should deliberately burn off one of
his hands as self-punishment for blow
struck in a moment of causeless anger
seems incredible. Yet one of the most
promising young literary critics in New
York is now minus his left hand as a re-
suit of such an extraordinary self
mutilation.
John Jay Chapman struck a friend
with his left hand, and found out aft
erward that his anger had been ground
less, the result of an unjust suspicion.
At once he determined that he would
carry with himself as long as he lived
memorial of his disloyalty and a warn
ing not to give way to unreasonable
anger again. The familiar text: eff
thy hand offend thee, cut it off," &C.
CURED to him; he would comply with
it. And so one day he appeared with
his arm in sling. He had held his
hand in the fire until it had been con-
sumed. To have it cut off would not
have been painful enough.
1t was at Harvard that this remark
able act was committed. Chapman was
reticent when questioned about the
vanished member. All he would say
was: 1.-THE hand that struck friend
III anger shall not remain" Such an
action on the part of anyone else would
probably have occasioned good deal
of derision and chaff. But Chapman
is not the kind of a man whom others
treat with ridicule. It must be evident
to anyone from the foregoing that he is
a remarkable man, but he is also per-
son who commands general respect, and
even at college was recognized by his
acquaintance as a man whom it was
advisable to let alone. He was one of
the most prominent students of his
class, and won many Of the prizes Of
fered at the university during his term.
He is the grandson of John Jay, the
minister of the United States at the
court of Napoleon, and his family is a
prominent one in New York society.
His wife, who was Miss Simmons, of
Boston, died a few weeks ago. Chap
mans literary criticisms have recently
been occasioning some notice. He
writes for most of the best monthlies,
and a clever article on Browning, which
appeared in the Bachelor of Arts last
November and December, is one of the
most satisfactory critiques ever writ
ten about the cryptic English poet
n. Y. Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13
MOHAMMeD'S COAT.
Sacred Relic to Which the Sulta
Annually Pays His Devotion.

Sacred Relic to Which the Sultan
Annually Pays His Devotion.
No more striking illustration of the
alarming condition of affairs that pre-
vail just now at Constantinople could be
afforded them the fact that the sultan
should have considered it necessary TO
proceed by water, instead Of by land,
from his residence at the Yildiz Kiosk
to the old seraglio for the purpose OF
paying his annual devotion to the holy
coat of Mohammed, which is preserved
in a great box in the innermost sane
tuary of the imperial treasury. The eN-
tent to which this garment is yenerated
by all believers may be estimated by
the fact that the principal and most
highly cherished title of the sultan is
that of guardian of the holy mantle 3
This robe, which it is needless to say
is green, was brought to Constantine
pie by Sultan Selim along with the keys
of the holy cities of Medina and Mecca,
from Cairo, where they had been pre-
served until that time in the keeping of
the caliphs.
This worship of the mantle by the
sultan is the most solemn and impor-
tant religious function which the Turk
ish ruler is called upon to perform
throughout the year, and, as a general
rule. his majesty's progress from the
Yildiz Kiosk to the Sublime Porte is
marked by a magnificent display of
troops four or five ranks deep, who line
the entire route on either side.
This year. for the first time since his
accession to the throne more than 20
years ago. the sultan, through dread of
assassinat ton, has abandoned the Gus
tomary procession by land. and has
gone by water instead, furtively and al
most by stealth, the public being led
till the last moment TO believe by the
military display that the sultan was
about to proceed to the old seraglio in
the usual Chicago Record.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13
Some Big Women.

Some years ago there was exhibited
in Piccadilly a young Swiss lady named
Catherine Bcsbner. At the age of 33
she measured six feet five inches, and
came to this country after a tour in
Europe, during which she was pre-
sented at the courts of Russia and Ger
many, creating quite q sensation by
her beauty, which was greatly ems
HANGED by the picturesque costume in
which she appeared. Another lady,
described as 1.-THE astonishing French
giantess," was exhibited in St James
street about the year 1928. This
Frenchwoman was six feet four inches
in height About II years ago a very
remarkable spectacular performance,
called 'Babil and Bijou," drew enor-
nous audiences to the old Alhambra,
in Leicester square, then under the
management of 1.-The peoples caterer"
the late William Holland. Mas, the
celebrated singer, made his reputation
in the piece, but the chief attraction
was the Amazon queen, unprecedented
by young German girl called Marian,
whose gigantic proportions put all
former tall ladies completely in the
shade. She measured eight feet two
inches, and presented gorgeous ap-
pearance as she strobe on to the stage
with the 1imelight shining upon her
comedy face and well-proportioned
imbs--New Illustrated Magazine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13
DIAMONDS OF GOLCONDA.
Marco POlo's Account of Them Reads
Like One of Sinbnd's Tales


Marco POIo's Account of Them Reads
Like One of Sinbnd's Tales
IL is in this kingdom that diamonds
are got; and will tell you how. There
are certain lofty noun ains in those
parts; and when the winter rains fall,
which are very heavy. the waters come
roaring down the mountains in great
torrents. When the rains are over, and
the waters from the mountains have
ceased to flow, they search the beds
of the torrents and find plenty of dia
monds. In summer also there are plen
ty to be found in the mountains, but
the heat of the sun is so great that it
is scarcely possible to go thither. nor
is there then a drop of water to be
found. Moreover, in those mountains
great serpents are rife to a marvellous
degree, besides other vermin, and this
owing to the great heat. The serpents
ence, SO that anyone going there runs
stroyed by these evil reptiles.
Now among these mountains there
are certain great and deep valleys, to
the bottom of which there is no ac-
cess. Wherefore the men who go in
search of the diamonds take with them
pieces of flesh, as lean as they can get,
and these they cast into the bottom of
the valley. Now there are numbers of
white eagles that haunt these noun
tains and feed upon the serpents. When
the eagles see the meat thrown down,
they pounce upon it, and carry it up
some rocky hilltop, where they begin
to rend it. But there are men on the
watch. and as soon as they see that
the eagles have settled, they raise a
loud shouting to drive them away.
And when the eagles are thus fright
| ened away the men recover the pieces
of meat, and find them full OF diamonds
| which have stuck to the meat down
| in the bottom. For the abundance OF
| diamonds down there in the depths OF
the valley is astonishing, but nobody
can get down; and if one could. it would
| be only to be at once devoured by the
serpents which are SO rife there.
There is another way of getting the
diamonds. The people go to the nests
| of those white eagles, of which there
are many, and find plenty of diamonds
| which the birds have carried off with
| the meat that was cast into the valleys
| And when the eagles themselves are
taken diamonds are found in theil
| stomachs.
So now have told you three different
ways in which these stones are found
| No other country but this kingdom Of
| N1utfii produces them. but there they
are found both abundantly and of large
| size. Those that are brought to oul
part of the world are only the refuse
as it were of the finer and largel
| stones For the flower of the diamond
/ and other large gems, well as th'
largest pearls, are all carried to th'
great khan and other kings and prince!
of those regions; in truth. they pos
sess all the great treasures of the world
| Noah Brooks. in ST. Nicholas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13
WHEN BESSIE DIED.

When Bessie died
We braided her fair hair and tied
1t just as her own little hands
Had fastened back the silken strands
A hundred times; the pale blue bit
OF ribbon woven into it,
That she had worn with childish pride.
Smoothed down the little bow, and cried
When Bessie died.
When Bessie died.
When Bessie died
We drew the window blinds aside,
And as the morning in the room
Burst like June rose into bloom,
Our hearts were very, very sad
We thought all gone that made life glad
When Bessie died.
When Bessie died
We prayed and prayed, unsatished,
And God looked back at US and smiled,
Unfolding in His arms the while
The lovely form of our dear child;
She laughing back against His love
The kisses we'd have no more of;
For they to us were now denied
Since Bessie died.
Our Bessie died.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13

BILE reason, as suggested, that they fear.
cross examination
On the 18th of September, 1879, Mrs.
Hillmon signed full release OF ali her
interest in the policies. She went to
her lawyers Office and demanded the
policies. He said he had lien on the
policies for SO, 900 and refused to give
them up. From that day to this the
parties demanding the payment of the
policies, it is said, have been the law
vers and not Mrs. Hillmon, the alleged
beneficiary
The body at Lawrence remained uni
Identified until the father of z. A
Walters, through the masonic lodges
at Fort Madison and at Wichita, OBJ
tanned intelligence of the tragedy and
a copy of the photograph of the alleged
dead s'Hillmon-s 1t was the lost son,
Walters When this CHASTITY photo
graph was shown to the aged mother
She exclaimed, 80 God, it is my son.
and tainted.
More than twenty witnesses from
Fort Madison identified the photo
graph. The Odd Fellows lodge, Of
which Walters was a member, con-
WINGED of his murder, paid his life
insurance. a monument has been
ST0CJSQ the LACLAO4N VI C1AS
of aSsassinS.
All of the relatives of Hillmon, in
Guiding his brothers and sisters, swear
that the body is not that of Hillmon.
At the last trial all of the jurymen
except one were on the side of the in
surance companies, although they are
corporations and the supposed plaintiff
is widow. sympathy for a widow
and hatred of corporations have kept
case in court II years that, had both
parties been citizens, would have been
decided on the first trial
In view of the facts here stated, the
action of the state superintendent Of
insurance in debarring the companies
interested from doing business in Kan
sas on account of their contesting this
Hillmon claim. is perhaps naturally
considered by them as both arbitrary
and unjust.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13
VICTORIA AND THE SENTRY
Her Thoughtfulness for Man Whose
Mother Was Dying.

Her Thoughtfulness for a Man Whose
Mother Was Dying.
The mother of one of the sentries at
Windsor castle was seriously film
deed in a dying condition-yet the son
was required by his superior officer to
be on duty as usual Her majesty
knew of the woman's illness, as indeed
she knows about everything relating
to the family life of her servants; moth
ing is too trivial for her NOTICE. As
Stunning that permission would of
course have been given to the young
sentry to go to his mothers dying bed,
the queen issued no special order to,
that effect herself. In the afternoon,
when returning from her usual after
luncheon drive, she noticed that the
sentry was in his usual place at the
castle entrance.
Instantly her majesty ordered her
carriage to be stopped and, leaning
out to where the young fellow stood,
she said with terrible emphasis:
''What, you here?" The sentry, my
informant relates. not understanding
the drift of the royal inquiry, was
ready to drop with fright and posi- bly,
expected to be sent to the Tower
straightaway. Needless to say, he
was too alarmed to speak Soon. how
ever, he learned that the queens in
dignation was not against him, but
against those who had kept him at his
post when a beloved mother was dying.
Her majesty told him to hasten home
without delay and afterward caused
special inquiries to be made as to
whether he was in time to see his
mother alive. which happily was the
case.-Woman at Home
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13

After lifting several handfuls, and Us
I was about to take up another, James
caught both my hands and said:
Nell, L love you-will you be my
devil?'
"Oh. rats!" came voice from the
other side of the stone, and I looked up
and saw the ink-stained face of the
printers devil grinning at US. I
blushed scarlet and could have choked
the ''i1id." James threw wet sponge
at him; it struck him in the face. We
went on picking up the type, but it was
too late to reset the "ads.," so James
filled up on plate" We did not speak.
and both felt embarrassed. When we
were near my house Il lived long
distance from the office) I could not
contain my composure any longer, but
burst out laughing. So did James.
Again he caught hold of my hands
and said:
Nell, will you be my"
'Devil," said L.
eyes" said he.
Eyes" said I.
We are running the paper now our
selves; and the ''devil'' that had inter-
rupted us in the composing-room is
now our foreman.
Proposal No. 6.
We had met at a friends house few
times. I liked and respected him, but
never thought of marrying him or of
his caring for me. We had been &C
quainted just three weeks. when we
were both invited to Christmas din
per at our friends house. was early
at Mrs. is, and she told me that
George had confided in her that he in
tended to ask me to marry him. and L
declared that / would refuse him.
George did not get there until just be-
fore dinner was announced. After din
ner he found ME in the parlor and be-
gan telling me he was going south to
make his home. I told him L wished
him success in his undertaking. He
then asked me if I would not like to
go. I told him. liked Illinois very
well. Then he put his arm around me
and said: MAY. won't you go as my
wife?" and I answered.: eyes" for I
found out then that loved him.-Chi-
cago Record.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13
Humorous Pencirinr..

1.-The dearest spot on earth is home"
sings the poet, and, as q matter of
fact, many OF us find it is the most ex-
pensive-
The tendency of the times is illus
trated by the fact that the bicycle ad-
vertisements are crowding the camera
advertisements out of the magazines
and newspapers
When woman has a pretty hand
and wrist and new pair of gloves
she doesn't object so strenuously to
standing up in street car and cling
ing to strap as she might otherwise
1t always gives q young woman 8
queer feeling when she meets an old
man who tells her that her grand
mother. dead and gone for so years
was once engaged to him
Some people are born poor some
achieve poverty, and others have &c
support their poor relations
When a man has run a mile to see q
fire, in his secret heart he always feels
a little disappointed if the hremen
put it ont before the damage has
reached $50.
A business man can always tell when
his Office boy has an unusually good
lunch, because he isn't particular to
go behind the roll-top desk TO eat it,
Somerville J Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13

to be ready in two weeks. So we had
much to talk about. Since then the
most cruel thing he ever said to me
was to tell how ready was 10 accept
him.
Proposal No. 4.
It happened last summer. We had
known each other, as friends, ever since
childhood tom is several years my
sen1or). Tom was gone on a trip, and
when away wrote me a letter. which
also contained a proposal. Before leav-
ing he had made me promise to answer
his letter Gin the same tone in which
his was written" OF cource, under
stood it all as a joke, and did as had
promised. When he returned from the
trip he playfully asked me if meant
what I wrote. I, of course, replied
that I meant it as much as he meant
what he wrote" Several weeks later
we took ride to the park. After a
great deal of talking Tom got "spoony,''
and, well-we are going to wait sew
eral years, for we both have ambitions
to fulfill before being joined for life.
Not soul but Tom and I knows of
this agreement, and we pride ourselves
upon our ability to hide our real feel
ings.
Proposal No. 5.
james was night foreman and 1 was
cOmpOSitOr on a local morning daily
in thriving Wisconsin town. He had
never shown much preference for me
over the other lady compositors in the
Office. After work, in the small hours
of the morning, the male contingent
used to see the girls to their respective
homes. One morning after go was
in the other girls hurried through cor
rccting their proofs, while I remained
struggling over a galley which the
night editor had said was awfully
dirty" James was finishing making
up the forms" and was waiting for my
galley" 1 finished correcting the proof
and turned the galley over to him;
in few minutes the type was in the
form and the form was locked up.
James and L were alone in the compos-
ing-room. When he lifted the form"
from the "stone" it in some manner
slipped from his hands and fell with a
| crash to the floor. Two columns of
lads" were ''pied." Luckily the rest
could be picked up" James was to
have taken me home, but I stayed to
help him reset the type. We stopped
down to gather the confused mass up.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13
The wild Mutton..

Some time ago certain foreign coont
was staying at Dunrobin castle, the
home of the duke of Sutherland. He
was sent out Devastating by himself.
He returned at the end of long day Of
triumph. what sport?'' asked the
duke of his guest. "Of re wild DEER
replied the sportsman" 81 shoot none
-zey are too deefeecult; but re wild
Inuttons many" He had been slaughter
ing the little Highland sheep with
which the hills round Dunrobin are
covered.-London Answers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13

ton, but it will doubtless be admitted
that the stories should continue to come
from the women. Women who desire to
contribute true stories to the realistic
should remember that there is no need
to write the whole story of the love af-
fair Simply tell of the proposal-the
place, the circumstances under which
the question was put and the talk that
passed