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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28

In addition to the above a new firm
is making. arrangements to cut 7,000,000
and numerous smaller concerns will
bank total Of probably 100000 more.
Ward & Davis are cutting for Reed &
Sherwood, of Anoka, and Bob Burch
is cutting for himself. ~sts-a @s..
3 twill readily be seen that the crews
required to conduct this work this
VSnter will belarger and more .numer-
Fous atlzrS t'as's--e several The
amount of wages involved will be enor-
nous and the residents of the lake
country anticipate an excellent market
for all their produce. Prosperity is
dropping in Mile Laos county in big
chunks.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28

The good-natured man has, a great
advantage over the peevish, frowning
individual who always notices only the
dark spots in the brightest surround
ings. It is also noticeable that what
ever quantum of so-called good luck is
flying about generally falls to the lot
of good-natured men, and thus gives
the resentful, peevish brethren another
chance to growl. Tt is related of a
certain man who held a position of con-
siderable influence, that he was Of
such q bright good-natured disposition
that people said, in speaking Of him,
'sthey would rather be refused a favor
by him than have an approximate
kindness granted by another, = and all
because he had a5frank, kindly manner,
of granting or refusing a request.
Verify it pays a man to cultivate a
kindly demeanor whether he be a. SER
want or master P,iso,. lli17or.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28
Princeton,s Good Market.

The Little Falls TRANSCRIPT remarks
that if potatoes were really 40 cents in
Princeton last week they brought more
than they did in Minneapolis and
therefore Little Falls farmers would
do we'll to ship them here. Theslra,,-
script published no market report but
the Herald quoted potatoes at Is cents.
If that was really the market price
there must be something radically
wrong with the buyers. Good ship
ping stock brought 38 and 10 cents
here all last week and surely there
cannot be Is cents. difference in the
freight rate between the two places.
Isn't some one 'sskinning" the farmers
in your town Brother Fuller? Prince
ton will always be found paying the
highest market price for all produce
and therefore the farmers, ana every
one else for that matter, are more
prosperous in this vicinity than in
most sections of the State.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28
Stole FaY,S Pine.

James Houston, employed as tank
man by the Northern Pacific, on the
East Side, reported to the police that
he had found the plumber OF. a robbery
in hay stack which he had put up
about ten days ago. Houston went to
the stack last Friday evening and
found hidden under it, Is pairs of
pants, ~ pipes and six pairs of shoes.
The articles were all brand new and
had been stolen from a store where a
large stock of good pipes were carried.
He turned over the goods to the police.
It's thought the goods were stolen at
Milaca. st. Cloud Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28

Greedy, Colorado that his sister, Mrs.
Olive 4. Barker had met with a seri-
Gus accident. While Mrs. Barker was
out driving with some lady friends
their horse became frightened and
ran away. Mrs. Barker attempted to
jump from the buggy and in so doing
her dress was caught in the wheel
throwing her to the ground and break
ing her arm; the vehicle passed over
her foot crushing that member quite
badly. Although her injuries are
painful they are not considered dan
gerous. -Isanti County Press. ~, ..... .
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28
IOCdI. :.
Mt reported.
DIED.

Mrs. Carew, who has been a resi-.
der of Mile Laos county for more
THAI forty years, died in Princeton yes.
teray morning Of a complication OF
heat disease and dropsy. She has
bee quite sick for some time so her
deah was not unexpected. Her death
wareally caused by injuries she re
ceied three years ago, her age-she
Wanearly 80-being against her re-
coVry.
Ms. Carew came to Princeton in
185Ior 1857 with her husband and set
tle{on the West Branch about three
nils above town. She has always
bed a free hearted, handwriting
wolan, and was we'll known to all the
oldettlers. She united with the Con-
greational church many years ago.
Il Milo, Oct. %, Mrs. Ann Corbett,
agd about Is years, after all illness of
abdt six months. Mrs. Corbett was
on3f the early settlers Of Mile Laos
equity, coming here with her husband
abdt twenty weight years ago. The
funral occurred last Sunday at her
residence.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28
PROSPERITY COMING
lille Laos County Didn't Suffer With
the Others, Therefore Prosper
ity Visits Us Soonest.
Our Farmers Are Drawing ON the East
and South for $4,000 Daily,
Hence All This Joy.

The potatoes came in nicely the lat
ter part Of last week and so far this
week. Saturday the business on our
streets would have done credit to a
town of twice the population. While
considerable grain was received by the
buyers the principal offerings were
potatoes Of which over 1900 bushels
were purchased. The receipts in
round numbers by local dealers were
as fnllnWs. -.----- u. Z =
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28


The price paid for the shipping
stock ranged as high as SO cents with
the average about 80 CENTS The
money the farmers received for their
best potatoes therefore was approxim-
fately 81 sos 90, plns.s=th lose sold the
factory at Is cents or $3.50 worth,
amounting to $5,058.00
The daily receipts of grain at the
St. Anthony & Dakota warehouse re-
quires the expenditure of about $4,000
on the average while fair estimate of
the wheat received at the Princeton
Roller mill is $500. It will therefore
be seen that the farmers are receiving
cash for this portion of their produce
amounting to $4,000 per day. ~
There is also a good market here for
butter, eggs, beef, poultry, hay, etc..
so that the farmer who lives within
hauling distance of Princeton finds it
advantageous to sell his products here,
and where he gets his money he
usually spends it, thus bringing in
a season many thousands Of dollars of
outside money to be put in circulation
here. Is it strange, therefore, that
during the hard times Mile Laos
county fourished and now feels doubly
the prosperity Of the season?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28
These Get Money!.

Auditor Whitney apportioned the
money received from the October ap-
portionment of the State school fund
and the fines received yesterday after
noon. The county's share of the State
fund was $2,7l5.00 and the fines
amounted to $500 making the total
amount to be divided $2,721.00. Each
districts share is as fOllOws:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28
PIeases His Friends.

Chas. A.sDickey has been appointed
superintendent of schools Of Mile Laos
county, succeeding Miss Marion Mud
gett, who has removed to Georgia.
Mr.. Dickey is WellsknoWn in st. Cloud
and his friends will congratulate him
upon his new position. St. Cloud Jour
nal Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14

Paris, Jan. 10.-One of those curl
attacks royalty is about to take place
Il the gossip in certain quarters has
any truth in it. 1t is nothing less
than a reconciliation between eX-
King Milan of SerVia and his hand
some ex-Wife and eX-queen, Natalie.
Should this happen no one who knows
the couple would wager a sou on the
endurance of the new tie, for Milan
heads the list of European reprobates
aDd eX-Queen Natalie is one of those
women to whom intrigue is as natural
rs water to a fish.
The queer part of it is that the
rumored reconciliation will be the re-
suit of joint parental effort to marry
off their son, the young King Alexan-
Ger of Servia. This youth, now in his
Jwenty-first year, is SO lacking in the
ordinary attractions that it has been
impossible to marry him to any of the
many princesses of Europe, nOtwith-
standing the fact that he is a king.
Proposals on his behalf have been
made for the hands of the Grand Ouch
ess Xenia of Russia, of the eldest
daughter of Grand Duke vladimir, Of
the Princess Sybil of Hesse, of the
Princess Fedora, sister of the German
emperor, of the Infanta Mercedes of
Spain, but in each case the proposal
was met with a chilling rebuff. Even
the poverty stricken Princess Anna of
Montenegro refused absolutely to &C
cept the young king, although her ia
iher urged the match upon her with
considerable persistency.
independently of each other. Natalie
and Milan have swept every corner of
Europe in the hope of finding some
maiden of royal blood who would ac-
cept the young nan, but their efforts
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14

party to a reconciliation or anything
else that promises a speedy fattening
Of his purse. Wien he first took up
mis- abode in Paris, after his abdica-
ton, he had plenty of money, and Of
course, quantities of friends. These
latter have faded away very rapidly
of late, for the late king has developed
an extraordinary capacity for making
loans, and it is needless to say that
these are seldom refunded.
Alexander at the present time is
working on his mother to gain her
consent to the reconciliation, and from
all accounts he is having a more diff
ficult time than he had with his
father. Natalie is a high-spirited
woman, but her anxiety to marry of
her son may overcome her scruples, al
though she we'll knows the hopeless
ness of reforming her former husband.
Two years ago a reconciliation had
been arranged between the royal
couple and the disastrous result Of
this effort, as we'll as the humiliation.
is still fresh in the mind of Natalie.
All the detailed arrangements for the
reconciliation were made, and the
news of the event disseminated 20
every portion OF the world. But Milan
obtained fresh supply of money and
installed new mistress in his
sumptuoU3 Partisan domicile. Acct
IDENTIFY Natalie learned of the fact, and
as it occurred on the very eve of the
reconciliation, it was an affront that
could not be forgiven.
Should Natalie's consent again he
obtained, it is safe to count upon young
Alexander watching his father with
extreme care to prevent a second
catastrophe of the kind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14
OUR NAVY.
improvements Suggested by Secretary
Herbert in His Annual Report.

The annual report of the Secretary
the year 1896, deals in matters about
which the public knows little and
cares less, yet which are of incalcul-
able Importance to the country. With
our enormous seacoast we have thou
sands upon thousands of miles of ex-
posture to naval attack.
While we have quite a romantic
naval history, we never had much OF
a navy. Paul Jones was an interesting
figure in the shadowy background of
the revolutionary war. In the second
war with England Commodore Perry
won renown, and about that time our
gallant tars suppressed Algerian pir-
acy. In the last war Farragut was a
splendid figure, and there were scores
of others great in the mastery of the
art Of naval warfare; and the magni-
ficent fighting of great ships of new
construction revolutionized the strate-
gy of war at sea.
Mr.. Herbert gives a table of the
seven principal navies Of the world.
The United States ranks sixth and
Spain seventh. The five others are,
to name them in their order, Britain,
France, Russia, Italy, and Germany.
In the way of torpedo boats we are
behind Spain, and France, Germany,
and Italy are ahead of Britain. But
in the way of first-class battle-ships
we have, built and building, nine, to,
SPANS one, Germany's six, Italy's ten,
Russia's eleven, Frances eighteen, and
Britain's twenty-four.
The secretary wants congress to au-
thorize at this session the construction
of twelve torpedo boats, also three
battleships of light enough draft so
that they, could slip in and out of our
natural harbors on the southern coast.
Such battleships would have an i'm
mense advantage over those of foreign
nations, few if any of which could en-
ter those ports. There are many
northern ports which would afford the
same advantage to such ships. The
secretary adds that light draft bat
tle-ships, if we had them, could make
any of these ports bases of supply,
could sally forth from them or retire
into them at will, and could therefore
almost always offer battle on their own
terms
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14

been understood were not to come
again until early spring, has provided
mihiners with an extra string to their
bow. Blossoms being added TO the al
ready complicated list Of trimmings,
a very great profusion o. decoration
is the consequence since plumage is by
no means set aside.
Silk hats are beginning to run felt
very close, the most fashionable shape
for them being that with the high
crown widening out at the top and the
narrow curled brim. Toques. on the
other hand, are rather low, the velvet
or other material of which they are
made being very much puffed Com
binations of two colors, the lighter be-
ing used for the crown, are frequently
seen. Large velvet and satin roses
are often used as borderings, and also
to encircle the crowns of felt hats when
the colors chosen are rather deep in
tone, different shades of dark red. vio-
let and brown obtaining very largely
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14
THE INDOMITABLE GULL.

You can no more disconnect thoughts
of the open sea from the flight and
cry of a gull than from the masts and
cordage Of a ship or the brown and
gold branches of seaweed and the
long, purple-futed ribbons Of sea
wrack Restless explorers Of all seas,
found upon every island, inlet and
reach of coast; always enterprising, en-
ergetic, fearless and full Of eager vital
ity, this amphibious and indomitable
bird might we'll be chosen for the her
aldic symbol of Great Britain if we
had not already appropriated the lion.
The heart of a sea gull, which is not
SO large as an Orleans plum, must
have in it all the heroism of Vasco da
Cana, all the curiosity of Columbus,
all the joyous buccaneering spirit OF
Raleigh and of Drake.-L0ndon Tele-
graph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14

were fruitleSs. Last spring Milan Sc
riously considered a tour of America
in the hope of finding some ten or
twenty million dollar girl who would
be willing to risk her Life and happi-
ness with Alexander for the sake of
sitting on a real throne and being a
queen.
Now, it is said, that Alexander has
aspired to the hand of a daughter Of
one OF the Austrian archdukes, but, as
usual, the young lady's parents have
raised an obstacle. Unlike other OBJ
jections this does not concern the per-
sonality Of the young man himself, but
it happens that the family of this par
ticular archdukR is tremendously re-
ligious, and Alexander was informed
that they could not think of receiving
him as a scn-in-law because his father
and mother lived apart. This WAS too
great scandal for the archduke TO
stomach, even with the prospect of
making his daughter queen of Servia.
When Alexander was convinced that
this was the sole reason Of their refusal
and that il the cause of the objection
We're removed there would be no
further obstacle raised. he posted off
to Linz, where his father was stopping,
and informed that unusual gentleman
that a reconciliation must be at once
arranged with eX-Queen Natalie.
Milan was agreeable, for his shrawd
young son pointed out the fact that the
Servian exchequer would be vastly inn
proved by the marriage, and the ex-
king wo&ld share handsomely in the
subsequent distribution of the riches
At this precise period Milan was, and
for that matter is, in the sOrest
straits for ready money. When Milan
was forced to abdicate in 1889, he was
given 1,000,000 francs, but that was
dissipated long ago. Since then the
Young king has advanced him some
money, but these advances are never
made without a purpose. Now he Ia:
made the fact plain that mo reconcile
alton. no money!
Milan would do almost anything TO,
money to give him free scope to ap
pease his sensual appetites and Their
is no doubt that he will be willin
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14
PETERS PEACH TREE.

Peter lived on the prairie. When he
was three years old, the first railroad
train came through. Uncle Peter car
red the small boy to see it.
A train boy threw a peach to Peter.
He caught it, and laughed with delight.
Don't throw away the stone" said
Uncle Peter; we'll plant it.
Peters chubby, brown little hand
patted the soft earth over it. The first
season he watched the green shoot
break through and send out a few
leaves. The next season it was tall
enough for Peter to jump over it. The
next season it was so tall he couldn't
When Peter was seven years old
there were seven peaches on his tree,
one for each of the family, and none
Of them had ever tasted anything so
good before. He planted all the
stones.
Today Peter is a big boy. He has
eight we'll grown peach trees, which
carry health and delight to all the
neighborhood And he has a young
orchard coming on which will some
day bring more money than all his
fathers crops.-The New Moon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14
A PROMPT ANSWER.

The Washington Post tells this
story of Colonel Wallace S. Jones,
United States consul general at Rome,
Italy, now on a visit to this country:
Colonel Jones is a Floridian, and has
been in the consular service in Italy
for the last ten years. He is gentle
man of wit, tact and culture, and his
ability to make a happy response at
the right time brought him into the
good graces of Queen Margherita on
his first appearance at court. The
queen asked him from which state he
hailed, and on being told said tina.
she had often heard Florida described
is very beautiful country. Yes,
your majesty was the prompt reply:
we call it at home the Italy Of Anne
lea"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14
FAKIR'S BIG PROFITS.
English Judge Almost Tempted to In
vest in an aunt Sally" Outfit.

Strange things happen in this world,
but surely the limit of novelty will be
reached when grave and learned
judge, in the person of Mr. Commits
stoned Kerr, leaves the judicial bench
in order to become the proprietor of an
Aunt Sally cocoanut pitch. During
a case which he heard in the City of
London court the commissioner was
SO struck with the enormous profits
made in that healthy and breezy call
ing that he expressed a decided pref
erence for it over the law. We shall
all be going into this line soon" he
remarked. A man named George
Bragg. who is in the habit of attend
ing Sunday school treats, temperance
fetes and Primrose league gatherings
with the game of Aunt Sally" paid
Is shillings for a pitch at HaIstead
last bank holiday, and ordered 10 shil-
lings' worth of cocoanutS-2O0-fru
Messrs. Philip Phillips & Co., Mitre
street Aldgate, which however, they
unfortunately sent to Southend instead
of the proper place. Result-disaster.
of old nuts which he possessed, arxl
when they had been all knocked off
their perches he was forced to look
mOumfully, with his hands in his
pockets, at rivals doing a roaring
trade. He only made f2 profit that
day, instead of the Els he expected.
What cried Mr. Commissioner Kerr,
''f15 from Aunt Sally in one day?
Surely that cannot be-" Mr.. Bragg as
sured the judge that the sum was cor
rectly stated. Most of the people who
played the game did not trouble TO
take away the cocoanuts which there
fore remained for further sport. Why,
last Derby he made a clear profit of
Els out of 500 nuts. "Prodigious,''
said the judge; and when the jury
awarded Bragg f9 against Messrs.
Phillips he said that, had he been in
the box, he would have made it more.
If, therefore, next season a venerable,
benevolelIt-looking gentleman be seen
on Hampstead heath Or EPSON Downs
sperintending an Aunt Sally" and cry
ing who'll have a try? A penny a
shy the world will know that it is
learned official supplementing an in
come which a hard-hearted corporation
keeps at too low figure, and will pat
rCniZe him accordingly.-London
Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14
PARIS Els.
Fur is Being Employed Extensively
for Trimmings and Garments.

One of the chief characteristics of
the Paris winter fashions is the i'm
mense use of fur. 1t is treated not
only as a trimming, but made to do
duty for material in the making up
of other garments besides such things
as bolero vests, waistcoats, blouses and
the crowns of hats and toques. Com
plete liberty is allowed in the choice
of furs, and it can hardly be said that
one sort enjoys more favor than an
other. Ermine, so long left out in
the cold, is now fur, Withal its rather
smart appearance a trimming permits
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14
CHAPTER XIII.
Circums nectiOn.

C1rcumSpectlOn.
At 8 o'clock that night Sholto
Graham found himself standing at the
door of the house in the Harrow road
to which he had been commanded to
come by Mrs. Cumberland. The
atmosphere did not seem to breathe Of
her at adj. The house, with its little
straight slip of ir0n-railed-in garden
ground in front, looked respectable,
but neither pretty nor picturesque.
The impression that it was neither of
these things deepened when the door
was opened to him by an unmistakable
third-rate clearinghouse slavey, and
he was taken up some equally third
rate clearinghouse stairs, into a
gaudily furnished, glaringly lighted,
untastefully decorated drawing
A sudden suspicion, sudden doubt
of the woman he had come to see,
darted through his mind. Was she
what she represented herself to be
namely, the widow of his old friend,
Mr. Cumberland, and wealthy
woman? There war something cheaply
mysterious, or underhand, to say the
least of it, about her refusal to receive
him in her temporary home. and at
the same time summoning him to meet
her here.
These thoughts passed through his
mind swiftly as a flash of lightning.
The next instant she was holding out
her hand, the fingers of which sparkled
with diamonds and sapphires, warmly
to welcome him, and the gesture and
rings combined to Danish his brief
distrust
Il sent for you because l was in a
terrible fright" she began, in nervous
haste Il had a call from Sir Andrew
today, and he began questioning me
in such a suspicious way. He more
than limited that some one had seen
Us together at that restaurant the
other night and said he should ask
/ you about it.
IF he does I shall tell him to mind
his own business Sholto said ''The
fact Of his having married my sister
doesn't give him the right to pry into
my affairs or dictate to me what
! shall and shall not do
"Oh, you mlsn't, you really must
not take that tone with him" she
cried, in what sounded like genuine
alarm You would ruin yourself
! with him, and he has it in his power
to do so much for you
But Sholto's temper was raised. and
| he repeated emphatically: