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the greater the number of their VIC
TINS the greater is the reward in the
next world. These fanatics have just
startled the English rulers of India by
CHASTITY crime. They murdered seven
innocent persons in one day, with every
conceivable atrocity. Their punish
ment was swift and terrible, but that
does not remove the horrible fear with
which their neighbors of an alien faith
must regard them, for by their own
death they were only sent to the eter
nal reward for which they had commit
ted their crimes. These sectaries be-
long to the Warri tribe. They are
called Ghazis, and their belief is known
as Ghaza. They are, in fact, very
degraded Mohammedan sect. It will be
recognized that their horrible creed is
an outgrowth of the old Mohammedan
teaching that the believer who is
killed in battle with unbelievers is sure
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-28

The strangest of all electric rail-
ways is that at Brighton, England, con-
Meeting that famous seaside resort with
rockingham, several miles away on the
shore. The popularity of this railway
is that it's car is mounted on four steel
stills twenty -four feet high. AS part OF
the railway is submerged at high tide,
this arrangement makes the electric
car in manner amphibious, able to
run through water that is many feet
deep.
Each one of the stills on which the
car is supported rests upon a truck hav-
ing four wheels, the four trucks being
braced together by steel tubular struts.
The trucks have the appearance OF
inverted canoes, thus affording easy
passage through the water. me cleo
trio current is conveyed to the car by
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captured by the Marri Chief, WAGER
Ai.r:hazarkhan, and delivered up TO the
British authorities. But even before
q IS exemplary Justice had been e1-s
ecuted on the three murderers firstI
caught, the Mast Fakir, Rahimali and
1Ja lam They were publicly hanged
and their bodies then burned The lat
ter part of the sentence was performed
With The greatest possible solemnnity
~ was hoped that this would appear
the more terrible part of the sentence
to the Ghazis. for the Mo ammedant
desires to take a complete body to
Paradise. The execution of the others
quickly followed. There still remains a
numerous sect of fanatics, whose high.
est duty in life is to commit murder,
and whom only death will pacify.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-28
of immediate entry into Paradise. The

of immediate entry into Paradise. The
Ghazis only seek the lives Of unbe-
levers, whom they call Kafirs, but
that they have no regard for the lives.
of ordinary Mohammedans was shown
by the present case. They have ac-
cepted the religious teaching that he
who ribs the world Of an unbeliever:
renders the greatest possible service to
Allah and Mohammed. This has made
them sect Of murderous maniacs.
They neglect the care Of their bodies
entirely, grow long Hair and become in
appearance like wild beasts. They live
only in the hope Of killing an infldel,
and when they have done that life has
no further attraction for them, for it
only delays the gaining of their re-
ward. The construction of a railway
by Europeans in country adjoining
that inhabited by these fends reused
them to fury greater than they had
ever shown before. The railway was
regarded or the one hand as an insult
offered to Allah and his prophet, and
on the other as a great opportunity
given to the faithful Ghazis to take
vengeance on the unbelieyers. They
understood something Of the power
that lay behind the builders Of the rail
road, but that was nothing to them,
for they knew that Allah must triumph
after all, and they had but to do his
will.
The Northwestern Railway is great
and nearly completed system, which
connects all parts of India with the
Afghan frontier. It IS England s great
reliance in case Of a struggle with Rus
STA. Recently the Sind Phishin section
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un uni in their mad hunt through
the village. Then, when their fury was
somewhat exhausted, they fed to the

unDellevers in their mad hunt through
the village. Then, when their fury was
somewhat exhausted, they fed to the
hills. q.
Lieutenant Colonel Gaisford. the
English political. agent of the district.
started by special train from Snahrig
Immediately after receiving informa
ton OF the outrage, and was met by a
greWsome sight on his arrival at SUI
/ mari, where he found Canning's mutt
lated body and the bunnia's charred re-
mains. He also visited the dying sta
ton master. Troops were imme diately
telegraphed for las a general rising ap-
peared imminent from reports re-
ceived) to guard all stations from Har-
mai to Sib.. General Gatacre, who had
only just assumed command Of the
Quetia district, left for Sunari, and re-
ceived information that the Ghazis
We're hiding on the DUNCAN Hill. TAX
ing only twenty men of the Twenty
fourth Baluchistan Regiment, he sue
ceeded in surprising their camp, where
three Of the Ghazis Fakir Kalakhan
Ghe Mast Fakir), Jalamb and Rahi-
mali--were fast asleep.
After q short struggle they were
bound and, comrades as they were,
they informed the general that three
others. Mezhdar, Saindad and Kaka,
had gone for water, and would return
shortly AS they were saying this,
these Others were seen about $50 yards
away, advancing toward the party, but
on seeing the Sepoys they turned and
fled. Within q few days two more
1 &hazis, Sandal and Mezhdar, were
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No Such Bird,

A Russian grand duke, one of the
czar's predecessors, was once the guest
of a German prince. It was early in.
the century. In Russia the imperial
double headed eagle is to be seen ev-
erywhere and on everything through
out the empire, stamped, painted, en-
broidered, or sculptured. At that peri
cd the education of the grand dukes
was somewhat limited. This grand
duke went out shooting in Germany,
and among other things shot large
bird He asked an experienced hunts
man who accompanied him what the
bird was. AN eagle, your highness, .
was the answer. The grand duke
turned on him in an irritated way.
How can it be an eagle" he asked,
when it has only one head -Argo-
naut.
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Of this road, which almost touches the.
country Of the Ghazis, was completed.
One afternoon seven or eight Ghazis,
led by one Of them known as the Mast
Fakir, appeared on the platform Of the
Sunari Railway station and asked for
the station master, saying that they.
had q complaint to make. The Sikh
policeman who was on duty said that
he would look for the official, and as,
he turned, one OF the Ghazis shot him
in the back, killing him. R
Hearing the noise, a young English
man, Edward Canning, a plate layer by.
trade, and the son of a neighbpring
station master, ran to the scene. When
he arrived the Fakir fired at him, but.
missed him. Canning, who was I'M
armed, began to run for his life. The
fanatics started in fierce pursuit. Can
ming stumbled over the rough ground
in his heavy shoes and his nimble pur-
suers overlook and surrounded him
within fifty feet and began to hack at
him with their knives. Canning strug-
gled against them with his weaponless
arms, and as he did so the station mas
= + , s. q = i h. - -
ter came up and endeayored to save
him. This man was a Mohammedan
and would probably not have been in
jured by the Ghazis had he not in
terfered. AS it was, they inflicted NOR
tai wounds on him and killed Canning,
whom they mutilated horribly. The
little village had been panic stricken
by the first appearance of the Ghazis,
who, after they had tasted blood, ran
through the streets like men possessed
Of devils. They entered the grocery
store, the only one in the place, and
murdered the proprietor or bunnia
who was Hindoo. Not content with
| killing and mangling him, they set his
remains in the middle of the store and
burned the building. Altogether they
: killed seven men whom they took to be
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-28
''NIGGER DOGS"
How They Were Trained Before tho
ias War.


War.
5 Before the war, when was a small
boy, in the country in which was
raised, in east Texas, the county that
had more slaves than any other county
in the state, there were two or three
packs of what in those days were called
snigger dogs says the Galveston
News. They were the same breed OF
hounds used by deer hunters. One no.
table pack belonged to John Dever-
eaux, who was overseer on a planta-
ton a few miles from the county site
of the county. John Devereaux never
failed to catch the negro he went after
if he got to the quarters the negro had
left in twenty four to thirty hours af-
terward, and so it was with all the
"nigger dogs" Of those days. The
question is, why were the packs Of
those days so much better than the
packs owned by sheriffs now? The
only answer is that it was in the train
ing.
r. In those days if man wanted a pack
of niger dogs" he got him five or six
puppies Of good blood and before they
were weaned he would begin their.
training. The first lessons were to:
make a little negro run and set the
puppies after him around the yard
They would run after him by sight
and if he lodged out of the way they
Immediately, little stockings as they
were, hunted for his track. This was
kept up every day and several times
day until they got old enough to fol-
low a trail pretty we'll, and then the
little negro would be given a good
start of them and they were put on his
track for a mile or two's run, increas-
ing the distance gradually as they de-:
veloped until they were grown, by
which time they were well trained to-
follow a human track. The training
did not stop then, but every day they
were still exercised.
They were always kept up close, so
that when they were taken out for a
run they would be eager and fresh for
the Ito them) sport. After they were
put into the service for which they
had been trained and had been on a
few hunts for their human prey of one,
two, or three days, as some Of the old
chases lasted that long, they were not
so assiduously trained. But even then
they were given two or three runs of
five to ten miles week This is an
absolute essential, lest they become
worthless.
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Where Ouixote was Kn,pbted

The ruins were of an important ven
ia, such caravanserai as was found
every few leagues when all travelling
and traffic between Madrid and Seville
passed on the royal highway, says
Scribner's. Should the ingenious sur
misses Of the learned, who have indus
triously erected the ponderous com
mentaries around Ceryantes' romance
be true, this venta had the rare good
fortune of being visited by Don Quixote
in the beginning of his wanderings
He kept his night vigil-at-arms in its
courtyard and on the morning follow
ing was by the rowdy, canny innkeep-
er made knight. To me let it be
only what It surely is, and that is
enough: One Of the rare pages Of the
days of old-the mute witness of the
comedies and tragedies Of the pleasures
and troubles Of some Of our predeces-
sors in the human procession.
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a trolley pole to an overhead wire the
same as is in use on the trolley cleo
trio roads in this country. This queer
little electric line was opened to the
public on Saturday, Nov. %, and is
now in regular operation. It makes the
distance from Brighton to rockingham
and back to Brighton in a few minutes
over an hour.
The possession of this curious line
gives Brighton the distinction of hav-
ing something in the way Of railroad
that is absolutely unique. There is
nothing like it anywhere else in the
world. The nearest approach to it is at
St. Malo, where tall structure is
pulled through the water for distance
OF ITO yards. The motor in this in
stance is simply a stationary steam
engine operating all endless chain.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-28
MISCELLANY.

The movement for amending or re-
vising city charters is spreading in
Maine.
An English journal says that Queen
Victoria has been total abstainer for
three years.
A peddler arraigned in Suncook. N.
H., last week, bore the famous name OF
Mark Hanna.
A Belfast CMe.) judge has ruled that
shaking dice for cigars is not gambling,
but shaking them for money is.
About 100000 trees are annually
planted by Swedish school children I'M
der the guidance Of their teachers.
But three old soldiers have thus far
awaited themselves Of the privileges OF
becoming inmates Of the home at St.
James, Mo.
An unmarried woman has made a
reputation in Gage county, Nebraska,
as corn-husker, doing seventy five
bushels a day. @
! Lord Leighton's house in London has
been offered by his sisters to the Brit
ish nation on condition that it be pre-
served as 1t is. 5[
| The Canadian government is con-
sidering the advisability Of deepening
the st. Lawrence and the canals from
Montreal to Lake Erie.
Japan steamship line to the Russian
ports Of the Black sea will begin run.
ming in the spring. The feet will con
sist of sixteen steamers.
The PottaWatomie Indians of Ath-
ems, Mich, are about to devote a dis
tribution Of delayed annuities to the
i construction of church.
The work Of the new Episcopal
Church Army has commenced in Bos-
ton. Fifty posts have already been
organized throughout the country.
"a certain farmer Of Gilmanton N
H, netted just 2 cents on five bushels 81
apples sent to Boston. Last year the
same quantity brought him $13.75.
An Arizona editor has been found
who is sincere and honest. He hang,
this sign on his Office door: lone OUT
to take drink. Will be back to-mor.
i row." s#5
How do you like this style Of Gun r
asked the detective, swapping pair q;
slender steel bracelets on the wrists 8,
]. the confidence mans Il am a good dea!
4 taken with u. !" responded the other.
4 Chicago Tribune.
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a frst-class pie. Piemaking is easy
with the young bride only. Still, IN TINS TINS
big factory spoken OF, it really does
seem a simple affair-the putting to-
gether Of fruit and dough-because the
workmen go through the performance
in "apple-pie order" but it is practlce
and experience with them rather than
personal leasure. To make pie cor
rectly, az we'll as digestively, 1t is neces-
sary to resort to fo,ls, processes
Take, for instance, mlnce PIE. Inc
work of preparing the filling IS the
first undertaken, and then IN regular
order come the task of making the
crust, filling the pie and baking It.
Contrary to some ideas, it is essential
to the welfare of the aforesaid pie that
the meat required be OF a superior
kind. This obtained, it is consigned
to an immense steam jacketed copper
kettle that has the capacity OF me-
Diminished barrel. In this way 1t is
cooked and then intrusted to the bene-
fetal graces of an enormous chopplng
machine, that does the work as timely
as projectile from a twelve-inch gun
might do with wooden fence. Next
come for attention the beef suet ap-
pie, citron, currants, spices and, final
ly, the brandy, and these are mixed
with the mincemeat by another ma
chine and are sent to the filler. While
the mincemeat is being mixed with the
other mixture, another force Of men is
engaged in preparing the crust. This
force Of men works before an immense
trough and is rugged out in clothes OF
Immaculate white, with bare arms as
powdered with -four as the hair on
their heads. The trough is partly filled
with flour and shortening .or lard is
worked into it by the white workmen
Water that has been specially iced is
worked into the mixture in the trough
and the whole thing soon takes on
quite a doughlike appearance.
This dough is taken to another force
s0f men, who roll it out into thin slices
and place it on tin plates. This opera.
ftion is perhaps the quickest of any Of
the processes. The men go through
the mountain Of dough like wine
through a sand hill. Quicker than il
takes to tell, the white covered tins arr
taken to the fillers-in, and no army O
old topers ever filled in as rapidly a.
do they, All use a long-handled dip
per, which has a capacity just sufficien
to fill one pie. With this dipper in on,
4ia g1f7 80. ~
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HOW OLD is NIAGARA7.
About 10000 Years Is the scientiHs

$55s5 Estimates
The Niagara River, which had first
been strait Joining Lake Erie to the
ontarian gulf, gradually became a
wide, shallow, rapid stream, and them
as the waters Of the lower lakes sub
sided, its bed narrowed and its fall in
creased to 420 feet, says knowledge.
But the river was soon greatly en-
larged. The land was rising to the
north Of Ontario as well, and ultimately
the outlet from Lake Huron to the
Ottawa Valley was blocked, and the
surplus waters Of these greatest lakes
flowed by their present course to Lake
Erie, and thence to the Niagara River.
With the continued rise Of land. espe-
cially toward the east of Ontario, the
water level rose until it attained its
present elevation, and the fall Of the
river between the two lakes was re-
duced to the present $50 feet. Can
dates be assigned to thes events? The
first estimate of the age Of Niagara
River was given by Ellicott over a
century ago at S.; 400 years; Blackwell,
1880, gave 10000; Lyell's estimate Of
81, 900 was accepted for many years af-
ter l841, but recent writer's, using the
mean rates of recession during forty
eight years as determined by surveys,
make the value 5000 years. DR.. spen-
Ger has made new and careful COM
putation Of the age of Niagara River
and falls. He shows that the recent
estimates have not taken into account
the various changes that have occurred
in the fall and volume of the river.
His calculations result in value near
~ that of Lyell's. s
DR.. Spencer believes that Niagara
River was formed 80 900 years ago, and
that 1000 years later the falls were in
existence. For 1920 years their
height was about 200 feet; thereafter
the water fell 42O feet. Seven thou
sand eight hundred years ago the drain
age Of Lakes Superior, Michigan and
Huron first flowed through the Niagara
gorge, and 5000 years ago the waters
rose in Lake Ontario until the level
reached that of today The falls, then,
are $1,000 years old. This estimate,
calculated from the rate of erosion, is
confirmed by another made from the
| terrestrial movements one as to the
past, the. other concerning the future.
The lakes came into existence after the
| glacial epoch and Niagara after the
lakes, and calculations based on the
mean rate of rise of the beaches in the
earlier period Of the lakes history
show that the close of the ice age may
safely be placed at $4,000 years ago.
| AS to the future: With the present
rate of calculated terrestrial uplift in
the Niagara district, and the rate of re
i cession Of the falls continued, or even
doubled, before the cataract shall have
reached the Devonian escarpment at
Buffalo, that limestone barrier shall
have been raised so high as to turn the
waters of the upper lakes into the
Mississippi drainage by way of Chica-
go. An elevation of sixty feet at the
outlet of Lake Erie would bring the
rocky floor of the channel as high as
the Chicago divide, and an elevation Of
seventy feet would completely divert
the drainage. This would require 5000
to 5000 years at the estimated rate Of
terrestrial elevation.
| s I'll 80
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German BUSINESS Women.

The registration Of business in Ger
many has had the effect of showing
how large is the number of women en-
gagged in trade. In Chemnitz alone s.
900 retail businesses and workshops
are the property of women. Philadel-
phia Press.
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RECENT INVENTIONS.

u A new street sweeper has brush
which forces the dirt toward the center
and into a pocket, through which a
chain OF buckets are running, the buck
cts elevating the dirt to the wagon box
above.
A new air-brake coupling is worked
automatically by the action Of bringing
the cars together, the contact OPEN
ing the valves in each car and operat-
ing piston which makes the connec-
ton fast. s
"A Colorado woman has designed
heat regulator and thermometer for
ovens, which consists Of two bars so
connected that their expansion and
contraction opens and shuts the damper
s in the oven door.
A handy device for dry-goods sales
counters consists Of a yardstick which
is dove-tailed into the counter mold
ing in such manner that it can slide
readily parallel with the counter. it ia
always in it's place.
Buck saws are now made with ri
angular-shaped blades, two ends being
fastened in the usual places and the
third reaching up to the brace in the
center Of the saw frame, thus stiffen-
ing both the saw and frame.
a new trunk bed has its top and
front side hinged together and fasten-
ed to the bottom of the trunk in such
manner that they can be laid out fiat
on the floor, the main portion Of the
trunk forming the head Of the bed.
To shovel coal and sift ashes new
shovel has series Of tines, which are
curved downward in the center and
meet at the ends, a shaking motion sift-
ing the ashes through into receptacle.
when the good coal can be thrown back
on the fire.
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Little Bit OF q Babv.

The tiniest baby, perhaps, in the
world has been added to the family Of
Samuel Donaldson, a barber, who lives
in Camden, N. j. It weighed only u
ounces when it came. into the world,
but Dr.. Frederick Pfeiffer says it is
healthy, and with good care will live.
The baby is a girl Her head will
easily go into an ordinary teacup, while
her hand will not cover a silver csc
piece. s
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Friend of the workingman.

Miss Ellen Key, a Swedish lady, has
attracted much attention in her native
land by her efforts to ameliorate the
condition of workingmen. Jointly with
DR.. Anton Nystrom, she founded the
Workingmen's Institute of Sweden,
which now owns handsome building
in Stockholm and branch establish
ments in all provincial towns. It has
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In "A PIE FACTORY.
TURNS OUT AN AVERAGE OF
$4,000 PIES a DAY.
Men at Work on Mountain of Dough
The Oven Is Big Wheel with Iron
Platforms Hung from Its Rim Not q
Pleasing Sight.

F you want to see
something inter-
esting,' he said to
the New York Mail
and Express man,
come with me. It
will make 70 ur
mouth water if you
have a taste for the
sweets and, in adj
dition, it will give
you an insight into
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san ED Z BY GRIMM S.
MURDER IS a SHORT. CUT TO
HEAVEN THERE.
This This e the Leader Of the Strange Sect
Who Killed seven Men in One After
noon as Sacred Duty, and who Has
just Been Burned and Hanged.

~ d. 4 . -
WAY "A =. in the north.
western corner Of.
the Indian Empire,
near the Afghan
frontier, is a relig-
ious sect, whose
members commit
murder as a sacred
duty. By doing so.
they become sure Of.
immediate entry
80 - #T - - 6. No. - =
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Women aren't anywhere near as
modest with each other as men are.
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The movement for amending or re.
vising city charters is spreading in
Maine