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The Republican journal., 1897-09-16
The Buried City of Copan.

In 1891 the Peabody Museum, through
the efforts of MI. Charles P. Bowditch,
acquired the care of the antiquities of
Honduras from the government of that
country for the period of ten years, with
the right of taking away one half of the
objects found in the excavations. 1t was
planned to send an expedition to Copan
during the dry season of each year; and to
further this purpose committee was APP
pointed consisting of Mr.. Charles P. Bow
ditch, MI. Francis G. Lowell, and Profess
sor F. W. Putnam, curator of the museum.
The first expedition was sent out in 1891.
The work of this and subsequent expedi-
tons has been rich in results, but | can
only outline briefly what they have ac-
cOmplished, after saying few words
about Copan itself.
In the central part of the ruins of Copan
are the great pylamidal foundations on
which the temples arose. The principal
ruins are grouped about main structure
q vast irregular pile, rising from the plain
an steps and terraces, and terminating in
huge terraced elevations, each topped by
the remains OF temple The summit of
the highest of these is about one hundred
and thirty feet above the level of the river
which laps the foundations of the fallen
structures. Only the foundation ano
parts of the lower walls of the tie mpl'
now remain in position, and these are
marked with many hieroglyphic inscrp-
tons. Surrounding the temples and pal
aces to the distance of mile or more on
every side are the remains of stone houses,
probably the dwellings of the mobiles and
weather. citizens, and beyond these are
found innumerable stone foundations
without any remains of superstructure.
1t is conjectured that on these stood
wooden houses, the dwellings of the poor
er classes, of which every trace has disap-
peared. Harper's Weekly.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16
The Republican Journal Thursday Morning. September 49, 1897
Is it Decadence?

The attendance upon any one of the
three big fairs in Maine this year cannot
fail to be impressed with the fact that a
big change has been wrought in the char
acter of the attractions offered visitors
within the last few years. 1t was not so
very long ago that the State fairs were
agricultural fairs and little else There
were farm animals and farm products on
display: premiums for the best exhibits
in various lines were offered and Won; the
fair was farmers affair."
day things have changed One Of
the big fairs still makes pretence of
catering to agricultural interests, but at
all of them the main points of interest
consist of features quite foreign to the
farm and the farmer. There is racing of
various sorts; Rigby and Bangor have had
Troop f., which has made remarkable
hit and proved drawing card of great
value to the fair arrangements; balloon
ascensions have shown people who haven t
had the opportunity to observe for them
selves in what direction the average plant
grows: trick bicycle riders have shown
amateur wheelmen what the wheel is cap
able of under skilful management; base
ball games, ''ieaps for life," trapeze per-
formances, and host of side attractions
have been introduced and the crowds
have come to see them. 1t has been a
grand three-rng circus, and more too
The result of this turning from the orig
inal purposes of these big fairs will be
watched with interest. Possibly this is
what the people who support the fairs by
their patronage prefer. OF course a good
part OF the attendance is composed Of the
residents of the cities where they are held
and it may be that the farmers themselves
are better suited to 90 and see something
entirely new and novel instead Of things
that they are every day familiar with. If
entertainment, pure and simple, is de
manded, sort Of day off for fun and
trolic, then the new order of things may
be all right One thing is sure the sen
sational features have this wear done all
that the managers could have asked for
in drawing patronage and that of course
is the prime consideration with them
Waterville Mail.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16
Washington County Railroad.

James Mitchell, who has had the con-
tract to build the Washington county
railroad, talks encouragingly of the build
ing Of the road and says that work will
commence in two or three weeks in real
earnest, or ''just as soon as things can be
got in readiness. 1t is claimed that the
syndicate which will build the road will
establish and control new short all-rail
route from New York to the provinces
1t is announced also that the syndicate
thas secured an option of railroad be-
tween New York and Boston, with traffic
agreements with the Boston & Maine and
Maine Central and ninety nine years.
lease of the old Grand Southern from ST.
Stephen to st. John, which is owned by
Russell Sage.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16

There are few men living to-day WHO
have done more for American. sport than
die subject Of this sketch \ love of adj
venture has led him far atield and Ills
graceful pen has enabled HIM to interest
fAe public as we'll as the spoltsmen in his
wandeIings in quest Of bic game or as a
disciple Isaac Walton. Fred Mather
is contributing to Forest and Stream a
most interesting series of sketches under
the caption of Men Have Fished With.
and No Is OF these sketches is devoted to
MI, HalIock. Through the courtesy Of
the publishers Of Forest and Stream we
are enabled to present here the accom-
pauying portrait Charles Hallock was
born IN 1874 and is a graduate Of Nm
hest College. His father, Gerard Hal
lock. was ion tlliTty-fou wears editor and
one of the pIollietols of the New York
journal Of Commerce, and CHARLES at an
early age was taken into tile flee and
served an apprenticeship at the case before
taking an editor desk The writer first
met linn when he was on his way to
Labrador in the late tifties. and recalls
the article he Wlote on the trip for Har
per's Magazine Before that. however,
he had crossed the great plains with a
wagon tlain over the Santa Fe trail, the
following year taking the old Red River
trail from st. Paul to Pembina, and writ
ing III both trips for HarpeI's. His later
vanderings it would take too much space
to recount.
In 1870 with other sportsmen, he
founded Blooming Grove Park, in Pike
county, Pa, the first great game preserve
in America, comprising l., 900 acres. In
1873 lie founded the well known sports
man journal. Forest and Stream, and the
writer was one of his early contributors.
Mr.. Hallock edited Forest and Stream
until 1890 In the meantime lie devoted
much attention to the development of
Florida and advocated the draining of
Lake Okechobee. He put the first boat
on that lake that had been there since the
Seminole war III 1913, and put Nh Fred
A. Ober in charge of the expedition.
later he obtained the assistance of Prof.
Spencer T. Baird and Nh George \. Law
renee i'll fitting ODER out for natural his
tony work in the Caribbean Sea He also
published three books, The Sportsman
Tourist" Camp Life III Florida and
1.-The Spoltsman's Gazetteer" a grand
volume Of 900 pages, Then, as rest
from editorial work, he accompanied a T.
5. revenue force to the mountains of East
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16
Arrival of Bucksport Bankers.

BUCKsPcRT, Sept. s. The arrival of
the Grand Bankers furnished plenty of
excitement along the water front on We'd
nesday. About o'clock the long, black
bowsprit with its jumbo jib and then the
big mainsail Of the Edgar S. Foster APP
peared in the Narrows, and a moment
later with colors flying, wing and wing,
and everything drawing, the crack banker
came up the RIVER in cup defender style.
Close behind her came another schooner
with colors flying. She was quickly recog-
nized as the Annie G. Quiner The sum
mer's performance of these vessels is
something remarkable. Both left port
May 18th, bound for st. Pierre, Miquelon.
for the balance of their crews. They part
ed company in the bay, but both went into
that port at the same time and both sailed
for the banks on the same day. During
the summer they have been on different
parts of the fishing grounds, and when
Capt. Dorr was full of fish Capt. Snow
mans men were lashing their dories, and
when the Quiner hove in sight off st.
Pierre to land her men, the Foster was
we'll in towards the harbor. The vessels
left the port for Bucksport at the same
time and came by different courses and
both tied up within five minutes of each
other Both brought about the same
fares, some $500 quintals. About noon
the N. E. Symonds, Capt Charles Cush-
ing, came up the river. She has some
$500 quintal under the matches. All skip
pers report fine weather and good fishing.
The last and largest, the schooner A. V.
S. Woodruff, was fast filling up and should
be in port in ten days or so. Bangor
Daily News.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16
New Light Ship.

WAsHlNGT ON, D. c., Sept. S.-Before
September has passed the lighthouse board
expects to have in position on the Dia-
mond shoals, off Cape Hatteras, the new
light vessel which has just been fitted out
at Staten Island, New York. Diamond
shoals is considered to be the most danger.
GUS point off the coast of the United
States. The new vessel was constructed
by the Bath Iron works, Maine, at the con.
tract price of $685. The light-vesse
will be towed from Staten Island on the
18th inst. and it is expected that it will be
placed in its permanent position on the
goth, the anchorage ground being q
miles off Hatteras.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16

The schools have begun. Little feet are
hurrying along to bright faces and laughing
eyes.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16
Owen WiSter.

Owen Wister, whether as man or au-
thor, is most interesting personality.
After graduating at Harvard, his allegi-
ance seems to have been divided between
music and law, and before making a final
choice of a profession he determined to
pursue a course of musical study in Ger
many. Although it resulted in high
honors, he finally declared for law, and
opened an office in Philadelphia But it
was neither as musician nor lawyer that
he was destined to become known to the
world. His vacations were spent in Wyom-
ing. The strong, free air of the plains
impregnated his blood; the life of the
cowboys, Indians, and soldiers from be
ing merely observed, became known and
sympathetically understood He has done
for them, through his contributions to the
Harper periodicals, what Bret Harte did
for the California pioneers and Rudyard
kipling for the soldiers and sailors Of the
British Empire.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16
British Empire.

To quote Theodore Roosevelt: "Many
men before him have seen and felt the
wonder of that phase of western life
which is now closing, but Mr.. Wistel
makes us to see what he has seen and in
terprets for us what he has heard. His
short sketches are 50 many cantos in the
great epic of life on the vanishing wilder
ness. He shows us heroic figures and a
as they are conceived by the clustered in
tellect, but rough and strong and native.
the good and evil alike challenging the
eye. To read his writings is like walking
on windy upland in fall, when the hard
wea Their braces body and mind
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16

You have all sorts of pie, l see by the
sign in the window" said the facetious
customer, as he went into bakery and
addressed one of the young women who
stood behind the counter.
Yes, sill. What kind do you want?''
Il will take magpie, if you please.
At this remark another young woman
snickered, but the other girl turned to
her promptly and said: Here. Bertha .
You re wanted f" Harpers Bazaar.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16

Landlord Whipple of Boston appears to
be disposed to test the quality of all ma
tlonalities in the line of servants in his
hotels. AT Young's he employs colored
table servants exclusively; at Parker
most Of them are Irish, while at the new
Hotel Touraine they will be French.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16

Sullivan has voted to exempt Long Pond
Water Company from taxation for twenty
years. and appropriate over 5000 yearly for
fire hydrants. The company also asks
guarantee of Us water takers. The ex-
pense of extending the system to Sullivan
and West sullivan will be large.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16

If it is true that Paderewski has cut his
hair, we shall know whether it was his hair
or his playing that drove women into hy-
sterics at his concerts.
The Republican journal., 1897-09-16

According to Debs, the longer man works
the poorer he becomes. 1t will be noticed
Debs is carefully guarding himself against
impoverishment.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-08-26
w AG0Ns -
- BUGGI1EEs
Manufactured and Repaired
BY
Peterson & Nelson.
Satisfaction Guaranteed in Wood
working as we'll as in
Blacksmithing.
Horse Shoeing a Specially.
Give Us a Call.
RANK PETERSON, n, \, NELSON,
Shop Opposite SAD ley's Flour Mill.
Princeton, M;nn
First Publication Aug. - I

First Publication Aug. IL. 1897.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNT OF
- Mile LacS-SS. In Probate Court. Snecia1
Term, August 10, 1897. p
In the matter of the estate of Frank Libby.
senior. deceased.
Whereas, An instrument in writing, purport-
ing to be the last will and testament of Frank
Libby, senior, deceased, late of said county.
has been delivered to this court:
And whereas. May G. Libby, has filed there
with her petition, representing, among other
things. that said Frank Libby, senior. died in
said county on the Goth day Of July, 1897, tes-
tate; and that said petitioner is the sole exc
cutrlx named in said last will and testament,
ana praying that the said instrument may be
admitted to probate, and that letters Tesla
mentary be to her issued thereon: -.
IL is ordered, That the proofs of said instru-
ment, and the said petition. be heard before
In1s court: at the probate office in said county.
on tne 18TH day of September. A. D. 1897. at 10
. CLOCK IN the forenoon, when all persons inter-
eStea may appear for. or contest. the probate
OF said instrument: ~~
ana 1t Is further ordered. That notice of the
time ana place of said hearing be given to all
persons Interested by publishing this order
once In each week. for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing, in the Princeton
Union, a weekly newspaper printed and pub
lShed at Princeton in said county.
Dated at PrincetOn the 10th day of August.
A. u. 1897. By the court:
j. S. BOUCK.
loeal'1 Judge of Probate.
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The beautiful and useful metal alu-
minimum is now only 80 cents a pound.
In 1856 it was 500 a pound, land the
general opinion was that it would never
be much cheaper, because it was so hard
to extract from the clay of which it
formed so large a part. But scientific
men set their minds to work on the
problem and by 1885 the bright metal
had declined to $12 a pound. 1t is now
cheap enough to be introduced largely
into domestic and manufacturing indus
tries. 1t is already extensively utilized
for shining kitchen utensils. For the
backs of hair brushes and for other tot
let articles it is lighter than silver and
does not tarnish like silver. It seems
now as if it might be utilized extern
sively in place of iron and steel for ar
ticles to be used at the seashore, where
needles, scissors, knives and forks,
hinges and screws are attacked and
eaten by the salt sea damp. At least a
strong alloy of aluminium might be
used for these articles apparently, even
if the pure metal itself could not be. At
any rate this experiment. is worth max
ing.
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Value of Vital Statistics.

The keeping of general statistics in
regard to life and health has been the
best sanitary measure ever adopted. If
an unusual number of deaths occurred
in any given locality, Investigation has
at once thus been directed to the cause.
1t has been shown that mortality is the
highest in o~vercrowded slum districts
of the cities. Immediately thereupon
measures have been taken to pull down
the overcrowded, unsanitary buildings,
to scatter the population and to make
them observe more ~cleanly habits. If an
epidemic or contagious disease pre-
vailed, the friendly statistics showed
that, too, and Immediately health au-
thorities studied to provide remedies
and, take precautions against the spread
Of the sickness.
Nearly so years ago MI. William
Farr, who became associated with the
English health registry Office, recon-
mended that strict record be kept of
every case of illness from any cause
whatever in each small district, SO that
every time anybody was sick in the
whole United Kingdom it might be
noted down. This plan ought to be
adopted everywhere. The fact that a
public record would be kept Of him and
his case every time a person had an ILL
ness of any sort would go far toward
frightening people into keeping per
fectly we'll.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-08-26

on a Spanish fort. A young German Of
the garrison, Lieutenant Halzinger,
leaped the parapets, picked up the flag
and nailed it to the stump of the staff.
That fort, the ST. Jago, was finally
silenced by the fire of the naval battery
and abandoned. I5 .5,
Scott frequently visited the trenches
to see how the batteries were doing. At
such times he boldly looked we the
ramparts, and, seeing that, the soldiers
did the same.
"Down, down, menl Don't expose
yourselves commanded the veteran.
j., "But, general, you are exposed, = was
the reply.
"Oh," said. he, smiling, generals
nowadays a be made out of anybody,
but men cannot be had so easily"
1t was the deeds of the navy after all
that gave spirit to the siege. The day
after the great norther swept the harbor
Captain Tattnall bombarded the town
with his mosquito fleet" It was an
engagement worthy of the future COM
mander Of the ram Merrimac. His fleet
comprised the steamers Spitfre and Vix-
en- and five gunhoats under sail. One
schooner was left at anchorage for a
blind, and the others were taken in tow
Of the steamers which sailed down the
channel on pretense Of going to sea. At
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-08-26
Mexico.
Mexico.
It fs strange that in the face 81 the

It ii strange that in the face 81 the
discovery Of rich gold veins in Mexico
and also Of reports OF the increasing
prosperity Of that country gold should
be at so high a premium. It IS to be
hoped the result will not be a financial
crash that will involve the interests Of
American capitalists in Mexico as we'll
as the people Of that brave and progress
i've republic. While railroad building
in the United States has been stagnant
in the past few years this industry in
Mexico has steadily grown and prosper
ed. This year there will be added be-
tween 1000 and 5000 miles Of new
railroads to those already in operation
there. Several of the new lines are long
and important. One, soon to be COM
pleted, will connect Vera Cruz, on the
gulf of Mexico, with the Pacific port of
Acapulco, thus running across Mexico.
Another line will cross Mexico from
east to west. It begins at Ell Paso del
Norte, on the Rio Grande, in the state
OF chihuahua, and crosses to Topolo-
bampo, on the gulf Of California, where
the unfortunate attempt was made by
some. enthusiastic Americans to found a
model cooperative colony. This road
passes through what will in time be the
richest part Of Mexico. Another road
will bring the Vera Cruz coffee fields
into connection with shipping facili-
ties.
These are only a few of the roads
that are now under construction in our
sister republic. Mexico will be spider
webbed with roads crossing her rich ter
ritory in all directions. The money to
build them has been furnished by
American and European capitalists.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-08-26

. favorable turning point the feet turn
ed its course and instead Of going out
side of the bar steamed up within 800
yards of Fort San Juan de Ulloa and
lay between that famous castle and
Fort St. Jago. From that position the
shots reached the city. AS o as the
Mexican gunners in the forts got over
their surprise at the Yankees audaclty,
they concentrated a fire Of shot and
shell upon the unprotected wooden
ships. Their missiles flew fast and furi-
Gus, and the water round the vessels
was churned into foam, but they had
run inside the range Of the Mexican
guns, so that the artillerists, with all
their skill, could scarcely make a shot
tell.
All spectators of this scene were pre-
pared to see every n Of the ships sunk,
but only three shots struck the targets.
After bombarding the city n hour
Tatnall received orders from Perry to
Withdraw lest all his ships might be
lost, but the. ships continued fighting
until a second order came, which was
~peremptory. Pausing in his work to
read the message, Tattnall exclaimed,
"Ah, this may not make life longer,
tits true, but it makes it a good deal
broader"
Following upon this spirited incident,
Perry planned a boat attack upon the
water batteries to be led by himself in
person, but on the day fixed for it the
Mexicans sounded a parley on the walls.
Immediately after Captain Tattnall's
attack upon the city the British, French,
Spanish and Prussian consuls asked for
a truce to permit women and children
to withdraw. Scott referred them to a
notification given by him some days be-
fore when he had sent safeguards to the
foreign consuls in the city, appraised
them of the dangers that lay before the
noncombatants, and the fact that the
blockade would be left open for consuls
and all neutrals to pass outs They had
not taken advantage of his offer, and
the time set by him having expired, he