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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10
To Stimulate Horticulture.

10 Stimulate dOrtlculCuTes
Through the kindness of one who il
deeply interested in horticulture the
Horticultural Society of Northern H.
linois is enabled to make the follow.
ing offers:
/. $500 will be given to the per.
son sending in paper best answer
ing this question: Why and how
should horticulture be taught in ou1
rural schools? Competition open tc
the world
2. $500 will be given to the boy OF
girl under eighteen years of age send
ing in the best report of the growth
and development of any fruit, vege-
table or ornamental plant or tree
planted and cared for by him or heI
during the season of 1897.
8. $500 will be given to the boy OF
girl under eighteen years of age giving
the best report of the exercises held
at school on Arbor day, 1897.
Competition for the last two prizes
is limited to those living in the TWEEN
ty-three most northern counties of Il
linois district of the Horticultural So
cietv of Northern Illinois). Papers
should be plainly written, on one side
| of the paper only, and inclosed in an
envelope, with the name and address
of the writer upon separate slip OF
paper. Papers should be in the hands
| of the secretary not later than Nov.
1. 1897. The prize-winning essays will
| be read at the annual meeting of the
| society. to be held at De Kalb Dec.
| and 2. Every boy and girl inclosing
| a two-cent stamp with their report
will receive some choice new vegetable
seed or fruit plant during the fall OF
1897 or spring Of 1898.
| Address all communications to the
secretary, Dwight Herrick, Rochelle
Illinois.
Sweet Peas in Positive small tests
in sweet peas under glass have been
made at Cornell. Seeds sown in a bench
in a chrysanthemum house Oct. "a be-
| gan to bloom Feb. 20, and continued in
| good flower for six weeks. Other seeds
sown in pots, and planted out in the
chrysanthemum bench Dec.@10, bloomed
very freely. 1t is the custom with many
| carnatlOn growers 10 grow sweet peas
in their carnation benches as, by the
time the sweet peas are large enough
TO shade the carnations, the sun is
strong enough to prevent this trif1ing
shade from being detrimental.-Ex.
! Potash on POtatOes.-POtash is the
mineral that is most needed for the POI
tato crop. But it is much better dis
|tributed as a top dressing over the
whole surface than applied with the
seed potatoes in the hill. The potato
roots very early in their .growth fill
the soil between the rows When min
eral manures are applied in the hill, I'M
less care is taken to mix them thor
oughly with the soil, they may eat into
the cut seed, and effectually destroy
the germ. When used broadcast on the
surface there is no danger Of this. Elk
The increase of refrigerator plants /.
tending to make the production OF but
ter more of an exact science, as i
takes away much of the uncertainty al
TO keeping qualities and possibilities q
the product.
Z.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10
Didn't Scare lin, IL BIT.

Old Milly Young man, my daugh-
ter tells me that you kissed her last
night.
u Percival Tootles-Well. if she wants
to go around Dragging about it, that's
her privilege. Cleveland Leader.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10

IN THE HOUSE.
Mr.. Bailey, the minority leader. was
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10

The increase of refrigerator plants Is
tending to make the production of but
ter more. of an exact science. as it
takes away much of the uncertainty as
TO keeping qualities and possibilities al
the product.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10

also a lew cents IN change.
Atwater is preparing for big cele-
bration Saturday, July 8, commemorate
ms the fortieth anniversary Of the set
Element Of Central Minnesota. Sen
ator Davis telegraphed an acceptance
of an invitation to deliver an address.
A large amount of money has been
raised by citizens. Litchfeld and Will
mar hold no celebrations, but will join
with Atwatcr.
Register of Deeds Peter J. Borg
strom of Duluth, accused Of misappro-
priating county funds, was found
guilty as indicted. The jury was out
only ten minutes. Borgstrom was in
dicted by the January grand jury, the
Indictment alleging that he received
$3.50 as register of deeds from A. A.
Harris & Son as fees for furnishing
certified copies Of an instrument, and
that he appropriated $685. of that sum
to his own use.
| The parties interested in the mann.
| facture of binder Irvine, mating, etc,
| from wire grass, have made definite
| arrangements for starting their fac
tory at the Saltwater prison, and the
machinery will arrive there in the
course Of couple of months. None OF
| the binder irvine will be ready for this
/ seasons crops, but a large supply Of
wire grass will be purchased and
! stored here until such time as the fac
tory is ready for operation. The exac1
] number Of convicts to be employed il
i not known, and no estims-' can bt
given until the machines arrive ant
are put in place.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
RAUBAU OF NEW GUINEA.

only shows after long use. Some arE
finely gilded. The pipes are filled with
the dry leaves of the tobacco and other
aromatic herbs, rose leaves, etc., and
then they are lighted"
: When Ponce de Leon visited FLORIDA
for the first time he found the natives
devoted TO the tobacco habit, but their
~ ay of indulging in it was different from
ahe Aztecs. The Floridans used nol-
Cow vessels of burned clay into which
they inserted reed pipes. The vessels
were filled with the dry tobacco leaves,
and the smoke drawn through the reed
This smoking utensil was the prototype
<s,r the tobacco pipe of to-day, but did
rot attain any popularity at first. Six
decades later Sir Walter Raleigh landed
with his expedition in Virginia, where
she colonists came in close contact with
she native Indians. The latter used
che same kind of tobacco pipes as the
Eioriflans, and soon the colonists had
themselves to the use of the
herb. The mathematician, Thomas
Nariot, a former teacher of Sir Walter,
wrote the first letters to Europe prals-
Spc the qualities of tobacco. The Vir.
sriHia colony was no success, and Sir
Francis Drake brought the men bach
"a England. landing them in 1886 in
,nlouth harbor. Here they created
great establishment. for tobacco Smok-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
FOR SUNDAY READING.
EUREKA.

I was q failure. let the world bear wit.
ness:
Ill-luclx pursued me from the very first.
Until felt. because of my unfitness,
Like one accursed.
I Manned and plotted. sleeping and awak-
But all my vigils were OF no avail;
never set on foot an undertaking
That did not fail.
And though I had goodly stock of learn
Was gifted more than ordinary men.
could not exc O poor mechanics earn
ing
From tongue or pen.
And many dreary night. when over
BY dread despair upon my garrett floor,
I prayed to God my weary soul might
On earth no more.
At last. when hunger like wolf assailed
And sin no longer luringly enticed.
When every hope and every prospect
failed me,
fed to Christ.
Despised of all the world. 1 sought His
Like some poor infant cheated of its
rest
I fed heart-broken to the Saviour, weep
ing
Upon His breast.
Safe, safe ut last, from evil power pro-
tected.
could defy the fates and stand alone:
For In that heart that all tho world re-
jected,
Christ built His throne.
o peace divine, unlike our passions feet
ing,
That follows pardon to the soul op-
pressed,
To feel once more tho heart of childhood
beating
Within your breast!
What cared ! for success or failure
Laughter
For both Of them alike--let come what
may,
A bird sang In my heart forever after
Until this day.
III. +. O'Beirne, In N. Y Independent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14

ing was seen for the first time III Eng
land. The Indian clay pipes found al,
mirers and the habit of the returning
colonists was contagious. Soon one
could see everywhere in England men
with tobacco pipes, and in 1898 rmoking
in London theaters was common. The
herb was imported from America, but
the burned clay pipes were manufac-
tured by English potters, and as early
as 1919 the guild of London pipemakers
was incorporated. In 1890 English stu
dents introduced the habit in Holland.
The fact that tobacco smoking tempo
rarily overcomes hunger and thirst
made it soon popular in the English and
Dutch armies, and during the Thirty
Years war the soldiers of Wallenstein
and lilly acquired the habit from them.
During the Seventeenth century to-
bacco was smoked from pipes formed
after the Virginia pattern, but with the
increasing popularity of the smoking
habit efforts were made to improve and
perfect the smokers utensils, and many
were the changes in style and material
during the evolution of the rude Indian
pipe to the perfect and artistic speci-
mems of our day.
In the civilized countries cigar and
cigarette smoking has during the last
few decades largely crowded out the
tobacco pipe, but the by far larger ma
jority of smoking humanity all over the
globe still adheres to the pipe, which in
many cases has become national char
acteristic.
The Turk loves the chibook, with
its red clay bowl, it's long stem of
weichsel and its mouthpiece of amber,
and frequently adorns it with gold and
precious stones. In the farther orient,
in Arabia, Persia and India, the water
pipe or nargileh is in high favor.
The japanese smoke from metal
pipes, which are frequently ci the most
exquisite workmanship, being inlaid
with gold and silver. In the country of
the mikado even young girls smoke
dainty little pipes the size of thimble,
which have short brownish bamboo
stems with metal mouthpieces.
The Kirghese bore a side hole into a
mutton bone, fill the narrow cavity
with tobacco and smoke through this
primitive apparatus. Very simple is
a Siberian pipe, which consists of the
followed root of tree. Next to this
another pipe of the same country made
of roughly-carved wood and adorned
with tin mountings looks like work of
art. The latter pipe has also something
which no other pipe possesses-an adj
Unstable wooden protector for the bone
mouthpiece.
1t has been asserted that not all of
the tobacco pipes of the Asiatic and
African peoples have grown out of the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14

president could not go so that she
never sees the inside of diplomatic
house as long as she presides at the
executive mansion. The president
dimes only at cabinet houses, and his
wife cannot dine anywhere without
Kim. President Arthur dined with
judges of the supreme court and with
senators-but as he had no wife the
whole system was very much simplified
for him. The presidents wife may, if
she chooses, go to luncheons where
there are no gentlemen, or to teas, both
being regarded as strictly informal;
but the danger of giving offense by ac-
cepting one invitation and declining an
other is SO great that it is seldom or
never risked.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
RELIGIOUS ATOMS.
Short Paragraphs from tho Columns Of
the United Presbyterian.


BE candid and honest with yourself.
Have you made suitable return to
God for all His goodness to you?
Obedience and answer to prayer are
irseparably connected. whatsoever
we ask we receive of Him, because we
keep His commandments, and do those.
things that are pleasing to His sight"
To overcome evil thoughts and keep
them out of the mind, fill the mi III
with good thoughts. Study the We, I'd
of God. Pray without ceasing A yes
sci that is filled with water will not re
ceive oil.
People who are anxious to know Just
how far they may go in the war Of
amusements, without crossing the line
into positive evil, would not be so anx-
ious If they could say with the psal, mist:
II delight to do Thy will, o my God"
The condition upon which the prom
Uses of God are given are handles for
our faith to take hold upon. To plead
the promise and at the same time ig-
more the condition, is TO mock God.
That which God hath joined together
let no man put asunder.
Sickness is not necessarily an evil.
To countless thousands it has proven
ar inestimable blessing. If it enters
into your lot, be sure that Col means
it to be blessing to you. Remember
how he was mistaken who said: IAN
these things are against me-"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
SECRET OF a HAPPY LIFE.

Some Simple Rules which II Followed
Will Make Sunshine In tho Soul.
My friends question resolves itself
into just this: How may l be u happy
Christian" with the word Happy"
doubly UNDERSIGNED. 1t is not a useless
question, nor does it betray an un-
worthy ambition. 1t is question that
thousands of others are asking, half
conscious of n lurking disappointment
that the religion which they heard so
extolled as the source of all peace and
JOY is not what they were led to be-
lieve.
The trouble with many Is that they
are seeking for the happiness of emo
ton and not the happiness OF deeds
Happiness sought for its own sake.
whether sought from Christ or from
the world, always eludes us. Christ
gives us happiness as the government
coins money, that 1t may be spent and
Lot boarded.
Take no less time than you already
have taken, my friend, alone with God,
with your Bible, on your knees. Nay,
spend more in this way; but be sure to
use every good impulse, every aspira-
ton to a nobler, purer, more unselflsh
life.
Rise from your knees each morning
with the settled purpose to make some
one else happier, whether you are happy
or not; to spend n sunshiny, CHEEKY day,
SO that father, mother, brother, sister
or friend may catch the cheer.
Each day, when it is possible, find
some one with more clouds in her life
than there are in yours, and brush them
away for her.
In short, transmute all your desires
and aspirations for happiness and holt
ness into practical, tangible efforts to
noke some one else happier and better.
"Take down those saints, and coin
them into shillings," once said Crom-
well, Of the silver saints in n Catholic
cathedral, land send them about their
Masters business" So we need to take
down our lofty emotions from the
inches they occupy, and send on some
errand of mercy and love.
Do not think much about yourself
and your emotions. Forget whether
you are happy or not, if you can. Re
member only that others are unhappy,
and that you can Tighten their lot.
In very humble household duties, in
very little, everyday matters, you can
spend the coin of happiness that God
will every morning give you upon your
knees, and every day you will go to Him
oftener and more earnestly for more
coin to use for Him.
Even our Lord, you remember, not
only spent whole nights in prayer OH
the mountain, but he went about doing
good.
When you have learned to forget in
these kindly deeds whether you are hap
py or not, you will never have unwel-
come doubts about being Christian at
all; and you will suddenly remember
some day that you are most happy
Christian after all, while all the rest OF
the world will know that you are an UNI
selfish, useful Christian.-Golden Rule.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
WHITE HOUSE ETIQUETTE.
Rules That Are Strictly Observed by the
President's Family.

Rules That Are Strictly Observed by the
President's Family.
When the president and his wife drive
out, the president sits on the right.
hand seat and his wife on the left, says
the Illustrated American.
IL there are others in the carriage,
whether ladies or gentlemen, they must
sit with their backs to the horses.
When Mrs. Cleveland was first married
she tried the experiment of placing her
mother opposite the president and her
self in the presidential landau, but the
people laughed at it so immoderately
and professed to think Mrs. Folsom (as
she was then) to be the maid, that it was
speedily dropped. When the presi-
dents wife drives alone, she sits In the
right-hand corner-the place Of honor.
The lady of the white house cannot
set foot within those splendid houses
in Washington whose flagstaffs mark
the foreign embassy or legation. She
could not go without the president, and
as an embassy or legation is technically
a part of the country it represents, the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14

l. spoon Pipe OF New zealand; 2, Kiko Pipe
of the Makraka: 3. Siberian Pipe; 4,
Double Pipe of the Niam-Niam.
North American pattern, but that the
smoking habit was cultivated by some
lea. There are no assured facts to this
effect, but many circumstances point
to the conclusion that the black race
smoked long before the Caucasians.
1t was not tobacco, however, but the
common, Intoxicating leaves of the
hemp and 'dacha,' another specific
African kind of hemp. Leaves of other
plants may also have served the pur-
pose. How primitive their way of smok-
ing must have been can be seen to-day
among the Bechuans in Africa. A Be-
chuan constructs his pipe by forming
a small sandhill with a crater-like open
ing, which he fills with hemp, dacha,
tobacco, or other combustible material.
Then he puts glowing ember on top,
and after inserting tube through the
sand to the pipe, he enjoys the smoke
lying on his stomach.
Few things can be said about the ma
tive Australian smokers. They are not
passionate smokers, and excepting the
wooden spoonpipe, with the stem of
birds bone of the New Zealanders, the
pipe of the Papuans of Room island, and
the ''baubau" of the New Guinea tribes,
one does not find interesting varieties.
The "baubau" is a piece of bamboo
more than yard long, open on one end
and having side hole, like flute, in it.
A cigarette is put into the latter, the
bamboo is filled with smoke by sucking
at the open end, and the smoke inhaled
through the side hole after removing
the cigarette. This is the most tedious
way of smoking in the world.
The shah of Persia owns the costli-
est and most magnificent pipe on earth.
Il is incrusted with rare and precious
stones and said to be valued at 100000.
Capt. Crabbe, in Brussels, Owns the
most complete collection of pipes. con-
sisting of over 5000 specimens, and m
Guiding pipes of all periods, countriesN
and materials. g. KRAUSZ.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14

and many of them have produced their
greatest works under the benefcent
Influence of the narcotic leaves. Ten
nyson and his pipe were inseparable
friends. 1t was his steady companion
from morning until evening, and the
thicker the clouds of smoke would
helch from it the faster the inspiring
thoughts came to the poet. And so it
LIS with many other mental toilers.
The first historical mention of to-
6acco was made by Columbus. When
the great discoverer landed at the
islands of the West Indies he and his
crew saw with great establishment how
the natives smoked dried herbs. In his
report he says: They are dried herbs,
rolled in a broad, dried leaf; they look
3ike the small muskets which Spanish
children use on Pentecost. On one end
they are lighted, and on the other end
the people sucked and drank the smoke
by inhalation. They get drunk from it,
but it evidently prevents them from
getting tired. They call these small
muskets tabacos." Little did the in
vaders think at the time that 400 years
later tobacco would rule the world, and
that the production of the herb would
amount to over 2,O00,O00,000 pounds
yearly, at the value of hundreds of mil
Lions of dollars.
For long time after it's discovery to-
bacco remained a stranger to the Eu-
ropean nations. The Spanish settlers
and adventures in the new world ac-
4bnn,calyac 70 tha IF
the herb, but the Barbarian custom"
did not make any notable progress.
In the middle of the sixteenth century
smoking sailors could be seen occasion
ally in European ports, but their eX-
ample was not followed by the people
IN general. The cigars of that time
were about the shape and size of a
candle. 1t was not the cigar, however,
which was destined to conquer the old
world, but the pipe. Only with the
advent of the latter began the victori.
yous march of the narcotic herb around
! the globe.
In the course of time the Europeans
: I'm America became acquainted with
various ways of smoking. The Aztecs
in Mexico used peculiar pipes, about the
manufacture of which the Franciscan
monk, Bernardino de Sahagun reports
the following: 'Those Indians who
sell pipes for the inhalation of to-
EDacco smoke cut reeds and clean these
of the leaves. Then they are coated
with finely pulverized wet charcoal and
painted with flowers and animals. They
also have such pipes where the painting
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
NAMES WRIT ON WATER.
Evanesccnt Regulations of Persons Who
Fitted on the Stage.

Evanesccnt Regulations OF Persons Who
Fitted on the Stage.
Theatrical reputation is the most
evanescent of all glories of life," sadly
observed the old actor, drawing his last
summers overcoat around him little
tighter, according to the New York
Herald.
That's So" responded the agent.
"and nothing reminds one of this more
than an acquaintance with the bill
rooms of the old theaters about the
country. You know they have way
of posting up bills and Autographs in
the bill-rooms-that part of the theater
in which the bills are laid out, and
which is the lounging place of the trav-
cling agents, the billposters, advertis-
ing men, etc., and preserving a sort of
record of the celebrated actors, COM
panies and scenes that have been at
that particular house. Sometimes this
is done Systematically, with an idea for
general pictorial effect, and then looks
very pretty. But more often it is the
freak of some billposter, who slaps up
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
Work.

God hath ordained that work alone
brings peace. Ask the laborer at the
forge or factory, ask him who shapes
his block of stone or molds his pillar
of brass, or polishes his wood, or per-
fects his tool, and the workman will
tell you that honest toll gives sweet
peace that wealth cannot increase nor
poverty take away. For God hath or
daiued that the heart shall sing when
the hand does honest and honorable
work.-Rev. N. d. Hills, Chicago.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
Ask for a Love for Your Work.

I would have you invoke God often
through the day, asking Him to kindle
love for your vocation within you,
and saying with st. Paul: Lord. what
wouldst Thou have me to do?"
"Wouldst Thou have me to serve Thee
in the lowest ministries of Thy house :?
too happy II / may serve Thee any
how" And when any special thing goes
against you, ask: "Wouldst Thou have
me to do it? Then, unworthy though
/ be, will do it gladly."-Francis de
Sales
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
STEAMER THREE FRIENDS.
THE FAMOUS CUBAN FILIBUsTERING VESSEL.
States in large quantities to be used a.
food for pet singing birds.

States in large quantities to be used as
food for pet singing birds.
These flies live in the swamps IN vari-
Gus sections in Mexico, where they are
caught by men who devote their lives
to the work. The fly catchers use a
siiken net, and make n large haul at
every cast. The individual fly is called
moscos. 1t is small and delicate, and
it's whole body has the appearance of
having been gilded.
The flies when alive are beautiful ana
harmless. There is a duty on these
Mexican flies. doubtless to encourage
The home fly industry, but ur to the
present time the moscos business has
not tlourished in this country to any
marked extent TheImported flies ere
packed in barrels, and they sell for
high price.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
Tn Hill Or Down.

Having good time is having hard
time, in Gods way of looking att. Hav-
ing hard time is having q good time,
as God sees it, and as man ought to see
it. Striving, struggling, agonizing, il
essential to progress, is a cost of all
success. Taking it easy, encountering
no obstacles, meeting no opposition to
be overborne, marks useless life, ac-
companies inefficiency and foretells
final failure. Let us then thank God
and take courage when we encounter the
help of hindrances, and have the as
surance that we can toll up hill step by
step, instead Of slipping to the bottom,
with nothing 10 keep us backs. 3
Times.