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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

From now on the weather will cut
figure in the market price of wheat.
In the winter wheat districts there are
yet no signs of spring and the ground
Is full of moisture. There is but little
snow over the wheat and a sudden
freeze would do great damage to the
coming crop. There is an increased
demand for seed wheat in the north
west. Market statistics show receipts
of wheat decreasing and exports rap
idly increasing.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
Accidental Happenings.

The Hotel Graham, at Graham, Va,
burned. Loss, $4,000.
Two Italian laborers were instantly
killed and two badly hurt by a two
ton dirt cart which fell upon them
while they were at work on the new
East River bridge, New York city.
Mrs. Anna Perry, aged thirty-six,
was burned to death in her dooryard
at Detroit. A policeman found the
woman, clad only in her night clothes,
which were all on fire.
While Mrs. Lydia Harvey, aged
eighty years, was climbing the steps
leading to st. Johns German Catholic
church at Vincennes, Ind, she STUN
bled, fell on the steps and expired.
While playing on the shore of Lake
Michigan, on the ice, which was piled
ten feet high, four small boys, Carl
Steinkamp, George Isaacson, Joseph
Hanna and August Stakes, narrowly
escaped drowning at Waukegan, LII.
Oscar Isaacson of Fort Dodge, Iowa,
a young man of twenty, was lowered
into a we'll which was being construct
ed to clean. away the rock after a
dynamite discharge. He was over
come by gas and died.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
A SUBMARINE MINE.

The Naval Court Has an Important
Piece of Evidence. ~.
Key West, March 16. - The naval
court has a piece of submarine wire
containing seven conductors, found by
an American diver in Havana harbor.
1t will produce evidence that each con-
ductor led from switchboard under
the charge Of trusted Spanish agent
to a submarine mine near the point at
which the Maine was anchored. No
fantic could have had access to the
switchboard unless the Spanish agent
suddenly became fanatic himself.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

Our minister at Madrid, Stewart L.
Woodford, in telegraphing to the Presi.
dent the expression Of the queen OF
Spain's sympathy, calls the President
'your excellency." An accredited rep
resentative of the United States ought
to know his government better than
this. For an American to use title
to any American is singular enough,
but for our minister representing the
United States abroad to address the
President as "your excellency" betrays
a lack of familiarity with the Ameri-
can constitution and customs that Is
not complimentary.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

Senator Hanna is severely rebuked
by the Denver Post because he didn't
kiss the Bible when he was sworn in
as senator. We don't know what is
going to be done with that man.
Everything he does seems to be wrong.
1t was mistake that he got himself
elected. He had the assurance to lei
the reporters give him room in the
white house. And now his sons wife
is going to sue for a divorce and prove
all manner of mean things about he1
husband.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
Otherwise.

Jams I. Cowan, representing II. Sc
ton Karr. NJ. P, and other English
investors, has closed deal for the
| purchase of the Charter Oak copper
| mine, for $4,000.
The Colby mine, in Sonora, CAL,
which yielded a $4,000 pocket last
fall, gave up $1,000 recently, and the
owners think they are on the verge of
another big strike.
Last year the Aetna quicksilver mine,
Napa county, CAL, produced $500
fl SKIS of seventy-six and one-half
pounds each, the Napa mine 6,4OO
TASKS and the New Idria, in San Ben
ito county, 1906 TASKS.
A rich discovery has recently been
made in what is known as Spanish
gulch, near Long Greek, Or. In one
weeks time about $500 was taken
out. The discoverer will not divulgc
the location of his claim.
The Iowa state board of health re-
ports a we'll defined case of leprosy in
the town of Graettinger. No announce
ment has been made as to it's DISPOSE
tor: meanwhile the community is
much alarmed.
The Alaska Gold Mining company Of
Chicago has secured an option on the
Elkins- COnstan placers at WestWater,
Utah, the consideration being various
~ stated at from $11, 900 to $4,000.
Col. George Davis, director in gen.
eral of the worlds fair, has closed a
deal by which he and a syndicate he
represents become the owners of $500
acres of placer ground in the South
Pass. district, Col.
In the supreme court of New York
Justice Chase denied the petition of
Mr.. Barnard, a stakeholder in the
Union Pacific Railroad company, foA
an injunction to restrain the reorgan-
iZatiOn committee Of the road from u.s.
ing more than $75,OOO,0OO in bonds.
A sulphur deposit on Sulphur
mountain, near Nordhoff, Ventura
county is being worked. One bed so
by 24O feet has been uncovered and
there are several others that are larg-
er. The production now is fifteen tons
daily. s
The Peoples Savings Bank of Akron.
Ohio, has asked for the appointment
OF a receiver for property owned by
Col. A. L. Conger, the Republican poll
tician. The property is involved in
one of the many suits recently brought
against him. 80. ,t.% -. :
There have been large strikes in a
number of German cities. In. Berlin
1000 shoemakers have struck for q
| uniform scale of wages, and it is
thought that? the shoemakers else
where will join. The cabinetmakers
| of Hamburg and Algona have struck
for lime hours work per day, and at
Dresden 5000 cigarettemakers have
gone on q strike. There are similar re-
ports from Charlottenburg, Stettin.
Koenigsberg and Sorau.
| Webb McNall notified the Hamburg.
Bremen Fire Insurance company that
he will refuse to license it or permit it
to do business in Kansas this wear.
The ground alleged is that it patronizes
what McNall considers a rating bu-
reau. - IS; q
Senator Pettigrew has offered an
amer dment to the sundry civil bill pro-
viding that $4,000 be set apart for
erecting brick or. stone buildings at
Fort Meade, and the repairs of the
buildings on that military post to be
such as to accommodate at least one
regiment Of cavalry.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

The encouragement of Massachu-
sets has suggested that trials for GER
tain criminal offenses be held in Sc
cret, thus shutting out prurient idlers
and making it difficult for cheap news
papers to gather the filth on which
they fatten. In such an event, the
criminal would miss his notoriety, the
loafer his scandal and the newspaper
its "sensation"- to decent people
the aggregate of all these losses would
be great gain.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

In certain important trial a lawyer
said to a woman witness: "Will you
kindly turn round and give us the
benefit of the light of your counte-
nance?" The court at once instructed
the witness that she need not heed a
request so worded. Lawyers of GER
tain popular type go on the principle
that an opposing witness made angry
is half-secured for their side. It is a
pity that all judges do not frown upon
the practice.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

Some persons affect to see in the
fate of China the beginning of the end
of this government. We shall know
more about it, however, after the inev-
liable war between the great thieves
In the vain effort to equitably divide
the swag. BY the time that is ended
there may not be enough strength or
good feeling on the part of the thieves
to form the combination.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

The bicycle button, II want good
streets!" is all right, but unless some
of them have reformed since last sea-
son they might better put on a button
reading, II want the whole road"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
Foreign.

Foreign.
DR.. Won Riecke, minister Of finance.
is dead at Stuttgart, Wurtemburg.
Oscar Wilde, fat and elegant, is in
Paris.
Hon. Theodore Davio, chief Justice
and ex-premier Of British Columbia, is
dead. ~-, .-.~. .s.:..::. -.
Sir George Russell, Bart, member of
parliament, is dead. He was born in
1923.
Ion Trent Hamilton, Baron Holm
Of Holm Patrick, county Dublin, is
dead. "a .... ~.
The municipal inspector of schools
at Callao, Peru, asks for the closing
by the government Of the American
Methodist schools under DR.. Wood.
A dispatch from Memet, Prussia.
says that four fishing vessels belong
ing to that place were wrecked in a
storm. Ten fishermen were drowned
and six others are missing.
G. A. Spreckels, Of the Hawaiian
Commercial and Sugar company, is
now in New York negotiating for the
purchase of two steamships to be en-
gagged in the trade with the Hawaiian
islands.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
Might Use the Elect.

Philadelphia, March l6.-The- Press
says: A representative Of the United
States government has been in the
city several days on special mission
with the Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
way company in regard to finding what
the company wants for it's fleet. The
question was put to one of the officers
and be said that the company did not
desire to part with it's feet unless It
was an absolute necessity, but If there
was war the company would do all
it could to help the government.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

Printing sensational dispatches from
Key West in crimson ink has at least
one advantage. The kilograms. are
sure to be red. .s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

Chicago does not call her police the
hnest, but they are apparently more
accomplished as highway robbers than
those of any other town.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
WashinEtOn.

A petition has been presented by
Senator Nelson from Louis Rust and
others of Wyanette, Mimi, urging
congress to pass necessary pure food
legislation. * -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17

There are many who marry from
sheer Indulgence of thought, captivated
by the playfulness of youth, as if a
kitten were never to be a cat.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
.P|TH OF The L NEWS
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A
CONDENSED FORM.

General Resume of the Most Im-
portant News of the Week From
All Parts of the Globe, Boiled
Down and Arranged in Con-
ventent Form for Rapid Perusal
BY Busy People.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
To BE Expected Of Us.

London, March IS. The Daily News
in commenting on the great interest
in the defensive experiment now on it's
trial in America says: ct is quite
on the cards that under the stimulus
Of danger the Americans will. turn out
some wonderful guns beside which the
Hotchkiss and the Maxim will be mere
5children's toys
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
Personal.

Judge John Newton Hendren. the
last treasurer of the Confederacy,. is
dead.
George Francis Train is training for
a pugiEst under Prof. Mike Donovan,
in New York.
Harry Abbott, @. c., eldest son of
the late Sir John G. Abbott, at one
time premier of Canada, died at st.
Augustine, Fla.
Isaac A. Sheppard, one of the most
prominent citizens of PHILADELPHIA,
Is dead. He was seventy-one years of
age.
John Paxton Voorhees, is soon to
make his debut as a vaudeville per-
former in New York. He is a son of
Senator Voorhees, of Indiana.
The contract for carrying the mail
between Wrightston and Hewitt,
Mimi, has been awarden to J. D.
Franklin at $179 a year.
Gov. Otero of New Mexico has made
an order. removing A. &. Fall as So
licitor general of New Mexico, charg-
Ing neglect of duty.
Past Assistant Paymaster Edwin &.
Webster, U. s. N, has been DISCHARGED
from the navy with one years full pay.
He was considered unfit for promotion.
Hugh J. Jewett, the famous railroad
fnancier, asd for many years receiv-
er and president Of the Erie, is dead
al Hotel Bonair, Augusta, Ga.
Gen. Nelson B. Sweitzer, U. s. A..
retired, died in Washington. He was a
native of Pennsylvania and was grad
uated from West Point in the same
class as Mcpherson, Schotield aud
Sheridan.
The board of regents of the Cali
forn1a State university has selected
Prof. James G. Keller, of the ALLIE
gheny astronomical observatory, a d.
rector of the Lick observatory at
Mount Hamilton.
The Rev. David Morton, D. D., secre-
tary of the board of church extension
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, died at his residence in Louis
vile of blood poisoning, aged sixty
eight years.
DR.. John Henry Barrows, who was
president of the worlds congress of re.
ligions during the worlds fair, has
resigned the pastorate of the Ken
wood Presbyterian church, Chicago.
He will enter. upon a missionary ca
reer for a year or so.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
TWO new WARSHIPS
TRIUMPHANT PURCHASE by THE
NAVY DEPARTMENT.

Latest and Best Products Of the Fa-
nous Armstrong Yards-success-
ful Negotiation With the BRAZIL
Ian GovernmeDt-Oneo of the Ships
IS Complies in Every Detail,
with Coat Supply and Ammuni-
ZION Aboard Senator Proctor
has Long Conference With the
President.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-03-17
Ari1,tetu11 Mnio1l,
r. G. Dunn, Publisher.

Tern.s' $1.es FER year in Advance.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-12-14
HE COT IN.

The Sew servant Girl Allowed Herself to
Ie Persuaded.
Harrington had spent three weeks
in New York on business; when he re-
turned he drove directly to his house
and rang the doorbell. A new servant
girl answered the ring.
els Mrs. Harrington IMP" he asked.
'No, sir," answered the girl.
"Well, l guess I'll wait for her."
said the master of the house, and he
put his foot over the threshold and
into the hallway.
Excuse me, sir, said the girl,
''but no ones at home. / can't allow
strangers to wait in the house"
Harrington took in the humor of
the situation. "All right" he an
swercd, with smile 'Just tell Mrs.
Harrington that relative called, "and
away he went
A half hour after his departure his
wife returned. HAS any one called?"
she asked the girl
"Ies, ma'am; n gentleman.
"Did he leave his card?"
"No, ma'am; he said he was a rela-
tive, but he looked more like an agent
for cleaning powder than relative.
He wanted to wait inside, but didn't
like his looks, so / didn't let him in. /"
"Quite right" remarked Mrs. Har-
rington; sit is just as we'll to be care.
ful. Besides, have no male relative
who is likely to call at this time of
day"
Mrs. Harrington barely had her
wraps of before her husband, who
had whiled away his time at the bar
Der shop. put in his appearance again.
HAS Mrs. Harrington returned
yet?" he asked of Ella who answered
his ring.
Eyes sir; she just got in
"Hand her my card, il you please, "
he said. 81 think she'll remember
me-.
Mrs. Harrington stepped out of the
dining room just rs her husband, fol-
lowed closely by the servant girl,
moved out of the vestibnle and into
the hall.
"Why," she cried, "when did you
get in?"
The servant misunderstood the
meaning of the exclamation. "He
got in when wasn't looking, ma am, u
she said. ''He goes out again now, il
you say so.'
''You may let him stay, Ella," said
Mrs. Harrington. on.-Chicago Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-12-14
A Chinaman's Memory.

"The intellectual capacity of the
Chinese may rank with the best in
Western countries. Their own liter
airy studies, in which memory plays
the important part, prove the nation
to be capable of prodigious achieve
ments in that direction. 1t is stated
in Macaulay's Life that had "Para-
disc Lost" been destroyed he could
have reproduced it from memory. But
even such power of memory as he
possessed is small as compared with
that OF many Chinese, who can repeat
by heart all the thirteen classics; and
it is as nothing to that of some Chi.
nese, who, in addition to being able
to repeat the classics, can memorize a
large part of the general literature of
their country.
"a Chinese acquaintance of mine
was able at the age of sixty-hve to re-
produce, verbatim, letters received
by him in his youth from some OF his
literary friends famous as stylists.
When pitted against European stu
dents in school or college the China.
man is in no respect inferior to his
Western contemporaries, and, whether
in mathematics and applied science,
or in metaphysics and speculative
thought, he is able to hold his own
against all competitors. -" "Chiaa in
Transformation. by A. r. Colqullonn.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-12-14
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Chinese streets are eight feet wide.
Leather money circulated in Russia
so recently as the time of Peter the
Great
Over one hundred miles of tele-
graph wires run through the sewers
OF Paris.
In Japan poor children have labels
with their names and addresses hung
around their necks as safeguard
against being lost.
1t is estimated that all the gold
mined in California since 1913 could
be put into room IL yards long, 6
yards wide and 2-3 yards high.
One of the choicest delicacies in
Jnmacia is huge white worm found
in the heart of the cabbage palm. 1t
tastes, when cooked, like almonds.
Among the many mysteries of bird
migration is the fact that over-sea jour.
neys are generally conducted in the
darkness, and invariably against Il
head wind.
The First Presbyterian church OF
Morristown. N. j.. has had but five
sections since 1884, and but two in
fifty nine years, the present one hay
ing served thirty-three years.
A breach-loading cannon, made in
1859, has been discovered in an old
museum at Hamburg, which explodes
the belief that such weapons are an
invention OF the present century.
There is q fish found in. Hudson
bay which builds nest. This j,
does by picking up pebbles in its
mouth and placing them in regular
way on selected spot on the bottom
of the bay where the water is not very
deep.
The small town of Werda, in tn.
kingdom OF Dahomey, is celebrated
for its temple OF serpents, long build
ing in which the priests keep upward,
of 1000 serpents of all sizes, which
they feed with birds and frogs brough
to them as offerings by the natives.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-12-14
A LAY or THE GOLF LINKS

1. = up and away from our work today,
For the breeze sweeps over the down;
And it's hey for game where the gorse
blossoms flame,
And the bracken Is bronzIng TO brown.
With the turf meath our tread and the blue
overhead,
And the song OF the lark In the whin.
There's the flag and the green, with the
bunkers botween--
Now will you be over or in2
The doctor may come, and wen teach him
to know
A tee where no tannin can lurk;
The soldier may come. and we'll promise to
show
Some hazards soldier may shrk;
The statesman may joke, rs he tops every
stroke.
That nt last he is high in his aims;
And the clubmnn will stand with club In
his hand
That is worth every club in st. James.
The palm and the leather come rarely to-
gether,
Gripping the drivers haft.
And It's good TO feel the jar OF the steel
And the spring OF the hickory shaft.
Why trouble or seek for the praise OF a
clique
A cleek here IL common TO all;
And the lie that might sting is u very small
thing
When compared with the lie of the ball.
Come youth and come age, from the study
or stage,
From bar or from bcnch-high or low
green you must use as a cure for the
blues
You drive them away as you go.
We're outward bound on long, long round,
And it's time to be up and away;
IL worry and sorrow come back with the
morrow,
At least we'll be happy today.
From A.Conan Doyle's "Songs of Action. y
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-12-14

In the conflict which resulted in the
resignation of the Brisson ministry in
France, the grave underlying ques-
tion was the supremacy of civil or
military law in that republic. As
long as militarism prevails in France
it can be a republic but in name. The
promotion of the rights of the people,
the establishment of personal free
dom, and all of the elements which
enter into republican government are
at war with the idea of military SUI
premacy. As long as the man in ep-
aulets is the hero of the populace, and
his will supplants that of the states
man, true republican government is
impossible.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-12-14

think we cnn get out to the ship all
right.
Talking English, they made their
way quietly to the harbor front and
called sampan. They looked like
two belated English captains going
out to their ships.
A half mile out in the bay lay the
John Dorset, ready TO weigh anchor.
My grandfather hailed, and when the
captain appeared, he climbed on board,
leaving Aguado below in the boat.
Grandfather drew the captain below
and told him who the man was in the
sampan and what he wanted.
Captain Higgins of the John Dorset
was an old sea dog of the genuine Yam
kee type. He liked man who had
what he called "snnd for ballast" as
Luiz Berceo evidently had.
''Shiver my mainmast. but I'll take
him." said Captain Higgins. ''He can
have my cabin till we are well past
| Corregidor and out to sea-"
This is about the end of the story.
Aguado escaped safely to Hong Kong.
A year or two aftcrward, just before
grandfather sold out his business and
started home, he received package
from Chinese port 1t contained a
beautifully-jeweled Malay kris with
the name "Juan Aguado" upon the
blade. Detroit Free Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-12-14

Agitation for the repair of Times
ravages on Faneuil hall has been re-
newed in Boston, and this time tho
local papers hope work will follow the
agitation. Ample money to make
the long-needed repairs is said to be
available, and its use maybe fastened
by the reiterated warnings of experts
that the Cradle of Liberty is actually
in danger In this case there is no
such question as was raised in connec-
tion with the restoration of the Bull
finch front and the dome of the state
house. No one is proposing to rebuild
Faneul hall. 1t is entirely work
of strengthening and repairing, and
this, the Boston Advertiser says,
must be done very gently. 1t must
be done with loving intelligence and
patient reverence. We do not want
Faneuil hall to become q ruin, venera-
BILE aud pathetic as that ruin would be,
We want it for use as we'll as for an
object of patriotic enthusiasm. on ac-
count OF its sacred memories. We
want it to continue to be the peoples
forum, as truly now as in John
Adams's time.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-12-14

The curious relations OF personal
vanity with the worst forms of crimi-
nality are plainly shown in the case of
Vacher, the notorious 'Jack the Rip
per" of Paris, who has been con-
demned to the guillotine. Although
evidently mental pervert, with the
usual accompanying mania for homi-
eide, he was willing to give the full
details Of his crimes, previously con-
fessed, only on the conditions that
they should be published in all the
leading papers, and that he should
have separate trial for each murder
in the place Of its commitment, thus
obviously adding to the morbid noto-
riety of his doings. The desire to
create o startling sensation by limit
ing his acts to the murder and subse-
quent brutal mutilation of young
shepherdesses was paramount to all
other motives, although he inciden-
tally refers to his fancy for shedding
blood. As is not unusual in such
instances Of gross depravity, he piled
his dreadful work long enough to give
it the air of great mystery, and when
unable TO keep the secret beyond a
certain time he was compelled to
openly jeopardize his safety by
exploding revolving confession.
Criminologists are quite uniform in
their statements regarding the preva-
lence of this weakness among thieves
and murderers. The detectives un-
derstand SO well this propensity on
the part of wrongdoers that it is an
ever ready avenue to secrets which
otherwise would perhaps never be
discovered. 1t is the plainest of all
sxsmpliAcations Of. y fact that "murdel
Will ont. Tue crime aud its punish
mont grow from the same root.