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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01
Bunch of Blackberry Tails.

Bunch of Blackberry Tails,
'Hoppit skippity!- Fly away o!
Sklppity hoppity! Here we go!''
So sang Phoebe, Pete and Pollykins
as they danced away, tin pals in hand,
to gather blackberries for Winnie's
supper.
Winnie, poor child, had been the
ringleader of last years berry jaunts;
but having hurt her foot a fortnight
ago, was not yet able to take step.
$50 you'll just have to play lame
bird in the nest, like poor robin in the
old apple tree" laughed Pollykins,
and We'll bring things to drop into
your mouth"
mot worms!" protested Winnie. in
alarm.
mot today. Well bring you a bet
ter supper than that
"Hoppity skippity! Fly away 0!
Skippity hoppity! There they go!"
sang Winnie, as she watched the trio
disappear under the bridge. Gone
padding, suppose" she said wistfully.
Padding! should think so! It was
so early in the afternoon that there
was plenty of time to mend a dam
built the week before, to have a game
of leap-frog and to catch two crawfish.
1t was only when they wished to put
these wriggling treasures into a pail
that they discovered that theirs must
have slipped off the low-hangins
branches and gone bobbling and clash
ing together down the stream.
What should they do? No time left
now either Tor going home or down the
stream. Hats? No; their br1mless
ones were hardly fit, especially since
they mad been scooping up water with
them. Handkerchiefs? These rollick-
ing children scorned the very idea of
such luxuries in summer time. Pock-
cts? would squash things too much"
said Pete, decisively.
Now this was really too bad: for
they had promised mother before she
drove away to pick Winnie fine sun,
per. -
II know what" suggested thought
full Phoebe. We'll do what grand.
mamma used to do when she was
little girl. Well thread the blackber-
Ties on long spears of timothy grass,
tie them together in punches of TWEEN
ty and each take her home two bunch
es. What do you say?'
Hooray! Just the thing. Phoebe
bird! said Pete, turning a handspring
and snatching at clump of timothy
grass. We could do the b1rdie-act
then, and drop them into her mouth
just beautifully
N1mble fingers quickly strung the
juicy berries, and soon three dangling
pairs of black punches were carefully
carried down the homeward road.
Whatever are those children bring
ing!" said mother, who had lust driv-
en- Aunt Hepsy home to supper with
her.
well" said Aunt Hepsy, peer1ng
over her glasses, they do look most
uncommon like punches of eels-but
that couldn't be this time Of the day. a
3 More likely it's water-snaKes! ~ 1.
No, it's cattails, guess" said Win
ME with a Woebegone face, ..and
they've forgotten the pail of dewber-
,ries for my supper.
How she laughed when she saw what
they really We're and how she enjoyed
eating the fruit from the grassy stems,
Invalids are always so easily pleased
with little novelty.
Mine is the best of all, laughed
Pollykins. handing a glisteninp ~ hi ia
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01
Boiling Water Without Eiro.

1t is possible to make a pail Of wafer
boil without putting it on the fire and
without applying external heat to it in
any way, says the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune. In fact, you can make
pail of water boil by simply stirring it
with wooden paddle. The feat was
recently performed in the physical lab
oratory of Johns Hopkins university.
in Baltimore, Nd, and anyone may do
it with a little trouble and persever-
ance. All you have to do is to place
your water in a pail-it may be ice
water, If 'necessary-and stir it with a
wooden paddle. If you keep at it long
enough it will certainly boil Five
hours of constant and rapid stirring
are sufficient to perform the feat sue
cessfully. The water will, after a time.
grow warm, and then it will grow hot
SO hot, in fact, that you cannot hold
your hand in it, and, finally. it will
:sboil., Prof. Ames, of Johns Hopkins.
annually illustrates some of the nhe-
nomena of heat by having one of his
students perform the trick in front of
his class. 1t is tiresome job, but it
is perfectly feasible. .. I'LL.
The point which Prof Ames wishes
to illustrate is what is known as the
mechanical equivalent of heat. It re-
quires just so many foot pounds of
work to develop a given quantity CT
heat. BY turning the paddle in the
water at regular speed it is possible
to find out just how much work is re-
quired to raise the temperature of
water one degree. The best measure
ment so far made, and, in fact, the one
which is accepted as the standard OF
the world, is that which was measured
in Johns Hopkins college.
Heat is developed in almost any SUBJ
stance which is subjected TO a contin-
uous or very violent action. It is an
old trick for a blacksmith to forge
without fire. Long-continued and yio-
lent hammering on two pieces of wire
Will heat them to such an extent that
they can be welded together. A lead
bullet, If shot directly at stone wall,
will develop heat enough by the con-
tact to melt and fall to the ground a
molten mass. There are many other
occasions wherein this mechanical de-
velopment of heat becomes manifest.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01
His DeAnition.

What is a dirt?" asked the small
boy. "A dirt," replied the Old bache-
Tor, is a pretty woman" ..But what
kind OF pretty woman ?" persisted the
small boy. amy kind of a pretty wom-
an, answered the old bachelor. "Well,
how pretty must she be?" the young
ster insisted. ooh, pretty enough to
have a chance to fir" returned the
old bachelor irritably And still the
boy was not satisfied, but as he grows
older he will understand it better.
Chicago Evening Post. ].
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01

over and over in this saucer Of sugar
Sure enough!' said Winnie. Lets
all eat them that way
And tomorrow morning, . said Pete,
as he popped the last white cup into
I his h mouth, I'm going bright and early
to the lower dam after those runaway
pals Charlotte Brewster Jordan.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01
A Mistaken Impression.

That" said Maud. as the distin-
guished stranger entered the room, "is
the Victoria Cross" "Is it?" inquired
Mamie, in a tone of great interest.
How many century runs must you
make to get one ?''-Washingto Star.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01
IThe Proper Place.

Query Editor his writer wants
to know where the person with the
wedding ring should be-" Managing 4
Editor Ga confirmed bachelor) - Just
say In the penitentiary - jewelers. !
Weekly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01
Shades That Harmonic.

Bill-"Don't you think Mrs. Crin-
sonbeak has good taste?'' Jill-ssExcel-
lent. Why, even the ribbons on her.
Eastern bonnet harmonizes with the.
shade Of her husbands nose.s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01
The Modern DANIEL

For love Of you could become any
thing. ! could become a poet II 9"
The Loved Become millionaire -. :,
Modern Society.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01
"A Danger Signal.


Look out for the cracks in the side
walk,
Be careful wherever you go.
A little brown bird
Has told me she heard
The children call ''Poison!" It NAV
be absurd,
But the girls and the boys ought to
know.
And if. as they say, it is really quite
nice,
In a dangerous walk to be poisoned
but twice,
I wonder I'm living and making up
rhymes, ~
For I've stepped upon cracks a great
many times.
Anna N. Pratt.
#s3 A tiny girl was doing the honors Of
the Residence Park in which she lived
Over there, she said to her little
guest, in that great big house rl1e
Orphan family live; and they have eve, ever
so many children, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Orphan are both dead! Isn't it too
bad ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-01

Weather Station Over 10000 Feet Up
The highest meteorological station in
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-01-18
WASTED INDIGNATION.
A Diner Makes n Mistake I'm His
II .rp.. r. Waiter. s....H 49,. b

The man with the florid face and The
bald head grew more and mere uneasy
as he sat at the restaurant table, sa,.s
the Detroit Free Press. lie tried 20 { 0G
a, newspaper, but every now and ti.ct:
would drop it, adjust his glasses a-G
glare up and down the room to flHd The
waiter to whom he had given his OF
der. AT last he managed to ietain.hir1.
at the risk of being scalded by the
soup he carried. and inquired:
How about that dinner I ordered?''
"It will be here Immediately, Sir"
was the answer.
The guest tried to read his newspa-
per once more, but as time passed his
Uneas;ness increased until he was giar-
irg up and down the room as fiercely
is ever. He found his waiter again
ard the same conversation was re-
Feated. After two or three more sim
liar attempts he arose and went over
to another waiter who was gracefully
leaning against pillar.
Look here" said the guest, 81 want
to know something"
EYES," responded the waiter.
"What I want to know is this: Am I
ever going to get any dinner, and If 1
do get it, when will it be?"
The .languid young man looked at
him and replied:
Excuse me. I'm afraid you have
made mistake. ] am only waiter;
not prophet"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-01-18
BERNHARDT IN SULLIVAN.
First and Last Appearance OF Sarah
in an Indiana Village. -,

IN an 1Hu1AnA Nlk1uSes
"Did you ever hear about the first,
last and only appearance of Sarah
Bernhardt in Sullivan. Ind. ?'' asked a
theatrical manager the other day. Sew
eral of his friends who were chatting
with the manager said they hadn't and
asked for the story, says the Chicago
Chronicle. ....,
well, it happened a number of years
ago." began the story-teller. Sarah
and her company were going from
indianapolis to some other city. Some
way or other they missed connection.
and lad to stay all night at Sullivan.
The manager cussed and swore, but
didn't succeed in devising any way to
get to the city where they were to play
that night. The manager swore that
the night shouldn't be lost entirely and
that they would play right there in Sui
Ivan. Sarah fumed and raved, but
there was no help for it; she was under
contract to play every night. '"' ~.
"They borrowed all the furniture in
the town and fixed up the stage of the
little town hall as best they could. Lit
tie dodgers were printed and scattered
over the country. 1t was announced on
those little bills that the divine Sarah
would appear in Sullivan for one night
only, making her first and last appear
ance. That night the hall was packed
to the doors. People with their hair too
long and their trousers too short were
sitting on the backs of benches and
standing in the aisles by seven o'clock.
At eighto'ciockS Sarah came and reached
the stage by back entrance. Stepping
TO the curtain she pulled one corner
aside and pceped out at the crowd. AS
she caught sight of the audience she
dropped the corner of the curtain like
hot potato, exclaiming: My look
; 1T the Indians."' n r. ..... e"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-01-18
S23,56S 81 $23,568 81

~S''oN~ ~ VHOJOOO CA
TREAsURER'S RALANCE SHEET.
Cash in Treasury to tie credit OF the
various funds, June 80, 1897:
In State fund. .............S 800 81
Judges salary fund. .......
In general county fund.-. 555 86
In cash contingent fund.-. 8 20
In INDECENT sick fund 3D.. .16. 20
In county school fund.-. 90 65
In officers salary fund.-. e12 10
In road fund ........., -
In County High School fund 534 Is
Elko Go. Spec. II. s. fund o
d ...... .......... -. 253 O6
Alko Co High School bond
redemption fund. ....... 386 II
Total. -. !............ S2,3OS 70
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-01-18
JOINT STATEMENT

IF AUDITOR AND TREASUisEIs
OF ELKO COUNTY.
For the Quarter Ending Juno
so, 1907.
TIE SCE. OF - NfEE,yyA EVA
AUDITORS OFFICE.
To the Honorable Board OF County Commls'
sioners OF Elko County, Nevada:
GENTLEMEN: We herewith submit our Quar-
erly Report OF the Finances Of the County
for the quarter ending June 30 1897.
Respectfully submitted: g..
b.. GA. WATKINS
Auditor,
\ MCRRTDE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-10
TALES OF THE DAY.
How a Clergyman Was Worsted On
the Cross Examination.

In the Celebrated Trials collated by
the late Henry Lauren Clinton of New
York are many diverting anecdotes. He
relates this one of the famous jurist,
Judge Martin Grover: Before he went on
the bench. Grover defended man in
dicted for the murder of his wife by
throwing her down a well. In addition
to proof of the circumstances of the hom-
icide. the prosecution in order to show
not only his want of affection. but his
cold blooded and brutal Indifference, TO
his wife. called as witness clergy
man. who testified that he attended her
funeral and sat in the pulpit with the
officiating clergyman: and that while the
latter was engaged in prayer, the priS-
oner was looking across the church and
winldng at some of the girls on one side
of the room. and continued to do so dur
ing the prayer. The impression given by
this testimony can well be imagined. Its
effect was to shock the jury and the audi
ence In constituting the conduct of the
prisoner, in respect to the circumstances
of the homicide it was not unlikely that
this evidence would be the turning point
to convict him. Growers croSs-eXamina
ton of the witness was very brief 1t was
Ouestion-You say, while the minister
was praying, You saw the prisoner look
ing and winking at some girls. How did
you happen TO see him?
Answer-I was holding my hands over
my eyes and I saw through my fingers,
Odd you Watcn MIN all the time the
minister was praying?
Ayes, and was surprised at his con-
duct, and watched him all the while the
minister was praying
Said Grover: THAT was right; that was
according to Scripture, watch and pray
while Brother Jones prayed, you watched.
That is ALL
All in the court room were convulsed
with laughter. and the clergyman left
the stand in great rage. As he passed
the table where counsel sat, he Kissed
out at Grover, so as to be heard all over
the court room; You are a gentleman"
Said Grover: Hold on; go right back on
witness 1 could prove that by. But 1
give you fair notice, if you swear l am
gentleman. there are a thousand men
in Allegheny county. where ] live that
will impeach you. The discounted wit
ness went to his seat amid the general
laughter of all present Grover won his
case. His client was not convicted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-10
DISAPPOINTMENT.

Dark the theatre hushed the music. foi
the play is DER tonight,
And the actress driving homeward, sits
with lips compressed and tight.
Roses red and white and yellow. litter VI
the carriage space
Tributes TO her matchless acting-yet g
tear slips down her face.
What if hundreds did applaud her?-what
if well she plays her part?
People were like driven cattle could they
read 4 woman's heart?
All the loves that night she'd acted-al
the hates and hopes and fears,
Filter through her tired brain cellS-come
out purified as tears.
Men. my brothers. men, the workers
when the world has used us rough,
Round our hearts We strap our armor-
women are of softer stuff.
What to her was this nights conquest?
What tho flowers and success?
For the modiSte diSappointed-never sent
her satin dress.
Never sent the dress she'd hoped for
trimmed with pansies down the side;
Jewel trimming on the shoulders, round
point sixteen inches wide
Well she knew that with that dress on.
Solomon in all his pride,
Couldn't hold candle to her-ah. no
wonder that she criedl
Then she smiled-for on the morrow when
the papers told her hits,
She would go to that old modiSte and
would give the woman fits
Philadelphia Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-10
SWITZERLAND THREATENED.

The assassination of the Empress OF
Austria shocked the whole world: the
assassination of a woman is always
more revolving than that of man, no
matter who the woman may be.
The assassination OF the Empress of
Austria by an Italian anarchist may
lead to the most serious political re-
suit. and this is no less than the parti-
ton of Switzerland by Germany, Aus
tria and Italy the dreibund. 1t has
been suggested by leading German
paper, and the suggestion has aroused
much comment everywhere. and no
| doubt more or less alarm in Switzer-
land. That which is seized upon as the
preteXt for the suggestion is the fact
that in Switzerland there is no capital
punishment, and that in consequence
Lugheni will only suffer life imprison-
ment in stead of death. a small excuse
for undertaking the partition and
spoliation Of a country.
The assassination of the ruler of a
country or OF his consort is not the
! same as the assassination of an ordi-
nary individual, and the feelings of the
various governments of Europe may
be judged when it is recalled how great
was the Indignation that filed the peo-
pie of our own land when Guiteau shot
President Garfield At this time there
was demand from all parts of the
country that our presidents be afforded
better protection. and there were nu-
merous suggestions for furnishing a
bodyguard; in fact, to surround our
presidents with the same safeguards as
surround the rulers of Europe Re
calling the assassination of Garfield
and the Indignation it caused, it is an
easy matter to appreciate the feeling
aroused in Europe over the assassina-
ton of the Austrian empress; but to
suggest that Switzerland shall suffer
the fate of Poland because there is no
death penalty in the Helvetian republic
is monstrous. Liberty in continental
Europe to be murdered to avenge the
death Of the Austrian empressl Heaven
forbid that it should ever be- The
great powers of continental Europe are
merely seeking an excuse 10 perpetrate
Il crime they have long had in mind.
Switzerland destroyed as an independ-
ent government, anarchists would still
flourish. flourish more than ever, and
perpetrate their crimes. The anarchist
who assassinated the Empress of Aus
tria was born and bred in Italy, not
Switzerland, and he would have COM
mitted his crime in Vienna as quickly
as he did in Geneva had opportunity
offered. The wonder is that Switzer-
land has existed so long as an indie
pendent government as she has, when
her geographical position is considered.
May she preserve her separate exist
ence for centuries to come.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-10
HUIDEKoPER DEFENDED.

We have received the following de-
Tense of DR.. Huidekoper and willingly
give it space, not out of regard for the
defense. which is very lame, but out
of regard for the writer:
Post Hospital, Fort Bayard, New
Mexico, Oct 5, 1S9S.-To the Editor;
Reading day after day in The Herald,
that some friend is kindly sending me,
some pretty stiff editorial comments on
the appointment of DR.. Huidekoper as
medical director at Chickamauga camp,
and later at Puerto Rico, reminds me
that there are two sides to a story,
and each side may be absolutely cor
rect / think the case in question is
one of that sort. and as you have al
ready told one side i venture to relate
the other and trust you will re fair
and publish it, for it is true. With
some asoerity you call him a horse
doctor" and several other things Well
/ guess he is a horse doctor. All right,
and they say he is good one, too.
DR.. Rush Shipper HuidekoDer is an
acknowledged authority on military
sanitation. and If you knew how thor
oughly along these lines he is appre-
ciated by thinking men you would
have a good deal of respect for him,
notwithstanding his outlandish name.
DR.. Huidekoper was graduated from
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-10
FRANK FOR A REPUBLICAN.

The Republican candidate for con-
gress in Idaho. Judge w. B. Hepburn,
said, in the course of speech in Bear
Lake the other day:
The Republican party of Idaho inter-
prets the st. Louis platform as il is
written. and endorses the financial poll
icy of the Republican administration,
which has restored confidence in finan-
cial and business circles.
While the Utah Republican candidate
is not as frank as Judge Hepburn is.
stn he occupies the same position. Mr..
Eldredge voted foryMcKinley electors,
stood by the st. louis convention, en-
dorses the st. Lo lis platform, and is
pledged to McKh ley's financial poll
cies.
When a reporte. approached Judge
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-10
THAT AMNESTY PETITION.


The petition for amnesty reproduced
by Republican contemporary yester-
day for campaign purposes goes no fur
Their than the manifesto suspending
plural marriages went. 1t says:
According to our creed, the head of
our church receives from time to time
revelations for the religious guidance of
his people In September, 1890, the
present head OF the church, in anguish
and prayer, cried to God for help for
his flock, and received permission to
advise the members of the Church of
Jesus Christ OF Latter-day Saints that
the law commanding polygamy was
henceforth suspended. At the great
/ semi-annual conference which was held
few days later this was submitted to
| the people-numbering many thou
sands and representing every commu-
nifty of the people in Utah-and was by
them in the most solemn manner ac-
cepted as the future rule of their lives
They have since been faithful to the
covenant made that day"
This adds nothing TO the strength of
the statement of the manifesto of Oct
6, 1880. which, the Republican organ
said, went only to the point of plural
marriages. which had been taught as
holy sacrament, must not hereafter be
solemnized"
If, as our contemporary has alleged,
the manifesto went no further than to
prohibit the further contracting of
plural marriages." the petition for
amnesty went no further. Then there
is no point. in the Republication of
that document. Our neighbor has never
believed, from the beginning, that all
the old relations were severed. It has
admitted as much on more than one
occasion. But the change in sentiment
among the people has been very sat
isfactory, and the cessation of such
marriages is generally conceded to be
the practical solution of the problem.
Whatever law or doctrine was pro-
mulSated by the authorities of the
church in the manifesto so frequently
referred to in this campaign, it has
been the opinion of our neighbor that
the rule then laid down has been as
sacredly kept by THIS PEOPLE as it
''NN'NA AAeANC OCCAt NY 1ilN CllGI lcCDle.
Since the amnesty petition was
signed and sent to the president, Mr.
Roberts has been prominently before
the public. He has even made a race
for congress, but the Republicans of
Utah didn't see fit to assail his domes-
tic relations before this fall Repub-
ican tickets have been made year af-
ter year, with candidates thereon to
whom every objection now raised
against Mr.. Roberts could have been
made; and the Republican state ticket
is open to the same objection this year.
But the Republican organ was silent.
Why?
As long as the Republican party of
Utah felt free to ask the church au-
thorities for political aid, they com
planned of nothing. When the authori-
ties decline to assist the Republican
ticket, and no one expects them to as
sist any other. an effort is made to
brighten them into doing so. 1t is
strange that old goldbug friends
should expect ecclesiastical leaders to
enter the political arena for any pur-
pose whatever, when those leaders are !
aware that those who invite them in |
are ready to club them for entering.