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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-18
Red Hot From the Gun

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man, Newark, Mich, in the civil war.
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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-18
Notice Of Sale Of Village Bonds

NOTICE is hereby given. that the common
e9nncll Of the village Of Princeton, State Of
of Six Thousand Dollars (S8 900. CN13 Of water
works and electric light bonds Of said village,
at the office Of the village Recorder Of said
W I1aG OF pr1nceton, on the 18th day Of May,
dlse Aao M Of Five Hundred Dollars
SsSoo tSore eaeh due in Ten q years from the
five Cl per cent. per annum. interest navnbie
annually !I w. The right is reserved to reject any
ID. 7. III. GALLEY, 81
1Attest: ~ President Of the Village Council.
j. w. HARTMAN, s Ts5f5 TE #
lSeal. Village Recorder.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-18

When Weak, Weary and Wasted
from kidney diseases, why not try
Foley's Kidney Cure, guaranteed
medicine. SOC and $l.00 a bottle. c..
A. Jack, druggist.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-18
PRICES OFTHE
Princeton Roller Mills and Elevator.

i goods delivered free anywhere in Princeton
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
Chinese sun and Moon

In China the sun and moon are broth
er and sister. The moon is the elder
brother, who looks after his rather
silly sister, the sun. This is exactly
the reverse of our legends, which make
the sun the day king and the gentle
moon lady of the night. One day in
t,s-i-zo tie legend rurS-the e.in
asked the moon if she couldn't go out
at night The moon an swered very
sternly: NO. You are a young lady,
and it would be improper for you to go
out after dark" Then the sun said:
But the people keep looking at me
when ! go out in the daytime" So the
moon told her to take the golden
needles that she wore in her hair and
stick them into the eyes of people when
they stared at her. This is the reason
why no one can look at the sun with.
out pain.-N. Y. World.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
UpRoARIoUs APPAREL.
Period Would Make Solomon
Look Like Thirty Cents.

Some hopeful people had an idea last sum-
mer that the limit had about been reached
in the loud colors of mems attire, in shirts,
ties, hosiery and soft hats, and that this
summer might see return to more placid
and subdued hues and patterns as a sort of
reaction. The advance styles in the win
dows of the haberdashers' shops indicate
that such hopes are vain and that linen and
things will this year be even more startling
than last season, if that be possible. Some
of the shirts on display in the windows seem
to actually shrek through the glass at the
observer, and the width of the stripes is OF
the general style and pattern so long popu-
lar at Joliet penitentiary. These converse
tionai shirts have gradually grown worse
and worse each year until now the pessimists
do not see how anything worse can happen
than the things which are now on sale.
The red hat affected by the college boy
last year and its side partner, the blue crush
hat, have rival this year in pale white hat,
with the under side OF the brim and also tho
band of deep blue, making striking con-
trast of color, which seems to be what is
most particularly desired.
All the hashy patterns in hosiery, the
plaids, the reds and yellows and greens in
combination, are once more to the fore, and
when the young man OF the period gets him.
self up in all the colored trimmings he can
buy, with red and blue barred shirt and
cuffs, a white collar, red hat and plaid
hose showing above his low ties, he will
make Solomon in all his glory look like 30
cents.--Chicago Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
DIGNIFYINC A pOsITrOy.

He was the man who stood on the
corner with an iron rod in his hand
and moved the street railway switch
to send portion of the cars down
Blank street. He was looking lonely
and disconsolate and friendless when
the colonel approached him and asked:
"Sir, did l see the president of the
Blank street line talking to you few
minutes ago?"
Good Lord. mol" gasped the man, as
he looked up.
Excuse me, but / thought did. He
may be along later in the day, how
ever. Are you arranging to extend
that line?"
But how do / know what they are
going to do?" protested the man.
That's right-don't give it away"
chnckled the colonel. as he poked him
y the ribs. "You magnates just get
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

Her Answer.-He-"Are you fond of
dancing?" She-"Loolx here, you can't
talk, but you can dance, so suppose we
have another turn. "-Moonshine.
'Gray thinks man is never too old
to play golf" MOP" mo. He says
if he had one foot in the grave he'd
rather have the other on the links
Puck.
Uncle Haicede-'I have lived in this
here house over 20 year come next Sep
TENDER. Fresh Air Boy-"Chee! How
do youse git out O. payin' de rent."-In-
dianapolis Journal.
The Benedict-"When 1 am away
from home my wife writes to me every
day." The Bachelor-"Wen, it's your
own fault. Why don't you leave her
enough money to last a few days p
N. Y. World.
The Convict's Paper.-"The inmates
of Sing Sing print a newspaper" Well,
is it any different from any other pa
PERI" Eyes; composed of longer sem
fences and the editors are not allowed
to keep any old files."-Chicago Daily
News.
ut seems as though this horseless
carriage is here to stay" he solilo-
quized. And again, little later, he
said, ''Yes, it surely is" And as the
driver had been vainly trying for an
hour to get the motor working he got
out and Observation-Disclosures Record.
Patient-''I say, doctor, just what is
this grip anyway" Doctor-"Why,
my good fellow, that's the name we
doctors have for everything nowadays
but appendicitis" Patient-"Ahi And
what is appendicitis? Doctor-"Why,
that's the name we have for everything
but the grip Judge.
Unintentional Sarcasm.-He was a
clerk in department store and the
naughty young woman who fancied she
was called upon to give her ideas to the
world in book form desired a note book.
81 want note book" she said, ''some-
thing that / can carry in my pocket to
jot down ideas" "Oh, you want
something very small" replied the
clerk, and he was unable to account for
her anger.-Philadelphia Call.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
A NEW ONE ON THE MULE.

"'Long about the time barbed-wirc
fence came out" said the farmer as we
sat on the steps after supper for a
smoke, Il had North Carolina mule
who made me no end of trouble. He
was big and strong and willing to work,
but when he was turned loose he'd sidle
up to fence and begin to rub, and
there wasn't nothing on my farm that
would stand agin him. He'd rub down
five rods of rail or board fence in as
many minutes, and THROWN clubs at
him was like tryin' to hurt rat with
a straw. You see that hog-pen down
there?"
"Yes."
swell, the one he rubbed down one
day was about three times as strongly
built. He just got his shoulder under
a corner of it and give rub and a heave
and tore it all to pieces. 1 put up
post in the barnyard for him. 1 dug
down seven feet, and was all day
wedgin' the post in, and yet he rubbed
it down in ten minutes. He rubbed
down all the gates, tipped the smoke
house over and broke off Is fruit trees,
and finally had to tie him in the barn.
I'd have sold that mule for half his
worth when 1 saw some o. that barbed
wire at the store. / got enough to go
around the barnyard and then turned
him loose one evenin' The critter had
heard the work goin' on, and when he
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
BOOMING BLANKS PLACE.
Clever scheme Adopted by . New
York Man to Advertise His
Restaurant.

| A West side surface car, well filed
with passengers, was rolling uptown
late Saturday afternoon when man
who sat near the front door shouted:
Conductor, put me off at Tom
Blanks place, will your"
Sure" said the conductor, and then
he remarked: That's new one on
me-
why, you don't mean to say that you
| don't know where Tom Blanks place
is?' said man in the rear of the car.
! The conductor admitted his ignorance,
and each of the other passengers as
sumed wise look. As the car reached
one of the cross-town streets the man
in the rear of the car called loudly to
the conductor:
This is Tom Blanks place, conduc-
tor. Stop your car"
Every passenger looked out and saw
new chophouse, with Tom. Blanks
name over the door, and the man in
the front of the car got out. So did the
man in the rear of the car, who knew
the place. They went inside, had a
drink, and then went downtown half
dozen blocks to repeat the operation
OF asking a conductor to let them off
Mt Tom Blanks place. There were 9TH
er men working these cars in the same
way. Blank was for many years
popular head waiter in a downtown
chophouse, and he made it his business
to befriend befuddled men who came
into the place late at night for sjust
one more" He guarded their valuables
for them, and he gave them much good
advice. When Tom opened a place for
himself the old guard rallied at his
opening and asked him how they might
help him.
IF you will make my place known"
said Tom, It'll do the rest. Now, I'll
be obliged to you if when you come here
on the surface cars you'd just ask the
conductor to let you off at Tom Blanks
place. | want every conductor and
every regular passenger on this line to
know the place."
The old guard thought this was a
modest request, and few of them who
had leisure have been devoting several
hours every Saturday afternoon to
making Tom Blanks place known on
the cars. They shout it out to the con-
ductor for the benefit of the passengers.
LISA novel scheme, and if Blank doesn't
succeed it won't be the fault of the
men who liked him as head waiter
and who lost no opportunity to suggest
that ne ought to open a chophouse of
his OWN. Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
SILK spun by sheIla,h.

A shellfish known as the pianna, in
the Mediterranean, has the curious
power of spinning a viscid silk, which is
made in Italy into regular fabric. The
silk is spun by the shellfisk, in the first
place, for the purpose of attaching it.
self to the rocks. 1t is able to guide the
delicate filaments to the proper place
and then glue them fast, and if they are
cut away it can reproduce them. The
material when washed in soap and
water, is dried and Strengthened, one
pound of the coarse filament yielding
three ounces of the fine thread, which,
when spun, is of a lovely FURNISHED
golden-brown color.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30

'sNot one out of a thousand, SIR
said the switchman as he stiffened his
back still more.
That's why they put you here, of
course. You are of far more value to
the lines right here than you would be
as secretary or treasurer"
That's true-that's true"
"And remember that the eyes of
thousands of pedestrians are upon you
daily"
81 do that"
sand think of the lives intrusted to
your vigilance! One moment of forget
rhinestone false move of that crow
bar-and the lives of scores of innocent
passengers would be-"
''See here" said the switchman as he
spat over his shoulder with great dig
nifty and at the same time made
kick at passing dog, ''you seem to be
a good man, and I'll be glad to talk
with you, but I'm filing this dangerous
post, and l must keep my eyes about
me, and the president may come along
at any moment, and you must excuse
me, sir, for"
For asking me to pass on? 1 see
how it is, and I'll pass. Give the presi-
dent my regards if he stops, and hope
you'll use your influence with the board
OF directors to have the John street
line extended to Blossom avenue this
summer
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30

Only q great outburst of melody from
the choir prevented a general hysieria,
which was plainly imminent. To the
singing the people kept time with their
feet and their swaying bodies.
1t was hardly conceivable that any
negroes in the city were kept ignorant
of the event, SO thoroughly had the
preachers betrayed the general. Scores
of them must have worked all night
to erect the platform and arrange the
decorations. Over the pulpit was a
huge portrait of Grant, draped and fes-
TONED with flowers, and opposite was
a similarly decorated portrait of Lin
coin. Grant had not spoken a word
from the moment we were fairly sur
rounded by the multitude. Now he
whispered, as he wiped his flushed face:
''Fve been in Africa, but / never had
as hot time as this"
When Grant arose to speak there was
q renewal of the cries, but the little
pastor and the marshals soon restored
quiet enough for his words to be heard.
He spoke briefly, saying in effect that
the colored people had their future in
their own hands. He urged them to
stick to the Bible and the spelling book
and they were bound to enjoy their full
share of material prosperity. To some,
who evidently expected him to announce
that he had come to ctnsecrate himself
to the restoration OF their political
rights, the speech was apparently disap
pointing.
A young negro, teacher in the uni
versity for colored people, made brief,
but really eloquent address.
General Grant," he said, 'you have
been famous for epigrams that live in
the hearts of the American people. You
spoke the sentiment of a determined
patriot people when you declared you
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
AN EXCEPTION.
He Thought She Didn't
Need Him.

He did not look as if he were composed
Of the stuff of which heroes are made,
but there must have been some of the di-
vine aftiatus Of courage in his system or
he would not have been before the recruit
ranks of those who were offering themselves
as sacrifice upon the altar of their beloved
country.
What is your name?" inquired the ofiis
Ger in charge.
John Smith"
your agesMr. Smith,
"Forty-three, next October"
Where were you born?" 50
do you reside here?"
eyes, sir; have for the last ten years."
"a" "a" you married or single?
"Ah, is that 80?
yes, sir"
well, you can't enlist!"
why not?"
"l3ecause you are married"
whats that got to do with it?"
liant take married men into the serv.
'Why not! Hasn't married man got
courage enough? Can't be be as good pat.
riot as bachelor?"
'I suppose so, but we can't take married
men. They have to stay at home and sup
port their wives and families"
The applicants face cleaned like sum
rise.
"Oh, that's all right" he laughed, easily.
you needn't worry on that account; my
wife keeps boarding house, and has ever
since the second year we were married. -
Washington Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
CHRONIC WEATHER K1cKERs
The Lunchroom PHILOSOPHERS Gives
His Views ON Mankind In
General.

DIE ever notice." said the lunchroom
Philosopher, "what never-contented lot O.
pinheads we are? Now, it seems no time
at all since was a-rarin' around and kickin'
like blazes because the leaves and crocuses
didn't appear on schedule time. | believe /
blamed my wife for it. / was SO dead sick
and tired of chilly blasts and my olive green
top-eoat that i sort O. held her personally
responsible for the backwardness of the
lilacs and daisies and paIsies. l told her
that l wanted red-hot, sizzling weather, and
lots OF it-that for all cared ding the sun
could go on sizzling forever Now | find
that I'm sick of the summer. find myself
longing to hear the leaves swirling in the
bitches and to have the fire lighted in the
latrobe. l. find that l want to take brisk
walks in the sharp, chilly air. find that
1 m hungry for buckwheat cakes and sau,
sage. I'm tired o. beer I'm weary Of car
riding out in the country. Durn It ALL
want snow three feet high, blizzards Of it.
and want the theatersand the hot Scotchesi
And along toward the end of next February
III be chewing the rag, in the same old way.
about moving to some tropical country
where can get warmed up and be famed
by balmy zephyrs, and all that kind o. bleat.
We don't know what we want. We even
get sick of seasons that we long for, much
az kids get sick of their painted Noah'a
inks or tin soldiers. Washington Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30

your heads together and plot and plan,
and don't let the public in on it until
you have to. Made any new contracts
for new cars or rails this spring?"
"Ain't you--you mistaken ?' cried the
switchman as he looked at the colonel
in wondering way.
'Ha! ha! hal but you chaps are cute!
Well, ! didn't expect you'd give me any
real information of value. No trouble
among the men, eh?'
II haven't heard of any,"
"You'd hear of it first, of course. !
am glad that things are going right.
Was there any truth in the rumor that
the John street line was going to take
off its Sunday cars?"
II didn't hear no such talk, sir"
'Then it can't be so, of course. You
big fellows had meeting yesterday,
understand, and if the matter didn't
come up there was nothing in it. Ali
but you switched that car in beauti-
fully"
do you think SOP" asked the switch
man as he Strengthened up and a new
look came to his face.
beautifully done, sir = beautifully
done. This is the post of danger, OBJ
serve. A man must be very cool and
levei-headed to fill this post"
"Yes, sir, he must"
He must be a man who makes no
mistakes. Probably not one man out Of
80 could fill the place."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30

was out o. the barn he looked all around
to see what had happened. Then he
walked all around that fence to look
and to smell, and when he finally turned
to me could almost hear him sayin':
Here's somethin' new, and I'll have
heap o. fun in the next quarter of an
hour
He took long breath and fell over
on the fence and began to rub, but it
didn't last long. The tacks raked and
astonished him, and he drew off to in
yestigate. Then he tried it agin and
got mad. He figured out that it was a
put-up job, but he thought he could
beat the game. He kept it up for half
an hour, and you'd have thought he'd
been clawed from ears to tail by forty
wild cats. He kept up a squealin' and
brayin' as he rubbed, but by and by
the sounds died away to means and
signs, and we saw that he was licked
mule. When he had got enough he
backed off and hung his head, and /
lett him out there all night to consider
things. Nobody ever seen such q
scratched-up mule in all the state of
Tennessee"
"And it cured him?" queried.
YES, it did. When mornin' come he
hadn't moved out of his tracks. went
out to lead him into the barn, and he
lifted his head and gave me look of
reproach / shall remember to the day
OF my death. l brought him pail of
water and some hay, but presently he
gave a groan and fell over dead, and
the tears was runnin' down his nose
as he fell. That mules heart was
broken, sir-regularly broke. He had
bucked up agin somethin' too much for
him. and in his pride and obstinacy
he couldn't abide it and live on"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30

Few people realize what perfect
pieces of machinery bicycles are, and
how carefully each piece of machinery
is made. While it is true that the wheel
cannot manifest endearing qualities as
do many animals, yet the fact that it
Is such perfect piece Of mechanism,
and is ready at all times to carry its
rider quickly over many miles of coun-
try, serves to create feeling which,
while it may not be the same as the love
for horse. is certainly something akin
to It
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30
An instance.

"Yes, indeed" said the professor of
mathematics, 1--WE come to the con-
clusion that one can learn something
from almost anybody"
"Just So said the professor of patur-
al history. 1T is only few days ago
that a small boy of my acquaintance
gvo me lot of information about lob
stexs. Pack
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30

Don't 90 to extremes in your
dealings with bees and wasps.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-09-30

Covent Garden, London, has been in
the possession of the Bedford family
for 300 years,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-28
AN EFFECTIVE SERMON.
A Trumpet Blast That Drove the Peo-
pie to Repentance.

prominent Methodist churchman
recently told the following story of old
Peter Cartwright, the famous preacher
and circuit rider of many years ago:
The eXhorter was holding a camp
meeting in Ohio. There was great
number of campers on the field, and
the eccentric speaker addressed vast
concOurses ut every service, but he
thought too few were being converted.
He felt that something should be done
to stir the sinners to repentance, so
he prepared a strong sermon OH the
second coming of Christ. He told how
the world would go on in its sin and
vickedness, and at last Gabriel would
sound his trumpet and time would
come TO an end. He described the
horrors of the lost and the joys of
those who were saved. The sermon
grew in intensity, and he brought his
people up to a grand climax when sud
denly the sound of a trumpet Smote
the ears of the anxious throng.
There was n great sensation, and
many fell upon their knees in terror
and began to repent and pray. Women
screamed and strong men grOaned;
pandemonium was let loose for Il few
minutes. After the terror had some
what ceased the preacher called to n
man up a tree and he descended with
a long tin horn in his hand. The
speaker then turned in fierce wrath
and upbraided the people. He cried
out in stentorian tones that if man
with a tin horn up a tree could
brighten them so, how would it be in
the last great end when GabrelS
trumpet sounded the knell of the
world. The sermon had great effect
upon the vast audience, and many
hundreds fiocked to the front and were
cnnNcrted Now York Trihunc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-28
Three Bite. by n shark.

]. Norris and Loren Hill relate a Pc
culiar experience with tarpon and an
immense shark near Punta Gorda.
While they were playing large tarpon
shark came up and bit half moon
weighing about ten pounds out of the
tarpon's belly. This killed the tarpOn.
but before it could he gated and pull
ed in the shark took out another half
moon a size larger. AS they were
hauling the tarpon aboard the shark
bit off the tail. eQualing one-third the
length and about one-fourth the weight
of the fish. The part that was left over
weighed 1G4 pounds. They beat the
shark over the head with the oars.
The fish would have been a record
breaker and would have weighed about
220 pounds. The scales were preserv-
ed and measured So by AZ inches.