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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
bum Rural ROME Roads.

1t is said that there has been a lot
OF complaint about the condition of
the roads along rural route No. 3 in
the town of Baldwin. and the post
office department. has been informed of
the state of the roads SO many times
that there is danger of the route being
discontinued unless the town board of
Baldwin or the persons who are re-
sponsible for the neglected condition
of the highways get a pretty lively
hustle on themselves and repair the
roads. The road leading to the town
hall and the road west by VIM.
Browns will not pass any kind of in
spection and are wholly unfit for
travel. The carrier has been obliged
to cut through fields in several places
and stop and open and shut gates
many times. One Of the requirements
OF the government where there are ru-
raj routes are passable roads, and it
is mighty poor sort of road builders
and road overseers who cannot take
enuogh interest in the condition of the
roads to keep them in fit condition for
a light rural route wagon. Get a
hump on yourselves, down there, gen.
tlemen and fix up your roads. The
government would like to build the
roads for every community and throw
in the best government bonds on the
side but it can't afford to do it. Ru-
raj route No. 3 is not paying propo-
sition as the government looks at it,
as it does not come up to the average.
A monthly average is 5000 pieces of
mail matter, but this route does not
hardly make that average.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
INDIA INK.
The Way the Kind Used In China
and Japan Is Made.

The Way the Kind Used In China
and Japan Is Made.
India ink, much used in China and
Japan for writing with small brushes
on soft paper and made extensively in
China since $50 6. c., consists of
mixture Of carbon and gum, with the
addition Of little musk or Borneo
camphor to give it the characteristic
odor. The preparation of this simple
ink is by no means easy, for if the ma
terials are not of the best quality and
if the carbon is not as finely divided
as possible an inferior ink will be the
result. After the carbon and gum have
been mixed the product has to be slow
~ and carefully dried. The high polish
is said to be produced with tree wax.
Europeans have produced ink equal
if not superior to the genuine Chinese
article. The reason why the manufac-
ture has remained chiefly in eastern
hands is an interesting one. The bust
ness instinct of the European maker
prompts him to seize any opportunity
of substituting cheaper raw materials
and so lowering the quality of his ink,
while the tendency of the Chinaman is
to work on in the same groove, and in
this case his hidebound conservatism
is proftable-London Mail
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Gray Cues Hard to Find.

Look around during your next ex-
ploration of Chinatown says a close
observer, land see if you can find any
Chinaman with gray cue. I have
seen gray haired Cinnamon all right
and one or two with fuzz on their
faces which might by courtesy be
called boards, but gray cue never. A
good deal of the average cue is all
make believe anyway, several inches
Of the end Of it being composed Of
black braid.
Il have always suspected that there
was more Or less false hair about it,
too; but that is of course a matter that
cannot be determined by casual 1nspec-
ton. Such Cinnamon as I have seen
with gray hair have had black cues.
1t may be, however, that the ends Of
the cue instead of being false, are
dyed" -Philadelphia Record.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
THE POWDER WORKED.
An Invention That Proved Too Much
of Success,

A certain inventor once hit upon the
happy device of desiccating eggs. He
turned dozens and dozens of eggs into
powder that you might carry in a
pill box. All you had to do when you
wanted an omelet or scramble was to
drop a pinch of the powder into water.
A teaspoonful Of the stuff would swell
up to fill quart tin, and half cup
full would be enough for the meal Of a
company on the march. Now, this in
ventor by diligent effort succeeded in
making himself known to a great man
in European country, man who
moves armies by the crooking Of a
finger SO to speak. The great man
was delighted with the desiccated egg
scheme, and box Of the powder was
sent to him so that he might try it on
the army. Fate, however, decreed
that it should be tried on the dog. 1t
lay open on the great mans study ia
bic, and there the dog nosed it out.
He licked up the powder, an amount Of
it that forty conscientious hens could
not replace with a. months hard la
Dor, and he liked the taste of it. 1t
made him thirsty, however, and he
swallowed nearly q gallon of water to
assuage that thirst. The powder i'm
mediately began to do what it was ex-
pected to do when water struck it,
and before the eyes of the great man
that unhappy dog swelled up and
swelled up till his seams gave way.
Just forward of the port beam be
sprang a leak. This is perfectly true
story. The poor dog actually burst.
That particular invention has never
been recommended to the war Office
Washington Post
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
How It Came to Be So Called by the
Explorer Magellan.

Explorer Magellan.
Magellan, practically the first to cir
cumnavigate the world, set out from
Spain in 1919 to find a western route
to the famous Moluccas, or Spice is
lands. Vague rumors of pacific ocean
were scattered through Europe. To
test these Magellan, following the
coast of South America, passed
through the strait which now bears
his name, formerly the strait Of the
Eleven Thousand Virgins, tossed all
the time on a most tempestuous sea.
Emerging into the broad waters on
the west, he sailed northwest for three
months and twenty days on a placid,
almost unruffled sea, which he chris
tened then and there Mar Pacifico, or
Pacific ocean, the name it will now
forever bear. Notwithstanding it's
name typhoons in the west and else
where make this ocean as perilous a
path as any other to those who tempt
its vast expanse and comparative soil
tude
Magellan himself fell in the Philip
pines, but the Victoria came home to
tell the tale. Drake was the first Eng
ishman to sail on it's wide waters.-
London Standard
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
HABITS OF THE ANT.
The Sleeping, the Waking and the
Toilet Before Work.

During sleep the ants body is quite
still. Occasionally may be noted reg
ular lifting up and setting down of the
fore feet, one leg after another, with
almost rhythmic motion The antennae
also have a gentle, quivering, appar-
emily involuntary movement, almost
like breathing. The soundness of slum-
Der was frequently proved by applying
the feather end Of quill. The feather
tip is lightly drawn along the back,
stroking with the fur" There is no
motion. Again and again this action is
repeated, the stroke being made grad
ually heavier. Still there is no change.
The strokes are directed upon the head,
with the same result. Then the featb-
er is applied to the neck with a waving
motion intended to tickle it. The ant
remains motionless. Finally the Sleep
er is aroused by a sharp touch of the
quill. She stretches out her head, then
her legs, which she shakes also; steps
nearer to the light, yawns and begins
to comb her antennae and brush her
head and mouth Then she Chambers
over her sleeping comrades. dives into
an open gangway and soon has said
Good morning" to another tour of
duty. Be it we'll noted. however, that
she has gone to work, as she and all
her fellows always do, not only rested.
but with her person perfectly clean!-
II. q. McCook in Harper's Magazine.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Garrick and the Bishop.

In the Realities of Irish Life,' by
W. S. French, is this anecdote: II have
heard story that upon one occasion
the bishop of London asked the cele-
brated actor, Garrick, if he could ex-
plain how it was that he and his cler-
gy failed to arrest the attention of
their audiences, although they preached
every Sunday of the realities of the
world to come, while he (Garrick)
filled crowded houses with the most
rapt attention, although they knew
perfectly we'll that all he was saying
was fiction. The reason is very plain,
my lord replied Garrick. You deal
with facts as if they were fiction;
deal with fiction as if they were
facts.'"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
VULCANO'S VOLCANO,
A Natural Weather Prophet and In
faIlible at That.


fallib1e ut That.
AS natural weather prophet, and in
fallible at that, the volcano on the is
land Of Vulcano, twelve miles north of
Sicily, in the Mediterranean, is be-
lieved to hold the record. The fol-
given by the Geographical Council
Club of England in 1898: "Captain
Wharton, the photographer to the adj
miralty, told how he had once an
chored in very deep water on the east
side of Vulcano, the southernmost Of
the Lipari isles, but that he had kept
up steam with the intention Of being
off Immediately if the wind changed to
the east. He mentioned this to an
Englishman who lived on the island
and was in charge of some borax
works. But said the man, there is
not the remotest chance of the wind
going around to the east without full
warming What warning? asked the
other. 'Oh,' was the rejoinder, the
volcano always warns usv The vol
canov said Wharton. Yes, the vol
cano. A "fumarone' always emits a
whistling sound before the east wind
begins to blow Shortly after this
Wharton was looking at Strabo and,
to his establishment, found that that
writer mentions the fact. The Eng
lishman had never heard of Strabo in
his life. Strabo died as an old man
about 25 A. D., so that this excellent
'fumarone' must have been giving it's
warnings well nigh 1000 years at
least.''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Mozart Relics.

The small and old fashioned Mozart
house is in the middle of Salzburg. It
is with feeling of respect, visitor to
the spot says, that one climbs the three
flights of stairs and enters the room
where Mozart was born. All the an
Gent pictures, the two old pianos and
many relics belonging to the composer
take one back hundred years. The
only Earring note in this harmonious
association of memories is that Mo-
zart's skull is in a glass case in the
center of the room, all that remains of
him, since no one could ever distin-
guish his body in the mass of remains
In the common paupers' grave wherein
he was buried in Vienna. - London
Globe.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
EXPRESSING THE INDIANS.
Simon Fraser's Methods With the I'M
tutored Redskins,

IutOTeO HeuSk1nS.
Even as late as the year 1905 there
were Indians on the North American
continent who had never seen or heard
n gun, had never seen tobacco smoke
and were capable Of worshiping the
white men who controlled these Won
ders. The Rev. A. G. Morice tells of
some of the adventures of Simon Fra
ser, who has stamped his name on
Canada. Father Morice writes as fol-
lows: ION landing at Lake Stuart Fra
Ber's men, to impress the natives with
a proper idea of their wonderful re-
sources, fired a volley with their guns,
whereupon the whole crowd of In
hians fell PROSTATE to the ground. To
inlay their fears and make friends to-
bacco was offered them, which, on be-
ing tasted, was found too bitter and
thrown away. Then, to show it's use,
the crew lighted their pipes, and at
the sight Of smoke issuing from their
mouths the people began to whisper
that they must come from the land Of
ghosts, since they were still full of
the fire wherewith they had been Gre
mated. Pieces Of soap were given to
the women, who, taking them to be
cakes of fat, set upon crunching them,
causing foam and bubbles in the
mouth, which puzzled both actors and
bystanders All these phenomena.
however, were soon explained away,
leaving profound admiration for the
foreigners and their wares"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
BONDS FOR ROADS.
An Effort Will be Made to Bond Mile
| Laos County for Direct Road to the

An Effort Will be Made to Bond Mile
Laos County for Direct Road to the
Lake.
According to the present outlook it
is likely that the voters of Mile Laos
county will again have chance to
vote on the question of issuing road
bonds, at the coming election. This
time the proposition is to issue bonds
to the amount of $4,000, the money
thus raised to be expended in building
a direct macadamized wagon road
from Milaca to Mile Laos lake. It
may even include a plan for straight
road from Princeton through the CEN
ter of the county to the lake.
j. H. Ward, E. E. Price. E. 7. Davis
and others are arranging to get up
petition to have such a proposition
placed before the voters of the county
at the November election. It is be-
lieved that the great majority of the
people will overlook local considera
tions in view of the great general
benefit that would accrue to the county
from such a road, and cast their bal
lots in favor of the bonds. The road
would cause a rapid settlement of
hundreds of acres of wild land that
would soon yield a tax revenue that
would overbalance the original cost.
Just how the majority of the voters
will view the proposition is problem,
but it is very likely they will have a
chance to decide it this fall.-Milaca
Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
A Boys Wild Ride For Life.

With family around expecting him
to die, and a son riding for life,
eighteen miles, to get DR.. Kings New
Discovery for consumption, coughs
and colds, W. II. Brown, of Leesville,
Ind, endured Deaths agonies from
asthma: but this wonderful medicine
gave instant relief and soon cured him.
He writes: II now sleep soundly every
night" Like marvellous cures of con-
sumption, pneumonia, bronchitis,
coughs, coulds and grip prove it's
matchless merit for all throat and
lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles SOC
and S1.0O. Trial bottles free at C. A.
Jacks drug store.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
COnvinciuK.

The late Wilhelm Jordan used to be
very much annoyed because of the
constant tearing up of the streets in
Frankfurt. One day he said to one OF
the men at work, "Why are you dig
ging up the pavement again?" "Be-
cause new water pipe is to be put
1n.' But the old one was still quite
good" $50 was the old Nibelung- Lied,
yet you wrote new one, Herr Doc
tor" retorted the laborer. with a laugh,
In which Jordan joined
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
His Blunder.

Eyes; she and her husband have
quarreled. It seems he told her she
was just too sweet for anything since
their marriage"
"Well?"
Well, she was insulted, Of course.
That was as much as to say she wasn't
just too sweet for anything always"
Exchange.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Reason EnOunh.

what! Marry my daughter?" snort
ed old Gotrox. "Why, you must be
destitute Of all reason'-
"Yes," interrupted young Poorley,
with refreshing candor; II admit am
destitute, but that very fact is my rea-
son."-Philadelphi Press,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Eczema--No Cure, No Pay.

Your druggist will refund your
money if Boro-Carbol Salve fails to
cure eczema, letter, old sores, piles or
any itching skin disease, no matter
of how long standing. One applica-
ton gives ease and rest. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by c. A. Jack
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
The EARLY Bird.

Our English saying about the early
birds breakfast has its counterpart in
twenty other languages. The Germans.
for instance, have rhymed proverb
to the effect that early morning has
gold in it's mouth Hartford Courant
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
No easy Mark"

Mr.. E. Mark, the present represent
ative from Mile Laos county, has
filed for denomination. The name
is suggestive, but the fact that he has
been elected to the Office before goes
to show that the gentleman is no
easy Mark" in politics. Wilkin
County Gazette.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Easing the Problem.

'Dickie, when you divided those five
caramels with your little sister did you
give her three?"
mo, ma. l thought they wouldn't
come out even. so I ate one fore be-
gan to divider'-New Yorker.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Papa's Frankness.

What would you think If your
daughter were to elope?"
I'D think" replied the discouraged
old man, that somebody had been
stringin' the fellow concernin' the
amount of money I'm worth."-Ex.
change.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Judicial ProKnostics

What kind Of sentence did the Judge
give the weather manT'
Fair, followed by clearing; hard la
Dor, changing to variable; bread and
water toward evening; Sunday, SOUP"
Buffalo Express.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Contradictory.

HE said he couldn't live without
her,
did she accept him?"
"Oh, yes, after looking him up in the
financial reports and finding that he
could. Puck
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15

If you neglect your business and
have rival who attends to his, look
out.--Atch1son Globe.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15

Where there is much pretension
much has been borrowed. Nature new.
er etends.-Lavater.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
Main Point Settled.

They have called two doctors in for
consultation
"And do the doctors agreeY
II believe they have agreed upon the
price,"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-08-20

The most sensitive nerve in the
British Empire terminates in Afghan
istan, and the ghost of the Gear as al
ways dancing about the Khyber Pass.
through which caravans laden with
merchandise find their way across the
mountains between India and the
countries of Central Asia. Every
time there is a stir in a clump of
bushes. every time board creaks in
tho floor, every time a footstep is
heard under the window, the goose
flesh rises on John Bulls back and he
imagines that the great white bear
is smelling around the back door of
his empire in India. Peshawur is the
jumping-off place of the northwest. the
limit of British authority, the termin-
us of the railway system of India and
the great gateway between that en-
pire and the outer world, through
which everything must pass. 1t is to
the interior of Asia what the Straits
or Gibraltar are. to the Mediterranean
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-08-20
Givinq Ourselves.

We never really give ourselves ex.
cept to those whom we truly and
earnestly love. We may be prodigal
of time and strength in matters of
duty or pleasure, and still be mere
human machines, operated upon by
other powers aside from ourselves,
We have given to our task our ener-
gies, our strength-but not "our-
selves"
Life may become mechanical and
we may live il mechanically with
apparent success, doing its work faith.
fully, If we may not joyously, and yet
our real selves have no part nor parcel
in the work that fills the days and
years that touch each other on the
present side so closely.
A human soul must be awakened by
something other than the mere fact
of the physical existence through
which it can use IFS God-given power
to grow and expand. We talk of the
strangely intimate relations between
soul and body. and yet the body may
thrive while the soul starves for its
proper nourishment. Like tree that
bears no fruit, or aplant whose foliage
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-08-20
IMPORTANCE
-. or TIL
a'!l||KIifii1BE!;:lRl' PAS, Pass
0Q7ZzZ C2oaGaAQN2<7gzC

at home and look after the cattle and
the scraggy gardens upon the gravel.
ly hillsides. The women are as hardy
and as enduring as the men, and are
taught to handle the rifle.
The British authorities are couff
dent of the loyalty of the Afridis, and
believe that the present arrangements
would be absolutely safe in time OF
war as it is in time of peace---that
they would permit no armed body,
whether Russians or Afghans, to
cross the pass without the consent Of
both sides, as is provided by treaty
stipulation.
The arrangement is as effective as
it is novel, and the Afridis carry out
every detail conscientiously The pass
is open only two days in the week, on
Tuesdays and Fridays. No one is per.
mitted to cross or even enter it from
either side except on those days. And
even then travellers, tourists and 9th.
ers actuated by curiosity are not al
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-08-20

sea, and the Dardanelles to the Black
and the Caspian seas. While there
are 800 paths over the mountains in
ether directions, and it might be pos
sible to cross them with an army
it has never been attempted and
would involve dangers. expense and
delays which no nation would under
take. The Khyber Pass has been the
great and only route for ages, wneth-
er for war or commerce. The mas
ters Of Central Asia, whether Persans,
Greeks, Macedonians or Assyrians,
have held it. Alexander the Great
crossed it with his army Timour the
Tartar, whom we know better as Tam
erlane, came through upon his all
corquering expedition when he sub
dued India and found the Mogul EN-
pire, and if the Russians ever enter
India by land they will come this
way.
The pass is reached by crossing a
stony plain ten miles from Peswahur
and winds through gorges and crew..
ces in the mountains for thirty-three
miles lat an altitude averaging 1900
feet above the sea. At one point the
mountains close in to about 500 ieet
apart and the rocks rise in sheer pre-
cipices on either side; in other places
the gorge widens to mile or more,
and will average perhaps three-quart-
ers of mile the entire distance. It
Is a remarkable gateway a natural
and easily defended from either side.
Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, is
$50 miles from the western entrance
to the defile.
The British Notifications are at JAM
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-08-20
Queens Names on oaks.

Many English Queens have chosen
oak trees in Windsor Forest whereon
their respective names, with the dates
of their choice, have been common
Grated by means of brass plates. In
different parts of the forest, with
seats around them, are oaks bearing
the names of Queen Elizabeth. Queen
Caroline, Queen Charlotte, and Queen
Victoria. "Herne's Oak" mentioned
in the Merry Wives of Windsor as
being in Windsor Park. was destroyed
by a gale on August 81, 1863.