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The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
She Raped Bismarck.

Bismarck was no favorite with wom-
en-, least of all with clever women who
dared to think for themselves and i'm
agine that they could fathom questions
of state. He was never tired Of snub-
bing strong minded ladies. putting
them. down and stamping on them
One day he paid visit to the Russian
embassy at Berlin. where he behaved
as usual, tlouting even the mistress of
the house. the Countess Schouvaloff
herself. He took his leave at length.
to the relief of everybody. and pres
emily the family mastiff was heard
barking at the great man as be passed
through the courtyard. Immediately
the countess ran to the open window,
and Bismarck heard her voice, saying
to him in tone of gentle entreaty.
"Oh. please. NJ. le Chancellor, don't bite
my dog"
The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
Circus License Considered.

a meeting of the Princeton Com
mercial club was held on Monday
evening, upon the request of the
Gollmar circus people, to consider ali
appeal for the reduction Of the. III
cense which the show is REQUIRED Il,
pay to give performances here-the
village ordinance calls for SlOO. The
sentiment of the meeting, which
was presided over by j. J. Skahen,
was about evenly divided, and conse-
quently no action, so far as asking
the council to grant rebate Of
amend the ordinance, was taken!
Those in favor Of having the circus
appear here, however, and who arb
of opinion that the license is TOD
high, started a movement to raise
the amount required to pay such
license by popular subscription. So
generous was the response that the
circus is assured, and Gollmar Bros.
show will appear here on June IL
The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
Course Of tho. Sun.

1t is not known whether the sun is
moving around another as a center.
All probabilities are against the idea
Since the invention of the telescope
and micrometer no turning to the
right or left has been detected. 1t, so
Tar as known. seems to be moving
along on a straight line. But analogy
Is against this also. Millions OF other
suns attract ours, and the path beyond
doubt bends this way and that. like
that Of a bee in a swarm, but the
curvature cannot be noticed. Draw a
circle ten miles in diameter, cut out
one inch, and you would say the inch
Is straight line. The suns path trav-
ersed during the last 300 years at
twelve miles per second is about in the
proportion Of this cut out inch.-Edgar
Lucien Larlzin in New York American.
The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
A Peculiar Accident,

Mrs. Elmer Lind, who lives in the
south end of town, was on Thursday
morning last badly burned about the
face and hands in consequence of a
peculiar accident. Mr.. Lind had
upon the previous evening been
using from tin can a preparation
to remove paint, one of the COM
ponent parts of which was gasoline.
His boy, not knowing the explosive
nature of the contents of the can.
and probably not caring, placed the
receptacle in the oven and, when
Mrs. Lind started the fire there was
an explosion. The stove was prac-
tically wrecked, a window blown out
and Mrs. Lind received very painful
burns, but luckily no permanent in
juries were sustained by her. DIR,
Cooney was called and dressed the
wounds, and Mrs. Lind is fast re-
covering.
The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
kathio Deserves Assistance.

A delegation from Kathio, consist
ing OF supervisors J. H. Taught and
William Generous and town treas
urer VIM: Henderson, attended the
meeting of the board of county COM
mlssioners Tuesday and requested a
share of the state aid for. state road
No. 3 which is being constructed in
that town. The town voted ST., 900
to aid in the construction of this
road and already eight miles have
been completed. The board prom
lsed aid to the extent Of at least
$500. There is no town in the
county that is more deserving of as
sistance in road work than Kathio.
A town that will bond itself to the
extent Of $4,000 to get better roads
is entitled to great credit.
The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
Auto Thieves BUSY.

So bold have Minneapolis automo.
bile thieves become that it is scarce
ly safe for person to leave his. cal
on the street unguarded at any time.
On Saturday Rev. Luther Taylor OF
indianapolis, who is attending the
Methodist conference, left a new
machine, which he had purchased to
take home with him, in front of the
Plaza hotel while he ate breakfast,
and when he returned it had dis
appeared. Minneapolis is becoming
notorious for the lack of it's police
protection.
The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
Mrs. Mary A. Smith Dead.

Mrs. Mary A. Smith, widow of the
late S B. Smith of Milo, died recent
ly at the home of her son, Frank, at
Milk River, Alberta, Canada, where
she had resided about two years. She
is survived by four children, viz,
Mrs. Albert Williams, Bremerton,
Washington; Frank Smith, Milk
River, Alberta; Sam Smith and Mrs.
John Van Kleek, Princeton. Her
husband died about six years ago.
She was 81 years Of age.
Mrs. Smith was a true christian
and a kind, motherly woman beloved
by all who knew her.
The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
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Chicago " II SA

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free OF charge to all. the best Information
any worthy questions concerning soils. crops
land drainage. irrigation. fertilizers, etc.
make yo9r inquiries specific and send them
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The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
Select Trees With Cara.

Trees for street and lawn should be
studied and selected with the greatest
care. They are for life, often for sew
eral generations. vet dollar often de-
cides the kind Of tree. Much more
thought and time are given to the Sc
lection of an easy chair Many persons
will willingly spend $50 or $40 for a
chair who would not think Of putting
that amount into tree.-Kansas In
dustrialist.
The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
A Bad Outlook.

mo. l can't get up enough courage
to ask old Patterson for his daughter"
"'And why not?"
Because I'm builder Of absolutely
freproof buildings and he is fire in
surance agent."-Cleveland Plain Deal
er.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-18
SOAKED PRODICAL
Sisters Husband Treats s'LOng
Lost" Brother to Left Swing.
Later First Aid to Injured In
cluded in His Welcome.

Webster, Mass, Dec. 1S.--The return
of Joseph Salus, of Chicago, to his
home here after an absence of twelve
years, was marked by a reception diff
ferent from that oe the Biblical pro-
digal.
Salus desired to surprise his people
and there had been no forewarning of
his presence, when the door was opened
by his sister, now Mrs SAX.
Overjoyed at seeing her, Salus en-
braced the Eoman, who screamed,
bringing her husband to her side. Salus
was floored with a left hand swing
Before he could recover, the angry hus-
band seized the supposed intruder by
the neck, dragged Linn down a flight of
stairs, threw him into the street, and
called the police.
When the time for explanations ar
rived, Salus established his identity and
received his welcome home and first
aid for his injuries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-18

as he lifted her up he saw in the dim
moonlight the golden head of Sally.
sally" he said, and there was an
almost 1mperceptible start, a sort of
tremor that passed over the limp body
His first impulse was to call for help,
put there would be no one in the build
ing at this time. His next idea was to
carry Sally to help. Probably she had
come into the laboratory for some rea-
son and had in some way swallowed
some one of the deadly acids by mis-
take. But why the black blindfold?
why the white dress and the bare
throat and arms? 1t was all hopeless
mystery.
Prof. Bangor threw his coat around
her and, coatless. carried his precious
burden out of the building, in search
OF the nearest physician. After he had
gone on a minute one fair arm was
raised to remove an edge of the band
age. Then there was a frightened
whisper
Prof. Bangor! Is it your
sally" said Robert standing still.
sally struggled in his arms. May
L get down? she asked, md in a sec
ond she was standing there at his side
trembling.
Can they see me? she asked. ooh.
hlde me! They would never take me
IN II they knew had spoken. Tell
me- she said, clinging to his arm,
are you part of the initiation always?''
Sally had regained consciousness,
thought the professor, but, alasi she
was still very far from normal. She
was begging him to hide her, and as
TINS seemed to be her within, he quickly
humored her by escorting her 70 the
large vestibule of the nearest college
building, not the one in which the mys-
terry had occurred
They were in the shadow now and
Sally's fear seemed to go as she seated
ing with Robert Bangor. He had her
at last, and somehow the fact of her
arrangement, battling as it was, only
made her all the more helplessly his.
She fingered the buttonholes of his
coat that was still thrown over her
shoulders.
You just found me by accident ?"
she asked. You Rad nothing to do
with it ?''
Nothing whatever he said sooth-
fngly. He was untying the black
bandage that had slipped to her white
shoulders.
Can you remember he said gently
trying to probe the mystery, who put
this on your eyes?"
''They did," she said. And they
commanded me not to get up, no mat
ter what happened, till they came back
and gave the password. 1t was some
thing in Greek, think And then you
came. but it is all such a secret and
they probably will be looking for me
by this time. I had better go back"
But Robert kept her. Ten minutes
later they were still sitting in the pro-
lection of the vestibule. Robert had
had the long talk he had so longed
to have with Sally.
you may go now" he said ''but
I would rather you stayed out of that
society altogether if that is the idi-
otto kind of limitations they have"
And that was why Sally never be-
came Bluestocking, though of course
she never told the acknowledgement
1912, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-18

must be so simple that child can un-
derstand it; so significant that the
philosopher respects it; so real that all
of us can feel it. D. these familiar
fine resolves have this quality?
Il will try to be kind.
II will try to find the good in others
'I will carry sunshine with me, espe-
ciaIly into the dark places.
st will try to make someone happy
each day.
Perhaps it would be better to leave
out the word try because the mere
suggestion of attempting leaves sort
of loophole for not doing On the
other hand. any one of those resolves
involves a pretty big contract for most
of us to live up to. You can see how
failure to live up to resolves like these
and there are bound to be many fail
ures-doesn't destroy their working val
ue."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-18
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Truth is a bell that isn't always to1led.
Our castles in the air generally include
an heiress.
aunt to go to-
Even the small boy may be high flier,
in kite-time.
one of the drawbacks of success is that
it often has string tied to II.
Anybody can shoe a chicken, but It
takes a blacksmith to shoe a horse.
The Chinese Iaundryman doesn't exactly
suggest man of iron, does he?
Don't place too much faith in the early
bird Maybe it has been up all night.
It's a good thing to be absent-mindcd
enough to occasionally forget our trou-
bles.
BIobbs-"Bjones isn't very sensitive. Is
he? Sensitive? Why, you
couldn't hurt that fellows feelings with
sledge hammer.
The Shark-"'It seems to me you are
rather stuck on yourself these days The
Octopus-'Well, I have a right to be. If
it wasn't for me what would the Trust
Busters do for siDile?'
perhaps you drink too much coffee"
suggested the doctor. II should advise
Won to try a substitute Sir, your ad-
vice is superfluous." replied the patient.
Il have lived in boarding houses for 70
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-18
FINDSLAVEWOMEN
Spectacular Raid by Immigrant
Officers Successful.
Steel Doors, Hidden Stairs and
Maze of Passages.

San Francisco. Dec. 1S.-Locked in
steel cells in a dark eVl-smeIIing
Chinese building, United States Immi-
grafton officers in a spectacular raid
early today found five Chinese slave
women just smuggled in from the
Orient and arrested men alleged to be
the ringleaders of the slavers. Under
the leadership of United State. Immi-
grafton Inspector Ainsworth and United
States District Attorney McNab, the
entire local staff of the immigration
office battered down steel doors at the
entrance of the building. Pitch dark
ness greeted the officers. At every
turn studded steel and oak doors barred
their way. Not a stairway was found
in the entire building, access to each
floor being gained by a concealed trap
door reached by a ladder.
Far below the street level, in a maze
of underground passages the slave
women were found huddled in the cells.
The raid tonight adds to a chain of
events which have cost much bloodshed
in Chinatown. This is the second sue
cessfuI raid the immigration officials
have made in many attempts.
The Chinese informer who gave in
formation to the government leading to
the previous raid endeavored to return
to China to escape the vengeance of
the slavers but was killed on the liner
Korea. His slayer is now awaiting trial
in Honolulu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-18
SAYS UNCLE CIV

If you're suffering from what we call
somewhere With the unthinking hero
worshippers, temperament covers a
multitude of sins, but the real truth
is that it is guilty of many. It's the
last thing in the world to be proud of.
A horned toad might quite as well en-
ter beauty contest upon the strength
of its spines as for an artist or pro-
fessional person to take pleasure in the
contemplation of his own idiosyncrasieS
of temper and conduct.
when genius has warts said Doc
Houser of Puckyhuddle, 1--WE pretend
they're beauty patches and call 'em
temperament, but they're warts just
the same
There is a widespread heresy which
says that great wit is akin to mad
ness and insists that if you don't make
yourself disagreeable to your associ-
ates, you aren't a genius. But although
this belief is widespread, it is a heresy
still, For while many geniuses have
warts, most Of them are without any
such irrelevant distinction.
Are you temperamental?" asked
the matinee girl of the prina donna.
II don't need to be- said the prima
donna, II can sing"
A great many of US claim recogni-
ton as geniuses because we have
wartsI The real genius knows that
our points of pride are only disfgure-
nents In adopting the Temperament
tai pose you are more likely to deceive
yourself than others. Straightway it
becomes an excuse for all manner of
shortcomings. 1t gives the name of
virtue to your vices and entirely up
sets your moral organization. You
mistake the protest of a frayed nerve
for the assertion of conscience and
plain, ordinary, mean disposition for
heroic courage. You brawl with your
neighbors and call yourself a hero.
You quarrel with your servants and
imagine yourself to be a master of
men. You forget that mere belliger
ence is nothing less than insanity and
that forbearance is sometimes the
chief virtue.
If you doubt the truth of these state
ments, try your temperament upon
business people occasionally. Down in
the factories and foundries and stores
and shops they have variety of
names for what ails you, and the best
of them is not pretty. There is no
place for temperament in the work
aday world where every man and wo-
man expects every other to keep a
firm hold on temper and play fair.
warts are warts in that world and
there are folk there who are not
afraid to tell you of your blemishes.
Moreover, if you ever amount to any
thing worth while, youn find that the
folk at the top of your profession have
quite the same view of your weak
nesses as those not in it.
1t is only the hero worshipping mob
and the half baked mediocre profess
sional person or artist who is willing
to gild your vices until they appear
virtues If you can sing, you don't
need temperament" Whether you can
sing Or not, it is a crime for you to
have it.-(Copyright. 1912, Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-18
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.

Very recently" writes a. contributor
to the January Woman's Home Com
panion, "a fair-minded clergyman.
driven to the wall in an argument, ad-
mitted that there are times when lying
is justifiab-e. 1t is true. he insisted the
occasions are very rare. Every human
being who has arrived at a reasonfng
age has met these occasions, and has
been sadly troubled You know people
who may be we'll meaning, but who
make telling almost a vice. New
Year resolutions not to lie may sound
fine. and coming from one who con-
stantly juggles with truth. especially
for personal advantage, might be ap-
plauded if we had any confidence in
the resolution being made effective.
Only a very brave. a very ignorant, or
a very dishonest person would make
such a resolution. especially if there
are little children in the family.
ut seems to us the best New Year
resolution should be something that
men and women feel is kind of creed ;
not a rule to be slavishly followed; but
a guide, something from which We may
depart when we are in the grip of cir
cumstance, but to which We may al
ways return.
1T must be the kind of resolution
that we all can keep, in greater or less
degree; for it must do real work. and
the measure of it must be this work. It