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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-02-15
SILVER LAKE,,

Evelyn and Fay Sausser visited
with their aunt, Mrs. I. Mudgett, on
Sunday.
James Edmunds and VIM. Steadman
we're hauling hay Monday. The
roads are bad for such work.
Isaiah Mudgett returned home on
Saturday. He had good visit with
his brother, Harold, and shot several
rabbits.
Those visiting at the Lowell home
on Sunday we're Mr.. and Mrs. Karl
Tarbox, Mr.. and Mrs. Richards and
Mr.. and Mrs. I. Martin.
Several from this neighborhood at
tended church in town on Sunday
evening. The Lincoln address was
fine, also the singing, and the church
was crowded.
Grace Moody went down to Spencer
Brook on Monday to see her new
brother and visit with the home folks.
She took Evelyn Sausser along with
her to see Bessie. They enjoyed the
trip very much.
Mrs. Chas. Berry wishes to inform
the public that she did not put those
ads in the paper in regard to the
dances at her house, and she would
thank the guilty parties to attend to
their own affairs and avoid trouble.
THREE CORNERS.
Bert Young of Minneapolis has
been visiting friends and relatives
here.
Glen and Roy Fiero and johnson
Hyndman attended the dance at Elias
Fiero's.
Mrs. Charley O'Brien is staying
with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. feathers until
the latter's baby is better. ~
We are sorry to hear that VIM.
Sandberg met with serious accident
in which one of his eyes was badly
injured. He was hammering a piece
of steel and q splinter flew off.
WEST SPENCER BROOK.
C. A. Williams has rented Charles
Shearston's farm for the coming
year.
The Modine Bros. are in our
neighborhood saving wood for the
farmers.
DR.. Cooney was called out to Jim
McKenzie's one day last week to see
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-02-15
DISTRICT NO. SO.

Julius Egge is still holding forth at
Three Corners.
The party who bought the Lefavor
farm is expected here with his family
this week.
Mrs. G. L. Campbell is Fsomewha at
better and hopes to fully recover in a
few days.
Roy and Glen Fiero and johnson
Lyman came over from Wyanett to
the dance.
Miss Esther Dorm came home on
Friday so as to be able to attend the
dance at Mr.. Fiero's.
The dance at E. M. Fiero's on Fri.
day night was a decided success.
Everybody had a fine time.
Sam Lambert returned on Thursday
from the city. He states that his eyes
are improving slowly. Glad to hear
it.
Adolph Egge has been taking a
course in engineering at Austin, and
is now doing experimental work and
getting along fine.
We understand some of our citizens
got into serious trouble down the line.
Hope it may prove untrue, but if true
will prove warning to others not to
undertake breaking the law of the
land.
The Elk River road is in a fierce
condition near Princeton, and it is
almost impossible to get over it with
even no load. Chuck holes are
numerous and from two to four feet
deep for mile and half out from
town.
We are inclined to believe tina,
Henry is somewhat in the condition oil
ourself, SO bemuddled that he doesn't
know whether he is democrat, re.
publican, populist, mugwump or what
not, and will be compelled to hiber.
nate for while in order to get
Strengthened out.
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their little boy, who was sick with
bronchitis, but is now better.
Charley Shearston left last Satur-
day for Minneapolis to spend q week
or 10 days.
The Misses Grace Moody and
Evelyn Sausser of Princeton visited
school in district IL last Monday.
The farmers are working on the
roads in our district with disc and
shovel. This work was badly needed.
There was coasting party held in
district II last Saturday night and
about 20 of the young folks enjoyed
themselves until nearly midnight.
There is to be dance at the M. W.
A. hall at the Brook on February o..
Everybody is invited and q jolly
good time is promised. Come and
bring your best girl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-02
GOOD SPORT
The Art and Mystery of Trout
Fishing.

PRACTICAL DRY-FJY FISHING. BY
EInlyn NJ. GIL Illustrated. l2mo. pp.
xvii PIG. Charles Scrhner's Sons.
Mr.. Gil is not only a practical disciple
Of Izaak Walton; he is also a collector OF
the literature of his ayocation. Phineas
Fletcher's "Plscatorial Eclogs" graces
his book shelves, but, he states-and he
Is not far from the truth-that angling
literature since the days Of Walton has
been one long series Of repctitions.
With one exception, however, and that
IS the literature Of dry-hy fishing which
has sprung up in England since the mid
die OF the last century. The art. which
has remained almost exclusively Eng
lish. is. he holds, the most scientific and
sportsmanlike way Of taking trout Our
English cousins consider It adapted only
To quiet, smooth streams but he has
proved by long experience that il serves
fully as well on our swifter and more
agltated waters.
The question asked Of him by a well
known American all-around sportsman,
what is a dry-ry?" has led him TO take
up his favoritc sport from the very be-
ginning:
The theory Of dry-ny fishing is founded
on the use of an artificial fly that is an
exact imitation Of n natural insect, and so
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AN EMOTIONAL AWAKENING.

MASTERING FLAME. A Novel. 12no,
PIP. $50. Mitchell Kennerley.
The anonymity Of this novel is empha-
sized by a startling interrogation mark
IA the slip cover. which displays also,
for our encouragement. certain highly
laudatory English opinions of its quail
ity Now, British and American tastes
in the matter of fiction are increasingly
diverging. as has been proved recently
IN the case Of more than one author pop
ukar over there, or their introduction to
the reading public here. Mastering
Flame" however, to Judge from its
scenes and characters, may be the work
Of an American. issued i'm England be-
fore its appearance in this country.
However that may be, ii is too circum-
stantial, too deliberate and slow moving
story to Justify its burning. suggestive
title. The story is, in a remote present.
day version, that of Galatea. If a beau
tiful woman worshipping her own beauty
and comfort, graceful and glossy and
ainiablc as a pet cat, but intellectually
and emotionally unawakened as was
Pygmalion.s ivory statue before Aphro-
dite granted It's awakening She is an
American NJ mixed Southern and New,
Tnsland rarentage. and the wife Of q
typicel' American business man who
is unaware. Of course Of what she lacks
and he cannot give her. II is in Hong
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MAUPASSANT
Glimpses of the Man in His
Daily Life.

RECOLLECTIONs OF GUY DE MAJ
| PEASANT. BY hts valet FRANCOIS
Translated from tho French by Minns
| Round. Illustrated. Svo, PIP KILL VA
John Lane Company.
Maupassant was hero Ia his valet, az
artist and athlete, as sportsman, yachts
man and man Of the world, and rs mas
ter. Francois was sincerely attached 70
him. and was rewarded for his devotion
by unfailing consideration and courtesy,
reliance upon and appreciation OF his
efficiency and trustworthiness. and also,
according to these pages. with personal
friendship and a certain degree OF conf
dence.
The valet wisely sticks to his last. He
ventures upon no appreciation of the lit
erary qualities Of his employers works;
he steers clear Of all pretence Of psyche
| logical analysis. lie tells the surface OF
the daily life of Maupassant as he saw
It in Paris at Etretat. at Antilles. during
the Journeys in Algeria and Italy, and
aboard his yachts. the Louisette and
el-Ami. The impression this diary
gives is one OF life lived at top speed,
physically and mentally; of reckless
expenditure of vital forces, until the
breakdown came, and cut short a career
that had already passed It's artistic
zenith.
The book is OF no great literary or bio
graphical significance, and does not al
ways agree with what we know from
o,L inf a.
his master told him that the high society
which was ever running after him bored
him to extinction, especially the women:
These fashionable ladies don't please me:
they have some wit, true, but II is wit set
in n mould. like rice pudding with cream.
Their wit comes from their education at
the Sacre CPur, always the same sem
fences, composed of the same words. That
the rice. Then all the small talk society
has furnished them with. That's the
cream And they continually put the Same
dish before you. You know how fond I
am of rice. still absolutely decline TO eat
II every day.
Still through Francois's discreet pages
there fit many coroneted ladies, even
unto a Russian princess, and we know
full we'll that Maupassant, with his
, questionable, assumed nobiliary prefix,
was a snob at heart. What he said to
his factotum about Flaubert amounts to
little. When the servant. speaking with
fulness of knowledge, asserted that lola
had slandered the French servant class
In Pot Bouille," the author OF "Une
Vie" shrewdly observed in substance,
that lola was a great artist who was
writing best sellers" FRANCOIS also re-
ports with unconscious humor discus
sion below stairs Of Mime. Bovary," and
what the maids said they would have
done at certain moments in the drsb, de-
pressing life Of that famous lady. When
Msupasssnt had finished LIE Horla."
which is generally held TO have been tbs
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active participation In the affairs OF his
country, from the necessity of working
for his daily bread, from the conse-
uuences of his moral actions, even. for
from these he can flee to the Continent
and travel until his conscience has for
gotten. He starts with some moral
fibre. even though his father has been
waster and an egoist before him-that
most exacting Of all cyclists, chronic
invalid. Duty TO his father is his eX-
cuse for keeping aloof from the strug-
gle. 1t even suffices him as an OK
PLANTATION Of his failure to volunteer for
the Boer war, though deep in his heart
he knows that he would have regretted
his passing impulse TO go. His father
is the excuse. also. for mis- treatment of
the girl who trusted him until he should
be free. The size of his income serves
him thereafter: it suffices for only one
in comfort Inherited hypOchondria adds
its impulse 20 ever-increasing concen-
tration upon self. He breaks his en-
gagement to a rich and far from restful
widow. Doing himself well' in dress
and food and amusements, he constant
~ narrows his outlook upon life, his
interest in what is going on about him
and the people who play their parts in
Il, until in middle age he is the dreaded
bore of his club, driven for society to
the companionship Of the ex-butler who
keeps his lodgings
Studies Of the active form Of egoism,
riding roughshod over obstacles and op-
ponents. expanding with each new graf
ification Of SELF are common enough in
the fiction Of the hour. Studies such as
this, Of the ingrowing. narrowing. pas
sive phase of selhshness, are rare. on
the other hand, and technically far
more difficult Mr.. Maxwell has done
his work admirably we'll. The realism
Of his analysis of this victim Of the I'M
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JOHN LANE CO.NEW YORK

first indication OF the insanity that
finally overlook him. he declared that
before a week has elapsed all the papers
VIII publish the fact that I am mad.
But l am perfectly sane, and
knew very we'll what was doing when
writing that tale. 1t is a work of imagi-
nation that will startle the reader"
His peculiarly shaped, perfectly round
head Maupassant owed. according to his
own account to Francois, TO the physi-
clan who had assisted at his birth. He
massaged the new born's head, explain
ing 10 his mother: II have given him
head as round as an apple. which, be
sure will later on give him q most ac-
tive brain, an intelligence of the first or
der" Maupassant hated war-still more
the insolence of the conqueror-but, hav-
ing served his country in 1870, he dreamt
Of ia revanche." In the early cloud
ing Of his mind he imagined that the
hour had come, that he must start for
the frontier, and that FRANCOIS had
promised to accompany him. Loving
Italy. he yet destroyed the manuscript OF
his travels in that country TO mark his
disapproval Of Crisprs anti-French pol
icy. A three days visit to London suf-
feed TO convince him that those devils
of Englishmen and that so-called smart
society are go boring, so conceited. so
nonsenslcal, can't stand them
Ho was constantly making use, so we
are told, of Francois's gift of observation
and tenacious memory of what he had
seen. telling him 10 remember scenes
visited for future literary use. The valet
also tells us how he made the acquaint-
ance Of the servant of a Russian lady
whose face interested his master, and
how the information he thus gained
served as the groundwork for "Une Anne
Etrangere." OF the perhaps apocryphal
woman Of the "Amiti6 Amoureuse'
FRANCOIS has nothing to say, but he re-
fers darkly to another woman, who, he
says. was Maupassants evil star. espe-
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THE WHITE WATERFALL. BY James
Francis Dwyer. Illustrated by Charles
S. Chapman. l2rno. PIP. II. IN. DouDlc-
day. Page q CO.
II is all very well tn say that advent
urns arc 70 the adventurous. but as a
matter of fact that is not the rule In
contemporary fiction. There II Is always
the unexpected that happens, and ad-
ventures fall into the lap. so to say. Of
the man who merely wants to he let
alone. Witness the case or Mr. Nerslun,
mariner out Of Job. who curls Up to
sleep in patch Of shade OH an island In
the South Seas. First his slumbers are
disturbed hv n couple Of savages near by
who are rehearsing. in English. a mys-
FERROUS bit of doggerel. Then. when he has
got well 10 sleep, he IS punched in the ribs
by young Holman. who forthwith signs
him on as mate aboard yacht contain
ing a selfish old professor, accompanied
by two lovely daughters; n portentous
rascal named Leith. who Enthusiastically
has designs upon these three. and a crew
of brown men. The anchor Is heaved up.
and off they go 10 the Isle Of Tears, In
search OF relics which are to serve the
professor as stepping stones To fame.
So far 50 good. But almost instantly Mr..
Verslun diyines that there is trouble
ahead. and with equal expedition he gets
himself into the midst Of IL. Mr.. Dryer
is lavish Of mystery and OF thrills. lie
makes good play with tropical scenery.
and the dangerous experiences or his
people are set against a background
which contributes a good deal to the in
terest Of his story. 1t an early stage
of the latter We share Mr. Nerslun's sus-
picions OF Leith. but We are hardly pre-
pared for that villains extreme devilish-
ness. He leads the professor and his
daughters into the Nermilion Pit, nc
takes them to camp beneath the shadow
Of a certain ancient stone, obviously de-
vised for the most sinister purposes, and
presently the whole party IS at the heart
Of altogether incredible things. Kidnap-
ping is toward, devil dances are afoot and
murder is in the air. But all the time
we are moving toward that lovely work
of nature which gives the book its title.
We leave the reader TO find out for him
self what happens in the vicinity of the
white waterfall. 1t is all too surprising
and exciting for us TO diminish his
curiosity by a hairs breadth. This is
good yarn, one of the lightest and most
entertaining printed this year.
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made that II will not easily sink. 1t Is
cast upstream and allowed to float down
on the surface OF the water with no other
motion than that impaired by the current.
All sports have their theorists. TIE
English dry-ny "purist" casts his fly
only when he sees a trout rising. He
does not fish the stream, he stalks" the
fish, often MIR. GIL says. with field
glasses. And IL he fails to find a rise he
may return home after days sport
without having wetted his line Theo-
retically our American enthusiast sp-
proves Of this, but in practice he fishes
the stream, lie advocates casting
wherever our Judgment tells us that
there should he trout our method Of
taking fish that has not already indi-
Gated It's exact location 10 the fisherman.
he maintains. requires at least s5 much
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is that the people IN IT are so clever in
all that they do. "Ovcr with the
anchor" yells one of the mariners. "and
be quick about 1t, too SO over the
anchor goes, and it is only when things
get really exciting that the gifted Hop
kins who had thrown the anchor over
board discovers that he had forgotten TO
tie the rope to anything. DOC" and his
companion are always rising to the stu
alton in this sagacious fashion. Then
there is Mr.. Greene the gentleman with
such gift for conversation that "ho
could talk a strange bulldog into lending
him his tail for a bell rope" This saying
will perhaps do as well as any other to
illustrate Mr.. Fitch's style. He sets out
TO be absurd, and he succeeds. 1t would
be something Of a job to read his book
through at a sitting. But a chapter now
and then makes really good fun.
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PEACHES AND CREAM.

PARADISE FARM. BY Katharine lyman.
l2mo. PIP. 272. Duffield & &C.
Pretty and airy, pink and golden
costly romantic. this story offers the
fiuffiest sort OF light reading for the
warmest Of afternoons on the quietest OF
yerandas. There IS a poisoned old cur
mudgeon OF a husband In the back
ground. II is true but the darkness OF
that cloud only serves 10 brighten the
sunshine The greater the crime the
more welcome the ultimate vindicatlon
of the innocence OF the blond and beGu-
tiful Young mistress OF Paradise Farm
Then there are Mr.. and Mrs. Greville. the
boarders, perfect, lovely, lovable beings
from O higher social sphere. and so
friendly 10 the 'umble farmers widow.
who knows her proper station with oil
the vanishing thoroughness Of her class
in the beautiful English countryside. The
couple are adorable aristocrats, indeed,
straight from the pages OF The Ouch
ess" impractical in this worlds affairs,
reckless Of money so long as IT lasts,
amuslngly preplexcd when II gives out
They. too, have a past they must hide
but II is an innocent secret they guard.
which only adds 10 the romance when II Is
revealed at the proper moment In fact
all the troubles Of life turn into new de-
lights in this fairy tale Of England and
now. II all ends in blaze Of content
ment. which assures the reader that they
all lived happily forever after, Including
the baby which we almost forgot TO
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tally in the dark closing days of his life

cially In the dark closing days Of his life.
The writer would have been preserved
from his fate if he had married, says the
valet, to whom, in his later days, he
made confidential communication, here
left unrevealed. But his destiny was
altered by meeting which determined
his fate when he was about to take that
step"
His love OF the sea and the country,
Of flowers and animals, pervades the
book. Amid the feverlsh, restless activi-
ties and intrigues of his existence, burn
ing the candle at both ends. he was con-
stantly wishing and making plans for a
quiet, retired life somewhere, some time.
The tale Of the artificial stimulation OF
his waning forces with baths and mas
sage begins early, but there Is no men-
ton of the drugs which he Is said to
have abused for the same purpose. HIS
first delusion came to him on walk
near Grasse;
He was back IN ten minutes; was Dress
ing. He called me loudly, insisting on see
ing me at once, 80 as to tell me what hs
had seen on the way to the cemetery; a
shadow a phantom! Certainly, he had
been the victim of some sort Of hallucina-
ton. / gathered he had felt frightened.
but he would not say so.
Francois did not hear his last words
the pitiable cry Of "Un autre homme Ia
merv' ("Another man overboard.'h Hs
was not with his beloved master at fhs
end
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TIE SEPOY MUTINY.

RED REVENGE. A Romance Of Gavin
pore. By Charles L. Pcarcc. i2mo, pp.
$40 A. {. McClurg & Go.
A multitude Of novels has been written
about the Indian Mutiny, its treasons'
atrocities and battles its heroisms and
wondrous escapes-cscapes moro numer-
Gus in this fiction than, unfortunately,
they were in fact. The plot of all these
stories, apart from their fidelity 10 his
tory, has always been fundamentally the
same, and probably always WIN bc--the
rescue. at the last moment. Of some E1g-
lishwoman from the hands Of the ma
tives. II is so in this book whose
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& BROTHERS

skill as the purist's method Of fishing
the rise only.
This little handbook, confessedly based
on the English literature Of the subject,
IS adapted in all IT'S branches to the con-
ditions of angling in America, to our
waters, our equipment and, last but not
least, 10 our national temperament:
1t is difficult to imagine an American fly-
fisherman so patient that he would spend
"A day on the stream without casting fly
In the first place. he enjoys the practice OF
casting. Then. again, abundant experience
has taught him that on some OF our
streams he may pass an entire day without
seeing a trout rise at natural insect. 50
the dry-hy angler of this country begins
casting more or less for general results
lie casts at those places where experience
has taught him that the trout hide, live
and seek their food
Mr.. Gilrs American theory OF dry-hy
fishing is scientific enough, delicate and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-02

Kong that the awakening begins the
artist being the American Consul there
another Southern, and delicate diet
tante of life, imbucd with the purpose
full Incidence Of the Far East, In tune
with it's mystic atmosphere, If not with
its mysteries out of this mysterious
East come many strange things nova
DAYS. according TO the novelists. IL Is
a Robert Hichens subject. but 1t has not
been handled with Robert Hichens's
skill. The end is violent and melo-
dramatic.
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author has wisely seen that the events
Of more than half a century ago may be
less familiar in their details to the pres
ent generation OF readers than they were
to its elders, the contemporaries OF all
these horrors. Therefore. Mr.. Pearcc
traces the insurrection from its first
murmurings. from the uncasincss OF the
British officials In India and the persistent
optimism OF the authorities ut home. ON
the morning of the rising at Cawnpore
copies Of the London papers We're re-
ceived there assuring their readers that
all vas we'll \ hero Of the charge ~
the Iigh' Brigade is. IN the end. the
hero IF THIS later war, but II Is his
brother who PLAYS the role most Of the
way in battle and IN love Tbs subject
does NOT allow Of much originality. but
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difficult enough 10 rouse the enthusiasm
OF the sportsman. on the practical side
OF the art he is explicit and to the point.
whether he Is discussing tackle, rods and
flies. casting and close fishing, or the
fsherman's generaship-his strategy.