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rffSHjBpj 1 1 HOW TO SAVE MINERS LIVES. Public Demonstration to Blady Held at Pittsburg. PRESIDENT WILL E THERE. Twenty to Thirty Thousand Miners Expected to Be PresentExhibition by Trained First Aid and Rescue Corps. In line with its effort to reduce the number of deaths in the coal mines of the United States, the bureau of mines will hold a national miners' life Saving demonstration on Sept 16 in Arsenal park, Pittsburg. President Taft, Secretary of the Interior Fisher and Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, director of the bureau of mines, will attend and speak to the miners. Thp bureau of mines will have the co-operation of the Pittsburg Coal Operators' associa tion and the American Red Cross. It is expected that between 20,000 and 30,000 miners will attend and that many of the important coal companies will send their trained first aid and rescue corps to take part in the exhi bition. Already a number of teams have entered and are in training for the event which promises to be the most important gathering of miners ever assembled Arsenal park is the site of the test ing station of the bureau of mines, and the experts of the bureau are busy arranging for a unique program. The arrangements for the first demonstra tion are in the hands of H. M. Wilson, engineer in charge of the bureau of mines, Pittsburg. Major Charles Lynch, medical corps, TL S A., in charge of the first aid department of the Red Cross, and Dr. M. E Shields of Scran ton, Pa both of whom are pioneers in this movement, are assisting. The first aid to the injured work will be one of the features of the entire day. The teams from the various coal mines will not contest, but will give exhibi tions of their skill in bringing injured miners from the mines and binding the wounds and fractures. Many of these teams have been instructed in first aid by the surgeons of the Ameri can Red Cross and also by the rescue corps op the bureau of mine^ Thousands Injured Yearly. Between 5,000 to 8,000 miners are injured each year in the United States, some so seriously that they die per haps months afterward, and others are so maimed that they are cripples for life The work of the first aid to the injured teams is to give the proper emergency treatment so that injuries will be lessened in seriousness and some of the fatalities perhaps avoid, ed. In the anthracite region of Penn sylvania the fir^t aid work has been highly developed through the good work of the American Red Cross, and many lives have been saved through the prompt and efficient work of the members of the various corps. This i movement has become so popular in the anthracite region that annual field contests between the teams are held each year in the presence of thousands of spectators. Prizes are given to the winners by the American Red Cross, and the operators join in with con tributions of badges and cups. Fol lowing the example of the anthracite region and directly as the result of the instructions in first aid to the injured and in the helmet rescue work being introduced in all parts of the United States by the rescue cars and stations of the bureau of mines, teams have re cently been organized in the bitumi nous mining districts throughout the country. The members of these teams are eager to show their skill and will take part in the exhibition. Real Explosions. In addition to the exhibition by the first aid teams the miners will wit ness gas and coal dust explosions in miniature, which will be staged in the great explosives gallery of the bureau of mines In Arsenal park there will also be a temporary gallery, which will resemble a coal mine This will be placed at the bottom of a natural amphitheater, giving a clear view to thousands of persons. There will be a gas explosion in this play mine. Miners will be entombed, and one of the government rescue corps in oxy gen helmet will enter and save the men. One side of the miniature mine will be open its entire length in order that the onlookers may witness every thing that happens in an underground horror except the loss of life. The famous oxygen helmets that members of the rescue corps of the bureau wear and which have been instrumental in saving a number of lives will be on exhibition and explained to the min ers. The oxygen reviving apparatus, which automatically takes the poison ous gases from the lungs of an as phyxiated miner and fills them with oxygen, will also be demonstrated. This apparatus has already brought back to consciousness a number of miners given up as dead. Servants In China. In China you can have a dozen serv ants for a total"of less than $100 a month. And they won't steal any thing, they will do their work well, and they will stay after they have learned. In the Celestial empire there is no servant problem to vex the housewife's soul, but there are enough other problems to make up for it Good water is one sanitary arrange i ments are about forty-one. A CURIOUS DREAM. Warning That Came to a Granddaugh ter of Sir Walter Scott. An instance in which a dream was useful in preventing an impending ca tastrophe is recorded of a daughter of Mrs. Rutherford at Ederton, the grand daughter of Sir Walter Scott This dreamed more than once that her mother had been murdered by a black servant She was so much upset by this that she returned home, and, to her great astonishment and not a lit tle to her dismay, she met on entering the house the very black servant she had met in her dream. He had been engaged in her absence. She prevail ed upon a gentleman to watch in an adjoining room during the following night. About 3 o'clock in the morning the gentleman heard footsteps on the stairs, came out and met the servant carrying some coals. Being question ed as to where he was going, he answered confusedly that lie was go ing to mend the mistress' fire, which at 3 o'clock in the morning in the mid dle of summer was evidently impossi ble. On further investigation a strong knife was found hidden in the coals. The lady escaped, but the man was subsequently hanged for murder, and before his execution he confessed that he intended to assassinate Mrs. Ruth erford.London Standard. GRAND CANYON. An Ideal Place In Which to Realize the Insignificance of Man. There is one place in this country where a man can step back not by hundreds but by thousands of years, back to the time when the continent was in the making. This place is the Grand Canyon of Arizona. There the visitor sees a panorama in a million colors as the mists gather about the rugged peaks and the sunlight glistens on the metallic deposits of the cliffs. A whole chaotic world discloses itself. Rock forms of uncanny beauty stand out on those unrivaled cliffs, and far down runs the river channel. Stand on some ledge and realize the insignificance of man when compared with the handicraft of nature, watch a party of travelers threading their way down some winding trail that clings to the great wall and see them grow smaller and smaller until they become mere specks in the great rift then some idea is gained of this won derful place. Yet the canyon is so symmetrical and so unlike anything else that it is with dlfliculty that one can acquire any notion of its immen sity. Niagara poured in would hardly have the dignity of a mountain stream. -New York Sun. Humors of "Hamlet." William Davidge related in his "Footlight Flashes" that during his strolling days in England, when com panies were small, he had on the same evening done duty for Polonius, the ghost Ostric and the first gravedigger, and Edwin Booth remembered Thomas Ward dying in sight of the audience as the player king and being drag ged from the mimic stage by the heels to enter immediately at another wing as Polonius, crying "Lights, lights, lights.'" Hamlet in a one night town, swearing he loved Ophelia better than forty thousand brothers, has watch ed her through an open grave packing her trunk in the place beneath, while the ghost, her husband, waited to strap it up. There are more things in Ham let's existence behind the scenes than are dreamed of in the philosophy of all his commentators and all his crit ics.From the Green Book. Corn and Water. To those engaged in the handling of grain the natural shrinkage of shelled corn while in storage and in transit is a matter of prime importance and often a source of dispute because of shortage reported at time of receipt at warehouse and a further loss at date of final sale. In order to deter mine the amount of shrinkage or loss of weight occurring in corn the de partment of agriculture has conducted an experiment with 500 bushels of shelled corn. At the time of storage the moisture content was 18.8 pershowrooms cent and at close of the test 14.7 per cent, or a loss of 4.1 per cent The weight per bushel had decreased from 54.7 pounds to 50 pounds, and the to tal loss of weight was 1.970 pounds, or slightly more than 7 per cent Sir Roger de Coverley. Sir Roger de Coverley was the name of a member of the imaginary club of twelve under whose direction Addi son's Spectator was professedly pub lished. He was an old school, bluff, good hearted English gentleman. The dance named after him is an English dance corresponding somewhat to the Virginia reel. Her One Idea. "His wife is a woman of one idea." 4 Tha so? "Yes whenever he starts to do any thing she has the idea that he's doing it wrong."Detroit Free Press. A Good Reason. Positive WifeJohn, why do you talk in your sleep? Have you any idea? Negative HusbandSo as not to forget how, I suppose. It's the only chance I getExchange. Good Reason. "You mean to say you lived in one house for three years and cultivated no pleasant acquaintances? Why?" "I was cultivating my voice."Ex- change. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie.George Herbert RIGHT ON THE JOB. THE PRUSTCETOK TJKIOK: THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1911. GOLF IN THE SOUTH. The Game Was Played In Charleston as Early as 1788. Golf was played in Charleston as far back as 1788. In the City Gazette or Daily Advertiser of Sept 27, 1791, appears the following notice: "Anniversary of the South Carolina Golf club will be held at Williams' coffee house on Thursday, 29th Inst, when members are requested to at tend at 2 o'clock precisely, that the business of the club may be transact ed before dinner." For several years following may be found calls for the anniversary meet ings to be held at "the clubhouse on Harleston's green," a tract of land south of Boundary (now Calhoun) street between the present Coming and Butledge streets. The fact that it was the anniversary meeting in 1791 would show that the club had been organized before that date, but unfortunately the file of newspapers in the Charleston library is not complete for some years just prior, and one finds no earlier notices of meetings or mention of the club. But in the same Journal of Sept 18, 1788, there is an advertisement of an auction sale of a farm on Charleston Neck, between three and four miles from the city, adjoining Cochran's shipyard, bounding in part on Ship yard creek, which, after describing the different items of property included in the sale, states that "there is lately erected that pleasing and genteel amusement the golf baan." This cer tainly indicates that golf was one offounder the local amusements of that day. The word "baan" (English-Dutch dictionary) means path, walk, way, etc., and golf, according to the Ency* clopaedia Britannica, is derived from the Dutch "kolf," a club, and thethe game is doubtless of Dutch origin and introduced into Scotland about 1450. Charleston News and Courier. He Didn't Believe In Letting the Place Seek the Man. A little story of success starting with the use of want ads. is contained in Business and the Bookkeeper. A Min neapolis manufacturer explains his lik ing for men who, even if they lack cer tain important qualities, have "initia tive and originality." The manufacturer, who at the time of which he spoke was Just out of college, in Chicago and out of work, answerea an advertisement offering a position, addressing, as instructed, "T24." He inclosed his reply in a large red en velope that could be seen and recog nized at a distance. He was in the newspaper office early the following morning. In one of the boxes in which replies to advertisements were kept he saw his red envelope. He waited three hours until the letter in that box was given to a man calling for them. He followed the man to a west side fac tory. As the messenger laid the bunch of letters on the manager's desk the job hunter was standing by it "I'm ready to go to work," he said. The manager's reply was not "elegant" but in addition to being exclamatory it was interrogatory. How did he manage to present himself on the scene? The young man in need of the job pointed to his red envelope. The manager looked at it and looked at him. Then he turned to the messen ger. "Find out who this young fellow is and put him to work," he said. Discretion the Better Part. Mr. Callahan had received a long tongue lashing from Mr. Hennessey, and his friends were urging on him the wisdom of vindicating his honor with his fists. "But he's more than me equal," said Mr. Callahan dubiously, "and look at th' size of 'm." "Sure an' you don't want folks to be sayn', 'Terry Callahan Is a cow- ard?*" demanded a reproachful friend. "Well, I dunno," and Mr. Callahan gazed mournfully about him. "I'dthe rather that to 'ave 'em savin' day after termorrow, *How natural Terry looks!' "Metropolitan Magazine. How a Hindu Uses Clocks. The Hindu places a clock in his not because he ever desires to know what the hour is, but because a clock is a foreign curiosity. Instead, therefore, of contenting himself with one good clock he will perhaps have a dozen in one room. They are signs ot his wealth, but they do not add to hisday"bugbear"and comfort for he is so indifferent to time that he measures It by the number of bamboo lengths the sun has traveled above the horizon. Too Many Numbers. "You have forgotten your name?" said the kind policeman. "Yes," said the victim of aphasia. "You see, I overtaxed my memory try ing to remember my name and myten house number and my telephone num ber and my automobile number and the number of my dog's license all at once."Washington Star. He Lost Out. "Yes, sir, he wuz afraid o the banks bustin' on him, an' so he buried his moneyI" "Has he got It yet?' "No he forgot to blaze the tree whar It wuz, an' the man who owned the land put up a sign, 'No Trespassing on These Grounds.' "-Pittsburg Dlspatcb. Among the Fliers. "I took a flier In Wall street" "And the result?" **Same old aviation newsa fine start and all of a sudden a fearful bump."Exchange. Waste not fresh, tears over oia eriefs.Euripides. MOLDED HIS DEATH TOLL Legend of "the Poor Sinner's Bell" That Was Cast In Breslau. The poor sinner's bell is a bell In the city of Breslau, in the province of Silesia, Prussia, and hangs in the tower of one of the city churches. It was cast July 17, 1386, according to historic records. It is said that a great bell founder pf the place had undertaken to make the finest church bell he had ever made. When the metal was melted the withdrew for a few moments, leaving a boy to watch the furnace and enjoining him not to meddle with the catch that held the molten metal, but the boy disobeyed the caution, and when he saw the metal flowing into mold he called the founder. The latter rushed in and, seeing, as he thought, his work of weeks undone and his masterpiece ruined, struck the boy a blow that caused his immediate death. When the metal cooled and the mold was opened the bell was found to be not only perfect, but of marvelous sweetness of tone. The founder gave himself up to the authorities, was tried and condemned to death. On the day of his execution the bell was rung to call people to at tend church and offer a prayer for the unhappy man's soul, and from that it obtained the name of "the poor sin ner's bell." SEEING A PURPLE COW. Perfectly Natural Under Certain Con* ditions, Says an Artist. H. Anthony Dyer, painter of water colors, was explaining the matter to some possible buyers of his wares. "Suppose while you are in the coun try in summer," said he, "you chance upon a Holstein cow grazing on a hill side. Holsteins, of course you know, are black and white. The pasture is green. Off at one side Is a gray un painted barn. Do you stagger with surprise when you notice that that cow is purple? Not a bit of I If it were not purple you might reasonably con sult an oculist That would be a sign that your eyes needed attention. "But you may never have tried to figure out why the cow is purple. Here is the answer: The complementary color of the green pasture is red. The sight of green always suggests red, al though we don't realize it Flooding the scene is the yellow sunshine. The yellow, the red and the green combine to tint the grazing neutral colored cow purple, and purple it undeniably Is, as you must admit when next you encounter one under such circum stances. Nevermore, therefore, may you sing with Gelett Burgess: I never saw a purple cow. I never hope to see one. New Xork Press. The Bug Bible. The bug Bible was printed in 1549 by the authority of Edward VL. and Its curiosity lies in the rendering of fifth verse of the Ninety-first Psalm, which, as we know, runs, "Thou shalt not be afraid for the ter ror by night nor for the arrow which flieth by day," but in the above ver sion it ran, "So thou shalt not nede to be afraid of any bugges by night" Ludicrous as this sounds, it is not etymologically without justification. "Bug" is derived from the Welsh word "bwg," which meant a hobgoblin or terrifying specter, a signification trace able in the word commonly in use to Shakespeare once or twice uses the word in this primary sense, notably when he makes Hamlet say, "Such bugs and goblins in my life." Daffodil Superstitions. Daffodils are not only poisonous and libelous, but most unlucky flowers, es pecially when single specimens are encountered. Herrick, who must of have gone through the experience without much harm happening, de clares that When a daffodil I see Hanging down her head to me. Guess I may what I must ba First, I shall decline my head Secondly, I shall be dead Lastly, safely buried. In Herrlck's own Devon to this day if you place a single daffodil on the ta ble of a farmhouse the farmer will jump up and exclaim, "Now we shall have no young ducks this year." The evil spell can be broken by Increasing the single flower to a bunch.St James' Gazette. Tour opinion on reciprocity with Canada doesn't count much, but what do you think of street improvement at home? Cheer up, boys-another holiday on the Fourth! q&pzW&&*Vl GUARANTEE OF QUALITY AND PURITY Copenhagen Snuff is made of the best, old, rich, high- flavored leaf tobacco, to which is added only such in- gredients as are component parts of natural leaf tobacco and absolutely pure flavoring extracts. The Snuff Pro- cess retains the good of the tobacco and expels the bitter and acid of natural leaf tobacco. AMERICAN SNUFF COMPANY, I Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. ^m^^^^*^**^*+m^*m &/>e Look Around and Don't Get Stuck There a difference in the quality of lumber,and in the rorices too-and unless you look around a bit before placing your bill lor that new-well, whatever it is you are going to build-you're mighty apt to get stuck What the use of taking chances anyway' We 11 be only too glad to make jou an estimate on whatever you want in lumber or any kind of building material, and if we can prove that its to your advan- tage to buy from us then you can go elsewhere But get our figures before buying CALEY LUMBER CO. BENJAfllN SOULE, Manager ft************* **4"^4*^~M^^MM^.^^^M^M^.MMMM^^^ Glendorado Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. O. H. UGLEM, President CHAS. D. KALIHER, Treasurer Insurance in Force $1,300,000 Average cost to members but one-half of that charged by old line companies. For further information write J. A. Erstad, Secretary 4"4"fr4MM"M"tMtM4MMM^ L. C. HUMMEL Dealer 1 A Fresh and Salt Meats, Lard, Poultry, Fish and Game in Season. Both Telephones. Main Street, (Opposite Starch Factory.) Princeton, Minn. Wi *m^*m***i^**m G. H. GOTTWERTH, Dealer In Prime Meats of Every Variety, Poultry, Fish, Etc. Highest market prices paid for Cattle and Hogs, Ma/n Street, Princeton. Job Printing and Job Printing I HERE are two kinds of Job Printingchat which is neat and artistic and that which possesses neither of these qualities. The Princeton Union makes it a point to turn out none but the former kind, and the Union finds this easy because it has the type, machinery andkille labor with which to accomplish it. Nothing Looks Worse Than BotcHed Job Printing. It is a drawback to the business of a merchant or anyone else who uses it. Botched Job Printing suggests loose methods. Then why not use the kind printed by the Union? It costs you no more and gives the public a good impression of your business. The Princeton Union is prepared to execute every description of Commercial and Fancy Printing at short notice and Dominal prices. If you are in need of letterheads, noteheads, billheads, statements, cards, posters, programs, wedding invitations or any other work in the printing line, an order for the same Dlaced with the Union will insure its being produced in an at- tractive and un-to-date style. PRINCETON UNION Princeton* Minnesota. jri-Mmi'iiMi. i,^. ..m niin.g Freer, Minn. W%*"^ *^m0^m^^^\ -.--i.