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*5$, ?&**- I W.C.T.U. 1 Through the courtesy of the TTNioifthis space is granted to the W. G. T. U. The press super intendent assumes all responsibility for the sentiments and statements contained herein. Our Motto: "For God and Home and Native Land." Our Badge: A knot of white ribbon. Our Aims: Home protection, prohibition of the liquor traffic, equal suffrage, one standard of morals, and the bringing about of a better public sentiment. MBS. E. F. WHEELER, President, MRS. JENNIE WOODCOCK, Secretary, MRS. ADA FARNHAH. Treasurer. Fling it out to the breeze let it tell to the world That the faith which has raised it will never surrender Let it tell that the love which our banner un furled, Is the guard of the home and the nation's defender. Let it gleam as a star, for the ship-wrecked afar, Like a beacon that warns of the treacherous bar Let that banner of freedom and purity wave, As a signal of hope 'midst the perils we brave. Hold that banner aloft let our colors be seen From Siberian snowfieid to African val leys, Lift it up for the truth:- let the rays of its sheen Drive the shadows of night from the by 'ways and alleys. Let it tell to the lost that we count not the cost, That our bridges are burned and our Kubicon crossed That the banner of motherlove ever shall wave Till the paths are made straight tor the sin burdened slave. Let itflyat the front it is washed in our tears, And the smoke of the battle increases its whiteness, Though our hearts may be'pierced by the ene my's spears, Yet the flow from our wounds shall but add to its brightness, And this ensign of right, it shall float o'er the fight, Till our wrongs are avenged by the triumph of right And in radiant victory at last it shall wave O'er the ramparts we've stormed, o'er King Al cohol's grave. Swing it out from the staff, let it shadow the ground Where the fathers of liberty sleep 'neath the mosses Run it up o'er the homes where the mothers are found Who through watches of anguish are counting their losses. In the tear-moistened sod, which our martyrs have trod, We are planting it deep for our land and our God. And this banner of world-circling love e'er "Shall wave In the name of our Christ, who is mighty to save. A very appropriate cartoon ap pears in the Chicago Record. I pictures the army canteen with sol dier head and feet, quite a manish figure, with tears falling and draw ing a little wagon filled with beer keg and bottles. Th senate is pictured as an elderly man with drum close at the heels of Mr. Canteen and the house plays the flute and marches as companion to the senate. I imagine Mr, House is making music in the ears of American lnothers that sounds very different from the martial mu sic they have heard since fathers and sons have been laid to rest ac companied by the sad strains for so many years. If this music had only come before so many dear boys had learned to use strong drink, but it is a welcome sound for in it is hope, answer to prayer and thankfulness. -Play on Mr. House and Mr. -Senate the angels in heaven aie rejoicing with the W C. T. U. who is pictured as a, woman bringing up the rear of the procession waving her white flag of peace to the world." W assume these thoughts are filling her noto ble mind, only a few of our num ber belong to the four states where women are allowed the right of suffrage, yet we are recognized on every hand as being one of the most influential factors in the con test. W hile we are thankful we have a share in this righteous leg islation, we indulge in no vainglo rious pride. W know well that if God had not been on bur_ side and given his signal mark of ap proval of our organization as an in strument in carrying out Hi will the enemy would triumph their victory. The victory is not ours but God's. His promises are ours and we take Him at His word andtrust. EFFIE A. BURGAN. $1,000 Worth of Good. A. H. Thurness of Wills jDreek Coal Co., Buffalo, O., writes: "I have been afflicted with kidney and bladder trou ble for years, passing gravel Or stones, with excruciating pain. Other medi cines only gave relief. After taking Foley's Kidney Cure the result was sur prising, A few doses started the brick dust, like fine stones, etc., and now! have no pain across my kidneys and I feel like anew man. Foley's Kidney Cure has/done me $1,000.worth of good." C. A. Jack. ***rf*tf*tfrf**** *********Vrt**rf* WWrf******tf*t fW I ERIKSO^TVILLE. For organizing a Scandinavian debating .society a meeting will be ?M?'. held atrLars Erickson's store Feb. 2,, 1 i M. -All Scandinavians around her are invited.|SS*^^ J. A Berglin from W'fieaton, Minn., bought 80 acres of land from Lars Erickson last FridayT The new sawmill here vjill be in running order the first part of next week/ Chas. Arnold the sawyer is here already. The township will be organ ized soon".' A-petition is made up to be signed by the settlers in range 26,4own 41. Fred Merrill, of Anoka, who has been working at Barrett & Camp bell's camp, had his foot injured by a log and went to his home Tuesday to recover. -jr x-:-, ,r A telephone line is what we need in this .part of the country. vf All who are interested in such a line from Milaca to Mille Lacs lake to connect with Brainerd and Aitkin,, should write to Lars 'Erickson who will receive subscriptions. A Prominent Chicago Woman Speaks. Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, Vice-. President Illinois Woman's Alliance, in speaking of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, says "I suffered with a ^se- vere cold this winter which" threatened lo run intQ pneumonia. I tried differ ent remedies but I seemed to grow worse and the medicine upset my stom ach. A friend advised me to try Cham berlain's Cough Remedy and I found it was pleasant to take and it relieved me at once. I am now entirely recovered, saved a doctor!s bill, time and suffer ing, and I will never be without this splendid medicine again." For sale by Princeton Drug Co. At an Inauspicious Moment. "No," said the book-keeper, "I don't get that vacation. I met my employer coming back from his Summer outing laden with golf sticks and various bag gage, and accompanied by his four girls and little boy. I told him I needed rest." "He looked at me. hard for a minute and then exclaimed: 'You don't need rest. You haven't been away on a vacation.'" The man was right. After a long vacation filled with pleasure and ex citement, one often-returns to work tired out and run down in health. Peo ple in this condition should drink "Golden Grain Belt" beer. It will tone. them up because it ie pure and nourishing. The strength of a loaf of bread in 'every bottle, for it's brewed of prime barley and selected hops. Always have a case at home. Be sup plied by Henry Veidt, Princeton, Minn. Red is a danger signal on the rail road, on a fellow's- nose and on a wo man's,face. Men and'women use Rocky Mountain Tea and get genuine rosy cheeks. 35c. C. A. Jack. Monthly Sale. The regular monthly sale of 'the E. Mark Live Stock eompany will take place as usual on the first Saturday of next month, Feb. 2, and ^arrangements are being made to keep this sale fully up to the standard. There "will be horses of every weight, color and breeding, fit for all kinds of work, sleds, wagons, cutters, buggies, har ness, farm machinery, etc. Special at tention will be paid on this date to the purchase of cattle, sheep and hogs brought to this market and the compa ny guarantees to pay the highest, mar ket price for all that is brought in, or will accept it in trade for anything of fered at the sale. The spring season is almost here and this is a good time buy whatever you need. The*~eom- pany's tepns are most liberal so don't let the lack ofTSash keep you away. And above all doa't forget the date Saturday, Feb. 2, blizzard or chinook. E. MARK LIVE STOCK CO. It Girdles The Globe. The fame of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, as the best in the world, extends round the earth. It's the one perfect healer of cuts, corns, burns, bruises sores, scalds, boils, ulcers, felons, -aches,, pains and all skin eruptions. Only in fallible pile cure. 25caboxfat C. A. Jack's. The Bridgman Estate. In the probate court Monday appli cation for, the probate of the last will and testament-of the late Coleman "Bridgman was made by, Samuel I* Cook, an interested party. Mr. Cook is a brother-in-law of the deceased and resides at Holyoke, Mass. He recited in his application that the executrix named in the will is dead and he prays that J. D. Mills of St. Cloud be named as administrator with the will annexed. He declares that the personal property is worth $400 and the real property unimproved landsis worth $500.- Judge Calhoun has set the hearing for February 15.St. Cloud Journal-Press. Thousands Sent Into Exile. Every year a large number of poor sufferers whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs are urged to go to another .climate. But this is costly and not always sure. Don't be an exile when Dr. King's New .Discovery for consumption .will cure you at home. It's the most infallible medicine for coughs, colds,-and all throat and lung diseases on earth. Thefirstdose brings relief. Astounding cures result from persistent use. Trial bottles free a C. A. Jack's. Price 50c and-$1.00t Every_bottle guaranteed. x'T*'J^\f~~*5C The ConftoUdat&npoff Bailrbadali j BaifrbaJW}* In view of th* recent railroad consol idations, notably -the Great Northern and the Chicago, Milwaukee" and St. Paul in the" west aind the Reading and the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 4he east, and. still other and perhaps *nore farreaching combinations appar ently contemplated by the Hill, Mor gan and Rockefeller interestsrthere is special significance 4n those portions of the report of the interstate commerce commission, just issued, touching the tendency of railroads toward consoli dation. Taking account of well authen ticated statements alone, the commis sion finds that there were absorbed in various ways between July 1, 1899,on and Nov. 1, 1900, over 25,000 miles of railroad, or more than one-eighth of the entire mileage of the United States. In view of this the commissioners say: When we consider what has aqtually- been done, what is undoubtedly in contemplation, the, entire feasibility of these schemes, the great advantage which would result tcTthe owners of the proper ties involved and the fact that a step once taken in that direction is eeldom "retraced, it becomes evident tfiat in the immediate future the main transportation lines of this country, will be thrown into great groups, controlling their own territory and not subject, with respect to niQst...of'.their traffic, to serious1 competition.c .'.'..-'-:..}.''-f^-Yi This condition is declared to be "not without its benefits/' as the commis sioners observe: V-'. The evils which competition begets will largely disappear with that competition, and many of the worst forms of discrimination will cease. Ow ing to wasteful competition transportation by rail actually costs more than it ought. To elim inate that competition will be to work an actual savirig-in the cost of the service, and this should redound to the benefit of both the carrier and the shipper. _," The commission, very pertinently, does not overlook the liability to abuses and says: It would lie within the power of two or three men to say what tax-should be imposed upon the vast traffic moving between east and west, and both human nature and the lesson of history show that unlimited power induces the misuse of that power. With competition gone, it might be pertinent to ask, What 4s there to check extortion and prevent injustice to shippers? Consolidation is no doubt ah excellent thing for that eminently: respectable element in society owning and controlling railroads, hut what about the interests of the public from whom the railroads receive their right to exist? There weje coined last year at the United States mints 66,833,700 bronze cents, a number almost large enough to supply every inhabitant with one of these useful coins. The mints turn ed out more cents last year than ever before, but they have not been in active in stamping these coins in pre vious years. Their output in 1895 was 38,t)00,000 in 1896/39,000,000 In 1897, 50,000,000, and in 1898, 49,000,000. What becomes of this vast number of coins is quite as much of a mystery as what becomes of all the pins,. Nobody hoards cents. NoBody melts them dawn, a fate which often befalls gold coins. They do not wear out,v but some- how they disappear before they have had time to get rubbed smooth, as do nickels and silver coins. Though mil lions of these small and useful coins are minted yearly, .there is always a demand for them for the convenience of business and frecently an actual shortage. What- becomes of aH theguardians bronze cents is an interesting if not particularly important query, though taking the pennies in the aggregate it is quite an important matter. Statistician Robert P. Porter calcu lates that if things go on during the present century as they did in the past one our population' 100 years, hence will be about 300,000,000. On the oth er hand, if the fight for life should get hotter and the young folks should con clude not to get married until they are several years older than the present average marriage age the effect upon the population would be quite different. There is of course no objection to the statisticians making forecasts, as they seem to enjoy that sort-of thing, but it will probably be better Jo await de velopments before taking the census x)f the year 2001. Upon being asked what would give him more pleasure than all his riches, Andrew Carnegie replied: "Youth and health and the opportunity of making another fortune. If I were young and robust, I could easily get the fortune." Another case of Alexander signing for more worlds to conquer. _\ After La firippeWhat2 Usually a racking cough and a gen eral feeling of weakness. Foley's Honey and Tar is guaranteed to cure the "grippe cough".and make yo and well. C. A. Jack. strong Fatal delays are caused by experi menting with cough and cold cures". Foley's Honey and Tar will prevent a cold from resulting in pneumonia. C. A." Jack. If/some one should kidnap the Duke of Manchester, Papa Zimmerman would doubtless be an easy mark from whom to collect ransom. "I have always used Foley's Honey and Tar cough medicine, and think it the best in th&.world," says Chas. Ben der, a newsdealer of Erie, Pa. C. A. Jack. _- So It-would appear that the honest farmer sometimes uses a little artificial coloring In his cow butter, Frost bites and chilblaimr^qufifekly cured by Banner Salve, the most heal ing remedy in the~world.~C. A.^Jack. -s *v 3T TT-- ~*r*~"Z "V kL?-?'The Hacve'sts of \Laat VM* ~1~ w'/The Marve'sta of Jtiast Year. lThe -fip&l crop "report of the depart- ment of agriculture, just made public, presents some interesting figures as to our harvest of 1900, showing that on the whole it was an abundant one, more than fulfilling the moderate hope held out by the earlier estima'tes-of the .department. i_/- The yield "of wheat was 522,229,505 bushels, which is not so large by 25,- 000,000 bushels as that of the previous year and is lower by more than 150,- 000,000 than that of the. phenomenal year of 1898. The falling off from the record of 1899 is more than accounted for by the loss uponsthe spring crop account of drought in the north west, the harvest of winter wheat exT ceeding that of 1899 by more than 53,000,000 bushels and falling1 below that of 1898 by less than 30,000,000. There has been a considerable reduc tion in aereage for spring wheat in the last three years. So far as our export trade is concerned, the general loss in quantity Is partly made up by higher prices. The corn crop of 2,105,102,516 bush els not only considerably exceeds the estimates, but is the largest since 1896, when the low prices had such a discouraging effect The acreage was the largest yet planted,"" the improved prices of the last two years having caused a recovery of spirits on the part of the farmers. Oats show an Increase in both acre age and yield over the last three years, and the record has been exceeded only in 1895, while barley shows a heavy, falling off from a somewhat increased area sown. It is the only crop foi which the report is decidedly unfavor able. It was altogether a bountiful har vest, bringing a large measure of pros perity to the tillers of the soil and like wise to the country at large, as the country's prosperity depends largely upon the abundance of the products of the soil. In his first message to the Michigan legislature Governor Bliss says: "Firm ly believing that the growing use of cigarettes is a menace to the youth of Michigan, I ca^ll the attention of. the legislatureMo the evil and-advise the most stringent legislation possible, in order that. Jhe sale of cigarettes may be discouraged, if not prohibited." Sub sequently in an interview the governor reasserted his purpose to bring all his influence to bear to break up the ciga rette habit among the jrouth of the state. It is understood that the hostili ty of the governor to the use of the cigarette comes largely from the fact that bis wife, who has been connected for years with the Industrial Home For Girls at Adrian, has observed that a large proportion of the girls who are sent to that institution are habitual users of.the cigarette and that it is rare that any of the class of girls re spond to efforts for reformation. Gov ernor Bliss' efforts in this direction are highly commendable, but it has been the experience of other states that pro^ hibitive laws have been unable to ac complish much good. If parents and of children would take hold and help existing laws might be en forced,, and until they more generally do so further legislation would appear to be of little use. "The Armour Packing company at Kansas City has lately purchased 25,- 000 tons of common salt at Lisbon, Portugal, in explanation of which the purchasing agent says: "Instead of buying salt 200 miles from Kansas City at 6 a ton we have sent more than 5,000 miles to another country for it, and, after paying steamer and freight rates and a duty of 8 cents a hundred, we'are still able to" save money. This shows what an outrageous profit the salt trust makes in this country." Here is a notable instance of the pot calling the kettle black. The asphalt row with, Venezuela ap pears to be based on the proposition that a government which sells exclu sive privileges to outsiders cannot sell the same exclusive privilege to more than one person or company for the same period of time. The proposition looks reasonable enough, but it seems to require the service of gunboats for a clear interpretation of it in Vene zuela. The British Columbia contingent of volunteers for South Africa learns that it will be compelled to provide for its own transportation and for this reason has decided to remain at home. Everything considered this resolution seems to be the part of wisdom. If England's coal supply will be ex hausted by 1960r as some authorities -predict, how long will it take to ex haust the country's gold supply at the present rateTrf cost of the Boer war? If the Chinese negotiations should be transferred from Peking to Washing ton we might have again with us our old friend*El Hung Chang. That, o_ course, would be delightful. _. If the people-of Mars are signaling to the earth,- let them go ahead and tell what they want. Perhaps we may be able to accommodate them. The sugar war Is declared to be over. The public can now proceed to make good the cuts in profits which it caused. S y^^^^e:?as**^ ST- r- Twenty-Four Bottles of Satisfaction Otherwise Known as a Case of HAM NTS BEER Supplied by Agents Everywhere, orTHEQ. HAMM BREWING CO., St Paul, Minn. Notice. To whom it may concern: Th^ partnership heretofore existing between E. B. Anderson and J. C. Herdliska, conducting a general mer cantile business under~tne firm name of An derson & Herdttska, was dissolved on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1901. E. B. Anderson, who will con tinue the business, will collect all accounts and pay all outstanding bills. E. B. ANDERSON. J. C. HERDLISKA. Dated, Princeton, Minn., Jan. 8,1901. JSC- 1 See These Prices: 1 Good California Port Wine, Best California Port Wine! Imported Portugal Port Wine, Claremont Distilled Whiskey, 2 i x. i \MJ, per gallon.... Kentucky Whiskey, ,_, per quart g^r- Give us a call. I F, P. MORNEflU. per-gallon.... per gallon r- Per gallon, $i, $2.50 and.... Guckenheimer Whiskey, -OldElk" Whiskey, Pergaln$3an Burlington Best Line to Chicago and St. Louis "The Limited," the finest train in the world, leaves Minneapolis 7:20 P.M St. Paul 8:05 P.M., every day. Electric lighted, steam heated, has compartment and standard sleepers, reclin ing chair cars, coaches, and dining car on the cafe plan. Arrives Chicago 9:2o next morning and St. Louis 5:21 next afternoon. "The Scenic Express" leaves Minneapolis 7:40 A. M., St. Paul 8:15 A. M., except Sunday, arriving Chicago 10:20 same evening and St. Louis 6:40 next morning. Ask your home agent for tickets via this line. P. S. EUSTIS, Gen'l Pass. Ageni, CHICAGO, ILL. THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL, H.NEWBERT, Proprietor. PRINCETON, MINNESOTA "li*. ~V-ar^r^T -WSJ"1 THE ARCADE. GEO. P. LYMAN, Asst Gen'l Pass. Agent, ST. PAUL, MINN. mtmgmMS M-r. "s $1.25 2.00 3.00 1.75 3.00 3.50 1.50 per gallon A Mellow, Thne- honored Stimulant of Absoloti Purify? St MOO. HiweAWu* DONT BE FOOLED! Take the genuine, original ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA Made only by Madison Medi cine Co., Madison, Wis. It keeps you well. Our trad* jnark cut on each package. ^Price, 35 cents. Never soM -in bulk. Accept a sufcstt* weoapoRATco ice* tute. Aak your druggist* ^JS-*- SK Jf