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l\ 12 l\L vs THE PRINCETON UNION BY R. C. DUNN. Published Every Thursday. TERMS$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANOE. $1.25 I NOT PA ID IN ADVANDE. OFFICE: FIRST ST.. EAST OF COURT HOUSE. Q. 1. STAPLES, Business Manager. QEO. WRIGHT, Editor. HE pension commissioner who hails from Kansas ought to wear well.' TH IS is an age of expansion and prices are on the program to make a little hit themselves. PASS it around There's a rumor that coal has dropped 50 cents a ton Stillwater Gazette Which? The rumor, the coal, or tHe 50 cents? IT really looks like overtures for peace in South Africa. Under any other conditions there would have been peace a long time ago. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT during his brief trip to the sunny south and the Charlestown exposition sawed a lot of presidential wood that may make some people feel a little bit tired. HE proposition to establish a school of mines in St. Louis county is a good one. The bill was introduced at the special session of the legislature but was not passed. An effort will be made to have the "bill enacted into a law at the next session of the legislature. SOME sympathetic person who evi dently bemoans the lot of the poor editor who loses his reputation and grip at home, advises him to take a trip away from home. The writer says: "It will do him a powerful sight of good, and he will come to the con clusion that the outside world desires to treat him kindly and considerately. Such away from home visits will broaden him, and he will look with more leniency upon those with whom he differs in his local field The ad vise is all good enough, but then to think that the average country editor can pack his grip and go away off some where and sit down in lands and climes remote and enjoy himself. Does it snow on the Sahara desert and do bations nanas grow in Ireland? We guess not. HE Bemid]i Pioneer takes excep tion to the statement made by a bright magazine writer who says the northern forests are the mother of indolence and the tomb of greatness. The Pio neer says that the forests are not the tomb but the womb of greatness. It also says: "Isolation forms character, not the glare and clatter of society. Genius is a night shade, a plant that grows best out of the glare of the sun and thrives best when undisturbed by the hoe of culture. Budding genius and ambitious minds look uncomfort able in high collars and spike-tailed coats. Seldom does genius succeed as a leader of the "swell set." Imagine if you can a Lincoln bred in a city apartment house, a Grant spending his youth on the Bowery, a Longfellow tuning his lute to nature from a 16- story window! Yes, solitude is the cradle of talent society the grave." "HEW to the line and let the chips fall where they may." This it the best way to do business, privately and pub licly. It may mean apparently at times a sacrifice, but in the end it will not prove so This is the policy Princeton should adopt. It is to be regretted that there should be any misunderstanding or trouble over the \illage fire ordinance. The village council of Princeton has by ordinance designated certain limits in the village in which none but absolutely fire-proof buildings shall be erected, and there does not appear to have been any gross violations of this ordinance since it was passed, and let us hope that there will not be. Under this ordi nance the council has no discretion in the matter one way or another, and its duty is to see that the ordinance is lived up to without fear or favor. Fire proof means fire proof and it does not mean anything else. Let us have no patchwork of this the most important ordinance the village has, as self pres ervation is the first law of nature. Another matter that is up to the council is that of future water supply. The present well for some reason or another fails to furnish an ample sup ply of water for the village use and to keep the tank supplied for emergencies in case of fire. In the meantime warm weather ia coming when more water will be needed and the streets will have to be sprinkled. Some say all that is necessary is a few dollars expended on the bottom of the well, while /others insist that before a permanent supply of water can be had the well will have to go to shell rock. This means an ex penditure of a lot of money. But why dilly dally with the matter. It is up to the council and it ought to act and act at once without splitting any hairs i over the matter. iV CONGRESSMAN MORRIS NOT A CAN- DIDATE. The Pioneer Press this morning pub lishes a letter1 written by Congressman Page Morris to Frank E. SearleVat Duluth, chairman of the congressional committee, in which the congressman states that be will not be a candidate for re-nomination at the forthcoming primary election. Congressman Mor ris days that he intend* tp .retire frbm pihlf lifevand will in, tie future de vote his time to his law practice which will prove far more renumerative than* serving the Minnesota district in con gress. The withdrawal of Congress man Morris from the field leaves J. Adam Bede practically a clear field for the nomination. Congressman Mor ris has served the old Sixth district since March 4, 1897, succeeding Charles A. Towne, who served one term in con gress, but whom the people refused to re-elect because of Ms views on Ahe money question. Page Morris entered upon his congressional career with the confidence of the people of his district and this confidence it can be said toJ-mercial his credit has remained unshaken He has proved himself a loyal repre sentative and a close student of public affairs. As matters now stand it would seem that Mr. Bede is the logical suc cessor to Congressman Morris for the Republican nomination. He has by his loyal work for his party proved himself worthy of some substantial recognition. He filed his certificate as a candidate for congress a short time ago and intended to contest for the honor with Congressmen Morris, but the latter's withdrawal would in dicate that the congressional primary election will be one of harmpny and the best of good feeling. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage who died at Washington last Saturday at the age of seventy years, was one of the most eminent divines and pulpit ora tors of the age. In his early years he started to study law but decided to en ter the ministry as his life profession, and his work as a minister and lect urer and editor of religious publica has given him a world-wide repu tation. For twenty-five years he was pastor of the Central Presbyterian church of Brooklyn where he became noted for his gift of oratory and dra matic manner in the pulpit. He pos sessed wonderful descriptive powers and was a word painter of rare ability. In 1894 when his Brooklyn church burned for the third time during Mr. Talmage's pastorate he resigned and went to Washington where he became pastor of the First Presbyterian church. His sermons were published by a syndicate and found their way into every hamlet in the land and for that matter in many foreign lands. It is said that in this way he reached 50,000,000 readers. It is said that he made more money than any other cler gyman in the world. His salary from his Brooklyn congregation was $12,000 a year. From a single firm he received $10,000 a year for his sermons. As editor of a religious paper he received $5,000 more and his lectures brought him large returns. On one occasion he refused an offer of $5,000 for a series of lectures because it would interfere with a proposed trip to Europe. He was a prolific writer and before his last trip to Europe and the Holy Land he wrote all his sermons in ad vance for his publishers, and naturally enough many of them were not deliv ered according to program, but they reached the people just the same as if he had delivered them. His last ser mon published was written by him a short time before his illness. It was a vivid glimpse of the splendors and glories of heaven, his text being from Revelations 8:1, "There was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." In his last printed sermon ap pears the following: For the last thirty-five years I have been much of the time in crowds and under public scrutiny and amid excitements, and I have sometimes thought for a few weeks after I reach heaven I would like to go down in some quiet part of the realm, with a few friends, and for a little while try comparative solitude The Talmage sermon long ago be came a great feature of the secular press and will be greatly missed by many thousands of readers in this and other countries. HE Des Moines (Iowa) City railway says to the common council of that city that it will sell eight tickets for a quarter to be used on the street cars between 6 and 7 A. M. and p. M.pro vided of 30urse the city of Des Moines does not grant a franchise to any other street railway company. Well, now, how thoughtful. AT a frew York funeral the corpse came to life before the interment and the enterprising undertaker insisted on going on with the funeral as he con sidered the man legally dead, accord ing to the record of the health office. MC Wes i TtitE PMNCETON XTKION: THXTBSBAY APRlI?17ri902. COMBINATIONS OF CAPITAL. The great hardware, jobbing inter ests of the country are to be combined and made into one company with a capital of $120,(^00,000 of which $40,- 000,000 will be preferred and $80,000,- 000 common stock. The'combination will include such concerns as the Sim mons Hardware company at St. Louis, Bindle.y Hardware company of Pitts burg, William Bingham company of Cleveland, Supple Hardware company of Philadelphia, Pacific Hardware and Steel company of San Francisco, Mar shall-Wells Hardware company of Du luth, Bigelow and Dowse company of Boston, Vancamp Hardware and Iron company of Indianapolis, George Tritch Hardware company of Denver, Janney, Semple, Hill & Co., Minneapolis, and about fifty other houses, representing nearly every important trade center of the country. It will incorporate under the laws of New Jersey and have general head quarters at St. Louis, with eastern headquarters in New York. The Com- commenting on this immense consolidation says: "The real business of the sixty houses will be directed by a handful of men instead of by hundreds. For example, three or four buyers will do the work for the whole combination. At present there are hundreds of buyers employed by hardware concerns. The same elimin ation will apply to traveling men. Un der* the operation of the consolidation the twelve houses maintaining repre sentatives in the northwestern terri tory can call them in, as their occupa tion will be gone the moment the con solidation is ready for business. A direct effect of the scheme will be the closing of houses in some of the large cities. This action will be taken in a number of places where the business is now overdone. Mr. Bindley, of the Bindley Hardware company, Pittsburg is the man who conceived the idea of merging the hardware interests of the country.'* The growth and development of the vast industries and aggregations of capital seems to be the result of the inexorable laws of trade and commerce, and despite legislation and the cry of theorists and a class of "politicians the consummation of these vast projects will go on. The spirit of the age is condensation and consolidation. The elimination of all methods that are money losers, the weeding out of poor properties and th# building up and strengthening of those that are not on a paying basis. These systems of con solidations mean a system of great economy, and that labor is thrown out of employment is a mere incident. If the concentration of capital and busi ness energy results in lower prices'and better articles the people as well as the organizers will share in the beneficial results. If on the other hand prices are to remain stationary and the arti cles of manufacture are to be no better, then the benefits will inure Wholly to the organizers. If these combinations and consolidations have the power to arbitrarily and artificially control prices and the people have no redress whatever, then they are a menace to society and clearly in restraint of trade. It is claimed that the so-called beef trust or big packers and beef men have been and are to-day arbitrarily con trolling prices in violation of law and the federal authorities have taken the matter up to determine whether such is a fact or not. One phase of this question is very aptly put by Rev Sam Smith who says: "Fifty thousand men in the United States, perhaps not more, control the great trusts of the country. These fifty thousand men know that there are 75,000,000 of other people in America, and their wisdom teaches them where boundary lines are, over which they cannot go without peril to themselves and disaster to the public. No com bination now says 'damn the /public,' but they have their weathercocks out on every prominent cupola watching how the wind blows." Mr. Smith wisely says: "I am a thou sand times more afraid of demagogues and politicians than I am afraid of trusts and combines. Good govern ment^which means not only the well being of the citizen but the overthrow of all that will hurt the citizende pends upon good men in office, and in stead of shouting against trusts and combinations one should give more at tention to those whom we elect to office in the municipal, State and national government." This seems to be the whole thing in a nutshell. The people if they only knew it and could only realize it are all powerful and when acting intelli gently and with san eye single to the welfare of the nation are a mighty force in the face of which no power can stand unless it be one that serves the people as well as serving those who promoted and who master it. I RUM-INATIONS. Lawton, Kansas, has a race war. At the present time it looks dark for the whites. Gushers are getting so common in Texas that there is danger of their go ing up the spout. Venezuela is all torn'up over a revo lution while New York city is all torn up over the subway. The bucket shops have refused to pale into insignificance because of the warfare against them. Mrs. BinkProf. WinKs is so ab sorbed in his new study of plant life. His WifeYes, it does seem to agree with him, it seems to al-leaf-iate his pains., President Roosevelt has received from Chicago a retriever that is valued at $1,000. The dog ought to be good enough for a drug store as he is high priced bark. They were enjoying a few heart-to heart talks when the clock struck 2 A. M. and the old man's voice at the head of the stairs suggested I A. M. the whole thing around these premises and this court don't keep boarders if it knows itself and it thinks it does. Now that the dear people have no further use for coal the trust has re duced the price fifty cents a ton. The coal barons are very considerate, in deed and the reduction is inspired by philanthropic- motives, as the long suffering public can now use the extra fifty cents for ice. A young man up in the tall grass of Minnesota went to get his marriage license and he forgot his girl's name. In the confusion he got some other girl's name inserted in the license and the joke of it was he came near marry ing her. He would make a good match for the printer up in Maine who got married and went to house-keeping, but the first day after he was married he went to his old home for dinner, but his mental balance never slipped a cog after that for numerous and well authenticated reasons. TESTIMONIAL. Userworst Medicine Co After us ing one bottle of your Pulverized Pain Paralizer I have found great relief and am now able to milk seventeen cows before breakfast, besides pumping the water for thirty head of stock and a pail or two for the house. I have traded r&y windmill for an organ for Sal and a sewing machine for the old woman. Send me another bottle and I think the hired man will have to look for another job. Your Pink Pel lets for Poor People have made a new woman of my wife, and she has gained thirteen pounds in the last month, and does not step on the cat's tail for recreation any more. We also feed them to Fritz, our little son, whose stomach has not been able to stand sauerkraut and sour milk for some time. He is now able to eat raw oysters and if he keeps on I think we will be able to feed him on raw hide. Please send another gross of the Pel lets. Address Anton Hauserquist, Bloomerdale, Caliope county, Okla homa Ter. SANCTUai SUCCOTASH. Mrs. Elizabeth Seward, who has suc cessfully conducted the Stillwater Mes senger since the death of her husband ten years ago, died of heart disease last week. Along with the pasque flower and the Easter hat comes Bede's Budget which is now published at Duluth. It seems like a long-lost brother and now let us kill the fatted calf and rejoice. The Buffalo Journal prints a half tone cut of C. A. Pidgeon who is a candidate lor clerk of the supreme court. Pidgeon evidently hopes to be brought out better than the pressman did the cut. The St. Cloud Journal Press last week issued a map of Stearns county as a supplement to the paper. The map is a good one and the advertising fea ture was also good, which of course is the most important thing of all. A. W. Page of the Park Rapids Clip per, has purchased the interest of his partner, C. C. Doty, who has gone to Bemidji and started in the bakery business. There will be the same num ber of pages to the Clipper, while Mr. Doty will proceed to take the cake in his new field. H. P. Rising has sold the Faribault Journal to H. B. Smith and M. J. Stewart, of Lincoln, Neb., and will re move to California for the benefit of his health. Here's luck to the Lincoln boys and here's hoping thai Rising as he journeys toward the setting sun will find a renewal of youth. Take a Think. DID v, **._* Buggies and Wagons Farm and Garden Seeds Refrigerators Paints and Oils Oddfellow's Block. YOU EVER THINK ABOUT what kind of Coffee you drink9 Some of it is puresome im puresome no earthly goodsome is the very Dest, looks like amber and has the right taste W Keep that kind Fine assortment of choice, hardy stock for the farm and garden. Look over our assortment You will want one before long Ours are real chilly affairs as well as ice savers See our stock before buying Of the best quality, durable and make a fine finish Our line of Hardware is complete i all respects B. D. GRANT, 35c per pound WALKERS Q. K. CARLSON, Manager. ViVVVVVV%\VVVVVVVVVtVVVVVVVViVVVVVVVVViVVVVV NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL PRINCETON. MINN 'Phone 63 Centrally located Apartments light well heated and ventilated Trained nurses in at tendance Operating room fitted with all mo dern essentials for up-to-date surgery An in stitution fully equipped with every appliance and convenience for the care and treatment of the Invalid and the Sick, as Electrical Appara tus, Medical Baths, Massage, Swedish Move ment, etc. Contagious diseases not admitted Charges reasonable and according to needs of patient HENRY C. COONEY, D. Physician and Surgeon-in-Chief A. Gj, ALDRICH. M. D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Miss WINIFRED VANJ^OON, Superintendent Pianos Organs And Any style or grade. Old instruments taken in part payment Time given to suit purchasers Call and see new Pianos and Organs now on hand. Room 4, 2nd Floor I O O Block. Mrs. Guy Ewing, O.H.BUCK O.J. CRAVENS BUCK & CRAVENS, Blacksmiths. All kinds of Blacksmlthing neatly and promptly done. We make a specialty of HORSESHOEING and PLOW WORK. first street PRHGETOI. Princeton, Minn. ^v*^v***wwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwww* Wall Paper The largest assortment ever in Mille Lacs county. Oriental, French and American designs and colors. FREE SAMPLES if you write to us. State the size of your room and we will tell how much paper you will need for the room. We have a wall paper expert in charge of this department, thus it won't be necessary for you to go to the cities for wall paper, but call or write PRINCETON DRUG CO. (The Corner Drug Store.) Bg^ EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS FOR SALE. DR. ARMITAGE'S offices are over above store. Telephone so Hours 9 A to 12 30 2PM to 6PM wvwt www wvwwv wwwwwwvw^ww^-wwS E. HARK LIVE STOCK COnPANYi HOLDS REGULAR ?ITJCTIOI) SflLES AT PRINCETON ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH. Fifty Good Young Horses and Mules Constantly on Hand. Private Sales Daily. Time Given on Approved Paper. S E. MARK, Auctioneer. **v*v*wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwS PROFESSIONAL CARDS. C. TARBOX, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. County Physician of Mille Lacs county Surgeon of Great Northern R'y Office over Jack's Drug Store Telephone 18. Residence Cor Central ave and Oak street Princeton, Minn. ROSS CALEY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Pierson's Block Princeton Minn J.A. ROSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Carew Block, Mam Street Princeton. BUSINESS CARDS. |ALIHE & SMITH, BARBER SHOP & BATH ROOMS. A fine line of Tobacco and Cigars Main Street, Princeton. O A. ROSS, UNDERTAKER. Coffins and Caskets, from the cheapest to the best grades always on hand An embalming fluid used which brings dis colored corpses back to natural color Also dealer in granite and marble monuments. Princeton Minn. A. Princeton, Minn. C. SMITH, Dealer in FRESH AND SALT MEATS, Lard, Poultry, Fish and Game in Season. Telephone 51 Princeton, Minn. J. V. WICKLUND, UNDERTAKER, EMBALMER. A new and complete assortment of/coffins and caskets always on hand Bodies prepared and kept from discoloring, and full charge taken of funeral services, if desired. Tillhor ej nagon trust och tillverkar sjelf likkistorna. Office Main street, Princeton, Minn CLARK STURMAN, Tubular Well Contractor.TanksiStoc WiM Mills ana ale All kinds of Pumps, Wells and Wind Mills ^repaired. Anything in the well line promptly attended to. Charges reasonable Satisfaction guaranteed. PRINCETON, MINN T 3\ 4 ii i 1/ A 4* I! I