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S I THE PRINCETON UNION By R. C. DUNN. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. TERMS, $1.00 Per Year in, Advance. $1.25 If Not Paid in Advance. OFFICE FIRST S EAST OF COURT HOUSE. O. I. S1APLES, Business Manager. A. A. CASWEUU, Editor. HE legislaturefrom a Republican standpoint the least said about it the better. GEORGIA has again disgraced her belf by lynchings. The savageness of the mobs which executed the twoYork negroes near Palmetto causes one toCroker, shudder as he reads of their bloody deeds HE white man's burden 311st now is the fai mortgage, and judging from the way the farmers are shooting the wheat into the ground, the indications are that a good deal of the burden will be taken up OUR venerable friend, Pease, of the Union, who wigwagged oa good deal during the campaign of 1898, is back in the Republican party with both feet, and will probably never again wander from his own fireside HON JACOBSON, by hi-s fearless com e in the legislature, has made for himself many enemies But Mr Jacob son ha& lived long enough to know that the enmity of some people is prefera ble to their friendship W BRYAN IS said to be organis ing a pai ty which is to wipe Tammany o^ the political map About the only curiosity that this will excite is the mild wonder what Bryan will look like when the tiger gets through chewing him A LWV law passed by the legislature provides that dogs, who bark and snap at pedestrians and wheelmen on the street, may be shot as public nuisances by an order of a justice of the peace. The average citizen, however, will to shoot them in the old familiar way, with a convenient brick bat So far as the political aspect of the Jacob&on bill is concerned, we fail to see where the Democrats or Populists have any advantage of the Republi can According to their membership in the senate they were almost as largely responsible, as were the Re publicans, for the defeat of the bill WHATEVER else may be said of the bes&ion of the Minnesota legislature just closed it cannot be charged with reckless extravagance Its expendi tuies were only slightly in advance of the session of 1897, with five new mem berb of the house, and nine new sena tors, and were less than that of the session of 1895 HE retirement of Speaker Reed is the signal for the announcement of the candidacy of a whole school of smaller fish to be his successor. Mr. Reed was probably the greatest man that ever bat in the speaker's chair, and, judging from the tendencies of the times, and the indications thrown out by the daily press, he will be followed by one of the smallest. A MISSOURI judge has refused to lock up a jury while it was consider ing a case, declaring that a jury that was not honest enough to give a fair verdict without being under lock and key would not give a fair verdict any how. This is one case where a Mis souri judge proves his superiority to precedent, and takes an advance step that those of other states might follow. HE Seventh district did not get all it expected out of the legislature, and it has itself largely to blame for thesubsequent fact The Seventh district had a par ticularly strong Republican represent ation in the senate, and that body passed the legislation demanded by the district The house delegation was composed largely of Populists, and some not very strong Republicans, and the district suffered accordingly. HE St. Paul Dispatch pays Speaker Dare this handsome tribute: "Re- ferring to the speaker, it might be well to add that no occupant of the chair has ruled with a firmer, yet a more impartial, hand than A. N. Dare. During the three months of sharp, and sometimes bitter parliamentary war fare, not once did a member appeal from the decision of the chair. This fact speaks much for the eminent fair ness of the speaker. Some one had to be disappointed, yet in no instance did the defeated member attribute his turning down to anything save the honest judgment of the speaker. In the presentations made to the speaker yesterday, the sentiments expressed were not mere platitudes, but, on the contrary, were feelings honestly enter tained." SPEAKER DARE, Senator Barker and Hon. H. R. Mallette ably represented the Forty-fifth district in the* "recent session of the legislature. Mr. |)are inaoV an excellent presiding #kcer, and earned the respect of col leagues irrespective of party affilia tions. Senator Barker performed his duties in a painstaking 'and cdJijien tious manner, and Mr. Mallette has every reason to feel proud "of his record he ranked among the- leaders of the house. THERE is an investigation on in New looking into tfye doings of pick the Democratic boss, and it is now proposed that when the'committee shall have finished 'with Croker they will take up Tom Piatt, and find out something about what h has been do ing. These two worthies have done more to corrupt the politics of the Em pire State, than any other thousand men in it, and if they could both be sent to the chain gang, or the rock pile, it would be the best thing that ever happened to New York. HE legislatui'e made a great mis take in its refusal to pass the bill pro viding for a reduction in the rate of interest on deferred payments on school lands, The fusionists of the senate are said to have caucused on it, and agreed unanimously to oppose it, there were one or two votes for it from that source, and had the fusion ists even broke even on the vote they would have passed it. In summing up the work of the fusiomsts in the legis lature, it may be said that this was one of the bills that they defeated by their concerted action. THE enactment of a law lequinng that all taxes must be paid on State lands before 01 01 lumber can be removed from them under con tract with the State will mean much to the northein counties This law also gives to the State a hen on the timber and 01 foi the pay ment of taxes no matter where or in whose possession it may be found Auditoi Dunn is responsible for this law and it is only another instance of his faithful and intelligent labor in behalf of the interests in his charge Albert Lea Times The law applies to ALL lands. Lands chiefly valuable for their pine or min eral are, in most cases, not worth the taxes after the pine or mineral has been removed. The law in question will oblige owners of pine or mineral lands to pay taxes on the same before the lands are rendered practically valueless by the removal of the pine or mineral. THE RE is a lot of weeping and wail ing and gnashing of teeth over the failure of the administration to bring the Thirteenth regiment home. We believe that whatever there is of this whining sentiment in the regiment is confined to the officers, and that very few of the men are joining in it. A good many of these Shoulder strap fel lows imagined that it was going to be one delirious round of pleasure and picnicing, and when they found that they were mistaken they immediately began sending begging letters to come home. The men, oh the other hand, enlisted, not for $13 per month, but for the chance of a fight, and now that the fighting is in progress they are not the kind to break for the tall timber, and send word to their mamas to bring them home. BECAUSE Capt. Coghlan gave a vivid description of the scene between Admiral Dewey and the German officer and also at the urgent request of the guests present recited the favorite song of the tars, "Mineself und Gott," he is to be relieved from command and disgraced. The captain did not mis state any of the facts and had not the German commodore decided to take heed of the warnings of the fighting admiral of the American navy, the results would even now form a theme for a ballad more thrill ing than that which commemorates Perry's victory. Because Dewey was not called upon to sink those ships it ia now necessary for us to forget all theform attendant circumstances or fall into disfavor with the war department. Let us fall. THERE has been a lot of talk in the newspapers about the nefarious com bination between Hastings and Anoka on the hospital bill. All the combina tion there was consisted simply in an agreement between the friends of Hastings and those of Anoka that they would jointly support a bill providing for two hospitals, one at each place. Gov. Lind made a great show of op posing this "nefarious scheme," and wound up by signing the bill for two asylums, one at Hastings, and one at Anoka. There was nevor any sub stantial reason for his position, and he refrained from signing the first bill only because he was committed to the asylum instead of the hospital plan. But a hospital under the name of an asylum, will cost no less than it would if you called it a hospital. Gov. LIND vetoed the bill passed by the legislature providing for what was called the "perpetuation of testimony," in cases tried before the railroad and 'warehouse' commission. UndeT'tbe present law when a farmer or shipper has a complaint to' make before the commission he must take his witnesses to the railroad commission, after his testimony is all in he then submits to a hearing. If either the complainant or the railroad company appeals the case to the courts this has to be all gone over again, and the complainant has the expense and trouble of taking his witnesses down again, and going all over the case. The bill which the governor vetoed provided that this evidence once taken should be final, and that anyone desiring a rehearing it should be submitted to the court for retrial. The governor said in explan ation of the veto that this provision of the bill was possibly all right, but there were some other things about it that he did not like. This explanation will strike the farmer as being scarcely sufficient after all the trouble they have taken to get that kind of a law passed. It is in line with the gov ernor's declaration at the beginning of the session, that no legislation was needed relating to the railroad and warehouse commission. A NEGRO murderer and ravisher named Sam Hose wab inhumanly put to death by a mob near Newman, Georgia, Sunday. The wretch was chained to a tree, horribly mutilated with Knives in the hands of maddened white men and then literally roasted alive The black brute was deserving of no mercy, but the manner of his re moval was barbaric. Few, however, will bemoan the fate of Hose after reading this candid statement of facts by the conservative Atlanta Constitu tion, the leading paper of the South: The terrible expiation which Sam Hose was forced to pay for his crime will arouse a flood of discussion, cairied on by those who know the facts on the one side and by those who do not care for facts on the othei But, while the form of this criminal punishment cannot be upheld, let those who are disposed to.criticise it look into the factsand by these facts tem per the judgment they may rendei An unas suming, industrious and hardworking faimer, after his day toil, sat at his evening meal' Around him sat wife and children, happy in the presence of the man who was fulfilling to them every duty imposed by nature At peace with the world, serving God and loyal to humanity, they looked 01 ward to the coming day Noise lessly the murderer with uplifted ax advanced from the rear and sank it to the hilt in the biam of the unsuspecting victim Tearing the child from the mother breast, he filing it into the wool of blood oozing from its fathers wound Then began the culmination which has dethroned the reason of the people of western Geoigia dunng the past week As critics"Will howl about the lynching, the Constitution will be pardoned for stating plain facts The wife was seized, choked, thiown to the floor where hei clothes lay in the blood of her husband and assaulted Remembei the facts, lemember the daik night in the country home, remember the slain husband, and, abo\e all, remember that shocking degradation which was inflicted by che black beast, his victim swimming in her husband waim blood as the brute held her to theflooi Keep the facts in mind When the picture is painted of the victim in flames, go back and view that darker picture of Mrs Cranfoid in the blood of her murdeied husband iwwwviviwwvvww i^T EDITOR THE PBIKCETOy TJ^oM-fTH^BSDiY, IpBlfifcS 3Ay Paragraphs Collected at Our Exchange Table: NOT A BAD SESSION. The State legislature has adjourned and the people have drawn their long sigh of relief. As legislatures go it has not been a bad one and perhaps the amount of vicious work done "has been less than usual. Pew freak bills were introduced and none passed. Some good laws have been added to the code of the State. The State can endure a session once in two years, but it could better abide it if there were fewer adventurers and more statesmen in its statehouse Lumberman. $- KELLEY WASN'T INVITED. It may be "just the thing" for rein orators, candidates and wouldbe candidates to attend and toot their bazoos at luxurious and costly ban quets, while they area the same time aware of the extreme misery that pre vails in this land and of the thous ands of poor people who would be glad to have the crumbs that fall from the tables o' such political love-feasts. Yes, it may be just the proper caper for the aristocracy but we are can didly of the opinion that the honest reformer is sadly out of place at these Belshazzar feasts.J01 dan Independent. TIME TO EXPLAIN. Many of the Republican press have been straining themselves in their hurry to pat Gov. Lind on the back for his veto of the Anoka-Hastings bill. The burden of the song was that the vetoed bill was the result of a nefari ous combine between Anoka and Hast ings vto secure.* State, institutions, in the first place that was not the reason of the veto and in the second place Lind has signed the amended bill in Dixie's Land b^'-'%- lH* !$& "t BEFORE THE WAR.r A highly dramatic story, showing the lights and shadows of an era now fast passing into the dim distant past. j. $ ANOTHER BAD TRUST The oil stove manufacturers are working on a trust. Several oil stoves which have been trusted have left the kitchen through a hole in the roof when they were most needed to assist in ripening the mid-day meal.Walsh County Hecord. CHOLLY AT HOME. The Washington Post, commenting upon the newness of Charles A. Towne's democracy, refers to him as "the read ingout clerk of the party." If the Post could get up close enough to Cholly to get him under the microscope it might learn some other things about him. In Washington he is a whale, in Chicago he diminishes to the proportions of a salmon, and by the time he gets back to Minnesota it would take a remark ably fine webbed minnow net to catch him.St. Paul Dispatch. $ NOT ALWAYS TO BE SPOKEN. Capt. Coghlan, who told about the way Admiral Dewey "called down" the German naval officers at Manila, is to be relieved of the command of the Raleigh, according to a Washington dispatch. And yet Capt. Coghlan only told the truth.Duluth Herald. T. H. Caley has received another carload of buggies which make the finest display that has ever been made Princeton. His covered carriages are particularly fine, and when you buy cme you can bank on it that you are not riding in an auction sale rig that is liable to break down at any moment. One of the best things is a two seat with the genuine oscillating gearsomething new and well worth seeing. Anyone interested in shorthand can learn something to his advantage by calhngonWm.Cordiner at the pos office. About 100 Oddfellows and Rebekahs' went to Milaca last night on a special train to assist the lodges of that vil lage to celebrate the eightieth anni versary of the founding of the I. O. O. F. The train left this depot at 5 o'clock and on arrival there the Princeton people were met by the local committee and after the first greetings were seated at tables bountifully spread. Prom then until morning joy reigned supreme and when the early train arrived in Princeton they were a tired but happy lot. Milaca treated them right royally and this trip will be long remembered by all who partic ipated in it. S&-X1 1 READ IT!/ fts it Will Surelu Please you. Be Sure and Read It! which gives the Anoka-Hastings com bine what it wanted all the time. The governor secured what he wished, the adoption of the policy of separating the chronic from the acute insane. The "nefarious combine secured what it wanted, two State institutions and the fulsome flatterers of Gov. Lind have secured a chance to explain where Lind's brave and courageous thrust at the "nefarious and unholy alliance" comes in.Freeborn Times. LEE A PLAGIARIST. There is something very familiar about the tone and style of Governor Lee's letter to President McKinley, demanding the return of the South Dakota volunteers from the Philip pines. Is it possible that he had be fore him when he wrote it a copy of the letter written by the Knights of the Golden Circle to President Lin coln demanding the immediate suspen sion of the hostilities involved in the invasion of the southern states? The similarity of the two are very great. His party should be proud of him. Madelia Messent/o. ^gf ^_y ^_ \kl to to to to to to to to to to to to to Ml^Grl^^^*Sa^fla^i^fc'^BB'^^aww^L^^a^J^ahJ^a^J^a^i^^aw*^--" Wash Goods I Steel Frame Harrows, Spring Tooth Harrows Seeders and Drills, Cultivators, Buggies,Etc. n^Iil-fi K- \ijr I a 'VfM Corsets to Just received from the manufacturer a full line of famous Jackson Corset and Corsets Waists. This is as good a corset as there is on the market to-day, and we have them for ,50U5C, $1.00 0HII $1.25. Remember these are all this season's goods made up in the latest styles. Are you prepared for Spring? %27Av bee a, 6 gOGd E & Shirt Waists bought in carload lots at the lowest cash' S PRINCETON HARDWARE COMPANY. *?*333S3S33SS3333333333.S For30 Days Only A stock of Hats direch factories in the froem the manufacturer, bs a fresh stock of Suits and Pants, and Shoes ITSSL 1 ome United States-these are some of the induce ments offered at Mark's Great Bargain Store. The greatest inducement, however, is the price which we have made on these articles. Save~333 1 per cent By Purchasing of us. We deal directly with the factories and save our customers the middlemen's profit. In some lines of Shoes we do even betterwe sell $6.00 Shoes for $3.50. Come in and see them. No other dealers car ries the famous Copeland Ryder shoe. & MARK, the square dealer. THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL, H. NEWBERT, Proprietor. :,*:-'^H.v |-TS Hfr- Tlie ladies of Princeton are invited to call,,and see our new line of wash gq^ds, all the newest and prettiets patterns and colors., The season for cool garments will soon be here and you should be prepared. Our line of Shirtwaists has sold so rapidly that it is now somewhat low, but we are getting new lots almost every day. Don't fail to call and in spect our stock. Our ready made skirts this season are winners. BR05, Wagon so cheap that you can't affort to repair tne^ld ?ne I WE ALSO SELL=-^+ We^n a^-fcff Or Or Or Or 7V- MINNESOTAI ~*A&fri t%*y i?fff, i,rn i iTi|in .^^^a^jBMiia^i