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THE PRINCETON UNION
BY R. O. DUNN.
Poblial&ecl Every Tl&ursclay.
TERMS$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
S1.25 I NOT PAID IN ADVANCE.
OFFICE: FIRST ST.. EAST OF COURT House.
G. I. STAPLES,
Business Manager.
THOS. H. PROWSE,
Editor.
H. J. Maxfield has accepted the po
sition of commissioner of immigra
tion. We thought he would.
Some people who claim to be re
publicans can't forgive Ed Smith for
onducting a successful campaign in
1910.
On Monday the water wagon had a
particularly heavy load but on Tues
day, more's the pity, there was many
a vacant seat.
Is it not about time that the presi
dent whispers in the ear of the secre
tary of agriculture, "Jim, you had
better send in your resignation?"
Tom Johnson once upon a time
said, "The greatest of all privileges
is that of having another man pay
your taxes." But, alas, it is only
the rioh who eDJoy that privilege.
If the majority of the people of the
United States want a change in the
national administration they will
have it. The country survived two
terms of Grover Cleveland's regime.
"They say" Governor Eberhart
talks too much. His predecessor
talked some, too. What was a virtue
in Governor Johnson is a fault in
Governor Eberhart. "Consistency,
thou art a jewel."
Russia, through its council of min
isters, has ordered the Salvation
army to leave the country. And,
heaven well knows, there is not a
country on the face of the earth that
needs salvation more than benighted
Russia.
This is leap year, and consequently
it is consistent with the conventionali
ties for spinsters to make proposals
of marriage, but in so doing they
should proceed cautiously lest, meta
phorically speaking, they leap from
the frying pan into the fire.
Press dispatches from Rome convey
the semi-official information that the
pope will hold another consistory and
create several new cardinals. Nothing
would please Minnesotans more than
to see Archbishop John Ireland in
cluded among those selected.
Ere long Russia will gobble up
Mongolia and Persia will be com
pelled to give up part of its territory
to the same power, while England will
snatch the remainder. Italy has
stolen Tripoli and the peace movement
is evidently making rapid headway!
If they had woman's suffrage in old
bible days what would have been
Solomon's chances?Belle Plaine
Herald.
Chances? The chances are that he
would have been dewhiskered, de
prived of his cranial hirsute, mace
rated and cast into the family well.
An annulment of the marriage of
Count Boni de Castellane and the no
torious Anna Gould, now the duchess
ot Sagan, has been very properly re
fused by the pope. In the eyes of the
church the Gould woman is a bigamist
and de Sagan consequently an
adulterer.
Another fellow has been captured
carrying around dynamite. His
name is George Bridges and he had
72 sticks of the combustible in his
possession while sauntering through
the streets of Monessen, Pa. It was
of course carried in a suitcase. The
suitcase must go!
Our good friend, the Elk River
Star-News, has it that a "slate" has
been arranged that contains the name
of the publisher of the Union for
lieutenant-governor, and that the deal
was consummated a year ago. This is
interesting if true, but, in all sinceri
ty, it is news to us.
Had Methuselah been a packer they
might have convicted him before he
died of old age.La Crosse Tribune.
No Methuselah would scarcely
have been convicted. According to
the present-day method of measuring
"time he had not reached the age of
one hundred years when he was
gathered to his fathers.
Mike Davis, the yeggman, has been
found. He is serving an inde
terminate sentence in a Michigan
prison for robbing a pogtoffice. So,
after all, it seems that Mike was not
the mere will o' the wisp that many
people believed him to be. Mike's
discovery will probably have an im
portant bearing on the Dumas case.
Members of the Baptist church at
Salem, Mass., of which Richeson, the
alleged murderer of Avis Linnell, was
pastor, has started a campaign to
have all local papers enjoined from
printing details of the trial. While
the testimony in such cold-blooded
murders is unfit for publication, this
is no reason why an exception should
be made in the case of Richeson.
It has been suggested by the chair
man of the central social service com
mittee of Minneapolis that the federa
tion of church clubs of that city
organize a patrol squad to ferret out
blind pigs. A good suggestion,' for
doubtless members of the federation
are possessed of noses particularly
adapted to this kind of work. Being
temperance men, they could smell a
blind pig three blocks away.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, instigator of the
Chinese revolution and the man who
consumed 15 years in perfecting plans
for the overthrow of the Manchu
dynasty, has been elected president of
the new Chinese republic and Nanking
has been chosen as the capital. The
complete overthrow of the imperialists
will in all probability be accom
plished within a short time, but not
until then will the new republic be
recognized by the powers.
President and Mrs. Taft should
have known better. Had they not
permitted their hands to be grasped
by all sorts and conditions of men
and women, among them prize fighters
and Amazons, on New Year's day
they would not now be suffering from
temporary elephantiasis of their right
paws. However, Mr. Taft will no
doubt tell you that the word "ele
phantiasis" sounds good to him.
A measure has been introduced in
the Russian duma which provides for
the absolute exclusion of all American
Jews from the dominion of the czar.
We could of course go Russia one
better by excluding all Muscovites
from the United States, but it would
be a poor way of taking revengeit
would be a movement against the
down-trodden people of Russia who
seek to better their condition by emi
grating to the United States instead
of against the czar.
Brother Macdonald of the St. Cloud
Times was until recently also num
bered among those who view with sus
picion the suitcase, but his fears nave
been dispelled. Here is what he says:
We entertained such a suspicion as
to suitcases until a couple of days
ago, when a stranger entered the
sanctum carrying a heavy suitcase.
We were about to retreat when he
opened it, brought forth a 12-pound
turkey, and laid it on the editor's
table. Bring on your suitcases
who's afraid?"
Dr. Mary Walker, who for many
years has habilimented herself in
men's raiment, attributes many cases
of insanity to the pressure of collar
buttons upon the neck. Whether this
is true or not, every man who wrestles
with the collar button knows it is
provocative of unparliamentary
language and an infernal nuisance
therefore, if Mary has invented a new
device for hooking on her linen stand
up, she would confer a boon upon
suffering, cursing humanity by mak
ing her discovery known.
Our Dumb Animals, published at
Boston by the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals, is a work that has accomplished
an incalculable amount of good. It
is a publication which should find its
way into every home in the country
the children would grow better by
perusing its articles. They would
learn to love and treat with more
kindness the so-called inferior ani
mals and the birds. There is no
better publication that parents could
secure for their children than Our
Dumb Animals, and many parents
could read it to advantage them
selves.
THE FftlNCETCMSr TTNTOH: ^T
Chief Justice Start of the state su
preme court announces that he will be
a candidate to succeed himself. A
more high-minded, painstaking and
conscientious judge than Charles M.
Start never adorned a judicial bench.
Chief Justice Start and Justice Bunn
should be nominated by acclamation
in the republican state convention,
and they should have no opposition
at the polls.
In his annual report the first
assistant postmaster general recom
mends the enactment of a law which
shall provide for the compensation of
all postal employes, including letter
carriers, who shall sustain injuries
while engaged in the performance of
their duties, providing, however, such
injuries are not the result of negli
gence on their part. The recommen
dation is a good one and congress
should not fail to enact such a
measure.
Governor Osborn of Michigan wants
Taft and La Follette both to retire
from the contest for the republican
nomination for the presidency and
leave the way clear for Roosevelt or
Beveridge of Indiana. The Wiscori
sin senator declines to retire and the
president's fighting blood is aroused,
for he declares that "Nothing but
death can keep me out of the fight."
There is every indication that there
will be right smart of a skirmish at
Chicago next June.
In his Commoner, William J. Bryan
flays Governor Harmon of Ohio, de
claring that he is playing a dual role
in democratic politics and that he is
supported by Wall street in his as
pirations for the presidential nomina
tion. Evidently Mr. Bryan has not
forgotten Grover Cleveland's connec
tion with Wall street and he does not
want to see another man of his stamp
get into the white house. But there
are no grounds for worry on this
scorethe next president- will be a re
publican in the person of William H.
Taft.
The sons of Erin who "played a
joke" on Paul Schultz at Waterbury,
Conn., by voting for him at the presi
dential election of the Ancient -Order
of Hibernians are now kicking* them
selves with hobnailed boots. SehUltz,
a dispenser of Wienerwurst and saur
kraut, was elected. He has proven,
however, that one of his grand
mother's great grandmothers was
Irish, but the O'Flahertys, McGin
nises, the Mahoneys and other
genuine sons of the Green Isle de
clare they will see, be jabers, that no
such "joke" is played upon a Dutch
man again.
It is intimated that Frank Day has
tired of Montana and is coming back
to Minnesota to run the democratic
machine. Frank is a fairly good
machinist, provided he is well
supplied with oil to grease the ma
chinery. In the' four campaigns in
which Mr. Day figured largely he had
barrels of "oil" at his command,
used it freely and was successful in a
measure. But in the fifth campaign
which Frank conducted for the demo
cratsthe 1910 fiascothe "oil
furnished by the county optionists
was scant, thin and watery and he
suffered a disastrous defeat. All of
which goes to prove that unless Frank
is provided with a generous supply of
"grease" he is not a formidable po
litical general.
The acquittal of Isaac Harris and
Max Blanck by a jury in New York
appears from the evidence introduced
at the trial to be a miscarriage of
justice. These men operated the
Triangle Shirtwaist factory, a firetrap
sweatshop of the worst type, in which
147 poor girls lost their lives last
March. They were virtually prison
ers in the upper rooms of the structure
when the fire which, destroyed them
started. Some of the doors were
locked and the means of exit were
entirely inadequatethey were caught
like rats in a trap and then roasted to
death. Harris and Blanck were in
dicted by a grand jury, tried on a
charge of manslaughter and
acquitted! Had those men, or rather
sweatshop slavedrivers, been tried by
a conscientious judge instead of by a
jury, the outcome would doubtless
have been differentthey would have
been given a sentence which would
conform with the evidence.
BSDAY/JTJ^TTABY 4, mi2.
Corporations, it is said, are soul
less, but the Duluth Labor World tells
of a generous one. Paul Peterson,
the father Of seven motherless chil
dren, lost his life in a mine accident.
Under the law at the time of the oc
currence of the accident the highest
amount the company could be com
pelled to pay was $5,000, provided it
was held that Peterson lost his life
through the negligence of the mining
company. But the Oliver Mining
company, a subsidiary of the United
States Steel corporation, made a
voluntary settlement whereby the
children get $5,000, paid up $700 of
debts of the family, and each child
will receive $10.00 per moiith addi
tional until each has attained legal
age21 years. It was a generous
settlement and reflects credit upon the
company.
It is to be hoped that Governor
Eberhart will exercise great care in
selecting a new member of the state
highway commission to succeed Mr.
L. W. Hill. If we could reach the
governor's ear we would urge him to
select the best man obtainable for the
position regardless of his political
predilections. Pick out a practical
man, governor one who is heart and
soul for good roads a broad-gauge
man who can take a state-wide view
of the great question of road-improve
ment one who is not partial to any
section but who will act for the best
interests of the entire state one who
believes in better roads from the
farms to the farmert' nearest market
towns. Above all things, governor,
do not appoint a visionary, im
practicable man to the place.
According to census figures just
made public the Germans lead in the
number of foreign born inhabitants of
the United States, Russia and Fin
land come next, the Irish are third,
Italians fourth, and Norway, Sweden
and Denmark combined are fifth. In
1910 the foreign-born population in
this country was 13,342,500 of which
2,499,200 were Germans, 1,706,900
Russian and Finnish, 1,351,400 were
Irish, 1,4318,00 Italian, 1,250,500 were
Swedes, Norwegians and Danes,
1,198,000 were Canadians, and 121,400
were frdm Great Britain.
A TOAST FOK THE NEW YEAR.
Oh, here's to the man who determines
To make the world follow his way'
Reforms all the things that are evil
And makes the bad better each day'
Yet a soft predilection we'll grant you
(If put through a rigorous quiz)
We feel for a man
Who makesas he can
The best of the world as it is
They say the "world captains are toilers
Who kick up the dust as they go
So here's to these valiant reformers
May they have meager portion of woe'
We're glad of the things they are doing
With wagon's hitched tight to a star
But here's to the scouts
Who don't stay at outs,
With the old world of things as they are'
This pledge then we're making for New Year's
In a glass of the crystalline pure
We may not be cut out for great ones
No world beaters usthat is sure'
But though we're not much on the muck rake
That pokes up the slime and the rot
We'll pledge as we stand
To hold out the hand
To the plucky old world that we've got'
Quentin in Minneapolis Tribune
PROGRAM OF EXAMINATIONS
FOR
Common School Certificates.
February 8th, 9th and 10th, 1912.
At Princeton, Mifaca and
Wahkon.the
Thursday, February 8th.
(riRST GRADE STUDIES
A. M.8 00 Enrollment
8 30 Geometry
10 15 Physics
P. M.1 15 Algebra
2 45 Physical Geography or General
History.
4 15 Agricu'ture.
Friday, February 9th.
(SECOND GRADE STUDIES
A. M.8 00 Enrollment
8 30 Professional Test.
9.30 Sp lliDg.
10 00 Arithmetic
M1 15 Geography
2 15 Composition.
3 30 Reading.
4 30 Penmanship
Saturday, February lOth.
(SECOND GRADE STUDIES
A. 8 00 S History
9 45 English Grammar.
11 30 Music
M1 15 Physiology-Hygiene,
2 45 Civics.
4 00 Drawing.
If Professional Test consumes less than 60
minutes, Spelling and Arithmetic may begin
not to exceed 30 minutes earlier
If Composition, Beading, Physiology-Hy
giene or Civics do not require the full time, the
remaining time may be used for the subjects
that follow. GUT EWING,
o2-3tc County Superintendent.
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OPINIONS OF EDITORS
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Another Bouquet.
Another thing about Minnesota is
that a failure in the ice crop is un
known.Bemidji Pioneer.
Contain More Venom Than a Cobra.
There is only one species of biped
which is more objectionable in a com
munity than a perpetual grouch, and
that is the speoies to which belong the
blatherskite and liar.Red Wing
Daily Eagle.
Simpson and Ed. Smith
Attorney General Simpson at
tributes his retirement to private life
to Ed Smith. A few more boosts like
this and Ed will find himself one of
the most popular men in the state.
Bemidji Pioneer. A Reminder for Mary.
We desire to remind our friend
Mary McPadden that soon it will be
leap year, and no doubt she knows,
that according to a very ancient
custom, women have the privilege of
proposing, if they happen to meet the
right man.Stillwater Gazette.
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Where the ''Bosses" Rule.
The Hokah Chief points out that in
Wisconsin, that model state of politi
cal reform, the delegates at large to
the national republican convention
have been selected and announced,
although the primary (that gives the
people such wonderful opportunities)
will not be held until April for elec
tion of these delegates. The organi
zation that has Wisconsin by the
throat says who is who and the people
must say "me, too. "Preston Times.
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A Newspaper Nabob.
Editor Elmer E. Adams of the
Fergus Falls Journal will leave in a
few days with his family to spend the
remainder of the winter in California,
and has purchased a new automobile
and had it shipped to that state for
his personal use. Only railroad
presidents, trust magnates and news
paper men can afford such luxuries
but Elmer is entitled to all the good
things coming his way. We wish him
a pleasant vacation, and a safe re
turn.St. Cloud Journal-Press.
No Reason to Feel Ashamed of Them.
We hear much comment regarding
the speaking tours of the present
governor. It is of the same nature
and tone as that indulged in by the
political enemies of the late Governor
Johnson. For one, I am glad that
the people have elected two governors
of whom the state at large has no
reason to be ashamed at home or
abroad. They are a credit to the
state in the biggest functions of a
commercial nature where business,
brains, and dignity count for some
thing.H. P. Constans in Blue Earth
Post.
Picayune "Progressive" Politics
In his message the president took a
stand which is to be commended and
if congress were to take action in the
iuterest of the people it would follow
his recommendations with legislation
which would prove of great benefit.
But it seems that small politics is to
be the rule in Washington this winter,
and there are some of the so-called
progressives who are evidently doing
what they can to help such a move
along for fear the president might re
ceive some benefit from a business
session.Albert Lea Times-Enter
prise.
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BlgT Interests Doing Reasonably Well.
Attorney General Simpson in his
celebrated interview says one reason
why he would like to be governor was
the chance to unite the railroads and
the other big interests which he
opined would bring prosperity to the
state. The railroads and the interests
have succeeded reasonably well, and
do not seem to be in any great need
of a special ft iend in the governor's
office. There area few people outside
railroads and the interests who
think the chief executive should be
free to act for the people as a whole,
and to protect their interests. The
time for railroad and corporation
governors has slid back into the past
and there let it remain.St. Cloud
Journal-Press.
A Peculiar Culmination.
M. A. Carlson's Christmas gift to
his daughter, Minnie, who is clerking
in a store at Barnesville, was a
Triumph potato, wrapped in silver I
paper. To Minnie, however, it was of
much significance. It meant an ap
preciation of the fact that she had
made goodthat she had triumphed.
But the best part of the story is per
haps thisat least Mr. Carlson
thinks so: Minnie exhibited her
unique Christmas present to her em
ployer, who, after carefully examin
ing it, asked whether her father could
furnish a carload of potatoes of like
quality. Minnie wrote to her father
and the carload was forwarded.
Herbert Fisher, who was home from
Oberly college, Ohio, for the holidays,
returned on Tuesday to resume his
studies.
"/'"IP tpiliWWIII
GREATEST BIBLE
COLLECTION
General Theological Seminary
of New York Has It
MORE THAN 1,200 SPECIMENS
A $15,000 Copy of the Gutenberg Bible
the Most Interesting and Valuable.
Curiosities of Some of the Early Edi-
tionsDean Hoffman's Gifts.
In the General Theological seminary.
New York, is to be seen the largest and
most complete collection of Bibles in
this country, probably in the world.
The valuable collection originated
With John Pintard, who started it by
purchasing the volumes from his own
funds and from funds he collected for
the purpose He secured several im
portant copies, including one of the fa
mous Jay polyglot edition, but the col
lection remained inadequate in both
numbers and importance of the Bibles
until 1893, when the Copinger collec
tion was announced for sale. The late
Dean Hoffman then interested the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the two men
purchased the collection and presented
it to the seminary.
The collection was now the largest in
the world in its number of editions,
but still many important Bibles were
not represented. Dean Hoffman under
took to make it complete and person
ally visited old bookshops in London
and on the continent, poring over old
folios and following up suggestions
from bibliophiles. He purchased sev
eral valuable editions, among them a
copy of the famous Gutenberg Bible of
1450, the first book printed from mov
able metal types, for which he paid
$15,000.
All the Bibles purchased for the col
lection since 1893 have been the gift of
Dean Hoffman, and since his death his
son, S. V. Hoffman, has continued con
tributions to add to it. The collection
is not confined to Latin Bibles, but in
cludes a representative collection of
English Bibles, a valuable collection of
Greek Testaments, copies of the Bible
in Hebrew, Syriae and polyglot and in
most of the modern languages.
1,206 Different Editions.
At the last formal enumeration of
the collection, though many valuable
additions have since been made, there
were 1,206 different editions of Bibles
in 2,373 volumes. Of these there were
555 Latin editions in -1.055 volumes, 93
polyglot editions in 527 volumes. 302
editions of the New Testament, chiefly
in Greek 90 editions of the Hexapla.
Codices, etc.
The most interesting and valuable
book, of course, is the Gutenberg copy,
printed at Mainz, 1450-55, by Johannes
Gutenberg. Two copies of this book
were features of the recent Hoe li
brary sale, one printed on vellum and
one on paper, but the latter is not con
sidered equal to the seminary copy,
which is also printed on paper.
There is a Bible of 14G2. the first
printed Bible with a date, which is
both an interesting and a beautiful
specimen. It was printed by Fust &
Schoeffer of Mainz and is practically
a reprint of the first Bible, for Fust,
who was a wealthy goldsmith, had
loaned Gutenberg money for his enter
prise, and later, when he brought suit
to recover his loan, he got possession
of Gutenberg's types and presses.
In all the early printed Bibles there
are no title pages, the printer's im
print being affixed at the end, usually
immediately following the Apocalypse
All edittions of the Vulgate have the
prologue of St. Jerome preceeding each
book or set of books. In the early
printed editions the commentary of
Nicolas de Lyra was included in the
text of the Bible, the te^t being print
ed in double column in the middle of
the page, with the commentaries ar
ranged all around
"Poor Man's Bible."
As is known the art of printing
quickly spread from Mainz through
Germany to Switzerland, France and
Italy, and before the end of the fif
teenth century there were*no fewer
than 124 editions of Bibles in Latin
alone. All the earliest were printed in
Gothic letter in folio size, but in 1491
there was published at Basel an oc
tavo edition known as the "Poor Man's
Bible." Thp copy of this closely print
ed little bock to be seen at the semi
nary is most interesting, for, though
it looks squeezed up in its effort to be
compact and of smaller cost, so as to
be within common reach, it had to be
illuminated after some fashion, fol
lowing the .astom of the day. So all
the capital letters are marked through
with a line of red, put in by hand aft
er the printing
Many of the specimens have beauti
fully illuminated initial letters and.
marginal decorations. One interesting
copy, which has been acquired rather
recently, shows on close examination,
that the original initial decoration on
the first page has been cut out and a
substitute carefully inserted, employ
ing common gilt instead of gold leaf.
What the motive could have been is
not clear, as the theft of the gold leaf
would have brought but a trifle. The
interesting point is that in the numer
ous descriptions that have been made
of the book, dated 1590. no mention,
has ever been made of this substitu
tion, which was first brought to light
after it came into possession of the
seminary.
Other specimens have beautiful type
and paper, others quaint woodcuts.
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