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THE PRINCETON UNION
BY R. C. DUNN.
Published Every Thariday
TERMSS1.oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
$1.25 I NOT PAID IN ADVANCE.
OFFICE: FIRST ST., EAST OF COURT HOUSE.
0. I. STAPLES, THOS. H. PROWSE,
Business Manager. Editor.
At last the electoral vote has been
opened, counted and verihed, and
Woodrow Wilson now knows positive
ly that he on the race in the presi
dential campaign.
"Billy'' McEwen, publisher of the
Labor World, is a candidate for may
oi oi .Duluth. If elected Mr. Mc
Ewen would no doubt give the city a
businesslike administration.
Those starvation stunts which the
militants are performing in the Lon
don jails ought to take some of the
ginger out of them, but it only tends
to make them more ferocious.
It will cost $18 a minute to tele
phone from New York to San Fran
cisco over the new direct line, and
even then your voice will be "pied"
when it reaches its destination.
Dr. Wiley, who is now waging war
against unclean advertising, says
that '"the religious papers are the
woist offenders." A case of coveiing
up dirt with the cloak of religion.
A Nome cablegram tells us that
starvation and disease are combining
to exterminate the Alaskan Indians.
Reads as if the deadly germ of the
Clapp "rider" had been injected in
to their midst-
]STow
some old fogy Indiana senator
has introduced a bill to prohibit Sun
day baseball. There is no more
harm in Sunday baseball than there
is in Sunday fishingin fact there is
no harm in either.
For some reason or other the
secret seivice guard of Woodrow
Wilson has been doubled. For a man
without a known enemy Mr. Wilson
must feel particularly uncomfortable
with a lot of sleuths tagging him
around.
The state house of representatives
went on record last week as opposed
to the dispensing of intoxicating
liquor in the capitol. This will not,
however, prevent the temperance
committee's room from giving oft its
usual aroma.
Earthquake tremors were lelt at
Millinrocket, Maine, the other day.
Almost anything might be expected
to happen in a place with a name of
that sort even if the people did not
keep a young and vigorous brand of
rum concealed in their cellars.
Some fool editor of a down east
paper sajs that congressmen are
overworkedthat a law should be
passed giving them an eight-hom
dav. An eight-hour week appears
to cover the extent of their "ar-
duous"' labors at the present time.
Geoige F. Authier, a Minneapolis
newspaper man, has been appointed
to succeed Ralph Wheelock as private
secretary to Governor Ebeihart.
Mr Authier will make a good man
for the place and the governor has
made no mistake in appointing him.
The Minneapolis Y. M. C. A. is
giving a course of instruction in
poultij raising to suburbanites.
The great trouble is that when these
suburbanites raise chickens the
chickens in turn will raise hades
with the seed beds in the neighbors'
gardens.
Dress goods, guaranteed to last a
hundred years, are now being manu
factured from spun glass and mace
rated rock. This would make it pos
sible for a married man to cut down
the high cost of living if he could in
duce his wife to have her costumes
made from such material. But he
can't.
Representative Berger, the lone
socialist congressman, introduced a
resolution in the house on Saturday
which proposed government owner
ship of railroads. Berger is merely
wasting time. He has been in con
gress long enough to know that
neither house is so constituted that
it will indorse such a resolution.
.tftf,"
Woodrow Wilson is a wise man.
He has announced that he will not
make public the names of his cabinet
members until he sends them to the
senate for confirmation on March 4.
By taking this course Mr. Wilson
avoids the avalanche of protests and
appeals to reconsider which would
descend upon him were he to give
out the names at this time.
An offer has been made by the
United States government to expend
$10,000 on a model post road in Min
nesota, and the matter is now up to
the state highway commission to
select a route. W hile $200 per mile
is not much to expend on an under
taking of this sort, every little helps,
as the old lady said when she swelled
the ocean with her tears at low tide.
Missouri's supreme court has re
fused to modify the judgment of
ouster against the Standard Oil com
pany, and hence the original order
driving the company from the state
stands. This will probably not make
any material difference to the Stand
ard Oil company. A trust that can
not operate an "independent" con
cern, or half a dozen of them, in a
state is a rarity.
Rev. M. S. Rice, in a sermon at
Duluth last Sunday, declared gossip
to be the meanest of sins. There is
no room for argument on this decla
ration for the statement is absolutely
correct. The opinion generally pre
vails, however, that calumnious gos
sip is practically confined to women.
This is not so. There are he-gossips
in every community whose tongues
are afoam with venom.
The London Times experienced a
tremendous shock to its system the
other day when it discovered that,
while England and some of the other
great powers have their field glasses
trained on the Balkans, Russia is
stealthily gobbling up Persia. The
Times must be densely ignorant of
Russia's foreign policy to suppose
that she would fail to embrace an
opportunity of this sort.
A mince pie, packed in a miniature
tireless cooker, was received in St.
Paul from Chicago by parcel post
the other day and when it arrived
at its destination it was ready to
serve hot. We may next expect to
find miniature incubators, contain
ing eggs which will undergo the
process of hatching during transmis
sion, to be sent through the parcel
post. There is no limit to the possi
biliites of the system, ladies and
gentlemen
The president of the National
Cash Register company has been
sentenced to serve a year in jail and
to pay a fine of $5,000 for violation
of the Sherman law, and 28 other
defendants to terms ranging from
nine months to a jear behind the
bars. To impose jail sentences for
violation of the anti-trust law is the
proper and onl way to eradicate
combines in restraint of tradethe
mere imposition of fines will not
remedy the evil.
An attempt will be made to im
munize the seventeen hundred
patients at the Fergus Falls insane
asylum to the attacks of typhoid by
compulsory vaccination. As many
of the hospital attendants who so
desire may also have the vaccine in
jected into them. This experiment
looks like taking an undue advantage
of poor unfortunates whose protests
would avail them nothingwho are
entirely ignorant of the nature of
the experimentation.
There are strong indications that
a stormor perhaps it would be
more correct to say a battleis brew
ing for inauguration in Washington.
According to press dispatches dele
gations of female antisuffragists
from 16 states will endeavor to head
off the parade of the suffragettes
which is scheduled to take place up
on the day preceding the president's
inauguration. I would be a shame,
indeed, were the peaceable army of
suffragettes to be subjected to inter
ference by the antis, but if such a
clash does take place it is safe to
wager that there will be an exciting
period of hairpulling and a ruthless
destruction of "rats."
Young Vincent Astor has decided
to follow agriculture as his life work,
not as a means of adding to his mil
lions but for the purpose of benefit
ting humanity. I shall begin,"
said he to Governor Sulzer of New
York, his personal adviser, "by con
verting my big farm down along the
Hudson river, which my father nevar
did anything with, into an experi
mental tract, to be conducted along
scientific lines, and everything done
there will be told to the people of
the country. I am not going to
waste my life, and if 1 can accom
plish something beneficial to human
ity I shall consider myself well re-
paid." Mr. Astor is a sensible
young man and is setting an excel
lent example to other rich men's
sons who inherit millions.
THE PRINCETON UNION: THtlBSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1913.
Joaquin Miller, the poet of the
Sierras, is dead. He wrote many
soul-stirring poems which were
imbued with the spirit of the Pied
mont hills in the Sierra Nevadas,
where, with his wife and daughter,
Juanita, he lived in a log cabin built
by him many years ago. Miller also
wrote several plays, the most suc
cessful of which was "The Danites."
The tuberculosis serum discovered
by Dr. Burgan of Minneapolis, with
which experiments are being made,
promises to prove of great benefit to
consumptives. Dr. Burgan, at the
sacrifice of his personal professional
practice beon the bare necessities
of earning a living, has spent years
in an endeavor to find relief and cure
for the white plague, but, unlike
Friedmann of Berlin, he is not boast
ing to the world of a discovery which
has not been thoroughly tested. All
he says is that he does not know
whether his serum will cure tuber
culosis, but that it has shown re
markable results in eliminating
symptoms.
Death of Robert A. Smith.
Robert A. Smith, former mayor of
St. Paul, died on the evening of Feb
ruary 12 in his apartments at the
Marlborough, in the capital city.
His death came suddenly from ex
haustion, following an attack of
pneumonia from which he had begun
to mend. He was 86 years old and
had been in failing health for two
years.
Mr. Smith was for three years
county auditor of Warwick county.
Indiana, beginning in 1849, and came
to Minnesota in 1853 as private sec
retary to Willis A. Gorman, terri
torial governor, his brother-in-law,
which office he held for three years.
He was appointed by Governor Gor
man as county treasurer of Ramsey
county in 1860 and held that office by
subsequent elections till 1868. He
was a member of the state house of
representatives in 1872, member of
the St. Paul city council from 1883
to 1887. state senator from 1887 to
1891, mayor of St. Paul from 1887 to
1892, and from 1892 to 1896. postmas
ter of St. Paul from 1896 to 1900,
mayor again from 1900 to 1908, and
county commissioner from 1911 till
his death. Counting twice the four
years that he was state senator and
mayor of St. Paul at the same time,
he was in office forty-eight years be
tween the ages of 22 and 85. During
thirty ears of that time he was also
in the banking business.
Mr. Smith endeared himself to all
who knew him, not only kindly
disposition but by voluntary sacri
fice of his property when the bank of
Minnesota, of which he was vice
president, failed in 1896. Mr. Smith
not only turned over all of the
amount for which he was liable un
der the law but every bit of propeity
he possessed, and thereafter lived on
the salary he received as postmaster
and county commissioner. I is be
lieved that no man in Minnesota has
as long a record as a public official.
In politics he was a democrat, but
when he ran for office his support
was largely nonpartisan.
More Mothers.
With hundreds of the mothers of
the land hollering for suffrage and
deserting their homes and children,
to parade up and down the country
while menials are left to care for the
future generation, i-t is an interest
ing study in contrasts to read the
annual report of the Minnesota state
board of control wherein the figures
show that the inmates of the state's
penal, coriective and charitable in
stitutions are increasing more than
three times as rapidly as the popu
lation of the state. The percentage
of increase of the inmates of these
institutions is about 6 per cent,
while the growth of the population
of the state from 1900 to 1910 wasJ.
18.5 per cent, according to the U. S.
census report, or less than 2 per cent
a year. Do we need more voters or
more mothers?Detroit Record.
OPINIONS OF EDITORS
Speaking From Experience?
The sad looking man in a poker
game is generally the one who holds
four of a kind.Carlton Vidette.
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They Labor Not but Kick.
One thing that makes the cost of
living bother seme people is that
they spend more time thinking about
the cost than about how to meet it.
Duluth Herald.
Shame, Colonel.
The French ladies of fashion are
now adopting the fad of having
their legs hand painted in artistic
designs so that they do not have to
wear stockings.Blue Earth Post.
If the fashion becomes general
let's open up a paint shop, Bro. Dill
man.Col. Neff in Lake Crystal
Union.
Party Does Not Exist, Olson.
In a Lincoln day speech Col.
Roosevelt is reported to have de
clared that the "progressive party
has come to stay." Seems to us
that Mr. Roosevelt has made that
remark before. What bothers us is
to find out where and what the
"progressive party" is.Red Wing
Daily Eagle.
That Bunch of Ornaments Again.
The Herald most heartily endorses
the bill providing for the trip to
Gettysburg for the Minnesota vete
rans. Possibly it's all right for the
governor to go along to represent
the state, but when it comes to
sending the governor's staff and in
vited guests along we offer meek but
decided objections.Anoka Herald.
Many Men Know Less Than Dogs.
A man who was suffering from
abscess on the brain was operated on
as a last resort at the Ann Arbor
university and the brain of a dog
substituted. The surgeons believe
he has a fair chance of recovery.
Just how much he will know or un
derstand is a question. Possibly
there are men who would be im
proved if they had the brains of an
ordinary dog.Stillwater Gazette.
FARMS WANTED.
I would like to list several good
farms for sale at reasonable prices in
the vicinity of Princeton. If you
are thinking of selling call and see
me. 6-tfc Robt. H. King.
Auction Sale.
A public sale will be held on the
farm of Chas. Solberg, section 30,
town of Greenbush, six and a half
miles west of Princeton, on Monday,
March 3, commencing at 10 a. m.,
when 3 horses, 5 and 6 years old: 3
milk cows, 4 heifers, 3 brood sows,
50 chickens, harvesting machinery,
vehicles, cream separator, household
furniture, and numerous other arti
cles will be offered for sale. Free
lunch at noon.
Chas. Solberg, Owner.
T. J. Kaliher, Auctioneer.
G. A. Eaton. Clerk. 9-2tc
MARKET REPORT
The quotations hereunder are those
prevailing on Thursday morning at the
time of going to press:
POTATOES.
Triumphs 35@40
Burbanks 28
Ohios 25
Rose 22
GRAIN, HAY, ETC.
Wheat, No. 1 Northern 79
Wheat, No. 2 Northern 77
Wheat, No. 3 Northern 74
Oats 23(a)26
Barley 31@38
Flax 1.07@1.22
Rye 45@48
Beans, hand picked 1.75@2.00
Beans, machine run 1.25@1.50
Wild hay 4.00
Tame hay 7.50
LIVE STOCK
Fat beeves, per ft 3c 6c
Calves, per ft 4c 5c
Hogs, per cwt $6.75
Sheep, per ft 3c@4c
Hens, old, per 9c@10
Springers, per ft 10c
MINNEAPOLIS.
Minneapolis, Wednesday evening.
Wheat, No. 1 hard, 88c No. 1 Nor
thern, 87c No. 2 Northern, 85c
White Oats. 31c No. 3, 29c.
Rye, 58c.
Flax, No. 1, $1.37.
Corn, No. Yellow, 45c.
Barley, 44c(a)58.
60Horses
Our stables are full of care
fully chosen native horses,
ranging in weight from 1,200
to 1,600 pounds. All horses
found as represented.
L. WEAVER & SON
N. W. Tel. 306. P. O. Box 753. Barn
1 blk. north of Mississippi river bridge.
Anoka, Minnesota
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Both Telephones.
Main Street. (Opposite Starch Factory.) Princeton, Minn.
We Are Saving For You
We want to sell you that bill of lumber you are figuring on getting No matter
how much or how little it may be that you want, of course vou want the best and the
most you can get for the money We've told you so often that we can save you money
on lumber and building material that it may be getting a little chestnutty to you. But
we are going to keep hammering away on Quality and price till we convince you that it
will be to your advantage to buy lumber here
CALEY LUMBER CO.
BENJAHIN SOULE, Manager
Ready fori
Spring
Have your harness oiled the right way. Make it last
longer and easier to handle. You can do this for the
small sum of $1.00all we ask.
W W Bargains in winter goods, including blankets and#
W robes of all kinds. A fine line of harness for spring 3t
on hand. Prices always right, quality always best. ($i
J. H. HOFFMANf
The Man Who Treats You Best
Princeton Minnesota
A. C. SMITH
(Successor to G. H. Qottwerth)
Prime Meats of Every Variety,
Poultry, Fish, Etc.
Highest market prices paid tor Cattle and Hogs.
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Princeton.
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