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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10
WORK OF THE STATE BOARD OF
g.. &-r. .. EOUdLIZdTION, %

G. B. Cheney in the Minneapolis
Journal: The State board of equaliza-
ton, which adjourned last week, fur
nished enough campaign material for
the Republican party Of, Minnesota to
|last until the board meets nextyyear.
The board made record to be proud
|>of, and one which every member has a
right to share in. That record is suf-
fcient answer to the jibes of hidebound
partizans, who, called il, s'sTom Lowry,
Rockefeller. & Co.'s board and pre-
dicted that it would do the bidding of
the corporations. ">:rA.. :'.,
Had Mr.. Lowry owned the board it
would not have raised the street rail-
way assessment to a figure $3.50, 600
above the radical raise levied by the
Lind board last year.
Had John D. Rockefeller any pull
with the. members, they would not
have doubled the assessment of the
iron ore in ST. Louis county, adding a,
matter of 81 ,250,000 to the valuation.
The Minneapolis Gas Light company
could not be accused of any influence
with the board when its assessment
stands 100000 higher than last
year.
It would be adding insult to injury to
accuse the North American Telegraph
company Of an influence with the
board, which raised the company's
assessment of last year $4,000.
The other; increases were mainly on
money and credits, rather than on the
property of the householder and the
farmer. The total increase will foot
up near 100000. H..
Those newspapers which predicted
such dire acts by the board have not
had the fairness to commend it's acts,
or even to state editorially that the
board disappointed its enemies.
The board was Republican by ma
jority of four, aside from the: ex-oficio
members. The Republican majority
did a graceful thing in rejoicing
Charles L. Betcher of Red Wing, a
Democrat, as president. Two years
ago the Republicans had a majority of
one, but permitted Governor Lind to
select the chairman, and he picked F.
G. Mcmillan of Minneapolis. Last
year the Democratic board elected Mr..
Betcher, and he was reelected by the
Republican board this year without
opposition.
| All through the session a commend
able spirit of -partizanship was dis
played. On the only momentous vote,
the one by which the ore assessments
were increased, both Democrats and
Republicans were on the negative side.
The raise may really be charged to the
Republicans, and if the mining COM
panies thought they had claim on the
Republican party, they got a grievous
| shock
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

G. H. Chadbourne returned on Fri
day from months trip through the
east. He attended the Pan-American
exposition while in the East and spent
most Of his time renewing his youthful
days in New England. He visited his
old home in Lexington but all that he
could find Of the old homestead was a
few old chimneys to mark the site Of
dear and familiar Scenes. Where the
old farm used to be is now part Of an
immense water reservoir that takes III
alarge section Of territory and sup
plies water'to east Cam bridge. ':The
East is prospecting and doing veil
now says Mr.. Chadbourne, "and Bos'
ton is a labyrinth Of commerce with
traffic in the air, 'on the streets and I'M
der the streets, and now resembles the
most active and noisy cities Of the
west. y GU can 3ride1&al day for IS
cents as the. whole country is honey
combed with electric and steam cars. =
Mr.. Chadbourne thought 8ter seeing
the Pacific west that the east had no
further attractions, butthe has changed
his mind in the last month. 49,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

THERE was snow in northern Michi-
gan and points in northern Illinois and
Indiana last week. Even here in
. Princeton there are some who aver
they was snow flakes in the air last
Thursday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10
THERE is a girl in Kandiyohi

THERE is a girl in Kandiyohi, that
''unpronouncable" county, as the Hon.
Henry Johns used to say, whom many a
young farmer would pay a premium to
get as wife. During the year ending
Oct. l, She had MIXED 1O,26O COWS,
milking 10 COWS every night and morn
ing, and never missing a single day.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

THE Schley-Sampson controversy is
dragging along and the man to whom
the people gave the victory is still en-
titled to it by all the records. The
judgment of the American people is
seldom wrong. = =" -. :: .~>..'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

1sANT1 county has sent five persons
to the insane hospital within the last
FIVE weeks. Now, if the Milaca people
will only chase that crazy man over
the line, the authorities of Isanti
county will take care of him.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

THE Moline Plow Co. refuses to join
the trust. The only regret is that
there are not other industries strong
enough to paddle their own canoe.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

KING EDWARD is said to be i'll. But
don't worry, the King will be ''it'' at
the coronation, just the same, if only
the corroding influences of Time inter-
fere.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

CROKER has bought more land in
! England. New York tax payers pay
for most OF it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

THE Brooklyn bridge has been de-
;clared safe. We wonder if it is safe
enough for Tammany to cross?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10
The Governor in Princeton.

Gov. Van SAINT, during his visit in
Princeton on last Friday, was enter
tanned by the citizens of the village in
a most hospitable manner and the gov
ernor was not permitted to get lone
some while here. He attended the
fair in the afternoon and in the even
ing he was entertained by friends at a
supper at the Commercial hotel. The
supper was gotten up by Miss Mooen,
head cook at the hotel, and was a
credit to the culinary art, being served
in manner to please the most fastidi-
Gus epicurean. In the evening at the
opera house the members of the WAL
lace Rines Post gave camp fire in the
governors honor, and the house was
crowded. On the platform we're seated
the members of the post and when the
governor arrived he took his seat with
the old comrades. NJ. G. Sausser pre-
sided and introduced the speakers.
There were short addresses made by
Mayor Galley, L. S. Briggs. M. L. Cor
many and Geo. F. Wright, and music
was furnished by a quartette of male
and female voices. Patriotic songs
were sung by the audience and the
meeting was a regular jubilee. Gov.
Van SAINT was introduced and spoke
for an hour, his address being in
tensely patriotic and was one of the
best that the governor ever made. He
was right at home with the old soldiers
and an attentive audience. His talk
was not only a good camp fire talk but
was one that was greatly appreciated
by the audience, and in his remarks to
his old comrades the audience took as
much interest as the old soldiers them
selves. The governor was delighted
with his visit here and will always
have warm regard for the people of
Princeton. He returned to St. Paul
Saturday morning.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

OFFICE: FIRST ST., EAST OF COURT House.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21

prudent candidate, in whom business
interests can trust. For the retire
ment of Mr.. Bryan, if he is retired,
means that 'commercialism" reigns
over the Democrats as well as the
Republicans. But how much can
business interests trust in a candi-
date who was able to swallow silver,
against his supposed convictions, if
he has any? How far can Mr.. Cor
mans party trust him? We don't
mean that he is other than trustwor-
thy in private life, but in politics he
seems to be cynic
Cynic or no cynic, how can he be
nominated? In spite of his formal
support of Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Bryan's
friends, numerous and powerful
class, are not likely to forgive Mr..
German. If any olive branch is to
be brought, some other bird must
bring it. A new name and new deal
are the Democrats only chance. They
must break with their recent past so
far as they can. AS matter of the
most ordinary prudence they must
steer clear, if they can, of the enmities
of the last five years. Nothing can
do them any good, if the present tenn
per of the people continues; but their
only glimpse of hope is to find man
with none of the dust and heat of the
great schism upon him. An ambigu-
Gus candidate may sometimes be or
seem to be an advantage to the party
in opposition, but Mr.. Germans am
biguity has simply made him pretty
generally distrusted. With his rec
ord of opposition to the army and
to the treaty of Paris he would be a
suitable candidate for the Democrats
so long as they choose to continue in
the gall of bitterness, but he has too
many enemies among them.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21
ENJOYABLE Reception.

The reception rendered by the mem
bers of Cumberland Council No. 179,
United Commercial Travellers, at the
lodge rooms in the Sprigg building on
Saturday evening, was an event of
unusual enjoyment, the guests in at
tendance numbering fully two hun
dred. The rooms were beautifully
decorated, palms and flowers being
scattered about in every available
nook and corner. The exercises, lit
erary and musical, opened with an
overture by the Cumberland Concert
club, which was followed by prayer
by Rev. C.. A. Hauser. John W.
Young, recently elected clerk of the
circuit court, delivered an address of
welcome and greeting to the members
of the order and their friends.
Then followed an instrumental Sc
lection by the orchestra, recitation
by Miss Maud Dolan, vocal number,
a recitation by F. G. Pugh, an instru-
mental number by the orchestra,
reading, 1.-The Kicker aud His Kick"
by DR.. f. 7. Duke, another vocal
selection, dialect recitation by W.
d. Hicks, instrumental music by the
orchestra, address by Mr.. Starr, Col
umbus, o., the exercises concluding
with farewell song. There was an
intermission in the program of exer-
cises to admit of the serving of deli
cious refreshments.
This lodge has very handsome quar-
tiers, which have recently been refur-
nished and redecorated, and few, if
any, fraternal organizations in this
city have more beautiful habitations.
I-Cumb. News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21
MIR. A. p. German " "
" ~ and the Presidency.

such it really is; such it will be. The
Gormanites have to steal it to get it.
There is no security in Mr.. Germans
new lease of politician power. His at
tempt to cripple the Republican par
ty by making it difficult for the col
ored Republicans to vote is an adj
mitted failure. The edge tools that
he has handled so jauntily are sure to
be turned against his own party. In
any real and lasting sense Mr.. Cor
man is far from being the shrewd po-
litical manager he has the name of
being. He knows how to keep his
mouth shut. He has an excellent
gift of silence. He understands the
mechanical part of the business; and
by contrast with such comic opera
chairman as Jones of Arkansas, he is
as Machiavelli to the village idiot.
But he doesn't allow enough for
ideas. He doesn't understand the
generous enthusiasm which men have
even for obviously mistaken political
principles. Principles don't bother
him; why should they bother any
body else? So in politics he plays es-
sentially cutthroat game, small
and short-sighted game, the winnings
in which cannot be great.
Among the Democratic opportun-
lists who are not his rivals, there is
considerable admiration for Mr.. Cor
man. The impulsive candor and ar
dent faith of Mr.. Bryan has not been
rewarded at the polls. By a natural
reaction some of the opportunists are
turning to the Maryland Mole, sup
posed to be so long-headed, so deep
revolving, so wise to organize; known
to be cold and temperate Demo
cratic believer, if not actually an in
fidel. Bryan was the Democratic
romanticist; German is the Demo
cratic realist. To the age of chivalry
succeeds the age of calculation.
1t is not expected that any fury Of
popular applause will roar for Mr.
German. Oh, no; he is to be the safe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21

ton. Coupled with the fertility OF
our soil, good roods will surely result
in bringing hither capital and immi-
grafton
A large Louisiana planter takes this
view of the matter:
Good roads are an object lesson to
the capitalist, home seeker and man
of moderate means. Wherever he sees
good roads he is assured that it is a
community in which he can safely in
vest, satisfied that he will have good
schools, quick and easy transporta-
ton of produce to and from market,
and everything which can be desired
in an enlightened and Christian COM
munity."
Here is the opinion of a wide
awake farmer of the same state.
"There is no surer, safer or more
expeditions way of building up and
developing the resources of country
than by the construction and mainte-
nance of good roads. They will al
ways invite the home seeker as well
as the capitalist, each of whom is as
sured of easy transportation to mark
ct for his produce, as well as of educa-
tional, religious and other advanta-
ges incident to such combination of
happy circumstances
A prominent lawyer and planter
says:
1.-THE absence of good roads fire.
quently means lower market when
products reach their destination; loss
and delay from the failure to receive
articles promptly when needed and a
large loss resulting from the wear and
tear of vehicles and horses and pay
ment of increased time and team
sters.'
We might go on quoting almost in
definitely similar opinions gathered
by the Times Democrat from citizens
of Louisiana and Mississippi-munici-
pal officers, bank presidents, clergy
men, wholesale and retail merchants,
farmers and others.
The good roads sentiment in the
part of the country referred to has
been greatly stimulated by the recent
undertaking on the part of the Ma
tional Good Roads Association and
the Illinois Central railroad to run a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21

train, especially equipped for practi-
cal road making, from New Orleans
to Chicago. The Good Roads Spe-
cial," as it is called, has already given
demonstrations in road building at
New Orleans, Natchez and Vicksburg.
1t is now proceeding northward and
is scheduled to stop at fifteen or more
places before it reaches Chicago. At
each place a specimen road at least
mile long will be constructed and left
as an object lesson to people who
would like to have open highways
twelve months in the year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21

Divers political vaticinators are now
looking into the seeds of time and Sc
Letting the Democratic candidate for
President in 1904, says the New York
Sun. They wave away Mr.. Bryan
airly. They assume that the elections
in Nebraska and Iowa have cooked
his goose for good and all. Some of
them find the new Democratic man
of destiny in the Hon. Arthur Pue
German. A very fine man to look at
is Mr.. German, benevolent, hand
some, sanity sort of face. He might
be one of those polished courtly
Abbes of the eighteenth century. No,
there is something ascetic in his
countenance. Is he not painted, or
somebody wonderfully like him, in
Assist or Perugia with a rope girdle
around his waist and brown gown
that becomes him wonderfully? At
any rate, choice figure of Roman
senator of the days after the intro
duction of razors. A man much liked
in the Senate of the United States, to
which body he expects to return on
March 4, 1908. A man of good ap.
pearance and civil and even engaging
manners. What are his other qualifi-
cations and gifts for the honor which
some guessers have prophetically be-
St0wad upOn bim9
Well, he is a turnover, a worker in
the dark, old true penny in the celia
rage. He is an expert in making the
straight crooked and the light dark
ness. He has all the small arts of the
small politician. He knows how to
thimble-rig. By legal means and by
subterranean expedients more con.
genial to him, he can blk the voters
sometims and win temporary sue.
cess. Among his Maryland allies are
some of the toughest citizens extant
Among his habitual opponents will
be found some Maryland Democrats
Democrats of distinction and high
character. He has helped make
Maryland a Republican state. Fol
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21
GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT.
Question just Now is at white Heat in
Number of States.

Number of States.
Sentiment among the citizens of
several of the Southern and Middle
Western States, notably Louisiana,
Mississippi, Illinois and Tennessee, in
favor of improving the highways, is
just now at white heat. Under the
direction of the National Good Roads
Association mass meetings and con-
ventions are held in many of the
cities and towns, and the subject of
good roads is discussed and dilated
upon everywhere by champions of
the movement with earnestness and
understanding. On the strength of
the benefits which, Enthusiastically,
have resulted from smooth and perma-
nent highways wherever they have
been built, the good roads agents are
striving to impress upon the people
that the maintenance in their respec-
tive localities of roads that are sensi-
bly,, not to say scientifically, construc-
ted is duty they owe to themselves
and to succeeding generations. The
agitation is certainly producing i'm
portant results.
Leading newspapers in the states
mentioned are doing much to help
along the work. The New Orleans
Times Democrat, for example, has
printed a series of interviews with
representative citizens in various
parts of Mississippi and Louisiana and
they leave no doubt of the sincerity
and vigor with which the good roads
movement is conducted. We quote
some extracts from interviews with
residents in three large towns OF
Louisiana. A progressive landholder
says:
ut is for the agricultural interests
to realize that they can haul twice as
much of their products over a good
road as over one poorly kept. don't
know anything better for this parish
than the Inauguration ola movement
of this kind"
A prominent physician expressed
himself thus:
"Good roads, like good schools, are
the most inviting objects to immigra
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21
A Great Medicine.

81 have used Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and
find it to be a great medicine" says
Mr.. E. s. Phipps, of Poteau, Ark. ut
cured me of bloody fiux. cannot
speak too highly of it." This remedy
always wins the good opinion, if not
praise, of those who use it. The
quick cures which it effects even in
the most severe cases make it favor.
tie everywhere. For sale by all drug,
gists.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-01-30
OVER AT QUAkTZBURG
Work on Several Good Mines
in That District.

The report having dat ed down from
. Iartzburg last SATURDAY. that strike
hal been made a, the Pr->ent Med; hat
the big crosstut iunurl up"n which work
has been IN progress u h two shifts tor
several months haJ Ias' reached the
vein, and that ellhrt, inches OF high
" ade ore is IN sight. the Miner man bof.
rJNed cayu>e AID "a div Oft" and
VI ,iled the camp on a irur OF invesilga.
ton.
The above reports "rr- verified With the
ex, option oi that referring to the main
lead. Fred Morey, the owner, expressed
the opinion that merely s,ringef had
been intersecied. Engineers were making
a survey to ascertain the probable location
oi the ledge. This iunrel viii give the
Present Need the deepest Workings IN the
camp-a depth OF abou, 400 feet, IN a
length ot less than 900. There are M.
wards Of 600 trrt oi tunnels IN the old
workings. Included ~ the equipment are
new, modern. srli.d,mping ara>tra,
operated by a 2o.horse poser boiler aud a
Is.horse power engine. a crusher and a
ToaS,er.
The Quar,zburg N. Il N. Co.'S five.
stamp mill has been running for a week
on low grade ore left on the Oregon dump
by former iessees; the weeks run Of 90
tons having averaged SI3 q ton. Super.
intendent S. II. Hayes informed us that
considerable ore Of this grade remains un.
touched IN the old workings, as II can not
with present facilities I've mined, hauled IN
wagons aud milled on a safe margin OF
profit. In the old workings, which attain
a depth Of $50 teet, the I'm 'ortant fact Is
demonstrated that the width ot the vein
increases with depth. The vein averages
two aud one.halt feet; the greatest width
Of six feet two inches being In the Colo.
rNdo. A new 2o.stamp mill for this pror.
erty Is a possibility OF the not very distant
future. Mr.. Hayes, Who on Thursday
lett for the east TO I've gone two months, on
business connected with this property, In.
formed the Miner man that work upon
what Is To be the main working tunnel, a
Iosscut starting at the base oi the noun
tain near the Present Need. to tap the
vein about three hundred feet below the
old workings, will be started February I,
with two shifts.
Al the Cougar, under lease TO Howell
n Mcintyre. one shift Is driving The
Kid" tunnel 10 tap the vein at depth Of
10 ieet In a length Of 40 feet. Ten feet
more remains to be driven. The SIS ore
recently milled at the Present Need aras.
ira came from the lo'io,t shaft, which
will connect with this tunnel. On the
dump OF the Mountain Chief. an abutting
property, Howell 4 Mcintyre nave lity
tons NJ base ore which >ampless3i. This
ore came from a i77toot adlt, without
stopping. The vein Is from hve 10 eigh.
teen inches wide.
Al the Johnson aras'ra, on the east iork
Of Dixie creek, I. w. Norcross Is opening
mp q big body OF concentrating ore OF un.
known width and value,-Prairie City
Miner.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-01-30

Al the Club saloon, Dunphv 4 Cert
ridge serve line Of goods equal to any
that money viii buy.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-01-30

The Capital Hotel Is again under the
mana agement OF Mrs. George B. Tedr"we,
which fact guarantees the best Of service
10 all patrons.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-01-30

'S,Iout, assayer, )6, Bennett Ave, Grip
pie Creek, established In Colorado In 1870,
gold (erueibie assay, sot; gold and silver,
7se; gold. silver, copper, $3.50; forty years
practice.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-05-22
ALL IS SELFISHNESS.
ehe Wise MINIS Theory and How II
H'as Exploded.


Vas Exploded.
"A fter all, 1ald the wise man, "What
IS II but selGa,iness? The optlmist who
goes through lie whlstllng and singing
songs Of cheer is not entitled to any
special credit, because 1t Is n pleasure
10 him to be happy. If 1t didn't make
him glad to be happy, he wouldn't be
that way. SO you see sellishness lies
ut the bottom of his good cheer.
''Thcn there Is the pesslmlst. Is he
discouraged because he thinks IT Is his
duty to mankind to paint dark pic
lures? Not at all. His is another clear
case of sellishness. He gratifles him
self by being unhappy and trying to
make others So Love, too, Is selfish
ness. The maiden doesn't love the man
To make him glad. It's her own hnppi-
ness that she promotes In looking upon
him as the noblest work Of God. Mans
love for woman has back of It the same
selfish motive.
$50 too the phllanthroplsts love Of
the world. He loves II and loves TO do
great things for 1t because 1t gives him
satisfaction to know that he IL doing
we'll
"Consder 1t from whatever stand
point you please, md you must always
arrive at the same conclusion. Every
thing that man does he does selflshly.
1t is always II case of gratifying his
own lncllnatlons, IT,
just then the wise man turned n SOM
ersault and skinned his nose against n
water plug. When he got up and look
cd around, with the look of one who
was beginning to remember things that
had long been forgotten, his pupil
asked:
WAS 1t selllshness that impelled you
to stub your toe? Did You do 1t be-
cause II brought sense Of qualification
To your
Say, you COMPOUNDED IDIOT" the wise
man replied, you ought to have that
grin photographed. 1t would make n
good frontlsplece to Darwln's works.
Chicago Herald.