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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-16
CHATTEL MORTGAGE LOANS.
A Banker Suggests Filing Chattel Mort
CAGES With REGISTER of Deeds


cages With Register of Deeds.
II. M. Hanson, cashier of the First
National bank of Hanley Falls, wants
the law amended so that all chattel
mortgages can be filed with registers
of deeds. He says:
"We all concede that Minnesota has
on her statute books a great many
very commendable laws which make
her pre-eminently shining star in
the armament of Columbia S fair
states, and we therefore can point
with pardonable pride to the posi-
tion we occupy, made possible by the
good, sound and business judgment
of our chosen law makers. However,
not unlike the rest of humanity, our
law makers as body, are fallible
and liable to err. Among bankers, I
believe that the opinion obtains that
very grave defect exists in our laws
regarding the official filing place for
chattel mortgages taken in the ordin-
airy course of business. Under our
present system all chattel mortgages
are filled for record in the office of the
town clerk or of the village or city re-
corder in which the mortgaged prop
erty is located. This being the case,
Yellow Medicine county, for instance,
has at least thirty places for filing
chattel mortgages and therein lies the
dissatisfaction. In very consider
able majority of cases the town clerk
is necessarily a person who is not,
and cannot be expected to be, fully
and properly equipped for taking
business-like care of papers, records,
etc., placed in his custody as town
clerk. Nearly every element of un-
safety, such as fire, mice, mischievous
children Or what not, surrounds these
records which should be safe-guarded
with the utmost care and accuracy.
The taking and giving of chattel
mortgages is not an unimportant
transaction; it is a transaction that
should not be made the target of seri-
Gus complications through the failure
of our State to provide proper and
safe facilities for the carrying on of
such business. The present fee of ten
cents for filing is cheap, very cheap.
with a resultant and correspondingly
cheap service. We all believe in the
old axiom Whatever is worth doing
at all, is worth doing we'll, and
would suggest as a remedy the follow
ing:
"Make the Office of the county regis
ter of deeds the sole and only legal
place of record for chattel mortgages
and their satisfactions, with fling
fee of Csc or SOC. This, I believe,
would insure quick, efficient and sat-
isfactory service, and as would be the
case in Yellow Medicine county, make
twenty-nine fewer places of record
with a proportionate decrease in the
liability to miscarriage or destruction.
AS country banker, consider the
matter of sufficient Importance to be
brought for serious consideration to
the notice of our respective members
in the legislature now assembled and
would respectively suggest the CO.
operation of the bankers and newspa-
DerS of the State to that end -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-16
johnson and the Light Brigade.

Sam Johnson s farewell to Auditor
Iverson is only equalled by the charge
of the Light Brigade. Mr.. Sam John
son had too much personal spite in
his makeup to be an impartial public
official. Battle Lake Review.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-04-29
On n Large Scale.

"Yes, sir" resumed the Dakota farm.
er as the crowd of agriculturists seated
themselves round little table-'yes
sir. We do things on rather a sizable
scale. I've seen a man on one of our
big farms start out in the spring and
plow straight furrow until autumn
Then he turned round and harvested
back. We have some big farms up
there, gentlemen. A friend of mine
owned one which he had to give q
mortgage on, and pledge you my word
the mortgage was due at one end be-
fore they could get it recorded at the
other. You see. it was laid out in coun-
ties. And the worst of ii is it breaks
up families so. Two years ago saw
whole family Frustrated with grief
women yelling. children bowling and
dogs barking. One Of my men had his
camp truck packed on seven four mule
teams. and he was going round bidding
everybody goodby."
"Where was he going?"
"He was going half way across the
farm to feed the pigs" replied the Da-
kota man.
"Did he ever get back TO his family ?"
ut isn't time for him yet. Up there
we send young married couples out to
milk the cows, and their children bring
home the milk."-Exchange.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-04-29
WSercndlni1Y.v % .v


This word Is coinage of Horace
Walpole's. Writing about a discovery
be had made in connection with his
picture of Blanca Capello, he says:
This discovery l made by tails.
man, which Mr.. Chute calls the Sortes
Walpolian9. by which find every
thing l want. pointe nominee, wher.
ever dip for 1t. This discovery in
deed Is almost Of that kind which l
call serendipity, very expressive
word, which. as l have nothing better
to tell you, shall endeavor TO explain
to you. You will understand 1t better
by the derivation than by the defini-
ton. l once read silly fairy tale call
ed The Three Princes of Serendip'
AS their highnesses travelled they were
always making discoveries, by acci-
dents and sagacity. Of things which
they were not in quest Of. For in
stance, one Of them discovered that Il
mule blind of the right eye had trav-
eled the same road lately because the
grass was eaten only on the left side,
where II was worse than on the right.
Now do you understand serendipity?
One of the most remarkable instances
OF this accidental sagacity 0or you
must observe that no discovery Of the
thing you are looking for comes under
this description was Of my Lord
Shaftesbury, who. happening to dine
at Lord Chancellor Clsrendon's, found
out the marriage OF the Duke of York
and Mrs Hyde by the respect with
which her mother treated her at ia.
ble."-Notes aud Queries.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-04-29
School Notes.


James r. Falconer spent Monday In
the class rooms OF the school.
The Advanced Arithmetic Class
haye finished the subject, and Monday
morning will begin a two or three
weeks review of A Algabraic principles.
There was no Extemporancous Glass
program last week, the attendance be-
ing too small. The time OF meeting
has been changed from Friday even
ing to Wednesday evening. The pro-
gram for March 26th was as follows.
PROGRAM.
The Glass expects TO have only one
more regular meeting, and to wind up
with a banquet two weeks from last
Wednesday evening for the members,
their parents, teachers and school
board.
The Influence and overruling Pow
er, Homer Maddox; Humanity versus
Greed. Clayton Shapton; Two Mayors.
Oral Misenar; The Problem Of Panama
Canal, Howard Porter: Sir Walter
Scott, Grace Gregory; Life OF Oliver
Goldsmith. Bess Greenwood. Resoly-
ed the Rev olutionary War was II great
er civilizer than Civil War. Affirmat-
i've: Clio Mckee and Nell Maddaugh:
Negative: Mildred Gilbertand Madge
Nicholas; How Easter came to be ob
served, Austin Sheldon; womans Iu-
fiuence. Ella Dunlop.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-04-29
EVELINE.
Mrs z. Lee is ailing again.

Mrs E. Lee is aling again.
Miss Celia Healey is visiting friends
IN Alton.
Albert Crowell and Wallace Frazier
have started west.
Miss Vina Crowell visited Mrs.
Corner Sunday last.
Mrs. =. Coslow was guest OF Mrs.
Ben Healey the past week.
Miss Iva Myers of Ironton 10 spend
ing few days at her homr recently.
Mrs. Lulu Critics called on Ben
Healey's Saturday and Sunday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Pierce have
moved on their farm north OF town.
Thomas Cosier of Boyne City is hir-
ed out 10 Samuel Cliff for the summer
Ira Mckee and family were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. David tiaunt SUNDAY.
Miss Edna Benson spent a few days
with Mrs. Charles Dresser the past
week.
A few Peninsular Changers were at
Pomona Grange, South Arm Thurs
day last.
Miss Lille Aldrich of Boyne City
was the guest OF Henry Crowsls
family last week.
Miss Ada Crowell visited Miss Nina
H-aley last Monday, Miss Healey re-
taFning home with her.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-04-29
COUNTY HERALD
G. A. LIsk, Publisher
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR

Entered at the postofiice at East Jordan.
Michigan. as second class mail matter.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-04-29
Rapids &
Indiana r. r.
In Effect Sept 20, 1904.

Trains Depart from Petoskey:
Going South-9:25 a. N daily; $50 p
H., except sunday; ll:20 p III
except Saturday.
Going NOrth-2:5b pm, daily; 9:35 p.
m.. except Sunday; 6:03 am, ex
cept Monday.
Trains Depart from Alba:
Going South--l0:44 n. IN. daily; 400 p.
IN. except Sunday; 1886 a. M.
except Sunday.
Going North-1:3S n. m. daily; 8:ls
p. M, except Monday; 4:4S a. m
except Sunday.
NJ. r Qnaintance c. l.. Lockwood
As't Petossey, Mich. G. Il. r.. A
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-04-29

mEH TO absolutely cured by using Her
FIKA init" Salve. Price - and SOC. All
s""O druggists Book free. Hermit
Remedy Co.. Chicago, III.
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15
PALE BLUE AIR.
Color Of the New Lissid Varies a.
Aoch as Water-An Iaterest-
Ing ExpeRinent.

The color of pure liquid air is q
beautiful pale blue. Before an east
ern college recently was exhibited
two samples of liquid air in glass
tubes; one was made from air which
had been washed to purify it from
dust. SCOT, carbonic acid and other
impurities. This. when condensed,
was pale blue liquid; the other
sample was made by condensing some
OF the air of the lecture room in which
the audience was assembled, and was
an opaque. blackish fluid, resembling
soup in appearance. 1t would np-
pear rs if condensed samples of air
light afford an easy means Of COM
Iaring different kinds of CONTAINING.
ton. 1t may be possible some dav
to supply the hospitals of tropical
countries where the natural air sun
ply is bad. and the necessity for n
better one very pressing. with beau
tiful blue country air guaranteed alb.
solutely pure. This can never be ac.
complished. however, until some
means have been provided for trims.
porting liquid air to considerable dis.
tances without enormous loss..z
caused by its return to II. former
state.
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15
TIE BELL HORSE,
DRUM Major 81 the Male Traia
In BoerlanA.

The most energetic and peace-de.
stroying feature of army life in the
Transvaal Is the mule train, and the
most necessary member of this outfit is
the bell horse.
This animal leads the caravan and Is
the drum major Of the whole outfit.
lie carries no burden save a great re-
sponsibility and clear-sounding bell.
All mules destined to serve her ma jesty
are trained to follow the bell horse. A
white animal is nearly invariably Sc
lected, as for some reason or other
mules follow this color most faithfully,
Pack mules become very much at
tached to the bell horse Of their train
and refuse to move either forward or
backward If he Is not leading. For this
reason the greatest calamity that can
befall an army is the death of the bell
horse. On one occasion of the Indian
frontier wars the whole mule train
came to sudden standstill owing to
the death of the bell horse. Nor would
anything induce the animals to move
ill one of the officers substituted an
other white horse in the dead ones
place. On seeing, as they thought, their
old favorite in his place once more all
the mules moved forward to greet him,
and only by driving the fraudulent bell
horse forward quicker than the mules
could follow was the deception kept up.
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15
pAy.,c., LIE. of Oar Planet.

The Revue Scientifique contains an
interesting paper by Prof. Klossovsky.
entitled la vie Physique de Notre
Planete Devant les Lumieres de Ia Sci
ence Contemporaries" in which the au-
thor regards the earth as living or
ganism whose functions are all closely
connected according 10 certain laws.
Even the variations OF terrestrial mag
netism are connected with q system Of
currents which traverse the earth's at
mosphere and are correlated with its
cyclonic activity. Tie considers also that
the magnetic and electrical fields have
an influence on the progress of phe-
nomeua AZ the surface Of the earth. The
professors idea OF the earth a. an or
ganisrn is. however. not new. II orig
mated many years ago with Guyot.
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15
STOPPED TRAIN FOR HATCH
HxDsSisses Of MAIL Clerk Whe
Hal work He CeslAA't No
In the Dark.

II noticed In the pepper tho other
day." observed an old railway postal
clerk, according to the Sioux City
Journal '.the story OF how the cap
tain Of the little gasoline boat that
left here for up the Missouri had TO
come back overland for 40 miles for
repair that cost him only ten cents,
but which was just as necessary rs
il It cost the price Of the whole en-
CINE. I recalled to my mind an ex-
perience once had on the run be-
tween here and Missouri Valley, on
the Sioux City & Pacific, illustrating
how much may hang upon something
ordinarily quite Insignificant. Be-
tween Whiting and Onawa one night
gust of wind blew out every lamp
in the mail car, which, of course,
made it impossible for me to work,
and had considerable to do yet to
tie mp Onawa's mail. 1 put my hand
In my pocket to get a match, but
couldn't find any. Something had to
be done quickly, and all there was
left for me to do was to pull the bell
cord and signal the engine to stop.
The conductor. brakeman and some
of the passengers came running to
the head of the train to learn what
was the matter. The darkness in my
car suggested that perhaps there had
been a hold-up and robbery Of the
mail; but when called to the con-
ductor to give me match, IL relieved
his anxiety. but IT did not entirely re-
store his good humor. lit my lamps
again and had my mail ready when
we reached Onawn. Since that time
am especially careful to sec that I
have an ample match supply"
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15
LlM11. OF SPEED DY STEAM.
The Nerve. Of the Engineer VIII Fi1
the Boundary Lsse-shad-
ows Ahead.

An old locomotive engineer. in reply
to the statement that i5o miles nm hour
was one OF the possibilities OF future
travel. says that they may build .hs
engines for l5o-mile gait, but the.
ant bniid the eng iHeers. The strain
On the nerves Mt very high speeds IL
something terrific. and anylhiIg over
80 niles nm hour is a pace which jars
every nerve in the body. The average
locomotive man is apt 10 break Gcwi
under lie influence of many s,urts I'll
even Is miles an hour. After such an
nrle;.l lie is completely unhinged. jump
ing when he hears unexpected noises
ike hyslerical woman. Ey these who
have passed through this experience
il is believed that the strain comes
mainly through the sight. The cngi-
ncer has - look straight ahead. but At
the sane time. us il hns been EXPRESSED,
''he sees things whizzing past on both
sides cut CT the tail OF his eye, cnd It is
rs If something had hold of the optic
uerye and was Pulling IT on, like Il
rubber band" Shadows are the terror
Of the locomotive engineer. bird may
fit across the headlight ard throw II
shadow down, the truck us big us II box
car. or course, II is Eore in mn instant.
but in just that heartbeat the nerves
of the engineer have been given shock
that they rany not recover from in n
week. The rev electric headlights are
said to be the worst kind C. srock pre-
duccrs. They east such sharp shadows
that bug moving over the glass will
give the engineer the impression CT n
COW lying iasi in front of the r;lst. AT
very high speeds such I'M experience
cor jurcs mp visions Of sudden death ind
gives IL sletre-hu:nmer blow TO every
nerve center in the body of the engineer.
Old engineers say that the speed of
100 miles TN hour is beyond the sus-
tanned endurance of the man Mt the
lever. and with speed Of 100 miles
the human machine would go mad in
u week,
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15
TIE OLD STORY.
lie Hnd ga systcn," That Was Abso-
iutcIy InfniIibic, Hut He
Lost HIS All.

Walking down the Strand the other
day WIS attracted by crowd that was
collected round an omnibus. II was the
usual sccEr--a PROSTATE horse, with the
conductor sitting on its head and an off,
cioGs policeman iotting down volumi-
nous notes, says g writer in answers.
WAS about to pass en- when The face
of the driver attracted my attention.
'By jovc. that man is uIco.n:ronly
like -. friend of my undergraduate
days at Oxford" said to myself. and
MS he nj that moment took of Lis LAT
my impression was confru.ct! beyond n
doubt. What u reverse OF fortune.
Five yenrSngoh he was quite the richest
undergraduate at Oxford, for, besides
u very liberal allowance from his par
ents, he won large sums ON the turf.
The persistence and regularity with
which he won WINS very marvellous, and
he accounted for it by saying that he
gambled on an infallible system, which
he would not divulge. His unvarying
success produced a belief in us young
spirits that he had successfully solved
the problem which had been the ruin
of so many people.
The last time saw him he was driv-
ing his own coach; five years later
met him driving an omnibus. 1t was
sad sight. and passed on for fear Of
his recognizing me. I suppose the Sc
quel is plain enough. The old story.
Luck changed, and, like all gamblers,
he drifted on to his beam-ends trying
TO retrieve his reverses.
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15
NEWS FROM wAsHMGToN.


There 10 little wonder that The ~.
piring young newspaper men, whose
arst assignment carried him to the
geological survey. felt like seeking
some other profession after he had run
against genuine scientific treatise on
matters geologic. Perhaps many an
older man In the service would have
been staggered to learn that "until
the presence of the Algonlian rocks
was determined the writer entertained
the working hypothesis that . large
laccolith Of porphyry might have been
introduced at q horizon near the base Of
the Paleozoic formations, but the APP
pearance Of the pre-Paleozoic rocks In
the heart of the mountains. nth on evil
dence ofthe hypothecated laccolith rem
ders IL improbable that the uplift can
be primarily connected with porphyry
Intrusion" However, 1t was gratifying
to know, relates the Washington Post,
that ''all the sheet rocks and many
dikes are included geographically
under q single name, monzonite-por-
phyry, expressing the composition, in
which the alkan feldspar, orthoc,ase,
and the sodsline feldspar, pngioclase.
are estimated to play approximately
equal roles. The further composition
Of the rock 10 expressed by saying that
II Is quartx-bearing hornblendic mon
sonite-porphyry."
Many . man would perhaps sleep
sounder at night II he were only aware
that "the hornblendic monzonite-
porphyry intrusions and the monsonite
stock are by far the most important Of
the igneous masses In the Rico noun
tains. The rock is in composition q
monsonite-porphyry In which ortho-
chase assumes a prominent position in
large phenocrysts. while plagioclase oc-
ours in part in the groundmasA The
rock is more closely related to the stock
mennonite in composition than to the
earlier hornblendic monzonite-pos-
phyry.'
Imagine the thrill that ran down
his spine when he learned that ICON
tact metamorphism Of the calceroua
strata adjacent TO the mennonite stock
IL very pronounced at nearly all places
where the former rocks are exposed in
the vicinity of the intrusive"
But after all he derived the most sat
ishaction from learning, much to his
surprise, that III the quiescent neve
IVES ever permanently frozen in the
nivated ereas, many Of the berg
sehrunds' must have been situated well
above the spheroid Of perpetual frost. !"
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15

A western judge who. although he
10 wise. does not mind being witty.
was trying q case recently, when
he was disturbed by young man who
kept moving about in the rear of the
courtroom. lifting chairs and looking
under things.
Young man. the Judge said, at
length. you ars making great deal
of noise"
Your honor" replied the young
man. II have lost my ovsrcoat and I
an trying to hnd IT,"
WELL" said the venerable iuri,t
people often lose whole suits in here
without making oil that disturbance. -
Short Stories.
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15
CINE REMARKABLE COPPER"
The Uniase Negative Record of .
New York Guardian Of the /.
Peace.

That Q man could have served over
10 years on the police force and seen
active service during the draft riots
and never discharged firearm.
reeins most strange. Yet this has
been the record of George Henry En-
pie. an ex-polceman and resident of
Greater New York, living at 1i3 East
One Hundred and Twenty first street.
Mr.. Empie Is an eccentric character,
wcil-known TO the children. who play
IN Mount Morris park. He is SO years
old. md a type OF the rugged sort,
stout, hale and hearty. lie dresses in
'!"rk. plain clothes. but insists on al
ways wearing white tie.
Great men are known by their
works. and their fame is history Of
their achievements. The subject of
this sketch deserves n monument in
Mulberry street, not for what he has
done. hut ns a reward for what he has
not done. The story Of his accom-
rlishments while policeman 10 a re-
eital OF negatives, says the New York
Mnil and Express.
lie has never witnessed horse race
or hnll game nor attended athletic
meets Of any sort; he has never been
outside his native state; he has never
rhrwed nor smoked tobacco or gam
blad or made n bet. however trivial; he
has never been fishing. hunting or bath
ing. nor Ind cccnsion to visit physi-
elm on his own account until he had
pissed his 18th birthday; he has new
or attended n ball. dance or picnic nor
been found asleep on post of duty.
This truly remarkable copper"
was plnced on the New York police
force through the fundamentally of
former Mayor Fernando Wood. He
was appointed a policemen when Fiji
ty-ninth street WINS n picnic ground
and served until retired at 6 years
by the nge limit. He was born in
florida. n. y. on April IL. 1914 but
firing of farm life at an early ago
came to the METROPOLIS,
The Meeker herald., 1905-07-15
FOND OF TOBACCO.
A Trainer says That Many wllA An
iAsls Have . Liking for
the Weed.

II have been an invcterate user of
tobacco in some form for the past 40
years. and during that time have had
much to do with all sorts of wild beasts,
which have found are nearly all, more
or less, partial to the smell or taste of
the weed" observed IN old and expe-
rienced animal trainer to q Washington
Star reporter. "For instance, the COM
mon brown bear is 10 fond of the fumes
of tobacco that IL you blow smoke
through the bars Of its cage it will,
with evident delight, push forward and
rub its back and head against the iron
bars over which the smoke passes. This
il invariable. Not long ago blew
through hollow stick n pinch of snuff
into the nose of a sleeping lion. The
brute shortly after awoke, sat up
straight. sneezed violently, and then
lay down to sleep very contentedly
again. All goats, deer, llamas and SO
on will chew and eat tobacco and snuff
with great eagerness. Monkeys and big
balloons also breathe with great sat
isfaction the smoke from cigars.
II once made . very vicious llama, be-
longing to n circus. my friend by feed
ing it daily with small quantity of
snuff. One day when the show was in
Brooklyn, n. Y. several men-o'-wars-
men came to see our exhibit of tame
and wild animals. When the men got
to the Enclosure where the llama was
kept. one of the company commenced
teasing the beast. By way OF protest
the llama suddenly spat at the Offend
ing sailor, and the latter, with . very
sstonished look. exclaimed: Holy
Moses, how his breath smells Of snufi,
boys"