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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-12-14
OPINIONS OF EDITORS
Observation-Disclosures ssss sssss'
The Gamewarden Farce.

The Gamewarden Farce.
Yes, the census statistics are COM
pleted and so is the expenditure of
$4,000. This seems extravagant, but
what have we to show for the present
gamewarden farce which is costing
the state 100000? Farmer friends,
don't you think we are paying taxes
for something that is doing about as
much good as a fifth wheel on a
wagon?-Winthrop News.
<: !.
How About the Present Incumbent:
Dearth under Lind and Van SAINT,
as insurance commissioners, and
O'Shaunessey under Lind, are being
accused of accepting brides. How
about the present commissioner?
What about him? He permits the
rascally New York Life to do bust
ness in the state.-Lake Crystal
Union.
!. !. j.
Rotten to the Core.
Say, it makes one sick to read in
one of those popocrat papers that call
themselves Republican that supported
Johnson about 'honesty of affairs''
when the whole push are rotten to the
core and the last election was carried
by Doodle. Get out!-Lake Crystal
Union.
4. i. !.
What 1t Needs.
What Northern Minnesota needs is
members in the legislature who favor
drainage of the farms by means of
bitches and opposed to drainage of
farmers pockets by means of trusts.
-Hendrum Review. -..
Consider the Clerks.
The advertiser is comforting a favor
on his holiday patrons by placing
Christmas goods early on sale. It is
only right that the public should re-
ciprocate by selecting now and having
first choice. Besides, consider the
clerks-Mary McFadden.
i. i j.
Knows Something About John.
Of course Governor John denies
that he is behind the investigation of
the Nicollet clerks Office, but we shall
be quick to congratulate the public
examiner if he will tell us where he
got the bunch that caused him to find
so many irregularities right under
Johns nose, and which his paper has
failed to disclose for many years.
When we remember that the Nicollet
clerk knows something about John
that John did not want the public to
know, we can guess reason where
the bunch came from. This investi-
CATION and that of the capitol COM
mission by his same factotum show
Governor John to be made in an aw-
fully small mould.-St. Paul Review.
Will Endorse Every Word.
The great majority Of the American
people, irrespective of their party
affiliations and prejudices, will
squarely endorse every word Presi-
uenG hOOSeVelt mas written on the
great question of Interstate commerce
REFORM Constitution dem.
!. !. :.
The Best Appeal.
The best sort of an appeal to the
public for business is by the way of
the newspaper advertisement. No one
has ever heard of an intelligent ad-
vertiser complaining of the encroach-
ment of the mail order houses. It is
the business man who needs the wax
ing up and not the consumer if the
latter finds it more convenient to &C.
cept cordial invitation to trade else
where, or to look through catalogue
for Observation-Disclosures Review.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-12-14
Church Topics * y.
METHODIST.
i. i. Sunday and Weekday
Announcements,

METHODIST,
Morning; Communion service; IL AS
Sunday school: 6:45 Epworth league:
1880 "The Dignity of Labor". Prayer
meeting Thursday evening.
CONGREGATIONAL,
Morning theme: 'Why Go To
church," Sunday school at l1:45.
Evening, 1880, "Forefathers' Day"
program.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-12-14
JACOB.
Honey as Medicine.

Honey has been used with success in
expelling tapeworms. In this case it
is compounded with peeled pumpkin
seeds. It has good effect on dyspep-
STA, if eaten with graham gems. 1t is
easily digested or rather is absorbed
directly into the circulation.
Cane sugar on the other hand is
very hard to digest. 1t often ferments
and causes ''sour stomach" thus
throwing into the circulation a poison
Gus residue from which come uric acid
and kidney troubles. The effect of
honey upon the kidneys is of a sooth-
ing and healing nature and it leaves
no deleterious result. .x
Erysipelas is relieved by spreading
honey on a cloth and applying it to
the affected part. The pain ceases at
once and the patient generally recov-
ers in few days. The honey seems
to act as a germicide to the microbes
of the disease. An excellent cough
candy may be made by adding honey,
tar and lard to horehound tea and
then boiling down the mixture. It is
said to give ready relief.
A cold in the chest is relieved by
inhalng vapor from a hot decoction
of honey and camomile boiled in pure
spring water. Honey and wild cherry
bark are often given to relieve stom-
ach cough, which is a result of some
form of indigestion. It was the old
standard remedy for Group, and doc
tors still use it mixed with certain
drugs as a successful remedy for this
dreaded nursery disease. It is said
to be good for frostbites, and young
ladies use it to remove freckles. A
salve made of -four and honey is
good dressing for boils and old sores.
Honey is also good for sore eyes.
Drop a little into each eye two or
three times day. It is said to have
succeeded when nearly everything
failed. Honey is fine laxative in
cases of constipation. The effect is
not immediate but gradual and with
out leaving any bad effects.
Honey may be used in cooking
wherever sugar is used and with
more wholesome effect. In fact honey
was the only sweet used in this way
until few centuries ago. The ancient
Greeks and Romans knew nothing of
sugar and perhaps were better off on
this account. Recent Improvements
in the production of sugar, and easy
transportation have made it one Of
our cheapest foods, so that even the
poor may have it in abundance. Sixty
pounds to the individual are con-
sumed in the United States every
year, much to the detriment of health
and longevity. -Epitomist.
Fearful Fate.
IT, &c foo ,,f,,1 fo4o IN boxo IN ,,,oo
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-12-14
A Fearful Fate.

It is a fearful fate to have to endure
the terrible torture of piles. 81 can
truthfully say" writes Harry Colson
of Masonville, Ia, 'sthat for blind,
bleeding, itching and protruding piles,
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, is the best
cure made" Also best for cuts, burns
and injuries. Is cents at C. A. Jacks
druggist.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-12-14
Would Have a Santa Claus.

And do you have the nerve to tell
me you told your three-year-old boy
there was no Santa CLAUSE"
''That's just exactly what I did,
''What did the poor little fellow
say?''
''He told me was a liar
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT.

a howl that you can hear from Dan to Bearobl
Every husband has certain little vhiros tbaVO"a'
interfere with is as good for a family POW "s 7"
nickel is for a ginger-cake, but does a WIZ, q ) a
haustive knowledge of what is sure to 6an10N
cause her to keep off the grass of her hnsbapnpETnl
peculiarities? Not at all. She precinitatesS ~ )
deluge, and then complains because she rpts u |s
Women fail as wives because they do moi tsE~
the trouble to jolly their husbands alono po
fore she marries, a woman treats a man as r h.
we're a little tin god. After marriage, She onIS
too often treats him as if he were a pack-borss}
Before marriage, she fattered him. After NO..
rage, she criticizes him. Before marriage so
angled for him with honeyed words: Init
as soon as she is married, she throws awar
her bait. This is a fatal error. A MANS
appetite for fattery never wanes. He is
just as anxious to be told how handsome and
strong and wise and brave he is at seventy as he
was at twenty-seven, and anywhere between thp
cradle and the grave he is amenable to the vo-
man who j%o1lies him along, and may be led where
she will, but he can't be driven.
Finally, lastly and mostly, women fail as wives
because they are too lazy to keep the love thew
have won, and to make the man happy who is de-
voting his life to making them comfortable To
be a good wife is not ar easy task. Ii is one
of the most strenuous undertakings on earth. #
requires labor and care and skill and tact and un-
s~elfshness, but that is the kind of service a woman
agrees to give when she gets married. If she
doesn't like the price, she can stay single.
But, after all, it is worth it, for a husband is
a handy thing to have around the house.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
The Church's Blight on Russia.

A scathing arraignment of the real rulers Of
Russia-the priests of the Orthodox Church-S
the leading article in the June Worlds Work.
Mr.. Perceval Gibbon, in his account of The
Church's Blight on Russia" tells the following
incident to show the fatal grip of a besotted
clergy on the ignorant Russian peasantry:
There is a dreadful tale which [ have told be-
fore in another place. It was given me as au-
thentic, to illustrate the condition of the priest
hood of the Orthodox Church. Let it be a picture.
A hut, in which a man lies dying, sodden with
fear lest he may pass ere the last sacrament be
administered to him. The shaggy long-rObed pope
has come, and the gear is laid ready; but ere he
will get to his work and unburden the poor soul
he will have an enhanced price for it. The wife
of the dying man comes from the side Of the
squalid bed and pleads with him. He leers and
is obdurate. Then a son will compel him, and
they fight about the room. while the shaking pa
tient stares from his pillow. The priest SEXES the
bread and tries to break it. for broken bread may
not be blessed, while the son of the dying man
grasps his arm to save it, and in the wrestle, the
little loaf crumbles at last. and the sick man closes
his eyes with a sigh of despair, awaiting death
and damnation.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
A Bargain in Dentistry.

When Congressman John Sharp Williams visits
New York he never fails to look in at a SINAI
kindling-wood shop presided over by an old negro
who was formerly a retainer in the Williams lam
lily. On his latest call he found the old man
unhappy. WI
"What's the matter, Lafe?" asked Mr.. VII
liams.
"Pse just been done out o some money, Narss
John, and that's mattah 'nough," replied the IL
gro. "Had a torrible misery in nah tool anu
went to a dentist and got it PULLED, ana lie
chaghed me a dollah, a whole dollah. !,
"Why, once down in~Tess'see l went TO J~
Doc Tinker, and he pulled two tools and Orons
NAH ~jawbone, and only chaghed me fifty GEMS
Use been buncoed."
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
THE HOME CIRCLE
Ode to Death

" " DOoIAs
CHymn sung at the concecration of Magnolia Cemetary,
Charleston, S. CT
Whose was the hand that painted thee, y death!
In the false aspect of a ruthless foe,
Despair and sorrow waiting on thy breath
O gentle Power! who could have wronged thee
so?
Thou rather should'st be crowned with fadeless
flowers,
Of lasting fragrance and celestial hue;
Or be thy couch amid funeral bowers.
But let the stars and sunlight sparkle through.
So, with these thoughts before us, we have fixed
And beautifed, 0 Death! thy mansion here,
Where gloom and gladness-grave and garden
mixed,
Make it a place to love, and not to fear.
Heaven! shed thy most propitious dews around!
Ye holy stars! look down with tender eyes,
And gid and guard and consecrate the ground
Where we may rest, and whence we pray to
rise.
Henry Timrod.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
Exactness Overdone.

A tale is told of a Kansas minister, a great pI
cisionist in the use of words, whose eI'c'|,
saying. On one occasion, in the course Of an e0-
quent prayer, he pleaded: -of
80 Lord! awaken Thv cause in the heaI' -
this congregation and give them new ewes - or
and new impulse to do. Send down lhy I'+L
lee-ver, accordingly to Websters or v oFeSt hon
dictionary, whichever Thou usest, and pH In. +nnr
into activitv."-"Under the Spreading C"'"
Tree" Everybody's Magazine for June.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
WHY Women Fail as Wives.

by Elizabeth NJ. GilmeGE, in the Tw TSa1 ea6 Gent9Gy n H9 T%e
Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant by special permits
s1onl
The majority of women do fail as wives.
Why is this!
The first reason why women fail as wives is be-
cause marriage has never yet been esteemed one
of the learned professions, which only a highly
qualified individual is fitted to practise. On the
contrary, it is held to be a kind of iack-leg trade
that any girl can pick up at a minutes notice,
and carry on successfully without the slightest
previous knowledge Or training. No girl would
be conceited enough to think that she could prac-
tise medicine or law or dentistry without devot-
inc years to it's study. She wouldn't even dream
of hiring out as a stenographer without first
learning how to make pot-hooks but she bhthely
and cocksurely tackles the most difficult and COM
plicated job existing, that of being a wife, on the
fallacious assumption that a knowledge of how to
manage a man, and make him happy and COM
Portable, comes to a woman by inspiration, and
not through preparation.
When the average girl marries she does not
even know how to make a man physically com
Portable, and yet, unromantic as this may seem,
the very foundations of domestic happiness have
to be laid in bodily ease. Nobody can be senti-
mental on an empty stomach, and bad cooking
will kill the tenderest affection in time. Love
is choked to death Oh tough steak as well as slain
by unfaithfulness, and many a young husbands
illusions about his bride have been drowned in
watery soup. The first inkling that young Bene-
dick gets that his Angelina is not all that his
1IOC 1dAASy d4AIS hSA dAA OA"0 AO Ao AAA60O
his affinity, is when he has to sit down to i'll
cooked and observed meals; and you may be very
sure that if there we're no bad dinner-tables, there
would be precious few men wandering away from
home.
All of this seems very material and sordid to a
woman, but it is very important, nevertheless.
When a man marries, he marries for a home. Out
in the world every day he has all that he can en-
dure, and when night comes it finds him with
wrecked nerves, and a spent body that longs for
some quiet place where he can be at peace and
rest. 1t is the woman's part of the marriage
partnership to supply this, and unless she does
she has defaulted on her contract, and she de-
serves to be posted as an impostor who has got
goods ON false pretenses. If every girl who mar
ried were a good free-hand cook, fewer wives
would have to go into liquidation in love.
Lack of companionableness is another reason
why so many women fail as wives. There is not
one woman in a thousand who knows how to chum
with her husband, and enter into the things he
wants to do. The other nine hundred and ninety
nine seem to think that matrimony is a reforma-
tory, and that it is their sacred duty to keep
their husbands from enjoying themselves. The
average wife never has such a self-righteous feel
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04

*This is No 3s of a series of Southern Poems selected es-
pecialy for The Progressive Farmer and Cotton Flant py
the Editor.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04

IBy Elizabeth NJ. Gilmer, in the Twentieth Century Home
for September, 1904. Copyright, 1904. Reprinted in The
Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant by special permits
S1On.l
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-10-12
49, -
"GCLD, GOLD"
GOOD" He Says, "but Comfort
R..tfnrsS

"Good," He Says, "but Comfort
Better"
'h'ood tlalt fits is better than a gold
mine, says Il grateful man.
Before commenced to use Grape
Nuts food no man on: earth ever had
worse inllietion from catarrh OF the
stomach than had for years.
u could eat nothing but the very
lishtest food, and even that gave me
great distress.
II went through the catalogue Of
prepared foods, but found them all Tex
cept Grape Nuts more or less inligest-
iblc. generating gas in the stomach
(Which i'm turn produced headache and
various other pains and aches) and 9th
crwise unavailable for my use.
Grape Nuts food ! have found cas-
lily digested and assimilatcd, and it has
renewed my health and vigor and
made me well man again. The ca
tarrh of the stomach has disappeared
entirely with all its attendant ills.
thanks to Grape-Nllts. which now is
my almost sole food. want no 9TH
en-" Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tie Creek, Mich.
Ten days trial tells the story. !,
There's q reason.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-10-12
MARKING THE KINGS SWANS.
How the cygnets of the Thames Are
identified.
rom the London News.


Last year the custom of marking the
| Thames swans WAS initiated, and yes
tcrday men under r. II. Abnett. the
kings swanherd We're again Engaged
ON this years brood of the cygnets In
the upper portion of the river. Six
pair of oared skiifs We're engaged i'm
the operation. the fulfillment of which
will occupy about Il week. 1t is said
that the ye;ll has been Il good one. and
that the cNgnetS are rather more nu-
lnerous than WAS the ease last YEAR
Mr.. Abnett explained the meaning
and method of "uppng." as the mark
ing is termed.
We so out i'm six boats. myself, two
other sWanma:;ters and thirteen others.
sixteen altogether, and we get around
the young birds by forming Il semi
circle, then we gradually drive up.
close in and catch them"
Much dillieulty?'
Sometimes. The young begsars are
very lively But we go quietly ut it,,
and the old birds are very tame. and
quite used to boats and people still,
In catching your bird YOU have TO be
careful YOU don't tumble YOURSELF out
on top of ii and into the stream. We
catch hold of them by the leg generally
That does not hurt Them. Then YOU
turn their less up ON top OF their wings
aud they become ilelplcss.'
Then What do You nick them with
some special kind of machinc?"
oh, no, Just an ordinary pocket-
knife We only make scratches on the
upper mamdible. not Very deep, but
they never grow out on Wear off
What marks do YOU make"
For the king q diamond for the
WINNERS COMPANY two hicks, one on
each side of the mantlible For those
belongings. To the Overs company one
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-10-12
ter ran him out at the bay

Darmstadter ran him out at the bay.
onet's point
During this tilt between his factor
and me, Mr.. Gilbert Stair had stood
apart, watchful but trembling. When
we We're alone said
Now, Mr.. Stair. shall trouble you
to billet me somewhere IN your house,
as a member of my lords family, Lead
ON, If you please, and ri follow
He went before mo Without a word.
out of the little den rad up the breed
stair, doddefng l!i:e a insia crown ten
years older In n breath. ana catching
at the halustfat.c to steady ainself as
We assembled. Tho agoui To Fave me
was at an angle Ii. ono of the greetings
OF the cossidoi. md peintiaa ine to The
door ne vert pettaliits away still
without n word or u lock Behind him,
The door was on the latch, but it
gave rcletnntly. letting ms IN sud
denly, when set MY snoiiiGsr to it,
There Was que: little cry, half of
anger, hnlf of alright. from Within. /
drew back hastily. With muttered
curse upon tho old mans spite, and in
the sct lay siur oauaht the door and
slammed 4! shut behind me.
For reason. known ea,y to Onnls-
cf0ilee ard 10 himself Gilbert Stair had
shown me to my Is ~. chamber; she
Was standing. with her bodice off. be-
tore The oval nal.ioi on tbs nl.n tiess-
ing case.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-10-12
Learned to Spell Three Times

New orleans Times Democrat: Think
OF n man Learning how 10 spell three
times and then not being able to spell
takes an interest IN subjects of this sort
and you Will have my case summed up
exactly. | am not what YOU would call
:, bad speller by any manner of means.
But stumble now and then, and stumble
badly. Why is it? 1T is the simplest
thing in the world. ] grew up in the
country, attended country school, and
my first spelling was under the rules Of
the old time school teacher i learn ed
how 10 spell on my feet. 1t was curious
fact that for long time could rot spell
the simplest words unless | stood up
Standing | could spell anything, and. In
fact. WAS always the winner of the SPELL
ing bee. No one could turn me down.
as we used to say in the country Well
after this learned how to spell with my
pencil All my spelling taient went into
the pencil. My tongue forgot the art
and whether standing OF sitting, | could
mol spell a word unless it belonged to the
simpler kind without using ny pencil.
Now ! began to use the typewriter, and
consequently 1 had to learn how 70 spell
again. Ask me how TO spell word now
and will nave 10 go to the Typewriter
unless che Word is a very simple one My
tongue won't >Ieil it and my pencii viii
refuse TO write it. SO | have learned to
spell three times. and as | said before [
an not good speller yet.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-10-12
LABOR UNIONS IN
IOWA DECREASE.
Forty-Five Counties in State
Have No Trades Organ
ization.
WAGE FARMERS PROSPER
State Labor Commissioner Has Col
lected Large Amount of Valuable
Statistics by Personal Inquiry
in Every County of Iowa.
WAGE FARMERS PROSPER

lpes Menos. Ia ocf IL OF the 1913
niiiVidfal wage CORNERS Who mafie per-
sonal replies 10 The serles OF inquiries
sent ont hY SNatc l.abor commissioning
bingham recently, respecting their
financial condition, scventy7iwo re-
ported That taey owned thcir own
homes free OF ncuinbiatnce. These
homes were Worth S2,ol2 each.
t'ifty-two others owned more than 81
half equity IN their homes. owing u debt
of but S9l6 on The average.
These reports ARE regarded as dis
tiMctly gratifying. provided they may
be taken fairly to represent the situa-
tiol among the wage earners of the
state
Unions Decrease.
The number of la Dor unions reporting
10 the state labor commissioner de-
creased during the last biennial pc
,lod though the average number of
members increased,
Whereas $50 unions We're found by
the commissioner during the preceding
period, 6sS only We're found during the
last period. OF these T62 and GIL, re-
spectivelv. made reports.
The cal reporting during the last pc
riod had II 5s1 members while the l32
had il,722 members. The average num-
ber Of members yer union therefore,
Increased from 56.6s to G1.69
There Was a decrease of 1894 per cent.
VA the number of local union organiZa
tipils. but there was an increase OF ssh
per cent IN the number OF members of
atcil union
Average Wages UP.
The report Of the labor commissioner
which ~ill be issued shortly win SHOW
hat ther" Was an Average wage OF
s1Slsi during the period ending July
|, 1905, this estimate being based ON
he 80 individual lnborrr's reports
which We're nade To the department
III the 23i, ZIG saved $4l,a3o during
The last year III the period, or S97o6
eaeh
Ana ~ carried Life insurance
amounting To S2205 each. and fire in
surtnce amounting to $959 each.
Forty five counties reported no IN
ions. These Mere the folloWing
Adab ADAMS, AlIamake". Audubon,
Bremer. l5uena Vista Butler, Buchan-
an. Ccda, Chickasaw Clarke, Clay,
Clayton, Crawford. Decatur Delaware,
Hancock. Howard, Humboldt Ida,
Iowa. Jackson, Jones. kossuth. Lyon,
Madison. Mills, OsceoIa, P;ilo Alto.
Plymouth, Ringgold, Sac, Shelby,
Sioux, story. 1ama, Warren Mime
bago Wineshiek, Worth
There are unions IN tiltN-tour coffin
tics. In these there are l29 localities.
Ii always was supposed D"s Moirps
had about 900 labor unionists, Ia, the
statistics show They number about u
300
The largest membership is enjoyed
by the following crafts, in the numbers
Mine workers. 1881; railroad telc-
graphcrs. $500 railway trainmen >,
424. machinists. l.too; locomotive fire
men, l,S09 locomotive engineers 1861
conductors llSS, carmen, 1899, car
penters, 2,239