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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19
Beauty Culture.

The way in which the $4,000 prize
American woman's figure was acquir-
ed, to let its owner tell it, is interest
Ing chiefly because there is nothing
new involved. Women have been do
Ing the same things from time i'm
memorial, but with different inspira-
ton. and If there is virtue in this
| beauty's rules she undoubtedly has
tens of thousands Of duplicates in this
country who are not for exhibition.
This one has eaten when she was
hungry of food that she digested with
comfort, has had daily exercise in the
open and some exercise indoors. Part
Of the exercise was vigorous and part
moderate. Such is the regimen in
| nutshell.
Women doing Homework or teaching
country schools and many engaged in
office and shop work bring the same
muscles and organs to the same
healthy action as did the fortunate
seeker after beauty. True, she had
! system, but all system is likely to be
forced. And her system merely brought
about lifting while at bend, stretch
Ing the arms upward, deep breathing,
and so on. Her beauty was the gift
Of nature, and she made the develop
ment Of it fad instead of leaving it
to the normal processes which work in
every woman's life unconsciously and
produce beauty "that wears"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19
Nuts as Food.

Half Of the interest taken in nuts by
the people Of this country is probably
that of gathering. Somebody likes
them for some occasions, and it is
worth while to thrash and batter limbs
and trees and worry over shucks and
burs just to have something to hand
out now and then. That nuts are food
is proposition taken seriously by but
very few people. However, Professor
Jaffa of the University of California
finds that the use Of nuts Is increasing
among us and that they are ceasing to
be mere luxury or a tidbit to pick
at when one has nothing better to do.
Outside of peanuts the registered ma
tive crop Of nuts is small compared
with importations. The crop gathered
by boys and girls cannot be reckoned,
and how much Of it does the work of
food is also matter Of guessing. The
eaters Of nuts whom we know best
seem to want just as much food as
those who cut out the nuts. Professor
Jaffa advises nut eaters to cut down
their supply of other food and to avoid
the nut eating fad. In order to act as
food nuts should be we'll masticated,
and that is what usually happens at
the nut and apple eating bees on WIN
ter nights. Nature also asks that 9th
er food be taken with nuts, and per-
haps that is why boys and girls re-
enforce themselves from the pantry
after feast of nuts.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

The hfty-fourth anniversary of the
charge Of the Light brigade was kept
IN London this year by only fifteen of
the noble six hundred immortalized
by Tennyson. Thirty-fve participants
are known to be alive out of over 400
VINO were spared to tell the tale. The
age OF Lord Cardigan's troopers must
nave averaged higher than was the
case in our civil war, for hundreds
who rode in charges with Phil Sheri-
dan and Jeb Stuart now bid fair to be
on hand for war anniversaries ten and
even fifteen years hence.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19
ENCOURAGING Small SAVINGS.


Postmaster General Meyer declared
recently that he believes the majority
In congress will favor the establish
ment Of postal savings banks. The
system has been criticised as threaten
Ing to rival commercial savings banks
and also because it may involve
the creation of a new set of Office
holders. Advocates of the measure
have assumed that the greater part Of
the work can be done b: the present
staff of the postofice department.
1t is generally known that all the
great countries of the world, except
Germany and the United States, have
long maintained postal savings banks.
Germany has a system which is in
tended to encourage small savings.
The leading cities and towns and
many private manufacturing concerns
carry on banks, which receive sums Of
Is cents and upward to the amount Of
several hundred dollars and pay fair
interest. These institutions are regu-
lated by statutes which exact guaran-
tees by municipalities and private
owners, and their terms to depositors
are very liberal. It is the general ex-
perience in Europe that when the de-
positor's savings aggregate $500 or
5000 the bulk is withdrawn and in
vested in bonds. The little boards
brought over here by immigrants
usually represent "spare money" &C.
cumulated by dimes and shillings in
various kinds of banks for petty saw
ineS.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19
The Electoral COLLEGE.

Strictly speaking, there is no such
thing as an electoral college as the
term is ordinarily accepted. Each
state has its own electoral college and
likes Its own mode of appointing its
members, the national congress deter
mining when they shall be chosen and
the date when they shall cast their
votes. At present there is no casting
Of votes in the usual sense. for that
function has been performed by the
national conventions which nominated
the candidates for president and vice
president.
The members of the electoral college
are chosen by popular vote, and their
number in each state is equal to the
number of representatives sent by the
state to congress. They are required
to meet on the same day at the several
state capitols and vote by ballot. They
are not expected to vote as a unit nor
to meet for the purpose of declaring
a result already decided by others.
In point of fact, they do vote as a
unit, and for this reason the present
system is sometimes spoken of as
cumbrous and useless. The national
convention names its party's choice,
and the electors are nominated and
elected to record that voice in the way
required by the highest law of the
land.
Contingencies may arise when the
Individual status or attitude of an
elector would be'important. The. state
certifes the electoral college, deter
mining all controversies and contests
regarding the. appointment of it's own
presidential electors. If any state is
unable to settle dispute congress has
the decision in its hands, arbitrarily If
it chooses.
The validity Of any states certif-
cate of its own electoral vote has new
er been seriously questioned. In 1857
one. electoral college, having five votes,
failed to meet on the day appointed,
but as the vote was not enough to de-
eide the election the contest over this
incident came to nothing. It hasbeen
decided that~the disqualification of an
elector at the time of the,popular cleo
ton does not disqualify his vote in
the college, since the fact Of his cleo
ton registers the peoples will as to
International candidates. This decision
in 1877 gave the presidency to Hayes
by majority of one. So long as one
candidate has substantial majority
In the college the weaknesses Of the
system are not likely to lead to grave
complications. In strange way the
vote Of the state college records the
will of the majority Of the voters in
the state, and, in spite of defects that
might prove serious, public opinion ap-
pears to sustain the electoral college
as the best method for choosing the
chief executive Of the nation.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

The Manufacturer Record recently
called attention to the contrast be.
tween freight rates and rates of post
age. 1t says that a dozen eggs can be
carried thousand miles for 2 cents
md that a letter must pay 2 cents
postage whether it is carried thou
sand miles or only a mile. It is often
charged that the government pays the
a1lroads an exorbitant price for car
rying the mails and that this toll for
transportation adds to the postage rate
Indirectly. However that may be,
there is no parallel between letter
handled and safely delivered by the
postoffice department and a box of
eggs transported by the railroad.
Every letter must undergo scrutiny
as to the address, the postage carried,
etc., and be stamped with the date
often the hour as well-be distributed
Or the bag and the train which will
speed it on it's way and on arrival
must again he handled, scrutinized,
stamped and redistributed. Each han
ding Of letter adds to the total of
expense for the service, and upon this
total the rate of postage is based.
Freight is packed, addressed and ship
ped by experts and is delivered on the
railway platform and taken from the
platform by the consignee, so that the
expense to the carrier for handling
and forwarding is but trifle in CON-
parison to the cost to the government
Of handling a letter. In view of the
celerity and safety as we'll as the pri-
vacy of letter mail service, the rate of
2 cents an ounce is not excessive.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19
Progress. In Chemical Invention.

PfoGresS In Chemical Invention.
A novel and very plausible reason
for the eagerness of a certain class of
discoveries to have their processes
patented is given by Professor Duncan
of the University of Kansas in Har-
per's Magazine. A few years ago, we
IRE told, the university professor who
"degraded his science to unitarian
ends" became pariah among his fel-
Ows, and to take out a patent was
Of all sins against the cloth the one
least forgivable. It was the duty Of
the man of science to give his discov-
cries to the world" But things are
now 'sweepingly different" according
to Professor Duncan, and no man, no
matter how noble his desires, can
give his discoveries to the world"
The author cites the case of a recent
discovery in color photography to
show that the patenting Of discovery
actually forwards it's introduction. The
inventor Of the process in color pho
Biography refused to patent the fun
damental idea, and nobody would
touch it. Coming to the trend Of mod
ern chemical invention, Professor Dun
can says it lis always and ever to-
ward the conservation Of natural prod
ucts to uses more valuable than those
for which they we're originally en-
ployed." Cheapness, improvement Of
product or economy in material is
aimed at.
Two new processes, both of foreign
origin, are described in the article, and
the writer urges American manufacture
ers to be alert. In Germany water is
being evaporated from peat bog by elec-
tricity with the expenditure of an insig-
nificant amount Of energy, and a Lon
don chemist has succeeded in welding
iron tocopper SO that the weld is "tough-
er than either Of the metals that consti-
tute it, The author concludes that
efficiency in factory practice must nee
essarily follow the application Of pure
science to industrial ends. Fully
three-quarters of all the patents Of
real chemical interest are German in
origin, and it is, Of course, in Germany
that we find efficiency in factory prac-
tee the sine qua non Of its operation"
The American manufacturer, then,
must stand or fall by the degree Of
efficiency he has obtained in his fac
tory
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19
The Call Of the South.

So much has been heard in recent
years about cheap lands west of the
Mississippi, due to the opening up of
government territory and the lead of
railroads into unsettled regions, that
opportunities in the older southern
states have often been sighted. Fol-
lowing the civil war there was a tide
Of emigration from the south, and
perhaps a wrong impression was given
Of conditions, which the results Of the
conflict radically changed.
Emigration westward from the east
ern and middle west states was ac-
counted for by the overcrowding when
upward Of 100000 men were released
from the armies for peaceful avoca-
lions. But the readiness of white
southerners to abandon their home
soil was not so readily explained. That
it was not owing to the poverty Of
resources In the region abandoned is
shown by the advance that has been
made everywhere and in all branches
Of activity. The fact that so many
left and so few replaced them is one
reason why there are good openings in
the south today, where fertile acres
and new industries and pursuits await
new men. In generous climate and
richness of soil the south offers an at
traction to the denizens Of towns and
cities who wish to go back to the
land" without getting too far away
from old mornings.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

A Frenchman who has been looking
around over here says that America
is, on the whole, religious country,
but the religion is adapted to the tenn
permanent of the nation.'' It has al
ways been that way since religion
dawned on the world, so we needn't
feel that we are peculiar people in
this respect.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19
Little and Yet Great,

how little thing comparatively an
individual life may be and yet do
great service to the world that knows
it not is emphasized by the recent
death Of the author of the lines
Little drops Of water.
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the wondrous strand
Millions of American children learn
ed this verse and remembered it
throughout life to rehearse to their
own children and grandchildren. But
the career and personality of the girl
who penned it at the age of twenty
and in the juvenile stage of our litera-
ture were known to only a handful,
though she lived on over threescore
years.
Mrs. Carney also wrote the, poem
Deal Gently With the Erring," which
became popular on its own merit, but
was not so catholic In its appeal as
the schoolroom gem opening with the
lines quoted. Doubtless both poems
gave inspiration for a score of others
turning upon the same wholesome SEN
timents. These vagrant thoughts in a
schoolma'am's crowded hours may be
compared to little drops of water, and
for smile of their evolution into an
ocean of influence we may turn to
their contemporary schoolhouse favor
lite, "Tall oaks from little acorns
grow"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Roosevelt in the senate would have
around him ninety-one colleagues,
each having as much vote as himself
In the proceedings, though perhaps not
as much say.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Now that zone malefactor of wealth"
has been sentenced to fifteen years be-
hind the bars the chief part of the re-
form contract so often announced has
been attended to. But it remains to
be seen whether would be malefactors
Will take warning and give us a spell
of clean finance.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Tom Mason, the funny editor of
Life, says that new studies are being
constantly demanded in the schools by
the people themselves, because 'they
think they are getting more for their
money" The remark wasn't meant
for fun either.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

The attempt Of the Brazilian coffee
raising state Of San Paulo to control
the coffee market Of the world result
ed practically in the mortgage of the
state, coffee and all, to a syndicate of
European capitalists, a clear case Of
greed overreaching.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

We can all safely give the conserva-
ton commission a warm welcome
every time it calls around and burn
coal to do it. The government geolog-
ical experts recently reported that we
have enough coal, "easily accessible
to last 4, $50 years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

The "bottling" Of the kaiser's hot air
by the German public and the earth
quake in the fatherland were not ex-
actly simultaneous. but still close
enough to illustrate the play of cause
and effect.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

One way to stop the row over the
weaknesses of. our battleships would
be to put them on the job they were
built for. The "other fellow" might
NIL several hospitals in consequence.
but our navy would then find peace at
home.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

At the recent international pure food
congress in Geneva one of the dele
gates went seriously to work to tell
the assembly when wine is wine,
cheese cheese, milk milk and an egg
an egg, intimating that there are peo-
pie who don't know real food when
they see it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

On general principles throwing pie
into wife's face or elsewhere is SUI
dcient cause for divorce, for it is an
insult to every good wife's master
piece.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Just when everybody over here was
wanting Roosevelt to be editor and
keep it up everybody over there got
busy telling the kaiser to "cut it
short"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

The bicycle craze lasted long enough
In Japan to teach the natives that the
life of the wheel is no longer than the
life OF the tire. and the tires come
high, for they have to be imported
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

A Viennese inventor claims to have
perfected system Of regulating all
the clocks Of the city by wireless ap-
paratus. At last accounts the field
was still open for an invention to reg
ulate the wireless itself.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

1t was enough to make the deer
laugh the way hunters started in
shooting one another before the game
season opened.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

A writer in the Atlantic holds that
the way out Of the mo lickin'. no
larnin'" dilemma in the schools is to
let the pupils do the "lickin'" them
selves, a sort Of appeal to Judge Lynch.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

England now boasts the fastest bat
tleship. But the % knots an hour Of
her 1nvincible will not avail much I'M
less she goes into battle alone, for the
speed OF fleet can be no greater than
the speed of the slowest vessel in the
feet.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Strange that Hearst overlooked that
interview with Kaiser william, which
rested for weeks in the safe Of the
Century printing Office. fated to be
suppressed.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

For the bearing Of the popular vote
upon the electoral vote the political
student may get pointer from a GER
tain historic document known as the
United States constitution.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Roosevelt can surely add a dash of
ginger to that "a corking good time"
phrase when he comes to step down
and out as editor.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Forty cents dozen for eggs Is the
hens medal for the return Of prospect
~; but the price doesn't Ill 60 with
tho medal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

England may send fleet around the
world, and the world supposed that
English warshps covered that Job al
ready.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Among future possibilities for ex-
President Roosevelt there's heading
the Democratic national ticket against
Governor Hughes in 1912. Both can
''sweep New York" in the election
forecasts.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

The English may boast that thew
rule the wave, but the Irish, Scotch
and Welsh rule the British govern
ment at home. and the French rule in
Canada. VI
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Experiments with the mechanical
bread kneader taught the French that
good bread depends upon good -four.
The old style Of kneading proved that
long ago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

The man whom hunter mistook for
q squirrel and shot must have slipped
trife when coming his last squirrel
dodge. ...... .. ..,-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Naturally the cars advice was
"Don'tv' when the crown prince of
Servia consulted him about going to
war. a2
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

A home without girl is like a home
without boy-merely 4 place and
some folks.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

II milk is to be above suspicion, wa.
tor must look to Ito courses.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-19

Settling down" to business is the
halfway house on the road to SETTLING
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-03-13
Ten Thousand Trout.

DEPUTY Game aud Fish Warden
o. f. Turner of Pendleton. has just
received notice from Congressman
W. r. Ellis that the 10000 rainbow
trout asked for by the Umatilla coun-
ty sportsmen for the Umatilla river
have been ordered from the govern
ment hatchery at Oregon City and
will be sent as soon as the season is
far enough advanced. The young fish
will be released in the Umatilla river
at Bingham Springs station, the june
tion of the Umatilla river and Mea-
cham creek. so that they may 60 up
both streams. An excellent fishing
season is anticipated in all the Blue
mountain streams this spring owing
to the extremely mild winter.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-03-13

South America is beginning to show
the world that she recognizes the
value of her natural resources by TAX
ing up the question of forest preserva-
tion. The Republic of Colombia has
already outlined forest policy and
now the people of the Argentine Re-
public have taken up the discussion OF
forestry and its application to the
management of the country's rich
hardwood timber areas. Up to the
PresGst ira & the subject of forestry
has received but little consideration
in the various South American States.
Most of these countries have large
areas of forested land, but owing tC
the fact that they are so remotely sit.
uated and that they are composed
mainly of bIoadleaf species which are
too hard for ordinary building and
construction lumber aud heuoe not in
very great demand. they have not as
yet been extensively numbered. AS all
illustration of this might be cited the
fact that the small country of France
furnishes more saw material than does
the whole of South America.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-03-13

How foolishly some American news
papers jump at conclusions was well
shown by the "war scare" created by
the Mikado's proclamation to the Jap
anese in the Hawaiian islands. Be-
cause he urged them. I'm the event of
an emergency" to hold themselves
ready to serve their country, it was
at once concluded that the "emergen-
cy" was a coming war with this coun-
try. 1t developed, however, that the
proclamation is one which has been
issued Annually, in the same words,
for score of years, OH the Emperor s
birthday, to all japanese resident
abroad. and is as perfunctory as the
ordinary Thanksgiving proclamation
in America. The Japanese have a
keen sense of humor; they must find
a good many unintended occasions for
a smile.